23 AUGUST 1879, page 9

The Increasing Taste For Intellectual Straining.

W E hear a good deal of the joylessness of the present generation, and no doubt there is a greater unrest and a greater impatience amongst those who lead the forward move- ment......

Police And Soldiers.

I T is not often that we find ourselves in agreement with Mr. O'Donnell. But in his controversy with the Times, he has certainly, to our minds, got the better of his adversary.......