23 JUNE 1883, page 11

The Massacre Of The Innocents.

O NE fact comes out very painfully in the history of this ghastly tragedy at Sunderland. The public under-rates rather than over-rates the danger from a crowd, and especially a......

The Thought-reading Wager.

"N ONSENSE dies hard," says Mr. Labouchere, and he is perfectly right ; but no nonsense dies harder than the nonsense of infatuated prejudice. Amongst literary men, those who......