24 AUGUST 1895, page 13

Over-empr A Sls T He August Number Of The Idler Contains

an ingenious little article on over-emphasis. The writer, Mr. Nisbet, makes the text of his discourse the five-line whip which is issued to Members of Parliament by both sides.......

Provincialism And London Culture.

"The Wanderer," that very tedious novel of Madame d'Arblay's decadent period, there is at least one exquisite t hing,—the reason given by the man of fashion for not coming to......