25 AUGUST 1883, page 13

Theclosing Of The Scottish Highlands.

T HE stress and strain of modern life have grown to a great intensity. Men live in restless anxiety, under constant pressure, with quickened brains and fevered pulses, until......

Jules Claretie.

CLARET1E may be taken as the embodiment of what I • is best in contemporary French literature. While the author of" Le Million" is inferior in talent to no one of the younger......