25 JUNE 1870, page 6

What Is Humour ? T He Discussions Of Which There Have

been some specimens in our own columns, and many more elsewhere, as to the true characteristic of Charles Dickens's literary power, betray the usual difficulty in discriminating......

The Bishops And The House Of Lords.

I F Mr. Somerset Beaumont's attack on the political functions= of the Bishops were founded on Mr. Bright's scornful denunciation of them as the offspring of an adulterous union,......

Mr. Goschen On The Condition Of England. T He " Weary

Titan" still staggers along, oppressed, it may be, by the "too vast orb of his fate," or it may also be by his own stupidity, but at least it is not for want of bit and sup that......