25 SEPTEMBER 1897, page 15

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EPIGRAMS AND EPITAPHS.* THE epigram has fallen from its old high estate. By the word " epigram " the Greek meant simply a true thing said ' beautifully and clearly. It was not......

The Gunpowder Plot.*

WE have a certain feeling, when we take up this book, that there should be a statute of limitation introduced dealing with historical questions of the more traditional order.......