26 JANUARY 1884, page 12

Industry As Matter Of Race.

W E wonder what it is that imparts the curious quality of Industry to any people ? No animal except a beaver has it, and no man in the totally uncivilised and, therefore,......

Residuary Scotch Patriotism.

AST week there was held in Edinburgh a "National Con- ventiou," which declared in favour of the creation of a State Department for Scotland, but to which, rather ominously,......