2 APRIL 1859, page 14

Revolution By Steam.

1VE are beginning to learn, none too early, that the improvement of one trade is a contribution towards the whole progress of our race—its wealth, intellect, and even its......

Books.

ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE'S ITALIAN WOMEN.* THIS Decade of Dobkin Women is a much better book than some might have expected from its subject, and the " antecedents " of the author. In......

American Securities.

SOME of our contemporaries have been discussing, with more or less vague- ness, the practical value of American securities. We have from time to time shown what are the real......

New Docks For London.

THE deficiency of dock accommodation in the port of London as manifested by the crowded state of the river above Woolwich, is a serious and growing evil, the results of which,......