3 FEBRUARY 1894, page 9

A French Pessimist View.

W E suppose it is to the advantage of Englishmen that they are so slow to accept the pessimist view of any subject in which they are keenly interested. They grumble and growl......

Clerics And Laymen In Convocation. T He Proceedings Of...

House of Laymen on Tuesday, and those of the Lower House of Con- vocation on Wednesday, offer an accidental contrast of some interest We are not of those who wish to decry the......

Sir Herbert Maxwell On Bores.

W HY does Sir Herbert Maxwell, in the Nineteenth Century, say with so singularly confident an air, "The bore has no place in primitive stages of society"? He cannot, we presume,......