3 JULY 1897, page 20

Two Patriarchal Communities.

W E have the Colonies very much and very agreeably in evidence at present. Great Britain swims, in the eye of the world, like a mother duck on the Round Pond with her handsome......

Mrs. Oliphant.

M RS. OLIPHANT'S marvellous industry impeded the public recognition of her still more marvellous gifts. From early womanhood, before she was quite twenty-one, she determined to......