3 MAY 1890, page 22

Italian Characters.*

THE Countess Martinengo might without exaggeration have called her book a Book of Heroes, for we may search in vain for one name on her list the owner of which is not......

Mr. J. S. Farmer's Dictionary Of Slang.* Mr. Farmer Admits

in his " Prefatory Note " that he can frame no satisfactory definition of the word "slang." He quotes with approval Dr. Murray's observation that "the circle of the English......