4 JUNE 1881, page 10

The Ants And Their Polity.

R. J. G. ROMANES gives a very clear and terse sum- inary, in the Nineteenth Century for June, ot the points winch are clearly established in relation to the intelligence of Ants......

The Repellent Effect Of British Civilisation.

M R. MATTHEW ARNOLD is not a pessimist, at all events in the department of thought. He doubts the existence of insoluble problems, and, indeed, thinks that for most of them, if......