5 APRIL 1890, page 22

A Century Of American Literature.* The First Century Of The

American Republic, which, as Mr. Smith's preface reminds us, came to a close last year, though it cannot boast a single imaginative writer of colossal propor- tions, has......

Old Age.*

Vanrous writers have attempted, from time to time, to teach mankind how they may attain to old age. Lewis Corner°, the famous Venetian, for instance, recorded his experiences......