5 AUGUST 1882, page 10

American Society And Its Critics.

I P Mr. Lowell has any spare time, between the kindness of his English friends and the abuse of his Irish compatriots, he can hardly devote it to a better purpose than to write......

Talkers, Old And Young.

„ R L. S." completes this month his former comment on. • "Talk and Talkers" in the Cornhill,—a comment which he admits to have been, as we held it to be, too much con- cerned......