5 JANUARY 1884, page 11

Agnostic Dreamers.

N OTHING is more surprising than the extravagances of Agnostics. After taking all the pains in the world to destroy the idols, as they think them, of Christian wor- ship, after......

The Happiness Of Some Women.

R EADING the opening chapter of Mrs. Oliphant's remark- able story in Blackwood for this month, the sketch of " Old Lady Mary," a thought often entertained came once more very......