5 JULY 1884, page 18

Gamblers And Suicides.

C HARLES DICKENS knew London life very well, but he made a horrid blunder in this scene :- "' I see there's a notice up this morning about Boger,' observed Mr. Simmery. ' Poor......

Prayers For The Dead.

I N Mr. MacColl's paper, published in the Fortnightly for July, on the Princess Alice,—the depth of pathos in whose letters, by the way, he brings out with singular success,— he......