5 MAY 1883, page 9

Biography In Mortmain.

M RS. OLIPHANT and Mr. Venables both take up the cudgels against Mr. Froude, in current numbers of the May Magazines,—Mr. Venables in the Fortnightly, and Mrs. Oliphant in the......

French Diplomacy.

T HE debate in the French Senate on the Triple Alliance, or understanding, or, as M. Challemel-Lacour prefers to calls it, the rapprochement, between the two central European......