5 OCTOBER 1889, page 13

The Congress Mania.

HAT is the use of these perpetual Congresses?" is a question which the public is beginning to ask. Nor can the interrogatory be regarded as an unnatural one, for day by day the......

A Rare Character.

I T is possible to distinguish three kinds of ignorant men. Two are unconsciously ignorant,—the ignoramus and the ordinary ignorant man ; the third is the man who knows he is......