9 JANUARY 1897, page 12

Dr. Nobel's Will.

W E do not know the personal history of Dr. Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and cannot, there- fore, go into ecstasies over the nobility of his character as displayed......

On The Anti-poetical.

T HERE are some persons to whom poetry is as much foolishness as Christianity was to the Greeks of St.. Paul's day. They are not merely indifferent to it, but regard it, in some......