10 JANUARY 1874, page 11

The Florin Versus The Half-crown.

M R. GLADSTONE has asked the Bankers, and through them the public, whether they would rather retain the Half- crows or the Florin, as it is impossible, if we keep the......

Criticism.

A LL the world has heard of the angry contempt with which Mr. Charles Reade denounces his critics, and we found, in reviewing Mr. Hamerton's last-published volume some weeks......