11 OCTOBER 1879, page 10

Old Friends And New.

R. MATTHEW ARNOLD has somewhere remarked, very happily, we think, on the too great moral bias stamped ou the English word " Curiosity." It should be a perfectly neutral word, or......

• A Change . In English Character.

TT is one of the many peculiarities of Englishmen for which I it is so difficult to find a rational explanation, that a foreigner's descriptions of England, its society, and its......