13 JULY 1895, page 12

The Tyranny Of Coincidence.

N OTHING is more despotic, more arbitrary, more re- sistless, than the tyranny exercised by coincidence. Fate gives no more smashing blow than that which she delivers by means......

A Quest For An Unknown Land.

E NGLISH explorers are seldom reticent as to the motives which impel them to adventure, or as to the objects which they have in view. From the days of Hakluyt they have been a......