14 DECEMBER 1872, page 11

Sir Josiah Mason.

T HE Gazette of last week announced the bestowal of an honour upon a Birmingham citizen whose claims to such a distinction are of a very remarkable kind, and well deserve......

The Humour Of Middlemarch.

I N one of the many at once fascinating and irritating sarcasms which it was impossible not to look forward to and backward at, while Middlemarch was still incomplete, and life......