14 DECEMBER 1889, page 10

Robert Browning.

T HERE is hardly any English poet who has had a greater power of delivering an electric shock than Mr. Browning. His is the verse which flashes—as a galvanic battery—flashes......

Ship-canals.

A RECENT issue of the "Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers," noticed in the New York _Nation, contains a remarkable collection of facts in connec- tion with......