14 SEPTEMBER 1878, page 11

The Vanity Of Men Of Letters.

A MONG the qualities which make the character of Sir Walter Scott peculiarly attractive, and are not, we believe, by any means without influence on his genius, the foremost......

Soldiers Of Fortune.

T HE death of the able Prussian renegade who, under the name of Mehemet Ali, has done such good service to Turkey, has raised again the old question, which for the next twenty......