24 DECEMBER 1898, page 20

A Fleet In Being.* "the King's Navy Exceeds All Others

in the world for three things, viz., beauty, strength, and safety. For beauty they are so many Royal Palaces; for strength (no part of the world having such iron and timber as......

The Ambassador.*

La ROCHEFOUCIIILD begins a great number of his maxims with the words "Lee femmes," and the syllables are no sooner out of his mouth than every woman jumps to contradiot him.......