24 MAY 1884, page 11

The Social Effect Of Two-and-a-half Per Cent.

T HE " Market " has decided by an informal pl6biscite that Mr. Childers's scheme for the conversion of Consols into Two-and-a-Half per Cents is substantially sound. The dealers......

Mr. Besant On The Art Of Fiction.

M R. BESANT has just republished, with notes and addi- tions, the lecture which be delivered at the Royal Institution on April 25th, concerning " The Art of Fiction." Let no one......