27 AUGUST 1898, page 21

Mr. Higginson's "cheerful Yesterdays." The "yesterdays"...

writes may be "cheerful" in the memory, but some of them must have been far from cheerful when they were passing. They cover the stormful period prior to the American Civil War,......

English Society A Century Ago.*

iT is rather a pity that Lady Newdigate-Newdegate should base set herself a special literary purpose in publishing this volume of delightful letters, and should never for a......