27 MAY 1899, page 10

The London Thames As A Waterway.

T HE 'Maria Wood,' the last of the Thames State barges, is to be broken up, having made her final appearance in a river pageant at one of the beautiful illuminated fetes now......

Dictionaries.

"A LEXICOGRAPHER," says Dr. Johnson in one of his wittiest definitions, "is a maker of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." The definition is a jest, obviously and consciously......