29 OCTOBER 1881, page 11

Modern Prodigality. •

T HE author of the very amusing, though rather thin, essay on "Luxury, Ancient and Modern," which appears this week in the Quarterly Review, after repeating a number of stories......

Fishing In London.

T HERE was a time, doubtless, when these words conveyed a literal fact, and not an ironical figure of speech ; when the Fleet Brook danced and babbled and sparkled......