29 OCTOBER 1881, page 8

The Isolation Of France

M GAMBETTA may well hesitate, if he does hesitate, • to accept power, for he will inherit a position as embarrassing as any which ever fell to a statesman's lot. It is worse......

The Becky Sharps Of Life And Fiction.

T HE close of the trial of Mabel Wilberforce for perjury was an event over which Thackeray would have brooded in an extasy of imaginative cynicism. The impression evidently made......