The Prime Minister Never Displayed His Astonishing Intel-...
physical vigour more remarkably than in the delivery of the first Romanes lecture last Monday at Oxford on the history of Universities, and especially of the two great English......
The Cologne Gazette Has Obtained A Copy, Officially...
be accurate, of the paper of " Reasons " for the new mili- tary law before the Federal Council. These reasons are briefly that conscription has been much extended in......
Mr. Gladstone Remarked On The Great Advantage Which...
over Oxford in the greatness of her poets until, at least, a comparatively late period. And certainly not only was Milton, as Mr. Gladstone observed, a Cambridge man, but......
Lord Roscbery Will Have Dyspepsia If He Does Not Mind.
He is the only charming after-dinner speaker left, and, if he does not defend himself even to rudeness, will be surfeited with banquets. At the dinner given by the Lord Mayor on......
Lord Rosebery Was More Serious On Tuesday, When " In.
augurating "—why will not "opening" do, as of old ?—the free library, generously given by Mr. Pa.e.e.more Edwards to Whitechapel ; but he was amusing, too, uttering gravely the......
Amongst Members Of A Different Class Mr. Gladstone Paid A
most eloquent tribute to Bishop Butler, whom he described, in Shelley's words, as one of "the inheritors of unfulfilled renown," and he also gave great credit to Archbishop......
Mr. J. A. Fronde, The Professor Of Modern History, De-
livered his inaugural lecture at Oxford on Wednesday. He had come back, he said, to Oxford, but no more to the Oxford which he knew. Keble and Newman were gone, and the system......
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