30 AUGUST 1879, page 9

Rokeby.

W ALTER SCOTT, who, to quote the words of Dr. Whitaker, the learned historian of Richrnoudshire, "diffused much innocent and elegant pleasure by his writings," has no doubt done......

The Retrocession Of Kuldja.

T HE Chinese reconquest of Eastern Turkestan, which was described in the Spectator of April 13th, 1878, has been followed, as the fitful intelligence received from Central "Asia......