3 MAY 1862, page 14

The French Tendencies Of English Society.

A RECENT essayist, Mr. F. Marshall, in a book not otherwise of mach value, gives a very clear explanation of the special fea- tures of French society. It is, he says, "a people......

Women's "platforms."

I F a proof were wanted of the need of some better standard of education for women than is usually set before the sex, the curiously suicidal logic of Miss Matilda /d. Hays,......