5 AUGUST 1882, page 9

American Society And Its Critics.

I P Mr. Lowell has any spare time, between the kindness of his English friends and the abuse of his Irish compatriots, he can hardly devote it to a better purpose than to write......

Liberal And Conservative Finance.

T HE prolonged conversation about Public Expenditure which occupied the House of Commons on the afternoon of yesterday week, was more polemical in form than it was in substance.......