5 MAY 1888, page 6

The Possible Decadence Of France. T He English, And For That

matter the French, observers• who predict the decadence of France, always appear to us to omit some important factors in their calculation ; but they have many arguments to......

Mr. Gladstone's Political History.

TR. GLADSTONE has written a letter,—in which, —IL by-the-way, there is one bad misprint, the state- ment that in 1849-50 he assisted, to the best of his power, the Government of......