on. By Professor Tyndall 660

Cairo: The Old in the New. I. By Dr. Georg Ebers 674

Responsibilities of Unbelief. By Vernon Lee 685

Fiji. By the Hon Sir Arthur H. Gordon, G.C.M.G. 711

John Richard Green. By the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M A. 732

Fenianism. By F. H. O'Donnell, M.P. 747

JUNE, 1883.

The Congo Neutralized. By Emile de Laveleye 767

Agnostic Morality. By Frances Power Cobbe 783

Native Indian Judges: Mr. Ilbert's Bill. By the Right Hon.
Sir Arthur Hobhouse, K.C.S.I. 795

The Philosophy of the Beautiful. By Professor John Stuart Blackie 812

Nature and Thought. By G. J. Romanes, F.R.S. 831

Cairo: The Old in the New. II. By Dr. Georg Ebers 842

De Mortuis. By C. F. Gordon Cumming 858

Wanted, an Elisha. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L. 870

Two Aspects of Shakspeare's Art. By T. Hall Came 883

Insanity, Suicide and Civilization. By M. G. Mulhall 901

The New Egyptian Constitution. By Sheldon Amos 909

THE AMERICANS:

A CONVERSATION AND A SPEECH, WITH AN ADDITION.

BY HERBERT SPENCER.

I.--A CONVERSATION: _October 20, 1882_.

[The state of Mr. Spencer's health unfortunately not permitting him
to give in the form of articles the results of his observations on
American society, it is thought useful to reproduce, under his own
revision and with some additional remarks, what he has said on the
subject; especially as the accounts of it which have appeared in
this country are imperfect: reports of the conversation having been
abridged, and the speech being known only by telegraphic summary.

The earlier paragraphs of the conversation, which refer to Mr.
Spencer's persistent exclusion of reporters and his objections to
the interviewing system, are omitted, as not here concerning the
reader. There was no eventual yielding, as has been supposed. It
was not to a newspaper-reporter that the opinions which follow were
expressed, but to an intimate American friend: the primary purpose
being to correct the many misstatements to whi