The National Magazine New Series June 1899

The opening of the act is an exquisite musical morrel and the chorus of the saiors is charming sustained by the orchestra where you hear as it were the breath of the breeze and the soft undulations of the waves. [...] Deputy Krauss has carried his.notion against the Government that the members of the Superior Council of Work be composed the moiety by the Chambers Syndicates or by the direct vote of the artizans. [...] Gordon had by this time risen to the brevet-rank of a Lietenant-Colonel in the British Army and on his return to England in 1865 was appointed to the command of the Royal Engineers at Gravesend who were then busy in the construction of expensive works for the defence of London against a possible invasion of the French. [...] ally and politically : (1) the part around the sources of the Nile (2) the part between the Nile and the Rcd Sea and (3) the part on the west of the Nile —the whole being a!)out 1 2o0 miles in length and the same in '3readth. [...] The next few months were spent in Ireland whither he went to enquire into and see for himself the causes that lay at the root of the poverty and the crimes of the neople of that country.