E XCEPT time, the rate of discount, and the Briggs murder, nothing appears to have made any progress this week. The Danish negotiation at Vienna appears to be as completely at a...

MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS AT RICHMOND. Wil TEVER else the struggle between the North and outh teaches us, it ought to teach us above every- thing the moral and political value of a...

46 T HE zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up," saidKing David, and the text has recently received a new illustration. Mrs. Harrison, of Duffield. Wold, has demonstrated to the...

is no trait of a minor kind which more helps to- characterize a man than the sort of influence exerted- over him by his own past experience. There are many traces- in Lord...

T HE Pope's Brief to the Archbishop of Friburg against the " popular education" of Baden discloses pretty clearly what are well known to be His Holiness's own views on the...

T HE indifference with which Irish Catholics seem to regard the Irish State Church, and the pertinacity with which they clamour for public money or anything except the removal...

O NE of the most curious chapters in the history of monachism would be that of monastic trade. Of course there is no reason why monks and nuns, like other men and women, should...

THE Birmingham Musical Festival of 1864 has fully kept up the brilliant reputation of its predecessors. The production of three novelties, one of them an oratorio on a giant...

ri S family, which we omitted from its proper place, is now represented by the Earl of Westmoreland in the elder branch, and by the Duke of Cleveland and Frances Marchioness of...

myself again in Italy. In old countries two years are a period too short to be attended by mani- fest changes, but in a country in the condition of Italy they are a period...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, August 27, 1864. ON Friday of last week, August 19, General Lee lost the Weldon Railway, the great object of all operations on...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—Since the appearance of Dr. Pusey's pamphlet on which you commented last Saturday, we have had a charge from the Bishop of Salisbury and...

M. KARCHER'S RIENZI.* M. KARCHER has republished from the Revue du Progress a tragedy on Rienzi, which is interesting to the English reader on several accounts. It is...

THE " Itinerary of King Richard" and his fellow-pilgrims lute been extensively consulted, though perhaps in somewhat imper- fect copies, by English chroniclers and historians,...

Mn. Kamm has no need to apologize for having followed the prevailing custom of republishing essays originally contributed. to • Essays upon History and Polities. By T. It...

done for the army, and done well, what has long since and in many differentforms been done for the navy of England. It is true that in the latter case the task is far more...

and Daldy.)— Ten times has Mr. Neale been crowned with the Seatonian chaplet, and on one occasion the subject of Egypt was so inspiring that he wrote two poems of which one got...

Professor of Christian Morals in the College and Preacher to the University at Cambridge, U.S. (Arthur Miall.)—These are in every respect excellent sermons. The style.is clear,...

• Poems by by Three Sisters. (Hatchard and Co.)—The Surrey hills and the vale of Albnry are the scenes which these three ladies love to adorn with the wreath of poetry. If we...

account of the origin, working, and achievements of the United States Sanitary Commission, which one would be disposed to welcome, as calculated to extend the fame of that most...

Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Rector of St. Ethelburga's, London. (Williams and Norgate.)— The object of the writer, who is favourably known to the public by his translation of the...

Turkish Reformers in the Teaching and Example of their esteemed Master Taido Morata. (George Manwaring.) — This volume we da not pretend to comprehend. It is divided into the...

Cambridge. (Macmillan and Co.)—These eleven discourses wore delivered on the Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent, almost immedi- ately after there-opening of the church, which...

coloured prints of the various ferns, mosses, seaweeds, lichens, and fungi, which will be :vety useful to collectors, from the care with which they imitate nature, and the...

the Rev. Samuel Fox, M.A., Rector of Morley, Derby- shire. (H. G. Bohn.)—A useful addition to Mr. Bohn's Antiquarian Library. Probably this generation will be rather at a loss...

always cheerful and with a sort of odour of the woods of spring. The return of the swallow is in the octosyllabic metre, and tells a simple story of a young man who with his...

J. Pinwell, engraved by Dalziel. (Ward and Lock.)—This extremely handsome volume comprises all that portion of Goldmith's writings which is still universally read—the "Vicar of...

this volume is their outcome, their sample production. No man over traced the working of the less predominant tendencies of our common human nature with so subtle a...

(David Nutt.)—A comedy intended to be acted by boys at breaking-up, and therefore constructed without female characters. It is a clover little composition well adapted to its...

a collection of "Lives of Celebrated Admirals," and while the facts are told doubtless correctly enough she seems to have little sympathy with her subject. The life of Nelson,...

St. Agnes' Bay (Sampson Low. Son, & Col—Re- searches on the Application of Iron to Builders, by William Fairborn (Longman, Green, & Col—Index to the Times, by G. J. Giddings...