the week by M. Grdvy, M. Gambetta, and the Duke de Broglie, but must add here that M. Gambetta has also made a =speech to the electors of Belleville, in which he denied that he...

war. Suleiman Pasha has arrived in the camp on the Loin, but is still taking stock of the situation ; the Russians are still receiving re- inforcements, but are doing nothing ;...

a meeting of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce, made an effort to wash-in lightly a little rose-colour over the present rather dim, not to say dun-coloured, horizon of the...

case.

T HE interest of the week has centred on the French elections. They come off to-morrow, and each party professes perfect , confidence in the result. M. Gambetta has again...

to the French people so late in the day, that no one in the pro- Tinces can reply to it. The document is not very spirit, stirring, and is not countersigned by any Minister. The...

27, makes a very remarkable statement. Ho is most friendly to Mehemet Ali and the Turkish cause, but he affirms that the battalions under Cheyket Pasha who have just entered...

In the first he shattered the hopes of those who had built on Sir Stafford Northoote's wistful vision of a patch of ' blue eky ' in the East, by declaring that "no indication of...

Con- servative Association, Lord Salisbury went into a general defence of the policy of the Government, which, though very unsubstantial, he made very amusing. He complimented...

in Ohio, his own State, in which he was so popular, and to which he has assigned so much patronage. The Inflationists, the Demo- crats, and the Workmens' party have combined,...

under the presidency of the Arohbishop of Canterbury. Canon Lightfoot, who had been chosen to preach before the Congress, appears to have dwelt with great eloquence on "the...

the Home Office in the Penge case had been published, though Tuesday is the day fixed for execution. The showers of letters continue, but it is by no means certain that the...

stated, been arranged. He is to marry his cousin, the Infanta Mercedes, daughter of the Duke de Montpensier. The marriage is not popular, as the Duke is so hated that he has...

has fallen all over the North-West, and even in Madras it is thought that four more months will see the end of the severe distress. The need, however, for the present continues...

Home-rule was held in Dublin on Tuesday, to settle if possible the quarrel between the Constitutional Home-rulers and the Obstructionists. It ended, on the whole, in favour of...

and the most active antagonist of the scheme for raising Owens College to the rank of a University, writes to Thursday's Times to denounce that project, chiefly on the ground...

the repre- centation of the Laity- in the Church is not very promising to those who wish to see a Church living in the present, and not merely claiming to be the lineal...

address we have said almost enough elsewhere, glided over the ground he had traced out for himself with a good deal of dexterity, aiming, it would seem, rather to keep the...

discount to 5 per cent. Money was steadily going out, much of it for trade pur- poses, and the Bank deemed it necessary to protect itself. Busi- ness, however, does not revive...

nesday's Times a very sufficient reply to the complaint urged last week in our own columns against the Oxford University Com- mission, by , Mr. A. J. Butler, of Winchester, for...

gress have been that on the first evening, concerning the adequacy of "sceptical culture" to take the place of Christian faith in relation to the moral life of society ; and...

TURKEY AND INDIA. W E should like to know how those who are exulting in Turkish victories over the Russians justify the English reconquest of India in 1857. If they are right...

POLITICS. L ORD SALISBURY is very amusing, at Lord Granville's expense, on the ambition of Liberal statesmen to connect their names with some great act of legislation. The...

O F the three addresses which have been issued to the French public this week, that of M. do Broglie, though not perhaps the most important, is intellectually the most in-...

N O doubt much that is said on behalf of Church Congresses is both very true and important. Especially it cannot be denied for a moment that such assemblies are signs of life,...

merits—the greatest of all, perhaps, being that they are almost worshipped by the people submitted to their influence—but they have not the special merits which their admirers a...

T HERE has been a groat deal of going to and fro among the Cardinals at Rome. That interesting question, which cannot be kept for three consecutive weeks out of the Roman...

I N the October number of Mind, — which keeps up its high standard of scholarly thoroughness in all its papers, though it might, we think, give at times rather more space than...

F ROM the plain of the Araxes, where the Armenians place the lost Paradise of man, rises an extinct volcano, of im- measurable antiquity, its peak, 17,000 feet high, soaring...

TT is a bad thing, we suppose, that the contempt for money should die, for that contempt has helped to strengthen many noble minds ; but it must be a good thing that the...

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—In your tussle with Professor Tyndall last week, you leave. your adversary on the horns of a dilemma, from which, in the- judgment, we...

Sin,—While fully concurring with your article on the agitation in this matter and on the Cannon-Street meeting, I mu o st e a xp sk on l e e n a ts. ve n to express a view...

THE COLOUR-SENSE IN HOMER. [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your criticism last week of Mr. Gladstone's article in the Nineteenth Century, on the sense of colour in...

VILLANELLE. '0 SUMMER-TIME, SO passing sweet, But heavy with the breath of flowers, But languid with the fervent heat, They chide amiss who call thee fleet,— Thee, with thy...

GEORGE CHAPMAN.* GEORGE CHAPMAN was endowed by nature with groat poetical gifts, he achieved by industry great poetical deeds, and great poetical fame has been thrust upon his...

In THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—In a recent number of the Spectator, a correspondent, 44 M. G. G.," gives some striking facts in regard to the success of 44 the National...

ONE can scarcely think without wonder of the work on which Mr.. Herbert Spencer is now engaged, and which he has partly per- formed in the volume before us. He has undertaken to...

Tins is an admirable biography of a noble-hearted and highly gifted man. Bishop Ewing's great aim throughout his too brief existence was to see into the life of things. He...

Tim publication of a reasonably faithful translation of M. Mazade's papers in the Revue des Deux Mon des on Cavour at such a period as the present is even more important as a...

delightful task accomplished so admirably by Mr. Palgrave has not been undertaken before. Herrick's grossness has kept his otherwise lovely poetry out of the hands of women, and...

Commentary on the First Epistle of St. John. By E. Jelf, MD. (Longmans.) — We quito think, with Dr. Ellicott, who has added a few words to the editor's preface to this volume,...

Blackett.) —Mrs. Banks describes from life, and weaves real foetal into her narra- tive. The result which she produces is effective. It would not be easy to find a story which...

A. Strong, M.A. (Samuel Mullen, Melhourno.)—The special feature of this new grammar is the prominence that has been given to the elements of comparative grammar. It will...

Reid.. (Tinsley.)—We used to find Captain Reid's stories amusing ; we used to like his impossible heroes, their unheard-of adventures and hair's-breadth 'scopes, his dashing...

—This is a scholarly book, on which the author must have bestowed much time and research. It is quite a student's book, the chief pas- sages from classical authors bearing on...

respectively entitled, 7'h Four Irrepressibles, That Husband of Mine, and Mr. Miggs of Danbury, by the Danbury Dustman. For the two first the author of Helen's Babies is...

By John Saunders. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Thie pretty story, quaintly told in the style which Mr. Saundors most frequently adopts, a little stiff and old-fashioned, without going...

little story, which has been made into a presentable ono-volume tale by moans of a wastefully liberal margin and very large type, is written by a young lady who has evidently...

and Co.)—Mr. Dutton Cook is rather a lively and entertaining writer, than a successful novelist. He has the faculty of attracting his readers by fits and starts, of fixing their...

the Hague. fly Frederick Spencer Bird. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This is a conscientious, laborious, one may say plodding attempt, on the part of a writer who has nothing of genius...