TFIE candidates for seats in the French Chamber are now addressing the electors, and the general tone is not friendly to personal government. All parties in opposition have...

WHAT WAR WOULD MEAN. I F all Americans were as reasonable as the two gentlemen whose letters appear in the Times of Wednesday, letters which in their temperate force are worthy...

I T is very seldom that contemporaries do full justice to an achievement which happens under their own eyes. And we are in some danger, we think, of forgetting in the enormous...

T HE official scheme for the creation of County Financial Boards does not impress us favourably, and we very much doubt if it will be regarded by tenant farmers as a...

F ROM one point of view, doubtless, it is rather satisfactory than otherwise that Irish ebullitions of rebellious feeling so invariably end in smoke. From another point of view...

PAPER has recently been started in New York which is 11 worth a little description if only as a literary curiosity. It is addressed apparently to the well-to-do alone, the price...

LETTER, now twenty years old, from Mr. Carlyle to a 11. lady who had been troubled in mind about the future state, was published last Saturday in the early edition of the Pall...

A WRITER in the last number of the eornhill, who discourses pleasantly and sensibly upon dinner-giving, calls attention incidentally to a grievance on which we wish he had...

-4- CL—LINCOLNSHIRE. (CorecLusiox.) B OSTON, whose name is now much more generally known in connection with its great offshoot in New England, is a seaport, situated on the...

GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—You have been throughout so warm and consistent a friend of the principles of the North in the late...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 SIR, —Will you allow me a small space to observe on the remarks which you have made on the question between Mr. Disraeli and the Civil...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR:] SIR, —In the review of A Residence in Bulgaria which appeared in the Spectator of February 27 (and which unfortunately only reached us...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] shall be much favoured if you will allow me space in your columns to state that I have received an advertisement of a drama announced as...

MR. MERIVALE'S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD.* WE must frankly say that this book is a great disappointment. Mr. Merivale, not to speak of his general reputation as a historian and...

SPEECHES, excepting only those of practised politicians, are, as a rule, bad ; indeed, we have little doubt that they were designed by Providence as trials of courage in the...

sketches of county life. They are as amusing in some respects as ever, the author having lost none of her keen perception of the forces which dominate English country society,...

and ability about this translation which makes us regret that the author has not cared to bestow a higher finish upon it. His inequalities appear chiefly due to the manifold...

THE beat review of this large and handsome volume will be given in a selection of extracts, which will show what various intelligence is to be found within its boards. We shall...

Biographical Sketches. 1852-1868. By Harriet Martineau. Second Edition. (Macmillan.) 1869.—We noticed so recently and so fully those characteristic and admirable sketches of...