T HE Conference on Greco-Turkish affairs met, as arranged, on Saturday ; but has as yet done no business, and is not expected to do any. At its first sitting, M. Rangabe, Greek...

THE CONFERENCE. THE CONFERENCE. T HIS Conference is a comedy, and not an entertaining one, or rather a lever de rideau, played to gain time before the curtain rises on the...

11/111. GLADSTONE is often reproached by the Standard and IVA_ that sort of journal, with being insufferably proud and arrogant. Our own view is, that his greatest political...

I T isquite clear from the meeting of the Ritualist Clergy on Tuesday that they do not regard the St. Alban's judgment with that feeling of satisfaction and triumph with which...

T HE mischief of French Finance is its stability. If the Government were driven, like that of Italy, frequently to impose fresh taxes, or were accustomed, like that of Great...

A NY ONE in want of a text for a telling lecture on British character will do well to study a pamphlet by Dr. Thomas Hawkesley, on the Charities of London. It is very short,...

TT is one of the remarkable, and we think one of the most hopeful, signs of the day that there is so great a growth of what we may call theological tertium quids, to borrow...

A WRITER in St. Paula, irritated at the very slight tendency the working electors have displayed towards starting a policy of their own, accounts for their acquiescence in...

LXXXVII.-•-•CENTRAL ENGLAND: STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE :-GEOGRAPHY. T HE counties of Stafford and Derby together form a diamond or double triangle, of which Staffordshire...

article in last week's Spectator on "The Paraguayan War" does, I believe, but the strictest justice to the most heroic struggle which the world has seen since that of the "...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:l SIB,—In the Spectator of last Saturday you say, "We wish those among the Irish clergy who, like Mr. Sherlock and Mr. W. C. Plunket, have the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTITOR,1 have to thank you for inserting my letter in your last number. As I cannot acquiesce in the note which you appended to it, I feel bound to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Though I have had no part in framing the Cambridge scheme for examining women recently published, and am not altogether prepared to...

RECOLLECTIONS OF LORD BYRON.* THERE is a slight typographical error in the English title of these two volumes, bound in blood-red cloth, with gilt facings. Instead of...

turn aside for a time into this firm historical ground from the dangerous places where men question of inspiration, and authenticity, and authority ; nor would it be easy to...

king had arisen who knew not Ralegh, while fancying he knew him only too well. Cowardice was ingrained in James's nature, and he feared with the fear which is next of kin to...

the old delightful conception of a boyish castaway on a desert island with the greatest art, so as both to embody in it his own special knowledge of the Arctic regions, and to...

The British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —The chief feature of this number is a long article, occupying more than a fifth of the whole, on "Church...