17 APRIL 1869

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PROGRESS OF THE IRISH-CHURCH MEASURE. T HURSDAY night was given up on the one side of the House to that unfortunate cultus of the Pope by which a certain section of the...

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EARL RUSSELL ON LIFE PEERAGES.

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E ARL RUSSELL'S Reform Bill for the House of Lords is a very small measure, and unless greatly amended in Committee will prove a very useless one. As if stands, it will enable...

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NAPOLEON'S CURE FOR SCEPTICISM.

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A N odder prescription for failing faith has not yet been written in Europe than Louis Napoleon's contained in the letter to M. Rouher, which appeared in the Journal Dfficiel of...

THE HOUSE OF COMIONS ON WIVES' PROPERTY.

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have been told by men who have made a study of the subject that the tone of the House of Commons has been more changed by the last election than the public is yet aware, that...

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THE NEW EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA.

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T HE day of adventure, then, adventure in the old heroic sense, adventure fit for potential rulers of men, is not entirely past. We were mourning recently over Rajah Brooke as...

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STEALING COMMONS.

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T HE Government have narrowly escaped committing a very serious blunder in the past week. At the beginning of the session the Inclosure Commissioners presented their usual...

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MR. DICKENS'S MORAL SERVICES TO LITERATURE.

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W E wish it were possible to do real justice to those of our men of genius who still remain among us with less of exaggeration, and we might almost say caricature, than seems to...

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" SERIOUSNESS."

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I s there such a thing as frivolousness, a habit of mind, that is, which, while in itself innocent, or, at all events, not criminal, is, nevertheless, unworthy of beings with...

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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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XCVIL—LINCOLNSHIRE. SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST :—THE LAND AND THE CHURCH'. IN the distribution of lands after the Norman Conquest, as displayed in Domesday Book, the Church had...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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PROFESSOR IIUXLEY.—A CORRECTION. [To TDB EDITOR OF Till " SPRCTATUR.1 Silt,—You were good enough to insert in the Spectator o last week a letter of mine commenting on your...

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MARLBOROUGH AND THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS' BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. - 1

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SIR,—If I ask for some space in your columns, it is not because you have unintentionally misrepresented my own position, but because you seem to me to have given a wrong...

THE NEW PHILOSOPHY, OR PHYSICAL METAPHYSICS.

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[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE .4 srseraroa."1 Stn,—Notwithstanding your own and your correspondents' able comments on Professor Huxley's article in the February number of the...

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SELF-SUPPORTING EMIGRATION.

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(To TES EDITOR OF TRH SPECTATOR:1 SLR, —Allow me through your columns to make a suggestion to the East End Emigration and Relief Society. It would appear: from a letter of Mr....

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DR. DONALDSON AND THE BOOK OF JASHER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In the notice of a recent occurrence at Southampton which appeared in last Saturday's Spectator there is a nerroneous statement which I...

POETRY.

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HOMAGE AND HOMAGE. [Lind suggested by the announcement of a Lecture on " The Excellency of the Bible," to be delirered before a Young Men's 0:Hallam Assodation.) Some think...

BOOKS.

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ATHENS AND THE MOREA.* LORD CARNARVONT has done well in rescuing these notes of his father's travels from oblivion. They were evidently in their original form mere notes,...

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MR. LLEWELLYN DAVIES AND TIIE PALL MALL GAZETTE.* ALL these

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sermons, as is usual with what comes from Mr. Llewellyn Davies, are thoughtful and worth study ; some of them, —like those on "Human Corruption," " Giving by Calculation,"...

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TRICOTRIN'.* Jr is not difficult after reading this novel to

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understand the causes of Guide's success, a success which,'to judge from the dedication to the American people, has extended to the other side of the Atlantic. Tricotrin,...

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DEEP-SEA DREDG1NGS.*

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FEW, probably, are altogether devoid of a natural and instinctive desire to obtain some acquaintance with the world in which we live, though it is not given to many to gratify...

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FLOOD, FIELD, AND FOREST.* So many books have been written

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about hunting and fishing from the sportsman's point of view that it is quite time for the quarry to have its turn, and to do its best towards reversing the picture. Mr. Rooper...

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THE CURRENCY MYSTERY.*

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WE are afraid our readers will turn away at the title of this notice, but we may re-assure them at the outset. We are only going to contemplate in the most distant and...

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CURRENT LITERATURE

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—4-- The Westminster Review for April (Trlibner) is perhaps a little too crowded with articles on semi-political, semi-social topics, "Liberty and Light," "Capital Punishment,"...