T HE great news of the week,—news, however, on which the Times correspondent at New York has cast a shadow of apparently rather arbitrary doubt,—is the evacuation of Atlanta by...

of a Series of Art ides on the Great Governing Families of Scotland, which will appear from week to week or at short intervals in the "Spectator." With the Introductory eirti le...

THE POLITICIANS OF CHICAGO. T HE nomination of General M'Clellan by the Democratic Convention at Chicago as its candidate for the next Presi- dency has been received in this...

P ROFESSOR FAWCETT made a speech on Parliamentary reform at Brighton on Monday evening which, though it may serve his purpose well as a candidate for that con- stituency, will...

T HERE were many people in this country who entertained doubts whether Franz Muller would be surrendered under the treaty of extradition. These doubts never seemed to have much...

M R. BERESFORD HOPE is a gentleman of very impulsive temperament. He is always rushing out on one in a new character. He plays many parts, and always with a certain "fever o'...

T HERE is no politician of the present day whom we should at first sight expect to enter less warmly into the feelings of the Irish or to make less allowance for their faults...

T HERE is something much more pleasant and touching about the Irish rustic superstitions than there is about the English. Superstition makes the English boor simply brutal and...

A 'MAN must be very blind, very incapable of the most ordinary generalization, who does not see that bees stand morally and politically to many flies and other insects much in...

C HARLES VANE, the third and youngest son of Sir -Henry Vane the elder, was an eminent diplomatist in the service of the Commonwealth and Cromwell, and envoy to Lisbon. One of...

To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—Your correspondent " W. B." has looked at the question of ecclesiastical tribunals from a lay point of view. May I be permitted to...

"SPECTATOR." Sin,—My letter on the " Basis of Ecclesiastical Unity" has, quite without my intention, given rise to a discussion which, although of paramount interest, is...

TILE WESTMINSTER, FRESCOES. THE nation may now look with a quiet conscience (if it has one) upon its frescoes. The Commissioners appointed in June last to consider the...

TODLEBEN'S CRIMEAN WAR.*—[Frasx NOTICE.] TIIE Imperial Government of France may be said to have set the example of publishing elaborate, costly, indeed luxurious, records of its...

Tits last brief fragment of Mr. Hawthorne's contains one of the finest and most delicate specimens of his exquisitely clear yet dusky pictures. The colours in which he paints,...

WE venture to hope that few Englishmen will read this authentic narrative of the cruise of the Alabama without a feeling of shame that any of their countrymen should have been...

M. COMTE'S millennium has not yet come, and gives no sign of 'its advent ; and though the Times has been preaching to us in Eng- land for these several months on the delightful...

is not easy to imagine a more perfect contrast than that pre- sented by the volumes before us to a work bearing a somewhat similar title which was reviewed not long since in...

in illustrating that particular sort of " jollity " which appears to be derived from the mental exercise of inventing an elaborate series of equivalents for ordinary phrases,...

A Handbook for Visitors to Paris. With map and plans. (John Mar- ray.)—This is really a good handbook. It is small enough to be port- able, and yet tells the visitor everything...

plans, and mountain outlines. (John Murray.)—The first of a new series, whose price will enable them to compete with the numerous- guide-books which were rapidly under-selling...

In six. volumes. Vol. I., Systematic Divinity. (Houlston and Wright.)—Mr. Hinton is a veteran theologian, and we believe belongs to the Baptist body. His writings are, he says,...

of Stephen Dumont. By R. Hildroth. ( rrubnor and Co.)—By those who cannot read M. Dumont's treatise in the original this trans- anion is to be welcomed, but it loses immensely...

tions. (E. and F. N. Spon.)—Mr. Simmonds calls this interesting little monograph a practical essay ; it might be fairly called a hand- book. The botanical description, chemical...

Murray.) —The author—for he is something more than a compiler,—of this last addition to the well-known red books is Mr. George Dennis, who has followed the planpeculiar to...

By Spencer Thomson, M.D. (Groombridge and Sons.)—The next gene- ration certainly ought to be scientific if innumerable elementary treatises can make it so. Dr. Thomson fairly...

W. Dale. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—A spirited but rather lengthy sermon preached. before the Directors of the London Missionary Society in May last. The favourite sneer...

M.A., F.R.G.S. (Longman and Co.)—Thoae sermons, for under the title given . above is concealed one of those volumes of which it is the destiny of every clergyman to publish one,...

Cumworth House, by the author of Caste, 3 vols. (Hurst & Blackett)'—Bell's Poets, Dryden (C. Griffin & Co.)— History of the Great Flood at Sheffield (S. Harrison)— Waifs and...