W E have not yet received the news of Mr. Lincoln's re-election, as the North German Lloyd steamship New York, which left on the 5th inst., and passed Cape Race on the 9th,...

THE LAST NAPOLEONIC IDEA. stituency, and both may be held to convey the policy which thinking Italians hold to be for the hour the best. Italy then joins France once more, and...

match which is to be run at the next General Election on the Bristol course, and last Monday both competitors were taken out for a preliminary canter in the presence of a large...

ti shall as soon as these lines are in our readers' hands we shall all know the result of the election in the United States ; nor do either Mr. Lincoln's friends or his enemies...

n IIT of the seven great .es through which the administra- tion of the British E a )i. e is conducted two have of late years greatly declined n inicortance. The Treasury is, as...

E ARL RUSSELL, in the somewhat discursive speech which he made on Friday at Aberdeen, laid his finger on a very striking blot in the political map of the world. We are very fond...

STIHE new series of the National Review begins very powerfully, nor has the confession of individual authorship, now intro- duced for the first time, apparently caused any...

THE Rev. John Hunt, Curate of St. Botolph, Aldgate, is not, it may be fairly presumed, a man of much discretion, but that does not exactly justify a coroner's jury in laying...

L OR]) JOHN HAMILTON was, on the downfall of his family, kindly received at first in France, but lost the favour of the Guises by refusing to embrace Roman Catholicism. Queen...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Taverham, Norwich, November 4, 1864. SIE,-I trust you will pardon my troubling you with a few lines relative to a portion of the article in...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, November 5, 1864. GOLD, which was at 215 on Saturday last, rose to 250 on Wednes- day of this week. What was the reason of this...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Stn,—It was with much satisfaction that I read in the last week's number of the Spectator an article on the seizure of the Florida by the...

ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN.* Tars book is one of the "Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages," published under the direction of the Master of the...

Mn. BAYARD TAYLOR has many of the qualites of a true artist,— simplicity of taste, a keen sense of the characteristic, a quiet style, a dislike both of too much colour and of...

• The Mysteries of the Vatican. By Dr. Theodor Griesinger. Translated. London: W. Allen and Co. Da. GRIESINGEB'S work has a value in England, though its use- fulness here is...

curiously with the " pioture Bibles " of the last generation, the purpose of which always seemed to be to magnify the sublimity of the sacred authors by exaggerating to the...

MR. AnoLenus TROLLOPE is, though slowly, visibly improving. The lexicographical part of his novels is melting away by degrees under the mild ray of a beneficent criticism. We...

Mansfield, K.C.B. (John Murray.)—An essay on so obscure and diffi- cult a branch of political economy by so distinguished a soldier will naturally attract attention, and,...

Co.)— Mr. Rome is a savant and an orthodox theologian. He is therefore very severe, and justly severe, on the gentlemen who allowed themselves to be hoaxed by the workmen at...

verses are, we presume, written by Mrs. Thompson as nursery rhymes for her children, and such of thorn as deal with secular subjects, although entirely without thought of any...

The Fine Arts Quarterly Review, No.5 (Chapman and Hull), is thin, very thin in quality. The author of the article on G. Dore, the greatest of book- illustrators, has not...

(Richard Bentley.)—This is a very clever book. The object of the fair writer clearly is to show how very amusing a work may be made by making it perfectly silly. This design is...

Life." (Samp- son Low, Son, and Marston.)—Another volume of the same sort of essays as "Tangled Talk," but very inferior. Where "Tangled Talk" is paradoxical "About in the...

pleasure in noticing—the character of the work will not per- mit us to do more—this splendid volume. It appeals to so small a section of the public that it is impossible for us...

is a very good specimen of a kind of book which is very popular at present. It is just .what it represents itself to be, "talk "—that is to say, an intelligent man has written...

for nothing but to give people a mere smattering of sciences which must be studied in details to be profitable. This objection does not apply to his advanced text-books. Here...

By W. S. Seton-Karr, C.S., President of the Record Commission. (Longman and Co.)—The Calcutta Gazette was disinterred by the commission over which Mr. Karr presided. It seems to...

Cattle, Sheep, and Horses. (Virtue Brothers and Co.)—The value of Mr. Burn's outlines, which really contain a tolerably copious treatment of the topics of which they speak, is...

Preserving, Household Work, Dairy Management, the Table and Dessert, Cellarage of Wines, tc. (Lockwood and Oo.)—This seems a really useful guide on the important subjects of...

man Clarke. (Boston : Walker, Wise, and Co.)—The author belongs to the Church of the Disciples, but what the tenets of that sect may be we do not pretend to say, nor do these...

College, Cambridge. (Longman and Co.)—The object of the author seems to have boon to compile a text-book for students, and this be has success- fully accomplished. He explains...

Rev. R. M. Benson, M.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—A society has been formed to "pray for the unconverted." You are to promise "some one of the clergy, whose names are appended, to spend...

Hisloire d'Altila, par H. Ameille Thierry (Barthes and Lowell) 2 vols. The Anrberge, by Rosamond Hervey, 2 vols. (Macmillan & Co.) Thornycrnit Hall, by E. J. Worboise (Jackson,...