T IIE North Pole has been sold by private transfer. The "International Financial Society" have purehased all the rights and territories of the Hudson's Bay Company for...

. •4 THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for • despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon 'through...

THE DEBATE ON THE KENSINGTON JOB. ]IR. STEERS, Purveyor to the House of Commons, is becom- i11 ing a national nuisance. He feeds the members so badly that they cannot bear to...

T HE Confederates are at least admirable for the frankness and enthusiasm of their faith. While their unfortu- nate English advocates try with painful industry and contor- tions...

/A RE debate of nextMonday night will be an important one for Independent Liberals. Perhaps the chief of the many causes which have estranged the bulk of the nation from these...

T HE defence offered by the Commander-in-Chief in the Craw- ley case on Monday night is only partially satisfactory. It proves that he has no wish to allow injustice, but it...

T HERE are degrees even in blackness, and so the prespects of Lancashire may, perhaps, with truth be said to be growing lighter, but verily the remaining tinge is sadly deep in...

rilHE rapid growth of Mormonism in Wales seems to be entirely 1 escaping the attention of those who ought to have done all that was possible to prevent it. Ministers of all...

T HE history of an English fête, if it be truly written, is very apt to be a record of an unequal contest between clouds dropping with rain and human beings trying to be happy...

W OMEN are individuals—in some sense very much more so than men ; and, as a consequence, perhaps, are not very well adapted for recording minutes. When you record a successful...

17, 1863. TILE celebrated boast of Caesar "Veni, vidl, vici," is not, at any rate, one to which Napoleon is entitled to lay claim. Who could ever have foreseen, some months ago,...

Lemberg, June 15. A VISIT of three weeks to Volhynia, Podolia, and Ukraine, where I had the opportunity of witnessing the true state of things with my own eyes, has convinced me...

OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—The debate of June 9th in the House of Commons can scarcely be obsolete at the end of ten days. The Standard announces, I hear, that Mr. Disraeli's...

HORSEBACK IN MANTCHU TARTARY.* Mn. FLEmiNG is a traveller after the ancient rather than the modern fashion, and the great volume in which he has recorded his experiences will...

WE have been told that when first the name of " Swetchine " appeared in large characters, repeated over and over again in the windows of booksellers in Paris, strangers, and...

MR. MACLEAn'El able essay is almost certain to arouse inquiries in the minds of his hearers which, strangely enough, his studies do not seem to have excited in his own. He tells...

French army list, one is surprised at the num- ber of English, or rather Irish, names with which it abounds. , / From Field-Marshals Niel and MaeNfahon down to the sous-...

quarrel with him for trusting his master too implicitly. e can- Aedge such as is often found wanting 14 works of much greater not believe macte to be an adverb with the e...

The Great Stone Book of Nature. By D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., ac. (Macmillan and Co.)---Under this somewhat fanciful title, Mr. Ansted has given us an excellent elementary...

March Phillips, M.A., late Rector of Hathern. Edited by his Daughter. (Long,mans).—This is a selection, consisting partly of essays and partly of sermons, from such of the...

story had not been designed to advocate teetotal doctrines, it would have been a very fairly creditable production. It is well written, decidedly interesting, and shows that its...

this small volume, who formerly held the combined appointments of superintending surgeon of Scindea's contingent and surgeon to the Court of Gwalior, wishes to arouse public...

LL.D. (Black- wood and Sons.)—This small work, which is edited by its author's sou, contains the views held by the late Dr. Croly on the subject of the "Book of Job." These...

leading " poem" in this volume is a kind of des- cription, in blank verse, of various stages in the process of Creation, and is introduced by a declaration that its author is "a...

W. Jacob. (Faithfull.)—This volume, which is edited by a late captain in the 99th Regiment, consists of a collection of tales by various writers, which are published by...

Rev. S. J. Andrews (Strahan and Co.).—A very compact and complete summary of the results arrived at by those inquirers who have devoted themselves to the difficult task of...

Meditations on Life and its Religious Duties, translated from the German by Frederica Rowan (Triibner).—The Student's Greek Grammar, by Dr. George Curtin', edited by William...