N APOLEON has been playing off the anarchical parties against the Liberals, and has very nearly gone too far. The wild lectures and meetings which lie recently permitted in...

THE LATEST PHASE OF THE AMERICAN TROUBLE. T HE effect of Mr. Sumner's speech is dying away both in this country and in America,—after costing the two countries, it is believed,...

W HAT if within five years " tenant-right," as the Irish call it, that is, the legal relation of the occupier to the owner of the land, should become the question in the...

W ITH much regret, we are forced to the conclusion that the remodelled Italian Ministry is a flimsy piece of patchwork. After long labour, with the declared purpose of producing...

O N Whitsun Eve, in a new-built warehouse, seven stories high, in Balloon Street, Manchester, there were gathered together, first at dinner, and then at a brief meeting, with...

T is not very difficult to understand the sudden popularity of 1 the new exercise,—riding the bicycle or two-wheeled Velocipede. Any new exercise not excessively tedious or...

—4— ca.—THE WELSH MARCH :-MONMOUTHSHIRR AND HEREFORDSHIRE. 'THE WELSH MARCH may be defined as a long block or strip 'THE of country extending from the estuary of the Severn on...

"THE RETURN OF THE DOVE," BY G. F. wArrs, R.A. [ROYAL ACADEMY, 1869.] ONLY a waste of waters, Only a tideless sea, Which is not life, which is not death, But death in life to...

CREASY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* Tins work, as the author tells us, "is chiefly founded on the manuscripts of lectures delivered by him during the twenty years for which he was...

WE may often find novels that have fewer faults than 131iudpits, seldom one that is more distinctly worth finding fault with. If it is the first work of its author, as the...

record of three journeys which the author made at somewhat distant intervals,-1853, 1861, and 1865,—in the wilder parts of European Turkey, and to Mount Ida, in Asia ; but it is...

Hawkins on his style, or recommend a close perusal of his two volumes, at least we may say that he has succeeded in bringing the great actor of a past generation clearly before...

Tie Victorious Life. By Henry T. Edwards, B.A., Oxon., Vicar of Aberdare. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This volume, with its attractive title, is not a novel, but consists of twenty...