C ONFERENCE, unwilling to do nothing, and unable to do anything, has resolved to republish the International Ten Commandments. In other words, the diplomatists have drawn up a...

THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. S EVENTEEN years of sovereignty, and the Emperor is still protesting his right to be The Speech with which Napoleon opened his Legislative Chambers on the...

"UR. AUSTIN BRUCE has, we believe, impressed both the late House of Commons and the country generally, as one of that most popular type of English statesmen which, without being...

in English politics a sort of humour quite distinct from Lord Palmerston's jaunty fun, or Mr. Disraeli's dry and sub-sardonic playfulness. He is always placid, always lucid,...

T HAT a Bishop Dr. Ellicott would have seemed in Laodicea, how popular he would have been, how completely he would have filled the Laodicean ideal of a statesman-ecclesiastic !...

W E are not sure that the English world, ourselves included, have quite done justice to the Provisional Government of Spain. With all their blunders—and some of their blunders,...

T HE suggestions we threw out a fortnight ago on the subject of the curious psychological case in New Orleans, where a young German, George Nickern, lost, by a fall, all...

T HE Metropolitan Board of Works has just issued a Blue-Book which must have cost a good deal of money, and seems at first sight to be a somewhat useless supplement to the...

LXXXVIII. — CENTRAL ENGLAND : STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE :—CELTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS. S TAFFORDSHIRE lies within the territories of the Celtic tribes whom the Romans called...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—in your recent ingenious speculations on the relations of memory to personal identity, you express a wish for more information on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB.,—An article on " Miss Cobbe's Theology " in the Spectator of January 9, touches upon matters so deeply connected with the religious...

TFIR admirable article under the above heading in your issue of last Saturday induces me to offer a few observations on the subject therein discussed, in the hope that I may be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your readers may be interested in a curious incident recorded in Wilson's History of Merchant Taylors' School, which connects the name...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Will you let me say that I by no means intended to sneer at the science of language, as stated by the Saturday Review. All I meant was...

MR. HUNTER ON THE NON-ARYAN TRIBES OF INDIA. WE can make no pretence to estimate the worth of the greater portion of this sumptuous volume, upon which its author, we greatly...

THE leading idea of this clever and original tale is one which, when we think of it, appears so likely to have been brought out in the fiction of the day, that one wonders how...

volume is an appropriate passage from an essay by Steele. Sir Richard, although terribly plagued by women, and especially by the exactions of his dearest Prue," always spoke of...

graphic descriptive powers, and an unlimited stock of exciting adventures will make a good novel, this will be one of the best that has appeared for a considerable time. Its...

SINCE Neander's Life of Christ was first introduced into England, in the admirable rendering of Professors McClintock and Blumenthal, there has not appeared among us in an...

of its authorship. Its title is commonplace and unattractive, and, as far as we can see, wholly inappropriate. Generally it wants that appearance of expecting a success which of...

Chapters on Man. By C. Staniland Wake. (Trubuer.)—Mr. Wake travels in his 320 pages over a very wide range of subjects. So moderate an amount of space is but little to devote to...