T HE Spanish Cortes seem inclined to create a Republic without declaring one. They have appointed Marshal Serrano " head of the Executive," apparently without title, and...

THE GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL TAXATION. T HE country is evidently waking up on the subject of Local Taxation. Two years ago, it was a topic for philanthropic meetings and the...

M R. VERNON HARCOURT, in his ingenious maiden speech, discovered a grave reason for the absurd provision which still delays the business of the country whenever there is a...

W E publish to-day a letter from our old correspondent " A Yankee " which will, we believe, seriously vex every well-wisher of the United States on this side the water. In it he...

TT is impossible not to feel that the greatest danger to the 1 Church of England at the present moment is not the policy of the Government, but the attitude of the Clergy...

S COTLAND has again stolen a march on England in the matter of education. She is to have her Bill this year, and that Bill, were it strengthened by one single clause needed only...

A. NEW torture has been recently invented for the special benefit of Members of Parliament, and one wonders now and then if it is good for them. They are compelled to speak, and...

/THE Solicitor-General has appended a letter to his father's graceful memoir of the Author of the Christian Year, in which he gives a very striking illustration of that Puseyite...

T HERE must be some among our readers to whom these words will suggest one of the gloomiest recollections of their childhood. On a day when games and, in households that...

IV E have had already occasion several times to speak of Tamworth,— the Tamanweorthe, Tameneordige, and Tamawordina of Saxon times, and the Tanumwde of Domesday Book. This...

N EGOTIATIONS. [nom OUR SPECIAG CORRESPONDENT.] Nt //' York, February 12, 1869. ALAS ! the fleeting years glide by. Six laden with changes have passed wearily enough, as our...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I observe that Mr. Palgrave speaks of the metre of his Elegy to Lord Strangford as "anapaestic or dactylic." May I venture to ask...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The suggestion of your able and thoughtful correspondent "E. V. N." in your last issue is ingenious, but I cannot help thinking it...

A LEGACY OF VERSE.* IT ispainful work making acquaintance for the first time with a mind of rare genius and sweetness which has already and only just left us, and yet left us...

throughout and in parts interesting, is nevertheless little more than a strong party pamphlet on the Eastern Question, its single object being to show that in Bulgaria, and more...

IN this, his newest work, Mr. Dixon lays the scene of his story no longer across the Atlantic, but in the very midst of us—in that most unfashionable of all places, the...

classical authors is being carried on nowadays with great activity. Even the thankless labour of translating them finds numerous devotees. But books intended for scholars, in...

THE name of Lady Nairne is no longer a strange one to English readers. Her capital Scotch songs, indeed, were old acquaintances long before the authoress's identity had been...

Tins work is a remarkable protest on behalf of speculative philosophy to a public clamouring for useful knowledge. Mr. Mackay presents to English readers one of the least...

The Reformation of the Church England. By the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A. (Rivington.)—The date which Mr. Blunt subjoins to his title sufficiently explains the animus with...