T HE war news of the week is insignificant. On Saturday both the Daily Telegraph and the Standard had special telegrams assert- ing that a great battle had been fought by...

then attained its ordinary height. Thus happily the world is spared ono, at least, of the apprehended famines of next year, and the Egyptian crisis is postponed a little longer.

17th of Septem- ber), the Turks did not carry Fort St. Nicholas, in the Shipka Pass, at all. They carried the first line of trenches and hoisted a white flag with a red crescent...

Arrondissment of Paris was published on Monday, and its cir- culation, of course, promptly prohibited by the Government, who have not the least intention of allowing fair-play...

case.

the vague news of the defeat of a great attack on Plevna on Tuesday, with heavy Russian losses and the loss of four guns, be true, which at present seems very doubtful,— has...

forth his address to his constituents. It is very much an echo of the Marshal's manifesto, but skilfully avoids using the word 'Republic,' which the Marshal, as President of the...

English subjects, are or are not to be executed by the Turks,—they have been condemned to death for treason— still remains to be seen. Mr. Layard, Lord Derby says, reports by...

build- ings on Thursday, Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Gladstone both - taking part in the ceremonial. The buildings are to be called "University College, Nottingham," and to be...

last week and this, which perhaps contain even more important prognos- tics for the future of Russia than any of the events of the great war - in which she is engaged. The first...

believe, and should be very sorry to believe, that Mr. Layard, as one of the chief founders of the Ottoman Bank, still draws a great part of his income from that source. We are...

most humanising of studies, and on the study of natural objects as the most refreshing, especially for a people shut up in towns, who have, without such studies, no sufficient...

an opportunity of attacking the Society of the Holy Cross. Asked by Canon Lowe to renew his subscription to the middle- class education system on which the Canon is engaged, the...

pay a fine of £,80 and be imprisoned for three months, for publishing a speech in which the Government was alleged to be libelled and the Marshal insulted, was heard yesterday...

the wife of one of them, and the mistress of the other, for the murder at Penge of the unfortunate Harriet Staunton (the wife of Louis), after lasting for five full days,...

of arms at the house of one Herlihy, a schoolmaster in that city. Some of the weapons bore the name of " Allport," and are supposed to have been carried away when Mr. Allport's...

hitherto enabled him to evade a very stringent law, appears to be at last in danger of a prosecution. On Monday last, the Times published a telegram from its Philadelphia...

last brought to a close on Saturday evening by the committal for trial of all the parties accused. Just before the end of the case, Mr. Froggatt read in his own defence two...

for three millions sterling, and is to be redeemable in seven years. If the cost of the famine is to be defrayed by India alone, the sum would appear far too small. A larger...

and it preserved to the close the character of dullness imparted by the President's opening address. Indeed, although the Associa- tion has attained its majority—the meeting at...

last. On Saturday, H.M.S. ' Defence' and the Trinity boatGalatea ' succeeded in dragging the wreck into deep water,—it was the shallowness of the water, it seems, which made it...

rains have improved the autumn crops in Bombay, Madras, and Mysore, and prices show a downward tendency ; but in the Punjaub, Rajpootana, Central India, and the North-West...

PREMATURE PEACEMAKING. T HE attempt made on Wednesday, in so able and thought- ful a paper as the Daily News, to convince the world that the time has come for peacemaking...

I T is strange to hear M. Thiers' voice raised, as it were, from beyond the tomb, in answer to a manifesto of Marshal MacMahon's which was not drawn up till Thiers was lying in...

on one point. It brings home to us more clearly than ever how pain- fully the present state of our law withholds from us the final and clinching evidence on, wliich alone the...

I T is hard to say what it is that is displeasing in such a speech as that which Mr. Bright made at Rochdale on Tuesday. Why should not a great orator reckon up the benefits...

P ROFESSOR GOLD WIN SMITH has very recently attempted to show that as the settlement of once press- ing questions gradually obliterates old party watchwords, Party itself must...

Gladstone's correspondence with M. Negropontis is interesting only as it bears on the literary morality of English journalism, but from that point of view it is unfortunately...

T HE President of the United States returned to Washing- ton on Wednesday, " well pleased (it is said) with his Southern tour," and confident in the restoration of peace and...

T HEIR school-room is the out-of-door circus in the grounds of the Alexandra Palace, beyond the enclosure in which the distinguished foreigners from the banks of the Nile...

IV IIEN Sir Stafford Northcote spoke of the love of excite- ment and the vanity of our generation as the leading intellectual vices of our day, he was no doubt speaking from ob-...

THE COAST SCENERY OF LEWIS. EFROEI ACORIIESPONDENT.) Sri,—One of the most beautiful parts of the island of Lewis is Loch Roag ; and to mast Londoners, also, it is perhaps the...

THE CONFEDERATES AND THE TURKS. [TO TRH EDITOR OF TILE "SPROTATOR.1 Sin„—I see that in your last number you call attention to the curious parallel which exists between the...

we indeed found our Iarpes3s zip/ Tsis spuvis, who is i7rwT4frce.s , Ti xprierTou irovilpdy zio■ 1.4ccOnpigiredp, the existence of whom Socrates found it so bard to believe in,...

Bourne does not mean to misrepresent my language, but he certainly misunderstands it. I never used words implying that "those matters which have been hitherto managed by...

THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Is it quite fair that Lord Macaulay should have all the honour of having invented the "New Zealander " ? The fol- lowing extracts appear to me to be...

Lfro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] Sin,—Eyery public schoolmaster who has written to you upon this subject has pleaded for the retention of monitors in large schools. But...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As you close your notice of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, in your issue of September 8, by the question, "What would not such banks, if...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mrs. Macdonell, in her interesting letter in your last issue, speaks of the two distinct types of men in the Lewis, the Celtic and the...

THE FRIGID ZONE. 0 Yir, who dwell beneath the temperate sun, And till the happy fields of every day, . Know ye what lands are lying far away, Where never birds rejoice, nor...

[To TRIO EDITOR OF TDB " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The brilliant article (" Africa Translated") in the Spectator of September 22 induced me, as it must have induced many others, to go...

PROFESSOR SELLAR ON VIRGIL.* To write novelties about a poet on whom critics and commenta- tors have for so many centuries exercised their ingenuity is pro- bably impossible....

[To TRH EDITOR OF l'aa "SPEOTATOE.1 Sin,—The ladies of my family are rejoicing to-day in my dis- comfiture on a question of philology. They point triumphantly to the Spectator...

THERE are some authors with whom, despite their attractiveness to us, we never feel altogether safe ; they are like certain states- men or patent coffee-making machines, one...

THOSE persons who have read Mr. Valentine Baker's Con* in the East will remember that he mentions incidentally, in the course of his own narrative, a certain English officer who...

Tuts is one of those volumes among the publications of the Camden Society which are "antiquarian" in the modern and intelli- gent sense of the word. That is to say, while they...

NOVEL - READERS owe a debt of gratitude to the translator of this fascinating story. The translation is so well done, that one - would never suspect the book to be other than of...

Resurrection ; What is it? and What is its Relationship to the Second Coming of' Christ ? By James Cross. (Houlstou and Sons.)—This is a puzzling book. It is written by a person...

" dale," "Torn " Tom Delany." (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr, Thynne's novel produces on ono's mind the impression of rather good talk, unduly and unreasonably prolonged, until at...

Mr. G. H. JONES, Surgeon-Dentist, 57 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON (immediately opposite the British Museum), Has obtained Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for his perfectly...