a THROUGHOUT the week the rumour of a Conference on the Greek difficulty has gained strength. It is now stated that it will be held in Paris within a few days ; that it will be...

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. W E wonder if anybody thought the Athenians excessively impertinent for risking Marathon. The Times would have done so if it had existed in that day,...

correspondent remarks in another column, what has indeed been very generally noted throughout the ecclesiastical world, that in some respects the recent decision • of the...

p OLITICIANS in search of a thoroughly scientific account of what Mr. Gladstone has really achieved in finance, and the methods by which he has achieved it, cannot do better...

Sir Richard Mayne a servant of very unusual merit. He held on to office a little too long, but. that mistake must not blind us to the fact that forty yearsago he organized the...

T HE Times of Tuesday, the 29th ult., contained a very singular paper, a paper which, if not unique, is, we believe, very nearly unique in English literature. It is a report...

I T was Lord Palmerston, we think, who defined 'dirt' as useful matter in the wrong place. It was rather a rash definition, for it would seem by the curiously rapid success of a...

A M OST unsatisfactory article in a review of which we expect better things* professes to introduce English readers to the works of a very remarkable modern poet. The secret of...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE EPICCTATOR.1 SIR,—You have recently pointed out that the condition of the Poor of London has two distinct features, both sad enough, though perhaps not...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Dr. Pusey has written a letter of great interest to the Times on the subject of the recent judgment in the case of "Martin v....

go THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Pray pardon the blindness which disables me from agreeing with you as to the results which are likely to follow from the judgment in the...

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOK.* Tuts book is capital lazy reading,—having enough points to attract attention and to start little jets of speculative interest, without...

interesting and valuable of the Christmas books published thisoseason, one which must be purchased by every man who took an interest in the strangely romantic expedition which...

Ma GOBLET has ventured upon a task requiring peculiar qualifications. He has attempted to present in a popular form a subject of some metaphysical complexity, and possessing no...

A BOOK of travels thirty years behind time has many chances against its finding a large circle of readers. In these days it would hardly be possible to name any part of the...

WHEN Mr. Disraeli put in the mouth of two of his characters (Ixion and, we think, Sidonia) the words, "Adventures are to the adventurous," he unconsciously hit upon the best...

THE Church Party of the Centre, if we may borrow the phrase from a secular terminology, has followed the example of its opponents in adopting for its manifesto the convenient...

To all who have any tincture of interest in India and its problems, the Travels of a Hindoo will be one of the most valuable works yet published on the subject. Not that there...

Seekers after God. By the Rev. F. W. Farrar, M.A. (Macmillan.)— By "seekers after God" Mr. Farrar means those who, unassisted by tho light of revelation, have "devoted...