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The Standard publishes a telegram from Pere announcing that Prince
The SpectatorCharles of Roumania has declared the independence of the Principalities. This is, we imagine, a very natural exaggeration of a step taken some days since by the flospodar, the...
The German telegrams are rapidly diminishing in accuracy, or are
The Spectatorwritten for the special benefit of Paris. Throughout the week - the authorities at Versailles have steadily represented that General Faidherbe was defeated at Noyelles on the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE new work at Mont Avron was bombarded by the Germans all Tuesday and Wednesday (27th and 28th December) ; on the 28th the batteries of the place were apparently silenced,...
Somebody or other in Spain aeems to think it worth
The Spectatorwhile to kill Marshal Prim. He was in his carriage with one of his adju- tants driving to the Ministry of War, when some persons fired a volley into the vehicle. The Marshal...
General Trochu is building such works below Mont Val6rien that
The Spectatorthe German leaders are unable to account for them, and the favourite theory in Versailles and Berlin is that he intends to abandon Paris, and retire with his army to the...
To set off against this misfortune to Paris, the news
The Spectatorfrom the Garibaldian quarter is very favourable to the French. It seems -clear that for some time back General Werder's occupation of Dijon has been very precarious. In the...
The object of General Trochu's sortie of Wednesday week re-
The Spectatormains still partially unexplained. It was apparently meant to be serious, 100,000 men being held in readiness, a great force of artillery, and the railway mitrailleuses ; but...
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General Chanzy evidently believes in himself, and has had the
The Spectatorpower to make his troops believe in him. He has sent a spirited protest to the German commander at Vendame against the forced contributions and plunder authorized at St. Calais,...
We have no news either of Bourbaki's advance from Bourges,
The Spectatoror of Chanzy's from Le Mans, where the great difficulty of the latter is the want of shoes for his troops. One pair of shoes a week for troops on the march is almost...
The Russian Conference is to meet, it is said, in
The SpectatorLondon on the 3rd January. Report says that France will not send an ambas- sador unless England first recognizes the Republic, and a remon- strance presented to Mr. Gladstone on...
Mr. Luby, one of the Fenian prisoners who has just
The Spectatorenjoyed the severe clemency of the Crown, by exchanging what he himself and most of the Irish members believed to be the promise of a free pardon within the year, for a certain...
A lamentable accident occurred on Saturday at Bearwood, the seat
The Spectatorof Mr. Walter, M.P. for Berkshire, and proprietor of the- Times. Four sons of Mr. Walter were skating on the lake, and one of them, Thomas Walter, was pushing a cousin on a...
There was a "scare" at Versailles on the 20th December.
The SpectatorThe- Commissioner of Police had received information that a "plot" had been laid to kill or carry off the King, his Staff, and the Princes, and took very summary methods of...
The secret as to Mr. Bright's successor is well kept,
The Spectatorif there is at present any secret to keep. But a change in the subor- dinate offices has been made public. Mr. Otway has resigned the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs,...
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Count Bismarck has written a note on the breaches of
The Spectatorparole by French officers, the defect of which is not a defect Common with Count Bismarck,—the extreme vagueness of its charges. He .accnses Generals Ducrot, Barrel, and...
The Herren Hans of Prussia has forwarded an address to
The Spectatorthe King upon his coming assumption of the Imperial Crown which will greatly delight all Junkers throughout Germany. The Prussian Squires declare that they have seen his Majesty...
"The Working-Men's Club and Institute Union" have just completed a
The Spectatortwo months' campaign in Yorkshire against the national vice of drunkenness, by attacking what they hold to be its principal cause,—viz., that workmen, needing, like other men,...
The Government of India is about to try an important
The Spectatorexperi- ment in the way of decentralization. Each subordinate govern- ment is invested with full power over education, gaols, police, Toads, civil buildings, and other local...
The Germans committed a questionable raid on some English -colliers
The Spectatoron the Seine, on the 21st December. As far as we can snake out, these colliers had gone up to Rouen with a permit from -the German Government. One account says that, having...
The extraordinary efficiency of Prussian administration, pro- bably the most
The Spectatorefficient for its purposes in the world, cornea out in the government of occupied provinces outside Alsace and Lorraine. Herr Bethmann Holweg, for example, German Prefect of the...
The Mont Cenis Tunnel, as it is called, between France
The Spectatorand Italy, was "completed," that is, cut through, on Saturday. It is really a railway tunnel under Mont Tabor, 7 1 1- miles long, with a gradient of only 1 in 120. The tunnel...
The quinquennial census of the United States has just been
The Spectatorcompleted, and shows.that the Union contains a population of 39,000,000, or about one-fourth more than our own. It has in- creased 22 per cent, in the decade, and at the same...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorJUNKERISM. T HE mischief this war is working in Germany itself comes out more strongly every day. Its first effect has been to develop what is called in India and America...
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DICTATORSHIPS AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES.
The Spectator"A WHIG" accuses us in another column of having, in our last week's article on the cry for a National Assembly in France, "yielded to the besetting sin of politicians of the...
THE VACANCY IN THE CABINET.
The SpectatoritifR. GLADSTONE is taking time about naming the III successor to Mr. Bright. And this is perhaps one of the matters on which he may fairly lavish time with some- thing of the...
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PROMOTION IN THE ARMY.
The SpectatorT HE most popular of all the professional arguments for the retention of purchase lies in the objections always ad- 'yawed to the system of promotion by seniority. You can, it...
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THE ACCIDENT AT BEARWOOD.
The SpectatorW E rather wonder that more has not been said about that melancholy accident at Bearwood, which has brought to a quiet county member the sad solace of the condolences of all...
THE DEFENCE OF FRANCE.
The SpectatorT HE public has become so accustomed to the "melodramatic catastrophes," which Mr. Disraeli said would never occur again, that it is apt to miss the meaning of movements such as...
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GREEK TRAGEDY AND MODERN LITERATURE. Mt.BUe Hk AN : in a fine
The Spectatordramatic poem which h h ehas just publis hed on ta revive a form of poetry for which there is a great function in all literatures, but which the modern world has carefully...
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COLD.
The SpectatorI N a volume which has more than once suggested a subject for our speculations, Dr. Horace Bushnell's "Moral Uses of Dark Things," we find an essay on "Winter." Dr. Bushnell,...
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WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT SYMPATHIZE WITH FRANCE.
The SpectatorI N the Fortnightly Review and the Pall Mall Gazette Mr. Frederic Harrison has vigorously expressed his amazement that good Liberals should display any sympathy for what he...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorM. GAMBETTA'S DICTATORSHIP. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—I have read your article last week against the convocation of a National Assembly in France with surprise...
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THE BRAIL110 SOMAJ AND INDIAN REFORM.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sra,—Those of your readers who were interested in the visit of Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen to this country may be glad to hear that since his...
A PJAA FOR THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNION BANK..
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me, as a commercial man, to say a few words in defence of the much-abused resolution of the Directors of the - Union...
THE DAY OF THE ECLIPSE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We have lately read in the papers how the ship Psyche,. carrying a burden of science and scientific instruments intended for the...
NAPOLEON AT BERLIN.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,—The reviewer of the Correspondance de Napoleon ler. in your impression of the 10th inst. overlooked one of the most curious and...
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DR. LITTLEDALE'S TWO RELIGIONS.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have received, probably from some kind friend, anxious to expose my errors and set right my opinions, a lecture entitled -" The Two...
THE MILITARY PROBLEM.
The Spectator70 THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Is this scheme worth anything to the readers of the Spectator as a solution of the British military problem ? I feel so confident of its...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. ELWIN'S EDITION OF POPE.* IT is just nineteen years since the present writer inquired at Mr.- Murray's for " Croker's edition of Pope," which was then an- nounced among...
POETRY.
The SpectatorWe quote this from the Tribune. It is almost as good as the Bigelow Papers:— LITTLE - BREECHES. [A. PIKE COUNTY VIEW OF SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.] "I don't go much on religion, I...
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ANGLO-NORMANS IN IRELAND.*
The SpectatorTuts collection comprises considerably more than a hundred docu- ments (for they are partly numbered in sets), which have been drawn from a great variety of repositories, and in...
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ALASKA AND ITS RESOURCES.* Tuts book is divided into two
The Spectatorparts, and we advise the reader in search of facts to skip the first part and proceed at once to the second, where he will find carefully and elaborately tabulated all the...
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COMPETITIVE ETHICS.*
The SpectatorIN times past it has been matter of discussion whether Ethics should be treated as a branch of philosophy, or as a science, or as an art. It was reserved for these latter days...
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MR. JEAFFRESON'S ANNALS OF OXFORD.*
The SpectatorIF we may judge from the pleasant volumes of gossip which he has put together about clergymen, lawyers, and physicians, Mr. Jeaffreson ought not to have written such a very bad...
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MR. TENNYSON'S NEW SONGS.* FOREMOST among this season's Christmas books
The Spectatorstands a series of songs written for music four years ago by Mr. Tennyson at Mr. Sullivan's request, and now, the music being just completed, put forth very sumptuously by the...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorPrimitive Man. By Louis Figuier. (Chapman and Hall.)—This book is written with all the liveliness and force, the lucidity and the felicity of illustration which distinguish M....
SKETCHES OF CALIFORNIAN LIFE.*
The SpectatorWE venture to predict that few will read a page or two of this modest volume, open it where they will, without being attracted to finish it, and that as few will lay it down...
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A Plain Account of the English Bible. By J. H.
The SpectatorBlunt, M.A.. (Rivingtons.)—We gather that Mr. Blunt's ideal of an "English Bible" is a book of devotion rather than a critical version, for - which, indeed, according to the...
Dr. Hannah has edited for "The Aldine Edition of British
The SpectatorPoets" The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose. (Bell and Daldy.)—The chief feature of this volume is the complete collection which it contains of Raleigh's poems. Dr. Hannah...
The World of Moral and Religious Anecdote. By Edwin Paxton
The SpectatorHood. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—One can scarcely criticize a book of anecdotes, except by doubts, which may seem somewhat captious, as to. whether this or that story can be...
Secular Annotations on Scr4rture Texts. By Francis Jacox. (Hodder and
The SpectatorStoughton.)—By "secular annotations" Mr. Jacox means illustra- tions from what is commonly called profane history and literature. We cannot do better than give an instance. On...
Austin Friars. By the Author of "George Geith." 3 vols.
The Spectator(Tinsley.) —Mrs. J. H. Riddell has never cared to gratify her readers with what is callel "a pleasant story." We do not think that she ever gave them anything so distinctly...
Mores Ridiculi. Depicted by J. E. Rogers. (Macmillan.)—Those who remember
The SpectatorMr. Rogers' Ridicula Rediviva will be glad to see a continua- tion of the series. The twelve pictures of the volume before us are on a smaller scale than are those in the...
Clanship and the Clans. By H. M. Towry. (Edinburgh: Grant.)—
The SpectatorWe question Mr. Towry's opening statement : "The rise of clanship in the Highlands, may be traced from 1066, when Malcolm Canmore removed the seat of government to the...
Ecclesiastical Authority in England. By Edward Muscutt. (Miall.) —Mr. Muscutt
The Spectatortells us that he means to give his readers not arguments, but facts, and that he "has found neither the inclination nor seen the desirableness of even touching upon any point of...
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We have to notice a very pretty edition of Lockhart's
The SpectatorSpanish Ballads '(Murray), and the re-issue of a tale, Netherton-on-Sea (Tinsley), by E. M. Alford, of which the Dean of Canterbury is editor, and, indeed, joint author. The...
Among reprints we may notice Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the
The SpectatorAstrolabe. Edited by Andrew E. Brae. (J. R. Smith.)—The treatise was addressed by the poet to " lytel Lowys my sone," and is an interest- ing monument of the astronomical...