31 JANUARY 1863

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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-T HE week has been full of signs of a coming change in public opinion. The civil war in America has become .an anti-slavery struggle, and slowly but certainly English opinion...

NOTICE.

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s" THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

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by admitting the idea of discussion, they commit themselves Lhuys'

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proposal, and to mean merely that Mr. Vallandigham to nothing at all, and may back out at any moment. He wishes to insert the thin end of the wedge. Again, all the evidently...

sian officers suspected of sympathy with the insurgents. The students

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of Warsaw continue quiet, as does the population, but it is necessary to concentrate 40,000 troops in the capital ; and, though the revolt was organized by the Secret Committee,...

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THE FORTUNE OF THE PERCIVALS.

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IN the days of Queen Elizabeth, one Richard Percival, who had ruined himself and alienated his relatives by an imprudent marriage and "a stormy youth," went, as others have done...

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THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH ON ENGLAND.

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O UR French correspondent expresses the view taken by the French Opposition of the Emperor's latest speech. Uttered to men who had just won prizes in the English industrial...

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THE PRUSSIAN " GRAND REMONSTRANCE."

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H ERR von Bismark-Schiinhausen, Premier of Prussia and country gentleman, has performed a very difficult and exceedingly dangerous task. He has lighted the German fire, that...

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SIR C. WOOD'S GREAT OFFENCE. T HE Manchester Chamber of Commerce,

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after a year of dis- cussion of Indian cotton has, in its annual report, for- mally condemned Sir Charles Wood. That Minister by resist- ing the " contract law " has, thinks the...

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NAPIER v. DELANE.

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S OME few months ago, an unpublished pamphlet was sent to this office containing a correspondence between " Mr. J. Delane, Editor of the Times," and the late Admiral Sir Charles...

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FRENCH NOBILITY.

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A VERY dull book, just published, draws attention to a very interesting subject—the history of the French nobility, from the year 1789 to the present year of grace, 1863. A...

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SENTIMENTAL THEFT.

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A MONG the crimes against which the forethought of jurists could not very well be expected specially to provide, may be said to be the crime of levying black mail on your master...

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THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] January 28, 1863. Is• the stupidity of mankind decidedly a fathomless abyss? Louis Napoleon must suppose this to be the case. Were it not...

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REP. F. D. MAURICE ON THE EMANCIPATION SOCIETY.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—Some excellent men have been induced to call together a meeting in Exeter Hall on next Thursday, for the purpose of passing some...

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Music aub' fly pram, Mn. BOUCICAULT, by an adroit stroke

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of verbal strategy, has dis- armed his detractors by quietly appropriating the term continually cast in his teeth, and announcing boldly a new " sensation drama." In this...

CLERICAL POLITICS.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR, -A few plain words on the political duties of the clergy may not be wholly without use. The popular notion that "politics are not for...

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BOOKS.

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MR. KINGLAKE'S CRIMEA.* [SEcoasie NOTICE.] WE have spoken of Mr. Kinglake's literary powers as an historian, and have appreciated the valus of his work up to a certain point....

THOUGHTS BY THE SEA.

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I. I had been reading Paul's great argument, Where, after those strange chapters darkly penn'd, He bursts out with ry t 3 406; at the end, When, whether thought or memory...

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MR. STORY'S ROBA DI ROMA.*

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WHAT the attraction about Rome is must often have puzzled a visitor new to the place. Compared with the capitals of the other Italian states—with Florence, and Pisa, and...

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AURORA FLOYD.*

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AURORA FLOYD is a clever melodrama; by no means what is ordinarily called a sensation novel. If a sensation novel means a kind of literary centipede of a hundred different...

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CHRISTINA OF S WEDEN.*

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WE do not know why Mr. Woodhead should have written once more the life of this crowned bluestocking. He has no new materials, and though he has, as he believes, a new view of...

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DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA IN ENGLISH.*

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A VERY weak translation of a very great poem is a painfu l and instructive thing. Perhaps the idea which, in some as pects, it most naturally awakens, is that of a little child...

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The Practical Mechanics' Journal Record of the Great Exhibition of

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1862. (Longman and Co.)—This is the best memorial of the Great Exhibition that we have as yet seen. It is not, of course, a complete record of the contents of the great show,...

The Countess Dowager. By Julia Tilt —This is a collection

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of short detached tales, strung together, as is usual in such cases, in a remark- ably awkward and artificial manner. Miss Tilt prides herself upon the fact that none of these...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Stirring Times under Canvas. By Captain J. Herford. (Bentley.) — It may, perhaps, be thought that the time is gone by when a mere narra- tive of personal experience or...

Miracles of Nature and Marvels of Art. (Dean and Son.) — We

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are inclined to think that this is one of the most trumpery books we have ever met with. It is, we presume, designed for the use of boys ; and it professes to give an account of...

The Model Church. By the Rev. L. B. Brown. (Freeman.)—This

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small work, which professes to contain an inquiry into the nature, con- stitution, government, and characteristics of the Church of the first century, is the essay to which a...

BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.

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The Bampton Lectures for 1804, by Adam Story Farrar, M.A. (Murray).—Tales of Life in Earnest, by Miss Crompton (Darton and Hodge).—Shall we Register Title? by Tenison...