ORD WOLSELEY has succeeded. He has forced his J way to the Nile, and opened direct communication with Khartoum. On the 18th inst., the day after the battle of Abou men, Sir...

THE RELIEF OF KHARTOUM. T ORD WOLSELEY'S daring plan has succeeded ; and Sir Charles Wilson, with the Royal Sussex, is probably by this time in Khartoum. The anxiety felt in...

T HE English people is realising this week, under a discipline of pain, a truth we have been preaching for ten years to a most impatient audience. Science is not always...

I F all men in a State were well-off, and almost equally welloff—as might happen, though it has not happened yet— would the majority have any claims ? The question will...

T HE Senatorial Elections of Sunday last have naturally given a very promising aspeol to the fortunes of the French Republic. The Senate is the Conservative element in the...

George Eliot's stories, and which is so conspicuous by its absence from her letters and journals, seems to most readers to be of a kind which would have been likely to make...

T HERE is something deeply depressing, at least to some minds, and certainly to our own, in most accounts of African explorations. African travellers have seldom been of the...

CO-OPERATION AND COMPETITION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIII, - I always read everything that comes from the pen of my old friend Mr. Thomas Hughes with the greatest...

pro THZ EDITOR OF THE " spEcrATort. - 1 F.IR, — Considerable prominence has been lately given by advocates of the vivisectional method of research to the alleged success of M....

Lro THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR "] SIR, — I am glad to see your article of this morning protesting against any attempt being made to restore the practice of sending boys to...

[re THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Could I have at all anticipated your 'need of praise for the Dedicatory Sonnet in my volume of " Florien," I should have.been more...

ONLY A CORRESPONDENT. A GRAVE in the desert, a word in the papers : is that All ? Is that all ? No shrine which a pilgrim may find, no memorial whereat Those who loved him...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. IL—DOYLE. TIIERE are some men who hold modest niches in the Temple of Fame whose tenure seems to be of the slightest ; to rest less upon any actual...

GEORGE ELIOT.* MR. CROSS has accomplished his difficult task with tact and modesty. He has evidently thought of nothing but the main object,—to let George Eliot tell, as far...

Me. Baontt: has a genuine vein of poetry in him, and there art some of these sonnets which deserve to live, chiefly, we should say, those "written at a considerable distance of...

MR. PIDGEON'S former work, An Engineer's Holiday, left nothing to be desired in the way of fresh and vigorous description of the United States of America, and his personal...

MR. FENN is entirely out of his element in the novel before us ; he could scarcely have chosen a subject less suited to his talents. The Reser?' Folk is a story of modern life,...

MR. MARVIN has the pen of a ready writer, and like some other authors similarly gifted, he writes too much. We do not mean merely that he writes too many books, but that he pats...

'Die editor of that spirited quarterly—the Scottieh Review—which is not only firmly established, bat has struck out a special line for itself, may be none the worse for a...