NEWS OF THE WEEK. fpliE Volunteer Review of Easter Monday was marked by an I exceptional catastrophe. The weather,—which was so bad that the Volunteer Brigadiers dismissed...

THE MEETING AT UMBALLA. W E seem to be managing this Afghan affair extremely well. So far as we can understand arrangements the precise object of which is studiously and wisely...

e co p n i s ll i a d r ere a ci nd b e y or in n a e n r- y sto of ne th o e f M il. C G on A s T er H va ° t R ives to H b A e R t p he Y. tru is their party. His Conservatism...

M ISS BURDETT COUTTS is trying to do a very bold, a very disinterested, and, as we think, a very beneficial thing. She has put up her own name among those of the candidates for...

B. MILL'S striking article in the new (April) number of the Fortnightly Review on " Endowments " exhibits him in his ante-Parliamentary phase of protesting against doctrines...

I T is a dull week ; to members, politicians, and journalists a very dull one ; there is nothing doing ; nothing has been said ; nobody has made a very conspicuous fool of...

S UPPOSE a crime,—like the Norwich murder, for example,— once committed and irreparable, is there any true moral foundation for the feeling which makes it a genuine relief to...

T HE variation of Easter is one among many things which illustrate the tenacious hold which Hebrew ideas, and even customs no longer representing ideas, retain upon modern life....

FURTHER NOTES ON PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S "PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE." (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—The interest aroused by this remarkable paper will be, I trust, sufficient...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR:] SIR,—In a recent number of the Spectator you considered the evil effects of such a test as Sir Roundell Palmer proposes to substitute for our...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The short critical notice with which you have favoured my Letter contains several queries, betraying, I think, in some of the instances,...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You condemn very strongly the proposal of the majority of the Trades' Unions' Commission to favour the separation of Trade and...

WE know no writers, except the author of Lilliput Levee, who mingle poetry and sparkling childish gaiety with such exquisite ease and in such finely adjusted proportions as the...

Tuts translation is so carefully and so thoroughly made that we very much regret Mr. Coleridge has been at the trouble of making it. Not all the materials the author of the life...

Jr is not so clear for what class of readers this work is intended. It has been translated, edited, and enlarged from the French of Arthur Mangin, by the translator of The Bird,...

A FRESII work from Mr. Helps' pen is always a distinct gain, awl we have read the little book before us with special pleasure, since it adds another link in the chain which is...

Sr. Paula is readable,—not very good, but readable. That habit of publishing novels as books just before they have been concluded as serials makes reading the later numbers...

Mrs. Brown's Visits to Paris. By Arthur Sketchley. Mr. Sketohleyor shall we say Mrs. Brown T—is as amusing as ever, but her reminiscences should bo read aloud in full family...