T HE event of the week has been the open quarrel between Prussia and the Diet. That Government demanded as a member of the Confederation that the Diet should withdraw its troops...

for the formation of And his argument (if it can be called so) in refutation of some ecclesiastical tribunal of final appeal in matters of faith, the theological liberals is...

the public in calling attention to the "cumulative" or, as the green- grocers will style it, the " lump " system of giving votes. So long as it was the scheme of a Mr. Marshall,...

A MODERATE and exhaustive speech delivered in Ireland on the subject of tenant-right demands attention if only- from the novelty of the phenomenon. When it is uttered by a man...

to become in- teresting once more. There are signs that the silent struggle of fifty years between Prussia and Austria, North and South Germany, the advancing Power, and the...

E VERY profession has its myths—beautiful and venerable fictions, which enable it to attain useful practical results without being ostentatiously illogical. The English legal...

'W E remember few if any great criminal trials in which the evidence produced bore so purely on the act itself and so little on the character of the murderer and his moral...

T HE Economist has hit on a happy and rather a curious idea. Its conductors seem to believe that there is a large class of people in England who, having money, are not exactly...

A RCIIIBALD, fourth Earl of Argyll, had a charter of the 1 - 1. King's lands of Cardroas in Dumbartonshire in April, 1542, and was one of the Council designated as assistants to...

A great calm has fallen upon the land. There is neither political nor military news of any kind ; only anxiety as to Sherman's new expedition, with regard to which nothing has...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." presume there is little doubt that Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Disraeli, will accept Dr. Pusey's shibboleth, and bind himself to contend for a new...

"SPECTATOR." SIR,-A few months ago the Rev. W. H. Lyttelton addressed to you some letters of strong remonstrance against what ap- peared to him a light and flippant treatment...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Oxford, December 1. Sra,—A few weeks ago a correspondent expressed to you his difficulty in deciding how to vote at the next General Election....

MADAME DE TRACY.* MADAME DE TRACY, Newton Tracy, as she usually signed her name, a descendant of the family of Sir Isaac Newton, was born at Stockport in 1789. Sarah Newton, we...

Iv must have been difficult for the author to finish this story without an emotion, of melancholy in which the mass of her readers probably will not share. For their purpose the...

a bigger and bigger chaos every day. Book after book comes out with alleged personal experiences, and almost every one of them with either a philosophy or theology of its own to...

the Rev. H. C. Adams, ILA., late Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford. With illustrations. (R.ontledge, Warne, and Routledge.)--The author has chosen to tell one, or rather two...

The Plays of William Shakespeare. Carefully edited by Thomas Keightley. Six volumes. (Bell and Daldy.)—The editor is, we think, fairly entitled. to claim the merit of having...

; Dawson Brothers, of Montreal.)--These are good verses, but the subject seems to us quite unsuited for epic treatment. The motives el Jephthah in attempting to conciliate God...

F. Alex- ander. (Macmillan and Co.)--A well•selected volume of sacred poetry, which excludes neither Milton nor Roble, Toplacly nor Crashaw, Herbert nor Cowper. And we entirely...

say that "the Life of Elijah" is not a fit subject because "A Layman" assures us that "Dr. Macduff (Prophet of Fire) " has pronounced it to be "a Poem, an inspired Epic." But we...

a Sailor. By R. M. Balltuztyne. With Illustrations. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.) —Mr. John Sudberry would scarcely have had a literary existence but for poor Mr. Leech's...

Scott Burn. With Illustrations. (Virtue Brothers and Co.) —This volume maintains the same level of excellence as its predeces- sors. The work being rudimentary the subjects are...

Evans.)—It would not be difficult to write a criticism of this novel which should be at once just ana hostile, for the plot is not well con- structed, the incidents are often...

John Murray.—Modern Warfare and Modern Artillery. by C 1. naeD Richard Bentley.—flow to Manage It, by J. 1'. Prichard. 3 vols. ; a Century of Anecdote, front 1700 to 1800, by...