1F4 ORD CAIRNS, even of whose indisposition the public had not heard, died at Bournemouth, of congestion of the longs, —a disease to which he had always had a certain...

THE RADICALS AND WAR. W E have always declared ourselves to be Radicals in the main features of our political creed, though we have too strong a feeling for the people to...

T HERE is something so offensive to English ideas, alike on propriety and on politics, in the startlingly-sudden dismissal of M. Ferry, that the true justification for the...

T HIS Chinese victory in Tonquin, which has destroyed a Government in Europe, will produce a still more profound impression in Asia. There is not a statesman in the East of that...

T HE sudden loss of Lord Cairns removes one a the sanest of the advisers of the Tory Party,—one to whose lucidity and general ability Lord Salisbury was disposed to defer,...

W E wonder whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer ever reads the law reports in the daily papers, because to a Chancellor of the Exchequer racking his brains to discover some...

T HERE is a pause in the negotiations about Afghanistan. The Russian reply has been received in London, and is said to be conciliatory in tone ; but the endis not yet reached....

A T. last we are to have Sixpenny Telegrams. From August 1st next a message may be sent to any part of the Three Kingdoms at a coat which the class which has occasion to send...

M R. W. EARL HODGSON, apparently a Scotch journalist, has even a higher opinion of the value of journalists in a well-ordered community than the Rev. Mr. Hunter, of Hull. The...

M R. ARNOLD'S comment on Christmas in the April Contemporary is a very patronising one. He is very thankful for what he terms the Christmas legend. He thinks the belief in the...

THE CLOTHWORKERS' HALL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sra,—My attention has just been called to a statement which appeared in the Speciator of March 14th, and, while I...

the Royal Commissioners were considered by thorn to be both "clear and intelligible," as well as "ample," to supererogation, so that I may be content to rest under the fretful...

THE " SPECTATOR:1 S1R, — In a letter which you published some weeks back, and which I have seen quoted elsewhere, I stated that, in some ;twelve years of landownership, I had...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sta',—This path, about which your correspondent "Lakelander " wrote in your last week's issue, is but a very "little one," and, except...

[TO THE EDITOR or rum "SPIICTATOR."] the Spectator of March 21st, at the end of the notice of " Upton-on-Severn," you remark that the change in the meaning of the word "...

PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Reading from time to time many pleasing anecdotes in the columns of the Spectator — which, by the way, I receive as regularly, and...

SONG. IF May forgets not April's flowers, June will,— Even hearts that throb and thrill like ours Grow still. July forgets what birds and flowers June had,— Even hearts...

SIR HENRY TAYLOR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* IN May, 1869, Lord Granville wrote to the subject of this Autobiography :—" I do not know whether your opinion was in favour of the extension...

song that is set before him, the embarrassment of the critic increases, and, perhaps, the higher level it reaches, the greater are his difficulties. He asks himself if he shall...

THE greatest kindness Mr. Morris Fuller could have done to the memory of his ancestor would have been to let it alone. A more confused, wearisome, irritating book than this...

TAR. SMILES'S new book might well have been longer. It makes excellent reading; and though most of the stories he tells have been told before, he adds many new facts. The lives...

WE must confess to a considerable amount of disappointment in reading Professor Hales's book. Learning and good-sense are there, it is true ; but there is wanting, except in two...

WE have elsewhere noticed the paper of this number of the Contemporary, Mr. Matthew Arnold's " Comment on Christmas ;" and we confess we tire a little, important though the...

With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan. By Colonel the Hon. J. Colborne. (Smith and Elder.)—Colonel Colborne tells in this volume the story of the early part of the war which ended in...