month he has selected Lord Lytton, a man of forty-one, known chiefly to the public as a writer of rather fanciful poetry, to be Viceroy of India. It was announced on Wednesday...

which appears, according to the most truthful among many false accounts, to have arisen in this way. Mr. Cave is inclined to perform his task in Egypt thoroughly, and therefore...

in order not to seem to wish to embarrass the Govern- ment of Marshal AlacMalion, the French Minister has thought it due to him to state that his return for the department of...

the results of the Senatorial elections, and as the time approaches the Conservative majority grows leas. The Govern- ment at firatsakulated on a majority of 30 or 40, but on...

T HE long-expected Austrian Note which is to be presented to the Porte has at last been submitted to the European Cabinets. It has been accepted by Russia, Germany, and France,...

case.

Prince Nikita of Montenegro has been induced to remain quiet by a positive assurance from the Czar that his posi- tion - shall shortly be improved in one direction or another,...

break-neck speed,. and will know as much about it as a New-Yorker knows of Europe after a two months' run. He stayed a week in 'Calcutta, it is true, transacting every day some...

at Wrexham on Tuesday, in reply to objections raised against his Burials Bill. He pointed out that the churchyards are in no sense Church property. They are' parish land vested...

rather slowly. The second has been delivered this week, but the third still hangs fire. Lectured upon his levity, Sir William Harcourt made a great effort to be dull in...

electors of Ipswich having returned Mr. T. Clement Cobbold by a vote of 2,213 to 1,607. Mr. Newton, his opponent, stood as the working- man's candidate, and did not poll the...

been; tried this week by Lord Penzance, the complaint being brought by three aggrieved parishioners of Folkestone against the Rev. Charles Joseph Ridsdale, curate of St....

in the form of a letter to a friend at Cahors. He refuses to decide on the character of the Assembly, but suggests that the historian will find "extenuating circumstances" in...

the policy of abandoning Turkey. He thinks such a policy might induce the Three Powers who partitioned Poland to dismember Turkey also, and would rather that England insisted on...

the -causes of his dismissal from Eton, did not end with the corre- spondence on wh4h we commented some weeks ago. A friend of Mr. Browning's, Mr. Ainger, trying to extract from...

Monday - which seems to make the account of the death of Shelley recently given out highly probable, in spite of the ridicule which has been cast on it. He was himself with...

has been -dropped, after an apology from both the editor of Fun and the writer of the silly diatribe in question. Mr. Sampson, the editor, -declared that he regarded the letter...

Edlin, the Assistant-Judge to the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, the dog-stealers having stolen a valuable dog with a silver collar from a lady, and having earned a reward of...

last week, and early on Monday the Warspite,' the oldest of the training-ships, lying off Charlton, in the Thames, was discovered to be on fire. Everything was done to save her,...

saying that he would like to live to see three great works . completed,--a canal across Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, a canal connecting the head-waters of the...

20th inst. to hear the appeal " Keet v. Smith," in which the -question is raised whether a Dissenting minister is entitled to be described, on a tombstone in a churchyard by the...

M D ISRAELI'S new selection for the Indian Viceroyalty - will create more surprise than the return of Lord Northbrook in the spring. Rumours have been afloat for some time that...

THE AUSTRIAN NOTE. Tr HAT Austria should take a prominent part in settling the affairs of Turkey is natural enough. The "Eastern Question," theoretical for Germany, and not...

T HE second generation of the Rothschilds, the men who have consolidated the great House, until it is rather a power in Europe, to be reckoned with like any other, than a mere...

very curious information given in the letters of " War- hawk " to the Times in connection with the Bremerhaven explosion is, in one respect no doubt, very alarming, but it also...

T HERE is something discouraging in hearing from Canada and New Zealand the same complaints of want of work that are so familiar to us in England. Is there no hope that these...

P ROFESSOR BONAMY PRICE and the Rector of Lincoln College are at least perfectly agreed as to the nature of the evils under which Oxford is labouring, though they may not...

W E never remember to have read quite so puzzling a paper as the one in which Mr. Lionel Tollemache conveys, in the Fortnightly for January, his views upon the relation between...

A GREAT Chess-player died the other day, who was said to have injured his brain by playing a considerable number of games at once blindfold, and though we believe the statement...

SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,-I read in your issue of a fortnight ago a letter by Professor Ramsay, of Glasgow, which ought not to be left...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a Nonconformist minister, I can appreciate the Rev. Arthur Gurney's kindly references to our "teachers," without over-sensitiveness...

[To THS EDITOR OF THS "SPIEITSTOR1 SIR, —In an article in your last impression, on the "New Peer- ages," you say of Mr. Tollemache, of Helmingham, that "scarcely any Peer on the...

[TO THS EDITOR OF VIM " SPBOTATOR.1 Sni,—In your article on " Hindoo Barbarism," in your number for January 1, you state that Milton calls "pearl and gold" "barbaric," but does...

you allow me to state very briefly why, to many of us Clergy of the Church of England, it seems impossible to acquiesce in the views laid down in your article of Saturday last...

[TO THS EDITOR OF THE " SPHOTATOR.1 • our earliest brood of chickens last spring was one which grew up to be a bird of singular beauty. He was pure white, and from his stately...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECFATOR.1 SIR,—Those who think—Mr. Galton notwithstanding—that there is something in Education will thank you for your article on the ' Goliath'...

THE LIFE OF JONATHAN SWIFT.. Marry years have passed away since Mr. Murray's list of "Works in Preparation" contained the announcement of The Life and Works of Dean Swift,...

MR. MAcCom, does not bear the somewhat unworthy taunts and imputations of his critics with quite sufficient equanimity. With a historical case so strong as his, it would have...

to school at Rugby and to college at Oxford, was essentially a self-educated man, and his writings owe many of their merits and some of their faults to that fact. A most...

THE shorter tales which Miss Coleridge has given anonymously to the world have pleased many readers. It is a great satisfaction to see a great advance of power in the more...

a preacher who thinks that "what are called the peculiar doctrines of the Gospel are out of all harmony with Natural Religion." These doctrines have, it is true, been travestied...

IN these days of dear meat, dear butter, dear milk, in fact of general dearness of provisions, most people would feel inclined to question the sanity of him who should tell them...

without explanations, does not set forth the subject of his book, which is better expressed by a phrase, which we find in his prefatory note, "The Source and Conditions of Human...

The Magazines are usually dull at Christmas, and most of them pub- lish little of special interest this January. Each has, however, one or two articles worth indicating to our...

directory has been rendered still more useful in its present issue by a very important addition to the map and the Street Directory. To the name of each street is added letters...

edition of certain essays published some years ago, to which the author now adds three of more recent date. The first of these is entitled, "Religion and its Dangerousness."...

illus- trations by T. King James. (Blackie and Son.)—The difficulties of teaching the important clement of time, and the value of notes and signatures, in music, form a great...

The average Jack," says the author, who has well proved his right to be heard on such topics, "seems to be neither the 'injured innocent' his thick-and-thin advocates make out,...

this unpretending title Miss Drury contrives to give her readers plenty of romantic incident. Indeed, tho situation with which the story opens is curious,—a young lady, left by...

with large additions, by John E. B. Mayor. (Macmillan.)— Every student of Latin owes a debt of gratitude for the labour, often so tedious, that has boon expended on this book....

3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This novel is constructed on the model of Mrs. H. Wood's "East Lynne." A wife, driven to madness by the coldness and cruelty of her husband and his...

Low and Co.)—The complications which are necessary in order that a love- story may be properly prolonged are commonly a little tiresome. Our author manages them with more than...

Biographical. By John Skelton. (Blackwood.)—We had almost thrown this volume aside. "Mary Stuart" is a hopeless subject, on which argu- ment, such are the causes which determine...

31. Michelet, and continued to the present time, by M. C. 3L Simpson. (Macmillan.) "Modern History," with M. Micholet, begins with the fall of Constantinople, probably as...

The interest of Olivia Raleigh lies in the answer to a curious question in casuistry. A young man has a large fortune left to him, on the con- dition that he marries a certain...

is a volume of genuine poetry, though with too little variety of tone to win a general recognition of its merits. "Those verses," says the author, in her preface, "have for...