I A very praiseworthy effort to interest working-men in thoroughly good music has, wC hear, been recently ainlost unexpectedly successful. Two popular concerts were given this...

I The losses of Western Europe fromll the deficient corn and grape harvests -will be very great, an(1 we fear b)oth England and F4 rance have a very distressing winter to go...

Sir Evelyn Wood, who i8 a barrister of the Middle TeIml)le. I was entertained by that Honourable Society onl Saturday last, and toasted by the Attorney-Gcnleral, Sir John...

Mr. Gladstone, vho has been staying at Wellington College, I received onl Monday a very neat little address from the students, to which he replied in a speech in which le...

I The Timos announces that there is tO bi no more salt butter. The Aylesbury Dairy Company have l.)cej trying a now trcatment for butter, which tlhey say completely preserves...

The Bishop of London, in his third charge to the clergy I and laity of the Metropolis, deals with the Athanasian Creed, and in dealing with it, unhappily cannot avoid that...

I lhc Archduchess Mario Christine, bride-elect of King Alphonso, has taiken advantage of the dlistress Caliseld by the recent floods in Spain to prefer a reque~st that thle...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Aunt JAdy's Magazine for YOql~lq People. No. 163. November, 18S9. 1 -This is the first number of a n(ew volume, and a very amusing number it is. "...

| D)ecay Qf Chitrehes : a Spuiitunl Oittmook. I - I- I. .... . (Simpkin, Marshall, and Uo.)-This is a thoughtful book, written in a spirit of reverent earnestlness. The writer...

I Godwyn's Ordeal. By Mrs. John Kent Spender. (Hurst nnd Blackett.)-GOodwuyn is a young lady, and wo cannot but think it a pity she slhould have so harsh-sounding a name. Her...

LancaShire 3l2e11oTrieS. By Lonisa Pottor. (Ifacmillan.)-To slave I conversed vith a lad y who " remembors the Rebellion [of 1,745] porfoctly, and how the rebels stole the...

I 'lle a'.Jpsitor. Edited by the Rev. S. Cox. Vol. IX. (Hodder and StouglIton.)-A volume quito equal in varie(d interest and value to its predecessors. WVO mlay point...

I (it,, .13ohrotia. By Alabot C(Ilius (Tiidsley Broteors.)-TL is to bo hopod that no such place as the " Bohemia " which these volumes depict, and 1'O such PeorPle) as the0...

THE RUMOURED "NEW DEPARTURE " OF THU MINISTRY. THE "new departure" of the British Government in its relations with Turkey is a most unsatisfactory su1.ji ct for discussion....

TOPICS OF TIHE DAY. -4- TIlE CHANCES OF A DISSOLUTION. A SERIES of protracted Cabinet Councils always excites attenA tion, and the public has this time chosen to fancy that...

"rTLjE MTERCHIANT OF VENICE" AT TITHE LYCRIJM. I T HAT no artist has so much actlluLl C'ioy1f0lCt of success as the actor, and that no fame is so cvancsceut as his, has been...

I Lfst Thursday Lord Carnarvoul, after laying the foundation- stone of the newv block of municipal buildings at Reading,. including a free library, reading-room, museum, and...

On T¶hursday night, at Montrose, Air. Baxter delivered a, very able address on the progress of Greece, on the claim she hadl to a greater territory, not only under the...

The " Fall " elections in the Unitedl States have gone, so far I as the North and West are coucerned, entirely in favouer of the Republicans. The South may lbe accepted as a...

In the same Speach, Mr. Lowe, who is a trustee of the British I Museum, made one little revelation of one of the conse equences of an exIlensive anl dissipated foreign policy...

I It would sCciii to be certain that the Russians, under Genera? Lam 11akiJne, have sustained a severe defeat in their effort to reach Merv. lilie Tranis-Caspian expedition,...

On1 Tnesday, at a, Libcrba~l meeting at GrantlIvm, AMr. Lowe deoli- vered a very severe invective againist the Government, interspersed with lnot a few sarcasms at his...

I But little news has been received from Afghauistan during the week, It is, however, officially announced that the Shuturgardan route is closed, and as the way by Jellalabad...

THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS. TTIE victory of the American RIepublicans in the November Elections is more than a momentary blow for the Democratic party. Not only does it indicate...

THE ICO(RN111LL " ON ARlt. ,,N cloqlent writer in the Cm'nhiil 3aqla-.zinc, signiug himself A `N 11. lQ.," navalles What, so far aLS it goes, We believe to lie a tr'1e...

NEWS OF THE WEE]K. PERSISTENT rumours of a dissolution hlave beun floating L about all the weclc, have been telegra-hbdI to the niovillnes. and have created great excitement...

All Europe is full of rumours as to soime now departure in I 'l:'urkish politics taken by the British Cabinet. It is asserted that Sir Henry Layard has presented an ultimatum...

I The fmuicipal electiOlls were held all over EDiland on Satur- day, and the results were, in nianny instances, highly unfavourable to the Conservatives, In Liverpool, for...

We observe with surprise that some of the most distia- guished of the Liberal party are predicting that if the L..iberals return to power, Mr. GCldstole may accept thle post of...

I According to the latest teleogranms, the Turkish Government is aftbout to yield to Sir 11. Laiyard's demands, whatever they are; but it is by no mneanis certa in that these...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROMANCE.* MISS BIRD is an ideal traveller. She canl see, and she call use the words that place what she sees before the reader. She has regard to the essentials...

ITHE PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE FOR FREE-TRADE. THE Pall Mail GaZette has now for some time been publishTing, with a great deal of parade, a strictly individual view of its own as to...

David Leslie: a Story of tile Afyh3n Frontie. By S. S. Thorburu. (BlackWvood and Sons.)-This novel is injured by occasional coarse touclhes, which ore unworthy of tho real...

Wecek-day Evening Addresses, deliver& jil 3Maimclestcr. By Alex. I Maclaron, D.D. (Macmi]lan.)-This beinig ono of the few anlong nmany small books of a similar kind wvhich it...

Trees and Ferns. By F. G. Heath. (Sampson Low nold Co.)-A I pretty little book, containing about fifty pages concernillg trees and ninety concerning ferns. The materials of...

CONGENITALM WASTEFULNkNESS. A NOTAB3LE pauper is said to have (lied last week in Chorlton Workhouse, at thle age of sixty-four. rTh1e Clerk to thc Board, who mnay be pesuilled...

POETRY. DURINCG LON(G ABSENCE. I SE'E thy face no longer In visions of the nlight; Too far away is that last lay That lent thee to my Might. 13ut though the waves no longer...

BO OK S. CLIFFORIP'S LECTU1Itj S AN]) ESSAYS.* rTjjp late P'rofessor Clifford w'as a meteoric sort of moral iliqe1lloneiion, who to many, ('ve of those who had some personl...

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND THlE OIRNAMENTS RUBRIC. [TO THlR EDITOR OF THlE "SPECTATOR ." Siat,-Allowv me to offler a slight correction of your suggestions as to the...

[TO TIIH EDTTOR OF THE SrICATolt.z) Sin,-Thc whole controversy is Silmply lil)o tilis--Whlether the Englislh Church illtended, and inteds, that a special dress should be worn...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] I1 - SuR,-I hope1 ( to find some of your corresp ondents at this side of the water commenting, in your last issue, on the article which...

" PAIl EWiN-T'S IN IRETAND. [To Tili Eoi'ioit oFt j'11! "r iSCTATrOtR'1 Siltu,-Wce hear a great deal ju,,st now upon the subject of " fair rents " in Ireland, and thiere are...

MY LIFE AS AN ANGLE'R.* TiiznRF, is one anticip-ation ini taking up a hook about ang,,0ling that cannot be doomed to disappoiutmi-ent,-it must take nus to the river-side ; and...

MR. LOWE AT GRANTHIAM. MR. LOWE at Granthani dealt with words as muen in war M deal with weapons. Hio used words as he would stones, -less to carry meaning thanll to deal...

CHURCH PATRONAGE. -'OURTEEN months miay seem a not very inadequate term F for the existence of a Royal Commission which has no travelling to do, nor, apparently, many witnesses...

SIR G1113IE.* IT is now about a quarter of a century a(o since Mr. Macdonald, by tho publication of the dramatic' poemn ldhin (ani? Iltthout, first secured for hlimllself the...

LETTERS TO THIE EDITOR. MfTNTST-i'.EUAl; BOA ST.s [To rulE EDITOR O01 THlI '"S9'ECTATOU.'] Si L,--I'le boast of the Government that they had settled the Eastern Question,...

SOMfE PAPERS IN TIHE MAGAZINES. 'PIIE most instructive paper in thle N, wwinet h Centuy is the account of Alsace-Lorrainje, by thle late Leonard Mouitefiore, a young man whose...