Trees awed Situbs for En glish Plantations. By Augustus A-ontgredien. (MIurray.)-This is one of the books with which the reviewer can do nothing more than give some notion of...

I WVe hb-vp received Part II. of Mr. Scrivener's Cambridge Paragraph' Bible, containing the Apocrypha and the New Testament. The editor points out as a characteristic feature...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Tlh pece elf Theology among the Sciences, by Charles Beard, B.A. I (Whitfield) is an eloquent and thoughtful sermon by a Liverpool divine of the most...

A Poet Hero. By the Countess Von Bothmor. (Cassell and Co.).I The title rather disguises than otherwise the interest of this book. The name and story of Theodor KCrner are...

fenes amcd C/Ueps IdentiJfied in, History. By Carl von Rikart. (LonI-I mans.)-Ilerr von Rikart has lost himself in the wilderness of Egyptology, and is not unlikely to lose...

I N'Ew EDITIONs.-Letters from London, 1S56-186O. By G. 1. Dallas. 12 vols. (Bontley.)-This is the Englisb, and we suppose the authorized, odition of a book which reached this...

I Tlte lMallv/tctre eof Beet-Root Sogzi. By William Orookes. (Long-- mans.)-This is a handbook of the greatest value, written as it is by a thoroughly competent man, and...

T- - The great Strasburg Cathedral has escaped better than any of the buildings near it, but it seems to have been considerably injured, nevertheless. Tihe minute ornamentation...

The D ;!>w N s' Paris i teskleiit," probably an knierican, I who seems by this time to have lost a gool deal of his spirits, though despising the Parisians rather more than...

i The Revolutionists of Lyons leave devised a scheme for saving France-by first ruining it. The proposal they make,-which is signed by leaders of great influence in the regular...

The Strasburg newspaper editors, at all events, showed pluck. Two daily journals camne out regularly throughout the siege and bombardment up to the very day of surrender, and a...

There has been a little French success at Toury, north of l Orleans. On Sunday, General Longfine drove the Prussian advanced posts out of Artheney, and reported that they were...

It h ardly seerns that the defence of either Strasburg or Toul was protracted as lon (as it might have been, considering that every week lurinO which their besie-ers were...

. A As we have noted for several weeks in succession, the accounts from China continue to be very threatening. Intelligence from Shanghai, as late as the 15th September, is to...

Count Bisnmarck has adlministered a curiously ferocious sumb to | the Times' correspondent, D)r. Russell, for his report on what he understood to be good authority of the...

"A VESTRY SCENE." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SiR,-I noticed in your issue of last week a letter from the Rev. A. Chaplin, on what he alleges to have taken place at a...

TILE " SIR PHILIP SIDNEY " OF OUR xGENERATION. (TO THE EDITOR OF TIE " SPECTATOR.]) SIR,-ln the review of MAr. A. B. Cochranc's ii Historic Studies," in your paper of October...

[TO TEi EDITOR OF TIHE SI'ECTATOR."] SIR,-Your correspondent who wrote last week on the above subject and so ruthlessly exposed the weaknesses, &c., of his parishioners, surely...

INFALLIBILITY AND THE TEMPORAL POWER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,,-In last week's Spectator it is assumed as a logical demonstration undeniable and irresistible...

BO OK S. MR. 'ROLLOPE'S ElDITOR'S TALE'S.t MSI. TnoLLorE's finer gifts as a novelist demand for their full exhibition a considerable amount of space. His portraits seldom...

ESTIMATES OF TIIE ENGLISH K INGS. X.-ED \'WARD 11. O NCE more the greatness of the I-House of Plantagenet, which 0 ha] grown to such dimensions under the first Edward, was...

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA SINCE SADOWN7A.* WHEN M. de Laveleye wrote the last lines of this book and gave it to his printers, Sadowa was still the great landmark of modern history....

I The balloon posts get out of Paris very easily, but the return to Paris is far more dillicult, and it was not till Snuday last that Paris heard of the surrender of Toul and...

Count Bismarck has criticized M. Jules Favre's memorandum in a circular to the representatives of the North-Getman Federation abroad, which we have criticized at some length in...

I The Times of Wednesday,-speaking, indeed, the implicit or ex- plicit view of Dearly all our contcmporaries,-coudeinns Al. Favre bitterly for not consenting to an armistice...

There is at last some real sign of the Army of the Loire. General de la Motte Rouge seems to be pretty certainly at the head of some 50,000 (the accounts say 80,000, but they...

I The Cabinet Council which iet yesterday week is understood to have come to the decision that the time had not yet arrived to abandon the attitude of observant ncutrality,-a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE week at Paris has been a quiet one, and though we are told that the siege-train has arrived, that the King of Prussia's head-quarters are moved to...

b TOPICS OF THE DAY. i COUNT BISMARCK'S CIRCULAR. qC THERE is certainly no nonsense about Count Bisnmarck, but T the sense there is,-and it is plenty,-is of the hardest...

I Cardinal Callen and Archbishop Mauning have each taken notice of the events in Rome, each after his own way. The Cardinal is loud in his horror:-" The Florentine Government,...

The Roman plebiscite was, it appears, taken in this form: -An -: Aye" and " No" was requested to this assertion:-" We desire' 4iniou with the kingdom of Italy under the...

I The English Archbishop is, of course, more dignified, and self- possessed, and a good deal rnorc skilful, but he is hardly less keen in the cause. lie took his text last...

IThere is a regular MAliinchausen story in a Belgian paper called the L'ouirelles (IJI Jour about the grappling of a Frenuch an(1 Prussian balloon before Paris on September ,0...

An appeal has been forwarded to the Home Secretary by 'Mr. I Mayo, the solicitor for the condemned baby-murderess Margaret 'Waters, who is at present ordered for execution on...

I Tie diguity of the Metropolitan Board of Works was wounded in August last, and it has been brooding over its grief till last week, when it sullenly exploded in something like...

We have had during the week two fresh lights on the horrible | $Bazeilles business, in a remarkable letter addressed by liermann Voget to the Frantfort Zeitung of the 27th...

TITE PRESIDENTIAL POLICY OF GENERAL GRANT. HTHE Fall Elections of Congressmen in the United States Tare now pending, and some sharp contests are anticipated, for although the...

LETTERS TO THlJE EDITOR. THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN. [TO THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am an unworthy Knight of the Order of Hiospitallers, founded under the invocation...

THE GERMANS AND THE IMPERIAL INTRIGUES. I t 1OUNT BISMAKRC is very sensitive as to the opinion of J Europe, and the point on which he appears to be most sensitive of all, is...

OUR MILITARY PREPARATIONS. BY an audacious stretch of the imagination, the Pall hil L Gazette has accused us of sharing with two of our contemporaries the opinion that the...

A P'EASANTI WlIT'rER.* No doubt it is an advautage to be born -North of the Tweed l we are even not quite sure if there may not be sonie mute, inglorious Miltons amiong...

SCIENTIFIC MERRY-AIAKINGS. T HE future historian of the nineteenth century, if he endeavours to characterize the social aspects of its history, will have to take notice of a...

[ LORD AMBERLEY AN-D TIHE EDUCATION ACT. V i ERY important part of the political labour of the day, t i especially that part which is done by organized societies, |with clever...

SOME MAGAZ[NES. WE do not find ourselves very often in agreement with Blackwood'g politics, but there is certainly much that is altogether to our taste in "' Canada: the Fenian...

RELIGIOUS LONDON.* THE old saying, " One half the world does not know how the other half lives," applies with even greater force to the religious life of our community. Howl...

EL,,IGIOUS IDBODElSTY. TLHIE Rev. WV. Woolhouse Robinson, M. A., late incumbent of T Christ Church, Chelsea, and Chaplain to the late Ilonourable and Rev. the Earl of...