"PROGRESS" AND EDUCATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The striking and interesting article in the last number of the Spectator on "A Paradoxical View of Progress"...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. LORD DERBY AT LIVERPOOL. LORD DERBY'S speech at Liverpool will probably rather raise than lower his repute as a Foreign Minister in the estimation of the...

CURIOUS EPITAPHS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-A propos of the two very curious epitaphs mentioned by ", A. D.," in your last issue, will you allow me to quote one...

"MISS AUSTEN'S COUNTRY." [TO THS EDITOR OF THU "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am jealous for ".Miss Austen's Country." Let me remind you that " Mansfield Park " was (see page 1) " in the...

TRAVELLING IN NORWAY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SiR,-In an admirable critique on a recent book of tourist travel, in your paper of the 4th inst., you say, in...

THE WATERFORD ELECTORS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiX{,-I hope you will allow me, as one who was present at thetime, to correct the very inaccurate impression...

TIHE ADMIRALTY AN-D COMPETITIO-N. (TO TH& EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Your correspondent "A." is hardly fair in what he says about Mr. Ward Hunt. Mr. Hunt does not want...

THE BLACKBURN ELECTION. THE Blackburn Election is one of the most significant and T menacing symptoms we have yet had of the new tendencies of constituencies voting under the...

I The Turkish Government has taken the first step towards re- pudiation. Pressed by the demands of the war in Bosnia, and by the difficulty of obtaining temporary loans, the...

Lord Derby made an important speech at Liverpool on Thurs- ,day, to thepartof which relatingto Chinawe have elsewhere referred. He also spoke on the flourishing condition of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE Ministry has become sensible that the Admiralty Circular 1about fugitive slaves was a piece of gratuitous folly. There -was nothing gained by its issue,...

I A telegram from Simla of the 7th inst. announces that the King of Burmah has yielded unconditionally, and that the next expedition to Yunan will be accompanied by an eseort...

Sir Stafford Northcote has been speaking out very boldly this week. Office seems at once to mellow him and give him courage. Though always sensible, lie used to be as dry as a...

Mr. Forster spoke on the subject of the Admiralty Circular the same evening at Bradford, and was able to announce to the meeting, before it separated, the news that the...

I Lord Aberdare opened the Social Science Congress on Wed- nesday at Brighton, with a speech on the progress of the country in respect to crime, of inordinate length and...

Modesty is not a grace which Dr. Kenealy would claim for himself, but even he never asserts that he is above the law. Sir Robert Carden appears, however, to think he ought to...

The National Church is showing very short sight in this tenacious display of prejudice against Dissenters' burial with the use of their own religious services, in churchyards....

I A warhas broken out in Liberia, the little negro republic in Upper Guinea in which Englishmen in 1840-50 took an interest, that has partially died away. Some tribe or tribes...

I The complexities of English life come out curiously in an inci- dent connected with the Prince of Wales's expedition to India. The Insurance Offices do not like his journey...

A Science College has been formally opened in Leeds this week, by the Duke of Devonshire, though it has really been at work for a year. The College has already got a...

The new evidence elicited in relation to the Whitechapel-road I crime during the week has borne chiefly on the relations between Harriet Lane, the worman whose mutilated corpse...

The French Ministry of Finance appears inclined to introduce | an income-tax upon the very rich. A tax of three per cent. upon the profits made by banking and finance companies...

I Ml. LEON SAY AND M. BUFFET'S CROSS-PURPOSES. TO those who look at French politics with an English eyeor, in other words, to nine-tenths even of our educated countrymen-the...

There has been some sort of a struggle in the French Cabinet.: BM. Leon Say, the Wlhiggest member of that body, delivered a speech on September 26, at the Chateau of Stors, in...

.Mr. E. A. Leatham has been, as usual, amusing as well as in- teresting the people of Iluddersfield by his epigranmatic oratory. Ile said there on Tuesday, that the worst thing...

The Spanish Cortes will, it is said, assemble about January 14. 1 The decree ordering the elections is out, and they are to be conducted on the principle of universal suffrage,...

An interesting discussion was raised at the Church Congress on Thursday, by the Rev. W. Ince, one of the Bishop of Oxford's chaplains, as to the religious condition of the...

General Grant last week made a fresh bid for a new lease of power in the shape of a rather oddly-timed speech, delivered on the last day of September, to the " Reunion of the...

The Bishop of Lichfield opened the Church Congress at Stoke- upon-Trent on Tuesday,-wbich met in a very elegant temporary [ building erected on purpose for the Congress, and...

The insurgents in IlerzegOvina have gained no success this week, unless it be the Turkish decree repudiating half the Debt, and have sustained one severe blow. The Servian...

WORKHOUSE GIRLS.* CHARITY has passed through a good many stages since the era of the old Monks and of the Tichborne Dole, when Mendicancy and Vagrancy were understood to...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES. THE Contemnporary Review of this month has a singularly able article, by MLr. Alexander Taylor Innes, on " The Italian Answer to the European Church...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The correspondence started by " R. H. Q." has branched' into two subjects,-first, the...

MIR. WALTER ON CHURCH PATRONAGE. 11TE could wish to have been present at the last meeting of 11 } the Oxford Diocesan Conference on Wednesday, just to see the faces of the...

THE WRONGS OF THE BOSNIAN RAYAHS. THE Bosnian and Herzegovinian peasants will probably be beaten this time. Uninspired by the habit of freedom which gives such energy to the...

LADY DUFF GORDON'S LAST LEVERS.* LADY DUFF GORDON died six years ago at Cairo, and she lies in the English cemetery, leaving a memory behind her in Egypt such as no...

THE ADVANCE UPON PAPUA. SO'ME ardent aspirations will be cooled, and some more practical mercantile hopes will be disappointed, by the news that the Expedition to Ne\w Guinea,...

(Cuttrg Stories, Oli an ANew. In Prose aul! I erse. By Holio Lee. (S'mnith, Elder, and Co.)-This is a pleasant volume, with several bright, simple stories in it, and one real...

How to Make a Living. By Geo. Carey Eggleston. (Sampson Low.)- This is a fascinating title. What a sale that book would have which should really answer it ! Mr. Carey is too...

His Little Cousin. By E. 31. Pearson. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley). - . .. . .. i -When the hero and heroine are married, safely to all appearance. in the early part of a...

Children Reclaimed for Life. By the Author of" The Romance of I the Streets." (Hodder and Stougghton.)-This book is further described on the title-page as "The Story of Dr....

TIE BEAUTIES OF EPPLNG FORZEST. EP1'ING FOREST is often talked of; there is frequent mention of it in the Daily Press, and general satisfaction was recently expressed when the...

THE MISCHIEF OF ELECTION COMM01ISSIONS. VHILE one Election Commission is still sitting, and W another is considering its Report, it cannot be said that electoral corruption has...

IOssian and the Clyde. By P. H. Waddell, LL.D. (Maclebose.) -The title-page gives this additional information as to the contents of the volume,-"Fingal in Ireland, Oscar in...

Wquip and Sputr. By George E. Waring, Jun. (Osgood, Boston, T.S.)-This is a series of very lively little papers, mainly concerning horses. Mr. Waring was the colonel of a...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Pwurissiu's Representative Man. BY Francis Lloyd and William Newton. (Triibner.)-Whatever esoteric reasons Messrs. Lloyd and, NSoton may have for giving...

CORRESPONDENCE. A SUMMER DRIVING-TOUR.-CONCLUSION. (TO TRs EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The curtain rises for the last act in that very doubtful experiment which you with...

BO OK S. BEN JONSON.* THE great dramatic writers of Greece, and France, and Germany have as rivals, on the whole, been equitably judged. It is easy to reverence Sophocles as...

THE ABODE OF SNOIIW.t MR. WILSON spent several months of 1873 in the upper valleys of the Himalayas, travelling from Simla to Shipki, on the borders of Chinese Tibet, and...