I The Comprehensicee Atlas. (Collius.)--A very handtomc and con- venicnt Atlas, containing 120 singularly clear mapls, with careful in. dexes, and an excellent preliminary...

A Peal of Merry Bells. By Leopold Lewis. (Tinsley.)-These three volumes contain a collection of twelve short stories, which, if merry, are none of them very wise. On the...

The Burtons of Dunroe. By W. M. Brew. (Samuel Tinsley and I Co.)-There is too much of this story, which is, however, an unusually clever and interesting one. The luxuriance of...

Caroline von Linsingen and Kin Wlilliam II'. Tranlslatcd from the I German bv Theoplhilus C. Arun(del. (NV. Swan Sonnienschcin, nnd -Allen.)-These letters were discovered...

In Kent with Charles Dickens. By Thomas Frost. (Thislcy Brothers.) -Three friends agree to make a tour in Kent among the scenes which he has introduced into his tales. They...

1 Ilow Momen May Eara a Lieing. By Iercy Grogan. (Cassoll, Petter, and Galpin.)-Miss Grogan is of the opinion, which, indoed, seems common to all who are practically...

I Jtubilee of the }aet. Williaii (irE. (A. Elliot, Edinburgl.)-Tlhc Rev. IV. Orr is the senior minister of the U nited Presbyterian Church, and his jubilee was held on Mlarch...

NOVELS.-AmJy Winter. By Ulomas A. Pinkerton. (SamuCl Tinsley.)-It would be flattering Or. Pinkerton to say that he has written a good novel, but it is bare truth to say that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. F HE Sultan has not yielded. The days of grace allowed T him to make his submission expired on October 4th, and on that day the Foreign Office handed to the...

The Turkish ultimatum has been received with an angry laucgh in this country, and is pronounced throughout Europe to bc deplorable." Rapid communications are passing between...

I The Viceroy of Ireland and the Chief Secretary received on Thursday a very large deputation, including many of the mmHt considerable men in Ireland, who came to press for...

The latest impression in England is that when the Sultan finds the Powers united and the danger drawing nearer, he will surrender, as Ismail Khedive did; and that if he does...

I The Timei' correspondent at Canduliar declares positively that the Government has decided to retain 10,000 men in that city throughout the winter. We deeply regret to believe...

I It should bl noted, in considering the attitude of the French Ministry, that Al. Gambetta is believed on all sides to be definitely in favour of France joining in the E...

AN ANECDOTE OF THE SIEGE OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE, 1191. THiRO-UGIH the portal, two tall Turks Charged together at our works, Where the line was rather thin, Near their eastern...

BO OK S. GEOFFREY CHAUCER.* IT is close upon five hundred years since Chaucer took farewell of the world, in his house in the garden of the Chapel of St. Mary, at Westminster;...

POETRY REST. To spend the long, warm davs Silent beside the silent-flowing streams,To see, not gaze. To hear, not listeu, thoughts exchanged for dreams. See clouds that slowly...

A large public meeting was held at Manchester on Tuesday upon juvenile offenders, and was addressed by Lord Derby and Lord Houghton. Both supported the Home Secretary. Lord...

I English farmers arc always getting hit. Amecrica is com- peting sharply with them in the production of wheat and beef, and now it seems possible she may interfere with the...

MH. Jacques Offenbach, the composer, died in Paris on October I 4th. A man of distinct though thin genius, with the sensuousness of the true Jew character, the author of La...

The Cologne Gazette recently affirmed that Prince Rudolph, I the Imperial Crown Prince of Austria, during his stay in Berlin, said to a diplomatic friend-an Englishman of...

The annual meeting of the Incorporated Law Society was I held on Wednesday, at Sheffield, and the aspirations of the Solicitors were very distinctly set forth. They want, first...

I The Social Science Congress met this year at Edinburgh on Wednesday, under the presidency of Lord Reay, who opened the proceedings with a speech on diplomacy, which is a...

I A noteworthv telegram has beeu received, through Reuter, from Teheran. The writer announces that 15,000 Turkish Kurds, armed with Martini-Ilcnry rifles, have invaded Persia,...

I Oxford, Chester, Canterbury, Sandwiclh, Knaresborough, and Macclesfield are now all on their trial before Elections Commissioners on charges of wide-spread corruption. It is...

Guy's. THE lamentable struggle which has now been going on for many months in Guy's Hospital has at length conic to a crisis. The Medical Staff, in whose sense of wounded...

POLAND AM) THE HAPSBURGS. THE situation in Eastern Europe, and the rivalries imputed to the Governments of Russia and Austria, tend once more to direct public attention to the...

GUY'S AND VIVISECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.") SmI,-Tbe letter of the Governors of Guy's Hospital, on which you justly pass a favourable comment, contains one...

HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR PAYING PATIENTS. [TO THY EDITOR OF TIHE * SPECTATOR."] Suit,-The writer of an interesting article on the albove subject makes no reference to a...

PERSECUTION IN FRANCE. (TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely it is not difficult for English Liberals to accept Mr. Heath's challenge, and show the unwisdom of Al....

FATHER PROUT.* IT is a great comfort to find an excellent portrait of Father Prout prefixed to this volume of his collected writings. Not that the woodcut is especially...

THE LAITY EN SYNOD. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Allow me to offer a brief criticism on that part of your article on the Bishop of Peterborough's address at...

I The Church Congress. as usual. had a debate on the ma:n. of improving light literature and the stage, and, as usual, it was a very poor one. Mr. Shuttleworth, who read the...

I The Church Congrcss at Leicester ended amidst a shower nf blessings, the Nonconformist Ministers blessing the Church, and Dr. Magee blessing the Nonconformists. The extreme...

Thn Pall iry77 r.,-:7!r1 t.ata. thqt (Polonol (cunrare (anp u I now of Cooper's Hill College, has been offered, and has accepted, the office of Military Secretary to the...

The news from the Cape is most unfavourable. It is believed I that all the young men of the Basuto tribe have resolved to resist the Disarming Act, and those residing east of...

I The Russian Government has finallv decided ft .nnn v...a demands for a constitution during the present reign. Last week, all the editors of St. Petersburg were called before...

The Catholic p)ricsthood in Ireland are evidently awaking I to the dangerous character of the teaching of the Laud League. In the diocese of Cloyne, Cork, the Bishop and the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. | The Moor and the Loch. By John Colquhoun. Fifth Edition, En. larged. (William Blackwood and Sons.)-This is undoubtedly the best book on the subject. It...

A SPANISH NOVEL.* Tuis little novel is well and carefully composed, and is original in its scene, in its characters, and even in its incidents. Regarding the style in which it...

THE POLITICAL CHAR ARCTERISTICS OF WOMAN. 4 MONG the many poiuts of interest in the Trades-Uuion L Conress at Dublin, not the least appears to us to be the liglht it throws on...

OLIVER CONSTABLE.* WE are not going to be indiscriminately enthusiastic about this novel. It is the work of one not inexperienced in the production of literature, and who must...

COERCION FOR IRELAN D. THIE cry for coercion in Ireland is growing sharp, and, Tthough we lament it, we are not surprised. The state of affairs in the Island is most irritating...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POWERS AND THE SULTAN. THE Sultan has done a great service to civilisation. Had he, on receipt of the decision of the Powers, at once surrendered...

PRINCE BISMARCK'S RUMOURED PROJECT. IF European statesmen are wise, they wvill wait very anxiously forthe Bill for the benefit of workmen, which PrinceBismarek is reported this...

RENAN'S HIBBERT LECTURES.* ONE of the first things which observers of natural phenomena do is to determine the personal equation of every one engaged in making an exact record...

LORD REAY ON ENGLISH DIPLOMACY. . SCOTCH PEER, who ia also a Liberal, is so effectually I debarred from public life, that hoe may well be excused for taking advantage of any...

MR. HUXLEY AT BIRMINGHAM. ?fHERE never was such a broad-minded speech pronounced 1 in favour of narrow-mindedness as Mr. Huxley's, at the opening of the Mason College,...

TIHE BRIBERY COMMISSIONS. THIE proceedings of the Election Commissions are not pleasant reading to any one but a cynic, but they throw a good deal of light upon an interested...

LETTERS TO TIHE EDITORl A CHURCH PA1RLIAMEN'T'. [TO TIli EDITOR OF THlE "SP'ECTATOIL."] SIR,-It is with much reluctance that I ask you again to allow me to combat in your own...