- Another new comer is the Operatic and Dramnatic Albunm, containing I four handsome lithographic portraits of public favourites. The biographical notes, however, are...

From Home and Back. By Rev. Henry Footman, M.A. (Henry S. King and Co.)-These sermons are impressive when read, and were undoubtedly much more so when preached. They are an...

I Plain SermonI Os On dination. By tho Bishop of Carlisle. (Bell anli Sons.)-These earnest and fatherly exhortations, a(ldressed to candidates for ordination, have no doubt...

hien of Mllark for this month has portraits of Pero Hyacinthe, Bishop, | Harold Browne, and Sir James Hogg. They appear to us excellent, and at the price of eighteenpence this...

I The Intercessory Prayer of Our Lord. By the late J. Spence, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-This is a careful and laborious exposition of the seventeenth chapter of St. John. a...

The Congregationalist for September contains a further instalme nnt| of its editor's (MIr. R. W. Dale) travels in Palestine. We leave him "encamped within a few miles of...

The Art MAonthly Review for August and September contains some I well-written articles by well-known artists and critics, and several photographs. That of a drawing by Mr....

The Cosmopolitan Critic and Controversialist is a new candidate for I public favour. It " wants to argue " with everybody about everything. All the " burning questions" of the...

I As usual in periods of depressed trade, the papers are full of gloomy vaticinations respecting the manufacturing future of this country. The alarm is expressed chiefly by...

On Monday last the Corporation of Dublin exercised for the first time the power restored to it by the Municipal Privileges Act of the past Session, by conferring on Mr. Butt...

A heavy failure in the iron trade has recalled attention to one of the most serious drawbacks of our highly-developed credit system. As was seen in the case of the Aberdare and...

I The preparations for the Hell-Gate explosion have been saddened by a fatal accident, resulting in the loss of four lives and the dangerous wounding of several persons. Hell...

Lord Selborne has just given much gratification to the people of Londonderry County. The Mercers' Company of the City of London own a large estate in the county, granted them...

The trial of the Marchese Mantegazza, head of an ancient and I noble house, himself in intimate relations with most of the leading men in Italy, has terminated at Bologna in...

We hope the British Association is not going to set up a I standard of economical orthodoxy so rigid as to exclude even free-trade in economical error. Mr. Maltman Berry, who...

I At the Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Thursday, Lord George Hamilton, in replying for the Government, bitterly complained of the attacks made on the conduct of the Government...

I Lord Hartington, who returned thanks for the House of Commons, positively declined to discuss the indirect responsibility of the Government for the hardening of the Turkish...

Lord Beaconsfield writes to the Times of Thursday to protest against the notion that he had ever raised a laugh at the Bulgarian atrocities. "MAy statement was," he says, " in...

Crowded meetings have been held in the week at Woolwicb, the Tower Hamlets, Sunderland, Birkenhead, Bristol, Hackney, Mile End, Rochdale, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE week in England has consisted of one prolonged outburst of popular feeling on the news from Bulgaria, and the necessity of remodelling from the roots...

The event of the week has been the appearance of Mlr. I Gladstone's pamphlet on " The Bulgarian Horrors and the Eastern Question," the main positions of which we have noticed...

AMIERICAN CIVILISATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOR."] Siit,-Will you allow an American to make some comment oD one or two points in your recent article on "The American...

LIBERAL FOREIGN POLICY, [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] $Siz,-Your article in the Spectator of last week, criticising the Liberal Party for their want of a definite policy...

CRICKET REFORM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE ; SPECTATOR."] I Sir.,-WVith reference to your article on this subject in your issue of August 26, 1876, I ask you to publish a score of a...

THE LOSS OF THE 'WARSPITE.' [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-I have the honour to be a member of the Committee of the 'Marine Society, which has existed for a hundred...

PO E TRY. A - WVHAT DO WE? Wua arc we idling here, In the land of the free, Set far from a foreign fear By the circling sea? Have we not eyes that read Through blinding tears?...

The British Association met at Glasgow on Wednesday. when Professor Andrews, an eminent chemist, delivered the inaugural address, the earlier part of which was too sketchy to...

A more remarkable address was, however, delivered by Sir William Thomson in the Physical Section on Thursday,-namely, on the subject of the fluid or solid nature of the earth's...

The battle of Alexinatz was a very serious blow for the Servians. and by giving the Turks the position of victors, will make the humiliating terms which, at the peace, it will...

I On the side of Montenegro, in the neighbourhood of Pod- igoritza, the Turks have also assumed the offensive, but with their usual ill-success in that quarter. The...

'The Buckingbamshire election is fixed, we believe, for the Thursday in the week after next (September 21). Mr. Carington is pursuing his canvas with great hope of success,...

The outrages committed on Bulgarian soil are anparently bemin imitated on Servian soil by the victorious army of Abdul Kerim. The Times' correspondent telegraphs from Belgrade...

Why, if the victory was as great as it was evidently believed to be by the best military judges, the fall of Alexinatz did not follow, -apparently it is still held by the...

The vicissitudes of the Gentleman's Mllagazine of late years have been many and strange, and now a disaster has overtaken it in the shape of a fire, destroying the MSS. of...

I London Society for September opens with the first instalment of some further cricket reminiscences by Mr. Pycroft. Some of these are Very entertaining. We fancy that the...

The St. James's Magazine and LUnited Empire Review aspires to the position of a "monthly magazine of the first class." A discussion of the Bravo case will hardly help it to...

'nw COBDEN CLUB ON LOCAL GOVE~tNMENT.~ TH'IE COBDEN CLUB ON LOCAL GOVERM'IIEY"1.~-~ IF we may judge of the Cobden Club by the present publication, I we should say that it is...

CHILI. [To THg EDITOR OF THER "SPECTATOR.. Siit,-W'ill you allow a resident of eighteen years' standing in South America, of which fully thirteen have been passed in Chili, to...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES. TuRzKEY, which is naturally the topic of the month, is treated with severe impartiality in the Fortnightly's analysis of the latest Blue-book, which...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE GOVERNMENT. P t . GLADSTONE'S powerful pamphlet, and the probably Al still more powerful speech which we may expect from him on...

iNNKEEPING AS A FINE ART. W E fear that the fine art of Innkeeping is on the decline. W As in other departments of life, the inrush of bourgeois ideas, and of the people who...

THE NEED FOR AN AUTUMN SESSION. THE attitude of the English Parliament towards Foreign policy is commonly one of distant acquaintanceship. The two have a common friend in the...

THE PLANET SATURN'S DARK RING. SATURN is now the ruling planet of the night, and will con< tinue to be so for several weeks. It may, therefore, interest our readers to learn...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE GOVERNMlENT AND THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") I SIR,-I hope you will permit another " Conservative elector," who at...

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. NJ R. GLADSTONE probably never did a better stroke of 1t1 work for England, certainly never so good a one for the English Church, as when he...

MAHOMAMED AND MIAHOMMEDANISM.* DIPLOMATS and other Russophobists are trying to reassert that, after all, there was some ground for Lord Palmerston's belief that the dry bones...

BO OK S. DANIEL DERONDA.* THERE are both blemishes and beauties in Daniel Deronda which belong exclusively to this work of its great author. No book of hers before this has...

LORD HARTINGTON AT THE CUTLERS' FEAST. I OUR Leaders are improving. The Marquis of Hartington's speech at the Sheffield Feast was a very great step in advance, and shows that...

ENGLISH MKAHOMMIEDANS. IN the new number of the Coweiiipoafterg Reiecir, fir. Grant I Duff gives a philosophic rebuke to those unreasonable people who would withdraw all...

PREPARING FOR THE GERMAN GENERAL ELECTIONS. HE approach of the General Elections for the Reichstag is T visible in all parties and in all departments of public life. In spite...