28 FEBRUARY 1863, page 19

Sylvia's Lovers.*

MRS. GASKELL has, we fear, mislaid the pen which wrote " Cran- ford." It is difficult to imagine that charming tale, with its wealth of quiet power and restrained and therefore......

Mr. Freeman's Federal Government.*

FEDERAL government is on its trial. Most Englishmen would add that its condemnation has been pronounced by the voice of Europe. There is at any rate something to be said in......