31 JULY 1875, page 15

Conscious Automata.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have lately heard a story that I hope you may think worthy of a place among your illustrations of the thoughtful intelligence of " Conscious......

The Excommunication Of The High-church Party By The...

1603. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There will be a stranger and perhaps more extensive con- sequence than that which your correspondents have foreshadowed flowing......

" The Second Death."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think the author of the tract on " The Second Death " must have read my long letter, and written his short reply, rather hurriedly.......

Books.

WHEN Colonel Sherman joined head-quarters at Washington, in June, 1861, he found a prevailing sentiment that the war would be "short and decisive," and that as soon as the......