TIRE mystery about General Sherman's movements is at last .1 cleared up. It is certain that he destroyed Atlanta and the rail. road between Atlanta and Chattanooga, and started...

GENERAL SHERMA.N'S MARCH. T HE details of the American war do not often excite the imagination. The vast extent of territory over which the conflict is spread, the length of...

I N another column we print a letter which states very fairly and very quietly the object of the new movement for a Spiritual Court of Final Appeal. It is to obtain a body of...

I T is fortunate that England and France are at this moment on friendly terms, that Napoleon does not wish to quarrel with England, and that England has a strong interest in re-...

really ought to be very grateful to Germany,—the one which studies the growth of constitutional liberty. In other countries, in France, Italy, Greece, and even Spain, the...

I T is with the most sincere pleasure that we find ourselves for once able to praise heartily an act of the Indian Secretary of State. The great ability and conscientious...

THE discussion which has been going on all this week on the proper way to widen Park Lane throws a curious - light both on the working of our institutions and the structure of...

'WHEN the Duke of Argyll said on Monday night in his TT singularly able, subtle, and accurately conceived lecture on "Creation by Law," delivered before the Royal Society of...

A RCHIBALD, eighth Earl of Argyll, was born in the year 1598. He received an excellent classical education, and from an early age gave much time to the perusal of the...

THERE appeared in the Times last week a letter signed " Trans- atlanticus," communicating to the public two letters of the Con- federate General Robert Lee, which the writer to...

LORD DERBY'S HON1ER.* LORD DERBY'S appearance among the crowd of scholars who are contending for the body of Homer will scarcely be less startling or impressive than the effect...

"SPECTATOR." Sin,—As one of those engaged in the endeavour to bring about a change in the constitution of the present Court of Final Appeal when matters of doctrine are in...

ARSIINIU8 VAMBERY, a Hungarian gentleman, born, as he says, on an island in the Danube, had from his boyhood devoted him- self to philological studies, especially in the...

THE publishers of the Cornhill Magazine lead the van of Christmas picture-books with a splendid volume, containing selections from the illustrations which have from time to time...

of her Neighbours and. Friends. By Charles Bennet. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston..)—A series of nonsensical pictures with a still more non- sensical text. We do not believe...

Son, and Marston.)—This volume was originally published in Boston, Massa- chusetts, and consists of martial poems dealing with the chief events of the American War. It is...

numbers are now before us, bound up in purple cloth and gilt- edged, so as to make a very sightly volume. It contains the whole of Mrs. Wood's spirited story, Oswald Cray, Dean...

Three volumes. (John Maxwell and Co.)—Why a barrister who happens to write a novel should put his profession after his name on the title-page, unless it be to give his readers...

not necessary for us to say anything on the character of those two old friends, but there are evident signs that the conductors are abreast of tho times. The coloured prints are...

Dublin University Magazine. December, 1864. This number com- pletes Mr. J. S. Le Fanu's novel of Uncle Silas. No one can deny the power with which that mysterious character is...

and Co.)—Any lad who likes to read of shipwrecks will have a feast here, for the author has given him at least half a dozen— besides a history of the lifeboat, the Lifeboat...

consist of Mr. Goodall's Hunt the Slippery Turner's Bligh Sands, and Mr. Durham's Go to Sleep. Whether the last of these is or is not a fit subject for sculpture may be doubted,...

to the average of Mrs. Wood's novels, very readable, very clever, and slightly improbable. The plot requires us to believe that a surgeon in high practice had on the same day to...

John Ten.nieL (Bentley.)—An edition de luxe of rhymes the public demand for which appears to be insatiable. It is of course magnificently got up, and the illustrations are to...

Illustrated by Thomas Hood. (Griffith and Farran.)—A pretty book of whimsical stories, which will delight little children who are still in the nursery, though their elder...

William Bennett.)—If any one desires a test of the weakness as well as the strength of photography regarded as a mode of book-illustration, he cannot do better than buy this...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—A very charming volume, perhaps rather more extravagant in the matter of margin to the illustrations than is necessary. The letter-press consists...

(Hall, Smart, and Allen.)—This lady was fortunate enough to marry a printer, from whose honeymoon fondness she obtained the publication of this book. As she promises not to do...

Bradbury and Evans.—Panoh's Pocket Book for 1865. Sampson Low, Son, and Co.—History of Lace, by Mrs. Bury Palliser. Groombridge and Sons.—A Bunch of Keys. Jackson. Walford, and...