A LL parties in America are eagerly watching for two docu- ments—the proclamation Mr. Lincoln will issue on 1st January and the Message of Mr. Seymour, the new Governor of New...

-" Tux SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had thee same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

THE TORY PROGRAMAIE. Tories of 1831 became the Conservatives of 1845, and seem about to become the Clericals of 1863. At least, that is the only way in which we can explain the...

T HE framers of the American Constitution did their work on one point only too well. Aware that their institutions must be democratic, they had nevertheless the dread...

THE terrible scourge of famine, which formerly desolated 1 whole districts of Europe, has found its last refuge in our days in the vast realm of Russia. In many respects, and...

W HAT everybody says must be true, and as every public man of both parties agrees in his testimony, Mr. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the American Navy, must be admitted to be a...

S O long a period has elapsed since Spain exercised any influence over the counsels of Europe, since the Spanish infantry enjoyed that prestige of invincibility which has passed...

over England. The collapse of the American Constitution and the rottenness which has been revealed at the heart of the Northern °Utical sys- tem have, owing partly perhaps to...

I T was a happy device that of James the First, for making knighthood hereditary, and has answered exceedingly well. He invented it in order to sell a few honours without...

divided in spirit on a great subject. Dr.. Begg, at the head of the popular party, thinks that the influ- ence of the Kirk could be best retained or increased in Scotland if...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] London, January 7, 1863. IT was generally expected that the allocutions to be addressed by Louis Napoleon to the members of the "Corps...

OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Seeing your remarks on the Memorial of the Bishops on Sunday Excursion Trains, I think it right, as one of the sub- scribers, to state that what you...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." 9 Rue du Cirque, Paris, Thursday, Jan. 3, 1803. Sin,—Let me ask you to make one correction in your little report of my sermon on Christmas-day. I...

To THE EDITOR OF' THE "SPECTATOR." London, January 8, 1863. SIR,—My attention was called this morning to a paragraph in the Evening Standard, accusing me of a sin which I...

THE pantomime season set in, as usual, on Boxing-night, and since that date, the doors of the London theatres have been besieged by crowds such as have certainly not been seen...

THE WATER COLOUR PAINTERS' LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND. THE cry of the distressed operative in the north has reached the ear and the heart even of the artist at his easel, in the...

"A sleep and a forgetting" is this birth ? Then what is life but a forgetting too? Where are our playmates of the early earth, Our childhood's love, our faith in heaven's blue...

JOSEPH LOCKE AND HIS BIOGRAPHY.* IT is said that when Major-General Pope first took the command of the army of the Potomac to advance on Richmond, he decorated the locomotive of...

" No NAME " may continue, but will not increase, the reputation secured by the " Woman in White." That had a plot, of the sensation kind it may be, but still worked out with a...

one who wishes to know what Italians are, as well as what Italy is, should read. We propose, instead of criticizing it, to revive from its narrative our readers' recollection of...

* History of Frederick the Seim!, Emperor of the Romans: from Chronicles and Documents published within the last ten years. By T. L. Kington, LA,, (cc. In TWO Vols. Cambridge...

AMONG the many devices by which it is no doubt legitimate to foster the sympathy of the prosperous with the suffering, not the least effective, perhaps, is the direct picture of...

our readers will b3 aware, is the nom de plume of Madame d'Agoult, one of the most accomplished lady writers of modern France. Born in 1805, at Frankfort-on- the-Main, the...

'rues is Mr. Cook's second appearance as a novelist, he having made his debut about a year and a half ago, with a story of which we had occasion to speak in very favourable...

St. Winifrects ; or, the World of School. (A. and C. Black.) — It must be an unusually difficult thing to give a faithful delineation of life at a public school, if we may judge...

(Edin- burgh: Nimmo. London Simpkin and Marshall.)—The anther of this volume is of opinion that heaven is not sufficiently talked about in this world. It is, he says, "too much...

dm. Second edition. (Shaw and Co.)—This is the second edition of a small work which was originally published under the title of "A Nation's Manhood "—a name which it has been...

of "Annie Maitland," dm. (Bell and Daldy.)—A very pleasant novelette for children, written well and gracefully, and in a style which is simple and intelligible, without being...

-" The Rectory of Valehead." (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This volume may be defined as an attempt at a brief survey of the history of Eng- land from a providential point of view....

"The Spiritual Life." (Hatchard and (Jo.)—The object of this volume is to establish the position that God is not a mere abstract intelligence, but that He exercises a direct...

Minister of the Gospel at Groningen. (Cape Town.)—This a translation of a Dutch work, executed by a resident at the Cape of Good Hope, who belongs to "a church which has been...

(Mozley.)— This small book is really one of Miss Yonge's happiest hits. It is light, humorous, yet in parts almost pathetic. The interest is unflagging ; the style, as ever with...

The Golden Link; a Poem Romance, by John Wray Calmer. (Sampson Low, Son. and Co.)—Life in Normandy. (Edmonston and Dou g las, Edinburgh.)—Lamps of the Church; or, Rays of Faith,...