T HE week has been full of sensations, which apparently our people enjoy without much reflection on the results to which, if well founded, they would tend,—bread at is. a loaf...

IN THE MANGER. T HE English have many faults, being mortals, and mortals of the fighting kind, but we have always maintained that they are more exempt, in politics at all...

C ONGRESS, without a dissentient voice, has voted the Executive a sum of £10,000,000 to be spent in defensive preparations, naval and military. The scene in the Senate was most...

W E do not understand the inattention of the British public to the fate of Bombay. Englisbm3n are supposed to be very proud of their Empire, and certainly talk and write...

we hold that this country should adopt towards France in regard to the West African dispute,—one of firmness and fearless- ness. In another column we have explained fully what...

of the National Liberal Federation, which is to be pre- sented to the Council of the Federation at Leicester in the course of a, few days, many good Liberals must, we should...

_M R. T. E. KEBBEL starts a question in the Nine- teenth Century for March which at another time might be regarded as purely academic, but which under present circumstances,...

T "position of the Benefices Bill is a striking illustration of the relative value of Ministerial and private Members' advocacy. For we do not know how many Sessions measures...

M R. STEAD, who may now be considered the most prominent, if not the most distinguished, repre- sentative of spiritualism in this country, put out an idea on Monday in the...

- T HE use of unrhymed verse is the special characteristic of En lish poetry. It is this more than anything else • which separates ur poetic literature from that of France and...

T HE Times of Tuesday last contains an interesting " appreciation " of an unfamiliar animal by Mr. Carl Hagenbeek, the proprietor of the Thierpark at Hamburg, and the greatest...

SPRING ON THE NORTH DOWNS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " Brzorma."] Stu,—It is a wonderful stretch of country, this high belt which runs far east and west outside the southmost...

Stu,—My attention has been called to an interesting article, called "Reindeer for Klondike," which appeared in the Spectator of January 22nd. It would seem from recent reports...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I beg a small space in your columns to call the attention of your readers to the present shocking distress in the West of Ireland ?...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "BrzarATors."] Si,—May I suggest that one point seems to me overlooked in your interesting article with the above title, though the mention of it will...

1.70 THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In reference to your fine article under the heading of "The Cat in Literature," in the Spectator of February 26th, perhaps it may be...

ITO THE EDITOR 01 THE " $PECTATOR:1 SIR,—A little more than twenty years ago the then vicar of - this parish, now the Dean of Ely, published a book, "Lani and the Labourers,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTAT012.1 SIR,—The following story can be vouched for, and in recog- nition of the timely action of the dog, the Alliance Assurance Company, with whom...

OP TER " Siencravoa.1 SIR,—Permit me to add Henry III. of France to your list of European Monarchs who have fallen by the hand of the

THE LAST WORD.* BEFORE the April night was late A rider came to the castle gate ; A rider breathing human breath, But the words he spoke were the words of Death. "Greet you...

which judges a poet rather by his faults than by his merits. True poetry is so rare and so precious a possession, and does so much for the spirit of man, that he who adds even a...

THIS is the last work in the trilogy,—Lourdes, Rome, Paris ; and the hero, if we can call him such, is the same young priest, Pierre Froment. He who has found Lourdes a lying...

these pages," says the diarist, "almost all reference to the working part of my life." That part has been, as we all know, full enough. Sir Mount- stuart sat in Parliament for...

THE distinctive meaning of this book's title, A Literary History of India, may be ascertained from its preface, where the author tells us that be has essayed to set forth a...

might be expected, out of the fullness of knowledge; but his learn- ing sits lightly on him. Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, is one of the four great rulers who have most...

THE MINOR MAGAZINES. It is alike unfair and unwise to judge a new periodical by its first number. All that can safely be said, therefore, in the mean- time, of St. Peter's, a...

gathered together, we imagine, in this volume, the somewhat rare expressions of a genuine poetical gift. We guess that she writes but seldom, and not with ease; that she does...

of useful information as it can hold. Among new features is a list of "Peculiarly Pronounced Proper Names ° which should prove useful to foreigners, who are apt to think that...

E. V. Lucas. (Arrowsmith ; and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. Arrowsmith is to be congratulated upon the volume which he has just added to his shilling "Bristol Library," for...

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