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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE fury of the contest for the Presidency (which was in fact de- cided last Tuesday) is naturally even greater than that of the previous election, and while iu Philadelphia...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE ITALIAN CONVENTION "EXPLAINED." T HE new despatches published this week on the Italian Treaty prove this one thing especially, that the " deep- laid," " farsighted," "...
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MR. DAVIS'S LATEST PLAN.
The SpectatorT HE South is apparently about to take the most im- portant step yet tried in its political career. Con- vinced by fatal experience that the theory of negro -cowardice is a...
THE POLITICS OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR.
The SpectatorVTR. GLADSTONE in closing the North London Industrial Ill Exhibition last Monday spoke with his usual eloquence of the bearing of such exhibitions on the future of the work- ing...
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tual Emperor prisoner to Yokohama, where already an English ()laud
The Spectatorinvests the English Embassy with somethingof the charac- ter of an Indian residency, an impen'urn in imperio, a little State within which the writ of the great one does not run....
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THE CAPTURE OF THE FLORIDA.
The SpectatorI is clear that a sovereign people is no more exempt than 1 other monarchs from that most dangerous class of ser- vants whom Shakespeare makes King John denounce as " the curse...
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DR. TAIT ON SCIENCE AND REVELATION.
The SpectatorT HE Bishop of London has delivered a bold and vigorous blow against that spurious orthodoxy which is never content to let the actual revealing of God be the measure of...
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THE CALCUTTA CYCLONE.
The SpectatorT HE English language does not contain a native word to express the more violent forms of wind. We have borrowed a great many since we became the great merchants of the East,...
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an hour the road, solidified by the labour of years
The Spectatortill it is one mass R. GLADSTONE, on being applied to some few months ago of brick and concrete, is swept away to the sea, and the waves to further the objects of one of the...
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THE HAMILTON-DOUGLLSES.—(CONTINUED.)
The SpectatorA RRAN was a weak man, whose character, ever irresolute and therefore repeatedly treacherous as respected his alliances and friendships, vacillated between amiable...
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THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
The SpectatorFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, October 22, 1864. AGAIN Sheridan has won victory in the Shenandoah Valley. It seems that General Early had been reinforced by the few...
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THE "SELF-RESTRAINT" OF THE SOUTHERN MANNERS.
The SpectatorNew York, October 29, 1861. PERHAPS the news of the week which is really most important is the movement for peace in Alabama, where resolutions have, actually been introduced in...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE RECENT STATE OF THE FRENCH NAVY.* IT is well known that one of the great undertakings of the pre- sent Emperor of the French is to re-construct the navy of his country on...
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ABBOT'S CLEVE.* Abbot's Cleve is not a character-novel, nor precisely
The Spectatora sensation- novel, but it is a very good and entertaining circumstance-novel,- one of that kind in which the interest consists in tracking a chain of evidence link by link. We...
MR. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S RECOLLECTIONS.*
The SpectatorA CLEVER, freespokeu man of the world, son of an earl with seventy thousand a year, who has lived from boyhood the life of a club man, sportsman, and man of fashion, has thrown...
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THE HISTORY OF CRINOLINE.*
The SpectatorCRINOLINE has now lasted eleven years, in spite of denunciations from artists, clergymen, and all men who have to pay for women's dresses, or suffer by the inadequate dimensions...
THE SONG OF SONGS.*
The SpectatorTHIS literary history of the books which compose the Old Testa- ment must always remain obscure. The Jewish families who re- turned from Babylonia to Jerusalem brought with them...
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Instances of the Power of God as Manifested in His
The SpectatorAnimal Creation. By Professor R. Owen, D.C.L., F.R.S. (Longman and Co.)—A very admirable address delivered before the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, and which must have...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorPeru and Spain, being a narrative of the events preceding and follow- ing the seizure of the Chincha Islands. By Captain F. E. Cerruti. (Williams and Norgate.)—The author of...
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students of French. of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. (W.
The SpectatorJ. Johnson.)—Every one The Art Journal. November. (J. S. Virtue.)—The engraving of seems agreed as to the evils of the patent system, but reformers seem the month is from...
troductory memoir by his sister. (John Russell Smith.)—Mr. Will- mott's
The Spectatorvolume is a very capital specimen of books of its kind—books to lie on the drawing-room table and be read during any odd quarter of an, hour. Tho essays are always ingenious,...
other professional men. But the book before us professes to
The Spectatorbe Lectures on Butler's Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course designed for unlearned andunprofessional men. In this view, while we of Nature. By the Right Hon....
up to, but perhaps not above, the average merits of
The Spectatorthe Art Journal, they have been published throe years. We do not think the ChanZellor
BOOKS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorCrosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane, by F. F. Broderip; Fun and Earnest, by D. W. Thompson (Griffith and Farren)—Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson;. English Grammar...
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ItTARRIA.GE.
The SpectatorSritonns--Nonrn.—On Thursday, the 10th November, at St. Clemente, Hastings, by the Rev. Augustus M. Hopper. John Addington Symonds, Esq„ of Lincoln's Inn. and Fellow of Magdalen...
