T HE text of the Treaty between Denmark and the two German Powers has been published, but it contains nothing new. The line of division between Schleswig and Jutland will...

LORD PALMERSTON AT BRADFORD. T IIE incidents of Lord Palmerston's visit to Bradford illus- trate with curious accuracy the political position of the Premier. The day was kept as...

IT is very hard indeed for Liberals to be just to the Emperor of the French. There is something so cynical in his contempt for freedom, so insolent in his persecution of...

impressive in the accounts of the Dublin procession in honour of O'Connell. Englishmen always turn with a sensation of dis- gust from accounts of Irish ceremonial, and very...

I T is certainly a beneficent arrangement that just as Parlia- ment closes gooseberies come in. We do not so much allude to the pleasant fruit which the barrow-men are now...

T HERE never was a political puzzle like the present posi- tion of Germany. It is hard enough to find out amidst the reports from a dozen different centres what her people are...

W HAT is the moral law upon the subject of gambling ? That wretched little Prince the Due de Valentinois, Prince de Monaco, after selling the greater part of his dominions to...

• THE Directors of the Agricultural Hall at Islington are a truly enterprising body of men. Before they arose the only races of animals to whom anything like a career was open...

NV ITH two kinds of workmen's societies the public are suffi- ciently familiar. There are trades' unions, which it is generally considered the correct thing to denounce without...

THE Premier Peer of England is a Howard, and a line of poetry 1 about " all the blood of all the Howards" has made their name almost synonymous with aristocracy. Fortunate...

New York, July 30, 1884. GENERAL SHERMAN has fought and won another desperate and bloody battle before Atlanta, which cost the Union army 2,500 in killed and wounded and the...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Munich, August 3, 1864. Sirt,—I certainly would advise any Englishman who may still be curious enough about Germans and their doings to retain...

SIR, —As I have been misunderstood and misrepresented in many quarters, and my former letter to you has been commented upon by some Nonconformist journal as a scandal to the...

GIUSTI FOR EARS POLITE.* Mara* readers of the brilliant critique and translations of Giusti by the late Henry Lushington will be well disposed to examine a work promising them a...

departed from the usual path of the sensation novelists. Instead of making his story turn on impossible incidents, harrowing scenes, or terrible catastrophes, he uses the...

Tins book has only one conspicuous defect,—there is a little too much of it. A history of the cotton famine was required, and Mr. Arthur Arnold, allowing for some occasional...

the French Reformation, of which six volumes have now appeared, may fairlyreckon as one of the most considerable historical works yet produced by modern French Protestantism in...

ART.* Tare is a posthumous work by Mrs. Jameson—commenced by her, and continued and completed by Lady Eastlake. The part written by the former has been published without...

Rome under Pius 17f. By S. W. Fullom. (Charles J. Skeet.)—It is nearly impossible to write an uninteresting book about Rome, and this is a very pleasant one. But Mr. Fullom is...

H. H. Dobney- (Hall, Smart, and Allen.)—The doctrine of the "eternal suffering of the lost.," on which the Archbishop and Dr. Wilberforce love to dwell, is not destined to meet...

Serjeant-at-Law, B.A., Oxon. (Longman and Co.)—If this were a dia- logue between some mode= Mrs. Markham and a young lady leaving school it would deserve some praise, but if "a...

to the Charing Cross HospitaL (Macmillan and Co.)—This is a revised edition of the author's well-known little work on the " Care of the Sick." It is a set of directions as to...

Great alterations have been made in this useful publication. The. double columns have been abandoned, and it is now a handsome volume,. well printed on capital paper, which the...

America. By Francis Duncan, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Lieutenant, R.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—The title of this work is misleading. One chapter on the defences of Canada is all the...

F. Talbot O'Donoghue, B.A. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—It is a little too much to ask people to believe that a - wealthy baronet and banker in the nine- teenth century would...

Co.)—The author of this excellent tale would do well not to provoke comparison with Miss Yonge quite so much, especially in the matter of length. Like the "Daisy Chain," this is...

novel is a very extraordinary one. The subject is original sin, which the writer appears to regard as synonymous with adultery. At all events that is what the story is about—the...

Brothers.)—We must say at once that this pamphlet is incor- rectly called a manual. It is very well worth sixpence, but anybody who wants to hatch fish will find himself...

these tales are not without wit ; but if they are to be regarded as fairy stories children do not appreciate satire, and if they are meant for the grown-up the volume is...

little volume full of shrewd and sensible remarks, such as retired men of business are much in the habit of enunciating, but though a little given to be over-didactic the author...

Hodder. With a preface by W. E. Shipton, Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. Second Edition. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)— George Weston is a model young man,...

worst—dull, squalid, vicious, penurious. But forcible as is the picture of Bill Jennings and his family, and that of the Milkworts—the farmer and his wife who have risen from...

Ridgway.ther anybody ever learns much freer very popular science may very &T-e.I.esigged,..but at al1.076nts Mr. Johnson gives t us in a pleasant form. It is not everybody who...

of Uppingham School. (Macmillan and Co.)—A good defence of the public-school system, as it exists at Rugby, Marlborough, and, we do not doubt, Uppingham. But Mr. Thring quite...