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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE Parliamentary week has passed without excitement and almost without debate. Only two Government :measures have been brought forward—one to extend the Lancashire Union...
Special Supplement to the Spectator, forming, with the paper of
The Spectatorthe week, a Double Number.—The Princes of Wales. —On Saturday, March 7, on the occasion of the Marriage of the Prince of Wales, a Double Number of the Spectator, containing in a...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION. T HE Session has opened tamely, too tamely by far for those who love strong debate and the bracing air of political strife ; but some work is...
THE LIST IMPERIAL . PLAN.
The SpectatorI T is difficult to exaggerate, not easy even to estimate, the importance of the Mexican expedition. "It is," said the Emperor a few days since, "the great event of my reign,"...
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THE ANATHEMA OF CONVOCATION :—WHAT IS IT WORTH?
The SpectatorTHE Bishop of Oxford, in a just published sermon, has 1 traced out a new spiritual. "law,"—which is, that every era at which one sacred institution or person comes to an end and...
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EARDELL v. PICKWICK.
The SpectatorI T is the duty of the journalist to call public attention from time to time to such of the decisions of our courts as work a great change in the law of the land. That which has...
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THE FIRST " WEDNESDAY " FIGHT IN PARLIA- O N Wednesday
The Spectatornext the Conservative party, flushed with the victorious Wednesday traditions of last session, are hoping, it is said, to inaugurate a new series of triumphs on behalf of Church...
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THE FIELD OF INSURRECTION IN POLAND.
The SpectatorTIIHERE can be now no more doubt that the precipitated revolt of Warsaw has been developed into an organized revolution of Poland. The fact is proved by all the news received...
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN AMERICA.
The SpectatorA LL through the American war the true diffiulty has been to discover the drift alike of opinion and incidents. The enormous extent of the country covered by military...
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THE CASE OF THE ENGLISH IN INDIA. MAE cotton trade
The Spectatorseems disposed to occupy its compulsory leisure by opening a Parliamentary campaign on India. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has already condemned Sir Charles Wood. Mr....
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THE TWO WORLDS IN THE MOON.
The SpectatorM R. CRAMPTON, in the just published edition of his clever little work on the Lunar World,* tells us an amusing story of an enthusiastic friend of his own who holds that the...
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THE POLISH CRISIS.
The SpectatorI T would be taking a very superficial view of the revolution just inaugurated in Poland to attribute the sudden outbreak which has astonished Europe to the brutal violence of...
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M. SANDON.
The Spectator[Fnolf OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] February 11, 1863. M. BILLAULT has again entered the list, and again run a tilt at his unconquerable opponent, M. Jules Fevre. How now ? Had...
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1 uft ad. Ike prama
The SpectatorThe Armourer of Nantes, by Mr. Balfe, was produced at Covent Garden on Thursday evening. One representation of an opera which takes over four hours in performance is, of course,...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorCHRONICLES OF CABLINGFORD.* Tuts book will take a permanent place in English literature. There is scarcely any other tale of the present day which, for truth and humour and...
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A CATALOGUE OF BRITISH HISTORY.*
The SpectatorMr. HARDY has performed a great task, for which, except from a very small class of students, he will receive little gratitude. Most readers of history are not satisfied, unless...
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EPIGRAMS, ANCIENT AND MODERN..
The SpectatorMR. Boom has adopted a somewhat narrow and technical idea of the epigram. "In our own day an d our own language," he says, "an epigram is understood to mean a poem distinguished...
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BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND.* BRITISH Columbia is a colony
The Spectatorof which our information has hitherto been very incomplete and unsatisfactory. Hundreds of disappointed miners who are now performing a " skedaddle " from the diggings have...
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VERNER'S PRIDE.*
The SpectatorMas. WOOD should write a play. In the present day, when men go to the theatre to see spectacle, and not the passions, to speculate on situations, and not on the development of...
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The New Theology. By John Smart. (Glasgow : David Bryce,
The Spectator1863.)—The author of this little book was head master of an im- portant elementary school in Paisley, and it was originally written in the form of lectures delivered by him in...
Kingston's Annual for Boys. 1863. (Sampson Low, Son, and Co.)—
The SpectatorThe Nest Hunters. By William Dalton, author of "Will Adams," dre. (Hall and Co.) — A Chat with Boys on New Year's Eve. By Old Merry. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—These three...
The Lamps of the Church. By the Rev. Henry Clissold,
The SpectatorMA., Author of "Last Hours of Eminent Christians," Ake. (Riving - tons.)— Mr. Clissold is no friend to railway novels. He is pained at the eight of "those countless works of...
The Dictionary of Useful Knowledge. Two vols. (Eloulston and Wright.)
The Spectator—The object of this work is to "supply a history of persons and places, and an explanation of principles, copious enough to convey all essential information, but so concise as...
• CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorBeatrice Sforza ; or, the Progress of Truth. By William Brewer, M.D. Three vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a historical novel, in which the history considerably predominates...
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Richard Langdon ; or, Foreshadowed. (Edinburgh : Grant and Son.)—
The SpectatorThis volume is a kind of cross between the sensation story and the novel of high life. The two elements are combined in the person of Richard Langdon, the hero, who is an...
has attended the publication of a translation of a portion
The Spectatorof Zschokke's Stunden der Andacht, under the direct patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, has, we presume, suggested the idea that the public might possibly receive with favour a...
(to borrow his own expression) "an illustrious humanist," who objects
The Spectatorin toto to German scholarship, and propcses to replace it by an article of his on manufacture. The principal objects of his attack are For- biger, Grotefend, and Zumpt ; and...
Possibilities of Creation; or, What the World might have been.
The Spectator(Simp- kin, Marshall, and Co.)—This work, which its writer modestly describes as "a treatise of the Bridgewater class," is, like those once celebrated publications, designed to...
Messrs. Hoggs' series of "Books with a Meaning" affords a
The Spectatorsufficient indication of the nature of its contents. It consists of a collection of short biographical notices, intended mainly for juvenile reading, of a bakers' dozen of...
On Clerical Subscription. By the Rev. Charles Hebert, M.A., F.R.S.L.
The Spectator(Macmillan and Co.)—The position taken by the author of this volume with reference to the question of clerical subscription may be stated in very few words. It is, he thinks, a...
before the Young Men's Christian Association, in the city of
The SpectatorDublin. They are decidedly above the average standard of such compositions; and the members of this association are very fortunate in finding such men as Archbishop Whately,...
Science Elucidative of Scripture, and not Antagonistic to It. By
The SpectatorJohn Radford Young, late Professor of Mathematics at Belfast College (Lockwood).—Mr. Young has boldly undertaken to show that there is no discrepancy between Scripture and...
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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. By William
The SpectatorBarnes. First and third collections. (J. Russell Smith.)—Mr. Barnes's position as a public favourite is so firmly established that there is no necessity for us to do more than...
Sir Aberdour ; or, the Sceptic. By Walter P. J.
The SpectatorPurcell, Esq., of the Inner Temple. (Pickering.)—Can anybody tell us whereabouts in the - world is "the region where Nature's smiles are hollowest, and man's finest feelings...
The Golden Link: a Poem-Romance. By John Wray Calmer. (Sampson
The SpectatorLow.)—This pretty little volume tells the story of an enor- mously rich City man, who marries the lovely daughter of- a rained nobleman. The match is not destined to be a happy...
MARRIAGE.
The SpectatorEr.mor--Gunvcan—On the 10th inst., at St James's, Piccadilly, by the Hon. and Rev. Frederick de Grey, John Lettsom Elliot, Esq., to Harriet, Countess of Guil- ford.
Farouk. By Minimus. (Trubner and Co.)—A small volume of verses,
The Spectatorwhich has, at least, the merit of being not inaptly named. Here is a taste of Minimus's quality :— " Yon Rose, that, conscious of her grace, With bashful beauty flushes, I'll...
BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.
The SpectatorNationalities of Europe, by B. G. Latham, M.D. (Allen and Co.).—A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion, by Theodore Parker (Trabner and Co.).—The Ionian Islands, by...