\A TE were able to record the division of Friday night in time for part of our issue, but the analysis of the vote is still not with- out its interest. The Tories really secured...

THE "NEW ERA" IN FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS FRUITS. W E should always be sorry to close our eyes to facts, however disagreeable ; and we have no intention of concealing from...

its allies, and pressed with remorseless severity by irresistible foes, has, after a struggle distinguished by every quality except re- volutionary energy, determined to sue for...

attaining permanent power. If there were we greatly assistance refused to the claims of justice may be granted fear he would not be so moderate ; but Englishmen seldom from...

of the Ashantee War has been con- cluded, and we venture to say a more melancholy record of official blundering never was presented to the public. The debate on the subject in...

COALITIONS." " j A TRAHISON D'EMILE OLLIVIER" is the title of Li a pamphlet which made some noise a short while ago in Paris. Written, it was said, by M. 011ivier himself—at...

P EOPLE had so generally come to the conclusion that all pro- spects of a real party fight in the House of Commons had terminated for the session, and that Lord Derby's House of...

M R. BABBAGE, in the amusing book which we have noticed elsewhere, enters at some length and very instructively into the intellectual advantages and disadvantages of automatons...

"ES, it is all true as you say, and my name is Herman-- YSwiss, of a German Canton, and I will tell you all about it. I was at Bow, on the station, and I saw this old...

T HE Seymours, now Dukes of Somerset, are really Tudor nobles, for it was with Henry VIII.'s marriage to Jane Seymour that they became great in the land ; but the family had...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—Your publication of the letters of "A. Z." on "the Basis of Ecclesiastical Unity" makes it appear as if you were desirous of eliciting...

Slit,—Your corresFondent " A. Z.," in his able letter throws out a supposition that " the thing signified by the Spirit, Wisdom, or Word of God' is a Divine Essence, not a...

THE BRITISH INSTITU LION.— ANCIENT MASTERS. THE chief honours of this year's exhibition belong to Velasquez. There are comparatively few of his pictures in England, and seldom...

MR. BABBAGE'S REMINISCENCES.* Mn. BABBAGE has here given us a book even more entertaining and little less instructive than his "Economy of Manufactures," one of the most...

Human Life," written by a sentimental Frenchwoman, who has imbibed Evangelical opinions. That is not a flattering description, but it is true, and the book is beautiful...

THERE is in at least two or three of Miss Fletcher's poems a delicate transparency and music which raise them decidedly above the level of mere " elegant verses," and give...

Ma. ORMSBY is a fair specimen of the modern school of " smart" writers, who has done Algeria and Tunis without any particular object beyond that of doing them, and has written...

and Done." Adrian L'Estrcrege ; or, Moulded out of Faults. The Eve of St. Mark. By Thomas Doubleday. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—These three novels are very fair specimens of...

The Chastening of Love. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (W. P. Nimrao.) —A. tiny volume of extracts from Dr. Parker's writings, each extract being prefaced and concluded by a poem. There...

Vol. VI., Asia and Africa. (John Henry and James Parker.) —These volumes contain a number of pleasant narratives, which will not be the less pleasant to schoolboys and...

Samuel Rowles Pattison. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—The object of the author seems to be to show that at all times there have been in England historical personages,—as well...

(Willis and Sotheran.)—As there are people to whom mere antiquity is a recommendation in literature, as well as other things, we will not therefore censure the republication of...

to know the meaning of the terms inductive and deductive reasoning (p. 14). The one is just as valuable as the other, and just as liable to error. A thinker may assume his...

fighting, On Thursday Wall Street and all places the country over where and almost no loss to themselves, although the men captured were merchants and financial people...

the Heathen ifythology. By B. C. Jones. Third series, containing nine lectures. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—The title-page of this work cor- rectly expresses its character. It is an...

Short practical notes on a subject just now of much interest, thoroughly sensible and clear, and free from that affectation of scientific knowledge which makes most such books...

Madden's Jewish Coinage, by Frederick W. Madden (Bernard Quariteb)—A. Guardian Angel, by the Author of A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, 2 volts (Herat & Blackett) —'Handbook for...