A terrible catastrophe has saddened the week. The steamer Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool to Quebec, fell, on 27th April, while near Cape Race, into a dense fog. The captain,...

4 ` THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Eark Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

MR. GLADSTONE AS A PARTY LEADER. S INCE the untimely death of Sir G. C. Lewis Mr. Gladstone is recognized by common consent as the heir apparent to the leadership of the...

P ARIS is in a ferment, for another Imperial scheme has failed. The Suez Canal, which was to have turned the current of Asiatic trade and poured the wealth of the richer half of...

been received AVith a shudder of sick fear. Gladstone, without one word of sympathy or regret, passed on —to condole with the Eng- lish county which has suffered a calamity...

MEE selection of a representative for a metropolitan borough is said to rest with a caucus and an attorney. This proud prerogative of freedom, which is in England confined to...

T HE debate of the 8th May upon Italy was one of those splendid displays which occasionally justify, as well as explain, the moral sway of the House of Commons. It is a luxury...

k S the time draws near for Mr. Somes's Bill to be again _ brought forward, the meetings in its favour become more frequent and more obstreperous. We have generally found these...

S T. PAUL must have had serious difficulties to contend with in founding a Government for the infant Church, when he felt it necessary to lay it down that no Bishop should be a...

T URNING away from the dissolution side of the American Union, we incline to contemplate other phases of American citizens. Like our own people, they go out into all parts of...

A T Wiesbaden and the other resorts of " Roulettania," the observant traveller will see displayed in the shelves of the book-stalls which surround the Kursaal, pamphlets...

in the Peterhoff case, by which the letter-bag was delivered to the District-Attorney, who immediately handed it over to the British Consul, will have reached you by the...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] May 15th, 1863. FOREMOST in the rank of Ide'es Napoleoniennes stands the dread of every idea. The first Napoleon boasted that he had delivered...

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] THE comparatively low average of merit possessed by the present year's exhibition gives full leisure for studying the few...

Niceoll , de' Lapi does not appear to have even attained that questionable kind of success which consists in enlisting the sympathies of a few who, by their strenuous support,...

THE NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS.* THIS, as the title implies, is not a compilation, but an original book—a book of great value, and one which adds another to the many claims...

OF the illustrious many who fought or governed under the British flag during the long series of years antecedent to 1815, when the normal condition of the British empire was war...

Jr is long eince a thoroughly good sea story was written. Novels of this class are nearly always popular when they are good, and their scarcity must be ascribed not to mere...

Miss PAEKES has taste, feeling, and simplicity, and yet her verses, though they are often natural and sometimes hover on the verge of poetry, very seldom cross the boundary....

easy to speak too favourably of Mr. Fawcett's Manual of Political Economy, which is both sound and lucid, compendious and yet interesting. It proceeds from a disciple of Mr....

Love and Mammon, and Other Poems, By Fanny Susan Wyvill, Author of "Pansies." (Bell and Daldy.)—This volume, like those of most of the minor poets of the day, consists of one...

Adams. (Hogg and Son.)—With this volume Mr. Adams brings to a close the complete account of the birds of the British islands, which he com- menced about a year ago. The two...

ALTHOUGH this is the " Waterloo " volume of the Supplementary Despatches, so far as that battle and the campaign of 1815 are concerned, the volume contains nothing new of the...

Barreret Membre de rAcaddmie de Paris, Sm. (Williams and Norgate.)—This work, which professes to be a brief history of French literature, is de- signed mainly, though not...

Part!. (Longman and Co.).—Messrs. Longman have at length issued the first part of their long-promised " Dictionary of Chemistry"—a work the want of which has, we will venture to...

Beckett, late Chief Justice of Victoria. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)— The author of this volume is far from having formed an extravagant estimate of the reception that his verses...

Author of "Le Tresor do l'1EcTlior," drc. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—The object of this small work is to train pupils in speaking, rather than in reading, French. It consists of a...

Cardinal Wiseman. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This lecture, which was delivered before the Royal Institution on the 30th of January last, is not a very striking production from any...

Wood.)—Mr. Hislop appears to belong to that exegetical school of which Dr. Cumming is, perhaps, the best-known example. Ho re- sembles that divine in exhibiting a frantic horror...

By Rev. W. G. Cookesley, late assistant - master at Eton College. (Upham and Beet.)--Bishop Colenso's Objections Critically Examined. By Dr. A. Beni -Bch- (Allan and Co.)—Of...

and Sons.)—Mr. Yearsley is well known as the principal advocate of what may be called the surgical, as opposed to the medical, treatment of deafness. He has no hesitation in...

who may possibly be an American writer, is a persistent and by no means unsuccessful imitator of Tennyson. He possesses to a rather remarkable degree the faculty of picturesque...

object of this volume, which is arranged upon the same plan as the "Post-office London Directory," is to extend the advantages of that work to the districts immediately around...

and A. N. Birch. (Stanford.)-This is the second yearly issue of a very useful publication, which serves as a complete official guide, not only to the Colonial Office, but also...

Gudrun, a Story of the North Sea (Edmonstone and Douglas).--The Fairy Book, by the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman' (Macmillan and Co.).-Ahn's Method of French - Learning,...