A MORE peaceful tone has prevailed this week, and securities have risen, but as yet there is no justification for the change. The Russian Government has explained nothing, and...

THE SITUATION. W E see no reason to believe that the situation is seriously changed. The " feeling " of London for the past three days has undoubtedly been that war has become...

r E Quarterly Reviewer, who urges so eloquent a plea against the modern notion that steady change is a part of the fundamental principle of society, would have been able,...

L OYALTY to the Queen in Ireland is not, of course, neces sarily loyalty to the English connection. If the modern theory of the Home-rulers that their old Parliament was, in its...

W E agree with the Bishop of Oxford, in his letter to yesterday's Times, that the real test of consistency in relation to the demand for the repeal of the law against marriage...

M R. TALBOT did not make the best of his case on Monday. Ho had his choice of two arguments on which to rest it, and he laid most stress on the weaker one. He proposed that a...

I N the stoppage of all legislation which has been caused by the Franchise Act and the wars and rumours of wars which have occupied the arena during the last two years, there...

W AR is, of course, economically, purely destructive. The men employed produce nothing ; the engines prepared are useless, except for killing ; the money expended is most of it...

W HEN George IV. quitted Ireland *sixty-four years ago, he declared it to be his intention " to revisit that country every three years ; and if any circumstance should prevent...

S CATTERED here and there throughout the tractates of the Talmud are a goodly number of those pithy and popular sayings which, in contradistinction to the dicta of individual...

THE GERMAN CLAIMS IN FIJI. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR.1 Sia,—The Spectator is usually so carefully accurate in its relation of facts, and is always so judicially...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — A constant reader of your valuable journal, I am also a Liberationist ; and the latter perhaps, to some extent, in consequence of...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SLR,—In your comments of the 4th inst. on the Conferencerecently held in London, on the subject of self-supporting cheap meals for school...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The Bishop of 'Rochester has a weightier authority than Hans Andersen's tales for his attack on the satin shoes of...

I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your journal for March 7th appeared a discriminating review of our set of "Prose Masterpieces from the Modern Essayists," an...

AMOR IN EXCELSIS. HAD I a heart more like thine own, As warm, and kind, and free,• As firm and fond, thou should'st have known That heart but beat for thee ! But since so...

GLENAVE RIL.* Glenaveril is an ambitious attempt to write in the metre and the tone of Don Yuan, and so far as we can judge from the first book, a very poor attempt. First,...

and, perhaps, most characteristic, of Mr. Meredith's philosopho-sociological novels, the leading motive of the book is stated in language so striking that it were unfair not to...

second volume of the Dictionary of National Biography, within three months from the publication of the first, augurs well for the prospect of the completion of the work within a...

IN reading the preface of Mr. Hamerton's book on Human Intercourse we are struck with the discrepancy between his intention and its execution. He has chosen a subject which...

Tax author of Thy Name is Truth has not disappointed the expectation with which we looked forward to a second novel written by her. In The Dawn of Day we find, together with the...

THE object for which one travels makes all the difference as to the best way of doing so. The speed of the railway is delightful to him whose business is urgent and who desires...

The British Quarterly Review. April. "(Hodder and Stoughton.) —The first article in this number is one of considerable value—" The Alexandrian Type of Christianity." Few things...