side, is not encouraging. It is now but too evident that the notion of taking Plevna by assault is abandoned, and that if taken at all, it will be taken by siege. Twenty...

cap- tured before Plevna on Tuesday, September 11, by the Russians, only the great one at Gravitza, on the west front, was retained after the struggle of Wednesday, the 12th....

a fierce struggle between the Russians and the Turks. Fort St. Nicholas was assaulted early in the morning, and according to the Turkish account, was carried and held for a few...

T HE French elections are to take place on Sunday, October 14, and accordingly Marshal MacMah on's Manifesto to the French people appeared on Wednesday, and has been circulated...

case.

Many hold,—and the Bonapartist papers apparently among them, —that it means a coup d'e'lat in case the elections are not favourable to the Government ; many that it is a mere...

has probably produced no immediate result. The time for mediation is not yet, and it is most likely true that both Chancellors have agreed that till either Russians or Turks...

—no less than the fact that the Lualaba river, which begins about one hundred miles from Lake Nyassa, and which was discovered by Livingstone in his expedition of 1866, is part...

week is that Major-General Skobeleff has not only been promoted to be Lieu- tenant-General, but has been put in command of a division round Plevna, a command which, it is said,...

very much in the same sense as Mr. Dillwyn, in his recent speech at Swansea, only that Mr. Courtney said less in the way of reproof, and more in the way of apology for the...

first of the great effort made to carry us into war for Turkey. Coming back last year from a short holiday, he said, he met one of the present Ministry in Pall Mall, and was...

forth what may be at this time a disagreeable truth, but what is a truth all the same. He opposes a grant to India of four or five millions out of the English Exchequer to meet...

Union Congress at Leicester is a needful corrective to the phi- lippic against English workmen which Sir Edmund Beckett put forth, in his usual acidulous way, the other day....

but his reply to the Spectator at the Manchester banquet last week, on the subject of the proposed transformation of Thirl- mere, is not good, simply because he certainly is not...

scandal on the South Coast. The bodies of the poor seamen washed ashore from the Avalanche 'and the ' Forest ' have been housed and buried in a manner very discreditable to the...

Dixon, the clever engineer entrusted with the task of removing the obelisk, says that he lately took it a six miles' experimental voyage in a heavy sea. While those on board...

agonies of war. At Philippopolis the most active hanging—even of respectable "Manchester," though not English, merchants—and others, is going on. At Carlova, at the relief camp,...

in all its ways—in fact, an exhibition of pure reason itself, as compared with the Congresses at Ghent and Verviers. There were heard not a few expressions of kind feeling...

to the Social Science Congress must feel. The public have endured a good deal at the hands of Presidents of that useful body ; and with a painful recollection of some addresses...

the London Bicycle Club at the Crystal Palace, where a certain number of races took place, after which Mr. Lowe distributed the prizes and made a speech in favour of hieyeles...

rela- tion of plants to insects, and this time did justice not indeed to the intelligence of bees,—whieh he has always called in question,— but at least to their taste. Flies,...

of the 4 Forest,' which is floating about the Channel, and a cause of serious danger, first by shell, and then by torpedoes, do not say much for their expertness in using their...

MARSHAL 1VIACMAHON'S MANIFESTO. M ARSHAL MACMAHON'S Address may have been com- posed,—let us hope it has been,—to act on the nerves of electors, and not to indicate his future...

I T argues no more than a justifiable scepticism to say that we shall not believe that the Pope is dead until he is buried. The persistency with which telegram-mongers...

I T is obvious by this time that the Russian Commander-in- Chief is not up to his work. The double failure at Plevna, first at the end of July, and next on the 11th of eptember,...

I T might seem an easy matter to draw an Act of Parliament, and as Acts are sometimes drawn, it is no doubt really as easy as it appears. You have only to know your mind, and...

Tau exaltations in ' which our pro-Turkish papers indulged 1 in the early part of the week on the so-called successes of the Turks,—suocesses consisting wholly in the successful...

T HAT familiar and expressive illustration of incongruity, "a trout on a gravel-walk," comes forcibly into one's mind, on beholding the spectacle presented by the enclosure at...

A S we have often had occasion, if not exactly to remark, yet to imply, in what we have said of him, Mr. Ruskin is a very curious study. For simplicity, quaintness, and candour,...

THE SCENERY AND THE PEOPLE OF LEWIS. [FROM A CORREMONDENT.] • Sin,—Why don't more people go to the Lews ? The island has a peculiar charm of its own, and is a nuch better...

SPIRITUAL INSIGHT AND SCIENTIFIC UNBELIEF. [TO THE EDITOR OF THB SPROTAT011.1 SIR,—I cannot be content without endeavouring to express in a few words the perplexity and...

(TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] SI11,-I do not know whether you will consider that your criticism on Mr. Leslie Stephen's article on this subject leaves room for the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] you allow me space to reply to two of the letters in your last week's issue ? Mr. Strachey shelters himself behind generalities, by denying...

few words, the fruit of an experience of school work extending now over many years, which have been suggested to me by the recent correspondence in your columns ? If I rightly...

And my boy Charlie on a Surrey lawn ; The rackets sweetly click, the swift balls fly, While "fault 1" and "deuce P' and "vantage!" are the cry. From the near village sounds the...

BALDER THE BEAUTIFUL.* IN the " Note " which serves as a preface to this poem, Mr. Buchanan warns us to dismiss from our minds all recollection of the Eddas, Ewald's Balder,...

BLOW fresh, ye Winds, blow fresh and strong, Sing loud, dear Lark, your sweetest song,— In the deep blue, sing loud and long. Shine brightly, Sun, in summer might, Flood all...

Wilux the indefatigable editors of the Bibliography of Lancashire and Cheshire come to take stock next year of the works issued in those two counties during 1877, the new...

TIIERB must be something fascinating to a novelist, to a lady novelist especially, in making her heroine an heiress. A great inheritance, indeed, is not, on the whole, a...

book, containing some things that are new concerning several. eminent literary women, more especially Mrs. Barbauld, and a very curious list of the ages they attained at its...

series, is a very compact and exhaustive treatise, embracing commercial gardening, fruit-culture, decorative .plant-culture, plant-pro- pagation, gardening industry abroad, and...

than they have hitherto boon by Hamilton, Thomson, Do Morgan, and the rest. The S.N.I.X. theory is not intended to be huntourous, though the con- junction of letters might tend...

The Psalms; with Introductions and Crilicai Notes. By Rev. A. C. Jennings and Rev. W. H. Lowe. Volume I. (Maamillan.)—This is a scholarly commentary on the Psalms, by two...

I. and II. (Henry S. King and Co.)—The history of the Bengal Artillery began unluckily. The first company was raised in 1749, was at Calcutta when that place was captured by...

(Henry S. King and Co.)—Mrs. Chapman has taken some pains to give her story the local colour and the social tone of English country life, in the first half of the eighteenth...

(Samuel Tinsley.)—Mr. Baynard strictly confines the action of his story to the sayings and doings of a small Dissenting community, and the upshot of sit all is the secession to...

Society.)-We have in this volume a short but interesting sketch of the history of the Christian Church in Bohemia down to the fatal battle of the Weiesenborg in 1620. The...