F DR all that has been heard of her this week Denmark might have been submerged as well as conquered. The single fact which has arrived is that the negotiations will be carried...

• THE CHANCES OF PEACE IN AMERICA. T HE public mind is swinging round again. After believing for nearly two months that the South would ultimately be defeated, that the...

I T is natural enough that contemporaneously with the out- cry for "no foreign politics" there should be raised a still more vehement cry for casting off our more burdensome...

thriving Europe underrated the man. Much in the recent imbroglio young nations amongst our offspring ; it is no trifling care is still obscure,—more especially the part played...

"A FTER FTER all," said Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the XI French, to Lord Elgin, guest and Viceroy Elect, " I think I have done something since I saw you in London. Russia...

of Commons and elsewhere all last winter about the systematic enlist.. ment of Irishmen by agents of the United States. At the same time, while very few people doubted that the...

I N their different ways,—and no doubt theg are different ways, - Lord Westbury and the Bishop of Oxford are both of them remarkable for something that may be called...

I T is not often that Sir James Wilde, who seems, by the way, to make an excellent successor to Sir Cresswell Cresswell, feels himself called upon to compliment a respondent in...

T HE murderer of Mr. Briggs has been found, and the evidence which proves his identity proves also, somewhat we confess to our own surprise, the accuracy of the confession which...

T HE patent had been created by the first Duke Seymour with remainder to his issue male by Ann, his then wife, be- gotten or to be begotten; remainder to Edward Seymour, Esq.,...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, July 9, 1864. WE do not yet know what importance to attach to the news of the last week. Grant is still before, or rather behind...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin, — I think we owe more than mere thanks to "A. Z." for his letters, and to you for publishing them. It is not every one who has the...

Sia,—I quite agree with you in thinking that a detailed discussion of the Incarnation would be out of place in your columns. My letter was not intended to raise such a...

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.* [FIRST NOTICE.] SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE left, it appears, the fourth volume of his History of England and Normandy, perhaps the greatest single...

Mn HALL is much impressed with the delusive impersonating feats of the religious fancy, and has written this little book (which, so far as its profound intellectual scepticism...

THERE is a problem which must have often occupied the minds of thoughtful novel readers, as it certainly fills the brains of those unhappy writers condemned to " review " works...

Ma. Kstones two volumes of autobiography remind us of the story told by Charles Lamb about Coleridge. Charles Lamb had paid a visit to the philosopher at Highgate, and, as...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Almost all these poems have been published before, and any prolonged notice of them is therefore unnecessary. Mr. De Vera has taken his place among the poets...

The Quarterly Review for July has a very able party article on the House of Commons, which, however, like party speeches, has neither basis nor programme. There is a fair...

very clear and interesting essay on this subject, but dealing almost exclusively with the southern Presidency, to which Colonel Greenway belongs. Ho seems to think that tho...

to L. An Essay upon the Physics of Creation. By Henry James. (Triibner and Co.)--By morality the author explains that he means not what is commonly understood by that word, but...

Draper, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry and Physiology in the University of New York. Two vols. (Bell and Daldy.)—The object of this book, says the author, is to assert the...

Words- worth, Bishop of St. Andrew's. (Smith, Elder, and 00.)--Shakespeare Weighed in an Even Balance. By the Rev. Alfred Pownall, M.A. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—It is amusing...

practical character, in which " all Christian ditties and virtues are referred to the one simple law of human responsibility." The style is polished, but rather cold. As the...

Animals. By the Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S. Second Edition. (Robert Hard- wicke.)—An excellent popular manual, of which the chief feature is the constant reference to animals...

I.—This little publication is intended to diffuse information in an agreeable form among the people of the North of Scotland, and the article on " Glimpses of History " is a...

hall By the Rev. W. M. Campion, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of Queen's. College, Cambridge, &c. (Deighton, Bell, and Co.)—Mr. Campion's abilities and the position which they have...

By the Rev. Alexander Mackay. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—The best geo- graphy we have ever met with. In describing a country it takes each river-basin separately and describes its...

sohn Bartholdy. — Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847. New Edition. Translated by Lady Wallace. (Longman and Co.)— The substance of these volumes needs no...

By R. N. Dunbar. (Robert Hardwicko.}-Poems merely descriptive of natural scenery are apt to be a little tedious, nor can we think that Mr. Dunbar has attained to such skill as a...

Hogg and Sons.)—A rather clip-trap title for a collection of biographical notices of religious women, Monica the mother of Augustine, Olympia Morata, Lady Heinle of Jerviswood,...