THE PRINCE CONSORT ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. IF the publication of the second volume of " The Life of the Prince Conisort " seemed timed expressly to strengthen the case against...

A R T. THE DUDLEY GALLERY. THIS is, on the whole, a good exhibition, but would be a much better one with a more general title. If there be one thing more than another which is...

PO ET RY. A MOMENT. WHEN the lightning flashes by night, The raindrops seem * A million jewels of light In the moment's gleam. And often in gathering fears, A moment of love...

THE SILVER QUESTION IN AMERICA. THE conflict raging in the United States around the Currency question is a very interesting one, but we suspect its practical importance is a...

YWe cannot, of course, hope to condense the literature which is I growing up about the Turks and Bulgarians, a question dis'cussed as if the right of a race to justice depended...

The Government of Prussia has taken a remarkable step back- I wards in the work of fiscal reform. Hitherto all municipal taxes in the kingdom have been levied through rates on...

Mr. Mackonochie bas, as we stuspected, offended not a few of his own friends by the profound indifference he seems to feel for his vow of canonical obedience. In Wednesday's...

At a meeting of the English Freemasons, held on Wednesday, and representing 1,700 "lodges," the pro-Grand Master, Lord Carnarvon, announced that the " Grand Orient"' of France,...

Dr. Loring, of New York, has been discussing before a local medical society the increase of short-sightedness. He finds that in Kinigsberg, Prussia, considerably more than half...

The IKing of Spain has officially announced his intention of I marrying his cousin, the Infanta Mercedes, daughter of the Duo 'de Montpensier. The marriage is of little...

The numaber of candidates for the duty of disinfeotingipodh- ous exhalations is getting so large that we stall toon be utterly bewildered amongst them all. Mr. Kingzett has...

A Knight of the Nineteenth/ Century. By the Rev. E. P. Roo. (Ward I and Look.)-The scene of this story is laid in America. Indeed, unless we are much mistaken, the actual...

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of chr-ist. By the Rev. Dr. Edorshoim. (The Rteligious Tract Society,)-This de- I serves to be a popular book. The subject is one...

Protection does indeed seem something more than a chimtara, when we find the Member for a great borough like Birkenhead, Mr. David MacIver, writing to the Times to praise Lord...

Mr. Goldney, M.P., who is a man of peace, though a man who does not, we presume, discourage litigation, spoke yesterday week at the meeting of the Chippenham Agricultural...

Lord Eustace Cecil, Surveyor-General of Ordnance, addressed I a meeting of his constituents at Saffron Walden last Saturday in a very belligerent tone. He did not hesitate to...

Professor Huxley delivered a very amusing address last Satur. day at the Society of Arts, on the very unpromising suDject or technical education;-but we believe that even if...

I A telegram sent from Rome through Reuter on the 5th inst.. announces that the Pope is a little better, and had got out of bed. The extreme illness of his Holiness has,...

The Timzes publishes another curious letter from Constantinople, I not from its own correspondent, in which it is once more affirmed that Murad has recovered, if indeed he ever...

I President Hayes sent Wie annual Mesage to Congress on I December 3. He takes credit to himself for the pacilicatlon ox the South, observing that outrages have ceased and...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POPE'S SUCOESSOR. THE last report is a trifle better, but there can be little hope this tim2e of the Pope's recovery. The alarmist telegrams from Rome...

THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN FRANCE. IF the news received in London on Fiiday morning can be trusted, the beginning of the end has come to the long struggle between the...

The disaster is a serious one, but it is not likely to affect the I progress of the war. TheGraudDukeNicholas and the Cesarewteonf between them can detach quite sufficient...

I There was a somewhat remarkable dinner at Exeter on Thura- day, given by both Liberals and Conservatives aliKe to bir stafford Northcote. Sir Stafford, who was evidently...

THE WEEK. NEWS OF THE Russians have sustained a serious check this week. Suleiman Pasha has moved at last, his design apparently being, by an energetic and rapid march to...

On Friday it was announced that at length, owing to the inter- vention of M. Batbie,-the author of the famous phrase destined to produce so many evil results, "' a Government...

On Tuesday M. Jules Ferry announced that the Budget Committee had decided not to present at present any report on the suggestion that the direct taxes should be detached from...

The French crisib dragged on rather slowly till towards I the end of the week ,-a policy of "9 masterly inaction" naturally recommending itself as the best under the...

SMITH'S POOR KIN. THE case of Smith's Poor Kin seems to us the reductio ad absaurdum of the English method of dealing with the authority of the " dead hand," as Lord Lyttelton...

CURRENT LITERATURE. CHRISTMAS BOOKS. I Masterpieces of Avtique Art. By Stophen Thompson. (Griffilth aud Farran.) The study of ancient art is no longer confined to artists....

DANIEL DERONDA AND HIS JEWISH CRITICS.* TIr, latest echo from the critical chorus which has greeted Daniel Deronda comes to us from Germany, in the form of a small book by Dr....

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.* TiilHERE are three kinds of biography; first, the voluminous memoir, in which materials applicable to the strict purposes of biography are accumulated...

BOOKS. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MEADOWS TAYLOR.* Tim interest of the autobiography of Colonel Meadows Taylor does not consist in the record of his life. The son of a most...

MR. GOSCHEN ON THE IMAGINATION. P Rr. GOSCHEN pronounced last week at Liverpool a very 1 striking and a very timely eulogy on the value of the imagination, and especially on...

rTH-IE PRINCE CONSORT'S SAVINGS. THE Court has thought it wise-very Justly thought it wiseaT to take advantage of the publication of the third volume of "The Life of the Prince...

TIHE SECRET HISTORY OF TIlE', FENIAN CON SPIRACY'.* MR. R{UTHTERFOIRD has his own ideas as to what is " secret history," for his " secret history " of Fenianism is largely...

MR. LOWE ON THE SUFFRAGE. (TO THE EDITOR 01 THI. *1" SPECTATOR."J 0~~~~~~~~~ _ - _ S SIn,-I published in the Forhtniqtly Review of October lat an article called " A New Reform...

SIR STAFFORD NORTHOOTE ON HOME POLITICS. SIR STAFFORD NORTHOOTE is generally expert at carrying the war into the enemy's camp, and his speech at Christchurch was a good example...