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Fine Arts.
The SpectatorfIiw hit. SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. THE sixth exhibition of the Society of Female Artists, though certainly as striking as its predecessors, in the absence of anything that...
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CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.
The SpectatorCHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.* COUNT NiCOLA TOLSTOI is already a classical author in Russia, though his first tale, Childhood, only appeared in one of the journals a short time before...
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THE HIGH-PRIEST OF SPIRIT-RAPPERS.
The SpectatorTHE HIGH-PRIEST OF SPIRIT-RAPPERS. PERHAPS it has not occurred to many of our readers to ask themselves what is their position " on the spiritual plane P" Mr. William Howitt...
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THE VOLUNTEERS AND THEIR CANDID FRIENDS.
The SpectatorTHE VOLURITEERS AND THEIR CANDID FRIENNDS. T HE Volunteer rifle force is entering on the third year of its patriotic and sturdy life. Itf we were asked to name one quality...
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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
The SpectatorESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. Tin: formal opening of Parliament by Royal Commission took place on Thursday, the ceremonial itself being, of course, under the melancholy circumstances,...
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MURDER MADE EASY.
The SpectatorMURDER MADE EASY. T HERE are few men in the world who deserve so well of their _ fellow-men as the London stipendiary magistrates, but if any ruffian should within the next few...
THE LAST FRENCH TRAGEDY.
The SpectatorTHE LAST FRENCH TRAGEDY. RARELY, even in France, has such a shock been given to the public sense of security as by the recent trial of Dumollard at Bourg. The facts have...
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THE OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENTARY CAMPAIGN.
The SpectatorTHE OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENTARY CAMPAIGN. THE speeches on the address present the same airs pitched in different keys. Lord Derby's antistrophe only develops and expands the...
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
The SpectatorTOPICS OF THE DAY. THE QIJEEN'S SPEECH. TF, as Carlyle affirms, speech be silver and silence gold, the I Queen's Speech is a perfect nugget. The single object of its compilers...
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THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.
The SpectatorTHE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. THE following lines, in memory of the late Prince Consort, form the dedication to the new edition of Mr. Tennyson's Idylls of the King: These to his...
Music.
The Spectator3i tir. A CHANGE has at length been decided upon at Covent Garden, the fifty-seventh and last representation of 1he Puritan's Daughter being announced for to-niglt, and the...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorNEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE Session was opened on Thursday by commission. The absence of the Queen and the recent calamity sustained by the Court threw a gloom over the proceedings,...
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MR. UNDERHILL ON HAYTI AND JAMAICA.
The SpectatorBOOKS. MIR. UNDERHILL ON HAYTI AND JAMAICA.* in. UNDERHILL is a very different West Indian traveller from Mr. Trollope, and very much more trustworthy. The book before us...
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THE GAS MONOPOLY.
The SpectatorTHE GAS MONOPOLY. THE last London Gas Act has had a fair trial, and must be pronounced a failure. Its object was to cheapen and purify gas, and its effect has been to create a...
MR. COBDEN'S PROPOSAL.
The SpectatorMR. COBDEN'S PROPOSAL. M R. Cobden used to be unrivalled in the art of " taking M distinctions," and those, the most effective distinctions for his case. We fear be is losing...
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THE BLOCKADE.
The SpectatorTHE BLOCKADE. TO do nothing, judiciously, though often the wisest policy, is one which the practical English mind is seldom apt to approve. To sit and wait while a calamity is...
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THE TWO IDOLATRIES.
The SpectatorTHE TWO IDOLATRIES. E, next May, shall summon the world to admire the W results of a decade of active work collected in one _vast show. The Pope, next May, will summon a...
THE CAREER OF A Q.C.
The SpectatorTHE CAREER OF A Q.C. ROMi the earliest period of which literature bears record, Fin all countries and at all times, lawyers have been unpopular. Every farce is full of it, and...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorCURRENT LITERATURE. T'imEz and four fold happy the man of whom it can be said after death that " from the beginning to the end he never made a mistake!" Such is the testimony...
OLIVE BLAKE'S GOOD WORK.
The SpectatorOLIVE BLAKE'S GOOD WORK.* I Oive Blake's Good Work wvill, we imagine, please Mr. Mudie's subscribers much better than Mr. Jeaffreson's critics. The principal incident suggests...
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SHAKSPEARE AND HIS EDITORS.
The SpectatorSHAKSPElRE AND HIS EDITORS.* THE last twenty years have been more than usually prolific in Shak. spearean literature. The new editions of the great poet, which leave issued in...
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THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE.
The SpectatorTHE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE.* AlWno are the readers for whom Mr. Dyer writes his history? W a confess to some difficulty in giving a satisfactory answer to this inquiry. At...
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THE ORIGINAL MS. OF GRAY'S ELEGY.
The SpectatorTHE ORIGINAL MIS. OF GRAY'S ELEGY.* Tins is a literary curiosity; and Yet now that Light, which multiplies and perpetuates so nanny forms which seemed intended only for a...
