WHAT IS EVANGELICALISM? THE T;,es, in writing on the death of Dean MacNeile,sometime Dean of Ripon,-has spoken of Evangelicalism as virtually a thing of the past, as something...

'1.' L,8"yH:)ia1, 1-'1;,-I,'.k 1"1 1879. (Cas.;e] l anid co.)-WVe nr iiot satisfied wvith thle editilng of this book. It cOntains, indeed. a vast aceIl111111in titon of...

COilS'dtati~'. By Walter Besant, M.A., and IN. J. Brodribb, M. A. (Seeleys.)-This bistoiT of the great city oil the Bosphorus, extending from its foundation down to the fol]...

DENNIS'S CITIES AND CEMETERIES OF ETRLTRIA.* | AN old and valued friend reappears in these two sumptuous volumes. Thirty years ago the first edition of Mr. George Dennis's book...

iMr. R. K. Douglas writes to the Tiwes to state that a disease similar to the spotted plague in Astrachan appeared in Yunnan, in W~estern China, after the great massacres...

I Poor Lord Hartingeon probably never did any task for his tutors at Cambridge which cost him half the labour and paiusof the theme he had to compose for delivery to the...

An incident which might have been dangerouis to peace has I occurred near Silistria. Five of the six Delimitation Conmmissioners appointed to mark the boundaries between...

It has been all but semi-officially announced by the organs of the Government that they have abandoned the hope of settlinthe Irish University question in the coming Session....

General Biddulpl reaclhed the Helimund. onl January 29th, I without opposition, and General Stewart, at Khelat-i-Ghlilzai. is onlv troubled about supplies, and the sullenness...

I Mr. Lowe, in distributing the fine-art prizes at Croydon yester- day week, took occasion, as usual, to attack what he holds to be the useless branches of knowledge, and...

The election at Breslau will, we fear. conIince Prince i8- | marek that he has not vet hit thle Socialists and Democrats hard. elough. B3reslau is a large manufacturing town,...

Our Oeld AXbbiity. By "Noblcssc Obligte." (The Political Tract Society.)--This book is chiefly a somewhat savagc attack onl the English nobility for the way in wlhich they...

31ft7d:.¢mo, a oh fe l By Lady Charlotte Elliot. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.'-The power and, wh bat is less frequently found, the variety of power, displaved in this volume is...

| 1 T. mp iI';c. By Emily Spender. 3 vols. (llurst and Black-CU,) -This is one of the uo\-els which make us think that it would be convenient to indicate our judgment of a...

Mr. Tenniel, in Puncht this week, almost surpawsea himself in a comic rendering of Mr. Matthew Arnolb's ide a of the oveloaded English people. He gives us, not the weary Titan,...

An important letter from -Mr. Bessemer to Thursday's Tizes I points out how great is the mistake of our naval coimnanders in thinking to manipulate, by mere skill of hand,...

Lord Aulgustus Loftus is coming back from St. Petersmurg, and is to go out as the next Governor of New South Walei. In his place Lord Dufferin is to be sent to St. Peteri.burg,...

President Hayes has achieved an important victory. One I -great obstacle to any reform in the American Civil Service has been the practice of nominating men to office...

Ycd' re for this week tells us of a machine just invented by Mr. E. A. Cowper, the well-known mechanical engineer, by which a hand writing in London can produce at the other...

Mr. Bourke, Under-Secretary for Forein Affairs, made a speech to his constituents at King's Lynn on AVWednesday, marked chiefly by exultation. He told his audience that " the...

The trial of Charles Peace, at Leeds, for the murder of Arthur Dyson in November, 1870J, ended on the 4th inst., in a verdict of guilty and a sentence of death. The case was in...

THE TRIAL OF THE GLASGOW DIRECTORS. EVERYBODY concerned in the trial of the Directors of the City of Glasgow Bank, with the exception of the jury and the counsel for the...

ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT. TIHE artists and amateurs who met at the Grosvenor Gallery last Saturday agreed, by a large majority, to ask the Government to introduce into any Copyright...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. COUNTY ELECTION-S. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."S -SiR,-The part Mr. W. E. Forster took in the Norfolk election has been criticised in other papers...

FEMALE SUFFRAGE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Will vou allow me to call attention to a sentence in your last number, the bearing of which imust surely have escaped...

SEN- SE-IMPRESSION-S IN EDUCATION-. [TO THI EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In the articles on memiory and on Mr. Bidder that have lately appeared in the j)6clbdti% I notice,...

B OK S. THE RETURN- OF THE -NATIVE.: The R, tore of the NVtOie is a story of singular power and intere-A, -very original, very gloomy, very gr eat in some respects, though...

A R T. THE OLD MASTERS AT THE ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] TILE chief interest -which this exhibition has, mainly consists in the collection of drawing-s from the Old Italian...

POETRY. HORACE'S GHOST. [BOOK I., ODE iX.] I f I 1 1 I N sheldigt wVitlh snow-s is whlite, 'hlie forest braniches bow and spliutcr No ripple breakss the frozen lakes, Then...

CRITICISM IN A PASSION. IN the Pall M11all Gazette of Januarv 31st there is a letter signed "V incit, Veritas," and dated January 22nd. The letter is admittedly written from...

As we anticipated last week-, 31. Gamlbetta has lkoen elected President of the Chamber of Delegates, in place of M. Grevv and M. Dufaure, who resigned office. has not yielded...

The Zulu wadar lias be L\. No anuswer had been receivedl frmn Cetewavo on the 11th inst., and on the 12thl four columns were advancing into Ziululand, to conceutrate up1on1 (...

The weather has broken at last. The frost has lasted two months, and has produced such an amount of mortality among the feeble, and of suffering among all classes, that there...

NEWS OF THlE WEEK. ON Thursday, -M. Gr6vv's first messag-e was read to b(tl Chambers of the Legislature. It was very brief, and per- fetly dignified. These are the only...

Prince ismareLk seems n l determined not to leave his enemies even the conslolatioii of hople. In the Treaty of 1866; between Austria and Prissia, a clause waS inserted, at the...

I Th.e trial of the Direcrtors of thie City- of Glasgow Baik terminatetl on Saturday. On Fridav, the jury returnedl a. verdict, finding L. Potter and R. S. Stronach guilty of...

CURRENT LITERATURE. SCHOOL-BOOKS.-T7ie Physical Geology and Geography of Irvnland. By Edward Hull, M.A., F.R.S. (Stanford.) We can heartily recom- | mend this book, as an...

THE CONVICT PEACE. THE popular interest in the burglar Peace is due, we imagine, Tmainly to his unusual courage, and the notion that he was a kind of criminal gladiator, always...

THE FARMERS' DESPONDENCY. TOTHING is more curious in English social history than 1N the difficultv of ascertaining positively whether Farmers are or are not suffering in their...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE COMING; DOMESTIC" PROGRAMME. THERE seems to be a general belief that the Government, aware that its foreign policy has, on the whole, failed, will...

TIHE BEST PAPERS IN THE MAGAZINES. Mit. YAwCETT send.s a remarkable paper to the eN,-,fi C'eitio-Y, on ' The Financial Condition of India." It is not a sensational essay at...

SIR. MUNRO ONT CATULLUS.* EVERY scholar will wish that -Mr. MIunro had been able to give us something more complete, about a poet whom he has a remarkable power of...

M. GREWVY'S ELECTION. l T is not well to be in too great a hurry to pass judgment on the working of new institutions. Often it will happen that the first fruits they produce...

THE LATE COLONEL HOME, C.B., R.E. THE old saying, "Show me a man's friends, and I will tell you what he is," was never more forcibly illustrated than at the quiet and...

AR. GLADSTONE AND LORD HARTLNGTON ON THE SITUATION, IT is curious to observe how impossible it seems to be for anything whatever which Mr. Gladstone does to be treated as a...

'MR. J. G. AWOOD UPON- WAATERTON.* 7AATERTON'S TF'nidci gs have long needed an editor, but the first requirement of that editor was that he should be a naturalist, and not a...

CORRESPONDENCE. PRINCE BISMARCK A-D FREE-TRADE. BERLIN, Februlari 417,. Tiip political situation in Germany at this moment is one which calls for serious attention, on account...