MORE "WORLDS" THAN ONE. X\TE wonder how many people there are in the United W} Kingdom who really care about the Derby. Sporting men will answer, we suppose, that everybody...

The County Government Bill is virtually withdrawn, as every- | body believed it would be. The Government never intended to pass it, and only brought it in to please the...

The Americans are washing their dirty linen in public, with I very little result, except to diminish still further confidence in public men. On the one side, it appears to be...

When the debate was taken up again on Monday, Mr. Blennerhassett argued strongly and ably for the endowment of a University in which the Roman Catholics would have real...

The details of the calamity sustained by the German Fleet are I now known. The three German ironclads-the ' Grosser Kurfurst.' the ' K(inig Wilhelm,' and the ' Preussen '-were...

The debate on the state of University education in Ireland was begun yesterday week by the O'Conor Don, in a speech of remarkable moderation, in which be did not find it very...

The Sultan has changed his Ministers again. Less than a week I ago he made Mahommed Ruchdi Grand 1-izier, and Alahmoud Damad Minister at War. Now he has made Safvet Pasha...

L Mtl Mr. Forster has given notice that on the second reading of I | the " Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bille" he will move, - Lnau il I the opinion of this House, the...

I The House of Commons on Tuesday voted itself a holiday for the Derby Day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has a trick of coquetting with evil suggestions, would not...

Our Creed; an Appeal to the Church of England. By a Barrister. (Chapman and Hall.)-The Barrister appeals to the Clergy in this persuasive strain,-" The impression left upon my...

The Teacher's Handbook of the Bille. By Joseph PulliblanIk, M1.A. (Longmans.)-This book is likely to prove useful to teachers. The comments on the Scripture narrative are...

TILe Prayer-Book. By Evan Daniel, M.A., Principal of St. Jobns j College, Battersea. (Gardner.)-This is a very full and useful manual, I and is also more interesting than...

The Rev. J. F. Bright has added a third and concluding volume I to his English History for the Use of Pueblic Schools. (Rivingtons.)-It I deals with the "Third Period,...

Messiah's Kingdom. By the Rev. B. Martin, A.Ml. (Oliphant and| Co.)-This volume is an attempt to find an answer to the qnestion, ' Is State-Churchism Scriptural?" After a...

THE SECOND ATTEMPT ON TIlE GERMAN EMPEROR. THIS second attempt to assassinate the German Emperor is an immense misfortune, alike for Germany and the world. Its single result,...

Keuning's 3Iasomnw Cgjclpfejdia. Edited by the Rev. A. F. A. Wood- I ford, M.A. (eKcnning.)-The greator part of this volume we must be| content to taro on trust, but there...

H eIery Illonnacott. A Memorial Volume. Edited by his Wife. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-This book contains the memoir of a Congregational minister at Hull, and some of his sermons....

I 'The Life of Alexander Lycitryus, Archbishorp of the Cyclades. By F MI. F. Skene. (Rivingtons.)-Archbishop Lycurgus was a conspicuously favourable example of his community,...

The Scieice of Languaye. By Abel Hovelacque. Translated by A. I H. Keane. (Chapman Hall.)-This volume is the first of a series to be described as the " Library of...

I Is- R-s-sia lIr'no ? Letters by a Russian Ladq. With a Preface by J. A. Froude. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-We question whether the authoress of these letters will succeed in...

School Hlistory of Rome. Abridged fi oLm Dean 'Merivale's "General I History of Rome," by C. Puller, M.MA. (Lonmans.)-To tell at all efficiently the history of twelve hundred...

I Holland and lier Heroes. Being an Adaptation of Motley's "Rise of I the Dutch Republic." By Mary Albert. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)- The merit of this book lies mainly in the...

Count Frontenac, and New France under Louis Xi1J. By Fiancis I Parkm inan. (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, U.S.; Sawpson Low and | Co., London.)-This is the fifth part of a...

Tiae Last (Gra(te cff the Nibescos. Translated from the German of I Emile Vacano, by E. Wilhelmina Spencer. (Remlington.)-This is a weird story of a Moldavian chateau, the...

TILE LOSS OF THIE 'I GROSSER URRST.' lATE have nothing new, nothing indeed that we have not ! W said a dozen times, to say about the loss of the ' Grosser ! 1 Kurfiirst,' but...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. f "THE DREAD AND D)ISLIKE OF SCIENCE." - [TO THE EDITOR OF THE* "SPECTATOB."J i SIR,-MNr. Lewes, in the current number of the Forinightly Review, brings...

THE PROPOSED NORTHERN UINIVERSITY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,-Dr. Carpenter's interesting and authentic, but as I shall presently show, incomplete sketch of the...

According to Sir Henry Thompson, the microphone has already been turned to account, in the discovery at a very early stage of one of the most painful of diseases,-stonc. By its...

This day week the Royal College of Physicians commemorated the tercentenary of Harvey's birth, by a banquet in the library -of their institution in Pall 'Mall, when many...

We observe with pleasure that the decision of the University of London to admit women to all their degrees has already borne fruits. The Council of University College, London,...

The Times published on Monday an account of the " modera. tor electric light," an improvement by M. Rapieff, a Russian gentleman, upon the "Jabloclikoff light," the first in...

The Italian Finance Ministers, though occasionally forced into extravagance, have faced their problem with a good deal of perseverance, and have obtained a surplus at last. S....

Mr. Lowe is out of spirits. On Tuesday night he attended a r banquct of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and replied U to the toast of the House of Commons, in...

Mr. Hanbury has given notice of a truly astounding motion in I the House of Commons, which,-had not the notice been received with loud cheers, and eagerly justified in the Pall...

BO OK S. THlE WORltKS OF SIR HENRY TAYLOR.* i-N this volume of Sir Hi. Taylor's reprinted works, the earlier essays have special value, as monuments of that earnestand...

I Nothing approaching to a reasonable explanation of the attemDt to murder the German Emperor has yet been published. Prince Bismarck, it is said, attributes the crime to...

- Germany is in the way of ill-fortune. At two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the Emperor was driving down the Linden in an open carriage, when he was twice fired at, from...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. JITE hleave advanced a step towards Peace. The German < V } government has issued invitations for a Congress to sit on the 13th inst., and they have been...

On Monday night Lord Salisbury informed the House of Lords that the German Government had issued an invitation to a Congress, and that her Majesty's Government had accepted...

In the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote made the I same announcement, and said even more emphatically that every conceivable eventuality had been so discussed that the...

T The Emperor will, it is believed, recover. The shock has been very great, and any degree of h.nemorrhage is dangerous to so old a man; but all the bullets have been...

TIHE CHARACTER OF JUDAS ISCARIOT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOL."] SIR,-Absence from England has prevented me from seeing earlier your reviews of " Philochristus." In your...

P O E T R Y. TI II It l,'il E RE,. AsCENI>Ei Lord! Thou hast remembered still The beauty of each earthly vale and hill; Thou knowest the strength of eagle-haunted peak, The...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE SITUATION. POLITICIANS of both parties will do well to wait before they make up their minds as to the course which events will take in Congress. The...

MR. HANBURYS MOTION. [R. HANBURY'S notice of motion concerning Mr. GladMii stone's article in the Nineteenth Century, and the applause with which it has been received by not...

THIE TROUBADOURS.* DR. HUEFFER has enjoyed the great advantage of treating a subject at once unhackneyed and eminently attractive. Provence has always been the fairy-land of...

HEALTH AND DRESS.* HAD the sagacious Dr. Watts lived in these days, he would not have rebuked " pride in raiment " by the stern reflection that,1 The poor sheep and silkworm...

THE FUTURE RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND A-ND CHINA. WE are inclined to wonder whether the English people W and Government have taken the trouble, any time during the last ten...

THE - GANGRENE IN CONGREGATIONALISM.' THILE Record has been very unhappy, for scme little time back, about the "gangrene" in Congregationalism. Gangrene is, we believe, the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Abbe~y of Paisley. By J. Cameron Lees, D.D. (Alexander I Gardner, Paislev.)-The Abbey of Paisley, though never containing, it would seem, a very...

| Scholam Acadedicv: Some ACCO117it oy the Studies at the Enylish ! I tniversities in the Eiyhttcnth (Cltmn/. By Christophor Wordsworth, IM.A. (Caiubridge: the Uuivorsity...

Castle Blair: a Story of Youthfdl Dayys. By Flora L. Shaw. 2 vols. (C. K. Paul and Co.)-Tho scene of this story is latid in Ireland, and the characters are Adrienne, an orplhan...

ARMENIA, AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 18X.7.* IN point of literary execution, this book does not bear comparison with some of its competitors. The style is not brilliant, and is...

THE GRAVER MAGAZINES. TImE great article of the Nineteenfli Century is Mir. Gladstone's, upon " Liberty in the East and West," which has so grievously offended Ir. IHanbury,...

OLD FRENCH RABBIS.* TuIis work is an extract from the magnificent history of French literature which is being published in Paris, under the auspices I Les Rabbin, FYraniais...

THE CABINET AND THE CONGRESS. LORD BEACONSFIELD and Lord Salisbury are to repreL sent England in the Congress, or rather, they are to wield the power of England in the...

A R T. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [THIRD NOTICE.) Ls oar last notice, we had proceeded as far as the middle o0 tie third gallery, and now continue our remarks from that place. There...