to the infinite relief of all the public, except those ladies and gentlemen who press forward at every sitting to hear the last bit of evidence or word-fencing between counsel...

THE great event of the week has been the death of M. Thiers, which took place at St. Germain on Monday, after only four or five hours' illness, owing to a stroke of apoplexy....

Russians have been twice beaten on the Lom, and have had a victory in their turn. But they have not followed up their success, while the Turks, though very falteringly and...

Times, pointed out how completely inadequate anything like voluntary subscription must be to fight against such a calamity as the Indian famine, and showed, moreover, how...

Government, with a feeling that was certainly seemly and pro- bably honourable to itself, offered him at once a public funeral in the Invalides, and the offer, it was...

the memory of M. Thiers, that he sends to the Times an extract from a very recent letter of the old French statesman's, expressing sentiments which, says Mr. Reeve, "bear the...

case.

the most emphatic way, that wherever the Russians and Bulgarians might have committed atrocities at all like the horrors of the Turks, their acts, as being those of Christians,...

fashion of Mayors in big Northern towns, a present to his towns- folk of a New Art Gallery, casting about £40,000; and the open- ing of the building was the occasion for Lord...

taken ground as broad against anything that can be called ' sacerdotal ' pretensions in the Church, as even a Quaker could take. Sacerdotal claims meant, he said, claims to...

Tuesday, at the Correctional Tribunal in Paris. The acte d'accosation, or indictment, which has been published, consists of various counts charging him with offences against the...

columns, and a very able one by "A London Clergyman" in Tuesday's Times, point out the very great impolicy of which the Clergy will be guilty, if they condition for a set-off...

who had gone to Hawarden by an excursion train, in connection with the Tyldesley and Bedford Leigh Liberal Association, from the terrace at Hawarden, and referred to the fun...

sense in the remarks on spelling reform which he has em- bodied in his annual report as Inspector of Schools, lie admits the irregularities of our language, but says that 4 '...

Saturday last a most interesting account of the work of the " Yorkshire Penny Bank," an institution of which, he says, no other English county 'can boast, and which is certainly...

parts of the country. The dispute between the London builders and their men as to the rate of wages and hour of beginning work is still unsettled ; the lock-out on the Clyde...

ap- pointed, and it is understood that in the meantime the Mormon Church will be governed by twelve Elders. But by far the likeliest successor to the Prophet is his son, John W....

and there was a perceptible reversion in it to the anti- Russian animus of a year ago. He was severe on anything like "foolish confidence in the Liberal sympathies of a Power...

lished on Monday last, asserts that " Professor Pearson [C. H. Pearson, the historian, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford], the one man of culture who supported Mr. Berry's...

the other day a speech on the food-and-drink question. There were some odd things at this festival—a loaf of ninety-four pounds and a cheese weighing ninety, for example —but...

I N describing the type of his race, M. Taine sums up its characteristics in these words When a Frenchman conceives an event or an object, he conceives it quickly and distinctly...

" T HE liberator of the territory," as hundreds of voices de- scribed M. Thiers, when M. de Fourtou not long ago blundered into the unfortunate mistake of ascribing that feat to...

not act when action might be effective, are generally the readiest to make-believe that they wish to act when action can be . of no possible use. We are grateful to Lord Derby...

T HE celebrated military writer, Baron de jomini, tells us, in his "Summary of the Art of War," that he origin- ally drew it up in 1836, "to assist in the military instruction...

IVI R. LESLIE STEPHEN is a powerful writer, but he would be more, not less powerful, if there were less of the sneering tone in his style, and more anxietyto do justice to the...

T HE end and the beginning of Mr. Goldwin Smith's article in the August number of the Fortnightly Review are curiously inconsistent with one another. The first two pages contain...

T HE Mayor and Corporation of Manchester having come to the conclusion that in eight or ten years (supposing the population to increase in the same ratio as during the last...

IN ONE who have read can ever forget Charles Lamb's exquisite praise of chimney-sweeps, or the subtle interest he arouses in those little "innocent blacknesses." Our fancy has...

the Monitorial system object entirely- to any authority whatever being delegated to boys at school, they must surely be prepared to tell us what to put in the placer of the...

THE BURIALS QUESTION. ITO THE EDITOR or THE n SPROTATOR.1 Sin,—With your permission I wish to entreat those of my clerical brethren who are wisely making up their minds to...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTA.T011.1 Sin,—My friend, Mr. Quick, hardly does me justice in putting me into the same boat with Mr. Strachey. Mr. Strachey and I object to the...

OF THE ssrsersroa."] Sin,—Ina very ingenious article on the "Scepticism of Believers," contributed by Mr. Leslie Stephen to the current number of the Fortnightly 1?eciew, the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPEOTATOR:"] SII1,—I see that the argument for immortality from conscious personal relations with the Deity, quoted by Mr. Greg, has at- tracted some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPICOTATOR.1 SIR,—Will you allow me space for two or three short extracts from the TVomen's Suffrage Journal of this month, illustrating the kind of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Though you could not tire me personally with any number of anecdotes of dogs, yet it has struck me that non-dog lovers must sometimes...

MR. JOHN MORLEY'S MISCELLANIES.* Monsasv has reprinted from the Fortnightly Review several essays. He has revised and enlarged. them ; he has added one or two other papers, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Stn,—Noticing the letter of your correspondent Joseph John Murphy in your issue of September 1, we beg to inform you that we have lately...

[SECOND NOTICE.] WE have in our first notice of this Memoir aimed mainly at a general view of the common characteristics of a small knot of teachers whose influence has been as...

AMID the bewildering mass of books and pamphlets which are published at present, dealing from all points of view and in every - variety of tone with the ramifications of the...

Tills is, with one exception, a featureless month among the Lighter Magazines. Much which we expect to find in each of them, accord- ing to its kind, in the ordinary course, we...

of Theology, Neuchatel. Edited by the Hon. and Rev. W. Li. Lyttelton, (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Thanks are due to Mrs. Lyttelton, the translator, for introducing to English...

The Hon. Miss Ferrard. By the Author of "Hogan, M.P." (Bentley.)—Thia is a clever, original, and in certain portions of it a powerful novel ; a decided advance in constructive...

Lady Charlotte Blount. (Chapman and Hall.) "The Old Palace" is Kensington Palace, and Lady Charlotte Blount publishes her verses about it in order to counteract the offoot of...

Blackett.)— A very pretty, very sad love story is this which Miss Hardy tells us, in her latest and best novel. We are glad to observe the progress she is making in constructive...