Classic 1'reaclders of the English Church : Lectures delivered at St. | James's Church in 187.7. With an Introduction by J. E. Kempe, M.A. (Murray.) Malasters in English...

I Lapsed, buit ?iot Lost: a SItory of Roman C'artliage. By the Author I of '-Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family." (Daldy and Isbister.) -The scene, as will be seen from...

I Salvato i-unfli; or, Is Chlist the Saviour of All Men ? By Samuel I Cox. (lhenry S. King)-Mr. Cox tells us in his preface that he writes to encourage "' those ' who faintly...

A Laggard in Love. By Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pender Cudlip). 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)-We have never much admired liXrs. renuer Cudlip's books, but we do not remember to have...

Ariss Misanthrope. By .Justin McCarthy. 2 vo1s. (Chatto and Windus.)-Some of our readers may have seen this novel when it appeared in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine. To...

Colonel Stanley opened the debate of Tuesday with the most temperate and by far the best-toned speech till then delivered on the Government side. Yet even he, in combating Mr....

I The " scare " in the House of Commons on Thursday night, when Sir Stafford Northcote told the House of Mr. Layard having telegraphed, that in spite of the signature of the...

I Tt annears to be undoubted that Russia has demanded of Roumania the restoration of the bit of Bessarabia ceded to the latter under the Treaty of Paris. The demand is rejected...

. I Lord Derbv on Monday night stated with some precision the attitude of the Government with respect to the occupation ot . Constantinople. They had always from the first...

Of Mlr. Gladstone's great speech on Monday night we have indicated the chief drift elsewhere, and need only say here that it was preceded by a letter from Lord Edmond...

The Earl of Effinghtam. By Lalla McDowell. (Samuel Tinsloy.)-I The Hon. Major Effingham, who afterwards becomes, by the death of his father and elder brother, " the Earl of...

We have also received T/he Young People's Pocket-Book for 1878, | published by the Religious Tract Society, which appears to be a little didactic, but may find acceptance with...

Ilessrs. Marcus Ward and Co. have sent us a box of verv pretty I valentines. The butterflies, flowers, and birds are, as usual, very beautiful, and even the Cupids and young...

A R T. THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. [SECOND NOTICE.] Is our previous notice of this Gallery we confined our remarks to the paintings in the first and second rooms,...

PO ET R Y. EACH AND ALL. 0QNCE -to find the gain of loss, Take the sweetness out of pain, Feel the uplifting of the Cross, Is to know all fear is vain. And thy heart to thee...

From a Bed of Roses. By Cuthbert Hope. (Samuel Tinaley.)-Tlxis novel is written to show that if you want a youth " to withstand and stand," you must not bring him up in...

Upper Egypt: its People and its Products. By C. B. 1lunzinger, I M.D. With a Prefatory Notice by Dr. Georg Schweinfiirth. (Blackie.) - . .. . . . . . . I -Dr. Klunzinger...

The Kitchen and Market Garden. By Contributors to the Garden. (Macmillan.)-This is a closely printed octavo of more tnan tour nundred pages, full of information on the subject...

The Words of Life. By C. M. Skottowe. (Longmans.)-In this - _11 _ . .\ . little volume Mr. Skottowe has arranged *" all (or nearly all) the recorded words of our Lord,...

That Lady Lynway. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)-Esther, the| neglected daughter of a profligate and spendthrift father, becomes, under the pressure of want and misery, the...

The fEazelhurst M~ystery. By Jessie Sale Lloyd. 2 vol. (Tinsley Brothers.)-" With all her faults, she was a queen among women. Such is the author's judgment on her heroine. In...

The Daily News, on Thursday, published a remarkable tele- gram from its correspondent at Adrianople. This gentleman had had an interview with Server Pasha, the Turkish Minister...

Sir S. Northcote was questioned on Thursday about this tele- I gram, and in reply quoted a note from Lord Beaconsfleld, stating that it was " a base fabrication," but not...

It is rumoured that the Aldermen will appoint the Common Serjeant, Sir Thomas Chambers, to the Recordership of London, vacant by Mr. Russell Gurney's resignation. Sir Thomas...

The precise attitude of the Russians with respect to Gallipoli I is well marked in some recent despatches published by the Foreign Office. On January 15, Lord A. Loftus...

The German Parliament was opened on the 6th inst., by a I Message from the Throne, most of which is devoted to internal subjects, such as the introduction of a stamp-tax and an...

The Charity Commissioners sometimes seem to forget alto- gether that girls exist. There is a fund in Leeds called the Poor's Estate, yielding some £700 a year, and hitherto...

A meeting was held in the Vestry Hall, Kensington, on WNrednes- day, to give public notice of a systematic course of lectures for women commenced by the Principal and...

Sir Thomas Wade on Monday forwarded to the Tinmes a telegram from the Acting Consul at Slhanghai, reporting that an appalling famine prevails in the northern provinces of...

A NEGLECTED REFORM. THE Government promised, in the Queen's Speech, to introduce a Bill to simplify and consolidate the law with respect to criminal procedure. Even if they do...

THE FUTURE OF GREECE. THE very best test which can be applied to the sincerity of I the official promises with respect to the Eastern Christians will be their action towards...

Mr. Lowe was very amusing on the two-months' Vote of credit, the magic of which would suddenly fail at midnight on the 31st March " or the 1st April." "'lhe position of Samson...

Greece has moved at last. The Government, either aware I from the riots of last week that if they continued inactive the Monarchy would be overturned, or convinced that they...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Fleet has gone to Constantinople, at last. Sir S. North. cote stated last night in the House of Commons that the terms of the Armistice, which raises the...

Pio Nono, the Pope who in all that long line has reigned I longest, having been elected on June 16th, 1846, nearly thirty-two years ago, died on Thursday afternoon, according...

I The great debate on the Vote of Credit continued in the House of Commons for another four nights since our last impression, coming to an abrupt and undignified end in a great...

I Thedebate on Friday week was opened by Mr. Trevelyan,in ashort speech of great trenchancy and vigour, in which he commented on the martial deeds of the Tories in the City...

ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF PROMIISE. T LIE House of Commons will probably make short work of 1 Mr. Llerschell's Bill to abolish actions for Breach of Promise of Marriage, and on the...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONFERENCE, OR CONGRESS? [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] I SIR,-Daring the debate, these words have been used by some , Members-Sir WV. Harcourt is a...

THE CATACOMBS.* THE Catacombs of Rome have an exceptional interest among antiquities. As Christian memorials, they are connected with our own age and its sentiments in a way...

THE DEATH OF PIUS THE NINTH. T HE secret anticipation of so many Catholics that Pio Nono would reach some unusual age, an anticipation half justified by his singular tenacity...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I The Principles of Punishment. By E. WY. Cox, Sorjoant-at-Law. (Law Tinies.)-Tho subject is one on which the author can speak fronm great experience, as...

LIFE AND IIABIT.* " LIFE is memory;" so Mr. Butler summarises the results of his investigation; more at length,-" life is that property of matter whereby it can remember....

TOPICS OF THE DAY. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE SITUATION AT HOM. NOTHING is ever gained by ignoring or concealing facts,' N and there can be, we fear. no doubt that during the past...

AN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIY.* WE are wont to think of Americans as always in a hurry, but certainly they find time to write, and possibly to read, very wonderful books, of which the...

VARIATION OF FORM IN FLOWERS.* HAS the scientific study of any department of Nature the effect of injuring our sensibility to the beauty of those things which form its object?...

THE COLLAPSE OF THE DEBATE. THE end of the great Debate has been a collapse, like that Tof the attack on the Conservative Government of 1858 for the Ellenborough despatch which...

MIDDLE-CLASS " DESTITTON." A WELL-KNOWN writer, Mr. Alsager Hay Hill, in this month's number of the Dublin University Magazine, calls attention to the ever-increasing...

MR. HARDY AND M. TREVELYAN. THE personalities in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday nights were, as all the critics on both sides have observed, not of a kind which...

BO OK S. X. DOUDAN'.* LAST year, in recommending to the public the two first volumes of Doudan's correspondence which had just appeared, we ventured to predict that they would...

THE ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITU'rE.* TiE eighth volume of the proceedings of this society, which was issued some months ago, gives a very favourable impression of the work which it...