Tl'lie Americans have been deeply gratified by the keen feeling I of sympathy which the crime has aroused throughout the world. The Kings, from the Mikado downwards-he is...

TNEAWS OF THE WEEK. THE epidemic of assassination has spread to A merica. On the morning of Saturday, the 2nd inst., as President Garfield was leaving Washington for New York,...

I The decision of the Appellate Court in the Turkish State trial.> has been made known, and is, of course, the saume as that of the Court below. The Foreign Ministers have...

T'lhe assassin, Charles Guiteau, a Chicago lawyer, born in Illinois, but of French-Canadian extraction, voted in the Chicago convention for General Garfield. He consequently...

The Coroner's Jury sitting on the body of Mr. Gold, tlie corn-factor found murdered at the entrance of B3alcomnbe Tunnt-l, on the London and Brighton Railway, have returned a...

I The Irish Laud Bill has made rapid progress this week. the Committee having reached, on Thursday, the 19th Clause, page 12, though one or two clauses have been postponed ;...

THE BROTHERS HIUMBOLDT.* IN this small volume, of not three hundred pages, we have a most interesting memorial of two great men, the brothers Humboldt. Between these brothers...

Mr. Parnell made this amendment a peg for an attack on the Government for denying Home-rule to Ireland. Give the Irish the power to do for themselves, he said, what the British...

On Thursday the Committee reached the clause empowering the Land Commission to advance to the tenant a sum not exceeding three-fourths of the value of the freehold, where a...

The DPLke of Argyll took up his parable against the Report of the Bessborougi- Commission on Friday week, declaring that it had done its work in a slovenly fashion, that it had...

Lord Sandou got up quite a scene in the House of Commons. on Monday and Tuesday, in his indignation at zir. kanamuuilain's reluctance to issue a translation of the reactionary...

On Weduesday, Mr. Forster explained the clause concerning arrears which the Government propose to add to the Bill,-the clause in the existence or the satisfactoriness of which...

I ebinud all these statements come reports of much , more serious plans on the part of the French Governmient. It is rumnoured that they intend to occupy Tripoli and Morocco,...

I A very great Review of Volunteers wvill be held to-day in Windsor Park. It is announced that 52,000 men in uniform will be reviewed by the Queen,-the largest number of...

|Mr. Fawcett, in his speech on Wednesday uiglit at the Mid- dlesex Liberal Association, apologised once more for the House of Lords in its rejection last year of thi...

| Lord Coleridge lhas been compelled, unwilliugly, of course, to strike a heavy blo)w at Invention. Nobody can lrive a bi cyele till he has learned, and not everybody can...

The French are findingc fresh troubles in Tunis. Their own insurrection in Algeria is unsubdued, and now the tribes behind Sfax, the little town on the Gulf of Cabes, have...

The French Senate have had a great debate en the subject I of teaching religious duty in schools, the question arising on an amendment of M. Jules Simon's to the new Education...

Mr. Mundella has sent out an admirable memorandum, draw- I ing the attention of the masters and managers of schools to the subject of school savings-banks, and the important...

FRANCE AND TURKEY. IT would be absurd, as yet, to declare that France means to pick a quarrel with Turkey, or intends to commence a war of conquest in North Africa-though the...

JUDGES IN THE APPEAL COURPT. HTHE Bill to amend the Acts relating to the Supreme Court 1 of Judicature presents one provision which is unquestionably bad sandwiched in among...

MOURNTING REFORM. ] 0 smoke comes without fire to produce it, and, on the I same principle, it will generally be found that whatev-er cry for reform arises has its origin in...

AIR. HATCH'S BAMPTON LECTURES. [TO THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-In your reviewer's notice of this book, there was one sentence which I think, on reflection, he might...

"CCHARITY," OR "LOVE ?" [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Siu,-I have read Mr. Snow's second letter on this question with much interest and sympathy. If a man has actually...

[TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiIt,-I have followed. with much interest the discussion in your columns on the use of the words charity and lure to represent the Greek...

THE DIFFICULTIES OF INVISIBILITY. IT is vev natural to scold the Police for not finding Lefroy, the man suspected of M r. Gold's murder, but we do not know that it is very...

BO OK S. BOOK COLLECTIN-G.* IT is a considerable feat to have written a book for collectors which will also interest those who are not collectors, and it is one which Mr. Lang...

POETRY. A LEGEND. TiiERE went a widow woman from the outskirts of the city, Whose lonely sorrow might have moved the stones she trod to pity. She wandered, weeping through the...

THE LAN-D BILL LX COMMIITTEE. THE first section of the Land Bill-that which deals with Tthe relations of landlord and tenant-has now substantially passed through Committee; and...

THE PARALYSIS OF PARLIAMENT. W TE regret to see that Mr. Gladstone's statement of NV V Monday night about the course of business in Parliament has caused so little concern....

DR'. RADI)CLIFFE ON- O AAMINGC. DPL. RADCLIFFE', in the JulN numb~er of the ('Cot'p,,npo)rar p lcri';, pullishes " A Sl)eculation. about D)reaming," which would bjetter have...

MR. FAWCETT AND TEE HOUSE OF LORDS. 5I. N the Postmaster-General's interesting speech to the l liddles~ex Liberal Association on Wednesday night, he ventured on a prediction...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. I TIHE ATTEMPT ON PRESIDENT GARFIELD. HIE feeling of surprise always manifested when the head T of a Republic is attacked by an assassin is, we fear, not...

I LANGE S HISTORY OF MATERIALISMU.-VOL. II.* MIOR{E than three years ago we noticed the first volume of the Elnglish translation of this very important work. The second volume...

CURRENT LITERATURE. England for All. By H. M. Hyndman. (Printed by Gilbert and I Rivington.)-Mr. Hyndman is somewhat of an "irreconcilable." It would scarcely be worth while...

I MAGAZINES, ETC.- -We have received the July numbers of the fol. 1owinDg:-No. 1 of a reissue of Mrs. Cowden-Clarke's Concordance to Shakespeare (Bickers and Son), a work...

NOVELS.-Visited on the Children. By Theo. Gift. 3 vols. (Tinsley, Brothers.)-Sibyl Dysart, taking a short-cut to her home by a wood, is nearly shot, by a young gentleman who...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MR. BENCE JONES'S RENTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,-I hope you will let me correct one point that touches mein your notice of Father...

A NOVEL OF THE TIME.* NATALIE LIND, a beautiful Hungarian girl, is the heroine of Mr. Black's novel. In soul, as well as in person, she is worthy of the position awarded her in...

T.SASELL-LA N-G-MEAD'S " CONSTITUTIONAL HIISTORY."' Hit. TASM ELL-LANGMEAD'S compendium of the rise and development of thie English Constitution has evidently supplied a want....

SMRS. GEOFFREY.* A vAST majority of the novels published within the last twenty years tempt one irresistibly to ask why they were ever written. Did a desire of fame move their...

THE ARYAN VILLAGE IN INDIA.* REAkDABLE books upon native Indian society are not so common that we should hesitate to call the attention of our readers to the volume in which...

THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION LN FREN-CII SCHOOLS. M /r JULES SIMON has introduced into the French M . Senate the very question which Mr. Forster eleven years ago raised in the House...