12 JUNE 1869

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Second Elections in France came off on Sunday in perfect quiet. The result, according to the Minister of the Interior, was the return of 30 officials to 28 candidates of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. T HE Second Elections in France have not gone exactly as the public expected, but the total result is still most unsatisfactory to the Empire. The immense...

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SOME CONSIDERATIONS FOR TORY PEERS.

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W E cannot yet believe that the Peers will throw out the Irish Church Bill. Lord Derby is rash enough for anything, and there are Peers in whom the old spirit of ascendancy is...

HOW TO PROFIT BY THE INFATUATION OF THE PEERS.

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I T seems to be still far from certain whether the party heat in Lord Derby, and the coarse Orangeman in Lord Cairns, and the ecclesiastical enthusiasm in the Duke of Rutland,...

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THE ABYSSINIAN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

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I T is quite nonsensical to compare our failures in Abyssinia with our failures in the Crimea, as some journals and not a few members appear inclined to do. We did not fail in...

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THE FANATICS OF WILLIS'S ROOMS.

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A GOOD many Peers and other gentlemen dined together at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday, to persuade each other that the present House of Commons is a sort of Irish bull, made...

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THE LATE CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS.

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T HE Co-operative Congress lately held in the Ade1phi must have appeared to those who personally followed its proceedings to have united the largest amount of practical...

"DOUBLE AND SINGLE REFERENCE."

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O UR readers may be under the impression that Double and Single Reference' is either a rule of arithmetic,—perhaps variety of tare and tret, —or else a mode of ledger-keeping...

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MR. J. S. MILL ON SEX.

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A LL men, and, we think, most of the women likely to read the Spectator, would, we believe, class this journal among the advocates of what are called " Women's Rights." We have...

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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. —4-CV.—TnE WELSH M ARCH :-MONMOUTIISIIIRE AND HERE= FORDSIIIRE.-SAXON AND FEUDAL PERIODS.

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W E have little that can be called history, and still less that can be called credible history, to record of this portion of the Welsh March during the Saxon period. We have...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE DRAGONNADES. [TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Although it is, no doubt, unusual with you to allow your columns to be occupied by remarks upon your own criticisms,...

ART.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] To the short notice already given of Mr. Graham's " On the way to the Cattle Tryst" (76) should be added an observation on the resolute...

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BOOKS. ____,___

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HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.* Me. TROLLOPE has chosen here a more than usually painful subject, and worked it out with a less than usually even hand. There are strokes of great power...

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THE LIFE OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 1 COMPLAINING as he does

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throughout this book that Landor's works never received their due reward, Mr. Forster has done his utmost to leave his friend's want of popularity exactly as he found it. Very...

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" I strove with none, for none was worth my strife."

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There was certainly more appropriateness in his description of himself as "that creature who imitated nobody, and whom nobody imitated ; the man who walked through the crowd of...

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THE POLAR WORLD.* ABOUT no part of the globe are

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there popular ideas so vague and superficial as about the Polar regions. For that reason, the very interesting and detailed account presented in this book by Dr. Hartwig of them...

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EWALD'S HISTORY OF ISRAEL—JOSHUA AND THE JUDGES.*

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THE first thing which strikes the reader of this, as of the preceding volume, so admirably translated and edited by Mr. Russell Martineau, is the large amount of solid...

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CURRENT LITERATURE. .

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Introduction to Scientific Chemistry. By F. S. Barff, 31.A. 2 vols. (Groombridge.)—School teachers, who feel bound to respond in some measure to the demand for elementary...