over the combinations of Europe is curiously indicated by an article in the Times of Friday. That journal is seldom misinformed as to the tone, at all events, of the Foreign...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 26th, will be issued, .gratia, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE STRUGGLE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. T HE British public is still watching the protracted struggle in Constantinople, and still making a mistake which impairs its judgment as to the...

T HE greatest interest of the by-elections now is hardly so much the immediate result as the light which they throw,—so far as they throw any light,—on the questions which now...

T O our minds the great interest of the trial of Herr von Tausch, which ended on Friday week in a verdict of acquittal, consists in the evidence it affords that the German...

I N an interesting letter which we publish in another column on the suicide at Halley bury, the writer blames us for having taken for granted that it was, as a matter of course,...

A CORRESPONDENT of the Times, writing in Monday's paper, quotes a saying from one of General Maurice's books which is to the effect that "some day a second Alexander will arise...

W E wonder how many of the millions who will gaze at the Jubilee Procession will appreciate the historic marvel of some of its separate incidents. Take, for instance, the...

W HEN to put up with a second best is one of the most troublesome of practical problems. The case on each side is often so unanswerable. Why should we content ourselves with a...

P ROFESSOR C017RTHOPE, in his Oxford lecture on "Poetical Decadence" on Friday week, insisted very earnestly on the recent "vast growth of individual self- consciousness" as one...

as mothers. That is a fact of natural history which we do not suppose the most advanced of the crowds who are now writing about women and their progress are prepared definitely...

F LOOD-TIDE on Beaulieu River is like nothing else in the South of England. The rising waters flow not over salt-marshes and mud-banks, or between level flats and marshes, but...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SrEcreTon."] Sin,—In year article under this heading in the Spectator of June 5th there are many statements which might be dis- puted by those who hold...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—" On a tree by a river a little tomtit" went through a, good many surprising and unexpected performances, all of which we know to be...

CALLOUSNESS AND SCHOOLBOY CRUELTY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—You say in your comments on the Haileybury suicide in the Spectator of June 5th, "It would be a...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At the end of the notice in the Spectator of Jane 5th of a translation of M. Gaston Boissier's work the reviewer - expresses his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In your article in the Spectator of June 5th on the question, "Does America Hate England ?" you say, "The undoubted wrongs perpetrated...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srit,---It may be interesting to some of your readers to be made acquainted with the fact of the wonderful confidence and trust which the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIE,—Allow me to tell you a curious instance of the "public interest in Princes" which is spoken of in the Spectator of June 5th, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Si,—The recent death of Professor Sylvester recalls a curious conversation in which I took part during my under- graduate days at Oxford....

A SONG OF SHADOWS. THE city is weird with shadows, In the shine of a sunny day You may see them darken the pavements Furtive, and hushed, and grey, They crouch by the brooding...

FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF INDIA.* FEw men living now, we suppose, have had the varied ex- periences of Indian life such as befel Colonel Pollok, dating as they do from the...

THERE are few subjects more interesting than the history of the mountainous isthmus that joins North and South America, and lifts a precipitous, and so far impregnable,. barrier...

devotee of camp-life the Rocky Mountains present a vast tract of mountainous country full of almost boundless possibilities. The early explorers like Mackenzie were too intent...

Mn. JOHN THEODORE MzEz has undertaken the task of chronicling the history of European thought in the nine- teenth century, and gives us an introduction to the subject and an...

we take up the volume of Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences, and Maxims, which Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. have published in an excellent edition, also containing...

curious collection, whose Life of a Prig attracted in its day considerable attention, and who, by his choice of Sir ICenelm Digby for a subject, proved himself well- read and...

Tins is a deeply interesting, and even noteworthy, work. It is-interesting as being the best account we have ever read of the inner life of the House, and it is noteworthy...

The shadow of the coming Jubilee is over the Windsor, as it is over most of the more popular magazines. It is responsible for several of the leading articles in the June....

New Edition. Revised, with New Chapters, and Extended to the Present Time. By W. Hall Griffin, B.A. (Crosby Lock- wood and Son.)—Twenty-three years have gone by since Mr. Dobson...

and Co.)—It has been said with great truth that specimens of wit and humour "afford under the happiest conditions but melancholy reading." The conditions in the present instance...

years ago Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes published a small volume of poems which, if it did not give high promise of future excellence, showed at least an appreciation expressed in...

no little experience in the very pleasing task of popularising astronomy. She tables the chief phenomena of the universe in the usual order, except, it may be, as to the place...

Nichols.) —This is a fairly well written novel, but the plot seems a little, or not a little, extravagant. Frances Harrold receives, shortly after losing her husband, a letter...

vols. (Macmillan and Co.)—In the preface to Professor Knight's new edition of Wordsworth he stated that the prose works would follow the poems. They appear, however, before the...

(Longma.ns and Co.)—Professor Mason states his principles with clearness and precision, and applies them with a practical liberality which meets all reasonable requirements. Of...

Besant and Walter Pollock. (Chatto and Windus.)—These eight plays (all republished from various magazines) are of a simple kind, suited in this and other respects for private...

Eighhteenth Century. Edited, with an Introduction and Analytical Index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. M.A., formerly Fellow and Lecturer of University College, Oxford. 2 vols....

Earl of Cavan. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Lord Cavan published a book which we do not remember to have seen," With the Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean." This...

and Rev. J. T. Inskip. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-- C. V. Hawkins died at the age of twenty-two, not long after his graduation at Cambridge. "The University," said one who was well...

B.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—W. Affieck Scott VMS a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in Central Africa. He passed through Edinburgh University in a specially laborious...

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and Co )—Mr. Mulhall deserves hearty thanks for the laborious care with which he has collected and arranged a vast quantity of useful facts, and for the lucidity of the methods...

BOLLANID.—June 5th, suddenly, in his 71st year, William Thomas Bolland, of Oak Lea, Harrogate, formerly of Scarborough and Leeds. Funeral at Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds,...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the &axon, but to the Prratainutn, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Allen (G.), Historical Guides : Cities of Belgium, 1.8mo (Richards) 3/6 Allen (J. L.), The Choir Invisible, 12mo (Macmillan) 6/0 Amram (D. W.), The Jewish Law of Divorce, 8vo...