C ORTES was opened on the 11th inst. by Marshal Serrano as President of the Provisional Government, in a very uninteresting speech, containing, apparently, no allusion to the...

A FORECAST OF THE SESSION. T it, guests at the Fishmongers' dinner on Thursday did not tell us much. Most of the Ministers were there, and most of them held their tongues. Mr....

C OUNT VON BISMARCK appears to have returned to Berlin full of life, spirits, and intellectual energy. His favour at Court appears to be as great as ever, his hold over t he...

rilHERE seems a double mess about this unfortunate A labanta business. In the first place, we hear from America vague rumours that General Grant and the Senate are both opposed...

P EOPLE are poisoned occasionally in all countries and under all forms of government, and it is difficult to say why a single case, like the one reported from Paris this week,...

BAGEHOT has republished from the Economist* a I very able series of articles intended to promote the assimilation of English and American money, with a preface intended to...

T HE number and variety of the articles, papers, reviews, and even books which are now written about women's work, seem to strike some people with amazement, and incline them to...

STRONOMERS have of ten pointed out how different physically 11 life must be, if there be life at all, on worlds like our moon, which do not possess any atmosphere. It is not...

TN the distribution of lands among the followers of William the Conqueror, as it remained at the time of the formation of Domesday Survey, the following were the chief...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR:I S111,—The reluctance of your correspondents to authenticate with real names the stories they have sent you in illustration ef "j. T. K.'s "...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TIIE ”SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—The question you raise respecting the actual number of masons or builders brought from La Creuse to Paris by the public expenditure on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] have read with much interest the letter in this day's Spectator relating to New Zealand. I am unwilling that your powerful advocacy, which...

SIR F. II. DOYLE ON POETRY.* Ix these three lectures of his first year's Professorship, Sir Francis Doyle has added one more to the many thoughtful discussions of that still...

LORD CAMPBELL has had his revenge—perhaps in the most curious form that revenge has ever been taken. It would not sugg es t itself at first sight to any one that the most...

[FIRST NOTICE.] ONE condition of an ideal text-book in any branch of learning is that it should have been composed by a master in that branch. When, therefore, a small work on...

Catena Classicorum. The Demonicus and Panegyrics of Isocrates. Edited by J. E. Sandys. (Rivingtons.)—There is no doubt but that the works of Isocrates are, as Mr. Sandys says,...