T HE half-hidden contest between the Emperor of the French and the Belgian Government still proceeds. We have described it elsewhere, and the consequences which may flow from it...

ENGLAND AND BELGIUM. T HERE is a little cloud in the European sky just now, as yet no bigger than a man's hand, but none the less deserving observation. Our statesmen are all...

T ORD SALISBURY said, on Monday night, in the House Li of Lords, that he never could see what possible connection there was between the diminution of crime and the spread of...

RI B. CHILDERS' debut on Monday was a great success. No one who reads his speech can doubt that the Premier has selected a competent Minister of Marine, no one who heard it but...

n selection of Cabinet Ministers made by President rant brings into strong relief a unique peculiarity of the British Constitution. Alone in the world we limit our own selection...

T HE reverses of Austria and the general expectation of a further concentration of States in Germany have given fresh vigour to the Slavonic revival in Central Europe, and...

T HERE is a general notion about, of course not without some element of truth, that anything which checks the litigating spirit is wholesome, and anything which encourages it...

L ORD ST. LEONARD'S pamphlet reviewing Lord Campbell's lives of Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham is amusing in a way. It shows how very human Law Lords are. Their business for most...

XCIVe—CENTRAL ENGLAND: STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE.— (CONCLUDED.) B AKEWELL deserves an especial mention on account of its antiquity. It is a small market town and...

THE PASCHAL LAMB. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Allow me to call the attention of your correspondent "C. B. J." to the following considerations : 1st. That the...

SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to offer a few remarks in your paper upon the subject of our Lord's Supper :— It appears to me, and I make the confession with the most profound...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the notice of Miss Nightingale's "A Note on Pauperism" which appears in the Spectator for the 6th of March, a fear is expressed that...

THE GENERAL EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOURS. A PREPONDERANCE in quantity of landscapes over pictures where the human figure plays the principal part exists generally at all our...

—+- MR. BROWNING'S NEW POEM. TIIERE can be no doubt but that in a certain sense the alloy which Mr. Browning told us in his prologue was necessary to shape the pure gold of the...

THE main interest attaching to the character of Lucrezia Borgia is the conflict of evidence about it, for her political career was not more distinguished than that of any...

AMONGST the many things of which 'demand ' raises the price, because it increases the competition while failing to cause any economy in the modes of manufacture; the raw product...

"In the course of my lifetime I've swallow'd enough To have floated a ship of the line, And it's purely the fault of this horrible stuff That I've ceased to enjoy ginger wine....

NURSERY tales, popular songs, proverbs, fables,—all the natural artless literature that springs up mushroom-like from the soil of a country,—have long been acknowledged by the...

IF any excuse be needed for our treating this book from any other than a scientific point of view, it will be found in the author's evident intention to attract the general...

limits of a single article in this journal, to say all that we should like to say of this delightful volume. We must accordingly content ourselves with putting -down a few...

A Guide to the Eastern Alps. By John Ball, M.R.I.A. (Longmans.) —This is a new number of the invaluable series of Alpine guides prepared by the late president of the Alpine...