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NEWS OF TILE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE Royal reception on Saturday passed off well. True, the arrangements made by the City Police broke down, and the crush east of Temple Bar was terrific, while west of that...
NOTICE.
The Spectator4 , THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Book.sellers...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE ORLEINIST DECISION. T HE Orleanists have decided to enter the lists against the Napoleonic rergime ; consequently Orleanism is dead in France. That is the judgment of many...
SIR J. TRELAWNY'S BILL.
The SpectatorS IR J. TRELA.WNY'S Bill for permitting sceptics to give evidence in a court of justice who do not believe that the penalties of a future state of existence attach to the...
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THE DRIFT OF NORTHERN OPINION.
The SpectatorT HERE is a change in the tone of the North. The Demo- cratic party which, in December, seemed master of the situation, and about to demand a disgraceful peace, hesitated in...
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THE DRIFT OF SOUTHERN OPINION. T HE drift of Southern opinion
The Spectatoris apparently much farther removed from our observation than that of Northern, but its currents are nevertheless in many respects more intel- ligible, due to larger and simpler...
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HERR VON BISMARK ON AUSTRIAN POLICY.
The SpectatorH ERR VON BISMARK has one claim, and but one, to the esteem of Prussia and Western Europe. He is honestly anti-Austrian, really desirous, in his shallow, loud-talking way, to...
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THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND.
The SpectatorA FTER more than two months of hard fighting, the Polish revolt has entered its second stage. During the first, as sketched in a former article,* it was clearly the plan of the...
THE CRIMINAL WISDOM OF PARLIAMENT. T HE ruffian who last autumn
The Spectatorassaulted Mr. Pilkington was a public benefactor. But for his indiscretion in garotting a member of Parliament, the increase of crime would have received no legislative...
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HYSTERIA OF THE PRESS.
The SpectatorMHE past week has been one of singular trial for the newspapers, and there is scarcely one of our able daily contemporaries which does not seem to have emerged from the...
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TIIE VOLUNTEERS AND SIR RICHARD 3f AYNE.
The SpectatorI MMEDIATELY after the leading articles in the Times, there follows a small space devoted to a special class of announce- ments, which always appear in Large typo, and have a...
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THE " CASE " OF THE INDIAN ARMY.
The SpectatorC APTAIN JERVIS, the member for Harwich, will, on the 17th inst., bring forward the "case," i.e., the one great standing grievance of the Indian Army. He will speak in the name,...
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POLAND IN FRANCE.
The Spectator(Fnom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) March 11th, 1863. IN alluding to Lord Palmerston's despatch relative to the insurrec- tion of Poland in 1831, and quoted in my last letter,...
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THE CHANGE OF FEELING IN ENGLAND.—MESSRS. MERCIER AND SEWARD.
The Spectator[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Feb. 24th, 1863. IN one of my earlier letters, if my memory does not mislead me, I endeavoured to show how far the people of this...
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SERMONS.
The SpectatorTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." rmit me to say a few words hpropos of your remarks on preaching in last week's Spectator. With those remarks, though not written in a very...
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gly gInnua.
The SpectatorTo reduce a good novel into a good play is, as Mr. Boucicault's success with _Effie Deans shows, a perfectly practicable task ; but to attain a similar result with a novel which...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. HOME, THE MEDIUM.* Tuts is a very embarrassing book to review. "Of those," says Mr. Home, "who will openly condemn this narrative in their journals, hardly one does not...
A THOUGHT FOR THE ROYAL BRIDAL.
The SpectatorAll winter long I tarried in a strange, monotonous land, Among pine forests,—an eternal throng Of green plumes, changeless o'er the changeless sand, Whereto the ocean singeth...
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PETLAND.*
The SpectatorToe dumb brutes have fared ill in the combat of the giant school- men about the immortality of the soul. " Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi " upplies with singular...
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PROFESSOR GERVINUS ON SHAKESPEARE.*
The SpectatorIT is curious to consider what would be Shakespeare's probable impressions could he be made acquainted with the industrious investigations of commentators who have spent perhaps...
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MEMOIRS OF THE LAST KING OF POLAND.* MEMOIRS of royal
The Spectatorbarbarians are generally distinguished from those of private savages only by the relation of more conspicuous vices, and a greater contrast between the possibilities of their...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorBishop Colenso's Examination of the Pentateuch Examined. By G. S. Drew, M.A , author of "Scripture Lands," &c. (Bell and Daddy.) — The Bible in the Workshop. By Two Working Men....
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION.* Tuts work, as it originally appeared
The Spectatorin 1841, formed one of a - series of reports issued by the Commissioners oti the zoological and botanical survey of Massachusetts at the State expense, and its objects were...
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. By W. T. Lowndes
The SpectatorRevised by H. G. Bohn. Part viii. (Bohn.)—This part of Mr. Bohn's reissue of Lowndes's useful manual extends from " Reid " to "Simon." Its most important article is, of course,...
Engravings of Rare or Unpublished Greek Coins. By ,Lieut. - CoL C.
The SpectatorR. Fox. Part IL (Bell and Daldy.)—This is the second part of Col. Fox's catalogue of the unpublished coins in his collection, and is con- fined to Asian and African specimens....
77e Geography of British History. By William Hughes, F.R.G.S., author
The Spectatorof "A Manual of Geography," &c. (Longman and Co.)—This volume, the work of a gentleman who is admirably qualified for the task which he has undertaken, is designed to afford a...
Proceedings of the International Temperance Convention. (CaudwelL) —Some of our
The Spectatorreaders may possibly not be aware that the advocates of Temperance and Total Abstinence had a grand gathering in London on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of last September. During those...
Atanzland a Tale. By B. Stowell. (Nisbet and Co.)—This small
The Spectatorvolume consists of two distinct parts. The first aims at giving a straight- forward account of the design and mode of operation of the Isle of Man Diocesan Association—a society...
St. Olave's. Three vole. (Hurst and Blackett.)—A dreary novel Of
The Spectatorthe sentimental school, in feeble imitation of Mr. Anthony Trollope% Cathedral Close novels.
A Point of Honour. By the author of "The Morals
The Spectatorof Mayfair," &c. _ Two vols. (Hurst and Blackett).—This novel is, we think, likely to increase the reputation which its author has already acquired. The story is exceedingly...
Our Soldiers. By W. H. G. Kingston, author of "Peter
The Spectatorthe Whaler," &c. (Griffith and Farran.) — British Enterprise beyond the Seas. By J. H. Fyfe, author of "Triumphs of Invention." (Nelson and Sons.)— These two books, both of...
Hynntologia Christiana. By Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D., Head Master of
The SpectatorShrewsbury School. (Longmans.)—Moved, perhaps, by a desire to emulate the fame of the Solicitor-General, Dr. Kennedy has given us swell-filled volume, containing 1,500 hymns and...