T HE Belgian business is postponed till the Elections are over. M. de Lavalette and M. Frere-Urban could not agree, the former demanding the completion of the Luxemburg contract...

MR. SUMNER ON ENGLAND'S OBLIGATIONS TO THE UNITED 'STATES. M R. SUMNER has expounded in the Senate of the United States his conception of the reasons which rendered the late...

T HE scene of Monday night in the House of Lords was a very interesting opportunity for the study of character. That usually sedate assembly is very well aware that it has no...

T HE new Parliament has scarcely as yet developed the proper number of bores, and not one bore of the first magnitude,—though Mr. Charley, if he goes on well, may hope...

T HE first Report presented to the Colonial Office by Sir J. P. Grant, or at least the first made public, is a very instructive and very characteristic document. It will be...

Q OME seventeen or eighteen years ago, within the small 0 group of working-men who had been carried to the benches of the Legislative Assembly under the Second French Republic,...

T is very curious to notice the rapid decay of the old contempt 1 for " mere riches " among the aristocracy. Their idea a hundred years ago was to look down on wealth as...

II AVE we any sure clue by which to measure the true greatness of the Poets of our own age,—any artifice by which we can relieve ourselves from the pressure of the present,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-I have not read Mr. Baldwin Brown's book on Misread Passages of Scripture, but perhaps I can add to your notice of it a word or two not...

CHAUCER'S ENGLAND. * Tuts is a masterly book on a great subject, and we feel confident that those who are the most familiar with Chaucer will the most heartily assent to our...

MR. BAYARD TAYLOR, one of the most vivid as well as sensible of travellers, intimates in his preface to the Byeways of Europe that this will be the last of his many delightful...

" KrrrY " is by no means the best of Miss Betham Edwards' novels, inferior to Doctor Jacob, not equal to John and I, and decidedly below the story which we have always...

WHEN a book starts with a petitio principii, and yet contains a good deal of valuable information well arranged, it is difficult in the limited space of which we can avail...

The National Church. By Rev. D. Mountfield, M.A. (Longmans.)— "We deny," the writer says, "that there is any divinely appointed form of Church polity from which Christians are...