T TIE alarm entertained in the City seems not to diminish, and there is some prospect of a serious panic. The country, despite its prosperity, has been doing a great deal of...

ofa Series of Articles on the Great Governing Families of Scotland, which will appear from week to week or at short intervals in the " Spectator." With the Introductory drtige...

the latter cease to have any such voice, are reduced a distinct policy capable of description and defence, and they to silence by mere force of numbers, are in fact in the posi-...

G ENERAL M'CLELLAN has, we believe, destroyed the last chance of the Democratic party. It never was, we believe, great, for the vote of 1860 upon which its leaders relied was...

OR]) BROUGHAM in his eighty-sixth year discoursing at York on almost all things human, and moderating the discussions of acute men who have given much time and thought to...

a time when Dissent thunders at the gates of Oxford the Archbishop of Canterbury has made another concession to the levelling spirit of the age. There is only too much reason to...

T HE Government of Bengal has at last published through the Calcutta Review what is understood to be its account of the unfortunate embassy to Bootan. It is the first narra-...

A MAN as modest as he is enthusiastic has arisen in New York to proclaim a great scientific truth in the light of which, as he repeatedly tells us, the millenium will approach...

T HOSE who have passed through Brussels during the last ten days of September are aware that its streets, always bright and cheerful, then presented a specially animated...

THE second week in September, and universal John Bull is at .1. play. Not that his play makes him otherwise than a dull boy, at least to outward appearance. We scarcely think we...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Ministerial lirs which at the time I could not quite understand, not being gifted with second sight, but which might have enlightened me had I...

Macerate, September 12, 1864. TEE Marches have been deservedly called the "Garden of Italy." Not even the choicest districts of Tuscany can outvie the laughing richness of...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, September 17, 1864. ONLY a week has passed since I wrote somewhat doubtfully of Mr. Lincoln's re-election ; but in that short time...

PRAED'S POEMS.* Tills is a disappointing both, published probably too late even for popularity, much too late for critical sympathy. That Praed was an able man and a thoughtful...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I am not going to try to throw a single ray of light upon this question. I only want to urge you to help yourreaders to think about it...

THE Archbishop of York in his recent able address to the Social Science Association has taken up rather prematurely the ground that the University local examinations, which wore...

WHAT is the essence of that unique American humour of which Mr. Lowell's Biglow Papers present us with the highest and most brilliant form ? It is not merely individual genius...

ELECTRICITY and steam have gone farther than we think towards taking from a strong sarcasm its sting. "Your fathers killed the prophets and ye build their sepulchres" may be as...

Burton's narrative of his mission to Dahome in 1863, and his accounts of Dahornan history, religion, constitution, and institutions in general, the Amaz)n army and the grand...

The Knapsack Guide for Travellers in Italy. (John Murray.) — Of all countries Italy is perhaps that for which a knapsack guide is least required, if that term is to be taken in...

F.C.S. London, &c. (Groombridge and Sons.)—Tho object of Dr. Phipson is to redeem tho sciences of zoology and botany from the charge of being unpractical. To effect this he has...

F.S.A - (Bell and Daddy.)—The theory of this essay is that too much effect has been attributed to the Anglo-Saxon invasion. The common idea is that the provincial Britons were...

Madden.)—A republication of the original attack on Sir Emer- son's "Story of the Guns" with his answer and the reviewer's reply, together with Sir Emerson's rejoinder, which now...

Chronicles. By Louisa L. J. Menzies. (John Russell Smith.)—The matter of these beautiful old stories is to be found in "Geoffrey of Monmouth," and though not history they...

Christian Spiritualism, by W. R. Bertalacci (Emily Faithfulli—Ingram's Law of Compensation for Lands. ito., by J. D. Ingram (Butterworth)—The Warriors of our Wooden Walls and...