T HE first Householder Parliament was opened on Tuesday, the 16th inst., in a speech read by the Lord Chancellor, which is analyzed in another column, and of which we need only...

THE MINISTERIAL PROGRAMME T HE Queen's Speech, considered from the literary point of view, is rather a limp affair ; the paragraph about the Irish Church being especially...

VIE Tories have acted wisely in changing their leader in the 1 Upper House, and the debates there this year will be expected with unusual intellectual interest. Two leaders,...

appreciates the necessity for immediate legislation on the Middle-Class Endowed Schools, and does not share Mr. Lowe's desire simply to confiscate the endowments and appropriate...

T HE Lord Chamberlain's notice, published on Friday, announcing a change in the fashion of Court dress is of interest to others besides courtiers and tailors. It marks the...

M R. MATTHEW ARNOLD has published in Macmillan's Magazine for February a demonstration that Athenian literature, in the age of Pericles, was much more modern than English...

XCI.—CILIITRAL ENGLAND : STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE: —Tnz Towns. B ESIDES the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire contains the boroughs of Stafford, Newcastle-under-Lyme,...

[TO THR EDITOR OP TILE " SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—The belief in a materialistic Presence of Christ in the elements of the Eucharist, of which Mr. Llewellyn Davies appears to have drawn...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—As it is by the accumulation of evidence that the theory of " Brain-Waves " must be established, I offer for your consideration the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Allow me to express the interest which I have felt in reading your review of Mr. Bagehot's pamphlet on the plan of introducing a Decimal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE '' SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—A notice occurs in your issue of last week of a paper read by me before the Economic Department of the Social Science Association, on...

me-in the interest of your deluded readers to say a word on the third paragraph of your last Saturday's notes on the week. At Fishmongers' hall, "lie [Mr. Bright]," you tell...

LONGMAN'S LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD III.* THE researches from which these volumes sprang had their origin, as the author tells us, in his preparations for a continuation of the...

Miss SMEDLEY'S poems contain much that is thoughtful and beautiful, and one play, turning on the life of modern drawing-room society, which, as far as we can judge, would make...

prosy, and a little given to that particular variety of talkee-talkee known in sceptical circles in India as "a bazaar sermon," i.e., a sermon to prove that it is Christian to...

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE title of Sir IV. Erie's book is the Law Relating to Trade Unions. He says in his introduction that he "intended, in writing this memorandum, to state the...

The Chronology of the Bible. By Samuel Sharpe. (J. R. Smith.)— 'Thu little book will clear up some difficulties, and possibly help to settle some disputed points. Scripture...