r111HE Baby is home again, to the delight, we presume, of all 1_ England, and certainly to the immense relief of all newspaper readers. The child landed at Hull, and its arrival...

the Papers which have appeared in this Journal under the Title of the GREAT GOVERN- ING FAMILIES of ENGLAND will be published shortly in a separate form by Messrs. Blackwood and...

THE GLA.DSTONIC RADICALISM. H. GLADSTONE'S political creed may be described ILL as a chemical combination between the ideas of Oxford and Manchester. In the last of the cycle...

GREAT opportunity has fallen to Mr. Cardwell. The for contingency anticipated for twenty years has at last physical coercion,—is therefore still in our own hands. A British...

"H E is a very able man is Lord Stanley," said an old Indian who had been thrown into close contact with him, "only he is so damned sensible !" That is a rough but precise...

difficulty of every observer of foreign politics is his tendency to attribute an exaggerated importance to events, which considered absolutely are - very apt to mislead, and...

T HE University of Cambridge is in embarrassment. Women are asking to eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table, and the Dons are in difficulty and in danger of...

T " "North London Working Classes' Industrial Exhibition," which was opened on Monday at the Islington Agri- cultural Hall, is an interesting corollary to the great Inter-...

duty which shall be great as well as useful, for some sacrifice which shall task all their powers of endurance, some life-long wearing of the hair shirt which almost everybody...

T HE lad of nineteen who is now Duke of Hamilton, Premier Noble of Scotland, Duke in Great Britain, Duke in France, Prince in Germany, and inheritor of other titles which would...

I have directed attention to many points upon which we of of conduct, which is indicative of a good nature that may deg,- English blood are alike on both sides of the water....

ANSTER'S TRANSLATION OF FAUSTUS—SECOND PART.* De..A.NsrEa has published a good translation. Whatever be the deviations from the original, his constaut study has been to give...

THE "SPECTATOR." I THINK your zeal in behalf of Lincoln and the Yankees super- serviceable. For your sake I fear that Seward and Weed will con- cur with me, and cut short your...

Miss BRADDON, moved perhaps by the incessant criticism upon "sensation "stories, and the low rank in the world of art to which they stand condemned, has changed her policy, and...

animated story, which interests the reader deeply even to its close, though without entering very pro- foundly into any of the characters it contains, except that of the old...

was published as a contribution to the memory of the great doctor on the occasion of the tercen- tenary of his death. This day was kept by the Evangelical Alliance (one does not...

Institu- tion. Second series, with thirty-one woodcuts. By Max Miller, M.A. (Longman and Co.)-11 the study of comparative philology requires the same faculties as those which...

a complete general gazetteer of the world. By Alex- ander Keith Johnstone. New edition, revised to August, 1864. (Long- man.)—Having used the old edition of this geographical...

Italics. By Frances Power Cobbo. (Trubner and Co.)—A series of most valuable sketches of Italy, embedded in reflections on things in general and the wrongs of woman in...

the Object of the Rebellion. By Loring Moody. (Emily Faithfull.)—One of the tracts published by the Ladies' London Emancipation Society. Com- posed mainly of extracts from the...