T HE reports about the Austro-German Treaty have become more d e finite. It is now stated semi-officially that the views cntertained by Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy, being...

great . one . The Ameer, Yakoob Khan, unable any longer to endure his position, which, indeed, had become intolerable, has abdi- cated. General Roberts, the Viceroy says,...

on Manchester, and vanished. Yesterday week Lord Salisbury made two considerable speeches in that city, which, however, contained no new announcement affecting the political...

intention of dissolving this year,—nay, that the present Parliament "has another good year to run," and that "there is no reason why it should not be allowed to reach its full...

is not quite easy to see why. His natural line is via the Khyber, and as General Gough has occupied Jellalabad, which is barely a hundred miles from Cabal, it ought to be...

case.

TOPICS OF THE DAY THE UTTERANCE OF THE ORACLE. T ILL the end of last week, everything was waiting for Lord Salisbury. When he entered the Free-trade Hall at Manchester...

T HE German Government has allowed its Press to state demi-officially that the recent agreement between Germany and Austria has been reduced to writing, and that although...

T HE English public just now exaggerates the effect of Ministerial changes in Turkey. They sometimes mean much, but just at this moment the power of the Sultan, always enormous,...

T, ORD DERBY'S deliberate adhesion to the Liberal Party, which is now an understood thing, is an event which eaunot but exorcise a considerable influence on both Tory. and...

T HIS is melancholy news from Afghanistan. There is no reason to doubt . that Yakoob Khan ' unable to bear the position to which. his alliance with the British has reduced him,...

T HE Prussian Lancltag will meet next Tuesday, and we shall soon learn, probably from the lips of the Emperor when he addresses the Deputies in the White Hall of the Palace,...

I N the discussion which has been evoked by the speeches of the officers returned from Zadulaud—a discussion carried on mainly in letters—ono remark is constantly made, that it...

T HE Doctors who have made a study of the curious disease called " Aphasia,"—the disease in which the patient, though he may understand perfectly what is said to him, and what...

THE Pall Mall Gazette has taken the opportunity of a sup- posed difference of feeling between men and women as to a trial for libel now pending, to make some remarks on the con-...

G ARDEN-FARMING% r - ro TIIE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sit,—In your paper of October 11th, you smile most graciously on "a contented farmer," and good-naturedly pat him on...

LORD BEACONSFIELD.* Tim first of these biographies is really a terrific exposure of the public career of Lord Beaconsfield. Mr. O'Connor writes from a hostile point of view; but...

SIR,—As an Irish land. agent, will you allow me to say that all classes who are interested in the prosperity of Ireland owe you thanks for a recent article, in which you say...

[TO TOR EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR:1 S1R,—Thoro is much to be said about the Irish land question, but in writing to a newspaper it is best to say only one thing at a time ; and...

A LWE of St. Paul, following on a life of Christ, ought to present us with a. vivid and. life-like picture of the rise and early pro- gress of Christianity. The life of the...

IT was Mr. Freeman, we believe, who first in this country directed attention to the relies of early Teutonic institutions extant in German Switzerland. Ho was most struck by...

Tux raison d'e'tre of Mrs. Needham's book is explained by her- self in a few sentences, which we may simply extract from her - first chapter. After declaring that "Popular...

An Introduction to .the Study of Painted Glass. By "A. A." (Rivingtons.)—There is a good deal about painted glass in these eighty pages, but the author clings so fondly to the...

days, there are professors of every sort of art, science, and mystery. Not long ago, in passing through a West-End thoroughfare, we came upon an immenSe brass door plate,...

131ackett.)—We feel in a way responsible for this volume. Some two years age, it was asked in the Spectator, "Will no one explore Roraima P" Our author has done his best to...

of anything of snrpassing excellence, ono is not surprised that these verses should have reached a fifth edition, as they have a pleasing musical rhythm, although the rhymes aro...

Low and Co.)—Thia is a really good novel, not equal, indeed, to the Indian stories of Colonel Meadows Taylor, but not at all unworthy of being classed with them. The scone is...

Kirchner, Nordhausen.)—It is pleasant to find Samuel Johnson, a man whose moral and literary greatness has not always been ap- preciated by his countrymen, estimated with...