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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE Spanish Cortes seem inclined to create a Republic without declaring one. They have appointed Marshal Serrano " head of the Executive," apparently without title, and...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL TAXATION. T HE country is evidently waking up on the subject of Local Taxation. Two years ago, it was a topic for philanthropic meetings and the...
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THE DANGER OF "CABAL " IN PARLIAMENT.
The SpectatorM R. VERNON HARCOURT, in his ingenious maiden speech, discovered a grave reason for the absurd provision which still delays the business of the country whenever there is a...
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AMERICAN FEELING TOWARDS ENGLAND.
The SpectatorW E publish to-day a letter from our old correspondent " A Yankee " which will, we believe, seriously vex every well-wisher of the United States on this side the water. In it he...
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THE CLERGY AND THE NATION.
The SpectatorTT is impossible not to feel that the greatest danger to the 1 Church of England at the present moment is not the policy of the Government, but the attitude of the Clergy...
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THE SCOTCH SCHOOL BILL.
The SpectatorS COTLAND has again stolen a march on England in the matter of education. She is to have her Bill this year, and that Bill, were it strengthened by one single clause needed only...
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PARLIAMENTARY PIIOTOGRAPHY.
The SpectatorA. NEW torture has been recently invented for the special benefit of Members of Parliament, and one wonders now and then if it is good for them. They are compelled to speak, and...
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THE HIGH ANGLICAN SEVERITY.'
The Spectator/THE Solicitor-General has appended a letter to his father's graceful memoir of the Author of the Christian Year, in which he gives a very striking illustration of that Puseyite...
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SUNDAY READING.
The SpectatorT HERE must be some among our readers to whom these words will suggest one of the gloomiest recollections of their childhood. On a day when games and, in households that...
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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. XCII.âCENTRAL ENGLAND: STAFFORDSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE :-THE TOWNS.-(CONTINUED.)
The SpectatorIV E have had already occasion several times to speak of Tamworth,â the Tamanweorthe, Tameneordige, and Tamawordina of Saxon times, and the Tanumwde of Domesday Book. This...
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AMERICAN FEELING ON THE RECENT
The SpectatorN EGOTIATIONS. [nom OUR SPECIAG CORRESPONDENT.] Nt //' York, February 12, 1869. ALAS ! the fleeting years glide by. Six laden with changes have passed wearily enough, as our...
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ENGLISH ANAPiESTIC METRES.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,âI observe that Mr. Palgrave speaks of the metre of his Elegy to Lord Strangford as "anapaestic or dactylic." May I venture to ask...
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" THIS IS MY BODY."
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,âThe suggestion of your able and thoughtful correspondent "E. V. N." in your last issue is ingenious, but I cannot help thinking it...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorA LEGACY OF VERSE.* IT ispainful work making acquaintance for the first time with a mind of rare genius and sweetness which has already and only just left us, and yet left us...
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A RESIDENCE IN BULGARIA" Tuts handsome octavo volume, though readable
The Spectatorthroughout and in parts interesting, is nevertheless little more than a strong party pamphlet on the Eastern Question, its single object being to show that in Bulgaria, and more...
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HER MAJESTY'S TOWER.*
The SpectatorIN this, his newest work, Mr. Dixon lays the scene of his story no longer across the Atlantic, but in the very midst of usâin that most unfashionable of all places, the...
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KING AND MUNRO'S HORACE.* THE work of editing the great
The Spectatorclassical authors is being carried on nowadays with great activity. Even the thankless labour of translating them finds numerous devotees. But books intended for scholars, in...
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LADY NAIRNE'S SONGS.*
The SpectatorTHE name of Lady Nairne is no longer a strange one to English readers. Her capital Scotch songs, indeed, were old acquaintances long before the authoress's identity had been...
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THE SOPHISTES OF PLATO.*
The SpectatorTins work is a remarkable protest on behalf of speculative philosophy to a public clamouring for useful knowledge. Mr. Mackay presents to English readers one of the least...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe Reformation of the Church England. By the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A. (Rivington.)âThe date which Mr. Blunt subjoins to his title sufficiently explains the animus with...