27 JUNE 1863

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE French Sultan has flung out his Vizier's head as a peace offering to his capital. By a decree issued on 24th June M. de Persigny is removed, and the whole Ministry re-...

THE GREAT GOVERNING FAMILIES OF ENGLAND.—NEW FEkruns.—A feature of sane

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interest will appear in the SPECTATOR, and be continued, either weekly or at short intervals, giving an Account of the Great Governing Families of England, County by County, in...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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NAPOLEON'S LAST COUP D'ETAT. F RANCE is one step nearer to constitutional government. The doctrine of Ministerial responsibility is not ad- mitted by the Empire, but a defeat on...

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AN IRISH PREMIER ON IRELAND. L ORD PALMERSTON'S speech on Tuesday

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on the condi- tion of Ireland was a good example of the best and the worst peculiarities of his mind. Mr. Maguire, in a speech temperate as if he had been born in England, as...

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RECOGNITION AND MEDIATION AG .1 IN.

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aE friends of the South, as we fear we must call them, rather than the friends of peace, Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Lindsay, have prudently provided themselves with two strings to...

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THE BRITISH DEMANDS ON RUSSIA..

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T HE six points of Earl Russell's proposal by no means reconcile Liberals to the Polish policy he is pursuing. They seem to us just wide enough to render concession .exceedingly...

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THE VOLUNTEER BILL. L ORD DE GREY, it seems, on Saturday

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last promised "to give his best consideration" to certain complaints and suggestions which were put before him by a deputation from the Metropolitan Committee on the Volunteer...

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THE ALEXANDRA. N OTWITHSTANDING the decision arrived at, there is very

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much in the recent proceedings with reference to the Alexandra which even those who are most desirous that our neutrality should be vindicated may regard with satis- faction. In...

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MARY ANNE WALK LEY.

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I T is as well as natural that a case like that of the girl worked to death the other day in the employ of Madame Elise should excite a peculiar horror. Men and women die every...

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THE AFRICAN TRAVELLERS.

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H AS civilization a more childish interest in barbarism or barbarism in ? It is hard to say. We doubt very much whether in any of the four negro kingdoms visited by Captains...

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LORD WICKLOW'S AMATEUR. THEATRICALS.

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W E said not long ago, in criticizing the amateur performance before the Princess Mary of Cambridge, that while the representation of the higher kinds of human passion usually...

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.Tune 26, 1863. TER oracle has spoken, and, as a

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first result of the elections, the talking ministers will in future also be acting ministers. It is a slight concession, indeed, but still it proves that Persigny could not...

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THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Lemberg, June 22. SINCE the whole of the Russian Empire is at present in a state of fermentation consequent on the emancipation ukase, it will...

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Arts.

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THE FINE ARTS QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. 1.* IT is suggested at p. 03 of this first number of a new quarterly review that there existed in England during the middle ages a school of...

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BOOKS.

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PHILLIMORE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* ANY doubt which may have been felt as to the reasons which have induced Mr. Massey to bring his history of the reign of George the Third to an...

Hush ! Magdalena ' hush thy wailing.

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And bid those streaming eyes be clear, At Simon's feast thy tears prevailing, Left thee no cause for weeping here: A thousand notes of love are blending, A thousand heavenly...

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DENISE.* THE author of "Mademoiselle Mori " is much more

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than a novelist. Her pictures, though richly inlaid with observation, are all steeped in that mellow light of imaginative beauty which puts so wide a gulf between our English...

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THE GUDRUNL THE increasing attention which is paid in this

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country to the old Norse literature is partly a consequence of the increasing attention paid to the history of literature generally, and partly the result of the growing...

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THREE READABLE NOVELS.* THERE are moods of the mind in

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which one does not want novels to be exceedingly good. When the mind is tired and the attention wearied, and the story taken up for relief, a book * Charlie Thornhill. By...

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MR. GOLD WIN SMITH ON JEWISH SLAVERY.*

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THIS volume asks one of the most pertinent questions which has been put to the British public in these last few years. We are healing strange things about the great volume,...

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The Fate of a Year. By Miss Sarah Stredder. Three

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vols. (Skeet.) —It is, no doubt, generally true that the novelist who allows the history of his various characters to develop itself gradually in the course of his story...

The Real and Ideal. Poems, by Arthur Llewellyn. (Hurst and

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Blackett.)—This rather ambitious-looking volume consists of a collec- tion of fugitive poems, the language of which is, for the most part, tolerably sonorous and imposing,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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What is Faith? By "A. B.," a Layman. (Hardwicke.)--This is a very singular and rather incomprehensible book. It is designed as an answer to a letter which appeared in the Times...

ERRATA.-By an awkward mishap, the short review of Roby's Latin

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Grammar appeared last week without any correction of the proofs. The only errata (some of them, however, recurring several times) were the following :—Instead of "with the...

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Studies in Physiology and Medicine. By the late* R. J.

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Graves, F.R.S., sk. Edited by W. Stokes, M.D. (Churchill.)—This portly volume, which is edited by the Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin, consists of a...

BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.

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Recollections and Anecdotes, being a Second Series of Reminiscences of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs, by Capt. II. IL Gronow (Smith, Elder, and Co.).— History of...