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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT 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.âNEW FEkruns.âA feature of sane
The Spectatorinterest 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.
The SpectatorNAPOLEON'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
The Spectatoron 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.
The SpectatoraE 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..
The SpectatorT 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
The Spectatorlast 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
The Spectatormuch 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.
The SpectatorI 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.
The SpectatorH 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.
The SpectatorW 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
The Spectatorfirst 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.
The Spectator[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.
The SpectatorTHE 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.
The SpectatorPHILLIMORE'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.
The SpectatorAnd 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
The Spectatorthan 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
The Spectatorcountry 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
The Spectatorwhich 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.*
The SpectatorTHIS 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
The Spectatorvols. (Skeet.) âIt 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
The SpectatorBlackett.)âThis 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.
The SpectatorWhat 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
The SpectatorGrammar appeared last week without any correction of the proofs. The only errata (some of them, however, recurring several times) were the following :âInstead of "with the...
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Studies in Physiology and Medicine. By the late* R. J.
The SpectatorGraves, F.R.S., sk. Edited by W. Stokes, M.D. (Churchill.)âThis portly volume, which is edited by the Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin, consists of a...
BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.
The SpectatorRecollections 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.).â History of...