Athens on Feb. 3, the Greek Government will assent to the protocol drawn up by Conference. King George has for some time been in favour of this course, but has been unable to...

MR. BARON MARTIN AS JURYMAN. MR . BARON MARTIN tried hard at Bradford to convince himself and the public that because he was not disposed to be a juryman, and not trained to be...

M ROUHER has intimated to the French Chamber that . the Government will not permit any more Socialist debates, and we shall probably hear no more for some time of those wild...

rr iiti Irish Bishops seem to us, we confess, to have done something not very wise, let us even say a little stupid. They have requested the Queen, at a moment when, as they are...

M OST of our readers are, we believe, aware that Mr. Thomas A. Jenekes, Senator of the United States, from Rhode Island, has a Bill before Congress for creating a permanent...

W E have often wondered whether the Hebrews while still in Palestine were well-fed men. The evidence is a little conflicting. They were very proud, no doubt, of the natural...

W E gave Professor Huxley a promise eleven weeks ago that we would, on the publication of his Edinburgh Sunday evening lecture of the 8th November, let our readers know in what...

S ELDOM is the trim evil of the Conventual life, its infinite pettiness, brought before the public as it has been by the case of " Saurin v. Star," now being heard before the...

O F the Saxon Conquest of this Province we have no historical records. No doubt, it is closely connected with some of hose ancient " camps," to which it is so difficult to...

[TO THE EDTTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—I entirely agree with what has been urged in your columns, both by yourself and by correspondents, as to the necessity of organizing...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can you find me room in your columns to lay before your readers a brief narrative of the events of the past month in the North Island...

MR. LO WELL'S POEMS.* No really original poet can be described by reference to any other, but Mr. Lowell's most conspicuous poetic ancestor,—at least if we judge him by his...

ONE who has seen the title only of this magnificent book will he puzzled to know what to expect—a history or conjecture on some extinct religion or mythology, or a description...

whole, succeeded in illustrating the Purgatory. The drawings are a little too like those in the Inferno, too dreadful, too little penetrated by the idea of hope, to realize...

picture of German life,— full of humour, clear and true in the delineation of character, and with much more even of narrative interest than is common with the best German...

Blackwood contains a noteworthy article on " Army Organization," which we recommend to our readers, though it will probably cut across many of their prepossessions as it has a...

The Quarterly Review. January. This number contains no article treating distinctively of party politics, which, indeed, to borrow a phrase from a great Latin historian, must now...