The article will form w continuation of the Essay ea the same subject, published in the Spectator of January 30th, 1858, on the ocoasion of the marriage of the Princess Royal....

Illi week has been singularly dull, as Christmas week, to cople not fond of pantomimes, almost invariably is. Of the few incidents reported. only one has been of a pleasant...

MR. LAYARD ON CHINA. Air R. LAYARD'S speech, delivered on Monday in Southwark, AU seems to have contented his constituents, but will scarcely be satisfactory to the great body...

I N another column we print a letter from Mr. Bridges Adams, arguing acutely and ably, but we think very erroneously, that India has many special advantages over England for the...

'WITHIN that region of pleasant proximity to Paris which, ir by Fortune's spoilt children is considered to be the very garden of terrestrial Eden, and therefore the most...

S OME worthy men of the positive class of thinkers look upon University Education as some Frenchmen look .upon soap—that is to say, they will admit that it is an elegant duxury,...

I T has often been objected to Lord Russell that he is fond of lecturing foreign Governments. If so, there never was a more conspicuous instance of those "instructions, which...

114 . R. MAI:MEW ARNOLD is the apostle of the "grand .111 style." When he descends into the arena of mortal con- flict it is with the stately step and compassionate air of the...

A HONG the wealthiest and proudest inhabitants of Barcelona, II. some twenty years ago, was the hlanquis of Fontanelles. Originally a banker, he had succeeded in amassing an...

an 1J essentially English festival," and certainly there is no subject to which a large class of modern writers have devoted more care than to recording the way in which...

[Faces oua SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. j Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That thou mayest shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. I have no doubt...

[Fetes OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDMIT.] New York, Decernber 8, 1862. CONGRESS met on Monday of last week. Perhaps it is not too violent a presumption of ignorance on the part of the...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sut,—On the 18th of this present December Mr. Bright, in a speech at Birmingham, set forth his convictions thus :—America would never again...

MR. Wer.J.AcE's new opera, after having proved very moderately attractive for some twenty or thirty representations, seems at length to have been abandoned at Covent Garden—at...

To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." 5, Figtree Court, Temple, Dec. 24, 1812. Sue,—In your last number you say, in reference to Dr. Lushing- ton's Judgment on Dr. Rowland...

. WATERLOO.* THERE are some subjects of which the world never seems to grow weary. The Waterloo banquet has died out for want of frequenters. The grandsons of men who fought in...

Dying among the pines,—the living pines, That bold their heads green all the winter through, And from their dark trunks seam'd with silver lines, Drop down all day their healing...

IF all new novels were as readable as those which we propose to examine upon the present occasion, the task of the critic would be a pleasanter one than, we regret to say, it...

MR. Russett's Diary is the heaviest blow yet administered to English sympathy with the South. He went out as the Times correspondent in the very beginning of the war, with his...

portraits of the same face so different and almost opposite as these two English pictures of Homer's epic, Were we to form our conception of the Odyssey from Mr. Worsley's...

Ltaccity is a great kill-joy ;—and too much of a good thing will injure the best of us. Solomon preached on that text with eloquent iteration. The tones of his wisdom, "so...

is a new volume of that admirably got-up series, of which Pal- grave's well-known Golden 7'reasary was the first. It consists of a collection of the best hymns and songs of...

of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, by Charles T Brooks (Trublier and Co.)—Bacon's Guide to American Politlea (Sampson Low, Soo, and Co.)—The Grid/maga of the Hon. Newman Strange...