7 MARCH 1863

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T ONDON descends to-day into the streets to welcome the 1.4 bride of her future King. The obstacles, official and other, which at one time threatened to make the reception a...

NOTICE.

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" THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturaay Morning, in time for • des - patch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through...

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THE BRAZILIAN DIFFICULTY. T u. is always a certain embarrassment in

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international dealings with weak and half-governed States—exactly the same kind of difficulty, in fact, which there is in dealing with weak and half-governed minds. If you are...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ENGLISH LOYALTY. n enthusiastic reception promised by London to the rince of Wales and his bride seems to have astonished ordinary observers and the Court in about an equal...

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THE PRUSSIAN TYRCONNEL.

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I F William the First of Prussia escape the fate of Charles the First it will not be for want of a Strafford. Herr von Bismark Schiinhausen wants apparently none of the...

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THE NEW METHOD WITH HERETICS.

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T HE Bishops, of course, love us all dearly, even those of us who are " erring" brothers. It was quite evident the other day that they loved the Sunday excursionists, and only...

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THE AMERICAN CONSCRIPTION.

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I T has long been difficult to follow the course of American opinion, but it is now becoming hard to understand American facts. The country is waging a great war, one which...

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BRIBERY AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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W HEN the Spectator accompanied his friend Sir Roger to. the assizes, he was thrown into great alarm by the old knight rising to address the court. It turned out that Sir Roger...

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ZAMOYSKI AND WIELOPOLSKI.

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T HE history of modern Poland is typified by two extra- ordinary men, the career of both of whom expresses the life of the last generation. In the height of the struggle of the...

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THE CULTIVATION OF RELIGIOUS IMPRESSIONS.

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E VERY nation possesses, besides its avowed creed, special cere- monies and practices in which it places a belief far greater than the credit which is accorded to its...

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THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.

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T HE Irish people have always been at once fertile and fond of I. that kind of eloquence of which Mr. Whiteside is a master, and one can therefore understand the regret with...

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A DUEL AT VIENNA.

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T HE capital of Austria has the reputation of being one of the gayest cities of Europe ; but it seldom was so gay as during the carnival just passed. For the period of more than...

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GOSSIP FROM AND ABOUT FRANCE.

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March 5th, 1863. " Ce que je sail is mieux c'est mon commencement," said Racine's extemporary barrister ; and a lucky fellow he must have been to know best how to begin, for I...

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New Yoek, Feb. 17th, 1863. Br the intermediate mail you

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will have received the diplomatic correspondence published here on Friday last, relative to the pro- position of mediation offered by the Emperor Napoleon. Stripped of its...

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Dusk au tt ranut.

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THE all-absorbing, though slightly undefined, feelings of loyal enthusiasm of the day, have met with no greater difficulty in the way of their expression than that of finding a...

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BOOKS.

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SIR CHARLES LYELL ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.* THIS long looked-for and much talked-of volume is, we are inclined to think, likely to give rise to some disappointment among a not...

WAITING FOR SPRING.

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Waiting for• Spring—The mother watching lonely, By her sick child when all the night is dumb ; Hearing no sound but his hoarse breathing only, Saith, " He will rally when the...

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POEMS BY ROBERT SELMA.* "DREGS from the bottom half-way up,"

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said Coleridge, "with froth from the top half-way down, constitute Whitbread's Entire." This was a hard saying ou Mr. Whitbread, and scarcely justified, the modern generation...

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THE WARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.* THE wars of the

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ninteenth century are remarkable for com- prehensiveness and design, the polish, as well as the breadth of the workmanship, and the vigour and deadliness of the blows struck by...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Cornhill is this month by far the most readable, if not the beat of the magazines. There is nothing so pleasant in any of them—though " Mrs. Clifford's Marriage " in...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Memoir of H.R.S. the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—In the name of that large section of the public who hold the Court news to be, after the births,...

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(Trubner.)—A first instalment of what appears to be a very

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excellent reprint of Theodore Parker's works—we trust not of the whole of the works of that very able and warmhearted, but also often very wrong- headed speaker and writer....

_Kinder Garten Educational Employments. By Jane Mill. (Barton and Hodge.)—A

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collection of games and employments for children, based upon those invented by Frederic Friibel, and known as the "Kinder Garten System of Education." Their main object appears...

The Griffitutge of the Hon. Newman Strange. By T. H.

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B., R. A. (Hogarth.)—A collection of twenty-one photographs of a humorous character, taken from original drawings, illustrating the adventures of an officer on his arrival in...

Poems of Early and Later Years. By D. M'Corkindale. (Simpkin,

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Marshall, and Co.)—This is one of those distressing little volumes of verses which attempt, not always without success, to deprecate the rigid application of critical judgment...

Every Man's Own Lawyer. By a Barrister. (Lockwood and Co.)—

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The author of this " Handy Book of Law and Equity " is careful to inform us that his work is designed, not to supersede the employment of lawyers, but rather to enable the...

Friendless and Helpless. By Ellen Bailee, author of " Our

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Homeless Poor," &c. (Faithfull.)—It is probable that few persons are better quali- fied than the authoress of this book to speak from actual knowledge of the nature and extent...

The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Versys. By "M.

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S." (Bell and Daldy.)—There is considerable merit in the verses contained in this small volume. The best of " M. S.'s " productions is that which gives the title to his book—a...

Transactions of the Social Science Association, 1862. (Parker, Son, and

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Bourn.)—We can scarcely be expected to do more than chronicle the ap- pearance of this weighty volume, which contains 900 pages of what cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be...

On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of

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Organic Nature. By Professor Huxley, F.R.S. (Hardwicke.)— This small volume con- tains a verbatim report of six lectures to working men, recently delivered at the Museum of...

BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.

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Dreams and Realities, by Walter C. Spens (Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh).- —.Journals and Correspondence of Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, by the Ras. hilt Wickham, M.A....

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LONDON Printed by Jour; CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington street,

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in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County o f Middlesex, at No. 18 Exeter street, Strand, - and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" Office, No. 1 Wellington street...

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SUPPLEMENT

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TO ht prectai r FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1863. THE PRINCES OF WALES, IN THEIR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONS TO THE CROWN AND THE NATION. THE line of...

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BOOKS.

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GREECE AND THE GREEKS.* GREECE, for the last twenty or thirty years, has been overrun by English, French, and German travellers ; but few of them, at least of the book-making...

THE GENEALOGY OF PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.

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So much discussion has arisen as to the lineage of the Prin- cess Alexandra that we think it may be interesting to our readers to see the exact pedigree, which we accordingly...

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MR. TROLLOPE IN MINIATURE.*

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Wrrn writers whose characteristic genius consists in the power to introduce the very finest strokes and shadings of individual truth into a well understood social medium of...

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TRAVELS IN N M1DIA. - 44 Mn. DAVIS has made the

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subject of the ruined civilization of Northern Africa so completely his own, that we need say little by way of recommendation of his present volume. His style is not, indeed,...

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A FRENCH VIEW OF VILLAGE LIFE IN ENGLAND.* Tins is

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a book which, as far as admiration for England goes, would delight the inmost hearts of Conservative squires, of clergymen generally, and even of farmers. It is something, how-...

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THE GATE OF THE PACIFIC.*

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THE object of this book is to rouse the British public to a sense of the vast importance of having a gate of their own to the Pacific through Nicaragua, in addition to the one...