CURRENT LITERATURE. Old Times and Distant Places. By John Sinclair, Archdeacon of, 'Middlesex. (John Afurray.)-Archdeacon Sinclair commences his volume of recollections with...

Rosamunda zn P rincess. ai Historical R1o1tnnce of the Si.t1h Centug l; and other Tales. By Mrs. AlIgernon Kingsford. (Jaines Parkor.)-Mlrs. Kingsford has, we observe, been...

IW'estern 1'anderiyus. By J. M. Boddaul-Whettain. (Bentloy.)- The author gives us a second title to his volumo, "4 IV Record of Travel in the Evening Land." This phrase about...

. Darbiess alld Dawn. By Annie Grant. 2 vols. (hurst and Blackett.)-This is called 'Russian Tales" on the title-page. We should certainly be inclined to suljposo that it was a...

i Tke Villa fce Suryeon. By Arthur Locker. (Sampson Low and Co.) -A village surgeon is supposed to be giving,' us hbre " a fragment of autobiography." The story is...

TIHE BISIOP OF LLANI)AFF AN-D D)R1. ROWLAN-I) WILLIAMS. I [TO THE EDITOR OF TIE "SPECTATOII'] Sin,-In your review of the Life and Letters of the Rev. Rowland lWilliams, D.D.,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. EN GLAND AND GERMAINXY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-In last week's Spectator there appeared a letter under the heading " England and...

-Mir. Gladstone, having been invited to attend the first Cen- tenary of the Independence of the United States at Lexington. has sent a very impressive reply, in which hle...

The farmers are not relaxing in tfliir efforts to get rid of the tlh clause of the Governments Tenant-ri-it Bill . a iteetinI held on MIouday of the Tenant Farmers C llu) ini...

Again, on Tuesday, there was a great diseussion at the Salis- bury Hotel. Fleet Street, oil the samne subject, in which Sir 1. Acland and other Members of P'arliamnent joined....

The Liberation Society had its annual meeting in the Metro- politan Tabernacle at NNewington Butts on Wednesday. Mr. Richard, M.P., in the chair. The financial report stated...

The debate on the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors (Ireland) Bill. -which was "' talked out," for no conceivable reason. by Mr. Wheelhouse on Wednesday, raised the question of...

The I Jefferson Borden, a thiree-nlaste(d SCllJOCer, CoImil]lalded by (aptain William Patterson, arriveil at the Nore on Thursday, after a very excitinl) pass.iage fron Boston....

I HUNT'S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ENGLAND.* MR. HUNT tells us in his preface to this volume:"In 1839 I began a course of reading with the object of inquiring into the nature of...

MINOR TACTICS.>- YoU-NG military students of the present day cannot complain of any lack of books on their trade. Never before have works on soldiering flowed so steadily and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. flHERE has been another " scare " at PaTis this week, arising T from the great prevalence of the belief that- " something, is , _ __ _ In " I -l - . . . . . ....

Mr. Disraeli has shown grave signs this week of losing his head. I On Tuesday lie was so lost in adoration of the wisdom of the unwritten law " of Parliament, that he could not...

I Lord Ilartington's proposal on Tuesday was to surrender altogether the right of the House to object to reports of debates, except when those debates had either been expressly...

On Tuesday, Lord Henniker laid on the table of the House of Lords a Bill for the regulation of the practice of Vivisection, which ouglt to receive the earnest support of those...

I After certainly using to the utmost-we abstain from sayinz abusing-the forms of the House, the Irish H-onme-rule Meimbers allowed the Peace Preservation Bill to pass through...

Mr. Disraeli's notice given on Thursday is as follows: -" That if in any sitting of the House or in Committee any Member shall take notice that strangers are present, the...

THE GROWTH OF EMPIRE. ,4 LTHOUGH no English Ministry is likely to adopt a policy A of annexation for its own sake, inspired by mere earthhunger and lust of territorial...

Froagents of Thought. By Thomas Bowden Green. (Henry S. King and Co.)-': Readers not only read, but think !" begins Mr. Green. He is quite right. But when he goes on, "...

How to Build a House; an Architectural Novelette. By E. Viollet- le-Duc. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall, Architect. (Sampson Low and Co.)-Ml. Viollet-le-Duc's fame is great,...

Diocesan Registers of Glasgow. Edited by Joseph Bain and the Rev. Charles Rogers. 2 vols. (Printed for the Grampian Club.)- These two volumes contain first the rental-book of...

Lady I etty: a Story of Scottish and Australian Life. 3 vols. (Daldy i and Isbister.)-This novel begins well. The writer is familiar, it is evident, with Scotch ecclesiastical...

Under tite Dawn. By George Barlow. (Chatto and Windus.)-The I Spectator, it seems, in reviewing a former volume of poems by Mr. Barlow, described the author as an imitator of...

II Tdis Work-a-Day World. By Holme Lee. 3 vols. (Smith and Elder.) -This novel is at least as good as anything that we have before seen from the same pen. We should say...

Lord Russell rut a question to Lord Derby on Monday night I about the correspondence between Germany and Belgium, and in his speech remarked on the friendly tone of the German...

The comIments of the Irish Press on the election of Mr. Whit- w-orth at Kilkenny prove that that election is a fact of considerable significance-particularly if it be true, as...

At the Royal Academy dinncr on Saturday last, there was the usual assembly of what Mr. Emerson called 'representative man, and one conspicuous absence, Cardinal Manning. It is...

Mr. Bourke, however, as we have elsewhere remarked, was not very successful on Tuesday in making out an intelligible legal ground for refusing to acknowledge the belligerency...

The last reply of Belgium to Ghermany has been communicated ' by tie clgian (GovcIrinlnelit to the Chambers, and appears to be veiry digniitie d and moderate. The Minister...

A letter from the Spanish Pretender, Don Carlos, to Al. A-euillot, the editor of the Uliilers, as copied in last Saturday's Tiiies, frankly acknowledges that his Spanish...

i PECOGNISED AND U-NEECOGNISED LELLIGERENTS. 0 part of International Law rermains in a condition so anoma ous and undefined as the rules relating to the recognition by neutrals...

Church Menzorials and Characteristics. By the late William Roberts, M.A. Edited by Arthur Roberts, M.A. (Rivingtons.)-This I is, in fact, a Church history of the first six...

THE RELIGIOUS DREAD OF CLUBS. THFE Vicar of Doncaster. in his sermon last Sunday on Club life,-of which we ought to say that we judge not by hearing it il exte-nso. but only by...

GERMANKY AND HER DEMIAN-DS. LORD RUSSELL appears to think that Belgium ought to L pass without hesitation a Conspiracy Bill very much more stringent than that which he helped...

A VISIT TO FLO1RIDA A-ND CUBAi.* TIHE title which the author has given to his work is one calculated in some respects to mislead his readers; certainly that at the head of this...

PO E TRY. TO A GREEK GIRL. (AFrTER A VEEK (O-' LANDOWS "I1:LLENICS.`) WITH! thymy breath and bees that hum, Across the years you seem to come,Across the years with nymph-like...

A R T. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. IFIRST NOTICE.] MI. DISRAELI made a telling little speech on Saturday to enrich the customary swell of glorification which attended the Academy...

FOREIGN LOA NS. 7HE Claimant's theory, that those who have money and no T brains are the natural prey of those who have brains and no money, is venial. compared with that on...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. IR JOHN LUBBOCK was chosen by the President of the I KO Royal Academy last week as the representative man of ! modern Science, to return thanks for the toast...

BO OK S. MEMORIALS OF ST. DUNSTAN.* TIlE records in this volume, to which a very critical and skilful introduction is prefixed, include six early memoirs of Dunstan, of which...

.MR. DISRAELI ON LONDON IMAGINATION. 711R. DISRAELI made his little speech at the Royal Academy I11 dinner this day week vwith at least his usual felicity and acceptance. Ile...

MR. JACKSON ON NATUILRL THEOLOGY.* IF this is not a great book, it is certainly a very thoughtful and very remarkable one,-remarkable for various reasons. In the I The...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. )IR. DIsRAELIPS 1OU1R1 OF WEAKNESS. IS MYr. Disra eli girowvin oll, or is lie acting cn some transcendlelit Al t'leoiO lIhis conduct on C Tuesdav nimht....

PHILLIPS'S CIVIL AWAR IN WALES.* LN the preparation of this work, which its author hopes will supply a gap in the History of 'Wales and the larches, Mr. Phillips has boldly...