CURRENT LITERATURE. Children's Books.- -In spite of all our efforts and of a grand massacre of the innocents just before Christmas, we have not disposed of all the children's...

I EL'cce Deus ! Essays on the Life and Ductrice of Jesus CUhEist. WiTth | Controversial Notes on Ecce JIonlo! (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark.)- Before a man engages in...

I sSj,(t7r Sayings of Great Personages. (Dalrton and Co.)-Too many plums and too little suet make an uneatablo pudding, and nothing is more wearisomo than reading through an...

SNystenzatic Memory. By T. 3Maclaron. (Pitman.)-Tho reader is tempted to apostrophize this guide to the art of making a bad memory good and a good memory better, in the words...

A horrible case of cruelty was investigated at Bromley on Wednesday. John Conde, a labourer, had a son six years old, ,when about six years ago he married again. About five...

The Engine-Drivers on some of the largest lines of railway arc .said to be about to strike. They say they are over-worked and under-paid, want their day reduced to ten hours,...

rL1he Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford, propose to offer five Exhibitions of 521. 10s. each, tenable during residence ior five years, to be competed for at the...

I The report of the Directors of the Liverpool, London, and j Globe Insurance Company, presented at the last meeting, is very favourable. The profits are set down at 113,0301....

I Mr. Gladstone has written to the London Diocesan Board of Education that he has much difficulty on the subject of directly compulsory education. "1 I have always leaned very...

The Consol Market has been depressed, in consequence of the Fenian disturbances in Ireland. The closing prices yesterday evening were 90a, 4- for money, and 901, 1 for account....

The Washington Senate, which has taken lately a moderate turn, though steadily adhering to its main objects, has actually -sustained Mr. Johnson's veto on the Bill for making...

Poor Dr. Livingstone has been killed at last. Sir R. Mlurcllison has received information of his death from Zanzibar, extracted from some natives of Johanna who had...

The Hungarian Diet agrees that, the state of the Austrian armies and the position of affairs in Europe being considered, the IHungarian levy of troops must be increased by...

Mr. Coleridge made a very able and a very liberal speech on I Wednesday, in moving the second reading of the Oxford Test Abolition Bill, which was not resisted by Sir William...

I Lieutenant Brand has apologized to Mr. C. Buxton for his very unfortunate and damaging letters, and Mr. Buxton has accepted the apology in the kindest spirit. Lieutenant...

CANSAR'S LAST TOY. tHE history of the Grand Exhibition which is to be opened T in Paris three weeks hence, promises to be a perfect illustration in little of the Imperial...

The week has been full of rumours of events about to occur in the East, the drift of which is this. The Russian Government is ready to raise the Eastern question once more, and...

Mir. Disraeli in Taicred describes the Government of Sir Robert I Peel as "un magazin des nouveautes tres-anciennes; prix fixe avec quelques rabais." Would it be possible to...

I The last rumour was, that Mr. Disraeli could manage to make good Lord Stanley's promise that the Bill would not in any sense be democratic, by excluding all the compound...

I Sir Cecil Beadon, Lieutenant.Governor of Bengal, has published an -excessively long defence of his conduct in the Orissa Famine. It amounts to this,-that he did not believe...

West London is enraged with Mr. Hardy. His Bill taxes the I rich to provide for the poor, and what could possibly be more infamous ? Then the Guardians are not only to be...

I The North German Parliament has elected Dr. Simson asPresi- dent. Dr. Sirson was President of the Parliament of 1848, but would be called in England a Whig. His election was...

IVe have quoted elsewhere calculations as to the effect of Household I Suffrage made some six years ago. The latest official return, however, that of Mr. Baines, presented last...

A Workman's Parliament, or conference of 100 Trades' Unions, comprising 500,000 members, has been sitting since Wednesday in St. Martin's Hall. Its object is to consider the...

General Peel, who, though he has resigned, is still Secretary at War, on Thursday produced his plans for recruiting and raising an Army of Reserve. The former, being based on...

THE NEW LAW FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOUTH. FEW weeks ago it was said of Mr. Johnson in WashingL ton, as it has so often been said of the Pope in Rome, that there was to be an...

HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE. W E are drifting very fast upon Household Suffrage pure W and simple. The Tory leaders have uttered the magic words, and although they intend to couple...

A Critical Exposition of the Third Chapter of St. Paurs Epistle to the Romans. A monograph. By James Morison, D.D. (Hamilton, Adams, I and Co.)-This modest monograph on a...

T/ e Civil War in .4 marica. By Goldwin Smith. (Simpkin and ] Marshall.)-All that MIr. Goldwin Smith writes is admirable in style, though the matter of his discourses is not...

Tile Glorious Gospel Unfolded. By Henry Webb. (Simpkin, Mar- shall, and Co.)-It is unpleasant to have to speak disrespectfully of an industrious work containing some 600...

Soinething of both feelings shone out in 'Mr. (ladstone's reply, which was at one point tinged with bitterness. Ile denied pereinPtorily that the failure of the 61. rating...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE Fenians have kept their word at last. Obeying somne order from their leaders, who are believed in some quarters to sit in Westminster, the Brotherhood...

I Lord Cranborne and Genleral Peel had not received the QueeiiV permission to explain their resignation till 'Tuesday night, when, in a speech under which Mr. Disraeli must...

Lord Carnarvon is to be succeeded at the Colonial Office by the Duke of Buckingham. Hle, again, is to be succeeded as President of the Cotmcil by the Duke of Marlborough (who...

I Lord Carnarvon gave his explanation on Mlonday night in thc House of Lords, with every sign of painful emotion. He explained that he had no invincible objection to the...

The reasons for all these changes were explained to the House of Lords on Monday by Lord Derby, in a rather embarrassed speech, but not to the House of Commons till Tuesday...

THE MINISTERIAL MESS AND THE DUTY OF PARLIAMENT. WE have clung to the very last possible moment to the W duty of aiding the Conservatives in the difficult task ,which had been...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE LNSURRECTION IN IRELAND. THE Insurrection so long threatened in Ireland has broken out at last, and its general plan is by no means so silly as the...

SOWING THE WVIND.* Wiiy this story is called ' Sowing the Wind'it would be difficult, we imagine, even for the authoress to say. It might with just as much reference to the...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. XX.-HAM.PSnIRE AND TIHE ISLE OF WIGIIT.-(CONTINUED.) I ONE of the oldest towns in the Province which we are considering is that which...

AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS. A STATEMENT was made a fortnight since in our columns, in a a notice of Mr. Spedding's attack upon the Publishing trade, that it was customary for...

BO OK S. MIR. BAGEHOT ON THE EN(GLISII CONSTITUTION.* THIs is probably the ablest, the most almusing, and the most thoughtful, though in a certain sense also thle most...

NEMESIS. [ 'This Bill is in a state of crisis and of peril, and the Government along with iL We stand or fall with it, as has been declared by my noble friend Lord Russell. We...

CHARACTER AND EXPRESSION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have not seen the curious entertainment by Mr. Ernst Schulz which has led to the interesting remarks on "...

THREE MILITARY QUESTION-S OF THE DAY.* TIiE organization of a Reserve Army is clearly the question of the day, and of the dozen alternative plans which are being discussed, Sir...

BURTON'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND* THERE are perhaps five persons in GreatBritain who are thoroughly competent to " review " Mr. Burton's History of Scotland, to point out...

I I BISHOPS FOR SHOW, AND BTSIIOPS FOR USE. IN the Deputation last week to Lor(l Derby to ask for more I Bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury used an expression which strikes...

PRIZE GENTLEMEN. [FRONm OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDEN-T.] New York, January 18, 1867. ENGLAND has prize poets, prize essayists, prize oxen, prize sheep, and prize pigs. The genius...