THE FOREIGNER IN FAR CATIIAY.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Tniis little book, as we are told by the author, does not pretend to the importance of a work on China. " Its aim is simply to...

In France wvith the Germals. By Colonel Otto Corvin. 2 vols. (Bentley.)- It is probable that readers are not yet tired of books about the Franco-Prussian Var. Even if they...

T/be Glaidstones. By Frankl Trollope. 3 vols. (Newby.)-The Gladstonea "-why this natue, it looks like a trap to catch readers ?are a family of the manufactaring class, living...

The Complete Book: of the Services of the Church. (HI. Frowde.)-This is a handsome, well-printed volume, not beyond the capacity of an ordinary pocket, and in every way...

I'Puppwts D)allyzizi. By Arthur Lillie. 3 vols. (Tinsley.)-kr. Lillie's title, though it is Shakespearean, is not very happily chosen. It Makes it necessary for him to...

; - 'Afi the P/; l. ws to t/j PI)it {izand F'roitl/.> (. Dv a Black-pow Alan. (Longnans.)-Thao - Voice," we will take it for glrnted. reprcsens a real person-there is...

The Municipal elections have ended in general in Conservative , successes. Partly owing to the immense exertions of the publicas, ( who are extremely irritated with the...

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, as usual, made one of the ablest l speeches of the day, and for once one of the more moderate ones, Mr. Jesse Collings having perhaps disgusted him with...

+ The Lancct, which soienwhat vinictively proposes to keep Mr. Stansfeld wholly out of P'arliameut for carrying out the Sanitary Act in what we admit to be a very...

The Duke of 'Marlborough hag beaten Sir J. Coleridge and the Sjpectator on one point. Ile was right about his tenure of hIi estates, and we were entirely wrong. We certainly...

Archbishop Tait, in concluding his primary visitation, made some observations on the comprehensiveness of the Church, as giving shelter to men like '' \\'hately, Arnold,...

THE POSITIVIST DREAM. PROFESSOR HUXLEY long ago defined Positivism as being P Roman Catholicism without God. We do not know whether that ecclesiastical shell of the Roman...

Mr. G. Trevelyan made a spirited and sanguine speech to the electors of llawick on Tuesday. lIe believed that the political weariness of which some meu spoke was only...

The accounts of the epidemic among American horses which are beginning to arrive are not very alarming. The disease appeared with an interval of only 48 hours in Buffalo,...

The Birmingham National Education League held its meeting on Tuesday, the political leaders being very moderate in tone, though the followers, as usual, denounced Mr. Forster,...

At RichMonD no Conservative went to the poll, and the contest lay between Mr. l)unlas, the nephew of the Earl of Zetland, and representative of the Zetland family and...

The old ani healthy horror of the slave trade seems to be re- I viving in Englatnd. A great meeting was hell in the Guildhall on Monday to strengthen the hands of Sir Btartle...

Novelists are often accused of employing a sort of quasi-super- natural machinery in the way of secret marriages, changes of children, and so on, to create their situations,...

The Timcs, of Friday, lays down, (t propos of a licensing riot at Ashton, a most dangerous doctrine. It says cavalry should never be called out to aid the police, who should do...

The Prussians entered Rheims on September 4, 1870. The- Germans quitted Rheims on November 5, 1872, the occupation having lasted rather more than twenty-six months, during the...

Amon, the speeches out of Parliament published on Friday i MIr. Chaplin's and Mr. Bouverie's are the most important. The memuber for Kilmarnock is the first Liberal who, in...

LORD BROUGHLAM'S NOVEL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiIR,-As the authorship of "Albert Lunel " is now being dis-cussed, it may not be amiss if I state what came under...

THlE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND THE ATTORNEY-GENTERAL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.7] Sisu,-Will you kindly allow me the very small space in yourcolumns that will suffice to...

Tll: CATHOLIC MINOIUTY OF TIlE QUEEN'S UN IVEITISIY. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sxi,-\\,hile thanking you most siuceru:ly, not only on mly own part, but on the part of...

Mr. Greeley has carried not a single properly Northern State, and but one properly Southern State, Georgia. His only chance seems to have been with the border States, three of...

I General Chanzy not having been quite so severely defeated as General Ducrot, is far more modest in tone; but he says very nearly the same thing. Ile tells the Seventh Army...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. G ENERAL GRANT has carried his re-election by, we believe, vG the greatest popular majority ever known, though at the time ,of Mr. Lincoln's re-election in...

The Bar has this week been greatly i" exercised," as the theolo- | gians say, by gossip about promotions. It was believed on Mon,day that Sir J. Coleridge would accept Lord...

The Berlin correspondent of the Times states that the true pro- portion of Tories to Ministerialists in the Upper House of Prussia is about 143 to 60, numbers having stayed...

Tiverton and Richmond have both returned Liberals under the Ballot Act. At Tiverton Mr. Massey polled 577 votes, against 517 for Mr. XValronl (the Conservative candidate), so...

I The French papers are full of coming constitutional changes, but they add little to our previous information. Al. Thiers, it is clear, intends to propose the definitive...

I Al. Thiers must wish sornetiznes that he could treat Generals as he treats journalists, and invite them to hold their tongues about inconvenient topics. General Ducrot has...

I History of Ancient Mlanuscrtipts. By William Forsyth. (.Narrav.)- This volume contains a lecture delivered in the hall of the Inner Temple by Mr. Forsyth, who is or was the...

The Spinsters of Blttchington. By Mar Travers. (Honry S. King| and Co.)-Every experienced reader of novels knows that when he is introduced in the first chapter of the first...

The Genesis of the Chiurch. By the Right Rev. H. Cotterill, D.D. 'Blackwood.)-Bishop Cotterill's volumoc is intended to be an elaborate proof of the Scriptural authority of the...

M. THIERS AND M. GAMBETTA. ALL the English correspondents and most of the Parisian ; A journals appear to expect an immediate and a sharp I constitutional crisis in France, but...

THE MEANING OF GENERAL GRANT'S RE-ELECTION. I THE enormous popular majority, 650,000 at least, by which the term of President Grant's re-election has been renewed,-the majority...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the 13i it3nnic Empire. By Sir Edward Creasy. (Longmans.)-Sir E. Creasy's book deals with a subject which is...

The Life of Abraham Lincolin. By Ward II. Lamon. (Boston, U.S.: Osgood. London: Trilbner.)-Ilere is another "big thing" from America, an octavo of the largest size, containing...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE REDISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL POWLER. ' N impression begins to prevail among politicians that the A Government has in store for the country a very great...

TRIBUNALS OF COMMERCE. X HILE on many sides, both within and without the legal profession, there is a great and growing demand for Law Reform, and while it is admitted both by...

MEMORIALS OF TIVICKENIIANI.* |IT is pleasant sone times to turn from the history of a race or kingdom, and to study the memorials of a town. Local knowledge, indeed, is often...

THE (GAMIE QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-At our squire's audit dinner last week the principal tenant in my parish was requested by his host to offer some...

BO OK S. | THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE( SANDYS.* Ix- two compact and beautifully printed volumes, Mr. Hlooper, the well-known editor of Chapman's Homer, has brought together...

BRITISH GUIANA. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I appeal to your sense of justice for the insertion of this letter from one who is interested in British Guiana, and...

TlHE FIFTH OF NuVEMBER, IfAS not the time very nearly arrived, or quite arrive(l, for includling the Fifth of November among public nuislincep, and suppressing by statute its...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. TIHE FARM LXBOURERS OF DORSET.-Ill. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I Will say one word at the commencement of this, my last letter about the...

TENANT-RIGHT IN ENGLAND. THTE last debate on Tenant-Right in the Council of the Associated Chambers of Agriculture comes on us with a certain surprise. It would appear from the...

MR. SERJEAN'T DOWSE'S TRANSLATONN. THE House of Commons will miss Mr. Dowse, and even the Irish Bench will hardly gain the whole of him. The Bench is not the place for humour,...

THIE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON.* GIVEN, a party of four persons, of whom two are husband anc wife, the third is a young lady, their guest and ward, and the' fourth a...

'T1111 MAGAZINES. Fout this month the best Magazine, or at all events the most readable, by those who like something a little more instructive than bits of stories, is perhaps...