... THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE REIGN OF LA W.* [SECOND ARTICLE.] THE Duke of Argyll brings his book to a conclusion, as we have already said, with two chapters on the operation of law in the realm of mind and in the region of politics. In the first of the two, his aim is to show that there is no incompatibility between a belief in the existence of a compli- cated system of motives, that is, moving ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TH{E DAILT NEWS. SIR,-With your pernission I will relate in your paper what befel last night soon after 12 o'clock. WVhen I was as I thought in my first sleep, John Bull (whom I at once recognized from his resemblance to the drawings I have seen of him in Punch) came onto my room. He seemed hot and flustered, apologized in a way for coming unannounced, in muddy boots too, and ...

... Ir VICTOR HUGO's CHISTMAS FETE, It is now ten years since a protest published against a violation of the sacred right of asylum was made a pretext to drive from the island of Jersey the Frenchmenwhohadsoughtrefuge there after the coup d'6tat of December, 185L To that act of expulsion the sister rl island of Guernsey owes to-day the immense honour of 0 sheltering one of the master minds of ...

... Kittratttrt. I Beyond the Cehurch, Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. We confess to have been a very long time making up our mind about this book-not about its merits, but its tendency. Regarded as a novel it is not ill-written, not unamusing, and not uninteresting. The impression left by it is better described by negatives than by direct assertion. But it would seem that the author would not ...

... AR CHIE LOVELL. * IT may be taken as an axiom that in the path of literary progress no author can stand absolutely stationary. He will either advance or recede in point of merit, or diverge into new tracks, sometimes with more or less success, sometimes only to discover his error and return sadly to the old beaten road as one who has mistaken his call. Some authors put all their best into ...

... THEt1 PARIhS EkbniTON OF 1867.' * -~ ~ - - - 7 ' I (FROMs ou R'SPCaAL~ ConIMSVos4)NTwr) re There is turmoil in the Exhibition contract world bt again. There axe to be no posters in the Exhibi- P( tion building, and therefore nobody can or should ha have a contract for them. The Imperial Commis-, Pu sioners are wrath over the statement that has appeared in E~nglish advertising columns to the ml ...

... aiteraturt. Homcr mid thee Iliad. By JOHN STUART BLACKEn, F.R. S.E., Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Edmonston and Douglas, Edin- burgh. It would be idle to affect astonishment, in the present instance, at the appearance of another version of the Iliad. There must be a public in- terested in the favourite old bard, or so many ver- Eions as have lately presented themselves ...

... jau~ic# I NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY. A very good performance of Haydn's Creation was given by this society last night-the principal solos by Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. Leigh Wilson, and Mr. Santley. The Creation is always welcome for its melodious fresh. ness and the combination of genius and science which characterises its choruses.; but as an attempt to embody the highest and sublimest of emotions ...

... CHARLES Y7AMES FOX.* WE have at last before us the concluding volume of a work which, be its imperfections what they may, must of necessity be ranked with the companion biography of Lord Stanhope, in the front rank of our political classics. Like the tombs of the departed rivals in Westminster Abbey, these literary memorials of their greatness will hereafter stand side by side, a combined ...

... ENGLISH ECCENTRICS. ' THERE is no denying the ardour of Mr. Timbs's industry, or the assiduity with which he employs the discriminating scissors and the perpetuating paste. He travels through whole libraries as steadily as an army of white ants marches,-he opens volume after volume in search of an anecdote with the patience of a pearl-hunter investigating a series of oysters, and he finds ...

... SERM2ONTS NE VER PREACHE.D.* THis book, like all Mr. MacDonald writes, holds either in solution or sus- pension a very large amount of true and beautiful thought, musically and eloquently expressed. Such comparisons are in some degree misleading, but to anv one who did not know his writings there would be some little guidance in calling him an Ary Scheffer of the pen-only that he some- times ...

... Lectures on Greek Philosophy and other Philosophical! Rlemains of James Frederick Ferrier, B.A., Oxon, ?? late Professor of M.1oral Philosophy and Political Economy in the Unciversity of St Andrew's. Edited! by Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., LL.D., Director of Public Instruction in Bombay, and E. L. Lushington, M.A., Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. In Two Volumes. Blackwoods. The ...