... Brugsh-Bay, Henry.-A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs Translated from the German by the Late Henry Danby Seymour, F.R.G.S. Edited by Philip Smith, B.A. 2 vols. with coloured plates and maps. John Murray, Boddy, E. Marlett, F.R.C.S.-Hydropathy. Baillre, Tindall and Co. Corner, Caroline.-'Twixt Will and Fate. Remington and Co. Colenso, Right Rev. J. W., D.D., Bishop of Natal.-The Pentateuch ...

... [ We are not responsible for the opinions expressed in the leters which ayppear in the Examiners Letter Box.] OUR SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. 'SIR,- Eton asks what I mean by making up lee-way in playhours; the answer is, Compelling boys to perfect -themselves in school-work or composition which were not sufficiently prepared at the appointed time, under :a special master. . ...

... HE disciplinary lahx j}or the Reichstag, o,,hich Prince | iBis-marcks. has just subitted to the Federal Council. of the German Empire, is said to be due lo the personal initiaftlive of the Emueror XiIialrn. This Bill, which has called forth so much just opposition has-betnda course :cf ?? urthe li'r7.s ?? f. ever since October iast. WIThen, in l:I872 Herr Belbel made his celebrated speech in ...

... Auringer, O. C.-The Voice of a Shell. The Authors' Publishing Company New York. American Bookseller for Christmas 1878, the. American News Company, New York. Baddeley, Welbore St. Clair.-John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. An Historical Tragedy. Hardwicke and Bogue. Biograph, the.-No. s. Vol. I. Arthur H. Moxon. Bishop, M. C-Elizabeth Eden. 3 vole. Sampson Low and Co. Cartouche-By the Author ...

... Parly is ItAe madness of manyfor he gain ofa few, -SWIFT LONDONV, SATURDA Y, JANUARY z8, 1879. SIR W. HARCOURT AT OXFORD. T X THEN the agitation against the Bulgarian WV atrocities first began to sway the policy of the Eniglish Government, cynical observers abroad declared that we were angry with the Turks, not for slaying defence- less men, outraging weak women, and massacring innocent ...

... Party is the madness of many for the gain of a fetw.-SWIFT _LONDONV SATURDAY, JAN4UARY11, 1879. UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. I T is always useful for those who wish to form impartial opinions on political questions to set about the formation of those opinions a little in advance. When the question is once formally put, when it becomes a recognised test of Party allegiance, it is difficult ...

... Party is the madness of many for thegain of afew.-SwIFT LOND0N, SA TURDA ?? JANUARY 25, 1879. THE NORTH NORFOLK ELECTION. THE election which has resulted in the return of 1Mr. Edward Birkbeck to Parliament points several morals no doubt. But there is one moral that it points more decidedly than any other, and that is the evil of speaking unadvisedly with the lips. If it had not pleased Mr. ...

... [We are not responsible for the opinions expressed in the letters which appear in the Exaziner's letter Box.] WATER GYPSIES. S IR,-As a dweller in that part of London which some S of its imaginative inhabitants call Venetia, I would wish to express my cordial sympathy with the general tenour of your article on the above subject. But let me explain parenthetically where Venetia is. ...

... INTRODUCTION. Two tendencies divide the prevailing currents of thought of this nineteenth century. One is flippant, and the other is earnest. The incarnation of the one is the Imperial policy of Lord Beaconsfield, with its ornaments of tinsel and its accompaniments of war-clarion and tom- torn. The other is represented by the stern language of Canon Liddon, the severely Christian attitude of ...

... A VOLUME of verse by Victor Hugo is announced for the end of the month. It is entitled Piti4 Suprbne, and it has, therefore, been generally supposed that it will contain passionate appeals on behalf of the Exiles of the Commune. This is not the case ; M. Victor Hugo has already pleaded for them many times and, in his opinion and that of many of his readers, sufficiently often. He now requests ...

... Party is the madness of many for the gain ofafew.-SWIFT L0NDON SXTURDA Y, JANUAR Y4, .879. MR. GLADSTONE'S MONOMANIA. TRULY the motto which, after a lapse of many years, -once more appears at the head of the EXAMINER is ,strangely appropriate to the opening year. For Mr. ,Gladstone's last article in the Nineteenth Century for January proves once more, if proof were needed, how a great mind ...

... LETTERS FROM AN EARNEST IMAN. SEcOND LETTE E /r Y DEAR EXAMINER,-I do not suppose that I/I 'many of your readers recollect what I wrote in ?? frstr Ietter. I do not quite remember it myself. But *on teferring to your last number I find that I undertook to consider how the year 1879 has begun; how the first dawn of the millennium of peace and plenty as promised to an appreciative public by an ...