Tu subjects dealt with in the papers before us are now generally speaking so stale, seeing that we have been long in possession of later dates, that we do not see that there is very much to say about them. Still there area few articles and reviews which will bear reference, and which are none the less readable for coming to hand a little late. The Times seems to have caught it pretty severely for what the Saturfay calls its vulgar bragging" about the Ezyptian campaign, and its undisguised advocacy of a policy of annexation, The World publishes one of its most seathing lettters on the subject, this time addressed to Mr. John Walter, M.P., the proprietor. The Saturday writes as follow When a Freuoh statesman gra in the Legislative Assembly of that the small number of French subjects ins jured in Egypt is doubtless due to the sympathy everywhere inspired by the character of Frenchmen," we chuckle, but we do not chuckle long, because the thing is so entirely expected. When the New York Spread Eagle or the Boston Blazer romarka that the volunteer Greimen of a small Ai can township are fit to whip the combined armies of France, Germany, and shrug our shoulders and thank Province the Language is American and not Eh Bat what are to Which way are we to look when we hear of "our fame as the rulers of a civilized Empire?" Are we to blush or to use bad la guage when the Z'imes perorates about our commanding naval force, our well-organized army backed by the power of the purse [a Herofo touch thie) andthe. enthusias of a Ligh-temp If we sueer at we to pass "high-tempered Finally, when "thigh-toned led," how are the Times describes a certain scheme which it proposes as "likely to employ in a manner gratifying to the national conscience and national pride, the resources which thie jet and which foreign natio strangely undervalue," what are those who know something about foreign undervaluation and the grounds for it to pretend that a flourish of this kind seem: them a very likely way of curing such unde valuation?
The World, mean Walter, who is ridiculous and when the rear, but you ara gitiation ax "prov pesterous bluster? and roaring nonsense,' our own impenetrable self-complacency must be banated b; that you ha plun f the ludicrous articles which the Zimes published last week, urging upon the Government the annexation or permanent pation of Egypt, have not done grave mischief, it is only because the Times hi ceased to be a firat The im. certain consequence of any disposition on the part of England to have acted on your outrageous monitions, What, then, is the explanation of this incomparable' act of 'The Saturday is rather late in the day with its review of Victor Hugo's ' Torquemada,' but the critique is well worth reading. It has also a justly severe criticism of a book by a Me, Salaman entitled 'Jews as they ate,' and an interesting article on ' 'Tea Culture in India,' which deals with two publications devoted to this subject, one of which, the ea Cyclopedia, we reviewed in these columns some months ago. 'The Spectator is principally remarkable for its very lively cut-up of Professor Owen on Bestiarians.' This isa really very amusing bit of reading, though it owes much of its spice to the extracts given from the Professor's extraordinary book. The learned author, whom we believe to be as venerable and good a man as ever lived, appears to have dipped his pen in gall of unusual bitterness; his diatribes remind one more of those of Mr. Charles Reade when in a passion: one of the most fluent dispensers of Bi ate to be found within the ranks of literary men, Nearly all the Spectato reviews this week are good, but its arti are laboured and not particularly interes ing. 'The Contemporary publishes three representative articles on the 'Salvation Avy,' by General Booth, Miss Cobbe, the Rey. Randal Davidson. The General's article makes a highly favourable impres
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