N OTHING has advanced during the week. Tuesday, the 6th inst., the anniversary of Greek independence, passed off without incident, and the Greek and Turkish armies face each...

With the " SPRCTATOR " of Saturday, April 24th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE SITUATION. W E are entirely in sympathy with Mr. Balfour's expressed view, and with what we believe to be Sir William Harcourt's secret view, as to the vote of censure....

to leave England for his health may well suggest the question whether the double burden which Lord Salisbury is called on to bear is not really too great for his, or indeed for...

M R. BALFOUR'S deliverances on economic subjects when he is dealing with abstract propositions are not always wholly satisfactory to the Free-trader. He some- times appears to...

of late the astounding increase in the passion for public expenditure which seems to mark all modern free States, but we hardly expected such an illustration of it as was...

W E find ourselves for once, rather to our own sur- prise, in the heartiest sympathy with Mr. John Morley It would be hard to find in the whole history of the complex and...

W E have never counted ourselves among the opponents of the London County Council. On the contrary, we have always admitted the value of its administrative work, and the...

"L AST week the respectable classes in France were scandalised by the accounts of a concert held in the Catacombs of Paris,—those weird underground quarries in which the bones...

S IR, ALGERNON WEST'S reminiscences published in this month's Nineteenth Century are amusing and in their way of interest, but we confess in reading them to a certain feeling,...

T HE Bishop of London's advice to those about to travel is to begin their travels at home. He half suggests that we look on expenditure as part of the pleasure of change, and...

JUBILEE BONFIRES,—A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] was pleased, in a recent number of the Spectator, to see that you approve of bonfires as one...

[To MIR EDITOR Or THI " EINICTILTOR."] SIE,—Your article in the Spectator of March 20th on the new in- difference of the free peoples to taxation, due largely, no doubt, to...

[To TRY EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I notice in your interesting article on the Powers and Greece, in the Spectator of March 6th, the following paragraph : —"They [the...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In late May or early June of 1878 I rode up from the -end of the Golden Horn to the very front of the Turkish troops who lay encamped...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Your observations in regard to Pecksniff and the Sporting League petition are smart enough, but unfor- tunately for the writer they are...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR....] Sin,—It was hoped that full advantage would be taken of the provisions of the Wild Birds' Protection Act, as amended in 1894, to protect...

[To Tax EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Althongh I have not yet read the "Life of Jowett," I hope I may offer a few remarks on your very suggestive article in the Spectator...

[To TEL EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — In the Spectator of January 9th you published a short review of my book, "East Coast Etchings," which was brought out in Asia a year...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEL "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—When thanking you for the kindly notice of myself, if not of my book, in the Spectator of April 3rd, I hope you will allow me to say a...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR "1 SIR,—Has " Catholicus " reflected that our Lord in his own person pointedly disclaimed asceticism (if under that term he includes abstinence...

[To TEL EDITOR OF TEL " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Concert of Europe has outdone itself. English- men thought that when the Imperial Powers left unavenged the massacres perpetrated...

• DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND.* WITHIN two years of The History of English Law before the Reign of Edward I. being published—a work of which by far the greater share belongs to...

[To rex EDITOR Of TER " SPECTATOIL."] Sin,—I have come across the following singular entry in an old marriage register of this parish :- A6 Drii, 1648. Charles Napier of...

[To TER EDITOR Of TH11 " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Having read the story of the dog who could understand a telephonic message, in a recent number of the Spectator, I venture to send...

IT is hardly too much to say that these Memoirs excel in vividness and picturesqueness of detail any of the memoirs of the Napoleonic period. Other autobiographies of the same...

IN the course of his preface Mr. Selons confesses that his book on the last Matabele War has been written under the influence of strong emotions, and indeed there is plenty of...

the charm of this book lie in the fact that it is the simple, unadorned narrative of a simple man. John Kent, the trainer, who has already made his appearance and his mark in...

A NOTE which follows the preface to this volume contains the pathetic statement that it was finished on November 18th, 1896, just before eight in the evening, and that two hours...

than that of the effect of money and monetary legislation on social problems and public welfare. It is hardly necessary to point out that a sound and honest currency is the...

The conductors of Chambers's Journal, unmoved by the fierce competition of younger periodicals full of " smart " writing, and, if possible, "smarter" illustrations, continue to...

and Co.) —Mr. Hutcheson tells a sea-story with plenty of spirit, and takes care to have a few choice characters in it. The Malays and Chinese, in this instance, heari ng that a...

by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Sampson Low and Co.)—M. Mukoraro tells us in his preface how at Rouen he was directed to search for the records of pre-Columbian discoveries of America,...

School of Little Nations. By James John Garth Wilkinson. (James Speirs.)— The German likes his politics stirred with a metaphysical, the Frenchman with a scientific, spoon,...

Co.)—Having made twins the heroes of his tale, Mr. Whishaw takes care that they play their part in the "Comedy of Errors:* The comedy begins at school, of course, and is acted...

and all have a. distinct personality of their own. Little Diana, with her imperious temper and fearless dis- position, is of course the heroine, and if at times she becomes...

John Talbot is sent by his sister to warn her lover, who appears to be mixed up in a conspiracy against William —the Forty conspiracy of 1696. Su& is the origin of a series of...

Az. 11). Edited by A. E. Cowley, M.A., and A. D. Neubauer, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—This is a full presentation of the facts of a most important discovery. Conclusions are to be...

help regretting that this is the last number of a most interesting periodical. It is satisfactory to be told that this end is "not due to any premature decay, but as an...

must own that the "second Mrs. Beaumont" and her father are not people whom we can realise. The monstrous greed of the woman, the deliberate blindness of the man, do not...

volume is full as usual of facts which, taken as a whole, are really surprising, or would be if they were not, so to speak, taken for granted. Two samples may be quoted. In 1896...

Newnes and Co.), is one of a very useful series of small manuals on subjects of common interest.—With this may be mentioned a " second edition, revised," of Remarkable Eclipses,...

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