hensions entertained in Bulgaria and at Constantinople, where they have just ordered Adrianople to be fortified, may be well founded. Everything depends upon the Czar's...

entered on the subject of the Papal rescript which has recently condemned the" Plan of Campaign" and "Boycotting." On the latter subject he was severely silent,—for it was hc...

the first, he went back into the history of his negotiations with Lord Carnarvon, and maintained that Lord Carnarvon's interview with the late Mr. Dwyer Gray in 1885, and his...

T HE Eighty Club,—purged from what it once was,—enter- tained Mr. Parnell on Tuesday, and strove to do him the utmost honour. Mr. Haldane, M.P., took the chair, and repented on...

Europe, but that is very marked. The Government of Sofia perceives, from indications not perceptible in the West, that the storm is approaching nearer, and, becomes much more...

case.

public, is publishing a History of the War of 1870, founded upon documents to which he had access during his term of office. The book will be published in parts, and the first...

the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on the subject of the Irish Question, without, as we think, having very much that is fresh to say on the subject. What he did say was...

to 10, conferring copyright on the owner of a foreign book published in the United States, provided that it is also printed there. This right extends to parts of a book, to...

is increasing rapidly, and some recent cargoes have been refused permission to land at Melbourne and Sydney. The resident Chinese also have been attacked in Brisbane, their...

Thursday against the Liberal Unionists, in which there was nothing new except a joke about "bogeys," apropos of the re- mark that Mr. Parnell and alliance with Mr. Parnell is...

on the Secretary for War, to ask him whether the Govern- ment had arranged any scheme of defence in the event of invasion. Mr. Stanhope replied that the Government was well...

and endow a Catholic University in Ireland. We should think that what is intended is that Government mean to place the Catholic University College on something like an equal...

old way, ignoring, as before, the evidence given by a witness completely trusted by the Nationals, as to the necessity for the Constabulary's firing if they would have saved one...

the case of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," should add greatly to the safety and the profits of novel-writing. It seems almost completely to debar a playwright from " adapting " a...

Emperor Frederick during the week, and no sign of immediate or pressing danger. His condition remains, of course, most serious, and we are informed that the physicians observe a...

fertile than usual in good speeches. Lord Salisbury said com- paratively little about Art, though he made jokes about the health of the Government, declaring that the difference...

in Ireland on Saturday nights, otherwise unimportant, was noteworthy on account of Mr. Parnell's attitude. Many of his followers supported the Bill, but he, though an avowed...

A meeting was held this day week at Grosvenor House, the residence of the Duke of Westminster, in support of it ; but the Duke stated that the sum subscribed is still only...

grant bounties on the cultivation of sugar have at last agreed to treaties prohibiting the system, which has been found intolerable to their Treasuries. The negotiations have...

on behalf of Literature, to the toast of the President, Professor Tyndall sneaking of Leonardo da Vinci as the only historical figure who had ever adequately embraced both...

Mr. Firth moved a resolution affirming the necessity of placing its expenditure under the same statutory restric- tions as other Municipal bodies, basing his motion on the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 99t to 991.

MR. PARNELL AT THE EIGHTY CLUB. M R. HALDANE says that the Eighty Club are "proud." of Mr. Parnell. It is a modest sort of pride. Mr. Parnell's chief claim to be regarded as...

I T is useless to consider General Boulanger's book, "The History of the War of 1870," from the historical side. The General says he will tell the whole truth, and the whole...

politics upon which it is more difficult to think straight than this of Chinese immigration into Australia. Most of the theories are upon one side, and all the facts upon the...

understanding that Mr. Glad- stone shall address a special message to his Non- conformist friends at least once every year, even when there is no theme on which to address them...

W E wonder if English democracy, as it advances to supreme power, will exercise any effect upon English "society," will, that is, put into it anything of its own tone. It...

the value of what we are doing for the defence of the nation, but no one can deny that we talk enough about it. Eminent members of both Services abound at public dinners, and...

or other get hold of the automatic increment in the value of property, is the desire which underlies the whole socialistic creed. This feeling was strikingly exhibited in the...

S OME account is given in another column of a very remarkable intellectual vagabond of the last century, Solomon Maimon, the Talmudist, who, starting with no language but...

W E wish the writer who in Blackwood's Magazine for May publishes such a pleasant eulogium upon the English country gentry had given us a little more clearly his view of the...

it PATRIOTIC Scotchman, in the course of a conversa- tion with a Southron, is reported to have roundly declared that all Britain's greatest men were of Scotch birth, or had...

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND. [To ma EDITOR Or ma" SPECTATOR:1 SIB,—Mr. Redington, in your number for May 5th, makes the best apology possible for the scandalous...

[To THE Esrros OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As you have given circulation to Miss Cobbe's state- ment that "the Victorian branch of the Royal Society of England" has come to...

[To THE _EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—When legislation on this subject takes place, I hope that the great superiority of our House of Lords to the Second Chamber of every...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. James Smith very properly reprehends my ffippant remark about French wines, which, however, I the less regret as it has drawn some...

THE NEW GALLERY. [FIRST NOTICE.] THIS week, with a singularly unanimous pan of laudation from the Press, the so-called "New Gallery "—not a very distinctive title nowadays—has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me again to ask for help for our club in Tabard Street, South London P It is the third year since the club has been...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In reading your article upon Congreve's plays, I am surprised to find the first line of The Mourning Bride quoted as "Music hath charms...

SOLOMON 3.IAIMON.* IT is certainly, as Dr. Clark Murray himself observes, a very strange thing that this fascinating piece of autobiography, which has been in existence...

Dean Church's writing, at least for his present critic, is this,—that he leaves an impression of saying so much less than he could say, of knowing subjects thoroughly to which...

• (1.) In the Name of the Tier: a Novel. By J. Belford Bayne.. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Bons.—(2.) $04110.; or, the Great. C,onapiracy of 1881. By Princess...

AMID the unceasing din of the Irish Land War, with its wearisome squabbles about tenants' rights and landlords' wrongs, it is refreshing to turn to a book like that before us,...

A PERUSAL of these nine volumes may safely be recommended by way of sobering draught to any Frenchman preparing to cele- brate the centenary of the French Revolution with...

NOT since the days of Ireland has so gigantic and pretentious a Shakespearian forgery been placed before the public as the secret narrative revealing how Bacon wrote...

The Dublin Review keeps its place, to say the very least, among the quarterlies. In the April number, the ordinary, as dis- tinguished from the Catholic, reader has his...

numbers a commendable tendency to admit articles on out-of-the-way subjects ; and so in the May number we have papers on "The Natives of the Solomon Islands," "Tramps, Mediteval...

Centre" are generally to be shunned ; but we are bound to say that Mr. B. D. Bowker (an American, we presume), who treats of this subject in the new number of Harper's Magazine,...

the young lady who gives her name to Marvel, by the Author of "Molly Bawn " (Ward and Downey),—so much, indeed, as fully to justify the title. Not every night is a baby-girl...

its own against its numerous and formidable rivals. There is hardly an unreadable page in the May number, and some of the illustrations are almost superb.

as un- practical. Here is a work which, we are sure, they may study with profit. Take, for instance, this axiom :—" The injury wrought by the robbery of a grain of corn is far...

short story—" Thirst : an Ocean Incident," by Mr. Clark Russell—the tragic interest and grim humour of which are in the best sense notable. Some of the other stories, such as "...

Coupee," for instance), and he is amusing enough for once or twice, notwithstanding the sameness which makes one very soon weary of him. But The Cat's - Eye Ring, by F. du...

and Co.)—Miss Brown thinks that the time is come to "proclaim the fact of the Norse discovery, and denounce the Columbian one as a deliberate fraud of the Church, devised for...

Theological Literature" (Griffith, Farran, and Co.), is The Lives of the Popes, translated from the Latin of B. Platina, and edited by the Rev. W. Benham. It takes us down as...

vols. (Cassell and Co.)—" I visited Palestine," writes Dr. Geikie in his preface, "with the intention of gathering illustrations of the sacred writings from its hills and...

Lewis.) —This volume is the first collected issue of the University College Maga:tine, and we gladly welcome its publication, the first, it is to hoped, of a series. There is no...