T HE first reply of the Greek Government to the Powers, published in London on Tuesday, was exceedingly moderate in tone, but was firm in substance. The Govern. ment declared...

THE SITUATION IN THE EAST. --w E suppose Lord Salisbury is managing things from his point of view very well. As the head of the Government which controls a Fleet stronger than...

little Education Bill through Committee makes the nonsense talked about the tyranny of applying the Closure in the very economical way in which Mr. Balfour at least uses it,...

understood in France, Italy, and Austria, as well as England, that the pivot of European politics, or at all events the grand difficulty of European politics, is the untamed...

of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Pope's Bull on the insufficiency of Anglican 'Orders is not only a very temperate, but a very mild, and indeed friendly,...

I T is forty-two years since the Crimean War began, and opinions have greatly changed, but they have not changed universally or with anything like completeness. We have been...

a Chairman of the London County Council on Tuesday had more than usual interest. It turned more upon principles and less upon persons than is often the case in such contests....

M R. RHODES'S evidence in regard to the Raid has come to an end, and Mr. Rhodes himself has left England. Under these circumstances it may serve a useful public purpose to say...

P ROFESSOR COURTHOPE, in the lecture which he delivered this day week at Oxford on " Life in Poetry," began to consider the causes of decadence, or in other words, want of life...

I T is curious, and not a little amusing to those who eau look back through many years, to see how forgotten controversies are revived and re-argued as if they had never been...

1 1HE Zoo otters, which are unusually lively during the first days of spring, have conformed to the universal tendency to "extend the range of diet" by eating ship- biscuit as...

THE CONCERT OF EUROPE. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTAT010] SIR, —It is to be hoped that the bombardment by British warships of the Cretans, who, whatever their faults, are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") thank you for your article on Crete. The bombard- ment of a fortnight since has opened the eyes of many Con- servatives, of whom I am one....

notice given to my book on "English Schools at the Reformation " in the Spectator of February 27th? (1) As to Free School. This certainly means gratuitous, as the sixty-Rix...

of England, " he will find some notice of the deputation he has mentioned. His Lordship, however, says nothing of the billiard-room scene, nor does he give the names of the...

PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Hay Hay-Cooper's story, from a book of which he has forgotten the name and author, is obviously a myth. Scott told Washington...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] 6111, - 4 cannot believe that " true-born Engl ish e ten " (if there are any left) w ill appreciate the compli men ta ry epithets lately...

STINT LACRYME. 0 SADDEST of all sounds that be, Sweet Virgil's sad "Sunt lacryma3": A jewel'd thought, a gracious line Set in a music half divine ; With murmur like the...

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXIS DE TOCQUE- VILLE.* THE period of 1848 is just now the slack water of history. It is not near enough to us to be part of the daily recollections of...

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THERE is not much to be said about Nicholas Breakspear,—. not enough, certainly, to fill out an ample volume such as that now before us. The few pages which Bishop Creighton...

THE " Badminton Library," having exhausted the whole list of modern sports and pastimes, from bunting down to billiards, has turned its attention to the poetry of sport, and now...

UNDER the title, Through London Spectacles, Miss Milman reprints a collection of papers on miscellaneous matters of literature and Nature, of which several have appeared at...

Messrs. Lawrence and Bullen have published the first part of The Encyclopedia of Sport, edited by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Mr. Hedley Peek, and Mr. F. G. Miele. It may...

and Asenath Holt. Elijah Holt is the village " clogger,"—i.e., the maker and mender of clogs. (There is a specially good passage in which the shrewd old man makes guesses about...

that it is a very cleverly contrived surprise, we have gone quite as far as is permitted by justice to the author, whose ingenuity would miss its reward by any revelation of his...

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