remarkable statement "The whole," lie said, "of the legislative work which we shall undertake next year, is that which we already have in our previous administration pledged...

very numerously attended, Lord Salisbury having been expected to make an important speech. Before he could rise, however, Lord G. Hamilton had stated that neither the Admiralty...

Russian action. The officers who mutinied were "debauched by foreign gold," and Europe was thrown into consternation to bear that the resources of diplo- macy had been exhausted...

Bulgaria ; but on both he made important statements. "Our stay" in Egypt, he said," was limited in duration; but the limit is not a limit of time, it is a limit of the work we...

T HE riots expected on Lord Mayor's Day did not occur. The City was not invaded; and though a few Socialists, many roughs, and great numbers of the criminal classes thronged to...

case.

still more emphatic. He said :—" Our business is to carry into effect that mandate in favour of the integrity of the Empire which we received from the constituencies last...

with various feelings. The Austrian newspapers are, on the whole, much pleased, but think his pledges not definite enough ; while the Hungarian newspapers are delighted. The...

Times in favour of the "Church House" memorial of the Queen's Jubilee, on condition that it shall be recognised as the signal of a union between the two Convocations of York...

9th inst., during which, it is understood, the claims of Prince Alexander were strongly pressed, met again on the 10th inst., and by acclamation elected Prince Waldemar of...

on which we have commented at some length in another column, in relation to the difference of opinion between his two ex-whips, Lord Wolverton and Lord Stallbridge (formerly Mr....

who declared for Russia and a dictatorship under General Kaulbars, who, it is said, directed the movement by telegraph. The insurrection was promptly put down by the loyal...

attacking Mr. Gladstone, whether he be right or whether he be wrong, and for attacking him with a sort of malice that can have but one result, to make its readers take no...

glory on Thursday. M. Paul Bert, the bitterest and most scornful of French atheists, and one of the cruellest of French vivisectors, died on that day at his post as French...

on "The Colonies in Relation to the Empire," is of very great interest as illustrating one of the most serious difficulties of Federation. Sir Graham Berry attacked the foreign...

progres- sive elements in the Tory-Democratic Government,—especially apparently on Lord Randolph Churchill. Yesterday week, he made a great speech at Radcliffe against closure...

-Justice Morris last week, writing by a slip of the pen his name for that of Mr. Justice Monroe as refining orders of eviction until the position of the tenant was made clear....

Wednesday, at the great age of eighty-eight, but none the less in full possession of his judicial faculties, as his admirable speech in replying to Sir R. Webster's graceful...

and who signed the Bishop's letter on the distress, protests against the cost—E2,500--of the banquet at Guildhall. It might have given a dinner, he says, to 200,000 men, or fed...

it can be made available on behalf of a hundred impostures ;—that is the moral of a very impressive letter written by Sir Louis Mallet,— one of the ripest and wisest of our...

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AND LORD SALISBURY. T HE great new fact of the situation is, that the Govern- ments of Austria and Great Britain are agreed, if not as to the policy to...

T HE scene of Tuesday was a partial success, but only a partial success, for the friends of order and civilisation. The authorities, from the Home Secretary downwards, showed...

M R. GLADSTONE, in a letter to Lord Wolverton, suggests that at least a step might be taken towards common action between his own section of the Liberal Party and Lord...

M RAOUL DUVAL has tried to blot out the history of • the last thirteen years in France. The advice which he gave to Republicans and Royalists on Saturday would have been in...

T HE retirement of one of our greatest poets from the duties of Inspector of Schools,—duties which he has discharged with singular energy and success for many years,— is an...

• N OTHING in our politics is more curious than the present position of Protectionist opinion. The friends of that system are almost silent in Parliament, or make only speeches...

the wife from conforming to the Roman Catholic Church ? It seems to WI that one must choose between two different views of the matter. Either it cannot be right to sacrifice...

T HE Economist of Saturday, November 6th, made a state- ment which, to most of those who are dwelling on what is called the "Depression," must have seemed simply amazing. This...

I HA.VE for some time past been intending to send you a further instalment of " Hibernicisms," but this relaxing climate renders any exercise of the intellect a serious...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sut,—Your article under this heading in the Spectator of November 6th is one which must arrest the attention of thoughtful minds ; but as an...

PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES. (To THE EDITOR Or TEl " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Mr. E. N. Buxton assumes that when I wrote to you about the inquisition paper of the London School Board, I...

us that the objection of those who have a practical acquaintance with the subject "is not to the printed forms in use, which is a small matter, but to the final exclusion of the...

Lb o THE EDITOR OF TEM "SPECTATOR"] Sla,—With reference to the subject of "Clerical Incomes," to which I see you have considerately opened your columns, the enclosed extract...

[To MK EDITO1 OF IBM "BpscTATos.."] Sia,—The Bishop of Carlisle is of practical prelates most practical, and without doubt his imprimatur to the scheme, through good report or...

[To xins EDITO1 or TILE "SrscruTos."] Sia,—Your article in the Spectator of November eth, on "The Unemployed," makes me desire to supplement your remarks on the great...

[To Tam Horton or THR "SpscTATos.."J SIR, — It is so seldom that the English Press rightly gauge the situation in South Africa, that it is quite refreshing to one who knows the...

ANDY BYRNE. [Tim Delany, & small Munster landlord, come over to England to sell cattle, sitting in the tap-room of a pnbro-honse in the market-town.1 WELL, ye're afther cappin'...

[To THE EDITOR OP ml " SPECTATOR:] Sur.,—The able review in the Spectator of November 6th of Mr. Shorthouse's last work, "Sir Percival," has claimed my atten- tion for two...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—Your reviewer concludes an appreciative notice of my book, "Forest Outlaws," by gibbeting as two careless mistakes, first, that I have...

MR. PAGE ROBERTS'S NEW SERMONS.* We explained laet week how far we agreed and how far we dis- agreed with Mr. Page Roberts on the subject of "Liberalism in Religion," a subject...

Tin wild wood-cherry can no longer blush, Nor chestnuts stand in heavy leaf of gold, Bat as the clouds at noon are upward rolled, Gold-red the mountains gleam ; through deepest...

many years as Medical Officer to the English Telegraph Department in Persia, and he made good use of his opportunities. He learned the language, he made friends among all...

La France Juice of M. 2donard Dramont is a carious, in- teresting, and painful book. It is difficult to read, more especially to those who, like ourselves, hold the persecution...

Tux clever and daring plot by which the great actress Mdlle. Mars was robbed of her famous jewels, gave rise to one of the leading causes celebres of the early years of this...

Mn. CHOLMONDELET-PENNELL is a recognised authority not only on the nature and habits of the sporting fish of Great Britain, but also on the art of catching them. For he is...

are satisfied by narrating the lives and adventures of only a small number of imaginary individuals at a time ; but " Christel's " ambition soars higher. In the work before us,...

rapidly giving way in the last decade to a new class who travel neither for religion, nor commerce, nor sport, nor science, but who yet, with a keen eye to the three last...

Journal —is "L. Alma Tadema, Royal Academician : his Life and Work," by Miss Helen Zimmern. It forms a companion volume to the two other volumes issued from the Art Journal...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—This magazine continues to discharge excellently well its function of a popular expositor and chronicler of art. The...

biographical introduction from the pen of Mr. H. J. Nicoll, a good paper, and giving in the way of narrative and criticism what a reader requires. It is a curious Latinism, by...

is Harper's Young People (Sampson Low and Co.) A critic feels that the praise which he is bound to bestow on these carefully conducted periodicals cannot but be monotonous. The...

J. W. Hales contributes an introduction, which says pointedly and well what has to be said about the Elegy, and gives the stanzas which the severe taste of the poet rejected...

Boys' Own Paper ; the Girls' Own Annual, of the Girls' Own Paper, and both appear under the auspices of the Religious Tract Society. Both are well-established favourites, and...

(S.P.C.K.)—The pictures are pretty ; the verses might be improved. Rhymes should rhyme, and lines should scan, however young the readers for whom they are intended. And why, we...

—The " young " for whom this magazine is intended are really little people, still some way off their teens. It is for their benefit, probably, that the stories are cat up into...

Co.)—We welcome with all wishes for its pro- sperity and long life, this new magazine, a collected volume of which we have now for the first time before us. Its object is to...

by Mary Mapes Dodge. (Century Company, New York ; Warne and Co., London.)—This magazine appears, as usual, in two convenient volumes, and the most determined patriotism cannot...

Co.)—These sixteen sketches, each of them illustrated with a portrait of its subject, describe various persons who have made them- selves a name in commerce, manufacture, or...

C. Nimmo.)—In this handsome volume we have the "Song of Solomon" as it stands in the Revised Version. The artist has taken, we gather from the illustrations (for introduction...

tures—these seem, indeed, to be its speciality—and cannot fail to be a favourite.

great pains to give their readers abundance and variety, both in letterpress and in illustrations. Within the compass of not mach over a hundred pages, they give over forty...

edited by Mrs. Sale Barker (Rontledge and Sons), a periodical of which we have spoken before more than onoe with well-deserved praise, and which presents itself this year with...

(Religious Tract Society.)—One can hardly expect much that is new in a popular book on this subject; but we get exactly what we are led to expect by the title, a convenient...

its colours to please the eye, its large type, syllabled words, games, puzzles, Kindergarten lessons, etc., it is excellently adapted for little folks.

Pocket Shakespeare. Edited by J. Talfourd Blair. (D. Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—It consists of eight small volumes, weighing (whole- bound in leather) about 4oz. each, and...

This is a dreadful book, a shilling "shocker," which, when once begun, you will almost certainly read to the end, for it is cleverly con- structed and well written. The author...

timely book about a sunny land, and so pleasantly written, that even when Mrs. Hardy gossips idly, and describes at length commonplace scenes and trivial incidents, she is never...

(Rout- ledge and Sons.)—Lady Dilke is an accomplished and skilful writer, and her art does not fail her in the eight stories of which this volume is composed. But we can say...

R. Full. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a piteous story of the woes that are wrought by the gambling-tables at Monte Carlo. The most interesting victim is Clemenza Renzi, a prima...

a new shilling magazine, the title of which, the Lady's World, very fairly indicates its character. In beauty of illustration, and quality of paper and type, it makes a great...