perplexes some observers, is, we imagine, mainly governed by a desire to maintain the status quo. The Ger- mans do not care whether the Armenians, or any other Asiatic people,...

not immoderate, was preceded and provoked on the previous day by another from Prince Hohenlohe. The German Chancellor declared that the removal of the Minister of the Interior,...

Arimondi had ordered an advance from Makalah in a southern direction, when on Sunday Major Toselli, who was in advance with two thousand five hundred native soldiers, found...

use the name of the Queen of Madagascar in all transactions, they regard the island as annexed. M. Laroehe, the Resident- General, is " invested with all the powers of the...

the Social Democrat, made a most able though lengthy speech in the Reichstag. in which he defended the loyalty of his party to the Empire. The Government, he said, when the hour...

case.

T HE incident of the week has been the return of Said Pasha from the British Embassy to his own house. The Sultan sent about twenty messengers to him, usually great officials,...

The troops to be employed have all arrived at Cape Coast Castle, and the despatch of stores to Prahsu, eighty miles to the front, has been at once commenced. The sub- ordinate...

meeting, said the people were getting tired of Parliamentary action, and that "if they could not bring back some sort of legislative reform, then he should say the time had come...

of the Irish National League of Great Britain, held on Tuesday at Walworth, Mr. Justin McCarthy made a rather elaborate speech on the political situation. He remarked that...

waited on Lord George Hamilton to explain that the countervailing Excise-duties levied on cotton goods in India are not at all equivalent to the Import-duties levied on the...

of harmony. It was, in short, to summon to Dublin a sort of CEcumenical Council, a few months hence, of representatives of the Irish race, in Ireland, Great Britain, the United...

educa- tional controversy. He sees in that controversy, we imagine, the first glimpse of light on the best mode of rallying the dis- heartened Gladstonians whom he is to lead in...

so angry with Mr. Bayard for denouncing Protection as State Socialism, that it has only been prevented by the Speaker from voting his impeachment ; and has actually appointed a...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1061.

against the return of Mr. Chamberlayne and Sir Barrington Simeon, the sitting (Conservative) Members for Southampton, after a long investigation of seven days. The result was to...

Municipal Technical School opened yesterday at Birmingham contains one hundred and thirty-four rooms, of which one hundred and sixteen are devoted to teaching, occupies an area...

Thursday, which will certainly not have the effect of breathing new spirit into the Radical party. He said that the majority of 152 was a formidable majority, but that looking...

night, at which Mr. Goschen made a speech, and declared that he should be very glad when the time came for explaining to Parliament what the intentions of the Government are in...

of the Exchequer, and Mr. Long (the Minister of Agriculture), on the same day to complain of the depression of the growers of barley. The Earl of Winchilsea, as the chief...

on " The Geography of Japan," read before the Geographical Society on Monday, stated some facts which, so far as we know, are new in the history of hygiene. In the mountains...

OUR FAILURE IN TURKEY. T HE success of the Sultan in the affair of Said Pasha will be a great triumph for him in his own people's eyes, so great that his concession in the...

M R. .T17STIN McCARTHY'S speech at Walworth on Tuesday evening seems to us a profoundly pathetic one. We understand the policy which a great leader sometimes adopts of summoning...

are trying to conquer Abyssinia province by province, and having established their authority to a certain extent ever the coast and over Tigre, the northernmost province, are...

old doctrine of laissez-faire. It was hard-hearted, it was aggra- vating, it was almost insulting to tell people who came to the Government in anxiety, in the mood in which...

I N a letter to the Rev. John Hallam , secretary of the Civil Rights Joint Committee of the Congregational- ists and Baptists of Yorkshire, Sir William Harcourt flings himself...

perhaps rather sensational financial magazine, publishes this month a suggestion, signed by Mr. D. L. B. Schloss, which, in a time when home politics are nearly dead, deserves a...

whom one would positively like to make acquaintance. The reasons indeed which suggest the wish are quite unlike those upon which acquaintanceship is usually founded. The...

T HE late Dean of St. Paul's is the last preacher whom we should be disposed to accuse of preaching a gloomy religion. Nowhere else is there one by whom we could find fuller...

W E so often find ourselves on the side of the rich, and opposed to those who rate them for existing, that we are a little pleased to discover a subject upon which we can join...

T HE winter publishing season has produced two books of special interest to outdoor-naturalists.* These are Mr. Kearton's photographs of the nests and young of birds, and Mrs....

AN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIST'S REMINISCENCES. [To TIM EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I notice in your review of the above work, in the Spectator of December 7th, the statement...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR:] have been greatly interested in your articles on the question of elementary schools and religions instruction, and the grievances of...

Sra,—As a former member of a School Board, and a present manager of voluntary schools, I wish to see a fair adjustment of the difficulties that arise from their unequal rivalry....

W. Watson's plan work ? Suppose a parish like this,—four miles long; that little b, son of Baptist B, and B 2 , lives at the N. end, the only school a National school at the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Silt,—May I add my testimony to the intelligence of dogs in the matter of understanding what is said in their hearing ? Several years ago I...

know your columns are always open to well- authenticated stories of the wonderful gifts of our four-footed friends, I venture to think that you will be interested in the...

A VISION OF PEACE. IT was a noise of al;awma and tuned flutes That swell'd and rang and floated in the air, With myriad interchangeable salutes Of note with note in...

THE VALLEY OF KASHMIR.* " WRITTEN at odd hours in the midst of much interruption," this is " a report " of the entire condition of Kashmir by the man who knows most about it...

MR. STRANG . S mind, like that of his master, Legros, is always bent on a bare and grand expression of essentials, and pursues its way detached from local circumstances or...

THE study of astronomy, in spite of the fascination which it naturally exercises upon the mind of the youthful inquirer, is one from which the young will too often turn away in...

MR. BINYON'S new book disappoints in one respect the expectations raised by some of the best work in the two volumes of Lyric Poetry he published nearly two years ago. The...

IT is probable that most of the remaining few who can still interest themselves in the history of the unfortunate and most uncomfortable hero-heroine of Mr. Vizetelly's book are...

THE first feeling experienced after reading Mr. Palmer's admirably written book is a feeling of pity for the public to whom Joseph Wolf is unknown, the man whose motto is on the...

W. Partridge), tells again the more or less familiar stories of how lighthouses were built, harbours made, canals excavated, the steam-hammer invented, and other things,...

simple and pleasant little story of how a little girl cherishes great hopes, and finds them fulfilled in a quite unex- pected way. The " stepmother " of modern fiction is quite...

GIFT-BOOKS. Girls, New and Old. By Mrs. L. T. Meade. (W. and R. Chambers )—This is an animated and attractive story of life in a girls' school. Interesting circumstances lead...

—Mr. Eyre-Todd tells us that he has actually visited, " with staff and knapsack," all the region which he de- scribes. Melrose and Inverness are the limits which he gives ; but...

—This is a story of the siege of Nuremberg, told with the skill which Miss Bramston always shows in her presentations of life whether past or present. The prominent figure is...

Butler must really be a little more sparing in her use of coincidences and surprises. We are prepared to discover that the beautiful Marion is a kinswoman of the family, that...

sub- orders ; this gives to the anecdotes a significance which they would not otherwise possess. The idea is worthy of all praise, and the result is a book which may be...

discussing the internal condi- Cormorant Crag. By G. Manville Fenn. (S. W. Partridge and tion of the earth, so far as science has ventured to form Co.)—We really get out of...

Le Sage, and others. The selection seemsto be a good one, and it is set off with some fairly effective illustra- tions. Open the volume where we will, we are pretty sure to...

You feel rather like a grampus Horrid pains in every scale,

If you have to consent evident, carefully studied the complications of the subject, for When a negative's meant, there are the relations of three parties, the Home Government,

The World of Wit and Humour. (Cassell and Co.)—Here we Carbonell comes home with his wife, herself a Carbonell, and her have a stout and handsomely equipped volume in which are...

is warned against The Green Mountain. Boys. By Eliza F. Pollard. (S. W, nodding. The first verse indicates the pith of the story:- And your head on a pivot is fixed, Your...

most delicious baby." Later on

still with W. Among these are the well-known Christmas hymn Katawampus : its Treatment and Cure. By His Honour Judge beginning as Wesley begun it, "Hark ! how all the welkin...

Red Terror two boys, with their grandfather, an American " General," go to Paris to hunt for the father of the boys, but they do not find the prodigal till they have gone...

Partridge and Co.)—The heroine of Mrs. Hornibrook's story is rescued from the Foundling Hospital of Seville by a kindly English lady, who adopts her. The scene changes from...

Marsh. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This is a collection of pleasant stories, which, if not quite written with a "religious purpose," have a sort of cathedral-close air about them. " The...

more, but probably not for the last time, we have the ever-fascinating subject of a treasure, hidden, and sought for by rival claimants, made the subject of a story. " Monte...

is a bright and interesting account of a visit which two boys pay to a station not far from Sydney, and the fun they had riding after cattle and kangaroos and emus, and being in...

Some of our readers have not perhaps forgotten the young sailor Shotton, who navigated the four-masted ship, the Trafalgar,' when she was stricken by Java fever at Batavia, all...

and Co.)—Robin and Meg are twin children, orphans, who have come into the hands, rather than into the charge, of an aunt who thinks her duty fulfilled if they have from her...

First Council of NiCa3a. It relates the vicissitudes of a certain Placid* who is carried away during a riot at Alexandria, con- sequent on the Arian disturbances, and travels to...

we have undoubtedly a new and humorous development in the way of books for boys. It is a combination of crime, detection, and school life. Three thieves sitting in the...

Nelson and Sons.)—A decidedly fresh and stirring story is the relation of Jack Darcy's adventures in Cuba after being kidnapped by pirates. There is plenty of incident and...

War. By Charles Lowe. (Downey and Co.)—Mr. Lowe's story is mainly concerned with the Scottish adventurers at the Court of Frederick the Great. We hear a great deal of these...

Contem- porary Science" Series. (Walter Scott.)—Technical as is Professor Donaldson's study of the brain in relation to education, it has a great fascination. He gives us...

Clarke, M.A. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a collection of short stories,—most of them with a purpose, and an essentially pathetic one, and all more than fairly well...

Bowden.)—Mr. Boothby has certainly given us a marvellously lively story ; ani in Dr. Nikola, the portentous hero of it, a man who, for resource and diablerie, can only be...

stories of this type are to be known as " sporting love-stories of the day," we have indeed fallen on bad times. " Blake Lamond" takes the opportunity of airing her own views on...

illustrations by Mr. George Morrow, that are actually worthy of the text, of Mary Russell Mitford's delicious Country Stories. It is quite possible that to appreciate these...

very appreciative and affectionate sketch of Morland's life and his extraordinary gift of rapid drawing. Mr. Richardson does not attempt to gloss over Morland's faults and the...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a pleasing little col- lection of short and simple stories intended mainly to teach the immortal lessons of love and self-sacrifice....

Co.)—This is a good story of English North-country life of the sort which recalls Mrs. Gaskell, however, more than Char- lotte Brontë. The quasi-hero, Stephen Cronshaw, alias "...

Co.)— Any attempt to reproduce for the readers of the nineteenth century the social life and civilisation of Ancient Egypt deserves consideration. That that civilisation was a...

clever story of a rather gruesome practical joke which is also a psycho- logical experiment. Sir James Keith, a millionaire, has brought up Christine and Leslie Dalton, the...

the very air of the Highlands, with its superstitions and its freedom from restraint. Fiona Macleod, however, has wrapped-up the history of her characters in such an abundance...

can be no doubt that in The Trail of the Sword we get a very real picture of the military life of the period, particularly of the quick, eager, quarrelsome, self-reliant...

the greatest of Bceotians (if we leave Epaminondas out of account), leaves on record the com- mon reproach addressed to his countrymen, Botorr;a Ls. Professor Roberts examines...

(T. Hailing, Cheltenham) we observe an interesting account of Dr. Lillias Hamilton. We mentioned, in noticing an earlier number of this excellent periodical, an account of this...

their Christmas and New Year Cards. " Cards," as our readers are probably aware, is an exceedingly elastic term, and includes a great variety of very pretty and tasteful...

Co.)—There is more tragedy than water-lilies in this story, which has many fanciful, highly coloured characters, and a plot which languishes through a great deal of unnecessary...

the " People's Edition of the Poetical Works of Lord Tennyson" (Macmillan and Co.) These are Locksley Hall, and other Poems, including " St. Simeon Stylites," " The Talking...

his work will not be found among them ?—will be glad to see the First and Second Collection of Pictures and Songs (Frederick Warne and Co.) A more delightful mingling of the...

by Julia Franklin. (Bell and Sons.)—We are always glad to hear what Professor Ten Brink has to say about the master- pieces of our literature. This volume increases the...

Fisher Unwin.) - These stories are instinct with an intimate knowledge of the Kaffir peoples, and their very tragedy adds to their interest and their truthful colouring. We do...

Company), being the sixty-ninth annual issue. It contains the usual information, academical, political, commercial, &c., an almanac with the matters that the word implies, a...

a handsome collection of the same kind. Here the humorous element is especially well represented. Calendars with mottoes and texts are also numerous. Dickens and other popular...