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The defiant tone of the Spaniards has made an impression
The Spectatorin America. Although the Senators and Representatives are agreed as to the wording of their joint-resolution, it has still to be finally passed by the Senate, and it is meeting...
On Wednesday Sir William Harcourt visited Bournemouth, and addressed a
The Spectatormeeting organised by the Home Counties Liberal Federation. There was one thing, he said, which a repulsed army never does if it means to win,—throw away its arms and disavow its...
The British Government is not sorry to find that it
The Spectatorcan help Italy and itself at the same time. In threatening Kassala the Dervishes are threatening at once Italy and Egypt, and it has therefore, according to a telegram from...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorI TALY is growing calmer. It is ascertained that the defeat before Adowa was due to the incompetence of the General in command, and that the soldiers and officers fought bravely...
King Humbert has been determined all through, and has appointed
The Spectatora Ministry of Affairs, with the Marquis Rudini, a Sicilian, as Premier, the Duke of Sermoneta as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and General Ricotti as Minister of War. They are...
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In the adjourned discussion of last Monday on the Naval
The SpectatorEstimates, Mr. Dillon demanded an explanation as to the Power against which this greatly increased expenditure is directed, and declared that the United States would consider it...
On Saturday last the long-expected Blue-book on the Vene- zuelan
The Spectatorboundary dispute was presented to Parliament. The preliminary statement, drawn up by Sir Frederick Pollock, is an able piece of work, and puts the British case with great skill....
A smaller Blue-book accompanies the main volume, and contains nine
The Spectatormaps. The first three maps are Dutch maps— the earliest is dated 1640—and show the Dutch boundary ex- tending up to the Orinoco. The fourth is a French map compiled largely from...
The Irish Home-rulers raised a debate on Tuesday on the
The Spectatorquestion whether the principle of cumulative voting should not be applied to Irish municipal elections. They raised it as an instruction to the Committee on the private Bill for...
The Irish Members on Thursday, in pursuance of their policy
The Spectatorof veiled obstruction, in a debate on Supply, raised the question of Ashantee, and drew from Mr. Chamberlain a full reply. The Government of Ashantee, he declared, had become an...
The wire-pullers of the two sections of the Opposition have
The Spectatorbad a struggle this week which has ended for the present in a drawn battle. For ten years past the Liberal Central Office," that is, the Whips' Office, and the National Liberal...
The Jameson trial, which will, it is clear, be a
The Spectatorterribly long and dreary one, may be said to have begun on Tuesday, when Dr Leander Jameson and fourteen companions were brought up at Bow Street charged with having prepared a...
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The Times' correspondent in Paris fiercely supports the resistance of
The Spectatorthe Budget Committee to M. Bourgeois' pro- posal of a graduated Income-tax. He describes it as a proposal to rob two hundred thousand French citizens who possess all the wealth...
Well. informed people on the Continent believe that both the
The SpectatorAustrian and Italian Governments are seriously moved by the cleavage which has occurred between Great Britain and Germany. They fear that it will lead in the end, if France can...
On Tuesday Mr. Massey - Main waring's resolution in favour
The Spectatorof opening the national museums and art galleries in London on Sundays from 2 p.m. for a certain number .of hours was carried in the House of Commons,—the amendment moved in...
We wonder whether those who sell their worn-out horses for
The Spectatorexportation to France know of the kind of death to which they probably doom them.. A writer signing himself "M. Hadden," and writing from Walton-on-Thames, sends to the papers...
On Wednesday Lord Cranborne introduced the Benefices Bill, of which
The Spectatorboth the first parts have been previously and separately introduced into the House of Commons and have passed their second reading, gone through the Grand Com- mittee, and...
The Rev. John England, who is one of the Wesleyan
The SpectatorChaplains to the Forces in the South-West of England, found that his position in that capacity had deceived the Bishop of Truro (Dr. Gott) into imagining him to be a clergyman...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorVENEZUELA: THE BRITISH CASE. T HE fear that our case might not turn out as sound and conclusive as it has been represented has been dispelled by the publication of the...
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THE ITALIAN DECISION. T HE Italians, after a short outburst of
The Spectatorthat Southern fury which seems to Englishmen so strange, so much more like the eruption of a volcano than any pro-- duct of human reason, have pulled themselves together and...
MR GOSCHEN ON THE NAVAL ESTIMATES M R. GOSCHEN'S reply to
The Spectatorthe criticism of the Oppo- sition on his Naval Estimates was short, clear, and unanswerable. He disposed very easily of Sir William Harcourt's rather unwisely borrowed remark of...
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THE CHURCH REFORM BILL. T HE Benefices Bill which passed its
The Spectatorsecond reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday by a majority of 178, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Law by a majority of 201, seems not unlikely to pass into...
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THE W1RE-PULLERS' SQUABBLE.
The SpectatorW E have been reading the arguments for and against the present organisation of the Liberal party, and on one point, to our surprise, we find ourselves wholly in sympathy with...
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MR. GERALD BALFOUR AND HIS ASSAILANTS. T HE Nationalist leaders in
The SpectatorIreland are clever men, but they are not large-minded men, and when breadth of view is required they are apt to mismanage a good case. They had one on Tuesday, and they threw it...
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SUNDAY AND THE PUBLIC GALLERIES.
The SpectatorT HE House of Commons has at last declared itself in favour of opening the public galleries on Sunday afternoons. This does not mean that its refusals to do so in the past were...
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THE MAGNETISM OF ROME.
The SpectatorM R. BERNARD HOLLAND, in his very interesting article in the current number of the National Review, on Cardinal Manning's conversion, invites attention to the special magnetism...
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THE INTERESTINGNESS OF THINGS.
The SpectatorN O one, we suppose, will deny that the immediate time in which we are living is an interesting one. Not a week seems to pass without an event of the first order, and usually...
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THE INVISIBLE FOOD OF FISH.
The SpectatorR ECENT experiments on the food of the oyster show that the oatmeal commonly given to "fatten" them causes them to lose weight and die, and that flour, often used for the same...
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"THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE LIBERAL UNIONISTS."
The Spectator[To THE EDITOlt OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A good deal of surprise has been expressed in the Midlands at your so readily concluding that the letter in the, Birmingham Argus,...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorSPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. [To TES EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The important article in the Spectator of March 7th, on the international aspect of the quarrel being...
"VERIFY YOUR REFERENCES.
The Spectator(To THZ EDITOR OP ams "Brscrwroa."] SIR,—The writer of an article on Quixotry, in the Spectator of March 7tb, observes that "Pope, that marvellous genius who c mid produce...
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IRISH "BULLS."
The Spectator[To THI EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR"' Sta,—The letters in the Spectator about" Irish Bulls" prompt me to ask you why Miss Edgeworth included the excellent story I give below in...
ART.
The SpectatorTHE INSTITUTE, AND MR. ALBERT GOODWIN'S LANDSCAPES AT THE FINE ART SOCIETY'S. "THE business of the landscape-painter is to watch and lie in wait for the best things," writes...
MO TER EDITOR OP THZ sspsareros.."} SIR,—Two rather good "bulls"
The Spectatorare attributed to the late Sir George Campbell. On one occasion he had been calling attention in the House of Commons to some abuse in Indian administration, and proceeded to...
POETRY.
The SpectatorMORE HA WARDEN HORACE. An NOVAS FEMINAS (Od. III. 12.) dare ludum neque dulci and indignantly complain Mala vino lavere, aut exanimari Should a butler smug and stupid Patruao...
[To THZ EDITOR OF THZ "SPZITTATOR."1
The SpectatorSIR,—I am not sure that you will admit this " bull " into your columns, but I beard John Mill tell it to amuse my brothers some seventy years ago. The defendant's counsel (Irish...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD LOVELL EDGE WORTH.* RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH, whether considered as a philanthropist, an inventor, a model landlord, or the father of a great novelist,...
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MR. BUCFIANAN'S NEW BOOK.*
The SpectatorMa. BUCHANAN cannot forgive those who, Laving heartily admired, and still heartily admiring, his earlier poems,—for example, his London Idylls, and many more that were full of...
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A GREAT OXFORD TEACHER.* PROFESSOR GREEN is the last teacher
The Spectatorwho has deeply in. fluenced the whole current of opinion at Oxford. To those who had the happiness to enjoy his friendship the immense effect of his teaching hardly needed...
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MR DAVIDSON'S "FLEET STREET ECLOGUES."* Fon some time it has
The Spectatorbeen obvious enough to any one who has cared to inform himself at all upon contemporary "singers," that of the young men of letters who are writing verses just now, Mr....
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LADY BLESSINGTON.*
The SpectatorINSPIRED by the quick sympathies of a fellow-countryman, and by the tendencies and acquirements of a successful writer of fiction, Mr. Fitzgerald Molloy has succeeded in...
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TWO MEMOIRS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE.*
The SpectatorOF the two books before us, Miss Bicknell's Life in. the Tuileries will be by far the more interesting to the general reader. The writer's name is new to us, and she tells...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe Commonwealth (Thomas Hibberd, London) is a new three- peany magazine, the name of which is suggestive of Socialism, at least of the type generally associated with the name...
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From Matter to Mind. By Marcus R. P. Dorman, M.A.
The Spectator(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We cannot examine in detail Mr. Dor_ man's book. The first part contains a condensed account of the development of matter into the conditions with...
The Light of Scarthey. By Egerton Castle. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and
The SpectatorCo.)—The writer of this powerful but somewhat unequal story, which centres round the islet of Scarthey, on the Lancastrian Coast —" a green oasis secure on its white rocky seat...
England's Mission to India. By the Right Rev. A. Barry,
The SpectatorD.D. (S P.C.K.)— Bishop Barry has utilised the impressions and ex- periences derived from a recent visit to India to make this appeal to the conscience of English Churchmen. He...
Industry and Property. By George Blocks. (Sampson Low, Marston, and
The SpectatorCo.)—This volume is a very determined and strongly worded attack on Socialism, which the author regards as immoral in essence and ruinous in result. It would, he thinks, make...
Recollections of Persons and Events. By Arthur Robert Penning- ton,
The SpectatorM.A. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. Pennington's first chapter is devoted to reminiscences of Clapham Common in its palmy days. Naturally these are, for the most part, not...
Conversations with an Uncle. By H. G. Wells. (John Lane.)—
The SpectatorThese papers are certainly amusing, though the humour is not always, we think, in the best taste. Still it is humour,—and nowadays, when we are expected to laugh at so many...
Appenzell : a Swiss Sludy. By Irving B. Richman. (Longmans.)
The Spectator—Appenzell Inner-Rhoden is, with the exception of the city of Basel, the smallest of the Swiss cantons. It is, indeed, a "half- canton," constituting with the other half,...
The Crooked Stick. By Rolf Boldrewood. (Macmillan and Co) —Will
The SpectatorPollie Devereux, an Australian heiress, marry the honest fellow that has loved her from his boyhood—indeed she has a choice of honest fellows—or will she throw herself on the...
Dr. Quantrill's Experiment. By T. Inglis. (I. and C. Black.)
The Spectator—The first part of Dr. QuantriWs Experiment, which relates George Worthington's falling in love with his housemaid, the realisation of her visit to the fortune-teller, is the...
Dick Halliday's Birds. By W. T. Greene. (R.T.S.)—Thia is a
The Spectatorpleasant story of the visits of an angel, in the shape of a London district visitor forty-five years of age, to the home of a weak neurotic boy, who is spoiled by his parents,...
A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Edited by S.
The SpectatorBaring. Gould. (Methuen and Co.)—Here we have the book of nursery songs and rhymes—not far off a hundred in all—as fine as it can be made by good paper and type, and the...
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The Unwritten Law. By Blanche Loftus Tottenham. (A. and C.
The SpectatorBlack.)—We find in this story much of the power that we should expect in a book written by Miss Tottenham. She has studied the Irish character with much care and to no small...
Q. Horati Flacci Opera. Edited by T. E. Page, M.A.,
The Spectatorformerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Assistant-Master at Charterhouse. (Macmillan and Co.) —The edition of Horace issued as a volume of "The Parnassus Library of...
