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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorO UR suggestion as to the cause of the new revolution in Brazil appears to have been correct. According to the latest information, after the fall of the Monarchy, paper was...
The usual banquet was given at the Guildhall on Novem-
The Spectatorber 9th, and Lord Salisbury made a speech principally about the position in Egypt, though he prefaced it by a eulogium of the warmest kind on the late Mr. W. H. Smith, to whom...
As was expected, Mr. W. L. Jackson, Secretary to the
The SpectatorTreasury, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ire- land. His re-election for Leeds will not be disputed, and on Wednesday he was enthusiastically received by his late...
M. Paul Lafargue, the violent Socialist who while in prison
The Spectatorstood for Lille, was elected on Sunday by a majority of 6,470 votes, to 5,175 votes obtained by his Republican opponent, M. Depasse. On the following day, the Government still...
The Austrian Emperor on November 11th made a speech to
The Spectatorthe Delegations which created some excitement, the Viennese taking it to be of the most pessimist character. The Em- peror said that be had received peaceful assurances from all...
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The SpectatorWith the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 21st, will be issued, _erratic, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.
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The oratory after the election was very violent, especially on
The Spectatorthe Parnellite side. Mr. Pierce Mahoney prophesied that the result of the defeat would be, that Mr. Gladstone's next Home-rule Bill would either be an insult to Ireland which...
Lord Hartington pointed out that the revolt against Mr. Parnell
The Spectatorhad not been of Irish growth, and that the priestly party had not initiated it, till they saw that without the help of an English party they could do nothing effective. If once...
Lord Hartington then took up the threat to abolish the
The SpectatorHouse of Peers if it should insist on an appeal to the people concerning the Home-rule Bill carried,—if ever it came to be carried,—by the House of Commons. He pointed out the...
The result of the contest at Cork between the Parnellites
The Spectatorand the Anti-Parnellites was not known till the afternoon of last Saturday, but turned out as every one had expected. The priests carried the Anti-Paruellite candidate, Mr....
The Italian Premier, Marquis Rudini, delivered a speech at Milan
The Spectatoron November 9th, in which he was studiously con- ciliatory to all Powers and parties. He was certain that the renewal of the Triple Alliance would "develop the policy of prudent...
The most important Unionist speeches delivered for a long time
The Spectatorwere those of the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, at the Manchester Conference on Tuesday. The Duke devoted himself to anticipating the form which must be taken by Mr....
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During the hearing of the Sayward ' case on Tuesday,
The Spectatorin the Supreme Court of the United States, it was announced that the British and American Governments had agreed to refer the question as to their rights in the Behring Sea to...
The really great expense of the London Board schools is
The Spectatorin the higher salaries of the teachers in London—salaries higher than any obtained by the teachers in Liverpool, Bir- mingham, and Leeds. For instance, where the rates in Man-...
A correspondent of the St. James's Gazette of Thursday says
The Spectatorthat the drinking of salt-water is a perfect cure for sea- sickness, though it makes the drinker very miserable for a few minutes after he takes the cure. The sailor who...
African settlers seem to recognise the advantage of a scientific
The Spectatormedical training in fitting their clergy for their clerical duties. The newly elected Bishop of Blomfontein is the Rev. John Hale Hicks, a London University M.D., and also a...
Sir Lyon Playfair on Thursday gave an excellent speech, or
The Spectatorrather lecture, to his constituents in South Leeds, on the condi- tions of labour. He thinks workmen overrate the average profit on capital employed in industry, which is...
The London School Board elections come off on the 26th
The Spectatorinst., and we are rather anxious as to their result. On the one hand, the mere cry for economy is both dangerous in itself as regards the quality of the education given, and too...
Mr. Goldwin Smith has been delivering a lecture in which
The Spectatorhe accuses the present British Government of Jingoism in resisting a closer connection between Canada and the United States. He desires that connection, and warns the Canadians...
A terrible gale visited the island on Tuesday morning, and
The Spectatorcontinued at intervals till Wednesday night. The barometer in London fell to 28.6 in., which is nearly, though not quite, un- precedented, and the damage done to hoardings,...
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LORD SALISBURY AT THE GUILDHALL.
The SpectatorT HE sentences upon Egypt which formed the principal portion of Lord Salisbury's speech at the Guildhall on November 9th, are open to the criticism that they were a trifle too...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE CORK ELECTION. T HE Cork election should be very instructive for all parties in both Ireland and England. It has settled various disputable questions, and settled them...
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THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA. T HERE is something very painful to
The Spectatorthe imagination in the thought of the scene which must now exist in Russia, especially along the huge Valley of the Volga. There seems to be no reason for doubt as to the vast...
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THE PITH OF THE DUKE OF ARGYLL'S AND LORD HARTINGTON'S
The SpectatorSPEECHES. I T is impossible to exaggerate the ability of the Duke of Argyll's and Lord Hartington's statesmanlike speeches at Manchester on Tuesday. The Duke of Argyll might...
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MR. MeKINTLEY'S TRIUMPH.
The SpectatorW E see reason to believe that the effect of Mr. McKinley's election to the Governorship of Ohio has been underrated on this side of the water, and that it may presage another...
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MR. GOSCHEN'S GIFT. L ORD HARTINGTON, who was among the first
The Spectatorto recognise the possibilities contained in Mr. Gosehen's grant of three-quarters of a million in aid of technical education in the counties, has continued his support of that...
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THE MISCALCULATED AMBITIONS OF MEN OF GENIUS.
The SpectatorT HERE is a strange tendency in men who have unusual power in any one department of human life and effort, to hanker after a name and fame in some other quite different...
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AUTHORITY IN PECUNIARY AFFAIRS.
The SpectatorO UR own belief is that there are many persons, hundreds of persons here in London, who are like Dr. Clutter- buck's friends,—that is, who will invest large sums of money upon...
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THE DECAY OF LAUGHTER.
The SpectatorI T has been said of more than one great and sudden sorrow, that it has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and the expres- sion would argue a supposition that nations were as a...
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GAMBLING IN LIVES.
The SpectatorI T is the fashion to say that the wage-earning classes of this country are unthrifty, that they seldom think either of laying by for a rainy day, or providing for the future of...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorA PERIPATETIC PARSON ON DIVINE WORSHIP. My vocation is now varied, not changed. From being a. clerical " casual," locum tenens (Spectator, August 22nd), I have become a...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE WATERFORD FACTION-FIGHT. [To THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Grant me space in your next issue to correct a statement which appeared in the Spectator of November...
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IRISH STORIES.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In reply to your correspondent " N.," I beg to say that I was told the story about the railway-porter and the lady by a gentlewoman...
BIRDS IN LONDON.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Having read the interesting accounts of unusual bird- visitors in London, I offer yet one more letter which may interest the readers...
A SUNDAY AMUSEMENT.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your Eastbourne contributor has something to say about " the sensational reports " of what took place on Sunday week. May I, as a...
THE BIRDS OF NORFOLK.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of October 31st, you speak of the notice of the capped petrel V(Estrelata hesitate) in Stevenson'a " Birds of Norfolk,"...
SUNDAY DISTURBANCES AT EASTBOURNE. pro THE EDITOR OF THE "
The SpectatorSPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Any reader of your article on the Sunday diversions of Eastbourne might conclude, from one passage in it, that the exceptional state of the law in that town is...
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" RESULT " AND " RESILIENCE."
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I should like, with your permission, to say another word in defence of " result." It seems to me that one of the true functions of what...
POETRY.
The SpectatorTHE END OF THE LONG JOURNEY. JOHN SANDERSON was dying, In summer, on Mendir-side, In the co:0 age where his father, And father's father, died. And dying has grown so common,...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorWILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE'S POEMS.* • Miss RoscoE has done well in republishing her father's poems in a separate volume, and in a shape that will be at once convenient and...
LEFT-HANDEDNESS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR or THE EFECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your review of the book published by Messrs. Mac- millan, on " Left-Handedness," you refer to Leonardo da Vinci and Holbein as being...
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MARTINEAU'S " SEAT OF AUTHORITY IN RELIGION."*
The SpectatorTHE appearance of a third edition of Dr. Martineau's Seat of Authority in Religion affords us an opportunity to return to it for the purpose of examining the author's views of...
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THREE NOVELS.*
The SpectatorTHE White Company is a stirring tale of the reign of Edward III., setting forth how a monastery-bred lad of twenty, with decidedly monkish proclivities, was transformed, in the...
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TWO VOLUMES OF SERMONS.* TILE sermons which we have put
The Spectatortogether for the purpose of this notice were preached under very different circumstances and to very different audiences. The subjects, too, have little in common. Mr. Wilson's...
THE OLDEST CHURCH IN ENGLAND.*
The SpectatorST. MARTIN'S, Canterbury, the oldest church in England, and claimed by the author to be the oldest existing church in Europe, certainly deserves to have a book written about it....
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M. PAUL ALBERT'S HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE.* M. ALBERT'S book
The Spectatoris so good, one feels vexed that it should not be much better. His judgments are almost invariably just, not only from a literary but also from an ethical point of view. He...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorGIFT-BOOKS. The annual volumes of Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home have been issued. They are notable mainly for the amount of interesting and instructive reading of all sorts...
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Peeps at Portugal. By W. O'Connor Morris. (Harrison and Sons.)—Mr.
The Spectator0 'Connor Morris gives an attractive picture of Portugal, which he visited in the summer of the present year— not the time at which it is supposed to be most agreeable—and found...
Father Christmas's Stories. By Louise Alice Riley. (John Hogg.) —It
The Spectatorwas rather risky, perhaps, of the author of this volume of stories to follow in the wake of so many writers who in the past have endeavoured, under one of the many disguises...
At the Antipodes. By G. Verschuur. (Sampson Low and Co.)—
The SpectatorThe author of this book, which has been very capably translated into English by a lady, takes a very comprehensive view of " the Antipodes," for he includes in it certain of his...
Brave and True, and other Stories. By Gregson Gow. (Blackie.)
The Spectator—Simplicity is the note of these stories, which appear intended above all things to demonstrate how the highest virtues may flourish under the humblest or almost infantile...
Three Bright Girls. By Annie E. Armstrong. (Blackie.)—Un- doubtedly great
The Spectatorskill is shown by the writer of this story in portraying Doris, Honor, and Molly, the three girls who give the title to it, and who are " bright " in different " styles," and...
United States Pictures. By Richard Lovett, M.A. (The Religious Tract
The SpectatorSociety.)—This handsome volume, which contains, in addition to a map, 157 engravings, is an excellent one to put into the hands of a boy who is outgrowing the ordinary story-...
A Canterbury Tale. By M. A. Hoyer. (John Hogg.)—A Canterbury
The Spectatorboy of the name of Augustine stumbles in Kensing- ton, where he happens to be visiting an uncle, on a little girl reading " The Pilgrim's Progress " to her kitten and dolly. As...
The Great Cockney Tragedy. By Ernest Rhys. The Sketches by
The SpectatorJack B. Yeats. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—According to Mr. King- lake, the Oriental regards the European as an unaccountable and uncomfortable work of God, " who may have been sent for...
The Boys of Prior's Dean. By Phcebe Allan. (John Hogg.)—
The SpectatorMost of the boys who give the title to this stcr.7 are either very naughty or very weak. Very naughty is Ernest Ford, the leader of the gang of bullies that stone jackdaws and...
The King's Cup - Bearer. By Mrs. 0. F. Walton. (Religious Tract
The SpectatorSociety.)—This book may serve very well as a gift to a pupil in a Sunday class who has taken a liking for Biblical history. It is really a study, in sixteen chapters, of the...
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There are doubtless many readers at this time who will
The Spectatorfind an Illustrated Guide to the Riviera (Ward, Lock, and Co.) a seasonable publication. All the health-resorts on the coast—Nice, Cannes, Mentone, Monte Carlo, &c.—are...