been at his work again. A constable, passing through Pinchin Street in that district, found in the railway-arch the trunk of a woman, naked, except for a torn piece of linen,...

murderer is not so wonderful as it is sometimes described to be. Whether the body was that of a murdered woman or taken from a dissecting-room, it was carried to Pinchin Street,...

election to come off on Sunday week still continues. Some fifteen hundred candidates have, however, come forward, and it is known that upwards of a hundred Deputies will not...

• T HE strike draws to a close. On the morning of Friday week, certain influential mediators, among whom were the Lord Mayor, Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of London, Sir John...

case.

paralysis of trade in the Kingdom, the total exports for August showing an increase of 9 . 65 per cent. over the same month last year, while the imports are greater by . 66 per...

striking speeches to the Unionists, Liberal and Con- servative, of the West Riding. The first of these was remarkable for a summary of the position which will probably be taken...

League demonstration in the grounds of Plas Machynlleth, Merionethshire, e, after passing an eulogium on the organisation to which his audience belonged, attacked the question...

after a long stay with Emin Pasha on the Eastern shore of the Victoria Nyanza, left his comrade on the Lake, and began forcing his way towards Mombassa, which he is expected to...

great gathering of Conservatives held in the park of Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones at Newtown, Montgomeryshire. The first part of the speech was occupied with showing that the Welsh...

less than five bye- elections will be fought—an accident which attracts a consider- able amount of attention, owing to the fact that the vacant seats are scattered over a very...

announced on Wednesday, might under certain circumstances be of some importance to Europe. His beautiful little Principality, which has been a separate entity for a thousand...

to physical science on Thursday, delivered an address on "The Action of Light," containing some remarks of popular interest. It is quite possible, he says, to produce a...

Wednesday at Newcastle with an address from Professor Flower, which is not so interesting as such addresses usually are. It is devoted mainly to the management of museums, and...

carelessness, M. Corvilain, who had a contract for altering Belgian cartridges, was allowed to erect his works within the city, and close to huge depots of petroleum con.....

gives a very striking calendar of the crimes by which the Plan of Campaign was enforced on the Kenmare estate, from its establishment in November, 1888, till its collapse at the...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 97-1 to 91.

the Premier and Treasurer, Mr. Gullies, on July 30, shows that the Colony is prospering to an extraordinary degree. Though the population is very little over a million, the...

has been honoured with an interview at Tien-thin with Li Hung Chang, the most powerful Viceroy in China, the result of which is not a little instructive as well as amusing. The...

AMERICA AND IRELAND. I T is considered very adroit in Mr. Gladstone to have proposed the principal American toast at the banquet offered him on Saturday by the Paris Society of...

S UPERFICIAL people take Lord Hartington for a pessimist. No doubt there is at first sight plenty of ground for such an opinion. The Liberal Unionist leader hardly ever makes a...

in watching the slow progress of this strike is the amazing progress of the people in good-feeling as compared with the progress in their sense of justice. They grow in...

A NOTION has got abroad, in the usual way, that the German Government is considering some scheme which will augment the formidable total of its armed forces. There is, of...

ril decree just issued by the Emperor of China, thorising the construction of a railway from Pekin to Hankow, a distance of seven hundred miles, is of some importance to the...

of the commercial world. That Germans make better men of busi- ness than Englishmen, and that our countrymen are losing their instinct for trade, is almost universally regarded...

T HE really careful inquirers of our day, the statists who, like Mr. Booth, will visit five hundred houses to obtain an answer to one question, deny that the endless increase of...

T HE atmospheric vicissitudes of this showery summer have often recalled to our mind a name never to be remembered without gratitude by the lover of Nature,—that of John Ruskin....

A CCORDING to an American newspaper, the chemists are at work by hundreds in the States " striving by night and day" to find some means for producing cheap aluminium. If they...

FOOD TAXES IN CEYLON. I To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTLTOR."1 Sin,—In the Spectator of June 1st, in an article headed "A New Sovereign Company," the following words occur,—...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—At a concert lately given in Dublin, a handbill was dis- tributed through the hall as an advertisement for some concerts of Irish music...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—As between the methods of Churchmen and Non- conformists in the appointment of their ministers, there is not much to choose. There are...

SPECTATOR: * I SIR,—It is evident that neither the French nor the British ship that bore the name of the Ville de Paris' could have supplied material for Astley's Pavilion,...

I have been out of England for a short time, I did not until the other day read the Review of Professor Knight's " Life of Wordsworth " in the Spectator of August 3rd. Your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I send you two translations made in the lowest form of a public school one Christmas examination. They were shown to us in the sixth...

DU PREL'S "PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTICISM."* The Philosophy of Mysticism. is the title which Dr. du Prel, a writer of some philosophical repute in Germany, has given to a decidedly...

the English school-boy is only a blunder, more or less amusing, as more or less wide of the mark. It has been reserved for his American cousin to make up for want of knowledge...

Iw any one wishes to get a true picture of the realities and amenities of Irish country life, he cannot do better than seek instruction from the pages of Messrs. Herring and...

THE compiler of these curious, and in some respects most amusing volumes, is an American lawyer. And although they are published by Mr. Unwin, we conjecture with some con-...

of Saxe-Coburg-G-otha was born three years after Prince Bismarck, and played in the great epoch of German national development a part that was far from in- considerable. The...

the past and future history of the human race is insatiable. Yearning as we nearly all of us do to look both before and after, we must at once recognise that the desire to...

THE matrimonial adventures of James V. of Scotland are certainly curious, and might have been made interesting. M. Edmond Bapst's account of them is clear enough, but some- what...

—4-- The English Illustrated Magazine. (Macmillan.) — The volume for the year ending this month of September shows no falling-off either in literary matter or the illustrations...

Brothers.)—This is an account of an enterprise which, to use a quotation which we find on the title-page, has been welcomed in every part of Victoria, as likely to enrich us...

Miller. Vol. I. " Warwickshire." (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Mr. Miller gives a preliminary essay on the " value and price of land, labour, and agricultural produce." He goes,...

an advertisement, of a health-resort situated in the Highlands of Scotland, nearly twenty miles north-westward by rail from Inverness, sheltered by Ben Wyvvis, a mountain...

Downey.)— The anticipation of pleasure with which one resumes acquaintance with Dan Banim, of the " Green Glasses," is amply justified by these delightful stories. Unless the...

Low.)—We look in this collection of poetry—and not in vain, let it be said—for a certain freedom of expression and broad effective- ness, which would naturally be the product...

It would be difficult to find a more interesting, and we might say, valuable volume than The Poets' Bible. Many great names in song confront us, and the poetry, considered as...

the plot of this tale is bound up with Russian crimes, the Third Section, and international diplomacy, and that it is dramatic, we have mentioned the chief points of importance...

(Ward and Downey.)—This is a book likely to disappoint the reader who wishes to know an Australian's impressions of London and of the United States. Mr. Hogan's method of...

Mr. Lovejoy has tried to carry out a somewhat difficult system, a biography which shall deal separately with Bacon's intellect and his character. He is, of course, full of...

the present volume, Mr. Charles Worthy has given us fourteen out of the twenty-eight parishes in the archdeaconry of Totnes. As a rule, the history of a parish sooner or later...

novel is evidently an inexperienced writer, and the scheme of the story is somewhat absurd. The heroine is tile only child of a wealthy banker, who, being absorbed in himself...

simple story of missionary enterprise in Southern India under- taken by two native converts to Christianity, Marial and her 'devoted husband, Yovarn. They have to fight cholera...

and Windus.)—It is not necessary to say much of this collection of short stories. As Mr. Andrew Lang and others have pointed out, few English writers have cared to regard the...

(S. W. Part- ridge.)—This is a perhaps somewhat effusive, yet on the whole admirable and successful attempt to do justice to the life and work of John Bright. It is altogether...

is a large assortment of questions of the less usual and common- place nature, which the student will find valuable, for the simple reason that his attention is rarely if ever...