at the Mexican War, and the unprincipled motives which led so many to support it, he began the " Biglow Papers," which will im- mortalise his name in the eyes of Englishmen and...

Minister in England, who was transferred hither from Spain in 1880, and served his country admirably in London for five years, and who was even better known as a great...

m R. BALF017R addressed a great meeting of between three and four thousand persons in the Guildhall, Ply- mouth, on Monday. We have drawn attention in another -column to that...

fore three more years of minority before him—left Peterhof on Saturday last, en route for Vienna, accompanied by M. Ristich, the chief Regent. What amount of significance is to...

the place of the late Sir Charles Forster, showed the very consider- able strength of the Unionist Party in that great borough. The Gladstonians gained the day ; but the poll,...

toast to the Liberal Unionists, passed the warmest panegyric on the fidelity of the Liberal Unionists to the Conservative alliance, and predicted that, from being temporary and...

case.

of Russia to pass ships containing, or said to contain, troops through the Dardanelles. The Porte, however, is undoubtedly in its strict right in refusing permission for any...

patients have been occasionally saved by his inoculations, the ex- pense of deliberate cruelty at which they have been saved is something awful. A French journal,...

meeting of his constituents in the Horncastle Division of Lincolnshire, at Alford, on Wednesday last. He en- deavoured to sum up the achievements of the Government, which had...

of Hygiene, we trust that it may not result in such an Institute of Preventive Medicine as the Pasteur Institute in Paris, which some of the members of the Congress of Hygiene...

Two Frenchmen, farmers in the vicinity of Constantinople, were seized at their home by a party of seven armed men. One was carried off, and the other told to go and immediately...

Demography on Monday, in St. James's Hall, with an address- apparently intended to prove to the world that Mr. Stead has not mistaken his Royal Highness's profound craving for...

on Thursday. The other guilty persons, including the Regent, who was not regarded as a prime mover in the massacre, were exiled to the Andaman Islands.

in New Tipperary, and went back to the old butter weigh-house on Mr. Smith-Barry's property. The cattle-fair was also resumed on Tuesday on the old ground, and on that day...

not of the -very greatest practical importance and utility, we should feel inclined to differ with the decision of Mr. Justice Collins in the nullity of marriage case decided by...

issued by the Emperor of China in regard to the recent riots. The Emperor declares that the propagation of Christianity by foreign missionaries is protected by treaty. Further,...

states that Mr. Bent's examination of the ruins of Zimbabye has already begun to produce results. The great walled enclosure, which has a circumference of 260 yards, is found to...

Tuesday, it was announced that Sir Hector Langevin had resigned his post in the Dominion Cabinet, and on that day his examination before the Committee was begun. His evidence,...

Radcliffe Cooke (M.P. for West Newington) a rather hasty and foolish estimate of Lord Hartington's powers as a speaker,—which he was evidently not competent to criticise,— has...

New Consols (VD were on Friday 961- to sq.

Lord Ailesbury, under the Settled Land Act for leave to sell the Savernake estate to Lord Iveagh (Sir Edward -Guinness) for the sum of £750,000. The leave of the Court was...

MR. BALFOUR'S APOLOGY. M R. BALFOUR, in his speech at Plymouth on Monday, explained his reasons for the promise to introduce his Irish Local Government Bill next Session. We...

are convinced that something very like a formal alliance has been arranged between France and Russia, or if not this, at any rate "an understanding" quite as binding. To deny...

M R. DILLON is not to be spared any of the burdens of leadership. Though he has come into the field late, he is expected to make up for the time lost through his enforced...

to realise the gravity of the situation created by the failure of the crops in Western Russia. On Tuesday, an Imperial ukase was issued forbidding the export of "rye, rye-meal,...

W E question whether the death of Mr. James Russell Lowell will be felt even in the United States more keenly than it is felt in England. Whether as a poet, or as a critic, or...

Engineer-in-Chief of the American Navy for the past year bears out with singular completeness the opinion recently expressed in the Spectator, that the introduction of the new...

A BRILLIANT dream of conquest and confederation has just been published by Messrs. Cassell, which we should suppose, from internal evidence, to be the book of some Irish...

-U P till now, the United Kingdom has been the paradise of barrel-organs. They have been hymned by Calverley in immortal verse, and they have been allowed to molest our peace...

A RATHER curious and significant letter which we publish in another column illustrates a modern tendency to anathematise belief, instead of unbelief, which appears to be growing...

N OW that our energetic contemporary, the Daily Telegraph, has done with the subject of "Amusement," and has -already wandered off to "fresh woods and pastures new," we may...

C HINON. A GREAT yellow ruin, magnificently situated, is all that remains of the Royal castle of Chinon. But that it should for so many centuries, from Clovis to Marie de'...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcrsioa."] - SIR,—The Session of 1891 has closed, and during its course much has been done to bear out the contention of all 4 . Unionists," that the...

ANATHEMA TO BELIEVERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] the Spectator of August 8th, you come out in your true colours,—viz., as a friend of stagnation in theology, and an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] can find no authority for your statement that you suspected Mr. Chamberlain had taken up the question of Free Education before Mr. John...

LTo TER EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.'] Sin, — May I ask an inch of your space to press the claims of the St. Andrew ' s Home, Portsmouth, which, under the care of the Diocesan...

[To TEE EDITOR Of TEX " SPRCTATOR." J SIR, — In the discussion upon women in your columns, would it not be better, before stating views on the subject, to study our Shakespeare....

" SPICTATOIL,"] Sia, — During a visit to Sweden, I have had an opportunity of hearing from Swedish friends facts relating to, and their opinion upon, the Swedish licensing...

AN EPISTLE. So, into Cornwall you go down, And leave me loitering here in town. For me, the ebb of London ' s wave, Not ocean-thunder in Cornish cave. My friends (save only one...

THE UNIVERSE OF STARS.* IT is only, curiously enough, within the last decade or two that the science of astronomy has answered to its name. Until the methods of spectrum...

to England's least ones ever turned, The lads unfathered, houseless, and unfed, And strove to show them duty P Shall the dead Who left their bones where Nubian deserts burned...

volume consists in the main, Mr. Llewelyn Davies tells us, of the Hulsean Lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1890, and he tells us also that, in his opinion, the utility of the...

entitled" Britannic Confederation," which appeared in the Scottish Geographical Magazine for July, will be reprinted, not merely privately, but in a popular form, and receive a...

'Tins volume consists of six essays reprinted from the Nine- teenth Century, and of one which appeared in the North American Review. Dr. Jessopp is one of those fortunate...

A BOOK about riding naturally suggests an inquiry into the causes which have led to the evolution of the English horse, the " horsiness " of the people of these islands, and...

Mr. George Brodrick would consider a literary work, after a perusal of the solid volume of still more solid contents that he has entitled Literary Fragments. If these be only...

The Coming Terror, and other Essays and Letters. By Robert Buchanan. (Heinemann.)—The most striking characteristic of this multifarious collection of opinions and assertions is...

commend this volume to our readers. The subject and the authorship speak for it. Mr. Clark Russell is thoroughly intelligence the story of a great sailor. But Collingwood was...

Co.)—This is a fairly good love-story. Chirchen is a girl, half-English, half-German by parentage. Some English relatives take her up in a patronising kind of way. This brings...

Luker, jun. (The Leadenhall Press.)—This is a handsome book, well and copiously illustrated. Still, in a way, it is disappointing. Mr. Loftie discusses at considerable length...

tnann.)—All the characters in Mea Culpa are distinctly good, except Prince Leonticheff. He is an almost impossible character, and of a kind a novelist should only put forward...

states the problem—the future of the American Negro— completely and fairly, and discusses the solutions which have been proposed. What he calls the " blac't belt" is growing...

Barnes, 11.I.N.A. Edited by T. A. Brassey. (Griffin and Co., Portsmouth.) —One of the most significant things about our Navy is its unique position ; it has to be the strongest...

B.A. (James Thin, Edinburgh.)—Mr. Edgar rightly com- plains of the neglect with which English scholars have treated the Homeric Hymns. That they are later in date than the "...

T. Clark.)—Mr. Blake has arranged the prophecies of Isaiah in the chronological order. He holds, with the vast majority of modern critics, that the book, as we have it, consists...

Larnsoyes (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.), aims at simplicity and practicality. Rules, vocabularies, dialogues,. and exercises go on together, and it is intended that the pupil...

Co.)—Mr. W ilfrid Ttleynell's sub-title suggests a sub- ject of serious thought : "The Foun 3er of Modern Anglicanism and a Cardinal of the Roman Church." If this is so, what...

(Mactehose, Glasgow.)—Mrs. Moir is the wife of the younger of two brothers whose names are well known in connection with the work of African investigation. "Lord Salisbury and...

hall Press.)—We cannot say that the prospect of more books of this kind—this appears to be the first of a proposed series entitled " Curatica "—is very attractive. This story of...

:—The Art Journal, No. 33 of Our Celebrities (containing photographic portraits of Captain Hawley Smart, the Duchess of Leinster, and M. Lanteri), the Magazine of Art, Part 5 of...