second " credit " for Tonquin, about one-twelfth of what he really wants, and is waiting anxiously for news from Bacninh, when he hears than Anam itself has risen behind Admiral...

for the Liberals, Mr. H. W. West being returned by 3,266 votes, against 2,816 given to Sir T. Charley. The poll was unusually heavy, only a seventh of the electors being absent...

case.

in- active, but the Egyptians have suffered another ominous defeat. The Governor of Suakim, instead of waiting for General Baker, sent 700 men, 500 of them Nubian Regulars, to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK M R. PARNELL received the tribute raised for him by the gratitude of the Irish people,--a sum already over £37,000, and which is expected to reach £40,000...

nesday, and made a speech in which he first of all condemned the freehold vote. Faggot-voting was admitted to be bad, and the non-resident freeholder bad through his property...

Lon- don and Counties Liberal Union, and made one of his usual vol-au-vent speeches. There was very little in it, but it was nice. After praising the Union for organising...

Thursday, with the important bearing of which on the great . Reform question we have dealt at length elsewhere. But here. we may add that he augured hopefully for such a...

marriage between Jews and Christians, but it has for the present been defeated, the Bill having been thrown out of the Upper House by 109 to 106. The higher Catholic.prelates...

ment to leave Egypt as speedily as possible. We could not annex the country, he said, because of our solemn pledges, because of the heavy Egyptian Debt, and because of the...

Prince, who is going to Rome on his way home through Italy, will call upon the Pope. It is imagined that he will discuss ecclesiastical politics with his. Holiness, and perhaps...

Noncon- formist Fellow of New College who was nominated as Examiner in Religious Knowledge, and sustained by Congregation by 53- votes against 44, was rejected on Thursday by...

a remarkable little speech on Thursday, after the unveil- ing of the statue of Mr. Gladstone which has been pro- duced by Mr. E. Ouslow Ford, and presented to the club- by a...

Broadclyst, on Saturday last, gave us a good illustration of what a good landlord can do to identify the interests of labourers and very small farmers with the land by which...

the admirable cover of Punch, was seized at the Athennium Club on Monday by a fit of apoplexy, and died at four o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was the son of the famous...

it is said that he will take the title of Lord Tennyson D'Eyncourt, an old title in the Tennyson family. The news has been received with universal and, we think, legitimate...

denounc- ing the weakness and imbecility of Monsignore Giambattista Savarese, who, lately a domestic prelate of the Pope, was re- ceived into the communion of the American...

accused of being richer than you are. Not to mention the tantalising nature of the charge, the applications for money are instantly doubled, your benefactions are at once...

paralytic attack that came on near a year and a half ago, in June, 1882, from which he bad in some degree recovered before the relapse came in which he died. He was one of the...

Smith as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. Professor Sylvester is,—with perhaps some question as to Pro- fessor Cayley,—the most brilliant and original mathematician of...

Consols were on Friday 100 to l00, x.d.

MR. PARNELL'S SPEECH. T HE meeting in the Dublin Rotunda on Tuesday was one obviously intended to be as unpleasant as might be in its effect on English statesmen and...

W E doubt if the British public even yet see why the situation in Egypt is so serious. Clearly Mr. John Morley does not, for he speaks as if it were still open to us to retire...

I F Mr. Herbert Gladstone, as Member for Leeds, always represented his father, his speech of Saturday to the Bramley Liberal Club, Leeds, would be the most serious utter- ance...

TR. FORSTER'S very important speech at Bradford on ..LY.L Reform will give, we hope, the coup de grdce to more than one of the difficulties which beset the treatment of the...

Juries has been relatively vindicated in a very unexpected way. They have not been proved to be universally trustworthy, but they have been shown to be no worse than some...

r ITLY, the pace of progress in England is " killingly slow." Among the good things which the Reform Bill of 1832 was expected to bestow upon its supporters and the country,...

T HE Australian Conference has been in one way a success. It was supposed that the jealousies of the Colonies were still too keen to allow of Federation, but the pressure of...

T HE controversy which has been going on at Oxford is really due in much greater measure to the almost exces- sive Conservatism of English habits, than to anything like in-...

A CONTROVERSY arose a few weeks ago which, but that Editors rather shirked it, world have become a bitter one, about the possibility of complete retrogression from a civilised...

I T is characteristic of the times that the refusal of the Nottinghamshire Cricket Club to play Lancashire next season, has produced as great an excitement and almost as many...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—The only plan to secure the representation of Minorities is the simple one of having one Member to each constituency. The west end of...

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SuL, — The Spectator would not willingly be unjust, even to - those who fail to see any close connection between the...

SIR,—Mr. J. Parker Smith objects to a negative vote, as carrying undue influence He says, "Take the case of three candidates, A, B, 0 By allowing a voter to record a negative...

LTO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, at may not be generally known to your readers that in. some of the poorest of our East London parishes—Whitechapel„ Stepney, and St....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your article on the county franchise, last week, you question if the freehold qualification, with a condition of resid- ence...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many readers must have welcomed the thoughtful and comprehensive survey in last week's Spectator of the clerical conditions in...

SIR,—In an editorial note to a letter on " The Negative Vote," you say, "No doubt, minorities are over-represented now. In that we heartily agree." Now, I cannot see how you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The question discussed in your paper of Saturday last, namely, how best to protect from theft securities payable to bearer deposited...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In your interesting article on " The Comparative Popu- larity of Literary Men," you assume that the readers of the Journal of Education...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SrECrAToa."1 SIR,—I am going to ask a favour at your hands, which I fear you will think a great presumption; but the desire to call atten- tion to a very...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your critique of " Jonathan Swift " last week, you make a misstatement on a matter of fact s which I shall be obliged by your...

WEARING Aurora's robe, night after night, Some radiant spirit rules the western sky, Drowning the sun-tints with such rich supply Of colours weaved of unremembered light, That...

ALBANO. THE Lake lies calm in its mountain crown, And the twilight star shows Clear, And large and solemn it gazes down In the mirror of the mere. Was it here they rowed in...

LORD LYNDHURST.* WE think that both as a piece of literary work, and as a contribution to contemporary history, this book would have been a better one, if it had been less in...

IN 1878, the war-sloop 'Alert,' which had already secured for itself an enviable immortality by reaching the highest northern latitude ever attained, was recommissioned by the...

review an encyclo- pa3dia may, perhaps, be considered as reducing the function of the critic to an absurdity—is happily made easy by the prefa- tory announcement of the editor's...

and more familiar with novels by American writers, and there can be no doubt that these books have an immense sale and circulation. If it can be said of our novelists that they...

of the Old W ater-Colour Society, was in some ways an unique figure in the Art history of the present day,—he had little, if anything, to do with what may be called the...

Russell, by F. P. G. Oeicot ; and Biographical Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, containing short sketches from the lives of Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson,...

not a book of this year, may be mentioned, if it should have hap- pened to have escaped the notice of our readers, as :full of interest- ing reading. These "young adventurers "...

GIFT BOOKS. Battle Stories from British and European History, by W. H. Daven- port Adams (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) ; Bhore and Sea ; or, Stories of Great Vikings and Sea...

Son.)—Here is a story built, and, as we may expect from so skilled a writer as Mr. Henty, well bnilt, on the foundation of historical fact. Charlie Marryat, by the help of an...

L. Clarke. (IV. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There is, of course, something to be put down on the per contra side, in balancing Raleigh's character. Such a balancing, however,...

(J. F. Shaw and Co.)—This is described as "A Tale of the Restora- tion." The principal incident in this story is the career of Olivia, daughter of an Independent minister, who...

Charlotte J. Hart. (Chapman and Hall.)—The transla- tion is made from the " thirty-fourth " edition of the German original. This is sufficient proof of considerable popularity,...

—The elephants, the dogs, and the animals generally, whose doings Sir Samuel Baker relates to us, are creatures with which we have been glad to make acquaintance. The San...

repre- sented by a vigorous reproduction of Cranach's portrait of Luther ; and by an interesting account, from the pen of Mr. Walter Arm- strong, of "Some Forgotten Etchers."...

C. Freyer, Ph.D. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Here are eleven stories, some of them quaint and strange, some, as, for instance, the "Dragon Stories," of a sufficiently...

and Co.) —Miss Winchester always writes well, but she is scarcely at her best in this story. The characters and the plot are more of the con- ventional sort that we are...

Edward Burton. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—This is a romantic story, full of adventures and surprises, and ending, as such stories should end, with the happiness of the good and the...

Gardner, Dayton, and Co.)—There are some very brisk scenes of school-life in the early part of this story, scenes which are vigorously described, and which will be read with...

C. Lesbazeilles, by Robert Rontledge. (Routledge and Sons.)—We read here about the natural history of the Polar regions ; we have also the records, somewhat sad, on the whole,...

pretty little story, illustrating the patience of true charity, and the reward which it attains in the end.

M. Conklin. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Bek, or, at full length, Rebekah, is an Ameri- can young lady. Whether the " corner " is the age of twenty-five, as we are inclined to think, or...

Stoughton). is a very romantic story indeed. One Henry Jervaux marries secretly a girl below him in social position, and thereby offends his family. He dies, leaving one child ;...

of the " Christmas number " sort; moderately good of their kind, but not more. The anecdote of the miller who put the story of the walls of Jericho to a practical experiment, is...

Co.)—Madge and her brothers and sisters are left behind in England, when their father and mother, for the sake of business and of health, pay a visit to Australia. This story...

tellers. (W. Swan Sonnensohein.)—We are glad to welcome these old favourites, Fulgentius and Jovinian, and the kings, knights, maidens, magicians, and others, for whom the fancy...

Translated from the Norwegian by the Earl of Dade. (S.P.C.K.)—Laila is a little Norwegian, who is lost as a baby by being thrown out of a sledge pursued by wolves, and adopted...

incident. It really is little more than a story of how two sons leave their father, and the life for which their father had intended them, to devote themselves to more congenial...

very lively stories, with, perhaps, just a touch of satire in them, which would be well away, for a fairy-tale ought to be absolutely simple in intention, and never remind us of...

Windns.)—It was natural and, perhaps, desirable that the MS. which Mr. Trollope left behind him should be published after his death. He was certainly eminent enough to make the...

(Macmillan and Co.)—We cannot answer for other English folk, but we can un- hesitatingly say for ourselves that we have no kind of pleasure in reading about the American War of...

Windus.)—This is almost wholly a reprint of a work published some eight years ago. The book consists principally of a string of legendary tales and traditions of the West...

Pawn, by Francis Turner (Stevens and Sons), brought up to date by the incorporation of such statutes as have borne upon the subject since the publication of the first edition in...

V. White.) —This is a regrettable book. The coarse vices of bad men are not material whereof women should weave their fictions. If they know anything about the matter by...

partly ponderous, partly [esthetic, and wholly pretentious. The heroine is " rather nice," and we wish she had not fallen to the much-too-good-for-him lot of a gentleman of the...