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The arrangements made for Cardinal Newman's funeral are very simple.
The SpectatorBy his own request, he is to be buried in the vault at Rednal (a few miles from Birmingham), by the side of his old and dear friend who worked with him during the cholera attack...
We have lost in some respects our greatest Englishman in
The SpectatorCardinal Newman,—clearly the greatest master of English style, probably him whose life has been more completely the outcome of consistent, deep, and coherent purpose, than that...
Cardinal Newman died at the Oratory, Edgbaston, after less than
The Spectatortwo days' illness, on Monday last, in the ninetieth year of his age. He would have been ninety if he had lived till February 21st next. He had a shivering fit on Saturday night,...
Mr. Balfour made a very interesting speech at Salford on
The SpectatorSaturday to a great Unionist demonstration in the Belle Vae Gardens, in which, after noticing the obscure insinuations of Mr. Gladstone's speech to the Wesleyans at the National...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorP ARLIAMENT will probably be prorogued on Tuesday. Supply has been concluded, the Appropriation Bill has been brought in, and the bores and political mischief-makers are...
During the past week, things political have been rapidly settling
The Spectatordown in the Argentine Republic, and a financial improvement is sure to follow ultimately, though not perhaps at once. On Wednesday, the funeral service for those who fell in the...
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Sir William Harcourt had nothing much to say to his
The Spectatorcon- stituents at Derby on Wednesday, and though he is generally a man to make nothing look like much, he only succeeded on this occasion in making it look a prodigiously big...
Lord Hartington made a good speech at Chatsworth on Monday
The Spectatorlast, in addressing some excursionists from the Rossendale Division of Lancashire, to whom he remarked that he did not much like turning Chatsworth into a place for party...
In referring to Mr. Gladstone's attack on Mr. Justice Harrison
The Spectatorfor addressing the people of Galway as if they ought to lynch those who intimidate and oppress them,—a slip of the tongue which Mr. Balfour maintained that no one misunderstood...
The South Wales strike appears to be settled at last,
The Spectatorand the terms are said to be satisfactory both to the employers and to the men. The directors are pleased that the principle that the men shall be paid only for the days on...
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. J. O'Connor raised in Supply the
The Spectatorquestion of the treatment of the dynamite prisoners, in a rambling speech of two hours' duration. According to him, the authorities of the gaol in which they are confined have...
For the rest, Lord Hartington thought that the administra- tive
The Spectatorwork of the present Government had been so good that it much more than counterbalanced the failure of its legislative measures, and he denied that the failure of either of the...
The discussion of the Anglo-French agreement in the House of
The SpectatorCommons on Monday was made the occasion for a good deal of grumbling. Mr. Buchanan and Mr. MacArthur and Mr. Webb, who were specially angry at what they described as the handing...
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Dr. Tanner exceeded himself on Tuesday. Mr. Matthews, in defending
The Spectatorhis action in relation to the Crewe parricide, said that he hoped no Minister who had to advise her Majesty as to the exercise of her highest prerogative,—that of mercy,— would...
The return of Abdurrahman. to Cabul, after an absence of
The Spectatortwo years, gave the Times of Monday last an occasion for an interesting review of the present situation in Afghanistan. When the Ameer left his capital in 1888, the insurrection...
Sir John Gorst explained the financial position of India on
The SpectatorThursday night. It was, on the whole, a prosperity statement, all the figures showing a larger statement of revenue the more nearly they represented the actual facts and not...
L'Illustration, the French Graphic, has been publishing the diary of
The Spectatora certain M. Chaudoin, one of the hostages who was seized by the King of Dahomey, and kept three months in captivity, chained for the greater part of the time to his fellow-...
The Times of Monday gives an interesting account of an
The Spectator" agricultural jubilee," which was lately celebrated on the Suffolk estates of Lord Tollemache, who has just completed a fifty years' possession of his land. A detailed record...
On Tuesday, a special jury at Lewes awarded damages to
The Spectatorthe amount of £10,000 in an action for breach of promise of mar- riage. The plaintiff was a Miss Gladys Knowles, and the defendant the editor and proprietor of the Matrimonial...
Mr. Chaplin made a short speech on Saturday in Knuston
The SpectatorPark, East Northamptonshire, which, if his figures are accurate, deserves to be preserved and widely circulated. He said that up to July 28th last, twenty Members had made 1,326...
No one who has ever driven in a heavily laden
The Spectatortramcar can have helped experiencing the feeling that the scientific mechanists ought to turn their attention to finding some means of starting the car mechanically, and so of...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE PAIN OF THE SESSION. T HE Session has at last been nearly scrambled through. The votes in Supply have been concluded. The Appropriation Bill will soon be passed. Whether...
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THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK.
The SpectatorL ORD SALISBURY'S declaration that the European outlook is pacific to the point of dullness, has this week received a striking confirmation. On Wednesday, the Times'...
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MR. BALFOUR ON A BOREOCRACY.
The SpectatorM R. BALFOUR, in his admirable speech at Man- chester this day week, insisted with great power on the disastrous result to the country of allowing the men who determine the...
NATIONALISTS AND CATHOLICS.
The SpectatorW E do not know whether Leo XTTT. reads English ; but if he does not, we hope that he will have Mr. Healy's speech on Monday translated into Italian. The finer graces of the...
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THE DELIMITATION OF AFRICA. T HE Powers are regularising their respective
The Spectatorpositions in Africa very fast. Every few months brings some fresh agreement dealing with thousands of square miles of territory, and marking off this or that " zone " as being...
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THE POLITICAL TRIUMPH OF DULLNESS.
The SpectatorI T is a favourite maxim with many people that there is no object in the whole scheme of creation that has not got its place and its uses ; that even those pachyder- matous and...
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CARDINAL NEWMAN. T HERE are deaths yet to come which will
The Spectatoragitate the English world more than Cardinal Newman's ; but there has been none, and will be none, so far as we know, that will leave the world that really knew him with so keen...
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THE USE OF THE REVOLVER IN A 1W - F1RICA.
The SpectatorA CURIOUS account of the readiness to take human life upon any, and indeed upon no pretext, which prevails in Kentucky, has lately been published by an American news agency....
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HOLIDAY-MAKERS.
The SpectatorT HERE are few people who can pass an ant-hill and resist the temptation to poke it with a stick, and watch the inevitable result : in an instant that peaceful little mound of...
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BIRDS OF THE COAST.
The SpectatorThere are few better places for watching the sea-fowl than the cliffs of the South Coast and the Isle of Wight. Not where the chalk presents its strongest face to the sea ; for...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorA COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : ELEVATION OF THE MASSES BY CONTACT: WITH OXFORD MEN-THE SCHOOL BOARD BOY-THE UNITY OF NATURE. THE soothing fact that there is a soul of...
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FRENCH POPULAR FEELING.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] I DOUBT if any of your readers has less sympathy than I with the yearning to go back twenty, thirty, or forty years (as the case may be),...
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"ROLLICKING IRELAND."
The Spectator(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — Will you allow me, as an Irishwoman, to express my gratitude to the writer of the article called " Rollicking Ireland" P It is written...
THE RIGHTS OF SERVANTS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —May I make a few remarks on the article in the Spectator of August 9th, headed " The Rights of Servants "? Your reviewer writes :—"...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorCHURCH POLICY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Does Mr. Moggridge claim the ancient endowments of the Church of England for her if disestablished ? This. appears to...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE SHADOW OF A DREAM.* BETTER justice will be meted to this latest problem of Bostonian society by Mr. Howells, if we dissociate it from his previous successes, and judge what...
CATS AS HUMORISTS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—After reading your article on " Cats as Humorists," I am obliged to send you an anecdote of mine, a long-haired, black Persian. Living...
ANGLO-IRISH IDIOMS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Are we to take as seriously made, the statement in your review of Dr. Joyce's book on the Anglo-Irish dialect (August 2nd), that Irish...
[*.* We are requested to state that in the Rev.
The SpectatorF. 0. Morris's letter on " The Rook," published in the Spectator of August 2nd, the information stated to have been received by him from Mrs. Cole, of Condover Hall, near...
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE TOAD.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of August 9th, I notice that a gentleman " called" F. 0. Morris indignantly repudiates the statement that " some one in a...
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ENGLISH NOVELISTS BEFORE DEFOE.*
The SpectatorIT is agreeable to meet with:a writer who is not only master of his subject, but who knows how to treat it in a lively and graceful style. There are several English scholars...
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DR. SCHAFF'S " LITERAI U ILE AND POETRY."* WHAT first
The Spectatorstrikes us about this handsome book is the fact that its bold and sweeping title is too large for its contents. The word " Studies " is in the wrong place. If the book had been...
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THE CLERGY AT OBER-AkIIIIERGA1J.* AMONG the many accounts that have
The Spectatorbeen written this year of the Passion-Play, one of the most picturesque, the most interesting, and the most reasonable is this sketch of Arch- deacon Farrar's. He is not ruled...
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PALESTINE UNDER THE MOSLEMS.* Tan modest preface with which Mr.
The SpectatorGuy Le Strange intro- duces his very valuable work to the public who are interested in the important work of the Palestine Exploration Fund, would appear to us an unnecessary...
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THE INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION OF ASIA.*
The SpectatorTHE chief argument that is brought forward by bimetallists in favour of their monetary system is the present state of commerce between this country and India. They urge that the...
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The Death - Duties : a Handbook. By Sydney Burton, M.P., and
The SpectatorG. S. Barnes. (John Murray.)—This is a very good little guide to the maze of the Death-duties, put together in Mr. Buxton's usually succinct and exact manner. The most...
Glimpses of Eastern Cities. By Andrew Russell. M.A. (Nisbet and
The SpectatorCo.)—Not the least remarkable thing about this volume is the occasion which brought about its production. " These lec- tures," says Mr. Russell in his brief preface, "are the...
The Lives and Times of the Minor Prophets. By the
The SpectatorYen. Archdeacon Farrar, D.D. (Nisbet and Co.)—Archdeacon Farrar has brought to the composition of this book the learning, the felicity of illustration, and the width of sympathy...
An Australian Ramble. By J. Ewing Ritchie. (T. Fisher Unwin.)
The Spectator—It is rather difficult to know what the author is, in spite of his alternative name of " Christopher Crayon." But if " Christopher Crayon" is a nom - de - plume, it is not to...
Among the Selkirk Glaciers. By William Spottiswood Green. (Macmillan and
The SpectatorCo.)—This book is a disappointment. The account of Mr. Green's almost-ascent of Mount Cook and his ex- ploration of the New Zealand Alps, was as good a piece of moun- taineering...
Boy : Word-Sketches of a Child's Life. By Helen Milman.
The Spectator(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This is a story written on lines some- what resembling those of "Misunderstood." " Boy " is an enfant incompris, if we take that phrase without the...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorMelia's Magazine for August, a periodical which seems to be the organ, so to speak, of a grocer, contains, in a series entitled " Our Portrait Gallery," the likeness of Dinah...
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Scenes from the Silent World. By Francis Scougal. (Blackwood and
The SpectatorSons.)—In spite of some unhappy peculiarities of style (we read, for instance, of a " magisterial cranium," instead of a " magistrate's head "), Mr. Scougal has written a...
A Family Tree, and other Stories. By Brander Matthews. (Longmans
The Spectatorand Co.)—Mr. Brander Matthews is a master of the art of short-story writing. His style is admirably, crisp, correct, and dainty, without affectation, and he allots the...
Up and Down : Sketches of Travel. By Gilbert S.
The SpectatorMacquoid. (Ward and Downey.)—This is about the thinnest travel-book we have ever read. It is in reality some feeble letterpress in explana- tion of twenty-nine charming...
Theology and Piety : Alike Free. By " An Old Student."
The Spectator(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The " Old Student of Manchester New College" has republished in this volume a number of addresses, &c., delivered from time to time during the last...
England and South Africa. By Edward J. Gibbs, M.A. (Long-
The Spectatormans.)—" In these pages I have endeavoured to give an impartial account of the progress of Great Britain in South Africa." It is thus that Mr. Gibbs begins his preface. He goes...
Northern ' Agin. By Gottleib Schumacher. (Alex. P. Watt.)— This
The Spectatoris a volume published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The district described is part of that anciently known as Decapolis. It lies to the south-east of the...
Sir John Franklin, the True Secret of the Discovery of
The Spectatorhis Fate: a " Revelation." By Henry Skewes. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This book contains the account of a matter on which we do not pretend to form any judgment—briefly it is this,...
Daniels Cortis : a Novel. From the Italian of Antonio
The SpectatorFogazzaro. By Stephen Louis Simeon. (Remington and Co.)—It is not easy to create sympathy for Italian fiction. The obstacle is not so much the foreignness of the " ways " of the...
Through David's Realm. By Edward Staats de Grote Tompkins. (Sampson
The SpectatorLow and Co.)—An American tourist's impressions of the Holy Land could hardly fail to present some novel points of view to English readers, and the much-prefixed Mr. Tompkins of...
