16 MAY 1885

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NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

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T HE news of the week, as to our relations with Russia, have been usually favourable ; but on Friday there was supposed to be a turn. Early in the week, Mr. Gladstone in the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW INDIAN POLICY. THE NEW INDIAN POLICY. T HE great significance of the debate of Monday and Tuesday in the Lords, upon the defences of India, may possibly escape the...

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

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T ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S cleverness has led to 4 a completely false estimate of his prospects as a political leader. What men have never sufficiently noticed is the remarkable...

THE INSOLUBLE PROBLEM OF THE DAY. T HE Report of the

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Commission on the Housing of the Working-classes is not cheerful reading. It gives a preliminary sketch of evils of the first magnitude, and of remedies which, at the best, can...

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THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SOUDAN.

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TT is useless to discuss the Russian settlement any further 1. until the papers are before Parliament and have been carefully studied. The journal which best states the Russian...

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MR. AUSTIN AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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W . ALFRED AUSTIN'S letter to the Tory electors of Leeds, declining to-stand for a division of that borough because the House of -Commons is ruining the country, does not...

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THE ELECTIONS. THE ELECTIONS. T HOUGH everybody believed that the General

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Election was to come in November, no one outside the Cabinet could be said absolutely to know it until it was virtually announced the other day by the Prime Minister. Convinced,...

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THE PRESERVATION OF COMMONS. THE PRESERVATION OF COMMONS.

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T HERE have been few subjects of legislation in which a more complete revolution has taken place in recent times than that of Commons. The revolution has been one of sentiment...

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LORD BEICONSE1ELD'S YOUTH.

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M R. RALPH DISRAELI has given the world a great pleasure, in recalling to us whatwe venture-to regard as the essence of his distinguished brother, by the publication of some of...

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fiCIENCE AND WAR.

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.print to-clay a letter from an old correspondent, who VN last .addressed us on a widely different subject, in which he discusses the ultimate future of war. His letter is...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE FUTURE OF ARMAMENT. pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The information contained in the article "A Great Change in India," which appeared in your issue for the 9th...

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DISESTABLISHMENT IN SCOTLAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I Sxa,—In the Spectator of May 9th "A Free Churchman" contrasts my letter to you, which appeared in the Spectator of May 2nd, with Lord...

THE BUST OF COLERIDGE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "1 Silt,—I shall be glad if you will allow me to supplement with some additional information what has been already announced with regard to the...

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LOWELL AND COLERIDGE. lTo 711E EDITOR OF.THE "-EIPF.CTATOIL")

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strikes me :as remarkable, that, among the eloquent -speakers xvlao followed Mr. Lowelllast Thursday at the Chapter-I:louse, no one pointed out the likeness 'between the...

"VARIATION ' S IN 'THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIME."

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sm—Your reviewer, in his remarks upon the paper by Mr. Justice Stephen on the above subject, says, inter alia, "It [i.e., hard labour] is...

_MARRIAGES OF _AFFINITY.

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TO .THE IBDITOR OF THE "tibpzumroz.-" Ste,—.Allow.me,--as a clergyman, and what is commonly-called a High Ohurchnian, to - corroborate your statement, that' the -passages...

- THE QUEIEN' - S ENGLISH.

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rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—Your correspondent, "An Anxious Guardian of the Queen's English," has appealed unto Shakespeare ; unto Shakespeare shall he go. Ile...

ART

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THE INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOUR - S. IT is with a /certain mingling/of - regret and satisfaction that wehave to acknowledge that our -predictions 'with regard to the"...

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS.

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hr the article which precedes this upon the Institute of Painters in Water-colours, we have given some account of the difference between the two Galleries, and of the causes for...

BOOKS.

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TYPES OF ETHICAL THEORY.* [THIRD NOTICE.] IF it has been a nearly impossible task to review in any true sense Dr. Martineau's first and mainly historical volume, the task of...

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ARO - HDEACON -FARRAA'S MDSSA.GES OF THE Bo OS.

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ARCHDEACON FARRAR claims, 'and, as -far as we -know, with - justice,-a certain originality for the form of his present -work. He writes in his - Preface - that there has not...

AMERICAN NOVEL*

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Teas book is most refreshing. The scene-oft-the story, is laid-on the banks of the _groat -river Delaware, and-a delicious sense.of open air, of trees and flowers, of-the...

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THE CHEVALIER D'EON.*

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IT is perhaps doubtful, whether the misfortunes of the Chevalier d'Eou in his lifetime were equal to those which he has met with since his death at the hands of his biographers....

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CURRENT LIT_E_RATURE:

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It may at least be said of Some Stained Pages (Ward and Downey), by the author of "The New Mistress,' that lehas an air of realityy that it is carefully written, and that it...