N OTHING of importance has been received this week from Constantinople. The Sultan refuses to yield about Thessaly, and the Ambassadors are considering how to compel .him, but...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index -and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 2nd to June 26th, 1897, inclusive.

THE GREAT TERROR. T HE Sultan relies in his defiance of Europe, first, upon his own adroitness, which throughout his reign has stood him in such stead ; secondly, upon his Army,...

Report has not yet been officially published, but sufficiently full accounts have been printed in the newspapers to make it possible to comment on the findings. Though...

for years been simmering in the Western States, and which was so conspicuously manifested in Mr. Bryan's nomination and campaign, has now taken a new form,—the organisation of a...

ANTE do not suppose that Lord Londonderry and his supporters among the mineowners, Radical and Conservative, will succeed in makin ,-, the Peers destroy the Compensation Bill,...

W E doubt if the Unionist Government are wise in refusing so absolutely to pay, or rather to lend, the money necessary for a thorough examination of the Irish tunnel project....

W E could find it in our hearts to wish that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who is one of the best informed as well as sensible Chancellors of the Exchequer that we have ever had,...

I N the debate which arose out of Lord Wantage's question in the Lords on Monday the heat evolved was out of all proportion to the importance of the issue directly raised. We...

F OR many years past we have expressed from time to time a hope that explorers would discover in some of the tombs of Egypt papyri of genuine importance to theology. There is no...

T HIS is unquestionably the kingly epoch. There was never an age when Kings were so firmly seated on their thrones and so little the subjects of odium and complaint as the...

A MONG the transactions in the landed property market recorded last week is one which will be construed, wrongly, as we think, as a sign that the recent shrinkage in the value...

[To TH8 EDITOR OF TH8 "SPECT•TOR."] SIlt,—Experientia docet ; but her lessons are too often lost because no notes are made of them at the time. A remark of yours in the...

Spectator of July 10th, I turned to "Lord Blachford's Letters," (p. 401), and read as follows :- " October 17th, 1880. "What a muff European Concert is, unless one or more...

THE UNREST IN INDIA. [To TIM EDITOR OF THB "Brzer•FOR."] Sin,—Many people will, I am sure, have read with much in- terest your two articles on "The Unrest in India," especially...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There have been some remarkable letters on this subject in the Spectator lately, and if you think fit I should like to mention a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.' Sin,—On reading your article in the Spectator of June 26th on "The Illiterate Undergraduate," I had caused a paper to be set very much on the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, I think that under this heading it may be of interest to record what seems to me almost a unique experience. My colleague, Sir John...

THEY AND WE.* WITH stormy joy, from height on height The thundering torrents leap. The mountain tops, with still delight, Their great inaction keep. Man only, irked by calm,...

ITo VIE EDITOR Os TEE SPECTATOR."] have read your instructive article under the above heading in the Spectator of July 10th. I read it, too, with more than ordinary interest,...

A NEW TRANSLATION OF BOETHIUS4 IT is, we believe, rather more than a century since a new English version has appeared of that once popular manual, the Consolation of...

The Secret Bose is a beautiful book. Mr. Yeats explains in a very interesting page of dedication that, though the various stories of which it is made up were written "at...

Tarp,: is much of sadness attached to Mr. Justin McCarthy's latest volume, which brings up to the present date a work which has been the result of infinite and loving pains, and...

an expensive work produced by the same authors some nine years ago, for the benefit of private subscribers only. For which reason, and because the original volumes have...

WE must confess to having nursed an erroneous conviction that the doctrine of a Wages Fund had been killed by the keen criticism of modern economists, and to having ex-...

of Lord Macaulay's works would suffice, if such an indication were needed, to prove that the great historian has not lost his favour with the public. Indeed, if popularity be a...

Press.)—This "Year-book of Philanthropy" contains . " a review of the position and requirements, and chapters on the management, revenue, and cost of the charities," a "record...

Co.)—The "crags and craters" which Mr. Oliver describes are in the island of Reunion, otherwise Bourbon. The island is volcanic, with two formations, the new, which contains the...

Holmes. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—Mr. Holmes gives in this volume a mass of interesting figures relating to the " inter- county" contests for what is called the...

Mr. Grant Richards sends us the second part of his English Portraits, consisting of lithographed drawings by Mr. Will Rothenstein. The two celebrities in this part are Sir F....

" idyll" is taken from the apparently inexhaustible subject of Scotch country life. Meggie Maclean goes from Ballinard to a place in a city, and comes back with ideas in her...

again we have TOM Sawyer to the life, and, though we cannot forget that there are weaknesses and absurdities in his adventures as an amateur detective, he is, of course,...

(David Nutt.)—This a very careful and loving study of life and manners in Old New York in the Dutch days, evidently derived from a variety of records. The New York of the...

sketches and stories are vigorously done. Their chief defect is that the point is not always as clear as the average reader would like to have it. The said reader, as Mr. Wood...

and Co.)—It is quite impossible with such appliances as we have at our command to do justice to this beautiful volume. We can acknowledge in general terms the great learning...

and Co.)—This is one of the series of "Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities." It gives us in a very moderate compass an adequate account of its subject, so far as the author...

late Thomas Guthrie, D.D. First Series. (Burnet and Isbister.)—The Church Catechism. With Notes by " E. M." Illustrated. (S.P.C.K.)—Songs and Tales of St. Columba and his Age....

Sarah Hopper Emerson. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Richard Wagner's Prose Works. Translated by William Ashton Ellis. Vol. V. " Actors and Singers." (Kegan Paul, Trench, and...

Barnes (W. E.), Apparatus Criticise to Chronicles in Peshitra Version, &c , Svo (Camel. Univ. Press) 5/0 Barton (F. T.). Everyday Ailments and Accidents of Cattle, cr Sea...

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