T HE Reichstag listened on Wednesday with a kind of awe to what may prove the last speech of Count von Moltke, Who in October will be ninety years of age. The great strategist...

statesman, or, indeed, any group of statesmen were per- sonally indispensable to any cause; and remarked drily that fifteen years ago the infirmities of age, "since happily...

on Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain taking the chair. More than eleven hundred guests were present, and Mr. Chamberlain delivered a succession of brilliant short speeches; Lord...

way his belief in some information as to a radical change in the external policy of the Russian Court. The Czar, he says, has finally given up the idea of an affiance with...

Parliamentary discussions on the morality or immorality of the National League's proceedings. They were revolutionary proceedings, and the law should, of course, be strengthened...

case.

Friday week. They never had a chance of carrying the seat, the Gladstonian majority in 1886 having been 1,736; but this was increased on the 9th inst. to 2,875, even if we do...

to make the Irish Question the subject of their attacks on the Government. Instead of this, they reproach the Liberal Unionists with having deserted their leader, whereas the...

his fourteen companions before a court-martial. The charges substantially are that they accepted bribes from Russian agents to assassinate or kidnap Prince Ferdinand and M....

which he urged the electors not to forget the great issue between the majority and their opponents, and pressed above all the external danger in which the concession of a...

the City, and made a speech, on part of which we have commented elsewhere. In this section he was very angry with the English for their want of enterprise in taking territory,...

to Mr. T. B. Potter, presented by the Cobden Club, in Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, pronounced a eulogium on Free-trade, marked by three observations of some importance. He was...

Reichstag on Tuesday, when General von Caprivi declared in substance that the wish for Colonies had been fanned in order to warm up national feeling; that be did not at all care...

clear and decisive. It was perfectly absurd to say that the money was to be used as compensation for licences in any ease where the Magistrates might refuse to renew the licence...

cardiac affection, of Mr. George Hooper, one of the most upright and able of professional journalists. His connection with this paper, among others, had lasted with short breaks...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 94 to 98i.

pro- found conviction that if any licence-holder ever got com- pensation for the extinction of his licence, the whole body of licence-holders would possess a much more valuable...

it with a very violent speech, in which he spoke of the Bill as the product of a "criminal conspiracy against order, justice, and morality," and predicted that the day was not...

moving the second reading of the Licensing Bill, which he declared would be defeated as a whole by the carrying of Mr. Caine's amendment. Of the total sum (21,304,000) to be...

feeling become in Paris, that its leaders are beginning to pay for assassinations. Indeed, an agent who had been paid 2200 to assassinate Dr. Cornelius Herz, an American...

taking the chair at the annual dinner in aid of the "Artists' General Benevolent Institution." He thought Mr. Morley's recent claim for Literature, that it is the happiest of...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND LORD HARTINGTON. M R. CHAMBERLAIN referred with some humour on Tuesday, at the Liberal Unionist banquet given to Lord Hartington, to the anxiety with which...

delivered this week in the German Reichstag,—one on Monday, on the Colonial, and the other on Wednesday, on the military policy of the Empire. The first is, on the whole,...

does not show any sense of alarm as to the judgment of the country upon the Government licensing proposals. It rejected Mr. Caine's amendment on Thursday night by a majority of...

W E arc not, as a rule, much inclined to trust statements about Russian policy coming only from Vienna. Magyars, Austrian Jews, and agents of the House of Hapsburg, all regard...

P EOPLE dispute whether Mr. Stanley is an Englishman or an American by nationality—as a matter of law, he is, we suppose, both—but he certainly retains more than a kindly...

France is entering upon a new phase. It is only within the last seven years that Trade-Unions have been recognised, and they are already claiming a position, not of equality,...

W E learn from the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday, that Mr. W. T. Stead "has made a munificent offer to Newnham College. He proposes to give a scholarship of £100 per annum for the...

W E have heard a great deal during the last few years of the remarkable success which has attended a co-operative movement among French agriculturists, resulting in the...

of metempsy- chosis, ancient and widespread as it is, which makes it specially alien to the modern Western mind. Englishmen in particular, though they, of all European mankind,...

T HE old question, as old as literature itself : What is style, and how can it be acquired P—has been revived in a characteristically modern form. Mr. George Bainton desired to...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S striking anecdote about David Cox, at the Artists' General Benevolent Institution last Saturday, showing as it did that that remarkable water- colour painter...

THE LATE BISHOP AND MRS. MACDOUGALL. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As one who knew well and loved dearly both Bishop and Mrs. MacDougall, may I ask for a short space...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin, — In adding, as I thought, a few illustrations to your article. I had no intention of beginning a controversy in your columns ; indeed,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In view of your article on Bimetallism and Mr. Gibbs's letter, perhaps you will permit me to draw attention, in a very few lines, to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIE,—With reference to the " Me, me, " I quite agree with your correspondent that "ego, ego" would be "forbidden by reasons other than...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The intoxicating liquors question is again to the fron'. How many people sufficiently realise its importance in the finance of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — Your article on the pygmy tribes of Africa, in the Spectator of May 10th, confirms the impression left on my mind, after hearing...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIE, — It is a little carious that the occupations for which edu- cated women are most suited, physically and mentally, are exactly those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Having regard to the Bill introduced by the Govern- ment, and referred a few days ago to the Standing Committee on Law by the House of...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] WE were forced to close our first notice of the Academy with a mere list of names. What we had written about one of those names, and were...

BABY. A LITTLE form so dainty small, So soft, so tender, and so dear ; A little voice whose helpless call Is music to a mother's ear ; A little pulse of delicate breath, Like...

'TWIXT OLD TIMES AND NEW.* IN the course of his life and wanderings, the Baron de Malortie has met with a great many surprising adventures, and heard a great many curious...

some four hundred pages, written with an intensity and a concentration that have kept it wholly free from the superfluous matter and trivial personal -details that load most...

long and loving study, a competent authority upon Attic vase.painting, and her papers on this subject in the Journal of Hellenic Studies are neither few nor unimportant. Her...

Ix is more than thirty years since Mr. Charles Edmonds brought out his second annotated edition of The Poetry of the "Anti-Jacobin," and the time is fully ripe for the third,...

a brief but eventful period of English history, specially noticeable for the steady decline of the King's prospects, and the growing influence of that Parliament which, in its...

THOMAS DE QIIINCEY, looking back on his childhood, declared that if, "after the manner of the Emperor Aurelius, he should return thanks to Providence" for all the blessings of...

and Son.)—It might be well for Mr. Erroll, when he next writes a novel, to choose a better kind of hero than George L'Estrange. It is tiresome to read of the successes of a...

Under the title of Subjects of the Day, Messrs. Routledge have commenced the publication of a new quarterly, the fundamental idea of which is eminently original. For their...

Percy Clarke, LL.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Clarke has some- thing to say, events and adventures quorum pars flat, as we suppose. The mistake that he has made is a want of...

Co.)—This is a tale founded, it would appear, on the deplorable story of the Crown Prince of Austria, a painful, one might almost say, even hideous subject, which readers of...

man and Hall.)—We expect now, when we open "a story of Irish life," not the entertainment of which we were once sure, but something peculiarly dismal. It may be said, of course,...

himself to be a widower but is not, and a girl who does not even know he has ever had a wife, will surprise the hardened novel-reader who has encountered so many heroes in a...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—In this volume, Mr. Bridgett exposes various more or less ludicrous mistakes which have been made by writers—and writers, too, with some claims to...

is described as a "complete manual of card-conjuring." The author successively expounds the "principles of sleight-of-hand," tricks performed with "special cards" and "marked...

(Rivingtons.) —Archdeacon Hannah was a man of great aptitude for various kinds of work, some of it work which one would hardly have thought him likely to undertake with success....

books that belong to that school from the standpoint of action, and not to look for qualities in them that would appeal more directly to our personal tastes. According to this...

who reads this story—and it is a story which no one will find it difficult to read—will scarcely be able to avoid the conclusion that, at one time at least of her life, the...

—Since the author of " The Heroine," a forgotten but delight- fully clever skit upon the equally forgotten "Rosa Matilda" school of romance-writers, invented the name of "...

C. Willoughby, Bart., Royal Horse Guards. (Longmans.)—A list of fauna found chiefly in the plains round Kilima-Njaro, with notes upon the habits of the animals and birds,...

interesting book ; but it puts out false pretences by calling itself a novel. It is the history of political and religious evolution in the intellect and the soul of William...