T HERE has been another turn of the European kaleidoscope, and affairs for the moment look much more peaceful. The Bulgarian Delegates have offered the Throne to Prince...

tion illegal. Mr. Dillon will not desist from his agitation, and the Government therefore have been compelled to act, and to act strongly. On Saturday, Mr. Dillon's case came on...

leading members were in the former, but the new Finance Minister is M. Dauphin, and the new Minister for Foreign Affairs is M. Flourens. The latter is a brother of the...

the agita• tion. On Thursday, a great meeting was held at Loughrea to urge it forward, at which Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien delivered vehement speeches in favour of the course of...

Saturday, The SPECTATOR will be published and distributed to the public next week on the Friday morning, in time for the early mails, instead of on the Saturday morning. All...

jurisdiction of the Court was limited to cases in which the language used tended directly to a breach of the peace. Mr. Dillon's language was directed to set two classes against...

case.

Paris, dated September 1st, but now first published, it may be pre- sumed, by the Count's direction. The idea of the letter is that the Monarchy is the "Government in reserve,"...

of flogging. It has not abolished flogging, but has decided by 30 to 15, that the power shall be restricted, as at present, to the head masters. This vote was given upon an...

of 1881 has arisen. Under that Act, a newspaper is made irrespon- sible for a just report of words used at a public meeting ; and consequently a libel which would have been...

on Wednesday an important speech at Melksham, Wiltshire. He was able to say, without revealing secrets, that the Government had prepared a measure for local government which...

become dry and cool, the troops, especially the cavalry, are able to move rapidly, and the bands of guerillas are - being broken up in all directions. One such band, seven...

went off in the night of Thursday week from Southport, St. Anne's, and Lytham to rescue the crew of a barque, 'Mexico,' sailing out of the Mersey, which had dragged its anchor...

Budget on Thursday, in a speech of some importance. He declared that Italy now possessed an effective force of 400,000 men, or in war 500,000, who could be mobilised in a few...

the agonies of travail with a double purpose. They want to make more of their endowments than they do, but they also want to preserve the Gresham foundation with as little...

in consequence of a Stock Exchange panic in New York. It was found, on an investigation of the affairs of the Reading Railroad, that an unexpectedly heavy "assessment" would...

Oxford Laymen's League for the defence of the National Church, on the last Sunday in November, the Warden of All Souls' (Sir William Anson) being in the chair. Mr. Hughes dwelt...

Consols were on Friday 100/ to 1004xd.

a meeting on Wednesday, in which it was resolved "to approach her Majesty's Government for the pur- pose of obtaining from the Government and the Legislature the necessary...

to try a new experiment for restricting the sale of alcohol. The manufacture of spirits has been made a Federal monopoly, all distillers being required to sell their produce to...

Church in a day when competing sects are numerous and jealous, Mr. Hughes was perhaps not quite so successful. He would be willing, it seems, to divide the use of the National...

depending on them, either a widow and children, or an aged father and mother who looked to them for support. A very liberal subscription has been at once opened for the families...

THE NEW DANGER AHEAD. T T is quite possible that the Government, which looks so strong, and which upon every other question is so strong, may be wrecked upon the Local...

M R. DILLON has at least succeeded in making himself the Irish hero of the moment. A man who has just heard on the highest authority that h's action is perfectly illegal, and...

M. Flourens for the Foreign Ministry of France augurs ill for the stability of M. Goblet's Administration is true ; but a little too much has been said of the absurdity of the...

M R. HUGHES, in the interesting and thoughtful speech which he lately delivered to the "Oxford Laymen's League for the Defence of the National Church," said many things with the...

I T would be ridiculous to dogmatise about a secret thoroughly known to only one person ; but we cannot help thinking that the election of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe- Coburg has...

44 T HE year of Jubilee is come," says a line in a hymn, but Englishmen seem in a fair way for having to say,— ' The two years of Jubilee are come,' or, 'The quinquennial...

T HE continued rise in the price of wheat at a season when markets are usually dull, because merchants like to keep their stocks as low as possible at the end of the year, is a...

resources of science and the arts ;—in the latter, the melancholy in the man, a result of ebbing Vitality, justifies itself by the failure of knowledge and science to cope with...

it CORRESPONDENT of the Times, who signs himself "An Old Law Reporter," and who is doubtless well informed, explained on Tuesday the state of the law, as he conceives it, about...

THE BULGARIAN CRISIS. MO TER EDITOR OF THE " EMT...TOR:1 &a,—There are one or two points connected with the present phase of the Eastern Question which I think are not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SINCIATOR."] SIR,—In your article of November 27th on "The Failure of the British Government in Ireland," you in one way much under- state your argument....

[To TIM EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Si,—With the prospect of a hard winter before ire, and the sufferings of the poor more vividly in our minds than perhaps they have ever been...

[TO THA EDITOR OF THE " SPICTITOR."] Sin,—As Irish farmers have got so much by agitation, it is only natural that they should hope to get a little more. Were Mr. Gladstone...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your review of "Three Books of Verse," you throw a doubt on the originality of Mr. King's theory that Judas Iscariot was an...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. TICE present exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours is nominally, as usual, one of sketches an studies ; but...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."' Snt,—On behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Hydro- phobia, I beg very cordially to thank your correspondent, "Live, and Let Live,"...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!"J Snt,—In your review, on December 11th, of Dr. Pfleiderer's "Philosophy of Religion," the statement occurs that " Herzog's...

LA.TET ANGUIS. full of purest influence On human mind and mood, Of holiest joy to human sense, Are river, field, and wood ; And better must all childhood be That knows a garden...

170 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. Stn,—My attention has been directed to the striking resemblance which exists between the closing scene in "The Silence of Dean Maitland,"...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — I have not seen General Tcheng Ki-tong's book on "The Chinese Theatre," so I scarcely know who is responsible for the surprising...

PROFESSOR DOWDEN'S LIFE OF SHELLEY.* [SECOND NOTICE.] Jr Professor Dowden has missed anything in this most fascinating biography, it is the impressiveness of the lesson which...

THERE is nothing whatever in this book. It has been most discreetly and properly edited, with just the elucidatory notes required ; the editor effaces himself in an unusual and...

of this memoir of Bishop Han. nington otherwise than by an expression of sincere gratitude to its writer for his vivid record of the life of one who, in an age which is often...

HOB.kRI PASHA'S life does not command our respect except, in- deed, for daring and manliness ; but of all autobiographies that have ever been published, this is the most...

NOTHING is more admirable in the famous improvisatrice of Arab fable than the courage and foresight which prompted her to begin the Thousand and One Nights with one of the...

authority on Holy Land topography, has given us in his Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Bethany, a book of con- siderable value. The illustrations, nearly a hundred in number, without...

He has now completed his original design, incorporating the old with two new parts, and illustrating all with abundance of the humorous pictures to which he knows so well how to...

is intended as a companion volume to a similarly illustrated edition of "Gray's Elegy." The poem is not unworthy of the honour thus put upon it. Indeed, its merits have , been...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Though the subject of this volume may scarcely seem appropriate for the.season• for which it seems to be intended, the book will be foes& worth...

lives cf famous Italian women are given in this volume, the four being Olympia Morata, Anne of Este, Marie Therese of Savoy (better known as the Princess° de Lamballe), and...

Atlantic, may be received with a welcome on this. Here, of course, we do not always find ourselves in sympathy with the author. Sober history, for instance, tells us that the...

GIFT BOOKS, Exc. John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, from the Collection of "Mr. Punch." (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This is a handsome quarto, with a portrait of John...

—This is a capital gift book for a lad with a meohanical turn ; indeed, for any lad with brains in his head and the sense to honour those who inventas ?Main excoluere per artes....

"Pilgrim" (Nisbet), derives its name from the appropriate medita- tions which the editor has selected, by permission, from the works of Canon Liddon. We need not say that the...

of recent discovery" are related by persons who quite deserve the title of "eminent" travellers. Mr. Joseph Thome,* puts us down on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, and tells us...

takes him, on this occasion, to Arctic latitudes. His hero is introduced to us as a solitary wanderer just about to perish of cold and hunger, when he is happily espied and...

is another family chronicle. Aubrey, a little fellow of six, is the principal character, and very prettily described ; but other children play their parts, and the supposed...

second edition.

also is "a story for girls," but of a more distinctly religions type. Dorothy Curzon, a soldier's daughter, is early left an orphan by her father's death, and takes up her abode...

Co.)—This is a collection of stories, beginning with the legend of St. Christopher told in verse. The merit of these stories, numbering twelve in all, varies much. In "Rock...

glory does not commend itself for moderation of style or probability of incident. Jonas is as thorough a villain as ever was drawn. Scarcely a gleam of light is allowed to...

begins with entries made about the close of 1684, and is carried on up to the flight of James II. It is well done ; the style is carefully and consistently suited to the time ;...

Culpepper. (Dean and Son.) —Here we have the adventures and experiences of four London children, who go to visit their uncle John, a retired Captain in the Navy, who has a house...

simple, well-written tale of a "noble life," marred by sickness and brought to what we call a premature end, but complete in the work it leaves behind it, and its idiaence on...

Ferran, and Co.)—This "story for girls" may be described as a love-story of the didactic kind. There are two young ladies concerned in it besides the heroine, and they are all...

(J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—Miss Rowsell has a good story to tell, but has a somewhat cumbrous way of telling it. If the reader will excuse a confusion of style which not...

idea of this "story for children" is evidently suggested by Kingsley's "Water Babies." Constance and Randolph, in trying to catch some fish with their hands, go very near to...

lishers), is a fairly well-written chronicle of family life, interspersed with some stirring incidents of military service, and dominated throughout by a strong religious feeling.

device of an old manuscript read by an old lady to her grand-daughters is employed to introduce a story of the troubles of the Huguenots in La Yend6e during the period which...

is an exciting story of a lad who is carried off by burglars, and spends "three nights" under circumstances curiously different from the studiously guarded comfort and safety in...

in the history of a family which the author has already introduced to her readers in a little story entitled, "The Wreck." They are drawn with a certain simplicity and pathos...

Johnson has taken as his subject the years that followed the Restoration, and taken much trouble in drawing a picture of English society at that time. Among other things, he...

written on the lines of "The Stay-at-Home Traveller," if we remember the name aright. An imaginary party travel up the Nile as far as Khartoum, and, of course, not being...

Co.)—This "popular history of the elephant and its allies" is well done. It gives the natural history of the animal, as well as that of its predecessors the mastodon and the...

"nine days' wonder" of the Neapolitan fisherman's rise to power is told with much spirit by Mr. Bayford Harrison. He follows with sufficient fidelity the accepted history of...

a story of unbelief—caused in great measure by inconsistent conduct in one who made great profession of religion—convinced of its error. With this are combined two love-stories,...

a girl will go through the adventures which " Georgie" dares, it cannot be wondered at that we reach the melancholy termination that "for the rest of her life she would be a...

Milverton Godfrey Dauglish, of Lincoln's Inn, Barristers. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a very valuable book of reference, though as regards the elections to the House of Commons,...

tale is founded on the curious incident of a fire being caused in a linen-room by the heat of the sun concentrated in the "bull's-eye," as it is called, of a caarse pane of...

Christmas Cards,—figures, landscapes, calendars, &c., in all kinds of shapes.

"a story of the dawn of religion in Britain," in which the accessories of scenery, of the elements of Roman life in Britain, of Druid customs, &c., are carefully studied and...

(Dean and Son), contains a great variety of simple stories, verses, &c., and gaily coloured pictures. It contains the collected issue of the Little One's Own Coloured Picture...

their Christmas and New Year's Cards for 1886-87, dainty little books of landscape, dainty little books of figures, and elaborate cards showing the antique costumes as well as...

through Asia and Africa. (Dean and Son), is a series of pictures, with appropriate letterpress, of various scenes, such as Algiers, Calcutta, &c.

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—There is plenty of power in the illustrations, which are good examples both of drawing and engraving.

(Macmillan.)—These stories are ingenious exercises of fancy. From the first we should be inclined to banish one or two disagreeable things; bat, as a whole, they will be found...

as we have had occasion to remark more than once, are not easy to write, are, indeed, as hard in their way as epics in non-heroic times. The simplicity of the genuine folk-tale...

Poole. (Nisbet and Co.)—A little love-making of the most decorous kind, a little "blue-ribbon" advocacy, and various pictures, sufficiently well drawn, of domestic life, make up...

—This is a well-told story of German life, the principal character being one Neati, a little peasant maiden, who is chosen to be the companion of an invalid boy, and who, after...

Farran.)—" Mischievous Jack" is a jackdaw, given as a present by a lad who enlists to the girl who tells the story. Jackdaws, it is known, have a considerable talent for making...

(Dean and Son.)—Many children have a great passion for rhyme, and "Little T.," the young person for whom these rhymes were written, is one of them. It must not be supposed that...

Society.)—Interesting anecdotes, illustrated by spirited pic- tures (the frontispiece, with its variety of dogs, is noticeably good— the Newfoundland possibly excepted), make up...

various useful Diaries, of all sizes, from folio to octavo, containing, as well as blank pages for engagements, diaries, &c., a great mass of useful information, and a complete...

eighty-eighth annual issue of this useful and carefully compilea directory. It now deals with an area extending from the western boundaries of Kensington and Chelsea in the...

is quite venerable, having now reached its forty-sixth year. Its ten stories are of the usual kind, and will doubtless interest the "boys and girls" for whom the volume is...

story of a father and a daughter who do not understand each other. After sundry misapprehensions and mistakes, the daughter makes a runaway match, and the father marries again....

Tract Society.)—An eldest son, who has been long a stranger to the family, comes back to take possession of the inheritance which has been left vacant by the father's sadden...