M DE FREYCINET has not been RO successful in the • Chamber as in the Senate. The Order of the Day calling -on the Government to use its powers against the Bishops, and if...

of Campaign :"—" What has been the result of division in our ranks P Why, every landlord has become quite impudent and insolent again. No reduction, no civil landlord, nothing...

its devotion to Russia. The leading French correspondent in Sofia, M. Chadourne, has, as Bulgarians think, insulted their Government by his letters, and M. Sta.mbouloff has...

for Saturday, December 26th, will be published on Thursday morning, December 24th, at the usual time.

The candidate of the Anti-Parnellite or Clerical party was up to that day Mr. Keane, who, after Mr. Davitt's refusal, had been accepted by the priests as the candidate with whom...

at Waterford. He said on Wednesday or Thursday, that if Mr. Redmond is returned at Waterford, and if a fair number of other constituencies uphold him and his party, he (Mr....

case.

an Edinburgh audience four years and a half ago, in the very hey-day of the Union of Hearts, when it was considered by the Gladstonians shameful in the Unionists not to accept...

Lingen, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, having tendered his resignation. His grievance is, that at a thinly attended meeting of the Committee, an amendment was carried...

exposition of his reasons for believing that even the Gladstonians will not permit Mr. Gladstone to keep his revised Home-rule scheme secret till after the General Election ;...

ended on Friday week with a speech from Mr. Gladstone. It was long, chatty, and rather discursive ; but it was received with enthusiasm, the delegates gathering from it that the...

the Gladstonians' carrying Land reforms or Local Government reforms with Ireland stopping the way, and returned once more to his favourite scheme for providing pensions for old...

at Edinburgh, which was filled to overflowing, on Tuesday, Lord Lorne in the chair. The Marquis of Lorne, on taking the chair, remarked on the professed intention of the-...

optimistic speech on the Army, at Hammersmith, on Friday week. He avoided the subject of Head-quarters, but maintained that while officers of all arms had greatly im- proved,...

Irish Tories with voting for the Parnellit,e or more violent candidates, only in order that the Anti-Parnellite or more moderate candidate, may fail. Bat do the Irish Tories...

Tuesday before the Statistical Society, great part of which was concerned with projects for granting pensions to the aged. He was inclined to believe that no such scheme would...

Denison, and the other clergymen who signed the remarkable -document published in Friday's Times on the inspiration of the Bible, hardly know how much serious harm they may do...

Times of Thursday, reveal the immense magnitude and im- portance of that province, of which, in comparison with frontier districts, so little is heard. It now contains...

though it is not quite so large as the specimens occasionally reported as sighted in mid-ocean. The Bishop saw the body of the serpent while riding on the shore at Avoid Point,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 95i.

is Klispaired of by his medical attendants. It is supposed that he may still linger for a day or two, but not longer. The electors of Rossendale are already looking out for a...

been investigating the effect on insectivorous plants of supplying them with, and withholding from them, animal food. "He grew two lots of plants under similar conditions. One...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S HOPE. M R. CHAMBERLAIN, in his admirable speech at Edinburgh on Tuesday, did not ignore at all the recent reverses in the counties. On the contrary, he...

more in Mr. Gladstone's speech of Friday week to the agricultural labourers than some of our Unionist friends appear to think. The aged orator was, it is true, unusually...

the Vatican which has appeared in the Temps, is calculated to strengthen the doubts which the more rational supporters of M. de Freycinet must all along have felt as to the...

W E have always doubted, and after reading Mr. Chamberlain's speeches on the subject, we continue to doubt, whether any project of State-aided pensions for the aged poor will...

M LEROY-BEAULIEU, writing in the De'bats of • Monday, seems to regard the system of Commercial Treaties, which he describes "as the most characteristic feature of the year," as...

In R. SEDLEY TAYLOR has done well in vindicating his friend the late Master of Trinity from the accusa- tion that he almost always used his wit to tomahawk those who were the...

I T is said that the remaindermen interested in the descent of the great Savernake estate will appeal against the decree of the Lords Justices who on Saturday decided that the...

W E imagine that it would tax the ingenuity of most social philosophers to give a brief and accurate definition of what Society is,—Society, that is to say, in the common use of...

DORCHESTER ABBEY. IT was as candid of an American to say that he came to England "for his history," as it was ready and patriotic on the part of an Oxford guide, in answer to...

Sm,—May I, as one of the "selfish taskmasters " and "natural enemies" of the "weary British peasant," make a mild protest against the very low estimate of the characters both of...

THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR...1 EIR,—Your correspondent's suggestion that the agricultural `labourer's revolt is due to his weariness of his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—The article in the Spectator of December 5th, which is entitled " Browning's Theology" reminded me of an incident which I heard...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR." _I Sin,—Permit me to say a word of protest against Church Defence, or the militant policy towards Dissenters. The Dissenters in Wales, it...

[TO TITE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 Six,—Your thoughtful criticism of Mr. Gladstone's con- demnation of the idle rich seems to have missed one point which is perhaps worth...

- [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.° have read with interest your articles on the instinct of cattle. That cattle and horses can communicate intelligence to each other, and are...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — In your issue of November 28th, under the above heading, a correspondent purports to give an account of a prisoner tried on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — It is well known that Sir Arthur Wellesley, after his victory over the French at Vimiera, had to give up the com- mand of the British...

THE BALLAD OF THE 'BRITAIN'S PRIDE.' IT was a skipper of Lowestoft That trawled the northern sea, In a smack of thrice ten tons and seven, And the ' Britain's Pride' was she....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your article, "Orpheus at the Zoo," in the Spectator of October 3rd, the tarantula's non-appreciation of music is contrasted with...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There has been some discussion in the Spectator as to the lines on Matthew Arnold by my father, the late Principal Shairp, which were...

WHO knoweth the joy of untamed forest streams, That laugh in sunless ravines, and disdain The rending cataracts with a smile which gleams Like jewels flashing amid summer rain...

THE VICTORIAN EXHIBITION. WE are threatened with a return of the Influenza, and there is a simultaneous relapse into the Jubilee. The sequehe of the latter take this time...

THIS is a book which will make its mark in the history of Anglican theology. Mr. Gore is not only deeply imbued with that patristic and ecclesiastical learning which is...

this book expecting to find in it an elaborate defence of Mr. Froude's position, or even much that is new respecting the eventful years during which the divorce ran its...

WE confess to a certain feeling of disappointment in taking up the Life of Bishop Wilberforce, which follows those of Newman and John Wesley in the series of English Leaders of...

Mits. WOODS has done all that literary skill and the careful study of a period can do towards constructing a living picture from the bare facts of a historic episode. If she has...

THE interest—we had very nearly said, the charm—of these Reminiscences lies in the simple, commonplace character of most of them. They very seldom rise above the level of this...

most delightful and instructive books relating to Scotland that have been published in recent years. Mr. Hume Brown, whose admirable work on George Buchanan recently established...

Farran.)—Major Groves makes a lively and entertaining tale by interweaving the story of the private fortunes of Nicholas Brodribb with the narrative of various events which took...

GIFT-BOOKS. Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. send us their very pretty Pocket- Books, Diaries, Calendars, &c., which are models of neat workman- ship and convenient shape. The calf...

a "new and cheaper edition." This is also a "Crusoe" story, the hero being a young man who, thrown ashore on an island without any possessions or appliances, is able to furnish...

May." (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—There are not a few carelessnesses in this "tale for girls." The "young governess" turns out to have "thirty years' experience of life." Thirty...

and Co.)—Miss A. M. Hone has collected into this volume some hundred and sixty "favourite poems for recitation." Some of these are familiar ; others are new. Indeed, the...

Thoughts from Many Minds, following the Christian Seasons. By the Hon. Mrs. Lyttelton Gell. (Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press.) —This is really what it professes to be, a...

Co.)—Maimie Browne, step-daughter of a certain ne'er-do-weel, Churton Hazel, is sent by her step-father to his brother, Robert Hazel, in England. Not very willingly received by...

Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.)—New Fairy - Tales for Children, Young and Old. Told by Aunt Emmy. Translated by Emy Gordon, by permission of the Author. With Aunt Emmy's...

a better book about the feelings and experiences of childhood than this, since we read the "My Childhood" of Madame Michelet. Abigail Hall tells what she and her younger brother...

third volume of the new series, and continues to maintain the same standard of varied usefulness. The supply of subjects seems inexhaustible. New discoveries in mechanism are...

have been better to label this story a " romance ;" then we should not have tried it by any standard of actual life. The main idea is not unlike that made familiar by "The...

girl, grand-claughtar of an old man who reminds us of Captain Cuttle, does the work of a peacemaker in her neighbourhood. She is an interesting little person ; but we cannot say...

difficulty" is a niece who, brought up in the household of a clergyman from motives of kindness, does not fit nicely into her place. She is of a wholly different temper....

this "underground story," as the alternative title has it, is laid on the Cornwall coast, and the principal characters are two boys and a girl. The father of two of them, one of...

Society.)—Every one has a lesson, of course, to learn from the story of how an impetuous young private marries "off the strength," and subsequently, after several falls, manages...

Shaw.) —This is an unusually well-written book. Mrs. Martin knows her subject, and draws her characters with uncommon vigour. Her " knight," Ted Jarvis, is a genuine man, and...

forty in. number, with forty drawings. The verses are of a fanciful kind, with some sort of allegorical meaning in them,—perhaps, we may say, seeming oppositions in Nature...

author of Prairie and Bash does not believe in plots, so he gives us his adventures in a rambling description of life in. a Lisbon College, life in a settlement in Illinois, and...

Society.) —This is sure to interest boys, and electrical students. The busi- ness of laying ocean-cables takes the cable-ship all over the world ; there is a great deal of the...

and Co.) — This is a story in which the old rhyme that apportions a different lot to the children born on each day of the week is ingeniously introduced. A pretty little tale it...

story is, as we should expect, clever enough, but there is not much in it, and it is certainly not agreeable reading. When we compare it with so charming a story as "A Sage of...

Co.)—This is a curiously complicated story, not, we are inclined to think, in Mr. Reed's best style. Long-continued per- sonations are so difficult, and consequently so rare,...

Blake is a boy who goes through some moderately exciting adventures in the Island of Corsica. We can hardly call the tale a good one, but the scene is laid in a country but...

son.)—A great deal of labour has been bestowed upon this book, and there is even a considerable amount of ability in it. But, in its main characteristics, it does not recall the...

an exceptionally strong story of the moral assistance given to a young fisherman by a little girl-cousin who is almost literally thrown on his hands. Dan Carter, who is saved...

an excellent historical—or, at least, half- historical—novel of the kind that forms a good gift-book of the higher order. The heroine, Mistress Phil, is one of those charming...

Society.)—This is openly, and from beginning to end, a reli- gious story, an attempt to prove that no life—not even domestic life—can be happy into which "love of God" does not...

Tract Society.)—There is a fine leisurely air about this story which reminds us somehow of the way in which the writers of fiction a century ago were accustomed to amuse their...

—It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that the "new broom" who figures in this story is a clergyman. Ernest Wootton is his name, and he makes his appearance on the scene thus...

A solitary child—this seems a favourite situation for writers of children's stories just now—is the theme of this tale. The pity of children is easily aroused for such hard...

(J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Cecil, the little hero of this story, has been com- manded by his dying grandfather to repair a wrong, but what the wrong is, he is not told. He is left...

Paget. (Cassell and Co.)—Of the many editions of the "Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe " which have been published since the first ap- pearance of the...

and Sons.)—This is a very elaborate story of love, intrigue, monastic life, and religious disturbances in the time of Henry VIII., and may, on the whole, be described as, for a...