T HE magazine at Athens continues to smoulder. The Greek Premier, M. Delyannis, either will not or cannot give the order to disarm. It was thought on the 26th ult. that all was...

that we have called special attention to it in another column. Here we will only add that though he carried a certain number of his constituents with him, and was told by the...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Sixteenth of...

defined; but his letter to the Lancashire Committee in relation to Lord Hartington's attitude, sufficiently shows that he, at all events, thinks that attitude perfectly...

Harlington produced a great impression by asking whether, had it been proposed by Lord Salisbury instead of Mr. Glad- stone, England would not have resounded with Liberal...

case.

constituents in Rossendale on Easter Monday, after an inter- view with the Council of the Liberal Association, in which he seems to have been interrogated a good deal on the...

mittal resolution was proposed to the meeting, thanking Lord Hartington for his speech, and hoping that, " as the result of the full consideration which is being given to the...

about his allowances, and resolved for the future to reside in India. He broke up his establishment at Elvaston Hall, Suffolk, ordered the splendid furniture to be sold, and...

three large villages, one almost a town, have shared the same fate. It is no longer doubted that incendiarism is at work, and the fires aro attributed to the peasants, who all...

the result of the Bradford election. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, a convinced Home-ruler, was returned by a majority of 780, less, it is reported, than the total of Irish votes. Mr. J. A....

in the House of Commons, are stated to have already joined the Liberal Committee for maintaining the Legis- lative Union between Great Britain and Ireland. The list, how- ever,...

alarming picture of the condition of the district. He evidently believes a social " catastrophe " to be inevitable. The mines are getting exhausted ; the coal comes up from...

now seventy-eight years old, is making a kind of memorial tour through the South, delivering speeches in which he glorifies secession, but advises Southerners to accept the...

in one way noteworthy. He evidently dreads the action of the labourers, but he perceives, like Mr. Llewelyn Davies, that if they vote for Home rule, it will be from a feeling of...

accurate, states that the ill-feeling towards the priesthood is growing intense. The lower clergy in the cities of Spain have of late been greatly demoralised, or rather have...

speakers of the week have not been striking. Mr. Mundella is noteworthy for his cordial acceptance of the Bill, and Mr. Burt, who accepts it without enthusiasm, for his...

the Racecourse, Belfast, at which the following resolution was accepted unanimously ; —" That, should this measure of the Prime Minister be forced upon us, and we are handed...

the Home-rule Question, and in the letter published on Thursday insisted specially that Mr. Gladstone had completely failed to establish his contention that it is the "foreign...

in-Furness, has taken up what we conceive to be the utterly impracticable position assumed by so many English Radicals. He declares that the Home-rule Bill must be amended so...

both of Ireland and of Canada, also wrote a letter to Thursday's Times, to advocate the establishment of Local Assemblies in every separate part of the United...

of sayiug that it is absolutely essential to try experiments upon living animals before they can experiment on living men, do not seem to be much guided by the results of these...

LORD HARTINGTON'S DIFFICULTIES IN LANCASHIRE. L ORD HARTINGTON'S speech in Lancashire on Monday took up very strong ground. He pointed out how earnest an appeal had been made...

W E can see no way in which the Irish Land-purchase Bill, if linked with the Home-rule Bill, can be licked into shape. The latter Bill poisons the former at its source, for it...

N EXT to Lord Hartington's speech, Mr. Courtney's speech at Liskeard on Thursday is much the most important of the addresses of the week : and that for two reasons,— .first,...

T HE popular English explanation of the present attitude of Greece is that the Greek Premier, M. Delyannis, is a fool. That is an easy, and, of course, a sufficient explanation...

M R. LILLY, in the able paper on " Liberty and Liberalism " which he has contributed to this month's Fortnightly, goes, perhaps, further in denouncing the tyranny of majorities...

agreed to postpone the enforcement of the non-admission role for a month. What they have agreed to do is to give discretion to the local managers to put it into operation or...

"SpEciaTon."1 Sin,—It is a matter of real grief to not a few of your readers and admirers that—in spite of your proverbial and undoubtedly genuine candour, and the best of...

LTO TER EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—One may venture to conjecture that, though Mr. Jesse Collings declined to sit upon the Committee or to give evidence before it, his...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sfa,—You observe, in the Spectator of October 16th, upon the horror created in England by the mutilation of animals, which is so common a...

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD.—XIV. PRIAM. As when, within the courtyard of a king, A stately oak, planted by former men, Spreads wide its sacred shelter, till the day, When foemen...

S IR JOHN LUBBOCK has, at all events, secured an earnest of victory in the prominence which is now given to his Shop-Hours Regulation Bill. Not long since, any limitation of...

I N the volume of dialogues " On Views and Aspirations," which Vernon Lee has just issued, she makes her chief inter- locut)r, Baldwin, an atheistic sort of Socrates, who...

Pr HE Times of Wednesday publishes a letter from Belgium on the prospects of labour there, which ends with a very suggestive little story. The correspondent, who had access to...

T HE recent perusal of M. de Saint-Saens's charming volume, " Harmonic et M6lodie," in which learning and lucidity are admirably combined, and of Miss Fay's vivacious chapters...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] Six.—In your article of April 24th on this Bill, you conclude in these words :—" But this is a request to lend £150,000,000 to unwilling...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 S Ilt,—I do not think the saying that Mr. Gladstone has banished ,political economy to Jupiter and Saturn is quite a fair one ; but it is...

MR. TUKE'S SEED-POTATO FUND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR," j "SIR, — Y011 have taken so warm and practical an interest in my work of distributing seed-potatoes in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP T3 E " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — Your article at page 539 seems to me to touch the most pressing aspect of the situation. The thing we have got to do is to find a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—The question of Mrs. Fitzherbert's position as mistress to George IV. is not disposed of by a reference to a marriage- certificate. It...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sus,--I am still obliged to think that Canon MacColl has not read very carefully my little book. It is not, perhaps, unnatural; but for his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The little book which you have distinguished with so generous a review is written, as indicated in the preface, for "young persons of...

ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] TuE Academy is this year distinctly less interesting than usual. The " hard times " and the hard weather have affected the artists even more...

A LYRIC FROM THE GERMAN. MY heart—my thought revealing, Say, how can Love be known ? " Love is two souls—one feeling : Two hearts—one pulse alone." Then tell me how Love grew,...

LORD WOLSELEY AND THE FALL OF KHARTOUM.* WRITING after the event, and reading between the lines of Sir Charles Wilson's brilliant and suggestive journal, it seems possible for...

AMONG the numerous services which the late Principal Tulloch rendered to religious thought in this country, a high place must be given to his successful effort, in his Rational...

THIS volume, consisting of extracts from the home correspondence of a young American lady while undergoing a six years' profes- sional training under some of the most celebrated...

WE feel some surprise that so experienced a literary man as the editor of the St. James's Gazette should have suggested the form of this book, and still more that so able a...

BOUN ERIE bears a name associated in its day with a pungent style of criticism, and he has apparently inherited, in some degree, the critical faculty of the genial statesman...

the move- ment in the direction of cheap books, and the opening of the attack upon the three-volume system, have been modified to a • A Summer Day - Dream, and other Stories....

M. TAMS and other eminent foreign critics have remarked with amazement, and apparently with amusement as well, the devo- tion of the English people to morality. They seem...

The most important article, at least of a political character, in the new number of the Scottish Review is a clear, temperate, and, on the whole, able paper on the Greek...

tale is laid partly in Cabe, partly in Washington, and the author, it is clear, has two objects in view, — to express his sympathy with Cuban patriots, and to expose the...

V. White and Co.)—There is nothing which critics preach so continuously, and yet to so little purpose, as the necessity of using some shading in the drawing of character. Mr....