Tientsin, dated that morning, announcing that peace had been signed that day at Simonoseki. The terms stated include those given below, plus another,—the conclusion of an...

T HE advance on Chitral progresses well. Colonel Kelly from Gilghit, with less than five hundred men, has fought ids way to Mastuj, driving the hillmen before him by successive...

Lord Kimberley is endeavouring to obtain from that little State an apology and a small indemnity for out- rages committed against the British Consul and certain British...

the bank of the Panjkora, has called attention to the services of this family of, we think, five brothers, sons of Mr. Q. Battye, himself an Anglo-Indian of repute. Colonel 0....

of a plan arranged by Armenian leaders for a general rising of their people throughout Turkey. Arms have been imported, money has been sub- scribed, and the Armenians, in...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

case.

tion of Leeds and Huddersfield Liberals, who presented him with an oak book-case containing three hundred valuable volumes intended for the use of the "hostel," which Mr....

to pay 200,000,000 taels (L33,00000 in gold) to Japan within five years, Japan accepting payment in silver. China gives up all claim on Corea, cedes the Peninsula of Lian-tung...

family, appears to have anticipated in the seventeenth century what the cry of Home-rule for Ireland, if it were ever seriously pressed, would involve in the way of the...

unexpectedly amusing speech, the story of the Speaker- ship. To begin with, he did not want to be Speaker. Also a certain number of Members did not want to see him in the Chair....

at Devonport on Wednesday evening. He congratulated the country on the virtually total disappearance of the " Little England" patty, and on the adhesion of the Government to the...

Gladstone at Hawarden Castle, in which the ex- Premier expressed his profound sympathy with the Armenian Christians in their sufferings, while reminding them that as a man of...

Mr. Sweetman, who was, till a week or two ago, an Anti-Parnellite, has resigned, and is standing now as a Par- nellite. There is also standing a follower of Mr. McCarthy, Mr....

Times, explains a statement made in a telegram from Pitts- burg in the Times of last Monday, that Professor Keeler, of the Alleghany Observatory, had made the " discovery " that...

by a severe earthquake. The shocks, which began on Sunday night, and continued with intermissions till Wednesday, were felt over the whole of Southern Austria, North Italy, and...

utterance from the Edinburgh Evening News,- " the only Anti-Unionist paper left in Edinburgh." It does not wonder, considering the shilly-shallying of the Minis- terialists as...

Independent Labour party, met at Newcastle on Monday under the auspices of Mr. Keir Hardie. We iiave noticed their resolutions elsewhere, but must men- tion here that they...

making a kind of progress through Normandy, and pouring out little speeches everywhere. Their tone is markedly different from that of all previous Presidents. M. Faure is...

bears very strongly upon the merits of the Local Veto Bill. The Belgian Government has ascertained that a recent reform there, the suppression of thirty-eight thousand drink-...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, lat.

THE CHITRAL DRAMA. T HE great, and as far as we know, the unprecedented, interest taken by the British public in this ex- pedition to Chitral is perfectly natural and a little...

I T is curious to hear the sort of praise which is now not unfrequently lavished on the Government, not for what it has attempted to do but finds itself unable to do, but for...

impor- tant point of the Japanese terms, which the Chinese accepted on Tuesday, is the treaty of alliance, "offensive and defensive," which, in the Times' account, figures as...

that it is almost necessarily the glorification of gossip. Preparing for a holiday is always a preparation for gossip, and enjoying a holiday is indulgence in gossip. Nor should...

W E are glad to note that the Daily Chronicle is bringing before the country the question of waste in the -Army, and pointing out, what we believe to be nothing Item than the...

of the- eighty-four delegates of the Independent Labour party who met at Newcastle on Monday and Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. Keir Hardie, to discuss their programme and...

been announcements in the telegrams from Rome of a coming Encyclical from Leo XIII. to his spiritual subjects in England. These announcements were preceded by more general...

T HE article on " People who Drop out of Sight," by Dr. Osborne, of California, in the Medico-Legal Journal, of New York, for last June, to which the Lancet made an interesting...

A FEDERATION of Liberal Clubs, having their centre in Leeds, delivered to Mr. Gladstone on Monday a present of three hundred books intended to enrich the library of the hostel...

T HE world hears a great deal, from the critics of fiction, about wild imaginings, impossible situations, stories that are spoiled by beings far removed from the plane of human...

N OW—that spring is gently creeping over the land—is the time to note what visible effect the long, tireless frost of 1895 has had on the feathered host haunting garden, copse,...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. [To THE EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Mr. T. W. Russell stands up for that worst of red- herrings ever drawn across the trail of just tenant-right,—the...

[TO TEl EDITOR OP TEl " SPECTATOR."] your interpretation of the proverb, "Every dog has his day, and a cat has two afternoons," quite correct ? We have in Devon a phrase, "an...

TWO CRIMEAN VOLUMES.* IF anything could add to the gloomy effect which the recent successive revelations of the sufferings of the army in the Crimea tend to produce upon our...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Here in the West the belief in fairies, always of a malevolent sort, is still very deeply rooted. A dispensary doctor, whose district...

TRUTH. " Quand j'ai connu la veritg J'ai cru que c'etait une amie." TRUTH seemed at first a welcome friend, To whom I gave unflinching trust ; But, when I knew her to the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] have just been reading the article in the Spectator of April 6th, "Getting Rid of Death," and cannot help sending you what I think you will...

THE modest preface and introduction with which Sic Frederick Pollock and Professor Maitland introduce their * The History of Fr ed Lam before the Tit11,6 of Edward I. By Sir...

THE February number of the Portfolio is given to a study by Mr. Walter Armstrong of a living English or Scottish Master, Mr. Orchardson. It is a proceeding of doubtful wisdom to...

THE philosopher Kallisthenes, a favourite disciple of Aris- totle, had attended Alexander on his Oriental expedition, and f or a time stood high in his esteem ; but having...

THESE two books together give an excellent picture of that wonderful and fascinating country which we call the Dominion of Canada—a country which stretches from the Atlantic to...

entirely in her preface the work of English scholars on the subject of Egyptian life. She writes :—" The need of a popular work on the manners and customs of Ancient Egypt has...

and Long.)—We do not see anything especially " metaphysical " in these " studies and stories," unless indeed " metaphysical" is the same as " unnatural." This quality is most...

M.A. (A. P. Marsden.)—Mr. Pember has thought the accession of a new Czar a good occasion for the revival of the story of Ivan the Terrible. Most folk will be inclined to say...

This is a story of the painstaking kind that, without being obtrusively religious, are meant to " do good," and which Miss Winchester can produce with greater ease than almost...

Bird.)—This is a typical Australian story rather of the "squatter aristocracy" than of the " bushranging " or " bail-up" sort. The Darleys, a family belonging to Melbourne, but...

is the chief characteristic of this undoubtedly in- genious story, which deals almost entirely with a region—the north-west coast of Prince Edward's Island—which, up to the...

Elizabeth Jane Whately. By her Sister. (Seeley and Co.)— Here we have told to us the story of Jane Whately, who was so helpful to her father, Archbishop Whately, in the later...

and Co.)—There is a great deal of cleverness of a kind that sometimes recalls "John Oliver Hobbes," in this slight story. It is eminently fashionable, being but an " episode,"—...

Hall.)—The critic approaches Mr. Harper delicately, for he learns from the dedication to this book that Mr. Harper reads reviews, and sees how commonly the art of criticism is...

London ; Atkinson, IIIverston.)—The earliest history, and the time before history, of which there are considerable remains, are first treated by Dr. Barber. These chapters he...

of the British Navy. By Hamilton Williams, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is a pleasant little book. But when we have read Mr. Williams's modest preface we cannot help feeling...

very precious thing to any one with leanings for pessimism. " George Egerton's " music of life is all discords. "Lust hard by Hate" is the theme which she best loves to treat....

vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—It is of very little use to waste space in the critical appraisement of a novel which is a work of manufac- ture, not of art, and in which even the...

and Ernest Dawson. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We should enjoy this novel more, for it is undeniably well-written, if we knew what it was all about, if we could identify the City of...