It first, after listening to a speech in which M. Floquet declared that the Republic must defend itself against pretenders, and must delay Revision till dic- tatorship was...

—after, be it recollected, he had proclaimed himself the enemy of Parliamentarism—he was elected for the great Department of the Nord by the amazing majority of 96,000 votes...

case.

speech at Croydon, in the first half of which he pointed out that the Gladstonians, after accepting and admiring the County Government Bill, had veered round, and found that...

-E NGLAND is the poorer this week by a great poet. On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Matthew Arnold was in Liver- pool, walking with his wife towards the landing-stage, where he expected...

doctors differ as to the precise course of his disease, the Germans believing that the cancer is spreading lower down, while Sir Morell Mackenzie maintains that blood-poisoning...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, May 5th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

tried for supreme power in France. He was born in 1837, and is therefore fifty-one years old. His mother was a Miss Griffith, believed to have been a Welsh lady, and he is in...

Bill this week was chiefly noticeable for a very able speech made on Monday night by Mr. Chamberlain, who professed a very strong general approval of the Bill, though objecting...

was chiefly occupied by a discussion of the licensing clauses. Mr. Courtney, however, urged his pro- posals for proportional representation on the House on Monday, and Mr....

Abolition of the Sugar-Bounties, has been successful in his action against Mr. Bradlaugh, the jury awarding him 2300 damages. The libel was contained in a letter addressed by...

Referring in his opening speech to Mr. Bright, he told his hearers not to forget that Mr. Bright opposed the Factory Acts,—a line of attack which, curiously enough, was once the...

European negotiations ; but it should be noted that Austrian and Hungarian papers are bursting with anger against Prince Bismarck. Their theory, evidently, is that he is selling...

noticed ; but we are concerned to believe that it was the most important of all. Mr. Goschen is not Foreign Secre- tary, but he has a singularly wide knowledge of foreign...

of the Commons now engaged in inquiring into the admission of strangers into the House, was of a very re- markable nature. Mr. Munro, Assistant-Commissioner of the Metropolitan...

Hali- fax, Gentleman," and "A Noble Life "—have determined to erect a personal memorial to her in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury being the place selected by her as the home of her...

Friday 99 to 99.

graphed to London part of a lecture delivered by Mr. Lowell —apparently on Saturday, but the date is not given—on behalf of the "Independents," the section of the Republicans...

presented by twenty Liberal Unionist Associations, at a conversazione given in the Birmingham Town Hall by the National Radical Union, dwelt upon the effect of his American...

fication of the North-West frontier, has performed in India, a considerable political service. He has greatly diminished the kind of tension always existing between the British...

The Government has dissolved the Chamber, in order that the elections may be free ; but the peasants are not satisfied with this, and have commenced an agrarian war. They demand...

THE FALL OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. T HE fall of the French Republic, as we have known it, is obviously at hand. Whatever lot leaps from the urn of Fate, it will not be one with...

the cloud that hangs over all Europe. We have no wish to play the part of alarmists, but it is foolish to close our eyes to the accumulating signs that serious dangers, dangers...

astonishment at the protests which are made in regard to Mr. Dillon's arrest, it is not that we fail to understand the arguments and feelings of our political opponents. Neither...

T HE chief value, though not the only value, of Lord Hartington's speeches of Wednesday in the City, consists in the revelation they contain of himself and his loftiness alike...

E NGLISHMEN of all parties, but especially Unionists, should read with attention the speech delivered last week by Mr. Lowell in New York on behalf of "the Inde- pendents," and...

p ERHAPS Mr. Chamberlain's greatest qualification as a politician is his power of clarifying a clouded and obscure discussion. The moment his eloquence is infused into a debate,...

T HE Southern Italians are wholly indifferent to human life when it is a question of taking it in a quarrel, yet they think it shocking that it should be taken by way of...

TN the great poet whom we have just lost, England is robbed of the spring of the most consoling influences ever closely blended with profound scepticism. Matthew Arnold was a...

W E are unable, as at present advised, to expect good from the great social experiment which New York is about to try ; but there can be no doubt that it is one of exceeding...

W E doubt whether there is a single man of education in England who is not interested in his pedigree,— that is, who does not desire to know what manner of men his forefathers...

THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE UNIONISTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of your correspondent, "A Unionist," is a happy illustration of the failure "to see...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with much interest the article on The Language of Animals" which appeared in your issue of April 7th. From it I gather that...

MATTHEW ARNOLD. PAST in a moment ; passed away, The finest spirit of the day; Past in the full meridian sense Of masterful intelligence : 'The thought that struck—the wit that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn, — Will you allow me to point out some mistakes in the article on "Rank among the Royalties " P It is there stated that the Battenberg...

HOSEA BIGLOW'S LATEST WORDS.* THERE is always a dash of tremor, if not of fear, in the joy with which we welcome a new volume of poetry by a master who has moved our hearts and...

Mn. HISSEY has chosen a delightful subject for his pencil and pen. The beauty of the Howe Counties is inexhaustible, and he who knows them best is the most conscious how much...

TILE story of Oxford could not have fallen into better hands than those of Mr. Bosse. The story is admirably told in the chatty, anecdotic, but " meaty " style which those who...

partly judicial. He draws a picture of Roman society, tells us what it believed and thought, how it lived, how it was governed,—to put it briefly, what was its condition and...

THE latest novel by the author of Mehalah is a very sombre book—too sombre, we think, for perfect pleasure—but it is undeniably powerful, and if not equal to one or two of its...

THE author of the interesting writings called The Oglander Memoirs was a local worthy who, born in the Isle of Wight during the reign of Elizabeth, died there under the...

Co.) —Miss Montresor gives in this volume some instructions to young collectors,—collectors, that is, of such things as seals, crests, coins, and postage-stamps. All give...

Series,"—Essays Relating to lade-China and the Indian Archipelago. Second Series, 2 vols.—These have been reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, from the...

Thales ? one is tempted to ask when one reads, in the April number of Mind, "The Conditions of a True Philosophy," by Mr. Shadworth Hodgson. This is, in reality, a capable...

and Schorlemmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—Part III., which appeared in 1886, began the study of the aromatic hydrocarbons, with the constitution of benzene and benzene derivatives....

good specimen this of the fiction which relies for its interest on intricacy of plot. How a certain robbery was effected, and how it was found out, are the main incidents of the...

H. Haldane Gee. (Macmillan and Co.)—Practical physics may or may not be necessary for schools, but none can doubt the necessity for some knowledge of chemistry, however alight....

and Co.)—Verner's Law brought certain changes of s to v in the Teutonic languages, which were apparently irregular, to a law. Mr. Conway in this elaborate essay, one of the...

Among American magazines, none has of late been coming more rapidly to the front than the Forum. Perhaps its editor is too anxious to make its title indicate its character ; the...

glad to see that this excellent publication continues its useful career. Nine sermons are printed at length, all of them, we may observe in passing, by preachers of the...

explained in the volumes now to be mentioned,—The Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, in its Relation to the Cotton Trade, by Henry Lowndes Wright (J. Hey- wood, Manchester and...

is a useful book, printed in large type, but not too big to be carried in the pocket. It gives us maps of London conveniently arranged in sections, with a key ; and, following...

by John Bland Sutton (H. K. Lewis) ; and Bright's Disease and Allied Affections of the Kidneys, by Charles W. Pardy, M.D. (H. R. Lewis), the work of a Professor at Chicago, and...

and Co.)—This volume, one of Messrs. Triibner's "Oriental Series," contains a curious collection of matters of very wide and varied interest. History and ethics, the curious...

kinematics, dynamics, and statics, is issued to meet the requirements of future students. The author also intends to supply a similar treatise for each of the optional...