D URING the week the condition of the Indian frontier has been most critical. For several days it seemed probable that the Afridis, by far the most formidable fighting tribe on...

THE INDIAN FRONTIER WAR. T HE Government of India displays at once - vigour and discretion in mobilising an army on its North-West Frontier. We are wholly opposed to what is...

W E are sorry that the peace negotiations are at a deadlock, but glad of the reason. The reason is the refusal of England to agree to the proposal that Turkey shall continue to...

T WO interesting speeches delivered in London by prominent Canadians suggest no little speculation as to the future of Canada. At the present time Canada is very much in...

W HAT is Prince Ferdinand's policy ? Why has he stooped to kiss the hand of the Sultan, and so proclaimed to all Europe that he is not a free and in- dependent Sovereign, but...

Arnold termed England and Ireland, have always been marked by the most curious misunderstandings on each side. "If only those misunderstandings could be cleared up ! "—that is...

M R. J. M. LUDLOW'S most interesting and admirable address, inaugurating this year's National Co- operative Festival at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, afforded a striking proof...

T HE Report of the Committee of the Lambeth Confer- ence on Foreign Missions deals with a subject which Englishmen, do what they will, cannot quite ignore. They may dislike, or...

T HE merits and demerits of painful poetry—of poetry;.. that is, which wounds, lacerates, and depresses the human heart instead of raising or satisfying or ennobling— form a...

W HEN on one occasion President Johnson declared him- self to be a "self-made man," it was said by a Member of Congress that the "Almighty was relieved of a great...

T "pleadings in the action brought by the municipality of Colchester to assert a right to certain oyster-beds on the foreshore showed that some form of protection had been...

THE DREAD OF THE SUPERNATURAL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Does not the rector of Lambeth, in his interesting letter on "The Dread of the Supernatural" in the...

Sin,—Your article in the Spectator of August 14th on the Old Catholics seemed to show some misunderstanding of the principles of Roman Catholics, and I trust you will pardon a...

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,It may be worth considering whether the instances of so-called "second-sight" mentioned by your correspondents, Mr. F. Balfour and Herr...

LTO TIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") was recently told by an Oriental scholar that by the Turkish law a schoolmaster is looked upon as a lunatic. Either be was a lunatic to...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article, "America and England," in the Spectator of August 14th will be read here as a proper and righteous protest against the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIE,—The connection of Queen Victoria with King Feargus More, and his connection with Ireland, seem doubtful ; see Skene's "Historical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The descent into the arena of two Royal personages in attack or defence of the time-honoured privilege of travellers' tales may or may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin.—An incident similar to that described by your correspondent, "Ca Co," in the Spectator of August 14th, came under my own observation a...

THE WOMAN WITH THE DEAD SOUL [AN ATTEMPT TO RENDER IMAGINATIVELY A MODERN TRAGEDY. THE HORROR OF THE TRAGEDY LIES IN THE COMBINATION OF DEATH WITHIN, AND NEATNESS WITHOUT, SO...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPFCTATOR:1 SIR.—We were pleased on reading "G. M. T.'s " letter in the Spectator of August 14th to find that his experience of swifts coincides so...

E. B. Chapman. London John Lane. very troublesome to meet. Miss Chapman is fervently con- vinced that the stability of the social order depends upon the maintenance of the...

FINLAND.* • THE author of a Girl s Ride in Iceland and other books of Scandinavian travel gives us here some fresh experiences. Through Finland in Carts, she is pleased to call...

IF Clive and Warren Hastings could reappear upon earth at the present moment, there are plenty of matters which would powerfully engage the interest of those statesmen. But for...

to make his book on the Presidential campaign of 1896 as forbidding as possible. He puts before us a ponderous tome of some six hundred odd pages, which proves on examination to...

THE efficiency of cavalry in warfare is for many reasons more dependent on the efficiency of the officers who lead it than that of any other arm in the service, and Sir Evelyn...

WHEN a naturalist like Sir Herbert Maxwell relates what he has learnt in the fields and woods and by the aide of mountain lochs the story to a large number of country livers...

Household Economics. By Helen Campbell. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This book, besides being a serious effort to face the many problems presented by the modern household, gives the...

Chicago.)—We learn from this "Book of Kansas Stories" the truth about the State of Kansas. "Eastern Kansas is a finished community like New York or Pennsylvania. Central Kansas...

Levett - Yeats. (Longmans and Co.)—These are stories of the seamy side of life in India. The picture is given with no little force of colouring, and the aim of the artist is to...

Frederic Charles Danvers. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—The early days of the East India Company were indeed golden. The profits of the first two voyages very nearly equalled...

The author tells in a powerful way the struggle of a young man who has disgraced himself and his family, to recover his position. The " odds "against which he has to contend are...

Illustrated from Punch,Vol. II. (Bradbury. Agnew, and Co.)—This volume con- tains the history of the years 1876-86. It begins with the proro- gation of Parliament in 1876, and...

" Bubbles " does not indicate any doubt of the reality of the persons whom Mr. Leake describes—as, for instance, the Duke of Berwick, Pedro the Cruel, and John Wiclif —but is a...

and Co.) —We have in this volume twelve papers, beginning with Dr. Lyman Abbott's "What is a Prophet ?" and Dean Farrar's "Can We be Prophets ? " a vigorous piece of rhetoric,...

and the Rev. the Hon. R. W. Verney. 2 vols. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—The two authors, both of them men who have ridden to hounds from their youth, have made of this...

(Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Solly thinks that Herod has not had justice done to him. His reputation has suffered because the writings of his admirer, Nicolaiis, have...

W. L. Alden. (1 D. lanes and Co.)—The twenty stories included in this volume are, almost without exception, excellent. Here is a proof of our appreciation of them. We do not...

strange charm about much of Miss Hopper's verse. The meaning is not always plain ; but even then the melody, with but a hint of thought beneath it, seems to lay hold of us. Many...

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