at the Royal United Service Institution, on the North-West Frontier. His contention was that India could not be invaded by Russia without a thoroughly organised army of...

for the vigorous speeches of Sir W. Harcourt and Lord Hartington. The former proved carefully, what he has since verified still more carefully in his letters to the Times, that...

General Stewart, with the western column, is pressing forward slowly, and has found the Khojak Pass undefended. General Roberts, after ascending the Shaturgardan, which he found...

case.

that the artisans, at least, are growing more and more dis- gusted with this Government of secret actions and bombastic words. Mr. Fry, the Liberal candidate, obtained 9,342...

T HE death of the Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse- Darmstadt, which occurred at 7.30 a.m. last Saturday morning, has thrown a gloom over all English society. The Princess...

tax which be thinks necessary to restore German finance. He had proposed that tobacco should be made a Government monopoly in Germany, as it is in France ; and although the...

reasoning by which we arrived at a conclusion so unfavourable to the trust- worthiness of the Rhodope Report, should read a very careful letter in the Scotsman of Thursday,...

paying the expenses of the Afghan war, was comparatively a poor one. Many Members delivered speeches prepared for the previous debate, and many more seemed to think that the...

with the Government. Of course Mr. Roebuck did, but he is no more a Liberal than is Sir Robert Peel. Sir N. M. de Rothschild voted with the Government, in compliance with the...

went to press, the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice of his inten- tion to propose (on Tuesday) a vote for the assistance of the sufferers in the Rhodope districts, and he...

Zulu declaration of war, but it is still expected in Natal, with con- siderable alarm. Lord Chelmsford, the General commanding, has abandoned the attack on Secocceni's...

Englishmen, how little we hear of events actually passing at Con- stantinople. According to accounts which must be substantially true, a kind of revolution has occurred in the...

gave a reply in relation to the policy of France at the Congress, and the results of the Congress, which was of some interest. He so far supported Lord Beaconsfield, that he...

when exceedingly telling speeches were delivered by M. Frederic Passy and M. Raoul Duval. The former directed his speech to re- fute the assertion that what might be good for...

great humour, the fidelity and vividness of his figure-painting, and the quaint- ness of his subjects, has been at length elected a Royal Academician. Mr. Marks is still...

the head of the Local Government Board, gave answers in relation to the distress existing in the manufacturing districts, answers in some respects of i reassuring kind. Mr....

Mr. Stanhope brought forward the strong argument that if England found the money, India would be actually paid for waging a war undertaken on her own behalf, and declared that...

Lord Chief Justice's irritating letter to him on the question at issue between the Court of Arches and the Court of Queen's Bench ; but perhaps he would have done better if, in...

Taylor, the American Minister at Berlin, who died suddenly, on Thurs- day, of dropsy. Mr. Taylor was originally, like his friend Horace Greeley, a compositor, and rose gradually...

WHO IS LIABLE FOR THE BILL? W E cannot, as yet, vote with the Liberal party about the expenses of this Afghan war. The Government, un- doubtedly, speaks with two mouths, Lord...

T HE curious little escapade of the Government in relation to the vote for the Rhodope sufferers, has betrayed in a very striking manner the extreme weakness of the Treasury...

T HERE is no great fault to be found with Mr. Cross's answer to Mr. Hubbard's question last Tuesday. It is not the business of Ministers to be alarmists, least of all in matters...

MHE Prime Minister's interview with the loyal Gold-diggers of California on Thursday was one of the most appropriate and picturesque incidents of his singular career. And he...

limited liability is of course to produce security. It is held, and we believe justly held, that a secure place for the deposit of savings is essential to the growth of thrift ;...

A LETTER from the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, published in the Echo of Tuesday last, vindicates his course in voting for the Government in relation to the Afghan war. The...

W E do wish the English people, and more especially their Premier, would learn that grief, even deep grief, is coin- patible with ordinary self-respect ; that it is not for...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—The proposition before the Court is that a little knowledge of Greek is a useless, if not a dangerous, thing ; and learned Cantabs...

" SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In an article on the fall of Signor Cairoli's Ministry, you say,—" We cannot, therefore, regret the fall of the Ministry, more especially as the King would...

THE BISHOPS AND THE WAR. cro THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTAT0B.:1 SIR,—I should like to be allowed to say in your columns that, but for an attack of bronchitis, which has kept me a...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I SIR,—The ludicrous position in which the present advisers of the Crown have placed themselves, in consequence of Sir Stafford Northeote's...

COMPANIONS. Slum: farewell to Sorrow : Give to Joy good-morrow : And charge him to continue A quiet reign within you. Smile farewell to Gladness : Take the hand of Sadness, And...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—May I be permitted to call attention, through your columns, to the great and pressing need of some prayer for peace, which may be used...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In addition to the work mentioned by your correspondent in last Saturday's issue, there are two recent and important Histories of the...

"SPECTATOR."] Ste,—The story of a society where money and misery are un- known, and great crime almost impossible, comes to a nine- teenth-century Englishman like the...

THE ART OF EUROPE.—IV. (ENGLAND.) SIXTY or seventy years ago two influences were doing their best to ruin the Art of England, and these were the influence of the romantic and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Your reviewer of Dr. Busch's book on "Bismarck und Seine Leute " translates the word " widerwiirtig " into "disgust- ing," against which...

MISS SWAN WICK'S FAUST.. • IT would not be easy for an English reader to obtain any better- mastery of Goethe's great poem than by reading, first, Mr. Hay- ward's admirable...

"LE style," says one of the greatest of modern critics, "le style, c'est un sceptre d'or, h qui reste, en definitive, le royaume de ce monde." And if this be true, as we firmly...

RHALISE the scene. It is a small, low-roofed bakehouse, and an active, middle-aged man, with wide brow and thoughtful, twinkling eyes, and his working clothes well bewhitened,...

PUNCTUAL as Christmas, bright as the orange of which its binding reminds us, and welcome as the former and nearly as welcome as the latter to the children, comes Mrs....

IT was a happy thought which led Professor Knight to employ the leisure of his summer or autumn holidays in gleaning what may still be gathered about the places with which...

Tins is a valuable book, and one which it would hardly be fair to criticise in the ordinary way. The writer is evidently one of those men who, having taken up an out-of-the-way...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS, Ere. Edinburgh. Picturesque Notes, by Robert Louis Stevenson. With Etchings, from Drawings by S. Bough, R.S.A., and W. C. Lockhart, R.S.A. ; and Engravings on...

not yet closed, the volume of this handy almanack and reference-book has reached a second edition. In the current number the changes caused by the partial dismemberment of the...

for Pro- moting Christian Knowledge.)—This book consists of a selection of letters, written by men eminent for their piety, the letters of each being given together. Among the...

delightful than the fulfilment) can be cheaply and pleasantly indulged in.

Co.)—This little volume appears in good season. Mr. Morris describes the preliminary diplomacy at greater length than the actual warfare, and doubtless with good reason. The...

and interesting series of little books, "The Fathers for English Readers," of which four are now before us, The Apostolic Fathers, by the Rev. H. S. Holland; Defenders of the...

Bible, containing most of the same features in the Oxford University Press Bible, which we noticed last week, and apparently some others as well. Messrs. Eyre issued the first...

Almanack "). (Cassell.)—This almanack is one of the best year-books published in the interest of those engaged in horse and cattle-breeding, poultry-rearing, or in fact, all...