moment obscured by the President's Message, the first effect of which will be to strengthen the hands of those who advise toleration of the Armenian massacres. This is the...

education speeches in Birmingham, where he stayed for two or three days with Mr. Chamberlain at Highbury. Yesterday week he opened the newly completed Municipal Technical School...

Cleveland's pretension would introduce an entirely new practice into international law. Even France, with all her jealousy of Great Britain, is clear upon this point, which...

T HE country has had a great surprise this week,—a sur- prise which has also been a shock. On Monday the American President forwarded to Congress a Message, in which he declared...

despatches which have passed between the Governments. Mr. Olney's main contention is that under the Monroe doctrine the Union has right of interference in the Venezuelan d'spute...

Presi- dent's contention, which they think an unreasonable extension of the Monroe doctrine, and they observe, moreover, that the President has given his case away by admitting,...

Institute, presided over by the Prince of Wales, gave an interesting account of the work actually accomplished by that somewhat anomalous, though magnificently housed, cor-...

in the course of which he mentioned that the Municipal Council had provided £88,000 for the building and maintenance of the technical school, and had also made adequate...

very good speech on Wednesday to the Salisbury Club in Bristol, on the state of parties and the financial prospects of his own department. He ridiculed the idea of divisions in...

admission that he did not at present aim at the extinction of the voluntary schools, but only at the repression of those demands which the School Board party think unreasonable....

of London in a second letter to the Rev. John Haslam, the Honorary Secretary to the Pudsey Division Liberal Association, published in Thursday's Times. The Bishop has said that...

the Council of Education, received two deputations on the educational controversy of the day, the one headed by Mr. George Dixon, Al P., against the proposal to give extra aid...

indeed. The Hamburger Nachrichten is supposed to be the organ of Prince Bismarck, and is certainly an organ of the Conservatives ; and it advises in so many words that the...

dealt with the slavery which, to our shame be it spoken, exists in our British Protectorates in East Africa. He said that although by treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar the...

one point. The troops have arrived safely, there has been no outburst of disease, the native chiefs under our protection are heartily willing, and the supply of carriers is...

something of a puzzle in character. We do not know what his means are, knowing, in fact, little about him except his ownership of one of the most honest and most faddy news-...

Mr. Spenser Wilkinson delivered st the Royal United Service Institute an address on " The Command of the Sea and British Policy?' An island, he pointed out, required for its...

very angry—that the Government of India has recently done a very base act, having signified to the Ameer of Afghanistan that he is at liberty to conquer the fair-haired...

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towards Turkey as described in the semi-official papers. That Government is said to declare that as the Sultan has allowed the guardships to enter the Bosphorus, the work of the...

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. P RESIDENT CLEVELAND'S Message to Congress upon the frontier dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain is an event, as well as a document., of grave...

P ERHAPS the greatest, decidedly the worst, result of President Cleveland's sensational Message will be its effect on the fate of the Armenians. It is for them almost a...

S IR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in his speech to the Salisbury Club at Bristol on Wednesday, told us two remarkable things as to the condition of English finance: The first was that...

best, in his Birmingham speeches on the Education question, to play the part of a sort of ice-house, or ice-chest, to cool the angry feelings which the Education question...

T HERE is one point in connection with the Monroe doctrine which is too much overlooked, and which we should like to bring to the attention of thoughtful Americans. This is the...

I T is to be hoped that the difficulties with America which have occupied men's minds so greatly during the week will not have entirely overshadowed the con- troversy between...

W E have hitherto said nothing about the shipbuilding strike. In trade disputes there are ordinarily quite enough expressions of amateur opinion. Such criticism is necessarily...

T HERE is nothing which sometimes puzzles us so much as the apparent incompatibility of culture and faith. Must not the mind be narrow in order to be pure of stain ? Must not...

T HE Protestant world has never taken kindly to asceticism. It has never accepted, even if it has ever considered, the Asiatic doctrine that the only approach to a higher life...

A CCOUNTS of South African wild life have usually been written rather from the sportsman's point of view than from that of the naturalist. Mr. John Guille Millais, the author of...

THE INVESTORS' GRIEVANCE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —It was a surprise to me to find my article in the Investors' Review criticised in the Spectator of December...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—It is certain that in order to obtain a satisfactory and permanent solution of the problem of religions education in our elementary...

in the Spectator of December 14th is sensible enough ; but he fails to see that his argument cuts both ways. For Baptist read Churchman, for National school read Board-school,...

[To TRZ EDITOR 0/ THE "SPECTATOR "] Sin,—Whenever I sent the shepherd with sheep to the local auction the shepherd went in front, and Turk,' a cross between a retriever and...

passing strange that the Spectator should take up the position it does on the Education ques- tion. Surely if there is a grievance anywhere, it is the Non- conformists who have...

MY MASTERPIECE. WHILE other authors to a man, Work hurriedly and never cease, I sit apart and inly plan My masterpiece. I've nothing written of it yet, No, not so much as one...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR: . 1 SIR,—IS it not time that our opponents made some definite accusations against us P Mr. Arch last spring charged the clergy with using...

LITHOGRAPHS AND WATER-COLOURS. Lithographs at Dunthorne's—Mr. Whistler at the Fine Art Society's — The Old Water-Colour Society-31r. Peppercorn at Goupil's. "LITHOGRAPHY made...

DR. JOHNSON AND THE FAIR SEX.* IT may be thought, and not without reason, that no new light can be thrown on a• character so familiar as that of Dr. Johnson. From his own day...

HACKNEYED as the theme of An Arranged Marriage un- doubtedly is, Dorothea Gerard's skill has enabled her to impart to it so much of the zest of novelty that no unwelcome...

quite the fashion, and amongst works of this description an honourable place must be accorded to this charming little volume from the pen of Professor Goldwin Smith. The method...

JUST the life-time of a generation has passed since the ant bar of Tom Brown's School-days began to send to the Spectator the letters descriptive of his Vacation Rambles, which...

volume, which is of moderate size, light weight, and pretty exterior, make very pleasant reading indeed, of a popular b at not trivial kind. We pre- aume that the essays were...

picture of Paris as it is, by way of a contrast to the flood of memories of an extinct city with which English observers of every description —peace-observers and...

GIFT-BOOKS. Born to be a Sailor. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol )—Here Dr. Gordon • Stables gives us a lively story—with, perhaps, too many digressions in...

sent home to kinsfolk 'by parents in India. The story tells how her patience, goodness, and unselfishness work a change in the family of which she becomes a part. Possibly the...

1--Captain King evidently knows Indian warfare, for he has given us a wonderfully vivid and picturesque description of the alarms and hardships of a battalion stationed in some...

pleasant story that runs on very familiar lines. Margot Dimont a spirited girl endowed with much force of character, is -compelled by pecuniary "family misfortunes" to take the...

and Co.)—There is no doubt whatever that there is plenty of adventure in this book; on every second page there is a mutiny or a shipwreck, or a fight with savages, or a...

book makes a new and delightful departure in fairy-tales. It is an attempt, based, as the author tells us, on "Government reports of Indian life," and " the folk-lore contained...

Wheeler and Co.)—This is one of the brightest and most humorous stories that have yet been published by a writer who has shown such an intimate knowledge of Anglo-Indian life...

story of planter life in Ceylon in the days before the island had been as much settled as it is now, and the improve- ments of roads, &c., had only begun. To Mr. Grantley, who...

Green is a weakly little boy, nine years old, but looking five, who lives with a crippled mother in Crooked Alley, and conceives the happy idea of making a livelihood out of...

this story, which is described as " A Study of a Boy," to "the Boy," a creature whom she considers to have been misrepre• seated by " historians and romancists." Master...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—There is a delightful old- English flavour about the majority of these stories, and that in spite of the fact that they are exclusively American. One or...

and Co.) —Herein we have described a remarkable friendship which springs up between a young man, whose days are supposed to be num- bered, and a wild, untutored farmer's...

False Pretences applies alike to the hypocritical friendship of one personage, the false position of others who are under the erroneous impression that they are married, and the...

Our Holidays conceives the brilliant idea of en- livening the tedious convalescence from illness by writing an account of her holidays. Then she proceeds to describe them,— how...

Carrington's adventures make up a tale of the good old stirring type. He runs away from home, then acts the part of a stowaway and saves the ship, luckily for himself, and the...

Wheeler and Co.)—We like Mr. Fforde better when he is reproducing the humours of Anglo-Indian life than when, as here, he tries to beat the writers of blood-curdling romances on...

Stock) we have the sixth volume of Topography, edited by F. A. Milne. It contains the two counties of Kent and Lancashire; the former of the two fills more than two hundred and...

and Co.)—Many of these stories, though known to students and of historical importance, are unknown to most readers. They are of that charming variety known as historical...

is a fairly successful novel with a purpose, perhaps because the writer, though she is very much in earnest, has a certain amount of humour which enables her at all events to...

Molesworth gives us a very pleasing and truthful picture of the life of a little girl and her grandmother. Helena discovers herself to be spoilt when her grandmother goes to...

Stories by other Writers. (Chapman and Hall.)—Although we have had of late perhaps a trifle too much of " detectivism " in fiction, and a new volume containing nothing but "...

Gray's Inn Road.)—Mr. Medborough tells how he found a copy of a sonnet by Wordsworth about the carving on the desk in Hawkshead School (this was at Hawkahead), how he heard some...