even that of a snail would seem like a flash of lightning. Yesterday week, after three divisions and the rejection of innumerable amendments, the House got from the beginning of...

case.

T HE Goblet Ministry has fallen, ostensibly on a financial 1 question. It is supposed that the Chamber is desirous of ridding itself decorously of General Boulanger ; but the...

Cornwall, vacated by the resignation of Mr. Borlase, a very strong Gladstonian. But whereas Mr. Borlase was so sure of his seat that it was not even contested in the interest of...

day, and began by disowning any intention of turning that dinner to account in a party sense by speculating on the view which Mr. Cobden, had he been living, would have taken of...

than usual in forming an Administration. M. Clemenceau, the only untried leader of a party, still declines to take office, probably because he could not fulfil hie Colonial and...

at Gastein this year. The reason assigned is that the German Emperor's health will not allow of so long a railway journey ; but as the Austrian Emperor could reach any appointed...

Nobody that we know of wants Zululand, but we have had to annex that State. The heart of the Zulus went out of them with the fall of Ekowe, the Boers are perpetually stealing...

question which he professed hie intention of not handling, though he did handle it in a sense which seems to us utterly misleading,—was in every way excellent. He showed that...

the Liberal Unionists for not making up their differ- ences with the Gladstonians,—the first to the Eighty Club on Monday night, the other to the Manchester Reform Club on...

on the new Irish Land Bill. A most important clause in that Bill places leaseholders under the operation of the Land Act of 1881. Lord Fitzgerald, Lord Selborne, the Duke of...

Wednes- day, it was determined that " it is the duty of the Liberal Party to oppose the Irish Crimes Bill now before Parliament, and to maintain and enforce the policy of...

Whig Pharieaism of the earlier speech a violent attack on the imputations now current against the Parnellites for their con- nection with the dynamiters and the party of...

Cook, which we mentioned in February, 1886, is now complete. The Government has been long annoyed by the excessive sufferings of its Massulman subjects while making pilgrimage...

much of his campaign against the Viceroy of Canada. The citizens of Toronto, in an immense meeting, passed resolutions denouncing his conduct; but he persisted in visiting the...

to old Rugbeians, Lord Derby, Mr. Goschen, and Lord Justice Bowen had their say. Lord Derby complained of the House of Lords for not containing nearly as many Rugbeians as it...

Consols were on Friday 1031 to 1031.

the Cecil Club at a dinner in Willis's Rooms, and addressed the audience in a spirited speech, very badly reported. He said the strange political situation, with all old...

wages of 2s. a day has been threatened with legislative interference for the last two years, interviewed the Home Secretary on Tuesday. They declared that their work, which is...

coin it will be. By a proclamation dated May 13th, it is ordered that a silver double- florin, or fifth of a pound, shall be issued from the Mint, and shall be received as...

T "public of Europe is probably right in attaching great importance to the overthrow of the Goblet Ministry in France. That overthrow involves the fate of General Boulanger, who...

THE ST. AUSTELL ELECTION. W E are very anxious not to overrate the importance of the very remarkable result of the election for the St. Austell Division of Cornwall. We do not...

B UT scanty justice has been done to Mr. Goschen's speech of Saturday, the 14th inst., at the dinner given him by the Cecil Club. Except in the Times, it can hardly be said to...

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN'S address at the Eighty Club IJ was a very effective speech for its purpose, and his speech at Manchester, though not so effective for that purpose, was...

I T would be a curious incident in the history of English' industry if an anti-Semitic agitation broke out among English workmen ; but it is not entirely impossible. Certain...

W E have often complained of that curious provision of our Constitution which debars the House of Commons from hearing the men who could beet tell it what it wants to know. No...

W HAT is the present value of the right of petitioning Parliament/ When weighed and measured, has it any value at all In the days before Reform, there was no question as to what...

S UPPOSING we had imprisoned in a felon's cell a Jew who insisted on putting on his hat during prayer, or a Christian who insisted on kneeling in any part of the Church service...

T HE Government of India has discovered a treasure in Gwalior,—one of those immense " hoards " of money of which we so often bear, but which are so seldom visible in actual...

MR. GLADSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD SPEECH. [To ran EDITOR OW 7/111 SPZOTLTOZ."3 Sta,—To all who value the scrupulous love of justice which animates the Spectator, it must be a grief to...

[To 1112 EDITOR C. , "rallorrrox.-] Sra,—During a recent vacationin Switzerland, I became greatly interested in the many questions of social politics that are now being...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE Erigorms."] Sus,—I am sorry that in striving for conciseness I failed to- make my meaning. distinct. My point is this. So long as the appreciation of gold...

THE Bezerncat."] SIR,—I gather from your note in the Spectator referring to the friendly controversy which arose on Presentation Day between Lord Granville and Sir John Lubbock,...

OP PRO "EirscrAmos."1 Stn,—Any of the forty-five Members in question who read it mist have been a good deal surprised at the innuendo contained in the current number of the...

OXFORD TO LONDON. 0 FRIEND, who labouring for the State, With sittings early, sittings late, Dost gnaw thy soul with righteous anger At party violence, party hate: To see our...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. DECOND NOTICE.] MR. ALBERT GOODWIN'S work in the present exhibition is at once attractive and irritating. He sends five or six...

[To TITS EDITOR Or Tee EPROTATOlt." Sta,—A wish has been expressed by the personal friends of the late Alexander J. Ross, D.D., that some corporate form should be given to his...

00LE DES BEAUX ARTS, PARIS. Fon those who are at Paris this springtime for the purpose of seeing pictures, there is an exhibition which will well recompense them for the long...

MR. LECKY'S LAST VOLUMES.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Tun years covered by Mr. Lecky's last two volumes—the period from the close of the struggle with America to the outbreak of the war...

sordid reality, relieved by romance, which formed the subject of his recent novel, Children of Gibeon, Mr. Besant has turned in the story now before us to a stern and wild...

Ix is with surprise that we read in Father Bowden's preface to the excellent translation of Dr. Hettinger's essay on " the scope and value" of Dante's work, that the volume he...

which we ought to have reviewed before Easter, as it is obviously meant to. celebrate Easter- tide ; but we regret our delay the less that we cannot say that the prologue on...

Horse-Racing in France. By R. Black, M.A. (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington.)—There is nothing in the whole world more serious and bardness-like than sport. Hence it...

Hall.)—Mr. M. F. Bisset was Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds for more than a quarter of a century (he resigned the post in 1881). Daring that period he kept a record...

Albany, N.Y.)—Much curious and interesting matter may be found in this volume, though not, it must be confessed, without some considerable labour. It is a small quarto of more...

Halifax, Gentleman." (Macmillan and Co.)—Here we have ten essays, the occasional work of many years, reprinted. Some are of the reflective kind, with a moral gently suggested....

(Megan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The spread of paheon. tology has been so vast during the last quarter of a century, that had the great Cuvier, as Professor Schmidt soya, been...

volume of a small quarto size, containing twenty-nine maps, for the excellence of which the publisher's name will be a sufficient guarantee. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and...

J. A. Woreaae. Translated by H. F. Morland Simpson. (Trithner and Co.)—Worsaae was a Danish archtoologiat (1821-1865), of great note in his country, and devoted his life to the...

Co.)—All the children's good things are commonly crowded together at Christmas, when, to tell the truth, the " tasters " are so over. whelmed with work that they can hardly do...

and C. Bohorlemmer, F.H.B. " Organic Chemistry," Vol. III., Part III. (Macmillan and Co)—Part III. is devoted to the chemistry of the aromatic compounds ; this, by far the most...

lishing Company, Chicago.)—This is a useful little book, well calcu- lated to give learners an interest in natural science, and so enable them to employ with profit many hours...

Agnew, and Co.)—This is one of the " Handbooks of the Farm " series, and, indeed, comes from the pen of its editor. Mr. Morton explains in his preface that it is virtually a new...

Co.)—Twenty kinds of trees are described, both scientifically and popularly, in this volume, and the description is illustrated by coloured plates. Not only is the general...

Co.)—Dr. Andrew Wilson has collected here some forty essays first published in the journal which he edits, Health. He discourses on a great variety of topics—on mesmerism, for...

Series." (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Such a subject as physical expression, which includes the pasture of the limbs, as well as that wonderful and complex assembly of various...

3 vole. (Tinsley Brothers.)—A " prefatory note," disclaiming literary skill, disarms criticism. It is quite true that Training is not "artistically finished." It is a simply...

Brown is a publication forming one of a series issued by the Johns Hopkins University. The author, Mr. Brown, was, in the eventful year which saw the outburst of Secession, the...

Co.)—This ought to be a useful book to many a citizen who has been hitherto too inclined to leave to Ministers and bureaucrats the intricacies of moat Colonial questions, which...

_ 0 — Adams (G. M.). An Algonquin Maiden, cr era Al BerunFe India, Religion, &o., edited by li, /Mohan., Mu Albion, and othor Poems, 120. Birrell (A..). Ginter Dicta, Vol....

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A LOOK ROUND LITERATURE.* Ma. Bucamtert is a poet, and as such is entitled to attention when he enters the field of poetical criticism. Not that the critic's art is necessarily...

LONDON: MAY 21, 1887.

COLONEL RUSSELL was led, he tells us in his brief and manly preface, to write this memoir of Lord Peterborough for two reasons. The manuscript journal of Colonel de St. Pierre,...

to feel a legiti- mate pride, largely tempered by remorse. Neither was able to extort full recognition from his countrymen during his life- time; but whilst Berlioz had at least...

THE author of this very interesting book complains that " it is little less than a scandal to our industrial literature" that " there is absolutely no independent source of...

Tut two books before us may be held to mark the change which has taken place in the discussion on the miraculous generally, and the miracles of Christianity in particular. When...

said to have carried out the principle of eclecticism which underlies the view advanced in his preface, to the effect that the best translation must be the outcome of all...

Office Lid, comprising a mass of historical, statistical, and official information respecting the British Colonial Dependencies, seems to have been very carefully revised...

BOOKS about books have of late been plentiful; but they have been written with different objects, and there is no competition between works like Mr. Frederic Harrison's and the...

publication, in 1870, of Dr. Brentano's really great work, Die Arbeitergilden der Gegenwarr, the first serious study of Trade-Unions as an . important factor in contemporary...