A KIND of revolution has occurred in Belgium. Last week the Chamber and the Senate, as we recorded, rejected all plans for reducing the present restricted franchise, under...

of civil war. A Regent rarely excites loyalty, and a Council of Regency never ; and this particular Council had been most unwise. They had endeavoured to override the voters by...

the principal speakers. Mr. Asquith maintained that if Ireland is really as unfit for Parliamentary self-government as the Unionists maintain, the Union stands thereby self-...

d'etat on Friday week. He had just passed his military 'examination, and—according to the earliest accounts, since confirmed by the leading Regent, M. Ristitch,—invited the...

case.

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 29th, will be issued, 'gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages tof which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Saunders (M.P. for Walworth), who, though a Home-ruler, intends to vote against the Bill because it intro- duces a second Chamber for Ireland founded on a property qualification...

Mr. Sexton, which, trivial and tedious at first, rose after- wards into passages of real eloquence, and included some arguments which, from the Gladstonian point of view, are of...

proposal for the Irish Members, though he in. tended to vote for the second reading ; and later in the evening, Sir John Lubbock, pointing out how much money bad been advanced...

Carson and one from Colonel Saunderson. Mr. Carson, however, should remember that he is addressing the country as well as the House. He injures the effect of his really...

for the adjournment to discuss the action of the Hull Board of Guardians in relation to the local strike, which wasted a good deal of time. The adjourned debate was resumed by...

made some excellent points against the Home. rule Bill, points which had nothing of the music-hall style about them. The Bill, instead of lightening the labours of Parliament,...

Gladstone's remarks addressed to the deputation which waited upon him on March 28th, was published in the Times of this day week, and is a very masterly document. The reply...

of the Primrose League held at the Opera House, Covent Garden, on Wednesday, was witty without being very indiscreet. After mentioning that if eight hundred voters in England...

Canadian Dominion, and will succeed Lord Stanley of Preston in September. Lord Aberdeen is popular wherever he goes. Though a loyal follower of Mr. Gladstone's, he is not a...

head-quarters in Sydney, has been compelled to suspend payment. The blow is a very heavy one ; for its deposits amounted to £10,840,000, of which sum £4,000,001) belongs to...

at the Edinburgh Castle,' Limehouse, assembled to protest against Home-rule, pointed out that there had been no real reply made to the Unionist speeches in the House of Commons....

New Consols (21) were on Friday 994.

in Scotland on Mr. Gladstone's Home-rule Bill ; one at Edinburgh yesterday week, chiefly upon Mr. Gladstone's authority as a statesman, and one at Dalkeith on Saturday, on the...

Ben Tillett, indicted for inciting to riot at Bristol, was found guilty by the jury of "using words calculated to lead to riotous conduct," but they added that "he spoke in the...

THE HOME SECRETARY'S SPEECH. T HE Home Secretary's speech, delivered yesterday week, has certainly been the most effective, on the whole, which has proceeded from the Treasury...

T HIS Belgian affair is, in one way, a very bad business ; but in another there is some hopefulness in it. It is bad, because the revolution has been carried through by workmen...

agitation caused by this wretched Home-rule Bill, none comes more frequently to the front than the plan of exempting either four or six of the counties of Ulster from its...

W E do not believe that the House of Lords is un- popular in the country, but we do believe that for the present at least, the mild satisfaction with which it is regarded is...

I T is not often that the proceedings of the "Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division," fertile as that Court is in sensational incidents, supply anything . so sen- sational as...

even more confusing and difficult to understand than those of Labour disputes generally ; and that is saying a good deal. According to the speech made by Mr, John Burns, in...

W E certainly did not expect, even ten years ago, that we should ever be compelled to plead for Egoism as a duty—we use the word in its true sense, of course, and not as an...

W E suppose it must be Keat's impressive sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," which has obtained for that curiously artificial rendering of one of the simplest poems...

I T is hardly matter for surprise that the colubrine snakes, with their gorgeous colouring and wonderful form, or the poisonous cobras, rattlesnakes, and puff-adders which...

I F society were organised according to the socialist ideal, there would be no fixed period for freedom from leading- strings—i n that no man or woman would ever be thought of...

Sin,—Every year the truth of Burns's "the best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley " comes more home to me. From the time I was ten the pass of Roncesvalles has had a...

THE HOME-RULE BILL.—IS IT ON THE LINES OF TRUE DEMOCRACY? [To TUB EDITOR OF ToB "SrEoTA.Tou."] Sin,—The result of the debate on the Home-rule Bill, and especially of the...

[To TEE BOIT= OF THE "BraorATon] Six,--So much is perpetually written and said about the advantages of education, that I feel impelled to try to give a glimpse of the reverse...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " $PECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article under this heading, in the Spectator of April 15th, it seems to me you scarcely make the best of what you name the...

an article in the Spectator of April 15th, entitled "The Wrong and Right Way of Defending the Welsh Church," it is pointed out as a, mistake on the part of the defenders of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—In the Spectator for April 8th, p. 441, you remark on Mr. Gladstone as "a statesman who has a singular power of shutting his eyes to...

[To THE EDITOE OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am, and have been for many years, a thankful follower of Mr. Gladstone. I have felt that when a Prime Minister considers possible...

TER " BPEOTATOR."3 SIR,—After reading your interesting article on the above subject in the Spectator of April 15th, it occurred to me that Shakespeare had the identical...

TER " SPECTATOR:1 SIX—With reference to the letter from the Dean of the - Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, which recently appeared in your columns, allow me to point...

ONCE more at Laleham, 'mid the graves I stood, The day that Arnold died, And watch'd the ripples sweep the gleaming flood, By his loy'd river-side. The river that the radiance...

VITA NUOVA. LONG bath she slept, forgetful of delight : At last, at last, the enchanted princess, Earth, Claimed with a kiss by Spring the adventurer, In slumber knows the...

[TO THE EDITOR or TRH " SPECT/TOR,"] Era,—In a review of Mr. Steele's " Mediwval Lore," appearing in the Spectator of March 25th, a quotation is given on the natural history...

THE exhibition of the New English Art Club is this year both saved and overwhelmed by its distinguished guests. If there were nothing else to look at in the room, the presence...

MR. LOWELL'S LECTURES ON THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS.* AMONG the earliest fruits of the late Mr. Lowell's pen was a little volume, dedicated to his father, entitled...

more than octogenarian Academician hath not forgot her cunning during the half-century and more which has passed by since, in the wonderful series of philo- sophical works...

IT is one of the strangest instances of the abiding power of Greek literature and thought, that a treatise written several centuries before the advent of Christianity should...

" WHAT a loss the world had, Sir, when you took to litera- ture," said to Dickens an admiring stage-carpenter, who had been watching the novelist from the wings while he played...

ONE star sets, but another rises, and the sky is never empty. A year or two ago we had to lament the death of Miss Jessie Fothergill, a novelist whose work, though not free from...

Mn. RHOADES'S choice of blank verse as the metre for a translation of - Virgil is, we think, amply justified both by reason and by experience. A priori, we might suppose it...

THE morality of the Turf, though it is but little esteemed by judges whose opinion ought to cam , weight, seems neverthe- less to be developing with quite astonishing rapidity....

Treasury Series," the selection of Scottish Hong, compiled and arranged by Mary Carlyle Aitken, is among the most attractive. We reviewed the volume on its first publication,...

Miss N. Norgate. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mrs. Green's second volume of her illustrated edition of her husband's book keeps up the high character of the first. It is a marvel of...

is right in saying that those "short imaginative pieces" can hardly be called stories. Nothing could well be slighter so far as plot is concerned, and if there be art in the...

This " Story of a Railroad Boy" makes an exciting narrative. It is to be presumed that all railway journeys in the States are not so eventful as those which successively tried...

and Co.)—This is an excellent sketch of the rise and progress of "Gothic" architecture—an arbitrary misnomer, as the writer points out—in all its manifestations, from the...

and arranged, with an Introduction, by Alexander Whyte, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—William Law was born about twenty years after the death of Jeremy Taylor, and like Taylor,...

The Child Countess. By Mrs. William Maude. (IL Washbourne.) —This story is meant to commend tho cause of the so-called Catholic martyrs of the days of the early Stuarts to the...

vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The motive of this story is old enough. but the treatment is fresh and novel. A spendthrift father, a girl who finds herself compelled to be a...

Downey.) —Tacitus, when contrasting German simplicity of life with Roman manners, says of his own fashionable contemporaries, " corrum- pare et corrumpi semi= vocant." This...

book, this, of sensible advice to mothers, to all who have the education of girls in their charge, and to women generally. The truth that what suits one sex may not, and...

Reverend William Levi (privately printed by G. Moreton, Setley, Brockonhurst) are before us. The whole, which is reproduced from the edition of 1702, is to be contained in nine....

Stoughton.)—This is a series of translations of " sot " books in Latin and Greek (three volumes are before us,—viz., Livy, xxvii., Homer's Odyssey, ix., and Virgil's Xneid,...

(W. A.n. drews.)—We"6annot help thinking that some of Mr. Abrahams' judgments are somewhat crude. The save imdignatio carries him away ;. commonly justified in itself, it...

Fowler, M.A. (Macmillan.)—To the Greeks always, and to the Romans, till circumstances made it impossible, the" city" was the" State." The modern State, such as England, with...

Mifflin, Boston and New York.)—These verses are above the average of minor verse, and might have been higher still, if the judgment of the writer had been more exacting in...

the American practice described by the term " betterment," speaking of it as the creation of the State logisla- tures,—bodies, by-the-way, which are responsible for many...

and Co.)—Dr. Densmore, if his advice is listened to by mankind, will complete the ruin of the unfortunate farmer. He advises the discontinuance of all cereal food. "Bread is...