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The immediate policy of the Government on the Red Sea,
The Spectatorand its reasons, come out with perfect clearness in Lord Salisbury's speech of Thursday at Scarborough. He does not intend to propose a campaign in the Soudan, or even a further...
Lord Salisbury has been making speeches at Scarborough for some
The Spectatordays, in which some valuable hints may be found. He pointed out, for instance, that it would pay Scarborough much better to endure increased Naval Estimates than to be looted by...
Grave doubts have been thrown from many sides upon the
The Spectatorstory of the capture of Stanley and Emin Pasha. It is asked how it happened that the news of so grave an event did not fly southwards as well as northwards, and why the Mahdi...
Lord Salisbury evidently weighed his words at Scarborough, but still
The Spectatorhe was guilty of one imprudence. He hopes, and avows his hope, that there may never be anything to break his affiance with the Liberal Unionists, but he repeated again his...
If we are not mistaken, the Pall Mall a few
The Spectatormonths ago designated Colchester as the best and most trustworthy of political barometers. If so, the omen of Tuesday's election is indeed favourable to the Unionist cause. Lord...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE attack on the dervishes besieging Suakin has succeeded. General Grenfell has made good soldiers of the black regiments in Egyptian service, and on Thursday at daybreak he...
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Mr. Gladstone then went on to advocate the reform of
The Spectatorthe register, and the adoption of the principle of "One man, one vote," as the condition sine rid non of an efficiently Glad- stonian Parliament. You must sharpen your blunt...
The affairs of the Panama Canal Company have become worse
The Spectatorduring the week. The Government, after some hesita- tion, on Saturday brought in a Bill authorising it to delay payment of its obligations during three months. In this time,...
Mr. Gladstone made one of the most effective speeches he
The Spectatorhas made within the last year, at Limehouse Town Hall last Saturday, by way of endeavouring to convert London to Home-rule. He referred to the retirement of Lord Hartington and...
The political news from Paris is, in a way, serious.
The SpectatorThe statesmen are acknowledging openly that the struggle lies between the Republic and General Boulanger, and that the latter is a danger. The Times' correspondent in Paris even...
The shock to credit in France by this, the greatest
The Spectatorcom- mercial failure of the century, is tremendous ; but it is broken by three facts. The peasantry do not even Yet believe that M. de Lesseps can be beaten; and there is,...
Affairs in Servia are in a most ticklish condition. The
The Spectatorpeasantry, inflamed partly by rumours of the King's designs, and partly by promises as to the tenure, have decided as a body for the Radical Party ; and out of 402 Members sent...
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Lord Hartington also made some very weighty remarks on the
The Spectatornew forcing to the front of Radical cries,—such as "One man, one vote," Disestablishment in Scotland and Wales, the enfranchisement of leaseholds, free education, &cc. He...
The great debate in the German Reichstag on East Africa
The Spectatorcame off on Friday week, and ended in a nearly unanimous resolution to support the Government policy. This policy, as described by Count Herbert Bismarck, is to support the...
The Sultan of Zanzibar has been ill, and while ill
The Spectatorhas apparently passed under religious influence. A Mussulman Prince, when repentant, usually wishes to kill somebody, either wine-drinkers, or smokers, or, in the Wahabee...
Mr. Goschen attended the fourth annual dinner of the Civil
The SpectatorService on Thursday, and made a ringing speech in praise of his hosts, whose merits, he said, are little recognised by the public. They were supposed not to work hard, but "he...
Of Lord Hartington's remarks on the pressure of business in
The Spectatorthe House of Commons, we have said enough elsewhere ; but his speech as a whole was a very impressive one,— especially his demonstration that an Irish Legislature could not...
Mr. J. Morley on Monday raised another debate on the
The Spectatordefence of Suakin, which ended in nothing, and was important only because it turned upon a suggestion repeatedly put forward that it would be possible to negotiate with the...
Lord Derby's speech at Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, on Tuesday, on
The Spectatortaking the chair at the meeting summened to hear Lord Hartington, was one of those remarkable efforts in terse, lucid, and judicial exposition of which he is certainly by far...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorSlJAKIN. G ENERAL GRENFELL was right, and the Govern- ment right in supporting him. Whatever the Egyptian regiments may be like—and we hear nothing definite of their...
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MR. GLADSTONE'S RAZOR.
The SpectatorM R GLADSTONE'S speech at Limehouse has more of the old spring and elasticity in it than any of his speeches at Birmingham. He was playfully satirical on the Unionists for...
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THE PANAMA CATASTROPHE.
The SpectatorT HE Panama Canal will, we believe, be cut, because it is wanted, because it has fired the imagination of two continents, and because, though it may never pay the cutters, it...
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LORD DERBY'S VERDICT.
The SpectatorW HAT makes Lord Derby's verdict on this question of Home-rule so weighty, is not either its lucidity of expression or its perfect moderation of tone, but the fact that it...
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LORD HARTINGTON ON THE HOUSE Or COMMONS.
The SpectatorT ORD HARTINGTON did a service to the country on I Tuesday in devoting a considerable part of his speech at Liverpool to the gravest of our constitutional troubles, the immense...
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MR. GLUTEN ON THE FALL IN PRICES. T M; interesting paper
The Spectatorread by Mr. Giffen before the Statistical Society on Tuesday has two aspects,—a scientific and a popular. It is in the latter aspect only that we propose to deal with it. Many...
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MILK-SCARLATINA. T HE Annual Report read at the meeting of the
The SpectatorRoyal Agricultural Society last week, contained a reference to the results of an inquiry instituted at the request of the Society by the Agricultural Depart- ment of the Privy...
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MR. MORLEY ON WORDSWORTH.
The SpectatorM R. MORLEY'S politics do not use him up or wear him out. He has seldom written anything fresher or more vigorous than the essay on Wordsworth which he has prefixed to...
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THE EVIL EYE.
The SpectatorA NOTION, it is said, is spreading in France that President Carnot, an ordinary man to look at of the half-military type, has the Evil Eye. He stares, it seems, rather fixedly...
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LADY-GUIDES.
The SpectatorONDON, besides its size, its population, its wealth, and its innumerable objects of interest, is distinguished by being the only capital in Europe that does not possess a class...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE STRENGTH OF THE RA.BSBITRGS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I read with much interest the article in your issue of December 6th, headed "The Strength of the...
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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—Sympathising as I do with your opinion of Mr. Llewelyn Davies, I cannot admit that the Broad Church party has been unfairly :neglected in "the higher regions" of...
OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—The elections for County Councils are bringing pro- minently to the front a very interesting fact,—which is, that the small householder...
THE EXERCISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I suggest that, in your article on the subject of patronage in the Church, you have overlooked an important point ? You take no...
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"THE SALE OF T FIE PET-LAMB."
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — The picture of "The Sale of the Pet-Lamb," referred to by your correspondent in the Spectator of December 15th, was by William...
"THIS OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL HYMN."
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Most thoroughly as I agree with your severe criticism of the "stony griefs" verse in Mrs. Adams's well-known hymn, "Nearer to Thee," I...
THE NIGHTINGALE.
The SpectatorTHOUGH age to age has handed down the tale, Since first the Grecian shaped it into song, Of Itys slain and Philomela's wrong, I, listening to thy music, Nightingale, Hear not...
THE OXFORD HYMNOLOGY.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — It might be of interest to some of your readers to know that the University of Orford not long ago appointed a small committee (of...
CAPE "BOARDS OF EXECUTORS," ETC.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I quite agree with your correspondent, "E. J. E.," in the Spectator of December 15th, that there is some danger that in a Colony like...
POETRY.
The SpectatorOUR CHILDREN. I LOOKED at the happy children Who gathered around the hearth ; So blithe they were, no children Could happier be on earth ; With their merry plays, and their...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorSTATE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. BRYCE'S book is too big. It is an admirable book in many ways, full of the nutriment of fact, and of just observa- tions...
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THE LIFE OF ARCHDEACON ALLEN.*
The Spectator"ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY, meeting Mr. Lonsdale, then the Principal of King's College, said to him,—' That chaplain of yours is a very pig-headed man,'—' Yes,' replied Lonsdale, with...
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CHESS: A CHRISTMAS MASQUE.*
The SpectatorA LITTLE poem, this, but dealing with great mysteries, and one which will commend itself to those who, like Milton's fallen angels, love to reason of- " Providence,...
GENERAL SHERIDAN'S MEMOIRS.*
The SpectatorA LITTLE more than four months have passed since General Philip Sheridan died. The publication of his Memoirs has followed hard upon the heels of his funeral. Perhaps he had a...
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IN CASTLE AND CABIN.*
The SpectatorIF the opinion of the civilised world is to be reckoned as an important factor in the Home-rule controversy, then most assuredly the criticisms passed upon Ireland and Irish...
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POETS AT PLAY.*
The SpectatorTHE qualities demanded by the humorous reciter in the poetical items of his repertory are of so essentially ephemeral a character, that it is a welcome surprise to find . in a...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorGIFT-BOOKS. Tunes for Tots. By Anne Finch Hatton. (Hatchards.)—Here we have the words of twenty-four nursery rhymes set to music. Among them are such old favourites as "Little...
THE NEW EDITION OF CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOR2EDIA..* IF this is not
The Spectatoran encyclopEedic age, it is certainly an age of encyclopmdias. Just as the latest edition of the Encyclopxdia Britannica is completed, a new edition of Chambers's Encyclo-...
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Otto of the Silver Hand. Written and illustrated by Howard
The SpectatorPyle. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a capital story. Otto is the son of a Robber Baron, who, turned from his evil ways by his sorrow at his wife's death, makes his submission to...
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. By W. Outram Tristram. With
The SpectatorIllustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. (Macmillan.)—This very handsome volume is a reprint of articles which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine. We may...
Bed - Letter Saints. (S.P.C.K.)—This is a handsomely illustrated little book, containing
The Spectatora "series of biographies of those Saints for which proper Collects, Ep■stles, and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer." There are twenty in all,—viz., the Twelve...
A Thousand Miles up the Nile. By Amelia B. Edwards.
The SpectatorSecond edition, revised. (Routledge and Sons.)—After an interval of about ten years, Miss Edwards sends out a cheaper edition of this interesting book. To say that it is the...
Twelve Etchings Contributed to the " Portfolio" by Paul Adolphe
The SpectatorBajon. With a Brief Memoir and Notes. By F. G. Stephens. (Seeley and Co.)—M. Rajon died, in the prime of his powers, last June, of an attack of pleurisy contracted at the burial...
French," seem suitable for the purpose. There are two, or
The Spectatorat most three, characters in them, so that the company would not be diffi- cult to manage; and the plays themselves are fairly amusing. The illustrations, by E. L. Shute, are...
Toots :' the Autobiography of a Persian Cat. Compiled by
The SpectatorAlfred C. Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—We have the compiler's assurance for the truth of this story. Interesting it certainly is. ' Toots ' tells us about his ancestors, who came...
judicious mixture of fiction and truth, of fun and earnest.
The SpectatorRobert Hall, the hero of the first story, is a genuine boy. It is very boy- like, for instance, to say, after mentioning his hopes of being a station-master,—" I do not see what...
Wings Without Feathers. By J. A. Lefroy. (Walter Smith and
The SpectatorInnes.)—This is one of the most entertaining little books that has ever come in our way. Little Willie, the hero of the story, is a quite delightful child. Not that any rational...
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Jerusalem : the Holy City. By Colonel Sir Charles W.
The SpectatorWilson. With a new Introduction. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—The letterpress and illustrations of this volume originally appeared in" Pic- turesque Palestine." Sir Charles Wilson has...
The December number of the Universal Review is full of
The Spectatorbright and lively, though often rather thin papers. It begins with a. curious article on "The Progress of Man," which we should be half-inclined to attribute to some follower of...
Our Nurses, and the Work they have to Do. By
The SpectatorH. C. O'Neill and. Edith A. Barnett. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an admirable little handbook for nurses. Not that any handbook can teach the art of nursing any better than a...
The Origin of Plum - Pudding, and other Fairy - Tales. By Frank Hudson.
The Spectator(Ward and Downey.)—These fairy-tales are sufficiently amusing, though they are not improved by the atrocious puns with which they are besprinkled. Some, surely, of these...
The Floral King. By Albert Alberg. (W. H. Allen and
The SpectatorCo.) —Carl Linnaeus, whose family name, changed by the pastor, his father, was Sugemar, was born in 1707, and died, worn out in mind, in 1778. On the whole, he seems to have led...
Oxford. Illustrated by John Fulleylove, RI., with Notes by T.
The SpectatorHumphrey Ward, MA. (Fine Art Society.)—The illustrations to this volume consist of thirty full-page reproductions in litho- graph of drawings by Mr. Fulleylove, and of ten...
The Minor Poems of John Milton. Illustrated by Samuel Palmer.
The Spectator(Seeley and Co.)—The illustration of Milton's Minor Poems was a cherished scheme of Samuel Palmer ; and his son gives in the preface to this volume a very interesting account of...
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Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. send us specimens of their
The Spectatorvery pretty and useful Pocket-Books, bound in russia and in crocodile skin,—and of their concise Diaries in several sizes. All are executed with the finish for which Marcus Ward...