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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator-QPAIN remains, according to all accounts, perfectly tranquil, 1..3 the great cities accepting the Revolution, the army being pas- sive, and the peasantry waiting to see what...
It is asserted that all the Courts have protested against
The Spectatorfederalism in Spain. This appears most improbable, but it is .quite conceivable that strong representations in that sense have been secretly addressed to Madrid, the Powers...
There was a curious scene in the House of Commons
The Spectatoron Thursday night on a " breach of privilege " case. Mr. Plimsoll (M.P. for Derby), whose book on the condition in which certain shipowners knowingly send their ships to sea has...
_ It is believed that the report of the Thirty
The Spectatorwill pass the French :Chamber by a large majority, that body having consented to an - amendment presented by M. Dufaure binding the Assembly ".not to separate until it has...
Mr. Vernon IIarcourtbronght on his motion against the increase of
The Spectatornational expenditure on Tuesday night, in a heavy speech, which we have elsewhere discussed and described. It was not, however, devoid of the usual points of interest which Mr....
A large and influential deputation, headed by Mr. Samuel Morley,
The SpectatorM.P., and appointed under the direction of the Asso- ciated Chambers of Commerce, went on Thursday to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, on what we must describe as a fool's...
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The Federal Council of Switzerland have put forth an exceed-
The Spectatoringly able Note in reply to the Papal Allocution naming Mon- seigneur Mermillod Vicar Apostolic of Geneva, in which they say they have always claimed the right of determining in...
Mr. Hinde Palmer on Wednesday introduced .a Bill to amend
The Spectatorthe Married Women's Property Act, or rather to extend it, by the " reintroduction of all the clauses struck out by the Lords in 1870." The Lords cut that Bill down to a mere...
The first English county election under the Ballot will be,
The Spectatoras we expected, for Mid-Cheshire. Colonel -Cornwall Legh has re- signed, and the group of families who control Mid-Cheshire have chosen Lieutenant-Colonel Egerton Leigh to...
The Prussian House of Representatives has elected Herr Lasker one
The Spectatorof the Committee of Investigation into the alleged Railway frauds. The.inquiry will therefore be thorough, as indeed the King evidently desires it to be. He personally requested...
The price of Coal, in London at least, appears to
The Spectatorhave turned, the fall this week having been about 4s. all round, bringing the high-priced coal down to 48s. This price will not relieve the distress, which in many trades is...
A remarkable statement was made in the House of Commons
The Spectatoron Monday about coal. Mr. Akroyd asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he was aware that the Chinese coal- fields covered 400,000 square miles, while the English...
Dr. Duggan, Bishop of Clonfert, has been acquitted of conspiracy
The Spectatorto prevent the election of Captain Trench in the Galway election,—the one witness who swore to his intimidating language having been confronted by ten who swore that he never...
The American Republic has recognised her Spanish sister with an
The Spectatoreffusion of affection which does not seem quite to have touched S. Castelar. He, too, regards America as a sister, but observes, with diplomatic dexterity and something of...
It was believed at the beginning of the week that
The Spectatorthe South Wales strike was coming to an end, Mr. Brogden, the Chairman of the Llynvi, Tondu, and Ogmore Company, having made a compromise with his men which yields much of the...
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Mr. C. S. Read moved on Wednesday the second reading
The Spectatorof his Agricultural Children Bill, which is intended' to apply an indirect educational compulsion to agricultural labourers. It Proposes to render the employment of children...
Mr. Hancock, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, on
The SpectatorFriday week, when delivering the biennial Hu.nterian oration, made one statement of importance. He believed that the high degree of education now enforced by the College would...
Mr. Bernard, we perceive, in a preface to his new
The Spectatoredition of 4 ' Decisions on the Irish Church Act," estimates the sum which will remain at the disposal of Parliament out of the Irish Church property-, after all liabilities...
It is announced this week that the University of London
The Spectatorhas led the way in England in opening degrees,—not degrees in Arts, but degrees in Science, Law, and Medicine,—to students who have not acquired any knowledge of Greek. There...
Lord Rosebery on Thursday asked for a Royal Commission to
The Spectatorinquire into the scarcity of horses. He made a very good speech, wanting only in condensation, but his main points were that foreigners were buying our horses, that their price...
The Lower House of the Convocation of the Province of
The SpectatorCanter- bury, after very long debate on the Athanasian Creed, excogi- tated last week a synodical " declaration," which is expected to be soothing to the consciences of laymen...
The United States is occupied with Senatorial scandals. Mr. Pomeroy,
The SpectatorSenator from Kansas, has been accused in his own Legislature of buying his seat, has been refused re-election, has been arrested, and is said to be dying of brain fever. Mr....
The Convocation of the Province of York appears likely to
The Spectatorfollow suit. It met on Wednesday, and the Bishop of Man- chester (Dr. Fraser), made a speech against the public use of the Athanasian Creed, advocating, however, only the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorT HE Republic in Spain, besides suffering from a multitude of smaller obstacles, has to overcome two most serious and immediate dangers. One is the possible disobedience of the...
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THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL.
The SpectatorBut the most critical question of all will be the nomination of the Council. We observe that Mr. Gladstone hopes to stave this off till after the second reading and till after...
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MR. HARCOURT'S MOTION.
The SpectatorT HERE is we fear, a canker in the bud of Mr. Vernon Harcourt'a public life. There are some roses which always begin the summer with cankered buds, and which blossom beautifully...
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SIR J. COLERIDGE ON TRIAL BY JURY.
The SpectatorT HE Jury Bill introduced by the Attorney-General on Monday seems to us unnecessarily, and on one point dangerously, radical. His objects, be says, are to lighten the burden of...
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THE LATEST AMERICAN SCANDAL.
The SpectatorN OTHING can be more disheartening to Radicals, or indeed to any men who believe in self-government, than the revelations of corruption recently reported from the United States,...
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PROFESSOR NEWMAN ON THE DUTY OF SUICIDE.
The SpectatorP ROFESSOR NEWMAN , in a letter which we print elsewhere, declares that he feels no hesitation in asserting suicide to be sometimes a duty, and he intimates that this opinion is...
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THE COSMOPOLITAN PROFESSIONS.
The SpectatorATEN who are studying for their sons the comparative advan. rages of the Professions, very often forget one most important point. A cosmopolitan profession ought always to be...
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CAGE-BIRDS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The SpectatorO NE thousand and sixty-three Cage-Birds, British and Foreign, comprising seventy-seven classes, form a very dainty dish to set before the public at the appropriate St....
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE LIMITS OF EUTHANASIA. [TO THE EDITOR OF Ins " SPECTATOR:] SIR, —Most of the subjects on which I venture to differ from the article on me in your last number lie beyond the...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THH SPECTATOR:']
The SpectatorSIRS I write to you at the request of Mr. Lionel Tollemache, who fancies, rightly or wrongly, that I have something to say which may interest you. He remarks that you seem to...
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—Can you afford me a little space in your columns to put a case to Mr. Maccoll and to ask him a question ? I heard a preacher in my parish church last Sunday thus express...
THE ATHA.NASIA.N CREED.
The Spectator[TO THS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR e —Will you allow me by means of your columns to suggest to some of those who in your columns and elsewhere have addressed themselves to...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—I have read your article in this week's issue of your journal on 46 1S1r. Tollemache on the Right to Die," and was much pleased that you put forward opinions contrary to...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTITOS.1
The Spectatoragree with you in having no mind to submit myself to Euthanasian any more than Athanasian mercies, and I should like 'to call attention to a point about the Euthanasian proposal...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. ARNOLD ' S GOSPEL. * MR. ARNOLD calls this singular volume, —a volume full of a curious vein of earnestness, sometimes almost bitterness, not • often united with this kind...
THE COMMANDMENTS AND SCHOOL BOARDS. [To THE EDITOB Or THE
The Spectator"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In last Saturday ' s Spectator, under the "News of the Week, " there is the following statement:—" A member of the Croydon School Board the other day...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPEOTA.TOP..1 SIR,—The Athanasian Creed claim,
The Spectatorabove all things, to be a defence against heretics. Let it, then, be kept for that purpose. The Church ought not to flash her aegis in the face of her friends.. It is not fair...
PRICE OF COAL.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR 05 THE "srsorsroa.1 an article in your last number you charge the owners of coal mines with wilfully restricting the produce of their mines in -order to enhance...
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M.R. HAY WARD'S ESSAYS.*
The SpectatorIT is very easy to praise and very difficult to criticise Mr. Hayward's Essay; and we will therefore begin by praising them. They are, to begin with, most entertaining reading....
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MR. CAMPBELL AND THE IRONY OF SOPHOCLES.* -
The SpectatorFORTY years ago a well-known dissertation began by deprecating surprise at irony being attributed to Sophocles. The surprise is• now that any one should deny it to him. Is the...
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS.• Wir ought to feel very grateful to Mr.
The SpectatorPercy Fitzgerald for trans- planting into the pages of his work, and adopting as " one of the • Life and Adeenlures of Alexandre Dumf. By Percy Fitzgerald, F.S.A. 2 role....
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PICTURES ACROSS THE CHANNEL.*
The SpectatorTHE Author of Patty has conceived an amusing little mystery, which reminds us of Sambo's astonishment at his master's acute- ness in guessing that a girl had been born to him...
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OLD CHRISTIANIA.*
The SpectatorDRIFTING, slowly drifting up the interminable fjord, on our right the terraced gardens of Drobak, on our left the pine-fringed darkness of the slopes against the sunset, we slip...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorPoxray. — The Legend of Phyllis, with a Year of Sang. By William Sawyer. (Longmans.) Mr. Sawyer has achieved, as a poet, a success which has only fallen short of making him...
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Revealed at Last. By A. Eubule-Evans. (London: Bentley.)—It is seldom
The Spectatorthat we have to find fault with a novel for its brevity ; it is rarely that a story-teller could not tell his story as well in two volumes as in three. Revealed at Lust is one...
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The Fitful Fever of a Life. By Sir Francis Vincent,
The SpectatorBart. 3 vols. (Newby.)—Sir F. Vincent's last novel, if we remember it aright, was full of incident. Possibly some critic told him that it was too sensa- tional, and now, with...
When George the Third Was King. 2 vols. (Sampson Low
The Spectatorand Co.) —The most noticeable thing in this novel is the style. This is carefully studied,—an imitation, and, on the whole, a fairly successful imitation, of the language which...
The Vicar's Daughter. By George Macdonald, LL.D. 3 vols. (Tinsley.)—This
The Spectatornovel completes, as the author, or a friend of the author, suggests, a trilogy with the Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood " and "The Seaboard Parish," and the association marks...
A Search after Sunshine ; or, Algeria in 1871. By
The SpectatorLady Herbert. (Bentley.)—No reader need object to the fancy which has made Lady Herbert publish in a sumptuous volume the experience of a few months' residence in Algeria. She...
Miss or Airs.? and other Stories in Outline. By Wilkie
The SpectatorCollins. (Bentley.)--This is a reprint of the Christmas number of the Graphic for 1871, and of two short, clever stories, to which the description on the title-page does not...