is returning after having reached the North Pole. They all, however, allow that it is possible, and all hold that the news sent forward was believed by Kusbnareff, who is the...

but almost escapes attention in the rest of Europe, is drawing to a head. A final effort after agreement h s failed, the Emperor Menelek refusing peremptorily to submit to any...

a "crisis." M. Ricard, Minister of Justice, finding that the examining Magistrate, M. Rempler, who was intrusted with the examination of the bribe-giving alleged against the...

announced that all the Powers have now agreed to recognise him as Prince of Bulgaria, without raising the question of his precise position in Eastern Roumelia, which is part of...

T HE best news we have about the Venezuela dispute is the incident which occurred in Parliament on Monday. As we have stated elsewhere, the British and American Govern- ments...

dynamite are used in the mines, and on Wednesday eight trucks full of the explosive, which had been standing for three days in the sun, exploded in the station of Vredendorp, a...

any case.

for a complete investigation of the political and financial action of the Chartered Company of South Africa, was resumed yesterday week, when Sir William Harcourt made a speech...

ship of the Irish party, in spite of an apparently very straight- forward and cordial assurance from Mr. Healy that Mr. Sexton would receive his willing and loyal support. In...

of amnestying the dynamite prisoners. In this he was supported on Monday by Mr. Horace Plunkett, who argued, as we think with doubtful wisdom, that "with a Unionist party in...

Railways. Its essential features are that a light railway may be proposed by any "local authority," or any railway or any company, and if sanctioned by a Light Railway...

Nationalist Member, moved an amendment in favour of the demands of the Christian Brothers' schools. Mr. MacNeill, in seconding, declared that ‘` all Irish Protestants worth...

of the House of Commons than the late Mr. W. H. Smith himself. On Thursday he opened his case for the new rule limiting Supply to twenty full days of the Session, which must be...

of Tuesday, February 18th, an interview with M. Paul le Marine], Inspector of the Congo State, who has recently traversed the territories belonging to King Leopold. He admits...

Chair of Poetry in the University of Oxford on the subject of "Liberty and Authority in Matters of Taste." Professor Courthope is not only learned in English literature, but be...

believe, the highest ever yet recorded, and in the face of the situation of foreign affairs, and the certainty that the surplus will be given to the Navy, is simply amazing. Its...

an address to the Queen's (Westminster) Volunteers, in which he dealt with the good service done by the great firms,—" such houses as the Trollopes, Shoolbreds, and Broadwoods,"...

Tuesday, Mr. Justin McCarthy moved the election of Mr. Dillon as chair- man, to which motion Mr. Healy moved as an amendment that one more effort be made to secure the services...

their contests, and enable us to understand what must have been the condition of Rome just before the Republic sub- mitted to an Emperor. On February 2nd, while the President of...

compared with the same period of 1894, are exceedingly satis- factory. The gross receipts have increased by 21,295,000, or 39 per cent., while the extra expenditure has only...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 109.

I T is not very easy to suppose that Mr. Sexton ever really intended to reconsider seriously the acceptance of the offer to make him chairman of the Anti-Parnellite party on Mr....

THE REPORTED "CRISIS" IN FRANCE. T HE Paris correspondent of the Tines is not to be trusted when he is writing of the Panamists. He is so possessed with the idea that to probe...

T HEpoint in this discussion with America which puzzles the public in both countries, as it obviously puzzles the judicious correspondent of the Times—who deserves great credit...

though the English do not. That brief sentence contains, as we believe, the most reasonable explanation of recent Russian policy in Turkey, which without the idea conveyed in...

and the officers who acted under him are to be tried in a Court of law, and that then the question of the complicity of the Chartered Company in recent events is to have full...

S IR MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF'S annual review of the political situation used to be one of the greater helps to which we looked for correcting the customary conception of the...

I N a very striking sermon preached before the University of Cambridge on Sunday last, and printed in the Guardian of Wednesday, Mr. Gore makes a definite and startling...

much Lass is made about the murder on Muswell Hill, and think that the news- papers accord to it a needless amount of space, fail to understand some of the conditions of life in...

I T is a good hearing that the stiff secularism of the Chicago school system is giving way, and that the people of that .eager commercial city are beginning to feel that their...

S l7TTON, the head-keeper of the lion-house at the Zoological Gardens, and a very old servant of the Society, has this week retired with a pension. He had been employed for more...

" W HEN is the cold weather coming?" This is a question every one has been asking day by day, but so far no answer has been forthcoming, and meanwhile the winter is fast...

[To THE EDITOR OE TIM "SPECTATOL."] SIR,*—Your reviewer of my tale, "A Monk of Fife," in the Spectator of February 15th, may care to note that "crewels," the King's-evil, is...

"SCIENCE PROGRESS." go THE EDITOR OF Ti "SPECTATOR] SIR,—Your reviewer on p. 246 of the Spectator of February 15th writes :—" Science Progress is another American quarterly...

[To THR EDITO1 OF TEE "8PECTAT0R:1 SIR,—The following was quoted in the Yorkshire Evening Post the other night :—" Looking back along the trackless pathways of the future, he...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE usrsomerea."i SIR,—It appears the question of tithe is to be seriously considered by the present Government. May I point out in a few words that much...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, "A. D. G.," in the Spectator of February 15th, questions the correctness of my version of Nelson's famous...

Ergo obligatam red6.e Jovi As soon as you are able, with me dapem you'll come and dine, Longaque fessum militia latus Refreshing at my table your Pompei meorum hum ? Cum quo...

MR. GLADSTONE'S BISHOP BUTLER.* s HESE volumes, though they do not contain much beyond Butler's own works, with very valuable sectional headings which greatly lighten the...

A ctrxious little bit of secret history seems to have been unearthed by Mr. Eyre-Todd, who, in Anne of Argyle, quotes chapter and verse to prove that when Charles II. went to...

the warm thanks of a wide public for the picture which her book presents of the character, the work, and the intellectual and spiritual development, through- out the course of...

The Pageant is a rightly conceived mixture of literature and graphic art. Instead of illustrations furnished by some indifferent hack to story or essay, and wordy description...

point of view of the relations of England with other States, has recently attracted a share of notice which bids fair to atone for the neglect it has hitherto suffered. The last...

THE Sultan of Morocoo enjoys on the map a huge dominion which stretches from the shores of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the further slope of the Atlas Mountains. But...

Pyle. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—It is somewhat to be regretted that the author of this clever book indulges too frequently in outbreaks of this kind :—" Though a world-wise...

Down Dartmoor Way. By Eden Phillpotts. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—In this volume of dialect stories from the West-country Mr. Phillpotts has collected a series of sketches of...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Mitchell has here col- lected, under a somewhat awkward title, a number of discursive talks" on English literary celebrities of the Anne and Georgian...

and Co., Selkirk.)—This does not profess to be an exhaustive history of one of the most interesting of the smaller Scotch country towns, which, after having been celebrated...

Hall.)—We must confess to a disrelish for this class of book. It is bad enough to have a series of discursive and egotistical ramblings on "Kings I have Met" or "Celebrities I...

and Sons.) — After reading Colonel Haggard's by no means uninteresting account of our exploits in Egypt and the Soudan, we turned once more to Mr. Rud,yard Kipling's superbly...

of Fife," by the misplacement of a portion of a line containing a parenthesis, the machinations of Brother Thomas are made to refer to the misrepresentation of Joan of Arc in...

readable novel is Panetta, with a chequered love-story for a plot, and a thoroughly modern villain in the shape of a financial agent. Panetta, her lover, Vincey the artist, and...

Co )—There is something pathetic, if pathos can attach to a cookery-book, about the appearing of this book. It had been published but a few days Lefore the author's death. Mr....

of Wilhelm Jensen's appears to have been very popular on the Continent, and it has the honour of being the first of his to be translated into English. Marianne E. Suckling has...

and on )—Mr. Rooker is a very pleasant, frank, audinteresting companion in his visit to Jerusalem. He tells us how it was that he went, and how he went, and what he saw, all in...

your duty in your ambition" is, it may be said, the moral of this story. The impression left is that whatever the merits of the "new woman," there is much charm about the old....

we have what may be called a supplementary volume on The Book of Jeremiah, by W. H. Bennett, M.A. Mr. Bennett holds that the part of the prophecies with which he deals (chap....

(Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Although this volume comes as a . Bert of sequel to the three volumes upon St. Andrews, which gave a second lease of reputation to the author of...