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In answer to Mr. John Morley, Mr. Gladstone stated that
The Spectatorthe Government themselves, on their own responsibility, must be the judges of the " adequacy " of the assurance they might receive from the Opposition as to the passing of the...
Later on it appeared that the Government did not mean
The Spectatorto extort any pledge from the Opposition leaders as to passing the Franchise Bill in the Lords, until the Oppo- sition leaders had satisfied themselves that the Redistribution...
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The SpectatorIt is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Ninth of...
The Conference on West Africa has begun sitting in Berlin,
The Spectatorwith Prince Bismarck as President; and, according to correspond- ents, some thunderbolt is to be levelled against Great Britain. This country, however, demands nothing but...
On Monday the Government took the bold course of announcing,
The Spectatorin both Houses simultaneously—in the one by Lord Granville, and in the other by Mr. Gladstone—that though they could not take any step with regard to Re- distribution not of a...
NEWS OF THE WEEK • T HE Emperor opened the first
The SpectatorSession of the German Parliament just elected on Thursday, in a Speech from the Throne of much interest. He declared that the meeting at Skiernievice had " sealed " his...
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Lord Salisbury had to reply on Wednesday to a deputation
The Spectatorfrom East Essex, expressing the utmost confidence in him as Tory Leader. His tone was quite changed, all the sarcasm and passion gone. He bad never, be said, claimed for the...
The papers have been full of rumours as to Lord
The SpectatorNorthbrook's Report upon Egyptian Finances, and on Wednesday Reuter pub , lished a telegram from Alexandria professing to give its sub- stance. According to this account, his...
Lord Northbrook, on Thursday, in the House of Lords, referred
The Spectatorangrily to the telegram from Alexandria and to an article on it in the Times, both of which he declared to be "in- correct in several essential particulars" and "most...
Mr. Bright was the guest of the Eighty Club last
The SpectatorTuesday, and delivered to them his general view on Redistribution. He expressed great distrust of the results of any negotia- tion with the Tories ; declared himself in favour...
Mr. Mundella made an excellent speech at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Wednesday
The Spectatoron the political situation, in which he argued for a sober foreign policy and a spirited domestic policy. He was-eager to get the Franchise Bill passed, if it could be done by...
The Hackney election resulted satisfactorily, on the whole, though we
The Spectatorshould have been better satisfied with a heavier vote, —which, however, at a by-election, it seems impossible to secure. The Liberal candidate, Professor Stuart, polled, in the...
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A conference of representative farmers was held on Tuesday at
The Spectatorthe Holborn Restaurant, to consider the position of agricul- ture, and to listen to a paper from Mr. Bear. Mr. Bear showed that prices had for ninety-four years never been so...
Devonshire has been startled by an unusually savage murder. An
The Spectatorunmarried lady named Keyse, nearly seventy years of age, possessed of considerable means, and formerly employed about the Court, lived at Babbacombe,, near Torquay, in a pretty...
Mr. Childers on Monday stated that he expeoteci a slight
The Spectatorin- crease on the estimated revenue of the' year, and that as regarded expenditure the savings would cover the supplementary esti- mates in all the ordinary departments. But the...
The Pope has sent through the Nuncio in France a
The Spectatorvery severe rebuke to the Roman Catholic journalists who, on the strength of their claim to be more orthodox than their own Bishops, attack the theology of such men as the late...
The Expedition to Bechuanaland has assumed considerable proportions. Sir Charles
The SpectatorWarren, who left England this week, will have under his command 7,500 Regular troops of all arms, including an unusual proportion of Horse Artillery. It appears from his...
" Town " was on Thursday greatly disappointed. The action
The Spectatorbrought by Miss E. M. Finney, bearing the theatrical name of Fortescue, against Lord Garmoyle, eldest son of Earl Cairns, for breach of promise, came on in the Queen's Bench...
M. Emile de Laveleye has done us an inexplicable and
The Spectatormost serious injustice. He has been publishing, in the Pall Mall Gazette, a series of statements, which we entirely believe, as to Turkish atrocities in Macedonia; and in his...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE SO-CALLED COMPROMISE. L ET those laugh who win. We can hardly understand the pretension of the Conservative journals to be entitled to laugh—and a very odd sort of grimace...
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THE FORECASTS OF REDISTRIBUTION.
The SpectatorA S Mr. Bright justly said at the Eighty Club, it is very seldom a thing to be desired that a measure Liberal in its very essence, should be drawn cai lines concerted with the...
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THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF THE LORDS.
The Spectator91HE Lords have a farther time of grace allowed them; but 1 it is far from certain that they will use it well. The single evilattending the Compromise is the resulting danger...
PRINCE EDWARD. T HERE was one feature of the Hackney election
The Spectatorwhich was not altogether pleasant. Prince Edward of Wales attains his majority on January 8th, 1885; and the Govern- ment, either during this Session or early in the next, must,...
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EGYPTIAN FINANCE.
The SpectatorS TATESMEN who are also practical financiers are all-apt to take too high a view of Bondholders' claims. They regard States which have borrowed too much money notas nations, but...
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RENTS. T HE Conference of the Farmers' Alliance last Tuesday leaves
The Spectatorno doubt as to the condition of arable farming in England. Those who are not agriculturists have been tempted during the past summer to think that now at last things must be...
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THE CHARITY COMMISSION.
The SpectatorT HE Report of the Select Committee of last Session on the working of the Charity Commission is eminently readable. Considerable excitement has been aroused in the country among...
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SPIRITUAL DENUDATION. T HERE has been a marked tendency during the
The Spectatorlast thirty years, in men of a certain nervous restlessness of intellect, to a process for which we can find no appropriate name, unless it be right to call it spiritual...
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THE MOTIVES OF MURDER.
The SpectatorE XCEPT as an illustration of our frequent thesis, the in- adequate motive for most murders, the Babbacombe murder, though everybody is talking of it, is not an interesting one...
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" ANNUS SANCTUS."
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Whilst thanking you for your generous, appreciative review, I ask leave to explain one point in the compilation of the book of which you...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE JUSTICE OF GOD. r To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your very interesting review of "Letters from Hell" (a needlessly coarse and unpleasant title), you have...
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COLONISATION WITHIN EUROPE.
The SpectatorLTO THE EDTIOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of the 8th inst., on German colonisation, you speak as if all Europe were too fully peopled to admit of colonisation...
OLD AGE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."] Sin,—" The falling away of the personal horizon" is an expres- sion used by your last correspondent which recalls some beautiful lines,...
POETRY.
The SpectatorA DUBLIN STREET DANCE. THERE'S nothing in life like a Jig or a Reel ; First a tap with your toe, then a drum with your heel, And now doable-shuffle, and next heel-and-toe, And...
A CORRECTION.
The SpectatorjTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your "Current Literature" column last week, you write of the annual volume of "Good Words" :—" Among the more important papers, we...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorMn. JULIAN HAWTHORNE has given us here a very charming picture of the relations of his father and mother, and has con- trived to convince us how much of the tranquillity and...
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ROMEO AND JULIET.*
The SpectatorAMONG the gift-books of the winter season this noble volume deserves to be a prime favourite. A folio in size, it is beauti- fully printed on hand-made paper, with rough edges....
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DISCOURSES OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.* TIIIS is a new edition
The Spectatorof the celebrated Discourses, published in a dainty vellum cover and printed on rough paper, and edited • Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Edited and Annotated by Edmund Gesso...
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TWO BOOKS FOR BOYS.* Mn. FE NN deserves the thanks
The Spectatorof everybody for the two books that he contributes for the gratification of "our boys" during • Bunyip Land and Menkardoc. By G. Manville Fenn. Louden; BlaCkie and Son. the...
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MR. JAMES PAYN ON HIS LITERARY LIFE.*
The SpectatorTins book is of a pleasant quality, but there is not enough of it. It reminds us of the often-quoted " Marchioness's " experi - ence of beer. Mr. Payn gives us only a series of...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorGIFT-BOOKS. The Mystery of Beechey Grange. By the Rev. H. C. Adams. (Griffith and Farran.)—The "mystery " is not of much account. He mast be a very inexperienced reader who...
We have noticed, we think, before Rambles About London Town,
The Spectatorby C. L. Mateaux (Cassell and Co.), but we may recommend it for a convenient account, adorned with plenty of illustrations, of the sights of London.
Stuff and Nonsense. By A. B. Frost. (Nimmo.)—It is always
The Spectatordifficult to say whether nonsense is or is not too nonsensical or nonsensical enough. The drawings in the highly exaggerated French style, and the verses, which are decidedly...
.4 Boy Hero. By W. W. B. Illustrated by H.
The SpectatorJ. A. Miles. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a pathetic little story, founded on fact, of a child of six, who strips himself of his clothing to keep a younger child of...
Touch Him If You Dare ! written by Juliana Horatio
The SpectatorEwing, and pictured by R. Andr6 ; and Dolly's Housekeeping, by the same author (S.P.C.K.), are, as we might expect, very amusing. We know by experience that the children like...
Types and Antitypes of Christ. (S.P.C.K.)—This elegant volume has on
The Spectatorone page hymns, well selected from the best sources, and on the other corresponding passages from the Old and New Testament, with appropriate illustrations. The pages are...
have, we are glad to see, reached a second edition;
The Spectatoras have also The Children's Journey, and Other Stories, by the Author of "Voyage en Zigzag ;" and Marquis and Rosette, and the Easter Daisy, by the Baroness E. Martineau de...
Little People of Asia. By Olive Thorne Miller. (Griffith and
The SpectatorFarran.)—Children undoubtedly like to hear about other children, and here they may have their taste amply gratified. Miss Miller tells, in a style perhaps too condescendingly...
The Mela at Tulsipur. By the Rev. B. H. Badley.
The Spectator(Religious Tract Society.)-1 " tnela " is a religious fair, something, we may presume, like a Breton pardon ; and Mr. Badley, who gives as a second title to his book—" Glimpses...
The Princess Nobody : a Tale of Fairyland. By Andrew
The SpectatorLang. After the Drawings of Richard Doyle. (Longmans.)—Mr. Lang writes a fairy story, and writes it as may be supposed, very well, to suit the well-known drawings of goblins,...
The Rosebud Annual (James Clarke and Co.) has an ample
The Spectatorsupply of illustrations, among which are some "slate pictures" (adapted thus for drawing upon a transparent slate), and very simple and easy letterpress. These between them...
The Band of Mercy Guide to Natural History. By Vernon
The SpectatorS. Mor- wood. (John Hogg.) —It is an excellent idea to connect the know- ledge of Nature with the thought of kindness and tenderness to dependent creatures. Much o? the...
The Seven Ages of Man. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Here we have
The Spectatorillus. tmtions_photogmvures from original paintings—of the passage in "As You Like IL" The last of the seven is not very intelligible. The " Justice " should, we think, have...
Story Land. By Sydney Grey. Illustrated by Robert Barnes. (Religious
The SpectatorTract Society.)—Here are various stories of country life of various kinds, some relating some little incident of ordinary life, some, as " The Wayward Chicken," a little in Hans...
The Sweet Story of Old. By Hesba Stretton. (Religions Tract
The SpectatorSociety.) —This simple rendering of the Gospel story has long been a favourite of mire. It now appears in a handsome volume with coloured illustrations.
present, and where occasion offers and space permits, some quotation
The Spectatorbearing on artistic matter, some criticism on the artist, or other appropriate matter. We are somewhat tired of this particular form of literature; but " The Birthday-book of...
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Messrs. Meiasner and Buch (Leipsic)—represented in this country by Messrs.
The SpectatorSchwenckert and W. G. Wallis, 112 Fleet Street—have sent us a box of their Fac-simile Water-Colour Cards. Messrs. Meissner and Bach are endeavouring to carry chrome-lithography...
The Wreck of the 'Nancy Bell.' By John C. Hutcheson.
The Spectator(Blackie and Son.)—" Cast Away on Kerguelen Land" is the second title of this story. Between the two it is sufficiently well described. There is shipwreck and there is life on a...
Miss Kate Greenaway sends us a very pretty little almanack
The Spectatorfor 1885, illustrated by herself in colours. The figures of the months are prettily designed. There are also figures of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter as girls, and two...
True to the Old Flag. By G. I. Heap. (Blackie
The Spectatorand Son.) —Mr. Henty tells us here a story of the American War of Independence, and puts us on the side which has not generally been the favourite with the writers of...
Adventures in Field, Flood, and Forest. (Blackie and Son.)— Here
The Spectatorwe have some twenty "stories of danger and daring." They have been diligently sought for in many out-of-the-way quarters. Indeed, many of them will be new to most readers. And...
Messrs. Mansell and Co. (271 and 273 Oxford Street), have
The Spectatorsent us specimens of their Christmas and New. Year's Cards,—some of them coloured photographs of sea-pieces, which are very pretty ; some delicate facsimiles of designs in...
In His Courts. By Margaret E. Hayes. (S.P.C.K.)—This is a
The Spectatorthoroughly well-intentioned book, and not without some literary merit, but scarcely successful as a story.
Guide, Philosopher, and Friend. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (Griffith and
The SpectatorFarran.)—Phillis Carr, who is acting as companion to a distant relative, and endures all the miseries that her situation can mean, falls-in at a watering-place with a family of...
Still Waters, By Edward Garrett. (Oliphant, Andersen, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.)—This
The Spectator"story for quiet hours," as Mr. Garrett calls it, is scarcely a story at all, so slight is the thread of incident, Sarah Russell, who has missed "what every woman counts her...
A Turbulent Town. By Edward N. Hoare, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)— This
The Spectator"story of the Arteveldts " takes us back to a period of great events and great emotions. Mr. Hoare has before proved his power to blend fiction with history, and we gladly...
Charlie Asgarcle : the Story of a Friendship. By Alfred
The SpectatorSt. John- ston. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. St. Johnston has mixed his in- gredients with admirable skill, and made a story which ought to be a great favourite with the young. There...
The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—The seventh annual volume
The Spectatorof this magazine is now before us, and keeps up to the average of its predecessors. The frontispiece is an etching, "Lady Bountiful," by Robert W. Macbeth, A.R.A., in which the...