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himself much popularity in London. His funeral on Thursday was marked not only by the utmost pomp of ecclesiastical ceremonial which his Church can in this country command, but...

T HE funeral of the Duke of Clarence on Wednesday at Windsor was a stately but quiet ceremony, the Queen being reluctantly persuaded, by advisers who deserve the thanks of the...

influenza, has seized another notable victim. This is Professor John Couch Adams, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, who in 1845, forty-six years ago, discovered by...

part in collecting presents for the Royal wedding, which was to have come off on February 27th, to meet and discuss what is to be done with the money. A variety of suggestions...

rule candidate at Rossendale was communicated to the Press. The letter begins by expressing the writer's deep interest in Mr. Maden's invitation to Rossendale " to concur with...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 30th, will be issued, fratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

he had seen the British Minister, Sir Charles Euan-Smith, who had informed him that "the tribes have quietly dispersed to their homes, awaiting orders from the Sultan for the...

France. The Intransigeant, the organ of the Boulangists and the Reds, has recently declared war on M. Constans, the Minister of the Interior, and has libelled him furiously, in...

"to the systematic support of a Tory Government which founds its chief claim to favour on its having done more than any other Tory Government to alienate the Irish from the...

Duke of Devonshire out of his momentary seclusion. In his usual calmly dignified style, the Duke, in a letter to the Times published on Thursday, points out that in 1886 he was...

into the Prussian Parliament, has been published, and is seen to go very far. The parents of any child, if they hold a religions belief, may insist that the child shall be...

sum, more than a million, in bonds, has been ab- stracted from the coffers of the Royal railway, and personages of great importance are implicated. The King has dismissed his...

Lord Salisbury for his want of energy in not seizing more territory in West Africa, and for allowing France to annex lands and make treaties with natives, received on Tuesday,...

epidemic is exceptionally severe. The returns for the week ending Saturday last, published on Wednesday, show that in London the deaths from influenza were 271, as against 95...

are being considered by the Council of Judges, which met on Monday and appointed a committee of investigation; but must notice here the very significant report of a joint com-...

ture of Alderman George Shepperd on one of the Unionist papers at the Rossendale nomination, which took place on Tuesday. Mr. Shepperd has hitherto been reckoned a Gladstonian,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 95.1.

declares that in one particular district, Cheiabinak, the people, especially the women and children, are dying of hunger, the unburied bodies of men and cattle being seen in...

THE MONARCHY. S OMETHING of natural human pride must have flecked the melancholy with which most Englishmen have read the accounts of the funeral of the Duke of Clarence. To...

119 relics of General Boulanger's party, aided by a ection of the Extreme Radicals, are determined that France shall not forget who is her strongest man. The former have never...

T HERE is nothing the diplomatists dread so much as attempts to discount the difficulties of an inter- national problem. Not unnaturally, their guiding principle is to let...

P ROBABLY no praise that could be given to the German Emperor would be more distasteful than to say that he was like Prince Bismarck. Yet in one feature of his character he...

A T various times during the last few years, there have been indications of partial recovery from the severe agricultural depression which has so long afflicted this country, in...

W HEN newspapers like the Times and the Daily Telegraph write as they wrote on Tuesday last a propos of the Council of Judges, it is evident that the dissatisfaction felt with...

I T has not been amusing, but it has been most interesting, to observe the demeanour of the English " classes " since they first became aware that an epidemic had broken out...

T HE critics and admirers of Mr. Waterhouse's fine picture of the winged sirens on the ship of Ulysses did not, so far as we recall the discussion to which the artist's treat-...

N EARLY all emigration, even that of the most intelligent and best educated members of the community, is more or less a leap in the dark. The emigrant is far better aware of the...

THE TECHNICAL EDUCATOR ABROAD. "You will find it most convenient to take the train to Allington, which is about four miles from Wanfold. You will be able to get a fly at...

[To Tar ED/TOR or ram "arrerrzroa.n SIR,--In your interesting article on " Possible Pets," in the Spectator of January 2nd, I see you ask : Who, since the days of Cowper, has...

[To THY EDITOR OF T111 " SNICTATOR."] Sts,—After all, is it not too early to assume that the family of Prince George show a tendency to low vitality ? We can take the average...

ANGLICAN AUTHORITY. [To THE EDITOR OF TIM " Spirerrroz2 . 1 Sin,—Archdeacon Denison, against the Spectator, says that the Church of England has authority, but is prevented from...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You were good enough in the summer to allow mention in your columns of what was then only a project in the air,— the improvement of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 SIR,—May I expect the justice at your hands of giving inser- tion to the lines I send you, conveying my most emphatic denial of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR.”] SIR,—That the use of eucalyptus oil is a valuable precaution. against influenza, we have little doubt, and our own experience is very much...

the Spectator of January 16th, you call attention to the immunity from influenza produced by the scattering of a few drops of eucalyptus oil in a room. May I say that by far the...

LTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—The Spectator of January 16th contains an essay on " The Small Worries of Life," which I read with the greatest interest, mentally...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The collection of hymns to which you have referred, the only one bearing my name, appeared in 1858, with the title, Hymns, Chants, and...

THE SORROW OF A THRONE. THE Mountain in his winding-sheet of snow, With bare head drinks the cup of heaven's pain And feels the grinding glacier,—not in vain ; For, to the...

MR. HARDY'S " TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES." MR. HARDY has written one of his most powerful novels, perhaps the most powerful which he ever wrote, to illustrate his conviction that...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The sentimental objection to the site proposed for this statue is, not that it is within eye-reach of the Martyrs' Memorial, but that it is in close...

a good deed. England, that was one of the first countries to awake to the interest of traditional, or so-called popular poetry, and that set other countries to • Songs and...

As its title suggests, Mr. Kipling's sketches with pen and pencil deal mainly with the domesticated or semi-domesticated animals of India. Hitherto beasts of the chase have so...

of classical study in England goes on satisfactorily. Nothing has been done for Quintilian by scholars in this country since 1821 (a fragment by Pro- fessor Mayor, which...

Sons six months ago, we noticed the first four volumes of Mr. Henry Adams's work. A second instalment, consisting of Vols. V. and VI., is now before us. The able handling of...

given to the world under very peculiar circum- stances. The writer left it in a very incomplete condition. Only the First Book—containing, in round numbers, about three-eighths...

Poems. By William Edward Hartpole Lecky. (Longmans.)— The author of " The History of England in the Eighteenth Century " has so high a place in literature, that he cannot fail...

Scott.)—This is a book written with more pretension than good sense. Having discovered that genius is a disease, and that the signs of degeneration are found more freqtiently in...

Society.)—It would be rash to say that anything in fiction is an original idea ; otherwise we should have said that the dominating idea of this story is an unquestionable...

Minshall, and Thomas, Wrexham.)—The curious in the religious movements of the country and the world should read this volume, which has a general and British, as well as a local...

Gill.)—The author of this valuabl 3 book starts with the statement that " the valuation of engravings, if it is to be accomplished satisfactorily, requires g -eat technical...

by W. M. Griswold. (Griswold, Cam- bridge, Mass.)—This bulky volume of more than six hundred pages, printed in double columns, must have given no slight labour to the compiler....

White and Co.)—This is a powerful story, worthy of the author of "The Wooing o't," but painful to a degree. Lord de Walden leaves the wife whom he had once really loved, for an...

contained in the Correspondence of Tokiwara and Yashiri. Edited by Commander Hastings Berkeley, R.N. (John Murray.)—The first glance at this volume will remind the reader of the...