r iERE have been rumours of all kinds floating about this week as to the break-up of the Ministry,—rumours that Mr. Gladstone is on the very verge of resignation,—that Sir...

A WORD OF WARNING TO THE LIBERALS. T HERE are those who profess to construct what goes on at Cabinet meetings out of the faintest external signs, almost as surely as a great...

W E cannot believe that the rumours about a " hitch " in the negotiations with Russia are quite so unfounded as some of our contemporaries assert. Those negotiations obviously...

W E look in vain for any indication of the policy on which the Conservative leaders, who talk so freely of the - revolution -in public opinion since the election of the last...

T HE English people are rarely wise—we had almost written never wise—in their dealings with the Church of Rome. They delayed Catholic Emancipation in Ireland until the memory of...

A N " Oldham Coop," in the vernacular of the County Palatine, signifies an Oldham Co-operative CottonSpinning Company, for Lancashire folks are not wont to use four or five...

T HE report presented a year ago by the Royal Commission regarding the state of the crofters in the Scottish Highlands attested the prevalence of severe and habitual distress,...

passages of i nterest in the great work on Ethics which he has just published, suggests an original explanation of ambition. He identifies it with what he calls causal or...

1' all the puzzles presented by the intellectual differences between the sexes, perhaps the most perplexing is the failure of , Nomen to write good dramas. There seems to be...

CHURCH UNION AND CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN SCOTLAND. ITO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' am sorry that I must deny, "in the most formal way," the statement of Lord Balfour, that...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sts,—In the Spectator of May 16th Lord Balfour of Burleigh objects to two statements made in your article on this subject of the previous...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sia,—A letter to the St. James's Gazette, followed by another nearly identical with it to the Times of May 18th, signed " G. Landon," the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR- "3 SIH, — In the article entitled " Science and War," in your issue of the 16th inst., you refer to my father, the late Mr: Urquhart, as the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Srscraroa."1 Sin,—Nothing is more remarkable to a person with a fairly good memory, who follows more or less the course of contemn porary politics, than...

[TO THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.", Sin,—The contrast between Mr. Pattison's view of the triumph of the Christian Church over Hellenism and M. Ampere's, whowas quite as great...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR, - I cannot resiet the temptation of sendingyon myhumbleprotest -against-the opinions expressed in your last number as to the rival...

TO FREEDOM.* FROM THE ROMAIC OF ALEXANDER SOUTSOS. ART thou she whom once I joyed to gaze on, beautiful and brave, cueenlike in thy purple mantle, in thy band a flashing.glaive...

THEROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] - In our first-notice of this-year's'Exhibition at BirrlingtonlIonse ma spoke chiefly ofthe general character of the exhibition, and :-said a...

"THE RENOWNED DR. PRESTON." Tux thought most vividly present to our minds, as we closed,. after a second perusal, this delightful little volume, was, " Can there be other...

[CONCLUDING NOTICE.] Wz cannot forbear expressing our very deep regret that in this, the most important and original ethical work which English philosophy has produced for at...

novels: whose • names aregiven. below may not be written by a lady'; its politics are of the kind that. maybeheard: any • night in thesmoking-room of a specially high-and-dry...

MR. COUPLIND has here thrown together in an attractive-looking volume ten lectures on what is commonly spoken of as Goethe's masterpiece. The aim of these lectures is obvious,...

Marren less well-known to the general world through the medium of the comic papers and the wits than its predecessor, /Estheticism, what may be called the Seience.ef Occultry;...

At Home in Paris. By Blanchard Jerrold. Second Series. 2 vols. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—There are good things of various kinds in the papers which have been collected and...

And he is the Pinder of the University boat-race. He has something to say about the comic side of Alpine climbing; and be is pleasantly didactic in his " Bedfordshire Ballade."...