A CCORDING to the latest telegrams from Constantinople, the Ambassadors refused to negotiate any longer with the Sultan unless he accepted their proposal for the retrocession of...

LORD SALISBURY AND THE ELECTORS. T HE Times of Tuesday made a remark in its leading columns which is of great political importance, for it reflects, we believe, an impression...

M R. REID is a man who has shown himself capable of stating the great political truths that underlie the doctrine of Free-trade with a force and insight worthy of Richard...

Tariff Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives by 185 votes to 118, so that House and Senate have been brought into agreement, and another Tariff statute will be...

exaggerate the - disconsideration that the Government have earned in these matters. It would be utterly absurd, for instance, to talk as if they had seriously imperilled their...

T HE public must make up its mind as to the way in which it really desires the lower servants of the State to be treated by the Departments. At present it is visibly in a fog,...

Prime Minister and the President of the Council of which the Lords were- interested, and probably amused, spectators yesterday week, is an illustration of a common and...

M R. RUDYARD KIPLING has achieved something far greater than writing a beautiful poem or moving the critics and men of letters to admiration. In his Jubilee "Recessional,"...

W E mentioned last week the social danger which might be involved in the discovery of Sayings falsely attributed to Christ, and we have a further word to say upon the subject....

D URING the past six weeks two invitations have been issued to the public to follow the example of the ice-loving birds and make a summer voyage for pleasure to the true Arctic...

PRE-CRIMEAN ANTICIPATIONS. [To raz EDITOR Or TRIG "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon would have vividly illustrated your pregnant assertion that hope does not deceive men more fre- quently...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIE,—Will you permit an old reader of the Spectator to submit four reasons why Mr. Rhodes's name should not be struck off the Privy Council...

go me EDITOR OF THE "SpecTeroir."3 SIR,—The grand series of Sir John Tenniel's cartoons in Puncs are a national heritage. On the whole, throughout all his career, they have with...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The managers of voluntary schools in Lincolnshire, as elsewhere, have too much reason to be thankful for your con- sistent championship...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your recent notice of Mr. Forbes's account of the Black Watch, in the Spectator of June 26th, you gave an extract from it, viz. :—"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It was the experience of a Northern farmer. The road was long and lonely that led to the market town, and he had to be up betimes to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I say a few words in reply to your article in the Spectator of July 10th on the above subject? The practica- bility of a forty-eight...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Perhaps you may like to hear another remark made during the Jubilee week. I had the honour to be sent with fifty men from my Militia...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I regret to find that so respected an authority as Sir William Markby disagrees with the views which you have allowed me to express...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The writer of the article upon "Moneylenders " in the Spectator of July 10th expresses the opinion that if usury were considered a...

[To TB E EDITOR Or THZ 'SECTOR."] Sin,—Allow me through your columns to thank the kind but unknown friend who has for the past year sent me the Spectator. I value the kindness...

Though the Celt rage, and every half-breed scowl, Though Hun and Finn and Russ and Polack howl Their malediction, coddled by a Press Alert at cursing, indolent to bless,...

to-day her fettered lightnings run, Girdling the world more swiftly than the sun, They tell her love, her sympathy, her worth, Through sixty years of mingled dole and mirth,...

THE TATE GALLERY. Truz great void in our national collections of works of art has at last been filled. The nation now possesses a Gallery which will contain a representative...

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON'S "CENTRAL AFRICA." AFRICi has much the same fascination for the adventurous that India had in the days of John Company, and is going through much the same...

that there are some circumstances which incline us to suspect these pieces to be a modern forgery." So wrote Thomas Warton of the " Rowlie Poems' more than a hundred years ago...

Ma. CHARLES Boom is to be congratulated heartily on the completion of the first part of his monumental work on the conditions of labour in London. "This ninth volume," says the...

WE have had a good many accounts already of tile South African Revolution that failed, nevertheless, there is that in Mrs. Hammond's narrative which makes it welcome reading....

IF some Conservative inhabitant of the Squares or Bedford Row (then part of the borough of Finsbury) had been asked in the Forties who was the most objectionable person within...

THE easiest form of criticism to write, and perhaps the easiest to read, is that which consists simply in passing detached judgments upon a series of writers. Have the authors...

The Naval Annual. By T. Brassey. (Griffin and Co., Ports- mouth.)—It is satisfactory to think that to furnish the imposing display at Spithead we had to make no demands on the...

John Owen. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—By "Skeptical Dramas of History" is meant dramas so great as to become historically famous. The five are the Prometheus Vinctus of...

BY W. Bright, D.D. (Longmans and Co.)—Much of this volume has already appeared in print. The "Studies," however, are not the less welcome in this form. Professor Bright gives us...

Book on a Great Subject" is a noble utterance on a subject of supreme importance. "The only know- ledge that can really make us better is not of things and their laws, but of...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.) — This is a useful little volume, containing, in an easily assimilated form, many of the results of recent criticism. Dr. Kent is not destructive, and he...

Smith. (Nelson and Sons.)—A volume of the familiar kind about the various things in which young people are supposed, and doubtless ought, to be interested. They are told about...

must own that the titles of this and its companion volume are not to our taste. There is a certain vulgarity about the defining word "who win." Nor do we always admire Mr....

Bowes, Cambridge.)—Mr. Horton Smith's essay obtained the Members' Latin Essay Prize at Cambridge three years ago. It is seldom that these compositions emerge from obscurity ;...

D.D. (T. and T. Clarke.)—This supplementary volume is a welcome addition to the Ante-Nicene series. It consists of two parts, of the second of which it is sufficient to say that...

(Kegan Paul and Co.)—The Aurora, one is thankful to say, still baffles men of science, though the study of careful observations has led to some curious results. The period of...

is no need for Mrs. King to apologise, as she is inclined to do, for describing again persons and places that have often been described before. She finds something new, or that...

2 vols. (Methuen and Co.)—It would be beyond our province in these columns to discuss this treatise in detail. Such discussion, indeed, would require, if it was to be of...

Paul and Co.)—Mr. Russell describes a brief visit to the most interesting series of cities that are set on the edge of the Adriatic eastward of Trieste, with Damascus, Cairo,...

kind of drawing of Chinese life. The attitude of the average Chinaman of the educated class to the "outer barbarians." the view taken by the more enlightened among them, the...

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