case.

H. Smith to the Peerage, as a posthumous tribute of respect to the late First Lord of the Treasury. The electors of the Strand will doubtless show on Tuesday next that they echo...

Sunderland on Wednesday, though he might have spared the Government of 1880-1885, for the errors of which he was in part responsible, some of his very candid criticism. He...

Cork, caused by Mr. Parnell's death, is declared the new head of the Parnellite Party. So far as we can judge, that is not a strong appointment. There will be two elections in...

about a "thin sheet of paper" which was "circulated at Rome" on the evening of Thursday, October 15th, " in a manner sufficiently mysterious, and within only a small circle."...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, November 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

A S we anticipated last week, it has been officially announced that Mr. Balfour is to become First Lord of the Treasury, with the leadership of the House of Commons, and that he...

directed towards reducing the importance of the Franco-Russian entente. Russia took France by the hand only with the object of securing European peace, for France isolated was...

speeches at Manchester, on Education and the defensive organisation of the Kingdom, but has said nothing of any consequence which it is at all necessary to record. He reserves,...

Si John Lubbock, Sir Thomas Farrer, Mr. Haggis, the Chair- man, Vice-Chairman, and Deputy-Chairman, withdrew their resignations, and agreed to remain till March, when their...

what is going on in the Pamir—" the roof of the world," as the high- lands that separate the British dominions, Russia, and China in North-East Central Asia are called—bat we...

scuttling out of Egypt, and letting all we had done there run to waste, just because Mr. Gladstone could not resist French pressure ; and he was very amusing in his criticism of...

any disposition to negotiate with the Anti-Parnellites for a re- union of the party. The manifesto which spoke of Mr. Parnell as " loaded with calumny and hounded to death " by...

remarkable letter addressed by the Nizain to his Minister, Sir Asman Jah, in regard to the question whether his Highness can rightly give oral evidence in a suit at law, and...

the "Grand Old Man" of politics in New South Wales, has been defeated, has resigned, and has been succeeded in office by Mr. Dibbs, the leader of the Opposition, has caused more...

Manchester Town Hall held in connection with an exhibition of fruit, set forth the causes of agricultural depression with his usual perspicuity. They may mainly, be said, be...

in very extravagant terms his political detestation of the University franchise, and apparently his political detesta- tion of Mr. Goschen ; for he declared that his reason for...

M. Bar- thelemy St. Hilaire, published in the Manchester Examiner, in which the ex-Foreign Minister protested strongly against the Russian alliance. On Wednesday, a further...

on Wednesday at Berlin, the new Labour programme was adopted. Several of its features, such as the demand for uni- versal female suffrage, and for the direct election of all...

his audience that if they really wished for the class of mea- sures which would assist the poor to make their own way in the world, they would do much better to keep on the...

Joseph Thomson's experiences in British South Africa, from which he has just returned after two years of travel and treaty-making on behalf of the South Africa Company. His...

New Console (2k) were on Friday 95k.

W E hope that Mr. Goschen's generous and cordial acquiescence in the selection of Mr. Balfour as Leader of the Unionist Party, and Lord Hartington's hearty adhesion to that...

MR. BALFOUR. I T is always well for a politician to begin by seeming less than he is, and not by seeming more than he is. Mr. Disraeli began by seeming a conceited fop and a...

among those who have been willing to believe everything evil and nothing good about the London County Council. We have no prejudices whatever against that body ; we believe that...

other day to Mr. Gladstone's remarkable proposal to deduct all the higher classes of a race from the population in order to arrive at the number of the true people. Twenty per...

Whigs did not want to go further than Hounslow, while the Radicals wanted to go all the way to Windsor, they would go together, at any rate, as far as Hounslow, marks a tendency...

public men of various forms of local Referendum as an acceptable solution of questions wholly differing in kind and character, we infer that the idea of a Referendum in the...

S OME years ago, a striking story was published in France describing a wonderful flesh-eating plant discovered by a great botanist. If we remember rightly, the story recounted...

P ERHAPS there is no more striking instance on record of the rapid achievement of fame in the world of art, than that afforded by the young native of Leghorn who two short years...

OME time ago, an Irish country doctor held out hope ki to a distressed father of curing his son of confirmed habits of intemperance. The poor father, like a drowning man...

A CITY OF DREAMS. A FEW years ago, a friend and I, wishing to escape an especially severe winter in England, started for Algiers, .leaving a cold world of deep snow and east...

MR. BRIGHT'S RELIGION AND HIS POLITICS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — I read with interest your article upon Lord Derby's speech at Manchester, hoping that you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Sir Arthur Blackwood finds the cause of the falling-off of the Government Insurance business in the " touting " of the private...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The case of hanging which I quoted in the Spectator of October 10th happened both when and where I said it happened, in 1801, at...

[To THE EDI [OR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Some philosopher has, or might have, observed that " the real significance of everything we see, lies not in the thing itself, but in...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — To prove that horses can distinguish tunes, let me relate an anecdote given to me by Harley the comedian. He was walking down the Strand with a...

the Zoo," the following facts may interest you. Of two dogs of mine, one showed a great fond- : ness for music. She (though usually my shadow) would always leave me to go to a...

SIR,—I am able to add something to the accounts already given of the executions for rick-burning in Somerset. In my parish and near by, many eye-witnesses of the scene still...

[ro THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—When in Jamaica some years ago, I heard a tradition about Lord Rodney which I do not find mentioned in Mr. Hannay's capital little book....

have read with much interest your correspondent's letter on the capability of animals to distinguish tunes. I had a small dog who, when first I got him, would have howled...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' Highbury we consider we are in London, and there- fore our surprise is great to find the great titmouse (a pair) a frequenter of our garden....

PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."" SIR,—May I be allowed to say that, while agreeing in the main with your reviewer's estimate of the merits of Camp- bell's two long poems, "...

horses, can recognise tunes. Many years ago, a friend, during a short absence from our station on the Kurrumfooler, lent my sister a pet-dog. Cissie was constantly in the room...

CECILIA. DE NOEL* Cecilia de Noel is hardly to be called a story, but it is well worthy of the author of Mademoiselle Ixe. The style is admirable ; the figures are all vividly...

WHERE the grey Northern sea gnaws cliffs of shale, and the white waves Wrestle in hissing wrath with a brown, irrepressible river, Hilda, the Saint, the Princess, founded a...

IRISH SONG. (Air: ' What ahall I do with this silly old man f WHEN Carroll axed Kate for her heart and a hand That controwled just a hundred good acres of land, Her lovely...

Miss SHARP has put together, in a useful and unpretending little book, a series of studies in contemporary poetry, intended primarily as an introduction to the wider and more...

of the manuscripts pre- served at Blair Castle, the seat of the present head of the * Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens. By Evelyn Abbott, M.A. New York and London : G. P....

Pericles to a place among the "Heroes of the Nations." The object of the series is to give pictures of the typical men of great epochs, of the men them- selves, and of the ages...

AMONG the many great problems pressing for solution upon the world, already in view of the dawn of the twentieth century, none looms through the clearing mist of the near future...

her husband, Professor Ashley, have done good service in presenting in English form M. Fustel de Coulanges's admirable essay on the question, Whether the original condition of...

Co.)—The writer of this story has so much foundation of reality as may be gained from personal knowledge of the scene in which it is laid,—such, at least, is the impression...

GIFT-BOOKS. Comrades True. By Elinor Davenport Adams. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This is a really good book for children The two children, who are, so to speak, the...

of a cruise is about as full of adventures as it can well be, having, in addition, a meeting with a pirate and a visit, pro- longed, we might add, to an iceberg. From the style...

Difficulties, Duties, and Joys of a Girl's Life." (S.P.C.K )—This is a most ex- cellent little volume, just what a girl would gladly read, and which could not fail to be of the...

points in this well-written little story a very useful moral, —pay your debts, and if you cannot afford what you want, whether for yourself or for any one else, do without it....

and Co.)—We may include under this heading a little volume which certainly may give a great deal of entertain- ment. It contains four plays which are certainly possible, because...

volume of pretty little pictures and moderate verses. But might we suggest to the illustrator that the young persons whom she figures in " St. Valentine's Day" and " All...

reviewer of Von Moltke's Franco-German War of 1870-71 had before him the English translation, which, indeed, appears full of errors - very mystifying to the reader. The review...

Society.)—Miss Watson has made a judicious use of the character of Mozart. He appears occasionally in the course of the story, as the precocious child and lad who astonished...

wholesome story, which per haps would have been better told in the third person. John Simpson finds at the age of six- teen that he has just £500 in the world, his father having...

W. Partridge and Co.)—This " Tale of 1791 " is a very curious production. The story has but the smallest modicum of interest. One cousin is the good young woman of the tale;...

Saint- Amend. Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. (Hutchinson. and Co.)—There is not much—indeed, there could not be much— about Marie Louise in this volume. She was...

Tyrrell, M.R.C.S. Eng. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— We can claim no authority to pass any professional opinion on a work which, like this, is purely medical ; but we may draw...

Lane.)—No little trouble and money have been spent on this volume. The drawings are good, and often funny, while the colouring is decidedly successful. But we really do not see...

" Baroness in her own right " is an interesting personage, espe- cially when she is young, pretty, and rich, and Mrs. Marshall has made doubtless a judicious choice in selecting...

Co.) —Here are eighteen sketches of artists, English and Continental, living or dead, by various writers. The first is "John Tenniel," by Robert Walker. Almost continuously for...

very considerable interest, The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. (The Author, 16 Great Marl- borough Street.) We have...

Thessalonians, and Timothy, by the Rev. W. F. Sadler (G. Bell and Sons), and from the same author and publishers, Titus, Philemon, and the Hebrews, — useful works both of them,...

Younghusband proposes to tell his readers how to prepare for, to obtain, and finally use the com- mission. Naturally the first question which engages his attention is the choice...

(Bemrose and Sons.)—This second series of " Short Sketches for Young Readers " contains the lives of St. Richard of Chichester, William of Wykeham, Matthew Parker, and Laud....

a series of tabular sheets which promises to be of some service to students of history. The idea of the author—Miss A. M. Christie—is to present at one view the names of the...

and Downey.)—These " Notes" are reviews, mainly of authors of eminence and their works, contributed by Lady Wilde to divers periodicals, and now presented to the reading public...

and Co.), is an account of how an imaginary Mr. Philip Adams, "millionaire and philanthropist," sought to reform the world during the years 1894-1914. Mr. Herbert puts into the...

O'Meara. (Burns and Oates.)—In this new volume of "The Bells of the Sanctuary," there are presented two biographies of human as well as of religious interest. Gaston do &gar,...

M. H. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is a brief and unpretentious sketch of the life of a Scotch country gentleman— and advocate by profession—who took a much deeper interest...

is interesting to see what an American student of political science—(Mr. R. M. Smith is Professor of Poli- tical Economy in Columbia College)—thinks of the vast immigra- tion...

Ferran, and Co.)—Mr. Fuller's preface explains the object of his work. This he describes as being " to explain the Metropolitical Jurisdiction of the Hierarchy, and to uphold...

refer- ence to recent events, is made by A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry. By Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. Vol. L. (Harrison and Sons.)

since the publication of " Pickwick," it has been a fashion to sneer at provincial archteological and natural-history societies. There is little doubt, however, that they do...

Blackett.)—This is a story of hypnotism, bearing, by-the-way, a curious resemblance to another with the same motif which has lately come in our way. In both, the man who...

Bernhard Whishaw (Henry Frowde), may be mentioned as an effort, showing much industry, to classify books. We do not always see the reasons for omitting and inserting ; but the...