speech at a dinner of the United Club held in St. James's Hall, a speech which betrayed no sort of de- pression at the attacks recently rained upon him from all sides, and which...

Matoppo Hills was made by General Carrington on Sunday last. Unfortunately, however, the resistance of the natives was so stubborn that, though the attack was not in any sense a...

spite of the little defeat, due no doubt to the Royal wedding of Wednesday, which the Government suffered on that day, when the clause (24) providing that money should be paid...

T HE English people love nothing better than a Royal wedding, and this week they have been indulging them- selves to the full, the greater number of them merely by talking and...

case.

gave eloquent expression on Wednesday night to their loyal admiration of Mr. Balfour. Mr. Chamberlain, in addressing the Cordwainers' Company, took occasion to say that nothing...

o'clock rule to the end of the Session, and intimated that it would be impossible to think of carrying either the Shop Hours Bill or the Benefices Bill this Session, or to take...

House of Lords and drew attention to the Venezuelan papers. The negotiations were not complete, but they were advancing favourably and "with entire friendliness on the part of...

Olney, and our Ambassador at Washington was laid before Parliament. We have dealt elsewhere with the arbitration proposals, but must notice here that part of the correspondence...

to the American Commission was published in Tuesday's Times. It is a moderately worded document and contains no reference to the Bull of Alexander VI. It begins by stating that...

Commission of four would be useless, because its decisions must either be unanimous or else three to one. Equal voting must result in a deadlock. Next, there was no attempt to...

to the Presidential Election. A Populist Convention is sitting, and a great deal of wirepulling is going on to secure the nomination for Mr. Bryan, but up till Friday nothing...

associated -with him began on Monday last before the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Pollock, and Mr. Justice Hawkins. On the opening of the Court Sir Edward Clarke, Dr. Jameson's...

who were anxious to be thought the realists of French literature, died last week, and was buried on Tuesday at Auteuil. M. Zola delivered one of those orations at the grave...

on the centenary of Burns's death. He quoted many of the poet's most memorable say ings,—some of them, as is quite natural, in one tone, and others in a very opposite tone, as,...

Committee on July 17th. The Committee report that after a review of the evidence they have come to the conclu- sion that no Member of the Cape Ministry but Mr. Rhodes was privy...

follows Upon these facts it would appear that Mr. Rhodes did not direct or approve of Dr. Jameson entering the territory of the South African Republic at the precise time when...

1895-96 show a surplus of nearly 12,000,000 marks, or £600,000, over the estimates, and this though a sum of 13,000,000 marks for reduction of the National Debt was part of the...

eight boatloads of blue-jackets and marines, with a three-pounder and Maxims. It is not stated whether the men were landed, but " their approach " is said to have "reassured the...

New Consols (2 1 1) were on Friday, 113-1 —1.

MR. BALFOUR'S LEADERSHIP. T HE attacks on Mr. Balfour's leadership are very sharp and not always very intelligent. As for those which proceed from the Opposition they may in...

W E are in sight of a general system of arbitration between England and America, and if Lord Salisbury will only have a little less fear of committing himself, and Mr. Olney...

W E wonder who makes all the rumours, and still more, who inspires all the fond credulity with which they are received. From two quite different quarters,— though of course the...

U NDER the heading, "Prince Bismarck and the Position of England," the Berlin correspondent of the Standard telegraphs to Tuesday's paper the chief portions of an article...

Anglican clergy were too much isolated in their parishes. There each man was king, and provided that he could go his own way without criticism or hindrance he was content to...

O F lateyears there has been, or has appeared to be, so considerable a development of the sentiment of solidarity among Trade-Unions that many persons are likely to have...

R.. BRYAN, as we pointed out last week, is one of those rare men who seem to have the power of leading men by phrases,—of stringing together a set of words whiob, for good or...

T HERE is a very interesting article by an American gentleman, Mr. C. M. Barrows, read at the meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at Westminster Town Hall last...

B IRDS are so interesting to the outdoor naturalist in the spring, when they are singing, pairing, and building - their nests, and again in autumn when on their migration, that...

E DMOND DE GONCOURT'S death rings down the curtain (so to say) upon the ancient school. A friend of Gavarni, a younger contemporary of Gautier, one of the five who dined at...

[TO THE RDrroa OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The discontent which has been visible in the Spectator for some weeks, beginning with the article on "Mind and Body," on May 30th, has...

NEW ENGLAND AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. [TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SpEcTATO$1 Malleson confuses the issue. The statement in the Spectator of July 4tb, which I ventured to...

THE BEES IN THE LIME-TREE.. WHEN the lime-tree is in flower, Summer knows one fairer hour, Than the Spring itself can show, While the may and lilac blow. From its tasselled...

To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR. - 11. propos of the intelligent felines that have been lately appearing in your correspondence columns, I should like to be allowed to...

VIRGIL IN THE MIDDLE AGES.* THE younger Pliny tells us that Silius Italicus was wont ft visit the tomb of Virgil near Naples, as if it were a temple. Silins, whose birth was...

[To THE EDITOR or Tea " sprzurop..") SIR,—Will you permit an American subscriber to the Spectator (for thirty years) to add to your list of amusing " bulls " one perpetrated on...

following true story fully bears out your belief in the intelligence of cats. A certain mother of the feline tribe strongly olij.2ct:-.d to the ribbon round ber kitten's...

writes, " with pure criticism and pure biography, but what I have here tried to produce is a combination of the two, the life illustrated by the work, the work relieved by the...

THERE is power enough in Mrs. Woods to furnish two or three poets with grim imaginative subjects, and such a grim drama as Wild Justice will haunt the memory of those who read...

of its subject, bears the title under which his name was most familiar. It follows two others dealing with Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Albert Moore, is of the same shape and...

of unreality comes over us as we read one contribution after another to the literature of such an uncertain quantity as Home-rule. There is no denying the trials, the suffering,...

has taken to heart the advice of Napoleon—to read and read again the wars of the great captains—and is pre. senting the results of his studies in a series of bulky treatises. He...

THERE are few, if any, contemporary novelists to whom one can turn with a greater certainty of procuring good entertain- ment than Mr. Marion Crawford, and these agreeable...

The centenary of Burns's death would seem likely to produce a flood of verse as well as of prose. Of the poems which the occasion has already produced none can well be more...

Putnam's Sons.)—It may be doubted whether heredity in crimin- ality should be dealt with—or can be dealt with successfully—in fiction. But Mr. Ottolengui, who is admittedly one...

Co., Calcutta.)—Dr. Sambhn C. Mockerja's Life and Letters, as they are set forth in this volume, are worth reading. They give us an interesting glimpse into the life of an...

This volume, the second out of the four to which it is proposed to limit the work, contains the history of the culminating period of Hellenic greatness, the fifth century. We...

Memoir by the Rev. William Ince, D.D. (Longmans and Co.)— Professor Ince's memoir of his colleague is just what was wanted. A. copious biography would have been out of place ;...

Belmont is a Californian heiress, a woman who, to use Miss Gertrude Atherton's expressive phrase, takes "her will between her teeth." Her will is to win away a certain English....

nine Irish sketches, if not all of the best quality, have yet so ex- cellent an average of merit that the volume which contains them may be accorded almost unqualified praise....

(Downey and Co.)—There is not much to be said about the early history of Hyde Park. It was a hunting ground for Royal sportsmen till quite recent times. In 1768 two Princes of...

thirty facsimiles cover a wide range of times and persons. From Catharine of Arragon they come down to Browning, and suggest a curious variety of interests. Here are some of the...

(Religious Tract Society.)—Some years ago much interest was excited in England by descriptions of remains of primitive archi- tecture in Bashan. The cities of the giants had...

H. Haverfield, M.A. With Portrait and Memoir. (Clarendon Press.)—This volume contains abundant proof of the varied intellectual activities of Professor Nettleship. The subjects...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This book stands outside criticism. When we have said that there is nothing in the way of telling that mars or hinders the profound impression that...