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The scene in Westminster Abbey was very imposing. The Queen,
The Spectatoron the dais facing the altar, had the Prince of Wales, with his brothers and brothers-in-law, and her grandsons, on her right hand, and the Crown Princess of Germany, the...
The Irish have not been quite justly treated by the
The SpectatorPress in descanting on Jubilee incidents. Everywhere outside Dublin and Ulster, they have abstained from joining in the gratulations ; and in some places they have behaved very...
The scene which followed the conclusion of the religions ser-
The Spectatorvice appears to have taken the vast assembly quite by surprise. The Queen returned the salutation of the Prince of Wales by a kiss, and then embraced all the Princes and...
It is not our business, of course, to report the
The Spectatorincidents of the Jubilee, even if we could do it. Next to the demeanour of the Londoners, which marked a distinct advance in civilisation, the most impressive feature of the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator"DROVIDENCE has been kind to the Queen. Her Jubilee Day, June 21st, has come and gone, and the most note- worthy fact about it is that it was not spoiled, either by failure, by...
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Sir Charles Russell made a speech at Brixton on Wednesday
The Spectatoragainst the Irish Crimes Bill, which consisted chiefly in a very feeble argument against the Times' charge that the Parnellites had deliberately lent their sanction to the party...
Other amendments were discussed, and at 10 o'clock Sir Charles
The SpectatorRussell was declaiming against the motion that Clause 6 stand part of the Bill, when the Chairman of Committees rose, and the Parnellites left the House in a body. The proposal...
The Jubilee has suppressed polities for the week. The country
The Spectatorhas drawn a deep breath of relief at the momentary dis- appearance of the Irish nightmare, and scarcely any news, good or bad, has come in from abroad. A rumour obtained...
A good many people must have been disappointed by the
The Spectatordistribution of honours. It has not been a shower, but a drizzle. Six new Peers have been created, viz. :—Sir John St. Aubyn, Sir W. Armstrong, Sir J. McGarel Hogg, Mr....
The victory of Friday week was striking and complete. In
The Spectatorthe early part of the evening there were several discussions on Clause 6 of the Crimes Bill, the most important being that moved by Mr. H. Fowler, and advocated by Mr....
The idea of a Jubilee for children from the London
The Spectatorschools was a very kindly one, and does credit to its originator, the editor of the Daily Telegraph. It was very well carried out, too. Great ladies were induced to help, which...
One of the most remarkable incidents of the week of
The SpectatorJubilee has been the eagerness with which the people leaped at the suggestion of fires on the hilltops. Hundreds of hills were lighted up, and an observer in a balloon high...
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A rumour gathers strength in Vienna that the King of
The SpectatorServia, who is distracted with troubles, political and domestic, intends to abdicate. He has taken a holiday to drink the waters at an Austrian bathing-place, and it is asserted...
It is certainly the age of women. In Part I.
The Spectatorof the Cambridge Classical Tripes examination for 1887, there is no single male student placed in the first division of the first class; while miss Ramsay, of Girton College,...
The discussion of Thursday night as to the exclusion of
The Spectatorgirls from employment at the mouth of coal-pits, was decided by a majority of 76 (188 to 112) against interference. The Home Secretary, however, agreed to exclude both boys and...
Vienna was on Wednesday disturbed by a report that Colonel
The SpectatorMatkoaroff, the Bulgarian Minister of War, had dismissed the Regents and proclaimed himself Dictator. There was no truth in it ; but it was not an absurd report. The latest plan...
Sir A. West, at the Jubilee dinner of the civilians
The Spectatorengaged in managing the Inland Revenue, mentioned a curiously significant fast. Under the Income-tax Acts, it is lawful for the towns to collect the tax under Schedules D and E,...
The Lord Mayor gave a dinner at the Mansion House
The Spectatorthis day week to the representatives of Literature, Science, and Art, in which Dr. Smith, the editor of the Quarterly Review, was amongst those who responded for Literature, Sir...
Rather a foolish ceremony came off in the House of
The SpectatorCommons on Thursday. The House on Monday resolved that a man, named Reginald Bidmead, had forged signatures to some petitions against the abolition of the London coal-duties,...
Lord Randolph Churchill addressed this day week what is called
The Spectatorthe Trowbridge " Habitation " of the Primrose League. He of course congratulated his audience on the extraordinary popularity of the Primrose League; but this part of his speech...
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THE RELIGIOUS RETROSPECT OF THE QUEEN'S REIGN.
The SpectatorN OTHING is stranger than to look back to the state of opinion and belief which prevailed in England at the time of the Queen's coronation. That was a time when in the Church...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE JUBILEE. T HE Jubilee ceremonial was a success. Great and unusual as the occasion was, long as had been the preparations, and restless as men's imaginations had become,...
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THE ROYAL CASTE.
The SpectatorA N occasion like the Jubilee brings out very sharply the singular social position of the Royal caste of Europe. That caste, which consists essentially of two families or clans,...
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FRIDAY WEEK.
The SpectatorTT would be a mistake to regard the carrying of the Irish I_ Crimes Bill through Committee on Friday week as the type of a proceeding likely to become common as between ordinary...
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THE WOMEN AND THE UNIVERSITIES.
The SpectatorT HE brilliant success in the Classical Tripos at Cambridge achieved by Miss Ramsay, of Girton College, whose name has come out the only one in the first division of the first...
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THE CATHOLIC PEERS.
The SpectatorT HE side-incidents of great events often draw to themselves a disproportionate amount of interest. Among all the excitement of the Jubilee week, time has been found for a good...
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TBE PEOPLE AND THE JUBILEE.
The SpectatorD URING the great "function" of the week, nothing has struck us—who, unhappily, remember many great func- tions—more forcibly than the change in the disposition of the people...
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GNOSTIC AGNOSTICISM.
The SpectatorN OTHING is more remarkable than the tendency among the natural philosophers of the day to deduce agnosti- cism, or our ignorance of the governing principle of the universe,...
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THEODORE WALROND.
The SpectatorA T this Jabilee-tiine, when the whole nation is in the full tide of rejoicing, a man has gone to his rest of whose passing small note will be taken by busy and jubilant...
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THE BONFIRES.
The SpectatorI F the dead of old time that lie buried within silent camps, by Druid circles, or on the topmost ridge of many a lonely, wind-a wept hill in England and in Wales could on...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE LESSON OF THE BODYKE EVICTIONS. [To Ter EDITOI Or TIM SesoTaTOIL - 1 SIII, — Yon were good enough to allow me to urge in your columns the necessity of perfecting the new...
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EVICTION AND BANKRUPTCY. [To Pax Roma op pax "BpsurAPoa." SIR,—Yon
The Spectatorsay in your issue of June 18th :—" If a man buys coffee on speculation, and cannot pay for what he has bought, he is deprived of his home just as much as if he were a defaulting...
THE FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS.
The SpectatorITO TRH EDITOR OW TR. SPECTATOR:1 you allow me to express the surprise with which have read the letter on "The Flight of the Albatross," which appears in your number for June...
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THE CRISIS IN CO-OPERATION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR 01 TIM "131201■102:1 Sit,—Permit me to correct some other inaccuracies. It is not prudent to accept as tree all one reads or hears ; it is not - the regular...
MADAME MOHL.
The Spectator[To urn Erma or raz Brieriroa.") !8l,—The Spectator comes to my house a week late, and as I 'disagree strongly with its politics, I do not always read it. But when I do read...
POETRY.
The SpectatorHODGE ON THE JEWBILLEE. WE lives in a biggish villidge, sum calls it a smallish town, An' we thinks ourselves good Churchmen, au' we're all for Queen an' Crown : An' Parson he...
THE "BEASTLY COW."
The Spectator[TO THY EDITOR OF TH. Elesawrozt."] Sin,—" F. P. C." has greatly improved upon the original story of the "beastly cow." It was a member of the Committee of the "Waifs and...
[To ran EDITOR or ran "Eirsouron."]
The SpectatorSre.,—" F. P. 0." is humorously severe upon my objection to the swallowing of raw animal food. He seems to think that became raw milk is an naturel, that must settle the...
"TB r RHONE OF THE FISHERMAN BUILT BY THE CARPENTER'S
The SpectatorSON." [TO TKO EDIFON OF III "arremoa...] BIR,—I think that you allow to those whose works are reviewed in the Spectator a single privilege. It is that of correcting a...
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ART
The Spectator[SECOND woricEi In our first notice of this Gallery, we spoke only of the contents of the first room; we now propose to mention, as briefly as possible, a few of the more...
A WILD ROSE.
The SpectatorTEE first wild rose in wayside hedge This year I wandering see, I pluck, and send it as a pledge, My own Wild Rose, to thee. For when my gaze first felt thy gaze, We were...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorCHEZ PADDY.* DIMING the course of a brief visit to Ireland last summer, M. de Mandat.Grancey contrived to amass the materials for as good a book on the Irish Question as it is...
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NEW GUINEA AND AUSTRALASIAN DEFENCE.* BOTH of these books are
The Spectatorinteresting and valuable ; both are incomplete, and therefore unsatisfactory, though in different ways and for different reasons. Death has brought the emiuently promising...
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RECENT NOVELS" Miss FAIRFAX EMIRS is a writer who has
The Spectatortaught us to expect mach from her, and whom we instinctively and fairly judge by an exceptionally high standard. We will not say that in the present novel she falls...
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NATURE YERITAS..
The SpectatorTHE idea of this interesting little book appears to have been suggested by The Unseen Universe. Professor Minohin is not one of those who are impressed by the argument that, as...
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SOME JUBILEE BOOKS.* To review in detail the collection of
The Spectatoressays to which Mr. Ward has given the title of The Reign of Queen Victoria, would be to repeat in substance, with or without recantations, a large part of the articles and...
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Mr. Punch's Victorian Era. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—The proprietors of
The SpectatorPunch have had the happy thought of reproducing for the Jubilee iteecaricattuos of political events daring her Majesty's reign. This collection is issued in parts at two...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorRobert Browning, Chief Post of the Age : an Essay addressed primarily to Beginners in the Study of Browning's Poems. By William G. Kingsland. (Jarvis and Son.)—Mr. Kingaland is...
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In the Way. By " J. H." (Barns and Oatea.)—This
The Spectatoris a tale of Protestant conversions to. Roman Catholicism, by a skilful and thoughtful writer. The oonverts dealt with are very humble people, not at all to be included in the...