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The Germans are greatly interested in a " scandal "
The Spectatorwhich rather amusingly recalls the old and false idea of the German intellect. The French scandal is real, if anything is real; and the Italian scandal would be, if the Italians...
The bovernment are, we believe, quite startled by the vehement
The Spectatorantagonism created by their Direct Veto Bill. It has not only irritated all brewers, distillers, publicans, and Mr. Beaufoy—a total abstainer who makes orange-wine, per- haps...
The Indian Budget has been presented to the Legislative Council,
The Spectatorand is far from a pleasant one. Taking the figures from the Viceroy's telegram, which differs entirely from the Times' telegram, we find that there was in 1891.92 a surplus of...
A Renter's telegram, in Monday's Times, gives an account of
The Spectatora dinner to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, held at Delmonico's, New York. Mr. Choate, an American, in the course of his speech, after reminding his hearers how much Irishmen had...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorF ATE is unfriendly to France just now. M. Jules Ferry, almost the only Republican politician of the first rank who has escaped smirching in Panama mud, died on Friday week,...
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At the Institute of Civil Engineers this day week, there
The Spectatorwas a slight passage of arms between the Duke of Fife, who responded to the toast of the House of Lords, and Mr. John Morley, who replied for that of the House of Commons. The...
There was a healthy optimism in that view of Mr.
The SpectatorMorley's, but we are not sure that he contributes as much as he might to the solution of this difficult problem by his answers to the questions put to him in the House of...
The incident did not, however, end here. On Tuesday, Sir
The SpectatorJ. Fergusson took the unusual course of remarking that the Foreign Office had not spoken upon Uganda, the department most concerned being, as was now usual, excluded from the...
Mr. J. Page Hoppe writes a quaint letter to Monday's
The SpectatorTimes, of which the drift is, that the more Ulster threatens and screams that Ulstermen will never transfer their allegiance from the Imperial Parliament to the local Irish...
Mr. Labouchere, on Monday, brought up the question of Uganda,
The Spectatordenouncing Lord Rosebery as the "high-priest of Jingoism." He maintained that Sir Gerald Portal had power to set up a permanent Government, or Protectorate, in that Kingdom, and...
Mr. Balfour unveiled on Saturday the stained-glass window in St.
The SpectatorMargaret's Church, Westminster, which is the Parlia- mentary memorial to the late Mr. W. H. Smith, in the presence of the Speaker, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the other officials...
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During question-time on Thursday, a discussion took place between Mr.
The SpectatorGladstone and Mr. Balfour in regard to the course of public business. The leader of the Opposition pointed out that there were certain broad issues connected with the Government...
On Wednesday, a deputation of about two hundred English, Scotch,
The Spectatorand Welsh Members waited on the Lord Chancellor to urge him, in effect, to take the appointment of County Magistrates out of the hands of the Lords-Lieutenant. At present, the...
The Bishop of Durham has issued an address to the
The SpectatorArch- deacons of his diocese, in which he deals with the Welsh Church Suspensory Bill as the beginning of an attack on the Estab- lishment in general, and not merely in Wales,...
Mr. H. Fowler on Tuesday introduced the Government Bill for
The Spectatorcreating Parish and District Councils. As regards the former, it is a good Bill, of which we have perhaps said enough elsewhere. The clauses enabling Parish Councils to take...
There are a good many excellent Latin scholars in the
The SpectatorUnited States ; but we should not wonder if they were at first a little perplexed by the message which the Pope has sent to the President through a phonograph. It is intended to...
After questions, a great deal of heat was introduced into
The Spectatorthe proceedings by Mr. Barton moving the adjournment of the House to call attention to the release of a dynamiter named Foley, who was convicted in connection with the use of...
It should be noted that the Catholic missionaries are now
The Spectatorin favour of direct British supremacy in Uganda. In the able plea for the Catholic view of recent transactions just pub- lished by the Catholic Union in a pamphlet, Bishop Hirth...
The evidence that a German tailor, named Dowe, has in-
The Spectatorvented a bullet-proof clOth, weighing about 6 lb. per suit more than ordinary cloth, seems to be irresistible. The German Staff were incredulous, but on experiment it was found...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE MULTIPLICATION OF POLITICAL GROUPS. M R. JOHN MORLEY, in his interesting and sagacious speech at the Engineers' Institution last Saturday, declared that the breaking-up of...
THE DEATH OF M. JULES FERRY. T HE whole career of
The SpectatorM. Ferry illustrates a difficulty which impedes the path of every strong man who tries to serve the democracy, and which, every now and then, leaves the democracy without strong...
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THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ON THE WELSH SUSPENSORY BILL, D R.
The SpectatorWESTCOTT'S letter to the Archdeacons of his diocese on the Welsh Suspensory Bill, strikes the true note when he speaks of it as a good deal more than what Mr. Asquith called...
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THE IRISH LEADERS. T HERE is a curious episode visible just
The Spectatornow in the long and tiresome history of the Home-rule struggle. As all who read newspapers are aware, a kind of insur- rection of opinion has broken out in Ireland against Mr....
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THE PARISH COUNCIL BILL. T HE Bill for establishing Parish and
The SpectatorDistrict Councils, brought in on Tuesday by Mr. H. Fowler, is in the main a good Bill ; but it is the Parish side of it which specially interests us, and we confine our remarks...
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PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. T HE reports of the debate on the
The Spectatorpayment of Mem- bers " forthwith " will only appear to-day. We cannot, therefore, comment on the discussion on the present occasion. One or two significant expressions of...
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SHOP HOURS.
The SpectatorT HE unanimity of the House of Commons on Social questions is becoming wonderful. The abstract con- siderations, the objections of principle, which once ruled debates such as...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POPULARITY.
The SpectatorM ATTHEW ARNOLD can hardly be called a popular poet, but yet he is a poet who is probably more especially popular with the literary class than any other poet of our day. Messrs....
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A MILLIONAIRE "ROUGH."
The SpectatorI T is not of much use to moralise, as some of our con- temporaries have been doing, over a cane: like that of Mr. Abington Baird, the Scotch millionaire, who died on Satur- day...
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MAY-FLIES IN MARCH.
The Spectator4' D AYS of promise" are a common feature of the English spring, when the rough winds sink and shift into the West, and the cold rain draws odours from the earth, and song from...
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CLERICAL POVERTY AND CONVOCATION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I regret that you throw water so cola on the attempt to supplement clerical incomes by voluntary contributions. You admit that a...
INTIMIDATION IN IRELAND.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR," 1 SIR,—In an able article, entitled "The Weight of Irish Authority against Irish Home-rule," which appeared in the Spectator of March 18th,...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "IRISH TIMES."] " SIR, — I read
The Spectatorin the Freeman's Journal of this day the appeal of loading Roman Catholics to their fellow Roman Catholics, asking them to sign the petition against the proposed Home-rule Bill....
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE ALLEGED NONCONFORMIST DECLINE. [TO TUE EDITOR OF TICE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow me to make a comment on your article of March 18th, headed "Some Causes of...
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HAWAII AND THE SOUTHERN AMERICANS.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of February 25th, you say, in regard to the probable treatment of the Princess Kaiulani by the United States...
ART.
The SpectatorSUBJECT AND TECHNIQUE. THAT the dignity of the performance does not depend on the dignity of the subject, but on that of him who treats it, is surely indisputable. God himself...
THE CAPRICE OF SYMPATHY.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 SIR, — Is the selection of objects of relief so capricious as you imagine? May it not be that we select the poor rather than the ruined,...
A BIRD STORY.
The Spectator[TO TEl EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTITOR,"] SIR,—Will you allow me to add a touching instance of courage to your pleasant bird stories P Early one morning last summer, I was called to...
THE PUNISHMENT OF FALSE WITNESS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR or THE " sprcraT01i."1 Sin,—In your article on "False Witness" in the Spec- tator of March 18th, you urge the advantage of giving a Judge the power of summarily...
COLLIES AT WORK.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At 6 o'clock this morning, I saw a mountain-shepherd stand at a gate on the hill-top. Seven sheep were on the out- side of the gate,—six...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorLIFE AND LABOUR OF THE PEOPLE IN LONDON.* IT is not too much to say that Mr. Charles Booth has done more to help the solution of the social problem than any man, or, indeed,...
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JOHN WYCLIF.* A NEW biography of Wyclif needs no apology.
The SpectatorMuch has been done in late years, by the publication of his works and in other ways, to throw light on his opinions and on the con- ditions of his life and action. No doubt more...
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RECOLLECTIONS OF PANAMA.*
The SpectatorTHE more facts are brought to light regarding that enormous deception and failure, the Panama Canal, the more surprising it seems that the French public should have been blinded...
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MEDIEVAL LORE.* Mn. STEELE'S gleanings from the encyclopee lia of
The SpectatorBartholo- mew Anglicanus, De Proprietatibus Berzon, which form this epitome of the science of the Middle Ages, is interesting from many points of view. In the matter of...
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THE UNSEEN FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY.* WE have no hesitation in
The Spectatorsaying that the Duke of Argyll's book is one of the most helpful and suggestive contributions ever made to the economic side of politics. With a mastery of phrase, and of the...
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RECENT NOVELS.*
The Spectator"SARAH GRAND" we take to be a pseudonym, but the per- sonality behind it is clearly that of an able and cultivated woman, who is intensely in earnest, and who, unlike various...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Spectator"Shepherd" Smith, the Universalist. By W. Anderson Smith. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This "history of a mind," - as the author describes it, is not easy to understand. The....
Mrs. Juliet. By Mrs. Alfred W. Hunt. 3 vols. (Chatto
The Spectatorand Windus.)—Though Mrs. Alfred Hunt's latest novel is from first to last a record of misfortunes and misadventures, it is a lively rather than a depressing book, for we have a...
Stories and Interludes. By Barry Pain. (Henry and Co.)—Mr. Barry
The SpectatorPain is a humourist of a pessimistic kind, such as seems to be eminently acceptable to this generation. • A goodly list of periodicals who are thanked for permission to reprint...
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English Cathedrals. By Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer. Illus- trated with
The Spectator154 drawings by Joseph Pennell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 1892.)—The cathedrals illustrated are Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester,...
Where Art Begins. By Hume Nisbet. (Chatto and Windus.)— "
The SpectatorArt," Mr. Nisbet asserts, "permeates the entire body of humanity, from the fiesh-devouring savage to the asphodel-adoring testhetic, in a greater or less degree, according to...
Once ! By Curtis Yorke. (Jarrold and Sons.)—Curtis Yorke has
The Spectatorwritten a very sentimental and unreal novel, the principal merit of which is that it is in one volume instead of in three. Nor is it even a very pleasant story, three of the...
The Real and Ideal in Literature. By Frank Preston Stearns.
The Spectator(J. G. Cupples Company, Boston, ti.S.A.)—We have found the essays contained in this volume to be both rather hard and not very profitable reading, their intellectual...
The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs, being one hundred
The Spectatorfac-simile illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter to which the gentle reader is introduced by one Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A,, who knows nothing at all about it....
Beetles, Butterflies, Moths, and Ctior Ins - cts. By A. W. Kappel
The Spectatorand W. Egmont Kerl)y. (Caisell aid Co.)—This introduction, intended for the collector, will prdbahly be found very useful. Twelve cobured plates, each ULU bag a number of...
The Princess of Cleves. By Madame de la Fayette. Translated
The Spectatorby Thomas Sergeant Perry. 2 vols. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.) —The publishers have certainly done their best to secure a present- day English audience for one of the most...
Poems of B. W. Bzli. With an Introduction by Frederick
The SpectatorF. Ayer. (G. P. Putnam's Soas.)—Poonts. By " A. G. R." (Printed at the Chiswick Press.) A volume of correct verse, but scarcely good enough for: publication.—Festival Hymns. By...
