of Westphalia has been very great. The Emperor told them, in his interview, to " draw their purse-strings ;" and Prince Bismarck stated in the Reichsrath that he could not leave...

Berlin, remarkable for the eagerness of the people, as well as the Court, to acknowledge the Italian alliance. The city was decorated on the 21st inst. ; the whole population...

Cesarewitch is to marry the eldest daughter of the Prince of Montenegro. The rumour is intermittently denied, and Prince Nicholas says the honour is too great for him ; but it...

American Irish, has been found naked, save for an Agnus Dei round the neck, in a sewer near Chicago. He had been murdered, and it is suspected that he was killed because he...

.M R. PARNELL, with great want of decorum, received on Thursday a deputation sent up from Dublin, Cork, and nine smaller towns, to congratulate him on his success in refuting...

for the abolition of the House of Lords, in the shape of a motion that hereditary legislation is contrary to the spirit of representative institutions. In a speech for him...

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any case.

late Lord Derby's Foreign Minister. He was supposed, when ap- pointed, to be entirely incompetent, and, in fact, to be the Premier's French amanuensis. He was in reality a keen...

London. The General himself has not been wisely advised, and has dined with the wrong people ; and his principal sup- porter among Reds, M. Rochefort, has been involved in a...

Naval Defence Bill, and made a very successful point against the assertion that we spend money on inefficient ships whose steam- power is never to be relied on when it is...

nesday in the Albert Hall, which was crowded with nearly four thousand persons. He described how the sentimental faddists played into the hands of Mr. Labouchere and his...

has been the examination and cross-examination of Mr. O'Brien, of which the chief feature has been the extraordinary inconsistency of Mr. O'Brien's remarkably frank criticism on...

with whips of its own, and said that, considering the well-known views of its leader and the name of one of those whips, Mr. Jacoby (the other being Mr. Philip Stanhope), the...

favour of Imperial Federation, from which it is clear that they really think that Imperial Federation between the United Kingdom and her Colonies can be made some- thing much...

Monday night on the working of the Vivisection Act, in which Mr. Erichsen, the Inspector under the Act, was attacked for not performing his duties with sufficient sympathy for...

Bill permitting women to sit as County Councillors, was remark- able for the decision evinced by the Peers. Only Lord Meath spoke in favour of the Bill, and he was careful to...

Wednesday at the Grosvenor Gallery, Mr. Parnell, who was received with great enthusiasm, made a speech in which he declared once more that the Irish people had accepted a scheme...

very important judgment on Saturday in the Court for Consideration of . Crown Cases Reserved, in the case of " Ford v. Wiley," on the very cruel operation known as the...

Presbyterian Churches in Scotland, waited on Friday week on Lord Salisbury, to protest against the Portuguese pretensions to rule over Nyassaland. That little Power, availing...

Majesty's Theatre to the Primrose League, in which he said that it now numbers 800,000 members, and that it has done wonders towards diffusing Conservative principles through...

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THE ITALIAN VISIT TO BERLIN. T HERE is something very picturesque and attractive in the meeting of King Humbert with the Emperor William, of the Savoyard and the Hohenzollern,...

For there is, we believe, great force in what Lord Salisbury said on Tuesday, that it has been the artificial severance between class and class due to the concentration of vast...

I T is feeble policy to try to answer Mr. Labouchere's speech on the House of Lords, which brought him one hundred and sixty votes, by calling it a poor speech, or a speech...

M R. GOSCHEN'S speech at Sheffield shows a mingling of the qualities of the large-minded statesman with the qualities of the popular orator such as we have not observed in any...

of the House of Commons has been whipped up to vote against the Naval Defence Bill. The number is larger than it ought to have been ; but when we remember Mr. Labouchere's...

by Mr. Parnell at the Westminster Palace Hotel is by far the most important one which has been reported this year. The Corporations or leading corporate bodies of eleven Irish...

Major Marindin has just presented to the Board of Trade, enables us to realise fully the enormous growth not only in the demand for the electric light, but in the ability to...

T HE New York physician, Dr. Irwin, who has got into a scrape with a New York coroner for dissecting the brain of Mr. Irving Bishop too soon after his death, appears to have...

SOME of our " progressive " friends will think hard things SOME us if we say that the claim of birth is rather in- creasing than diminishing as a force in politics ; but we...

THE NEGRO QUESTION IN AMERICA. THE Negro Question is hardly less to the fore in the old Slave States than the Irish Question is in Great Britain. It meets you everywhere,—the...

S AVONA is not in itself a place of great interest. It has fine views of sea and mountains, formal squares, streets of heavy arcades, handsome buildings ; the shops are...

ASTRONOMY AND THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF MAN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH."11 Sin,—Among the fragments in my hands of " Lectures on Astronomy," by Sir William Rowan Hamilton,...

SIR, — Some of your readers will, I think, be interested in the accompanying extract from a letter just received by me from two young settlers in the North-West of Canada.—I am,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your very interesting article of a few weeks ago on the strange social phenomenon which you call " The Invasion of Oklahoma," you...

THE TAJ MAHAL BY MOONLIGHT. NOT purest marble from Carrara hewn Or Paros, not the everlasting snows On Himalaya's primal peaks, nor those About the cone of Fuji-yama strewn By...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE. ON entering Gallery III., one of the first things that catches the eye is Mr. Herkomer's striking likeness of Mrs. Gladstone (205), which,...

THE LIFE OF W. G. WARD.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. WILFRID WARD has written a very entertaining as well as a very instructive book concerning the remarkable man who may be said to...

conclusions or statements. As it happens, however, that we shall have to do so more than once, we shall postpone criticism to eulogy. For although this work is, as the writer...

JUST now, when so many novelists of whom better things might have been expected are trying to achieve a worthless success by substituting fantastic novelty of structure for...

of the 43rd Light Infantry appended to the Historical Records of that famous regiment, is the following entry, which is a stumbling-block to the non-professional reader :—"...

of an American study of a branch of the "Labour Question" which is coming into greater prominence every year. The book is well-timed and well- executed, and, so far as we have...

The Dramatic Works of Edwin Atherstone. Edited by his Daughter, M. E. Atherstone. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Atherstone is known to at least some of our readers as the author of...

H. de Ricci. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The appendix to this volume occupies nearly five-sixths of the whole bulk, and may be said, without depreciating the value of the author's...

vols. (Spencer Blackett.)—This is the story of a lady whom it would be a compli- ment to call a flirt. Her goings-on bear the same relation to flirtation as does murder to...

Confessio Antantis" of John Gower. Edited by Henry Morley, LL.D. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is the second volume of Professor Morley's " Canis- brooke Library," a series which,...

As in a Looking-Glass, illus. by G. -Da Manrier,4to (Ward & Downey) 31/d Balsillie (D.), Ethic of Nature, or Svo (Douglas) 6/() Barrie J. M.), A Window in Thrums, or 8vo...

Second edition. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Matriculation Questions on the English Language. By F. W. Levander, F.R.A.S. Second edition, with Appendices. (H. K. Lewis.) — The...

Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" °Moe. No. 1 Wellington Street,...

he *vetator No. 3,178.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1889. r REGISTERED FOR 1 GRATIS. TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

SAMUEL ROGERS.* THE modern reader may have almost forgotten that at the beginning of this century Rogers was a popular poet, living upon the fame of his verses. His position in...

LONDON: MAY 25, 1889.

MR. HARDY'S school edition of Juvenal was a meritorious and useful piece of work ; but the volume now before us is alto- gether on a higher level. It is a serious contribution...

book was published, yet he lived to finish the MSS., and to revise all but the last few proof- sheets. He has succeeded in bringing together a good deal of • England in the...

of M. Burnouf's learned essay, and if the lady who made it fails occasionally to select the best words, her few and venial errors never affect the meaning of his sentences. A...

IT is always interesting to read the impressions of intelligent Americans who have spent some time in this country. The opinions of an ordinary summer tourist are worthless ;...

we took up this adaptation by Lady Herbert of a French memoir relating the history of Don Gabriel Garcia Moreno with curiosity that soon became interest. We are bound, however,...

An American book, though bearing the name of an English pub- lisher. If any one is curious to read the history of the person who set on foot. the strange craze which makes...

moral of this novel is a new version of the ancient proverb anent hasty marriage. The wife does not love her husband, but too late repents,—that is, falls in love with him. The...

A. M. E. Scarth (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), is largely made up of quotations, but is none the less valuable on that account, for it makes a handy little dictionary of the...

(Hurst and Blackett.) — Captain Newall has added another to the already long list of books on Indian sport, in which he seems to have been most active in the pig-sticking line,...

Waite tells us that this volume is founded on a similar work published in 1815, which has become a bibliographical rarity. He then introduces us to the theory of " The Magnum...

A Cloud on St. Angelo. By Cyril Bennett. 2 vols. (T. F. Unwin.)—There is a great deal of imperfectly disciplined power in this story, which is, on the whole, an improvement on "...

(G. Vickers.)—We have in these pages a very striking and vivid picture of the palmy days of the provincial players, days which have gone for ever ; for though companies still "...

to have become a poet from a very early age. His poems, written before the age of nineteen, show a promise that is not fulfilled in those of twenty-four. The sonnets are very...

Hill, Liverpool. (David Stott.)—This particularly well-printed book is not a volume of sermons, but a series of short essays. By " true," the author, of course, means the "...

" present-day" papers, as the author calls them, are some of them reprinted from the Churchman magazine, and have certainly a good deal of present-day interest ; but the whole...

George Prothero, M.A. Revised by Rowland Prothero, M.A. (Riving- tons.)—This book has personal interests which deserve mention. It is a kind of resume of the life-work in...

Translated by the Rev. F. H. Woods. With 205 Illustrations. (Macmillan and Co.)—This translation, which has been made from the second edition of Professor Montelius' great work,...

countrywoman who compiled them, are both evidently in earnest; but the word "compiled" is used advisedly in regard to the book, for though the chapters are arranged in an...

ton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Sterne shows much power of melodious versification in these poems, and occasionally strikes a note of depth and strength. On the...

Co.)—Here we have some clever sketches of travel and of personal experience. Now and then one finds a trace of paradox —the opening essay, on the delights of release from work,...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The "List of Principal Contributors" which the editor has prefixed to this cyclopEedia contains some names that are a guarantee of good work. We may...

Llanelly.)—Mr. Mee has collected here a considerable amount of information about the history of the fabric of Llanelly Church, about the clerks who have held the benefice, and...

R. Lowell. (W. Scott.)—In this little volume, one of the " Camelot Series," Mr. James Russell Lowell republishes lectures delivered many years ago on Spenser, Shakespeare,...

has organised excursions which have for their object the study of the country round London. Begin- ning with mere elementary work, the class proceeds to a higher stage, in which...

(Mac- millan.)—If the art of Latin verse-writing is to be kept alive, it will be by such books as this. Mr. Preston has taken great pains to collect some really fresh and good...

The title of this little book," says the author in her preface, " is not so much the name as the expression of a fact." She has given many years to the work of setting forward...

Allen and Co.)--With this volume, one of the "Statesmen Series," there is little fault to find. Some partiality for his sub- ject must be allowed to a biographer, who, indeed,...

and Downey.)—This volume is an olla podrida, not ill- mixed, and easy to consume and digest. There is a somewhat sensational story, " The Curious History of some Misdirected...

not do herself justice by the way in which she intro- duces her hero and heroine. She, having an afternoon's holiday, prepares to enjoy it by letting down her hair, taking off...

Miller. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This small book, which appears to be only a first instalment, nevertheless carries down its history almost to the present time. It is written...

and Elder.)—Mr. Jones has collected together, with very happy results, a number of occasional papers, commiscens series He has a delightful way of wandering away from his...