had consented that any instalment of Home-rule should be calmly considered on its merits, but with regard to the present Bill the Convention were masters. It was, however, his...

on Thursday, and the Times correspondent in Vienna says that the interest was keener than at the first ballots ten days ago. Then the contest was broad and impersonal, being...

the Dame on Thursday afternoon. All estates coming into the market will be purchased, and with the Crown and State lands will form a State Land Fund, whence the peasants will be...

case.

T HE Irish Nationalist Convention, attended by upwards of three thousand delegates from all parts of the country, met in Dublin on Tuesday, and unanimously rejected the Govern-...

Dame describing a plot which was discovered in February to kill the Emperor, the Grand Duke Nicholas, and M. Stolypin himself. Twenty-eight conspirators were arrested on April...

time Mr. Winston Churchill stated that the verbatim Report of the Imperial Conference would be issued about the end of the month, and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman asked Sir F....

fellows, opened at Folkestone on Whit-Monday, the Grand Master, Mr. J. Harford Hawkins, referred to the question of old-age pensions. That, he declared, " was a matter which...

concluded on Friday week. Of the ten defendants, only one, Richard Tarrant, was acquitted. Two—Crump, a Guardian, and Lewis Hill, the steward of the West Ham infirmary— received...

have reached a serious stage, and the Government are threatened with a most difficult situation. The wine-growers are reduced to poverty in the midst of plenty, and something...

struck work in the previous week decided on proclaiming a general strike. Their chief grievance is that in some mines a man is required to supervise three drills instead of two...

week as the guests of the University of Paris and the Paris Municipal Council. They went to return the visit paid to London a few months ago by French Professors. The fetes...

railway dispute are explained by a correspondent. As is already well known, the chief demand on behalf of the men is that the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants be "...

the effect of a legal eight-hours working day in coal-mines was published on Wednesday as a Blue-book. We can mention only a few of the principal conclusions. The present...

Apr. 25th Consols (2j) were on Friday 841—on Friday week 85.

trained speakers, are so well able to present their own case lucidly and eloquently that they would lose rather than gain by being represented by a general secretary who is not...

which we feel bound to describe as astonishing. He declares that, though Mr. Edalji is not entitled to a free pardon according to the principles which have for many years...

suddenly in his sixty-seventh year. Sir Benjamin Baker, whose name is inseparably associated with some of the greatest engineering feats of the age—the Forth Bridge, and the...

convict a man for the offence of which he is accused and not for some other. The notion of saying that a man wrongly convicted of forgery has little to complain of because there...

THE NATIONALIST VETO ON THE IRISH COUNCIL BILL. O N Tuesday the Nationalist Convention, on the motion of Mr. Redmond, unanimously condemned the Government's Irish Bill, not a...

O PINION in this country is always in favour of Austria. Those who understand the position of European affairs are well aware how important are the existence and the strength of...

S 0 far the occupation of Oujda by the French has produced no appreciable result, and it is very bard to say what France ought to do next to exact the reparation which is...

N ONE felt a stronger sense of indignation than we did at the violent, sensational, and irresponsible language used by several popular newspapers in regard to the alleged...

T HERE is a tendency just now among both believers and doubters to emphasise the mystical side of Christianity, and to forget how very much secular wisdom is to be found in the...

- VCR some centuries England has got along very com- 1 fortably with a judicial system which, in its primary stage, is not patient of logical defence. In theory, the first...

OME thirty-five years ago Mr. Samuel Clemens—or Mark Twain as it is pleasanter to call him—was deputed by his fellow-passengers to ask for recognition from the Royal Humane...

A weeks ago we published a notice of a pamphlet by Surgeon-General Evatt called " Our Songless Army," in which he insisted on the moral, social, and hygienic results of...

MR. REDMOND'S SURPRISE PARTY. ITO THE EDITOR OF TEM . SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,— Opinion in Ireland was a good deal divided about the fate of Mr. Birrell's Bill when it was submitted to...

to the verb "butcher," mentioned in an editorial note to a letter on " Swashbuckling " in the Spectator of May 18th, it may be of some interest to note that the verb " hutch "...

[To ran Eorroa or roe "SrearAros."J SntrYour "impression that under Indian legal practice any question not settled by the Codes, or by special statute, is decided by Mohammedan...

[To TIM EDITOR or TH. "SPFCTWFOR....1 Sllt,—Important as it is that we should have a reserve of all munitions of war, it is of even greater moment that we should have the means...

your article " Word-Coining and Slang" in last week's Spectator you speakpf the expression " to fire otft " as if it were American. But I do not think it is. You will find...

[To Tort Eynon or Tor .SrscraTos..] SIR,—I thank you for so courteously accepting my criticism in your last issue of this false formation, and for the inter- esting analogies...

UNREST IN INDIA. [To SIVE Forms or Tax "Sem-urns:1 Sia,—In your article of the 11th inst. on the subject of "Unrest in India" you state that It was always supposed that those...

[To THE EDITOR OP ERR "Srscraros."1 SrE,—I should be greatly obliged if you could find it possible to publish these few lines. For the information of the increasing number of...

A MEMORY. Tars is just the weather, a wet May and blowing, All the shining, shimmering leaves tossing low and high, When my father used to say : "'Twill be the great mowing !...

(TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:I Sin,—A number of the friends and colleagues of the late Miss Mary Elizabeth Christie are joining together to commemorate ber work in...

ITo THE EDITOR or TEE ..SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — Our late sergeant-instructor of gymnastics is still unemployed. My letter which you kindly published on the 4th inst. has failed to...

CHARLES SANTLEY. Trtz late Lord Bowen, in an address delivered before the Working Men's College in 1893, illustrated the uncritical spirit of the age in an often - quoted...

rro Tn. EDITOR OP THE "SwOTATOILi Suk—Will you allow me in your correspondence columns to thank the unknown benefactor who sends me every week a copy of the Spectator P I can...

IMPERIAL OUTPOSTS.* This book has made us feel two things first, that we should like to see every officer in the British Army with the wide vision and interest in the...

AIIBTRIA - 11IINGARY and its future is undoubtedly the most complicated problem of modern Europe, and moreover a problem which, by reason of the issues involved, threaten more...

IN this remarkable book Mr. Romaine Paterson has torn away the veil which formed the background of the ancient world, and he shows us, naked and undisguised, the appalling mass...

WE are not at all clear in our mind as to what purpose the series to which this portly and weighty volume belongs is designed to fulfil. Each volume contains some dozen essays...

THROUGH THE EYE • OF THE NEEDLE.* Ma. HOWELLS is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes, and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits his...

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Human Trinity is an interesting novel of modern social life, though the heroine is hard to believe in. The woman of forty, properly managed, may be an attractive figure as a...

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—This is the first volume of a series which Mr. Staley is to edit under the title of "The Great Churchmen Series." Lives of Andrewes, Laud, eosin, and others are to follow. The...

and Stoughton. 6s.)—The Roman Index sometimes oontained the works of injudicious champions and exponents of truth. If we had the system in force, Sir R. Anderson's " defenoes "...

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Prisoners of Hope an Exposition of Dante's Purgatorio. By the Rev. John S. Carroll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. ed. net.)—This interesting book is of course on the same...

fifth "Serving up of the Pie." Various literary men and artists have provided the materials. Messrs. W. Hugh Spottiswoode and Arthur Croxton have put them into form ; other help...

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(Blackio and Son. ls.)—Mr. Winbolt has found that Josephtur can be profitably used for school teaching, and gives a selection of passages from the " Autobiography " and the...

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