rapidly over Europe, especially based upon the Italian alliance, mentioned below; but after that, we note a renewal of the warlike reports. Their origin is connected with a...

celebrated as a carnival of obstruction. First there was the debate on the Naval Estimates, Mr. Labouchere moving that progress should be reported before the vote was taken,...

case.

the evening of yesterday week, after a fierce passage of arms between Mr. Dillon and the Irish Secretary on the subject of the riot at Youghal, and the arrest of Father Kelleher...

in- troducing a Bill abolishing all the more serious of the anti- Catholic Falk Laws. They were moat of them, he said, useless. The law, for instance, which sent young priests...

• T HE ninety-first birthday of the German Emperor (born March 22nd, 1797) was kept in Berlin on Tuesday with grand ceremonial, and genuine popular rejoicings. Eighty-five...

41, majority 2/1, and was made into a Standing Order of the House without a division. The Closure rule thus adopted provides that any Member may move the Closure, unless the...

account of the suggestions, both for taxation and for remissions of taxation, which beset a Chancellor of the Exchequer. One clergyman had written to him a grave assurance that...

have been due to the King's determination that the alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy should be renewed for five years. This determination, which was shared by S....

the introduction and various stages of the Criminal Law and Procedure Bill (Ireland), whenever the Bill should be set down by the Government as the first business of the day. He...

on, Mr. Balfour, who had left the House at 4 o'clock in the early morn- ing of Tuesday, was not present to reply to the Irish catechisms on the subject of the Constabulary, and...

hundred Conservative Members of Parliament who wished to describe the depression of the agricultural inter- est, and to persuade him of the necessity of relief. In reply, the...

the business of the nation in favour of a measure for increasing the stringency of the Criminal Law in Ireland "while no effectual security has been taken against the abuse of...

and made a speech remarkable for its cheerfulness and humour. After declaring that a primary duty—that of pre- serving civilisation, which rested upon law—now fell upon the...

Asquith's, and Mr. Chamberlain's. Mr. Glad- stone, who was evidently incensed with Mr. W. H. Smith for the "bland" brevity with which he had pleaded for urgency, dilated at...

Brodrick and Mr. Bryce, the one for the Government, the other against them. Mr. Brodrick showed that General Boller asserted strongly the intimidation exercised by the National...

post, has received and published Mr. Raikes's refusal to entertain the question. Mr. Raikes does not dispute that the Colonists wish for cheap postage, or that the present rate,...

Royal College of Surgeons is supported by a considerable number of his colleagues in disapproving the grand laboratory scheme, for the expenditure of the bequest of Sir Erasmus...

spoken at any length in the House, made a very favourable impression by a speech of considerable rhetorical power, the drift of which was that boycotting could not be cured by...

of a measure of which he knew nothing, but which he was quite content to condemn in the most uncompromising terms without knowing anything about it. He had commented on the very...

inquire into the death of the fisherman O'Hanlon, bayonetted while leading a mob to resist the police in arresting Father Kelleher. The jury, which consisted of eighteen men,...

T HE weakness of the case made out by Mr. Morley, and buttressed by Mr. Gladstone, for the amendment which refused urgency to the Government for their Bill to amend the Criminal...

THE ALL-NIGHT DEBATE. I F the contemporary that explained so elaborately a few days ago how utterly the time had been wasted which the Government have consumed in transforming...

W E confess that we do not quite understand the ex- ceedingly sanguine feeling abroad as to the aspect of Continental affairs. It may be as well justified as it is well marked,...

M R. GOSCHEN'S speech at the Mansion House on Wed- nesday, which we have condensed elsewhere, differs in one important respect from all other speeches recently delivered on...

T HE Anglo-Indian community is, we think, alarming itself without sufficient reason, From the long telegram published in the Times of Monday, it would appear to believe that the...

?THE April number of Harper's Magazine contains an .1 article of an unusual kind. It is a comparative view of the life of working men in America and in several countries of...

T HERE is something of the statue about the figure of the German Emperor, grand as it is, something which in- duces men to forget that it is alive, with brain, and will, and...

" W HATEVER the great qualities of Bishop Fraser, he had at least no unction." " Ah ! but do we want unction P Is not a Bishop,—as, indeed, every other man,—a great deal better...

I T lies in an nntrodden valley in the heart of England ; for even in the very heart of England such valleys are still to be found, where the call of the bird has not been...

THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE MIRACULOUS. [To THE EDITOR or SPECTATOR...I SIR, —Your recent article on "Humanist Theology" must have afforded many readers that lively satisfaction...

(To TH. Boma or TEM ..SPECTLTO9.1 Stn,—I noticed recently in the Daily News a complaint that, whilst the Gladstonian Liberals were quite outspoken as to their own views on the...

SPICTATOR."] SIR,—Are you not a little one-sided in deprecating Mr. Cham- berlain's proposal for the formation of Liberal Unionist Associa- tions throughout the country P...

[To Tar Maros or TR. “Bescurost.1 SIR,—I will not further notice Lord Arthur Russell's account of my views, except to say that it is a mere tangle of miscon- ception. I give...

[To TES EDITOR or TR. " &ROTATOR.") Sia.,—At a time when sympathy for the sufferings of the Irish peasantry is leading so many men to propose hurriedly most dangerous remedies,...

[TO tux EDITOR or T/15 .Sracrarms."1 SM.,—In your editorial note on Mr. Courtney's speech, you appear to approve of his argument against "the theoretic supremacy of...

[To rnia Roma or Ina " Greeraroa."] Sta,—While cordially agreeing with the sentiments of the article on this subject in your issue of March 19th, permit me to point out, in...

SPRCTATOR:1 Sra,—While thanking you for the kindly welcome you have given to the new Classical _Review, may I be permitted, in the absence of Mr. A. S. Murray from England, to...

" WOULD TRY WARM HEART WERE HUNAN, TOO. I" WIGILD thy warm heart were human, too, 0 Spirit of the Spring ! So should thy softest breezes woo The souls most suffering. So...

THE WOODLANDERS.* Tabs is a very powerful book, and as disagreeable as it is powerful. It is a picture of shameless falsehood, levity, and infidelity, followed by no true...

long in finding out that the author of The Growth of Freedom, in the Balkan Peninsula is what he would himself call a " Philoslav," or what we think we should be nearer the mark...

MISS CaROL1NR FOTIIBRGILL has written a clever, strong, in- teresting, and—it must be added—very bewildering book. An Enthusiast is a novel which cannot be read languidly or...

every one with any real love for lettere reads eagerly and delights in (though indeed, the social and political opinions—may we say paradoxes P—of one of them sometimes irritate...

they term an "Imperial White- Book," Messrs. Cassell are not only conferring an immense boon on those who want books of ready reference, but upon all who desire to study...

THAN Edmund Burke there is no figure at once more fasci- nating and more disappointing in the whole range of English politics and English literature. To feel the spirit of civil...

H. Weller, M.A. (Blackie.)—This is a thorough-going assertion of the doctrine of plenary inspiration. "The inspiration of every word" is what the author contends for,—every...

of the author of Mademoiselle Mori is always welcome, and in her last essay, though confessedly addressed to a limited circle, there is no falling-off in her characteristic...

Half-Hours with the Best American Writers. Selected and Arranged by Charles Morrie. 4 vole. (Frederick Warne and Co.)— That these volumes contain much that is interesting, much,...

is endowed with a capacity for collecting, assimilating, and making the most of ont-ofthe.way knowledge. It is not quite in jocularity that he styles this volume "a contribution...

Adams, and Co.), we have one of those new editions which are almost, if not quite, as interesting as strictly new books. It throws a curious side-light on the fairydom (the...

by Howard W. Preston. (Putnam and - Sons, New York and London.)—This is a collection of documents which the student of American history, as Mr.- Preston calls the history of the...

to pass with a very brief descriptive notice, The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edited, with Preface and Notes, by William M. resetti. 2 vols. (Ellis and...

John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh was born, we believe, in 1809; but his latest volume of verse exhibits...

yarns " differ materially from the regulation sea-story. They deal neither with startling incidents, deadly perils, nor romantic adventures, and many readers will doubtless deem...

and Hall.)—The author is considerate enough to divide his bills of fare into classes, and to give what be considers fitting respectively for the sedentary and the active, ladies...

question, we may mention: —The Law of Allotments, by F. Hall Hall, M.A. (Longmans), "intended as a handbook for landlords, glebe owners, parish officers, allotment wardens,...

first volume of the cheap reissue of the series of "English Men of Letters," edited by Mr. John Morley. The volumes are to be issued monthly, and the price is a shilling. Of the...

Abbott (C. Cl,. Waste-land Wanderings. or 8vo (S. Low) 7/6 Antique. Mater: a Study of Christian Origins. cc lee TrAbner 7/6 As the World Wags, 3 vols. or Ore S. Low) 18,0...

ceived :—" The Perfect Day :" Restful Thoughts for the Evening of Life. By L. C. Skey. (Skeffington and Sons.)—Cast thy Burden upon the Lord: a Tast-Book for the Weary. (J....

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and the capitals and italics of the ten editions published in Emits a brighter ray." Banyan's lifetime, the best reading from each of which has been its humble author, who...

LIEUTENANT Yarn, who is apparently not the famous Captain Yate, though we presume he is his brother, says he has taken as "the basis" of his book the letters he wrote to various...

MR. LANs-POOLE defends his use of the term " Saracenic" in preference to " Mahomedan," in relation to the decorative art of mediseval Egypt, on the ground that many of the...

ME. DENT went to Brazil to survey for a line of railway between Quelaz and Pitangny, in the province of Minas Geraes, and his employment lasted a year. Of the work itself and...

A NEW generation of musicians has grown up since Ole Bull played for the last time in public in the British Isles, and this fact, coupled with the transference of the sphere of...

Ma. VICARY, who Iran already furnished ns more than once with "pleasant reading from the North" in his Danish Parsonage and other stories, now presents us with a collection of...

Windus.) —Mr. Allen's novel may be described as a story with two heroes, two heroines, and one villain. One of the heroes and one of the heroines are Creolee, the others En g...

Eighteenth-Century Wails. By John Ashton. (Herat and Blackett.) —This is a fairly g ood book of its kind, but it belon g s to a class of pablioations that has no special purpose...

Sunday School Union.)—A pretty little story this, with a strongly marked religious tendency, which, however, does not exclude, as, indeed, there is no reason why it should, a...