• T HE Russian Czar reached the suburbs of Moscow on Sunday by train, and on Tuesday made his state entry into his ancient -capital. He rode in on a white horse, preceded and...

MR. ERRINGTON AND THE PAPAL SEE. T HE attitude of English Protestantism on the subject of our relations with the Papal See always seems to us a little crazy. We cannot pretend...

I T is understood that before next week ends, the Government will make an important statement as to the conduct of business, and we do hope it will be a firm one. We do not...

T HE French journals have been full recently of speculations as to the health of the Comte de Chambord. According to some of them, he is dying slowly of the same internal:...

T HE Liverpool meeting of yesterday week was neither a mere display of oratory, nor a mere demonstration of Liberal feeling. It was unique in this way, that it elicited...

S IR WILLIAM MacCORMAC'S defence of his Service, appended to the Report of Lord Morley's Committee on the Medical Department, is ably written, but it misses the true , point of...

W E cannot share the emotion with which the Times views Mr. Mitchell Henry's letters. " Downright despair " is not at all the sentiment which they awake in us. Rather, it is a...

R USSIANS are much annoyed when told that they are Asiatics, and no doubt the statement, except so far as it is true of all mankind, is untrue of them ; but it is impossible for...

M R. LABOUCHERE was, as he usually is, amusing on Tuesday, when pleading for the recognition of what he called the " great democratic picnic," and upbraiding the stern Radicals...

T HE death of Dr. William Chambers, which occurred at Edinburgh last Sunday, brought to a close a life which was not only long and useful, but rich in biographical interest of a...

A KERRY EMIGRATION SCENE. 170 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") witnessed yesterday the departure of some 400 emigrants from the South of Ireland, in the steamship Lake...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR."1 Stn,—A. little imaginative sympathy, enabling us to realise another's stand-point, would often save us from misunderstanding and...

LT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—George Wilson, the miner (now a student at St. Andrew's},., on whose behalf the readers of the Spectator have so kindly interested...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS. IN some ways, this has been an unfortunate year for the ol& Society. The blare of trumpets and general success which attended the...

Painters in Water-colours, which has now been in existence more than half a century, has this year taken a new departure in its history. The exhibitions of the Institute have...

THE LAND OF MORNING CALM. 0 THE peninsula which we call Corea, first noticed in Western writings by an Arab geographer of the ninth century, who called it Sila, was known to the...

Tins volume, which belongs to the Eminent Women Series, is to a great extent a compilation from other works already published relating to the Brontë family ; and the author's...

MR. WILKIE COLLINS, as his custom is, gives in the forefront of his latest book a semi-descriptive, semi-critical preface, which is, unlike the majority of such compositions,...

WE should not review a pamphlet which embodies so many of - the opinions on Art which Mr. Quilter has expressed in the Spectator, did we not think that a criticism even of our...

for Mr. James Grant is by no means a perfect writer. Incessant production, for a generation, of novels of the "romantic" kind does not conduce to accuracy of thought or of...

A Visit to Ceylon. By Ernest Haeckel. Translated by Clara Bell. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Professor Haeckel's volume may be read with unmixed pleasure by the scientific and...