terrifying his Mussulman subjects, than on refusing re- forms to the Armenians. The decree granting reforms applies to the whole Empire, but it will be executed only in Armenian...

vote. In spite of an eager speech from the Premier, M. Ribot, they rejected an application for an extra 2300,000 for new ships and marine works. The " Reporter" of the Committee...

or much tact in their management of Corea. They are in deadly conflict with all classes of the popu- lation; they have allowed the Queen to be murdered by Japanese roughs; and...

case.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Times at Hong-kong, whom that journal describes as specially well informed, sends an important telegram, dated October 24th. He learns from thoroughly...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 2nd, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Venezuelan question, except that the American papers are disputing as to the truth of the report, given by the New York World, that Lord Salisbury peremptorily stopped Mr....

characteristically detached speeches to his constituents at Liskeard. The Liberal Unionists would, he said, remain an independent party, and would not be fused with the Conser-...

corruption against Senators and Deputies shall not be roughly pressed. Only one politician, M. Badhaut, was punished in connection with the Panama scandals, though two or three...

for the future almost exclusively on his Irish estate, and has con- sequently resigned his office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The office, which ranks high among honours,...

it is said that a party of Christian insurgents have destroyed a Turkish village, killing all the inhabitants, and have then fled to the hills. It is certain that the...

from the Hof burg has induced the Hungarian Magnates to abstain from opposing the remaining Eeclesiastical Bills, and they have all been passed. It is now, therefore, legal in...

he rather missed. He opened a new Liberal club at Scarborough, in the presence of an enthusiastic gathering of his party, and was expected in a rousing speech to give them fresh...

of Montenegro recently sent him, through a cor- respondent of the Daily Chronicle, a complimentary message, and on October 18th Mr. Gladstone replied, in a letter in which he...

5,500 tons—she will weigh 15,725 tons when she is ready for sea—was successfully launched at Chatham. The process alone cost E2,000, and in its progress 70 cwt. of Russian...

and, therefore, do not give the names—of a Professor who has been confining three children in a lonely house for years, all by themselves, in order that he might ascertain how...

really delightful story of the Pope. It appears that Leo XIII. is a great chess-player, and that his favourite opponent is a certain Father Guile., with whom he used to play...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 104

account of the way in which the Macclesfield Board of Guardians are trying to solve the problem of the aged poor. They have established "privilege wards" for old persons of good...

tion of their views on the Education question put forward by the Irish Bishops a week ago. We will only note here that a section of the Opposition Press, a props of the...

it was Trafalgar Day, and after an interval of ninety years, the anniversary was commemorated by articles in all the news- papers and by the placing of wreaths on the Nelson...

Government has been informed that the advocates of the voluntary schools are prepared to agree to an arrangement which alters nothing in the settlement of 1870, "on condition...

LORD ROSEBERY AT SCARBOROUGH. N OTHING comes out so clearly in Lord Rosebery's speech at Scarborough, on October 18th, as that the dominant feeling of the Radical party is...

Dominion,—that everything is going for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Something in the apparent situation of Austria—it may be her history of defeat in war ; it...

THE dispute between England and the United States over the Venezuela boundary question, is a very dis- agreeable and unfortunate one ; but it does not mean war or any real risk...

for the Unionist Government to come to close quarters with the Irish Education question, if not in the next Session, at least in the earlier part of the new Parliament's life,...

I T is so seldom one comes across an original thought upon the social question that we have read Mr. Lafe.adio Hearn's paper in the Atlantic Monthly upon the instability of all...

W ITH surprising and yet eminently characteristic casualness, the fellow-countrymen of Nelson have just taken to decking his statue or visiting his tomb on the anniversary of...

C HA.RLES LAMB called Coleridge a slightly damaged archangel It would have been truer had he called him a slightly damaged Guru or Eastern sage and mystic. A Guru is a man who...

T HE death on Monday of Mr. H. Reeve, who at the age of eighty-two was still the editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh Review, and on the whole, with certain reserves, the very...

D OMESTIC rooks, nesting round a good old English country-house, are always attractive creatures ; their presence adds a certain distinction and air of long establish- ment to...

4‘ -E VERY man has his price," said Sir Robert Walpole, and he said it of politicians, who alone among mankind profess to be unpaid. But except for these dis- interested...

THE UNPOPULARITY OF ENGLAND. [To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not feel it my province to traverse your article, in the Spectator of October 19th, on the...

"SPxorAroB.-1 SIR,—Will you permit me to comment briefly on your in- teresting article in the Spectator of October 19th, headed "Mr. Gerald Balfour on Ireland." I am of Celtic...

Sin,—Of the telling of many stories of cats and dogs there is no end, and much reading of them is a delight to the flesh. Here is a genuine one told to me by a dear and most...

CIO TIM EDITOA OP THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — A neighbour of mine has a young collie which sleeps in the kitchen, where is kept during the night the key of the gate of the yard....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Amid his innumerable other labours, Mr. Gladstone has also found time to study the question as to the language generally made use of...

of canine intelligence may interest your readers, and help to establish the fact that dogs do understood human language more than is generally realised. Not long ago, one of my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The curious lack of response on the part of women to the appeal for help made on behalf of the Armenians has been much commented on....

to add one more to the dog-stories which have appeared in the Spectator ? When my brothers and I were young, we had a white French poodle as our friend and constant companion....

JOHN STUART BLACKIE.* PROFESSOR BLACKIE says of Mr. Ruskin that he possesses every virtue of a good writer except sense and self-control. If this criticism will not apply to...

A ROMAN VILLA. (CHEDWORTH). ONE evening when his ferret strayed, The keeper turned about, And fetched a lantern and a spade To dig the truant out. Dark weeds the autumn...

Sin.„—A few weeks ago I sent you a dog-story. I now beg to send you another, related to me by the Bishop of Wake- field, when he was rector of Whittington, in the county of...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOLn SIR,-1 have read with interest for many years the dog- stories in the Spectator, therefore, I will contribute to your pages, with your...

"SHIRLEY," the accomplished writer in Fraser and Black- wood, Mr. John Skelton, the brilliant and learned counsel for • The Table-Talk of Shirley : Rentiniicentes of and Leiters...

tells us in his preface, that "a careful perusal of this first English translation of the primi- tive text of Job," Koheleth,' and the Sayings of Agar,' will satisfy the most...

author of Lady Audley's Secret as a mere plot-novelist. Most of her books contain admirable descriptive passages, and though perhaps she has never actually created a character,...

TEE picture which Dr. George Smith presents of Bishop Heber, largely by means of a judicious selection of ex- tracts from his correspondence and journals, is a most attractive...

THE third volume of Pasquier's Memoirs concerns the years 1814-15, beginning with the first restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy, after the abdication of Fontainebleau, and...

GIFT-BOOKS. Tudor Queens and Princesses. By Sarah Tytler. (Nisbet and Co.)—There is more than a suspicion of book-making about this volume. It is quite unreasonable, excepting,...

is decidedly well got up, and the coloured plates excellent, though the species are of necessity somewhat reduced owing to there being as many as twenty on a plate. The text-...

Co.) —There is plenty of "go" in The Southern Light, though the incidents of the story are mostly the hardships which the two apprentices undergo from a cruel and vicious...

of the three boys at the College of St. Aloysius keep us interested to the end, but we are afraid the average boy will find the task of struggling through three hundred closely...

Co.)—Most of these ten stories have appeared in periodicals, but we are pleased to see them collected together. "The Story of Ulla " is perhaps the best, and something of the...

a tradesman, does much good work in a Yorkshire parish, when the news of his father's succession to a fortune at once lifts him and his family above the necessity of work. Alan,...

Limited), is a by-no-means bad specimen of the Orientalised melodramatic fiction for which there seems to be a great demand in these days. The central figure of the story is a...

Foster.) - The recent war between China and Japan, and the still more recent massacres of missionaries, give a special opportuneness to this new volume of the international...

offered to the public by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Bowden, is The Story of a Baby, by Ethel Turner. It is Australian, add looks very American in its humour and general lightness...

disobedient boy, but the acquaintance of a hard-working boy of his own age, the son of poor parents, sets him a better example, and he becomes a credit to his station and his...

Co.)—If this is a Christmas book, it is meant for older children, about the ages of seventeen and twenty-one inclusive. The plot is a regular novel-plot,—there is the earnest...

Son.)—The author of this story says that a portion of it was suggested by a German work, and perhaps the difficulty of giving this suggestion in an English setting accounts to...

(R.T.S.)—Mr. Hardy has brought much interesting research into -old documents, such as petitions and charters for lighthouses, to bear on his subject. We most of us have heard...

the Apostles. 2 vols. Translated from the German of Dr. A. Hausrath, by L. Huxley, B.A. (Williams and Norgate.) — This is a somewhat belated work published by the "Theological...

admirable little manual this, in which a difficult subject is touched with the ease and lightness which are found only in a practical band, and not always in that. Dr. Bigg...

like an experiment in fiction, and not inappro- priately it deals with an experiment in life. Anthony Graeme, an Oxford Professor of Moral Philosophy, who is absorbed in his...