T HE telephone makes of Brussels a mere suburb of Paris, communication being instantaneous, and nobody, not even the clerks, hearing what messages are sent. The French...

Government in getting its votes and measures through the House of Commons in the face of the Irish obstructionists, to what they would be in case it were their duty to put down...

In one of them he insisted that if separate race and geographical position is to entitle to a separate Parliament and Administration, Cornwall would be at least as well...

this week in a serious way. The popular mode of locomotion in Vienna, where the citizens go great distances to enjoy fresh air and shade, is by tramcar ; and the Tramcar...

fancy that there is the least danger of the English people either taking up General Boulanger, or behaving rudely to him. He is not liked by the masses, who have a notion that...

firmness the resolve of the Government not to grant to Ireland, under the shape of a Local Government measure, any powers that would give the Irish people a new " leverage " for...

case.

Friday, Lord Randolph Churchill replied by a very acrid effusion to " My dear Chamberlain," which appeared in last Tuesday's Times. The new fact stated is that on April 2nd, the...

Vienna, which, if true, is of considerable importance. The Times' correspondent in that city asserts that M. Hitrovo, the ever-active Russian Minister in Roumania, has signified...

but, as usual when things go wrong in Austria, the Emperor personally intervened. He rebuked the Commissioner of Police for want of energy, sanctioned the use of the rifle...

Union of Hearts," said that the former is at least a substantial fact, while the latter is at best problematical. There is no use in counting on gratitude, because political...

and brief. He thinks that Lord Randolph's version of the facts is in no material respect different from his own, since he has not prodnoed the terms of the agreement which is...

the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Conference on Wednesday, after one from Mr Chamberlain, of which the most charac- teristic portion was his admirable comment on a passage in...

ham Conference on Thursday, covering the whole ground of the Home-rulers, and insisting on the fact that since the time of Catholic Emancipation, no part of the United Kingdom...

thing in it. The Russian police have recently become aware, through some arrests in Zurich, that the Nihilists are resuming their plots against the Czar's life, and this week...

bitterness, that even an Act of Parliament specially passed for that end cannot protect the trees of the New Forest. The Act of 1877 specially provides that " the ancient...

in the Times of Tuesday, expresses his belief that Americans are growing tired of their political submissive- ness to the Irish. This submissiveness, he says, has extended from...

at Newcastle on economic subjects, of which we have said enough elsewhere, and on Thursday he addressed them on political topics. He was very emphatic on the necessity for a new...

Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. Picton, and the other Home- rulers of the University of London, we have seen a full report of his very terse and able speech, which is so pithy and...

the freedom of the city on Mr. Parnell while the character of his political conduct during the last ten years is still under the investigation of a Judicial Commission, is ex-...

New Console (20 were on Friday 98,1 to 981.

1.HE BELGIANS AND GENERAL BOULANGER. T HE English people, and, indeed, the people of all powerful States, have contracted exaggerated notions as to the right of asylum. They...

T HE Conservatives of Birmingham may or may not owe as much as some of them appear to think, to the energy and cleverness of Lord Randolph Churchill ; but some of their leaders...

T HE Irish problem in America, as Mr. Goldwin Smith points out in the Times of Tuesday, is quite as pressing as it is in this country ; and, we will add, may prove to be even...

W E always read a speech of the kind which Mr. Morley delivered on Monday at Newcastle, dry though it was, with unusual care. It may contain an idea for which men have long been...

O NE of the most characteristic of Home-rulers' criti- cisms on Lord Derby's singularly able and lucid speech at Birmingham ran in the following terms :- " What can be more...

of fate has never been better exemplified than in the course of Italian colonisation. While Signor Crispi, supported by the most vigorous and determined section of the nation,...

the claims of elementary teachers is at once natural and unreasonable. It is natural, because these claims are pressed with much per- sistence and some arrogance. A number of...

VV hope some one of the many correspondents who are telegraphing to England the story of the invasion of Oklahoma, will send over letters with descriptions of the details of...

pleasures of life,"* on which Sir John Lubbock has just given us another entertaining book, he apparently classes "the troubles," for he devotes one sec- tion to them as if...

O N the right, a cream-coloured wall, rather crumbling, and shaken by the earthquake ; behind it, eucalyptus trees, with their brown and grey peeled stems, and drooping, tired...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It is high time that it should be publicly made known— though I believe the statement has frequently been made before—that the body...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Yom• suggestive article on the Crawford case strikes the key-note of a serious difficulty arising from the depre- ciated wages of the...

" SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — On paying a visit to the National Gallery, I was dis- appointed to find that the old familiar names of the painters had disappeared from the pictures....

LESSONS OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND ROCHESTER ELECTIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article on the Birmingham and Rochester elections justly draws attention to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article on " The Exhibition of Miniatures at the Burlington Fine Arts Club," in the Spectator of April 20th, there is the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The"old corp road," over the hills between Langdale and Grasmere, is the track along which funerals used to come from the former to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondents have done well to draw attention to points in connection with this subject. The question might be treated at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If your correspondent, " F. W.," has not met with it already, he will be interested in the following well-authenti- cated instance of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] the Spectator of April 20th, you review Miss Smith's " Music of the Waters," and you mention appreciatively the North-Country " chanty," of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have not observed among your collection of Irish " bulls " one I heard of some time ago,—" Don't interrupt me till I'm done."—I am,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the quiet suburb of Upper Clapton, an unpretending work of great usefulness has been carried on for some years. Twenty years ago, a...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB EXHIBITION OF PICTURES. " CANDIDATES for election to membership of the New English Art Club will not be required to submit works, but their names, duly...

WHAT is the sonnet P 'Tis a flower whose seed Is some sublime emotion of the soul, That springeth into form as beautiful As lily or violet, or winsome weed, Or glowing rose or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I think the many bird-lovers who frequent your columns will like to share the following experience with me. I walked over this morning...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " EPECTATOR."] SIR,—After reading your correspondent's interesting letter in the Spectator of April 20th, about a dog taking notice of a picture, I...

LALEHAM. APRIL 15ra, 1889. THERE were mild lights in the dim softened air, Blue lakes in rifted skies, I stood betwixt the yew and holly, there Where the lost Master lies....

MR. AUBREY MOORE'S ESSAYS.* THESE are very able and interesting essays by one of the ablest of our clergymen. Mr. Aubrey Moore goes farther in his accept- ance of the doctrine...

variorum" edition does not, perhaps, suggest the thought of an attractive book. Commonly it means a bulky volume in which a misplaced industry has collected the lucubrations of...

Ma. COHAN DOYLE'S name is unfamiliar to us, and is, we believe, equally unfamiliar to the world ; but it is not likely that it will soon be forgotten by any one who reads Micah...

with a brief, suggestive history. The writer is the Residency Surgeon of Jeypore ; the work is pro- duced at the sole expense of the Maharajah of Ulwar, Sir Mungul Singh, a...

of the learned Societies has made an extremely good beginning in the handsome volume before us. The Selden Society aims at advancing in a scientific way our know- ledge and...

THE " glory of Barcelona," that wonderful cathedral whose interior is so awe-inspiring by its dignity and so enrapturing by its beauty that it seems to efface from the...

The Grey Lady of Hardcastle. (Burns and Oates.)—This graceful story is supposed to be "edited by a friend of the family," and is written throughout in a fresh and engaging...

This should be a useful guide to amateurs who desire to keep an aviary. It contains many hints on the management of aviaries, birds and their food, and their treatment in...

not remember to have seen a vocabulary of French and English nautical terms before. It is certainly interesting, to say nothing of its usefulness to naval officers. A comparison...

Paul and Co.)—It certainly looks as if we were going to get a permanent classification of these British fungi at last. Mr. Plowright has done his best towards obtaining that...

Wright Hail. (Remington.)—The want of a theory for chemistry, the writer says, has induced him to come forward and offer with all humbleness a theory of chemistry. Mr. Hall's...

and Co.)—To the fluttering of the Colonial dove- sots by Mr. Froude's " Oceana," is mainly due Mr. Bradshaw's present work, in which we find his "New Zealand as It Is" (a book...

Written and Illustrated by P. W. Barlow. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is an excellent, practical, plain-spoken little book, rather depressing in parts, but written with evident...

love-story. There is an heiress, a dragon who guards her, and two lovers, the least worthy of whom, as far as common- sense and solidity of character are concerned, carries her...

a new edition, thoroughly revised, to such an extent indeed as to make it, in the views of the conductors, a new book, of a work that has done good service. Possibly the term "...