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It is given out that Mr. Goschen has withdrawn his
The Spectatorname from the Reform Club, and of course speculation is very active as to what this step may mean. It may mean little or nothing, —dissatisfaction, for instance, with the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorA RUHOUR which has been floating about for some days, was confirmed on Tuesday. The German flag has been raised on the Northern coast of New Guinea, on New Britain, an island to...
Lord John Manners, speaking at Syston yesterday week, made a
The Spectatorfeeble attempt to treat the Government triumph on the Lord John Manners, speaking at Syston yesterday week, made a feeble attempt to treat the Government triumph on the...
Mr. Courtney, in his speech at Cramlington yesterday week, made
The Spectatoreffective use of the condition of the present Metropolitan counties as illustrating the one-sided results of the existing system. He said you might find in the three divisions...
The Colonial Office has issued fresh papers about the German
The Spectatorannexation of Angra Pequena, which, however, do not explain the main question,—How did it happen that the Colonial Office did not believe that the German Government would annex...
Rheinsdorf, the German printer recently under trial at Leipsic for
The Spectatorattempting to blow up the German Emperor during the unveiling of the statue of Germania, has been sentenced to death. There is no doubt of his guilt, which, indeed, he did not...
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The Times of Friday published a most interesting account of
The Spectatorthe recent British expedition into the Valley of Zhob (Job), undertaken to punish a chief who claims to be a descendant of the patriarch, but who has been raiding on our border,...
The Times correspondent in Paris draws a most dreary picture
The Spectatorof the internal condition of Russia. Count Tolstoi, the Minister of the Interior, exaggerates the old despotism, suppresses even local Councils, prohibits the discussion of any...
All rumours from China are this week unfavourable to the
The SpectatorFrench. It is stated• that the fleet off Formosa has cholera on board, that the blockade is imperfect, and that nothing whatever can be done towards the occupation of the island...
A correspondent of the Daily News, evidently well- informed, declares
The Spectatorthat the single object of Prince Bismarck in resisting British policy in Egypt, and producing small embarrassments for the British Government, is to bring about the fall of Mr....
Disquieting rumours arrive from Constantinople. The Turkish Cavalry have recently
The Spectatorbeen in mutiny for arrears of pay, and the Treasury has with great difficulty scraped together enough to keep them quiet, and in doing it has increased the discontent among the...
We omitted to notice last week the appointment - of Lord
The SpectatorReay to the Governorship of Bombay, about to be vacated by Sir James Ferguson, whose time is expiring, and who has had but a limited success. The selection is very English. Lord...
Lord Rosebery has issued a circular to the Members of
The Spectatorthe House of Lords, asking each Peer whether he is favourable to the general principle of a Reform of the Lords, and if he is, in what direction he would be inclined to propose...
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Mr. Bright, in an excellent letter published at length in
The SpectatorThursday's Times, comments on a paper read by Mr. Lywood at the Warminster meeting of the South Wilts Chamber of Agriculture, on "Agricultural Depressions,"—the object of the...
Germany and Russia are trying hard to force the English
The Spectatorhand in Egypt, and have demanded seats and votes in the Office of the Debt. Their object, of course, is to strengthen the representa- tion of the Bondholders, and at the same...
Peterhouse, Cambridge, celebrated with great pomp on Monday, its six
The Spectatorhundredth anniversary, having been founded on December 22nd, 1284. Mr. Lowell, who as usual had to answer to the toast of the Cambridge of the Transatlantic world, congratulated...
The Syston book-sale has yielded the two greatest book-prices on
The Spectatorrecord,—the price of the splendid " Psalmortun Codex" of 1459, printed by Fust and Schoeffer, having even exceeded that of the "Mazarin Bible" by £1,050. The latter (the...
There is still a real mystery about the alleged depression
The Spectatorof trade. In spite of the outcry about it, which appears to be nearly universal, we are told this week that at a meeting of some of the Liverpool guardians,—the guardians for...
We observe that with the New Year the Wesleyans are
The Spectatorto issue a weekly penny paper, which is to be edited by the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, and to be called the Methodist Times. From the programme which has been pat forth, we should...
Several facts have come out concerning the results of Pro-
The Spectatorfessor Ferrier's experiments on the monkeys' brains, so much vaunted by the Times of Tuesday week as having led to the exact localisation of the tumour in a paralytic patient's...
Another collision was reported on Friday, this time between the
The SpectatorBritish steamer ' Chelydra,' 1,148 tons, and a Norwegian barque. Early on Thursday morning, the Chelydra,' bound for Bremerhaven with rice, was passing up Channel, and the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorTHE MIGRATION OF ELECTORAL POWER. N OTHING is more remarkable than the migration of electoral power which will result from the Redistribu- tion Bill. After allowing for the...
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ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND AUSTRALIA.
The SpectatorT HIS new Australasian business is a disagreeable one, and all the more so because the Government is not entirely in the wrong. The plain truth of the matter is that the...
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THE ANARCHISTS OF LEIPSIC. T HE Optimists among us—and they are
The Spectatornumerous, though they call themselves by many names and put forward very different grounds for hope—must find the trials of the Anarchists at Leipsic very sad reading. They have...
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DISESTABLISHMENT AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.
The SpectatorW E very much doubt whether " the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " has not been greatly misunderstood, when it has been understood as...
THE LOTINGA CASE.
The SpectatorA SENSATIONAL legal sitting has come to a sensational conclusion in the great Lotinga case. The case raised a great many points of interest, legal, commercial, and social. It...
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THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE COLLEGES.
The SpectatorIt happens that this moment has appropriately been chosen by the Pall Mall Gazette for a series of articles on the rival aspects of the recent changes at Oxford and Cambridge....
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EMANCIPATED WOMEN.
The SpectatorI N Mrs. Fenwick Miller's interesting study of Harriet Mar- tineau, in the " Eminent Women Series,"* she concludes by anticipating that a great many women will follow where...
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THE UXBRIDGE MURDER.
The SpectatorW E are not entirely satisfied that Mrs. Gibbons, the Uxbridge murderess, ought to be executed. Our readers will, we believe, exonerate us from any prejudice against the penalty...
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THE DECAY OF IRISH HUMOUR.
The SpectatorT HE above heading was suggested to us by a friend as the subject of a paper some months back, but it was not until much time had elapsed, and not a little reflection had been...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 Sin,—In the letter from Sir T. D. Acland, published in your paper of the 20th inst., I see that he refers to...
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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Being one who wishes
The Spectatorto see his way as far as possible through the subject of the Allotments Act, I wish to under- stand the way in which it is provided or contemplated that allotments are to be...
DISESTABLISHMEN T AND THE GENERAL ELECTION [To THE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTHE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—With you, "I trust that the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control" will discuss and reverse its decision, to make...
SHAME.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The remarks of Aristotle on this topic at the end of the Fourth Book of the Ethics are valuable, and very much agree with the...
:1'0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1
The SpectatorSta,—In these parts the demand for allotments near home is as brisk as ever, and the benefit resulting to the labourer there- from more and more generally acknowledged. When I...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcTATOrt."] SIR,—I have read
The Spectatorwith much interest your remarks ou the impolicy of the executive of the Liberation Society in forcing on Disestablishment as a test-question for candidates in the approaching...
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ONE-MEMBER WARDS A STRENGTH, NOT A WEAKNESS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SIR, — I am surprised at the opposition that has been presented to the proposed division made by the Government Seats Bill of large towns...
"THE FINANCIAL REFORM ALMANACS"
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — May I be again allowed to call your attention to the ridiculous and misleading compilation, " The Aristocracy and the Public...
DEMOCRACY OR GEOCRACY.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — The Spectator never lacks the courage of its opinions; but I do not know how far you have worked out the startling results of your...
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"HE HAS COME BACK."
The SpectatorWITHOUT, the wintry sky is overcast : The floods descend—fierce hail and rushing rain ; Whilst ever and anon the raving blast Clutches the casement pane. Within, our darling...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorWE rejoice at the appearance of this book ; but we rejoice with somewhat of a sigh. If Mr. Friedmann is held to have made good his case, a great deal of mischievous error which...
POETRY.
The SpectatorCRADLED in the arms of slumber Athens lay at dead of night ; I alone my vigils keeping, watched the lamp's unsteady light Burning in my silent chamber with a dim and fitful...
" HIBERNICISMS."
The SpectatorITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,— Reading your article on this subject in the Spectator of September 27th reminds me that the strongest " Hibernicism" I ever heard fell...
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MISS BRETIIERTON.*
The SpectatorIT would be a mistake to call this pleasant little book a novel. It is hardly even a novelette. It is rather a study of the extent to which ignorance may smother even true...
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KRIE G S SPIEL.* FUTURE historians will need to study
The Spectatorthe pages of Punch with some care. Not only will they thus obtain an insight into political and social evolution otherwise unattainable,—where else can the improvement in the...
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AIITCHELHURST PLACE.* EIGIIT years have passed since Miss Veley's For
The SpectatorPercival gave the world assurance of a novelist of no ordinary promise. We do not propose, on the present occasion, to weigh Mitchelhurst Place in the balance against its...
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TWO BOOKS ON AMERICA.* THESE two volumes are by writers
The Spectatorwho look at life from very different standpoints. Miss Faithful' is always in earnest, and Serjeant Ballantine is never altogether dull. Neither author deals exclusively with...
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STRA.TFORD-ON-AVON.*
The SpectatorTHE custom of publishing at this time of the year quantities of volumes popularly known as Christmas gift-books, presses as hardly upon the patience of the reviewer as it does...
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TWO NOVELS OF INTEREST.*
The SpectatorFOR humanity, with its instinctive horror of death, to regard being chained to earthly life as an especially fearful doom, seems inconsistent. Yet is not a strong argument in...
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Among the Stars. By Agnes Giberno. (Seeley and Co.)—This is
The Spectatora companion-volume to one of which we had occasion to speak with high praise some time ago "Sun, Moon, and Stars." But it is meant to be " much easier," and indeed in style and...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorGIFT-BOOBS, ANNUALS, ETC. Illustrated Poems. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is in every way one of the best gift-books of the year . Twenty-nine poems have...
Children of All Nations. (Cassell and Co.)—These chapters have, we
The Spectatorare very properly told in the preface, for the most part appeared in Little Folks. They certainly are worthy of collection and repub- lication, and indeed make up a very...
Warner's Chase. By Annie S. Swan. (Blackie and Son.)—The Warners
The Spectatorbegin by being a very unlucky, and end by being a very lucky family. Not only do they exchange poverty for riches, but what is far more difficult, they give up, in some...
The Walking Trees, and other Tales. By Rosa Mulholland. (M.
The SpectatorH. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—Miss Mulholland has a very graceful and ingenious fancy at her command. The first story in the book has, perhaps, a little too much description in...
Chats about Germany. By Maggie Browne. (Cassell and Co.)— This
The Spectatoris a pleasant little volume, which will serve excellently for such an acquaintance with the life of our German kinsfolk as can be got without personal acquaintance. It is amply...
The Sea-Fathers. By Clements R. Markham. (Cassell and Co.) —
The SpectatorMr. Clements Markham begins his " series of lives of great navigators of former times" with Prince Henry the Navigator, and ends it with a chapter on " Cook, Scoresby, and...
Lives Great and Simple. By Mrs. G. W. Tooley. (Kent
The Spectatorand Co.) —Mrs. Tooley tells here in the space of some 280 pages twenty lives- She should, we think, have named her authorities. Not one of the lives, we may safely conjecture,...
Sunny Spain ; its People and Places. By Olive Patch.
The Spectator(Cassell and Co.)—This is a pleasant, readable volume, telling us about Spain as it is, and as it was, and abundantly illustrated with landscapes, drawings of cathedrals,...
Reynard, the For : an Old Story Retold. By Madame
The SpectatorDe Sanctis. (W. Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)—We are not told anything about the retelling of this old story. Surely a short preface about so in- teresting a book would have been...
Family Feats ; or, the Old Home. By Mrs. Reginald
The SpectatorBray. (Griffith, Farren, Okeden, and Welsh.)—Mrs. Bray tells here a number of adven- tures, founded on fact, she assures us, in every instance, which came in the way of the...
London's Roll of Fame, 1757-1884. (Cassell and Co.)—This volume, published
The Spectatorunder the direction of the Library Committee of the Corporation, contains an account of the various presentations of the honorary freedom of the City to distinguished personages...
Our Hero. By Mrs. O'Reilly. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a
The Spectatorreadable book, though it strikes us that the point is a little strained by the multiplicity of details. The point is the superiority of a cer- tain Tom, who stays at home and...
Comic Sketches from English History, by Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Seccombe
The Spectator(W. H. Allen), are good in their way, being really quaint, as well as well-drawn, but it is a way of which we cannot honestly approve.
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predecessors, except, perhaps, in the fact that there is naturally
The Spectatora slightly-increased difficulty in finding sufficient celebrities. When it suits to caricature a man, he is caricatured ; when it suits to give him some such face and figure as...
Mabel in Rhymeland. By Edward Holland. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This
The Spectatoris a book of the "Alice in Worderland" kind. Mabel, the heroine, meets with the personages of various nursery-rhymes,—with the " Man in the Moon, who came down too soon, to ask...
A Christmas Garland : Carols and Poems. Edited by A.
The SpectatorH. Batten. (John C. Nimuto.)—Mr. Batten divides his "Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time" into three parts, " Christmas Chants and Carols," " Carmine...
Great Porter Square: a Mystery. By B. L. Farjeon. (Ward
The Spectatorand Downey.)—There are still stories to tell, Mr. Farjeon seems to think, and his readers will probably agree with him. That the tale of the murder in "Great Porter Square"...
ANNUALS, Erc.—A number of annuals, Christmas numbers, &c., re- qaire
The Spectatora notice which, under the present pressure of time and space, can be little more than an enumeration. The precedence may fairly be allowed to Peter Parley's Annual (Ben George),...
careful study than it has hitherto received. Those who read
The Spectatorit with the most care and comprehension have commonly but little sympathy with this side of the subject. We are, therefore, the more obliged to Mr. Masson for this excellent...
The Book-Buyer (Charles Scribner's Sons) will tell any one what
The Spectatoris being done for the young folk at this time on the other side of the Atlantic. •
A pretty little book of text, illustrated with borderings of
The Spectatorleaves and flowers, is The Beauty of the King, by " F. M. 11." (James Hawkins.)
of the contents will further high-thinking,' and be a help
The Spectatorto some in the varied and often rugged path of life." We believe that that hope will be fulfilled. There is a good deal of originality and taste dis-
Cotton-Spinning. By Richard Marsden. (Bell and Sons.)—After an introductory chapter,
The Spectatorin which we have a short record of cotton- spinning in the past, followed by a second which describes the principal varieties of the cotton-plant, as it is grown in various...
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Pharisees. By Mrs. J. Bennett-Edwards. 3 vols. (J. and R.
The SpectatorMax- well.)—The " Pharisees " against whom the author is so severe, are worshippers of social distinctions, who will not pardon " Star," the wife of a certain Guy, a county...