C RETE is to be partially freed. Lord Salisbury on Thurs- day described in the Lords, and Mr. Balfour repeated in the Commons, the compromise upon which the Concert of Europe...

THE POWERS AND CRETE. T HERE is nothing for it, we suppose, but to accept the compromise on which the Powers have agreed, unsatisfactory, or even irritating, as it must be...

M R. MORLEY did not quite like Mr. Augustine Birrell's dubbing him " the select preacher" for the Eighty and Russell Clubs this day week, though it was at Oxford that he was...

r ERE are defects in our constitutional system pro- ducing great practical evils, which it seems positively silly not to correct, yet which are never corrected. One of them is...

T "progress of the great Mission which the British Government is sending to the Emperor Menelek, with, we hope, a sufficiency of striking presents ordered by telegraph from...

W E notice with the greatest possible interest and satisfaction the proposal to restore the name of the Royal Canadian Regiment, and to place its depot at Toronto. A petition...

S UPERFICIAL observers of what happens in the Stock markets are always amazed by the apparently irrele- vant consistency with which a war scare affects all classes of...

Hay as the United States Ambassador to England will be a very welcome one to English society. Whether that will make the appointment equally popular amongst our cousins over the...

I N the Guardian of Wednesday week (February 17th) is published a most interesting lecture of Canon Gore's, delivered at Sheffield, on "The Theory of Evolution and the created...

T HE remarkable case of legal torture in France to which M. de Blowitz calls attention in the Times of Monday, reminds us all rather unpleasantly how imperfect the civilisa-...

T HE Londoner's comment on the "English elephants" shown this week at the Agricultural Hall is that they are "all alike." So they are in general form and appearance; and as,...

HAS ARBITRATION FAILED ? [TO THE EDTTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'.] S In, Judi alteram partem is a maxim you always recog- nise. So, with every confidence in your indulgence, I pray...

TROOPER PETER HALKET.* OLIVE SCHREINER has just missed writing a very short tale which might have produced something like the effect of Mrs. Stowe's great and memorable study...

[To TEN EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] S IR, —When Sir William Harcourt, in the House of Commons, -quoted the well-known official description of the battle of Navarino as an...

and your moat interesting article may yet throw light on the case. You state that the murder appears to be the result of sud- denly aroused or gratified hatred, but suggest that...

FLY, 0 our Flag, across the foam, White angel 'twist blue depth and height; From heart to heart, from home to home, From Greece to where her children fight. Tell thou our...

February 20th on " The True Cause of the Failure of Arbitra- tion," that human nature is "agin it," is the following : — A Peace Convention was being held in one city, and the...

relating to the religious house of St. Mary Overy (St. -Saviour's), Southwark, to form our capitular record chest. The -violent form of dissolution which fell on the house under...

task of recording Sir George Tryon's life and services has fallen into such capable hands as those of his brother-officer, Admiral Fitzgerald ; it is obvious that none but a...

English Schools at the Reformation is one of those books that, as soon as they are written, are at once regarded by the student as indispensable, and with regard to which his...

THE task Dr. Mather has set himself, concluded in this third volume, naturally becomes more difficult as more recent times are embraced, down to the very latest modes in...

a final edition of that prose, critical in intent, creative in form, which has obtained him a place apart in the literature of his century. • (1.) Divagations. Par 8t6phana...

SINCE the appearance of Pretty Miss Neville some fifteen years ago we have always turned to Mrs. Croker's books in the confident expectation of finding good entertainment...

vols. (Clarendon Press.)—Here we have the critical edition of Bede which the present Bishop of Oxford, writing in the " Dictionary of Christian Biography " (1877), regretfully...

and Co.)—Rupert van Halm, "the tit - ambler," and Leon, the Spanish Jew, are both capital studies of a weak and a strong man respec- tively; and the two heroines, Myrtle van...

Orgeas and Miradou. By Frederick Wedmore. (James Bowden.) —Mr. Wedmore is one of the few English writers of to-day of whom it may be said without exaggeration that he could not...

Perhaps the assumption of the rank of a Baronet on a card would be the least likely to be detected of such forgeries, but the author should have known better than to trespass on...

fortunes of the hero are woven with those of Mary Queen of Scots, and no more interesting subject could be chosen for a historical romance. We are compelled, however, to say...

Co.)—It is rather a pitiful picture which M. Rene Bazin draws of the Italian peasant, and a very hopeless one of Italian finance and prosperity generally. We have just been...

of the World, edited by J. G. Bartholomew (John Walker and Co.), contains, we are informed, as many as eighty new maps, while the accom- panying text has been enlarged and...

and Son.)—We have no fault to find with the criticisms that Mr. Lobban passes in his introduction on English essayists. We should not, perhaps, rank Goldsmith, in this capacity,...

White and Co.) —The period covered by this story is 1666-85, and the scene is France. It is concerned, therefore, with the religious strife of that time. The hero is a refugee,...

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and Co.)—Dr. Macgregor relates his travels in Siam with a chatty effervescence that is quite innocent of style or seriousness. If the reader . is thus saved the possibility of...

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