of the reform of the House of Lords cannot be raised at a time when a definite duty is required of the existing House of Lords. "You cannot swap horses when crossing a stream."...

has furnished his paper with accounts of the pitched battle fought on May 20th between the Nicaraguan Government and the inSurgents. The Government had thirteen hundred troops,...

case.

can quite well afford the expense of the Army Bill ; but the figures with which he sustains his argument are unsatisfactory. What is the use of saying that this and that nation...

T HE leaders of the German Centre Party have published their manifesto, which is bitterly hostile to the Military Bill. They repeat that all relics of the Culturkampf must be...

the huge meeting in Belfast, which he addressed on Wednes- day, was, perhaps, more impressive in its personnel and its enthusiasm than any yet held there, not even excluding...

Hall, in which he pointed out that, so far from the Union having been a failure for Ireland, it had enabled Ireland to tide over two great economic catastrophes such as have...

and he may be aware that he owes part of it to exaggeration and violence of speech. Labour leaders, we notice, use the same weapons, and they become influential. Still, we...

a defence of the Government as it is on the cards for a Cabinet Minister to make. He boasted fairly enough of the stability of the Parliamentary majority which they command in...

proceedings being opened by Mr. Burt as Chairman of the International Committee. The 339,500 English miners who belong to Unions, out of a total of 560,000, were represented by...

have persuaded to join the Irish Home-rule forces, followed Mr. Bryce in a speech full of all the conventional phrases about the wrongs of the past and the generous conciliation...

the creation of paper-money. There are nearly four millions of current accounts—not deposits in the technical sense— locked up by the Bank reconstructions, and of course, there-...

during the past week, has given occasion for the usual congratulations and complaints,—congratulations that the yearly turn-over of the societies is fifty millions, that they...

the raisers of iron-stone, are in a bad way. The Iron and Steel Institute held its annual meeting on Wednesday; and the address of the President, Mr. Windsor Richards, was one...

of Thursday, gives some curious facts as to the condition of Quebec, which prove how wise it is of Mr. T. W. Russell to insist that the Province offers an object-lesson in...

agriculture in America is almost 'equally depressed. In the Eastern States, the farmers complain that they are ruined by Western competition—in Maine, for instance, there are...

pressure put upon it by the French Governor-General at Hue. Mr. Verney, English Secretary to the Legation here, has allowed himself to be interviewed by Reuter, and evidently...

useless which the rich will buy at fancy prices. A few years ago it was odd china, Lord Dudley, for example, giving thousands of pounds for a china ship, which a housemaid might...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 981.

LORD SALISBURY IN ULSTER. T OED SALISBURY had to admit, in his first speech to 1 the people of Belfast, that the English people have not been as quick to catch the significance...

H AS the German Emperor a card up his sleeve ? If he has not, his meditations just now must be of rather a gloomy kind. His throne is in no danger, nor is his prerogative ; but...

W E often wonder why it is so difficult as it appears to be to make a perfectly candid• speech on either side of a great political controversy. Even Mr. Bryce, who can succeed...

W E do not know whether Lord Roberts will make a good debater, for he has as vet had no chance of displaying his ability in that way, but he certainly can make an effective...

I F any one desires to re-establish his faith in the English working man, he has only to watch him when he ("tomes into direct comparison with his Continental brethren. There...

Revolution of 1688 may be thank- ful that Canon Scott Holland was not in power under Queen Anne or George I. Had he been, the Pre- tender would undoubtedly have been restored....

W E cannot say that Professor Huxley made his ethical assumptions fully intelligible in the " Romanes lecture" which he delivered at Oxford last week. We fully understand, and,...

M R. GLADSTONE'S very kindly little speech at Hawarden on Monday, when opening the Hawarden Institute, will probably have a wider effect than he designed to give it. He wanted,...

T "proverb that "what is one man's poison may be another man's meat" could not be better illustrated than by a comparison of Mr. Simpson's interesting little book on "The Wild...

I F asked what egotism really is, the majority of people would promptly answer, vanity or selfishness. But we shall find, if we think, that more is required than these "short...

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND MR. CAMP BE LL-BANNERMA.N. [To THE EDITOR OF THE" SFROTATOR."1 SIR,—In one of your paragraphs on the "News of the Week," in the Spectator of May...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."1 SIR,—I am lost in astonishment to read the following state- ment in Sir C. Gavan Duffy's communication to you in the Spectator of May 20th...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SplicTATOR."1 Sxn,—My reply to the objections raised by the Rev. J. W. Diggle to the non.employment of Board teachers as the religious teachers in public...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I have read with interest and entire agreement your article on Mr. Horton's view of Modern Christianity. My object in writing this...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 44 SPECTATOR:] Sin s —Having just read " Vaeuus Viator's " paper on Lourdes in the Spectator of April 15th, which reached me by to.day's steamer, it has...

THE STOIC'S COUNSEL. [Written, we are told, by a young girl.] GO to—complaining Soul, Thou are not fit to be, If thou bewail what share of dole The Gods apportion thee....

[To THR EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—A pair of tomtits have built and hatched under an inverted flower-pot in my garden. The nest is on the ground, but in a sheltered and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATO11,1 Sru.,—Will you allow me to correct a statement in your notice of my edition of the above (Spectator, May 20th) ? The reviewer remarks that I...

[To THE EDITOE OP TICE "SrEcTiaolt."1 wish, if you please, to enter a protest against Baethoven's being viewed, as it appears to me he is viewed in Mr. Watson's sonnet, as if...

THE PRISON LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.* Ow October 16th in the present year, exactly a hundred years will have elapsed since the execution of Marie Antoinette. Nothing therefore...

going far amiss in the way of classification to describe the author of that admirable book, The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, as a Scottish Wordsworthian in the * The...

the point a view occupied by a writer who, whatever his deficiencies, cannot be accused of a sentimental refusal to look facts in the face. In fact, Mr. George Gissing is rather...

John Hill Burton, has written an elaborate history of a famous medical school, which is more likely to attract "Aberdonians," as she is fond of calling them, than the general...

THE chief subject of this volume is the change of the Rome of the °mars into the Rome of the Popes ; but there is much that does not strictly belong to this topic. In fact,...

the romance and the novel, are very fairly represented by the latest stories of Mr. Fergus Hume and Mrs. Forrester, in which both writers are seen at their best. Mr. Hume...

contents of Mr. Kingston's little book are well described by the title. He has collected a miscellaneous and varied series of odd events, social, sporting. and political, which,...

Coursing and Falconry. By Harding Cox and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles. The "Badminton Library." (Longmans and Co.)—It must always remain a pleasure to see a sport so old as...

By Deputy-Surgeon-General C. T. Parke. (W. H. Allen and Co.)— We are not quite certain as to the real aim of these reminiscences. They appear to us veiled in a slight haze, and...

Co.)— There is plenty of humour in this Australian story, but the characters are over-drawn, and much that otherwise would have amused us is too obviously forced. The...

subject she handles, be it an incident in social life, or a point in literature, Agnes Repplier treats it with the true literary touch and skill. Thoughtful and yet light,...

John Addington Symonds. (Elkin Matthews and John Lane.)—The essay which gives a name to this volume is a very ingenious piece of writing by an author whose premature death is a...

be said, brought an action for injury suffered by him through an accident on a tramcar belonging to the West Middlesex Company, also an imaginary entity. The brief for the...

foreign language, and that the conception which it denotes is a very interesting one. By way of illustrating this conception, he b as collected a number of extracts from...

the latter half of the sixteenth century. He begins with his birth in 1552 (circa), and ends with his death in 1509. This occurred in London, whither the poet had fled from...

Ward. (Dodd, Mead, and Co., New York.)—William White was the first Bishop in the English line of the Episcopal Church in America, and the great work of his life is said to have...

never, however, delivered, or intended to be delivered, orally, though, as Dr. Dale remarks, they are written as if this purpose had been in Mr. Rogers' mind. This is the eighth...

of the" Book-Lovers' Library "has contributed a lively little volume to the series, but one more amusing, per- haps, than instructive. Mr, Wheatley does not tell us how many of...

that it will now have a still wider circulation. Cowper has several distinguished rivals in the art of letter-writing, but for humour, for pathos, for spontaneity, and for the...

is not as good work as we expect to get from Mrs. Macquoid. Her heroine is a silly, selfish person, without anything about her to interest, except her beauty, and beauty on...