has already been occupied by the advance guard, and a force of five thousand men is on its way to that point, which is eighty miles from Wady Haifa. There or at Sarras it will...

He refused to "scuttle" from Egypt, and, refusing, held it to be our duty to complete our noble work by relieving Egypt of all danger to the southward by breaking up the...

• T HE great debate on Egypt came off, as promised, on Friday week, in the form of a motion to reduce the salary_of the Foreign Secretary by 2100, which was defeated by 143...

of the Egyptian Reserve Fund for the advance to Dongola, but England, Germany, Austria, and Italy have sanctioned that employment of the money. The reason assigned by the...

at the Hotel Metropole on Wednesday, Sir F. W. Grenfell (late Sirdar of the Egyptian Army), dealt with the question of the Soudan. While he commanded he declared that the...

case.

the defeated Matabele, taking advantage of the withdrawal of the armed police through Dr. Jameson's foolish raid, have risen in two districts, have murdered the whites,...

Bill was moved by Mr. Walter Long, the President of the Board of Agriculture, and gave rise to an interesting discussion. It really is a Bill to prevent the introduction of live...

of the Canada Club on Wednesday, not as representing the Government, but on his own responsibility only, to suggest a possible Zollverein or Commercial Union between this...

numbers. There are said to have been. upwards of a thousand delegates, but it was evident that the Conference was not at all in love with the manage- ment of the Executive in...

Colonies take Mr. Chamberlain's proposal. We should, of course, be delighted if it satisfies the Colonies, but we fear that to grant, even in the rough, and with special...

bably not a hundred Members in the Chamber who approve his Bill for a progressive Income-tax ; but on Thursday, after five days of furious debating, in which insults were...

Wednesday. Baron Blanc, Foreign Minister in the Crispi Cabinet, declared that he had made an "alliance" with Great Britain, an "alliance without protocols," which made Italy...

-or "Tom Brown" as he was so often called after his own hero, will probably have caused a more diffused and general feeling of personal grief than would have been caused by any...

Buxton, discussed the appointment of a Committee to de; 1 with the administration of the Fair-Wages Resolution passed in 1891. It was alleged by Mr. Buxton that in spite of the...

the London water-supply on the second reading of the Chelsea Water (Transfer) Bill,—one of the Transfer Bills of the County Council, which embody the principle of purchase by...

of the Duo de Chartres, Prince Henry of Orleans, has recently attracted much attention among Monarchists as the ablest, or at least the most attractive, among the Bourbon...

ninety one of the most singular figures in the nineteenth century,— in it but not of it,—has vanished from amongst us. The most impracticable of Conservatives, he gained a...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 1091.

have described Sir John Colomb, M.P. (late Royal Marine Attillery), as Admiral Colomb, thus confounding him with his brother, Admiral Philip Colomb-]

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AS FOREIGN MINISTER. great debate on Friday week on our new policy in Egypt was not unworthy of the occasion. Mr. Morley, who led the attack, was a good deal...

T HE Radicals are in a chaotic state, as the Huddersfield Conference on Wednesday proves to demonstration. If they had gone for "Home-rule all round," as many of them wished to...

W HAT is the greatest boon that English rule could confer on the people of Egypt ? Abolish the con- scription. That is an answer which can be given without a moment's hesitation...

the Italians before Adowa may have a grave interest for historians, for a reason which is too generally overlooked. The battle is a bit of weighty evidence as to a coming change...

of Animals Bill did not contribute much to our knowledge of the controversy. It consisted to a great extent of confident assertions that it would, or would not, be protective....

book, "Democracy and Liberty," which we hope speedily to review at some length—we prefer to read books before reviewing them, an old-fashioned practice which the daily papers...

I N the profoundly interesting paper on " Tne Future Life and the Condition of Man Therein" which Mr. Glad- stone has contributed to the March number of the North America n...

A LTHOUGH Mr. Hughes—" Tom Hughes" as he was called wherever the English language is spoken—had passed the allotted span of human life, the news of his death will come with a...

T HE Highways Committee of the County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire urge the District Councils to effect a petty economy by letting the herbage of the grass- margin of...

A T this time of the year the interest for the naturalist and botanist ceases, in a certain degree, for awhile. Birds have hardly begun their nests, the summer migrants have not...

[TO TEL EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In the Spectator of March 21st, Mr. Bear (who has since been in communication with me) seems to throw some doubt on my statement...

"CATHOLIC INTOLERANCE IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND." [To TIIR EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article which appeared in the Spectator of March 14th, dealing with the...

jr o /Is raollUti. or TEL "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I do not know if you extend the hospitality of your columns to stories of serpents. Readers of Mr. Rudyard Kipling may remember a...

may be of interest. I was in the habit a few years ago of visiting a certain cottage in this parish, where the front-door, having fallen a little out of the perpendicular, swung...

cat-story may interest lovers of the delightful feline race. My blue Persian is a gentle, sentimental creature, slightly inclined to melancholy, and strangely, even...

pro THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPICTATJR.,"1 SIR,—I have long taken great interest in cats. I believe that they, in common with moat other animals, can talk to each other; at any rate,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH " Stem:ma:1 SIR,—At the close of your review (in the Spectator of January 11th) of my paper on " The Ethical Life and Conceptions of the Japanese" you...

Is Canada loyal? Who dares to ask ? Are your Colonist's veins Ducts for some colourless fluid, or red with the blood that stains The bosom of all the earth from Plassey to...

THE EARLY STRUGGLES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.* BY the publication of this volume Mr. Gardiner enters on the final act of his great work on the Puritan Revo- lution. The portion of...

As the daylight deepens, the sun goes down ! Though faint and bleeding, too few to win, We may help others to wear the crown. Ab, fatal shot ! Did ye mark that fall ? 'Twas...

[TO THZ EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—When the guest of the Rev. Edward H. Ingle, in Roanoke, Virginia, I was asked by Mr. Ingle to make the experiment whether I could...

[To THE EDITOR CP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—An Irish curate, preaching some years ago in a suburban church on the subject of the Prodigal Son, wishing to impress upon the...

ambitions and rather affected writer, as the title of his book itself indicates. He appears to take the word " documents " in its literal sense as "teach- lags," and teachings...

THE old coaching.days, as far as convenience for travel was concerned, were the dawn of the great days of our present rapid means of communication. The seventy years or so in...

to Eothen to find so delightful a book of Eastern travel as A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. Without being the least imitative in style or intention, and conceived from a...

Ma. NORWAY has written a very amusing book on the diffi- culties of the Post Office during the wars which raged between the French Revolution and the close of the war with...

• Studies in Dip:omecv. From the French of Count Benedetti. London : Heonema• n. THE essays which Count Benedetti has collected into this volume have already made their...

(Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—Mr. Dixon reminds us of M. Jules Verne, and, perhaps more directly, of Edgar Allan Poe. Foe's "Voyage to the Moon" is an admirable piece of fooling,...

The Saga Book of Lunde. By Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Nisbet and Co.)—We venture to think that the prologue is too long. The plan of the book is to give sundry stories of the...

with sorrow that Mr. Gunter has fallen considerably in our estimation ; there is little in this rather amusing and very vulgar romance to remind the reader of the author of "Mr....

Thin, Edinburgh.)—Apart from the intrinsic interest of the extracts here put together, the volume is a very instructive lesson in style. The earliest in date come from the essay...

lishing Co.)—Mr. Blake was "the man who saved England" in the war of 189—. Franee and Russia combine their forces and attack us. Mr. Jane has, it would seem, made himself...

three years ago Dr. Grenfell went out at the sending of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, to Labrador, to make a beginning of the mission work there, a work both medical and...

a story of American life ; Dr. Gilbert is a country doctor, very much wrapped up in the scientific study of his profession ; his daughters are twins, " May " and " Fay " (short...

a volume of "The Unknown Authors' Series." The idea does not seem a happy one. On the whole, known authors, as far as our pretty large experience has gone, are better than...

—Of course it was necessary for Mr. Henty to is ing his two heroes —he puts the office of hero into commission, so to speak—into Russia, and to arrange for their meeting. But...

often that a man gets so much good out of going to a money-lender as Leonard Hammond gets in the end, though not till after long trial, out of his acquaintance with Michael...

This" story of the last Moslem invasion of Europe" is done with plenty of spirit. The "Wizard King" is John Sobieski. He plays his part with much energy in Mr. Ker's pages So do...

to 1894. Arranged and edited by Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot. 2 vols. (Longmans and Co.)—The 'Sunbeam' has become a house- hold word in all English speaking countries, owing to the...

F.E.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—Notwithstanding the num- ber of popular books on British Lepidoptera, a compact handbook to the order was a great desideratum, as nothing of the kind...

Bisset, Aberdeen.)—The only fault to be found with this solid work, which has obviously been a labour of love, is that it is too long, and contains a great deal of matter which,...

A. Hort, D.D. (Cambridge University Press.) —These essays have, in a high degree, the characteristics of ample knowledge and close cogent reasoning which we are accustomed to...

the Earl of Cavan, K.P. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—In November, 1894, the Earl of Cavan, accompanied by his daughter, and three other young ladies, left London for a few...

Vols. I. and II. (Macmillan and Co.) —Mr. Rutherford is the most original of British Greek scholars. He holds views about classical texts which it is not too much to call...

Stock.) —Mr. Nowell carries his history down to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The most interesting parts of his book are possibly those which concern Gildas and Giraldus...

this volume we have seven sketches of Australian life, all of them powerful, and all of them painted in those gloomy colours which the literary artists of the day so strangely...

Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)—Joan Prinsep inherits a fortune from her uncle, with a charge from the dying man to use it better than he has done. She finds that a large part of it...

Elder.)—Theodora is one of those admirable people, often, it is ead to say, as mischievous as they are admirable, who have a passion for setting everybody and everything right....

Ration's subject is the human figure. He divides it, after preliminary observations, as "Aim and Method" and "The Figure as a Whole," into "The Head and Neck," "The Trunk," "The...

the translation by B. Jowett, MA. Edited, with introductions, by M. J. Knight. 2 vols. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Knight undertook this task of selection at the request of the late...

Co.)— Mr. Quiller-Conch has been assisted in his task of telling The Story of the Sea by various writers who are favourably known to the public by their valuable contributions...

and Co.)—The characters with which Mr. Hooking constitutes his drama are of the most conventional kind. The cynic, the selfish aristocrat, the woman of the world, the devotee of...

Hall.)—Mr. Crawfurd has enlisted the services of a number of clever writers, and employed them on what we cannot but think a somewhat thankless task. He seems to have had a...