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INDEX.-1886.
The SpectatorTOPICS OF THE DAY. A BERDEEN'S, Lord. Appointment as Lord- _ti. Lieutenant of Ireland._ 2.81 Actors, the, Mr. Irving's Claims for 543 Aggressive Irreligion in France 507...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE doubt which, whatever its origin, certainly reigned in official circles about the destiny of Burmah, has been solved. It is officially announced that on New Year's Day Lord...
On Wednesday Sir Richard Webster, the Conservative Attorney-General, made a
The Spectatorspeech at Ryde, in which he spoke of any concession of an Irish Parliament as wholly out of the question as an item of Conservative policy. "Whatever might be the programme...
The Times might have waited for the Minute of Lord
The SpectatorDafferin, detailing his reasons for annexation. The Minute it publishes by Colonel Sladen, lately Resident in Mandelay, is very poor indeed. That officer has great local...
If we are to be explicit on the objections to
The SpectatorIrish demands, said Mr. Trevelyan, we ought to be no less explicit on the con- cessions which we are prepared to make. And he confessed that he was very much disposed indeed to...
Mr. Trevelyan made a very remarkable speech at Snitterfield, near
The SpectatorStratford-on-Avon, on Wednesday, in which he spoke out his own mind very frankly on the subject of Ireland. "17nless we intend to keep the care of law and order in all its...
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We deeply regret to notice that Mr. W. E. Forster,
The Spectatorwho has been seriously ill for months, has this week suffered a dangerous relapse. Even should he recover, as we must all still hope, there is now no prospect that he will take...
There is absolutely no news from the Balkan Peninsula, except
The Spectatorthat the neutral zone between Servia and Bulgaria has been quitted by both armies. The terms of peace are as little settled as before, and the belief that the Powers are wiling...
21: Brisson has insisted on tendering his resignation. He says
The Spectatorhe is defeated, and that, although by the vote of Thursday the Chamber by 273 to 267 granted the credits for Tonquin, no Government can venture to expend them. The victory waa...
The moment was absurdly chosen for a protest ; but
The Spectatorthese invalidations of Reactionary elections only, are extremely oppres- sive. One hardly sees why, if they are justifiable; the majority should not always condemn the minority...
M. Grevy was elected President of the French Republic for
The Spectatorthe second time on Monday, December 28th. His second term of office commences on January 31st, 1886, and con- tinues for seven more years. Should he resign or die in the...
Sir Charles Dilke made a speech at Rugby on Thursday,
The Spectatorfrom which it appears that he is still anxious to support the present Government if they will only bring in any measures that he approves, as he thinks they may,do, and will not...
The Duke of Argyll addressed a letter to Tuesday's Times
The Spectatorof great political force on the danger that the cry for a reform in Local Government may, through the intervention of the Irish question, be transformed into a cry for something...
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Sir Michael Hicks-Beach cannot be enjoying the prospect of his
The SpectatorBudget. The revenue from Customs, Excise, and Stamps continues to fall; and, unless a great improvement occurs in the last quarter of the financial year, will be more than a...
We are not out of the Soudan yet by any
The Spectatormeans. The followers of Khalif Abdullah have now massed themselves in front of the British frontier garrison in such numbers that General 'Stephenson has felt it necessary to...
Lord 'Cowper also writes a very interesting letter to Wed-
The Spectatornesday's Times on the subject, in which he asserts that Irish- men really care a great deal more about the Land Question than they care about political questions of any kind;...
The sermons which the Dean of St. Paul's has preached
The Spectatorin the Cathedral during December as a substitute for Canon Liddon, are sermons which all Churchmen should read with the utmost care before they throw themselves into the Church...
It seems that the Clerk of the Works at the
The SpectatorBritish Museum who dismissed the labourer, Brightwell, and dismissed him, as it was inferred, for the evidence he gave as to the poisoning of the pigeons, is not under the...
- Mr. Devitt replies to Lord Cowper's letter that the plain
The Spectatorissue put to Ireland by Mr. Parnell was this,âNational self-govern- ment or not ? and-contends that the Land Question was not even nominally before the people. That is...
There is one Member of the new Parliament, Sir George
The SpectatorHarrison, already dead, and Mr. Childers has been asked to stand for South Edinburgh in his place. We heartily hope that he will be returned by much the same majority as that...
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TOPICS oF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE ANNEXATION OF BURMAH. T HERE is something almost bewildering in the present position of the British Empire. Here at home we seem to be incapable of governing a little...
MR. TREVELYAN ON IRELAND.
The SpectatorM R. TREVELYAN has spoken out in his speech in Warwickshire with good effect. He has told us how far he thinks it safe to go in granting self-government to Ireland, and where we...
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MR. LABOUCHERE'S PLAN FOR IRELAND.
The SpectatorM R. LABOUCHERE'S scheme of Home-rule, described in his letter published in the Times of December 28th, is the worst we have yet seen. It is worth attentive study, because Mr....
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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AND LORD COWPER ON HOME,RULE.
The Spectatorrr HE Duke of Argyll and Lord Cowper have clearly shown, what too many of our hasty reformers appear to forget, that the dangers on the side of what is called Constitutional...
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THE RE-ELECTION OF K GREW.
The SpectatorT HE re-election of M. Grevy may not be of much advan- tage to the Republic, but it is, in one way at least, a good omen for the future of France. There must be a con- siderable...
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PRINCE BISMARCK'S LAST PROPOSAL.
The SpectatorP RINCE BISMARCK is not exempt from the universal want. He has not as much money as he would like to have. But the Prince has the rare merit of not wanting money for himself. It...
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"TIPS."
The SpectatorT ELE lady who writes to Tuesday's Times under the signature of "Fair Wages and No Tips" has evidently a very healthy conception of what moral independence ought to be, but...
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READING TO KILL TIME.
The SpectatorT4 ORD IDDESLEIGH has thought his speech to the undergraduates of Glasgow upon "Desultory Reading" worthy of reproduction as one of Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co.'s "Parchment...
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THE HOME ARTS ASSOCIATION.
The SpectatorW E almost envy the happy person who first steps into supply a real lack, and who lives to see that lack to some extent supplied. To Mrs. Jebb the "Home Arts-Association" owes...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorHOME-RULE, OR SEPARATION? [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTâ¢TOR.1 SIR,âObjectionable as you may consider the views expressed in this letter, I hope you will not refuse it a...
[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR." J SIR,âAs one
The Spectatorof the Liberal Party to whom your articles on "Home-rule" and on " Separation " seem to be addressed, I wish to thank you heartily for the courage with which you have faced the...
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conclusion, it is worthy of note how Mr. Lucy, like
The Spectatorthe House of Commons, varies from day to day in judgment and estimate of men and measures. It is curious to trace the rise and progress of the Fourth Party, the varying...
FARRAR'S "HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION."*. THE wonderful anthology of bizarre interpretations
The Spectatorof Scripture which Archdeacon Farrar has collected in his Bampton Lectures recalls the remark of Erasmus, that he understood the New Testament until he read the commentators....
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RELIGION IN STATE SCHOOLS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOE.' . ] SIR,âThank you for your protest against Dr. Dale's idea of injustice. Assuming Dr. Dale's premisses, he is strictly logical. Few...
THE SULTAN'S TREASURY.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,âYou ask, "Where is the proof that the Crusaders [of the fourth Crusade] stole objects of art ?" and "if so, what did they do with them...
accumulation, substitute everywhere the authority of the State, the Municipality,
The Spectatoror the future County Board for the exertions of the individual, regulate the distribution of out-door relief on a grand scale, and everywhere trust to compulsion rather than...
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON REFORM.
The SpectatorLTO THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTIT011.â] SIR,-It will be readily conceded that the movement for making the University of London something less of a Government 'Office and...
POETRY.
The SpectatorCHRISTMAS. CHRIST'S star is bright, and yet our hearts are holden With dim forebodings, ghosts of gathering fear ; It is not as in days of childhood olden, When Christmas...
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ART.
The SpectatorSIR JOHN MILLAIS. NOTICE.]* BEFORE we criticise any of the works in this collection in detail, which we hope to do with some minuteness at a later period, let us first express...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorITALY AND HER INVADERS.* AFTER a lapse of five years, Mr. Hodgkin here presents us with two more volumes of his great work on the invaders of Italy ; and they can hardly fail,...
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AN INFANT'S POEMS.*
The SpectatorMOSE poems in this little volume which were written, as we are told, by a child of less than eight years old, are unquestionably very marvellous specimens of poetical power in...
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MR. KEBBEL ON TORYISM.* Tins is a clever, subtle, and
The Spectatoringenious apology for Tory Prime Ministers ; but it is hardly a history of Toryism. The first charaCteristic of history, as its name is commonly understood, is that of a...
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BA.RTO LOZ Z L* THE book before us is an
The Spectatorelaborate second edition of the large illustrated first edition of the same name. But it is more than this, for Mr. Tuer has taken the opportunity of a fresh start to omit much...
MRS. HOLLYE R.*
The SpectatorTins is a story constructed on the old foundation of a "tryst." In the good old days whose chroniclers, untrammelled by the restraints of a pedantic accuracy, define them with...
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PEASANT-PROPRIETORS.*
The SpectatorAMONG the things, new and old, of which Lady Verney dis- courses in the essays she has contributed to Fraser and the Contemporary Review, and has now collected into two volumes,...
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Trottings of a Tender-Foot. By Clive Phillips- Wolley. (R. Bentley
The Spectatorand Son.)â" I never pretended to be anything but a sportsman," says the " Tender-foot " (a term which means a " newcomer ") in his Preface, when he would excuse himself for...
In Cornwall and Across the Sea. By Douglas B. W.
The SpectatorSladen. (Griffith, Ferran, Okeden, and Welsh.)âMr. Sladen has not been kind to .his poems in the choice of the garment with which he has clothed them. In the covers of books,...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorVoices Crying in, the Wilderness. (Macmillan.)âThe idea of this tale is not a new one. Arthur Vane, brought up by a father whom it would be flattery to call eccentric on an...
In a London Suburb. By W. Hartley. (F. V. White
The Spectatorand Co.)â An amusing novel, which, seeing how dull now-a-days most novels are, is high praise. But In a London Suburb is mere than' amusing. In many mopeds decidedly original,...
Three books on various branches of gardening may be mentioned
The Spectatortogether :âFamiliar Garden Flowers. Figured by F. Edward Hulme and described by Shirley Hibberd. (Cassell and Co.) âThis is a good- looking volume, with forty beautifully...
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NOVELS.âThrough Love and War. In 3 vols. By Violet Fuse.
The Spectator(Hurst and Blackett.) âWe have no great liking for the class of fiction which the author who styles herself "Violet Face" is in the habit of writing, or for the class of...
The Broken Shaft. Fisher Unwin's Annual for 1886. (T. Fisher
The SpectatorUnwin.)âWith the exception of "Riley, M.P.," which is, we suppose, meant for fun, and which appears to us unmitigated rubbish, this Annual is a collection of very clever...
The Little Old Portrait. By Mrs. Muleswortle (S.P.C.K.)âMrs. Molesworth has
The Spectatorthe happy faculty of writing well for children. It is a gift quite apart from that of writing well of children, as, for instance Miss Montgomery can do. The two gifts are,...
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Last Saturday, the battle turned decisively against the Govern- ment,
The Spectatorwho have been losing steadily ever since. On that day a net balance of 7 seats was gained by the Unionists over the number gained by the Gladstonians, the Unionist gains...
The Elections have gone decisively against Mr. Gladstone. On Thursday
The Spectatorweek, as we reported in our last issue, the first borough election, in Colchester, showed an increased Conservative majority for the Conservative candidate. On Friday week, the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE struggle is not finished ; but five hundred Members have been elected, and it is clear that the Unionists have triumphed. Broadly speaking, Mr. Gladstone's policy has been...
In spite, however, of this great catastrophe in Edinburgh, which
The Spectatorwas not known here till Tuesday afternoon, it appeared on Wednesday morning that the net gain of the Unionists had risen from 15 to 21, including two gains in Glasgow, and one...
In Scotland, Mr. Gladstone had yesterday gained ground, as he
The Spectatorhas won 8 seats from the Unionists, to 3 which they have won from him, giving him a net gain of 5. In Wales, too, be had won 2 seats, and lost only 1, or has a gain of 1. But in...
Perhaps the most striking incident of an Election which, in
The SpectatorEngland, has run steadily against Mr. Gladstone's policy, is the magic influence exerted by the Prime Minister in the capital of Scotland, where Mr. Goschen, who was elected by...
No. 3,028.]
The SpectatorFOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1886. [ EllOISTERED AS ⢠Pates 8d. NEWSPAPER. (Br PORT, 8}d.
Tux WEEK 897 TOPICS OF THE DAYâ
The SpectatorThe Elections 900 The First Step 901 Mr. Goschen 902 The Conservatism of London 902 Batoum 903 English Commerce and English Education 904 The Indo-Colonis1 Exhibition 905 The...
Next to the Edinburgh elections, the most startling incident has
The Spectatorbeen, perhaps, Mr. Sexton's election for West Belfast by a majority of 103 over Mr. J. H. Haslett, the Conservative, the poll showing for Mr. Sexton 3,832, and for Mr. Haslett...