James makes some important statements as to the debate on the Cotton-duties. In the first place, he denies most positively that the Unionist leaders were the promoters of the...

ease.

been appointed in his stead, as Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa. It is said that the appointment has been made to please Mr. Rhodes. Possibly ;...

T HE triennial election of the London County Council takes place to-day, and the general opinion is that there will be a considerable change in favour of the Moderates. A great...

always said democracy would reach, viz., Cabinet Government. On Thursday Sir W. Harcourt asked for the whole time of the House, Wednes- day and Friday evenings excepted, till...

influenza, which strikes establishments with unexplained capriciousness. The Palace at Westminster suffers heavily ; some sixty or seventy Peers and Commoners being "down" with...

last, was one of the few Liberal Peers who steadily adhered to Home-rule for Ireland after Mr. Gladstone had announced the great conversion of the Liberal party to that...

we described last week, he has drawn on himself needless humiliation. He has not had a week's enjoyment of his temper. On Friday he was compelled, probably by very strong...

a division on Thursday after a short debate in which Sir R. Webster expressed his indignation that no attempt had been made to answer Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's powerful speech,...

representative of the farming interest, moved a resolution expressing alarm at the increasing divergence between gold and silver, and urging the Government to enter an inter-...

Establishment of the Church in Wales and Monmouth- shire, and for disposing of all those endowments which remained after securing the vested interests. He made a very short...

total defeat. A correspondent of the Central News has been admitted to the Great Council, and has there interviewed - Prince Kung. That statesman denounced the war as unjust,...

which the disestablished Church would be exposed under Mr. Asquith's Bill as compared even with the treatment accorded to the disestablished Church of Ireland by Mr. Gladstone's...

Bill for restricting the use of pistols. After a dis- cuasion, during which the Government announced that they adopted the principle of the measure, the second reading was...

some visitors from Leipsic. He had never, he said, been a happy man, the struggle of his early life having been -too incessant, and the cares which accompanied his success, too...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 105.

once great family of Russell, which hardly adds to the distinction of that great name. Lord Ampth ill began it by a violent attack on Mr. George Russell as a traitor to the...

and this time a very large and beautiful one in the centre of a crowded district. On Saturday Sir John Hutton formally opened the great garden in the centre of Lincoln's Inn...

proposed against the Socialists by a trick of marvellous adroitness. The form of the Bill is a measure to punish all who, in speech or writing, "incite" any persons to attack...

some of the newly rich has this week interested London. A young man named Tasker recently inherited a very large fortune in personalty—t700,000 is the sum reported —and...

THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION. O N the whole, after careful reflection, we are inclined to advise our London readers to support the Moderate candidates for the London County...

I T is with no small measure of regret that we note the announcement that the new Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa is to be Sir Hercules Robinson....

W HETHER " ploughing the sands of the sea- shore " be an exercise in righteousness or not, it is cer- tainly not an exhilarating process. Mr. Asquith was wise in making his...

I T is such a pity—we select that expression advisedly —that our position in Egypt is so embarrassed, ill- defined, and liable to misconstruction. The position may be...

TN some ways political England is the least super- stitious, and in others the most superstitious, amongst the different countries of Europe. We have on one occasion beheaded a...

the debate of Tuesday on Mr. Everett's motion that the Govern- ment should favour another international conference about silver consists mainly in two facts,—one, that the Chan-...

D IFFERENT as are the aims and methods of the various Churches in regard to their missionary labours, there is one feature which is common to all of them. It may be described in...

in Germany, France, England, and America, is of itself evidence that there is a large reading public which is not carried away by what is called the " movement " of the close of...

M R. LESLIE STEPHEN'S lecture at Toynbee Hall last Saturday was much more successful in giving his own personal reminiscences of books, than in explaining why the old do not...

I T has been noted that the etiquette of high life is by no means the only form of its observance among men. 'There is such a thing as professional etiquette,—the etiquette of...

rro THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOH."J SIE,—The question of the vegetable forms (in the Spectator- of February 16th) assumed by crystallised water is a very in- teresting one....

A FAREWELL. [E. B. PIGOTT, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1895.j FRIEND, farewell, the word is time and sweet, Although I say it not with any thought Of parting long or severance complete....

"THE BURNING OF FRENDRAUGHT." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—It seems a pity that "The Burning of Frendraught" should, in your review of Mr. Johnson's ballads...

RECENT EXHIBITIONS. UR. WALTER SICKERT is one of the few painters among those whom the critic has recently been invited to consider, who can be called a student of painting....

MR. BALFOUR'S "FOUNDATIONS OF BELIEF."* [FIRST NOTICE.] IN the best line of poetry which Mr. Lewis Morris ever wrote, he described Socrates as making it his great work in life...

MR. Seta begins his preface by telling his readers that he has purposely chosen the style of "Life and Adventures "for his book, to give it something of an air of novelty in...

IN The Great Alternative, Mr. Spenser Wilkinson, whose name has come to be so well and so honourably known for his able and patriotic efforts to draw attention to the want of...

THE Scotch peasantry have never lacked those among their own countrymen who could describe and appreciate them, and what is more, make their Southron brethren appreciate them...

great variety of subjects, and may include everything relating to the habits, manners and customs, traditions, songs, and tales of a people, in so far as it is of spontaneous...

IN this account of West Africa, Mr. Lucas has added another volume to his useful and interesting Historical Geo- graphy of the British Colonies, and it is the saddest chapter in...

(W. H. Allen and Co.) —Sir William Hunter has printed here a catalogue of more than fourteen thousand letters addressed to the Board of Revenue at Calcutta, or issued there-...

Vera Barantzova. From the Russian of Sophia KovaIevsky. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. William Westall and " Sergius Stepniak " supply an introduction to this short story of love,...

Co.)— Sir Richard Yates, Special Correspondent of the Argus of New York, and Stinson Renmark, Professor in the University of Toronto, take a holiday in Canada. They have the...

be found well worth study by those who are interested in the subjects which they discuss. These are :—The Chess Pocket Manual, by G. H. D. Gossip (Edward Arnold) ; and The...

(Remington.)—We must not complain if some thirty pages are given to impressions of the voyage to Cyprus, and more to im- pressions of books about Cyprus ; what remains is...

—This is a cheap edition of a book published about ten years ago. It would not be desirable to speak of its contents in detail, but we may say generally that, as far as...

Poems in Prose "—it is thus that Mr. Garnett describes his work—may be easy writing, but they are hard reading. Criticism, history, descriptions of nature, may be written in a...

Robinson, R.N., and John Leyland. (Seeley and Co.)—This is a most ex- cellent example of that type of historical novel which has recently become the fashion, and which appears...

a very compact volume in which M. Lanson has contrived to give a vast amount of information. Its pages, taking the text proper only, number 1,088, and there are 70 more,...

1888 - 1893. (For the Trustees.)—This volume has six divisions,—" Additional Manuscripts," "Additional Charters and Rolls," "Detached Seals and Rolls," "Papyri," "Egerton MSS.,"...

our readers, topographical, commercial, and other in- formation, not only about the Australian Colonies, but also about New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea. It is furnished with...

(Cassell.)— Here we are told about the Law Courts, about the difference between Law and Equity, about Local Government, Rates, &c., about the protection of certain classes,...

vols. (Blackwood and Sons.) —We cannot pretend to give more than a very brief account of these volumes. They contain the Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh in the year...

lary of Philosophy and Students' Book of Reference, by Henry Calderwood, L L.D. (Griffin and Co.) Many philosophical terms are commonly used without that precise understanding...

and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), deals in two stout volumes, containing together some 1,200 pages, with the "Gospel According to St. Matthew." The...

1Valford's County Families of the United Kingdom (Chatto and Windus). This elaborate work, the result of a vast amount of labour, has been carefully brought up to date, so far...

Ched. (Cassell and Co.)—This promises to be a very complete and useful work, "a complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom." Of course it admits of improvement....