case.

Dr. O'Dwyer, was held in Limerick on Sunday, and addressed by Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien. The occasion was, of course, Bishop O'Dwyer's reply to Mr. Dillon's violent attack in...

The Wednesday instalment describes a visit paid by General Boulanger, while in command of a French army orps at Clermont Ferrand, to Prince Jerome, then living in exile at...

at Clonmel on Tuesday, where he was presented with the freedom of the borough. He assailed the unfortunate tenants who had been so anxious to throw off the tyranny of the League...

a temperate and very able letter to the Freeman's Journal, pointing out that he took ground against the "Plan of Campaign" and " Boycotting " long before the Papal Rescript...

I T would appear probable that the visit of the German Emperor to the Czar has not resulted in any fuller under- -standing between Germany and Russia. The Czar, it is asserted...

erected in the new cemetery at Evere, a small suburb of Brussels. The monument is a sarcophagus, nine metres in length and four metres in width, made of red Treves sandstone,...

at Leamington on Wednesday, gave a very interesting account of the three maces to which successive Houses of Com- mons have paid such deference. On the execution of Charles L,...

in Tuesday's Times, gives a curious picture of that dogged little Principality. Its area, including Eastern Roumelia, is about 38,000 square miles, of which only one- quarter is...

famine. The disease was serious in the poorer soils when the last report was given to the Land Commission on August 16th, and since then we have had a fortnight more of cold and...

notices a curious fact in regard to the Jews in Russia. At present there are no less than 125,000 Jews in the military forces of the Empire, 46,000 of whom were recruited last...

his authority in relation to the controversy between the Bishop of Limerick and Mr. Dillon. He does not want to say what Mr. Dillon and the National League would resent, and he...

performed its part in the late Naval Manoeuvres by disappearing into space. The gallant Admiral took advantage of his twenty-four hours' start, and steamed straight ahead into...

submarine vessel as perfect as that imagined by Jules Verne. The Standard correspondent at Rome telegraphed on Tuesday a long description of a new boat designed by a Signor...

been rendered still more acrid by a memorial to the late Prince Imperial at Chislehurst, in which Monsignor Goddard, a Roman Catholic priest, is called Rector of the parish. It...

to the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian has been published, in which he declares that "the principle of a spirited foreign policy is not a satisfactory Christian...

lawless conduct of the boys in the Board schools there, especially out of school. During last week, no less than eight boys were brought before the Borough Magistrates for petty...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 96- 1 6 5 to 96k..

A. B. Forwood, M.P., Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, gave the strongest assurances that in the proposed assistance to Education bywhich the Government hope next Session to...

on Tuesday, a man named "Irish Mike" was com- mitted to take his trial for stealing a watch and chain from Thomas Hill by means of that well-worn device. Hill, who is apparently...

THE COMING UNIONIST CAMPAIGN. T HE political lull is, we suppose, almost over, and the autumnal campaign will soon begin. It is time to consider how that campaign should be...

Mr. O'Brien in Limerick on Sunday, should be distributed by the hundred thousand amongst the English and Scotch con- stituencies. They simply make the case of the Unionists...

S OME three weeks ago, we drew attention to the rapidity with which the delimitation of Africa was being carried out ; but since then another great step in the work of...

Ericsson, the inventor of the screw-propeller, and the foremost naval engineer of the New World, to the 'United States war-ship 'Baltimore,' on its way back to his native...

than four FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE FRENCH safely assume that we have those, not of an individual, but WE have heard a good deal lately of the moderate and officers." serious,...

which takes place at Liverpool next week, will be a momentous event in the history of English labour organisations, for at its sittings will be discussed, and in all probability...

T HE _Record has republished, and the Guardian of last Wednesday has copied, those five letters of Mr. Newman's written to that journal in October and November, 1833, a few...

D OES the end always justify the means in the detection of crime, and are no limits to be placed upon the action of police officers in regard to the discovery of criminals,...

I T would appear from a letter addressed to the Times, that advertising agents and manufacturers, having exhausted every available foot of apace afforded by walls and hoardings,...

A UGUST is the month of matured summer and ripening L31.- fruits and grain. Looking abroad, we see how changed is the face of Nature. There is a drooping fullness, a touch of...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: GARDEN-PARTIES—THE ADVANTAGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE— THE MELANCHOLY RESULT. I FORGET who it was that said that life would be tolerable were it not for...

I SUPPOSE there never was a garden since Eden (unless, per- haps, in the early days of the Jesuit settlements in the Paraguay) in which the devil has not had a tree or a corner...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the early part of the present year, there appeared in your columns a communication from Mr. W. Grey, in which he states that he had...

DISTRESS IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTI.TOR.".1 see that Mr. Balfour has recently expressed his belief that the Local Government Board would be able to cope with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE, — It is next to impossible for any one who has not been to the Passions-Spiel to imagine it : and in like manner it seems to the present...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Have you space for one more cat-story P Many years ago I was living in a house where a hedgehog was kept for the destruction of...

IN LALEHAM CHURCHYARD. 'Twas at this season, year by year, The singer who lies songless here Was wont to woo a less austere, Less deep repose, Where Rotha to Winandermere...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-I am sorry to have to ask you to allow me to take up even a few lines of your space with so very small a matter as that referred to in...

TWO FRENCH NOVELS.* La Neuvaine de Colette is one of the most delightful stories we have read for a long time. It is curiously different from the ordinary Prench novel, being...

SUMMER is passing. From the banks no more Are showered the pendulous sprays of eglantine, The honeysuckle coils have ceased to twine, The fragrance of the meadowsweet is o'er;...

WE have travelled a long way since the days of the so-called "Oxford declaration," when so many prelates and dignitaries of the Church signed a declaration that the Bible "not...

Tars is one of the most remarkable volumes of literary criti- cism—in more senses than one it is the most striking—that have appeared for a number of years. Mr. Henley has been...

full of interest. Dr. Robertson Nicoll has outlined the personal career of the Professor of Hebrew for his pupils, and of the Presbyterian minister for his disciples, whether...

"HAMPSTEAD," says Mr. Baines, "has a history of a thousand years ; " but, happily for his readers, he does not undertake to carry them back to that period of "hoar antiquity,"...

in Germany, of all countries, the features of the rivers should bring this common nature curiously into evidence. And this produces a certain sameness in the descriptions of...

Thomas de Quinceg : his Life and Writings, with Unpublished Correspondence. By Alexander H. Japp, LL.D. ("H. A. Page "). (John Hogg.)—This biography, "thoroughly revised and re-...

Mr. Havelock Ellis gives us a rather muddle-headed account of that mixture of doubtful observation and still more doubtful theory which goes to make up the new science of...

Co., London and New York), is a beautifully got-up edition of a most pathetic tale, first published more than ten years ago. "Her Benny" belongs to a dear little sister with...

Reid, his Widow. (Ward and Downey.)—All that was beat worth recording in his career, and much else besides, Mayne Reid has related with the proper embellishments in one or other...

by John Fiske. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—This book, which purports to be a sketch of the diplomatic and military history of Continental Europe from the rise to the fall of the...

P. Watt.)—" The author," says Mr. Walter Besant, in the preface which he has prefixe I to this volume, "has attempted a thing hitherto untried. He has taken the sacred history...

thing about this volume is that the stories are not funny. We venture to say that an average reader will get through it with hardly more than one or two spontaneous laughs....

and Co.)—In these utterances of an experienced and skilful Colonial teacher, there is so much to interest fellow workers in the old country, that it is difficult to select one...

Tract Society.)—As the author says, there have been so many books written about India, that one almost feels another to be superfluous ; but he intends this, which summarises...

Herbert D. Ward. (Heinemann.)—" The Master of the Magicians," say the authors in their preface, " is not an archaxdogical treatise, but a novel." And a novel of no little power...