S IR WILLIAM LOCKHART led the great force under his command against the Afridis in the Sampagha Pass on Friday, carrying the Pass, according to a hasty and imperfect...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November Gth, will be issued, Irak:, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE DISPUTE WITH FRANCE. "TT would be an everlasting disgrace if France and England should go to war for some African rivulet." So said Lord Dufferin during one of our periodic...

O UR countrymen are wrong in thinking that war between Spain and America will not concern them, that, in fact, they can sit in their usual style looking on as at a most...

S IR CHARLES DILKE occupies, and must continue to occupy as long as his public career lasts, the position of a political outsider,—a man who stands at the edge of the fight and...

F Ewpolitical events of recent times have attracted more eager attention than the municipal contest now being waged in New York, the issue of which will be decided on Tuesday...

W E do not believe that the Austrian Empire is in any danger of splitting up. Its organisation is cumbrous with its two kingdoms and sixteen " Diets," its races are many-tongued...

I T is impossible while reading the reams of reports and articles now poured out upon the engineers' civil war not to ask oneself whether the new generation of capitalists will...

"T HE manifesto of the " Church Reform League," pub- lished in the Times of Monday, is not an entirely satisfactory document. It needs amplification very mach. With the main...

T HE death of Mr. Francis Palgrave will be a subject for regret to thousands of men and women throughout the English-speaking world, for every one who cares for English poetry...

D OES the machinery of civilisation do more upon the whole to secure our safety or to endanger it P It is a question of no less than life and death import for some of us, and it...

T HE number of milch-goats exhibited at the Dairy Show last week was larger by one-half than has been entered in former years. Many of the animals were highly bred and very...

SOME DIFFICULTIES OF ANTI-SLAVERY. [TO THE EDITOR OP THZ " EIPEOZAT013:] Stn,—At frequently recurring periods correspondence appears in the Press on the subject of the slave...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I SIR, —I have read the passage quoted from "The Two Arnolds " in your review of Sir J. Fitch's book, and I shoali like to add that the...

DR. VAUGHAN AND HARROW. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "Brzorwros."] Sra,—After the sad event which occurred last week, I hope you can find space for one or two random reflections of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your article on " Cycling Accidents" in the Spectator of October 2nd is indeed excellent and very timely. Cyclists generally will agree...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR "] SIR,—Mr. W. W. Ward should distinguish between the printed and the sounded or sibilant "s." When Tennyson said that he never put two " a's "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In the Spectator of October 9th your reviewer quotes with approval the following passage from the Rev. J. Carter's- " Shakespeare :...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—Yon will, I am sure, be glad to correct an unintentional misrepresentation of Mr. Blight in the article upon this subject in the...

[To THZ EDTTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on " Wild Fruits of Autumn" in the Spectator of October 9th an allusion is made to the American blackberry, and the...

[To TEl EDITOR OF THZ " SPRCT•TOR:1 Sia,—Have you space for the following story, with its interesting sidelight on canine ethics ? Huffy,' an old Persian cat, and Frisk,' a...

A " PARSON'S PLEASURE " - GROUND. I RAVE a garden filled with sound Of thrushes ; paths that circle round; And one straight walk more sweetly set With lavender and mignonette,...

130 THE EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article on this subject in the Spectator of October 23rd bears more or less on a subject of great interest to me, and, I think, many...

THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE LAFAYETTES.* A COMBINATION of biography and history, when well managed, has always a peculiar charm. The best way to get new lights on any period is to put...

WRITTEN ON FIRST SMOKING AN ANCIENT PI PE DUG UP IN OXFORD. Two hundred years since any lips of man Set round this hollow stem have drawn delight, Since breathed in azure mist...

by the average English reader than one which should give a clear and comprehensive survey of French literature, tracing the stages in its development and expansion, and showing...

IT is not too much to say that Dr. Hort has not left behind him a more important er—to the layman—a more interesting work than this. Had it been possible to adhere to the...

engaging qualities Mr. Bourdillon occupies an honourable and even distinguished position among the lyrists of the later Victorian age; and the modest volume before us, though...

THERE have been many publications issued lately professing to deal with gardens and " garden-lore," but generally from what may be called the sentimentalist point of view....

WHIN Mrs. Gaskell died before the completion of her beautiful story, Wives and Daughters, the editor of the maga- zine in which it was appearing was content to indicate in a...

gathered up from magazines and newspapers have the merit of variety. Some are too slight to be worthy of publication in book form, others are sufficiently elaborate to display...

Kingcraft in Scotland, and other Essays and Sketches. By Peter Ross, LL.D. (A. Gardner, Paisley.)—Dr. Ross has written many books about Scottish history and literature, and can...

belonging to so fine a service as the I.C.S., or in taking part, however small, in the conduct of that great enterprise, the government of India." Certainly there is no nation...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Randolph Mason is a person of cynical temper and keen intellect who devises means by which his clients can escape the penalty of their wrongdoings....

Texts by Edward Arber. (Ward and Downey.)—The story which Mr. Arber gives us is " as told by Themselves, their Friends, and their Enemies." In other words, he gives the original...

Co.)—Mr. Pyle has made too big a book of his materials. Physically, it is too big, being over-heavy to be comfortably held in the hand. There is no plot,—that is to say, no...

Hundred Years, 1785 - 1885. By Romesh C. Dutt, I.C.S., C.I.E. (Chatto and Windus.)—No one can read this admirably written little volume without feeling a high respect for the...

M. A. R. T. (A. and C. Black.)—This is the first of an intended series in four parts. It treats of "The Christian Monuments of Rome," the second will be devoted to " The...

Partridge and Co.)—The special subject of which Mr. Barnett Smith treats in this volume is the " United States." He begins with the legends of discovery by Scandinavian...

York.)—" Bamboo Lands" is a paraphrase of "Japan." Mrs. Baxter started from Montreal, travelled by the Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, where she embarked on the Empress of...

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and Co.) we have received the third volumes of _Roswell's Life of Samuel Johnson and The Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne, translated by John Florio.—Modern Painters. By...

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