advancing, but that up to September 28th, the Cape authorities had heard of no collision. Mr. Rhodes is on the spot; and the Boers, in spite of official proclamations from...

Sep- tember 24th, as Marshal Martinez Campos was commencing a review at Barcelona, a man named Pallas, a notorious Anarchist, threw an iron bomb stuffed with one of the forms of...

case.

to debate the Sherman Bill until the Session ends. There is a sufficient majority for repealing the law, but the Senators are accustomed to talk against time, and there is no...

prominent men in South America renders all accounts from Brazil and Argentina more or less mislead- ing. There seems, however, to be a consensus that in Rio the factions are...

T HE cue in polities, we fancy, is " quiet " till next January. Everybody is worn out. Mr. Chamberlain has gone to America, and the winter sitting is to be devoted to...

German Emperor, who was shooting with the Emperor of Austria at Guns, telegraphed to him on September 9th, "thanking God" for BOWS of his convalescence, and offering him, for...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 14th„ will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages qf which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

in the Albert Hall, Edinburgh, will, we fear, Mr. Gladstone's speech in Midlothian, which was delivered on Wednesday in the Albert Hall, Edinburgh, will, we fear, disappoint his...

the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Plymouth, contrary to expectation, had in it a note of cheer. fulness. He noted that there was "a fairly general, though...

At the fortnightly meeting of the National League, Mr. T. Harrington accused Mr. William O'Brien of endeavouring to palm off on the people of Cork "the lying argument" that the...

Viceroy of India. Lord Cromer, the best man possible, has, it is said, been offered the appointment, but has refused it on private grounds, and the renewed rumour as to Lord...

at the Washington Music-Hall, Battersea, on "The Belfast Trades-Union Congress," declared that all sections of the Congress had practically come to the conclusion that the day...

of evicted. tenants, and gave them what comfort he could when they expressed their "bitter disappointment that the Government had failed to carry out their solemn promises to...

next Session ; and as the Irish will take care that it does, his hope is probably justified. They are not going to run the risk of his retirement, and the consequent disap-...

week, receivpd M. Zola, the French realistic novelist, who delivered an address on "Anonymity in Journalism." He thought the English, or unsigned system, the best in politics,...

significant extracts from private letters received from Bombay, dealing with the late riots. According to one of them, elaborate preparations have been made in case of a renewal...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 98i.

offer the old wages, there is no improvement in the coal-crisis, and no apparent prospect of improvement. On Friday, the President of the Coal Owners' Federation issued a...

but at least one legal improvement of great importance and usefulness has been effected. On Friday week, an Act received the Royal Assent which virtually closes the last of the...

interesting figures in regard to local self-government, local indebtedness, and local resources. In 1818, when the population was below twelve millions, and when the country was...

MR. GLADSTONE'S SPEECH. T HE taint of insincerity, so marked in all recent Glad- stonian speeches and manifestoes against the House of Lords, adheres also to their leader's...

question of riot, and to consider under what conditions soldiers should be allowed to fire upon mobs, and whether some change in the law might not be beneficial. This newspaper...

F OR . some reason or other, the present generation has witnessed a very remarkable change in the mental attitude of Englishmen towards Socialism and the visionary projects...

I T is becoming a commonplace with many Radicals to say that Federalism works well, and that it offers an acceptable alternative to centralised democracy; but do they ever look...

murderer used, it would appear, bombs loaded with as any people in the world, are singularly faithful to some kind of dynamite, and Anarchist literature was governors they...

O N Wednesday the Associated Chambers of Commerce considered the already thrice-considered question of Transport, the President giving the subject special prominence in his...

OSCAR BROWNING has been staying in the Engadine, and "in the country of the Referendum" his thoughts naturally turned to the merits, or demerits, of this piece of political...

prison for them, we may, since he has lectured upon us, obtain what benefit we can from observations which lose, Ministerialists and the Opposition ; it is even possible that at...

A RECENT and interesting contribution to the sum of popular knowledge of animal instinct is M. Frederic Houssay's work on "The Industries of Animals," published in the...

portion of England, and it is no small one, which heeds such things, was surprised, nay, startled, some little time ago, when an ingenious and lively writer in one of the...

THE HOFER PLAY AT MERAN, 1893. TEE pretty town of Meran, in South Tyrol, already well known to the English traveller as a health or pleasure resort, adds this year to the...

experience goes, it tends to show that spelling depends mainly upon the strength of the imagination. A man who remembers things not by rote, but by calling up pictures of them...

are many different reasons for liability to errors in. spelling in different cases. I may give my own case as one to which your theory does not apply. I used to spell well;...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—As one who has spent half-a-century in the work of education, may I be allowed to say a word as to spelling ? I am pretty certain that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIE,—In your article on Brazilian affairs, in the Spectator of September 23rd, you say that the wish on the part of Marshal Peixoto "to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR„ — Your article on "Children's Letters," in the Spectator of September 23rd, only confirms the belief that "men are but children of a...

NATURAL PICTURES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Yonr very interesting article, in the Spectator of September 9th, on the desirability of inducing the Govern- ment to...

[TO THS EDITOR. OP TEE " SPHOTATOR," J Sin,—Permit me to draw your attention to an error, probably a misprint, in your paragraph in the Spectator of Septem- ber 23rd, in regard...

TO PEGGY ON THE LAWN. SHE is dressed, like the early Springs, In the daintiest pink and white ; From her mischievous hand she flings Pink-petaled lawn-daisies, the Spright The...

LEIGH HUNT.* THE epithet " great " is one that is often rather loosely applied, and if the editors of the series entitled "Great Writers" choose to extend it to Leigh Hunt, they...

Campbell's record in India at first hand were astonished at his failure to make any im- pression in the House of Commons, while those who knew his record in Parliament were...

manner, some readers may say a provokingly level manner, but that is a point which we are not now concerned to discuss. We simply mean that it is not his habit to surprise us by...

at all in England. The only notice taken of them in any English journal, as far as we have seen, has been that The Weavers was acted once in Berlin and forbidden by the Police,...

more, a necessary complement, to Mr. Hume Brown's previous work on Early Travellers in Scotland. Scotchmen may have had good reason to complain * Scotland before 1700. From...

appearance of Von Samson-Himmelstierna'a book upon Russia under Alexander III. The original work was written by an author who is a devout believer in the monarchical system of...

A New English Dictionary. Parts VI.-VII. Edited by James A. H. Murray. (Clarendon Press.)—Pozt VI. contains "do— Consigner," and Part VII. carries on the work as far as...

—There is a good deal of Ireland, a considerable amount of China, and possibly a trifle too much of blackguardism of the " deep- dyed " sort in this interesting but too...

Stock.)—This is a selection from the " Commedia," but a selec- tion made in a special way and for a special purpose, not giving passages of special literary or historical...

Son.)—This is an attempt, by moans of allegory and the personification of certain moral and religious ideas, to bring familiar truths home to the minds of the simple and im-...

and Co.)—Andrew Fairfax is a tale written with some clever- ness, and with excellent intentions. Andrew is a young man who goes down to the old home of his father, works as a...

is a strange, ill-compacted, but yet not dull or uninterest- ing story of life in college and country-house, by an author who, although he is almost too obviously a tyro, is...

of a boy's life in Wales. Mr. Tirebuck observes closely, and can describe. Nor is he unacquainted, it is clear, with Welsh manners. But there is a suggestion throughout of...

Hull.)—The fundamental idea of this story is not a novel one, but it is very well worked out. An able man, "con- centred all on self" however, deserts, in the interests of...

be conceded to Mrs. Conney, that, although her new book is in three volumes, and although she occasionally writes too splendidly, she is never tedious. This negative success, on...

Co.)—Sarah Lovell is an American young lady who goes to Paris to study under a famous French artist. Her love-story is told here. A countryman of her own is one suitor; she...

an amusing story of the extravaganza kind. Harold and Edwina are a very affectionate couple, who have but a very limited acquaintance with the practical aspects of life,...