in North Wales for requiring all Welsh Liberal candidates at the General Election to give a pledge that, if elected, they will refuse to support Home-rale unless Mr. Gladstone...

heir to the Throne after the Prince of Wales, has been created Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and Earl of Athlone. It is a pity that he will not be called by the Scotch title,...

and Yorkshire party, who had sung to Mr. Gladstone, were much pleasanter, and more in the spirit of a host who is entertaining a multitude of agreeable guests. He complimented...

T HERE is something which strikes the imagination strongly in the arrest, effected in Paris on Thursday, of the Russian anarchists. Far in the North-East, secluded in a...

the Home-rule policy by the declaration of.the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland against Mr. Gladstone for his speech and vote in favour of...

case.

the remainder coming from Yorkshire and the Midlands, organised a visit to Mr. Glad- stone at Hawarden on Tuesday. Of course Mr. Gladstone did not attempt to address so large a...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the part in which he attacked, not Mr. Gladstone, but Mr. Gladstone's friends and followers, and called them Mr. Glad- stone's " phonographs." " Whatever he speaks into them...

by an unusually picturesque incident. On Saturday, a lifeboat, " Co-operator No. 3," the third gift of the kind made to the nation by the Co-operative Union, was launched on the...

Burt to the International Miners' Congress, held at Jolimont, in Belgium. Throughout the debates, the English delegates displayed not only strong sense, but a thorough spirit of...

with a pleasant speech, in which, however, he avoided the burning question,—the refusal of most producing Societies to make partners of their men. After describing the...

Thursday, and assured them that Scotland and Wales are entitled to Home-rule as well as Ireland, though their need of it is nothing like as great. Indeed, he said that to get...

Gladstone. in a meeting held in support of the Government at Guildford on Wednesday. He said that never till he found "the integrity, if not the existence, of this British...

20, has just been sold for £34,000, the highest price ever given for the work of a living artist. The art world naturally exults over this solid proof of appreciation; but we...

England. On Wednesday, the French Courts found M. Secretan, founder of the Societe des Metaux, guilty of mono- polising an article of necessary use, and of distributing...

would seem to have invaded the marine administration, supposed, on the whole, to be the purest of the departments. M. Gerville de Reache, deputed to examine the management of...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 981 to 98t.

gives a very curious account of experiments made in what is now called " hypnotism " at the Salpetriere Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Charcot. A patient of this class,...

Senator Blair, from New Hamp- shire, in the debate on a Bill ordering three new war-ships, resisted, moving that, as an alternative, the President should be directed to request...

custodians of Prince Talleyrand's Memoirs, now long over- due, to give them to the world. By means which he does not reveal, he has obtained passages from them, and by...

THE GERMAN CLAIM IN AFRICA. T HE struggle between the British and German Govern- ments—for we think it clear there is a struggle, though it may be one of wrestlers rather...

in the Home-rule policy is already bearing its natural fruit in Wales. There the Welsh Gladstonians are getting restive under the heavy demands on their loyalty to their leader,...

I T seems something like cynicism to say,—what, human nature being what it is, is nevertheless, we believe, true,—that alike in Mr. Gladstone's speech on Tuesday in Hawarden...

A NEW kind of Cosmopolitanism is developing itself among us which will one day, and probably within no long time, exercise an important political effect. Com- munication...

M CARNOT has discovered, or had discovered for • him, a new use for a President of the French Republic. He is most serviceable when he is kept moving. The best President is a...

I T is said that the Cretans are making up their minds to another insurrection, under the idea that, whether it succeeds or fails, they will force the hand of the Greek...

D R. LIDDON, in the magnificent sermon which he preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, on Whit-Sunday, dwelt with even more than his usual force on the posthumous life of our Lord in...

at Glasgow on Saturday last, was more remarkable for its omissions than for what it included. As to much that was of interest in regard to the progress of the cause, he was...

T HE last Bank Holiday, according to the Times, has " broken the record." The people of London, who, as we constantly forget, are more numerous than the Scotch, the Swedes, the...

NOTES OF A PILGRIMAGE. IL-JERIISALEM : THE TEMPLE. ONE of the earliest convictions impressed upon the mind of the traveller to Palestine is that the Turk is a nui- sance. The...

MR. GL.A_DSTONE AND tifITCH - FILSTOWN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—As a very old reader of the Spectator, I cannot forbear entering my protest against the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT•TOH. • '] Sin,—In your article on "Mr. Parnell's Position," you remark that you are "a little surprised to find that if the Irish Catholics...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — In your article on "The Sabbatical Day" you speak of Sabbath observance among the ancients as being peculiar to the Hebrews. You say...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — I should be glad if I could interest your readers in the state of things now existing in Florence as regards the poor stray dogs...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Harper puts a question to me in the Spectator of May 24th ; perhaps, therefore, you will admit my answer. He asks, " In It's me,'...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I was standing for some time a few evenings ago listening to the song of a thrush, which I have listened to a hundred times before...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In a letter from me which you published on April 19th, I ventured to express the opinion that "to impute intellectual fallibility,"...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — I used the word " evolution " somewhat loosely, as im- plying development through many processes, and I acknow- ledge that in...

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. BY wintry sun's declining glow A wanderer found Modelled in freshly-fallen snow A curious mound. Was it the humour of the storm, Or Nature's jest, To...

ADD DUNTHORNE'S GALLERY. Ix a gallery which is a sort of unpleasant annexe to its refreshment-room, the Royal Academy starves the art of water-colour, or rather, having...

IT is impossible to doubt that Mr. Gore's essay on " The Holy Spirit and Inspiration " is one of the most important in this volume, probably that which, after the preface, gives...

SIR HENRY CUNNINGHAM is to be warmly congratulated on The Heriots, which is, so far, the most brilliant novel of the year ; a book of which it can be said—and higher praise of...

interesting book did not live to complete it. But in Professor Thompson he found a friend who was able and willing to complete it for him. It is im- possible to speak too highly...

THIS treatise was written in 1729, and is one of Defoe's last works. It appears now for the first time in print, admirably edited by a German scholar, who dates his preface from...

THE merits of the New English Dictionary have been universally acknowledged. It claims to be constructed on historical principles," and this claim has been allowed by common...

THIS is, like The Century of Portraits which was noticed in the Spectator some time ago, one of those truly magnificent books which are among the results of the Glasgow...

The fifth volume of the new edition of Chambers's Bncyclo- prdia is, in respect of biographies, especially interesting and important. Among these are a careful Life of Goethe by...

2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a tale of a serious kind, which a thoughtful reader, whether he agree with its main purpose or no, will certainly find repay the trouble of...

Paul, Trench, Trlibner, and Co.)—Mr. Cable has been at great pains to collect these "true stories," and to examine the evidence for their authenticity, evidence which he sets...

the artist, if they seem somewhat extravagant. The strangest of all is certainly Lewis Darrell. In fact, the author does not make his action quite intelligible. One may guess,...

Murray.)—This is a learned and exhaustive monograph on a subject which in former times gave rise to vehement controversies, and which, though now, so to speak, in abeyance,...

By the late Edward Baines. Edited by James Croston, F.S.A. Vol III. (Heywood, Manchester.)—This important work, an enlarged and revised edition of what was before one of the...

Wray. (Nisbet.)—This is a sufficiently interesting story of the "poetical justice" kind. Perhaps the best part of it is the discovery by the elder Mansford that it is a...

our acquaintance with sporting literature is concerned—in the discomfiture of a rival by a man's skilful imitation of a horse's cough. Then we have some theatrical life,...

novelist has more resources than one might on first thoughts imagine in dealing with the subject of French courtship. This time Mrs. Macquoid enlists our sympathies on behalf of...

English for so Miss van Alstine remarks, and our own recollection sup- ports her negatively—the romantic story of Charlotte Corday. The author has carefully studied her...

Co.)—Twelve sermons, reported in full (whether with the preachers' sanction or not, we are not informed), with an " expository section," " new outlines," "outlines of texts,"...

novel, and the opening pages do not lead us to expect anything different, as they record a quite ordinary experience in the life of a lonely, middle-aged woman ; but very...