has accepted, the Primacy of the Church of England. During his head-mastership at Rugby, when there was some question whether a boy who had committed some offence should or...

P RINCE BISMARCK has thrown a shell into the camp of the Triple Alliance. He published in the Hamburger Nachrichten of October 24th a statement that in 1884, when the Alliance...

difficulty in finding a candidate for East Bradford. After several other failures, Mr. George Russell declined to stand, but at last they have fixed on Mr. Alfred Billson, who...

this week point to a rapid increase in the bitterness of parties, who threaten one another with physical 2oercion, though as yet the rioting has not been serious. It is fully...

marked by an incident to which the Times' correspondent in Paris, a very shrewd man though a vain one, attaches marked importance. The President of each Chamber read an address...

any case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

tute a ETV deilartin 7 i in Chinese practice, there ba,ring hitherto been no single ofneiliti Vain responsible for 'foreign affairs. It is not cerbiin, 'hoiverti; that the' new...

on Tuesday which should not be taken as a very exact or trustworthy account of what took place in the last Session of Parliament. He described the Agricultural Rating Act as an...

Princess Helen " of Montenegro, which took place on October 24th, was not a very splendid affair, only one member of a European Royal house being present, and at the religious...

he Opposition were now without a leader, and also without a programme,—a condition of things,. however, which rris not altogether desirable for the Govern-. ment. He contested...

offered to go to the country on the question of the House of Lords, but had been outvoted by his colleagues, and Mr. Labouchere regretted this decision of the Gladstonian...

alleges, kidnapped by the Chinese Embassy on October 17th was on Friday week released. He had contrived to send notice of his imprisonment through an English servant of the...

on Thursday, from which we are inclined to infer, per- haps mistakenly, that he individually favours the view that the denominational schools should be aided out of State...

Times on "The Industrial North," the general drift of which is that the feelings and temper of the North are not really well understood in the South of England, the writer even...

levying a special tax on Mahommedans for military purposes, and at the obvious intention to arm all Mussulmans of whatever class. They apprehend that it may be intended to let...

on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Debating Society. He recalled the days when he and his friends in that Society had "surveyed mankind from China to...

dinner, after which the retiring diplomatist made an admirable and obviously well-considered speech. He refused to turn "any Röntgen rays upon the doors of the Cabinets of...

at Chesterfield on Wednesday, declared that Unitarians had the work of the future in their hands, because they more than any other religious thinkers have fully accepted the...

of women's suffrage. New Zealand has already adopted it, and we believe approves its working, and now a Bill embodying the same principle has been carried by a large majority in...

af Argyll in which his Grace states with unusual definiteness his opinion as to the best solution of the Eastern question. tie declares that, except perhaps Spain, no...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1031.

PRINCE BISMARCK'S REVELATION. P RINCE BISMARCK seems to think he is outside all laws, whether national or professional, and that as he made Germany he is at liberty to unmake...

I T will be a new experience for the Church of England to have a gruff Archbishop after the stately grace of Archbishop Benson. We are not at all sure that it will be a bad....

W E shall know by Thursday next at latest the result of the American election ; and as the crisis draws near, the interest, and in some classes the anxiety, felt on this side of...

M R. LABOUCHERE'S speech on Tuesday at North- ampton betrays the helplessness of the Radical party as clearly as it shows Mr. Labouchere's own fixed determination to ignore the...

A FORTNIGHT ago the Baltic was in a state of excite- ment such as had not been seen since times of war- like disturbance, and the price of wheat rushed upwards in a manner that...

T HAT Englishmen should not understand fully either Asiatic theology or philosophy is natural enough, for both are based upon assumptions which, whether true or false, the...

M R. FREDERICK GREENWOOD has contributed to the Cornhill Magazine a singularly interesting estimate of Lord Beaconsfield. It may be read with an equal intellectual assent by the...

W E are glad to see the able deferce of Sir Thomas More which the Quarterly Review has put forth against the charge that he had no objection to persecution in the con- crete...

W E know nothing of Mr. Passmore Edwards except that he owns and edits a halfpenny newspaper which is perhaps fuller of fads than any other journal in the world— fads with which...

C OMMENTING on the ascent of the Nelson Column by steeplejacks in order to fix the decorations for Trafalgar Day, an evening paper stated that a pair of peregrine-falcons once...

I N their inception the Conferences of the National Union of Women-Workers, of which the fourth or fifth has just been held in Manchester, were designed, we believe, almost...

THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY. fro THU EDITOR Or THZ " BPICTATOR."] Sin,—The discrepancy in the lists of the Archbishops of Canterbury is easily explained. In 1348 the monks of...

[To TBZ EDITOR Or TH I " SruT/Tox."] Sta,—After reading your article, "What is a Primate?" in the Spectator of October 24th, it occurred to me that it might interest your...

SIR,—A propos of your article, in the Spectator of October 3rd, on "The Religion of Kings," it may be of interest to your readers to know the terms of the abjuration required of...

[To THE Exams Os THIN •seacrarea."] Sin,—In your article on "Dogs and Bicycles," in the Spectator of October 17th, there occur two passages from which I would respectfully...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] • Siu,—I heard to-day two animal stories which amused me, and may be interesting to you and your readers. They both come from sources that...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"' SIR,—This question was raised in my mind, and answered in the affirmative, by the following incident, which I observed in the course of a....

readers of Browning know his strong, rough poem of Halbert and Hob. Two men, father and son, of "the genuine wild-beast breed,"— " Harsh and fierce of word, rough and savage...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not surprised that you correspondent, "C. M.," thinks that some recent occurrences prove that we must discard our small-calibre...

TO WHERE rock-crown'd headlands front the glittering bays, All set with purpled islets, in the West, Drawn by the beauty, each a chancing guest Unknown before, we tarried...

MR. HARE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* THESE three bulky volumes cover thirty-six years of the author's life, and the story, as Mr. Hare admits, is a very long one. It may be true, as he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."] Sin,—My old friend Mr. Housden is always interesting on "word" subjects, but I am afraid "wheel-saddle" will not do. Why not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The following story you may think worthy of adding to your list. A verger was showing a lady over a church. She asked him if his vicar...

As in the night I lie awake, My thoughts their flight full often take To the old village churchyard near, Where sleeps the friend I held most dear. And if the moon with gaze...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your review of this book in the Spectator of October 24th, occurs this passage,—" He tried his hand at a novel called Valeritts," no...

remained to the general mind—even without the publication of the letters now collected, and the delightful revelation of a simple, loving, and attractive character—the most...

BOTH these volumes are powerful in their way. Mr. Baring- Gould, indeed, is always worth reading, and Mrs. Henniker has a considerable literary faculty of her own which she has...

though Charles Lamb might well have added such collections to his list of "books which are no books;" and possibly English marriage-songs of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

THE fifth volume of Social England begins with the accession of the house of Hanover and carries the history down to the battle of Waterloo. The Pharisaic attitude towards the...

WE may be excused for not knowing whether amid the three- score novels that have issued from Miss Braddon's pen in the last thirty-five years she has ever set foot on the path...

most tragical of all, and hardly suited, we might imagine, to the audience, told by the vicar. Altogether, the stories are not exactly what we should expect from the title.—In...

volume is a continuation of the earlier "Letters to Marco," Marco being the writer's fellow-artist, Mr. Marks. " I am sorry," writes Mr. Leslie, "to say that, besides my own, I...

some courage in provoking the comparison which the title of Miss Roper's book suggests. This will scarcely become a classic, but it may be described as a simple, unaffected, and...

Mars. By Percival Lowell. (Longmans and Co.)—We inserted an article in the Spectator of last week on the facts presented in Mr. Lowell's book, and cannot follow out the...

is one of the series of "Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times in America." It covers a period including both the War of Independence and the war of 1812-14. Of the former,...

and Collectors. By j. W. Tutt, F.E.S. (George Gill and Sons.)— Mr. Tutt, the editor of the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, has here given us a more elaborate...

(Alexander Clardner.)—The success of Mr. Crockett's romances has recently revived interest in the wild Scottish region of Galloway and the memories of the Covenanters, which...

Lane.)—This "Diary of a Greedy Woman" is a sort of sublimated cookery-book. Mrs. Pennell laments that in the kitchen, where she ought to be supreme, woman has hitherto shown...

and Co.)—Mr. Crashaw is a Professor of English Literature in an American university, and a volume on a subject of which he may be supposed to be a master demands respectful...

a very valuable little book, throwing much light on a most important chapter in Anglo-American history, and is agreeably written in spite of the fact that it is based on old...

whose sympathy with Nature and with human life is wholly free from senti- mentality. At the same time, he is a master of style, and his lovely verse satisfies the ear as well as...

Nutt.)—" Collected from the People and Retold," adds Mr. Leland. Very curious they are, as those who remember the first series will doubtless expect,—queer creatures, as, for...