made upon his Bill in a speech which will raise his repu- tation as a debater and a statesman higher than ever. After defending his scheme for dealing with the congested...

He has given great attention to the licensing laws, a subject which, as he believes, will soon become of pressing interest, and he proposed a definite scheme of restriction. He...

M AY-DAY has come and gone, and proved a success for the workmen and a failure for the revolutionists. It was a success for the workme n,eatu!e they showed that they could, if...

and after an attack upon the measure from Mr. Macartney—an Ulster landlord, who complained that the Bill would expel all landlords with £5,000 a year and under, and ruin the...

has throughout the week occupied the chief place in Parlia- ment. On Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain, following a not very helpful speech by Mr. Dillon, insisted with great power and...

case.

fever. The leaders of the party believed, or perhaps only hoped, that, although defeated in the General Election, they would carry the Municipality of Paris, and thus obtain a...

Liquor Laws, Lord Randolph Churchill made an interesting remark on an English social difficulty, the trouble workmen, and their superiors too, have in quickly obtaining change....

for it shows that the year 1889 was the most satisfactory in recent Egyptian history,—probably the best since the days of Sesostris.' And not only have both ends been made to...

is unthinkable, and yet, in his amusing speech of Wednesday to the London Chamber of Commerce, he endorsed the very principle which lies at the root of Protection. After telling...

a great extension of its territories—and its responsibilities. Letters have been reviewed in Zanzibar which state that Mr. F. J. Jackson, one of the officers of that Company,...

passed its second reading in the Commons on Wednesday by a majority of 67, the vote being 222 for the measure, to 155 against. Mr. H. Gardner, the mover, in order to soothe away...

person in France, made on April 30th a most interesting speech to the Times' correspondent, choosing that method, it seems clear, in order that his view might come back to Paris...

the veteran journalist, a verdict for £5 in his slander action against Mr. Furniss, the caricaturist. In an " after - supper speech" at a literary club at Nottingham, Mr....

New Consols (21) were on Friday 971 to 98.

of some importance to that numerous class of persons who are idiotic enough to draw their own wills. The late Rev. Sir E. R. Jodrell bequeathed various legacies to cousins, some...

us see the " hard core " of the Imperial Federation movement. The Colonies, in amalgamating with the United Kingdom, are to remember that " there is one thing which they can...

warmly received by a troop of distinguished friends, who were, however, roughly used by a body of police who had been ordered to protect the Mayor and Corporation of Dover while...

THE DAY OF DEMONSTRATIONS. T HE Day of Demonstrations ended, as we ventured last week to predict that it would end, without any disturb- ance of order on the Continent, peace...

I T is with a sense of profound relief that we note the refusal of the Government to be drawn aside from the main object of their Irish Land policy. The pleas put forward_ both...

I T is, on the whole, good that Mr. H. Stanley should be received as he has been. Many of the incidents of his reception have been offensive to good taste, and some, like the...

the future solvency or insolvency of the country remained doubtful, financial equilibrium is secured." Such is the opinion expressed by Sir Evelyn Baring in his Report on the...

T HE importance, the great importance, of Lord Randolph Churchill's able speech of Tuesday on the Licensing Laws, consists partly in its opportuneness. The Spectator, to the...

Metropolis is evidently regarded by Lord Rosebery as one of the many functions to which the London County Council lays claim. If the Council could " level up " in this respect,...

I T was a little absurd to ask Parliament, as Mr. S. Smith did on Monday, to interfere with the exhibition of the " Fasting Man." Not to mention that Mr. Smith was a little...

I F the ordinary intelligent man were to be asked by a foreign inquirer whether it is likely that there are many manuscripts of interest lying hid in the country houses of...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : FAVOURITE SUBJECTS OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION -THE HOUSE OF LORDS-A FINE AND HUMOROUS USE OF ARISTOCRATICAL ARROGANCE. THERE are certain questions...

BIMETALLISM. ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Allow me to offer a few remarks on your very fair and interesting comments on the debate on Bimetallism. You complain...

be the results of bimetallism in the future may be known by its effects in the past. A generation ago, when both gold and standard silver dollars were legal tender in the United...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The letter headed as above in the Spectator of April 26th, calls for notice in the interests of "English as she is spoke," and of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—All who are interested in education have read with attention, and a great amount of approval, the recommenda- tions contained in the...

fail to see why Mr. Dobson should speak of Prior's couplet,- " For thou art a girl so much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me," as containing a " grammatical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I regret that a clerical error, not detected by me till pointed out by Mr. Garland in your columns, should have made unintelligible a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIE,—I doubt very much if what is usually called the working class has the remotest idea how hard is the work done, for fully thirty years...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, In the review on Mr. Walter Besant's " Captain Cook," in the Spectator of April 26th, the critic observes :—" We infer that Mr. Besant...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Six,—In one of Voltaire's short stories, " L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus," there is described a debate among certain theologians as to the soul of...

SIR, In your article of April 19th on " The 'Man in the Street' as Grammarian," you say: "No one can say whence comes the habit of substituting the accusative for the nomi-...

HALF-BRONZE, half-green, the shivering hedgerows shook, The larches stood in soft, uncertain mind, To hold or give their jewels to the wind That flung their gold-dust from them...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.. Tolook through two thousand works of art and other- industries is to endanger one's eyesight, taste for painting,, and certainly one's...

WE may not all attain the promised land That youth bolds as its rightful heritage, Manhood still craves, and disappointed age Dreams of, yet hopes no longer there to stand. The...

THE SWALLOWS. 0 MOTHER, will the swallows never come P Feel my cheek, 'tis hot and burning, And my heart is sick with yearning, But I'm always well as soon as swallows come....

Tan critic who, against the undertaker passion of his kind, comes to praise Caesar and not to bury him, feels all the same certain scruples of his trade forcing him to make some...

GEORGE II.* IF it is satisfactory to the preacher when he finds that he has driven people to repentance, it is still more satisfactory to the reviewer, because it is much...

NOTHING could be more praiseworthy than Mr. Macaulay's conception of a translator's duties. He begins with the deter- mination to have as definite an idea as possible of what it...

THAT Mr. William O'Brien should have written a novel is not so much a source of surprise to us as that he should never have done so before. But politics are a busy calling, and...

tour of inspection which Herr von Ktillay, the Austrian Imperial Minister of Finance, and Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, began through those provinces in 1882. To a...

THE Countess Martinengo might without exaggeration have called her book a Book of Heroes, for we may search in vain for one name on her list the owner of which is not...

in his " Prefatory Note " that he can frame no satisfactory definition of the word "slang." He quotes with approval Dr. Murray's observation that "the circle of the English...

Cromer, Past and Present. By Walter Rye. (Jarrold and Sons.) —Mr. Rye, who has the advantage of a long-standing family con- nection with Cromer, has put together here an account...

(Sonnenschein.)—The name of ethical treatises and even of students' manuals of philosophy is, no doubt, legion, but Dr. Stanton Coit may be allowed to have done well to adapt...

is a book which should please the young people as much as any scientific primer. Miss Giberne knows how to put her facts in an attractive form, and science should be made...

Tolstoi. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. (Walter Scott.)—This collection of stories and fables shows Count Tolstoi in a more pleasing light than we are...

(Cassell and Co.) —Our readers will remember the letters from a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette which were so full of glowing hopes about the future of Papal influence on...

Drawings. By Birket Foster. (Sampson Low and Co.)—It was a capital idea to collect drawings of famous English places, and Mr. Birkot Foster deserves much credit for the plan....

of Scotland. Stock.)—The authorship of this book is perhaps as remarkable as anything else about it. Mary has never wanted defenders among those born north of the Tweed. But she...

relates that when Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen, was asked by a young man for a piece of advice to carry him through life, the President gravely said : " Always verify...

Co.)—A nice volume of stories for young children, illus- trated with the pretty and spirited drawings which are now so much more common than they were.

and Co.)—The tendency of the rank and file of novel-writers to make up by realism what they want in skill is manifest in " Fairfax L. Cartwright." In " a tale of an Imperial...

Grey Beddoes has collected a number of opinions and counsels by eminent physicians with an especial reference to ailments besetting professional and business men at the present...

Paul, Trench, and Do.)—Mr. Dowsett begins with St. Patrick, but comes rapidly down to more recent times. He takes, we see, an unfavourable view of the massacre of 1641, and...

Sons.) —Mr. Merriman's previous novels—" Young Mistley " and "The Phantom Future "—had various faults, but they had also a certain cleverness which was not devoid of promise. In...

Hugh Fraser, M.A., LL.M. (Reeves and Turner.)—This little volume is intended as a handbook for pressmen, and for their benefit the law as it at present stands is digested in a...

V. White and Co.)—An overwhelming majority of the novels of the period can be briefly described by one of two phrases. They are either "rather good," or "rather poor ;" and we...

(Field and Tuer.)—There is a great deal of out-of-the-way in- formation, strung together without much apparent method, in the very discursive volume which bears the above title....

Giles has done well to bring, though late in the day, before the English public this extraordinary tale of enter- prise, pluck, and success in exploration. Mr. Giles succeeded,...

Elisabeth Ward Bayly. (Jarrold and Sons.)—There have been many com- plaints of the three-volume novel system ; but it has the advan- tage of distributing physical weight, and of...