T HE Emperor of Russia leaves Balmoral this evening, and, travelling all night, will arrive in Paris on Monday after- noon. He will remain there four days, during which he will...

upon the Eastern question,—the former at Aberdeen, the latter at Leven. Mr. Bryce's speech is important, not so much from his position as a former Cabinet Minister as from his...

in order to tarn the great obstacle to the navigation of the Danube, the rocks called the Iron Gates. His Majesty was received by the Kings of Roumania and Servia at Bucharest,...

crisis that the Ambassadors in Constantinople have felt much more horror at the massacres than their employers have done. Their Joint Note to the Porte of September 15th has now...

to denouncs the treaty under which we hold Cyprus ? That treaty binds the Sultan to grant reforms to th1" Armenians, but it also binds us to defend Turkey against Russia, the...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 10th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the Liverymen of the City assembled at the Guildhall, and returned to the Court of Aldermen two gentle- men as candidates for the Chair,—Alderman Faudel-Phillips and Colonel...

and Italy (nominally between the Bey of Tunis and Italy) was signed, literally at the eleventh hour. The old treaty expired at midnight on Tuesday, and the French Foreign Office...

on Thursday, are fairly satisfactory. During the six months there has been an increase of 21,262,000 over the amount contributed in the same period last year. The only...

the holy island of the Mahdists,—Captoo, the place where the Mahal was born. The officer of the Intelligence Department who visited it reports that "a small wall of tasteful...

the Sirdar has sent the North Staffordshire Regiment to Cairo, and has also sent one of his black regiments down the river. This is an almost conclusive proof that the...

of the dynamitards, the pith of which is that the release was quite right if the prisoners' health was the real reason ; and then proceeded to Armenia. He stated his belief that...

at the Diocesan Conference at Northampton. After dealing with the education question and speaking of the evils that spring from international jealousies a propos of Armenia, he...

last year in the North were insufficient for want of rain, and this year there is danger of actual famine. The price of grain in the Punjab has risen from an average of 32 lb....

London School Board, read on Thursday by the Chairman, Lord Londonderry, is the improvement in the attendance and in the quality of the education sought. Ninety per cent. of the...

iturday last. The poet, pencil and note-book in hand, is leaning on a wooden plough of the period. The great debt that Burns owed to Scotland, said Lord Rosebery, was that he...

from Rhodesia, and attention has been paid principally to affairs in the Transvaal. It appears to be certain that the Government of that State is arming, although it has no...

birth and nature a typical Englishman, but he is encourag- ing two efforts which, we think, show want of comprehension of Englishmen. One is a fund to assist clergymen who in...

commemorated at Cambridge on Tuesday by a dinner in the Guildhall, presided over by the Mayor of Cambridge and attended by the Master of Trinity, the Lord- Lieutenant and High...

River Workers has issued a very curious document to its members, asking them to vote on the advisability of a general international strike, or as an alternative, a further...

New Consols (2.1) were on Friday, 1101.

THE SITUATION OF TO-DAY. T HERE never was a question upon which verbal con- troversy was so futile as this of the Armenians. There is nothing, in fact, to be controversial...

T ORD SALISBURY has attained a position in the- world of European politics which it is hardly too much to call pre-eminent. It is no exaggeration to say that his power and...

O UGHT we to stop at Dongola or advance at once on Khartoum ? That is the question which is agitating all those who are interested in the fate of the Soudan. The answer to the...

or shall we call it resemblance, between the English and the Russians in their external action. Both can manage the dark races of mankind without the sense of exhausting effort,...

w HAT could conceivably have seemed more unlikely in 1886 than that, in ten years' time, an eminent Treasury official, most ardently attached to the Treasury principles and...

W E referred last week to an extraordinary legal case lately decided by Judge Russell of the New York Supreme Court, in the course of which it was shown that a private firm of...

-W HAT with the growth of population and its victories in South America, the Papacy has probably as many devotees as it ever had, but it has not been fortunate among the...

W E fear that it will hardly prove possible to form a Doctors' Union on the lines suggested in Tuesday's Times. But that there is a crying need for the improvement of the...

T HE eruption of red-brick villas, which spreads yearly wider over the home counties, like a new scarlet-fever, is a visible sign of the great change which has come over the...

T HE results of eight years' observation of the migration of birds into and out of this country has just been issued by the Council of the British Association. It appears oppor-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR, — How often do those who quote Shakespeare lay them- selves open to answer by not regarding the context ? The Salisbury of King John...

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE ATROCITIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Yon say, in the Spectator of September 26th, of Mr. Gladstone's proposal that "it is as if a...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The two definite suggestions in your articles in the Spectator of September 19th will, I hope, soon bear fruit. If it is impossible...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—There are one or two thoughts in connection with the British South Africa Company's rule which I have not yet seen in print, and which...

SPECTAT01:9 Sin,—It was an accident only that has made my letter to the Times appear as an advocacy of a celibate clergy. The original correspondent in that journal stated...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Bra,—May I add another exception or two, drawn from my own experience, to the rather sweeping statement made in your article on "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your readers may possibly be interested in the habits of one of the most curious of European inieets, which I have succeeded in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I have read with much interest an article on the above subject in the Spectator of August 29th, but it seems to me the writer uses...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—The various opinions expressed in your recent issues of the dignity of clerical bicycling are amusing to , as on this side of the...

Sirt,—Might not the name of Robert Browning be added to those already mentioned in the very interesting paper, "Books as Comforters of the Soul," in the Spectator of September...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] San,—The writer of the article in the Spectator of Septem- ber 26,h on "Books as Comforters of the Soul" made, in my opinion, a too...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] SIR,—Those who knew Frederick Maurice, or have read his Life by his son, know that he always repudiated the sugges- tion that he was the...

THE BOOK OF LIFE. THE Book of Life contains no title-page, No argument, no key is found therein That may the scholar's thirst to know assuage And with which he some clue to...

THE CZAR'S BOOK.' Tars magnificent volume is the first of two written by order of the Czar by Prince Ookhtomsky, a naval officer in his suite,. to describe the journey of the...

[To THE UrT011 Or 2 . 101 "IiIrscriToa."1 Sin,—If you are collecting church notices this is one which (like wine) is the better for being old. The clerk or the curate gave...

[To THE Barron or Tas "SzscsATON:1 SIE,—By error in my manuscript two of the references to St.. Paul's Epistles in the letter on "Mr. Gladstone on Butler," in the Spectator of...

amount of thought and labour to be appreciated only by those who have attempted to master, in detail at least, some portion of its subject. That subject is as difficult and...

is pre- maturely and absurdly dated 1897, is the fruit of the encouragements Mr. Maughan received for his valuable parish history of Rosneath. Of Garelochside, and indeed of the...

NOTHING is more remarkable in the French literature of to-day than the freedom, the license even, of its professors. Five years ago a man of letters was forced to acknowledge an...

eighty-seven years of age, with far more than the usual credentials for memoir-making. Her name is well known in connection with that of her husband, who died happily and...

THE Nineteenth Century is the most interesting of the maga- zines this month, though we cannot give Sir Wemyss Reid, -whose article is on the Russian distrust of England, credit...

reprint of a volume published by the poet in 1853, itself mainly a reprint of the earlier volume published anony- mously (by " A*****," if we remember right), in 1819 and 1852....

Music. By Henry Russell. (J. Macqueen.)—Mr. Russell puts together under the title of one of his most successful songs the recollections of his musical career. Of men, he has...

and Co.)—This book is quite characteristic of its author, who has obtained a very considerable reputation and a large clientele by a series of fictions that are written with...

The Poe'ry of Robert Burns. Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thom is F. Henderson. Vol. II. "Posthumous Pieces." (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh.)—In one of Edward...

Co.)—The subject of the story is sufficiently indicated by its sub-title," A Tale of Smuggling in the '45." There are smugglers in it, and there are Jacobites. The hero, who...

Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Aberdeen enjoyed for m my years the unique distinction of having two Universities. All England had to be content with two while a...

F. De Lamennais. Translated by Lord Stanley of Alderley. (J. Macqueen.)—Lord Stanley translated this book, the first volume of the Essay, in 1862, lost the MS., and recently...

Sonnen- schein and Co.)—This volume is one of the "Social England Series," edited by Mr. Kenelus D. Cotes. Mr. Inderwick defines his task by the sub-title of "A Historical...