FROM JULY TO DECEMBER 26th, 7896, INCLUSL`E, TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CTON, Lord : his Great Project ... Aerial Steeplejacks Aggressive Unsectarianism Alps, the Attraction of the...

that of India on the subject of the cost of the Indian troops sent to Saakin, add little to the general knowledge of the matter. The Viceroy and his Council contend that India...

election will be fought out round the currency pivot. The Democrats, most of whom believe in silver, are unable to resist the temptation of catching the silver vote ; and it is...

I T was announced on Saturday that the directors of the Chartered Company of South Africa had resolved at length to accept the resignations of Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Beit, who,...

of a Civil Code applicable to the whole of Germany. It will take effect from January 1st, 1900, from which date the entire Empire will enjoy the same criminal and civil system...

what professes to be a review of Mr. Spenser Wilkinson's book on "The Nation's Awakening," but what is really a serious article on the foreign situation of Great Britain. He...

case.

which 23,000,000 is to be raised and spent. Sir Charles Dilke strongly opposed the railway, which he declared would only open up a useless country,—one without re- sources and...

Tokio has had an interesting conversation with the Marquis Ito, the Prime Minister of Japan. The Marquis did not enter upon the foreign policy of his country, but he observed...

Naval Estimates, and heard from Mr. Allan an im- passioned attack on the Belleville boilers which are being largely adopted in the Navy. Mr. Goschen made an excellent defence of...

the third reading of the Rating Bill. In a series of set speeches the leaders held the Bill up to public odium. Mr. Asquith argued that the agricultural interest did not need...

of the Rating Bill, and a number of amendments of a more or less dilatory and obstructive character were brought forward by the Opposition. It soon became evident that the...

The Hovas do not like them at all, and are assailing them through a kind of guerilla war, bands of "brigands" attacking and sometimes defeating parties of Senegalese troops. M....

just issued by Leo XIII. We have said enough of this document elsewhere, but its main drift is to restate the old teaching of Rome, that Christ gave the headship of his Church...

Stowe, at the age of eighty-five. She was the most effective female philanthropist who ever lived. Her story, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was a book into which its author, while...

opened on Wednesday by Lord George Hamilton, the Secretary of State for India. He was not, he declared, a hero- worshipper, but if there was any body of men to whom he would...

Committee appointed to inquire into the manning of merchant ships has adopted a proposal often urged in these columns,—namely, that the State should undertake the work of...

and at a public dinner, while returning thanks for the Houses of Parliament, begged his audience not to believe all the evil things they heard of the House of Commons. The...

dinner of the Cobden Club held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Repeal of the Corn-laws. It was possible, he admitted, that, in spite of Free-trade, our national...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 1131 a

THE OPPOSITION HOBBY-HORSE. T HE set debate on the third reading of the Rating Bill forced on the House by the Opposition is a sign that they intend to make that measure their...

I T really looks as if the Presidential election in the United States would be a stand-up fight over the currency. The Republicans have formally adopted the gold standard. Mr....

XPERIENCED men who know history are never sanguine about the passing away of great oppres- sions. It often pleases Providence, for some reason not revealed, to grant them long...

I F Bishops ever chuckle, Dr. Creighton, the learned Bishop of Peterborough, must have chuckled a little to himself as he read the new Encyclical of Leo XIII. The very pith of...

-" I F all the Cobden Club preaches is true, how does it happen that all the nations of the earth are devoted -to Protection ?" That is a question which the plain man finds a...

I T is related that well within that period of his illustrious career during which he led the Liberal party, there once fell from Mr. Gladstone, not in public, the striking...

M R. BAYARD is always interesting, and in his speech to English and American Congregationalists last Monday he was also, perhaps without intending it, paradoxical. It was almost...

r E correspondents of the Westminster Gazette and other journals who account so carefully for the unpopularity of the Established clergy might, we think, begin their ex-...

I T is difficult to feel quite sure as to all the details of the Millennium, but in regard to one point we have no doubt. Though they will, of course, feel generally content,...

A POLITICAL cartoon, "made in Germany," but sold largely in Holland, has recently given huge delight to sober-minded grown-up Hollanders, and even more to the "Young Dutch...

[To 751 EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whilst fully appreciating your article in the Spectator of June 27th under the above heading, and admitting that there may be truth in...

THE BABYLONIAN DATE OF ABRAHAM. [To TER EDITOR Or THR BPIZTAT0R.1 SIR,—The difficulty about accepting the date assigned by the native Babylonian chronology to the age of...

[To THX EDITOR 01 Till " $ TZOTATOR."] Srn,—As a comment on your statement in the Spectator of Jane 27th, that "the regular thing in Scotland is to read every word of the...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 TEl " SPECTATOR:1 firn,—An Irishman lately in discussing with a friend of mine anonymous letter-writing, applied some severe strictures to the practice,...

TRUSTEES.* WE have always sympathised with the American who, when he heard a number of vigorous and earnest political philan- thropists discussing what reforms the nation most...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the Spectator of June 20th I find it stated (p. SG)) that "cats never bathe." Many years ago at the Surrey Zoological Gardens I saw...

this : If you must do something with Horace—and his fascination is irresistible—do not attempt translation, for it is impossible; try imitation, and, by preference, imitation...

or rather an extension of, the author's well-known book on Municipal Government in Great Britain. Like its predecessor, it is characterised by great thoroughness, and a really...

well known as a distinguished Oriental scholar, but it is obvious from the subjects chosen by him for " studies " in the volume before us, that he had also a critical knowledge...

IT will be well worth the while of some student of the drama to translate this book, consisting mainly of articles reprinted from the Revue des Deux Mondes. The verdict of...

Miss OLIVE SCHREINER is a little tedious in her discourse upon heredity, but her paper on the blacks of South Africa. is much the most interesting in the July number of the...

Publishing Company.)-This is a little book which will prove most interesting and useful to all who are in- terested in the Navy, and that ought to mean the whole nation....

is a volume of Messrs. Blackie's "School and Home Library," and quite worthy of its place. Katy is a high- spirited creature who is not a little improved by the discipline of...

Bird.)-This is a well-written story of American life. The characters are drawn with no common skill. Perhaps Mercy Starkweather, afterwards Winterton, though certainly the least...

is a collection of articles on Swiss holiday wanderings contributed to a Cambridge paper. Though there is notting very new there is much that is true in the book, and Alpine...

V. White and Co.)-This is not a tale of the usual type we are accustomed to receive from Mr. Henty, but a romance, an historical romance it is true, beginning at the Siege of...

Odons. (Home Words Office.)-Mr., or as he was during his latter years, Archdeacon, Blakeney spent half his life in Shef- field, this half being again almost exactly subdivided...

Stock.) -Whether to tell the history of a whole county in chronological order is better than to divide it into separate subjects, we are not prepared to decide. It demands much...

Millar, B.D. Vol. II. (Williams and Norgate.)-This volume belongs to the series published by the "Theological Translation Fund." Professor von Weizsacker holds the position...

(Hodder and Stoughton), containing, as do those pre- viously noticed in these columns, Sermons (given at full length), Sermon Outlines, Illustrations for the Sundays and...

Letters from Paris during and after the Hundred Days. By Helen Maria Williams. (The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland.)- These letters give a curious picture of Paris in 1815....

Lock, and Bowden.) -These pleasant little stories have their scenes laid in Australia. The local colour is therefore fresh and interest- ing, and besides the plots we get an...

poetry, with notes by Mr. George and Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, is, on the whole, a satisfactory one. It, at any rate, includes no poem which ought not to be there. We miss, however,...