A LITTLE gleam of success lights up the week. The recent emeute in Beloochistan, though led by men who were - practically brigand chiefs, was formidable, for there were chiefs...

THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMERCIAL WARS. NI R. GREENWOOD is not the only man who has called attention to the possibility of a commercial war to be waged by the Continent against...

T ORD ELGIN'S term of office as Viceroy of India runs out this year; it is understood that he longs for home, as he well may ; and the selection of his successor must be among...

T HERE is little use in writing this article, for it will not cure, or even help to abate, the evil complained of ; but still it ought to be written, because it will enable our...

rilllogE who entertained fears that the Government 1. were contemplating a scheme for the disintegration and disorganisation of London—for splitting London, that is, into three...

T T is possible that the Moorish question—that Western question which Prince Bismarck once said was in reality more formidable than the Eastern—is going to be raised in a very...

A WEEK or two back we drew some conclusions about episcopal work from a chance remark of the Bishop of London on the occupations of his ordinary day. In the February number of...

T HE last day of January throughout the greater part of England was like a very beautiful spring day. In the country not only the snowdrops but the crocuses were in full bloom,...

churchyard. That is a bitter and endless controversy upon which nothing will induce us to enter. Of one thing, however, we are sure,—a mild winter doubles the nation's...

T HE writer, as an old student of fiction, which he believes to be one of the best guides to the drifting of modern thought, has often been asked whether be knew of any novel...

A WRITER in the Daily Mail gives some notes from a forthcoming book to be entitled "The Cat and the City," purporting to give an approximate census of the London oats, and the...

THE LATE LORD CARLINGFORD AND IRISH LAND LEGISLATION. [To TeX EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR:I SIE,—John Mill said that Mr. Chichester Fortescue's Irish Land Bill was the most...

[To THE EDITC:R OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — May I point out a ctaracteristic of the late Mr. Charles Villiers to which your 4bitnary notice of him makes no reference? His...

of the stock-in-trade of the pulpit in a more merciless age. Sixteen years ago a garrulous old women at Dundee told me that, in her girlhood, she had heard a preacher tell the...

[To TER EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR:"] Srn,—Yon have reviewed my " Short History of English Literature " in the Spectator of January 29th with so charm! ing a courtesy, and with an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—With reference to the article in the Spectator of January 22nd, I should like to point out, in justice to West Indian planters, that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "ErECTATOIL.1 Sin,—There is some difference between Frederick the Great's order to his aide to put the caricature of himself lower for the people to see...

[To vas EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, "G. H. F.," in the Spectator of January 1st, makes two erroneous statements as to the battle of Waterloo. He says...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SpiccrArog."1 • SIR,—While all your readers will agree in your denunciation in the Spectator of January 8th of "that particular anti-social yprson, the...

THE HAUNTED CITY. SOME heart's remembrance and regret Fill every street with life profound; This corner where of old we met To me has since been hallowed ground: I never pass...

ARTHUR YOUNG'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* OF the long roll of English worthies few are more charac- teristic of the soil than Arthur Young. "A poor little country gentleman," as he calls...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." . ] Srn,—Riding along a road in India I saw the following instance of a big elephant's timidity, which I venture to send you. The elephant,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the above work—a review of which appeared in the Spectator of January 22nd—in an investigation into the causes to which thermal...

gives such a fascination to Stevenson's Picturesque Edinburgh is not to be found in Miss Gerard's Picturesque Dublin. Her book is a curious medley of legend, tradition, history...

discovery of the literary kind that has been made since the golden age of the revival of learning, that happy time when scholars found lost classics as the lucky diggers that...

people's choice of a hero who shall represent to the nation its own idea of what a hero should be, are very obscure. They are certainly not deter- mined by the historical...

WHATEVER may be thought of the merits of their cause, —and on those merits we desire on the present occasion to express no final opinion—bimetallists have certainly bad more...

THE first article in the _Nineteenth Century is a really remark- able one, and should be carefully studied by every one who is interested in the general politics of the world....

The now number of the Quarterly Review is notable for the variety of its contents. It contains twelve articles dealing with such very different subjects as Wagner, and Nelson,...

Writings. By his eldest surviving Son, Rev. A. N. Malan, M.A., F.G.S. (John Murray. 18s.)—S. C. Malan, whose unfortunate Christian names are exchanged for initials throughout...

Robeson Taylor. (William Doxey, San Francisco.)— Tennyson was not particularly pleased at the translating of his poems into French, and we do not imagine that M. de Heredia will...

— After excepting a few phrases of artistic or Eesthetic slang we have nothing but praise for Mr. Stevenson's monograph. There is something affected, for instance, about the...

Fields. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 7s. 6d.)—About eight years ago, while she was still living, Mrs. Stowe's son, Charles Edward Stowe, wrote an attractive Life of his...

(R.T.S.)—As a sketch of the life of a great man whose name ranks next to that of Luther in the history of the Reformation, this little volume is deserving of high praise. The...

(A. Constable and Co.) — The "foster parent," it must be understood, is the schoolmaster, who, Mr. Tarver thinks, and not without reason, knows much more about his...

sixty-sixth year, is as useful a book of ready reference as ever.—Whitaker's Directory of Titled Persons (12 Warwick Lane) is a very handy book of reference for those who wish...

by May Tomlinson. (Lawrence and Bullen )—This is an excellent translation of Marguerites the Temps Passé. No doubt the stories were easy to translate, for the French in which...

written in the form of an autobiography, the story being told by a Greek who has been the companion of Hannibal, and tells in his old age the story of what he saw with him and...

:—The Century, Pall Mall Magazine, St. Nicholas, the New Review, Macmillan's Magazine, the Review of Reviews, Blackwood's Magazine, the Cornhill Magazine, the Expository Times,...

Anderson (J. G.), A Manual of French Prose Construction, cr 8vo (Blackie) 5/0 Barsac (L.), Shadow and Ir wellies, 16mo (Unicorn Press) 3/6 Bayne (W.), James Thomson (Famous...

half-yearly, instead of yearly Irons January to June, and from Jule/ to December), es the - third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for the Half-yearly Volumes may be...