Commons on Friday week were all good. Mr. W. H. Smith dwelt on Mr. Bright's perfect simplicity and dislike of any- thing like adulation. " He was remorseless," said the First...

G ENERAL BOULANGER has given Parisians a, new surprise. Being informed by his friends, or, as he says, by the police, that it had been decided to arrest him, and afterwards try...

General Boulanger being accused of cowardice, desertion of his friends, and fear of pecuniary bankruptcy. M. Thiebaud, an early disciple and infirm to counsellor, repudiates him...

absence, and on Thursday applied to the Chamber for the regular permission. The President read to the Chamber an indictment drawn up by the Procureur- General, in which the...

be a statesman, and in the sense of official training perhaps was not exactly a statesman ; but that few men of equal power had ever applied so consistently to their public...

case.

length reached London, and reveal to us his story down to August 29th, 1888. They are perfectly simple yet wonderfully impressive narratives of his journey, from the junction of...

unquestionable triumph for the Unionists. Captain Bowles, a young and untried candidate, was elected by a majority of 1,512 over Mr. Fairbairns, the Gladatonian Liberal, who had...

Commission,—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,—in a very eloquent speech, not yet concluded, which is directed to show that there was the greatest need for the Land League...

to the Society of Friends at Rochdale, no flowers being placed upon his coffin except those sent by the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Earl and Countess Spencer,...

the subject of a very unfortunate quarrel between the Birming- ham Conservatives and the Birmingham Liberal Unionists. On the one hand, the general understanding between the two...

condition of poverty in many large cities was " a danger to the well-being of the State," and supported it in a speech in which he denounced machinery—without which the very...

refusing the money demanded for an increase in the Navy, by 256 to 85; and on Thursday also rejected Mr. Childers's amendment, to vote the money annually instead of at once, by...

of the National Liberal Club on Wednesday, at which, after panegyrising Mr. Bright,--doubtless, if Lord Hartington were to die, Sir William Harcourt would panegyrise Lord...

Kennington, to the important Bishopric of Tasmania promises to be happy, and possibly memorable. Mr. Mont- gomery's antecedents are those from which so many first-rate Bishops...

Abyssinia and his whole Army have been destroyed by the dervishes. The Roman Cabinet is therefore discussing the expediency of taking up a new attitude towards Abyssinia, that,...

answer to that letter of the Dean of Windsor's on which we have commented elsewhere. He makes the very important point that an Ecclesiastical Court not overridden by political...

proposed Lord Balfour of Burleigh as Chairman of Committees in place of the Duke of Buckingham, who died last week, stating that, deep as was his respect for Lord Morley, whom...

It has abolished pensions at a blow. On Tuesday it carried a resolution, moved by Mr. Westacott :—" That in the opinion of the Council, all officers to be appointed by the...

unquestioned ascendency to the native chief Mataafa. On March 30th, telegrams were received in Washington and Berlin announcing that a tremendous hurricane had on March 15th...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 981 to 981.

GENERAL BOULANGER'S FLIGHT. T HE flight of General Boulanger, whether excusable or not, seems to us more natural than it does to most of our contemporaries. It has been evident...

of the Liberal Unionists who formerly voted against them. Their line of reasoning is as follows :—` In 1886, Mr. Bright was re-elected without a contest because, though we were...

proposed increase to the Navy have- not been very interesting, except in one respect. The Liberal leaders are not prepared to offer a direct resistance to the proposal, and...

E, incessant exploration in the Dark Continent, and the habit of command have developed Henry Stanley;, originally something of an adventurer, into a true herot. It is difficult...

I T is sometimes said that Englishmen have a special value for moral qualities in public men ; and in proof of it is alleged the universal regret expressed for such men as Mr....

I T would be difficult to imagine anything more thoroughly unsatisfactory than the debate on the condition of the poor in our large towns, which took place in the House of...

Lincoln case promises to be fertile in surprises, and among them must be reckoned the appearance of the Dean of Windsor's letter in the Times of Tuesday. The whole aim and...

IT is not M. Eiffel who is to blame for his tower. It was natural enough that a large contractor in iron, seeing a chance of putting up the tallest building ever erected in...

T HE loss of the most eloquent speaker of this century, has fixed men's attention on the essential nature of eloquence. Literally, of course, eloquence means " speaking out,"...

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—It is highly improbable that Danton ever read or heard of Bacon's essay, " Of Boldness." However, it should be observed that though...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The Popes have of late at least respected the antiquities of their city. Some of us hope they may have their own again. This is from a...

THE REVOLUTION IN THE LAND LAWS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] 'SIR,—I would ask you to allow me to reply briefly to " Anglo- Cape Lawyer." The opposition of the...

In the new England of these coming years, A hero true, devoid of human fears,— A man whose speech was lit by truth's warm glow, Whose soul's large purpose was to aid below, And...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER-ETCHERS. IN these times, when the art of photography has been carried to such a pitch, and its effects are to be traced in much of our pictorial...

JOHN BRIGHT. LOVED at the last ! The great Tribune, the fighter, The name once in England chief discord, chief fear! Now a spell breathing peace, now a link to unite her, From...

With his device ; through him the lands made moan :. Thou who to other countries and thine own Wouldst bring peace in abundance dost deserve The motto. Englishman of sturdy...

[To THE EDITOB OT THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Knowing your interest in dogs, I venture to send you the following story. A week or two ago, the porter of the Bristol Royal Infirmary...

MONASTIC VISITATIONS ON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION.* WE have to thank the Camden Society and Dr. Jessopp for a book of unusual interest. For the first time, we have in print a...

NEARLY thirty years of travel in Africa—and such travel !- form Livingstone's ample title to a front place among " men of action ;" all the more, and not the less, because he...

THE present generation of readers, who are never weary of informing us that they have no leisure for the study of the masterpieces of our glorious old literature, with whom a...

Tins is a valuable and entertaining though eminently un- scholarly work. Mr. Farmer's acquaintance with modern authorities is extensive and minute ; but when he has to deal with...

THE post of honour in the Contemporary Review is assigned this month to • two articles on the situation in France,—one by M. G. Monod, and the other by Mr. Hamerton. Both are...

The Colonial Office List for 1889. By John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This universal dictionary of the Colonies well maintains its character for variety of...

is a "Record of the Forms and Methods of Government in Great Britain, her Colonies, and Foreign Countries." An introduction deals with the questions of the " diffusion of...

M.A. (Cambridge University Press), has reached, we are glad to see, a new edition. Whether it has been noticed before in these columns, we cannot say; but we cannot do wrong in...

Low and Co.)—This volume contains eight essays dealing with various subjects and personages of the seventeenth century. "That High and Mighty Prince, King James," is the subject...

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—Mr. Arnold-Forster gives us here some praiseworthy translations, mostly of poems which are already well known to readers cf Schiller. We are inclined...

Wheatley. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a volume which will interest book-lovers. It contains descriptions, illustrated by photographs, of sixty-two book-covers belonging to the...

and Co.)—The " German revolutionary poets " are the singers whose utterances Mr. Joynes renders into English verse, and renders, we may say, with much spirit. Heine and...