6th TO DECEMBER 28th, 1889, INCLUSIVE. FROM JULY TOPICH.OF THE DAY. .11 Africa, the Portuguese in ... ... Africa, Stanley, Mr., his return from ... African Revolution, the ......

Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Plibliihei by him at the SPECTATOR' . Office, No. 1 Wellington...

is supPosed- to give him a certain guarantee of the loyalty of his subjects. The ceremonial was performed by the Archbishop Itiahael in an ancient and dilapidated church at...

we wish here to call attention to a curious social fact. The House of Commons is supposed to be entirely opposed to dis- tinctions between men and women in regard to their claim...

provision for the Princess Louise of Wales on her marriage -with Lord Fife, and for Prince Albert Victor of Wales, the future King, now twenty-five years old. Mr. Labouchere and...

First Lord of the Treasury, on Wednesday, by the Westminster Con- servative Association, at which an address from the electors of the Strand borough was presented to him,...

Tuesday, a - formidable body:of them, marching northwards, 'made a desperate attenipt fo seize -- a, point upon the Nile it Ar'quin, juit abor.d Wady "Haifa. Tliejf were...

ease.

Till Shah has been the amusement of London for the week. s he was royally entertained in Russia, it was thought wise to entertain him royally here ; and he has been received -...

Burke, John F. Beggs, Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan, Frank Woodruff, Patrick Cooney, and John Kuna as the probable murderers of Dr. Cronin. They are all Irish- men except...

that shortly after the last attempt to blow up the Czar's train, the officer commanding the Guards, a Prince of the Oldenburg family, was asked what would have happened had the...

to concede that our national influence is on the decline. "The power of England," he said, "is at the present moment the make- weight, the equipoise, the safety of the world."...

Report is fixed for July 11th. The chief discussions of the week have turned upon the amount of the State grant to the Universities, and upon the question of theological tests....

invented a spirit-test of value to the Excise, which infringed his patent. He demanded compensation or a royalty, and received a letter from M. Cadiot promising the support. of...

i perplexing absence of obstruction. The Scotch University Bill, and the Scotch Local Government Bill, and the Coal Duties Abolition Bill, are all advancing as if the Opposition...

is to drop them entirely for all the chairs held by laymen. With regard to the theological chairs, it is pro. posed to refer the best mode of treating the securities for safe...

Institute in Paris, on Monday, was as unanimous, to use Mr. Lowell's happy simile, as "Jonah in the whale," but the reason was simple,—that all opposition was deliberately...

after year, to the poorest inhabitants of the poorest part of Ireland, sends a very interesting letter to last Saturday's Times on the condition of Donegal, and on the attitude...

asked leave to move the adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent importance„ in order to call attention to the - proclamation of a meeting at Cork on Sunday, and the...

Friday 981 to 981.

on Tuesday in Devonshire House, Lord Hartington taking the chair. The purpose is, in the first instance, to erect a statue of Mr. Bright within the precincts of St. Stephen's,...

to the Delagoa Railway, and Lord Salisbury replied that the action of Portugal had been very high-handed and, "in his opinion, very unjust." It had been directed, however, in...

and Control" are greatly elated by Mr. Gladstone's declaration atrt. Austell in favour of Disestablishment for Wales and Scotland, and regard his declaration in relation to...

THE SHAH'S RECEPTION. W E see no serious reason to disapprove the rather ostentatious reception which the Court, with the Prince of Wales at its head, and the Government are...

conceding Mr. Labouchere's demand for a Committee of Inquiry into Royal Grants. The senior Member for Northampton constantly degrades his own arguments by his cynicism, and by...

N O reasonable man can - help seeing that there are two sides to the debate on theological tests, though one side may have, and we think has, more to say for itself than the...

TET resolutions passed at Chicago on Monday in elation to the finding of the jury on the Cronin murder touch so nearly the root of the Irish difficulty, that they ought to be...

too hot and hasty over this Delagoa Bay affair. The Portuguese Govern- ment is not a good one even in Europe, and abroad it is probably the very worst white Government in the...

is given not so much to doing the wrong thing, as to doing the right thing in a way which suggests the suspicion that it is done rather unwillingly. In part, no doubt, this is...

little volume which has just been pub- lished in illustration of our political wit and humour,*— a very hasty and inadequate illustration of it as any one may see who examines...

(117R readers, even the middle-aged among them, are a little too young to recollect a weakness which once infected cultivated society, and was delicately ridiculed by Miss...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — A few weeks ago you permitted me to correct a mis- apprehension on the part of one of your correspondents as to the grounds of the...

THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN LONDON. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Six,—In perusing the Report of the Royal Commission recently published, it has struck me as...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I again bring before your readers the needs of our Women's Club in Southwark ? After four years of almost incessant work, we are...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not the London publisher of a book entitled " Visit to Europe," by T. N. Mukharji, with a preface by N. N. Ghose, Esq., barrister-at-law. My imprint (of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Your notice of "The Book of Sun-Dials," collected by Mrs. Alfred Catty, leads me to add three inscriptions over sun-dials which may...

" SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—For the information of your correspondent "H. S. B.," whose letter appeared in your issue of June 29th, and who is under the impression that at the Board...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sia,—Two years ago, Dr. Bell Taylor, in a paper read at the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society, endeavoured to support the futile...

HENRY BRA_DSH.A.W.* Rap Henry Bradshaw been only a man well-beloved, this memoir would not have been written : had he been only a bibliographer of surpassing knowledge and...

TRH Thuringian poet whose Summer Legends are here trans- lated has a true grace, and a delicate fancy of his own ; but he is too eager to satirise the world as it is, and...

MR. HOOPER'S biographical sketch of Wellington will add to , the already high reputation which he has acquired as a writer - on military subjects. It is a book which never flags...

these days that every man of eminence is in a manner bound to tell the world what he knows about himself. We do not think this is altogether a sound theory ; no doubt the works...

performed such conspicuously good service by his firm and temperate advocacy of the duties of National Defence, that the collection of his essays and speeches on the subject in...

THERE is nothing striking in the magazines of this month, but there is plenty to read. We should say, on the whole, though we do not wholly agree with it, that the most...

B. Scott. (George Routledge and Sons.)—This is a charming little pocket volume, containing an edition, not, indeed, as it pro- fesses to be, of "the poetical works" of...

painfully powerful story is an almost unique combination of fashionable frivolity, theological controversy, and sweet simplicity of character, converging finally into tragedy....

has given us here a learned defence of the Anglican position. His tone and temper are admirable. A better tone could hardly be. In particular, it is difficult to imagine how any...

is to be regretted that Mr. Sharp, who is a writer both in prose and verse of considerable versatility and of promising but undisciplined vigour, should, apparently because he...

of Mr. Bonham's applications of his principles will be unexpected by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. That he should condemn Protection as one of the outcomes of "paternal...

Yet another monthly review ! It bears the title of the Newbery House Magazine, and is issued from the establishment which was founded in 1740 by that John Newbery, whom Oliver...

P. Mahaffy and J. C. Rogers. (Macmillan.)—"This book," says the preface, "is really a joint-stock undertaking." It is not the less true that the well-known characteristics of...

Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence, D.D., and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.), contains the two Epistles of St. Peter, the three Epistles of St. John, and the...

Co.)—Botany takes up half the space of this work, an arrangement quite in accordance with the attitude of the teach- ing biologists of to-day. We have no fault to find with this...

Home. (Triibner and Co.)—This is a book of wonders. People of credit (Lord Adair, Lord Lindsay, Mrs. S. C. Hall, for instance), testify to holding red-hot coals in their hands...

and Sons.)—Mr. Russell writes clearly and forcibly, and draws his arguments from abundant stores of knowledge. Nothing could be more lucid than his summary of the philosophical...

and Co.)—The "Queen among Queens" is Zenobia of Palmyra. In this volume Mr. Macdonald tells, in a somewhat inflated style, the story of her fall. He follows the usually accepted...

(Macmillan.)—Every one should be grateful for the suggestion made to Sir W. Thomson,—that he should publish a certain lecture, "On Capillarity," in an accessible form. The...

is a clearly written manual of physiographical principles on the broadest lines, including geology and the physics of the earth. Perhaps the conditions of weather and climate...

Blackett.)— This story should give almost absolute satisfaction to lovers of melodramatic fiction. It is spiritedly written ; it is full of startling incidents, including a...