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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE old story that Lord Salisbury had signed a treaty with Italy by which he made Great Britain a party to the Triple Alliance has cropped up again, probably because the...
Mr. Balfour made a very important announcement at the third
The Spectatorannual meeting of the Women's Liberal Unionist Asso- ciation on Wednesday, after expressing his hearty sympathy with Miss Tod's attack on the English Nonconformists for...
M.Oonstans will on Monday bring forward an immense project in
The Spectatorthe French Chamber. Any workman will be authorised. by law to have certain deductions made from his wages, and if he does, will be entitled after thirty years to a pension,...
We do not quite understand what Mr. Balfour has done
The Spectatorabout evicted tenants. He on Thursday accepted a clause proposed by Mr. T. W. Russell, under which tenants evicted since May 1st, 1879, may purchase their former holdings under...
The persecution of the Jews in Russia still goes on,
The Spectatorand fear is felt in London that very great numbers will take refuge in this country, which has the unique attraction of being exempt from the conscription. It is even asserted...
London has been occupied all the week with the "Bac-
The Spectatorcarat Case," in which Sir W. Gordon-Cumming, Bart., asks damages for slander from Mrs. Wilson, her son, Mr. A. S. Wilson, and others, for stating, as he alleges, that he had...
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Mr. Goschen made an admirable speech at St. James's Hall
The Spectatoryesterday week, in defending himself from the charge of political inconsistency for now supporting Free Education, which in 1885 he had condemned. In the first place, he said....
'We observe with pleasure a statement in the Daily Telegraph
The Spectatorand the Daily News that the Dean of Worcester (Dr. Gott, formerly Vicar of Leeds) has been offered, and has accepted, the Bishopric of Truro, which Dr. Wilkinson has been com-...
The two most prominent men on the North American Continent
The Spectatorare reported dangerously ill. Sir J. A. Macdonald, Premier of Canada, has been struck down by paralysis of the brain, from overwork and excitement during the recent election,...
Lord Hartington, in addressing a Liberal Unionist meeting at Bakewell
The Spectatoryesterday week, dwelt on the great advantages of the strict alliance between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists, and on the honourable way in which the Conserva- tives...
Mr. Howorth, whose letters we almost always read with. pleasure,
The Spectatorwrites to the Times of Monday a long and, as it seems to us, very unjust attack on the Government, in which he finds fault with everything, including even the- courtesy with...
In the case of the vacancies caused by Lord Edward
The SpectatorCavendish's death and that of Sir Robert Fowler, there has been no disposition on the part of the Gladstonians to pro- voke a contest. Mr. Victor Cavendish has been returned for...
The election at Paisley showed an enormous increase of the
The SpectatorGladstAmian majority, and no tendency whatever in the electors to resent Mr. Gladstone's declaration in favour of disestablishing the Church of Scotland. Mr. Dunn, the...
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There has been - an outburst of brigandage near Constanti- nople. A
The Spectatorband of brigands, said to be Greeks and Mahout- medane of Bulgaria, on Saturday stopped an express-train near Teherkesskeui by removing rails, robbed all the pas- sengers of...
Mr. Gore concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford last Sunday,
The Spectatorand his final lecture was full of a weighty and impressive eloquence which will make the public very anxious to read the course in print. The most significant point of general...
The final treaty between Great Britain and Portugal for the
The Spectatordelimitation of their African possessions has been laid before the Cortes, and will, it is said, be accepted. The Republicans profess discontent in . order to deprive the...
The Dean of Westminster, in a very interesting letter to
The Spectatoryesterday's Times on the Westminster Chapter-House, which the late Dean (Dr. Stanley) had it so much at heart to restore, appeals to the British public for the relatively small...
Sir John Lubbock on Tuesday made an address in the
The SpectatorLondon County Council on that body's finance. Broadly, the Council now owes £17,045,000—the whole debt of London being nearly 240,000,000—its annual expenditure is 22,844,000,...
On April 24th, the day after the engagement in which
The Spectatorthe Blanco Encalada ' was sunk by the torpedoes of the Almirante Lynch' and the Almirante Condell,' these two vessels, with their comrade, the Sargeante Aldea,' attacked the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE ENCYCLICAL ON LABOUR. T HE kind of rapture with which English Catholics have received the Encyclical on Labour, is justified by its contents, which are worthy at once of...
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THE "SECRET TREATY" WITH ITALY.
The SpectatorI T is quite natural that the story of a secret alliance between Great Britain and Italy should revive, and revive at this time. The period, for the renewal of the Triple...
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GOSCHEN AND THE CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF FREE EDUCATION.
The SpectatorR. GOSCHEN'S speech on Free Education at St. James's Hall yesterday week has hardly attracted the attention it deserved. It was a very frank admission that, so far as the...
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THE QUEEN AS STATESMAN. T HE chapter concerning Archbishop Tait's correspon-
The Spectatordence with the Queen concerning the Disestablish- ment of the Irish Church, in the new Life of Archbishop Tait by Dr. Davidson and Dr. Benham, presents the Queen's political...
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THE DIVISION OF AFRICA.
The SpectatorI T may, we think, be fairly assumed that the dispute between Great Britain and Portugal as to their respective rights in Africa has come at last to an end. The Portuguese...
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THE CENSUS IN IRELAND. T HE returns of the recent Census,
The Spectatorwhich have just been published for Ireland, are of very great interest and importance, and in any other democratic country but the United Kingdom they would at once lead to...
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THE OMNIBUS STRIKE. T HE infection of a strike is no
The Spectatorlonger confined to the country of its origin. It spreads as fast abroad as it does at home. The influence of the successful strike among the omnibus men of Paris has been seen...
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APES AND MEN.
The SpectatorI N the New Review. . for June, there is a very remarkable paper by Professor Garner on the language of apes, which he has been studying with the help of the phonograph, and of...
[NOTE—By an absurd slip of the pen, for which we
The Spectatorcannot account, the paper on South Africa quoted as an authority in our article of last week, was attributed to the Civil and Military Gazette, so far as we know, a non-existent...
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THE INTEREST IN THE BACCARAT CASE.
The SpectatorT HE opinion which we expressed on April 25th as to the cause of the interest felt in sensational trials is fully justified by the baccarat case which has this week preoccupied...
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THE ART OF CONVERSATION.
The SpectatorI N a paper contributed to the Nineteenth Century of this month, Mr. Hamilton Aide, who records his impressions of American society, offers a tribute of warm admiration to the...
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SELBORNE AND WOLMER FOREST.
The SpectatorT HE power of locality to form tastes, and its impotence to subdue character, are shown with curious completeness in the cases of Gilbert White and William Clobbett. The same...
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THE LOGICAL NECESSITY OF MIRACLE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPROTATOE.":1 Sin,—If the belief in miracles were attended by no more difficulties than those felt by your correspondent, Mr. Dobell, theological...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorSCOTTISH CHURCH PROPOSALS. [To THE EDITOR OP THH "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Moderator of the Church of Scotland has been pleading at great length for union, but the Presbyterians...
HAS MIND A PHYSICAL BASIS?
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article upon genius, in which you challenge my conclusions as to the effect of neurotic conditions upon thought, you state with...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorTHE PARTING AND THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. BENEATH the twin grey summits oozed a spring, And trickled through the brown and spongy moss, And wore a channel down the stony fell;...
MODERN ALCHEMY.
The Spectator[To THE EllifOlt OF THE " SPEcTATOTc.1 SIR,—There seems to me to be another and a better ground for the widespread belief in the possibility of the conversion of other metals...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE LIFE OF BROWNING.t MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR has written with great depth of feeling and great simplicity, and every one who has felt a strong interest in Browning's singular and...
SIR ROBERT ANSTRUTHER AND THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
The Spectator[To THE EMITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent is substantially correct about the late Sir R. Anstruther. He did stammer,—Nrcu badly in early life, as one of his...
SOMMERSTEMNING.* OH, the joy of the hot June weather, When
The SpectatorSummer lies bound in her tangled hair, When the grass on the hills is in waving feather, And the scent of the orchis is in the air, And the lilies lie in fragrant masses, White...
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M. RENAN IN 1848.*
The SpectatorIN the year 1815, Cardinal Newman was received by the Pope himself into the Church of Rome. From that time, he tells us in his immortal Apologia, he lived in perfect peace and...
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THE BEST BOOKS.*
The SpectatorA WORK which purports to contain a classified list of the best fifty thousand available books in every department of science, art, and literature, deserves at least a...
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A DUTCH NOVEL.*
The SpectatorThe Sin of least Avelingh was a novel sufficiently unusual, in its subject, in the seriousness of its analysis of character and motive, and in the command shown by its author...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTHERE is nothing very striking in the heavier Reviews dila month. Perhaps the paper which will be most read is that by Sir James Johnston on Muneepore in the Nineteenth...
MR. BURY'S " PINDAR." 40 WE welcome this volume all the
The Spectatormore heartily because it is, we understand, the first instalment of a complete edition of the poet. Little labour has been spent by English scholars on Pindar, who, indeed, lies...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorColonial Office List for 1891. Compiled by John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This annual publication contains a mass of manifold information concerning the...
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How Scotland Lost her Parliament. By Charles Waddie. (Waddie and
The SpectatorCo., Limited, Edinburgh.)—The author of this curious little book is the leader of the Home-rule movement in Scotland. His object in writing it is to advocate the revival of a...
Fantasy. By Matilda Serao. Translated from the Italian by Henry
The SpectatorHarland and Paul Sylvester. (William Heinemann.)— Mr. Gosse, who edits the curious "International Library" series of books to which this volume belongs, claims for its author,...
Samantha among the Brethren. By the Author of "Josiah Allen's
The SpectatorWife." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an undoubtedly clever, and, within limits, successful, attempt to reproduce certain phases of American neo-Puritanism and country life. The...
In the series of "Great Artists" (Sampson Low and Co.),
The Spectatorwe have to acknowledge three volumes, David Car and Peter de "Wint, by Gilbert E. Redgrave ; Mulready, by Frederick G. Stephens ; and George Cruikshank, by the same author. Cox...
We have received the second volume of A Dictionary of
The SpectatorApplied Chemistry, by T. G. Thorpe, B S.C. (Longmans). Mr. Thorpe gives a list of contributors which, coupled with his own name, sufficiently commends the volume to the notice...
Liberty and a Living. By Philip Hubert, jun, (Putnam'a Sons.)—Mr.
The SpectatorHubert takes his motto from Thoreau, and, on hie own showing, has tried to live on Thoreauist principles, for his. book is "an attempt to secure bread and 'butter, sunshine and...
Studies in Jocular Literature. By W. Carew Hazlitt. (Elliot Stock.)
The Spectator—This book does not profess to be a collection of " ana," or to be in any respect fragmentary in character ; on the contrary, the alternative title is "A Popular Subject more...
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The Queen of the Black Rand. By Hugh Coleman Davidson.
The Spectator(Trischler and Co.)—This is a talc of Spain and Secret Societies, and for a fiction which is not written with the intention of producing any great effect, there is a great deal...
Stories from the Bible. By the Rev. Alfred J. Church.
The Spectator(Mac- millan.)—Professor Church has, in a greater measure than perhaps any contemporary writer, the gift of narrating a simple story in English that is at once simple and...
Scot-Free. By C. G. Compton. (Kogan Paul and Co.)—The crime
The Spectatorthat Cartwright, the hero in Scot-Free, is made to commit, is certainly surprising and unexpected, and, we cannot help thinking, absurd ; men of his typo, however unscrupulous,...