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After some badgering of the Prime Minister by Sir H.
The SpectatorD. Wolff, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Mr. Gibson, and others, as to the source of the information on which the political prisoners had been released, which Mr. Gladstone declined...
Mr. Gladstone, in commenting on this explanation, entirely denied any
The Spectatornegotiation or transaction of any kind with the released prisoners. The Government were convinced that there was evidence that if released they would no longer use their...
The official announcements were made on Tuesday, in the Lords
The Spectatorby Lord Granville, and in the Commons by Mr. Glad- stone, who told the House that the Government, acting upon information and on its responsibility, but " without any nego-...
On Thursday night the first great sensation was caused by
The SpectatorLord Kensington, who moved for a new writ for the Northern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord Frederick Cavendish, who had accepted the office of...
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorT HE week has been one of much political excitement. It was whispered on Monday, and known on Tuesday, that the Government intended to abandon Coercion, to release the political...
Then the winds broke loose. Sir S. Northcote was moderate ,
The Spectatormaking it his chief point that, while persons accused of "crime" were left in prison, persons "reasonably suspected of treason- able practices," like two of the arrested...
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" Holy Dynamite" is extending its evil influence even in
The SpectatorAmerica. Two parcels filled with powder were recently sent by post to the addresses of Mr. Cyrus Field and Mr. W. H. Van- derbilt, and exploded in the railway en route. They...
On Friday week, the Lords Committee of Inquiry into the
The SpectatorLand Act submitted a formal Report in favour of extending the purchase clauses of the Land Act, by a scheme under which the State would advance the whole sum at 3 per cent. ;...
Zululand appears to be fast relapsing into anarchy. The thirteen
The Spectatorchiefs and a large portion of the people dislike John Dunn, who, they say, is intent only on making a purse-for him- self, and a considerable section of them are desirous that -...
A severe struggle appears to be going on in France
The Spectatorbetween the advocates of five years' service, with exemptions for those- who pay their own expenses, and those who defend three years' service without exemptions. M. Gambetta is...
Lord Kimberley took the earliest opportunity of stating that he
The Spectatoradhered to the new policy of the Government. He made a long speech on Wednesday night to the Herts Liberal Associa- tion, and, after denying all current reports, said it was...
The debate of Monday night on the amendments of Mr.
The SpectatorO'Donnell and Lord George Hamilton to the first resolution concerning Parliamentary procedure,—the resolution as to the closure of debate,—was not very important, for those...
Sir Stafford Northcote's speech came to very little, but all
The Spectatorthe Home-rule speeches confirmed the impression pro- duced by Mr. Parnell's, and so irritated Mr. Gibson that, in a speech of " unmuzzled " eloquence, he assailed his late...
The Sultan has dismissed his Grand Vizier, Said Pasha, it
The Spectatoris believed for being too compliant to Russia in the matter of the war indemnity. His successor is Ahdurrahman Pasha, who has governed one or two provinces with success, who is...
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The Wordsworth Society held a successful anniversary meeting at the
The SpectatorFreemasons' Tavern on Wednesday, the chair being taken, first, by Mr. Browning, the poet, and later by Lord Coleridge, who was the president of the year. Several papers were...
University College, Toronto, has produced the Antigone of Sophocles with
The Spectatora success that may make the Oxford com- pany who acted the Agamemnon tremble for their laurels. Probably, nowhere, except at Harvard, where the wealth, as well as the...
A meeting of the "Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants"
The Spectator(whose central offices are at 14 Grosvenor Road) was held at the official residence of Sir Henry Brand, the Speaker of the House of Commons, last Saturday, at which the Speaker...
Any one who wants to see a truly noble statue
The Spectatorof the greatest statesman of our time should go to the covered building on the Embankment, in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Stephen's Club, to see the clay model of Mr....
Esther Pay was on Saturday acquitted of the charge of
The Spectatorbaying murdered the child Georgina Moore, at Yalding, on December 20th, after a short consultation by the jury. Every one who had followed the case foresaw this result. The...
Lord Salisbury presided on Wednesday at the ninety-third anniversary dinner
The Spectatorin aid of the Royal Literary Fund, at which, however, he did not make a very gracious speech. Con- sidering that Lord Salisbury has been himself a frequent and very able...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE NEW DEPARTURE. N O one, we imagine, will doubt the courage of the Cabinet in taking its new departure. The mere loss of Mr. Forster is a great blow, every secession, and...
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MR. FORSTER'S EXPLANATION.
The SpectatorT HE difference between the tone of the House of Com- mons on Tuesday night, when Mr. Forster's resignation was first announced, and on Thursday night, when he made the...
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A NIHILIST ON THE NIHILIST OBJECT.
The SpectatorA LITTLE light at last, upon the Nihilist conspiracy. The history of that movement furnished this month to the Fortnightly by Prince Krapotkine, may not be complete, and may...
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THE SPEAKER AND THE MINISTRY.
The SpectatorW E have never concealed our own strong conviction that the proposal to close a debate ought to originate with the responsible Ministry of the day, and to be subject only to the...
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THE YALDING MURDER.
The SpectatorI T is strange that just when the public have been excited about murder by means of a poison which was supposed to be almost beyond discovery, and which yet yielded in the end...
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MR. LITTON ON SECESSION.
The SpectatorHE coming discussion on the expediency of establishing a T peasant proprietary in Ireland will, we have little doubt, turn mainly on the social aspect of the change. One side...
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THE NEW BILL OF THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
The SpectatorT HE so-called "revised draft" of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, prepared by a Special Committee of the Farmers' Alliance, will be issued in a few days, its publication being...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
The Spectatorspontaneously visit her. Yet the prose, both of Car- lyle and of Emerson, falls at times into that poetic rhythm which indicates the highest glow of a powerful imaginative...
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M. PASTEUR AND M. RENAN ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
The SpectatorM PASTEUR'S repudiation of the Positivism of M. LAW, • in the session of the French Academy on Thursday week, has been seized upon by religions men with more of eagerness,—one...
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THE ACADEMY DINNER.
The SpectatorT HE Royal Academy Dinner this year was comparatively a failure, and that is odd, because the conditions which make up an interesting occasion were present in profusion. There...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE PUBLIC INTEREST IN TENANT-RIGHT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The Duke of Argyll and Mr. Bear have discussed in your columns and elsewhere the existing...
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PAROCHIAL COUNCILS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] replying to your editorial comment, I do so fully- recognising the force of a remark by a friend of mine, that "a. man who can hold his...
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THE FORT DE L'ECLUSE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—By way of appendix to the highly interesting essay on " The Fort de l'Ecluse," in your last number, permit me to point out that in the...
ART.
The SpectatorTHE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] THE clatter of wine-cups and the murmur of complimentary speeches has died away, and once more Burlington House settles itself down to...
THE POPULAR CHARM OF POMP.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your interesting article upon " The Royal Wedding" hardly seems to me quite to solve the problem. There are a great many people who...
JOHN OF ANTIOCH, AND HIS EDITORS. [TO THE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTHE " spEcuerort.-1 'Sia,—Professor Jebb, in the first chapter of his admirable -" Life of Bentley," in the " English Men of Letters " series, sketches the preliminary history...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. SCOTT HOLLAND'S SERMONS.* THERE is a great difference between the power of the different sermons in this volume, but some of them are as powerful as any preached in this...
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THE BLOOM OFF THE PEACH.*
The SpectatorAs a novel, The Bloom, off the Peach has many merits. It is carefully put together, it is entirely free from all mannerisms, its characters are sufficiently life-like, and in...
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THE EASTERN MENACE.*
The SpectatorTHE author of this book is an excellent representative of the Jingo school. He is an able man ; he is well read ; he is a vigorous writer ; and though he does not shrink from...
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CHARITABLE REFORM.*
The SpectatorTHE Lord Mayor was placed in a position of some difficulty on Tuesday last, from which he extricated himself with no little tact and skill. Be was then presiding at the annual...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTux Magazines are of interest this month. The Contemporary, for example, gives us an eloquent and able history of the deal- ings of the House of Hapsburg with the Slays of the...
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but lends itself only too easily to ridicule. What could
The Spectatorbe more judicious than the remark that " Every home should have some musical instrument ? " Why not have followed it up by the sugges- tion that if you can have but one, you...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Spectator20schylus : Agamemnon. With Introduction and Notes. By A. Sidgwick, M.A. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—There have been many editions of the Agamemnon, but none whioh, on the...
The Decay of Modern Preaching. By J. P. Mahaffy. (Macmillan.)
The Spectator—We are inclined to traverse Professor Mahaffy's fundamental asser- tion, and to contend that it is not preaching which has decayed, but the power of listening to preaching....
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NOVELS.—Stauley Brereton. 3 vols. By W. H. Ainsworth. (Routledge and
The SpectatorCo.)—This, the last novel by the late Mr. Ainsworth, is not, as we fondly hoped, an historical romance, bright with the colour of a picturesque age, and flowing with the...