in the Guildhall on Wednesday, which was attended by some eighteen hundred stockbrokers, who marched in three detachments from the Stock Exchange to the Guildhall, with the...

The Norwegian Storthing absolutely insists that, as the foreign trade of Norway is far greater than that of Sweden, she shall have a Consular establishment of her own all over...

case.

A N absurd rumour having got into the papers that the Duke of York was married, the Court Circular on Tuesday announced his betrothal to the Princess Victoria Mary (Princess...

dissolve, if defeated upon the Army Bills; but there is still a faint possibility that they may be passed. A Member of the Centre or Catholic Party, Major Huene, has proposed a...

Mr. Gladstone's curious impression that thrift in saving, or industry in earning, is a disqualification for sound political judgment, and asked who could form a just impres-...

on Wednesday by a majority of 279 to 201, after a remarkable declaration from Mr. Gladstone. He stated that the majority of his Cabinet, and especially Mr. Asquith, were in...

The Calcutta correspondent of the Chronicle asserts that it has been decided to annex Beloochistan ; but the facts he reports, if they are facts, scarcely bear out the...

May 1st, as had been long ago arranged. It was not ready, of course, even American energy having been beaten by the destiny which presides over great Exhibitions ; but the...

3 per cent. There is a demand for gold to be sent to Australia, where the end of the banking trouble is not yet reached, and where one Government (Sydney) has made local...

separated themselves, refusing to make their de- monstration in Hyde Park on the same day, made but a poor " show " by themselves on May 1st, making up only, as far as could be...

Egypt. In a speech full of detailed knowledge, he main- tained that both parties in Great Britain were pledged to the lips to evacuate Egypt when the time arrived, and that the...

Bill gave an opportunity to several private Members to air their views on taxation. Mr. Brookfield moved an amendment in favour of the abolition of the tax on tea. This...

Com- mittee of Supply, moved a resolution in favour of Imperial Penny Postage ; but Mr. Gladstone and his Postmaster- General pointed out that the proposal was impossible in a...

large part of his speech to replying, on behalf of the Academy, to the criticisms of our Art critic. "If we were to form our opinion from the views expressed in passages we may...

the House to call attention to the Hull strike, his excuse being that the Shipping Federation were engaged in contravening certain Acts of Parliament, and generally acting...

this day week. The Prince of Wales said that, since his first invitation to the banquet thirty years ago, his "absences" had been like angels' visits, "few and far between,"—a...

Gladstone whether Mr. Andrew Lang, in his Life of Lord Iddesleigh, had correctly stated that, in 1852, Mr. Glad- stone removed the late Mr. James Hope Scott from the position of...

too much liked. No less than five Bills have been laid before the Chamber for checking immigration, there being, it is declared, already 480,000 Belgians, 280,000 Italians,...

New Coacols (21) were on Friday 98i.

THEBETROTHAL OF THE DUKE OF YORK. T HE official announcement of the betrothal of the Duke of York, the ultimate heir to the Throne, to the Princess May of Teck, will be received...

O N Monday the House, if it does not go into Committee, will at least consider what kind of instructions it shall give to the Committee on the Bill which is so perversely...

W E have been pondering on the reply which Mr. Gladstone would probably give, if unfortunately for him he were compelled to give any, to the singularly powerful and impressive...

TT ONESTLY, we find some difficulty in explaining why''' so many Englishmen ' ourselves included, regard a great Exhibition, whether in Chicago, or Paris, or London, with so...

tax. Even Home-rule could you find no other has not prevented the action of this law of rebirth. The air of the cottage hung with luxury more and * more,' on "the is full of...

E VERY Irishman wants a post, and when he has got it, he wants his son appointed deputy." That was the solitary conclusion with which a shrewd English poli- tician returned from...

TT is quite evident what the Labour party, with a great body, if not a majority, of the artisans behind them, are consciously or unconsciously driving at. They want the State,...

S INCE the time of Balaam, there has been no more striking case of a curse turned into a blessing than the part which Dr. Martineau has played in the contro- versy about...

at least the impression con- veyed by this word, has slowly altered, in this country at least, within the last forty years. It originally meant, according to all American...

T HOSE whom choice or fortune led to spend May Day of the present year in the deep woodlands of the South, will have learnt to prize, as they never did before, and possibly may...

M AXIMS are, we suspect, rather overrated affairs. They are a little like ordinary schoolmasters who impose upon their pupils by assuming a dignity which turns out on...

• asks for a photograph or a specimen of handwriting and calls herself a physiognomist or a graphologist before she advises her client upon the same momentous topic, then she...

TWO MORALS FROM HULL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — The history of the recent strike, however it terminates, will have taught all observant persons two things...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — The articles contained in the Spectator of April 1st and 29th on" The Appointment of Magistrates" in English counties, were written...

[To TUE EDITOR or THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR, — A short time since, you published some correspondence on the pronunciation of surnames, such as Derby, Berkeley, &c., and if I am...

THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SIR, — An article in the World of April Llth was returned to nee from London lately with this observation :—" A perfectly true picture; but the misfortune is...

[To TUE EDITOR Or TUE "BPECTATOR."] your criticism of Mr. Balfour's artist friend, in the !Spectator of April 29th, and of the kindred anticipations for literature which Mr....

[To TUB EDITOII OF TILE " BPECTAT011.1 Sin,—I wonder whether your contributor, the writer of the interesting article on the plague of voles (in the Spectator of April 8th),...

THE MERRY MONTH. IT was the merry month, And the merry birds sang loud ; The wren was in the ivy-bush, The lark was in the cloud. In all that day of perfect May There seemed...

THE NEW GALLERY. This picture season will be remembered, it is safe to say, as a triumph for Mr. Sargent. What a calm review of the Academy leaves hardly doubtful, a visit to...

PROFESSOR KNIGHT ON /ESTHETICS.* PROFESSOR KNIGHT has written a very original and. able book on the philosophy of the beautiful. Especially the chapter on "Suggestions towards...

subject are the most important qualifications of an author, Mr. and Mrs. Elton may be con- gratulated on having undertaken to write an account of the principal book-hunters....

PROFESSOR MAYOR'S Prolegotnena, and the text, with annota- tion, paraphrase, and special discussion of important points, divide this volume nearly equally. In the former, the...

WE have already had occasion to praise Mr. Orby Shipley in this journal for his efforts to make religious poetry better known by his Annus Sanctus. In the present volume he has...

A FEW years ago we remarked (Spectator, September 22nd, 1888) that "no satisfactory book has yet been published on the question,—What is the Buddhism of the present day in any...

THE political articles in the magazines for May are all, of course, devoted to the Home-rule Bill. The best of them are Mr. Lecky's eloquent and thoughtful attack on it in the...

have the first volume of this "Record of Current Literature." The criticisms are signed, a practice for which much is to be said ; but which somehow does not—in this country, at...

(Chapman and Hall.)—This Life of Cervantes is very pleasant as well as instructive reading. While there is no educated person, we suppose, who is not familiar with Cervantes'...

not Mrs. Walford's best work, but it has a good deal of humour in it, and could not have been written by any author who had not a groat gift for sprightly and skilful...

considerable ; but it is not, on the whole, ability put to its best use. There are too many characters, and not always well- outlined characters ; and the society sketches are...

F.S.A., with Illustrations by Herbert Railton. (Seeley and Co.)—This is a beautiful book. The illustrations are in • great part by Mr. Railton, but a few have been added by Mr....

Harrison has put together a number of recollections in these two volumes. There are experiences of his own met with in the exercise of his profession as a reciter ; there are...

—This is a "society novel" of the regulation pattern. Three thin loosely printed volumes, which might have been compressed into one, are anyhow easy to read, and do admirably...

Cutts, D.D. (S.P.C.K.)—A volume full of useful facts, which should prove a whole armoury of weapons for any one who has to concern him- self with the question of...

York.)—In his first paper, "The Golden Rug of Kerman- gliAt," Mr: Ellwanger assumes a somewhat Monte-Cristo air. Only millionaires could buy rugs at such cost. The angling ex-...

Thomas Duer Broughton. With Introduction by Sir M. E. Grant-Duff. (A. Constable.)—This is a volume of "Constable's Oriental Mis- cellany." The writer of the letters was in 1809...

(Gay and Bird.)—This is a very careful study of an important subject. The writer is dominated throughout by a judicial temper. Facts about which exaggerated views are commonly...