T HE Bulgarians are not Dutchmen after all. They are clearly losing heart, and the Regents, after releasing the seventy odd officers accused of mutiny and kidnapping, have...

the contest for the Mayoralty. Mr. A. Hewitt, the candidate of the respectable Democrats, received 90,296 votes ; Mr. Roosevelt, the Republican, 60,392 ; and Mr. H. George, the...

case.

meeting of the Austrian and Hungarian " Delegations," the Committees ap- pointed by the two Parliaments to supervise, rather than control military and foreign affairs. They met...

impossible, and would be dishonourable, to go back about Home-rule, He would leave the Unionist Liberals alone to meditate on their position. He would argue the question with...

at Leeds on Wednesday ; and a programme was resolved upon by delegates who represented, it is said, 30 per cant. more Liberal Associations than had been affiliated at the time...

they say, to force,—though they kindly admit that the police and soldiers, without whose protection they would be thrown into the river by conservative factions, are not their "...

a deputation of gentlemen interested in the South African Colonies, and explained to them the policy adopted by the Government in Zululand. The deputation was in favour of the...

Association in Glasgow, under the presidency of Lord Elgin, who made a speech deprecating any aggressive action against the Liberal Unionists. Mr. Brown, however, who displaced...

Randolph Churchill had abandoned all his principles without the smallest compunction,—which no reasonable man denies, though in that respect Sir William Harcourt himself might...

swerve of opinion towards the Republican Party. That party has reduced the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives from forty-two to less than ten, and has in-...

placed the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales among the " active objects " of the Liberal Party. Mr. Stuart Rendel„ Member for Montgomeryshire, had asked him for an...

feared a period of cantankerous personalities, in which the poli- tical air would be poisoned by cabals, intrigues, and quarrels about men. As proof of this, he gave the...

not of much significance. Lord Dnnraven made, as is his wont, a rather windy speech, in which he appeared to make more than it deserved of the Irish-American leaning to Mr....

Ghilzais, if it has really occurred, would imply a formidable rising in the kingdom. It would mean that the second clan in Afghanistan was again ready to try conclusions with...

who manage the Oxford University Extension Scheme, for the year 1885-86, has just appeared, and shows some highly satisfactory results. The lectures at the various local centres...

of Egypt. The reserved 5 per cent. upon the coupons will be paid, and it is now announced that France has failed in securing an ally for her Egyptian policy. Russia is occupied...

secret 'Circular, directing his subordinates in Kerry not to lend the aid of the Royal Constabulary in evictions until they have ascertained that the evictions are...

Saturday, in which the only sentence that could possibly be in- terpreted as significant,—and that we hope is not really so,— declared that "there is no member of the Government...

criticisms of Mr. Charles Norton on the way he has discharged his task of writing Carlyle's biography, that he never desired the duty, that he accepted it on Carlyle's urgent...

THE REAL BLUNDER AT LEEDS. W E cannot understand the petulant criticism passed by some of the Unionist journals on the Leeds decision, —the decision, we mean, of the National...

M R. MORLEY'S letter to Mr. Stuart Rendel, on the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales, is exceed- ingly clever as a piece of tactics, but it will not secure its object. The...

T HE difficulties in the way of relieving the unemployed— that is, the men accidentally thrown out of work either by the decline of a trade, as in the case of shipbuilding ; or...

M R. BALFOUR, the Secretary for Scotland, in opening the new Board school in South Bridge, Edinburgh, concluded one of those educational speeches which are dull by the very law...

- THE recent news from the United States is somewhat dis- heartening. Mr. Blaine has been more successful in his recent electioneering tour than was believed to be possible,...

M G A.13RIEL MONOD, whose occasional papers on • " Contemporary Life and Thought in France " are the moat impartial comments upon French affairs that appear in the English...

W HATEVER may be the case in other parts of Asiatic Turkey, there can be no question that Syria has made substantial progress in the last quarter of a century. Signs, indeed,...

Air R. PAGE ROBERTS, the incumbent of the church in Vere Street in which Frederick Maurice preached during the last years of his life, has just published a volume of singularly...

T HE mass of correspondence from Lady Companions, to which the Daily News has recently opened its columns, is far from exhilarating reading. There is a comic element in it,...

AN IRISH PRIEST OF THE OLD SCHOOL. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] SOME of the pleasantest recollections of my early childhood centre in the kindly figure of the old parish priest,...

[To TEL EDITOE Of TEL " SPECTAX011."] SIR,—It has probably been as pleasant to many another veteran co-operator as it was to me to read your article of October 30th, on the...

THE CHURCH HOUSE. .[To THE BEMS OF THE " SPECTLTOE.1 SIR, —The temperate tone of your article contrasts so favourably with that of some other objectors to the proposal to...

Sra,—Your article on " Clerical Incomes " in the issue of October 30th, did not overstate the fall in clerical net income., rather, it understated the fall. I have before me the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] Sni,—As a member of this Association, will you allow me to- protest against the way in which the Times deals with important- political...

on this subject in the Spectator of October 30th, you quote from Mullion's "Dictionary of Statistics," that "in England and Wales, 11,784 clergymen collect £4,054,000." This is...

[To TEL BRITOIL OP TIER "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—There is one omission in your truthful article on this subject which needs to be supplied. Besides local rates, there is Land-tax,...

AUTUMN SONG. SUMMER hath too short a date, Autumn enters, ah ! how soon, Scattering with scornful hate All the joys of June. Nay, say not so; Nothing here below But dies To...

[To TN' EDITOR OF TICE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — Will you kindly allow me a little space to correct one— perhaps the most important—of several annoying errors of the press in my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] 'SIR,—I think that Mr. Llewelyn Davies misses the point of the opponents of the new scheme for the recovery of school fees in London. The...

[T0 TEN EDITOR or run " SrEcrArOs."] rSra,—The docking of horses, alluded to by " X.," is punishable -by law, and has been punished in several instances. Every case that comes...

" SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — It is unfortunate that, out of the many letters sent you in reply to your assertion that the most active Nonconformists of fifty years ago were suspicions...

SIR PERCIVAL! Tins book wants substance. It is all atmosphere and im- pression. That which gave John Inglesant its attractiveness is here in plenty, but not that which made one...

SOME time ago, there was noticed in the columns of the Spectator the very interesting, though incomplete, auto- biography of Sir Robert Christison, the eminent Scotch physician...

Ix is refreshing to come from the sensationalism, the " psycho- logy," the extravagance, the morbidness, and worse than morbidness, of much contemporary fiction, to the restful,...

Ma. COB.DERY has improved, but to no great extent, the blank- verse translation of the Iliad which he published in 1870. His workmanship is still open to many of the objections...

Tits Magazines of this month contain no brilliant, or even notable paper, unless it be M. Gabriel Monod's sketch, in the Contemporary Review, of life and thought in France. That...

It is now many years since the Spectator — first, we believe, among English journals—noticed Miss Alcott's "Little Women ;" and now this lady, whose name has since become a...

Byron : Childe Harold. Edited by H. F. Tozer, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Tozer follows in his editon the usual method pursued in dealing with a Latin or Greek classic, giving a...

Pendleton. (Elliot Stock.)—If the reader of this volume is inclined to question its right to be called a history, he will allow that it forms an entertaining collection of...

an Introduction by Henry Morley. (Routledge.)—This is one of Professor Morley's shilling reprints, and a lively shilling's-worth it is. The book was first published in 1830, and...

Parishes. By the Rev. Elias Owen, M.A. (Bernard Quaritch.)—This is a handsome volume, fully illustrated, and the work, it is evident, of one who has brought to his task as much...

and Co.)— This pleasant and entertaining book should, by rights, have been noticed earlier in the year. It might then have been utilised for a purpose to which it is really very...

sketches of English scenes made memorable by literature or history are reprints from magazines, with corrections and additions. Whether their merit entitles them to be brought...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a book of rhymes and pictures, both good in their way. The rhymes are, of course, of the tiers de societd kind, and are fluent and easy, though...

this story is a reforming Moneignore in the Roman Church, who incurs, of course, the hatred of his superiors, and especially of the Jesuits. The heroine is a young American...

Bysshe Shelley. With the Author's Prologue, and Notes by Dr. Garnett and Mary W. Shelley. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. A " second edition." (Reeves and Turner.)—Prose Writings of...

Rev. Canon Spence and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), gives "The Epistle to the Hebrews," the " Exposition " being furnished by the Rev. J. Barmby, D.D.,...

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to run a race were to tie his legs together, don a strait-waistcoat, bandage his eyes, encumber himself with heavy clothing, or in any other way limit his freedom of action,...

Ma. MoitsE's songs have more delicacy than strength. Perhaps their most distinctive quality—and it is a quality claiming grateful recognition in these days of affected cynicism...

abundant a light upon the zoological, is less potent in respect of the botanical phenomena of biological science. Plants gain their livelihood, so to speak, after a far simpler...

THE book before us is a pamphlet of only one hundred and ten pages, and if it were the work of an Englishman, we should think it scarcely worth notice ; but it is interesting as...

to rank Mr. Sinnett's new novel along with those works of fiction in which, from Swift down to Mr. Anstey, the authors have been concerned with the logical con- duct of an...

third edition, revised throughout, with notes and appendices, of Professor T. P. Taswell-Langmead's English Constitutional History. (Stevens and Haynes.)—Professor Langmead was...