INDEX.-1888. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A BERDEEN, Mr. Goschen at ... ... 162 Afghanistan :—Ishak Khan, the Fall of ... 1431 Africa, East, Expeditions, &o, in ... 1249.1313 — — Lord...

T HE year 1887 has expired since our last issue, and expired unlamented. The note of the year was its tiresomeness. In politics, as in business, every one was required to keep...

any case.

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 29th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

for the Unionists than that of 1886. Mr. Moss was elected, after the heaviest poll that Winchester has ever given, by a majority of 515 over Mr. Vanderbyl, the Home-ruler, the...

pression of this day week, a conversation between Mr. Gladstone and M. Daryl (the English correspondent of the Paris Temps) on the subject of the recent reduction of Irish rents...

all been of the tranquillising kind ; but they do not amount to much. Certain negotiations have been commenced between the Courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna which are expected...

the Deputies who congratulated him on New Year's Day, refused to say anything of a decidedly hopeful kind. The finances would be put right, he said, if the general situation of...

is worth watching, for this reason. The tendency of opinion nowadays is dead against landlords, who, if they claim their full legal rights, are denounced by the Press all over...

done what a New Year's address could do, to confirm the adhesion of the Positivists to the cause of Home-rule. He remarked that the policy of the Government seemed to be...

were pub- lished in the Imperial Gazette of Germany on Saturday last. They consist of three letters from Prince Ferdinand to the Countess of Flanders, wife of the next heir to...

of Italy has become accentuated by two incidents. The Duke of Torlonia, Syndic of Rome, requested permission of the Pope to pay his homage on the occasion of the Jubilee, and...

balloted for on Thursday, and it was expected that the Republican majority would be greatly increased. The number of municipal delegates has been enlarged since 1879, when the...

the German Crown Prince. The telegrams are fairly favourable ; and the British Medical Journal reports, on good authority, that ground now exists for hoping that the Prince's...

many years since a famine struck two of her Northern pro- vinces, the two Shang, and killed eleven millions of people through hunger and its consequent fevers; and now two...

Fair- trade to Free-trade. At the anniversary dinner on Monday night, both the Earl of Jersey and Mr. A. W. Hall, M.P., pro- tested against the resolution of the delegates at...

to yesterday's Times that the Protectionists are very far indeed from wishing to force Protection on the people of Great Britain against the popular will, since what they hope...

the Royal Institution, stated that there are known to be three times as many stars as the population of Great Britain. Now, as, of course, it is most probable that there are a...

Consols were on Friday 102i to 102fxd.

with a pair of white gloves to commemorate the absence of crime in the causes with which he had to deal. This is quite a startling thing in Kerry, and is doubtless, as the Irish...

for not interfering to prevent what it calls the violation "of the well-ascertained law of the Church," in the case of a Ritualist church. The Bishop of London is wise enough to...

a Derbyshire jury, of horrible cruelty against her own daughter so far back as August, 1884, by burning her with a hot poker to which bits of the child's flesh adhered in...

athletic sports, which met at Thurles on Wednesday last, the party of the Parnellites and the priests got the victory over the party of physical force; and Mr. Fitzgerald...

W E cannot say that we attach the same importance to the greatly increased majority by which the Unionists have carried Winchester, that the Home-rulers gave out that they would...

THE FORGED LETTERS. W E are not much inclined to attach importance to the " reassuring " telegrams just now pouring in from every capital of Europe. Statesmen always "reassure"...

D URING this comparative lull in the whirlwind of political agitation which the last fortnight has brought us, we can at least form some impression of the good and the evil...

T HE centenary of the Times, which arrived on Sunday, deserves more than a passing word. It is a most note- worthy thing, if you think of it, that a family, originally hardly to...

W E do not agree with all, or, indeed, with much, that Mr. I. S. Leadam says in the Contenzporary Review for this month on freedom of bequest ; but with one of his ideas we...

Tuesday to more than a hundred Italian Bishops, is just one of those utterances which will be variously interpreted according to the mind of the reader. Those who wish to see...

T HERE was something singularly impressive in the instinct which collected a crowd in St. Paul's Churchyard on Saturday night,—though there had been no service in St. Paul's to...

T O men who can look back forty years, the surprise and wrath created by the recent action of the Rev. Lewis Price, Rector of Pakefield, in Suffolk, is not a little amusing....

MR. JUSTICE STEPHEN AND THE POLICE. [To TRY EDITOR Of TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—In an article under this head in your issue of December 24th, 1887, you assume that the Pall Mall...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator of December 31st commented in a way which I consider flattering, on a letter of mine, printed in the Guardian of December...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BrEcTATOP."1 SIR,—You contemplate London becoming four times or ten times its present size, and think it may be not such a bad thing after all. Perhaps...

? [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your chivalrous endeavour to regard Mr. Gladstone's conduct in the most favourable light, you sometimes advance arguments which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In your interesting article on this subject, you remark upon the fact—certainly a striking one—that whereas in the thirty-seven years...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The holidays intervening, I was prevented from consulting my solicitor, or I should have before replied to the letter signed " Arthur...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sra, — It is neither my desire nor my intention to raise a con- troversy in your columns, but in reference to a paragraph in the Spectator...

go Tax EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — At the request of some of the kind contributors to the Horse-Purchase Fund of the Home of Rest for Horses, I have great pleasure in...

HAVE we Londoners seen all, or all the best, of our Old Masters ' pictures ? That is the question which the present exhibition at the Royal Academy prompts us to ask. For, in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER SPROTATOR.'] Sin, — The letter of " An Old Radical Ex-M.P. " illustrates the miscalculations politicians may make in forecasting the future when they...

mention two defects in the Settled Lands Acts unnoticed by Mr. Arthur Underhill, and the corre- spondent to whom he replies, in their recent letters to you ? First, these Acts...

MR. SWINBURNE'S " LOCRINE." THERE is a lavish splendour of expression about this tragedy, which is sometimes, like the light reflected and refracted from a row of crystal...

WE cordially agree with Mr. Gladstone that this is a most "significant book." On the whole, if only our people be as familiar as by this time they ought to be with those matters...

THIS book is, partly at least, a specimen of a kind of literature which can scarcely be said to have any existence, except in rela- tion to the Christmas season. The development...

DIPLOMATISTS, merchants, missionaries, and women have written on China enough and to spare, from the theological and artistic and antiquarian standpoints. This is the first...

account of the mysterious " conspiracy " against the life of James VI. of Scotland, which ended in the death of the Earl of Gowrie and his brother, the Master of Rnthven, and...

a certain sense of anomaly, because, whilst one cannot help seeing that the blame for a con. siderable portion of whatever goes wrong in it is to be laid at the door of...

Ir is the boast of the Germans that they alone possess, besides the Indians, the Persians, and the ancient Greeks, a national epic. The boast is a pardonable, and, on the whole,...

contribution to our better knowledge of Canning, the most brilliant and original of British Foreign Ministers in this century, maintaining and securing as he did the policy of...

SIR CHARLES GA.VAN DUFFY, in the Contemporary, writes a most eloquent account of the finding, colonisation, and prosperity of Victoria, which he attributes in great measure to...

this volume has been unduly delayed, but coming now, it is not, we hope, unseasonable. Some twenty contributors have written for it, a curiously mingled company, among whom we...

is the fifth edition, corrected and much enlarged, of a work which has already met with much favour. In these days when the drama is so largely spectacular, the stage suggests...

object in this volume is "tic prove that the practical events of the world are reflected in the mirror of contemporary writings," and that great writers generally come "in...

we see vers de societd, we naturally think of Praed and Mr. Frederick Locker, and are consequently inclined to be somewhat severe in our judgment. "C. C. R." is wanting, if he...

Mrs. Penicott's Lodger, and cther Stories. By Lady Sophia Palmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—Lady Sophia Palmer shows a great deal of power in these stories ; indeed, in at least three...

sufficiently readable, some may think it even an exciting story; but it has for us a certain aspect of unreality. Bonnie, the heroine, is induced to leave her home by a certain...

Downey.)—The volume contains thirteen short stories, relating the experiences of diggers, sportsmen, speculators, and gamblers of various kinds at the Kimberley diamond-mines....

name has survived chiefly as a writer of society verses. These essays might fairly be called society essays ; for though a few of them—e.g., that on Homer, and that on "The...