the shark not being able to bite each other. The provinces, encouraged by the Fleet, are rebelling one after another ; and Admiral de Mello would be master of the situation, but...

the Matabele are acting ; but it seems certain, from the latest telegrams (Cape, October 4th), that they consider themselves at war with the Chartered Company, and that their...

report that he will soon leave Kissingen, but he does not leave it ; and private accounts report him weak to the danger-point. It is possible or probable that his condition, as...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 14th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

S IR MORTIMER DURAND, the British Envoy, has arrived at Cabal, and has been received with every mark of honour -usual among Asiatics. He is attended by the Commander- in-Chief,...

at Headley Hall, Hants, the house of his old pupil, Mr. Justice R. S. Wright. The funeral took place at Oxford on Friday. We have dealt with the Master's chief charac- teristics...

case.

a reply to Mr. Gladstone. He rightly denounced Mr. Gladstone's doctrine that the true duty of the Lords was to bow to the people and so save themselves from destruction. Is...

course, swarmed round him like flies to get his impressions of London. Apparently, the chief thing that struck him was that there exists in London a magnificent field for the...

the Featherstone riots was named on Tuesday. It is to consist of Lord Bowen, Sir A. Rollit, and Mr. Haldane. A better selection could not have been made, and if we get a clear...

with a sermon from the Archbishop of Canterbury, which in parts was unusually eloquent and full of thought. Its first idea, that of the " enchantments " which now surround men,...

in the Grand Theatre, Stalybridge, and made some effective, if rather coarse, hits. Mr. Gladstone called his Act a " grand Act." It was a grand thing to betray the Ulster...

upon the Spanish port of Melilla. The Moors in question are not the agents of the Sultan, but are tribes of the Riff, almost independent. They have been irritated lately by the...

the immensely increased weight of the democracy, and of clerical responsibility not only for its spiritual, but for its material condition. In some, this new consciousness has...

free breakfast-table in his next Budget. The depression of trade, the dearth of speculation, and the prevalence of strikes, are all telling heavily upon the revenue. Sir William...

regard to the experiment of using the labour of the unemployed to demolish Millbank prison. The surveyor of the contractors who undertook the conduct of the work, admits that...

at Towyn on that day, and at Bala on Thursday. The evidence hitherto given before the Commis- sion, which it may be noted has been but scantily reported in the London papers,...

the coal strike, though the price of coals in London is rising by leaps and bounds, and the profits that are being made by the collieries now at work must be very great....

that the reports of the engineers left no doubt that the Ship Canal would be ready for traffic from the entrance at Eastham to the Pomona Docks at Manchester by New- Year's Day....

day passes without some man killing his wife, or mistress, or sweetheart, usually out of jealousy, and then executing justice on himself. That form of human wickedness is really...

New Console (21) were on Friday 981.

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE GLADSTONIANS. T HERE is one marked fact about the present situation which hardly receives the notice it deserves. Hardly any Unionist leader, scarcely any...

T "papers make too much of the final arrangements between France and Siam, which were published in London on Tuesday. The demands of the French are undoubtedly heavy, but they...

is that if the combatants are bah speaking the truth, even war will not bring about any permanent settlement. The deadlock, on the hypothesis, is of the kind which cannot end,...

M ZOLA'S visit has done one thing. It has brought . out the curious contrast between the feeling enter- tained by England towards France, and by France towards England. The...

comfort in this miserable Home- rule business which has been perplexing and enfeebling us for so many years. The working alliance between Gladstonians and /■Tationalitits has...

time to be fast approaching when armoured ships would be as obsolete as mail-clad men. " Do what we will," said he, " I believe that the means of attack will always overtake the...

an institution, that we should never be surprised to learn that there are those who suppose it to date from the time of the Apostles. Such a theory would not be wholly...

biographical infor- mation about the Master of Balliol as if he had been a great General or a great statesman, and so have testified in the strongest possible way to his...

Life and Character," and Sir James Crichton Browne have both been holding forth this week upon Pessimism ; the former in the Fortnightly Review, the latter in an address to the...

A S long as an Englishman can get a horse, he tries to do without any other beast of burden. The use of dogs is no longer legal, and we have nearly discarded the sturdy ox, even...

AMERICA AND ENGLAND. A ronnioN land which does not require from us the know- ledge, perhaps hardly learnt, and the use, probably uncertain, of a foreign tongue must be rich in...

MIRACLES. [To THE EDITOR OP THE"SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In the Spectator of September 23rd, Mr. Murphy, correcting Mr. Paige Cox, says that the miracle "of the re- storation of the...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE ""SPECTATOR.""1 Sxn,—The present strike is, perhaps, the gravest that has ever taken place in England, partly from its length and the great number of...

[To rim EDITOR OF THE " BraorATov,."] Sin,—A few days after reading the article on " Fortitude," which appeared in the Spectator of September 2nd, we spent a day in the...

[TO THE EDITOR , OF THE " ELPEOTATOE,"] SIR,—In the article on the " Referendum," in the Spectator of September 30th, you lay stress on its avoiding the necessity of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] 'Sin,—The letter which appeared in the Spectator of Sep tember 23rd, over the signature of "Pahari," is an interesting and valuable...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Seeing mention made in the review of Mr. Bar•ing- Gould's book " Strange Survivals," in the Spectator of September 23rd, of an old...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Singular though the misunderstanding may be, it is, nevertheless, true that many people, who one would have thought to be better...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] Sin, — There is one point obscure in your otherwise excellent article on " The Law of Riot,"—namely, what is the meaning 'of the delay of one...

THE MISCHIEF-MAKING KETTLE. You picture it : an eight-day clock The tale of hours repeating, .And grandsire chuckling in his stock To think of Honey's beating; The flash of...

fro TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — " When the Peers begin to be firm and to assert their dignity, it may always be taken for granted that there is not much popular...

[To TILE EDITOR OF TEE 4. SPECTATOR.1 forward a genuine letter from a schoolboy to his mot her :- "Mr DEAR MA,—I wright to tell you I am very retched and my chilblains is worse...

THE POETRY OF ARCHITECTURE.* Tins is a youthful work of Mr. Ruskin's, exhumed from the- pages of Loudon's Architectural Magazine for 1837. As the- full title shows, the original...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] your article on Herr Richter's " Pictures of the Socialist Regime," in the Spectator of September 23rd, you make no mention of Mr. Jerome's...

To all who are interested in understanding the secret of the- power which the.. Jesuits have wielded in the Roman Com- munion during the last three hundred years, this book...

author of these two remarkable volumes, in a passage at the commencement of the first which recalls the well-known aspiration of Macaulay, "is to write the history of the United...

WITH a light and practised pen Mr. Gosse touches in these essays on several topics of contemporary interest. With most of the articles readers of magazine literature may be...

a valuable contribution to the study of a somewhat obscure section of recent European history. To trace at once the inward growth of the sentiment of Italian nationality, and...

THE Magazines, like the rest of the world, show evident signs of the relief experienced on the rejection of the Home-rule Bill by the Lords. That nightmare passed away, they...

has made here a collection of excellent passages, Greek and Latin (the Latin naturally occupying the larger space), for learning by heart. We cannot do better than quote a...

Hope. (Elliot Stock.)—This is a volume full of curious lore, gathered together, it is evident, with much labour and care. The arrangement is by counties. Cornwall occupies a...

Essays in London and Elsewhere. By Henry James. (J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—To many readers, the first of these essays, a rhapsody, so to speak, curiously made up of...

M.A., and R. Crosskey, M.A. (Maomillan.)—One of the authors overheard the remark," Country water is always pure and good;" a doctrine which they believe to be commonly hold, and...

not so much a story—though there is a slender thread of narrative in it—as a photograph, severely faithful, of life in Arkansas. Pretty rough that life seems to be, if Mr....

and Co.)—This is called an " Introduction to the Study of Geography," and the word " geography " is used by the author in its widest sense, embracing all about this world of...

Cards, M.A., and E. J. A. Gordon. (Longmans.)—The authors acknow- ledge a large obligation to the Rev. Englebert Henley, formerly Rector of Harley, whose notes and researches...

Co.)— That a man should make love to a woman, and finally propose to her, and then, and not till then, discover she was a paralysed cripple, is unlikely. It is one of those...

2 vols. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Crouch's enter- taining book, " Glimpses of Feverland," testified to his knowledge of West African life, and he has utilised that knowledge...

Linnsous Banks. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—We got in Bond-Slaves a very faithful and vivid picture of the Luddite rising and the causes that led to it. The life of the weavers...

Sons.)—Recommended to winter in a warm climate, the authoress and her husband carried out the order by circumnavi- gating Africa, calling at places of interest, particularly on...

Co.)—Here is a story of which it must be mournfully said that the trail of the amateur is over it all. It is visible in the smallest details, especially in the manifestations of...

Border Edition of the Waverley Novels." Edited by Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.)—In his introduction to The Monastery, Mr. Lang ob- serves that Scott could have bad no finer topic than a...

millan and Bowes, Cambridge.)—By the " Codex' is meant a, Syrian Codex of the Gospels of very early date, a document of un- doubtedly great importance. The finding was...

Paul and Co.)—This is a philosophic treatise of a mathematical nature on the properties of matter, written with ease and lucidity of style, and commending itself as a capital...

Mr. Beatty's poems have appeared in the Spectator, others, we believe, in other journals or periodicals. They vary in merit, the amount of finish being very perceptibly...