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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorHE Strike is not over yet, the Dock Companies holding T out against the demand of the men for an extra penny an hour ; but it is decaying in strength. The subscriptions have...
The chiefs of the French Monarchical patties have both issued
The Spectatoraddresses to the electors. That of the Comte de Paris is a direct manifesto calling on his followers to vote for Revision, which he maintains ought to be welcomed by all...
It is rumoured that before the election General Boulanger will
The Spectatorreappear in Paris to demand his trial. He has asked for a Court-Martial, but probably knows that it will be refused, and is therefore; it is said, preparing to enter France. The...
We trust, if the men go back to work, that
The Spectatorthe memory of the strike will not be allowed to die away, and the old system to be resumed. Whether the Dock Companies do the work, or a combination of , wharfingers, or a...
We greatly fear that a bad time is coming for
The Spectatorthe unhappy Christians of Crete. The Western Powers have decided that ' they will not press the Porte to grant autonomy, Russia cannot act in the Mediterranean, and Turkey is...
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The Trade-Union Congress has been sitting this week at Dundee,
The Spectatorand on Tuesday Mr. Ritchie, who had been chosen president, delivered his presidential address. The address was moderate in tone, though Mr. Ritchie himself advocated the...
Under these circumstances, Mr. Chamberlain made an appeal to the
The Spectatormoderates, whom he supposes to be in dismay, to join the Unionists, before it is too late, in removing such Irish grievances as they would, three or four years ago, have...
Mr. Chamberlain presided at the first annual meeting of the
The SpectatorGrand Committee of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Asso- ciation on Monday, and made a striking speech. We have said enough in another column of his account of the way in which...
Americans distrust their State Legislatures so much that in most
The SpectatorStates they only allow them to sit once in two years, and their confidence even in juries is limited. The idea seems to be that a juryman will either be prejudiced by previous...
The Sultan of Zanzibar, who is accepted by a useful
The Spectatorpoli- tical fiction as Sovereign of East Central Africa, has ceded the island of Lama and the islets near it, which command the entrance to a fine harbour, together with the...
Sir George Errington made a good speech at the Ilkeston
The SpectatorConservative Association, held at Ilkeston on Monday night. He had, he said, just returned from Ireland, and he could fully confirm the statements made as to the improved and...
A meeting of the General Council of the Irish Loyal
The Spectatorand Patriotic Union was held on Tuesday at their offices in Grafton Street, Dublin, when the Duke of Leinster moved, and Sir Thomas P. Butler seconded, a resolution stating that...
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Mr. Chaplin has attained the object of his ambition, having
The Spectatorbeen on Thursday appointed Minister for Agriculture, with a seat in the Cabinet. He, of course, gives up or lays aside his Protectionist views, and will probably devote himself...
Mr. Chamberlain made an interesting speech on Wednesday, on laying
The Spectatorthe memorial-stone of the new Methodist Connection School in Dudley Road, Birmingham. He congratulated the Methodists on the liberality with which they had contributed to the...
Lord Cross said that the British people ought not to
The Spectatorbe ashamed to be great. It is great, and should not be shame- faced about it, but let the world know that it recognises its own greatness, and means to maintain it. That is true...
The same temper was shown in the vote of the
The SpectatorCongress on the question of confidence in Mr. Broadhurst, the amendment which attacked him having been defeated by 177 votes against 11. The attack was made upon him for his...
Lord Charles Beresford and Lord Cross were the chief political
The Spectatorspeakers at the Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Thursday. Lord Charles Beresford remarked that by the speeches of a few Members of Parliament and a few naval officers, the...
But Mr. Ritchie's view as to the eight-hours day is
The Spectatornot shared by the mass of the Unions. The attempt made to get the Unions in general to proclaim their view on the subject has not been successful. Only thirty-three Societies,...
Some importance is attached to the permission which the Czar
The Spectatorhas given to his heir to visit the Paris Exhibition. It is quite possible that this is exaggerated, and that the lad has only persuaded his father, who is most kindly in all...
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THE COMING FRENCH ELECTIONS.
The SpectatorI T is difficult to exaggerate the importance of the contest which, on to-morrow fortnight, will for some years to come settle the fate of France. If the Parliamentarians win...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE RADICALS AND IRISH EDUCATION. I T is not easy to understand what the Radicals would be at. They raise a shout about the retrograde policy of the Government in Ireland just...
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111E DEPTH OF POPITLAR SOBRIETY.
The SpectatorAI R. CHAMBERLAIN and Mr. Broadhurst have both given us a striking lesson during the week on the best way to secure popular sobriety in England ; and the Trade-Unionists have...
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SOME LESSONS OF THE STRIKE, I T takes a thousand pounds
The Spectatora day to maintain twenty thousand idle men in full health and strength, to pay their rent, and to provide even for a, small propor- tionate average of wives and children. Some...
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S IRISH POLICY.
The SpectatorM R. CHAMBERLAIN made two very important pro- posals in his striking and hopeful speech at Birmingham on Monday. The first was that the Irish policy of the Government should be...
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THE INHERENT DIFFICULTIES OF VOLUNTARYISM. T HE tendency—though, of course, there
The Spectatorare exceptions —of most lay Churchmen who discuss the Church in public, is to speak of its faults, to urge it to be less devoted to form, or to point out that it has never yet...
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"IN QUEST OF A CREED." D R. LEEBODY, the Professor of
The SpectatorMathematics and Physics in Magee College, Londonderry, has just published two interesting lectures on " Religious Teaching and Modern Thought."* the first of which is termed "...
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" CHEERY STOICISM."
The SpectatorT HE thing that has most struck us about Mr. Ernest Benzon's autobiography is a certain admission made by all, or nearly all, his reviewers. The book itself has little in it...
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THE GLOUCESTER FESTIVAL.
The SpectatorM ANY of our musical festivals suffer seriously from that passion for novelties which has the result of sur- feiting the auditors with a positive glut of new music, when a large...
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CORRESPONDEN CE.
The SpectatorA SURREY FISH-FARM. A VERY curious and interesting sight may be seen by any one who will travel by the South-Western Railway to Hazle- mere, and turning westward through the...
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WELSH RELIGIOUS STATISTICS.
The Spectator[To THI EDITOR OF TER " $PROTATOR."] Srn,—Bridgend is a typical Welsh country town, nearly mid- way between Cardiff and Swansea, in South Glamorganshire. Recently the Bridgend...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorFATHER DAMIEN'S DEATH. [To 11111 Enrros or THE " SPROTATOR."] have just received from Molokai, in a letter from "Brother James," the following particulars of Father Damien's...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorDUALITY. "I sleep, but my heart awaketh." Mr soul's companion has a keener sense, More truly marks, more clearly registers, The thing I see, the thought that in me stirs ;...
RECOGNITION BY ANIMALS OF PICTURES.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Thirty years ago, I was staying at Langley, near Chippenham, with a lady who was working a large screen, on which she depicted in "...
DREAMS AND WILL-POWER.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] have only this morning been able to read the article in the Spectator of August 31st on " Dreams," on which I am tempted to make a few...
STUDENTS' BLUNDERS.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — The following fine specimen of a schoolboy's blunder was produced by administering a passage from the "Moretum " to be done as an "...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorM. DAIJDET'S RECOLLECTIONS.* THE alarming spread of autobiography in recent years has . been for many reasons a source of great anxiety to dis- interested observers. That one...
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THE JEW IN FICTION.* Tars is a useful and an
The Spectatorinteresting little book, and it is written throughout in the best possible spirit. The author's thesis is that the popular misconception about the Jews has been largely caused...
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MR. GOSSE'S HISTORY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE.* IT will be remembered
The Spectatorthat in the course of last year, Mr. Saintsbury published a History of the Literature of the Elizabethan age ; and now Mr. Gosse, taking up the pen where his predecessor laid it...
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ENGLISHMEN IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.* MR. ALGER has compiled this
The Spectatorbook so carefully that we are unwilling to cavil at his contention that it " takes up un- trodden ground." His design was to record succinctly the experiences of certain...
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"FORT COMME LA MORT."* THERE is a certain kind of
The SpectatorFrench would-be-pathetic art, well known to frequenters of the Paris Salon, clever, realistic, powerful in all its details, but totally lacking the one essential element, the...
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SOME OF lkih MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorBr far the best of the larger magazines for September is the Fortnightly. Mr. Freeman's article, "Parallels to Irish Home- rule," which stands first, is an admirably lucid...
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How I Spent My Twentieth Year : being a Short
The SpectatorRecord of a Tour Round the World, 1886-87. By the Marchioness of Stafford. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Lady Stafford says that in writing this journal she had no intention whatever...
Selections from Clarendon. Edited, with short Notes, by the Very
The SpectatorRev. G. D. Boyle, M.A., Dean of Salisbury. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—The Doan of Salisbury has produced a welcome book. There is no English historian who can compete with...
Of the Imitation of Christ. By Thomas a Kempis. A
The SpectatorMetrical Version by Henry Carrington, M.A. (Began Paul and Co.)—Of one of the most popular books in the world the authorship is un- certain, and Thomas h Kempis may perhaps be...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorProceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1888-89. Edited by the Secretary. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This volume contains the proceedings of the Institute for the year ending...
