FANATICS, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL. A MAN has died this week whom most Englishmen, but that they avoid brutalities of expression, would pronounce well dead and out of the way....

Sir Wilfrid Lawson addressed a crowded meetino ft nrlr I mouth on Monday, saying that during the existence of the late Government he had begun to think that the Committee for...

The Right Hon. James Lowther made a speech at Ilklev. I near Leeds, on Tuesday, in which he pointed out that Lord Beaconsfield had declared his intention, if he remained in...

Mr. Joseph Cowen made a speech at Neweastle on Monday i which proves that he holds hard by his Tory foreign policy. Re said that it was the policy of the present Government to...

A deputation from tho Paris Missionary Soeiety, a mi.g sionary organisation maintained by the Froech Protestants of France and Switzerland, visited Lord Kimberley on Wednes....

I Mr. Bradlaugh, in a speech of a good deal of force which hA delivered at Mile End on Monday, opposed coercion for Ireland, while condemning the Land League; denounced the...

1 l Mr. Reeve, in a criticism on the condition of Ireland. w1iieh A . -Oo rln .vhe' he read to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris last week, gave the number...

I We are happy to see that Sir G. P. Colley fully appreciates the tone in England with respect to the Transvaal. In his first general order to the troops, he states that...

The Taines of Thursday publishes a letter from a correspondent, ,whom it has sent to examine the large estates in Ireland, on the condition of Muckross, in Killarney. It...

ThA worgt aceaiunt from the Transvaal are not confirmed, but the true accounts are very bad. Sir G. P. Colley telegraphs on January 5th, from Pietermaritzburg, information that...

On the subject of the reforms contemplated in the Irish Land- I law-which Mr. Gladstone declared that he looked upon as the only remedy for Irish lawlessness,-Mr. Gladstone's...

Mr. Fawcett, the Postmastr-GCeneral, attended a meeting of the Manchester Reform Club on Tuesday eveninkg, which was remarkable for its enthusiasm, as well as for the great...

It was announced at the beginning of the week that the scheme of arbitration between Greece and Turkey had finally collapsed. At the close of the week, however, it was said to...

Th~irr iR nothina to be said about the progress of the State trial in Dublin, except that it advances, the legal evidence as to the utterance of the incriminated speeches being...

BO OK S. THE RELIGIONS OF COHINA.* MANY persons may be inclined to describe the religions of China, by saying, according to a well-known precedent, that " there are no...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " BPETATOR."] Siu,-In reference to the article in your last number on " Ideal Men and Women," allow me a single line to say that what was announced in The...

CHRISTMAS CRUELTY. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your two excellently intentioned correspondents on this subject are both, it seems, under the impression that the...

"IDEAL MEN AND WOMEN." [TO TEll EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The idea of the Editor of the Day of Rest as to a " Series of Sketches by Eminent Authors" of ideal men and...

Fulcher's Pocket-book for 1881. (A. Pratt, Sudbury. )-This is the oldest of provincial pocketbooks, is specially intended for ladies, and is full of verses, chiefly by local...

ALMANACS AND CALENDARS.- -The CaZendar for Trinity College, | London, 1880-81 (Cassell and Co.), rivals, in bulk at least, the calendars of the recognised Universities. The...

I Sword and Sur1plice; or, Thirtv Years' Reminiscences of the Atone, and the Church. By H. J. Wale, M.A. (Bogue.)-Mr. Wale tells tbe story of his military and his clerical...

I Bufs and Blues: a Contested Election, and Its Results. By Arthur I Mills. (Longmans.)-AIl that Mr. Mills writes in this book has been more than justified since its...

I Honor. By E. M. Alford. 8 voles. (Tinsley Brothers.)-We want, in a book of this kind, something which Miss Alford has not contrive& to give to her tale. We look either for a...

I The Rebel of the Family. By Mrs. Lynn Linton. (Chatto and; Windus.)-It is unnecessary to say that this is a rigorously-written. novel, for Mrs. Linton always writes...

Clerical Reminiscences. By " Sonex.' (Seeleys.)-" Senox " tolls I us, in his brief preface, that he has " endeavoured carefully to avoid all occasions of offence, and to give...

I SThe South-African Campaign of 1879. Compiled by T. P. Mackinnon and Sydney Shadbolt. (Sampson Low and Co.)-This volume is primarily a memorial to those who fell in the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. VanitV Fair Album for 1880. (Vanity Fair Offico.)-Tbis is as good a volume as we have seen, though we have still to complain that there is a want of...

PICTURES FROM IRELAND.* Wan these sketches were published in the pages of an evening paper, they appeared both truer to life and less painful than they do now, when they are...

RITUAL TOLERATION. rHIE RE are encouraging signs that the imprisonment of 1 Mr. Dale and Mr. Enraght is doing its work. Several of the Bishops, including the Archbishop of...

flXPORT fOUNTIES AND COUNTERVAILING DTI S. [To TKg DUtoR OF T i' BPDOTATOI.") SIR,-If you will allow me, I should like to ask Yeur Ohetpondent, "Free-trade" whether he...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE RITUALISTS AND FAIR-PLAY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,-I cannot help thinking that Sir Watkin Williams has done good service to the...

THE BOERS AND HOLLAND. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE "A PECTATOA."I SIR,-Is it possible that the British public will remain ded to the appeal made to them by the...

THE MOVEMENTS OF PLANTS.* 13ESIDES those works with which in the popular estimation his name is more intimately associated, Mr. Darwin has claims on * TWO Power of Movement in...

It the PeeFs, the Serious debate on the Address. after the 1 formal speeches by Lords Carrington and Yarborough were done, was begun by Lord Beaconsfield, in a speech of some...

I In the House of Commons, the Address was moved bv Mr. Stuart Rendel, M.P. for Montgom eiyshire, and seconded by Mr. Slagg, M.P. for Manchester. The former showed a certain...

I Mr. Gladstone's reply, so far as it reoarded the delay in adopt- Iing a coercive policy, was extremely powerful, and recognised I by the House as extremely powerful. He...

I Lord Granville, in reply, expressed his surprise that he should be accused of reversing his predecessors policy, when last year lie was taunted with servilely following it....

NEWS OF THE WEEK. PARLIAMENT reassembled on Thursday, and the Queen's Message, awaited with so much interest, is a little unusual in tone. It is argumentative. After...

THE MORALS OF BANKRUPTCY, W E waay, we believe, trust Mr. Chamberlain to bring forWV ward a working Bankruptcy Bill, which will cure what blsbess men and lawyers consider the...

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL.* Tim essay which the Duke of Argyll has contributed to theJanuary number of the Contenmporary Beview, under the. somewhat...

SOME PAPERS IN THE MAGAZINES. WE notice the best paper in the Contemporary-tlle Duke of Argyll's-" On the Truthfulness of Human Knowledge," elsewhere, but the number contains...

TI1 ANTS AS FARMERS. G(1 to the ant, thou sluggard," says Solomon. But we are `G not quite sure that Solomon, if he had to advise the Irish farmer at least, would be inclined...

OBSTRUCTION. TT is probable, almost certain, that within a weea the House I of Commons will be in the thick of a struggle with Obstruction, and we wish to say a final word,...

LORD BEACONSFIELD ON THE SITUATION. TIHE country turns naturally, at the beginning of a. Session like the present, a Session sure to be momentous, to study the views of the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE IRISH POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. IT would be quite premature to prejudge, as yet, the Irish policy of the Government. That Mr. Gladstone is far more of a...