M AY 3rd passed in Athens without any explosion. M. Delyannis absolutely refused to accept the ultimatum of the Powers, and disarm without conditions, and the Powers did not, on...

her Minister from Constantinople.

case.

perhaps, "portions of England,"—to demand for themselves a Home-rule suited to their needs, which he thinks are quite different from those of Ireland, and he encourages them to...

was far from hopeful, and that he gave a new reason for pressing Greece. It appears to be greatly desired in Europe that Turkey should disarm, probably because of the danger...

to the electors of Midlothian, which in popular effectiveness, perhaps, surpasses any one of his written addresses, but which, to our great regret, displays more of the tone and...

and Indian products at the Albert Hall. Great pains had been taken to make the ceremonial stately ; the weather was magnifi- cent, and an immense concourse of 12,000 persons...

denied that even the material prosperity of Ireland would ever serve as a substitute for the gratification of the national senti- ment. The Austrian Grand Dukedoms in Italy had...

proved most powerfully the almost intolerable position in which the Prime Minister is placing the House of Commons, by making the concession of an Irish Legislature in Dublin...

ranks of Mr. Gladstone's supporters on the Irish Question. Thus, two men of some mark as Liberals, and as thorough-going Liberals, both of them Members for Eastern-county con-...

meeting of the National Liberal Federation was held in Westminster on Wednesday, to consider Home-rule, and was attended by 600 delegates. The officers of the Federation offered...

fine one ; but though we heartily go with him in believing that the true guarantee not only for landed property, but for all property and all liberty in Ireland, is a firm...

necessity of passing the Land-purchase Bill, not only because we are hencurably bound to the Irish landlords,—whose rents we fixed by the Act of 1881,—to do so, but still more...

week at Edinburgh, Mr. Goschen delivered the first of a series of powerful speeches which he is pouring out against the Bill. He denied the " generosity " of a measure which...

the autumnal agitation about Disestablishment. We note with pleasure that Canon Harper, the Vicar of Selby, who holds himself that no good Churchman ought to support a Liberal...

Parliament On Thursday night, Mr. Mundella proposed the second reading of the new Bill creating a Commission to revise railway rates, and though the Companies are furious, they...

of the Socialists, and their extreme ignorance of the conditions of the society in which they live. It is quite clear that they had pre- pared for an armed &mute, having...

their sagacity as politicians, even when they are on our side. The other day we had in the papers a letter of considerable force from Professor Huxley against the Irish measures...

Consols were on Friday 100k to 100A - .

The different societies of workmen in the United States had arranged for a series of strikes to secure a legal day of eight hours, and on May 1st the strikes began. They were...

new ideas. They are burning down the villages and cities. Three attempts, all partially successful, have been made on Mandelay, and in the last one, on April 29th, four thousand...

M R. GLADSTONE'S last bolt is vigorously shot. It will do some destruction in the ranks of those Liberals who think the boon he is offering to Ireland a fatal one, and the...

THE CEREMONIAL OF TUESDAY. T HE stately magnificence of the scene in the Albert Hall on Tuesday, a scene unsurpassed in history, and rivalled only when a Roman Czesar received...

I T is satisfactory that Lord Hartington is to move the rejection of the Government of Ireland Bill, and to move it in the simplest form. In that way, at least, the situation...

M R. GOSCHEN'S position in the public eye is changing. Always highly regarded by statesmen, entirely trusted by financiers and economists, and influential with all com- petent...

TF we say that we have been greatly impressed by M. de Laveleye's article, "The Economic Crisis and its Causes," in the current number of the Contemporary Review, it does not...

T HE Socialists, or, rather, the Anarchist Societies embedded in the general Socialist party, have made the grand mistake of their lives. At a blow they have tripled alike the...

T ITCAS MALET, in an article in the Fortnightly, spoiled ,4 by the very forced title of " The Other Side of the Moon," —why do so many of our best writers crave so for a...

W rE ventured a little while ago to stigmatise the outcry which was being raised by some of the railway magnates against Mr. Mundella's Railway Bill as fictitious and...

I T seems to be admitted on all hands that the Exhibition of the Royal Academy this year is not an encouraging one. The good pictures are not many, the bad pictures are...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THI " SFECTATOR." SIR, — In your review of May 1st, of Mr. Andrew Lang's "Letters to Dead Authors," the following passage occurs in the quotation from the...

THE SKYLARK. ENSUED in cloudless calm this fresh May-morn, High up in soaring ecstasy the lark, A quivering speck of pulsing melody, Brims all the azure vault with rapturous...

[To ?RR EDITOR OF TM' " SPRCT/LTOR.1 SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to deny emphatically the state- ment made in your columns of May 1st, that I reject the Home- rule Bill,...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR... SIR, — In order to avoid all possible misconception of the allusion to the grotesque translations of Rubinstein's songs, in the article...

"THE NEED FOR UNITY." [To T/IR EDITOR OF TEl " SPRCTLTOR.”) SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Andrew Johnston, has mooted a question which is perplexing many earnest Liberals who...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [FIRST NOTICE.] Pzitusrs the Grosvenor Gallery gains from the comparative dullness of the Royal Academy ; at all events, the collection is a pleasant...

SWEETER than Joy, tho' Joy might abide, Dearer than Love, tho' Love might endure, Is this thing : for a man to have died For the wronged and the poor ! Let none be glad until...

PINDAR.al "I'," wrote Byron,— " If, fallen on evil days and evil tongues, Milton appealed to the Avenger Time; If Time the Avenger execrates his wrongs, And makes the word...

book makes us wish that Sir Henry Gordon could have retained in his hands all the materials for • Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon, from its Beginning to its End. By...

pathos. It would be hard to mention one of her many beautiful stories which is more exquisitely finished than Alicia Tennant. The only qualification to the pleasure it gives us...

English Liberal or Radical approach the consideration of the case for Home. rule, could he look back upon the action of the Irish Party during the last six years, and be sure...

regard with respect the purpose and per- formance of the writer of this work, and there are few careful readers of history who—apart altogether from Horace Walpole's apologia...

IT 15 of little use now to criticise papers on Ireland, for they will hardly weigh with the people against the addresses of the leaders ; and we only note, therefore, that in...

Sealed Orders. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght. 3 vols. (Bentley and SOD.)—This is a good novel of the romantic kind. Two friends, so called, are talking together in the course of their...

E. Nixon. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge.)—Mr. Nixon here com- pletes a most useful work, the first instalment of which was published as long as twelve years ago, and was then,...

H. Bishop, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Bishop, besides his introduction, gives DB seven chapters on various styles of Church architecture that have prevailed in this country. He begins...

(Ward and Downey.) —Mr. Farjeon scarcely succeeds in making his story as effective as he would wish. That there is something unreal about it ought, perhaps, to be no objection...

(Roberts Brothers, Boston, U.S.A.)—Mrs. Dale has the biographer's blindness to a hero's faults in its most pronounced form. The poet's father never got into difficulties ; the...

F.R.G.S. (Edward Stanford.)—This is an excellent book of its kind, and contains a vast amount of information com- pressed into a small space, and illustrated with excellent maps...

and Co., Dublin.) —Professor Davies describes his edition as a "critical" one, and, indeed, it is on the criticism of the text that he has bestowed especial attention....

LL.B. (Stevens and Sons.)—This is a useful little book on a subject that is naturally more or less obscure, owing to the utter impossibility, in these days of fists and...

the University of Matrimony. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The author of this charming volume clearly believes and admirably illustrates the truth which Horace suggests when he asks,...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Hunt does not always write so ill as when he says,— " The coroner solemnly says, 'In a fit of insanity, He passed through an opium dream, sad awoke in...

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THE LIFE OF LONGFELLOW, EVERY popular writer has a biography in these days, and this tribute to his fame was not likely to be omitted in the case of Longfellow. That the story...

LONDON: MAY 8, 1886.

ADDISON slyly observes that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people, and he adds that in our country medical men "may be described like the British army in...

of conduct to judge of a book by the name ; but, unfortunately, the practice is by no means uncommon. On the turf, if a racehorse proves a failure, its name is sometimes...

which again he has received a prize from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) is the most interesting that he has yet published, and would well deserve translation. One...

IF any one desires to hear how Helen Faucit became RR actress, if any one desires to hear a thousand and one details of her career upon the stage,—to hear what dress she wore,...

SERNIONS.—Sermons. By Eugene Horsier. Second Series. Trans- lated from the French. (Dickinson.)—These sermons well keep up the high reputation which the Protestant pulpit in...