THE COERULEANS.0 - I TiE title of this work is judiciously chosen, and has the merit of being at once vague and attractive; and if the contents are hardly up to the level of...

On Saturday last, Mr. John Morley addressed at Temple- combe, Somersetshire, a Gladstonian demonstration, organised for the neighbouring divisions of Somerset, Wilts, and...

Mr. Morlev again insisted that the only question now was the I state of things in Ireland. "The question of the moment is not the Home-rule Bill, but Coercion and the...

I At a meeting held at Ipswicb on Wednesday, Lord Rosebery told his hearers that, much as he would have liked to deal in his speech with topics other than Ireland, he could not...

I Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Hawarden on Tuesday, to a depu.- tation from Kidderminster, charged the Government with a general proclivity towards absolutist methods, and a wish...

On the night appointed, the eight moonlighters met in the quarry, their arms consisting of two gnus and two revolvers. " There was a council then held. Thomas Leary said that...

I On Wednesdav nizbt, a letter on the Irish Question by Mr. John Bright, addressed to Mr. Arthur Elliot, the Liberal Unionist Member for Roxburghshire, was read at a meeting at...

eecra: a Tale of Ancie-t Rome. By John W. Graham. (Macmillan I and Co.)-The merits of this highly interesting romance of the time of Tiberius Cuesar, " the ruler of the...

I Lord and Lady Piccadilly. By the Earl of Desart. 3 vols. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)-Lord Desart's book reminds us of several things, of " Coningsby," for instance, the old...

Job and Solomoon; or, the Wisdooo of the Old Testament. By the I Rev. T. R. Cheyne. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)-Professor Cheyne in this volume treats with some fullness...

I Encyclopcedia of Living Divines and Christian Workers. By the I Rev. Philip Schaff, D.D., and the Rev. S. M. Jackson, M.A. (Funk and Wagnalls, New York.)-This is a...

Home Education; or, Irish v. English Grammar-Schools for English I t Boys. By Maurice C. Hime. (Simpkin and Marshail.)-Mr. Hime I I maintains that "very few of our...

Memorials of a Half-Century. By Bela Habbard. (G. P. Patnam's . _ . . II Sons.)-If there is a little garrulity in these reminiscences of Detroit, it is more than atoned for by...

StoremBeaten and Weary: a K-rel. By Evelyn Burne. (Griffith, I Farran, and Co.)-This is a morbidly sentimental story, with a rather good plot. If the author had not told the...

]SIR. BIGELOW'S EDITION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S IVORKS.* " I WILL disinherit you," wrote Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennett, "if you do not admire everything written by Franklin....

CORRESPONDENCE. THE LUXURY OF LOAFING.-II. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Rugby, Tennessee, September 19th. I ii.AvE always bad a strong curiosity about hermits-remember I paid a...

These remarkable words, which amount to a direct menace in i certain contingencies, are supposed to have been dictated by information obtained by Prince Bismarck that the Czar...

I Without wishing, at this stage of the inquiry, to pronounce on the value, as regards the particular prisoners, of the evidence given on Wednesday by the informer Callinan, in...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. SIGNOR CRISPI, the Premier of Italy, on the 2nd inst. 8 visited Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruh. The journey was I . . I made with a certain parade, the...

The extremely tedious telegrams recently received from anld about Bulgaria acquire a new significance from Signor Crispi's revelation. The purport of them all is that Russia is...

I Spain is greatly disturbed about Morocco. The EUmDeror of that magnificent country-it is as large as France and England together, and much of it is most fertile-is dead or...

The Rouvier Ministry is unlucky. : "I, --- -- . , - . . Not to mention the crisis in Morocco, which makes Spain hostile, the Government of Madagascar is showing itself...

FACTS FROM GWEEDORE. THE Derry Journal, the organ of the National Party, reports a meeting convened by the Parish Priest of Gweedore on August 26th last, to "1 heartily condemn...

I We greatly fear that the enthusiasm of England for Emin Pasha, Gordon's Austrian lieutenant, with the heart of a hero and the head of a savant, will speedily cool down. It...

The Church Coniress was ouened at Wolverhampton on Monday with a fine sermon from the Bishop of Durham, the leading thought of which was the responsibility which the rapid...

It is stated in Paris that a shoemaker named Paillerat has fallen heir to a brother who emigrated as a boy to America, and there accumulated a grand fortune. The shoemaker is...

I In an admirable lecture on " Superficial Knowledge," delivered at the Working Men's College on Thursday, Mr. Leslie Stephen, who we wish would lecture oftener, and not bury...

Mr. F. PoUock, in the Times of Tuesday, publishes a wonder- I fally cogent answer to Mr. Morley's demand that Englishmen I shall give Irishmen " the laws which they have...

The most interesting seance as yet has been that of Wednes- day, when the subject was " Socialism," and Mr. Champion was allowed to speak. His idea was that Christianity, if...

I The' Thistle,' in the final heat for the America Cup, was beaten by the 'Volunteer' by some twelve minutes, the exact times being,-' Volunteer,' 5 hours 42 minutes 561...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES. Losngmnan's and the English Illustrated have each of them a posthumous paper by the late Mr. Jefferies, and each of them is worth ten times the price of...

ITHE NEW EXPEDITION TO TIHE ANTARCTIC POLE. HTE news that the Australasian Governments have agreed T to combine in asking England to assist them in sending an expedition of...

THE BOLTON STRIKE. A SERIES of very interesting letters describing the great strike in the engineering works at Bolton, signed by " A Member of the Iron-Trades Employers'...

BO OK S. I THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION.w THE name of Dr. C. J. B. Williams has long been a familiar and famous one in the profession of medicine; but it was not...

ENAMEL FOR THE BOTTOMS OF SHIPS. [To -HE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SsR,-In your note on the race of the ' Thistle' and the 'Volunteer,' in New York Harbour, you refer to the...

P O E T R Y. I A BALLAD OF THE HOUR GONE BY. FRoM many a distant land, in many a tongue, With many tears and many a bitter moan, With hearts for loss of dearest treasure...

THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENTS. [TO T-E EDITOR OF THE " SPECTToL"] SIR,-Mr. Gladstone's article in the Nineteenth Century of this month impeaches the competency of the Irish...

A YOUNG PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND.* I A HISTORY of Ireland for "young people" from the point of view of Mrs. Parnell! The manner of writing is such that we can hardly...

THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS.* TUE introductory portion of this treatise, reviewed a year ago in these columns, had been written jointly by the late Professor Wilson and his...

DEA.TH. CAPNT OI Octo... 0 01ber 5t1h, at 56 Rgent' Park Read, in the 76thl yer of her agIe, LoWoso, 'wifeof the lte W. B. Carpenter, C.B., M.D., F.R.S. Friends will please...

Beforehan.d. By L. T. Meade. (Rutledge and Sons.)-This is as I good a shilling's-worth of sensation of the legitimate kind as a reader can well desire to haie. A young man...

Canada and the States: PecoZlestions3, 1851-188G. By Sir Edward i Watki., Bart., M.P. (Ward and Lock.)-W.e eed hardly say that I the recollections, and, we might say,...

BEAUTY IN NATURE.* MANY of the chapters of this book, notably those dealing with the history of the subject and suggesting its various aspects by illustrations drawn from all...

THE PURPOSE OF PAIN. R. T. C. DENT, the surgeon who on Monday delivered the annual inaugural address to the students of St. George's Hospital, concerned himself chiefly with...

THE NEW ROUTE TO THE FAR EAST. THE discussions evoked by trade depression are slowly working round to a conclusion too commonplace to be accepted without a great deal of...

I THE STRENGTH OF AUSTRIA AND ITALY. THE visit of Signor Crispi to Prince Bismarck, and the result which it indicates, have given a fresh interest to the much-debated questions...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. "WALKER" AS A WAR-CRY. N OTHING indicates the height to which the thermometer N of party feeling is now rising better than the organised attack which the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I America gives us a new monthly magazine, under the title of The Curio, devoted to genealogy and biography, heraldry and book-plates, coins, autographs,...

BIRDS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATO." ] SiR,-The facts stated by my friend, Mr. Walter Strickland, about the bat and the wasp, are each of them very curious, and quite new to...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [The Rev. S. Singer sends us an immense letter on the subject of the " Superstitions of the Synagogue," described by us last week. As it must be shown to...

THE CHURCH CONGRESS. T HE Church, as represented at the Wolverhampton T Congress, certainly did not suffer from thinking less highly of itself than it ought to think. A warm...

THE UNIONIST POSITION. IT cannot be doubted that there are at this moment hundreds of (Gladstonians and Liberal Unionists who regard it as quite possible that a working...

ONLY A CURATE.* THIS is a preposterous book, preposterous enough to have an interest. The author professes to be a clergyman who, having been ordained in the Colonies, and...

NOTABLE WORKERS IN HUMBLE LIFE.- MR. HOARE has done a thoroughly useful piece of work in compiling the unpretentious little volume we have before us. Many thousand copies of it...

FAMOUS FIRST REPRESENTATIONS.* THIS is an agreeable and interesting piece of literary patchwork, the outcome of extensive reading, and disfigured by no purple patches of the...

BO OK S. THE HISTORY OF NORWAY.* THE most memorable history of the Scandinavian race is found in the annals of other nations. The renown of the Norman name was founded, not by...

THE ENGLISH DIFFICULTY IN ALLIANCES. I IF permanent alliances should, as seems possible, exercise in the near future an increasing influence over the fate of the world, the...

LORD CARTERET.* WE are glad to see this painstaking, and in many respects commendable, attempt to do justice to an English statesman of the last century, who, perhaps because...

MR. PAYN AS AN ESSAYIST.* THIE art of writing pleasantly about nothing was cultivated with consummate ability in the last century. There was no subject too insignificant for...