The First Nine Years of the Bank of England. By James E. I Thorold Rogers. (Clarendon Press.)-The Bank of England was I founded in 1694. For the first ten weeks of its...

Sports and Recreations in Town and Country. By Frederick Gale. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)-The eighteen articles contained in this book originally appeared in Baily's Magazine...

I The Catacombs of Rome. By the Rev. W. H. Withrow. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-This volume contains the results of much research, nor does it want vigour of style and the art of...

I The " Mermaid Series," edited by Havelock Ellis (Vizetelly and Co.), is planned, as our readers are probably aware, to contain " the best plays of the old dramatists." We...

I The Golden Hawk. By Clive Holland. (Simpkin and Marshall.) -This looks like a belated or premature Christmas-book. An orphan lad comes up to London to seek his fortune,...

| Julian the Emperor. By C. W. King, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)- IIn this new volume of " Bohn's Classical Library," Mr. King has brought together and translated various pieces...

I Monastic London. By Walter Stanhope. (Reznington.)-It is obvious to any one who is at all acquainted with the subject of this volume, that some hundred and fifty small and...

Corneey Grain. By Himself. (John Murray.)-Thoigh Mr. Grain is not so amusing as an author as he is on the platform, nobody who purchases this little volume will complain that...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Publications Issued during the Year 1887 (Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, Dublin), make up a stout volume of about seven hundred pages. Pamphlets...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. .0 MR. GLADSTONE'S PARTICULARISM. THE chief feature of the latter part of Mr. GladT stone's political career will present itself to future historians as the...

A TRADE-UNION PARTY. R. ARNOLD MORLEY and Mr. Scinadborst will, R we should imagine, hardly find the address of the President of the " Trade-Union Congress " to their taste....

THE LATEST ROYAL BETROTHAL. S PECULATORS on the Bourse are often, perhaps e usually, foolish in their judgments of political events; but for once, we fancy, they have shown...

IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE? IT is very easy to ridicule the four or five hundred feet of correspondence which has for weeks past been appearing in the Telegraph, under the heading,...

The Eisteddfod speech, though, of course, intended to I stimulate the Particularist tendency in Wales, had considerable interest, and was one of Mr. Gladstone's most agreeable...

I It is stated that the Chinese Government, irritated by a. clause in the American Treaty forbidding Chinamen with permits to return to California, has refused to ratify the...

I The meeting of the Trade-Union Congress, held this year at Bradford, promises to be interesting. The delegates have accepted the principle of returning workmen as Members to...

I The Standard on Monday published a most warlike article on President Cleveland's Memsage, an article, indeed, which plainly threatened war in case President Cleveland should...

We suppose the truth about Ishak Khan's insurrection in Afghanistan is nearly this. That Prince, who is a descendant of Dost Mahommed, and therefore has a hold on the Douranee...

The Standard of Thursday gives a most vivid and ghastly account from its Japan correspondent, of the volcanic eruption of July 15th in the mountain Bandaisan, only about a...

I The Duke of Sparta-what on earth made the Greek dynasty choose that absurd name, which suggests nothing but hostility to Athens, for the Crown Prince ?-was on Sunday...

MR. GLADSTONE AND FREE-TRADE. [TO TEz EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SiR,-Thanking you for your further editorial note on this subject in the Spectator of the 1st inst., I must...

THE ANGLICAN REFORMATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Since you both misunderstand me and ask me a question, you will perhaps allow me a word of reply. I said...

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE IRISH LAND ACT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,-I hope you will permit me, an Irish Liberal Unionist, to protest against the reply you make to...

THE AUSTRALIAN FEELING FOR INDEPENDENCE. ( LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.J] < SiR,-May I be allowed to take exception to several remarks made by your correspondent, Mr....

CARDINAL POLE AND CORPORATE REUNION. [T. THI EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,-Father Angus, having in your paper borrowed some remarks on the above subject-made in the current...

PURITANISM IN CONNECTICUT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.-] SIR,-A n American correspondent of yours has challenged a, statement of mine in my " Ireland and the Celtic...

THE EVANGELICAL PARTY. [To T1{E EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The recent articles in the Spectator on the Evangelical party, rebuking its intolerance, must nevertheless...

THE FIRST PRAYER-BOOK OF EDWARD VI [TO THE EDITOI OF THE "SSPECTATOR."] SiR,-In your article of August 25th on Bishop Ryle, it is implied (p. 1,153) that the Act establishing...

WAR TO THE LANDLORDS. WE have given elsewhere some reasons which induce NV- us to doubt whether property is in quite so much danger in Europe as some observers believe; but we...

THE ENGINEER'S PARABLE. SIR FREDERICK BRAMWELL'S address at the meeting of the British Association on Wednesday, has almost the interest of a parable for the politician. Sir...

A message strangely characteristic of the East arrived on I Thursday from Morocco. It bad been rumoured that the Sultan, indignant at the treachery of some mountain tribes who...

I The correspondent of the Times states, we believe truly, that the moving cause of the present Italian bitterness against France is a belief that the French Government intends...

On the subject of Home-rule for Wales, Mr. Gladstone was vague. But he predicted that it would come for both Scotland and Wales, as the consequence of not accepting the very "...

I Mr. Gladstone's visit to the Eisteddfod on Tuesday was used for political purposes after all, greatly to the dismay of those devotees of the Welsh language and literature who...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. TiHE statement that the Government of India bad decided to invade Tibet and occupy the Chumnbi Valley, is now officially denied. Colonel Graham, in command...

BO OK S. COWPER.* SOME books are written to instruct the reader, some to divert the writer. It is to the latter class that the book before us must be referred. From the motto...

POETRY. SONNETS IN MY LIBRARY.-V. I.-SHELF OF SONNETS. IF thou have only art mosaic-wise To cramp just fourteen lines in rhymes just five;If thou our Shakespeare's sonnet half...

A USE FOR THE OLD IRONCLADS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The recent Naval Manceuvres must, I think, have made it clear to all who studied them, that our present...

Indian Sketches. By John Neat Irving. (Putnams.)-These I "sketches" were taken, we are told, fifty-five years ago, during an expedition to make treaties between the United...

More T Leaves. By Edward F. Turner. (Smith and Elder.)- This volume contains between thirty and forty sketches of the comic kind. The humour maybe described as of the "Winkle"...

Two books on Indian subjects are:-The Life and Life-Work of I Behramji M. Malabari. By Dayaram Gidumal, LL.B. (Education Society's Press, Bombay.)-Mr. Behramji Malabari was...

Nonsense Songs and Stories. By Edward Lear. Sixth Edition. (F. Warne and Co.)-" By Way of Preface" contains a brief autobiography, studiously confined to facts. Mr. Lear began...

Baines's History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. I Edited by James Croston, F.S.A. Vol. I. (J. Heywood, Man- I chester and London.)-Mr. Edward Baines's History...

Sketches of Hospital Life. By Honnor Morten. (Sampson Low I and Co.)-These sketches describe life in hospital, whether of the ordinary kind or devoted to fever cases, in...

A Plunge into Troubled Waters. By Miss C. R. Coleridge. (Smith I and Innes.)-A very excellent couple, used for many years to a. perfectly well-managed country parish, are...

THE FUTURE OF PROPERTY. TR. CROCKER, the Californian who recently left four I millions to his heirs, after he became a rich man brought up his three sons to work. They were...

But the most effective part of Sir Frederick Bramwell's I address was his illustration of the vast importance of the minutest items in the preparation of the practical...

Mr. E. Stanhope, M.P., addressing a meeting of his Lincoln- shire constituents at Stickney, near Boston, last Saturday, put it to Mr. John Morley how it was that, denouncing...

The meeting of the British Association promises, indeed, to interest the public, even if it does not greatly advance science. Besides Sir F. Bramwell's attractive address, we...

Sir Frederick Bramwell's Presidential Address at the British I Association on Wednesday was certainly the most popular which has been delivered for many years,-probably because...

I Mr. Preece's address on Thursday on electricity was nearly as good as Sir C. Wilson's, and will, of course, find more readers. It is a history of the practical applications...

- A shocking railway accident is reported from France. At half-past 2 in the morning of Wednesday, the express from Italy, travelling at high speed, went off the metals at...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. QIJEENSLAND AND THE NAVAL DEFENCE BILL.[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiB,-As a letter of mine which appeared in the Spectatc- ofAugust 4th has...

CONCERNING TROUT-FISHING. "SIR !" said a holiday-making Londoner, angrily addressing ejthe landlord of a hotel in the Scottish Highlands, " you have enticed me here on false...

ST. PETER'S CHAINS.* I MR. DE VERE can hardly expect complete sympathy from any reader who does not agree with him in the claim of the Roman Catholic Church to be the only true...

THE DEPRECIATION OF ANIMAL CHARACTER. T HERE is a school of thinkers who evidently believe that the lower they can depress the character and intellect of animals, the more they...

JAMES'S NAVAL HISTORY EPITOMISED.* IT is difficult to understand why, when he set about "epitomising" Tames's Naval History, Mr. O'Byrne should have taken as a basis the first...

THE FEDERALIST.* AT a time when a great party in Britain are endeavouring to reproduce the mischiefs from which the Thirteen Colonies ultimately forming the United States...

I PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED RACEHORSES.* THIs is a most estimable work. We feel sure that it will be generally considered as a valuable contribution to our equine literature, and...

THE MAGAZINES. THE most interesting article in the Nineteenth Century is Miss Beatrice Potter's " Pages from a Work-Girl's Diary." In it she describes with photographic...

CORRESPONDENCE. WHITBY AND THE HERRING TRADE. August 30th. I "ANY fresh herrings for breakfast, Sir? Four a penny this morning, Sir !" Such was my greeting this day, as I...