Mfr. Labouchere replies to the first part of the foregoingI argument that if Irelan W sought to u-c Home-rule as a lever tor Separation, which hIe thinks very improbable, the...

The Attorney-General, Sir R. Webster, speaking again at Cowes on Wednesdav night, said that, " sooner than see any measure passed or proposed which would tend for a moment to...

I No reason is offered in the summary for the exemption of the landlords. Its explanation must, however, be this. The I landlords raise for the British Government a great...

I Sir A. Colvin, the Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a statement on the 4th inst. which drew an important speech from Lord Dufferin. The Viceroy said be had hoped to...

I AMr. John Morley spoke at Chelmsford on Thursday, chiefly on the Irish Question, ridiculing the objection to any adequate Irish legislation that the Parliament just elected...

Mr. Childer., in spealking in Edinburgh on Wednesday, delivered au eExcellent SP)eech, soj far as he touched on subjects not relating to land or to Ireland ; but wve cannot at...

Lord Claud J. Hamilton, speaking at Liverpool on Wedues- day, alppears to iTo as far as -r. Childers on the most important point of Mr. (chlllers's plani. " Ile would not," he...

A CONSTITUTIONAL SUGGESTION. FANY of the very curious restrictions by which custom -Al limits the right of the Queen to select her Ministers are easily defensible by argument....

MR. JOHN MORLEY AT CHELMSFORD. I R. JOHN MORLEY gives us the impression of taking a A .1 more serious view of the difficulties of the great problem now before the nation, than...

AMIEL AND CLOUGE. M RS. HUMPHREY WARD, in the interesting introduction M - which she has prefixed to her beautiful translation of " Amiel's Journal," indicates, though not as...

WILLIAM MAGINN, LL.D.* WILLIAM MAGINN was the son of a Cork schoolmaster, born in 1793, and educated at Trinity College, where he graduated LL.D. at the age of twenty-three....

It is believed in Ireland, apparently, that the Tory County I Government Bill will be so strong that it will give Ireland thirty-two petty and limited Parliaments. We do not...

I In the second letter, Sir James Stephen insists that to assert the integrity of nations has never been thought inconsistent with Liberalism, and that if it were so...

For the -moment, matters are not going well in Burmah. I General Prendergast has occupied Bhamo without opposition, either from Burmese or Chinese; but the delay in announcing...

I Sir James Fitzjames Stephen has addressed two very able letters to the Tines,-published on Monday and Tuesday last, -on the Irish questions,-letters whose only defect is that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. VARLIAMENT meets on the 12th, and will begin business on the 19th; and the air is, of course, full of rumours. It is said that the Salisbury Cabinet will not...

THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. T HE new French Ministry is in the main a Radical T Ministry, modified by M1. de Freycinet, who is Premier, and who is, of course, essentially an...

ART. THE "OLD MASTERS" AT BUERLINGTON HOUSE. TIlE Winter Exhibition of the works of deceased masters at Burlington House is chiefly remarkable for a collection of water-colour...

MR. TUE R'S " BARTOLOZZI." To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.", SiIt,-In the last paragraph of the review of " Bartolozzi and his Works," in the Spectator of January 2nd, your...

" TIPS." [TO THE EDITOR OF TIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Those of us who have tender consciences ought to be much obliged to you for your remarks on the above subject. Some years ago...

I CamWilla's Girlhood. By Linda Villari. (T. Fislher Uawin.)-This is a readable, if not a very exciting or intellectual, production. A mawkish English girl marries a beautiful...

Don Quixote. Translated by John Ormsby. 4 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)-This very handsome edition represents as worthily as we could wish to see the great Spanish romance. We...

The Baccbu? of Euripides. With Critical and Explanatory Notes, by John Edwin Sandys, M.A. (Cambridge University Press.) -This admirable edition was reviewed at length in the...

(London Literary Society.)- -This book certainly deserves the de- scription given of it by its author, for a quieter, not to say a duller, story we have seldom met with. In...

Mren at the Bar. By Joseph Foster. (Reeves and Turner.)-This I handsome volume, a large octavo of more than five hundred pages, may be best described in the words of the...

I The Goldea Milestone: a Novel. By Scott Graham. (Wyman and Sons.)-This is a confused and very improbable story, the chief complication in which is unbelievable. A man of old...

Abyssinia. Translated from the German of Dr. Henry W. J. Thierscb, by Sarah M. J. Pereira. (Nisbet and Co.) -This little book, consisting of one hundred and thirty small...

The first volume of a projected series-" English Worthies," to be edited by Mr. Andrew Lang-is Charles Duan, by Grant Allen (Longians), and the beginning is certainly a very...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. SIR JAMES STEPHEN ON IRISH HOME-RULE. I THE two masterly letters of Sir James Stephen on the T Irish Question in Monday's and Tuesday's Tiiaes, would be as...

NOVELS.- -Love the Reward, by Philip May (Remington), is one of the most painstaking and, on the whole, also successful attempts we have seen to reproduce the Russian life of...

BO OK S. MIR. BROWN'S LIFE OF BUNYAN.* IT is nearly two centuries since Bunyan died, and for two centuries his Pilgrimi's Progress, with the sole exception of the Authorised...

MIr. Finlay, the Member for the Inverness Boroughs, has drafted a Bill for emancipating the Scotch Established Church from all interference on the part of the Civil Courts, in...

The reports from Egypt are becoming uniformly bad, and the I correspondents are even demanding "reinforcements," though we have 14,000 troops in the Nile Valley already. The...

M. de Freycinet has at last succeeded in forming a Ministry, I in which M. Sarrien is Minister of the Interior; M. SidiCarnot, of Finance; General Boulanger, of War; and M....

I A correspondent writes from Madras: -" Tleebau arrived yesterday. The Colonel who brought him over, before he and his men departed, requested the acting Chief Secretary of...

I A very interesting account is given in Thursday's Times. of a paper read by the Rev. Malling Hansen before the International Medical Conference in Copenhagen, on the result...

The Spanish Bishops, with the approval of Pope Leo XIII., I have issued a Manifesto declaring that while politics should be based upon religion, the Catholic Church holds all...

SOME GREAT AVELSU PREACHERS. IO THE EDITOR OF TilE " SPECTATOR.-7 Sit,-In the review which appeared in the Spccetlo;' of the volume entitled " Some of the Great Preachers of...

MR.. KEBBEL'S "HISTORY OF TORYISM." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SI;ECTATOR."j SIR,-I did not, of course, anticipate that a book like mine would be very favourably noticed by the...

THE BLOT UPON THE BRAIN.* The Blot itpon the Brazi is a book about the delusions of the senses. Through knowledge gained by observations in mental derangement, the author deals...

LORD DUFFERIN'S TROUBLES. L ORD DUFFERIN is struggling gallantly against a sea of L|/ troubles, civil and military, which it is evident, from his speech of the 4th inst., that...

CRIME AND CRIMINNALS.* THIS is a most admirable contribution to an excellent series. Sir Edmund Du Cane is the greatest living authority, with the greatest practical experience...

BULLYING AT KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-The occurrence of the first annual distribution of prizes at King's College School, as reported in...

THE IRIS11 QUESTION I-N A DEMOCRATIC LIGHT. LTO TILE EDITOR OF TILE ' SPECTATOR."1 Si,-I have read all the articles and letters which have appeared in the Spectator uI)on the...

HOME-RULE OR SELF-GOVERNTMENT P [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'J SIR,-Will you allow me to point out a misconception in your article on Mr. Trevelyan's speech of December...

THE LAW'S DELAY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. I ELEVEN years ago the Tory Party were, unfortunately, in 1 power as well as in office. They were not at first reactionary at home,...

THE VACANT BISHOPRIC. "N' OLO episcopari," from a jest, has of late years become an occasional reality; and it seems to be so in quite a special sense in the case of the...

THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT AT GUISE. THE remarkable account in the Tiwes of Tuesday of M. T Godin's fawilistVre at Guise, near Paris, will not excite the attention that fifty, or...

SOME MAGAZIN-ES. NAONE of the magazines are very good this month. The political articles are not nutritive, and with the exception always of Dr. Jessopp's "The Little Ones and...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A CHURCH VOTING QUALIFICATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' " SiR,-The current number of the Contemporary Review contains two articles on Church...