The scene on board 'La Bourgogne' could not, we believe, have occurred in an English or American ship. Cases of desertion have repeatedly occurred, and of desperate attempts by...

The examination in bankruptcy into the affairs of Mr. Xooley will, it is stated, involve a point of great public interest. Mr. Hooley bhas stated publicly that while pureuing...

The week has been marked by one of the most terrible maritime disasters of our time. About 5 o'clock in the morning of Monday, the 4th inst., ' La Bourgogne,' a French liner of...

I n d i On the second day -of the, debate-Tuesday-the dig- cussion was continued with great interest. Sir William Harcourt, though he voted for the Motion declaring that an...

Mr. A. D. White, American Ambassador to Berlin, made on I July 4th at a banquet of Americans resident in Leipsic, one of the very cleverest speeches we ever remember to have...

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Redmond raise& a debate on Irish financial relations, but his speech added nothing to the illumination of the subject. Mr. Lecky followed,...

Lord Salisbury's contribution to the debate was very able. I After declaring that many of the things on which excitement has arisen were in themselves trivial, he dwelt upon...

At Birmingham on Friday, July let, Mr. Chamberlain addressed a meeting in the Council House summoned to consider the scheme for founding a University for the Midlands. Until,...

On Thursday Lord Selborne introduced the Benefices Bill I into the House of Lords. The Archbishop of Canterbury. who rose next, gave his approval to the Bill, though he would...

Lord Rosebery, who is never happier than when making a set speech on an abstract subject, gave a charming little address on courage to the London Fire Brigade on Saturday last,...

On Wednesday the Archbishops and Bishops dined at the Mansion House. The Archbishop of Canterbury in his speech declared that the clergy and laity were at this moment "rather...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE. ITHE philanthropists of Europe are, of course, quite T right in urging the Spaniards to accept their destiny and make peace; and we...

THE STORY OF AN ADVOWSON. [To THE EDITOR OF TBE " SPECTATOR'.J SIR,-In whatever shape the Benefices Bill comes through the ordeal of Parliament, there is no doubt that it is...

THE REALITY OF ANGLO-AMERICANISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Perhaps I may point out, in reference to Mr. Marshall Sturge's letter in the Spectator of July 2nd,...

THE PROBLEM OF CLERICAL POVERTY. [To 1!Z EDITOR OJ THR " SPCTATO-"] SBr,-Please allow me to thank you for your very sensible and practical article on the above subject in the...

ANIMAL INSTINCT. [!TO TIU EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH."] SIR,-I have often been urged to ask your acceptance of the following story, which goes far to prove that instinct in...

ABRAHAM AND THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER. [TrauslaWdfiofoz /the .7sJizi of Sa'di.] [The Arabian legends of Abraham usiiafly c11 him by the name of "The Friend of (God."] I'VE heard that...

POETRY. TWILIGHaT. I. RED skies above a level land, And thoughts of thee! Sinking sun on reedy strand, And mystic sea! II. Coming night, and drooping birds; o my child!...

THE SEA-GULL AND THE FISHERMAN. LTO THE EDITOR 0P THE "SPECTATOR." 1 SIR,-The following may be considered worthy of a place among the many interesting stories that have from...

The Principles of Criticism. By W. Basil Worsfold, M.A. (G. Allen.)-Mr. Worsfold's method is historical. He begins with Plato and Aristotle, says nothing, we are somewhat...

The Sundering Flood. By William Morris. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d.)-This book is, we are sorry to say, the last of the late Mr. Morris's romances. We feel that the ideal land...

Railway Nationalisation. By Clement Edwards. (Methuen ! and Co.)-The author, in the preface which he has written for this volume (an enlarged edition of papers published in...

CURRENT LITERAT URE. A New Varioum Edition of Shakespeare. Edited by H.H.I. Furness. Vol. Xr., The W}inter's Tale. (Lippincott. 18s.) -This I is the eleventh volume of the...

On the other hand, there is some evidence that the diffi- culties within Santiago are increasing. There is an obvious lack of food, so great that all the civil population has...

I Madrid has taken the news of Cervera's defeat very well, and there is no sign that Spaniards as yet think of peace. They would accept peace, of course, on favourable...

The American House of Representatives recently agreed to the annexation of Hawaii; and the Senate, which was supposed to be reluctant, on Tuesday endorsed the decision of the...

We must give a few words to the gallant action of the 'Gloucester,' commanded by Lieutenant Wainwright. The 'Gloucester' is only a yacht, bought from a private owner, and armed...

NENWS OF THE WEEK. T HE news of the War is mixed. Admiral Cervera's fleet has been destroyed, as recorded below, and the States are therefore free to act as they will in the...

On Sunday Admiral Cervera's five ships tried to escape from Santiago, and in the attempt were totally destroyed by Admiral Sampson's fleet. Noting that Admiral Sampson had gone...

I Prince Patrick: a Fairy Tale. By Arnold Graves. (Downey and Co.)-Surely Mr. Graves called in some of the "little people" to help him with this story. He tells of their...

The Ristorical Church Atlas, by Edmund Maclure, M.A. (S.P.C.K., I 16s.), gives, each with an explanation, eighteen maps and fifty sketch-maps in the text, which illustrate (1)...

I Cycle and Camp. By T. H. Holding. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)- This little book is an account of how Mr. Holding and three friends camped and cycled in Connemara. Hardly a...

I Hannibal: a Drama. By Louisa Shore. (Grant Richards.)- Miss Shore made the first sketch of Hanitibal when she was but twenty years old, though she spent much time on...

I The Finding of St. Augustine's Chair. By the late James I Johnston. (Cornish Bros., Birmingham.)-In this little book Mr. Johnston tells how he found a curious old chair in...

Sisters of the Sea. By Clement Scott. (Lawrence Greening | and Co.)-Mr. Clement Scott describes in a pleasant way various Beasida places, beginning with what he calls " The...

I Stories from the Classic Literature of Man!y Nations. Edited by I Bertha Palmer. (Macmillan and Co.)-Tbis book is described in the preface as " intended primarily for...

Lessons from Life 4 (Animal and Human). (Elliot Stock. 7s. 6d.) -The object of this volume, to which Dr. Hugh Macmillan has prefixed an introduction, may be gathered from the...

Pictures of the East. By Helen B. Harris. (Nisbet and Co. I Bs. 6d.)-Here we have twenty views of buildings and landscapes in Jerusalem and its environs (as, e.g., "...

A Baby Philosopher. By Ruth Berridge. (Jarrold and Sons.) I -Faith Trevor's mother dies a few hours after her infant's birth. The iiild grows up under difficulties which are...

Renan's Life of Jesus. Translated, with an Introduction, by I William G. Hutchison. (Walter Scott.) -Mr. Hutehison trans- lates from the thirteenth edition, and so gives the...

I Burke's History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and I Ireland. Edited by A. P. Burke. 2 vols. (Harrison and Sons. £3 3s.)-This is the "ninth edition" of a well-known...

I Told in the Coffee-House. Collected and done into English by I Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay. (Macmillan and Co.)-Here are some thirty tales of various length, some being...

F IRtELAND'S FINANCIAL GRIEVACE. TT is not alwvay easy to find an apology for Parliamentary debates, but occasionally the House of Commons is visibly justified for its nightly...

THE FRENCH MILITARY TERROR. W E said last week, in discussing French Radicalism, NV- that we had little expectation of the new Brisson Ministry lasting, because it had, to...

THE NESTING PLACES OF BRITISH BIRDS.* MRW. OswIN LEnE has set himself the most delightful task which an ornithologist can imagine. Some years ago he determined to visit the...

A NEW STORYTELLER.* IF one were asked what is the most valuable quality with which a literary fairy godmother could endow her godchild, one would unhesitatingly reply, " The...

THE CONGESTION OF LONDON. W HAT would William Cobbett, who in his day thought of London as " a great wen," say could he revisit it now, and walk up Cheapside westward at about...

The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Edwin Hodder. (Nisbet and Co.)-Mr. Hodder has taken from his " Life of Lord Shaftesbury" an outline of such portions as concern his career...

A Selection from the Works of Thomna De Quincey (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) does not need commendation. The extracts arI sixteen in number, and include the famous passages...

CORRESPONDENCE. PATRIOTS IN CHINA. tTo THE EDITOR oF THE N SPECTATOR."] SIn,-" China has no patriots in Shansi," writes a correspondent from that province to one of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MR. KIPLING ON SHAKESPEARE. [TO THnu EDITOR OF TEX "SPZCTATOR."] SiR,-Mr. Rudyard Kipling in his fascinating letter to you last week called up an...

BO OK S. CANON GORE ON PRAYER. A sERIES of papers on the Lord's Prayer contributed to the Commonwealth by Canon Charles Gore has been reprinted in a small volume. These papers...

THE S.P.C.K.* ONw March 8th, 1698-9 (should not the first date in the title be 1699 ?), four laymen and one clergyman met at a house in London to consider whether they could...

RECENT NOVELS.* OF the cleverness of the novels which issue from the pen of the American lady who writes under the pseudonym of "Charles Egbert Craddock " there can be no...

THE MAGAZINES. OF the articles in this month's magazines the two most instructive, as well as "up-to-date," are in the Conten7porary Review. The first is by Mr. G. 0. Musgrave...

VOLUNTEERS IN BATTLE. ONE grand use of this war, certainly for America and, Great Britain, and possibly for the whole civilised. world, is the instruction it will give them as...

THE M ONEYLENDING COMMITTEE. THE Select Committee on Moneylending have still al T healthy faith in the power of the legislator. They hold that there is no wrong without a...

THE LESSONS OF THE NAVAL BATTLE. THE first thought of all Englishmen in regard to the naval battle is that the American fleet did its work splendidly. The whole performance of...

ANIMAL SIZE AND BRAIN-POWER. TO expect any general correspondence between the size of animals and their intelligence is perhaps a mere mistaken analogy; but it is not...

ARE ENGLISHWOMEN GROWING WORSE? W E do not believe that Englishwomen of the better class are, as a body, worse than they were. If that were the case, the fact would be a...