NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE cholera has certainly appeared in England, at Grimesb, Hull, and London; but there is no reason to I apprehend a" scare." The most formidable outbur st...

The German Emperor has been making speeches all over I Alsace.Lorraine and the Rhineland, where he is inspecting great Army manuuvres. None of them require separate notice, but...

I A movement which may prove serious has broken out in Brazil. The President, Marshal Peixoto, claimed the right of appointing his successor, and the Fleet, supported by all...

Anew agitation has been getting up about Siam, sufficiently I important to hasten Lord Dufferin back to Paris. M. le Myre de Vilers, the French Agent despatched to Bangkok to...

The Government have surprised the country by their selection of a new Viceroy for India. They have no Peer of the requisite calibre available; and have looked round, therefore,...

I The French Elections were completed on Sunday, the 3rd inst., and leave the Chamber with:-Opportunists, 292; Converted Monarchists, 35; Unconverted Monarchists, 58; and...

CORRESPONDENCE. "NORWAY BY CONTRACT." To Norway and back in a fortnight, carried in a steamer from fiord to fiord, with all things found and paid for, and excursions and...

THE STRENGTH OF THE LORDS. ITHE speaking during the Home-rule debate in the . House of Lords has been of quite exceptional weight and power. That, however, is by no menrs the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. | THE THIRD READING. t TT is said in the papers that Mr. Gladstone received the I numbers in the division on the third reading of the Home-rule Bill without...

The sitting of Monday was marked by a tolerably clear statement of Ministerial plans. They do not intend to usethe Closure, but they will take all the time for the remainder of...

The Duke of Devonshire's speech on Tuesday was full of his dogged moderation and good sense-the Westminster Gazette speaks of his "innuddleheadedness," but it vill find that...

On Wednesday, the Duke of Argyll showed that his powers of oratory are not in the slightest degree dimmed. No Government, he declared, had been so corrupt as this one. " There...

Mr. Balfour'S speech contained one passage of great weightW and importance. Never again, he declared, would tie Government be able to come before the constituencies of the...

Sir Edward Grey made a moderate defence, not of the il, I but of the principle of Home-rule. The feeling of Ulster was against the Bill, but the Ulstermen were in a minority,...

f'in -Puriq.v 'week. Mr. Macarthy, on behalf of the Anti- Parnellites, and "speaking for his country," accepted the Bill. Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech of very great power...

rrl+ho-d1 rpadinv of the Home-rule Bill was on Friday forced through the House of Commons by a majority of nine less than the majority which carried the second reading. The...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Spencer moved the second reading of the Home-rule Bill in a speech of more power than was expected. The most interesting portion was...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Greek and Latin Palrxography. By Edward Macdonald Thomnp- son, (Kegan Paul, Trebch, and Co.)-After certain preliminary chapters on what may be called the...

I Sunny Manitoba. By A. 0. Legge. (T. Fisher Unwin.)-Mr, Legge tells us a great deal about Manitoban farming and life in some three hundred pages. We have facts and figures in...

The Devil's Diamond. By Richard Marsh. (Henry and Co.)- I This is a story of the "Bottle-Imp " kind. The "Devil's Diamond " is a very uncanny stone indeed, which works...

Our Secret Friends and Foes. By Percy Faraday Frankland. I (S.P.C.-.) This is a volume of the " Romance of Science Series." The friends and foes" are the bacilli, Micerococci,...

Modern Meteorology. By F. Waldo. (Walter Scott.)-Mr. Waldo confines himself to the description of modern instruments, methods, and observations, and but little of general...

The Birth and Development of Ornament. By F. E. ITulme. I (Swan Sonnenscbein and Co.)-The field which Mr. Hullno has tried to cover in one volume is rather too largo to be...

The Cock-House at Felscarth. By Talbot Baines Reed, (Religious Tract Society.)-This is, we suppose, a precursor of the autumn shower of Christmas books. It has, to a certain...

Common-Boom Carols. By M. T. P. (Alden and Co., Oxford.) - These verses are often very amusing, though the local element is so strong in many of them as to make them obscure...

I 7Th, Rnmance of Electricity. By J. Munro. (Rligious Tract Society)-A quantity of interesting information about atmospheric electricity in its various manifestations has been...

I Wilfred T7aide, Barrister and Novelist. By Richard Peuderel. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)-We gather from this book that the author is a " barrister." He shows some...

The Labour Movement. By L. T. lobhouse. (T. Fisher Unwin.) I -This will be found an interesting and well-written plea for the new "political econouiy,"-if, indeed, the name is...

I Owford Men and their Colleges, and Oxford Men, 1880-92. Bv | Joseph Foster, M.A. (J. Parker and Son.) -Here we have two handsome and massive volumes. The first contains...

T1.1strated Bible Dictionary, ry M. G. Easton, MLA, (Nelson I and Sons.)-This book gives much information within a small comIpass, and will be found useful by those who have...

The ayjum and Lake Mmwris. By Major R. H. Brown, RAE. (iE. Mtantbrd.)-Major Brown attacks the well-known Lake Mcoris problem from the point of view of the practical engineer. "...

Select Nursery-Rhyrnes Literally Rendered into Latin. Bv A. I Graham. (W. S. Sime, Glasgow.)-The earlv editions of t.h. I Arundines Camni contained some buniorous efforts of...

Much information on a very important subject will be found in I The Food of Plants: an Introduction to Agricultural Chemistry. By A, P. Lawrie, M-A, (Macmillan and Co.)-At the...

NMire's Cricketer's Tutor. With Introduction by Charles Whibloy. I (D. Nutt.)-.John Nyren, son of Richard, a famous cricketer, was born at Hambledon, in Hants, in 1765, a time...

Drifting Under the Southern Cross. By Ellerton Gay. (Gordon I and Gotch.)-This "'Australian romance" is very mnueh1 of the kind to which we are used in the Old World....

The Setfler's EncycZopiedia. By Frauk R. Tozer. (C. Stewart I and Co.)-This volume contains directions and hints for the settler, wherever he may propose to go, and to...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND MR. BALFOUR- HE chief personal feature of the debates on the T Home-rule Bill has been the dual leadership of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour. Their...

NATURAL PICTURES. A CORRESPONDENT of the Manchester Gicardian in A last Monday's issue makes a good suggestion on the perplexed question, how to save the natural beauties of...

[To THE EUDITOR OF THE "SPEGTATOR."J SIR,-It is to be hoped that the suggestion made by " C. G. C.' in your issue of September 2nd, may be acted upon without loss of time. In...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE UNIONIST CASE. [To THE EDITOR O THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-So far as this part of Devonshire is concerned, I think your correspondent, "SC. G. C.,"...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANY. [To THE EDITOR OP TIHE '6SPECTATORL"] Sin,-However much one may differ from details of Mr. Rhodes's Cape policy-notably, the Excise question-it is...

TWO VIEWS OF SCOTTISH ECCLESIASTICISM.* THOUGHTFUL Septehmen capable of detaching themselves maentally from the particular Church to which they belong, would find some...

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. 11TE do not feel quite so hopeful as to the result of the WV French Elections as we felt a fortnight ago. The second ballotages have greatly increased the...

BO OK S. - - THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THEOLOGY.* Wn hold this work to be of very substantial value mainly from the admirable simplicity and earnestness which characterise the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATORt."] SIR,-An incident, almost precisely similar to that mentioned by Miss Yonge in the Spectator of September 2nd, happened I about a month ago...

A CURIOUS PHENOMENON. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTATORt."] SIR,-In reply to the letter in the Spectator of September 2nd, under the above heading, may I inform your...

ANTI-SEMITISM. [TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SP1'EATOn."] SIR,-The interesting communication of your correspondent " X." happens to have reached me, together with a letter from an...

THE MAGAZINES. THE most readable article in the September Contemporary is Mr. Lang's " Comparative Psychical Research," in which he develops an idea started in his introduction...

BRAZILIAN MOSQUITOES. LTO THE EnDITOI OF THlE "SPECTATOR."j Sixr,-I can parallel Lady Burton's tale of the Brazilian mosquito, in the Spectator of August 19th, which would not...

COCKROACHES. LTo THE EDITOR OF TIfM "SrECTATOHt."] SIR,-It may relieve your cockroach-ridden readers to know that on this side of the Atlantic the use of powdered borax is...

THE AMERlICAN SILVER VOTE. LTO THE EDITOR 0P TEE " SPECTATOJ."] SIR,-Will the apprehensions of progressive " appreciation'" of gold, referred to in your interesting article in...

THE VANITY OF SPARROWS. [To TLE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your correspondent's story of the self-contemplating sparrows, in your issue of August 26th, reminds me of a...

THE GLACIAL EPOCH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR'."] !Sm,-Mr. Murphy complains that I have not answered his argument. I thought I had answered it most effectually. Some...

The coal strike is virtually over in South Wales, though I it has died hard-the rioting at Llanelly on Monday was of a very savage character, resulting in injury to two...

A ghastly light has been thrown this week upon the way in I which opinion is drifting away from its old connection with morals and religion. Many of the advocates of the new...

On Friday week, Mr. Asquitlh received a deputation from the London cabmen. Mr. Lough, M.P, their spokesman, gave some curious facts as to the cab-industry. There are eleven...

The chief event of Thursday's debate in the Lords was Lord Rosebery's speech. It had been whispered that the Foreign Secretary was not very enthusiastic about the Bill; but the...

A death has occurred in Argyllshire which may develop into a cause c6llbre. Mr. Alfred John Monson, an Army tutol, and his wife, were on August 10th last residing at Ardlamont,...

LE CRtPUSOULE.* Mi. MAXIME DU CAMP'S twilight thoughts will be welcomed by every one who knows his still more charming Souvenirs Litteraires. Both books seem to show a winning...

THE CHANCES FOR THE LIGHTNING EXPRESS. 4JROM London to Brighton in twenty.five minutes, from 1F London to Paris in two hours and twelve minutes, allowing for the Channel...

SAVAGE LIFE.* THE Island of Sakhalin, in the Gulf of Tartary, an island about the length of England, but much narrower, is a Russian penal settlement, the very mention of...

PROFESSOR BOYESEN ON GERMAN LITERATURE:* THESE Essays were written and first published in America, which may partly account for a good many of their peculiarities. Tbe author...

THE NEW VICEROY. SIR HENRY NORMAN is a supremely fortunate as well as a deserving man. He is, we imagine, the only person in any European country who has, without family...

THE NEW DEPOSITARY OF POWER. aW I have now the authority of a leading Member of NVl the Government for regarding the measures by which the Home-rule Bill has been forced...

THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO WORK. T[T has always seemed to us that the controversy on this I subject-which Mr. Frederic Harrison, we see, has just revived-is conducted, especially by...