27 FEBRUARY 1897, page 5

Mr. Morley And The Political Pendulum.

M R. MORLEY did not quite like Mr. Augustine Birrell's dubbing him " the select preacher" for the Eighty and Russell Clubs this day week, though it was at Oxford that he was......

Lord Salisbury And The Commons.

r ERE are defects in our constitutional system pro- ducing great practical evils, which it seems positively silly not to correct, yet which are never corrected. One of them is......

Topics Of The Day.

THE POWERS AND CRETE. T HERE is nothing for it, we suppose, but to accept the compromise on which the Powers have agreed, unsatisfactory, or even irritating, as it must be......