With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January Stet, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages ■ of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

T HERE have been rumours this week, which do not seem to have much foundation, of an approaching collision between the United States and England in the Behring Sea, on the seal-...

reconcile grave international differences all in a moment, are growing angry and discontented. In the Press and at public meetings, there is much wild talk of throwing over...

case.

one knows how it will turn out. Both the Unionist and the Gladstonian candidates are very popular men, large employers of labour, Nonconformists, possessed of great influence in...

great trouble to the United States Government. Pine Ridge Agency, which is the focus of the disturbance, is threatened by hostile bands, and earthworks are being rapidly thrown...

vacancies caused in the Senate by the retirement of a portion of the House. Eighty seats were balloted for, with the result that 74 Republicans and 6 Conservatives were...

took place at Kilkenny and some of the scenes in Mr. Lever's novels. A correspondent kindly sends us an extract from one of the notes in the Sunderland Herald and Daily News of...

ooze out from the mysterious cloud of diplomacy with which the Irish Party delight to invest themselves, Mr. O'Brien has been seeking an arrangement with Mr. Parnell in order...

that he ever offered Mr. Parnell a seat in any future Cabinet of his, and also denies that he ever suggested Mr. Parnell's retiring "for the present." As to the first point, Mr....

letter to Monday's Times, in which he states that,. though not in Parliament, and not obliged therefore to take , sides, his faith in Mr. Gladstone, against whom he has often...

an end. The Companies have secured enough men to keep the passenger-trains going after a fashion, and to deal with a certain amount of the goods traffic; but the lines are not...

his speech will not make Mr. Gladstone's course easier. Mr. Asquith holds that to give Ireland Home- rule without putting the police entirely under the local Irish control, and...

to the.clergy and laity of his diocese on the Lincoln judgment, in which he may be said to praise the judgment very highly, while blaming very severely any attempt to use the...

our Consul at Erzeroum, formerly one of the ablest of Mr. Forster's Resident Magistrates in Ireland, and also one of the most independent, though the Land League did their best...

week. The Savings-Bank Department asked for volunteers among the second-class clerks for extra work last Friday, and the second-class clerks, holding that it was optional for...

held to celebrate the jubilee of the Cannon Street Provident Society. The speech, which must be pronounced a veritable tour de force, since it contrived to make its main sub-...

to Punch, who had for some time past been seriously ill, took place on Sunday, at his house in the Hammersmith Road, the news being received by the public he had so long .amused...

against Witu last summer, prove the operations to have been singularly well executed. Nine Germans having been murdered at Witu, with the virtual connivance of the Sultan, under...

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be got right in the end ; but with a stubborn party politician in supreme power, the chances that ho can be induced to give up a wrong view and take a right one are extremely...

W E cannot conceive a matter of less interest to any one except the Irish Home-rulers and those who are dependent on them, than the question which appears to have been the...

have gone very badly for the Conservatives. Out of eighty-four seats, they have carried six. They cannot even cheer themselves with the thought that they are no worse off than...

S ELDOM has the world seen a more rapid development than that of the Unions formed by the farmers of the United States during the last few years. It seems only the other day...

P ROFESSOR HUXLEY, in his happy little letter to last Saturday's Times on the subject of General Booth's plan for attacking English pauperism, tells a delightful Irish story...

W E have heard a great deal about Socialism lately ; hardly does there appear a magazine or review that does not contain some article on the subject. And yet we are as far as...

NI R. KINGLAKE'S name will, we imagine, he more closely associated in English literature with his "In- vasion of the Crimea down to the Death of Lord Raglan" than with his...

OT many years ago there came from America a treatise upon whist, containing certain theories which were the subject of hot debate among our whist-players at home, and which are...

I T would be too much to speak of Charles Keene's death as "eclipsing the gaiety of nations," for, in spite of Dr. Johnson, nothing can do that. It is safe to say, however, that...

[TO TB! EDITOS Or THE "SrBOTATOR." Sill,With reference to the "synodical approval of Edward ' s First Book, " dealt with in your review of Father Gasquet ' s work, I would draw...

FOG IN 1684. [To THE EDITOR Or Tau s SPECTAH031.1 Sin, — In your seasonable article, you " wonder for how many years " London has been subject , to its characteristic fogs. The...

ITo THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I would venture, with your leave, to add a postscript to Mr. Huntington's interesting letter. He has told your readers of the generous...

remarks upon Bishop Lightfoot, Dean Church, and Dr. Liddon, a correspondent in the Spectator of January 3rd contributes the opinion of the Bishop as to the culture which so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICCTATOR."1 Sin, — In your article headed " Birmingham," in the issue of January 3rd, you notice an event which took place,—viz., the opening of a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — I regret to be compelled to verify my letter of December 27th, by explaining that Mr. Pelham's autograph letter to me of December 4th...

[To THE EDITOR OP TAB " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—The following extract from a letter dated December 21st, 1890, written by a young Englishman who is working on a railway in Texas,...

THE VENETIAN PRINTING-PRESS.* THE almost simultaneous appearance of Signor Castellani's La Stampa in Venezia and Mr. Horatio Brown's Venetian Printing-Press—each of them a work...

A VIGNETTE. HIGH in the blue the swallows swim like moths : Bronzed brambles lean o'er chalky cliffs ; below The stream beneath the mill-wheel whirls and froths, Then wounded...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR.1 `Sin,—With reference to the remark in your interesting article on the above subject in the Spectator of December 27th, that rooks and...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read your article in the Spectator of November -8th, 1890, with great interest, especially that portion relating to the means...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, I read in the Spectator of January 3rd an attack—and the second attack of the Spectator—on a recent story of mine. Your writer says :...

at Streatham Park to lend her a book. ' What sort of book would you like P' said I. An abridgment,' was the unexpected reply ; the last pretty book I had was an abridgment."...

`SIR WILLIAM BUTLER, was certainly the right man to have written this short Life of Sir Charles Napier. The impassioned pages in which he has recorded the story of the great...

associated with the ill-fated Stuart family as tragedy ; if, in course of time, clouds gathered round the life of almost every member of it, they had in- variably a golden...

* Story of the Boar-Colima of the Ithain Pasha Itoliof E4podition. By the late James S. Jamoson, Naturalist to the Expedition. Baited by Mrs. J. S. J411105011. With Portrait and...

Commentaries on the Present Laws of England, which Mr. Thomas Brett has chosen for his new legal text-book. It sounds too much like a colourable imitation of the time-honoured...

(Dean and Son.)—This is an excellent book to place in the hands of a boy who has not only shown himself to possess an interest in natural history, but has made a reasonable...

has written so much about schoolboys and schoolmasters, that it is surprising to find he should bo able to publish a volume, essentially of anecdotes, which has even the...

Gilbert Ellis and Co.)—These stories, the one of which, as we are told by the author, was written for children, while the other was not, are notable mainly as studies in Border...

a good little story of the fairy kind, which runs on conventional lines. A little boy and his dog, with the help, of course, of a dream, find themselves in Bubble Land, and so...

the Rev. G. H. Curtois (Mowbray and Co.), is deserving of a special word of commendation for the variety of its stories and general articles —in spite of their teaching...

Fenn shows in this story a positively Pickwickian humour, the possession of which will come as a surprise upon many—indeed, upon the majority—of his readers. It is the story of...

Co.) has a place of its own, The Gospeller is a halfpenny religious monthly of four pages of well-printed matter, composed of short articles, anecdotes, and verses. Each number...

GIFT-BOOKS. Old Mat's Lad. By L. Joyce Tomlinson. (Biggs and Co.)— This little book consists of two stories, of which the one that it - takes its title from is incomparably the...

is no article of outstanding importance, in the now number of Harper's Magazine. The remarkable writer who disguises her personality under the masculine nom de plume of "Charles...

advantage of the present season, at which folks of all ages, but especially the young, are expected to take an abundant supply of solid advice as well as other solids not...

it was—which is, to say the least, very doubtful—then the most generally attractive If Africa is as interesting to the public as over it was—which is, to say the least, very...

but not unwieldy volumes, It contains, in addition to innumerable short stories, several complete novels in serial form, of which "Expiation," by Octave Thamet, and the...

brings us down to Malta. The biographies in it are not perhaps, so notable as some that have appeared in earlier volumes, although canon linger gives a delightful sketch of...

starts this year with three new serials, of which "The Three Brothers," by Mr. Norris, promises to be exceptionally good. "Love or Money" is the name of another and powerful...

especially in character-delineation, is displayed in this book, but it cannot be said to be the pleasantest that could be put into a girl's hand. May Hamilton is an interesting...

Mrs, Oliphant begins a new story, " The Marriage of Elinor," which, although it would bo premature to pronounce a judgment at so early a stage, will, it is already clear, have a...

of Oassell's Family Magazine, but there is an exceptional number of readable papers of different kinds, such as "The Memories of Milan," "The Coming Census," and " The Key-Note...

with the New Year may be mentioned—and contrasted—The Ladder (Marshall Brothers) and Groombridge's Magazine (Groom bridgeand Sons).—The main objects of The Ladder, which is...

Fives (G. Bell and Son), in the "All-England Series," than that it is a handy volume in which each game is treated by an acknowledged expert, —" Tennis" by Mr. J ulian Marshall,...

plays given in this volume seem well adapted for their purpose, They are humorous in dialogue (rhymed, by-the- way, and therefore easy to remember) ; they have action ; they do...

dictionary of universal information has been published. All that need be said of it now is, that in point of variety and .accuracy of information, and in succinctness of...

Year of the Penny Postage." It is therefore appropriately marked by the publication of A Descriptive Catalogue of all the Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom, by William...

volume contains, we are told, "all that was permanent in the text of The Government Year-BOok.' " It has been brought up to date by the mention of any changes that have taken...