; but the grief of the Berliners for their Kaiser is evidently deep and sincere. The old feeling for Royalty is by no means dead, the Emperor had realised the fondest hopes of...

speech of his life at Ipswich on Wednesday, if we may judge of it from the report in the Times. He attacked no one, he indulged in no controversial statements. He simply main-...

case.

King and Emperor, and it is asserted that, whatever the risk, he will at once proceed to Berlin. His train, it is stated, has been ordered for Saturday morning. Even if be...

E UROPE has this week sustained a great shock. The Emperor of Germany has lived so long beyond the usual term of life, that men had ceased to expect his decease ; and it was...

the National Debt on Friday, and, of coarse, we have had no time to study it attentively. It is, however, at first sight, a broad scheme, most carefully considered. Mr. Goschen...

about Bulgaria of minor importance ; but we record their progress and their meaning elsewhere. We need only mention here that the Sultan has overrridden his Ministers, and that,...

Boulanger. He has formally denied, in a letter to the Minister of War, that he sanctioned the use made of his name at the elections ; but the Republicans insist that if he did...

a. dinner given him by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, adverted to the receipts of the Treasury for " conscience-money " as being creditable to the City, and jestingly remarked...

Wednesday, two attempts were made to obtain Grand Com- mittees on Scotch Bills, and also on Welsh Bills, by amendments moved in the case of Scotland by Sir George Campbell, and...

on the meetings in Trafalgar Square, accusing the police of various acts of brutality in the treatment of those who made the demonstration, and moved his amendment asking for an...

upon the Army Estimates, one on Monday and one on Thursday, in the second of which Lord Randolph Churchill compared the results obtained in England and Germany for the same...

Government is entirely in the right, and must use force ; but we question if it is using force enough. The Rajah of Sikkim, a mite of a country important only because it would...

including the Dean of Winchester, the Dean of Manchester, Canon Scott Holland, and various other eloquent and earnest men, have addressed Mr. Gladstone, expressing their view in...

much the same place among American writers of fiction that Miss Yonge occupies here, died on Tuesday, two days only after her father, himself a notable teacher and writer on...

to be Mayor—who seems to think that New York ought to be an American city. It is exceedingly impudent of him, but he does think so as much as Mayor Hall ever did. He has been...

doners to the observance of Sunday, in the Upper House of Convocation yesterday week, gave the Bishop of Exeter, who had presented the petition which gave rise to it, the oppor-...

to the students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, and took as his subject" Scientific Study." He maintained that no kind of study did more to...

dwelt on the wonders that it reveals, though he admitted that the scientific man no sooner becomes acquainted with those wonders than they cease to strike him as wonder-...

to 102.

THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR. T HE first Hohenzollern Emperor of Germany, the stateliest if not the grandest figure of our time, passed away on Friday morning, not suddenly, but...

Wednesday on separate Grand Committees for Scotland and Wales were singu- larly ill-timed. Just before the introduction of a Local Government Bill for Great Britain which ought...

TI MM HARTINGTON'S speech at Ipswich brings out his political character and policy in a more impressive fashion than any in which perhaps it has hitherto been seen. We must...

T E Bulgarian Question has become painfully tiresome ; but it is, unhappily, necessary to keep it for the present continually under view. It has become the pivot not only of...

T HERE is something almost pathetic in the helpless struggles of the House of Commons to do what it con- ceives to be its duty towards the British Army. It has a broad general...

advice given by a very distinguished and experienced member of the legal profession to every friend who sought his counsel on matters of business. And without doubt, every man...

T HE resolution about Sunday adopted by the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury has the double fault of being addressed to the wrong people, and of mixing up two ideas...

MHE discovery of the sarcophagus of Alexander at Saida, in Syria, is, if truly reported, an interesting incident ; but it will not help the historian much. The body has almost...

S IR JAMES PAGET was truly eloquent this day week in the praise of science and of the happiness which know- ledge gives ; but he made one confession which he evidently felt to...

T O keep, or to throwaway? It does not seem an overwhelming dilemma to the average intellect, and yet what tremendous consequences may hang upon the decision to throw away !...

ANGLICAN AID TO ITALIAN REFORMERS. [TO TIER EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOR.1 SIE,—My attention has been called to two letters in the Spectator, which contain a somewhat vehement...

ETO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Will you allow me to offer a few remarks on the present aspect of the controversy initiated in your columns on February 11th by the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &a,—From the point of view of an Anglican Churchman, the reply to the tit-for-tat plea of "Anglicanus " and Mr. Liao is a simple one....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —As there seems to be some misunderstanding about the circumstances under which I undertook the revision of my husband's "Short...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] am sorry to intrude again upon your space. But there is one explanation which you will not refuse to allow me to make. I never advocated a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I have often thought that it would be a very interesting and fruitful inquiry, were some good economist, or better, perhaps, a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrixoa." Sui,—Some of your readers may be interested to hear about the reception in that country of your article on "The Future of Australia,"...

MR. GURNEY'S " TERTIUM QUID." Mn. GURNEY is a very competent thinker and a very clever writer who never writes without having something to say, nor without saying that...

outcome of the present political and military state of Europe or not, the publication in a collected form of the admirable essays which Colonel Maurice contributed to Blackwood...

WE give a hearty welcome to this translation of the first volume of Professor Fischer's great work on the History of Modern Philosophy. It gives us pleasure to see this work...

Ix choosing between the three principal poems of this volume— "In an Indian Temple," "A Casket of Gems," and "A Queen's Revenge "—we have little doubt about giving the palm...

THE magazines are good this month. We have already noticed at length Mr. Gladstone's paper on Ireland in the Contemporary, and Mr. Leonard Courtney's essay on "The Swarming of...

one in point of letterpress, but it is above the average in point of illustra- tions. "Modern Spanish Art," "Canadian Voyageurs on the Sanguenay," "A Gipsy Fair in Surrey," and...

which is somewhat above the average, is Mr. Sidney Lee's bit of careful his- torical investigation into the career of the Admirable Crichton. One wonders after reading it...

first printed Bible in Scotland. It was issued in 1576, being the immediate outcome of the Geneva Bible, and it took its name from the printer, Thomas Bassandyne, though it was...

Baby," like most of her contemporaries, is writing too much, yet there is an element of novelty in her "Princess Sarah" which is running its course in the Leisure Hour. Among...

there is no lack of fiction, or of good advice in the form of abort essays. The colloquial simplicity of "The Old Lady's Leading-Strings " borders however, on vulgarity.

slightly, if at all, affected by the death of its original conductor, Mrs. Henry Wood ; a novel by her still runs in it. There are some very weak short stories in the March...

There is an air of dullness this month about the three leading illustrated magazines,—the Magazine of Art, the Art Journal, and the English Illustrated Magazine, due chiefly...

the sake of the Countess of Aberdeen's "Our Mothers and Girls," which is at once lively and practical. Ladies who are interested in this subject should read it to see what Lady...

and Sons), is a series of essays by an American clergyman on the mental qualities which help to ensure social success, each as individuality, enthusiasm, manners, and the like....

(St. Anselm's Society.)—These are some very pleasantly written studies of seals, sea-lions, otters, moles, and other beasts, birds, and fishes, containing much interesting...

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(Ward, Lock, and Co.), a complete edition, paper cover, in one volume, for a shilling.—Messrs. George Routledge and Sons issue also editions of The French Revolution, in three...

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MR. BALL'S SOUTH AMERICAN NOTES.* PENDING the completion of M. de Lesseps's stupendous design upon the Isthmus of Panama, South America will not be cir- cumnavigable; but the...

"THE true genius," said Dr. Johnson, "is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction." Whether this can be admitted as universally true...

THE Count de Franqneville was formerly a maitre des requOtes in the Council of State, in the days when, he says," it was an honour to form part of that institution." France is...

to give unmixed praise to any work ; how greatly that privilege is esteemed when it does • (1.) A Border Shepherdess. By Amelia E. Barr. 1 vol. London James Clarke and...

the author does not seek to treat of Italy in the eighteenth century as a whole, nor even of its litera- ture and music from a historical and critical point of view ; but...

A Short History of the Irish People, down to the Date of the Plantation of Ulster. By the late A. G. Richey, Q.C. Edited, with Notes, by R. R. Kane, LL.D. (Hodges, Figgie, and...

and the Rev. S. Joseph Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is nearing its end. In the present volume, we have the Epistles to the Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles, and the...

University Press.)—A small text-book, containing rather more than the usual number of equations and reactions, or " inter- actions," as the authors prefer to call them. The...

Trowley.)—Mr. White gives, in about a hun- dred pages, much sound advice as to the manipulation and mounting of microscopical objects, histological and otherwise. Many similar...

University Press.)—A. companion volume to the "Ele- mentary Chemistry." This is a graduated course of practical chemistry, furnished also with numerous experiments and several...

Rernsen thinks that practical work should precede any introduction to theory. Certainly, chemistry is not taught on these principles by the majority of teachers ; besides, the...

White.)— There never was a more unlucky piece of advice than that which suggested to novelists that they should begin their story with the marriage of their hero and heroine....

Co.)—The writer htia striven to place before the general reader the science of weather and weather-forecasting as determined chiefly by readings of the barometer displayed in...

and complete reissue of a great English classic, John Dryclen's Works. (W. Paterson, Edinburgh.)—It is some time since we noticed the first volume of this edition, and some of...

of the epithet " crystal" is not revealed in the book—a young gentleman of the nineteenth century, who has been buried by a fall of earth, relates his experiences when he...

is an interesting tale of the settlement of Ireland under Cromwell's regime. Ethne is the daughter of Sir Gerald O'Connor, whose castle and lands have been assigned to Roger...

contents of this book hardly answer to its name. There is a great deal in it about the killing of birds, and very little about their life. No doubt the intelligent sportsman...

By A. de Bary. Translated by H. E. F. Garnsey, M.A. Revised by T. B. Balfour, Sherardian Professor of Botany. (Clarendon Press.)—The volume before us is one of the most...

of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The peculiarity of Dr. Mackay's glossary is that it is constructed on the principle of...

tolerance of " orthodoxy " as ever in The Conquering Cross, as he entitles the fifth volume of his series, "Christ and Christianity" (C. Burnet and Co.) With his theological...

entangled in the plots of some Nihilist conspirators. Her enthusiasm is dispelled by her discovery of the vagueness of purpose and the personal unworthiness of her associates....

Co.) —Beginning about the middle of the eighteenth century, the writer reviews in order the various steps by which electricity has become familiar, and, indeed, almost a...

pretty tale (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.) She is the eldest of the large family of Dr. Brooks, who has been reduced to comparative poverty by helping a scapegrace brother, and...

volume before us contains the Barnett Lectures delivered at Aberdeen during the years 1883, 1884, and 1885. Comment on them would be superfluous ; and any means of increasing...

—No one who has read "Humphrey Clinker" can doubt that Smollett was a great humourist. It is one of the most amusing tales in the language, and though by no means free from...

comprehensive treatise on the elements of electricity, containing the principal laws and theories. The mathematical part, indeed, is perhaps rather more than "the higher boys in...

and Blackett.)—This is a story of the time of the French Revolution, when the Bretons stood up in defence of their King and their Church. It is not difficult to make a tale...

of biology divided into vertebrate and invertebrate, types of each being given, and the anatomy and physiology discussed and explained. In the former division we have the frog,...

like a volume of Scotch verse, entitled "Horace in Homespun," which appeared some time ago, to be from the pen of "Hugh Hall- burton," a shepherd of the ()chile. Bat the most...

land.)—This is a story (of the series of " Mawson's Northern Tales ") dealing with the relations of capital and labour, not without merit, but somewhat crude. The most...

Windus.)—Mr. Conway opens his story at Harvard, where Randolph Stirling, of Virginia, and Walter Wentworth are fellow-students in the law schools and intimate friends. But the...

marshals one posse of men and another of maids, and pairs off the constituent individuals, not, of course, without some difficulties and misunderstandings,—for how, without...

V. White and Co.)—We learn from the preface, written by the author's mother, that this was the author's first effort in literature, and that it was finished but a few weeks...

1884-85. By the Rev. R. T. Smith. (Macmillan.) —Bishop Butler, in the "Analogy," assumed, without making an effort to demon- strate, the existence of God. To "underpin his...

and Blackett.)—Mr. Sharp has invented for his novel a villain whose irre- pressible wickedness reminds us of the career of that monster of crime, Polichinello. The way in...

Roman Missal, Adapted to the Use of the Laity. (R. Washboarne.) It is bound in a way that promises to add durability to its other good qualities.

and Blackett.)—Keith Ronaldson woos and weds a beautiful girl of Capri, a coral-seller, whom he sees on the steps of his hotel. He takes her home to England, where she, having...