as a popular demonstration. He was received with the most extraordinary enthusiasm in the streets and in the great Bingley Rail, where above eighteen thousand people crowded to...

narrative, that the American Government, in its complaint to London, dd not dwell strongly upon Lord Sa,ckville's letter. That letter was marked" private," and the offence, such...

a descendant of Cromwell's regicide General—and he is a leading lawyer and political manager in Indiana. He is curiously little known outside his own State, but he is believed...

T HE ten million and a quarter adult males who now take part in the election for the American Presidency, decided on Tuesday for Mr. Harrison, the Republican candidate. Of the...

case.

that if the Whitechapel murderer intended further crimes, he would commit one on the morning of November 9th. "A marked day, a day of great excitement, would just suit him if...

on Wednesday to an enthusiastic audience of eighteen thousand people. It dwelt almost exclusively on the Irish Question, went over all the old ground, not excepting " Remember...

the decision hoped for from its labours. Half its members have pronounced for monometallism, but half have expressed in a separate Report their confidence that both metals could...

safety ;" but there is no evidence that he is safe. All that is known is that couriers who have arrived in Zanzibar met the explorer's guard at the end of last November, "west...

to a favourite subject of his, the perfect compatibility of utility with beauty in the case of most of the arts and handi- crafts. He gave an amusing account of the extreme...

ostensibly at least, on means of spreading trade-unionism throughout the Continent. Many of the delegates, however, seem to consider that method of com- bination rather a weak...

those striking reviews of the political situation for which the former Member for the Elgin Burghs was at one time so well known. Full of knowledge and literary skill, a little...

a battle-ground. Immediately on the opening of Parliament, Lord Harrowby raised the question in the House of Lords, upon the ground that any alliance with Germany in Africa...

the most interesting part was the peroration, which is said to have excited much enthusiasm What we have to do is to get, as soon as we can, to those questions which affect the...

has been little noticed, but it is quite as severe as the German one. The age of conscription is raised from twenty to twenty-one, a grave interference with careers ; and the...

a well-earned token of respect and admiration this day week, when a portrait of him by Herkomer was presented to Mrs. Routh by a most distinguished company of his pupils. In...

taking the evidence of outrages during the period of the Land League's and the National League's greatest activity, and the reasons which the Times' witnesses assign for...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97i to 971,-.

the Edinburgh Political Institution upon his experience in Madras. It was substantially that the thirty-one million people of the Presidency desired first of all more material...

of Canterbury will really have to decide whether the Bishop of Lincoln has or has not contravened the law of the Church in regard to the various ritual matters charged against...

administration at Wolverhampton yesterday week. But his extra-political and most important point was that he showed how the interdict on " land-grabbers " really throws the...

I T does not pay in the United States to affront Great Britain, or at least it does not pay so much as was thought. That seems to us the first lesson to be drawn from Mr....

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE TWO LIBERALISMS. M R. GLADSTONE, in his speeches at Birmingham, has very naturally devoted the greater part of his magnificent energy to the Liberal...

T HE main facts of the position in East Africa are now acknowledged on all hands. Owing probably to the British failure before Khartoum, which greatly increased the demand for...

W E always remark with a certain amount of amuse- ment as well as surprise, the almost passionate eagerness with which Mr. Gladstone scans and manipulates the figures of the...

Derby on Wednesday threw on foreign politics is exceedingly interesting, for he has great information, he has been Foreign Secretary, and when not himself responsible for...

J UST a fornight ago, a case was argued in the Queen's Bench Division which has hardly excited as much attention as it deserves. It raises, and provisionally decides, the...

MR. FREDERIC HARRISON, in the interesting paper which we drew attention last week in noticing the Fortnightly Review, states that in his youth he passed through the orainary...

I T is pleasant in a world like that we see around us, in which all new things are so vulgar, and all vulgarities are so intensely modern, to read a lecture like that which Pro-...

B ETWIXT herbaceous plants, which come rapidly to per- fection, but pass away all too soon, and forest trees, which dwarf all human longevity, lies the extensive and admirable...

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I rely on your fairness to publish this letter as a correc- tion to a statement made in one of your leading...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SracrATors."] SIR, — For Churchmen the one question for the moment is,— How are we to keep our schools going? The Royal Com- mission were unanimous in...

SIR, — The experiment we are trying in this parish may have some general interest as bearing upon the subject of religious education in our elementary schools. When I came into...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "13111CTATOE."] SIR,—I think with you that in the protest in the Nineteenth Century, a variety of subjects are taken together which ought to be considered...

SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The writer of your article on "The Protest against Over-Examination" assumes that "elementary schools are wholly free from any sort of competitive...

r To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the Spectator of November 3rd, you say in your "Magazine" article :—" It assumes that education prevents or impairs the ' practical '...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The letter which you were good enough to insert in the- Spectator on "The New and the Old Theory of Inspiration' has brought me some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I remind you that the language which you criticise in your issue of November 3rd—which implies that the heinousness of sin consists...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer, in his criticism on Principal Tulloch's Life, asks the question,—" Are not many of the statements of Scripture just as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Some years ago, when living in New Zealand, I wit- nessed the vanity of a New Zealand Maori young man. He was breaking-in horses for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — From the kind way in which your reviewer has mentioned my book, "The Captain of the Wight," I feel sure he would be the last to wish a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] you allow us, a few working men of South London, to ask for further help in our attempt to keep before ourselves, and our fellow-workmen and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 should like to add a few words to the information elicited from correspondents by your article on "A Technical Institute," in the Spectator...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — Surely your criticism on Mrs. Temple's "inebriate home" is a little hasty. Granted there is a kind of verbal metathesis in the...

AUTUMN VOICES. WHEN I was in the wood to-day The golden leaves were falling round me ; And I thought I heard soft voices say Words that with sad enchantment bound me. 0 dying...

HOW PEASANT-PROPRIETORS LITE.* LADY VERNEY argues half her case exceedingly well, but she seems to be entirely unaware that it is only half her case. The substitution of...

singers, none has had a longer or more undeviatingly prosperous career than Mr. Sims Reeves. Next year he will have been half-a-century before the public—half- a-century of...

to the Caribbean Islands?" said an individual whom Mr. Paton mentions only as ." the Doctor," to the author of the truly delightful book of travel before us. To be asked such a...

not really in most respects more modern, for example about man and Nature, than most even of our Elizabethan poets,—and assuredly there was nothing in him of that artificial...

WE cannot suppose that the Colonel of Austrian hussars whose wife has won such applause from English readers as the author of Beata, would be otherwise than gratified at her...

belonging to the admirable "Story of the Nations" series, partly because • n The Story of the Nations :"—(1.) Assyria, from the Else of the Empire to the Fan of Nineveh. By...

Gilbert. (Sampson Low and Co.) —The Sonnets are represented by three or four examples only, and, indeed, these do not lend themselves so readily to illustrations as do the...

have here a pretty little story of family life, told for children in the way that Miss Yonge knows so well. The illustra- tions are chromo-lithographs, well drawn for the most...

the People. (Religious Tract Society.)—The fifth volume of this series is now before us, and includes lives of Philip Dod- dridge, Bishop Hooper, Philip Henry, Bishop Wilson of...

GIFT-BOOKS, We have received a handsome edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—The paper and printing are good, and the numerous...

meadow-lands BIE13 the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg the ancient stands." It was a happy idea to illustrate this by photogravures reproduced from photographs of the...

in this little volume is - from the pen of Mrs. Juliana H. Ewing, and is a charming story, - told in the funny recitative, with its apology for verse, in which she so much...

Lord. By Heinrich Hoffman. (Griffith, Ferrari, and Co.)—These twelve pictures, beginning with the Annunciation and ending with the post-Resurrection appearance of Jesus to Mary,...

W. Jessop. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—We cannot profess to have much liking for Ingoldsby as a humorist for the entertainment of the young; but if we are to have him, it would not...

Co,)—This is a handsome quarto, the paper, print, and illus- tration being all that could be desired,—one of the sumptuous volumes which used to be more abundant in the...

attractive title of Irish Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By Richard Lovett, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Lovett has consulted many books, and, what is more to the...

Spark, the well-known Leeds organist, has collected a number of papers contributed to the Yorkshire Post and Musical World. The perusal of these chapters affords a striking...

a tale which will be justly appreciated by young folks. Little Stella's troubles and her final happiness make a pretty and touching story. Stella is a little girl who is left...

and Co.)—Here we have some thirty pieces from the pen of Miss Havergal, prettily illustrated with borders of flowers and - fruit, landscapes, &c. When we say that the pictures...

of short stories about great historical characters. They are most of them interesting and well told. We should imagine, however, that Mr. Brooks would not care to vouch for...

a book of pretty pictures,—pictures of doge, cats, birds, children at play, children at the seaside, and a great variety of similar subjects.

by Heywood Sunnier. (Longmans.)—" This little book," .says the editor, "contains a few old-fashioned country songs, songs which may still be heard when ploughmen strike their...

story relates the doings of a lot of children in their Christmas holidays, amongst their escapades being a theatrical performance, an adventure in the snow, and, dreadful to...

in the South Seas, with its attendant adventures and perils, will always prove interesting to boys. Mr. Cromer, once the commander of a great steamer, having come into some pro-...

high place among our monthly periodicals, is permanently enlarged with the November number, but is not changed in any important particular, although we observe that in the new...

schoolgirls, sitting together one afternoon, plan a venture- some scheme, nothing less than a deliberate imposture. Miss Dysart, one of the girls, an invalid, and unable to...

romance Mr. flatten has interwoven descrip- tion, scenical and narrative, and much detail from the career of his son, the late Prank Hatton, who met with an accidental death...

Co.)—The scene is laid in India about the time of the Mutiny. Bryda's father is an officer whose men rebel and besiege the English in his house. Eventually they escape, and...

Political Science Quarterly, an American magazine to which, edited as it is by the Faculty of Political Science in Columbia College, there is nothing exactly equivalent in this...

for 18,99, in various useful forms,—the Ledger form, the Scribbling Diary, and the Rough Diary,—in various sizes from folio to octavo.

Miss Bevan has done a good work in giving these "records from the lives" of three of the "Brethren." The three are Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, who has, according to a probable...

Religious Tract Society send us some Christmas and New Year's Cards containing coloured pictures and religious verse ; a good many illustrated prettily with Syrian flowers ; a...

Present Century. Edited by J. T. Merydew. 2 vols. (Remington and Co.)—This is a compilation which has not always the merit of doing what it pretends to do. Among these...

and Co.)—The aim of the writer may be summed up in his last sentence, "All the world are near akin ;" and certainly, if numbers can prove anything, it can do this ; there cannot...

3rd, the book by the Rev. Frederick Langbridge, styled The Talking Oak, should be The Talking Clock.—In the notice of Mr. Frank Cowper's book, The Captain of the Wight, the word...

Virginia Sa,ndars once more gives evidence in the volume before us of the faults and merits displayed in her former book, "The Heiress of Haredale." The literary form is again...

delle Finanze " of Dr. Luigi Cossa. Edited by H. White. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Professor Cossa's work has already made its appearance in five languages, German, Swedish, Polish,...

from the Works of Sir Edwin Arnold. (Triibner.)—The preface of the volume runs thus :—" As it has been sometimes thought and said inaccurately that the author is exclusively...

Rowe, MA., and W. T. Webb, M.A. (Macmillan )—This is a convenient and useful volume. It is particularly profitable for a student to acquire a taste for some great writer by...

following for November : — The Art .Jourrua, the frontispiece to which is an engraving of "The Water-Whee]," fromthe picture by Henry Woods, A.R.A.—No. 5 of Our Celebrities,...