T EE news of a grave, it may be a terrible, incident in Afghanistan, received on Thursday, rendered all other intelligence unimportant. It was announced from St. Petersburg and...

WAR OR PEACE ? E NGLAND and Russia have to live side by side in Asia probably for centuries, certainly for generations. Neither Power can hope, in any contingency upon which...

W E remarked a fortnight ago on the special irony of Mr. Gladstone's position. A statesman, whose great function in life it has been to promote economy and peaceful industry, to...

little cause for surprise in the offers of assistance which the Princes of India are now pressing upon the British Viceroy. They have never—or, at least, not for the last fifty...

W E publish in another column a letter in relation to our last week's article, which will serve to illustrate very powerfully precisely what we mean when we say that the course...

I F M. Ferry, as was suspected at the time, really made use of the Chinese attack on General Millot to extort fresh concessions from China, he must to-day be a sad man. He has...

I T is evidently not safe for Bishops to read children's books. Compared with a good deal else that they have to get through—Archidiaconal reports, the balance-sheets of...

I N the frightful confession made by tWe Pesth murderer, Balentits, of the details of the double murder he committed on Thursday week, we have at least one fact tending to...

T HE curious fact that, in a time said to be one of universal depression, the Income-tax yields penny for penny more than it has ever done, hardly attracts the attention it...

THE LABOUR QUESTION. [To THY EDITOR OF THE sszcwaos."1 Six, — A short notice appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette last Saturday of g, noteworthy incident bearing on the relations...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] Stn,—In a notice of the Magazines for April, in the Spectator of April 4th, there is a reference to an article by Mr. W. Fowler in the...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sat,—As a Liberal verging on Radicalism I subscribe to nearly the whole of your last week's article on " The Radicals and the War." I admit...

first article of the Spectator last week you tax some of us with doing what in us lies " to bring the discredit of yielding to an unworthy fear of war on the Radical name."...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 4 ' SPECTATOR. "] Su;,—In your issue of yesterday, you say that "Radicals of Mr. John Morley's school do much mischief by weakening the hands of a...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR; .1 SIR, — IB it quite fair to suggest, as you do, that Mr. Burt retains his position in Parliament by means of a public subscription? The...

[To THY EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR:] you allow me to supplement your exposure of Mr. Matthew Arnold's new version of the message of Christmas, with "the miracle of the...

go THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In your article of last weekupon " Sixpenny Telegrams" you condemn the Government proposal to charge for the address of the recipient on...

pro THE EDITOR OF 7E2 " SPECTATOR." J Sta,—The recent correspondence in your columns respecting the threatened footpath in Lakeland (happily now, thanks to the public spirit of...

Sta,—Mr. Bridson has, it is stated, withdrawn his notice toclose this path. Will you allow me further to remark that, when I imputed to that gentleman misanthropy in this...

MUNKACSY'S "CALVARY."* HERR MVNKACSY is a Hungarian painter whose work was till within the last few years unknown in England. About fiveyears ago, however, his Parisian...

SOCIETY IN LONDON.* Society in London professes to be written by a "foreign resident ;" but, as Sir George Cornewall Lewis once said to the astonished Dissenters who had...

THERE is a good deal of genuine cleverness scattered up and down the pages of this novel ; so much, indeed, that we are perhaps more irritated than we ought to be by its many...

IF the prospects of learning in a country could he determined by the statistics of the attendance of students at the Universities, Dr. Conrad's book ought to set at rest the...

P.a.1111MAN gives us in' these two volumes the most fascinating instalment of the very fascinating work, or rather series of works, under the title of " France and England in...

Tax creation of the Institution with the terribly unwieldy title whose Report lies before us, marked an era in the history of .education in this country. It meant, or should...

WITH the main facts contained in the narrative before • us our readers are already familiar. The loss of the ` Jeannette,' and the subsequent death of her brave commander, De...

Life and Writings of Charles Leslie, 111.A., Nonjuring Divine. By the Rev. R. J. Leslie, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—The author of a "Short and Easy Method with the Deists" was a...