at which place the Emperors of Germany and Austria met on Thursday, parting, after the interview, on the most cordial terms, The Times , correspondent at Vienna, a very...

in- formation from the Ministry on the Eastern Question, and both failed, In the Lords, Lord Feversham said that he had proposed to bring on a motion, but would withdraw it at...

only has the vacant seat in the Cabinet been given to Mr. W. H. Smith, the Secretary to the Treasury, but he has been made First Lord of the Admiralty : The appointment is a...

only as showing that Osman Pasha was on the alert. The post, which commands the Osma, was attacked by about 6,000 men, of whom 1,000 were cavalry ; but the assault was repulsed,...

have heard nothing except from Turks about Turkish losses, that the foreign soldiers now commanding the Turkish armies seem unable to improve successbs—a failure that must arise...

T HE Russian prospects scarcely improve. The Government appears to believe that it must collect still further forces in Bulgaria, and has ordered forward the Imperial Guard, the...

wonderful destiny, but just now he seems to be rather a pitiable creature. The British Parliament, the strongest popular body in existence, is arrested by Messrs. Parnell,...

Obstructionists and the Commons as to the limits of physical endurance, in the way of enduring sleeplessness under circum- stances of boredom, and the Member for Dungarvan...

was a very poor one. Mr. Courtney's great points were that it was accomplished against the will of the people, which is only technically true, they having all submitted without...

the India Loan Bill, took occasion to give his opinion on the Madras famine. It was a very gloomy one, though he gave the figures without including the Native States, part of...

distinct importance. The London and Westminster Working Men's Constitutional Association visited Hatfield Park on Monday, and were addressed by Lord Salisbury and Mr. Smith....

most com- petent witness as to the condition of labourers in Madras, which, on account of its importance, we give here rather than in its usual place. It explains the reason of...

Admiral de Horsey in regard to the combat between the Peruvian rebel ship the Huasear 'and the English ships-of-war 'Shah' and Amethyst.' To be sure, the Attorney-General, who...

by Mr. Grant Duff, on the Indian frontier policy, but it came to very little. The India Office denies that it has annexed Khelat, or that it has seriously changed its frontier...

the real reason for his support of the Falk laws. The Papacy, he says, through the Catholic De- partment in the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, was encroaching upon the...

to " draw " Mr. Gladstone, but he would not be drawn. It was a fine day, and he wanted to out down a tree—an English- man, says a cynical Frenchman, on a fine day always wants...

are dead, for they have become ridiculous. They have missed the trio on the second bench below the gangway, and have transfixed Mr. Whalley. The Member for Peterborough, rushing...

motion and retirement in the Army. But the House of Com- mons promptly put aside, by 139 to 77 votes, Mr. Trevelyan's proposal not to sanction, in the lees of the Session, a...

if his 'countrymen were not the most submissive of people, the week would scarcely have ended in calmness. The police have stopped the sale of M. Thiers's portrait in the...

dispersed, leaving only two in town to dispose of urgent matters relating to the liberty of the subject or injunctions. Both the public and the junior Bar are grumbling even...

ONE SOURCE OF RUSSIAN WEAKNESS. S OME portion of the European disappointment felt at the non-success of the Russian arms—a . disappointment felt even by those who are no...

A S we anticipated last week, Mr. W. H. Smith, the "eminent newsagent," Member for Westminster, and Secretary to the Treasury, is the successful candi- date for the vacancy in...

T HE pro-Turkish Press is endeavouring to get up a new scare. It is quite clear that nothing can be made out of the panic about "Russian victories," the "conquest of the...

T HE new scheme of Promotion and Retirement propounded by the Royal Warrant will go on, but it ought not. Much of Mr. Trevelyan's criticism is unanswerable. He was beaten by...

T HE "Irish Parliamentary party "—by which cumbrous name the Homo-rulers in the House of Commons wish, it seems, to be formally known—are suffering from a malady which infects...

T HE aspect of European affairs might have been very much more satisfactory than it is to-day, or than it is likely to be for many days to come, if the English Government had...

M R. GREG has addressed us a letter, published in another column, controverting the defence of the doctrine of immortality published in our issue of July 14th. We are bound to...

German attendant is laboriously enunciating the few sentences in En g lish in which he relates the history and describes the habits also when he drinks out of a bottle, g...

G LANCING through Mr. G. A. Thrupp's history of coaches— one of those clever though unsatisfying little books in which so many tradesmen now-a-days record the history of their...

POSITIVISTS AND MARRIAGE. sro THE EDITOR or THE I' SPRETTOR.1 SIR —The reviewer of the "Life of Mortimer Collins" it your last issue has been permitted to cite, as " really...

I F there is one thing more than another which disappoints those who are deeply interested in the working-men of England, it is their want of cohesiveness for smaller purposes....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—There can be no doubt that the reckless destruction of forests, without any appreciable replanting, has had much to do with the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,'] is with real diffidence that I venture to accuse Sir E. Strachey of being led into an unreasonable confusion of mind by his dislike of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."3 Srn,—The two arguments which appeared in your issue of July 14, on the momentous question "Shall we live again?" I have read repeatedly,...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sul,—In your last issue you ask how "could a gorilla without a hairy skin be better fitted for survival than a gorilla with one," and why...

ALPINE HEIGHTS. LIKE mighty thinkers, there they stand Above the soft green pasture-land ; They yield no common yearly food, To those lone heights ne'er climbs the wood, "What...

W I LKIE COLLINS: A LITERARY ESTIMATE.* IT is just seven-and-twenty years since a young and almost un- known author made an audacious attempt to gain the public favour by the...

THIS is at once a clever but an unsatisfactory book, without extenuating circumstances. There is in it so much vigorous and picturesque, yet too frequently slovenly writing ; so...

the young in this generation have ceased to be young ; that the least senti- mental women they know are about sixteen years of age; and that so far from the fatalistic old...

THE Art of the seventeenth century is dominated by Rembrandt, as much as that of the sixteenth is dominated by Titian, and that of the eighteenth by Watteau. That fact having...

of Nature," the book which was too thorough-going in its negation ) Fortnightly is the editor's sketch of Holbach's dreary book, the "System even for the sceptics who preceded...

"The Horse as an Instrument of Gambling," by Mr. Curzon, who estimates the eost of racing in England—the direct cost, without betting —at £673,950 a year. It is nearly...

Victor Hugo, a careful accouut of our recent policy in 1 . 02okt—well worth reading by any one unable to face the Blue-book for himself —and a most interesting sketch of Murat,...

Elder.)—Marjorie Brace has three lovers,—three, that is, who stand out of the crowd of those who are enslaved of her beauty. These three are the Earl of Caatleton ; Mr....

specimen of a translation of the "Iliad," does not quite content us, though the last lines are extraordinarily fine. The rhythm Is stiffer than a translation from Homer should...

as advanced by Schopenhauer and Ilahnsen with groat force, 1 and offers an argument in reply, but there must be in him some latent essimism, for his answer in the main amounts...

Tour through British Columbia in 1876. By Molyneux St. John. 2 vols. (Hurst and Blaokett.)—Mr. Molyneux accompanied Lord Dufferin's party, as special correspondent of the...

F.G.S. (Daldy, Isbister, and Co,)—Geology may truly be called the mustard-seed of the sciences. No one could have predicted that the labours of Hutton and Smith would have laid...

Charles Blanc. (Chapman and Eall.)—Tho goddess of fashion has always been considered as fickle stud purposeless in her changes as Fortuna herself. It may be, therefore, rather a...

King and Co.)—This clever little volume, evidently the procluotion of an sante and well-trained intellect, might have been not very improperly called "A Treatise on Logic." Only...

St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. By Doyne C. Bell. (John Murray.) —" The towers of Julius" are happily now more of an interest than "lasting shame" to London, and...