the outrage at Barcelona, one of her cities, San- tander, was nearly destroyed by a dynamite explosion. A vessel employed to deliver eases of the terrible substance at the...

the Continent. Two of their number on Tuesday flung two bombs from the gallery of the Lyceum Theatre at Barcelona into the stalls. One seems to have struck against a human body,...

and Lord Kimberley's speeches. Both Ministers did what they could to neutralise the chilling effect of Mr. Gladstone's reply to Mr. T. G. Bowles on Tuesday. Lord Spencer dwelt...

was an event far more important than the speeches. The policy of making Ulster, which is loyal to the core, dis- loyal to the core, in order to attempt making the rest of Ire-...

of the Riff. The Government has strengthened its .garrison at Melilla until the troops can hardly be accom- modated; but the General in command fails to drive back the tribesmen...

F URTHER information of importance has been received from Matabeleland this week. The Matabele have failed in an attack on the Bechuanaland column, Major Goold-Adams's, and have...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, November 18th, wi/l be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

miners has failed, and the strike goes on. The owners propose arbitration, the -money in dispute being "pooled," that is, paid, but held in a suspense account until the arbi-...

and rather dreary speech, in which he declared the fear of reckless expenditure by Parish Councils to be quite unfounded, and pro- tested very strongly against the proposal to...

night was Mr. Goschen's, who warned the Government that it was simply impossible to pass the Bill before Christmas, if they persisted in complicating it by dealing with the...

an. unexpected fillip to the debate on the Parish Councils (or rather the Local Government) Bill by a sharp attack on squires and parsons for their incapacity to put themselves...

should be no representation of the electors, but that the electors themselves should meet to exercise such powers as the Bill gives to the elected Parish Council, and wherever...

Free Trade Hall, Manchester, to the most important part of which, its conclusion, we have called attention in another column. Here we may add that the tone in which he replied...

from State patronage and control, held a conference at the National Liberal Club on Tuesday, with Mr. Woodall, M.P., in the chair, which was not particularly well attended, but...

constitutional difficulties. He has rid himself for the moment of trouble in Hungary, having, according to the Times' corre- spondent, informed the Premier, Dr. Wekerle, that he...

New Consols (2I) were on Friday 981.

who has embraced Christianity, is endeavouring to rouse English sympathy for the Pariahs, or outtcasts of Southern India. There are eight or nine millions of them, and, though...

State officials with unexpected results. The Re- publicans have won everywhere, especially in Ohio, where Mr. McKinley, author of the Tariff, is elected Governor by a majority...

more money to undertake excavations at Lystra and Derbe, in Asia Minor, and on the right or western bank of the Euphrates, where they hope to find remains of the Roman defences....

MR. GLADSTONE AS PRIME MINISTER. M R. GLADSTONE is very great as a Prime Minister with a mission,—but weak as a Prime Minister beyond the range of that mission. His mind...

M R. LABOUCHERE has had his opportunity and has missed his spring. He has entirely failed to elicit from the House of Commons any condemnation of the war against Lobengula ; he...

W E are glad to see that both parties in the State are inclined to let Parish Councils be established. We cannot ourselves believe that the great experiment in governing the...

" rir IHE Liberal Party," said Mr. Morley in his speech at JL Manchester on Wednesday, "if I read aright the utterances of public men, is ierevocably committed to the effective...

force, lying beneath all human arrangements, which must be controlled by Providence, but which in its capricious action seems sometimes to be guided by accident and sometimes to...

the present day to which we have more than once alluded in these columns, but which has hardly, on the whole, received the attention it deserves—we mean the almost simultaneous...

not If it is not a prayer but only a wish, is it the better for being only a wish and not so much as a prayer ? And is the Church of England to be taught that we may wish that...

TT is, we believe, admitted on all hands that the great physician, whose loss West London this week so heartily deplores, died substantially from overwork. With his intense...

a subtle and deadly disease as diphtheria, and its permanent establishment in London, is most discouraging. There is no ground for panic ; but the very brief summary of the...

M OST—if, indeed, not all—men of experience in the world and its ways, will tell you, that they never learned anything worth learning from the maxims of that numerous band of...

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON MR. GLADSTONE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—I have every reason to be more than satisfied with your comments on my recent speech at Glasgow,...

conspicuous among anti-Home-rule journals for its conscientious desire to do Mr. Gladstone justice. It is plain, therefore, that your memory, and not your will, is at fault in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Miss Ducarrel (properly Ducarel) mentioned in your article on Lord Olive's death, in the Spectator of November 4th, was my...

[To THE EDITOR, OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. A. P. Martin, in the Spectator of November 4th, is nearly, though not quite, correct in supposing that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 0 SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your interesting article on "The Fall of the Mata- bele," you make a grave misstatement. You say, "It is more than eighty years...

in the Spectator of November 4th, is wrong, I believe, in attributing to Sterile the saying : "If it had rained mitres, none would have fitted his head." What he is thinking of,...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article on the "Poltergeist," in the Spectator of October 28th, it is said that the noises must cause vibrations in the air. But...

CHARLES LAMB'S PLAYS AND DRAMATIC ESSAYS.. Tars little book, one of the so-called "Scott Library," con- tains Charles Lamb's four published plays, and some of his dramatic...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BrEorAxon.") SIR,—May I correct a slight misapprehension on the part of your reviewer, in his notice of my edition of the "Agricola," in the Spectator of...

BORN DUMB. MY little love ! my little speechless ! Can I forget my woman's heart, and be For ever mute to grief, for ever mild Is it not hard to bear the falling rod When such...

a little book about English literature, which, though a most profitless perform- ance, may be studied with a considerable measure of profit, as , reductio ad absurdum, of the...

THE Argentine Republic is not in good odour at the present moment with English capitalists, who are, perhaps, hardly in a humour to hear of its industries. It may be expected,...

feeling of pleasure and relief that Mr. Saintsbury eat down to write his postscript to this noble and—we are disposed to say, final—edition of " The Works of John Dryden....

the main, an abridgment of the author's Buddhism in Christianity, with extracts taken from his Popular Life of Buddha. In the latter work, Mr. Lillie tried to disprove the...

wide audience on a subject which is generally regarded as reserved to the antiquarian or dilettante, yet in a way which makes her work something more than a gossip or a...

Carteret is called to the deathbed of a woman who is one of a company of strolling players, and stands godmother to a girl whose baptism has been delayed. The child seems to be...

—This is a girl's story told' by herself, not without what looks like Bell-consciousness and affectation. Naturally it turns upon love. There is nothing very remarkable or...

us very pleasantly how he came to write books. Abundant leisure as a clerk in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company suggested the writing, first of long letters home, and then...

and Bowden.)—There is plenty in this volume, which con- tains " Sylvia's Journal" for the year, to please all tastes. There is something about literature, something about the...

illustrated book for quite young children, made up of little sketches, anecdotes, stories, morals, and other matters that are likely both to amuse and to instruct. Some are...

—The story of Howard is one not easy to write. It is sufficiently well- told here, chiefly by the judicious abstinence of the writer from controversy. Howard, without doubt, had...

has had so much experience in tale-writing, and has shown such skill in the department of character-drawing, that we can scarcely feel Winning his Freedom to be worthy of her....

GIFT-BOOKS. A Pair Claiimant, By Frances Armstrong. (Blaokie and Son.) —This book comes in the guise of a "gift-book" and in the company of others of the same kind. It calls...

This, like not a few other of the volumes which come under the guise and in the company of "gift-books," is, to all intents and purposes, a novel. The heroine is a factory-girl,...

Marston, and Co.)—This story does not belong to that class of fiction in which M. Verne excels, the class which we may describe by the term, "scientific extravaganzas." He is at...

Society.)—This is a story of treasure-trove." There are two finds. One is made by honest people ; the other by people who, if not exactly dishonest, are certainly not...

establishment in which Miss Esnib Stuart's heroine finds herself is, to say the least, of an unusual kind; nor are Mrs. Sampson and her daughter Fanny people that one meets with...

sermons, preached in the church of St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, though not notable for any special intellectual power, though they do not recall King,sley, much less Maurice,...

This is an entertaining study of that curious creature, an American child. The self-possession, self-reliance, self-confidence of the little fellow—virtues pushed, as may be...

two volumes, constituting "a dictionary of revealed authorship," the great bibliographical enterprises of Mr Cushing have been brought to a close. It is a work of the Bort which...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This interesting though too bulky volume belongs to that valuable class of literature out of which the American historian of the future will construct his...

Co.) —Here we have the stories of eleven "warriors," beginning with "King Arthur," whose claim to historical reality is very fairly discussed by Mr. Richards, and ending with...

John W. Hales, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—Professor Hales writes nothing that is not well worth reading, but the contents of this volume are unequal in permanent interest and value....

is a very elegant and comprehensive little book. In some 350 closely—perhaps too closely—printed pages it gives "a sample rather than the highly concentrated essence of the...

Axel Staggemeier. (E. Stanford.)—We have here an instal- ment of five plates dividing between them "a prospect of the geographical positions" of the earth. Part I. gives the...

Studio, 69 Drury Lane.)—Granted that a satirist is not bound to truth and justice, these cartoons may be praised. Their savage force no one can question. The draughtsman hits...

terres- trial globe, entitled the "Graphic." It is about as big as a largish cocoanut, and is mounted on a lacquered standard. The cost of an article of this kind is so material...

By Peary Chand Mitter (Tek Chand Thakur). Translated by G. D. Oswell. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta.) — Babu Peary Chand Mitter, " a well-educated, thoroughly earnest, and...

volumes of "Children's Magazines." These are :—The Rosebud Annual, with 250 Illustrations (James Clarke and Co.) ; Little Mks, a " new and enlarged series" (Cassell and Co.) ;...

2000. By "Mr. Dick." (James Blackwood and Co.) Here is another addition to the already numerous imaginative presentments of like in England during the coming century. The first...

H. Allen.)--" The Shadrach " is very much in the manner of Mr. Anstey's "Fallen Idol ;" so is "The Knife that Killed Po Haney." The title of the first is taken from a mineral,...

Jonathan Swift (Blackie and Son). It is, we are told, a reprint, with the exception of some coarseness, of the original edition. —Tales front Hans Christian Andersen. (Edward...