with the expedition to Mashonaland reports the discovery, or rather the re-discovery, for they were before visited by a German explorer named Mauch, of Cyclopean ruins near...

a report of a recent conversation between the German Emperor and some person in Styria during the recent hunting, which, bad as the authority is, somehow looks true. The ideas...

T HE Italian Premier has found it necessary to deliver a speech to correct the effect of his talk with the reporter of the Figaro, which, it is now admitted, occurred. The...

broken down, the Parnellites who prosecuted retiring from the Court, alleging as their reason that the Bench was packed! The case took the form of a summons for assaurt against...

of any value, that the incidents which occurred before the Tipperary Court-House should be investigated by a Court of Justice. Witnesses speaking on oath, and liable to cross-...

case.

and Means, made. a speech to the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association, in the Ulster Reform Club, on Wed- nesday. The important feature of his speech was his appeal to the...

the police for their treatment of Mr. Harrison, by calling him a "stripling." We have no doubt at all that all Mr. Harrison says of his own proceedings at Tipperary is as honest...

of the Irish landlords was gone ; that their moral power, if they ever had any, was gone ; their social power was gone ; their material power was gone ; anti that in the most...

the Trades House of Glasgow, held on Wednesday. He was asked to return thanks for both Houses of Parliament, and complained that Sir Archibald Orr Ewing, M.P. for Dumbar-...

Conservative Working Men's Benefit Society, in answer to the toast of "Her Majesty's Ministers." He thought that the Government was in very fair health, in spite of all the...

at Swindon to the North Wilts Liberal and Radical Association, and was saluted by his audience with the title of "The Grand Young Man." Probably Mr. Morley will not like the...

Diggle, delivered an address to the Board on Thursday, which contains an able summary of its position. The work of pro- viding the means of education is nearly done. The places...

New Console (2}) were on Friday 941 to 96. .

Saturday on "Illusions," which he distinguished from " Delusions " as being natural and, so to say, healthy mistakes which lead to their own correction ; delusions, on the other...

himself given by Professor Huxley to an admirer in a book published last year, annoyed Professor Huxley, who replied in a rather caustic letter to Thursday's Times, in which he...

death of Mrs. Booth, wife of the General, and his principal assistant in founding his new sect. She is described to us as a woman of perfect sincerity and clear sense, with a...

The King is unable to form a Ministry, statesman after states- man finding himself baffled by the refusal of leaders of factions to coalesce, and the reluctance of any...

Thorold, the Bishop of Rochester, is likely to be translated to the Bishopric of Winchester, just resigned by Dr. Harold Browne. Dr. Thorold is a man of capacity and moderation,...

of Abyssinia proceed but slowly, the point in dispute not being the coast-line, but the possession of Kassala, now occupied by the Mahdists. Kassala is the key to Abyssinia from...

admit that the steady furtherance of Liberal principles in Ireland, useful as that furtherance would be, can be any- he gave to the Liberal Unionists in his speech at Belfast...

A GOOD many of our Unionist readers, we dare say, fancy that we recently exaggerated the importance of passing Purchase Bills for Ireland. They are so re- luctant to force them...

A N Oxford correspondent, who writes us an interesting letter this week, imputes to us that we too much identify the Toryism of privilege with purely selfish rather than...

of the Times who has been discussing the Hindoo marriage system in its columns, has at last come forward with his own proposal for remedying its hardships. He suggests a most...

too adroit. He is dancing in public on a tight-rope, and though the performance is amazingly clever, and not so dangerous as it looks, it is quite inconsistent with any idea of...

who can find time and energy to divert his gaze from home topics, will be amply rewarded. by the variety and piquancy of the co- temporary problems which are on their road...

rapture in musing on angelic ministrations, and his "skill in choosing the wines for his Ox- ford College or in mastering the connections of a crosipcountry railway route, his...

THE discovery of architectural ruins in unexpected places is apt to excite the imagination a little too much. The discoverers jump too quickly to the idea that civilised races,...

A WRITER in the October number of Macmillan's Magazine, who does not give his name, but who is evidently a schoolmaster, has been so struck, and perhaps so provoked, by the new...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH-OLD LADIES IN FICTION-THE FRENCH OLD LADY AND THE DOT. A FEW words, not of any great importance in themselves, or very...

IT is bard to think, after the liberal allowance of summer weather which has lately been served out to us, in a man- ner untimely but opportune, that people must be already...

THE OLD TORYISM. [To THE EDITOR. Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You may perhaps not deem the point worth discussing, but I venture to think that your note to a letter which you...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR,—You think it almost incredible that a mere suggestion% of age can make a hypnotised youth suddenly look old, to the extent of his...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the Spectator of October 4th, there is a paragraph reviewing an article by Mr. Taylor Innes on "Hypnotism and Crime," in which you...

LIFE AND LETTERS OF SEDGWICK.* So great and varied an interest attaches to the personality of Adam Sedgwick, to the surroundings of his life, and to the work to which he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — What you say in your article on this subject, as to the danger of making of altruism a religion, is no doubt quite true ; but I think...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In support of Mr. Wilfrid Ward's letter in the Spectator of October 4th, may I be allowed to state that in December, 1869, the late...

• [To run EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 SIR, — In the interesting paper on this subject which appeared in your columns' on September 27th, it is well shown that, among other...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011."f SIR, — I am still convinced that, far from there being a scarcity of dressmakers, there is a great superfluity of them. There are hundreds...

THIS little volume of selections from Aubrey de Vere, which is due to the refined taste and fastidious judgment of Mr. Dennis, ought to make a poet who is comparatively little...

THE early history of the Goodwin Sands is interwoven with fanciful legends and curious superstitions ; but we at least know that for nearly eight hundred years the spot has been...

England than the hill-country of West Somerset, known as Exmoor, with its companion ranges of the Quantock and Brendon Hills. With all its wild grandeur, this great tract of...

Miss HERBERT has followed up her excellent translation of Schumann's Early Letters (Bell and Sons, 1888) by an equally meritorious version of the collection edited by F. G....

seems to have hit upon a most convenient method for the identification and classification of grasses, for which we would refer readers to his handy little guide. It is somewhat...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Andy (j. T.), Feudalism, or 8vo (Bell) 7/6 Baker (S. W.), Wild Beasts and their Ways, 2 vols. 8vo (Macmillan) 32/0 Biddulpb (0. E.), Af g han Poems of the 17th Century, 4to (0....

in the Precinct of the Savoy. Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the " Sracleros" Office, No, 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

TO *prttator FOR TEE No. 3,250.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1890. [ REGISTIFRED FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD. GRATIS,

SHAKESPEARIANA.* THE Shakespeare temptation remains as strong as ever with the dilettanting world. If all cannot rise to the Baconian theory at once, they can still find, with...

LONDON: OCTOBER 11, 1890.

• THI8 admirable translation was undertaken by Mr. Budge at the suggestion of the late Professor W. Wright, who was unquestionably the ablest English authority on Semitic lan-...

DR. HARE is not and never can be a popular poet. He writes for the elect,—indeed, we might almost say, for a small sect of poetry-lovers who, like the late Dante Rossetti, can...

WHEN Otho and Vitellius were marching to the field which was to leave one of them master of the world, each dis- paraged the other in very strong language, and both, in the...

IN this first instalment of what promises to rank among the most important contributions to the history of Semitic re- ligion that have yet appeared either in England or...

PROFESSOR TYRRELL'S Latin scholarship is too well known for praise, and it may be taken for granted that he knew what he was about when he made Mr. Purser co-editor with himself...

Society.)—The lesson that Mr. Millington seeks to enforce is that the only effective sanction to morality is religion. Mr. Newton-Earle is an amateur in astronomy, and his...

Sun is a magazine which, as we have had occa- sion to observe more than once, is making for itself a good place in the periodical literature of the day. It has its chief...

wish that Miss Burnaby and those who think with her could find some other way of commending the cause that they have at heart to the sympathies of their readers. To have serious...

Mahaffy. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is, as may be supposed, not the least interesting of a series of which we have spoken more than once with well-deserved praise, the "Pen...

GIFT-BOOKS. Not by Bread Alone. By the Author of "The Occupations of a Retired Life." (Religious Tract Society.)—This is not a common book. The story is interesting, well...

"Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion," Miss Hollings has made a framework for the well-known incident, the condemna- tion and barbarous execution of Elizabeth Gaunt for sheltering a...

with a fine "sea-poem" by Mr. Swin- burne, "On the South Coast," and is dedicated to Mr. Theodore Watts. It shows all the unrivalled rhythmical flow of Mr. Swin- burne's verse....

Manchester; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—We found this "country chronicle" somewhat tedious. The love-affairs of a number of young men and women, interesting doubtless to the...

scene of this story is laid in "the days of the King and the Parliament." The reader soon sees that Miss Tytler has got up the history of this period, as it concerns England in...

Co.)—This is a romantic story, and one which will hardly fail to ple,ase young readers. It is well known in fiction-land that children who may be wanted again have a marvellous...

Canning. (Eden, Remington, and Co.)—When we consider Mr. Canning-'s social position, and the fact that he has had the literary experience in- volved in the writing of some...

and Innes.)—This volume contains eight "passages," written, the author tells us, for a manuscript magazine. They have been joined together by a little thread of story, and are,...

and Co.)—Mrs. Stanley begins by giving us some seven or eight pages of introduction: In these she tells us how she came to take up this subject of her pencil, how she set about...

us a variety of models in English and French, some of them doubtless worthy of imitation, and likely to be useful, but some not likely to assist the person who uses them. To...

Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This "old chronicle" does not take us further back than the days of the Luddite riots. That will not be a matter of regret to its readers, for it is a...

Charles C. T. James. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—This can hardly be called an uninteresting novel, though it is also by no means wanting in crudities, and even in absurdities....

Story of the Time of Paul" is a very am- bitious attempt. The writer has prepared himself for it by a careful study of the New Testament, and by diligent reading of cognate...

raise an objection at once to the above title, and the principle on which the plan of the book is founded. Biographies of living people are to us hateful, and should be to the...

Great Writers, edited by E. Stevenson (Walter Scott), a volume in "The Camelot Series." A reviewer, happily unknown, thinks that " Christabel " was "rude, unfashioned stuff,"...

Lewins, M.D. (Bickers and Son.)—Miss Naden was an able and accomplished woman. Her first intellectual work was poetical. In this she attained no little excellence. Then she gave...

(W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. A. B. Bach, in his Art Ballad, has made a valuable addition to the literature of the musical world, especially as to the vocal part of it. He has...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Pinkerton's characters are always drawn with a vigorous brush: he intends us to know what his conception of a certain character is, and spares no...