danger. M. Gerault-Richard, a writer of small repute, pub- lished libels on M. Casimir-Prier, said to be atrocious, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. One of the...

the Indian frontier. The Mehtar, or " Prince " of Chitral, has been murdered by his younger brother, Ameer-ul-Mulk, who has succeeded in establishing himself as Prince. The...

its conductors had received from "Southern France," to the effect that Sir William Harcourt had resigned, and that a Dissolution was immediately at hand. As the Pall Mall...

Armagh, on the general drift of which we have commented suffi- ciently in another column. It undoubtedly proves that whether he wished to divide the Anti-Parnellite party or...

A CCORDING to a telegram from Shanghai, published by the Times and the Central News, Lord Rosebery has interfered in the Far East with a very strong hand. The Government has...

case.

With the " SPBCTATOB " of Saturday, January 26th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Mr. William Redmond (the brother of the Par. nellite leader, Mr. John Redmond) made a very vigorous attack on the Anti-Parnellites, asserting that the Home-rule cause in Ireland...

on Monday, and was at once waited upon by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., who brought him an address, engrossed in a green morocco album, from certain Irish-Americans who belong to...

from the Republic of Hawaii as a station for a cable telegraph from Australia to Canada. The Hawaiian Govern- ment is willing, and indeed anxious, to grant a request which would...

that the strength of the Liberals lay in "the principles of justice and equality." Therein it was that they had the advantage of their political opponents. One does not expect...

Federation of Great Britain, Mr. Pickard used words- which showed how great was the centrifugal force exerted by the resolutions in favour of "nationalising everything " passed'...

Irish Land Bill shall be settled on an equitable basis by an agreement between the two parties ; and several Irish papers, including the Northern Whig, have spoken well of the...

on Tuesday, to consider the question of the duty of 5 per cent. which the Indian Government has placed upon cotton fabrics. of a lower " count " than twenty, and the operation...

of eighty- one, of Sir James Lacaita, the most accomplished of Anglicised Italians, who knew English better than most Englishmen know it, and spoke it as correctly, though with...

at the West- minster Palace Hotel on Thursday, "The Navy League," the formation of which has been in contemplation for some time past, was definitely established. The object of...

"The Speech of Man and Holy Writ," says :—" If speech were only radical human invention, how could it have happened that an ancient language like the Greek (still more, as I...

German Emperor. Indeed, considering the pace at which his mind moves, we hardly wonder that his subjects, who, though a thoughtful, are not a rapid people, get a little...

fill up the vacancy cau.ed by the death of Sir Edmund Lechmere, is fixed for Tuesday next, and the polling for Tuesday week. The Glad stonians have some hope of winning the seat...

New Consols (2-1) were on Friday, 1041.

Hedervary has failed to form a Government, and the only remaining alternatives are Count Banffy, who is a determined Liberal, a recall of Dr. Wekerle, or a Conserva- tive...

to retain the Congo State as a personal possession of his family. He originally expended on the dependency a sum of £1,600,000, inherited from his father ; but the receipts have...

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT AND THE SURPLUS. T RE general impression of the Press appears to be that the Cabinet of Thursday was called to discuss the question whether Sir William...

the Times of Tuesday, from its correspondent with the Japanese Army, extinguishes the last hope that the rumours of the • massacre at Port Arthur were either exaggerated or...

T N spite of Mr. Healy's subsequent protestations on the subject, his speech at Crossmaglen, in County Armagh, yesterday week, may well prove to be of far greater importance as...

W E must not muddle up the two great questions which are raised by this dispute as to the Indian duties upon manufactured cottons. The first, and by far the most important, is...

election of M. Casimir-Perier has been unusually peaceful, is once more becoming disturbed. The old theory of Re- publican concentration has again made its appearance. M....

W HEN will the politicians learn to see the enormous disadvantages of political screaming ? Again and again, it has been made plain to demonstration that if a man will only work...

J UST behind Vailima, Mr. Stevenson's estate on the coast of Samoa, rises a precipitous though well-wooded hill, itself a peak of the gigantic mountain which, lifting itself for...

M IYOJI ITO, Secretary-General of the Imperial Cabinet of Japan, and a Member of the House of Peers, has presented to the Mikado a memorandum of "an unprece- dentedly auspicious...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTRTOR.".1 Spa, — May I claim a portion of your space for some com- ments or strictures on the scheme propounded by Mr....

R. COMMISSIONER KERR made a remark a few days ago to the effect that "only rich people can afford to dress shabbily." It was, perhaps, a hasty generali- cation, but it is...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] Si,—Will you permit me to point out that your critic, in the Spectator of January 5th, in writing of an article of mine which appeared in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your inquiry into the causes of the corruption which is undermining so many States, you ignore the one anti- septic which appears to...

reviewer of the Life of Father Tom Burke, in the Spectator of January 5th, seeks to convey an impression of my book so utterly opposite to that of the man, of all others, who,...

THE OLD MASTERS. THE Academy wears her "winter garment of repentance," and we have seldom seen her dressed in better taste. There , are few of the distressing patches that are...

[To THE EDITOR Of THZ " SPECTATOR:9 AR,—I was greatly interested in the story of the generosity shown by a dog, as related in the Spectator of January 5th, because of a similar...

seventeenth century seems, occasionally, to have excelled the nineteenth in the immoderate use of tea, though chiefly perhaps as a medicine. When tea first came into fashion...

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DEA.N CHURCH.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE] THE longer we study the remarkable character of the late Dean of St. Paul's, the more we are struck by the fact that...

THROUGHOUT English literary history, the fame of the little poet of Twickenham will remain the type and monument of a whole age of literature, probably the weakest in poetry and...

THE Abnanach Hachette is a recent venture, for this is but the second year of its publication. The publishers tell us that it has been a great success. They do not give us the...

Name this Child is, as far as we know, Mr. Chesson's first attempt at novel-writing; and the originality, vigour, and promise in various ways which it exhibits, make us look...

be discussing a new rose- book in the middle of winter, and we feel inclined to say with B iron :— " At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow on May's new-fangled...

Mn. OWEN in his biography of his grandfather has put together, from the material at his command, a striking record of a character marked by unusual gifts of acute- ness and...

Windsor. The objects of its conductors is "to combine the serious with the light ; to provide our readers with articles that commend themselves to the highest and most...

The New Year brings with it at least two new popular magazines, The Windsor, published by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Bowden, and The Minster, published by Messrs. A. D. Dines. The...

the second year of its latest form of life with an admirable number, "The Early Work of Raphael," by Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Henry Ady). Mrs. Ady sketches the life of the great...

with Mr. Stanley J. Weyman," by Mr. Frederick Dolman ; "The Picturesqueness of the Peers," by Mr. Alfred Robbins, which, though not at all political, may be found interesting at...

publication which has reached the one hun- dred and eighty-second year of its existence, hardly needs any recommendation. " Debrett " is as complete as ever, and as much up to...

trivial. It contains quite a number of useful " general " papers of different kinds,—as The New Treatment of Diphtheria," "Peculiarities of the Upper House," "The Pressgang and...

Co.)—This story of the "Evil Eye," a title which the book would have had, we suppose, had it not been anticipated, takes us back to the seventeenth century, and to the religious...

efforts or expense to make their magazine popular and attractive. The result is not, however, perfectly satisfactory. The January number, for example, gives the impression of...

the course of its career, but it always sustains its reputation as a really high.class magazine for girls. All the papers in the January number are good. Exceptionally readable...

a bright new cover, several original features, including reproductions of works of art and "Bits about Books," and the first instalments of new stories by Mr. S. R. Crockett...

of Mrs. Henry Wood still dominates it ; and indeed, the new number contains the first instalment of a posthumous story by her, "Mr. Castonel," which promises well. In other...

successfully—to a limited, but no doubt increasing class of readers. There are, however, in the January number, several articles which are of general and not exclusively...

is a volume of scholarly verse, the work, it is clear, of a cultivated man, who adds to a fair mastery of the technique of verse com- position, no small amount of feeling and...