the dispute between the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police this week threatened serious consequences. The younger men want 3s. a week added to their pay, though they begin...

been an exciting one. At the previous sitting, the proposal of the Government to take power to hang up Bills which might be proceeded with in another Session of the same...

T HE week has been full of rumours as to the immediate reconstruction of the Cabinet, and the retirement of the First Lord of the Treasury to the House of Lords. But there is...

has been more persistent, and has been marked by more violence towards outside candidates for the work. The younger men have, in fact, more reason for discontent, being, as a...

the Bill for the cession of Heligoland, made an exceedingly able speech. He showed that the island was not only worthless, but positively injurious to Great Britain. It imports...

complithentary, to the Duke of Cambridge, was strongly of opinion that his office should be abolished, or at all events remodelled ; but he expressed one opinion of first- rate...

the Brennan torpedo at Cliff-End Fort, in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Stanhope having invited a large party to observe its operations. The peculiarity of the torpedo, for which Mr....

Servians are dependent on their trade in pigs, and the Austrian Government from time to time coerces them by forbidding the import of swine across the Hungarian frontier. The...

the Argentine Republic and Uruguay, everybody has been over- speculating, and the banks have been helping them. The National Bank in the former Republic has therefore de- layed...

in the Procedure Committee, the chief subject of controversy being the power of the House of Lords to suspend for further consideration in another Session of the same...

upon the organisation of the Army. The discussion was unmarked by party feeling, and showed a remarkable degree of agreement upon some essential points. The first was, that...

heckling Mr. Gladstone as to his intentions in relation to the Disestab- lishment of the Welsh Church. Mr. Gee's tone is decidedly uncompromising, and even a little cold. Welsh...

to the Berlin Post to state that he thinks the Catholic missionaries will be more successful in Africa than the Protestant. Their ritual appeals more clearly to the imagination....

on the "shadowing" by the police of Irish boycotters, and he has alleged in reply that such " shadowing " is essential to prevent the much more effective " shadowing " by...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 951 to 95i.

Arts and Laws in University College, London, yesterday week, referred to the new agonies of competition which men had to sustain now that they had another sex to compete with....

contest Central Bradford in the Unionist interest, addressed • a meeting of his constiWents of St. George's, Hanover Square, on Tuesday, and explained to them that the rumours...

Liberal Club on Wednesday, in the highest possible spirits. Many of the listeners must have recalled Ariel's song, "Hark, hark! I hear the strain of strutting Chanticleer," for...

THE BITTERNESS OF PARTY FEELING. I T is said that even the leader of that greater and spiritual opposition which goes on in the hearts of all men to anything like settled...

W E are unable to accept the argument that servants of the State ought upon no occasion to strike. The Fighting Services ought not, first, because they voluntarily pledged...

rICHE Irish Bishops are making a very serious effort to 1 get their Catholic University College properly endowed with something like an adequate apparatus of books,....

W E do not suppose that many of our readers will study the extremely important debate in the Commons on Friday week about the reorganisation of the military and naval control,...

W E trust that every philanthropist in the country addicted to the belief that all people are instinc- tively good, and. that their goodness only needs to be -" brought out,"...

T HE delay in the delivery of the judgment in the case of the Bishop of Lincoln at least secures to the Church an interval of ritual peace. While the points in which the Bishop...

T HE latest reports from both the Argentine and the Uruguayan Republics have not been pleasant reading- for the many English people who are interested in the- welfare of both...

T Tis probable that Mr. Spurgeon would maintain that we left out of consideration that of which he was thinking most when we last week contested his view that sickness, and...

I T is necessary, we suppose, as well as right, to punish fortune-telling for money. One has always an idea, after -reading the proceedings before the Magistrates, as if good...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: ?HE LITERARY POINT OF VIEW-MEANING IN MUSIC AND ART-THE NEW THEORY AND THE OLD. IT is curious how many fine distinctions are made nowadays in...

[To Tn5 Enrron, or Tua " BracTATos."] SIB,—Your magazine reviewer, in his kindly notice of my paper on Tibet (in the Contemporary Review) thinks that I have underrated the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EIPECTATOR."1 Sin,—From your review of Mr. Mackonochie's Life, I gather that his biographer has scarcely done justice to the remarkable man who...

IRELAND AND THE LAND BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcTemori.".1 SIR,—When it is admitted on all hands that the Land ques- tion is the main factor in the Irish difficulty, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—In the article in your issue of July 5th on the Indian missionary controversy, you state that I was "apparently an- convinced" that our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—May I ask admission in your paper for a few words P An article by Mr. Saintsbury, in Macmillan's Magazine for June, on "Dc Quincey," has...

1 - TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!'l SIB, — Your correspondent, "Em Thierfreund," has given a touching instance of parental affection in his letter on "The Self-Sacrifice of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sri,—Dr. Liddon is sorry to be unable to notice the letters which appear in the Spectator of July 5th, but he is confined to his bed by a...

THE OLD AND NEW SALONS.—II. BEBNARD.—This is the painter who paints so much of flesh as is firelight, or moonlight, or sealight In the Salon three years ago, it was firelight...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR:'] Sin,—As the reviewer in your issue of July 5th seems not -entirely satisfied with his own expression of criticism on Miss Stephen's "Quaker...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIB,—The eccentric behaviour of the tame ravens described in your last number appears to be characteristic of their tribe. I have for some...

MR. STANLEY'S BOOK.* UPON the whole this is a satisfactory book. There are a few pompous platitudes in it which we could have wished away ; in one or two passages of...

THE last two volumes of Prince Albert's brother's Memoirs are far more full of interest than the first two were. The author saw much of the men who bore great parts in the...

WHEN the people of Scotland get hold of a great man, they make the most of him. Here we have a second biography of Robertson of Irvine, one whom George Gilfillan called, while...

four volumes. If the whole be kept up to the level reached in this part, it will be a really admirable piece of work. Such of the Prolegomena as this volume contains, are...

IT would perhaps be too much to say that the late Mr. J. G. Wood ever occupied any prominent place in the literature of his country; but we should think there had been few more...

Lilly pursues to a further end the idea which has been the leading idea and the principal object of his other books. Readers of the Fortnightly Review will recognise part of the...

is one of those useful handbooks on the variety of electrical machines which are always in request. Mr. Gray discourses fully—not too fully by any means—and somewhat technically...

C. Arthur Lane. (Church Defence Institution; Kent and Co.) —This volume gives us an admirable application of Horae,e'a famous maxim,— " Segnius irritant animus demises per...

glad to see the name of Mr. Sidney Lee associated with that of Mr. Leslie Stephen in the editorship of the Dictionary. Mr. Lee has long been known to readers of the Dictionary...

and Sons.)—This is a book that commends itself by its title. No one doubts that there is much to be got out of Browning's verse, if one only has patience. Sometimes the effort...

Allen and Co.)—If some of the tales of Southern India do not end by rewarding virtue in the orthodox way, they are none the less amusing, and even valuable. Nor is a good moral...

True Courage. By Royston Keith. (Remington.)—" True Courage" and the stories which make up this volume are decidedly childish, if their moral teaching is irreproachable. It is...

is a readable story, with a pleasant pair of lovers, and with a distinct touch of Southern colouring and sun- shine about it. Dolores, the heroine, is a natural child of the...

and Co.)—Mr. Wolff has long known and loved the Black Forest, and no one who has seen as much as he has of it, can help doing so. Mr. Wolff's enthusiasm and acquaintance with...

Co.)—Mr. Allan explains that he has no personal motives in arguing against female suffrage. There are politicians who approve or disapprove, according as they think that the...

Translated by George Duncan, M.A. (Bell an,d Sons.)—There are many interesting things in this volume besides the subject indicated by the title. There are the author's views,...

Workshop Practice. By Charles F. Mitchell. Revised by George Campion Pope. (Cassell and Co.)—Both author and editor are teachers at that most useful place, the Polytechnic...