on Friday week, in a speech of wearisome length from the City Chamberlain, and was subsequently entertained at the Ilansion House. In the speeches Lord Rosebery surpassed...

on Wednesday, and made an interesting and impor- tant speech. After lamenting the death of the Empress of Austria, and mentioning that Great Britain had joined the Conference to...

T HE Fashoda affair has taken itself away. We were un- able last week to quote the official announcements, but they were made on Friday night in Paris through an official...

tunity of this dinner to discuss our relations with France; but he reserved himself for the dinner of November 9th, con- tenting himself with stating that he had received from...

to proclaim a protectorate—a remark received by the com- pany at dinner with ringing cheers—but for the present " I cannot rise to the height of their aspirations. We are quite...

case.

with the "SPECT ATOR" of Saturday, November 19th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

speech at the Royal Societies' Club upon the continent which he is after this year to rule. He maintained, like Lord Beaconsfield, the dangerous doctrine that the pivot of the...

the Maharajah of Puttiala„ delivered rather a fine speech. He thanked the Sikh " nation " heartily twice over for their loyalty and constancy, and then proceeded to speak of the...

say nothing about Fashoda, and has impressed that policy upon the Press. Even in the official programme laid before the Chambers on Friday week it barely alludes to it, saying :...

Noel was at last compelled to employ force. He surrounded the Turkish barracks in Candia with troops, dis- armed the remaining Turkish soldiers, and sent them away in a British...

boy of twelve was sentenced at Tonbridge on Tuesday to receive twelve strokes with the birch-rod for placing a bar of iron on the rails at Edenbridge, "to see if it would throw...

pay a visit to Cadiz on his return journey, a decision which a Spaniard has described to the Daily News' correspondent in Paris as being like "mustard after meat. He goes to...

Friday afternoon complete returns had not been received. It is, however, admitted on all hands that the Republicans have so greatly increased their strength in the Senate that...

ago in putting down the adulteration of foodstuffs, the L'ird Chief Justice seized the opportunity of his formal visit to the Law Courts on Wednesday to deliver a forcible...

Austria, took place on Thursday at Geneva. Though the prisoner entered the Court a reus confitens, and displayed the utmost callousness and effrontery throughout, the...

the Social and Political Education League yesterday week, took for his subject " Heroes," and discoursed with his usual shrewdness and sanity on the dangers and difficulties...

intc the death of Mr. Harold Frederic, the author of "Illumina- tion," a novelist of much originality and some distinction. He suffered from heart-disease and rheumatic fever,...

practically resolved itself into a condemna- tion of uncooked milk, and an appeal to doctors to use their great influence" in inducing the public to boil their milk. We are, it...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1101.

LORD SALISBURY'S SPEECH. W E cannot profess to be entirely content with Lord Salisbury's speech. We feel keenly, as he appa- rently does not, the necessity for greater...

a little dis- appointing. The voters have given the President a working majority in both Houses, and the policy of founding an American Colonial Empire will, therefore, go...

I N the contest for the Liberal leadership which is always going on Lord Rosebery has recently gained many marks. He has not removed the distrust with which we, and we think the...

T HE Daily Telegraph of Thursday contained an inter- esting, and, taken by itself, a puzzling, telegram from St. Petersburg. "The Governor-General of Warsaw is about," it said,...

A NATION which has to maintain its predominant position in the world and protect enormous commer- cial interests in every continent, while employing only a volunteer army, is...

T HE fact that a criminal prosecution is pending connection with the death of Mr. Harold Fred imposes, of course, a certain amount of reserve 11 journalistic discussion of the...

think of America," said Leigh Hunt, "I invariably think of a huge counter stretched along the line of the Atlantic coast, and smart salesmen standing behind it." Like most...

HAMILTON'S monograph on Gladstone (John Murray) is an excellent piece work ; and even Mr. Morley himself, when he has give 5 world the biography which he has undertaken to writ...

T HE article in the Times of Monday about the health of boys in public schools must have surprised as well as alarmed a great many households. We have all been • congratulating...

p HILOSOPEIERS have very frequently remarked on the diversity which exists between men's occupa- tions and the pastimes of their leisure hours. Our friend Tibullus has chosen...

THE NEW CRUSADE. THE ALLIANCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX CHURCHES. [To THI EDITOR OF THI SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The grave feeling of uneasiness in France and Russia...

Sin,—I am very glad to observe that you have opened your columns for the discussion of this very important question. I do not desire to add anything to what your correspondents...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Si,—The substance of the saying, "Death cannot be an evil because it is universal," may be found in Cicero's "Tusculanw Dispntationes," I....

AN AUTUMN DREAM. THE wind-swept walks of Pere La Chaise With fallen leaves are spread. The west is all a golden blaze, With one broad bar of red. Midway, the mists have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] 'Sin,—Between the Boyne and the Nanny River lies a certain wood, where the rooks have lived undisturbed and nnshot for many generations. We...

('lo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin —In a "Popular Guide to the Use of the Bath Waters," 1888, occurs a passage which might fitly supplement the exquisite anecdotes quoted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTIT013.1 Sin,—In your otherwise admirable article—informing and steadying—on "The New Fashoda Despatches" in the Spectator of October 29th, the...

iTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ' S Ei — In his notice of a volume of sermons by the Bishop of Derry in the Spectator of November 5th, your reviewer instances, as "a touch...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC teros.”] SIR,—The anecdote of the rabbit and the stoat in the article on "Courage in Smaller Animals "—Spectator of October 22nd --reminds me of an...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES.* PEOPLE who are interested in contemporary poetry know that among the younger generation of verse-writers Mr. Bridges has become of late...

out the actual consecutive biographical narrative from the mass of materials collected by the careful editors of the two large volumes now given to the public. The first volume...

the habit of giving a lecture at the beginning of each University Session on some subject of academic interest or on the work of some great author who might be regarded as a...

Lettres d'un Cure de Campagne and Lettres d'un Cure de Canton are practically two volumes of one book. The same priest is the hero of both, and he has the same Parisian lay- man...

a tragic book ; but its dreariness and tragedy diminish in no sense its historical value. It is dreary because the Duke of Grafton, Premier in 1765, did not embellish his pages...

SPEAKING at Edinburgh last year, Mr. Arthur Balfour expressed his surprise that modern novelists did not more frequently cast their romances in the form of life-histories. As a...

Lamia's Winter Quarters, by Alfred Austin (Macmillan and Co., 9s.), contains some charming verses and some pretty prose writing. It is further ornamented by nine full-page...

is scarcely necessary to say that this volume, the fourth of the "Library Series," appearing under the general editorship of Dr. Richard Garnett, is full of interest. The...

(J. Parker and Co.)—This pamphlet may be described as a very useful supplement to works written in defence of Anglican Orden-. The author gives various forms that have been, or...

SISHOP. — On the 5th inst. at the White House, Tunbridge Wells, after illness prolonged during several years, Maria Catherine O'Connor Morris, wife of W. H. Bishop. R.I.P. An...

of November 5th the author should have been given as Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, K.C.M.G., Resident-General of the Malay States, and not as "Mr." Swettenhs.m.]