morning, at Dover, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, has deprived the English Church of perhaps her greatest teacher, and England of one of the purest and most fascinating...

a sharp financial crisis in the United States. The large houses there have been locking their funds up in immense purchases of silver and goods the prices of which were expected...

case.

p ARLIAMENT adjourned on Tuesday to January 22nd, a long holiday, which has been granted owing to the great progress of business rendered possible by the paralysis which has...

Signor Crispi has such an immense majority, on December 10th. His speech was altogether rose-coloured. He quoted the majority itself as proof that Italy, being united and...

himself as to the course be should take in reference to the Land question and the Irish Constabulary in any Home-rule Bill he might bring forward, explaining to the four...

his speeches by a little address to the Irishmen who cheered him at Euston. He speaks of himself as the agent of divine providence, and hoped that his country- men would achieve...

the report which contained it, was presented to the Irish When the letter in which this passage was contained, and the report which contained it, was presented to the Irish...

speech on Wednesday, of the drift of which we have said enough elsewhere. There was visible in it an odd con- flict between his desire to humiliate Mr. Gladstone and his desire...

on Thursday, and is not a very able document. They have to admit that they elected Mr. Parnell after the decision in the divorce suit, " under the influence of gratitude," " in...

Committee-room on Saturday, than the Parnellites passed unanimously Mr. John O'Connor's resolution regretting Mr. Gladstone's evasion of the questions put to him ; and in...

under an imperative sense of duty to our country," and substituted Mr. Justin McCarthy as " sessional chair- man ;" and the majority, numbering forty-five, immediately drew up...

to express sympathy with Jews under the renewed persecution of their race in Russia. The meeting had the approval of a great number of dignitaries, including Cardinal Manning,...

first known as a great black-letter lawyer, and afterwards one of the ablest Legislative Members ever sent to India. He had the honour of causing an Act of Parliament to be...

lives and works most efficiently in Edinburgh, warns English- men that the control of the Irish Constabulary may mean a great deal for England. If the Home-rulers obtain it,...

the London School Board, covering the half-year from March to September, 1891. He expects to spend £958,000, an increase of £60,000 over the corresponding half of the present...

on December 7th, the occasion being the election of the Provincial Councils-General. The result, according to a telegram in the Times of Tuesday, has been a great surprise. The...

Friday 951 to 95i,

new French loan of £36,000,000 has been subscribed (January 22nd), the Cabinet will be reorganised. M. de Freycinet, who has just been elected to the Academy, will probably...

country, the district entered by the British South African Company, but claimed by the Portuguese. The people in Lisbon are sending out volunteers and regulars to defend it. Mr....

of the Pelican Club, unless, indeed, the " sporting " section of society was anxious to be sure whether it could " sport " in buildings of its own without interference from the...

THE EFFECT OF THE PARNELLITE SPLIT ON THE ELECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN. T HE first important consequence of the split in the Irish Party will be its tendency to convince the...

M R. PARNELL has been received in Dublin and Cork after a fashion that seems to promise him a great following in Ireland, though the Mallow demonstration against him shows that...

in their belief that the Celtic Irish are exceptionally inclined to faction, that they cannot hold together, but are always ready to spring at one another's throats. The belief...

B Y far the most perplexing question in the mental con- dition of the Irish people—the native Irish we mean, not the English and Scotch settlers—is their real attitude towards...

B Y the death of Sir Barnes Peacock, the country loses 13 an exceptionally . able Judge. The expressions of regret which fell from his colleagues on the Bench on the receipt of...

M ADAME NOVIKOFF'S argument, that there ought to be no meeting in London to plead for Russian Jews because the Czar disposes of two millions of soldiers, is as foolish as it is...

on secular matters have an interest which is peculiarly their own. They are eminently and necessarily cosmopolitan. Every word has to be weighed and guarded, because the persons...

O NE after another, the great men of our Church disappear, and their places are not filled. Within a single year, the Bishop of Durham, Canon Liddon, and Dean Church have all...

T HE German Emperor is an able man, though, we fancy, of a rather commonplace type, the type of the efficient Englishman with more energy in him than originality ; but he may do...

W E wonder what effect would have been produced upon the mind of a vegetarian by a visit to the show of fat beasts that has been held this week in the Royal Agri- cultural Hall...

THE CYNICISM OF THE "SPECTATOR." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In common, I hope, with many others, I have been much pained by the cynicism of the two articles in...

ITO THE EDITOR or TEE " 1211PECTATOR." J SIR, —I am very loth to say anything more in public just yet about University Hall. We have had our full share of public attention for...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your readers may be interested by the following in- cident displaying the wonderful power of memory which some birds possess. Some...

IN MEMORIAM : THE DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. "ASHES to ashes, dust to dust," In broken voice he said, Committing to the grave in love and trust. The body of the dead. Again must...

CALL, and I follow, power unknown ; Thy summons has a sovereign tone, As trumpet stern in morning air To bid to duties fresh repair, Or bugle soft, with evening dew, To cleanse...

LORD MELBOURNE,* IT is hard to imagine a better piece of work than this short study of Lord Melbourne by Mr. Dunckley. Of all the Queen's Prime Ministers, Lord Melbourne was...

THE admirers of Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. F. Marion Crawford, whose name is legion, will assuredly find nothing to dis- appoint them in the latest works of these distinguished...

Sir Edward Hamley's account of the Crimean War will be the history of that contest which will be read by future generations of Englishmen. It is scarcely possible that, except...

WE expect a variety of interest in a volume that contains descriptions of fifty churches famous for their architectural beauty or for their associations, historical and...

IF Captain Marryat, instead of devoting his time after leaving the service to writing novels, and to learning the ways of Thames lightermen like Jacob Faithful from his. house...

"Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep." IN other and less technical terms, a new mystic has written a book. It is published...

on the whole, well suited to their subject, The Low - Back'd Car, by Samuel Lover (Hutchinson and Co.) "Kitty," as she appears in her " low-back'd car" in the first picture, is...

GIFT-BOOKS. Fifty - two More Stories for Boys, and Fifty - two More Stories for Girls, are continuations of two volumes which appeared with similar titles last year. Both are...

Okeden, and Welsh.)—Looking to the class or classes for whom this book is specially intended, it can be said to have only one fault, though that is indubitably a serious one. It...

Sunday Magazine. Edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Same publishers.)—These two annual volumes are as good as usual. In the first, the chief serial stories are Mr. B. L....

very agreeable and thoroughly original story of a hunch-backed cripple and waif, who is " saved," and introduced to a reasonable amount of material happiness, by his love of...

Edinburgh.)—This is a very bright, original, and wholesome story—the story of a little Austrian Princess who at the ago of twelve is brought by her father to Macaulay House,...

This little volume contains "reminiscences of Christian work in various lands," by a lady who dates from Dublin, but whose father was Director of the Royal Mint in Stockholm....

(George Allen.)—The authors of these delightful stories have accomplished what is virtually, if not nominally, a new departure in the production of fairy-tales. They have made...

attempt, and on the whole a successful attempt, to utilise the great Dock Strike in the interests of sound Christian teaching. Brown and Chaplin may be taken as fairly typical...

Okeden, and Welsh.) — This handsome volume of between five hundred and six hundred pages is a companion volume to " The Boy's Own Poetry-Book," and has been compiled for a...

extravagant, says Mr. Strettel, has been said about the climate and scenery of Teneriffe, that he considers himself bound to place the true facts before the public. This he does...

—The sub-title of this volume (which is, we suppose, a reprint from the Leisure Hour) is as follows :—" The Feeding, Cleansing, Lighting, and Police of London, with Chapters on...

a new series, of Amateur Work, Illustrated (Ward, Lock, and Co.) It is described as " a practical magazine of constructive and decorative art and manual labour." Sundry...

and Co.)—Mr. Stevens is the intrepid traveller who went round the world on a bicycle. The New York World sent him to Africa in search of such news as might satisfy the public...

does not altogether overcome the difficulty of telling a story in the first person without affectation. When, indeed, the staple of a narrative is adventure, this difficulty is...

Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence and the Rev. Joseph Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is devoted to the "Epistle to the Romans." The " Exposition " is from the pen of the Rev. J....

F. Shaw), is a description of how a certain Master Jack, feeling himself " bothered by the womankind," thought that he should like to take up his quarters on an island, and how...

vols. (Cassell and Co.)—This work, which has been appearing as a weekly serial for now a considerable time, is at length com- pleted. It is not produced in the sumptuous style...

yearly volume of the oldest of the English art magazines, is equal to the tradition left by its predecessors. Of the twelve plate illus- trations, we prefer a photogravure, "...

Jill. By the Rev. F. Bennett. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Bennett has four pages marked (1), four marked (2), and so on up to (8). Each of these may be read continuously with each of...

aquarium is a thing to conjure with, for more can be learnt in a month from one than in years of paddling in streams. Mr. Bateman discusses the whole theory and practice of...

H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Dobson travelled from St. Petersburg to Samarkand in 1888, when the railway to the latter place was opened. He described what he saw in a series of letters...

work, The People's Bible : Discourses upon Holy Scripture. (Hazell, Watson, and Viney.)—The portion dealt with is the Proverbs. Dr. Parker's qualities are known to our readers,...

By Major A. B. Ellis. (Chapman and Hall.)—We now find that in writing " The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast," which was noticed in the Spectator (January 26th, 1889),...

2 vols. (Digby and Long.)—This is a book to be avoided by everyone who has any respect for good English or for good taste, either of matter or manner. Here are a few samples,...

very elaborate Christmas and New Year's Cards, illustrated books of verse, and so forth. The landscapes are all beautiful in their way, and the flower-pieces too. We do not...

calendar intended to be hung up on a wall. These are the Daily Calendar, the Scriptural Calendar, and the Proverbial Calendar. The first gives information of sunrise and sunset...

the pocket-books once so common in country towns. This is the sixty-seventh year of its life. It contains all the usual information, some poetry, chiefly by local versifiers,...

their Christmas and New Year's Cards, containing some very large ones, and some cut out into the shape of human figures, representing Christmas and Christmas benefactors...