O N Sunday the Spanish Prime Minister was shot by an Anarchist, and died an hour later. Pending the forma- tion of a new Ministry, the vacant office has been placed in the hands...

AMERICA AND ENGLAND. M R. SHERMAN, the American Secretary of State, or, as we should say, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, denies that be said the offensive things in regard to...

I S the gospel of Anarchy spreading ? Are we face to face with some great conspiracy against society which it will take all our energy to suppress ? Is there no way of...

I T seems that the authorities are scarcely agreed as to the meaning of the Sheffield election. Of course, each party organ takes the view which its own political exigencies...

at once suggests a survey of the political situation in Spain. In Seiior Canovas the Conservative party, it is universally conceded, has lost its best leader and its most...

N a cheery and sensible speech at Blackpool, the Home Secretary on Tuesday expressed the opinion that the picture painted of the depression in agriculture by the Royal...

readers who took an interest in matters ecclesiastical as long ago as 1870 will remember the hopes that were excited by the formation of the "Old Catholic" Church in Germany. It...

I T is right that the public monument to the genius of Tennyson should stand on the crest of an English down, and look out on that part of the sea which is as much a piece of...

T HE principal impression of rural England derived by an American writer in the Daily Mail is one of tidiness, of absolute finish. He was travelling in Cornwall, and was pre-...

O N the coast of North Norfolk, for some sixteen miles from Brancaster to Blakeney, there is now growing up one of the most remarkable natural reclamations to be seen in our...

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S TREATMENT IN BOOKS. [ToTHE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The schoolmaster is often said to be abroad : if he is wise he will remain there and carefully...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—In your notice of Mr. Bickerdyke's book in the Spectator of July 31st, you say he doubts whether pike of 40 lb. weight are ever caught...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is "the emerald gem of the Western world set in ths crown of a stranger ?" I think not. The throne of Great Britain and Ireland is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In the Spectator of July 31st your appreciative article on a proposed Royal Residence in Ireland is, to my knowledge, consonant with the...

MACHIAVELLI IN MODERN POLITICS. [To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SFECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your article on Machiavelli, in the Spectator of August 7th, you say :—" The distinction at which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My father used to tell a story that in his early youth— more than seventy years ago—he was dining with a Lady Pocock and her daughter...

listening, the other day, to a cottager's account of her share in the rejoicings of June 22nd, and as her ideas as to the cause of the rejoicings appeared vague, I made a remark...

article in the Spectator of August 7th, that the fear caused by what is supposed to be a supernatural agency seems to have in it some element not found in ordinary fear, may I...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some of your readers may be interested in this incident, which happened recently. We took our two cats into a field above our garden one...

[TO TH1 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:I Sin,—For nearly forty years one wing of my old house in Hertfordshire has been the nesting-place of numerous families of starlings, sparrows,...

ALONG the Kentish lanes we speed On the last day of lovely June : Like harvesters among the weed Lining the hedge, we lunch at noon ; Onward ! at last our wheels are stayed...

[To VIZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'l Sin,—The other day it was announced in several papers that a fine male "specimen" of the golden eagle was taken at a high altitude on Cam n...

THE LURE.* Coin hither and behold them, Sweet— The fairy prow that o'er me rides, And white sails of a lagging Fleet On idle tides. Come hither and behold them, Sweet— The...

BARDS OF THE GAEL AND GALL.* Dn. SIGERSON is a very ingenious and painstaking man. Be has translated a large number of Gaelic poems into the original metres, and, as the...

THOSE who best know Mr. Baring-Gould's work will be least surprised to hear that this is a strange book. We are accus- tomed to see the documents included in the Canon treated...

THE reading public has always shown a lively curiosity about the thoughts and feelings of the private soldier on the battle- field, as the popularity of the ingenious MM....

THE story of a human soul in its search for eternal truth will perpetually interest mankind. What is the Divine Comedy but the narration of that toilsome journey which ends in...

IN this age of journalism few interesting experiences are withheld from print. Mr. Selma has already told the story of last year's outbreak in Rhodesia, and here are three more...

history of his agri- cultural estates is a highly interesting and instructive essay in applied economics. It is practically a defence of the great landlord against the charges...

Townsend, Sheffield.)—This is not an epoch-making work in archteology or history, but there is no doubt either as to the contagious enthusiasm of the writer, or as to the wisdom...

Stories for the Young. By Henry Smith. (Swan Son.nenschein and Co.)—Mr. Henry Smith belongs to the class of people who think that to tell a child a fairy-story is to teach it...

book of reference for people who wish to find a new English watering-place in which to spend their summer holiday. Small places are mentioned and full particulars of the sands,...

Macqueen.)—The writer of this eminently seasonable volume gives in his preface very full references to the books and pam- phlets he has consulted during the process of...

(Macmillan and Co )—This little primer concerns itself with the art of growing vegetables successfully all the winter under glass. It seems to give clear and practical...

Lawns and Gardens. By N. Jonsson-Rose. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) —This book is divided into two parts, the first on the general arrangement of small gardens, and the second on...

Macqueen.)—Mr. Crawford, whose unconventional works on the natural history of Scotland have not undeservedly gained for him the reputation of being that country's Jefferies, has...

is a tale of life among the Boers, with plenty of life and colour about it. One cannot, however, help observing that the Hans Van Ponder to whom we are introduced in the first...

and Co.)—This is one of the useful little volumes of popularised science which we owe to the enterprise of Sir G. Newnes and Co. It is at least as interesting as any, and as...

the English-speaking world does the war between good and evil rage more furiously than in the United States." So writes the author in his preface ; accordingly he has con-...

own to feeling a certain relief in finding "Uncle Remus," to give Mr. Harris his well-known nom-de-plume, leave for a time " Brer Fox" and his kindred to tell us a plain story...

man and S. G. Tallentyre. (Smith and Elder.)—These sketches or studies, twenty-three in number, are reprinted from the Corn- hill. They are not like the " characters " of...

scarcely up to the highest level of Mrs. Marshall's work, not so much, perhaps, because it lacks the characteristic merits of the author, as because the personages in whom its...

a study, after the manner which the author has lately taken up, of physiology and psychology combined. Edward Marshall and Joan are twins, and the tale is constructed, in part,...

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