WAR WITH THE MAHDI. I T is with a reluctance amounting to pain, and overcome only by long reflection, that we admit the Government to be in the right in declaring war upon the...

M R. JOHN MORLEY'S interesting speech at Glasgow on Tuesday appears to have had three objects,—first, to apologise for Mr. Chamberlain ; next, to elicit Radical opinion on the...

W E cannot sympathise with any of the arguments which, greatly, we confess, to our amazement, are being produced against the Anglo-Italian alliance. The prospect of this...

T HE admission of Lord Rosebery will strengthen the Cabinet. Besides his exceptional popularity in Scotland, his considerable social influence, and his power of making...

W E wish that both English journalists and the English people at large would consider, with a little more care than they usually give to subjects which involve no practical...

W ITH the freedom of speech that is now conceded to Cabinet Ministers, it becomes important to reckon-up and tabulate their individual utterances. It is only in this way that we...

I F the Government would take-up Mr. Craig Seller's Bill on the subject of Private-Bill legislation, bring it into shape, and pass it, they would really make a good use of what...

A LL Britain is sorrowing for General Gordon. The feeling in Scotland, where attention to Scotchmen abroad never flags, is of the most acute kind,—a personal sorrow under which...

I T is rather strange to find the great Congregationalist champion of the present day, who is supposed,—and not, we imagine, wholly without foundation,—to represent in our...

COMPETITION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Knowing, as I happen to do, that not a few of your staunchest readers agree with my faith as to competition, I was in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] • SIR,—In the article under the above heading in to-day's Spectator the writer says," No less than £400,000 is spent on entertainments,...

pro THE ELIT011 OF TUE "SPECTATOR. "] Si;t , — As an earnest searcher after the highest morality, I cannot but wish that Mr. Hawkes and the writers in the Echo had kindly told...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yonr views as to the " grotesqueness " of Positivism are not of any great value, because you are fighting a losing battle, and we can...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—There are such radical misconceptions afloat about the land that it becomes the duty of persons experienced in its management to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you permit me to use your columns in an endeavour to find a lady who could superintend a house and work in Bristol, known as the house of "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—In the Spectator of February 7th you notice favourably Principal Fairbairn's " Catholicism and Apologetics," and speak of the learned...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTLTOR...1 Sia,—In your remarks on " Daily Thoughts " from Charles Kingsley, in last week's Spectator, you say :—" We are aware that in many cases...

CHARLES GORDON. ,(" We trusted it had been he who should have delivered Israel.") GREAT soul, that scorned ignoble ease, Still lit with faith's undying flame, And genius ever...

Poured round my heart a flood of eager joy ; When pageantry of sunsets moved the boy More than high ventures of the great and good ; When trellised shadows in the vernal wood,...

VAN BEERS. - THERE has been an exhibition opened lately at the lower end of Bond Street, called Le Salon Parisien, which is chiefly concerned with the work of a well-known...

EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA.* Has that spirit of Jingoism which so vexes the soul of. Mr. John Morley, that one is tempted to think he needs the friendly hint Mr. Matthew Arnold...

Essays, many of which have been already before the public in the pages of the Edinburgh Review. They are all upon cognate subjects, and, indeed, may be said to be on the one...

THERE is certainly a great charm to many minds in American novels. When they take for their subject the new life in the Far West, there is no end to the possibilities of romance...

101 and ends at p. 314, he will find it an interesting study at this moment, when the attention of England and, indeed, the world in general, is fixed on the country with which...

dramatic story, and rightly gives it a name, the most effective study in an almost uniformly successful series of scenes and characters is the heroine's Indian lover and...

We have received the first two numbers of the Dramatic Review, a new journal of "theatrical, musical, and general criticism." The special features of this new venture are set...