14 JANUARY 1888

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Continental situation is slightly worse. The Russian Government is posting further troops in large bodies on the frontiers both of Galicia and Roumania, and its agents have...

It is reported, apparently with truth, that another plot has

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been discovered for murdering the Czar on the railroad between Gatschina and St. Petersburg. A number of officers and students have been arrested, and it is said that exact...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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Wish the" SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

# 4 * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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ease.

In his speech at the banquet, Lord Salisbury expressed a

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confident hope that the revival of trade had really set in at last ; a not very confident hope that peace would be maintained,— he thought the prospect had, perhaps, somewhat...

For the rest, the most remarkable part of Wednesday's speech

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was a reiteration, in even a more vigorous form, of the argument of his speech at Derby, that for peoples in very close proximity and speaking the same language, the...

On Thursday, Lord Salisbury made a short speech to the

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Wavertree Conservative Working-Men's Club, in which he dealt very amusingly with the charge which had been made by the temperance party that the political working-men's dabs are...

Lord Salisbury's speech in Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, on Wednesday, was

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hardly one of his greatest efforts, but it con- tained some important allegations, as well as some striking passages. He declared positively, and in emphatic terms, that no...

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French and Italian papers attach some importance to an affair

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at Florence, apparently of but small moment. A Magis- trate there granted a warrant to search some rooms occupied by the French Consul, and as this is contrary to international...

Sir Henry James made on Monday, in Glasgow, one of

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the best Unionist speeches which the last two years have produced ; and that is saying a great deal, considering the exceptional power of the men who have devoted their...

The Pope now loses no opportunity of expressing friendliness towards

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Great Britain. He recently declared, as, indeed, did his more fanatical predecessor, that the Catholic Church was nowhere more free than in this country; and in receiving the...

The Emperor of Germany has been ill throughout the week

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with his old intestinal complaint, and has passed most of the time in bed. He was reported on Friday to be recovering ; but the attack alarmed his physicians, who know better...

Professor Seeley delivered a very impressive and sagacious address to

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the Professor of French on Tuesday at Cambridge, on the relative claims of modern and ancient languages to a place in education. He confessed his own preference for the...

With regard to the alleged corrupt means by which the

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Union was obtained, Sir Henry James regarded them as entirely irrele- vant to the great issue. "You may find," he said, "many reasons for opposing an improvident marriage ; but...

Professor Bonamy Price, the ablest of the late Dr. Arnold's

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Rugby coadjutors, and for many years back Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, died on Sunday afternoon at the age of eighty, after many months of declining health. He was...

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A singular incident has occurred daring the Wilson inquiry, of

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which we may hear more. M. Vigneau, an experienced Jnge -d'Instruction, was questioning Ribaudeau, a witness who, having been in M. Wilson's service as a clerk, could, it was...

Mr. Wilfrid Blunt's appeal against his sentence of two months'

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imprisonment for holding an illegal meeting and resisting the police at Woodford on October 23rd, was re- jected on Saturday by Mr. Henn, the County-Court Judge of Limerick. In...

The poorer folk of Birmingham were greatly agitated on Wednesday

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by an astrological prediction that great troubles of various kinds would happen on that day. They interpreted some obscure words to mean that the world would be destroyed, and...

The teaching of the National League spreads fast. On Monday

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a body of crofters in Lewis, about a thousand strong, marched to drive the sheep from a farm belonging to a Mr. Newall. The rioters were resisted by the police and a small body...

The sum remaining from the Women's Jubilee Offering to the

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Queen, after defraying the comparatively small cost of the eques- trian statue of the Prince Consort,—a sum of 270,000,—is to be applied to providing nurses for the sick poor in...

The following is worth attention from the genuineness of the

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hatred it expresses. It is a resolution passed unanimously by the Oola Branch (Limerick) of the National League, and the draftsman is so furious that he forgets policy, and...

Bank Rate, 3i per cent. Consols were on Friday 102t

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to 1,021.

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THE "BREAKING-OUT OF PEACE."

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T HE danger of the Continental position has not in any degree diminished. The British public is bewildered by the shower of contradictory telegrams which always precede an acute...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD SALISBURY AND THE LIBERAL UNIONISTS. T HE most interesting feature in Lord Salisbury's Liverpool speeches was that apologetic anticipation of the coming measures which he...

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THE END OF THE DEPRESSION.

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NIVHAT causes a favourable turn in the tide of prosperity? We all know, most of us through our own loss or gain, that it is subject to ebb and flow, and most of us believe that...

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THE RIGHT TO RIOT.

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T HE right of persons so disposed, to meet in the public streets in order to enforce, by open conflict with the authority commissioned to maintain order in the Metropolis, what...

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SIR HENRY JAMES AT GLASGOW.

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E VEN if, as we sometimes fear, it be impossible so to popularise the greater aspects of State questions as to penetrate the constituencies far and wide with their true issues,...

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THE CALAMITY IN CHINA. E VEN in Asia, where everything is

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immoderate, where a forest covers kingdoms, a river deposits a county in a decade, and man grows feeble from an abiding sense that Nature is too strong for him, there has been...

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MORALITY AND THE POPE.

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T HE Pope has nothing to do with Irish politics. What is more, he ought to have nothing to do with them. He can only weaken his influence as the Chief Pastor of Catholics by...

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PROFESSOR BONAMY PRICE.

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I N Professor Bonamy Price, Oxford and England have lost the greatest of Dr. Arnold's Rugby staff, and the one who had been most profoundly and effectually impressed by Dr....

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THE LUCK OF INANIMATE THINGS.

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T HE Daily Telegraph has sunk a shaft once more into the great reservoir of letters, but this time little oil is forth- coming, or, rather, the oil is not of a good quality. A...

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MR. LLEWELYN DAVIES ON CHRISTIAN MIRACLE.

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I N the new number of the Fortnightly, Mr. Llewelyn Davies has written a thoughtful and impressive article to explain what he holds to be the true avenue to Christian faith as...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. GLADSTONE IN NOVEMBER, 1885. [TO THE EDITOR OF TIER " EPECTATOR."] SIR,—No doubt, as Mr. Gates says, Mr. Gladstone would have very much preferred, in November, 1885, a...

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GENERAL STEPHENSON IN EGYPT.

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pro TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srn.,—Perhaps it may make the New Year a little happier to some of your readers if I, an Englishman, relate to Englishmen how faithfully and...

THE DECREASE OF CONVERSIONS TO ROME.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—There is much force in the explanations suggested by Mr. Bartlett, with characteristic urbanity and equity of state- ment, of the...

THE CROFTERS AND LADY GORDON CATHCART.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In a recent number, you dealt with the decisions of the Crofters' Commission ; and in your article on the subject, you made some...

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BOOKS.

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AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S HOME IN THE ROCKIES.* THESE fresh and spirited letters agreeably illustrate the fact that the value of a book is often in inverse proportion to its bulk. They...

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ) SIR,—The longevity of the only seven persons buried in our churchyard in 1887 was so remarkable, that I venture to send you their ages...

GEORGE LOVEDAY.

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[OMIT JET. 52, DECEMBER, 1887.] THE sapless leaves fell in the drear December In mourning on the dull, inverted clod; And the few faithful friends who must remember. With head...

POETRY.

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TO LORD TENNYSON. EINSCRLBED IN A COPY OF "PRINCE LUCIFER," PRESENTED TO THE POET LAUREATE.] POET! In other lands, when Spring no more Fleets o'er the grass nor in the...

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DR. BAYNE'S LIFE OF LUTHER.* WE find it hard to

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understand why these two large volumes were written. We have read them carefully, and cannot find that they add anything in fact or idea to the previous biographies. Dr. Bayne's...

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A BOOK ABOUT THE " RIVER " FLEET.*

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NOTHING now remains of the unsavoury Fleet Ditch, which Mr. Ashton, in his handsome volume, has elevated to the rank of a "river," to afflict the eyes and noses of Londoners....

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NEW ITALY.* No foolish patriotism colours Mr. Gallenga's latest book

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on Italy. He expresses himself as anxious to get rid of all partiality for his countrymen ; and if he was ever troubled with such a feeling, it must be admitted that his...

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"THE STORY OF THE NATIONS :" IRELAND.*

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A HISTORY of Ireland by a writer so well acquainted with the Irish character and colour as the author of Huffish, cannot but be welcome and desirable. Miss Lawless possesses all...

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We were much pleased to give Atalanta a word of

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commendation when it entered on its new career ; we are even more pleased to note that its promise is being sustained. The stories and illustrations in the January number are of...

into a volume ten numbers of a periodical which has

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been started by the proprietors of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle for the preservation of a vast amount of curious matter in "lore and legend," terms which we find to be...

The Australasian Colonies. By Walter Hazel! and Howard Hodgkin. (Stanford.)—This

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report of inquiries made by two members of the Committee of Management of the Emigrants' Information Office during a four months' visit to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand...

Gossips with Girls and Maidens, Betrothed and Free. By Lady

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Bellaire. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Lady Bellaire holds to the old opinion that it is woman's principal vocation to marry ; but she is none the less desirous that every girl should...

It is evident, from the variety and excellence of the

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contents of the January number of Scribner' s Magazine, that its conductors mean it to be a formidable rival to the Century and Harper. The best articles are the most solid,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Time, which has undergone a number of editorial vicissitudes sufficient to justify its name, takes a new departure with the beginning of 1888, or, at least, enters on a new...

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Drvimry.—Christianity and Evolution : Modern Problems of the Faith. (Nisbet

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and Co.)—In this volume we have a republication of papers which appeared in the Homiletic Magazine during the years 188687. There are twelve in all, and they represent a...

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The History of Music, Vol. III., by John Frederick Rowbotham

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(Triibner and Co.), includes two books, the third and fourth of the whole treatise, dealing respectively with "The Decline of Paganism, and the Dark Ages," and "The Middle Ages,...

We have received the second part of the sixth volume

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of the Bricyclopmdic Dicti-mary. (Cassell and Co.)—This work, it will be remembered, is a work of reference giving "a fall account of the origin, meaning, pronunciation, and...