O UR suggestion as to the cause of the new revolution in Brazil appears to have been correct. According to the latest information, after the fall of the Monarchy, paper was...

ber 9th, and Lord Salisbury made a speech principally about the position in Egypt, though he prefaced it by a eulogium of the warmest kind on the late Mr. W. H. Smith, to whom...

Treasury, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ire- land. His re-election for Leeds will not be disputed, and on Wednesday he was enthusiastically received by his late...

case.

stood for Lille, was elected on Sunday by a majority of 6,470 votes, to 5,175 votes obtained by his Republican opponent, M. Depasse. On the following day, the Government still...

the Delegations which created some excitement, the Viennese taking it to be of the most pessimist character. The Em- peror said that be had received peaceful assurances from all...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 21st, will be issued, _erratic, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

the Parnellite side. Mr. Pierce Mahoney prophesied that the result of the defeat would be, that Mr. Gladstone's next Home-rule Bill would either be an insult to Ireland which...

had not been of Irish growth, and that the priestly party had not initiated it, till they saw that without the help of an English party they could do nothing effective. If once...

House of Peers if it should insist on an appeal to the people concerning the Home-rule Bill carried,—if ever it came to be carried,—by the House of Commons. He pointed out the...

and the Anti-Parnellites was not known till the afternoon of last Saturday, but turned out as every one had expected. The priests carried the Anti-Paruellite candidate, Mr....

on November 9th, in which he was studiously con- ciliatory to all Powers and parties. He was certain that the renewal of the Triple Alliance would "develop the policy of prudent...

were those of the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, at the Manchester Conference on Tuesday. The Duke devoted himself to anticipating the form which must be taken by Mr....

in the Supreme Court of the United States, it was announced that the British and American Governments had agreed to refer the question as to their rights in the Behring Sea to...

in the higher salaries of the teachers in London—salaries higher than any obtained by the teachers in Liverpool, Bir- mingham, and Leeds. For instance, where the rates in Man-...

that the drinking of salt-water is a perfect cure for sea- sickness, though it makes the drinker very miserable for a few minutes after he takes the cure. The sailor who...

medical training in fitting their clergy for their clerical duties. The newly elected Bishop of Blomfontein is the Rev. John Hale Hicks, a London University M.D., and also a...

rather lecture, to his constituents in South Leeds, on the condi- tions of labour. He thinks workmen overrate the average profit on capital employed in industry, which is...

inst., and we are rather anxious as to their result. On the one hand, the mere cry for economy is both dangerous in itself as regards the quality of the education given, and too...

he accuses the present British Government of Jingoism in resisting a closer connection between Canada and the United States. He desires that connection, and warns the Canadians...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 958.

continued at intervals till Wednesday night. The barometer in London fell to 28.6 in., which is nearly, though not quite, un- precedented, and the damage done to hoardings,...

T HE sentences upon Egypt which formed the principal portion of Lord Salisbury's speech at the Guildhall on November 9th, are open to the criticism that they were a trifle too...

THE CORK ELECTION. T HE Cork election should be very instructive for all parties in both Ireland and England. It has settled various disputable questions, and settled them...

the imagination in the thought of the scene which must now exist in Russia, especially along the huge Valley of the Volga. There seems to be no reason for doubt as to the vast...

SPEECHES. I T is impossible to exaggerate the ability of the Duke of Argyll's and Lord Hartington's statesmanlike speeches at Manchester on Tuesday. The Duke of Argyll might...

W E see reason to believe that the effect of Mr. McKinley's election to the Governorship of Ohio has been underrated on this side of the water, and that it may presage another...

to recognise the possibilities contained in Mr. Gosehen's grant of three-quarters of a million in aid of technical education in the counties, has continued his support of that...

T HERE is a strange tendency in men who have unusual power in any one department of human life and effort, to hanker after a name and fame in some other quite different...

O UR own belief is that there are many persons, hundreds of persons here in London, who are like Dr. Clutter- buck's friends,—that is, who will invest large sums of money upon...

I T has been said of more than one great and sudden sorrow, that it has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and the expres- sion would argue a supposition that nations were as a...

I T is the fashion to say that the wage-earning classes of this country are unthrifty, that they seldom think either of laying by for a rainy day, or providing for the future of...

A PERIPATETIC PARSON ON DIVINE WORSHIP. My vocation is now varied, not changed. From being a. clerical " casual," locum tenens (Spectator, August 22nd), I have become a...

THE WATERFORD FACTION-FIGHT. [To THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Grant me space in your next issue to correct a statement which appeared in the Spectator of November...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In reply to your correspondent " N.," I beg to say that I was told the story about the railway-porter and the lady by a gentlewoman...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Having read the interesting accounts of unusual bird- visitors in London, I offer yet one more letter which may interest the readers...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your Eastbourne contributor has something to say about " the sensational reports " of what took place on Sunday week. May I, as a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of October 31st, you speak of the notice of the capped petrel V(Estrelata hesitate) in Stevenson'a " Birds of Norfolk,"...

SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Any reader of your article on the Sunday diversions of Eastbourne might conclude, from one passage in it, that the exceptional state of the law in that town is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I should like, with your permission, to say another word in defence of " result." It seems to me that one of the true functions of what...

THE END OF THE LONG JOURNEY. JOHN SANDERSON was dying, In summer, on Mendir-side, In the co:0 age where his father, And father's father, died. And dying has grown so common,...

WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE'S POEMS.* • Miss RoscoE has done well in republishing her father's poems in a separate volume, and in a shape that will be at once convenient and...

[To THE EDITOR or THE EFECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your review of the book published by Messrs. Mac- millan, on " Left-Handedness," you refer to Leonardo da Vinci and Holbein as being...

THE appearance of a third edition of Dr. Martineau's Seat of Authority in Religion affords us an opportunity to return to it for the purpose of examining the author's views of...

THE White Company is a stirring tale of the reign of Edward III., setting forth how a monastery-bred lad of twenty, with decidedly monkish proclivities, was transformed, in the...

together for the purpose of this notice were preached under very different circumstances and to very different audiences. The subjects, too, have little in common. Mr. Wilson's...

ST. MARTIN'S, Canterbury, the oldest church in England, and claimed by the author to be the oldest existing church in Europe, certainly deserves to have a book written about it....

is so good, one feels vexed that it should not be much better. His judgments are almost invariably just, not only from a literary but also from an ethical point of view. He...

GIFT-BOOKS. The annual volumes of Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home have been issued. They are notable mainly for the amount of interesting and instructive reading of all sorts...

0 'Connor Morris gives an attractive picture of Portugal, which he visited in the summer of the present year— not the time at which it is supposed to be most agreeable—and found...

was rather risky, perhaps, of the author of this volume of stories to follow in the wake of so many writers who in the past have endeavoured, under one of the many disguises...

The author of this book, which has been very capably translated into English by a lady, takes a very comprehensive view of " the Antipodes," for he includes in it certain of his...

—Simplicity is the note of these stories, which appear intended above all things to demonstrate how the highest virtues may flourish under the humblest or almost infantile...

skill is shown by the writer of this story in portraying Doris, Honor, and Molly, the three girls who give the title to it, and who are " bright " in different " styles," and...

Society.)—This handsome volume, which contains, in addition to a map, 157 engravings, is an excellent one to put into the hands of a boy who is outgrowing the ordinary story-...

boy of the name of Augustine stumbles in Kensing- ton, where he happens to be visiting an uncle, on a little girl reading " The Pilgrim's Progress " to her kitten and dolly. As...

Jack B. Yeats. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—According to Mr. King- lake, the Oriental regards the European as an unaccountable and uncomfortable work of God, " who may have been sent for...

Most of the boys who give the title to this stcr.7 are either very naughty or very weak. Very naughty is Ernest Ford, the leader of the gang of bullies that stone jackdaws and...

Society.)—This book may serve very well as a gift to a pupil in a Sunday class who has taken a liking for Biblical history. It is really a study, in sixteen chapters, of the...

find an Illustrated Guide to the Riviera (Ward, Lock, and Co.) a seasonable publication. All the health-resorts on the coast—Nice, Cannes, Mentone, Monte Carlo, &c.—are...