was Mr. Balfour's reception in Dublin on Saturday last. Not only did he address a densely packed and enthusiastic meeting at the Leinster Hall, but he was actually drawn through...

for the Irish savings-banks, which certainly showed that the working class in Ireland have just as little faith in Home-rule as the capitalists themselves. In 1892, the deposits...

a speech to his constituents at Troyes, said to have produced a marked effect. It seems to us a speech for the elections marked by a lingering political rancour. He accepted all...

on Friday, April 7th, dealt with the Ulster question very effec- tively. Ulster was larger than Wales by 100,000 persons. Out of 33 Members there was a majority of 5 against...

case.

T HE Belgian Chamber on Tuesday rejected universal suffrage by a vote of 115 to 26. The workmen are .exceedingly irritated, and have decreed, through their leaders, a universal...

have both been received by the Austrian Emperor in long audiences, to the great indignation of all Russians, who regard this ant of courtesy as equivalent to a formal admission...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 29th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

re- markable for the concurrence of testimony it produced that. the Home-rule Bill is intended to bring about a purely nominal supremacy of the supreme Parliament and Adminis-...

was remarkable for the force with which he kept the attention of his great audience fixed on the agrarian ques- tion, in all its aspects, as the central Irish issue. There is...

had two little wrangles with Mr. Gladstone, and in both of these got the better of the Prime Minister. On Mr. Glad- stone in the course of an interruption declaring that he had...

an English point of view, Mr. Chamberlain showed that it is rejected, even with passion, by one-third of the Irish population, and that so far from being accepted with...

what we believe to have been the speech of his life. Nothing approaching it in merit has been uttered against the present Home-rule Bill. It occupies only two-and-a-half columns...

Mr. Davitt and Mr. T. W. Russell. Mr. Da,vitt's speech was, as Mr. T. W. Russell said, "not only a most able, but a most temperate and manly speech." There was no rancour...

Mr. Chamberlain, who is becoming one of the greatest political orators of our time. The speech in the House was one of singular concentration, and most impressive to the House ;...

l'Orient, five hundred cases of cholera, with one hundred and fifty deaths, have occurred in March and the first ten days of April ; and though the inhabitants attribute the...

the Hibernian Societies of New York have a grievance,—we do not know whether they would call it a sentimental one,— against the Director of the Central Park Zoological Gardens,...

at Washington shows that, in 1890, there were 9f million persons of foreign birth in the United States, or, in other words, that out of the 62i millions of population, over 14...

Bank—and Melbourne will be fortunate if no more of them are closed. The Bank had a oapital of 2900,000, with a similar sum uncalled, and its position is said to have been very...

and has delivered two speeches in Liverpool, one in Perth, and one at Birriam against it. The first speech at Liverpool, mentioned last week, was the best because the orator let...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 99.

inclined to establish himself definitely as an English magnate. He has purchased Cliveden,. the lovely seat of the Duke of Westminster on the Thames, giving, it is surmised, at...

A GREAT SPEECH AGAINST THE BILL. -E NGLAND suffers greatly in one way from the super- session of the "Ten-pounders." Those electors read the great speeches in Parliament and...

O N Monday night, there was a strange scene in the House of Commons. Mr. Chamberlain had the singular and somewhat painful experience of touching Mr. Gladstone's political...

icKTHAT is to be done about Ulster ? "—that is the V V question which must be pressed upon the Govern- ment till an answer is obtained. Up till now, the Govern- ment have tried...

interesting for many reasons, one being that a powerful Union of the men is facing a powerful Union of the employers, with rather unexpected results. The former will probably be...

debate which is dragging its slow length along in the House of 'Commons is the creeping-on of the Federal idea. Not that anybody wants it. The Irish Home-rulers would much...

Prince Ferdinand of Bul- garia and his Premier, M. Stambouloff, by the Court of Vienna, is of considerable political importance. Like the betrothal of the Prince to a connection...

T HE opposition to the Welsh Suspensory Bill runs some risk of being hindered by the desire of some of those who direct or take part in it to overstate their case. It is not...

week at Chester in a case resembling, if the facts reported can be established, that of Mrs. Montagu In Ireland, may or may not turn out to be justified. The conflict between...

W E rather wonder why the Daily Telegraph thinks it necessary to justify the recent assertion of M. Jules Simon that intellectual occupation tends to longevity. All around us...

T HE coming Chicago Exhibition, which has had such an influence on the present value of the shares of the rail- ways leading to the great city of the West, has given an impulse...

T HERE is no more fruitful source of error and absurdity in argument than the not uncommon tendency to leap from a single fact to a general rule, and then search for in- stances...

AN EASTER BUMPER. "Ye gon to Canterbury : God you spode."—CUAUCER. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] April 8th, 1893. Sin,—The furthest point south in our Easter scamper was...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your art critic having published me as an "awful example" in the Spectator of April 8th, I would like to say a, few words on this...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—As you have done me the honour to 'call attention to my article in the National Review, may I be allowed to say a word in answer to the...

HOME-RULE WILL-O'-THE-WISPS. [To TEl EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice a reference in your issue of April 8th to the "wild and ignorant dreams which have really led the...

SIR,--At the outset of this contmversy, I ventured to state that questions of " taste " are not subjects for controversy; matters of fact, however, stand upon another basis. I...

We loved when we were young, With sunshine on their faces, And music on their tongue ! The bees are in the almond-flower, The birds renew their strain : But the old friends,...

[To Tits EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The " correct " pronunciation of the names of several families shows confirmation of Mr. Dermer's theory that " e" before " r " and...

ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.* Turn sympathetic and careful study of St. Bernard is given to the public in the form of lectures, and has some of the disadvantages incident to that...

significant fact that the most earnest and most comprehensive attempt to state the case for the House of Lords, and to show the exact nature of that Assembly, should be made by...

THERE are one or two of these "excursions" which are hardly worthy of preservation in their present form,—for example, the attack on Mr. Buxton Forman (with the drift of which...

composite book was first announced to the public under the title of Dante and Bi- metallism, which might have tempted them to the belief that Mr. Cross had deduced from the...

of "Julien Gordon," betrays her nationality by the occasional use of words and phrases unfamiliar to English readers. Thus she uses " placate " and "prosternate " where we...

SURELY, among the most curious of the curiosities of litera- ture, is the fact—for fact it seems to be — that Robert Browning wrote "The Life of Strafford" which appeared in...

M.D. (J. B. Lippincott.)—Dr. Abbott has some interesting things to tell us about avoods and streams, trees and flowers, birds and beasts. They are, indeed, less interesting to...

whose literary palates are not very sensitive, and who can endure much for the sake of a brisk story with a fine manly hero, a winning heroine, a feminine schemer who may be...

M. Clode. (Harrison and Sons.)—Mr. Clode, who is a Past-Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company, has put together in this volume some interesting facts about a distinguished...

Capuana. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is another pleasant volume of a pleasant series," The Children's Library." Fairy-tales are not easily criticised or even described. The charm,...

A Mixed Marriage. By the Lady Amabel Kerr. (Art and Book Company.)—A very sweet and natural character is portrayed in the heroine of this little tale. Several of the other...

Blackett.)—The opening chapters of this novel show much pro- mise. The description of Frank Heseltine and his surroundings is touched with much skill. We recognise the...

—.Japanese romance goes hack to very early times indeed, This, however, is a story of the present day, with an Anglo-American artist for hero, a half-bread of mixed Irish and...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This book is a very curious medley of jest and earnest. Mr. Meriwether has studied the sub- ject of convict labour in his own country, where he held...

W. W. Merry, D.D. (Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Merry begins with the "Carmen Sahara" and the "Carmen Fratrum Arvaliura ;" between these, which date back, it is probable, to a very...

H Griffiths. (John Murray.)—Strsatfield was in Saxon times an open tract of country, a "field," and had its name from the fact of the Roman road running across it, the said road...

curious ways of bringing man and woman together, Miss Lockett has hit upon the most curious. Robert Dene, having been jilted in his youth, and having vainly endeavoured for...

eight tales contained in this volume are, if not equally good— a thing hardly to be expected— yet so good as to mark out the collection as something quite uncommon. If we have...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This realistic and sensa- tional story of Fleet Street in 172t" is decidedly a success. It is founded on a trial for murder—belonging, however,...

a book which is manifestly what the author in his preface describes it as being,—the outcome of much labour. Mr. Leland's practical experience in the collection of folk-lore has...

Collingridge),. contains its usual specialities. There is the admirable map, in- formation about the Livery Companies, list of Livery voters, Corporation Directory, besides the...