public learned on Thursday evening that Sir John Millais's long and most painful struggle with a fatal disease had closed at last. Within a few months the Royal Academy has lost...

oracular in tone, and the official note published on Wednesday is no exception. It declares that " the Secretary of State for the Home Department is commanded by the Queen to...

T HE Session is over, though we shall hardly receive the Queen's Speech delivered at the Prorogation before going to press. On Thursday evening the Lords gave in, though Lord...

that England and Russia had come to an understanding, not merely as regards Crete, but upon other issues involved in the Eastern question. It bad been a greed be- tween them,...

Gordon, and as a mark of respect to his old friend placed on the pedestal a wreath of China asters. The ceremonial observed, which was witnessed by a considerable crowd, was...

case.

how. ever, that paid to the Bank of England on Tuesday. Here his conversation—through the interpreter—with the Bank of 1c:: was taken down by reporters, and specially by the...

Bryan made his formal appearance as the Democratic candidate. He denied that his platform was a menace to private security or that its supporters were the foes of social order...

an end. When, on Sunday last, Colonel Baden-Powell took a column into the Matoppos, be found them deserted by the natives. All the impis had broken up and gone, and there were...

bellicose attitude towards the Irish Land Bill; and Lord Lansdowne's new clause as to the cutting of turf by tenants was read. It provided that when the tenant had enjoyed the...

the South African Committee would not be appointed this Session have come to nothing, though the Irish Members did their best to make them true. On Tuesday night, when the...

to score off the Government by alluding to the fact that he had come to the agreement with the Leader of the House,. "whom he was surprised not to see present." Mr. Chamber-...

Paris some- time about the 6th or 10th of October—the police responsible for his safety naturally do not care to be too precise as to dates —and the Paris newspapers are getting...

arbitrator to whom the Boilermakers' Society and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers agreed to refer their dispute as to the construction of water-tube boilers for Messrs....

she had completed, we are told, the revision of the proofs of the biographical portion of her husband's Life, in the prepara- tion of which she had taken the liveliest interest....

of an interview granted by M. 011ivier to a newspaper reporter on the twenty-sixth anniversary of his fall. France, he declares, was assured of the alliance of Austria and...

suggestion that in revising the fair rents, the land itself ought not to be revalued, considering that these revaluations play directly into the hands of the tenants who have...

what perfunctory debate. The closed accounts of 1894-95 show an actual surplus of Rx.693,100. The revised esti- mate for 1895.96 shows a surplus of Rx.900,000, while the...

at Vadso, in the extreme north-east of Norway, were, like those in Japan, from an astronomical point of view, a failure—the sky was obscured by mists—but for all that the...

mons on Wednesday when considering the Lords' amend- ments to the Land Bill were that they disagreed (by 176 to 24) with the amendment carried by Lord Cloncurry excluding from...

New Consols ('2) were on Friday, 113 d.

MR. BALFOUR'S SUCCESS. H OW bitterly the Radicals have begun to attack Mr. Balfour can hardly be better illustrated than by the suggestion of the Daily News, that even if Mr....

I F it is tree that England and Russia have come to an understanding on the Eastern question, as the Daily Chronicle asserts, we are face to face with the greatest revolution in...

IT looks as if the Matabele revolt had at last come to an end. Of course it is possible that the natives, inspired by the belief that they must expect no quarter, may again...

Q IR HENRY HOWORTH'S letter to Tuesday's Times kJ is a remarkable performance,—in the first place, for its literary skill in so stating the facts of the last General Election as...

season the athletic- world has been stirred to its depths. The two disturbances have come, curiously enough, from opposite poles. The first, as our readers will remember, was...

I T may be questioned whether a Prime Minister has ever evoked more general, if concealed, hostility in clerical circles than Lord Salisbury caused some weeks ago by his...

I T is a pity that such glorious weather as we have enjoyed this summer should do any harm; but the 'drought, which lasted with few interruptions, and with none worth mentioning...

the life of the Boers, in the August number of the Fortnightly Bev iew, goes out of her way to advocate a theory that seems not only very hasty but very far from plausible, that...

W E have heard of the " boy Paganini," the " boy Raphael," and even of the " boy burglar," and now at last comes the " boy housemaid." " Last come and first did go" will, we...

A MONG the varied pleasures designed for visitors at New Ostend, the latest model seaside town, there is -no attempt to organise the amusements of children by the sea. This is...

I T would seem as if our Arch-Enemy were exciting an unusual amount of interest just now in imaginative and thoughtful minds,—an interest which is both manifested and increased...

• THE C01'LhiIICATION OF THE SENTENCES. LT0 VIZ EDITOR or Inc " BFECT•TOR."1 Sin,—Allow me to express my deep sense of the value of your article under this head in the...

THE " SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—Your notices of American political affairs, while inter- esting and sympathetic, still betray a lack of knowledge of the actual conditions of the West,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPTCTATOR."1 [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPTCTATOR."1 SIR,—The use of the word "imitation" in connection with poetry may be, as your reviewer thinks, "...

[To TEIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — There are probably very few among us—men or women—who do not sometimes wish they were a little richer. With the wiser ones the wish...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR. " ' Sin,—Your article in the Spectator for July 18th under the above heading was deeply interesting as a piece of original criticism on a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] Six,—In your review of Miss G. Hill's work on "Women in English Life," in the Spectator of August 8th, you state that the school at Bramley,...

Sin,—May I express the gratitude of at least one reader for your timely protest against Professor Conrthope's use of the terms " pleasure " and " imitation " in defining poetry?...

much interest your article on " Dainties- of Animal Diet." Perhaps you may like to hear the following personal experiences. Some few years ago I was climbing in the Rockies. One...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A large Newfoundland of ours, at home in Germany,. ` Nero' by name, was a confirmed lover of gooseberries. He would go into the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—Your story told by Sir Robert Peel of the dog- which saved his master from two intending highway robbers, is similar to one which I...

GEORGE FOX, THE QUAKER.* THE publication of Mr. Thomas Hodgkin's excellent little biography of George Fox, in the " Leaders of Religion " series, should administer the coup de...

TO MILTON,—BLIND. HE who said suddenly "Let there be light !" To thee the dark deliberately gave ; 'That those full eyes might undistracted be By this beguiling show of sky...

Julian Hawthorne embodies the perenially fascinating conception of the boor transformed into the man by a touch of human affection. And to this primary motive he attaches a...

wide and fascinating Debatable Land which lies between accurate history and confessed fiction, that world of legend which occupies so large a part in the literature of almost...

Hebrew race are generally well known to both Jews and Christians, and are credited by all save those who are ambitions of the reputation of philosophic thinkers. Nobody, we...

that he is "one of the greatest literary geniuses, the most faithful painter of manners, and one of the purest moralists of his age." About the same time an English reviewer...

SIR CLAUDE DE CRESPIGNY'S reminiscences can hardly help challenging comparison with the autobiography of the late Sir John Astley, published not long before the latter's death a...

Sons.)—Mr Brooks takes us through the stories of some seventeen great men's sons. Some of these stories are nothing more than episodes in the lives of their fathers. Mahomet's...

Windus.) —This is one of the class of old-fashioned stories. The heroine tells her own story, and tells it without affectation or pretence. She belongs to the sad company of "...

the most ambitions work that has yet been attempted by that very capable member of the Scottish school of fiction who in his " Barncraig " and " Sunshine and Haar " has very...

These " Emotions without Morals," as the ingenious author calls them, are a clever satire on a certain kind of literature, if litera- ture it is, which seemed to find favour...

The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Edited by Andrew Lang, assisted by W. A. Craigie. (Methuen and Co.)—This is, indeed, one of the most handy and useful editions of Burns that...

and Co.)—A considerable portion of the information given in this volume is to be found in the author's " Words and Places ;" but this is supplemented by new matter, and the...

(J. M. Dent.)—We do not deny merit to Campion, but the language which Mr. Ernest Rhys uses seems to us extravagant. He quotes in his introduction the " Song of Amaryllis," which...

Sons), edited by Edith Carrington and Ernest Bell, we have our old favourites, Mrs. Trimmer's History of the Robins and Keeper's Travels. The series is published, we are told,...

S. Horsburgh, (Methuen.)—There is an inexhaustible interest in the story of Waterloo, and, it would seem, an inexhaustible supply of questions that call for but defy solution....

Co.)—We should recommend any one who may come across this volume to read the last chapter first. He can hardly fail to be struck with the good sense and good feeling which is...

Hayes. (Thacker and Co.)—" Polo," says Mr. Miller, " is far more general in India than in England, and enjoys many advantages that cannot be obtained in this country." One...

Norris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—These six stories are slight in texture—and, indeed, what else could they be ?—but they are real stories,—i.e., they have incidents in them and...

a story of Church and Chapel, so skilfully contrived that we are left at the last in ignorance as to the side to which the writer's own sympathies inclined her. She appreciates...

M.A. (Hodder. and Stoughton.)—Canon Hoare left an autobiography which told in some detail the story of the first half of his life. Letters were also available. On these Mr....

worthies " celebrated in Mr. Horder's little volume are John Woolman, Amelia Opie, Bernard Barton, and John G. Whittier. The sketches, which are slight, have the interest which...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the Enrroa, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Hurst—TouriocnY.—On July 14th, at Dunes Gali, Marra Hills, Puojab, John Edward Harvey, Captain R. A. No. 7 Mountain Battery, son of the late Enoch Harvey. of Liverpool, and of...

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Co.)—This is a rather ingenious and very pleasant story of Scotland—though not quite of the " Railyard school "—and that in spite of such a repellent and gorgeously conventional...

Coventry Patmore. Selected by Alice Meynell. (W. Heinemann.)—Mrs. Meynell warns us that she has not attempted to select " best passages." She is quite right. Coventry Patmore...

and Son), we have received the "fourth edition, revised and consider- ably enlarged," of Elementary Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical, by A. Humboldt Sexton....