is passing over French feeling towards Germany, and that there is a distinct decrease in the rancour with which the conquer- ing Power was regarded in Paris. The only facts he...

case.

T HE United Kingdom this week has been locked up in a frost which had on Friday lasted for twenty-four days. The degree of frost has varied to a curious degree, the thermometer...

the Address, regretting that her Majesty's Ministers have shown no appreciation of the great depression prevailing both in the agricultural and in the manufacturing districts,...

been an unintelligible amount of misrepresentation or misconception as to details, but it is difficult to doubt that in the torpedo raids of February 4th and 5th, only one of...

its position by the Ambassadors of all Europe, has at length resolved to make a sincere effort to obtain peace. With this view, according to the story, it has decided to send Li...

of amnesty to all persons imprisoned for offences "arising out of the insurrectionary movements connected with Ireland," brought up Mr. Morley's speech at Dublin in 1888, in...

the Exchequer's and Mr. Balfour's. Sir William Harcourt gave himself up to devising a string of brilliant jokes, of which the first quizzed the authors of Mr. Jeffreys's motion...

the House of Lords, accusing Mr. Morley of injustice in removing Mr. Moffett, the President of Galway College, and Mr. Bourke, the Inspector-General of Irish Prisons, from their...

256 against 236 in a House of 497 (including Speaker and four tellers), several members of the Unionist party not liking to make common cause with Mr. John Redmond, even though...

to the Address, representing to her Majesty that the time had come when the Ministry should have recommended her to dissolve Parliament, and to submit the question of Home-rule...

of the military in riots has just been forwarded by the Home Office to the Courts of Quarter Sessions. If it becomes necessary to use them, the soldiers should be requisitioned...

which is inquiring into the charges against M. Raynal, will have some serious disclosures to make as regards the relations between the Ministry of Public Works and certain...

interfere in the case of Twiss, the Glenmara murderer, and he was accordingly hanged in Cork gaol on Saturday last. - Unless all men who protest their innocence - to the end are...

to include most respectable members, has issued a mani- festo, which, according to the Daily Chronicle, is being cir- culated all over Russia. Its authors complain bitterly of...

urge is that the present financial position of the Indian Government is in part the result of waste and mis- management, and that there ought to be a thorough investiga- tion,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1041.

the Revenue was £10,562,000, the expenditure 29,756,000, and the surplus £806 000. Of this the Government is allowed to dispose only of 2158,000, the remainder being paid to the...

MR. BALFOUR. W E may seize the publication of Mr. Balfour's book on the Conditions of Belief to call the attention of our statesmen on both sides of the House to the great...

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S speech of yesterday week was one very characteristic of him. The real point of the amendment moved by Mr. Jeffreys was this,—that the Government concerns...

.+T A r iv -t nod, greatly need, a Portsmouth in the Far „East, situated, we would suggest, on some point in Westeru.Borneo, or if there is a good harbour, on the island now...

Members made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday night, makes it clear that the Government have no inten- tion of dealing with the matter during the present Parlia-...

the highest credit just now. They hardly tell us more of the origin of the depres- sion, of which all men speak, than doctors tell us about the influenza. Indeed, some of them...

has been made for a long time to the perennial controversy about voluntary schools, is the Bishop of London's speech in the Convocation of Canterbury last week. It is a speech...

TIRE latest story of finding gold bears a trace of an old and very curious superstition. It is reported by tele- graph that certain miners at Coolgardie in Western Aus- tralia...

M R. BALFOUR, in the chapter in which he deals with the love of beauty, and shows that it cannot be explained by any development of naturalistic causes,—those causes rooted in...

A LL pilots and seamen speak of the Thames, so far as the tideway extends, as the "London River." The appearance of ice on the London River is a natural portent which will be...

SEPTIMUS HANSARD. [To TEN EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Zia,—The tribute to the memory of Septimus Hansard, from the pen of Mr. Lewis Dickinson, recalls an anecdote which...

[To TH1 EDITOR 07 THN SPZOTATOR."1 n,—Sir W. Ver non Harcourt's slip in substituting the name of Harry Hotspur for that of Prince Henry, in a recent debate, was, under the...

[To THY EDITOR ON THE ". SPECT•TOR."] Sin,—It is often said that lookers-on sometimes see more of the game than the players, and it is that which encourages me to offer some...

[To TIER EDITOR 01 TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Dialect is not altogether dead in Somersetshire, though it is undoubtedly fast dropping into disuse. A case tried in the Wells Petty...

SIR,—As I see that you have published some interesting anecdotes about dogs, I send you the two following, which perhaps you may think worth inserting. In 1873 we came to live...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—As the dogs are having a good time in the Spectator, I hope you will allow the cats a share. Your readers may be interested in hearing...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SrsoTAToz."] SIR,—I knew a dog in Ireland—a large retriever—who had been taught always to bring his own tin dish in his month, to be filled at the late...

go rxa ED/TOS OF THE .• SPECTATOR.") would be a great boon to some of your readers if one of their more scientific fellows would, through your -columns, explain something of...

THE GRAFTON GALLERY. WHEN you see a very good Raeburn by itself, or even when you first see a number of Raeburns together, your impulse is to say,—Here is a very notable...

ON A HISTORY OF IRELAND. SHUT up the book l—a piteous land (Yet ever beckoning with enchanted wand), Whether by fault or fate Where all things come too soon or are too late,...

[To THE EDTFOE OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE,—Perhaps you may think the error too trifling for me to write about. But I should like to say that my late brother, 'Tom Taylor, was...

TALLEYRAND.* LADY BLENNERHASSETT has written not only a very able, but a very interesting and readable book. There is not a dull page in it,—at least for those who are capable...

them, who read (we cannot call it study) history to derive thence facts, opinions, or maxims favourable to their peculiar political or social views, will find little or nothing...

EDNA LYALL evidently possesses a chivalrous propensity to champion the weak, which does her much honour; but when she gives reins to this generous desire, her efforts would...

THE Pagoda in whose shadow Mr. Cuming writes is the Sh way Dagone Pagoda, whose gilded pinnacle dominates the town of Rangoon and many miles of the jungle that surrounds it. If...

have passed since the disappearance of Professor Palmer's expedition in Arabia, at the time of the revolt of Arabi Pasha, and the discovery of its tragic fate by the...

HARVARD and Wadham College, Oxford, are, as Dr. Hill appropriately reminds us, of approximately the same age. There is something suggestive in the coincidence. Wadham belonged...

title-page that these stories contain, not only facts, but " fancies " of medical life. The facts are generally gruesome facts, but the fancies are more gruesome still, and we...

With a Preface by H. F. Osborn. (Macmillan and Co.)—This work, issued as No. II. of the "Columbia University Biological Series," forms another of the valuable contributions to...

A Corner of Cathay. By Adele M. Fielde. (Macmillan and Co.) —These "Studies from Life among the Chinese" were made, the author tells us, during a residence of fifteen years in...

of Messrs. Blackie's "School and Home Library." The "heroes" are Aristides, Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, Pclopidas, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Philopcemen. Some abbrevia-...

Co.)—This is, as may be supposed, a volume which it is not easy to discuss or even to describe. Mr. Lockyees sub-title is "A Study of the Temple Worship and Mythology of the...

Translated by William Somerville. Revised and edited, with Preface, by H. Marshall Ward. (Macmillan and Co.)—The present work was written from the point of view of German...

Edited by Henry Lazarus. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—These "prospective histories" are commonly somewhat foolish; this, which Mr. Lazarus has written or "edited," is so in a conspicuous...

volume of the "Pseudonym Library" contains some curious, not always edifying, sketches of life in China. The longest, which gives a name to the book, gives a strange insight...

Press.)—Mr. Tozer pieces together with much ingenuity the facts of Strabo's life, which may be gathered from his writings, and criticises these latter with perspicacity. The...

and Windus.)—Whatever judgment may be ultimately formed of Mr. Svrinburne's style as a prose-writer, there can be no doubt that he possesses the art of carrying his readers with...

Rev. J. Moorhens°, Bishop of Manchester. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Bishop of Manchester here discusses a number of questions that have a great practical interest both for clergy...

1893. By E. S. Maclay. 2 vols. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—This book is a careful and seemingly complete record of the doings of the United States Naval Force from its...

Species that do not Breed within the British Archipelago. By Charles Dixon. (Chapman and Hall.)—The fauna of the British Islands is richer proportionately to that of the...

Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate. Vol. IV. (Macmillan and Co.)—This concluding volume of Mrs. Green's edition of her husband's great work maintains the standard of...

(Chatto and Windus.)—We must own to a feeling of prejudice against novels that claim attention by the title of "mystery." If any reader shares this feeling, let it not hinder...

vigour of pre- sentation in some pages. It is gratuitously offensive - ; and the kind of satire which associates the vilest profligacy with unctuous professions of religion is...

have found the narrative of the political history of Indian railways distinctly good reading. Indian railways have been constructed on a different principle and for different...

Green, and Co.)—Mr. Rider Haggard long ago found or created his public, and he is probably wise in continuing to provide that public with the kind of thing which it has learned...

custom of the Primitive Church. Promotion and pay did not come very rapidly. Nevertheless, when his father died in 1852, William Reeves divided equally the landed property which...