yester- day week, after an adjourned debate commenced by Mr. Bryce, in one of his most interesting and thoughtful speeches, though it was not a speech in the drift of which we...

T HE deep alarm which was felt in Paris as to the possible conduct of the populace on July 14th proved groundless. It was believed that the Radicals, who are exasperated by...

Bill was read a second time without a division, the Liberal Peers decamp- ing at the dinner - hour without providing for the continuance of the debate. Lord Ashbourne, in moving...

reply to Lord Granville. He directed a sharp attack on Mr. Morley for insisting on the extreme incapacity of Irish Unions to rate themselves and to spend their rates...

had carried North Paddington by a diminished majority (418), against Mr. Routledge, the Home-ruler. Mr. Aird polled 2,230 votes, and Mr. Routledge 1,812. This time last year,...

case.

tottering Government of Ireland," propped on bayonets;" and Sir W. Harcourt was, as usual, as skilful as he could be in ridiculing and making sport of all the opinions which a...

W E took up Mr. Edward Russell's speech, or lecture, on the relations between the Church and Socialism, just delivered before the Diocesan Conference of Liverpool, with a...

I T is possible, and even probable, that persons now living may see the extinction of the elephant as a wild animal. The operation of natural causes has already reduced the many...

THE OXFORD MODERN LANGUAGE STATUTE. (To VIE EDITOR Or THE " ErECTITOR.1 am afraid you have been misled on some points with regard to the statute about Modern Languages which...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE ' SPECTATOR:1 Srm—I see a question raised in your issue of November 5th as to the relative strength of the Separatists and Unionists in Ulster. Should...

[To Tax &mos 51 Tax " 8PECTATOli,"] Sta,—I do not recollect that the number of Unionists in Ireland has been stated, on any trustworthy authority, at two millions. I think the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:1 Sue, — Will you allow one who sympathises with Mr. Abbey ' s concern for the credit of his old master, and who is acquainted with the facts,...

rTo THE EDITOR. OP TES •• SPECTATOE."1 Ste., — As we see now so many suggestions that the State should provide suitable occupation for our unemployed labourers, some of...

Stn, — The only serious flaw you find in Mr. Arnold-Forster ' s scheme is that it would be necessary to fine the whole of Ireland by indirect taxation for the failure of any...

[To Tax EDITOR Or TUE '‘ SPECT.011.1 - S111, — In his defence of the Roman Catholic view of mortifica- tion, Father Clarke relies upon the text,—" This kind goeth not out...

THE MANCHESTER EXHIBITION, AND WHAT ITS ART COLLECTION SHOWS.—I. Now that the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition has closed its doors, onr readers may perhaps care to consider...

SIR, — The graphic description of the autumn flight of starlings given by your correspondent, "J. D. D.," must have recalled to many of your readers the well-known lines of...

MICHAEL FIELD'S NEW PLAYS.* THOSE who found in Michael Field's first work the evidence of strength and genius such as are very rare in our generation, will be confirmed in that...

[SECOND NOTICE.] Taeotortour the reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., the Duo de Broglie, says the translator of the Souvenirs, — sat constantly on the benches of the...

the great twin dramatic poets from whose numerous plays two volumes of selections have recently been added to the "Mermaid Series," are probably more familiar to most English...

Chamber, M. Tony likvillon demanding that the Government should reassure them as to its attitude towards Liberalism. M. Cl6mencean declared that the Government was in league...

Ballantine polling 4,229 votes, against 4,213 given for Colonel Eaton. This is a borough in which the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists have not co-operated with any...

he had never had any but the most generous treatment from the United States, be vindicated the right of the United States to express their opinion on English political...

of the new "Irish Land Bill began on Monday, and went on till Thursday night without much benefit to Ireland or mankind. The Bill, in truth, only admits of useful debate in...

that the Government felt the necessity for a much larger measure, and subsequently explained to a deputation that this would be a great Purchase Bill, which, however, it was...

Opposi- tion, the Bill passing its second reading without a division. The night was remarkable for two speeches, one by Lord Ran- dolph Churchill, and the other by Mr. Goschen....

of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, Mr. Perry Belmont, Chairman of the House Committee of Congress on Foreign Relations (not the very much more important Com- mittee...

of gladness that we are becoming conscious that the Jubilee is passing away from us. The politician from the platform no longer maunders about fifty years of progress; the...

of the Moors in Spain for The Story of the Nations series has very appropriately been entrusted to Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, and a better choice could scarcely have been made. Mr....

THE new edition of Professor Max Miiller's German Classics is adapted to the English translation of Scherer's History of German Literature which we have already noticed. The...

Tun volume is merely the first instalment of a complete historical geography of the Colonies, for which it clears the ground by usefully and clearly discussing the principles...

and Windas.)—This selection, made, we presume, by Mr. Swinburne himself, as no other name appears on the title-page, is exactly what was wanted. It represents him at his best....

The Bachholees in Italy. Edited by Julius Stinde. Translated by Harriet F. Powell. (George Bell and Sons.)—Frau Wilhelmine in Italy is decidedly less attractive than the...

and Hall )—This is a reprint, in the main, from the Fortnightly Review. Sir Gerald Graham saw Gordon at Cairo on January 25th and 26th, and accompanied him and Colonel Stewart...

Son.)—There seems really no limit nowadays to I:rook-making, no subject too wearisome to be dragged into print, no end to the use of scissors in the service. "Groat...

Longfellow. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a supplementary volume to the two which contain the poet's life. The editor has been asked for it by some readers, and he...

dreary story of jealousy and revenge, not without a certain dramatic power, but certainly not attractive. There are little things which take off from its verisimilitude,—a...

collaboration of Arthur Gilman, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This popular account of Egyptian religion, life, and history is one of the series entitled 'Story of the Nations," and...

Daly, LL.D. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Daly reprints here the " Drapier Letters," and various other tracts published by Dean Swift between 1720 and 1734, ending with the "Modest...

F.S.A. (Elliot Stock), we have the second part of Romano- British Remains. The plan of the work, as has been explained in a previous notice, is to give the various...

ville A. Gurney. (J. Arrowemith, Bristol; Bumpkin, Marshall, and Co., London.)—This little tale is half a ghost-story, half a story of insanity, but wholly anecesaful in...

Psychic Phenomena in Family Daily Life, extending over a Period of Twenty Years. By Morell Theolsald. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—An amazing book, which we cannot profess to criticise....

T. Pilkington White, R.E. (Blackwood and Son.)—This little volume contains a record of the achievements of a century and more, —achievements which have coat a great deal of...

Shakespeare. It bears the name of the "Victoria Edition," and the Queen has accepted the dedication. The three volumes of which it consists contain the "Comedies," the...

work. Its place is now well established, and all that remainais to welcome its instalments, and, for those that have opportunity, to further it. " A " and about three-fourths of...

Clark), an attempt to prove the Panties authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and to connect it with the time of the writer's imprisonment at Rome. The author rejects the...

of business, should not be addressed to the Enrroa, but to the Pm:mum:ma, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.O.

:—Part 1 of a serial edition of The World's Inhabitants, Ac., by G. T. Bettany, MA. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)— Part 13 of the History of Lancaster.—Part 6 of Mr. Punch's...

Including postage to any part of the United yearly. Including postage to any of the Australasian Colonies, America, France, Germany 1 10 6 0 15 8 0 7 8 Including postage to...

later than noon on Friday.

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ArletoPe'e Polities, by W. L. Newman, 2 vols. 8vo (Oxford Univ. Preen) 2510 Arnold (E.), Death and Afterward, er Boo (Trillaner) 1/6 Ashton (J.). A Centory of Ballade, 410 (E....

mind with German victories, that his death on the 14th inst. is an event. Herr Krupp in 1848 commenced the manufacture of steel guns and large steel articles generally, and...

not as yet advanced matters much. A deputation appointed by the Sobranje hastened to inform the Prince of his election, and urged him to repair at once to Tirnova. The Prince,...

days upon the Anglo-Turkish Convention. According to the latest intelligence, the Sultan cannot make up his mind to ratify that document, and Sir H. D. Wolff finally quits...

and Mr. Gladstone has recently repeated the same fallacy. Mr. W. Ambrose, however, in a letter to the Tinter), shows from official statistics that while in England 71 per 10,000...

motions of adjournment intended to defeat the Law of Evidence Amendment Bill, and this though the Attorney. General offered to exclude Ireland from its operation. The intention...

Lawson who, if he did not retain some vestige of humour, would be almost as great a political nuisance as Mr. Conybeare, wasted a great deal of time in raising an absurd...

of the Liberal Association in Glasgow consenting to contest the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, vacant by the resignation of Mr. E. Russell, as a Liberal. In it besets forth that...