as sadness, universal Europe having made up its mind that the Emperor stood between it and a general war. The idea, though scarcely formulated, is that Russia will now defy...

ardent Nationalist and Home-ruler, and possessed of the deepest conviction that the only remedy for Ireland's chief ill is to turn Irish tenants into freeholders. He ridicules...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, Tune 30th, will be issued ;gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

of letters intended to affect the election for the Ayr Burghs. Mr. Gladstone began it by writing to a correspondent on the Ayr election in a sense unfavourable to the attitude...

at Limerick in a speech of singular and masculine ability ; indeed, as a mere piece of English, we have hardly read its equal for a long time. From it, it appears that the Irish...

T HE long suspense of Europe ended at 11 a.m. on Friday, the 15th inst., when the Emperor Frederick, worn out with his long straggle with disease, peacefully passed away. The...

Royal, to the martyrs of his party,—in other words, the ex-prisoners,--in honour of whom a considerable number of the Parnellites assembled, the object of the banquet being, no...

Bill stands, the Councils have power to increase their number by one-third, choosing any municipal electors in the county. Mr. Stansfeld, however, moved on Monday that all...

Stambouloff, the Premier, is believed to be the only man who can govern the Principality in defiance of Russia, and he has resigned. The cause is the sentence on Major Popoff,...

in one dated June 12th, which he sent simultaneously to Lord Hartington and to the newspapers, where it was published on Wednesday. In this letter, Mr. Gladstone reasserts that...

electoral term in County Councils. The Government propose in the Bill that the county elections shall be triennial ; but on Tuesday Mr. Shaw-Lefevre proposed that one-third of...

week, with some results of importance. It was known before the debate began that all boroughs with a population of 50,000, and six or seven historic places—Canterbury, for...

delay the Bill for giving a salary to Colonel King-Harman till it had at least mulcted him of 2100, will have the satisfaction of thinking that he has succeeded in depriving him...

but it is not a speech which increases our estimate of him as a statesman. After remarks on the Land Question, he gave vent to some lively chaff on "Liberal Unionism," which he...

should have been described as a Unionist demonstra- tion, we do not know. The majority of the degrees conferred were conferred on scientific or on non-political grounds, and...

And as Glasgow University is the only one in this country which was founded directly and exclusively on the model of Bologna, Professor Jebb composed an ode in Pindaric Greek in...

sending to prison any man who, like Mr. Dillon, has not only charmed audiences in England and Scotland with his eloquence, but charmed them by the earnest belief which he...

compromise which we pointed out a few weeks since as the one combining justice with expediency. As the Government of Pekin is willing to forbid the emigration of its subjects to...

in introducing the eminent men whom he presented for degrees went far towards justifying Lord Salis- bury's happy remark at the subsequent banquet, that, in his opinion, the...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 99 to 991xd.

THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK. W E have never believed in the recovery of the Emperor Frederick, and though at the last his end had the additional shock of a certain...

do not envy the feelings with which not a few, his past life, and have supplied a final answer to any one who spoke of his volte-face as a bid for office. Instead of rushing...

beware of allowing too many, alterations in their one great Bill. They will not overcome the desire of the Opposition to talk the Bill out„. because that is founded not on the...

N OTHING is more disheartening to the friends of Parliamentary institutions than the tendency which they beget,—perhaps necessarily beget,—to make politicians disguise from...

W E cannot but regret to notice the comparative in- difference with which the evidence taken before the Commission now inquiring into the charges against the Metropolitan Board...

the public service, both on grounds of efficiency and economy. It can, however, only be accomplished. under existing cir- cumstances by such acts as those complained of by Mr....

T T has never, so far as we know, been judicially deter- mined whether it is respectful to call an Archbishop a dog in the manger. Consequently, it is best to keep on the safe...

T N the charming paper which Sir Edwin Arnold repub- lished a short time ago from the Fortnightly Review, under the title "Death—and Afterwards,"* a second edition of which has...

THE Times of Saturday republished from the Japan Weekly Mail a remarkable story from Japan. It is stated that the publicists of that country are discussing the propriety of an...

H ORACE is to scholars what Burns is to Scotchmen, and the strong desire which so many scholars feel to trans- late his Odes has been humorously classed by Sainte-Beuve with the...

EPISCOPAL DEFENDANTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me to supply an omission, and also to make a correction, in your article on the intended prosecution of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—There seems to be a strange consensus of opinion that parish vestries need strengthening with new power and in- fluence. I confess that,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The article in your issue of June 2nd on "Our Larrikins " deserves careful thought and consideration, for there is no. doubt that it is...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE.] A GLANCE at the Academy as a whole shows us that the chief strength of the collection is in portraiture, the chief deficiency in...

THE LIFE OF BISHOP WORDSWORTH (LINCOLN).* Two admirable portraits of Christopher Wordsworth—one representing him in early manhood, the other in old age— illustrate this volume;...

A Counsel of Perfection has not the power of Colonel Enderby's Wife, but in finish and delicacy of workmanship, it contains, we think, the most perfect art which Lucas Millet...

WELL and truly has Mr. Frederic Harrison told the story of Oliver Cromwell's life and work. And what a story it is,— that of the Huntingdonshire farmer-squire who first inspired...

and armies, we should be one of the most favoured and amply provided nations. Month after month for the last forty, and especially during the last twenty years, the inky stream...

THERE is undoubtedly a great deal of eloquent and suggestive writing in the volume before us. The author had the power of arresting attention by epigrammatic expression, and of...

criterion of the humanity of a race, the Japanese certainly stand high in the scale. It is a veritable children's paradise that is described by the author of these pleasant...

Literature. By Herman Grimm. (Sampson Low.)—The volume published with this rather unfortunate title consists of several essays by Professor Grimm, the son of a famous father,...

Bowker, Colonel. (Triibner and Co.)—South Africa, though inferior to Brazil and Tropical Asia in the number and splendour of its forms, has amongst its 1,000 species of...

C. A. Sal- mond, M.A. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—A biography, possessing much interest, of Charles Hodge and Archibald Alexander Hodge, whose names are inseparably...

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—The story of Eildon dvange has for its plot a long and weary struggle between St. Ringan and the fairies for a certain beautiful and fertile farm, a...

the Corn- hill." (Pawsey and Hayes, Ipswich ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—This is a spirited and well-written story of the days of the Commonwealth. The King is, of course,...

the work of a writer who, for same unknown reason, chooses to veil his identity under the pseudonym " Peregrinator." It is described on the title-page as "a new novel,...

a rather milk-and-watery story by a writer who has apparently devoted some time to the study of the works of Miss Yonge and Mrs. Ewing, but is not fortunate enough to possess...

national Scientific Series." (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Though the restriction of the volume to British species must of necessity exclude many interesting fungi, yet the...

is to be found in his new three-volume novel, Miser Farebrother (Ward and Downey). The uncritical novel-devourer will probably read it with interest, because it has a plot which...