spoke in great exultation of spirit at Newton Abbot on Monday night, asserting that the gain of the Liberal Party since 1886 had been at least 20 per cent. of the seats vacated,...

Bill. The Members have a notion that there is something or other in the air of the House specially favourable to influenza microbes, and consequently want their Whitsuntide...

Unionists again. He affects to despise them, but if he really despised them he would not have Liberal Unionists quite so much on the brain. No one despises the spectre who...

Portuguese possessions he Africa has at last been signed. Lord Salisbury has been anxious to improve the situation for the Portuguese Monarchy, and at the same time to...

in a speaker when he happens to be Sovereign in a great country. The students of Bonn have been welcoming the German Emperor, and on May 7th he made a speech to them in which he...

A SHARP financial crisis has occurred in Portugal, officially attributed to the non-arrival of gold expected from Brazil, but really due to the failure of the last loan, the...

Tuesday last, the Draft Revised Charter was laid on the table, and Lord Herschell moved its acceptance by Con- vocation in a very able speech, the only defect of which was that...

Division of Leicestershire, where we held from the first news of the vacancy that they would be likely to succeed better than in any other of the contests of the "miniature...

of influenza at Brighton on Wednesday morning. His death vacates another seat, and this time a Gladstonian seat ; but it is not very probable that the seat can be rescued from...

as it was hoped, the new Chancellor, LordiDerby, might have appeared to do honour to his predecessor's memory and to inaugurate his own official career, the prevailing epidemic,...

Cesarewitch has failed to protect him. It is so unceasing and so visible,. that it affects his nerve; but nevertheless, on the 11th inst., while the Prince was visiting some...

resigned. He could not endure the limitation of his powers which, as he perceived, must follow on Mr. Justice Scott's reforms of the judicial system, and ho departed with his...

Democratic Association, in a high-flown speech denouncing the extravagance of the Administration. The muddle in his metaphors is astounding, but his meaning is plain. He...

opposition for the Strand last Tuesday. After the nomina- tion, he was questioned as to the proposals of the Government with respect to Free Education, and whether any of the...

letter as to the increase of the Lambeth Free Library rate we noticed last week, was quite mistaken in saying that the large number of spoiled voting-papers was due to any...

has a serious bearing upon the position of the Jews in Russia. The Greeks in the islands are formally attacking the Jews, and on the 14th inst. stormed several houses in Corfe...

of Captain Verney's expulsion. Mr. W. H. Smith, who was re- elected for the Strand on Tuesday without opposition, found it his first duty to make the motion, which he did in a...

of Parliament, has at last attacked Mr. Gladstone and the Prince of Wales. Mr. Gladstone has had fever on him all the -week, but the temperature was sinking on Thursday and...

not as obviously as the London School Board. Lord Lingual. said its rate for this year had decreased, but Mr. G. C. T. Bartley, member for North Islington, shows that it has in-...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 96/ to 951.

• THE POLITICAL PROSPECT. T HE election for the Harborough Division of Leicester- shire was not more disheartening for the Unionists than we had expected. It had been obvious...

P ORTUGAL is a little State, but the financial crisis in Lisbon may, if it is prolonged, have a serious effect upon the general politics of Europe. It greatly exasperates the...

W HEN we see what a very disproportionate and even calamitous influence the faddists have on the elections, it often strikes us with surprise and chagrin that there should be no...

W E wish we had the power to induce Mr. Chamberlain thoroughly to reconsider his proposal for granting annuities to the old. He is probably the only politician now living,...

W E have no wish to say one unnecessary word about the case of Captain Verney. The consequences it entails, not on the offender only, but, at all events as regards their own...

the Indian Government in Parliament should be a little more decided. in defending it. Good. government in that great Empire may become impossible if the most monstrous charges...

I F authority, ability, and the most lucid exposition could have gained a victory for the Draft Charter proposed to the Convocation of the University of London last Tuesday by...

M EDITATING much on Mrs. Humphry Ward's assertion that to believe in miracles of any kind will be in itself " a religious offence " to the next generation of religious...

W HEN Mr. Besant's Dick Mortiboy came into his kingdom, all the parish applauded. He was rich, he was unconventional, and he was free-handed; and his best neighbours pardoned...

W E cannot help feeling that the law and the Magistrate have been a little hard upon Mrs. Ann Emblin, who a few days ago was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for an...

M RS. WATTS HUGHES, of the well-known Islington Home for Little Boys, contributes to the current number of the Century an exceedingly interesting account, accompanied by most...

FREE EDUCATION. ION. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"1 meant to enter a protest., rather than to embark upon a controversy; but Mr. Kempe's letter, written as it is with...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR. 44 ] think that every one who chances to see a good story spoilt, or imputed to a wrong parent, should at once correct the error. May I offer...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] 'SIR,—If South Dorset be a fair specimen of by-elections, I think it may be taken that Home-rule enters but slightly as a factor in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 4 ' SPECTATOR. "] 'Sin,—The Gladstonian candidate for the Harborough Division of Leicester having appealed to the Anti-Vaccinationists, the Spectator of...

[To THE EDI I OR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] ' SIR, — The longer the dissolution is delayed, the more over- whelming, I fear, will be the defeat of the Government in the 'rural...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' 4 SPECTATOR." SIR, — Your sense of what is due to yourself as well as to me will lead you, I think, to insert the following brief refutation of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR1 Sin,—Seeing your very favourable notice of the work of the "National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children," it occurs to me...

In different garbs appear ; And while the vows of men they share,. Have separate altars here. A golden lamp the one displays, Of light still clear and keen ; The other walks...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —I am interested in all matters connected with the common speech of Durham and North Yorkshire, having spent my youth in the former...

THE GLIMPSE. JUST for a day you crossed my life's dull track, Put my ignobler dreams to sudden shame, Went your bright way, and left me to fall back On my own world of poorer...

THE NEW GALLERY. IT is the business of a critic to understand first, if ho can,. what an art has proposed to itself to do, and with what limits in its use of nature ; then to...

MR. LOWELL AS A CRITIC.* CULTURED America, we believe, has not yet fully made up her mind as to who is her best poet ; but we imagine that she could have little hesitation in...

CONSIDERING , bow much there is in the existing system of English political life in which Sir Robert Peel was the leading agent,—" our Laws of Currency and Banking, our...

that this journey was made a dozen years ago inter- feres a little, perhaps, with the use and interest of this record of it. The ride was undertaken by Mr. Barkley and his...

AFTER an interval of nearly seventeen years, Mr. Wickham completes his Horace. Meanwhile, some good work has been done with the poet by English scholars, the Satires having been...

promises to present a bird's-eye view of the poetry of the century, is likely to prove a tolerable success if all the ten volumes are equal to these two. Nothing could be more...

"GEM," in common speech, means a precious stone, especially when engraved for an ornament or other purpose. This, putting aside its primary meaning of a "bud," is pretty nearly...

Just Impediment. By Richard Pryco. 2 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—Any one who wants to have his feelings harrowed should road Just Impediment. A very admirable hero falls in love...

book has been written and printed in America, and is full of American peculiarities, from the spelling upwards. It professes to be the narrative told by a pastor's wife of their...

(Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London.)—It is the third of the three subjects of which this volume treats that is the really interesting one....

Norwich.)—Mr. Le Strange gives the lists of the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk (there were five creations before that of John Howard in 1483), of the Lords-Lieutenant, Sheriffs,...

and Sons.)—This tale is of a common enough type. A woman married to a foolish, good-natured husband, loves a man of a very superior kind, but is saved from any disastrous...

(Education Society's Press, Bombay.)—Gondal is a protected State, which is now in the hands of a Prince who has been edu- cated on the best system. This account of it is...

Aline Delano. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) —There are, as indeed one might expect, many interesting things in this book. Rubinstein began life, one may say, as a musical...

vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—Colonel Douglas is introduced to a young lady of the name of Alison Burt, who receives him with a most un- flattering expression of dismay, and...

M.A. (Longman.)—This is a carefully written, learned, and impartial book, which, though it will scarcely please any party, is a valuable contribution to English ecclesiastical...

(Times of India Press, Bombay.)—The special subject of Captain Townsend's book is the iron of India. No country, he tells us, is richer in the ores of this metal; yet it...

Son.)—This is a story of the " shilling dreadful " kind which the author has seen fit to expand into the more orthodox two-volume shape. It is a good one of its sort. The...

Society.)—We may briefly commend to our readers this contribution, made by a writer of unquestionable scientific attain- ments, to the perennial controversy touching "...

conception of this story has something striking, and even original, about it. The hero entirely loses his memory by some accident, and the narrative of how ho has to acquire his...

Webb naturally begins with Sir William Hareourt's saying, " We are all Socialists now." He calls it an " avowal; " but, of course, it was more than half-sarcastic. However, it...

Co.)—This is a burlesque on the sensational novel, something in the style of the " Prize Novels," and the like, which one sees from time to time in the pages of Punch. But...

and Stoughton.)—Professor Laidlaw defines the scope of his treatise as " expository and homiletic." Tho apologetic and philosophic side of the subject has, he thinks, been...