on Saturday as usual, and Lord Salisbury made the speech of the evening. It was not very interesting, how- ever. On foreign affairs the Premier, after saying that all Europe was...

T HE Times' correspondent at Vienna forwarded on Wednes- day an immensely long telegram about Bulgaria, in which, as we read it, he is trying to convey something he does not...

do not know if the tyranny of ignorance is not sometimes worse. The Lamas who govern Tibet cannot believe that the Indian Government is stronger than they, and besides claiming...

one a little vague. He repeated distinctly that we should not evacuate Egypt until she was safe against every enemy, foreign and domestic, a sufficiently long date. He did not...

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parties of France is about to occur. Out of one hundred and seventy Deputies who call themselves Monarchists, onlyninety attended a meeting called to resolve upon a common...

great measure to chaffing Mr. W. H. Smith, and the Times for suggesting that the public orators of the day should all take as their models the discourses of Mr. W. H. Smith. He...

Hicks-Beach and Mr. Goschen both touched the sub- ject of fusion between the Tories and Liberal Unionists, the former expressing a very earnest hope that this might take place...

speech in answer to the Southport address of Mr. Gladstone. He examined the marvellous assertion that the Crimes Act bad been directed against combinations legal in England, and...

Bristol, was in the main an answer to Mr. Morley's speech at Bristol on October 29th. Mr. Goschen replied to the taunts levelled against the distrust of juries in Ireland by...

week of speeches. Mr. Chamberlain has spoken at Birmingham, Mr. Goschen has spoken twice and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach once at Bristol, and Lord Rosebery has spoken at Bristol...

Lord Rosebery chiefly fastened in his acrid speech of the following day at the Anchor Society. Lord Rosebery vehemently denied that any great constitutional revolution is...

Master-Bakers' Association of Birmingham. He had an idea, he said, that something in a trade affected the politics of the traders. Thus, "a shoemaker or a tailor is almost...

remarkable than the sharpness and point with which Mr. Morley's "heckler," Mr. Laidler, who signs himself "Brick- layer," condenses the abstractions and axioms of Mr. Herbert...

named Rose on Goatfell, was on November 9th found guilty, and sentenced to death. The evidence, which to most men will seem absolute, did not convince one or two of the jury ;...

of yesterday defending himself in reply to an extremely able letter of Profeassor Huxley's in the Times of Wednesday, —a letter pointed at his assertion that the ethics he had...

from Sir T. Cockburn-Campbell, member of the Legisla- tive Council of Western Australia, published in Friday's Times. He will there find how much authority Australians are...

age for admission to the Civil Service. From 1892, a candidate must be above twenty-one and under twenty-three on April 1st of the year in which the competition takes place....

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THE FORCE OF POLITICAL NAMES. THE chief impression which was produced upon us by the account of the Birmingham Conference on Monday was one of pathos. There is surely something...

W E commented last week on the apparent:content of the majority of Frenchmen with their Government of "plain men," content so surprising that it is hard for any mind full of the...

in Lord. Salisbury's Guild- hall speech of Saturday, but we cannot agree with the Standard that he missed. an opportunity in not declaring his sympathy with all efforts to raise...

for the delegates to the Pan-American Congress. They are worthy folk, we doubt not, and pleasant folk, and they are critelly entreated. Cultivated Americans, when they speak...

T ORD ROSEBERY is a brilliant speaker, but we regret to see his usual pleasant vein of sarcasm becoming a little, if only a little, venomous. He spoke at Bristol on Wednesday in...

7r7, challenge to the British South African Company Portuguese Government has boldly thrown down by declaring itself possessed of one large cantle of the linge domain handed...

to harp more, we think, than is wholesome on the gospel of change. Mr. Chapman, the eloquent and earnest Vicar of St. Luke's, Camberwell, who did so much to teach the world the...

MHE murder, on July 15th last, of Mr. Rose on Goatiell by John Watson Laurie, pattern-maker, has excited unusual interest in Scotland, for two reasons. In the 'first place, the...

rpHE custom of " waking " the dead in Ireland, though by no means existing in its ancient glory and vigour, still obtains in a modified and shorn form in many country dis-...

CHRISTIANS IN THE OTTOMAN SERVICE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE, — May I be allowed to correct one rather important but not uncommon error into which the writer of...

THE following letter from an English Catholic has been sent to us for publication :— "DEAR —,—I return you 'C. ' letter. Certainly the posi- tion of things in Ireland is very...

[To THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In the Spectator's courteous notice of my article in the Nineteenth Century on "The Roman Catholic Church in America," the reviewer...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Colthurst's letter in the Spectator of November 9th needs no reply. But it throws a vivid light upon our present dangers. Mr....

sometimes inserted the answers of children at examinations in the Spectator, but I do not remember seeing any showing unaided intellectual activity. I had a young delicate boy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Kindly permit me to say. that whatever else I may have done in the matter of my recent utterance. on betting and gambling, I certainly...

iTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." 1 SIE, — In the Spectator of 9th November you say, in a note to a letter on "A Universal Money," that a decimal system with the pound...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Stu,---You print among the reviews in the Spectator of November 9th, a notice of my book, "Religion in Recent Art," against which I...

THE NEW GALLERY.—ARTS AND CRAFTS SECOND. EXHIBITION. THERE is something refreshing in an art exhibition not purely pictorial, in which taste and talent direct themselves into....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Allow me to express my warmest thanks to all those- who have so promptly and generously responded to my appeal in your columns. I am...

!To Tim EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Stu,—Your reviewer asserts that "I both appeal to facts and disclaim the appeal to facts" (p. 609). I reply, that my endeavour was simply...

SONNET. "CHURCH-DOORS SHOULD STILL STAND OPEN.' CHURCH-DOORS should still stand open, night and day,. Open to all who come for praise or prayer, Laden with gift of love or...

THE LIFE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL.* Mn. SPENCER WALPOLE'S Life of Lord John Russell throws more light on the inner working of politics than any book which has appeared of recent...

only five sermons,—none of them long sermons,--exemplifies many of the best qualities and some of the faults, though none of the worst faults, of a popular preacher. In the...

THE reputation of Cicero, literary and political, has fallen on such evil times of late years, that it is satisfactory to find in the present volume an estimate of the great...

CANON O'RORKE has executed the task which he proposed to himself—that of embodying in his work the secular, religious, social, and in some measure the natural history of...

Ma. PEMBERTON, an intimate friend of Sothern's, has given us within the compass of some three hundred pages of large print, a very sympathetic and entertaining sketch of one of...

WILL England ever be given up so exclusively to the produc- tion of non-edible things—like coal, steel, hardware, and calico—as to leave no room within her coasts for farming,-...

Home Counsels. By Gertrude Martineau. (Sunday School Association.)—This is a very wise little children's book or mother's book,—or, rather, both. We have seldom read anything...

Calendar of the University College of Wales, Aberyst with, 1889-90. (J. E. Cornish, Manchester.) — .4 Complete Catalogue of the Elzevir Presses. Volume I. (E. and G. Goldsmid,...

By J. Cave-Browne, MA. (G. Bunyard and others, Maidstone.)— Mr. Cave-Browne discusses the question of the building of this fine church, and decides that, though it owes much to...

the year 1890. There are varieties suited to wants of all kinds, "rough," "scribbling," " commercial " of all sorts and sizes, with different capacities and convenience, and...

Administration for Volunteer Officers, by Captain H. Walker (Gale and Polden), a volume which will help the Volunteer officer in gaining that practical acquaintance with the...

Co.)—Mr. Arnold was an Inspector of Schools for thirty-five years. Here we have nineteen of his reports on Ele- mentary Schools, and extracts, from various other reports on...

published half-yearly, instead of yearly (from January to June, and from July to December), on the third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for the Half-yearly Volumes...

Macdonald. Fourth edition. (Blackwood.)—Three Lectures on the Science of Language. By F. Max Muller. Second edition. (Longmans.)—Investment Hints. By M. C. Hime, LLD. Second...

November :—The Art Journal, the Art Annual (which is devoted to "Rosa Bonheur : her Life and Work"), the Magazine of Art, the Scottish Art Review, the English Illustrated...

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REMINISCENCES, LITERARY AND CLERICAL.* THE public that likes Reminiscences—we imagine that it is a numerous body—will probably rejoice at the appearance of these volumes, which...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 16, 1889.

"Nor a bit sensational, but simple and true, for we really lived most of it; and if it succeeds, that will be the reason," says the author of Little Women on receiving its proof...

THIS truly magnificent volume is evidence of the artistic comprehensiveness of the International Exhibition held in Glasgow in the summer and autumn of 1888. which "resulted in...

MR. GEORGE CURZON has put together a lively and in- teresting account of his journey to Bokhara and Samarcand by General Annenkoff's famous railway, supplemented by a dash upon...

edition of Macbeth are not, we think, equally deserving of praise. • ("1„) The Tragedie of Macbeth. With Illustrations and Notes by J. Moyr Smith.—(2.) The Rivals. By Richard...

THOSE who remember On a Surf-Bound Coast will not be unwilling to accompany its author on another cable-laying voyage off the coast of Africa. This time we have lees of...

ONE'S first thought, as one reads the opening chapters of this story, is,—What in the world will the author do with so very unpromising a heroine ? The girl with the many...

MR. BARING-GOULD tells us in an interesting preface how be made acquaintance thirty years ago with the" Saga of Grettir the Strong," painfully labouring out the meaning by help...

GIFT-BOOKS. It is always a pleasure to review volumes of such sterling value as the annual issues of Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D., and the Sunday Magazine, edited...

WE are inclined to regret that in the first of these tales Mr. Henty has chosen to walk "where the fires smoulder under treacherous ashes." He does, indeed, his best to walk...

Hubert Paton. (Banks and Co., Edinburgh.)—The two "old stories" are "Beauty and the Beast" and "Jack the Giant- Killer," old favourites which one is always glad to meet again....

bears the title of "Notable Churches of the City of London." There are twenty-two in all, St. Paul's and the Temple Church having accorded to them the honour of a double notice...

second annual volume of an excellent periodical. It contains a plentiful supply of fiction, for there are no less than six stories, among them a tale of adventure, "Eagle...

and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting volume. In it we get, with the help of Mr. Blackburn's introduction, something like a complete view of Caldecott's career as a...

Treasury of Pictures and Stories" is always welcome, both for its own sake, for it is full of entertainment and instruc- tion, and also for that of its editor, whose good work...

Co.) —This tale calls, as may be supposed, for something more than the • cursory notice which we gave it in the magazine volume in which it first appeared. A number of boys who...

of the "Proverbs and other Wise Sayings to be found in the Waverley Novels," collected by Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews. It is curious to see how Scott repeated himself in...

Darton, and Co.)—Unfortunately, we cannot transfer to our columns any specimens of Miss Lucas's drawings ; and it would not be fair to her jingles to quote them apart from the...

and by a happy combination of circumstances—for marriages are arranged in China, it would seem, without much regard to the affections—become man and wife. Everything seems to...

Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula," by William T Dobson. (Bickers and Son.)—Mr. Dobson has taken the narrative of the principal battles and sieges of the eight...

and Co., Edinburgh.)—We hope that the readers for whom this volume— part of a "Young Ladies' Library "—is intended will not have so stormy an experience of love as Dorothy and...

of some forty games, outdoor and indoor, with rules and, when they are wanted, as in "hop-scotch," a diagram, and above all, with drawings from her always charming pencil. Her...

adapted for young readers. The serial stories are "Uncle Silvio's Secret," by H. Atteridge, and "Freda's Conquest," by Frederick Macdonald, whose entertaining "Pink and Pearl"...

"Bibliographical Notes," edited by A. C. Bickley. (Elliot Stock.)—How many volumes this library will consist of, the editor does not state; nor, indeed, does it greatly matter,...

Paternoster Row) are yearly volumes, containing the weekly issue of two papers, and are always welcome. Both have a special suitability to the audience for whom they are...

and Stoughton.)—A pleasant book enough, and for the most part entertaining; yet absurdly misnamed, and as full of French conceit as an egg is full of meat. The "unknown...

like very much. There are children in it, of course, and dolls, who are taken with proper seriousness, and some good "grown-ups." Altogether, Right Side Up is a book of the...

has a certain interest, though perhaps it is made a little too long, and the characters are somewhat wanting in colour. But Mrs. Everett-Green's purpose is excellent. She writes...

and illustrated. Her first intimate acquaintance with the robin was made, she tells us, during her recovery from illness. Many birds came to her garden; but none which made...

(Williams and Norgate.)—Here are massed together some two hundred letters from "all sorts and conditions of men," edited, or rather collected, by Mr. Herbert, who adds a...

King, M.A., and C. Cookson, MA. (The Clarendon Press.)—This book is of a kind so elaborate, and in its way technical, that we cannot pre- tend to do it justice in these columns....

Blackett.)—At the opening of this story, the heroine, a regally beau- tiful farm-girl, is found picking bluebells for market in company with her young brother. To them enters a...

J. F. Nisbet. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Nisbet gives in his first chapter some curious facts to prove that, as he puts it, "there is not a single sentiment of the modern European...

Davidson. (Iliffe and Son.)—This is a useful kind of handbook, and readers with a sense of humour will also find it entertaining. The author observes that since so many women...

and Co.)—This is a dictionary "of the terms met with in the Science [of Heraldry], with their appropriate illustrations." The plates are forty-six in number, each of full-page...

W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—This is an account of a boating journey on the Thames. Humour is always sought, and sometimes attained. We found the straining after humour, we must...

London, New York, (Lc.) —This tale is constructed on something like the lines of the Comedy of Errors. The hero is claimed by a lady whom be assists in alighting from a New York...

name that serves as the title of this story is the pseudonym which one Thomas Gardiner adopts when he tries his powers in literature. He has lost his money by the roguery of a...

Commentary. By the Rev. T. K. Cheyne. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Professor Cheyne's attitude with retard to the authorship of the Psalms is well known. To him they are not...

Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Carnelley has here put together, with references to chapter and verse, all the questions—that is, sentences put in the interrogative form—that occur in the...

motto which Mr. Bethune-Baker borrows from Augustine for his title-page expresses with admirable brevity the main spirit of his essay, a composition, it may be said, which...

Co.)—Mr. Ingham's "Remedy "—and one always turns at once to this chapter—seems to be the building of suitable houses for the poor a short way out of London, at the public...