N O news of importance has been received this week from the Indian frontier, except that the Afridis and Orokzais are assembling in force near the Khyber Pass, and that Sir...

A LADY, writing in the Contemporary Review of this month, says the great mental defect of the Celt, and. especially of the Irish Celt, is want of self-control. It may be so, and...

LORD NORTHBROOK'S LETTER T "present want of a strong directing brain in the Liberal party was never more clearly revealed than in the attitude of that party towards the Indian...

Socialist Congress at Hamburg has confirmed the Tview which we have for some time taken, that the Social Democratic party of Germany is, in the course of its development,...

So far so good, though the news would be all the better for direct confirmation. But even if it be all true to the letter, it still leaves out the most important difficulty that...

W E do not think much of the National Free Labour Congress, though its leaders say they have two hundred thousand followers. Of what rank are the followers in the great...

W HAT are the chances of any speedy solution of the Cretan problem ? None, so far as we can see, while the present attitude of the Powers is maintained. A more miserable...

A T the first blush there seems something a little per- plexing in the selection by the Congregational Union of the present year of grace for the deliverance -of a formal...

W E are not afraid that altruism, though it is fast becoming a creed, and begins even to produce fanatics, will ever conquer the world. Selfishness, which, though a base...

• O NE of the chief characteristics of this time of specialisa- tion, town-life, and highly wrought nervous organisation • is a growing inability to sleep. The development of...

" TT has been the fate of Blackwood's Magazine to secure JL more genuine attachment from its contributors than any other literary organ has ever had—the same sort of feeling...

& CORRESPONDENT sends to the Field an interesting account of the increase of the red-deer in New Zealand. They were first introduced in 1862, when Prince Albert, at the request...

THE CONTEST IN THE ENGINEERING TRADE (1852 AND 1897). [To THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR.} Sin,—Is there any class of the British nation so blind to the lessons of the past as...

OPINIONS AND TEACHERS OF THE BROAD CHURCH SCHOOL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As a warm admirer of the Spectator for many years, especially in its theological...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When Mr. Conybeare gave the name of Broad Church to a number of Churchmen working independently in what seemed to him a common...

PTO TH1 EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Surely it is a great and unintentional omission that the name of the above lady does not appear in the new volume of the "Dictionary of...

Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The " violent " emphasis which, according to your Note in the Spectator of October 9th, spoilt the effect of my Con- gress paper at Nottingham on...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to Bay that I am not the author of the new edition of Addison's Spectator lately commended in your columns. I have no claim to...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—One thousand clergymen can verify from experience the lurid rictute "Emeritus" has drawn of the burdens they have to endure. All these...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—May I ask you to remedy the injustice done in the Spectator of October 9th to Mr. A. W. Pollard, of the British Museum ? The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Would you, in fairness, kindly allow me to correct a very absurd mistake made in the review of my "Practical Guide to English...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—Will you please allow me, through your columns, to thank the kind unknown friend who sends me a copy of the Spectator, and to say that...

SUNSET BY THE SEA. I STOOD upon a cliff, whose sheer dark side Went shelving downward steeply to the shore. A sultry haze had all that day enwrapped The heavens, and earth, and...

TENNYSON.* [FIRST NOTICE.] EVEN to those into whose hands these deeply interesting volumes have not yet fallen, the general course of the story they unfold is by this time...

Mas. OLIPHANT'S was one of the most engaging personalities among the authors of her time, and in the book we are reviewing she has taken occasion to speak of this paper with a...

THE word "psychology," like "philosophy," has two distinct uses,—a literary and a scientific sense. We talk of Shake- speare's philosophy and Kant's philosophy, meaning...

the thirteenth year of the Dictionary. Three years more, or something less, should bring it to an end, which will be approximately near the end of the century. The next volume...

sermons which every successful head-master feels constrained to publish ? The present writer once gave such a volume, of which he thought well, to a god- child just going to a...

IN the picturesque tracts of Brittany, round the quaint old fortress-town of St. Malo, rising solidly and antiquely out of the fashionable surroundings of Dinard and Parame, are...

GIFT-BOOKS. Old Tales from Greece. By Alice Zimmern. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —This is a volume of the "Children's Study," and an excellent little book. Miss Zimniern gives, with due...

Holland" in the sixteenth century. It begins in the early days of the long struggle between Protestant and Catholic, it is carried on to the death of William the Silent. A tale...

Sons.)—Miss Carrington carries on the "Holy War" of the Humanitarian League with admirable energy. This is a volume of popularised science, giving an account of the animals...

Gadow. (A. and C. Black.) — With a fourth and final part, giving words from " Sheathbill " to " Zygodactyli," and contain- ing an index and introduction, this very important and...

"Probable Sons," ac. (R.T.S.)—When Miss Rhoda Carlton sets up her little establishment "on the edge of the moor" (making her £140 a year go a very long way), and sets herself,...

is a very curious, but also in a way very effective, story of the Isle of Man, of smuggling, and of adventure chiefly as a chastening moral and religious discipline. Michael...

Co.)—A family of Russians come over to Scotland and make the acquaintance of a young Highlander. They are "suspect"; the father is already imprisoned, and the son, a student,...

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Our review of this little manual of Young Oxford Liberalism is somewhat belated; but the political season is only now com- mencing, and the time is not unsuitable for drawing...

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