E UROPE still waits for the Greek decision. The Powers expect a local war in which they will look on, but Turkey, though provoked, hangs back, and Greece, though determined, is...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 24th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE QUEEN'S SECOND JUBILEE. W E feel compelled to remonstrate seriously against at least one incident of the preparations for the Queen's second Jubilee. There is grave danger...

begins at last to be frankly discussed, not only in England, but in France, Austria, and Germany, and opinion is obviously becoming less and less favourable to that elephantine...

Goschen at the dinner given to Sir Alfred Milner on Saturday last has done nothing to remove the unfavourable impression in regard to the affairs of South Africa which has...

D URING the past few weeks the correspondence columns of the Times have contained intermittent echoes of the great three days' debate which the Senate of the University of...

Review contains a very remarkable article on the problem of National Defence,—the greater problem, which contains within it the smaller problem of how these islands can best be...

announcement that sufficient money has been col- lected to provide an endowment for a separate bishopric of Bristol marks the close of a long and self- denying effort. For some...

the fragment of the Balkan Peninsula still left to the Ottoman Empire is strained as it has never been before. The Ethnikc Hetairia's bands are calling "the children" to arms in...

W E publish in another column a renewed plea for asceticism on the part of " Catholicus." Though it. in no sense inclines us to alter the position which we have always taken up...

W E have been a little amused, though not surprised, at the unanimity of the condemnation passed by the Press upon the defendant in the case of "Dunn v. Cornford." Their...

A MONG the presents sent to Prince Bismarck on his eighty-third birthday were a hundred crows' eggs, "a luxury difficult to procure so early in the season." The eggs were...

ASCETICISM. [To THY EDITOR 07 THE " PPECTATOR."] SIR,—The two letters on this subject appearing in the Spectator of April 10th seem to be a resuscitation of two venerable...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The writer of your article in the Spectator of April 3rd found fair game in the Sporting League Petition. It is ridicule that kills,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR.,—Paying tithe, when land produces no profit, is, as your correspondent " J. H. R." remarks in the Spectator of April 3rd, hard on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Many who read with interest Mr. Cadell's letter on the above subject which appeared in the Spectator of April 10th, will be glad to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In your comments upon the appointment of a Com- mittee to inquire into the practices of moneylenders you assume that the sole object in...

TFIR GUILDHALL LOAN EXHIBITION. Aw exhibition like the present one, which claims to represent English painting during the present reign, naturally raises many interesting...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of February 27th I observe that my friend Mr. Shuckburgh recalls the famous story of " Go it, Ned !" in connection...

THE LIFE OF NELSON.* Tnis is a book which is so great—great in so many ways— that as one closes it one almost fears to review, lest one should be tempted to use language that...

interest that it has evoked from the public, has not made any very marked progress since the ascent of the first Montgolfier balloon in • Para/cites. By G. T. Woglom. London:...

to the English edition of this work, writes that it is the best guide in existence to the museum collections, on which the science of man more and more depends in working out...

the inception of his father's book :—" Thirty years ago, when he was Head-Master of Wel- lington College, he found that his professional work was so absorbing that be felt...

THE most serious fault that one can find with Sir Francis Montefiore's contribution to the history of the French Revolution is that it contains singularly little matter in...

somewhat remarkable thing that with the exception of the pamphleteers of the Restoration and half-a-dozen later writers, no one has attempted a detailed account of one of the...

Seventeenth Century Studies : a Contribution to the History of English Poetry. By Edmund Gosse, M.A. (W. Heinemann.)—The first edition of this volume having been reviewed in the...

the Navy Records Society.)—The two manuscripts here printed, and giving naval accounts and inventories of the reign of Henry VII., 1485-88 and 1495-97, are known among the State...

(A. and C. Black.)—Maurice L'Estrange is a Scotchman whose grand- father, an exile of the English Revolution, takes the name of the rich widow he marries. L'Estrange:goes to...

story of "Percival-Dion in the Yorkshire Dales "has some humour in it and more tragedy. It is a tale of considerable power, the outcome of knowledge of the country and the...

Son.)—The author of " Comin' Thro' the Rye " does not require to follow any one, and it is to be regretted that here she should have copied a very dubious model. It would not be...

begins his volume with a prefatory chapter on " Prehistoric Greece," in which he gives what is known of the earlier popula- tions of mainland and Asiatic Greece, and describes...

Ferrier, Edinburgh.)—This is the best brief biography of the founder of the Free Church which has been published, with the possible exception of the excellent monograph...

Blackwood and Sons.)—It is tolerably safe to say that this romance of Fifeshire and Kinross would not have been written but for the example first set by Mr. Stevenson. The Uncle...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the Enrrou, but to the PUBLISHER, I Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

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