T HE latest news from the Soudan is to the 10th inst , when General Stewart was still on his march to Gakdul, where he was expected to arrive on the 12th inst. He could not,...

SIR C. DILKE AND THE NEW CONSERVATISM. S IR C. DILKE opened-up a fruitful subject in his speech on Tuesday, in North Kensington, when he remarked that, after the Redistribution...

O NLY one passage in Prince Bismarck's recent speech on Colonial policy inspires us with any alarm. It is the one which reveals an unexpected ignorance of English ideas and...

W E have something pleasant to say; and in a day when few things are said that are not unpleasant, and most men are whining about bogeys of one sort or another, that is a true...

T HE Times enjoys one huge advantage over all its contemporaries. Journalists, with one exception, are the creatures of events. Like matches, we light only on the box. Give us...

T HE Inns of Chancery are, together with and even more than their cognate institutions, the Inns of Court, the only buildings now in London which reproduce for this province of...

a most dismal article on the alleged prevalence of melancholy amongst the cultivated classes at the present day, though why it limits its statements to the cultivated classes we...

T HE spasm of public emotion which some eighteen months ago produced so much hysterical talk about " Outcast London " seems almost to have passed away. Facts, which were...

THE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE. " 1 SIR,—The Select Committee have given their views of the Allotments Extension Act, and this comes to us...

THE " SPECTATOR."1 Stn,—As facts are always useful for the purpose of enabling us to arrive at conclusions, permit me to give you a few facts, culled from the recently issued...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—I read with much interest the account of Friedrichsdorf in your last number, the more that it revived recollections of a time (some...

I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcTATon.-; Stn,—The unwillingness which some of us feel to face the question of Vivisection arises, perhaps, almost as much from its entanglement as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As you were good enough, by your friendly notices of the small volume called " Obiter Dicta," to aid in giving it an unexpected width...

HODGE AND A LIBERATIONIST. WELL, SO yer've been and done it ; yer've got me a vote at last ; Makes my head that dizzy, yer do go on so fast. Just like takin' a seed, and...

MR. DAVITT ON IMPRISONMENT.* MR. DAVITT'S book consists of two volumes, one of which con tains his prison experiences, and the other a series of lectures on social subjects,...

WI= we say that this novel, both in matter and manner, reminds us very strongly of the work of M. Emile Zola, it is needless to add that it contains much that is unsavoury, and...

world knows, is a skilled writer of short and readable books on many subjects, and among others he has dealt with The Cat, Past and Present. It is unnecessary to say that his...

ERNEST Ls BRETON, the hero of this clever and amusing novel, may be described as the sort of man about whom one doubts whether he would not sooner have the whipping assigned by...

results of the Erasmian pronunciation is that it renders English readers totally unable to appreciate the rhythm of Modern Greek verse, in which a great deal of its charm...

The British Quarterly Review, January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —This strikes us as being a particularly readable and attractive number. Miss Gordon Cumming's article, "The...