T HE political crisis in Portugal, which has lasted nearly a fortnight, and has threatened even the existence of the Monarchy, ended for the moment on Monday. General...

According to semi-official accounts, Lord Dufferin agreed to permit an Italian occupation of Kassala, provided that, when needful, Egypt could reclaim the position ; but to this...

'With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, November 1st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages 'of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

have been interrupted by the flight of two of them. It was discovered on Friday week that Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien would not appear, and known a few hours afterwards that they...

Burns to say that the Australian strike had been miF.- managed, and that failure could not be averted by any remittances from England. This is confirmed by the state- ments that...

Rochester, will be translated at the end of the year to the See of Winchester, while Dr. Randall Davidson, the Dean of Windsor, will succeed Dr. Thorold in the See of Rochester....

case.

strong step. The (Ecumenical Council has refused to fill up the Patriarchate, and has closed all churches of the Greek communion throughout Constantinople, Macedonia, and...

fall off in ability. His address to his constituents on Thursday on the work of the last Session, which he called "the Session of dupes," was not wanting in either quality. But...

speech to the Ulster Reform Club was not pro- perly reported, and that it is very doubtful whether he ever said that Liberal Unionists "should make their action as Liberals even...

Wednesday's Times, gives his own impression of the scarcity which is likely to be felt in some districts of Ireland about the beginning of next year. He holds that "there is no...

which is to be polled next Wednesday, will probably be a very close one. Mr. Roby, the Gladstonian candidate, is a man of great vigour, who has taken up the eight-hours cry for...

50 per cent. to former duties, is producing its natural effect. The American manufacturers and the importers have both raised their prices ; and the tradesmen whose business is...

softened by their new freedom. In the Socialist Con- gress now sitting, they have dropped their tone of menace, profess a determination to persuade the majority, and inter-...

the Salvation Army, was made on Tuesday the occasion of a re- markable display. Five thousand " officers " of that sect followed the coffin in procession through London, from...

at Osbournby, in the Sleaford Division of Lin- colnshire, on Wednesday, asserted that in the month of July, 20 Members of the House of Commons asked 1,728 questions, and made...

Mr. H. B. Sterndale, of the Cyclopean remains in Polynesia. They are far more numerous and extensive than is imagined, and sometimes include gigantic defensive works. In the...

the observance of Sunday, in the Diocesan Conference on Thursday, is reported to have dropped a remark at which we are amazed,—namely, that if the State is to enforce one Com-...

the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, made some ex- cellent remarks on the extreme feebleness of a great part of our intermediate education ; but his speech, as...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94i to 94i.

his accustomed moderation, committed him- self to the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales as soon as the Welsh people, speaking by their representatives, shall desire it. As...

mace has in all probability never been in Jamaica. A mace was taken to Jamaica in 1662 by Lord Windsor, which was probably swallowed up in the earthquake of 1672; but the...

MR. GLADSTONE'S " WHY ? " I N a quarterly publication called Subjects of the Day, of which the third number has just appeared, Mr. Glad- stone contributes a paper which he...

I T is exceedingly difficult to comprehend, or even to follow, the obscure course of Portuguese internal politics. They are believed to be greatly, though secretly, affected by...

W E are not quite sure that the English are entirely right in being so indignant because the Irish Home-rulers are pleased at the flight of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien. The two...

W E wish that we could see or hear evidence that the Government and the chiefs of the Army were seriously considering the , means of removing discontent among the rivate °idlers...

P ROFESSOR THOROLD ROGERS'S death has brought rather vividly before the world the very rough though highly intelligent and well-informed type of Radi- calism of which he was one...

T HE extraordinary growth of the Salvation Army,— manifested especially this week in the enthusiasm elicited by the funeral of Mrs. Booth,—seems to us to betray in a rather...

T HE facts in the very interesting controversy between Archdeacon Farrar, author of the "Life of Christ," and Messrs. Cassell, the publishers of that book, are, as we under-...

T HOUGH, as somebody says in The Taming of the Shrew, "there's small choice in rotten apples," there is a very considerable variety of choice in healthy ones, a fact which no...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: THE ABOLITION OF POVERTY-DIFFERENT KINDS OF POVERTY-THE ABOLITION OF THE USELESS-THE STATE OF THE DOCKS. NOTHING could be more strange or more...

IRISH LAND-PURCHASE AND THE ELECTIONS. [To THE BDITOR OF TEE " SPECTLT011.." Si,—In explanation of this letter, I am obliged to say, what" those who may read it could not...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIBIn common probably with a good many Conservative Unionists, I read Mr. Leonard Courtney's recent speech with some little anxiety, but I...

Six,—Perhaps the testimony of one of the many thousands of " Tories " who think as you do about the " prodding " policy of Mr. Courtney may be acceptable to you. Ever since Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] its issue of October 4th, the Spectator ventures to say "A Word against Golf." So much of this article, however, is in genuine praise of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—In noticing the preferment of Bishop Thorold to Win- chester, you say that his translation, together with the appointment of Mr. Festing...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." ] Sia,—The "Lady in Surrey" has called forth so many com- ments in your pages, that she feels obliged now to answer. I am a middle-aged woman...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you have often kindly opened your columns to my appeals on behalf of the above Society, I think it only fair to make known to my kind...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—His Grace the Duke of Argyll's experience of hypno- tism and clairvoyance is but elementary. True, he carries us back forty years, but...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.?'] SIR, —When your reviewer asks if it is Mr. P. H. Gosse who suggested that Satan laid down the strata, &c., he is surely misrepresenting that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While thanking you for your favourable estimate of my essay on "Some Aspects of Newman's Influence," in the current Nineteenth Century,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—In reference to the question of the wide distribution of "The Imitation of Christ," it may interest your readers to know that it is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Brecreros."1 SIR,—I have read with interest "A. C.'s " letter, in the Spectator of September 20th, on "The Private Soldier," as well as ex-Serjeant...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — To-day is the day appointed to commemorate the Irish Apostle of Temperance. Accordingly, in this village, my servant this morning...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — In confirmation of the statement made in your article upon "Talking Birds," that "cockatoos are almost like mon- keys in mimicking...

"FAREWELL !" she says ; and yet again, "Farewell !" And turns to go, and yet returns again, With flying feet, desirous to remain, Though in the songless coverts of the dell The...

AN AUTUMN PICTURE. Now round red roofs stand russet stacks arow Homeward from gleaning in the stubbly wheat, High overhead the harsh rook saileth slow, And cupless acorns...

MICHAEL FIELD'S NEW DRAMA.* VIGOUR of presentment, and a glow of colour more dazzling than delicate, are two prominent characteristics of "Michael Field," and are to be found in...

to live his own life according to his convictions. Yet no man, perhaps, has been the subject of more contradictory estimates. He has been called an " American Rousseau," a...

BY the motto which Mr. Buchanan takes for this story, "0 healer Death !" we may conclude that he intends his story to be a vision of something like the realities of the unseen...

valuable hints for all who have to teach languages in schools. They are not quite so pleasant to read as they might be, because the author's style lacks simplicity. But he...

Tars is a good addition to the Carisbrooke Library, and doubtless we have not yet come to an end of the books pro- fessing to "discover," as Sir John Davies did, "the true...

York itself, that strong- hold of cloistered meditation, that standing evidence of the reality of the Fax Romana —so much with the material activity of modern England, and with...

GIFT-BOOKS. Messrs. Routledge publish a gaily coloured book of various nursery-rhymes, under the title of Mother Goose, and The House that Jack Built (which, by-the-way, is an...

II., May-October, 1890. (T. Fisher 13nwin.)—There is little or nothing to say that we have not said before of the half-yearly volume of Si. Nicholas. It continues to hold its...

Rev. H. J. Wilmot-Buxton. Illustrated by Wyndham Hughes. (Mowbray and Co., Oxford.)—Mr. Wilmot-Buxton gives a short account of each Apostle. St. Mark, St. Barnabas, St. Luke,...

by his brother, Ernest S. McClatchie. (W. H. Allen.)—This is a new edition of a book published some years ago in Yokohama, where its contents had previously appeared in the...

Paternoster Row), are republications in handsome volumes of two weekly papers devoted to the interests of boys and girls respectively. We have commended them often before, and...

This is a genuine child's book, not quite so common a thing as one might suppose among the multitude of volumes that profess to be written for this public. Henrietta Strangways,...

have pleasure in noticing another, and perhaps the best, of Mr. Paterson's lively stories of Western life. The characters are well, and some of them finely drawn,—the hero's...

is a story of the last days of James II. on the English throne, and the time that followed, when his party hoped against hope to bring him back. Bride, or Bridget, Murray is the...

teenth century, though his story begins in the eighteenth). It is mostly founded on facts and records ; this lends an interest to the tale over and above what it naturally pos-...

T. Harrison. (Longmans.)—Mr. Harrison's essay on the physical structure of the earth is most readable and, we may say, instructive, for he has distinctly added to the progress...

Ferrier.)—Mr. Norman Reid is the minister of -" Free St. John's" in a Scotch town. Here he has to do with a self-sufficient, purse-proud elder, who has been accustomed to have...

mans )—Mrs. Molesworth tells in that attractive way with which all her readers are BO well acquainted, of the troubles which .certain perverse children bring about, and of the...

Meade's heroine is a Liverpool flower-girl, and is drawn with more than her usual vigour. She promises her dying mother to keep her little twin-brothers from harm, and the story...

Society.)—The adventures of a somewhat harshly treated son who eventually heaps coals of fire on his father's head, form the material for this tale, which is perhaps up to the...

Weston. (Eden, Remington, and Co.)—The writer has depicted with some force the story of a half-caste, a New Zealand half-caste, and how the Maori blood eventually triumphed over...

and Co.)—Mr. Johnstone puts in a new shape matter that will be familiar to many readers. An introduction on chivalry in general, a chapter on "The Feudal Period," and another on...

Long.)—It must require a certain amount of courage to publish an absurdity of this sort—courage, however, which deserves no reward. The ignorance of everything that goes to make...

White and Co.)—It is not often that a " society " novel—that is, a novel devoted entirely to describing modern society in its outward aspects, and also, in this case, its utter...

Son.)—This is an excellent story, though the complications of the plot are almost extravagant. A dying man leaves the millions of which he becomes possessed almost in his last...

have a pleasant remembrance of Mr. Dixon's "Our Rarer Birds," and find an equal pleasure in Annals of Bird - We. There always seems, it is true, a sense of incompleteness about...

Sons.)—This is really a guide for the practical printer, though the ignorant reader may gain considerable information as to the machinery and working of the art, if he be not...

it seems absurd to say so, no universal standard of light and no universal photometer; innumerable suggestions have been made, and some are put into practice. Mr. Dibdin's...

and Co.)—The translation of Professor Bunge's work was begun by the late Dr. Woolridge, and has been finished by his wife, and to both much is owed by the pathological student....

exaggerated and high-flown speeches which the author puts into the mouth of some of the characters, Stephanie is a well- written and decidedly pathetic novel. Among the...

and Co.)—The Samoans have furnished one of the brightest chapters in the history of missionary work. A really gentle and docile race, they have at times been seized with that...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)— This philosophical treatise is described as a "Test of all Theories, with a special application to those of Creation, Instinct, and Immortality." Perhaps...

Hall), consists of a collection of river-side jottings and notes, as well as some interesting matter about the stew-ponds of days of old, well-nigh a thing of the past. The...

our Isthmian games. There is also a great deal of anecdote as to owners of Derby winners, jockeys, beta, 4kc. We believe no other book exists on the subject, which, with...

Hall.)—Anything from the _pen of Major Traherne anent the salmon is worth reading, and the volume under notice is no excep- tion to the rule. Though the author does not pretend...

vicar. Fate favours the rich girl by the malpractices of Nigers father, who appropriates some of his ward's money; so that the young man, taking up the rile generally assigned...

(Began Paul and Co.)—Beginning with an introduction which includes some useful chapters on "Reproduc- tion," "Alternation of Generations," "Spontaneous Movements," and "Notable...

Co.)—There is, indeed, more about the current of political life in Russia than the personalities of the Romanoffs, in Mr. Sutherland Edwards's sketch of that dynasty. We have...

Tumlirz, in view of the wants of those who wished to see the theory of "Potential" treated from the physical as well as the mathematical standpoint, has "popularly" treated...

(Digby and Long.) —This is the biography of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy who, after serving fourteen years and seeing plenty of action, took orders and settled down as a...

of the fifteen stories that make up this collection, the first -only, the one that gives its title to the book, is by R. E. Fran- onion ; the rest are by various writers. The...