on Tonquin has made its report, and has decided to advise a reduction of the credits to one-fourth the amount demanded, and thus compel a speedy evacuation. The Government will...

case.

have agreed to a personal union between Bulgaria and East Ronmelia. Under this scheme Prince Alexander will be appointed Governor-General of Roumelia for life, with certain...

Balkan politics. Prince Alexander and King Milan have agreed to sheathe swords ; but a Commission of Military Attach6s from Vienna, representing all signatories to the Treaty of...

also very astutely, making for himself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness. The anti-Jewish prejudices of Central Europe are still stronger in the Balkans, where an idea is...

Friday, the SPECTATOR will be published and distributed to the public next week on the Thursday forenoon, instead of on the Saturday morning. All Advertisements for that number...

T HE week has been full of rumours as to Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy. On Thursday the Standard assured its readers that Mr. Gladstone was prepared to recommend a scheme for...

in which be classed the Scotsman, the Leeds Mercury, and this journal together as papers conducted " without a spark of popular sympathy." For our own parts, we should have...

even greater than we had anticipated. We suggested thirty-five millions sterling; but it appears that in the eight years which have elapsed: sine* his father's death Mr....

in which he again urged the undesirability of the Liberals taking office without a working majority of the House of Commons. It is clear enough that he and Mr. Chamberlain have...

in Calcutta that it will not be, though no native Prince is named as having been even considered by the Government of India. It looks very much as if the Cabinet had determined...

with- out a legal President appears seriously to have alarmed American politicians. Mr. Hendricks was dead, Congress was not sitting, and if Mr. Cleveland dropped down suddenly,...

dis- couraged any attempt to throw out the Government prema- turely, though he did not conceal a perhaps excessive distrust of the present Government, especially in relation to...

but her Majesty's Government evidently believe that the new Arab leader, Khalif Abdoollah, who holds the River Nile from Khartoum to Dongola, has serious intentions of invading...

Tuesday, at the age of sixty-nine, after a somewhat short illness, for which, however, his family had been partially prepared by the failing state of health which rendered it...

since we last wrote upon it, we note that it has been signed by the Vice-Chancellor (the Master of Goaville and Caius), by Professor Swainson (the Vice-Chancellor Elect), by the...

Compton, at present Dean of Worcester. He is a moderate man, of moderately High-Church views and Conservative principles, who does not meddle much in politics, and has been very...

for the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews by 385 votes. Though his poll has been less than that of Sir Lyon Playfair at the last election only by about 67 votes, the...

Tuesday's Times a letter of Mr. Childers's, written on August 22nd last, predicting, with curious acuteness, though even less favourably to the Liberals than the actual result,...

of Chester and Hereford and the Bishopric of Man- chester. For the latter, we earnestly hope that a clergyman who is accustomed to hard work, and who will look at the diocese...

the Court for Crown Cases Reserved, that philanthropic or charitable Societies must in future exercise double care in the selection of clerks. Embezzling their property is not a...

Consols were on Friday 99k to 991 xd,

followed by another memorial to the Archbishops, signed by seven Deans and many hundreds of the Clergy in favour of Parochial Councils, and other machinery of the like kind for...

MR. GLADSTONE AND HOME-RULE. W E see with very great regret the sort of language used with regard to the most disinterested statesman of our day by even the most moderate and...

1[ 1HE strongest English friends of Home-rule must admit that one of its possible consequences would be Separation, and it behoves them, therefore, to consider, first of all,...

T HE election of the President of the French Republic has been fixed, it is now stated, for the 28th inst., less than ten days hence, and, of course, in Paris now overshadows...

T HE Bishop of Worcester has at least the credit of having grasped the need of the time in relation to the Church with that force and breadth which will recommend what he...

- LIVERY corporate body retains throughout its history a VA separate corporate life, a stamp of individuality belong- ing to itself as a unit, and independent of the...

-E VERYWHERE and in everything that mankind do womankind seems to be determined on giving mankind a lead. The President of the Alpine Club on Wednesday night complained that...

I F it be a blessing to have a thread handy on which to string all the events of a lifetime, Archdeacon Denison may well be congratulated. He has his thread all ready, and he...

T N the preface to "The Priest of Mimi," the religions drama which M. Renan has just published, he takes high ground for himself. "In this great crisis," he says, " which the...

W E wonder whether the wisdom of our ancestors was all wrong upon another point,—the proclivity of old age towards pessimism. There can, we think, be no doubt that they held...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —" No one yet knows," you say with truth, in your "News of the Week," " how many the Radical chiefs have behind them," —meaning Mr....

LIBERAL DEFEAT IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN COUNTIES. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In your article on " The Distribution of Parties," you attribute the defeat which we...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your article on "The Distribution of Parties in Great Britain" you appear anxious to ascertain all you can as to the use the new...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The figures given by Mr. J. J. Murphy, in your issue of December 12th, are by themselves misleading. The statistics of the Irish...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have no wish to engage in the blighting and withering occupation of controversy. But your anonymous correspondent who signs himself...

[To THE EDITOR OF TYE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There seems to be a rather general impression among persons who disapprove of the present order for muzzling dogs that it has not...

[TD THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—In reading your article on Mr. Herb:orner it struck me that what is wanted in modern art is " spirituality." Art ought to be the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—Members of Convocation will join in the feeling you express ; and, indeed, it is true that method and order were much to be desired...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Bin,—Whether Mr. Lefevre owes his defeat, amongst other causes, to the defection of Liberal Churchmen is a question of more than local...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.” J Sie,—Mr. Robinson's late inquiries at Constantinople are of extreme interest ; but I am not in the least surprised to hear that there is no...

ON LAST LOOKING INTO SMILES' " SELF-HELP." Mimi musing have I read of strenuous men,— Of soldier, painter, craftsman, those who wrought And reaped success, and now in this...

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN OIL- COLOURS. [SECOND NOTICE.] Ix this second notice of the Institute, we intend only to look quickly round the West Gallery, and try to...

MADAME MOHL.* Miss O'MEARA has made a very lively and charming book on a very lively and charming person. But she has hardly laid sufficient stress on the Scotch origin of...

for some years before his death recognised as the first of Scotch physicians, and, within a certain range, one of the first experts in Great Britain; while in the Medical School...

So far as human happiness lies in the exercise of those faculties which constitute man's psychical differezdia, the study of Natural Science affords its students the amplest,...

A YEAR since Professor Church gave us, in his Chantry Priest of Barnet, a picture of Oxford in the middle of the fifteenth century ; he now continues what he then began, and...

As Mr. Lyall tells us that his book is not intended for specialists, we shall not hesitate to consider it from the point of view of an outsider, who has no means of judging of...

GIFT BOOKS. The Thames, from Source to Sea. (Cassell and Co.) —We are sorry that we did not receive this handsome volume in time to include it in the same review which we gave...

the British Navy, are two stoat and good-looking volumes, both by Mr. Charles Rathbone Low, and published by Messrs. Routledge and Sons. Mr. Low brings both stories down to the...

Meadows and her father came to take charge of a school in a mining village in the North, he as master, she as mistress of the infant school. Here they encounter James Elliot,...

—Here we have the familiar incident (more familiar, perhaps, inflation than in real life) of the child saved from a wreck, brought up in ignorance of her birth, and afterwards...

Cumaington. (Wu.= Ward.)—The " ogre " of this story is not the horrible creature which the realistic Lord Brabonrne delights to draw, bat a kind-hearted Scotch teacher of...

this " Tale of the Southern Ocean " Mr. Ballantyne plunges in medics res. He describes to us an open boat with its starving occupants. These are soon reduced to the three who...

and Poetry by Mrs. Sale Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—The illus- trations, of course, are excellent, and the prose sufficiently good ; but the poetry might be better. — From the...

pathetic little story of emigres in the French Revolution. The Marquis de Kergaeven has married the daughter of an English squire against her father's will. He and his daughters...

before us, and must be content with a brief notice or even bare mention of individual specimens. Fearless Frank ; or, the Captain's Children, by Mary E. Gillie (Griffith,...

not know whether we are right in including this volume in our notices of "Christmas and Gift-Books." A gift-book it may certainly be, for it is a pleasant narrative, and...

schein and Co.), gives us twelve well-known fables, with an intro- duction showing how they were retold to certain children. The narrator is quite aware of a possible criticism...

disci- pline of trouble, and by the influence of the love and of the good examples of those about him.

Durley, the young wife of a soldier ordered on active service, comes, with her boy of four years old, to live with her husband's mother and elder brother. The mother is...

(Hatcharde.) These are a fairly successful attempt at a very difficult kind of writing,—the fairy story. They are not quite free from the besetting sin of the modern variety,...

by C. Selby Lowndes, and illustrated by Edith Scannell. (Warne and Co.) —They have for their subject the small troubles and trials of domestic life, as they occur to the young....

The "Champion of Odin" is one Hahkon, a Swede, who, from being a shepherd boy (though, indeed, he is of princely birth), rises to be a leader of warriors. He comes over with the...

Pentrill. H. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—This is a prettily told story, Odile being a charming figure of the best French type ; but why call it "A Tale of the Commune " ? It is true...

result. Violet Berkeley, with her pliant will, which has been too much bent to a not altogether desirable model ; the impulsive Una, with her energy and courage ; the...

(R.T.S.)—This also is another tale of a religions life, too pronounced to our taste, particularly at the commencement, but in all other respects of very superior texture and...

(Hat- chards.)—We have been more charmed with these stories than we feel able easily to express. Perhaps the first, from the literary point of view, is the best. Little Peter...

exciting little narrative. Peyton Phelps goes out to Italy on some business for his uncle. The dishonest practices of a steward who has been looking after an Italian estate, and...

(S.P.C.K.) —Mr. Moore has no small claims to have, if not a chief, at all events a good, place among the tellers of sea-stories. It is true that his space is more than half...

of this story, is left with the charge of three helpless and penniless children. They had been committed to her charge by their father, who pretends that he has provided means...

Downey.)—A number of curios and articles of vertu in a New York drawing-room tell their various stories to a little boy, and thereby amuse him, and, we should believe and hope,...

—This is a tale of the distinctly religious order, the "denomination" chiefly Quaker, but not of the illiberal class. About as many per- sonages are introduced as there are...

Emily Brodie. (Shaw and Co.)—This is doubtless intended to be a boy's book; we are sorry that we cannot congratulate the lady author on her success. We are afraid that any boy...

to Easter. (J. S. Virtue.)—It is no easy task that the writer has set before herself. Stories so directly didactic are difficult things to manage, the hard thing being to give...

"chapters" were worth disinterring from the pages of the extinct Lady's Magazine. The author, who was well known in certain circles in her days, and can hardly be yet forgotten,...

a poem, read recently by Mr. Duncan McGregor Crerar before the Burns Society of New York. In this case we prefer the sauce to the solids. Mr. Crerar is an enthusiast, and he...

his head in conse- quence of the success attained by his clever hit "John Bull and his Island." At all events, the sarcasm in The Dear Neighbours ! (Field and Tuer) is...

a " popular letter-press edition," in two volumes, of Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, with anecdotal biographies of the " worthies" portrayed. Kay was to Scotland—for his artistic...

(Long- mane), fancy that all would be well with us if only some Conservative in the position of Lord Randolph Churchill were to marry the daughter of a Liberal like Mr....

of Ray and Bertie, by Edwin Hodder (Hodder and Stoughton), is one of the best gift- books of the season that has come under our notice, and is clearly recognisable in all ways...