Tuesday over the position of German Colonies in West Africa, in which Prince Bismarck took a leading part, answering Herr Bamberger, who represents the distaste of German...

I T seems fully clear that the first County Councils will have a very considerable weight of experience behind them, and that the elections have not in general been fought on...

College (the Hon. G. C. Brodrick), that in a speech to a meeting of Oxford undergraduates, held on December 3rd, he had been guilty of a contempt of Court, was disposed of on...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 26th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

the examination and cross-examination of one of the Invinciblee, Patrick Delaney, who was implicated both in the Phcenix Park murders and the attack on Mr. Justice Lawson, and...

O'Brien made a speech in defence of his paper, United Ireland, which had been brought before the Commission for an article written in December, which was said to have been in...

case.

Twelve-Page Supplement, containing the Index and Title-Page for the Volume for 1888.

in Paris is a belief that his election would mean war. He consequently on Sunday issued an address in which he declared that the Republicans had issued "an insulting appeal to...

Geffeken, has asked and received permission to publish the "Act of Accusation " against him, so that the Governments of Germany may see and appreciate his grounds of action. A...

Monday, at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, on the results -of the last Session and the prospects of the coming Session, declaring that the complaints of obstruction in Parliament...

unfavourable to Europe. A messenger despatched from Suakin to Khar- toum brings back a letter from Slatin Bey confirming the existence of the belief in that city that Emin Pasha...

explorer, to Sheikh Hamed ben Mahommed, alias Tippoo Tib, bearing date Boma of Banalya (Urenia), August 17th. In it Mr. Stanley informs his correspondent that he left Emin Pasha...

Indian Government and that of Tibet have been broken off, and the Tibetan Envoy has returned to Lhassa. He absolutely refused to discuss anything, unless the suzerainty of Tibet...

to a deputation representing local trade societies which had thanked him for his exertions in favour of Bimetallism, which Mr. Chaplin thinks likely to prevent the further...

to appear at Lambeth Palace on Tuesday, February 12th, to answer the various charges against him of ritual inno- vation,—for the use of lighted candles during the celebration of...

Wednesday, on his method of relieving the poor, which he seems to consider final. He alleges that in Limehouse last month the Army supplied 297,000 meals at a penny, 240,000 at...

again as the Isle of Wight—and has only 60,000 people ; but we are likely to hear a good deal about it. The Germans are trying to acquire it by appointing a King of their own,...

opportune for such a measure, because there is certainly a gradual return of prosperity,—an increase in railway traffic, in imports, in exports, and an opening-up of new markets...

had a paralytic stroke, and although the latest accounts report him still alive, the physicians entertain no hope of his recovery. The event was, till lately, greatly dreaded in...

New Consols (2,t) were on Friday 991 to 991.

CONTEMPT OF COURT. E VERY Court of Justice is the guardian of its own dignity and efficiency, and the Court 'which is now sitting to investigate the Times' allegations as to the...

they are known at the time we write, are, we think, decidedly more satisfactory than the newspapers in general admit. In the first place, we do not regard the very light polls...

I T is quite possible that the remarkable popular instinct which has suddenly turned the eyes of the English people towards Africa is well justified, and that Europe, including...

MHERE is not much to interest the world in this Geffeken affair, and yet the whole world is in- terested in it. The truth is, we fancy, that Prince Bis- marck's position in...

S IR MICHAEL BEACH devoted the best part of his speech at Bristol last Monday to a very reasonable defence of the Government for proposing to devote the main constructive policy...

A VERY considerable amount of confusion seems to exist in the public mind with regard to a man's right to resist, by the use of firearms, a burglar in pursuit of his calling....

TT seems pretty certain that the half-sovereign, the favourite gold coin of this generation, has been already sentenced, and will in April next be formally ordered for...

T ' 01W SALISBURY' has brought the unpleasant I dispute about Lord Sackville to the best conclusion possible. He has turned it into a discussion-on a question of international...

TT is no literary fiction that ascribes the shedding of tears 1_ to horses and dogs, and in the ease of the latter, sorrow, and not mere physical pain, is apparently often the...

L IVING in London in the winter months has come to mean living in something not far from perpetual twilight, and that, too, not clear twilight, but rather the light of which...

PRAED'S POLITICAL POEMS. [To THE Eprroa OF THE " SPECTAT0/0] Sin,—The question whether one of the most refined and pleasing of our minor poets was or was not guilty, in public...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ■ SIR,—In your article on "The Poetry of the Sea," in the Spectator of January 5th, I notice one fact that interests me greatly,—that you do...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—There is, I think, abundant evidence that Franklin's proposition for a new version of the Bible was made in sport. The extravagance of...

SNOW SONG. Loox how the snow falls and falls On the bare hedge-row and the cold, grey walls ; Till every bush on the road for miles With a soft, white cushion it piles and...

TILE O'CONNELL CORRESPONDENCE.* To the present generation O'Connell has become a name— but a great name, inseparably intertwined with that of Ireland —and the two thick volumes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—There are many points in your article on " Rank " which would deserve much consideration. But there are just two arguments which I...

THIS is a very entertaining little book, though it can hardly be called a story in any sense in which the word " story " describes that which owes its chief interest to plot....

the best book that Emeritus Professor Blackie has written, is without doubt the most effective and successful of his recent performances in the character of modern Scotch...

been waiting long for Mr. Newman's work, when at the end of 1887 it was at length published. Thewaiting has not been in vain, for no more valuable contribution has been made for...

the United States as the guest of the American Bar, he is said to have declared that many of the systems of procedure with which he then became acquainted, were for the English...

End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain. By Henry Bradley. London : T. Fisher Unwin. 1888. BRADLEY'S HISTORY OF THE GOTHS.* Mn. BRADLEY'S volume is the first History of the Goths...

Saint Margaret. By William Tirebuck. (W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell.)—This story shows a considerable amount of power. Mr. Tirebuck has depicted the life of a young man who is...

Co.)—Mr. O'Shea has compiled a volume of very readable stories. He writes in a pleasant, easy style, and is always interesting. Some of his tales are exceedingly amusing, such...

An Autobiography of the Rev. William Quekett. (Kogan Paul and Co.)—A sketch of the late William Quekett's family history commences, most naturally, this autobiography. His...

and Jessie M. E. Saxby. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—Some of our readers are doubtless already acquainted with some of these chapters, and also with Mrs. Saxby's tale, "The Lads of...

Nisbet and Co.)—The "ripples "consist of fragments of religious thought, printed in paragraphs and having no connection at all with each other. Some of these "disjointed...

by "J. R." and "J. A. G." (Henry Sotheran and Co.)—This, we are told, is an attempt to bring before the public a leaf from a literature comparatively little known,—the modern...

Sonnensohein and Co.)—A black man of the name of Bruce, born in England, on reaching extreme old age, recounts his adventures and his villainies to an Englishman in Samoa. "...

— This volume, like all the foregoing volumes that we have seen, contains much interesting matter. We have a paper, for instance, on the watch and relics of King Charles I. that...

Isbister and Co.)—This is a popular account of British industrial arts and manufactures, and fisheries, shipbuilding, lighthouses, bridges, agriculture, both tillage and live...

and from the same publishers and by the same author, Card Tricks, Conjuring, Magic, and Mystery. — These two volumes in the series of "Dean's Practical Guide-Books," will...

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. (John C. Nimmo.) To this has been added The Practical Fly - Fisher, by John Jackson, with a list of flies, directions for...