the Pope's election, lends itself to log-rolling, and tends to the selection of safe, rather than of original men. Each party looks out at first for the candidates against whom...

F RANCE has many faults, but she is rarely tedious. She has got through a grave political crisis within the week, though it involved the fall of a Ministry, the resignation of a...

whole country, H. Casimir-Perier did not accept the resigna- tions tendered. On the contrary, he informed M. Dupuy that he must retain power for a time, for that he himself had...

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

case.

fanatic Socialists did not support M. Brisson, who is a deter- mined Radical of the older type, though they preferred him to all other candidates; and his total support...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July 7th to December 29th, 1894, inclusive.

Burns made a speech which contained two very remarkable passages. London was pleased, he said, that its public bodies, "instead of listening to cranks and utopian schemes put...

the general drift of which we regret. He defended the right of the Government to overrule the popular wish of a mere dependency, like India, in relation to any policy which it...

Mr_ John Burns has recently been speaking, has been illustrated afresh by a frightful accident in Montana. It is, we believe, illegal to store explosives in railway stations,...

at the Volunteer Drill Hall, Ardwick, where three thousand of his constituents were assembled. He anticipated a General Election within a comparatively short time, certainly...

on Tuesday to the West of Scotland Liberal Unionist Associa- tion, which was interrupted in a quarter of an hour by a fainting-fit, which put an end to it. He declared his...

meeting on Thursday was not a very hopeful document. It was conceived in a melancholy spirit. In reviewing the general situation it does not pretend to ignore the difficulty of...

e :citing a great deal of local interest. It is said that the number of strangers imported to canvass on one side or the other, is extraordinarily large. There is to be a...

was made on behalf of the Anti-Gambling League against the Stewards to the Jockey Club (under the Betting. Houses Act of 1853) for permitting betting in the rings or inclosnres...

the Trade-Unions waited on Mr. Asquith and sub- mitted to him, item by item, a wide and far-reaching Labour programme. Mr. Woods, 34.P., demanded that the principle of a living...

the Reichstag having voted that the Jesuits shall be re- admitted into the Empire. There is some doubt whether the Federal Council will agree to this vote, Bavaria being most...

particular consequences. Baron Banffy becomes Premier, with Dr. Wekerle's old programme, including two ecclesiastical Bills, and with a Ministry, said by the Times'...

on Thursday, shows that the railway-lines are gradually but surely creeping up the heart of Africa. Since the last Report, the line has been opened from Vryburg to Mafeking (one...

New Consols (2 , 1-) were on Friday, 1041

Oxford, has been followed by that of Sir John Seeley, Regius Professor at Cambridge, which occurred suddenly on January 14th. Sir John Seeley first attracted attention by a...

the Far East, though the two divisions of the Japanese Army have combined after taking Kaiphing, and are now ready for the attack on Nenchang. It is believed that the Japanese...

THE RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. CASIMIR-PERIER is a, very weak man. He has ja_VI • actually resigned the Presidency of the French Republic in a pet, and that in the...

is, of course, an event of the first importance ; but the incidents which led up to it inspire the friends of the French Republic with even more dismay. The significance of...

in some of the Government journals of Thursday, for having addressed his constituents on Wednesday in a speech of less than the conventional length. Is it seemly, is it...

in the very opening of his speech at Glasgow, may, we heartily hope, soon pass away. But statesmen are not all pro- vided with such an iron constitution as Mr. Gladstone's,...

regard to the financial projects of the Government. It is said that a compro- mise has been found between the conflicting demands for a popular Budget and a continuance of the...

M ANY of our readers have doubtless seen the speeches made both to the public and to interviewers, in which Mr. John Burns, since his return from America, has revealed his...

A S Bishops enjoy no immunity from human frailties, we must not wonder that they do not always know when they are well off. Yet when all allowance has been made on this head, it...

T HE Irish Daily Independent, the Parnellite organ, has been hard at work insulting Mr. Morley. It has lavished more lively insult upon him than an Oriental lavishes upon the...

W E are a little surprised to find that a social question which has cropped up at intervals for the last fifty years, and has always died away again, has once more come to the...

T HE furious gale from the south-east which raged in the Channel at the end of last week, sprang up so suddenly that the seaports received only three hours' warning, and the...

[To TEL EDITOR OF THZ " EIFICFATOR:J fear the article on "Sentiment and Sepulture," in the Spectator of January 12th, is likely to give pain to many who- have laid the dust of...

SIGNOR CR I S PI. [To THZ EDITOR OF THZ " SPRCTATOR:11 SIR,—If you will permit a man who has known Signor Crispi since he has been Prime Minister of Italy, and necessarily...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] • Srn,—In your review of the " Almanach Hachette" in the - Spectator of January 12th, you say that a Frenchman does Ant seem to "demand the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J have just read the latest " dog-story " in a letter -addressed to you in the Spectator of January 12th. The following sentence in this...

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.* IN the later years of the last century, and in the early :years of the present, it was the habit of devout people to keep diaries of their spiritual...

CANox MAcCoLL's Sermons are never commonplace and never conventional. In this volume there is a considerable variety of subject, and sometimes a very great amount of originality...

THE book before us is a little hard to class, being a record of one who was essentially one of those "private persons," as they would have been called in a classic day, whose...

contempt in the description applied by Carlyle to the third Gustavus of Sweden. "A shining sort of man," he called him, mach in the same way as one might describe a paste buckle...

THE publisher of the English translation of Michel's Rem- brandt has followed up that enterprise by issuing the portfolio before us, in which seventeen out of the twenty-one...

better known, or oftener quoted, than his description of an English home in "The Palace of Art," ending with- " A haunt of ancient peace." An Englishman clings involuntarily to...

A Study of the Argonautzca of Vcderies Flaccus. By Walter C. Summers, B.A. (Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge.)—This unpretending pamphlet contains much important matter, does...

W. K. Burton. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)—Mr. Burton describes himself as "Professor of Sanitary Engineering in the University of Tokyo," and "Consulting Engineer to the Tokyo...

(Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Marston introduces his volume by some pleasant reminiscences of his own ; how he caught Prussian carp before he could read, fished for dace from the meadows...

W. H. Myers. (Macmillan.)—We must apologise for having delayed so long our notice of these very able essays. The "unity of purpose" which the author claims for the six is...

Guiana). Music, edited by Joseph Parry, Mus.D. Words in English and Welsh, edited by David Rowlands. (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh.)—There are sixty songs and twenty- eight...

Introduction to lhe Greek Testament. By Theophilus D. Hall, M.A. (John Murray.)—This volume is intended to help those who have not learnt Greek in their youth, to acquire so...