B EFORE our next issue appears the Jubilee festivities will be over, to the relief of London mankind. So far as we are able to discern, the arrangements, especially those for...

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

THE QUEEN'S SERVICES TO THE NATION. r ERE has been much said, and eloquently said, about the Queen's services to the nation, but we doubt whether the people have tried to...

T HE preparations for the Yubilee, which may now be considered complete, are, on the whole, successful. Application was made in three quarters—to the world, to the Empire, and...

M R. LABOI7CHERE, though he is not, and never can be, regarded as a serious politician, is a very clever man, and he sometimes succeeds in expressing the latent thought of the...

T HE United States stand %t the parting of the ways. The annexation of Hawaii, if accomplished, means an end to the historic policy of the Republic since its foundation, and the...

T HE meeting of the Colonial Premiers in Liverpool last Saturday was one of the great sign-posts in the Colonial policy not only of England but of the world. The Duke of...

I T is not difficult to understand the great interest taken in the suicide of Mr. Barnato. Apart from his connec- tion with some thirty companies, all of which will feel more or...

M R. JOHN REDMOND'S speech at Cork on Sunday was in part a reassertion of the determination of the Parnellites to maintain their independence of all political parties but their...

TN the impressive little, or rather both big and little, book (for it is little in its contents and enormously big in its extension in space) which Lord Armstrong has written on...

T HE railway accident at Welsh ampton on Friday week is in many ways one of the most distressing which have occurred in recent years. The number of the victims was, for an...

I T would have been matter for deep regret had the Victorian Era witnessed a change in our rural scenery correspond- ing to that which has taken place near to the great towns....

PACATA HIBERNIA.. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The Spectator of June 5th has only to-day come into my hands, and the perusal of Mr. Stephen Gwynn's spirited lines...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Mr. R. Russell, in his letter in the Spectator of June 12th, is anxious to have Christian Churches without dogmatic teaching. On...

[To TER EDITOR OF TER " &ROTATOR:] Srs,—Will you allow me one word of comment on the article in the Spectator of June 12th, "Shall Poor Benefices or Poor Clergy be First Helped...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,—I ask for a small space in order to show clearly the exact position of Raja Pratab Sing, who is here to represent the ancient house of...

[To THE Eorroa OF THE " EFECTATOR."] Sin,—In one of your political articles in the Spectator of June 12th, you observe that it is not likely that the "Little England policy"...

[To THY EDITOR Op TIER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should not think that " Gamp " and " Harris " represent a merely fortuitous coincidence between fact and fancy. In my old...

10 TRIUMPHE! ENGLAND, Mother of Nations, bids her children rejoice, Hark ! from the ends of the earth peals forth their answering voice: "Severed by shadowy mountains, and...

AN ENGLISH TREASURY OF ADVENTURE.* THE work before us is the oddest jumble of old Elizabethan and Jacobean tracts describing adventures by sea and land, travels, sea-fights, and...

of Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages Mr. Putnam has set himself to describe the condition of the production and distribution of literature during the two centuries...

view one may take of the ten- dencies of modern fiction, it is impossible not to feel a certain complacency when one contemplates the achievements of our short-story writers....

THE first volume of what is intended to be a standard history of the English Navy from the earliest times must have cost the author some of those misgivings to which Livy...

PROFESSOR COURTHOPE continues his historical survey of the Muse's development in England with all the loving care and method which distinguished his boginnings. We doubt if...

brilliant and, in a large degree, original book. The essay on Philip of Macedon gives a clearer, a more consistent, and, on the whole, more satisfying, view of that King than...

Murray's Cyclist's Road-Book. (John Murray.)—It is to be hoped that this handy little red book will prove to be the first of a series. The present volume gives some of the...

of this Monarch, one of the ablest—if not actually the very ablest—in the succession of French Kings. Philip Augustus was great, both as a soldier and as a statesman ; if he...

to cookery. You cannot have a majestic leg of mutton except in "Alice Thro' the Looking-Glass." The book itself very sensibly makes no claim to literature, but merely gives a...

M.A. (Methuen and Co.)—Some years ago Mr. McCosh, happening to " lift" (why " lift " ?) an old edition of Ritschl, and making further inquiries, "was considerably dis- appointed...

—We find little to object to and something to commend in Mr. Omond's essay, but when we come to examine his "specimen" we cannot see that he has done better than his...

by Gomes Eannade /aurora. Now first done into English by C. R. Beazley, M.A.., and E. P. Prestage, B.A. Vol. I. (For the Hakluyt Society.)—In 1450 Azurara wrote an account of...

and Co.)—A certain literary man, Holden by name, is seized by a sudden dis- gust for London and its ways. He will lead a simpler life, and decides to try Scilly, to which he is...

It is a story of the last century, of smuggling and of love, and gives both with plenty of vigour and picturesqueness. The writer looks on life in a kind:3r, liberal way, and...

Co.)— The "Lower Life" is practically the life of Stock Exchange speculation. Mr. Gribble appears to know a good deal of the secrets this business, and is not chary in his...

W. Garrett Herder. (II. Frowde.)—Here we have nearly five hundred pieces selected from nearly two hundred American writers, including, of course, the well-known names of...

Bosanquet states in her preface what she describes as an "economic conviction." It is that "character is one amongst other economic causes." You increase, that is, the national...

and Co.)—Mr. Rodway describes in this volume the trees both of temperate and of tropical climates, giving special attention to their development when they are aggregated in...

Low, Marston. and Co.)—This book is substantially a collection of essays on the great material, intellectual, and spiritual interests of the day. The one branch of thought which...

are always glad to read what Miss Moulton is pleased to write. Her impressions of the Old World, of Spain, where she describes the Escorial with special force, of Naples, Rome,...

Donne has written some pleasing verses about the looks and ways of birds, beginning with the " sea-blue " bird, which has been known to the Muses since the days of Alcman. They...

Gill.)—Mr. Wright, who is superintendent of the Royal Horti- cultural Gardens at Chiswick, speaks from a large experience, and gives, we imagine, counsel of the highest value to...

and Co.)—This tale is not one whit inferior to those by which Miss Montrisor has made her reputation. Monsieur Moreze, conjuror, hypnotist, &c., finds in a Bristol lodging-house...

Co.)—This is a very spirited story of the struggle of the mountaineers of the Caucasus against the Russian invaders. Schamyl is the most prominent figure in the drama. The...

which is very handsomely illustrated in colours, contains selections, adapted, we presume, to the purpose (d'apres lee Memoires), from the personal recollections of a number of...

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Graham gives us a biography of the Queen, with a sketch of her family history, and essays on the leading events in the way of change, progress, &c., which have occurred during...

Fisher TJ nwin.)—This book has not been very happily fitted with a title. The obvious meaning is the story of the reign told in a way to interest children. What Mr. Hall has...

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