ease.

was opened by Mr. Bright, in one of the weightiest speeches which he has ever addressed to the House of Commons. He showed that the Government had protected the rights of small...

indeed, the Conservative party obviously felt to the quick the painfulness of its coalition with the extreme foes of the Empire. Mr. Mitchell Henry, later in the debate,...

MEE first resolution on Procedure, so far, at least, as it affirms the principle of the closure of debate by a majority, was carried in the House of Commons on Thursday night,...

speech, had recourse to feeble taunts against Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Mundella, both of which miscarried, and on the historical failure of the first Speaker of the Reformed Parlia-...

one. Sir H. Giffard misrepresented Sir W. Harcourt and Lord Hartington as having argued for the closure of debate by a majority as a rule intended to stop fair discussion...

joining in debate. They have long complained of this, and on Friday, through Lord Camperdown, proposed to meet at four, Lord Midleton, who seconded him, showing that under...

Conscription is to find regiments for colonial service, and especially semi-tropical colonial service. The men detest the life, and have none of the feeling that they are...

Select Committee to consider the operation of foreign tariffs on English commerce, was chiefly remarkable for the very faint heart shown by Mr. Ritchie and his friends, who were...

out- rages continue without the attacked tenants making any fight for themselves, but a landlord has been shot dead. Mr. T. E. Herbert, J.P. for Kerry, was returning home from...

produced a regular prosperity Budget. The taxes are yielding so much better, that the revenue of 1881, which was expected to show a surplus of £320,000, showed one of...

true rela- tions of Germany and Russia, but we are bound to record that the Czar is evidently exerting himself strongly to maintain peace. He has entrusted the Grand Duke...

Tuesday the Parnellites demanded, merely to waste time and keep themselves en evidence, that the three Members detained in Kilmainham—Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and O'Kelly—should...

week, the balloonist descending in a meadow near the Chateau de Montigny, in Normandy, after an eight hours' voyage. The adventure showed great pluck, and so far as we can see,...

who in his issue of March 23rd tells the following anecdote. An Irish landlord, meeting a tenant who owed hini considerable arrears of rent, said :—" Well, Mick, when are you...

found an association for medical research ; in other words, for investigations of any kind, including those on living animals, and those involving the infliction of pain on...

of Canterbury's Palace at Lambeth on Wednesday afternoon, to found a Lambeth Branch of that most useful "Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants," domiciled at...

at the age of 75. We have given our estimate of him as a poet in another column. He was intended for the law, his father's profession, but early showed a strong inclina- tion...

with American. The money-makers of the United States work over a much larger area, and continue making it for longer periods of time. Already no English fortune quite rivals Mr....

the dispute about Basutoland than was expected. The Cape Colonists appeared determined either to resign that territory to the Crown, or to govern it as they pleased, their...

THE GREAT DIVISION. T HERE is a very silly attempt in the journals opposed to the Government, to represent the great Division of Thursday night as the result of what our raving...

T is not often, we fear, in a world like ours, expedient for a statesman to think aloud. Still, he must, being human, do it sometimes, and as Mr. Forster obviously did it on...

T HE matter is, perhaps, of little importance, but nothing struck us in the debate of Thursday night more than the kind of intellectual decadence which service with the Irish...

M R. GLADSTONE was mistaken, we suspect, in calling the debate on Mr. Ritchie's motion a waste of public time. It is hard, no doubt, for a Minister with many great measures...

T HE interest of S. Magliani's Budget for us consists in the fact that the Italians, during their twenty-one years of freedom, have shown precisely those qualities which were...

T HE Association "for the Advancement of Medical Re- search," which was formed on Tuesday, played a very effective card in securing for one of their speakers the Master of the...

I T is no light thing to say of a man who dies at the age of forty-five, that for fifteen years he has exercised a com- manding influence over both the speculative and the moral...

rr I " HE fact is, I hate everything that is violent," said the poet whom the world lost last week, to some friend who had been with him during a thunderstorm, and to whom he...

T HE fine paper on "Talk," by " R. L. S.," in the Cornhill for April, a paper which a century since would, by itself, have made a literary reputation, does not cover the whole...

HOW TO RELEASE MR. GREEN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I do not like your generous endeavour to befriend an injured man, and to keep the Bishops out of a hole, to...

to be desired that the valuable suggestion which you make of a "provisional amnesty " should be turned to im- mediate account. No one, surely, could more fittingly advocate its...

state, in reference to the correspondence which has appeared in your column, in regard to the imprison- ment of the Rev. S. F. Green, a fact connected with his prose- cution...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I say a few words, unasked, on the Dean's side, and in answer to the Bishop of Manchester? His Lordship's idea, that "no one at the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] Sia,—Will you allow me to confirm, by Protestant testimony, the evidence supplied to you by Mr. Lilly, with regard to the way in which many...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] am sorry again to trouble you. I cannot, however, for- bear say'ng that in your first article to-day, as in other articles on the same...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your issue of the 11th inst. contains a notice of my edition of "Lim II.," which I read more than a week after date. There are certain...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The writer of the article with the above title, in your paper of last Saturday, having alluded in the most flattering way to my...

WE, who from thee, strong, patient spirit, drew Courage to bear and wit to understand Our several life-tasks, trusted that the hand Of Death would spare thee for the work we...

THE PAINTER-ETCHERS.* TnE present exhibition is one which will be disappointing to many, if only because of the small size and number of the examples shown. When examined...

IN MEMORIAM: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. A WORLDLING read the current telegrams, And discontented, cried, "No news to-night I" Nothing to stimulate his Isle of Shams, Or whet...

THE NEIGHBOUR LANDS OF VENICE.* This is a delightful book to read, but not an easy one to review. Whether it is due to the natural depravity of human nature, or whatever be the...

IT must be confessed that Jack Urquhart's daughter was not fortunate in her papa. The troubles of maidens in that predica- ment have been a favourite theme with romancers and...

the sense of being devoted to the amelioration of the outcasts of society, or of being written by one or more outcasts, but of having been rejected—the first of them once, and...

Freiligrath could not fail to arouse interest even in this country, for, excepting always that true genius, Heine, few of the very few real poets that have arisen in Germany...

ALTIIEA Bum . , the daughter of a country doctor, is the Eve of this Eden. She is, though untaught, a most marvellous genius of a singer, whose surprising talent is as yet...

C. Purser, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Brown and Nolan, Dublin ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—This is an un- pretending and well-executed abridgment...

—The notices of Dr. Goodwin's previous works, and .especially of his larger Greek grammar, that have been given in the Spectator, render it unnecessary to give any detailed...

SCHOOL BOOKS. Xenophon : Memorabilia, I. By C. E. Moberly, M.A. (Riving- tons.)—Intended primarily for Rugby use, as the references on grammar are made to the "Rugby Syntax."...

by G. G. Bradley, MA., Master of University College, Oxford. (Rivingtons.)—The association of the Dean of Westminster and Balbus (who was always building a wall, when he was not...

Graduate. (Macmillan and Co.) —This is rather sad work. "The Translator," as he subscribes himself in his preface, has, no doubt, "aimed at clearness throughout." But he seems...

A. R. Cluer, BA. (Clarendon Press.)—The work of this edition, as far as we can judge from the sample which we have been able to examine, is scarcely up to the mark which may be...

in the outskirts of Kabylia, not inconveniently far from the conveniences of civilisation. The two seem to have had a pleasant time of it, happily free from any adventures...

and Co.)—Mrs. Wright, who describes her volume as a "book of instruction for young mothers," connects together by a slight string of narrative a number of precepts relating to...

Elliot. 2 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—The diary of an idle woman is rather an idle diary,—full of fine-writing, with a curious mixture of history, botany, and gush, so that even...

Historical Introduction, English Notes, and Index, by H. J. Wolsten- holme. (" Pitt Press" Series.)—" In drawing up the notes" to this really admirable edition of a good modern...

occurred to Lord Arundell of Wardour, a well-known member of the Roman Church, that as we now speak of a science of religion and of a science of language, we may just as well...

Marshall and Co.)—This is a well-meant little book, that may be useful where English composition is not part of a classical education. The writer is "Teacher of English...

and Farran.)—This book has an appearance of genuineness, Percy P0,110; or, the Autobiography of a South-Sea Islander. (Griffith and Farran.)—This book has an appearance of...

one by the Princess Louise, and the other by the Marquis of Lorne, which will, of course, excite deep interest in a great number of people who are eagerly loyal to the throne,...

gate.)—The second title of this book describes it better than the first. It is rather a "Treatise on German Pronunciation" than a first course suited to children ; and if it is...

Norgate.)—The " Independent " minister describes his experiences at the theological college where he was trained for his profession, and in the churches to which he has been...

and Co.)—Mr. Gilmore has given us here another of those volumes with which he is wont to tantalise less fortunate lovers of sport. He tells them how they may secure all sorts of...

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Alzog (J.), Manual of Church History, Vol. 4, 8vo (D. Gill) 7/6 Armstrong (G. F.), A Garland from Greece, 12mo (Longman) 9/0 Ballautine(Serjt.), Some Experiences of a...

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a dog should does not resolve to "let himself go," and indulge himself of be treated as one of the Launays, the dog would have received all malice aforethought in a little bit...

read these letters in the original French, rather than in the English translation, for we cannot agree with the editor of the latter that it does full justice to the original....

LBSSING complained of the German stage in his day that, though there were actors, there was no "art of acting ;" and that with the best will in the world it would be impossible...

NEARLY fifty years ago, the first reformed Parliament began the task of reorganising local government. Local institutions were then few in number, and the work was essentially...

THE power to write real fairy-stories belongs only to the highest order of minds. The assertion sounds hazardous, but the more it is considered, the truer it will appear. The...

THE Scotch Universities, although they long were, and still are, perhaps, the chief nurseries of speculative metaphysical and psychological thought within these Islands, have...

PROFESSOR BLAME deserves, and will probably get, the thanks of a very considerable class of readers. It is by such work as he has given us in the volume before us that a section...