T HERE is no news from South Africa this week, and all discussion turns upon the course which Government will pursue as to Dr. Jameson, and the Chartered Company of South...

his constituents in East Wolverhampton. Almost, we think, for the first time a Gladstonian statesman admitted frankly that "each party represents nearly half of the nation," and...

speech in which, on January 29th, Senator Tillman attacked President Cleveland as a" besotted tyrant," and Secretary Carlisle as a "mean Judas," the crime of both being their...

London by-elections, and both of them show the strong Unionist view of the constituencies. South St. Pancras has elected a Unionist in place of Sir Julian Goldsmid, whose...

ing to one authority, the Resolutions of the American Houses calling upon Europe to protect the Armenians, will be followed up by energetic action. According to another, Russia...

case.

the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, made a noteworthy statement as to the Ishantee expedition. After declaring that we have relieved a vast population from...

dispute with the United States, was conceived in the very best possible tone. It was firm, and yet entirely sympathetic to the feelings of America in regard to the Monroe...

for since 1892 he had not taken any part in political life. But his was a figure of some importance during the whole of Mr. Gladstone's career as Prime Minister, with the...

a speech at Richmond, in Yorkshire, on Tuesday, in which he made several important disclosures. In the first place he said, with relation to the Venezuela dispute with the...

the head of the great publishing firm which bore his name. He had been failing for years from a kind of paralysis, and on Saturday he passed painlessly away. Possessed of...

Saturday at the age of sixty-five,—a loss to the country which is not to be repaired. He belonged to a type of which the mould seems to be broken. Artist, orator, courtier, man...

by taking a very emphatic line against any intervention for Armenia. He spoke at the Bedford Corn Exchange on Tuesday, as he wrote two or three weeks ago, in strong dis-...

Institute on Friday week Lord Lansdowne, in the course of a speech about India, said some very wise and noteworthy things in regard to the Protected States. At one time they...

account of a scheme for founding a sort cf Jewish Toynbee Hall in the East-End,—the chief aim of which shall be to teach English to, and otherwise "acclimatise," the Jewish...

Montrose Boroughs was delivered on Thursday. It was the speech rather of a candidate than of a statesman. He did not take up.the attitude of Sir Henry Fowler and Mr. Bryce on...

in the way of governing. It has made a new treaty with the Hove Queen, and announces that while she will con- tinue to govern Madagascar, France will control all foreign...

but eehich is worth recording. It is said that among the large projects over which the German Emperor dreams, is one for 'Winning Holland, and with her, ships, colonies, and...

confused its attack on Mr. Chamberlain's "push- fulness " as one of the causes of our troubles with the United States, with the attack made by one of the "minor luminaries of...

but they find the work to be done weigh heavily upon their resources. King Menelek, though willing to treat, refuses their present terms ; and they have not the means to -defeat...

New Consols (4) were on Friday, 108.

AMERICANS AND ARMENIANS. T HE gleam of hope for Armenia which some of our contemporaries find in the recent resolutions of Congress is, we fear, but a faint one. That the...

M OST of the talk about the line which the Government ought to take in dealing with Dr. Jameson and the Chartered Company of South Africa is talk wasted. The Government is much...

T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer's remarks in his speech at Richmond, in Yorkshire, on the pro- posals for a general agreement with other Powers. especially, we imagine the...

J are manufacturing cartridges at the rate of two million a week,—that is, ten cartridges per man for an army of two hundred thousand men. But soldiers, when engaged, may...

one of the Liberal Cabinets Mr. Childers often spoke, but never succeeded in finishing his sentence, because he was sure to be inter- rupted by some other Minister more eager...

which Englishmen regard boastfulness in politics, may be carried a little too far. We begin to fetter our statesmen in their public utterances until they hardly venture to speak...

P RINCE FERDINAND of Bulgaria is still in search of a religion for his son. His own is not good enough for Prince Boris. The last effort the anxious father has made has had...

P ROFESSOR BIIRDON SANDERSON, in the lecture which he delivered at the Royal Institution yesterday week on Ludwig and the doctrine which he called Neo- Vitalism or New Vitalism...

of Lord Leighton, whose o i l ' Saturday has been felt by the cultivated throughout Great Britain, and indeed throughout Europe, is not so much the loss of a great artist as of...

"And round the roofs a golden gallery, That lent broad verge to distant lands, Far as the wild swan wings, to where the sky Dipt down to sea and sands." T HE great barrier sand...

f To THE EDITOE OF TRU. "SPECTATOR"] SIA, — After that meeting to which you allude in the Spectator of January 25th, Mr. Rogers, as he was walking home with his then curate,...

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER AND MR. DOLLING. [To TUE EDITOR OF TEX " SPECTATOR.") think you miss the point of the difference between the Bishop of Winchester and myself. If the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a sometime E.U., and the son of an E.U., I am able to answer your reviewer's anxious question, "But what is an E.U.' ? " (in the...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—If the signature given beneath does not deter you, will you allow me to suggest to your readers some reflections on your article in the Spectator of January...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Perhaps you may find space to add a story about our old Newfound!and ' Nelson ' to your interesting series. • Nelson ' was one of...

ago in Wales, I saw , one day a striking example of a dog's understanding the meaning of a word,—a word the meaning of which he must have learnt by observation, and not by...

Sin,—Since you still continue to afford space for those in- teresting dog-stories, which might lead to discoveries more interesting still, I venture to send you one which I...

SIR,—The author of some stories of "The Seen and the - Unseen" would feel the strictures of your critic very just had any serious thought that a spirit raised, as we all hope at...

Airedale terrier, whose intelligence Is very strongly developed. This dog usually sleeps on a rug on a sofa in my room. One evening I was not at home to take him up to bed, so...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "ElrzcTAToR. - ] Sin,—Some curious Irish " bulls " have cropped up daring the canvassing for the coming- election for North Belfast. Mr. Wilson, speaking...

THE OLD MASTERS —IT. DIRECTION, 11.10vEMENT, ACTION. IF I had to choose one out of all this splendid collection of pictures, I think it must be Tintoretto's Diana (No. 99)....

THE LORELEI' (FROM HEINE). I WOTNA what's this comae owre me, My heart is grown sae wae, An eerie and auld world ballant Rings aye in my head the day. The lift's turnin' cool...

[To TX! EDITOR OF THE * 8PECTATOR:1 SIR,—A lady living in my house in the country announced to me one day that she bad tamed a family of mice, consisting of a father and mother...

THESE are fine sonnets which certainly will not detract from Mr. Watson's reputation as a poet, though we do not think that they will add to it. Series of sonnets are seldom...

MRS. TROLLOPE.* THIS biography seems somewhat belated. Mrs. Trollope died more than thirty years ago. It is probable that comparatively few people under fifty have ever heard...

IT was in the spring of 1854 that Commodore Perry, in command of a United States naval squadron, but without hostilities, obtained the signature of the Council of State of the...

Paris volume of the transactions of the Historical Society contains twelve articles, all conveying interesting and valu- able information, among which the Presidential Address...

THE question whether or not acting, as an art, is almost extinct and crushed under the conditions of the day, coincides rather sadly and curiously with the exertions of Sir...

IN spite of the note with which this volume has been prefaced by its publishers, we confess ourselves at some loss to know whether to regard it as a romance or a serious attempt...

Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Translated from the German of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, by the Rev. E. B. Speirs, B.D., and J. Burdon Sanderson. 3 vols. (Regan...

Co.)—The author, who commends himself to his readers by the description of " Sometime Punch's ' Roving ' Correspondent," gives us some entertaining sketches of how he chose and...

Scott.)—The plan of this volume is to give extracts without comment. Eleven authors have been laid under contribution, and we are left to form our own judgment about them....

of which are designed to help those who write shorthand and should read it, contains several articles of sufficient interest to make the cryptic characters tantalising to those...

Clare Tisdall. (S.P.C.K.)—This volume contains lectures delivered some three years ago at the request of the trustees of the "James Lang Lectureship Fund," an endowment designed...

T. Clark.) —There is much good sense in this treatise. Mr. Bruce deals fsirly with the questions which he handles, and does not evade the difficulties. On the main principles of...

Clements R. Markham, C.B. (Cassell and Co.)—To Eden and Hakluyt, Mr. Markham gives the title of "Fathers of English Geography," but in his view James Rennell was the first great...

Morley, LL.D., and W Hall Griffin, (Cassell and Co.)—This volume contains the last work of Henry Morley. One of the most indefatigable of men, he died in harness. His work was...

by James stalker, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton), described by its author as a "Devotional History of Our Lord's Passion." It is written in a sober and moderate style. To the...

and Co.), a "second and enlarged edition."—Religions of the World. By C. M. Grant, D.D. (A. and C. Black.)—TheStory of Marriage. By Herbert Mortimer Luckock, M.A. (Longmans and...

Anstey has given us an entertaining "Comedy of Errors!' Mr. Undershell, a minor poet, known, or not known, by the name of Clarion Blair, is invited by Sir Rupert and Lady...