T HE outlook of foreign affairs is gloomy. Greece has been nearly crushed, and even if Turkey grants endurable terms, the Sultan, elated with his victories, and strong in the...

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is a very tame one. There was a great increase of Revenue over the estimate in the past year—no less than £3,470,000— but there can, unfor- tunately, be...

the last resort by brute force. The gallant little man who, standing amidst a ring of burly and sneering policemen, has endeavoured to perform those policemen's duty, has been...

T HE presence of our South African Squadron in Delagoa Bay, the news that a considerable force of artillery has been sent to Natal, the vote of £200,000 to increase the South...

M R. WARD, the young Member for Crewe, stated a few days ago his intention of resigning his seat. Mr. Ward, the young Member for Crewe, has since then changed his mind, and...

W E notice among the graver politicians who are discussing the new Eastern question an impression, or rather conviction, which greatly affects their judgment, and, as we think,...

Act will be generally welcomed by the business interests of England, for it will have the effect of stimulating English trade in a healthy way, while at the same time developing...

TN the Times of Wednesday there appeared an in- teresting, though, as we shall try to show, an impractical, letter from a French priest on the subject of clerical celibacy. A...

T HE "May meetings," which as usual have begun in April, seem likely to furnish, in their course, a good deal of material by which to test the general correctness of the very...

S HALL English become a dead language ? We fear that if the proposals made by Mr. Stead in the current number of the Review of Reviews were to be taken up in earnest, and put...

A CORRESPONDENT, who has much experience in the subject on which he writes, makes this week in our columns a proposal for a serious restriction of the detested moneylender's...

Nv - HEN Frank Buckland, by special request, took down a London bird-catcher to Aldermaston Park in Berk- shire, to exhibit the art and practice of bird-catching with the...

SCIENTIFIC KITE.FLYING. [To THE EDITOR Or viii " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—.As I may fairly claim to have been the first to rescue the kite from the playground, to which it had been...

firscrAroe.."] SIR,—If your correspondent, "M. J. G.," in the Spectator of April 24th, had consulted authentic documents instead of trusting to his own imagination, he would...

MONEYLENDERS,—A SUGGESTION. [To THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIE,—As the question of legislation in regard to money- lenders is being discussed in your columns, may I be...

LTo THE EDITOR Or TEE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You were good enough in January to insert a letter asking help on behalf of the famine-stricken people in the Diocese of Lucknow. The...

THE NEW GALLERY. THE portraits are perhaps the most interesting feature of the present exhibition at the New Gallery. A good point about them is the great variety of style they...

go THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,--The writer of the paragraph in the Spectator of April 17th on the social status of the subjects of the Grand Dechy of...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—No mention is made in your leader on the above subject in the Spectator of April 24th of the slams spent on scholar- ships. Is it not a...

PROFESSOR AIA.SPERO'S "STRUGGLE OF THE NATIONS." * This volume, a sequel to the author's Dawn of Civilisation, requires more editing than Professor Sayce has been able to give...

The Manchester Man, of which a very handsome illustrated edition is before us, is by no means a new book. It was first published about twenty years ago. But we think there must...

Ceylon as an island inhabited by a rather effeminate race, the Singhalese, where the indus- tries of tea and coffee planting have gone through various vicissitudes ; and but few...

Ma. STILLMAN has taken Venus and Apollo as the representa- tives of ideal beauty in man and woman, and under this heading has gathered together a representative collection of...

ALL those who read Mr. Oppenheim's articles in the English Historical Review, and they attracted considerable notice when they appeared, will be glad to see this book, which is...

SIR HENRY WRIXON, an eminent Australian lawyer and politician, being chosen to represent Victoria at the Ottowa Conference in 1894, received at the same time "a commission to...

Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mrs. Trail] was the fourth of the five Strickland sisters, of whom Agnes, the historian of the "Queens of England," is the most...

excellent "Famous Scots" Series, to which it belongs, and one of the fairest and most discriminating biographies of Boswell that have ever appeared. It is no easy task to...

Gow, Litt.D. (Cambridge University Press.)—As we have already noticed Dr. Gow's editions of the Odes and Epodes, we need not do more than call attention to the fact that the...

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With an Index of Proper Names, Glossary, &c. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—A large, well-printed octavo of 1,110 pages, on reasonably good paper, for a very small price.—...