Music-Hall, Edinburgh, on Monday, and entered at once on the objection which had been made to him that he would not divulge the manner in which he proposed to connect the...

for Scottish Disestablishment,—though he counselled in another speech great " tenderness " in dealing with the manses and all the vested interests,—but speaking of the...

there on the question of Home-rule for Scotland. He had never, he said, been "a worshipper of the Union between England and Scotland," but had " never, on the other hand, felt a...

A SOMEWHAT serious change has occurred in the politics of Eastern Europe. M. Tricoupis, the Greek Premier, has ever since the Cretan insurrection been accused by his country-...

living male in direct descent from the House of Orange, has finally given way, and on October 30th the States-General, by 100 to 5, declared him incapable of governing. The...

case.

von Moltke was marked by a notable absence, that of Prince Bismarck. Ulysses sulked in his tent, while Achilles received his reward: The Emperor spared no pains to make the...

work may be taken to be inevitable, and this time it has broken out between Mr. Stanley and the friends of Major Barttelot, who commanded his rear-guard. Major Barttelot's...

all London. On Friday se'nnight, the body of a woman, aged thirty, was found in Crossfield Road, South Hamp- stead, with the head crushed in and nearly cut off, the knife having...

on Wednesday, in relation to the McKinley Tariff. His main point was that the loss which such a tariff inflicts on England in one way, it more or less makes up in another way....

state- ment explaining the fall in the price of silver. It is due, he says, first to an immense accumulation of the metal, caused by the American holders' determination to await...

Wheeler, and she is unmarried. She was called Pearcey from the name of a man she lived with, and after parting with him, she appears to have lived by receiving " visitors," one...

demonstrating that under our present procedure it is impos- sible to have more than one practical test question for a single General Election, if there is to be any real appeal...

and O'Brien intend to raise money in America for the " famine." Indirectly, their efforts will, he told a correspon- dent of the Cologne Gazette, tend to relieve the distress ;...

on Thursday. He hoped, he said, for a victory at the General Election, but if the Government were beaten, there would be this comfort, that a great number of the bubbles which...

gratulated Cardinal Manning on Thursday, on having attained the twenty-fifth anniversary of his espiscopal consecration. Dr. Adler, who presented the address, spoke with great...

and that the See has been offered to the Dean of Peterborough, a learned Hebrew scholar, who has lately shown his wish to assert the comprehensiveness of the Church of England,...

Tuesday last, at the age of seventy-two, this generation has lost one of its most modest and yet most genuine bene- factors. He may be said to have discovered that the middle...

Friday 944 to 944.

Thursday. He has been travelling in Ireland, and has come back more convinced than ever that the Union must be maintained. He believes that, substantially, Mr. Parnell is in...

MR. GLADSTONE'S MIDLOTHIAN SPEECHES. M R. GLADSTONE'S Midlothian addresses are ended, and we can count up the net results. For the present, doubtless, they have greatly...

Greek Premier has just suffered at the polls may be a mere incident in the internal history of a petty Kingdom, but it may also turn out a most serious affair. M. Tricoupis has...

M R. BALFOUR'S friendly reception by the people of Mayo and Galway is not in the least a surprise to us. We do not suppose that it implies any sudden change of popular...

A LLEN'S Indian Mail, a little paper which during two generations has endeavoured to record all matters of interest to Englishmen connected in any way with Asia, published on...

A PART of that large provision for " heckling " Unionist candidates which Mr. Gladstone has been making in Scotland had to do with the duration of Parlia- ments. He bade the...

County Council were right in adjourning Tuesday's debate on Earl Compton's motion, and we trust that when on Monday the discussion is resumed, it will be conducted under the...

FROUDE cannot write anything that is not readable, but we do not think him very successful in his attempt to show that Lord Beaconsfield* was at once a hearty believer in...

T HERE is one feature in the history of the ghastly murder in Kentish Town on which the minds of decent men can dwell with some sort of satisfaction. The police showed...

A FEW days ago, there took place a wedding, in itself not an uncommon occurrence in London, nor one that would be likely to excite much interest ; but in this particular case,...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : THE MELBOURNE " SWELLS "—COLONIAL EXAMPLE—COW- BOYS AT HOME. IT is interesting to hear from the other side of the world, amid the great...

MR. LECKY'S NEW VOLUMES.* [SECOND NOTICE.] IT is in the eighth volume that Mr. Lecky's impartiality is most conspicuously displayed. The history of the Rebellion of 1798 is...

A GREY PARROT. HE sits behind his cloister bars As grave as Solon : He looks, like Kepler, at the stars : He's one of those who never speak Until they've stopped to think ;...

less prominent periodicals, make a pleasant volume, though their connection with Wordsworth is sometimes a rather slender thread. It is a thread on which Mr. Malleson has...

Tins is an interesting little book, rather baldly written, and not made nearly so interesting as it might have been, had Mr. Ball discussed more fully the mental transmission or...

THE worth of John Locke's work as a thinker is not to be estimated by his philosophy taken in itself, or in the results at which it arrives. These are in many respects...

picture of life among one of the foreign populations that have found shelter in the United States. It relates the history, external and internal, of a Socialist shoemaker. The...

and Son, Penzance.)—Miss Courtney has reprinted a number of very interesting papers from the Folk-Lore Society Journals of 1886-87. We cannot pretend to give any analysis or...

The King's Book of Sports. By L. A. Govett. (Elliot Stock.)— This is a sufficiently interesting little volume of the antiquarian sort, although it may be doubted if it is...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—The "mystery" is, happily, nothing very awful. Two wealthy young ladies think that they should like to be wooed, if they are to be wooed, for the sake of...

in Olden Time," might have been _retrenched with advantage. The Latin Festival was certainly not celebrated on March 31st (p. 9), and trisulw is a ridiculous mis- print for...

Low and Co.)—This is the first part of a work the sequel of which was lately noticed in these columns. " From Celt to Tudor " is the period of which it treats. In chap. i. we...

By F. F. Arbuthnot. (Heinemann.)—There is a great deal of in- teresting matter in this book. Mr. Arbuthnot's object is to encourage the study of Arabic literature, and...

(Macmillan and Co.)—This little volume contains three lectures delivered in the summer of last year to the University Extension students at Oxford. The " makers " are...

Failing the proverbial advice to persons intending to become authors, " Don't !" we may find something fairly useful in Mr Russell's " complete and practical guide to all...

a new one-volume edition of a story which shows its author at her best, for it is not only interesting, but thoroughly whole- some, a verdict that, unfortunately, cannot be...

This short history of the development of musical art, while suc- cinct and likely to be of use to some students, is too brief and wanting in attraction to suit most readers....

—Mr. Fyfe discusses in this volume " Sheol, Hades, and Hell, the World to Come, and the Scripture Doctrine of Retribution _according to Law." He begins by reviewing the...

Johnston. (Blackie and Son.)—This volume is a reprint of an article contributed in 1887 by the late Professor Johnston to the ninth edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica." A...

—4.--._ Bsehines : In Ctesiphonta, by Gwatkin and Shnokburgh. limo (Macmillan) 5/0 Ballow (W.), A Compendium of Equine Anatomy, or Svo (Pentland 4/6 Bartelott (B. M.), Life...

Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by him at the "SPECTATOR" Office, No. 1 Wellington Street...

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THREE YEARS IN WESTERN CHINA.* IT is a pity that Mr. Hosie has not a more lively and picturesque pen, for he is made of the stuff of which great travellers are made, and in his...

LONDON : NOVEMBER .1, 1890.

facts and figures are of greater utility than the mere critical estimates of our elder dramatic poets with which, to the no small disgust of Mr. Fleay, our age has been deluged,...

the sciences, that of Statistics appears probably to many the dullest and most repulsive. And yet it is not too much to say that it has its imaginative, one might almost say its...

GREAT as is the interest and merit of these Familiar Letters of James Howell, now again brought before the public after more than a century's oblivion, we do not altogether...

THE condition of the masses has for the moment become a subject of such apparently engrossing interest to their wealthier neighbours, that the remark of an observant butler,...

of this new translation of Horace's Odes may be congratulated on the completion of a task which it is fair to conjecture was a labour of love to him. But that love's labour may...

find ourselves in agreement with Dr. George MacDonald ; we are even inclined to consider him occasionally as paradoxical ; but we gladly acknowledge that he moves habitually on...

Miss PHELPS, or, as we should rather call her, Mrs. Ward, has shown so much taste and skill in handling very difficult subjects, that we feel an especial regret at the character...

MIL HENTY'S work continues to be remarkably even in quality. His subjects naturally differ in their capabilities, but he always works them up into good stories. By Bight of Con-...

we have six plays, intended, we suppose, to be acted by children, and not ill-adapted for that purpose. Three, " The Dolls Drama," "Mistress Mary, Quite Contrairy," and " The...

which, by-the-way, is copiously and excellently illustrated, we find various acquaintances, more or less familiar, and some strangers, or what to us at least are strangers. One...

mistaken, has enlarged its borders since the appearance of its last annual issue, is as varied in interest as usual. There are five serial stories, one of them by Mrs. L. T....

GIFT-BOOKS. Sunday. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a volume which certainly discharges very satisfactorily its function of supplying " Sunday reading for the...

who has special opportunities and not inconsiderable faculty for judging, tells the writer of this notice that she likes Harper's Young People very much, "because the pictures...

—Miss Coleridge's story has to do with two subjects with which she is particularly competent to deal, the development of a girl's character, and the contrast, perhaps one...

Hall.)—Some of these stories have an interest which belongs only to marvellous tales which are yet true. Echoes of the days of the Portuguese and the pirates, most of them-...

Mr. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual for the current year; and a very pretty little Christmas gift it is ! We have no liking for the maudlin sentimentality of some stories which...

of All Ages. By Archibald Clavering Gunter. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a very clever book, worthy of the author of " Mr. Barnes of New York." But we demur to the...

from the German by J. Raleigh. (A. and C. Black.)—A curious title this, and not, we think, a very happy one. Who would imagine that a " French Fireside " was the hearth of a...

is one more attempt to tell the story of love, the love-story of a Lord and a fisher-maiden, and the impossibility of their mutual happiness. It is somewhat ideally treated, and...

(Scot.) (S.P.C.K.)—This Society is doing a really good work by issuing in so handy a form, information on such an interesting subject. Of course in so small a space it would...

three volumes of short tales, selected and edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A. These are : Abbot Cleve, and other Tales ; Gregory of the Foretop, and other Tales ; and Going for a...

Job. (Librairie Hachette, Paris.)—Here is a volume which affords an admirable opportunity of cajoling young people into improving their French. Charlotte is a terrible example...

Co.) —Miss Price prudently devotes but one chapter to Cambridge life; but in this she makes a serious mistake. It is not true that " comparative desolation" reigns in...

and Co.)—This "tale of Colonial life," "founded on fact," as the title-page tells us, is a very spirited story. Two boys go home to spend the Christmas—i.e., of course, the...

the old favourites, " Cinderella," " Puss-in-Boots," " Jack and the Beanstalk," " Dick Whittington," " Tom Thumb," " Little Red Riding-Hood" (who, in obedience to modern humani-...

(Blackie and Son.)—The three stories in this volume- The Light Princess, and other Fairy - Stories. By George Mac- Donald. (Blackie and Son.)—The three stories in this...

The Illus- trated Book of Wonders, Events, and Discoveries, by John Timbs (Dean and Son). We might suggest that if any of the articles were to be revised, the process might have...

of the Rubaiycit of Omar Khayyam. It is needless to say anything of this ; indeed, we reviewed it last year Whether it is a translation or no may be fairly doubted; no...

Quinsy (A. and C. Black) has reached its twelfth volume which consists of " Tales and Romances." " Klosterheim ; or, the Masque," which was published in book-form in 1832, is...