case.

on Monday, is a somewhat disappointing document. Mr. Cleveland does not venture to fight the election on a pure Free-trade issue, but talks guardedly about tariff reform. "...

its hands, one of which began on September 25th or 26th, and is of some moment. The tribes of the Black Mountain, a great hill district beyond the Indus, have been giving...

T HE rumours as to the intention of the German Government to propose a large increase of the Array are confirmed by the Berlin correspondent of the Times, who has, apparently,...

of war,—one for it, and one against. An International Socialist Congress has been held this week at Marseilles ; and a German Socialist, Herr Liebknecht, made a speech, which...

the French Legitimists, delivered a speech on Sep- tember 24th, at Montauban, which has attracted and deserved much comment in France. He maintained that the Monarchy had still...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 8th, will be issued gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

and Friday had under their consideration the question whether we should or should not withdraw from Uganda. The British East Africa Company has given notice to the Government...

Home- rulers so far as to reawaken the Rent question. In a letter of September 26th, addressed to Mr. Justin McCarthy, he informs him that Mr. Balfour had admitted that the...

takes Mr. Gladstone heavily to task for his rash statement in regard to Welsh rents. After criticising the speech made from "a huge boulder," the Duke points out that " the...

article in the Nineteenth Century for October, in which he states the irreducible minimum of Parnellite demands. His style is quite moderate, but he wants full control of the...

of the candidature of Colonel Chester Masters, in the Cirencester division of Gloucestershire, declared, as regards agriculture, first, that the whole burden of local taxation...

discredit- able controversy. Alderman Knill, a wharfinger, but a man of culture formerly unusual in the City, stood next for the Lord Mayor's chair. He is, however, not only a...

is abating everywhere, the new cases in Hamburg having been only seventy on Wednesday, in St. Petersburg only thirty- five, and in Paris only twenty-six. In the latter city,...

of climbing in the Hindoo Koosh. Mr. Conway, an ex- plorer who has been studying the Himalayas above Cashmere for months, early in August, with a small party, ascended a peak...

young woman, whose real name was Marion Sharpe, but who had been known on the stage as " Ruby Russell," died last week in West Brompton, under circumstances which suggested...

of the Alps to the Times of Tuesday, seems really to have solved the much-debated point,—What is meant by the statement that the great Carthaginian forced his way across the...

majority has been reduced by more than three-fifths. At the last election, Mr. Flower beat Colonel Duke, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 1,019 ; the votes being, 4,277...

Chester on Saturday, the problem of vagrancy was dealt with. The general result of the discussion was in favour of sifting the professional vagrant from the honest tramp, of...

had a right to refuse to make the full number of Members of the Upper and nominated House which he was " advised " to make by his Ministers, has been settled in favour of the...

New Consols - (2I) were on Friday 978.

MR. MORLEY'S NEW MANIFESTO. M R. MORLEY certainly does not possess the " firm- ness in office " of which we recently spoke. His letter of September 26th to Mr. Justin McCarthy,...

I T would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of the military Bills which, according to the well-informed Berlin correspondent of the Times, the German Govern- ment has...

taking-in the public, and extracting large sums of money from them by bogus and fraudulent schemes, may not really be very clever men, but they seem to possess, in an...

T HE " Labour Vote," as it begins to be called, may, and probably will, produce great results, both for good and evil, in English politics, but we do not see much ground for the...

Hammam who, unless some sudden and unexpected turn in the negotiations takes place, has just made his peace with the Sultan of Morocco, is a very picturesque figure in this...

to the wisdom of keeping the meetings of the Church Congress annual. The arguments for making them triennial had considerable force, but they were altogether outweighed by the...

" A ND, friend, when dost thee think P " was the reply made by the Quaker lady to whom Southey had explained, with no little satisfaction, how he spent his day. He told her how...

W E wonder whether the thought is that of an individual, and generated by a particular course of reading, or whether the majority of those who study geography share the feeling...

S O many of the higher powers of human pleasure may be traced in their first form among the other vertebrates, that it seems difficult to deny positively the faculty for any of...

W ANTED, a style. But to what extent is it wanted? Is it the one thing needful for a writer; and if so, how is he to acquire it ? Mr. W. E. Norris, writing in this month's...

THE LIBERAL UNIONIST POSITION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-If you will allow this subject to be reverted to, I would say that Sir Thomas Bazley should bear in...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIE, - I hope that you will permit me to say a few words about the late Professor Croom Robertson. I had the great happi- ness of an intimate acquaintance with...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—It is not quite clear what it is that Archdeacon Cheetham seeks to prove. He asserts (1), that the Court of the Gentiles was the proper...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I lately met some friends who had with them a little dog, called Vic,' who had adopted the family of a cat in the house, and, while in...

SWIFT'S POLITE CONVERSATION.* THE two long notes which we append to the heading of this article speak for themselves. Another of the reissues of old classics, so dear to modern...

THE " Grasshopper " denoted, and, it may be said, still denotes, the south-eastern corner of a block of buildings bounded on the south by Lombard Street, and on all other sides...

This is a clever book, of a kind which it is difficult to write with good taste, and which, on the whole, perhaps ought not to be written at all. In these latter days, it seems,...

GENERAL HERVEY'S book is, as the title-page shows, his diary for the year 1867. His reason for publishing it is the fact that during that period he was engaged in the work of...

No one, we suppose, would be surprised at hearing that the familiar but artful game of draughts is the oldest game in the world ; nor would they be astonished at that dignified...

THE publication of Mr. Hore's narrative of his work in Central Africa between the years 1877 and 1888, has been delayed by his lengthened visit to Australia ; but the account...

MAURICE MaRrEalaNcK, the young author whom a too enthusiastic admirer somewhat unkindly designated the " Belgian Shakespeare," and one of whose plays, L'Intruse, was acted in...

Tract Society.)—The Ainu—not Aino, it should be observed—are the aborigines of Japan (ainu means " man; " wino, " mongrel," the dominant race scoffing at their subjects as of...

Mcidhava ltdo Sindhia. By H. G. Keene. (Clarendon Press.)— This is one of the " Rulers of India " series,—scarcely among the first in interest, but certainly worth study, the...

and Co.)—Raffies Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. He is anxious to make a...

Morris. (Religions Tract Society.)—Mr. Morris and Dr. Fuller (who writes a brief introduction to the book) were commissioned by the Baptist Mis- sionary Society to inspect the...

Lowndes describes with much graphic effect, and without the incessant effort to be funny which often makes such books almost unbearable, various " open-air " experiences. How...

have here a text-book "prepared under the authority of the Royal Agricultural Society of England," and published at a. price so moderate as ought to ensure the very widest...

Marston, and Co.)—This is a volume in the series of "Illustrated Handbooks of Art," and, taking up the history of water-colour painting at the earliest times, which, however,...

an able plea—commended and seconded by Mr. Walter Besant, who writes an artroduction—for the London hospitals. Mr. Egmont Hake briefly sketch - s the history of these great in-...

Theodore Martin. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—At twenty- one, Daniel Gooch was appointed Superintendent of the Locomo- tive Department of the Great Western Railway. It was at...

—Mr. Rolleston includes portions of the "Phaedrus," the " Re- public," the " Hippias Major," and the " Symposium," together with the whole of the "Apology," "Crito," and "...

D. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The " cause " Sir Robert Ball finds in astronomical facts. The attraction of the planets deflects the earth from its normal orbit. The most...

made by a Committee of the Charity Organisation Society on "The Existing Opportunities for Working-Class Thrift," while an introduction discusses the " Poor-Law as an Obstacle...

(S.P.C.K.) —This is a volume in the "Romance of Science" series. The first ch ipter is mainly historical, and, we may add, prophetic. If we put out of consideration the possible...

II. (G. Philip and Son.)—The six thinkers whom Mr. Nasmyth describes in this volume are Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Locke, and Newton.