subject of proportional representation after the Com- mittee appointed to examine the test-vote had examined it and reported on the results. Both political parties were...

British proposals about Egyptian Finance. It was rumoured in the beginning of the week that Lord Granville had, agreed to give up the proposed reduction of the Coupon ; and...

Some of them were, it appears, aware of the existence of a hole two feet in circumference intentionally left by the builders in some of the buttresses of the bridge. The con-...

chester Reform Club, and though he found it easy enough to show how a voter should vote, he found some difficulty in ex- pounding to his audience how the Returning Officers...

-FI ORD WOLSELEY on December 16th telegraphed to the War Office to announce his arrival at Korti, a point beyond Ambukol, where he must decide whether he will push across the...

Mr. T. H. Bolton calls his " Hare-brained " scheme for pro- portional representation this week. On Monday he summoned a meeting of the political happy family of which he is the...

case.

The Hong Kong correspondent of the Tiabes, it is true, tele- graphed on the 16th inst. that the Governor of Saigon had addressed a threatening letter to Bankok about the Siamese...

of resigning his see on or before Lady Day next, owing to the infirmity of his health, which has been much increased by the serious illness of this year. His resignation will be...

the see of Dublin was filled up on Thurs- day by the election of Lord Plunket, the Bishop of Meath, to the Archbishopric. The only prelate who seems to have had any considerable...

appears that a working printer named Reinsdorf, a fanatic of much energy and no scruples, nearly succeeded in blowing-up the Emperor of Germany, his son, and his Court, while...

a Treaty with Nicaragua, enabling the United States Govern- ment to cut a canal through that State from Greytown, through the great lake and the San Juan, to Brito. It is...

it still holds control of the purse. He had asked for certain additions to the Foreign Office staff, one of which was a new "Director," with a salary of £1,000 a year, and...

with a perfect ovation from all classes of natives. In Calcutta, which is not an emotional city, thousands of Bengalees turned out to receive him, and in Bombay the people lined...

from State Patronage and Control" will discuss and reverse the very imprudent decision of its executive to force on Disestablish- meat as a test-question at the first General...

lishing in Paris, that there are now no less than seventy Arch- dukes and Archduchesses belonging to the Ilou,e of Hapsburg, who all marry into the Royal caste, form a clan...

has made some arrangement under which the Portu- guese, in return, probably, for concessions on the Congo, are to cede to him Delagoa Bay. He is then to seize Zululand, protect...

the higher teaching in London, resulted in the formation of an Associa- tion for the furtherance of that end; and by this Association a sub-committee was appointed to consider...

R. S.," describes at length an operation on the brain of a paralytic patient, by which an internal tumour was removed and legitimate hopes have been raised of the cure of the...

Steel Institute, on Thursday read a paper before the Statistical Society, in which he showed that the fourteen millions of wage-receivers in the United Kingdom earn an aggregate...

Consols were on Friday 09g to 991 ad.

; and so, apparently, thought the meeting in which it was discussed on Monday, under the Presidency of Lord Reay, at the House of the Society of Arts. The meeting was evidently...

lee was given for a single book than any hitherto known. The " Mazariu Bible," as it is called,—the earliest printed book iu existence, so far as is at present known,—was pm...

A FORECAST OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. p ROPHETIC politics are usually dull, and almost invari- ably useless. Events now move so rapidly, the nations of the world are so linked...

his some- what arid political apostolate is worthy of our deepest admiration. He uses the metaphor of Ezekiel, he uses the language of the Gospels in his speeches ; and yet his...

T HE country is justifiably annoyed at the correspondence between the Foreign Office and Prince Bismarck about Angra, Pequena. It is perfectly clear that, owing, as we believe,...

W E are not prepared to condemn Lord Wolseley for sup- pressing information as to the progress of his Expedition in the way he has done. He has monopolised the telegraph, he...

W E are doubtful whether the scheme proposed for the new Teaching University in London, and for its association with the existing Examining University of that name, proceeds...

A NEW explanation of the recent inaction of the Colonial Office in Australian matters has come to light in Lord Derby's despatch of December 11th. The Federal Council Bill has...

I N the singularly fine sermon delivered by Canon Liddon on Sunday week at St. Paul's, concerning the attitude of those who are "ashamed of Christ," he asked,—" How could it be...

I S the respect for human life increasing in Europe ? We suppose most men competent to give an opinion, and espe- cially men familiar with social history, would reply that it...

THE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR."I SIR,—Though I am, like your correspondent on the Allotments Act, a "constant reader," I am not a "constant...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—I do not pretend to have made an exhaustive study of all the literature contained in the Library of the British Museum on the subject...

[To EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] STR,—Will you allow me to say that Mr. Courtney, whose speech in the House I had the pleasure of hearing, did not adduce Geneva as an example...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The article on "Mr. Hughes's Ideal" in your last number is a timely contribution to the discussion of a question that is likely to...

SIR,—Your article of November 22nd, on "Prince Edward," raises a question of great importance. It is necessary, or at least most desirable, that the Royal Family should be main-...

MR. J. D. LINTON'S PAINTING.* Tins exhibition of Mr. Linton's works will be in some respects a surprise to his admirers, not so much from its quality as front the fact that...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-"] Sfit,—That married men are longer-lived than bachelors has long been a recognised fact. But the value of marriage to the male sex as a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.2011."1 SIR, — I cannot imagine what I should have done this season without ensilage. In the autumn of 1883 I sowed ten and a half acres of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Sp( ctator of November 29th, Mr. G. Darbishire writes from West Virginia that on the western slope of the Appalachians, or...

RELIGIO ACADEMICI—I. WHAT, you have found Hint not in the world-wide dome of St. Peter's, Not on the cross-crowned height, not in the Catacombs' cell ? Not in Ravenna mosaic,...

BECKET.* Tax Poet-Laureate, in dedicating his drama to Lord Selborne, -explains that Becket "is not intended in its present form to meet the exigencies of our modern theatre;"...

MR. WARD has hardly received sufficient credit for his skill as a biographer. His subject has fascinated the critics ; and they hardly notice the art which has made the life of...

IT is more than a great pleasure, it is almost a duty, to recommend this admirable volume to the consideration of parents and those who stand in the place of parents, and...

IN some matters an error of date is a fatal error, and probably the chief fault of the book that we have now to notice is that it has been written twenty years too soon. To tell...

so popular with children, as, indeed., with their elders, that no one will object to a new selection being added to the many that already exist, especially as Mrs. Campbell had...

Son.)—The first story is naturally that of "Magna Charts" From this we are rather unexpectedly taken back to very distant and different times. First comes " Horatius at the...

Sons.)— This story comes from the other side of the Atlantic, and tells us of the adventures of a certain Guy, who wins the hearts of relatives who are not particularly well...

and Sons.)—Mr. Frith tells here some railway stories, and tells them capi- tally, working well a theme which, in spite of some prosaio belonging, is not unproductive of romance....

Blunt. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—It is not easy to describe this little tale beyond saying that it is a love-story prettily told. Egbert, a young prince, with the cares of rule...

?" By Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.)— There is a great variety of interest in this story. There is abund- ance of incident woven together into...

—There is somewhat more sentiment—perhaps we should say more exhibition of sentiment—about this book than will snit boy readers. Boys' hearts are not very easy to get at, and...

The Shepherd Pacha a Turkish Story," the first of those included in this volume, is very good. A Pacha of the true Turkish type falls under his master's displeasure, and being...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Cities of the World. By Edwin Hodder. (Cassell and Co.)— 'This is the third and concluding volume of a most interesting work. There are eleven chapters, eight...

Phillipson and Golder, Chester ; Griffith, Ferran, and Co., London.)— This book may perhaps best be described by saying that the machinery of the story reminds us of "Alice in...

perhaps, a little too obviously didactic, but prettily told and make pleasant reading.

treating of lighthouses, illustrating his remarks by interesting diagrams, which exhibit the various heights of the principal British rock lighthouses and sections of some of...

own Mechanic." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is the third annual volume of a most useful publication, which sufficiently declares its purpose by its title. There seems, as we...

(Cassell and Co.), with its usual variety of fiction and fact, enter- tainment and utility. So much trouble is taken with these periodi- cals, so mach ability is at the disposal...

Co., New York ; Griffith and Farran, London.)—This familiar Christmas hymn is here illustrated with fifteen engravings after pictures, most of which are famous. "The Chorister...

W. J. Dawson. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Dawson has a certain command of melody, and now and then shows a larger sort of power, as, for example, in the poem called "Salome," a poem on...

and Co.)—Some five-and-twenty years ago, Mr. Mackenzie- went out, at the bidding of the London Missionary Society, to South, Africa. It was intended that he and his companions...

(Rontledge and Sons), is another favourite magazine which hardly requires our commendation. Fiction has its place in it, but does not usurp the whole. The useful is carefully...

Nelson and Sons.) —Here the little folk may learn about gardening, about building toy. bricks into houses, and other pleasing occupations which will anyhow keep them quiet.

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The pictures, both of figures (in which the artist uses, not without success, the manner of Miss Kate Green- away), and of still life, flowers, and fruit,...

Howell, Howell : an Old Carol, with pictures by Waidham Hughes. (A. R. Mowbray and Co.)—The illustrations are graceful and appropriatc.—We have also received an illustrated...

'fly H. T. Mackenzie Bell. (Elliot Stock.)—In spite of much enthusiasm and much vigorous assertion, Mr. Bell fails to make out a case for his hero. Whitehead was in some...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—A critical biography of Lather, holding the balance in a really judicial way between his virtues and his faults, is hardly to be expected in such a book...

Frowde.)—" The Annual Sunday Service Book of the Church of England has been prepared at the suggestion of many well-known -clergymen, in order to meet the requirements of those...