the election for Marylebone, where Mr. Boulnois is the Unionist candidate, and is opposed by Mr. G. Leveson-Gower, who gives in his adhe- sion to the principle of " One man, one...

case.

T HE week has been one of little significance abroad. The Dervishes have made no progress in Egypt, and have not yet been crushed. Nothing new of real significance comes from...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page, i.e., from January 5th to June 29th, 1889, inclusive.

yesterday week, as to his relations with the Loyal and Patriotic Union, and the pamphlet, " Pamellism Unmasked," which he purchased from Pigott for circulation by that...

a woman of the name of Alice Mackenzie, who had been living with John McCormack for the last six or seven years, was murdered by a wound in the throat, succeeded by a stab in...

amounting almost to an instruction," had not been withdrawn, but had, on the contrary, been made absolute. There was a conference on Monday between the Irish leaders' counsel...

that the Gladstonians certainly masqueraded as in favour of Union ; but if they were really favourable to it, he did not see why Mr. Gladstone so vehemently attacked the Act of...

new Radical-Socialist group, that the wealth of the nation is a limited quantity which must be differently divided, if the poorer classes are to be benefited at all, whereas Mr....

been published, and appears to be exceedingly vague and laboured. There is a - great deal in it in relation to the charge of financial corruption, which does not properly belong...

Parliament within the week,—one yesterday week to his con- stituents, at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; and one on Wed- nesday, at the Hotel Metropole, to the "National Union of...

United Kingdom" as a toast at the City Liberal Club on Wednesday. He proposed it, he said, in the old sense. He- gave the Gladstonians full credit for believing that their plan...

Goschen dwelt again on the tendency to develop distinct politi- cal creeds for distinct political dioceses. Professor Stuart had drafted a creed for the Metropolis ; Mr. Stuart...

of Lords, drew attention to " the circumstances attending the enforcement of legal obligations on the Olphert estate." The speech, to which we have alluded at length elsewhere,...

divisional officers of the Navy throughout the Kingdom, sufficed to put the whole machine in motion, and the actual work of commissioning the vessels, which began at about...

against an order of a Divisional Court for attachment against him, for not making a due return to a writ of habeas corpus for the restoration of a child formerly placed in his...

the second reading of the Adoption of Children Bill, the object of which, he declared, was " to prevent parents from recovering their children after they had consented to their...

has appeared this week, is a very interesting public document. If deductions are made for men employed on station duties and special work, men ill, and men on leave, there are...

provisions of the Bill—the desire to yield to the natural and very reasonable wish of the Colonists for responsible govern- ment, and yet to prevent the criminal absurdity of...

in the Lords, and on Tuesday was read a third time. The measure endows the forty thousand Colonists of- Western Australia with responsible government on much the same lines as...

has increased, but not owing to a relaxation of individual effort on the part of the constables, or to any special criminal epidemic. " In the present state of the force,...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 981 to 984.

DIE GOVERNMENT AND THE OPPOSITION. T HAT the Government are growing stronger, and the Opposition, on the whole, weaker, cannot, we think, be questioned. But though that is...

French Chamber closed on Monday, and all that can be said of its end is that it became it as little as its life. The last Parliamentary appearance of the Cabinet was an...

M R. PARNELL and his colleagues have withdrawn their counsel from the Commission Court at a time when it will hardly produce the dramatic effect upon public opinion here which...

T WO little States on the Continent have long enjoyed, peace and prosperity under the shield of neutrality, —Belgium and Switzerland. They have done nothing to. provoke...

his constituents yester- day week, discerned a remarkable change in the attitude of the Opposition. The leaders had recovered their courtesy. Moreover, the section of...

as his opponents contend, show something of the spirit of the " dominie " in his political utterances, and may perhaps be sometimes inclined to attach a little too much...

set down as a nightingale. This shows a deplorable want of knowledge of British birds, for among them are quite a number of night-singers. Besides these, there are others which...

T H E debate in the Upper Rouse on Lord Meath's Adop- tion of Children Bill, and the judgment in the case of " The Queen v. Dr. Barnardo," both show clearly the very...

W E have often pointed out how hopeless is the attempt to get at any definition of gambling which will prove it to be essentially wrong, though we fully admit and earnestly...

T HE future historian of literature and philosophy, we imagine, will pause, when he reaches the seventh decade of our century, to describe a change in general thought, feeling,...

Six,—The following are the real facts about the points Mr.. Taylor raises in his second letter :- 1. It was notorious at Nottingham that Mr. Taylor dis- believed in the...

THE LIFE OF LORD GODOLPHIN.• GODOLPHIN has always remained little more than a name in history, although for eight stirring years he was the chief adviser of the Crown. Nor is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Of students' blunders, few surely can equal in ingenuity• the following answer to a question in a French examination paper :—Q. " Give...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I have been much interested by the letters in the Spectator of July 6th and 13th, relating to " The Book of . Sun-Dials," by my late...

SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Lord Coleridge has obliged us, and no one can be more sincerely grateful to him than I am, with a paper on Mr. Matthew Arnold in the New Review, a paper, as...

convert Dr. Bell Taylor, and those who think with him, from the view that M. Pasteur's treatment is not only inadequate but harmful ; but a case such as I will relate as simply...

[To Tun EDITOR OP " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,-11 great effort is to be made on Wednesday next to stop railway traffic on Sundays between London and Brighton. The effort is nominally...

has only one (Idea, that it appears to be written rather for those who do not know Miss Austen well than for those who do, and that we should doubt whether any book about her...

Sin WILLIAM FRASER has published a little volume under this title, not only to relieve his mind and gratify his warm feelings, but to emphasise his great discovery of " the...

Ktrarz's manual of Church History, which Mr. Macpherson has translated with admirable care and skill, is the one book of the kind adapted for present use. It is written on a...

Mr. Galion writes with an en- thusiasm well warranted by the results of his long and costly investigations in a field of inquiry that has hitherto possessed but little...

the name of Dampier ; but is he placed in the right category as a "man of action "? We doubt it. True, he fought gallantly in the Royal Prince,' as common sailor, against the...

Ma. BEADCLERIC is a writer who has the courage of his con- victions. He begins by quoting in his preface a pessimistic view of the state of Italy—he does not say from what...

By far the most noteworthy paper in the July number of the Universal Review — a number distinguished otherwise by an almost emphatic sobriety of tone, both in letterpress and in...

article, conceived in a very hopeful spirit, on the condition and prospects of the Dominion of Canada, and it ends, not, we conceive, without a purpose, with a review of Dr....

Nature. By Francis A. Knight. Illustrated by E. T. Compton. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Knight's " Brief Studies," reprinted from the Daily News, are perhaps better fitted for newspaper...

Alec Tweedie). (Griffith and Farran.)—This brightly written little volume will amuse the reader, and may perhaps induce him to under- take a similar excursion. Iceland is not...

epopee, wherein the author begs permission to treat the world after his fashion : the question therefore is, has he a fashion ? the rest will attend to itself." We suppose it...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—This novel appears to be the first work of its author, and is even more aggressively amateurish than the majority of first novels. Miss Marsh's style is...

Fisher Unwin.)—It gives us pleasure to notice this new and in- teresting book by Mr. Henry T. Pluck. He is an ardent admirer of Chopin, and writes with the view of explaining,...

White and 'Co.)—Mrs. Henry Wylde has, we believe, achieved a certain amount of success in the world of music ; and with such success it would be well for her to be content, for...

(Kegan Paul.)—The attractive title-page of this volume is followed by a preface, in which the reader learns that to the holiest principles should be added the sense of daily...

London ; The Hakubunsha, Tokyo.)—This is much the best work that has appeared on modern Japanese, one of those deceptive tongues of which the difficulties increase rather than...

Downey.)—The author of this volume describes it rather skilfully as "a book for the Exhibition ;" but there is comparatively little about the Exhibition in it, and it is not in...

to Mr. Wilkie Collins, and in spite of a certain clever- ness which characterises it, can only be described as sensationalism in fiction reduced to farce. No doubt Caleb...