T HE position on Friday afternoon was this. Lord Salisbury has accepted office, and after a short and sharp struggle with Lord Randolph Churchill, has secured his co-operation...

of the same topics, but contained also a very able demonstration that our Free-trade system has saved us from the complete and disastrous collapse from which the United States,...

THE NEW GOVERNMENT. W HATEVER else the new Government may be, it must certainly be a Government of combat. For it is not only formed to combat the rising tide of Liberalism,...

L ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S success is exaggerated in popular estimation ; but that he has succeeded is beyond a doubt. He has formed a party within the Lower House which, as the...

W E very much doubt whether those Liberals who are congratulating themselves on having shunted the Irish difficulty, by throwing the responsibility of action on to the Tories,...

W E are a little sad for the old Conservatives of Great Britain. In common, we think, with all Liberals who have read history, we have a sympathy for that party which we do not...

W E must say frankly that we do not quite like the tone of the first Liberal speeches that have been delivered since Mr. Gladstone's resignation. There is a note of party...

a great art sale has gone on without the customary accompaniment of enhanced prices. In point of extent and variety the BeckettDenison Collection held a high place among its...

T HOUGH it may be lawful to be taught by an enemy, few people seem to remember that it is wise as well as lawful. But for this, we should look for a large Conservative accession...

W ILL the pseudonym of "Michael Field" become greater even than that of "George Eliot "? It is hard to say. On the one hand drama will never be as easy to read or as popular as...

T HE career of Albert Pe!, who has just been condemned to death in Paris—nominally for one murder, but really for murdering five or six women in succession with revolting...

M JULES CLARETIE boasts two great distinctions,— • he is disdained as a novelist by M. Zola, and he is interpreted as a dramatist by Madame Jane Hading. The first is wholly to...

IRELAND AND THE CRIMES ACT. [To TIM EDITOR Or MI 8PECTATOR...1 Sin„—I thoroughly agree with you, that, where practicable, it is most desirable to get rid of exceptional...

Sut,—Dr. Ginsburg in the recently-published "Old Testament Commentary," edited by Bishop Ellicott, in a note on Leviticus xviii., 18, says :— "A Wive TO HER Stsvaa.- 2 That is,...

answer your points as " dogmatically " as you put them. (1.) Your distinction between " wife " and " widow " in Leviticus xviii., 16, is not tenable :—(a.) Because the seventh...

SIR,—The letter from "A Scottish Churchman," in your issueof June 13th, professing to give the correct version of the FreeChurch Assembly's action regarding Disestablishment,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR. " ] SI14 — In your interesting article of June 6th on "The Unconscious Self" you ask me several questions, to some of which, if you will allow...

THE CONSPIRACY OF C1NNA, APPLIED TO RECENT EVENTS. (CORNEILLE : CINNA, Acr V., SCENE 1.) SIR S. H. N. SIR M. H. B. es done Chef, Hicks-Beach, mais ceux dont to le tiens Sont...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [THIRD AND LAST NOTICE.] IN this our last article on the Grosvenor Gallery of 1885 we will, as far as possible, complete our notices by a few words about...

THE LAND OF THE AURORA BOREALIS.* THESE are very valuable and very enjoyable volumes, yet in one respect rather provoking also. The reader of them has but to refresh his memory...

No book, not even.the Diary of a Besieged Resident, gives a more graphic series of etchings of scenes in Paris during the FrancoPrussian war than this journal. Count d'H6risson...

is as fresh an account of travel as any that has appeared for a long time, and deals with a quite unfamiliar legion ; and it will have a special charm for all who have kept up...

P or does the so-called science of political economy consist merely of a set of practical rules, suitable for the guidance of the industrial society of the modern civilised...

MAJOR ELLIS has given us, in West African Islands, the result of notes made during passing visits in the course of "voyages to and from South and West Africa, between the years...

produce a drama, the women of our own century cannot at least be accused of a lack of singing power. With Elizabeth Browning our poetess died ; but her own words on human loss...

and at the same time the most popular, of Shakespeare's dramas. Not one of them has given rise to so much criticism, not one contains so many familiar passages. The greatest...

Reminiscences and Essays. By James Montgomery Stuart. (Sitopkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This volume contains a rather curious medley of subjects. Mr. Montgomery Stuart discourses...