of the Gladstonian leaflets issued recently from the Liberal Publication Department at 42 Parliament Street, Westminster, in which, in stating to the country "What the Liberals...

T HE Prince of Wales has evidently felt keenly the con- demnation of military Europe. On Monday, when the Secretary for War was asked what steps he intended to take as regarded...

Liberal Publication Department, replied on Tuesday that Home-rule is not abandoned at all. The latter explained that for the last five years books, pamphlets, and leaflets...

The Arabs at once detest and despise their Turkish rulers, and the people of Yemen are reported to have risen and turned them out. That is important, because if Yemen estab-...

ceda represents a constitutional party in Chili. The new Congress, which has practically been nominated by himself, has passed a series of Acts investing him with all the powers...

form of an address to the Crown for more papers, moved by Sir William Harcourt. In a speech so moderate and statesmanlike as to indicate that he feels the responsibilities. of...

tive majority in the Canadian Parliament, but it is evident that the death of Sir J. A. Macdonald has greatly encouraged the Liberals, and that the folly of Conservatives in...

225 to 9G, the thinness of the attendance showing how completely the opposition has died away. The Bill has been most skilfully piloted by Mr. Balfour, who in his final speech...

Richard Temple, shows that the expenditure is still advancing at the rate of 4100,000 a year. In 1889.90 the outlay was 41,702,969, in 1800-91 it was 41,813,646, and in....

Monday the men returned to work. They have secured the shorter hours, and the right of a day's holiday in the fortnight without pay, and a alight rise of wages, the drivers...

is proposed, it is objected that the Colonies will never . consent to a cut-and- dried scheme ; and that if the scheme is left vague, it is objected that there is nothing to...

we believe, waited upon him yesterday, though we shall not hear what it said and, what he replied till this number of our journal is printed off, on the subject of calling a...

week, Cambridge on Tuesday and Oxford on Wednesday. At Cambridge, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava was the most distinguished recipient of an honorary degree, Sir Alfred Lyall...

Society met in the Broad Sanctuary on Tuesday, to consider the Free Education Bill. The first objection urged to it was, that the Bill proposes to perpetuate the limit of 17s....

points out that the inoculation experiments of which the sup- porters of the proposed equivalent in England for the Pasteur Institute make so little, often involve a frightful...

Mr. Balfour, Professor Jebb, and Sir Donald Stewart were amongst the recipients of honorary degrees. Of these, Mr. Balfour was the most conspicuous, especially as the Regius...

New Consols (21 1 .) were on Friday 95 to 95i.

and Rev. Augustus Legge, Canon of Rochester and Vicar of Lewisham. He is, we believe, a moderate High Churchman, and a sensible and zealous man. The new Dean of Worcester is to...

(202 to 186) on.Thursday night, on the question whether the age for employing children in factories should not be raised to eleven. The textile industries, both as regards...

THE BROAD EFFECT OF THE PURCHASE BILL. T HE passing of the Land-purchase Bill through the House of Commons by majorities which increased until they reached much more than two to...

R. HOWORTH was rather unfortunately charac- terised by Mr. Mundella as "the voice of one crying in the wilderness." Now, if Mr. Howorth cries in the wilderness, he certainly...

T HE Society for Psychical Research have been studying cases of double-consciousness,—that is, cases in which the patient appears to have at one time one set of memories dating...

W E have no complaint to make of Sir William Harcourt's motion on the Muneepore affair. The people choose that the House of Commons should be the supreme authority in the Empire...

AND THE NAVAL none are more ready to read into cynical expressions like SirWHEN Cromwell sent Colonel Blake to sea, the pro- perceive, as he did perceive, that the easiest...

of Mr. Charles Booth's "Labour and Life of the People" is an even more wonderful picture of London than its predecessor. For one thing, it is presented to the eye as well as to...

W E often hear an outcry as to the growing rarity of men of genius,—which, by-the-way, as insanity is on the increase, ought to stagger Mr. J. F. Nisbet as to the truth of his...

A CHANGE is passing over Monarchy, or rather, has already passed over it, which has been little noticed, 'but which will in future materially affect the comfort, and ultimately...

W ITH a chivalrous reverence for our conquerors, the triumphant fair, one yet remarks that they have 4 ways' not wholly ideal." So writes Mr. Andrew Lang in the pages of the...

SIGNOR CRISPI AND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTICLE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " BIlacTXTOII." Sin, — In your notice of the article in the June Contemporary, "Italy and France," you speak...

Sin,—Permit me to call attention to some points connected with the Free Grant Bill which seem to have escaped. your notice, and which have an important bearing on the position...

To THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOE."1 Sin,—Managers of schools in which the fee is 3d. a week have' some reason to complain of the unanimity with which speakers. and writers have...

[To TIIR EDITOR OF THE " Sriscurou."1 discussing the "logical necessity of miracle," is it not exceedingly important to remember that Christianity, in bearing witness to certain...

[To THII EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I would ask to be allowed to devote a few lines in your columns to the memory of my venerated friend, Dr. Egan, Bishop of Waterford,...

[To TOR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Tlio liberality which distinguishes you among editors in allowing your views to be questioned in your own columns, .emboldens me to...

TWO SONNETS. " Vieturos q ue net eolant at titans &trent Felix CSHCI mori."—Lnexpr. " IAA, they whose destiny it is to live Refuse to endure the yoke, the Gods conceal Row...

[To 1HZ EDIT0126 OF THE " 5FROTA.TO11."1 SIR,—With reference to your interesting article on "Animal lEsthetics," I should like to give you one of ray own ex- periences. When in...

THB "SFEOTAT011.1 Sin,—Knowing that the name of the Rev. F. D. Maurice is cherished by many of the readers of the Spectator, I venture to ask you to insert an appeal on behalf...

711D " FiFROTATOB,"] SIR,—You may perhaps think that the name of the writer of the enclosed letter, which I have just found, is a sufficient reason for its publication. It has...

[TO Tea EDITOR or TUE " SPECTLTOR,"] SIR,—While admitting the truth of many of the remarks in your article on this subject, I cannot think that "the tinder- lying seriousness"...

principal part of every letter I write to you.—And now come a hare and pheasant—and, what are stil more precious to me, the golden pippins. If they come from the tree you...

ARCHBISHOP TAIT.* FFIRBT NOTICE.] THE two portraits which form the frontispieces of the two volumes of this biography illustrate it with a singular felicity. One is...

THE only criticism that forces itself on the render of this little volume of graceful and harmonious verse, is that it is too exactly described by the title, Stray Verses....

THE object of Steven Vigil is to set forth the unsatisfactoriness of life without belief in God and Christ, and to show that infidelity, being insufficient to content humanity's...

- THE publishers of "The International Scientific Series" could not in all probability have made a better choice of an author to do justice—in every sense of the word—to...

M. TAINE has a clever illustration of what he conceived to be the difference between French and English intelligence. Suppose a double set of " pigeon-holes " in two bureaux,...

IT is difficult to conceive anything more disappointing than the work before us. It is a selection from those Atnerlean poets of the present generation who are not well known to...

Cardinal Beaton, Priest and Politician. By John Horkless. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Horkless has no reason to be dis- satisfied with the subject of this memoir, for Beaton...

Notes, by W. Minto, M.A., "Clarendon Press Series." (Oxford.)—Scott's "Lady of the Lake." With Introduction and Notes by G. H. Stuart, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" English...

author of this volume never forgets, and never allows his readers to forget, that he belongs to the House of Sinclair. When at Gibraltar, he is reminded that not far off was...

of this book is suggestive too much of Lucullan tastes, and means to gratify them. In reality, however," Good-Living," as treated by the author, is simply that plain but...

and Co.)—As this novel cannot possibly do its readers any harm—for if they find it tiresome, they can shut it up—and as there is a possibility that it may do them good by...

Surgeon-Major R. C. Eaton. (Cassell and Co.)—The chief value of this book lies not in the novelty of its suggestions—for, after all, soldiers are much. the same as ordinary...

to be a student of his works, or of his character as reflected in these works. This little volume by Mr. Wilson Verity will secure, therefore, an audience much larger than that...

Downey.)—It is impossible to guess with any assurance of having hit the mark, what was the intention of Mr. Arthur Lillie when he sat down to write this eccentric and...

Stock.)—Undoubtedly a good deal of out-of-the-way learning is exhibited in this book, although rather unfortunately it is shown too much in the form of lengthy quotations. The...

is a most admirable guide to that one of the American States which has now become the leading winter sanatorium on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Norton takes, of course,...