taken to be official, announces that Ishak Khan's troops, beaten in a battle at Tashkurgan by the Ameer's General, -have surrendered. Ishak Khan himself is believed to have fled...

TT is with a positive sense of humiliation, rather than any ordinary pain, that we quote from the Daily News the following sentences of a letter from Mr. Gladstone, addressed,...

Austrian Premier is about to make great concessions to the Czechs, perhaps even to advise the Emperor to be crowned King of Bohemia. He has just admitted into his Cabinet Count...

the visit of the German Emperor to Rome means peace in Europe, and not war. Signor Crispi, Premier, Foreign Minister, and Minister of the Interior, on the 10th inst. admitted...

immediately produced his project of Revision. It is an extraordinary one. By Clause 1, he proposes that the Chamber, elected for six years, shall be renewed to the extent of...

inst. is not quite satisfactory. The tribes which murdered the British officers are showing themselves unusually stubborn. it was believed in•the beginning of the week that they...

case.

at Haddington on Tuesday. We have said enough of it elsewhere, but may add here that he commenced with humorous references to his own position, which he regards much as a third...

Times of Wednesday, in which he, for the second time, deals with what he evidently considers the very grave danger run by Egypt, owing to the possibility of a deflection of the...

Conservatives in the Guildhall at Plymouth. In dealing with Mr. Morley's speech at the Welsh National Conference, the President of the Board of Trade was par- ticularly happy....

of Thursday, throws a curious light upon the differences which exist not only between the Gladstonians and the Parnellites, but among the Parnellites themselves. "Who shall...

the Association of Liberal Unionists of Ulster, and directed his speech mainly to the local circumstances of his audience. He pointed out what is really noteworthy, that there...

judge from the evidence, he is officially believed to be still in the district, and to make special precautions indispensable. With a good feeling, for which Sir Charles Warren...

aged respectively eighteen and seventeen, as to what is known as the Tunbridge Wells murder, are perhaps the most painful and extraordinary ever recorded. Last July, Mr....

luncheon at Belfast—at which he announced that the Queen had conferred upon Belfast the dignity and honour of a city— dealt at length with the improvement which has taken place...

some of the fortitude of Mr. Balfour. Sir Morell Mackenzie and. Professor Bergmann have been firing pamphlets at one another. The German's idea of the Englishman seems to be...

in the Times of Wednesday, in which he deals with the various methods of preparation for public speaking. "To write speeches," says Mr. Bright, "and then to commit them to...

millions and a half, having been readily subscribed, and we shall see what comes of it. There are people who believe that the whole loss will fall upon the distributor, which...

New Consols (4) were on Friday 971 to 971.

MR BALFOUR IN HADDINGTON. W ii are not able always cordially to like Mr. Balfour's speeches. They often leave an impression on the reader, and still more on the hearer, that...

I T is necessary, in considering M. Floquet's proposals, to remember the special circumstances of his position. He holds himself bound, he says, to keep himself in power, his...

ATOTHING in English public life is more curious _1 1 .1, than the way in which, in each party, a kind- of informal rank is conferred upon certain of the leading states- men...

I T is impossible to doubt that when the Lord-Lieutenant claimed, as he did in his Belfast speech, that Ireland has immensely improved in the last year, he was fairly and...

lATE have never shared in the apprehensions created in some quarters by the rebellion of Ishak Khan His insurrection was important, but only because the Ameer of Afghanistan,...

view, and those very important ones, the working men's meetings at the Church Congress were a great success. They were held every night, they were attended by large crowds, the...

I T is quite natural that disinterested outsiders reading the savage controversy between the English and German throat doctors on the case of the Emperor Frederick, should feel...

F ORT1JN.A.TELY, Mr. Frederic Harrison does not practise what he preaches in regard to the study of history ; for if he did, the world would have lost some very delightful...

W ITHIN' the last eighteen months or so, there have been published a whole host of books belonging to the " Reminiscences " order—the "Reminiscences," that is to say, not of...

THE PLEASURES OF MALIGNITY. rTO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOH.1 SIR,—In the Spectator of October 6th, you have an article on "The Pleasures of Malignity," with especial...

[To THE ED/TOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] .SIR, — Now that the first excitement caused by the White- -chapel tragedies has to some extent subsided, it may be useful to call attention...

[To TIM EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your article on " Gambling " did not "wring my withers." My mind is not debauched by speculation, by the excitement of risking my...

LTO THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPICTATOR.”J BIR,—I have read with great interest, and in thorough agree. raent, the article in the Spectator of October 13th, on "A Technical...

[To THE Mirror. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As a vegetarian of twenty-five years' experience, I must protest against those who eat " fish" being classed as vege- tarians. They...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sra,—I am not sure that, though a "constant reader," I do (with Mr. Page Roberts) "rather like" the Spectator's " in- - Folibility,"—not, at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As I see that no abler pen has been employed in com- menting in your columns on your brief remark, in the Spectator of October 6th,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—With reference to your criticism of my Socialist novel, ." A More Excellent Way," which appeared in the Spectator of October 6th, will...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may interest your correspondent, " Vacuus Viator," to know that the lines he carried away from the "yeast" are from a song called...

TRAILL'S " WILT,T A M "* MR. TRAILL'S volume may be described as an attempt to rescue the memory of William 11E. from the eulogies of the Whigs. The Whigs, he remarks with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—Your interesting article on the Life of Edmund Kean —a new work which I have not seen—tells me that its author repeats the usual story,...

"THERE is something mysterious about opera. In other branches of music men may make their way fairly, and a good work is often willingly accepted, even when there are real • The...

THAT snakes should be dreaded is not unnatural—they crawl on their bellies and carry poison in their heads—but that snakes should be generally bated and held up to opprobrium as...

THIS volume may be regarded as a supplement to Mr. Daw- son's interesting Life of Hannington, which was unfortunately in print before the Bishop's last journals reached England....

THE author of this valuable "compilation," as he calls it, its Professor of the French Language and Literature in the College of the City of New York. He is a Frenchman fe , C,...

are certain of the shorter papers and criticisms, such as the editor's note on the late Edmund Gurney, Professor Flint's critique of Dr. Martineau's "Study of Religion," and...

for October, are better than the theological and philosophical essays, which contain far too much dull and thin thinking. "An Examination of Determinism," and "Modern Occultism...

of the threepenny monthly, Illustrations, which is edited by Mr. F. G. Heath, and the annual volume of which has just appeared. Instructive without being dull, and amusing...

Church Quarterly, are those which do not deal with theological and ecclesiastical questions, such as "Richmond Palace," "Local Government," and "Irish Manufactures." By far the...

A word of welcome is due to a new magazine, the Jewish Quar- terly Review (David Nutt), which is to be "devoted to the interests of Jewish literature and theology, history and...

remarkably interesting one, and that because the papers in it which are essentially or absolutely literary in their character are exceptionally numerous. Of these, three—" Ralph...

enlarged," his Tables of European Literature, Science, and Art, from B.C. 2000 to A.D. 1888, and adds tables of "American History, Literature, and Art." Messrs. Maclehose and...

what repulsive study in that unscrupulousness which is produced by devotion to science, and which Mr. Grant Allen and other writers seem inclined to ride to the death....

the Dutch and edited by Albert D. Vandam. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a delightful "companion for visitors to Belgium," full of allusive and suggestive talk about the...

(Chatto and Windits.)—This little volume, if we may judge from Mr. Brydges' frequent efforts to say funny things, and from its grotesque illustrations, is intended to be...

and Stoughton), s. series intended for the help of preachers and students. It is unt.r the same editorship as the Expositor, a fact which will be no inconsiderable guarantee of...

m enticn Infcvntry Fire Tactics, by Captain C. B. Mayne, HE., a second wition ; and a "carefully revised and corrected" edition of li'ms to °vain a School of Musketry Certificate.

very slight sketch of the history of cider. We do not think that Mr. Stopes is right in classing all Devonshire cider as hard; a great deal is, no doubt, and must be, for...