• S OMETHING has occurred in the Soudan, the whole mean. ing of which is not yet accurately known. Sir Redvers Buller, with the Royal Irish, had scarcely arrived at Gubat when...

THE MILITARY SITUATION. T HE plan of the campaign in the Soudan has been materially changed, and probably changed suddenly. It is on the surface of things that Sir Redvers...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S motion involves, of course, a Vote of Censure ; but it appears to us to involve a Vote of Censure which the Opposition do not desire, and do not, in...

T HERE is one fact which every Liberal Member who votes, or abstains from voting, upon the motion of Censure, ought to bear clearly in mind. There is only one practical...

IR GEORGE CAMPBELL, in his long and instructive kJ letter, published in the Times of Wednesday, underrates the danger to the world from a revival of militant Mahommedanism. He...

F OR an invalid, who ostentatiously announced his own doubt whether he could do justice to himself, Mr. Cowen certainly managed to deliver at Newcastle last Saturday a splendid...

O N Monday some thousands of men wanting work met on the Thames Embankment, and marched in what passed for a procession to the Local Government Board. Sir Charles Dike was at a...

T HE meeting of the Great Northern Railway Company last week marks an epoch in Railway politics almost as great as the Representation of the People Act, 1884, in general...

S PORTING-MEN are not very useful people ; but we are inclined to think they could just now perform a small service for the world, by clearing-up a problem which every now and...

W E are glad to see at least a beginning of a better precedent as regards age in the appointments to positions of influence over the young, in Mr. Paget's appointment to the...

THE FALL OF KHARTOUM AND THE GOVERNMENT. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] 51'4—The Opposition papers are doing their utmost to spread the belief that if Lord Wolseley's...

To THE EDITOR OP THE "ElrEcretort. - 1 SIR,—Your timely and excellent warning, regarding the habit of English journalists of launching from their easy-chairs hasty censures...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATO/L."J Sin,—I have been waiting for some weeks to see whether any answer would appear anywhere to the article under the above heading, which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: . _ I SIR,—The recent Episcopal appointments have received less notice than they deserve, in consequence, no doubt, of the pressure of foreign...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcreTov."1 SIR,—In your note to Mr. Dibdin's letter to-day you say,—" The rest—£400,000 to £150,000—is spent on improving their corporate revenues,...

FROM MAN TO GOD. [Suggested by the Bishop of Bedford's Sonnet, "From Nature to. Man," published in the last number of the Spectator.] AYE, true it is, that as man grows...

'TWAS a day of storm, for the giant Atlantic, rolling in pride, Drawn by the full moon, driven by the fierce wind, tide upon tide,Flooded our poor little Channel. A hundred...

COUNT VON MOLTKE ON POLAND.* Tuts monograph, though far too concise, and in-a certain way even thin, has an interest of its own. It was written by the great German strategist...

that Agriculture is an art, not a science ; and Mr. Lloyd, in the first sentence of his introductory chapter, says, " Agriculture is an Art." But there are principles derived...

Toms is a strong family resemblance between all the romantic offspring of this writer ; and the characteristics which mark her former novels,—a wealth of irrelevant quotation...

ENGLISH literature is not so rich in good histories of Napoleon that we can afford to welcome this selection from his letters and -despatches coldly. We could wish, indeed, that...

Ma. GARRETT BORDER, to whom we are indebted for this, in the truest sense, catholic volume of hymns,—for it includes hymns by Theists and Christians of all denominations from...

interesting, as well to the naturalist and the geographer as to the sportsman and the ethnologist,. than the history recorded in these pages of Colonel Prschewalski's...

The Life of Lord Lawrence. By Bosworth Smith. (Smith and Elder.)—We have received a copy of the sixth edition of this biography, of tho merits of which we have previously said...