policy of the Government, both by Lord Stratheden, who is pro- Turk, and Lord Granville, who is not, but declined to enter on any formal discussion. He held that it was at the...

the face of the passage of the Balkans. All the details of this great operation are not yet known, but it appears certain that General Gourko, with 15,000 men, 4,000 of them...

been beguiled into a foolish blunder. On Monday Mr. Holma moved a distinct vote of censure upon the Treasury for having, in the teeth of the advice of a Select Committee,...

two serious blows this week. For four days they had been bombarding Nikopolis, the fortified position on the promontory which stretches into the Danube opposite Turnu Magurelle,...

rose on Thursday in the Lords to explain, and the explanation was crushing. He had sorcely known Mr. Pigott, the Rector of Hughenden, who left Bucks thirty years ago, and whose...

ease.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, who defended the Bulgarian atrocities, has been forced to resign ; Abdul Kerim, the Com- mander-in-Chief, has been dismissed, and replaced by Osman...

New York, executor of Mr. Stewart, and proprietor of the principal hotel in Saratoga, has just issued a notice stating that he will admit no Jews to his hotel—a notice directly...

and the slaughter was considerable. Sir Stafford Northcote does not intend to take up the time of the House with the Valuation . of Property Bill, which has become involved in...

upon the subject of the recent Ritualist decisions. In one, a great number of eminent clergyman and laymen, headed by Bishop Chapman, Bishop Hobhouse, and Bishop Macdougall,...

the elections. In a legal opinion, prepared by some of the ablest Liberal lawyers, but revised by the ex-President, he declares that the elections ought not, under the...

and therefore ultimate beir to the Crown, appears to be some- what dangerously ill A great many contradictory -statements have been published, but on Friday it was admitted that...

be fixed for October ]1,—,-the very latest date which on any interpretation of the Constitution could be chosen. The second elections will then come off on October 28, and the...

Ameer of Kashgar, and the most conspicuous ,Mahonamedan prince in Central Asia. He was a man of no birth, but he -suee.aeded,, while in the service of Khoja Bnaurg.Kli.an, in...

owa petard. The Queen's Bench Division has granted at his instance a rule calling on Lord Penzance to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue against him. Mr....

South, and as usual, has been feted in every town he passed through, And has had to make speeches in Dartmouth, Plymouth, and Exeter. The most important was at the last-named...

atrocities, some of which ar e palpably pure inventions, copies even in detail of the Bulgarian facts of last year ; others rest , only on Turkish authority, that is, are...

Uni- versities Bill, took a final division against clerical fellowships, and was beaten by 103 to 69, The arguments offered were not very novel, the main one in favour of the...

perhaps delighted, by the arrest of three well-known police inspector's, Palmer, Druscovich, and Meiklejohn, and a soli- citor named ,Froggatt, on a. charge of endeavouring to...

Germaoy. Baron von Ketteler, Bishop of Mayence, was a descendant. of the old Dukes of Courland, and his high birth, his ecclesiastical porfition, and his great courage gave him...

tried on Friday week. The bird, one of the homing pigeons known as "Belgian voyageurs," was tossed through the window of a railway carriage as the express train with the...

Commons on Monday to what he properly says is a scandalous state of things. He told the House that 86 prisoners, atilt untried, and by English law presumably innocent, had...

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. T HE Russians have made a very considerable advance this week. They have secured a free passage—a route which cannot be attacked—both across the Danube and...

T HE blundering over this Pigott affair must have been atrocious. The office of Controller of Stationery, worth £1,200 a year, and a residence, or allowance in lieu of...

a godsend to Ritualists of Mr. Tooth's way of thinking. But for him, they would have been reduced to maintaining that, as regards the rubrics of 1662, every priest is his own...

W E confess we scarcely understand the annoyance which the decision of the Madras Government in the " Sunyasee case" has created in India, or the excitement it has apparently...

Long Vacation will begin, and the legal year will end. We are grieved to think that it promises to end amid murmurs and grumbling, and that the complaints about the block in the...

all parts of the world which has held session in Edinburgh for the best part of a fort- night has now closed its sittings, and it is worth while for English Churchmen to strive...

W E are not about to discuss the case of the unhappy lad Gibbs, who committed suicide at Christ's Hospital to escape further persecution. He may have been virtually murdered, or...

T HE Peninsula may be divided for the purposes of what may be called vacation tours into four parts or districts,—the North-East, including Barcelona, Saragossa, Valentia, per-...

" US1C is light in darkness." This motto, written in white Ill lilies, red roses, and other brilliant flowers, was, from its combined truth and pathos, the first to catch the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—One fact is worth a hundred conjectures. Twenty-two years ago, I owed to Sir Edward Strachey'e good offices an intro- duction to Mr....

MR. MAURICE'S BIOGRAPHY. go TRU EDITOR 010 TUC SPROTATOILI you allow me to answer Mr. Footman, and through him others, of whose very natural impatience on the above sub- ject...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPEOT&TOIV] SIR,—It was not I who brought the honoured name of Mr. Maurice into controversy. I only protested against the slur which, with whatever good...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIII,—Tho mathematical principle of "Safe Betting" is con- tained in a question propounded at Cambridge in the Senate- House problems for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBOTATOR."] Sin„—In your article in last week's issue you complain that those of us who opposed the South Africa Bill upon its second reading confined...

"SPECTATOR-1 SIE,—I hope you will allow me space for a few observations respecting the system of discipline pursued in our large public schools, of which system we have seen a...

THE LIFE OF SIMON DE MONTFORT.* Mn. G. W. PROTHERO'S book is the third life of the great Earl which has been published within the last twelve months. It is a careful and...

you allow me a few words more on this subject, in case the distinction between our theories of the religious future of Scotland should prove to be one without a difference ? You...

THE digest of a Blue-book does not generally present any very attractive features to a reviewer, and we must own that it was with some inward misgiving that we set ourselves to...

Mae. OLIPHANT has taken up an entirely new line, and we con- fess that we scarcely recognise our old friend amidst her present surroundings, nor does she succeed in impressing...

to Mr. Murray. Before the publication of his English Handbooks, the traveller in England was forced to gain his information from ponderous county ,histories and from local...

The Pall of the Mogul Empire, By II. G. Keene. (Allen and Co.)— India and its history are not a very familiar, and we suspect, not a very attractive ,subjeet to most English...

Bancroft. (Alactuillan and Co.)—This is a reprint or "centenary edition" of a book which, has long been accepted, by Americans at -least, as the standard authority on the...

and Blackett.)—Most travellers feel a certain discouragement when they see at once the whole of the journey that lies before them. The long straight roads in Southern France,...

of the Incas. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Squier has already a great reputation as an explorer of American antiquities, and it will be still further increased by the complete and elaborate...

children on the earlier portions of the Four Gospels. The quality of the instruction imparted in them is decidedly above that to be found in most books written for the young,...

in some two hundred small pages, but well worth many lengthy novels. Mr. Garrett's subject is sufficiently expressed by the title of his book, and it is enough to say that he...

Co., Boston.)—This little book consists of articles which o r i g i na lly appeared in an American weekly newspaper, called The Christian Union. A remarkable feature in those...

J. Dann. (Samuel Tinsley.)—Not much can be expected, when twelve centuries or more are to be crowded within the compass of a moderate-sized octave. Still a sketch of this kind...

Howell. (Osgood, Boston, U.S.3 Triibner, Lonclon.)—One Blake, a man of prepossessing manner and appearance, makes himself agreeable to a party of ladies on the road to an...

D. Melville. (Rivingtons.)—This little volume will give much satis- faction to the wise friends of religious education. Mr. Melville pleads for a religious teaching that shall...

of the" Library Edition" of Tennyson's Poems. It contains the "Idylls of the King," and finishes with the noble lines," To the Queen" Our readers will not blame us if we quote a...

(Bos- ton, United States, Lockwood and Brooke.)—It would have been no groat loss to the English-reading public if this novel had been left in its native language. It is a very...

Tract Society.)—These meditations on what is recorded of Lazarus and his sisters are written with research, thoughtfulness, and some degree of eloquence.

Low and Co., London.)—Here we have some fifty tinted lithographs of the great exhibition of Philadelphia. It is called a "souvenir," and will serve the purpose excellently,...

American who has made his fortune in tho States goes to spend it, after the manner of his race, in Paris. His first experi- ence is to meet with a young lady of the adventurer...