week, at the office of the Liberal Unionist Association, when Lord Hartington addressed them, denying that the Liberal Unionists had the slightest desire to dictate to the...

in the discussion of Mr. A. Acland's amendment, which proposed to apply the produce of the new spirit-duties to educational purposes. Mr. Caine contended that the licensing...

T HE details of an Anglo-German agreement as to the dis- tribution of East Africa were officially published on Tuesday both in Berlin and London. The document is not yet...

Pasha's satrapy " Equatoria," for the name would have exactly described the dominion of the British East Africa Company. " Mackin- nonia," we fear, will not do, but " Cecilia"...

Emperor with enthusiasm. They are aware that Heligo- land is nothing, but declare that they can see the British flagstaff from Cuxhaven—a bold metaphor, as the distance is...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, .Tune 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

William Harcourt, Mr. W. H. Smith explained that while Lord Hartington had rightly supposed that the Government were willing to grant a Committee of Inquiry into compensation to...

Local Taxation Bill, a vehement discussion arose about Lord Hartington's indication at the Liberal Unionist meeting on Friday, that a Committee of Inquiry was to be appointed on...

desire simply to badger the Government out of all patience and self-control, a strategy which fortunately did not succeed. The first dead-set was made upon Mr. Balfour with...

on Thurs- day, the Ascot Cup day. A five-lined whip had been issued for half-past 4, but nobody supposed that any division would be taken till half-past 5. After question-time,...

half-past 7, but intimated that, if members of the minority hung back from taking part in the debate, they could not complain of him for allowing the Closure after they had in...

police recently discovered that the fortress-palace of Gatschina had been undermined by the Nihilists. That does not sound true, as undermining requires time, opportunity, and...

Smith's proposed Standing Order, declaring that so great a change should not be made until the subject had been examined into by a Select Committee. Next, Mr. Labouchere, in...

Note, believed to be serious, demanding the recognition of Prince Ferdinand. In this note, X. Stambouloff declares that the Turkish Government has delayed recognition for five...

de Rugat (Valencia) and some neighbouring villages, has greatly alarmed both Spain and France. The disease, whether sporadic or not, has been spreading since the middle of May,...

and Austria-Hungary by the military demands for money, and this week that alarm has been accentuated. The Austrian Minister of War, in a moment of over- confidence, informed the...

new type. His nominee for North Donegal is Mr. Rochfort Maguire, a Protestant, who took a double-first at Oxford, went to South Africa, and managed the negotiations between the...

have no rights at all. Mr. Blaine actually pub- lishes the following letter to a citizen of Maine who had sug- gested that to remit the duty on sugar would help to deplete the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97* to 9714

Mr. Monro will probably withdraw his resignation. As we have said elsewhere, we do not see' why he should not ; and he may assist, as he is very popular, in calming the agita-...

depositors in the Savings - Banks connected with the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Railway Companies. It is called in the newspapers a speech on "thrift," but it was hardly...

at once of astuteness and civil courage, has secured for his country a great triumph in Eastern Africa. The key to the position there is the island of Zanzibar. Any maritime...

THE CRISIS IN THE COMMONS. T HE Opposition appear to us to be forgetting the wise maxim of all conflict,—not to lose your head, and not to alienate the sympathy you have gained...

T T is an expedient time, we think, to remind our readers of what this Government, considered as a Govern- ment and not as an instrument for passing a single Bill of third-rate...

T HE easiest arrangement of the personal difficulty in the Police Force would probably be for Mr. Monro to withdraw his resignation, and for Mr. Matthews to accept the...

been consulted, and the more generously they had from Mr. Matthews's speeches in the House, that he is been treated by him,—and of still greater astonishment willing to be as...

through the second reading in the Lords of a Bill to amend the law relating to insurances on the lives of children. The objects of the Bill are two,—to limit the sum for which...

M SS ALFORD'S success in the Classical Tripos following so closely on Miss Fawcett's Senior Wranglership, and two other less brilliant Wranglerships gained by women, :makes it...

WE wonder if Mr. Charles Bryant, whom we assume to the well-known mineralogist and jeweller, is quite- as confident as in his letter, published in Monday's Standard, he...

NOTES OF A PILGRIMAGE. V.-GALILEE. IT was from the little Latin hospice built in commemoration of Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal on one of the peaks of Carmel,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the Spectator of the 14th inst., an anonymous. correspondent calls in question my statement and your own,_ that the greater...

THE NEW HEAT OF PARTISANSHIP. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta.,—Home-rule has at least this Evangelical characteristic, that it divides households and families as...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—I cannot help thinking that there is something ques- tionable in the story of Ryder,' the elephant, quoted by you from Colonel...

[To Tax EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The conclusions of your excellent article of the 7th, .entitled "M. Daudet on Evolution," have been anticipated by Lord Tennyson in the...

[To THE EDITOR Ol TaI " EPECTATOR."1 SIB,—Your criticism of the Gordon statue as it stands in the Academy is just. As it stands in the Barrack Square at Chatham, facing the arch...

A VISION OF SOUND. RUSH of waves ! where waters meet : Roll of wheels along the street ! Clatt'ring hoofs that nearer come, Barking dogs that guard their home !...

GEORGE BUCHANAN, HUMANIST AND REFORMER.* OF the many eminent men that Scotland has produced, the- name of one only of those born before the eighteenth century - is known beyond...

readers on perusing the Early Diary of Miss Burney would probably separate itself into three distinct expressions,—firstly, a feeling of gratified surprise at finding a diary so...

monument of the genius of American , enterprise. It is an extremely careful edition of Bagehot's works in five handsome volumes, corrected (perhaps a little over-corrected) by a...

THE "Badminton Library " continues to maintain its encyclo- pa3dic character. The services of experts are secured without stint, one may suppose, of expense, and every subject...

TEBBE can be no doubt that this tragedy would be very effective on the stage. And so thought the Committee of the Thekre Francais, when in the year 1888 they read it and...

A bon-mot, to which fate has since added an ironical comment, has been attributed to the ex-Emperor of Brazil. On being shown one of those mechanical wonders which always...

of Recent Hypotheses Concerning It. By St. George Mivart, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S. (Kagan Paul.)—This book marks another stage in the controversy between the author and Mr. Romanes...

is some powerful writing in this book. A reader may well be in doubt—possibly the author wishes to leave him in doubt—whether emancipation is, indeed, a good thing for woman....

By far the most significant article in the Universal Review for this month is from the pen of Count Tolstoy,. on " Marriage, Morality, and Christianity." It affords a striking...

are, of course, the old opposites, " Love " and " Duty," which are represented, indeed, on the cover, in deplorably diverse directions. Margaret Aylmer is the daughter of a...

Salmon6. 2 vols. (Triibner and Co.)—Mr. Sahuone claims con- siderable advantages for his Dictionary. First is its moderate size,—and, indeed, it is not larger than the medium "...

Literary Institution. Compiled by Members of the Committee. (Printed for the Library by the Women's Printing Society.)—This Cata- logue has more than a local value, and seems...

number is the first of a series of articles on " Charing Cross to St. Paul's." The illustrations are reproductions of pen- and-ink drawings by Mr. Joseph Pennell. They have been...

Downey.)—If an author determines to give his novel an autobiographical form, it would be as well not to make the autobiographer so thorough a scoundrel as Harold Stanton. Not...

Slavonic in the University of Oxford. (Fisher 17nwin.)—This book is, as its author claims, something more than a compilation. It is a careful study of the rise and progress of...

and Marshall.)—Mr. Bowles writes himself " Master-Mariner," and, we doubt not, can sail a yacht to perfection. But this does not imply that he is - wise in matters beyond his...