and its reasons, come out with perfect clearness in Lord Salisbury's speech of Thursday at Scarborough. He does not intend to propose a campaign in the Soudan, or even a further...

days, in which some valuable hints may be found. He pointed out, for instance, that it would pay Scarborough much better to endure increased Naval Estimates than to be looted by...

story of the capture of Stanley and Emin Pasha. It is asked how it happened that the news of so grave an event did not fly southwards as well as northwards, and why the Mahdi...

any case.

he was guilty of one imprudence. He hopes, and avows his hope, that there may never be anything to break his affiance with the Liberal Unionists, but he repeated again his...

months ago designated Colchester as the best and most trustworthy of political barometers. If so, the omen of Tuesday's election is indeed favourable to the Unionist cause. Lord...

T HE attack on the dervishes besieging Suakin has succeeded. General Grenfell has made good soldiers of the black regiments in Egyptian service, and on Thursday at daybreak he...

the register, and the adoption of the principle of "One man, one vote," as the condition sine rid non of an efficiently Glad- stonian Parliament. You must sharpen your blunt...

during the week. The Government, after some hesita- tion, on Saturday brought in a Bill authorising it to delay payment of its obligations during three months. In this time,...

has made within the last year, at Limehouse Town Hall last Saturday, by way of endeavouring to convert London to Home-rule. He referred to the retirement of Lord Hartington and...

The statesmen are acknowledging openly that the struggle lies between the Republic and General Boulanger, and that the latter is a danger. The Times' correspondent in Paris even...

com- mercial failure of the century, is tremendous ; but it is broken by three facts. The peasantry do not even Yet believe that M. de Lesseps can be beaten; and there is,...

peasantry, inflamed partly by rumours of the King's designs, and partly by promises as to the tenure, have decided as a body for the Radical Party ; and out of 402 Members sent...

new forcing to the front of Radical cries,—such as "One man, one vote," Disestablishment in Scotland and Wales, the enfranchisement of leaseholds, free education, &cc. He...

came off on Friday week, and ended in a nearly unanimous resolution to support the Government policy. This policy, as described by Count Herbert Bismarck, is to support the...

has apparently passed under religious influence. A Mussulman Prince, when repentant, usually wishes to kill somebody, either wine-drinkers, or smokers, or, in the Wahabee...

on Friday 961 to 961‘.

Service on Thursday, and made a ringing speech in praise of his hosts, whose merits, he said, are little recognised by the public. They were supposed not to work hard, but "he...

the House of Commons, we have said enough elsewhere ; but his speech as a whole was a very impressive one,— especially his demonstration that an Irish Legislature could not...

defence of Suakin, which ended in nothing, and was important only because it turned upon a suggestion repeatedly put forward that it would be possible to negotiate with the...

taking the chair at the meeting summened to hear Lord Hartington, was one of those remarkable efforts in terse, lucid, and judicial exposition of which he is certainly by far...

SlJAKIN. G ENERAL GRENFELL was right, and the Govern- ment right in supporting him. Whatever the Egyptian regiments may be like—and we hear nothing definite of their...

M R GLADSTONE'S speech at Limehouse has more of the old spring and elasticity in it than any of his speeches at Birmingham. He was playfully satirical on the Unionists for...

T HE Panama Canal will, we believe, be cut, because it is wanted, because it has fired the imagination of two continents, and because, though it may never pay the cutters, it...

W HAT makes Lord Derby's verdict on this question of Home-rule so weighty, is not either its lucidity of expression or its perfect moderation of tone, but the fact that it...

T ORD HARTINGTON did a service to the country on I Tuesday in devoting a considerable part of his speech at Liverpool to the gravest of our constitutional troubles, the immense...

read by Mr. Giffen before the Statistical Society on Tuesday has two aspects,—a scientific and a popular. It is in the latter aspect only that we propose to deal with it. Many...

Royal Agricultural Society last week, contained a reference to the results of an inquiry instituted at the request of the Society by the Agricultural Depart- ment of the Privy...

M R. MORLEY'S politics do not use him up or wear him out. He has seldom written anything fresher or more vigorous than the essay on Wordsworth which he has prefixed to...

A NOTION, it is said, is spreading in France that President Carnot, an ordinary man to look at of the half-military type, has the Evil Eye. He stares, it seems, rather fixedly...

ONDON, besides its size, its population, its wealth, and its innumerable objects of interest, is distinguished by being the only capital in Europe that does not possess a class...

THE STRENGTH OF THE RA.BSBITRGS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I read with much interest the article in your issue of December 6th, headed "The Strength of the...

SIR,—Sympathising as I do with your opinion of Mr. Llewelyn Davies, I cannot admit that the Broad Church party has been unfairly :neglected in "the higher regions" of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—The elections for County Councils are bringing pro- minently to the front a very interesting fact,—which is, that the small householder...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I suggest that, in your article on the subject of patronage in the Church, you have overlooked an important point ? You take no...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — The picture of "The Sale of the Pet-Lamb," referred to by your correspondent in the Spectator of December 15th, was by William...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Most thoroughly as I agree with your severe criticism of the "stony griefs" verse in Mrs. Adams's well-known hymn, "Nearer to Thee," I...

THOUGH age to age has handed down the tale, Since first the Grecian shaped it into song, Of Itys slain and Philomela's wrong, I, listening to thy music, Nightingale, Hear not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — It might be of interest to some of your readers to know that the University of Orford not long ago appointed a small committee (of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I quite agree with your correspondent, "E. J. E.," in the Spectator of December 15th, that there is some danger that in a Colony like...

OUR CHILDREN. I LOOKED at the happy children Who gathered around the hearth ; So blithe they were, no children Could happier be on earth ; With their merry plays, and their...

STATE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. BRYCE'S book is too big. It is an admirable book in many ways, full of the nutriment of fact, and of just observa- tions...

"ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY, meeting Mr. Lonsdale, then the Principal of King's College, said to him,—' That chaplain of yours is a very pig-headed man,'—' Yes,' replied Lonsdale, with...

A LITTLE poem, this, but dealing with great mysteries, and one which will commend itself to those who, like Milton's fallen angels, love to reason of- " Providence,...

A LITTLE more than four months have passed since General Philip Sheridan died. The publication of his Memoirs has followed hard upon the heels of his funeral. Perhaps he had a...

IF the opinion of the civilised world is to be reckoned as an important factor in the Home-rule controversy, then most assuredly the criticisms passed upon Ireland and Irish...

THE qualities demanded by the humorous reciter in the poetical items of his repertory are of so essentially ephemeral a character, that it is a welcome surprise to find . in a...

GIFT-BOOKS. Tunes for Tots. By Anne Finch Hatton. (Hatchards.)—Here we have the words of twenty-four nursery rhymes set to music. Among them are such old favourites as "Little...

an encyclopEedic age, it is certainly an age of encyclopmdias. Just as the latest edition of the Encyclopxdia Britannica is completed, a new edition of Chambers's Encyclo-...

Pyle. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a capital story. Otto is the son of a Robber Baron, who, turned from his evil ways by his sorrow at his wife's death, makes his submission to...

Illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. (Macmillan.)—This very handsome volume is a reprint of articles which appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine. We may...

a "series of biographies of those Saints for which proper Collects, Ep■stles, and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer." There are twenty in all,—viz., the Twelve...

Second edition, revised. (Routledge and Sons.)—After an interval of about ten years, Miss Edwards sends out a cheaper edition of this interesting book. To say that it is the...

Bajon. With a Brief Memoir and Notes. By F. G. Stephens. (Seeley and Co.)—M. Rajon died, in the prime of his powers, last June, of an attack of pleurisy contracted at the burial...

at most three, characters in them, so that the company would not be diffi- cult to manage; and the plays themselves are fairly amusing. The illustrations, by E. L. Shute, are...

Alfred C. Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—We have the compiler's assurance for the truth of this story. Interesting it certainly is. ' Toots ' tells us about his ancestors, who came...

Robert Hall, the hero of the first story, is a genuine boy. It is very boy- like, for instance, to say, after mentioning his hopes of being a station-master,—" I do not see what...

Innes.)—This is one of the most entertaining little books that has ever come in our way. Little Willie, the hero of the story, is a quite delightful child. Not that any rational...

Wilson. With a new Introduction. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—The letterpress and illustrations of this volume originally appeared in" Pic- turesque Palestine." Sir Charles Wilson has...

bright and lively, though often rather thin papers. It begins with a. curious article on "The Progress of Man," which we should be half-inclined to attribute to some follower of...

H. C. O'Neill and. Edith A. Barnett. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an admirable little handbook for nurses. Not that any handbook can teach the art of nursing any better than a...

(Ward and Downey.)—These fairy-tales are sufficiently amusing, though they are not improved by the atrocious puns with which they are besprinkled. Some, surely, of these...

Co.) —Carl Linnaeus, whose family name, changed by the pastor, his father, was Sugemar, was born in 1707, and died, worn out in mind, in 1778. On the whole, he seems to have led...

Humphrey Ward, MA. (Fine Art Society.)—The illustrations to this volume consist of thirty full-page reproductions in litho- graph of drawings by Mr. Fulleylove, and of ten...

(Seeley and Co.)—The illustration of Milton's Minor Poems was a cherished scheme of Samuel Palmer ; and his son gives in the preface to this volume a very interesting account of...

very pretty and useful Pocket-Books, bound in russia and in crocodile skin,—and of their concise Diaries in several sizes. All are executed with the finish for which Marcus Ward...