With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, Tune 29th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

T HE immense naval spectacle prepared by the German Emperor at Kiel has passed off without any external hitch. No accident has occurred to any one of the vast fleet of more than...

Mr. GImistone had been relieved from the responsibility of his pair with Mr. Villiers at his own request, because he did not wish to be bound by it during the discussions in...

off, as far as the German Emperor was concerned, magnificently well. The Hohenzollern,' with his Majesty on board, steamed from the entrance on the Elbe to the debouchure in...

any case.

of Conservative and Constitutional Associations to the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Chamberlain, at the Hotel Metropole, —Lord Londonderry in the chair,—at which the Duke of...

a statue to Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Justin McCarthy opposed it on the ground that Cromwell had been a deter- mined enemy of the Irish people,—was indeed to them what the Duke of...

showing that he considers himself the ally, or at all events the patron, of the French Government. Within two days of the speech of M. Hanotaux, in which the French Minister for...

United States to leave the settlement of the currency "platform " to the Conventions which next year will draw up the programmes to be maintained by the two parties at the...

on Welsh Disestablishment, was the majority of 7 registered on Thursday, when Mr. D. A. Thomas moved to omit the subsection of Clause 6, providing that the Welsh Commissioners...

of the Government ignorance as to Irish feeling. The Ministers felt surprise that the memories of two hundred and fifty years still rankled in their breasts; but "any one who...

Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill, have been certainly very considerable, and we should hardly think at all to Mr. Asquith's taste. On Monday Mr. Asquith consented to push back...

Clerkenwell Town Hall, declared that among the many castles in the air which he builds for that day when he shall be released from office—" a day which, if I may listen to...

vote of the House. The Daily Chronicle, the day after the adverse decision, accepted the suggestion that it should start a public subscription. Its next issue, however, con-...

Committee which is now considering the new Factory Bill. The Government proposed to put laundries regularly under the Factory Acts. Mr. Matthews proposed instead a much more...

the coalition which supported the Ministry, and the Premier, Prince Windischgratz, has, consequently, resigned. The resignation has been accepted, and Count Kielmansegg, a...

of faction than the last. The ultra-Conservatives have allied themselves with the ultra-Liberals to attack Signor Crispi, and on June 19th, when he rose to reply, he was met by...

peasantry is given in a story now current in Ireland. A man appeared in Kerry, and gave himself out as a murderer. He was received with open arms, and obtained shelter and...

has forwarded to the Ambassadors of the three Powers a second answer, in which the Sultan accepts the reforms required of him "in principle," but reserves his own full rights of...

New Consols (2) were on Friday, 104

THE SCENE AT KIEL. I N the eyes of the German Emperor, the ceremonial of Thursday on the opening of the Baltic Canal must have seemed an almost overpowering success. He had...

I T is funny to notice how eager the supporters of the Government are to vindicate their right to call the- Government a " remnant " of Mr. Gladstone's political manufacture. On...

now just twenty-seven. We all of us think often of the German Kaiser, and watch his course sometimes with admiring interest, sometimes with amusement and sur- prise ; but even...

yesterday week the terms of the new Unionist Alliance, said very justly that it did not appear to him a matter of much importance what that alliance was to be called so long as...

except, perhaps, our own, which may, and we incline to think will, produce great economic consequences. The Governments are at their wits' end not for money, for they can still...

statues is a wholly mistaken one, most assuredly the capital should contain a statue of the Lord Protector of the Liberties of England. Cromwell's fame and glory cannot of...

A LTHOUGH Lord Salisbury's speech at the annual meeting of the National Society is more than a week old, it is worth returning to both for the importance of its subject, and for...

C ERTAINLY this is an age in which the imagination plays greater tricks with the sentiments of man than any of which we have ever read. That men should seek sympathy in worship,...

M R. BALFOUR, in resisting the vote for a statue to Oliver Cromwell, may have had at the back of his mind some of the feeling of the old Tories that the Protector, however...

V ISITORS to the Zoological Gardens and the Natural History Museum have doubtless sought some explanation of the monstrous skeleton of the iguanodon recently set up in the...

June 8th, for " Dr. R. Harley, F.R.S.," read " Dr. George Harley, F.R.S."]

A VICEROY'S VISIT TO SOUTH KERRY AND ITS HOTELS. IRELAND, like the poor, is ever with us ! It usurps the time and patience of the House of Commons, and proves a serious...

TRAMPS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] excellent article on "Tramps," in the Spectator of Jane 8th, and the letter of Mr. Arnold White in that of Jane 15th, open a most...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I give another instance of a dog's fidelity to a dead master ? The curate of a parish adjoining mine in the Vale of Evesham, having...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR; It must be a quarter of a century since Greyfriars' Bobby' blazed the comet of a season. The authorised version of the story is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In your brief mention of the meeting of subscribers to the London Library in the Spectator of June 15th, you throw out a suggestion...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—This episode in the life of an Australian bird, received in a letter from Queensland, may be interesting to your readers :—" Since...

AT BRADFIELD. [JUNE, 1895.] RINGED with the cool bright green of English trees,. Beneath a. heaven of gracious English blue, They sang the numbers of Euripides ; Sang of old...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Your article on " The Emotion of Grief in Animals," in the Spectator of June 15th, leads me to send you an account of what happened to...

IN MR. STEVENSON'S SAMOA,- IT would be idle to deny that the chief interest of Miss Fraser's book is the connection which its title implies, and that its main attraction for the...

with the technical question raised; it remains to treat of the merits of the exhibition he gives us as a display of imagination. We use that word because it hits the defect of...

The Portsmouth Road and its Tributaries ought to be a very entertaining book. Nothing is in the abstract more interesting than a great road,—a human river which has run for...

why Mr. Gilbert Burgess has raked out the ashes of a forgotten love-story from the great dust-heap of literature where they quietly reposed. The book he has edited is a reprint...

not even Mr. Llewelyn Davies, who would usually be reckoned the most prominent among Mr. Maurice's disciples in this country, has entered so thoroughly into the method of the...

English Men of Letters : Scott ; Burns; Coleridge. (Macmillan and Co.) —This is a reprint of three of Mr. John Morley's "English Men of Letters " in a single volume,—namely,...

Tan first peculiarity of the Attic political system which pre- sents itself to the student, is the excessive multiplication of public offi , ies and officials, which ultimately...

mans.)--Dr, Baker is the chief of one of the most successful of our great classical schools. He lets us here into one of the secrets of his art, for he shows us that when he has...

the deceased wife's sister should be over A Japanese Marriage (A. and C. Black), for it is a bright and spirited story, full of colour and incident, and its author, Mr. Douglas...

of that section of present-day fiction which depends upon mystery and "incident" It is, indeed, so painstaking a per- formance, from the literary point of view, that the...

Bombay.)—This volume will be found to be one of no small interest. We know pretty well how Indian persons and things appear to European observers ; here, for a change, we have...

volume, one of "The Heroes of the Nations" Series, is excellent throughout. Mr. Strachan-Davidson takes a moderate and rational course in estimating Cicero's character. The man...

By the Rev. Alexander Wright, M.A. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This book is something between a manual and a pamphlet, as its author confesses to have written it with...

Everything in Mr. Morley's tale is ordered according to the strictest poetical justice. Mr. Albert Melville engages himself to Miss Violet Oaklands. He goes to Australia to look...

together. These are The Art of Thomas Hardy, by Lionel Johnson (John Lane), to which the publisher has added a bibliography, carefully compiled by himself ; and The Work of John...

interesting preface, from which we gather, among other things, that in the matter of book-values there is a certain increase of sanity in mankind. It is possible, he thinks,...

By the Rev. Norman L. Walker, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This is a book which, both on account of its general character and of the standpoint from which it is...

pletely revised—of Dr. John Mackintosh's History of Civilisation in Scotland (Alex. Gardner) covers a series of most interesting periods, the union of the Crowns, the...

and Sons.)—These " Rambles in Eastern England" make a pleasant, readable book. The writer starts from Norwich, for which her synonym—she is good at synonyms, to which she adds...