T HERE is an armistice between Turkey and Greece, which in the beginning of the week seemed to be improbable. The Sultan, frightened, it is said, by the temper of the Army,...

THE SULTAN AND THE CZAR. T HE height to which the Sultan has risen, and the depth of the humiliation to which the Concert has led Europe, may be measured by the words of the...

I T is probable that the majority of Sovereigns, and of Ministers too, become in old age, if they are tolerably successful men, rather reactionary in opinion. Alexander II. of...

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT told the National Liberal Club on Wednesday night that in social gatherings he holds " nothing more noxious than speaking," but as that remark was the...

T HE long-expected code telegrams have at last been deciphered and read by the Committee. Though they are of a highly personal and sensational character, they cannot be said to...

T HIS day in next month will be the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and it seems to be expected that at least the greater part of the month will be given to preparations for the great...

the arrangements for the Queen's Jubilee is the proposal for what the popular voice describes as " the Princess's Dinner." We do not ourselves like the idea of the service...

Church Beggars," which Lady Gwendolen Cecil introduces to the world in Wednesday's Times, is admirable. It is " to diminish the number of charity bazaars and entertainments."...

A CORRESPONDENT, whose letter we print in another column, suggests that the enigma of the terrible catas- tophes which so often eclipse the faith or startle the con- sciences of...

T HERE is an alteration in the English temper which we wish we were able more clearly to understand. We have called it at the head of this article an "increase of callousness,"...

T HE hobby, our "summer falcon," was formerly a rare bird in most parts of England. Recently, owing to the feeling against killing down our raptorial birds, it has _much...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPIACTATOR."] SIR,—May I point out one rather important omission in your most excellent article on the proposals of the Church Reform League, an article...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB, — Do you not think that their may be another answer to the persistent queries in our mind as to the cause, the ulti- mate cause I mean,...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:"] SIR, — May I be allowed to offer a suggestion with reference to the bonfire celebration fixed for June 22nd P It seems to me that, as the...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMITTEE. [To THE EDITOR or THY " SPICTATOR."] Sin,—I notice in the Spectator of May 15th the following comment on any evidence before the South African Com-...

PLOUGHING. awe on the crest of the upland a ploughman stands with his horses, Figures of sculptured bronze they appear on the saffron sky- line; Low is the sun in the west, but...

THE ACADEMY.—LL MR. ABBEY'S Hamlet (No. 477) is an oasis in the desert of dreary realism and academic dullness which comprises the greater part of the pictures at the Academy....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The importance you ascribe to this measure is scarcely borne out by facts and possibilities. If no other ports were open to...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICTATOS."1 SIR,—In your exceedingly kind notice of my book in the Spectator of May 15th I read a sentence which convinces me that on one important point...

[TO THY EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:I SIR,—Those of your readers possessing the Spectator for the year 1882 may feel interest in referring to your article in the number for...

WILD NORWAY.* THERE is a freshness about this book which most recent works on Norway lack. Mr. Abel Chapman's Wild Spain owed much of its popularity to the pleasure with which...

MR. CLEMENT SCOTT has conquered for himself a consider- able name in the world of wandering journalism. " Here, there, and everywhere" might be the motto of his wheel of life,...

A VOLUME with this attractive title and published by a daughter of Hawthorne is likely to be widely read, and whether for praise or blame, cannot be passed by unnoticed. In our...

Pacata Hibernia is of very great value, and is not unfamiliar to earnest students of Irish history. It deals entirely with the province of Munster, and embraces a period of...

thought fit to publish this record of his father. The notion that any blame or doubt still clings to the name of " Redan " Wind- ham in the mind of any sensible person is, we...

book without much increased re- spect for Shakespeare's genius, as shown by his rejection of the greater number of the legends and stories there cited, it is not because the...

and Bradley, Philadelphia.)—This little fairy-story gives an apt illustration of the difference between the American and the English child. The book may be compared to the...

and Co.) ; and Lady Cycling, by Miss T. J. Erskine (Walter Scott and Co.)—These two volumes form very practical additions to the rapidly growing literature of cycling. Miss...

Mrs, Workman. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Whether Mr. and Mrs. Work- man have proved that for good riders a bicycle tour is the pleasantest way in which to see Spain must remain a little...

In the Land of Tolstoi. By Jonas Stadling and Will Reason. (James Clarke and Co.)—This is an account (translated from the original Swedish by Will Reason) of the Russian famine...

account of the author's mountaineering experi- ences, part of which were with Sir W. M. Conway, is fashioned out of very slender materials. It is readable, especially those...

an addition to the family dinner-table ; but Mr. Edward Spencer has seen fit to dilute his book with such masses of anec- dote that its perusal is singularly barren of results....

better than explain the method in which this very interesting volume has been put together than by quoting the prefatory note :—" The plan of this book is to mark, as far as...

Pearson.)—Mr. Frankfort Moore does not want for courage. Most people would think twice, even thrice, before venturing to introduce Samuel Johnson except as a persona meta. Not...

memorates does not contain a more notable name. James Simpson was the son of the village baker at Bathgate, in Lin- lithgowshire ; his mother was of Huguenot extraction. It was...

is a very skilfully told, but also very painful, story of a saintly country girl who falls in love with, and is finally thrown aside—though not ruined in the odious sense—by, a...

Plans and Illustrations. (Sampson Low and Co.)—These chapters are, we understand, amplified lectures, and are certainly well worth printing. Major May has made his analysis of...

Co.)—A. certain Alexander Stroganoff, a boyar of the Russian Empire, tells na the story of his life and the intimate connection it had with the character of Ivan the Terrible. A...

is a sufficiently pleasant and agreeably written story, but Miss Munro-Ferguson shows in it no signs of making progress in the art of the novelist. Both in style and in plot it...

story, which in many respects is not more in- credible than most novels of the kind it belongs to, is spoiled by onehideous—and, it is to be hoped, hideously incredible...

the character of this story, it is not quite clear why its author should have given it the title of a "romance." It is rather a medley in which love and roguery, the plotting of...

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