They had lasted for ten days, and bad been planned in order to ascertain under what conditions a hostile fleet can maintain itself on an important trade-route, and intercept the...

P ARLIAMENT was prorogued on Monday, when a very uninteresting Queen's Speech was read by the Lord Chan- eellor,—one about as different from what her Majesty would have...

Portuguese influence in Africa has been signed, and, so far as we can judge as yet, appears to be, on the face of it, just and fairly satisfactory to both parties. The Zambesi...

case.

as the occasion,—a day of wet and gloom. Yet in the neighbourhood of the Edgbaston Oratory, the crowd must have contained some twenty thousand people. The Mass itself in the...

shifted from Buenos Ayres to Monte Video. On Saturday last, the correspondent of the Times who has done so much to put the Argentine crisis before the public in its true light,...

Light Railways (Ireland) Bill. It was not denied that the Government had introduced the Bill in deference to the wish of the Parnellite Membeis, and that it was hoped that it...

Oratory on Wednesday, when Cardinal Manning read an address commemorating his early friendship with Newman, and quoting the words he had used to him as long ago as 1861 :—"You...

the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, a breed of dogs has been discovered there specially suitable for sentry duty. The manner in which the dogs are taught their duties is...

special jury tried, or rather began to try, for the matter was ultimately settled out of Court, one of the most extraordinary cases we ever remember to have seen adjudicated on...

Rev. Sir William Cope, written on February 13th, 1875, just after Canon Kingsley's death, in which he expresses the kindliest feeling for him, and says that he was always hoping...

of the Protective policy in Italy, and its result in diminishing both the quality and the quantity of the food which the Italian poor can afford, and in stimulating artificially...

of revelations in regard to the Boulangist con- spiracy, which affirm that M. Naquet was all through the arch-tempter, and which, if true, prove that the St. Arnaud of the...

Friday 96 1 to 96i.

Dalton, an American, who swam the whole distance, or almost the whole distance, between 4 p.m. on Sunday and 3 p.m. on Monday, on his back, with his arras clasped behind him....

resolved to resign his See, and to leave Farnham Castle towards the end of the present year. Dr. Harold Browne has been Bishop of Winchester for upwards of seventeen years, and...

tion works, has just published an official paper describing how he has managed to make the Barrage on the Nile do its work, and setting forth in detail the operations connected...

made by two French aeronauts to reach the North Pole by means of balloons. The whole story reads like the first chapter of a romance by Jules Verne, but apparently M. Besancon...

invites us to retract the language used in our article of August 9th on the Gladstonian attitude towards the Government, to the effect that the Gladstonians, in speaking of...

THE USES OF THE L1JLL. I T is quite a refreshment to live through a week in which there has, so far as we know, been not a single " extra-Parliamentary" oration, and even in...

THI letters of Mr. Blaine on the Behring Sea seal- shery will no doubt be interesting to diplomatists as a finished example of how to make the worst of a fairly good cause. But...

M R. BURNS is as much too optimist in his congratu- lations to the laburers on the result of the great dock strike of last year, as our correspondent "in an Easy Chair" is, we...

process under which, ever since 1886, the Bul- THE garian Principality has been passing from the position of a Russian outpost on the road to Constan- tinople into that of a "...

W HEN to one evil there succeeds another, when to an ache of long standing there comes a new and more painful smart, one feels almost inclined to forgive the first, or even to...

France resolve themselves for the moment into the several stages of M. Carnot's journeys. Within a smaller sphere he is as indefatigable as the German Emperor. Nor is there much...

rr HE season now drawing to an end has been one of remarkable vicissitudes, alternately raising farmers' hopes to a high pitch and depressing them with fears of disaster. A bad...

to the grave on Tuesday last was the most earnest adherent of the principle of authority in religion whom our generation has produced. From his first to his latest writings, the...

A LADY, writing in one of the American magazines—the Arena—tries to determine the often-debated questions, whether literary women make good wives, and whether, as a rule, the...

T HERE was once upon a time a schoolmistress, of the very strictest and most forbidding order, who ruled this country with a rod of iron ; she it was who snatched what she...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: STRIKES-THE DANGER TO CIVILISATION-A DARK NIGHT IN LONDON. IT begins to be a somewhat appalling prospect which lies before society, not only in...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."} SOME thirty years ago, more or less, I remember reading with much incredulous amusement Sir Francis Head's " Bubbles of the Brunnen." It was...

SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE OBSTRUCTORS', [To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Having left town for the Sunday, I missed at the time an article in the Spectator of August...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—A constant reader of yours for thirty years, I may perhaps successfully claim a few inches of your space to state the...

SIR,—In your issue of August 16th, on the Passion-Play at Ober-Ammergau, it is stated that "Dean Lake and Professor Henry Smith in 1850 seem to have been almost the first...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I not only enjoy, but as a rule cordially agree with, the lucubrations of your "Correspondent in an Easy-Chair ;" but cannot allow his...

"WHO AND WHAT IS CHRIST ?"* THIS is an extremely able little essay, marked, however, by the peremptoriness and hardness, not to say scornfulness which dogmatic Roman Catholics...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I inform your correspondent that for years it has been my habit before finally engaging a servant, to say : "Now go into the...

"Da nobis veniara, Poeta magne ; A te, non tua, possurans furari." LOST, did they say of it, lost for one failure ? Lost, that a leader, a banner went down ? Nay, not always...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECiATOR. P 1 SIR,—Will you allow me most gratefully to acknowledge in your columns £5 from Miss H. Taylor, for the sufferers at Auf der Mudh ? I cannot...

often know where their real talent lies. • It is not our place here to criticise Lady Baby, which has already been favourably re- viewed in the Spectator ; but a word of...

Stuart Papers in her Majesty's possession at Windsor Castle forms, in Mr. Thornton's opinion, the main attraction of his work. Students, he thinks, will intuitively turn to that...

THE Queen of Roumania has done a good work in calling attention to this touching little volume, the pathos of which is so strangely deepened by the circumstances of the writer's...

IT is a remarkable fact, which might fittingly be classed among the "Curiosities of Literature," that the French have no poetical work quite worthy of their national heroine,...

to which it is a reply, is a republica- tion, for the most part, of essays which originally appeared in one of the magazines. Dr. Lightfoot's attack is certainly unmerciful. He...

The Universal Review for August 15th contains several interesting papers. The proposal to alter wages by Act of Parliament is strongly opposed by Mr. Bradlaugh, who, while in...

Chambers, Westminster.)—These leaflets contain, as usual, some curious matter. Probably every subject touched on in them has been more or less fully discussed in the Spectator;...

H. Allen and Co.)—These are described as "stories for children." Some of them are certainly unsuited for any such purpose,—the "Story of a Bookworm," for instance. Others are...

Houston adds to her account of the Rev. John Mitford (the person described by the title of " Sylvanus "), a short memoir of her father, the eminent naturalist, Edward Jesse....

—Mr. Burnand has collected here a considerable portion of his contributions to Punch during the last twenty-five years. Taken in small quantities, these humours of foreign...

(Dawson Brothers, Montreal.)—The Canadian Royal Society is not devoted, as its namesake of England, to science. The first paper in this volume deals with the end of the French...

a well-written and interesting story. The heroine, one Joanna, daughter of a certain ne'er-do-weel, Martin- dale by name, is a character vigorously drawn, and true, we think, to...

tale enforces the moral that we are not to judge by appearances, but enforces it with a novel application. A certain Blanche Fellows is a very pretty girl, and because she is...