all the week, with an injurious general effect. The Bill itself has not been much hurt, the changes not touching its principle ; but the Government has shown itself undecided,...

case.

; but the proclamation to the people, signed on the 18th inst., is much more conventional. After a fitting tribute to his father, who, "with heroic energy, prompted by Christian...

an improvement. We should greatly prefer our- selves to vest the whole control of the police—as being an essential factor in the administration of the country— in the Home...

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Emperor Frederick was buried on Monday in solemn state, but without the pomp which attended his father's funeral. He wished this himself, and it was,...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, June 30th, will be issued gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

fifty Conservative Members at the Foreign Office on Thursday ; and though he made a most urgent appeal to them to keep the strictest secrecy, several different reports of the...

of course, in a great deal of noisy con- gratulation on this great victory. The Home-rulers, he said, did well to be of a cheerful countenance. In the House of Commons he could...

of the House of Lords. The first enables the Crown to appoint three Life-Peers a year for ten years, choosing only Judges, Ambassadors, Privy Councillors who have been in the...

for taking a leading part in promoting the "Plan of Campaign," was rejected on Wednesday by the County-Court Judge, Dundalk. Immediately on the decision being given, an address...

House of Commons, on a subject which keenly interests a large number of people. The recent conversion, and the rise of all trustee stocks, has greatly embarrassed beneficiaries...

Wednesday, when he read freely from the Times and other Unionist papers, and feasted himself and. his audience on their rueful comments in relation to the defeat at Ayr. But he...

Sunday showed 31,400 for the Bonapartist candi- date, M. Gellibert de Seguins, 23,900 for M. Weiner, the Republican, and only 20,000 for M. Deroulede, the General's nominee. A...

which throws the victory at Southampton almost into the shade, as Southampton was confessedly carried in no small degree by selfish considerations affecting the commercial...

the Principles of the Established Church held its annual meeting on Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding, and certainly gave a good account of its work. The National...

the care of the National Society. This is the school at which John William Green, aged 14, was educated, who stated to the Coroner in a Blackfriars inquest on a boy found...

who could play twelve games blindfold and win them all against ordinary players, died suddenly on Wednesday morning, at the Charing Cross Hospital. On Tuesday night he was...

Orator, Professor Bryce, distinguished himself, as the Cambridge Public Orator did a week ago, in his graceful use of the language "created for the purpose of conferring...

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Department, appears to have submitted to the Commission on Education a very bold proposal for handing over education bodily to the new (and old) local bodies, and abolishing the...

candidate. All manner of names are brought forward, the most prominent being those of Senator Sherman, Mr. Gresham, and Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, the latter said to be a...

It is plainly and strongly Protectionist, making that, in fact, the one issue at this election, even if the surplus revenue can only be got rid of by repealing the taxes on...

THE CONSERVATIVE MEETING. The Liberal Unionists know that it is absurd to bring for- ward such a Bill at all and not make it honestly democratic so far as it goes. To give the...

I T would be absurd to say that the crushing defeat in the Ayr Burghs proves that Mr. Gladstone will get a majority for Irish Home-rule at the next General Elec- tion. That may...

the throne of Germany will, if he lives, modify the policy of that country and the situation of Europe, is, we think, past question. The new Emperor is too individual a person,...

W E do not quite understand where the force is which has induced Lord Salisbury to bring forward his little Bills for the Reform of the House of Lords. He is not eager for it...

W E are glad to find that the jury in the Haileybury case, after a long and most patient investiga- tion of all the circumstances, have pronounced a verdict in favour of the...

O F all the causes which, but that politicians and pub- licists do not really control history, would make reasonable men despair of a wise solution to the Irish Question, the...

I T is possibly a fortunate corrective of the growing passion for notoriety that even genuine fame is con- stantly seen to be attended by unexpected drawbacks. When the real...

G ENERAL HORACE PORTER, in his very interesting article on "The Philosophy of Courage," in the June number of the Century, uses "courage," as almost all English writers do, in...

S OME four months ago, the Bishop of Rochester presided at a clerical conference in South London, to consider the report published by the Record as to the pagan condition of...

T HE strength of the general belief in the continuousness of things which are not necessarily continuous was oddly illustrated on Monday. The Times of that day came out with a...

S PORT among the trout, which all over Britain, as we recently noted, was unprecedentedly poor last year, has remarkably improved. Reports from rivers and lakes through- out the...

FROM WHITECHAPEL TO FLORENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It was a happy thought which led some residents of Toynbee Hall to propose for their East London...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Canon Isaac Taylor's sole authority is Kral. I will, though, run over Krehrs objections, with my answers. 1. Krehl declares, with...

I-TO THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR." j was pleased to learn from your reviewer that the late- Bishop Wordsworth had commended the holding of Greek classes in In - :likely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOR.1 Six,—Your reviewer has forgotten his Carlyle when he says. that Cromwell stormed and captured every house he assaulted. Hewas repulsed from...

to answer Canon MacColl's letter, as I believe myself free from any prepossession on this sub.- ject, and have no desire to impute motives to the Canon as he does to Gibbon and...

CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS.* Tins is a remarkable book. It is an attempt to redeem poli- tical economy from the imputation of justifying all the selfish and godless actions which are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,-It may interest some of your readers to know that this book, which the reviewer in the Spectator of June 16th attri- butes to Mr....

THE NEW GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] THE most important landscape in size; and, with one excep- tion, in quality, in the present exhibition, is The First Smile of Morn," by...

may call a" Laureate" quality about much of Mr. Holmes's verse. No man seems to be so much in request among his countrymen for the task of adorning with song the sad or joyful...

THE object which M. Leon Say had in view when he wrote his interesting sketch of Turgot was to hob! 'him up not as a defeated but as a victorious man, seeing that "the...

IT is much to be regretted that an interval of three years should have elapsed between the publication of the first volume of Dr. Smith's Life of Dr. Begg, which, to some extent...

FEW books have at once so interested and so aggravated serious men in all parties in France as this autobiography, though it is nearly forty years since M. de Falloux abandoned...

IN no department of legal science have Americans made themselves a greater name than in dealing with those somewhat unsettled but progressive principles, the outcome of usage...

somewhat slight, but graceful and interesting sketches. They deal with Jehudah Halevi ; the street in Frankfort from which the house of Rothschild proceeds ; Heinrich Heine ;...

The second number of the Universal Review hardly keeps the promise of the first. The illustrations are not so good, the one preceding Mr. Freeman's article, for instance, being...

Walter Buller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. (Published by the Author at 8 Victoria Chambers, S.W.)—To many people who remember the splendid work on "The Birds of New Zealand" which was...

Langbridge. (Religious Tract Society.)—A fairly good selection of verse, and suited to the class spoken of in the preface. We notice a good many of Longfellow's, also we should...

Gertrude Muntz. (Field and Tuer.)—Of these eight tales, we select "The White Hyacinth," "Among the Chimney-Pots," and "The Enchanted Ruin" as being the prettiest. The...

Press.)—Mr. Torr follows up with this volume his in- teresting monograph on "Rhodes in Ancient Times." His plan is to divide his subject into five sections, headed respectively,...

Hall.)—Mr. Watson was anon-naturalised Scotchman, resident in Baton Rouge, and the junior partner in an engineering and saw-milling business, when the War of Secession broke...

U.S.A.)—The main portion of Mr. Sylvester's work is description of Nature. This description is somewhat too verbose. Masters of the art produce their efforts with words fewer by...

: a Popular Introduction to the Science of Language, and The Fortunes of Words. By Federico Garlanda, Ph.D. (Triibner and Co.)—Dr. Garlanda must not be trusted implicitly. He is...

Downey.) —These "hints to young householders" have been collected from articles contributed to the Lady's Pictorial, and from answers to correspondents which have appeared in...

(Macmillan and Co.)—This is an excellent book, giving in a most compact and convenient form a mass of information which will be most useful to young students, and, indeed, to...

—Mr. Blagg, in this little volume, which he has managed to bring within reasonable compass, discusses and compares precedents and decisions. These are not altogether harmonious...

Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a social satire, often pungent, and, as satires are wont to be, often unjust ; but it is smart and readable. It tells us how an amateur dramatic...

Elizabeth Robins Pennell. (Longmans.)—We see nothing about Italy in this volume. It begins at Calais, and ends abruptly not very far from Vienna, with, we suppose, the...

and Co.)—The title makes a suggestion of the character of this tale which the reader will find to be verified by the reality. It is a tale of sensations and surprises. As a...

Co.)—One of the most interesting and useful additions to the "Young Collector" series that we know of. Beginning with a chapter on "The History of Silk-Culture," as an...

'Sketch. Translated and edited by W. Hastie, B.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—The Life is interesting, for it gives us a vivid idea of a man who might have been, but for an...