questions. When he left the Foreign Office in 1880, no one thought of Africa. When he returned to it in 1885, he found all the nations of Europe effervescing with new African...

of the City of Glasgow. The Lord Provost, in presenting the Prime Minister with the certificate of his burgess - ship, pointed out that this was no party act, but a recognition...

Balfour moved new clauses in the Land-purchase Bill the object of which is to give tenants paying less than £30 a year, a share in the money advanced to purchasers, fairly...

Q UEEN NATALIE has been expelled from Servia. The Radical Government had satisfied themselves that she aspired to the Regency as natural guardian of her son, King Alexander, and...

any case.

the Chief Commissioner of Assam, were published on Saturday. They exactly confirm our article of last week. Mr. Quinton acted under instructions from head- quarters in arresting...

Wednes- day, to complain that those who dislike High Church practices in the Anglican Church are not " protected " against those practices by their present rulers. What he means...

picturesque account of the audience granted by the Emperor of China to the European Ambassadors. The Emperor, who has never before been seen by a European, is a young and slight...

Rhyl on Thursday, at the Congress of the General Association of Church-School Managers and Teachers, on the subject of Free Education. It was too ]ate, he said, to discuss the...

has carried off the heir-presumptive (after Lord Hartington) to the Devonshire dukedom, Lord Edward Cavendish, who died on Monday at Devonshire House, after a ten-days' illness....

Home-rule, and said that in cases in which it could be applied to the carrying of legislative measures for the advantage of the country without raising party questions, he was...

the present Bishop of Lichfield. It seems a modest choice, and one which will render the public loss in Archbishop Magee even more conspicuous than ever. The Bishop of Lichfield...

to work and selected his residence, with the view of grappling with the duties of a poor London diocese, when he was struck down by serious illness, which has compelled the...

may mention that the work of " Co-operation "- that is, really, of trading with capital divided into minute shares —promises to secure one benefit to Ireland. "Creameries" are...

great progress made by Sanskrit literature in India. The libraries of India have been searched, and ten thousand separate works in Sanskrit manuscript are now known. to exist....

Jews wholesale to some new habitat has been more definitely described. It is proposed, under an agreement with the Khedive of Egypt, to send half.a-million of them to .the...

Naples, is attaining proportions which disquiet both America and Italy. According to the reports from American Consuls, it will probably this year exceed 100,000 persons, entire...

in Chili, the parties lie so hard. According to the correspondent of the Times, however, who is in Santiago, President Balmaceda, whom he describes as a princely person,...

as to the] New Consols (2k) were on Friday 951 to 951. accuracy of the picture in which Mr. Calderon, R.A.., represents St. Elizabeth of Hungary as absolutely naked before the...

politics should not allow the melodramatic character of the recent incident in Servia to blind them to its serious side. Certainly, as a. mere scene, it belonged rather to the...

THE WAVERING IN SCOTLAND, AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. _Li REMARKABLE letter from Edinburgh to last Sunday's Observer illustrates very effectively what we have endeavoured to press...

T ORD SALISBURY'S short speech at Glasgow on the J chief flaw in Parliamentary government is very interesting, though he is obliged to confess that he sees no remedy for the...

T ORD SALISBURY'S view of the relation of England to the Mussulman world, which occupied a con- siderable space in his speech of Wednesday at Glasgow, is of considerable moment....

to have another Boer War in South Africa ? It looks at the present moment very like it. For months past it has been rumoured. that a large section of the Boers of the Transvaal...

by a fiction that does more credit to their hearts than to their heads, continue to call themselves " Co-operative," has been held this week at Lincoln. So far as words and...

T HE Influenza is talked about until the subject becomes tiresome ; but nevertheless, the talking cannot stop just yet. A new disease which threatens to visit us annually, and...

T HE publication of a thin volume of very graceful poems by Lord Houghton reminds us how seldom it happens that the son of a poet is himself a poet. It does happen occa-...

been given to make such a diE- covery as has fallen to the lot of Mr. T. C. Ferrer ; nor is it every one who, having made such a discovery, would have so generously hastened to...

writer of the present article happened to be living with an Englishman who had for some years made his home in the United States. He was a man of much quiet observation and...

FREE EDUCATION. [re TUB EDITOR OF TUB " SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Of town schools I cannot speak, but in the country the introduction of compulsory education—a change forced sud- denly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Probably most people will agree with you in your con- demnation of the introduction of "fads" at the time of a General Election ; but...

[To THE EDI 10E OF THE "SPECTATOR. ,. ) you allow me to accentuate and lend further force to an argument which you have already suggested in your articles on Mrs. Humphry Ward...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "srscrkTon."3 SIR, —The controversy raised by Dr. Abbott's book seems to be passing into one of personal rather than of public interest ; and I should not,...

[To THE ZDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A perusal of your fascinating article with the above heading suggests to me that there are in English poetry two or three allusions,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPSIOTAT011."] Srn,-•-In the Spectator of May 16th, Sir Henry Peto explains away, with some satisfaction, the significance of the South Dorset election,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whether the bon-mot attributed to the late Sir R. Anstruther on the subject of Dr. Magee's speech belongs to another date and another...

MR. HOLMAN HUNT'S NEW PICTURE. THE announcement, in the columns of a journal of repute,, that Mr. Holman Hunt's picture, May-Day : Magdalen Tower, " proves itself intensely...

DISRAELI AND HIS DAY.* Sin WILLIAM FRASER has compiled a very entertaining volume of anecdotes concerning Disraeli and his day, a volume, however, from which it will not be...

IF any period of American history was epoch-making, it was that included in Jefferson's two Administrations. Partly owing to external, partly to domestic events, the American...

Mn. BULLEN'S admirable skill as an editor, and his extensive knowledge of Elizabethan literature, are as visible in the reprint of this anthology as in the volumes of Lyrics....

O'Conor Dori has reared a monument in every way worthy of the ancient and illustrious house of which he is the admitted representative to-day. It runs to the length of four...

not aim at originality. His purpose is expressed on his title-page, and he has fulfilled it with great care and conscientiousness. Religion has, like dress, its fashions. And...

A Colonial Tramp : Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea. By Hume Nisbet. (Ward and Downey.)—Hume Nisbet is not a mere "globe-trotter," not one of those travellers...

Miss DOWIE, a young Scotchwoman, on the right side of five-and-twenty, as she is careful to inform us, has given to all enterprising members of her sex an infallible recipe for...

Co.)—Mr. Kevill-Davies, whose name is new to us, has produced a very clever combination of the society and sensa- tional novel. The plot of An American Widow is decidedly in-...

and Son.)—Captain Bray, who on the face of it is a novice in the art of fiction, has performed a feat calculated to rouse the envy of some of his seniors who have had years of...

Law, By Dalrymple J. Belgrave. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—The nature of the narrative material of this exceedingly lively story may be inferred from its sub-title ; and it is...

Sons.)—Gilbert Eiger is a Maryland farmer, a "Friend," but not of the very strictest kind. He loves sport better than work, and finally lets his affairs fall into confusion. His...

of the author that this tale was written in what we may call the pre-Jack- son era. Still, the change made by that curious case takes off from the effect. " Yon intend to keep...

is a tale of the Tyrol, in which the author has made the local colour so strong that it produces the impression of a translation. The author sometimes seems positively to forget...

Salisbury.)—When Dr. Moberly went to Win- chester in 1838, he began to keep "a register of boys received into Commoners." This has been continued by his successors. The editor...

by Caleb Pamely (Crosby Lockwood and Co.) ; and The Design of Structures : a Practical Treatise on the Building of Bridges, Roofs, ckc., by S. Anglin, C.E. (C. Griffin and Co.)

(Methuen.) —This is a story of the "distressful country," of the character which it is thought right that Irish stories should have now, and made more dismal by the serious...

are more than 12,500 persona who fill the position of directors of companies." For their benefit and guidance, he and his col- taborateur have put together this book. Duties,...

useful and interesting publication, which now appears for the fourth time, tells us that the year 1890 produced nothing very remarkable in the way of sales. No phenomenal...