that if " all " landlords are to be paid off, which is promised, " all " land- lords may ask for payment, and, as Lord Selborne has shown in his weighty letter of Friday...

M R. GLADSTONE on Friday week explained his Land- purchase scheme, in a speech which must have been curiously unlike his usual speeches. Read carefully, it is lucid enough ; but...

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was emphasised more than once—to claim from the Treasury a certain amount of Consols at par. This amount is to be twenty years' purchase of the "net rental,"—that is, the...

They form bands under leaders who claim to belong to the family of Alompra, and occasionally show extreme audacity. On Thursday se'nnight, for example, they fired Man- delay...

He says the present unsatisfactory condition of the relations between labour and capital is largely due to the " grasping and heedless exactions of the employers," as well as...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which, will be devoted to Advertisements. The Sixteenth....

Newcastle on Wednesday night, on the Irish policy of the Government. Lord Spencer's speech was manly, but, like all converts, he was disposed to go too far in his new creed. He...

held on Wednesday, with Mr. Schnadhorst in the chair. The subject of discussion was the Home-rule Bill, and it was soon apparent that the Association intended to do a very...

speech at Glasgow against the Irish policy of the Government. He• professed his sincere faith in Mr. Gladstone's earnestness and sincerity and "juvenile enthusiasm," but said...

he would rather go out of politics altogether than vote for it ; but on the Home-rule Bill he was, in form at all events, more doubtful. We do not think he is doubtful, for he...

England, made a speech to his constituents in Liverpool on Wednesday, full of ability and of the self-restraint which his party is just now showing. He spoke of Mr. Chamberlain...

sees very clearly indeed the difficulty of doing anything except what the Government are doing. He regards their line of policy as the line of least resistance ; but that is the...

M. Pasteur's inoculations to prove that he has discovered a real protection against hydrophobia, we do not know of any in which the symptoms of hydrophobia had been fairly...

held in Exeter Hall last Friday week, the 16th inst., and attended by members from all parts of the country, Lady Frances Balfour read a paper on the work of the Travellers' Aid...

grave apprehensions are still entertained of war between Greece and Turkey, and it is certain that M. Delyannis keeps on increasing the force on the frontier, and that the...

Stry, in Galicia, was on the 17th inst. totally destroyed by fire, and seven thousand people rendered homeless. Only one or two buildings were saved, and the wretched people,...

St. James's Hall on Thursday, to support the Home-rule measure of the Government. His speech was of the kind which we expect from Mr. Labonchere. He was very sarcastic about the...

may be dying in the House of Commons. In December last the American ship Cleopatra ' was descried by Captain Hughes, of the Liverpool steamer 'Lord Gough,' near the St. George's...

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THE LAND-PURCHASE BILL. M R. GLADSTONE'S Land-purchase Scheme is a bad one. We write the words with regret, for we entirely agree with him that, owing to the past history of...

T HE tendency of modern Liberalism, and especially, as we think, of modern Democracy, is towards Constitutional pedantry. Home-rule for Ireland means, if it means any- thing, a...

U NDOUBTEDLY Lord Spencer's Newcastle promises will have a much greater effect upon the average political mind, than any other element in his manly but strangely optimist...

T HE weakest point in the position of those who resist the Home-rule Bill is the tendency they betray to split into sections, which may work together when the testing-hour...

r ERE is no nuisance in a recently annexed province equal to a Special Correspondent who does his duty, and has to report by telegraph. He cannot report anything but dis-...

T HE excitement of this Session, when we are thrown back against our wills to defend first principles, which many of us had supposed were finally settled, makes all more ordi-...

T O those who live, as we do, in a revolutionary age, it is an immense consolation to find that some institutions are still founded on a rock. The integrity of the United...

M R. IRVING, in his speech on behalf of the Dramatic and Musical Sick Fund, made a complaint that Music is treated as the spoiled child of the Fine Arts, while the Drama is...

W E are not about to discuss the evidence in the Bartlett case. Twelve journalists, if they saw the witnesses, and were not too impatient to hear out the evidence, would, we...

T HE world was learning much, and thinking more, and stirring with fresh wonder. And there came to it a Teacher well assured. His sight was swift and keen. But its range was...

GENEROUS POLITICS. LT0 THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You are no doubt right in believing that the appeal to the simple democratic sentiment in behalf of...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIH,—I think it was Mr. Shaw-Lefevre who a few months ago, after describing in one of the Reviews the two possible plans of Home-rule—the...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Perhaps you may find space in your columns for the -enclosed extracts from articles on the Ulster linen trade, pub- lished in the Belfast Morning News,...

[To TRH EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "' Snt,—Now that Archdeacon Denison and myself have " shaken hands" over our controversy, I should like to examine in a friendly spirit what...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Srn,—In your article on " Aggressive Irreligion in France," you ask why the Republic does not adopt the policy advocated by Mr. John...

Slit, — My attention has been called to the notice of "Mary Frampton's Journal " in the Spectator of April 10th, which renews in the grossest terms the charge against the...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sift,—In your review last week of Mr. Armstrong's book, you cite a passage expounding the argument for the existence of God derived from...

IEORACE.—BOOK I., ODE 24. TO VIRGIL, ON THE DEATH OF QUINCTILIUS. BLUSH not for tears in ceaseless sorrow shed For one so loved. Melpomene, inspire The dirge low-breathed,...

BRUTUS DLTOR.* THE author who terms himself " Michael Field " keeps up his reputation for force and a certain grim grandeur of conception better than he keeps up his reputation...

Tax author of this interesting volume is an American citizen, who, having been attached as Foreign Secretary and Counsellor to a Special Mission from Korea to the United States,...

Tins unpretending volume suggests, among other things, one special advantage that Scotland has derived from having been for some time without an all-absorbing ecclesiastical...

MR. DEL Mart calls his book A History of Money in Ancient Countries, from the Earliest Times to the Present. The phrase is a contradiction in terms. Moreover, on turning over...

one of those books of poetry described by Sir Benjamin Backbite, in which a rivulet of text meanders through a meadow of margin, so small is the propor- tion of the original...

Rev. Sir George W. Cox, Bart., M.A. (Longmans.)—This is the second instalment of an excellent little work, the first part of which was noticed in our columns last year. It may...

The At tistd' Manual of Pigments. By H. C. Standage. (Crosby Lockwood and Co )—Too little is known by the modern artists of the chemical nature of their paints, whereas, in the...

—This is the autobiography of a young lady whose parents alternately desert her and are devoted to her ; however, she generally seems quite competent to take care of herself,...

vole. (Ward and Downey.)—This is one of the stories which turn on a change of identity, so to speak. The first part tells us of the marriage of a certain Dudley Wynn, to a...

is no lack of historical atlases now-a-days, but the more the better, especially when, as in this case, they are clear, well selected, and to some extent novel. There is no more...

and Co.) —The " she " whose " success " is related in this story is an un- principled young woman who achieves the glory of marrying a worthless old nobleman, and meets a proper...

England (Cam- bridge University Press) is an extremely interesting essay by Pro- fessor Scrutton, of University College, London, which gained the Yorke Prize in 1884. The...

Jones. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Cowen is quite right in carefully preparing his speeches and addresses. If, however, we are asked, as Mr. Cowen and his admirers practically ask...