T HE Mahdi has endeavoured to stop Sir H. Stewart's march to Shendy, and has failed. Relieved and probably excited by the capture of Omdurman, the great fortified post opposite...

ABOU KLEA. A BOU KLEA was not a great battle ; but few incidents in the great history of the British Army have been more creditable to the national military character. It was a...

M R. GOSCHEN has relieved the doubts which his withdrawal from the Liberal Clubs excited, by promising a speech at Liverpool to the Liverpool Reform Club, and by intimating...

T HE strong approval expressed by Sir Charles Dilke of Mr. C. A. Fyffe's pamphlet upon "The Land Question" has raised that little brochure, which contains only a lecture...

S IR HENRY JAMES made at Bury on Wednesday a speech, directed in great measure against proportional representation, which will not, we think, be regarded by the public at large...

J T is nearly time that the country should think-out the relation of the State to property, as it now is, and as it intends it to be in future. There is a drift just now in the...

I F the Times is right in its facts, there seems to be great danger of a lamentable reaction in regard to our Public Schools. According to the information it has received, the...

T HE late German White-Book shows the same qualities, alike in Prince Bismarck and the English Government, as have been displayed in their previous communications. The English...

M R. ALTHAUS has just republished, from the January number of Temple Bar, the best account of the late Rector of Lincoln which we have yet seen,—not that it is a very full or...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette, which, in its eagerness for a daily sensation, shows an inclination to step out of the true province of the journalist, offered at Christmas a prize of...

'I T is the curious fate of the great man whose Memoirs have been occupying the reading world for the last few years to teach, almost as eloquently by his conduct as by his...

A POOR lad, apparently of the humbler clerk class, killed himself a fortnight ago in London, from dread of poverty. He was not starving, and had no especial suffering; but he...

" TE MAITRE DE FORGES" is a poor prodnction, not only I I when compared with the plays that have been produced by the leading French dramatists of later years, but in...

CO-OPERATION AND COMPETITION. pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In a friendly notice last month of a speech of mine to the Co-operative Union at Manchester, you say...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR•"1 SIR,—I have been reading your remarks about "The hon. Member for the eighth district of Essex" and other speculations about the change of...

-] Goschen is right to come down to Edinburgh at once. All through the Midlothian campaigns there has been a steady backwash of disaffected Liberalism ; and in the heart of...

" SPECTATOR."I SrE, — Your interesting article on "The Educated Classes and the New Suffrage" suggests the thought that it would be a valuable contribution to political...

1 7 0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcTATon."1 Sie,—As a constant reader of your able paper for the past six years, will you kindly permit me to express my surprise that so astute a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] SIR,—If " B.'s " verses, entitled "Hodge and a Liberationist," are not written satirically, the author must be singularly unversed in what...

rTo TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 you allow me to appeal, through your columns, to Members of Convocation, and to beg them to forbid by their votes what seems to many an act...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Badly as the agriculturalist has fared in Ireland for the last twelve months, the grazier has fared worse. Let me give one example of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—My attention has just been drawn to a letter in your columns from Messrs. Bryce and Son, of Glasgow, respecting "Christmas Gleams,"...

RELIGIO ACADEMICI.—III. "LOVE, He is love," I said it, where endless smoke, as a furnace, Hangs o'er the Dead-sea wave, grave of Gomorrah of yore; There where the balelire...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—OLD MASTERS.—T. THE present exhibition of Old Masters at Burlington House is the smallest that has yet been made at this winter season ; it is also, perhaps...

THE LIFE OF BAYARD TAYLOR.* SINCE the publication of Mr. Cooke's biography of Emerson we have had no record of a literary career more pleasant in any and every way than this...

before the English public. Walden has been found popular enough to call for a new edition, and Early Spring ia Massachusetts has been followed by a second volume of similar...

Tuts is a good novel of the second class. Its aim is good, its style is fair, its characters are carefully conceived and worked out; and though some people, no doubt, will...

up in point of interest and weight with its first number, it ought to take a high place in the list of first-class periodicals. There is ample room for a magazine of the kind....

useful book and honest literary performance by his Preface, in which, with the characteristic weakness of the enthusiastic biographer, he insists that Coligny is still an ho...

We greet the appearance of the first volume of a magazine which, if there is room for a new venture of this kind, may hope to find a place in public favour. This is Home Chimes,...