to carry the municipal elections, but seated only one councillor, has retired from the scene. In a letter published on Saturday, he requests his committee to dissolve itself,...

to whom he makes speeches, as he used to do in the Reichstag, which look frank, and are just as frank as he pleases. He says, for example, that Napoleon III. once proposed to...

I T is believed that the Government will have to simplify very much the Tithes Bill if they are to pass it this Session, —to reduce it, in fact, to its lowest terms, by making...

Bill has been going on almost all the week, Sir William Harcourt doing his best to represent these clauses as pure bribes to the publicans ; while the Parnellites, with a very...

American President has determined to veto "the Silver Bill." That is, we imagine, not the case. The President dreads in- flation, and will veto any Bill for the free coinage of...

case.

at Sofia. The Major's defence is substantially that he did mean revolution, but did not mean assassination, and never intended a Russian occupation at all. He did, however, he...

trates to punish printed insults to officers of State by summary sentences, as insults to individuals are already punished. The Bill was strongly defended in the Chamber by the...

completely his speeches of the previous day by saying that what is alleged concerning the atrocities of the Mahom- medan officials in Armenia, is nothing to compare in guilt...

be uninteresting. There is far too much play in his face, too much music in his voice, too much energy in his action. But to those who only read his speech at Norwich yesterday...

made some important statements about Africa. He denied utterly the rumours of his having surrendered British territory. He had surrendered nothing, for no agreement had been...

International Conference representing 265,000 miners of all nations, held at Jolimont, in Belgium. He made an admirable speech, declaring that there was among British miners no...

the Upper House against Socialistic legislation, which means, in his mouth, any legislation not intended to put down crime or free men from restrictions. During the five years,...

inclination towards a Russian alliance, and General von Caprivi, writing to a Committee of the Reichstag, declares that the only thing he has to tell them is that Germany...

Tuesday. He congratulated himself and his party, and Mr. Courtney, the Chairman of Committees, on the success with which they had resisted the application of the Closure during...

relax its hold upon the details of government in Egypt. M. Ribot has assented at last to the conversion of part of the Egyptian Debt, but upon extraordinarily mean conditions....

a great curiosity in the shape of a Chinese bank-note printed in the middle of the fourteenth century, several years before the establishment of the first European bank (said to...

been offered to Dr. Liddon, and was by him declined, is to be con- ferred on the Rev. John Wogan Festing, Vicar of Christ Church, Albany Street. Mr. Festing is a graduate of...

the Committee of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Asso- ciation, and made an admirable speech, in which he showed how absurd it was to treat a Government which had gone far...

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unveiled last Saturday in Forster Square, Bradford, by the Marquis of Ripon, who had acted with him when he was Vice-President of the Council of Education (Lord Ripon being Lord...

THE CASE FOR USING THE STRONGEST FORM OF CLOSURE. N OTHING is more painful than to read in immediate succession a speech of Mr. Gladstone's denying all obstruction, and, indeed,...

H OW one would like to know exactly what Mr. Parnell thinks of the present situation, what to his mind the outlook for the next few years actually is ! One suspects that,...

I T is a little difficult to understand the "dynastic reasons" which, it is said, render the Queen so averse to the proposed " reorganisation " of the Army, or, more accurately,...

panegyric on the steadiness and vivacity which Sir William Harcourt devotes to the service of the Opposition. As it says, he is very constant in his attendance in what the late...

example of logic ridden to death. He is an ardent believer in the doctrine of laisser-faire, and his conception of faith is one that allows of no exceptions. In his eyes the...

I F Sir Henry James's Bill for erecting a Court of Criminal Appeal passes, we shall very soon find our- selves in the condition of America as regards the carrying- out of...

Monday at Glasgow under the presidency of Lord Rosebery, will be one of more than common interest for all those who look on the movement with sympathy from the outside, as well...

more remarkable or more sudden than that which now promises to make the adoption of a weekly day of rest universal throughout Europe. Fifty years ago—or, indeed, forty—when the...

W E publish in another column a letter from a corre- spondent who appears to belong to a very rare class, if it be a class at all, the class of English Transmigrationists. But...

JERIJBALEY. I T appears to be the custom to say that Jerusalem is dis- appointing. As my own experience leads me to a directly contrary conclusion, I must assume that this is...

NEWNHAM COLLEGE AND POLITICS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THIS "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—The paragraph in the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday, May 12th, on which the article, "Women and Politics,"...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 &E q .—AS your correspondent, Mr. Clodd, has raised the question of the priority of the discovery in modern times of the pygmy tribes of...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The question—which however, as between Mr. Kempe and myself, I bad not thought of raising—is really one of individual feeling. To my...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The close of your article on "Transmigration" vividly recalls an incident that, without being fanciful, one may re- gard as strangely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-"] Sin,—All through the past winter, a solitary wasp has been noticed in the garden here. On every occasion when the sun made his appearance,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sescre:ros.".1 SIR,—My attention has only recently been directed to a para- .graph in the Spectator of the 3rd inst., which comments upon the decision in...

THE BLACKBIRD: A SPRING SONG. As I went up a woodland walk In Taunton Dene, When May was green— I heard a bird so blithely talk The twinkling sprays between, That I stood...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There appears to many people, neither Hindoos nor Buddhists, to be a good deal more to be said for the proba- bility of the truth of...

THE NEW GALLERY. THE exhibition at the New Gallery this year has no distinc- tive character. Mr. Burne-Jones sends, it is true, a number of studies; but his pictures are...

LUX MITNDI.* [FIRST NOTICE.] This is a very difficult book to estimate, partly on account of its complex character and considerable range, partly on account of its purpose,...

SOME of our readers will remember the shock with which the news of Lord Macaulay's death was received in 1859. With the exception of Dickens, he was the most popular - writer of...

lv is pleasant to come upon such a characteristically English novel as this of Miss Gerard's. There is a freshness and ease about it, and a sense of open-air life, which give it...

THE story of the Barbary Corsairs, as told by Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, who has already given us the stories of the Moors and the Turks, is not very creditable either to the...

the spacious zone of the Frozen North have for ages exercised a strong attrac- tion over nations and individuals, and this attraction is shared in by Greenland, a land which may...

Ma. Ome./4 explains in his preface that this History was written because "for a considerable time there has appeared no new school History of Greece, brought up to the level of...

Whatever the merits or demerits of the Universe/ Review may be, no reader is likely to find fault with Mr. Quilter's new journal upon the score of dullness. The number for May...

her "first printed attempt at novel-writing" on the part of the author of A Life's Retribution, must be set down among those works of fiction which had better not be written....

the Wars of the Roses. By J. E. Corbiere. (Biggs and Debenham.)—The by-ways of history are not generally to be searched with success for the materials of romance of so remote a...

—The "skipper" of this amusing narrative, which has nothing whatever of the apparently involuntary solemnity that marks the general literature of Arctic travel, is a...

Frederick J. Moss, M.H.R. (Sampson Low and Co.)—It was in 1513 that De Balboa named the new ocean which burst upon his view as he gazed to the south from the hills above Panama,...

Vol. III. (Kogan Paul, Trench and Co.)—Mr. Gough carries on his work of interpreting the Scriptures on what may be called, for brevity's sake, the figurative method. He prefers...

(Chatto and Windus.)—One and one do not make two in literature. Add Mr. Herman to Mr. D. C. Murray (whom we take to be one of the very best novelists of the day), and we do not...

your flesh creep," was the expressed wish of a well-known character in fiction when he was about to unfold his tale. Possibly this is not the aspiration of "Vernon Lee" when she...