having excited an agitation for Home-rule in Scotland, by their steadfast opposition to Home-rule in Ireland, which is very like saying that the man who holds back an arm that...

T HE fury of the Portuguese at Lord Salisbury's decisive action appears to be calming down. Their Ministry discourages demonstrations, and the commercial classes are awakening...

day. He expressed regret at the collision with Portugal, though he refused at present either to condemn or to question the proceedings of Lord Salisbury. On the Armenian and the...

case.

Tuesday. He did not seem to like the tendency for each party in politics to overbid the other in democratic offers, and professed to fear that the Conservative offer of...

Paul's, with all the pomp attending a public military funeral. Although the route from the Tower to the Cathedral is a short one, the people turned out in hundreds of thousands,...

workmen, held a conference at Bir- mingham on Wednesday. It was resoved unanimously that a Bill forbidding any miner to be employed underground for more than "eight hours in any...

be forgotten, and they are, therefore, adopting a policy of obstruction. They think, with some reason, that the Chamber acted oppressively in seating General Boulanger's...

Rotunda Lecture Hall, Liverpool, yesterday week, in answer to Mr. Parnell's remarkable fictions as to the tenants established on the Coolgreany estate in Wexford, Mr. Parnell's...

in- fluenza supervening on lung-disease of some standing, is rather an interesting than an important event, though he was said, as a confidential adviser of his brother, King...

a Bill now before the Reichstag making the anti-Socialist laws permanent, and the Bill, severe as it is, will be voted with only one amendment. The permanence of the measure was...

his constituents in the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly. He stated that though he had, as a Liberal Unionist, joined Lord Salis- bury's Government, he had been obliged, in every...

Henry Fowler with the misstatement that be had devoted all his Budgets to relieving property, without giving any relief to indirect taxation, and this though he had taken 4d....

not a very brilliant affair. In the first place, he had evidently not read the letter from " F.R.S." to the Times of Wednesday week as to the statistics of the question. In the...

great profusion of detail, that Mr. Blaine, the Secretary of State, is endeavouring to purchase Cuba from Spain, and with :that view is favouring the Repub- lican Party in...

before the Society of Arts, on "Vision-Testing." He said that the methods pursued on the English and Scotch railways and by the Board of Trade for testing colour-blindness are...

about the new Calendar adopted in Brazil. He stated positively, on the authority of Brazilian papers, -that the Provisional Government had adopted the Comtist Calendar, and...

in a trial called "The Queen v. Marks and others," which was essentially a case of extortion. Plaintiffs declared that de- fendants had extorted money by threats of denouncing...

of the House of Commons, who had sat in the unreformed House of Commons,—indeed, he represented Glamorganshire during the whole fifty-nine years of his Parliamentary life,—died...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 971 to 97f.

LORD HERSCHELL AND THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM. T ORD HERSCHELL, in his interesting and character- istically moderate speech at Bedford on Tuesday, raised a very important...

I T would be difficult to conceive a better illustration of the depths of race-hatred which still exist in Europe than the " settlement " just arrived at in Bohemia. In that...

F. GLADSTONE, in his vigorous and paradoxical 1. JL speech at Chester on Wednesday,—the speech in which he compared the punishment of boycotting and con- spiring to plunder, for...

T HAT most unsatisfactory of unsatisfactory diplomatic questions, the Newfoundland Fisheries dispute, is upon us once more. On Monday last, the subject was brought before the...

I T is not so easy for an able man to talk for an hour on a subject of which his mind is full, and yet say nothing about it. People declare that Mr. Goschen, in his speech of...

"Democracy in Switzerland," published in the Edinburgh Review for January, brings forward into the light the least-noticed peculiarity of the Swiss Constitution. It provides for...

W E do not understand why any one should cavil, as the Echo, for example, seemed inclined to do, at the stately ceremonial amidst which Lord Napier of Magdala, the first of our...

I T is curious to observe how proud Mr. Stanley is of his own swift insight and resolution. In the speech at Cairo briefly reported by telegraph on Tuesday, he once more dealt,...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: NATIONAL YOUTH AND MATURITY-PUTTING UP WITH TROUBLE-THE SUDDEN SYMPATHY OF MAN FOR WOMAN. THE youth of nations seems very like the youth of...

CHURCH ELRENICA. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Like you, I am puzzled by the letter which appears in the Spectator of January 18th, with the signatures of my friends...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stn,—Surely the simplest hypothesis is best. There are slips of pen and slips of mind. You yourself spoke of the Empress Augusta as the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—Will you kindly allow me to renew an appeal, made by mein your columns just a year ago, in behalf of our "House of Help" in Trinity...

[TO THE EDITOR OR TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The letter of " F.R.S." on dog-muzzling, to which you allude, embraces the whole question, and ought to establish the futility of the...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Si,—Po-day I have a letter from-Andover, Mass., the town of Mrs. Beecher Stowe. The writer says :—" We are spending £15,000 on water....

" SPECTAT0R."1 Sric,—The tendency of the American people, discussed in your atticle on "The American Worship of Millionaires," seems to have struck deep roots. In a recent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The career of the great circumnavigator, William Dampier, "the Prince of old Navigators," as called by the late Captain Basil Hall, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am an admirer of what is called "the New Journalism." I object to the adjective " new :" there is nothing new in it, unless it be the...

BIRD-PAINTING AND FALCONRY AT THE GROSVENOR. THE Falconry Collection was a happy thought on the part of those responsible for the "Sports and Arts" Exhibition at the Grosvenor...

MR. BROWNING'S LAST POEMS.* WHEN the pain of the first great sense of loss was upon us, we naturally turned rather to Mr. Browning's greatest and most impressive works than to...

THOUGH close students of history will doubtless find in the two volumes just issued by Messrs. Bentley and Son, a great deal of fresh light in regard to incidents and motives...

THE company brought together in this little book might be described in bad English as "very mixed." Queens and philanthropists, prose-writers and poets, scientific women,...

"Om! here is a book by Blank or I will take this, for it is certain to be good!" How often have those of us who haunt circulating libraries listened. to some such sentence as...

WE had occasion recently to notice the first of the two very handsome volumes bearing the title of The Book of Wallace. which are the product of the industry of that hide- * The...

A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Bible- Christians. (Bible-Christian Book-Room.)—The "people called Bible-Christians" seem to use much the same hymns as...

which all who care about hymnology should possess. He has discarded the alphabetical arrangement, and adopted one that is really scientific and instructive, the chronological....

Latin and Greek. By Gavin Hamilton. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.)—We cannot profess to have exactly understood what Mr. Gavin Hamilton means when he speaks of the "imperial...

(Nimmo.)—Mr. Ashton has earned some reputation as a compiler, and in this beautifully got-up volume has achieved an interesting piece of work. Fabulous animals abound in...

Co.)—This "story of the modern stage" is certainly a well- told, interesting, and even exciting tale. The hero is a soldier, who, being forced by poverty to leave the Army, is...

is being republished (Labour Association, Norfolk Street). The author's son, Mr. W. Cairnes Jones, has prefixed a short— indeed, far too short—notice of his father. There are...

(David Nutt.)—This volume contains the first instal- ment of a work which is, we suppose, to be somewhat prolonged, for it is entitled "Argyllshire Series." It contains some...

letters originally published in the Times in the May and June of 1889. He advocates with practical suggestions the relief, by migration, promotion of light railways, fisheries,...

is an admirable little book, not to be confounded with the mass of ordinary reading-books. Ten sprightly letters, relating experiences of travel, of arrival, of looking for...

A Doll's House, that it is needless to do more than mention that Mr. William Archer has published his version, as it was produced at the Novelty Theatre, making no alterations...

11 ma n and Son.)—We can recommend this book for schools. It is very com- prehensive, extending from the Stone Age to the Jubilee ; but so far as it can be sampled, it appears,...

is a thoughtful book on the relation of Christ to the human race, written by one who looks back to the teaching of F. D. Maurice as that which first made him see light in these...

volume is a memorial of a young man of considerable ability, who died just when a literary career seemed to be opening before him. " Lydd's," the first and most important of the...

very elegant little volumes, truly fitted to the capacity of the shallowest pocket, well printed and on good paper, Essays of Ella (D. Stott). The two must weigh together some-...

remarkallefor a new departure, in more senses than one. The sub- jects of their chromo-lithographs are usually sacred; and this year the chief attraction is Botticelli's...

always been an English art, but the taste for etchings, except in the shape of the unrivalled plates of Rembrandt and a few other early masters, has come to us mainly from the...

1890. (L. Collins.)—The Civil Service Directory, 1890. (W. H. Allen.) — The Educational Annual, 1890. (G. Philip and Son.)

r—The Art Review, the Political Science Quarterly, the Manchester Quarterly, the Jewish Quarterly Review, No. 19 of Artistic Japan.

Anderson (J.), English Intercourse with Siam, Svo (C. K. Paul) 15,0 Anderson (J.), Lelungs of the Margin Archipelago, 8vo (C. K. Paul) 26 Bailie (H.), Manual for...

in the Preninot of the 8 irozatrod, in th3 County of N11.111 eex. at 18 Hlet , ir Street, Strand; and Published by bin' s at the" SrEcrslint" Ofiloo, Ho. 1 Welli yrton Street,...

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a mere versification of mouldy commonplaces, and for the work ; but before that date Mr. Dilke, unfortunately observes that all the classical information embodied in it for the...

Ma. WHIBLEY is to be congratulated on his subject, and— in the main—on his treatment of it. But we can hardly acquiesce in the name he has given to his valuable collection of...

a very readable and instructive book, but scarcely a profound one. It would be unjust to say that these volumes owe their imposing appearance to "padding," but undoubtedly the...

Tins volume awakens keen regret that the author did not live to complete his work. Luther's life has often been written, both by those who held him in reverence as the Apostle...

IT has been said, and not untruly, that the sonnet is one of the most difficult forms in which a poet can express his art. Not only do the exacting rhymes demand poetic pains,...

who is, in a way, the hero of this story, is a study of a somewhat novel kind. Perhaps we might say that he is like the young hero of "Misunderstood," a tale which many of our...

A. H. Bullen. (Nimmo.)—Ono of the pleasantest volumes in the late Robert Bell's edition of the English Poets was the "Songs from the Dramatists," published in 1854. His "...

Buddhism in its Connection with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in its Contrast "with Christianity. By Sir Monier Monier - Williams, K.C.I.E. (J. Murray.)—In this volume we have a...

P.S.A. Vol. I. (J. Dollard, Dublin.)—We do not always find ourselves in a position to commend the action of the Municipality of Dublin ; but we have the heartiest praise for the...

Tyrwhitt. (Macmillan.)—The poem that gives its name to this little volume is founded upon the theory that "a law of gravitation in material things may operate quite as naturally...

see that, owing to the favourable reception given last year to the first part of his Flower - Land, Mr. Fisher has reissued it in a revised form, and has added to it a Part II.,...

very pleasing little story of a worthy old lady whose father had been a missionary in India, and whose heart is, in conse- quence, devoted to the work of Christian...

are very glad to see a second, en- larged, and handsome edition of the delightful book which, when criginally published in 1873, virtually made known to a large section of the...

Donkin. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Donkin, whose experience of the world seems to have been tolerably wide, joined the Mounted Police of the Canadian North-West in 1884. He had...

has already obtained some reputation as a writer of fairy-tales, and it will be enhanced by this sprightly story of the adventures in Dreamland of a little boy of the name of...

Gilbert Campbell. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—These "Wild and Weird Tales" are truly terrible. Sir G. Campbell seems to have ransacked the most bloodcurdling folk-lore for his...

readers to obtain a definite idea of what the Socialists themselves can hardly define,—the aim of Socialism. Dr. Schiiffie tells us that it took him years to familiarise...

of these anecdotes we have seen before, but a great many are new, and if they have appeared in print before, have probably been lost. We should be grateful, therefore, to the...

Co.)— Mr. Little writes a short and enthusiastic sketch of Emin Pasha's career down to the end of the " Emin Pasha Relief Expedition." It is always pleasant to read of a hero,...

of the tide are among the most important facts which affect the economy of the earth ; hence there should be no lack of readers for Time and Tide. Tides themselves are so...

to the best essay on "The Law of Property" in various ages and countries. Ireland was a singularly appropriate country to select, as of late years its "land tenure" has become a...

Lodge discusses, without the aid of mathematics, the attitude assumed by the philosophers of to-day towards elec- tricity. It is certainly a very readable book, and need not,...

a medical retrospect of Jenner's discovery, and its history during the time, the best part of a century, which has elapsed since the first experiments. Dr. Creighton, of course,...

this story indicates sufficiently its nature, and for a temperance story it is fairly readable. It is the old tale,—tempta- tion withstood for some time, then the fall, and...

Bowles-Daly takes up the cudgels on behalf of the Irish very vigorously,—too vigorously for the task in hand, and, we must also add, for good taste. He declares in his...

This is a capital little book for young people, who will learn with the history of the tinder-box a little chemistry and physics, at least such chemistry as belongs to it and...

such well-known plant-diseases as the " rust " of wheat, " ergot " of rye, "smut" of corn, and others only too well known to farmers and gardeners, very clearly, so that every...

of the story told in this book lies more in the form in which it appears than in anything else. The children to whom it is narrated are supposed to live in a country-house, with...

whist and minor varieties of cards, gives us a handsome volume, entitled Patience Games (Thomas De La Rue and Co.) He divides his subject scientifically. After an introductory...

Heart. The story of Mr. Watts Phillips's play is first given ; then comes the cast as it was acted at the Lyceum Theatre September 28th, 1889, and, following this, thirteen...

(Stanford.)—" The object of this work "—we quote from the pre- face—" is to give such a description of the various provinces and territories of Canada, that the world may...

H. Edmund Legh. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—If to Mr. Legh there be granted the righteousness or advisability of the social movement in which he is engaged, it must also be...

popularise astronomy is The Southern Skies (W. H. Allen). It may be best described in the words of the title-page as "a plain and easy guide to the constellations of the...

and Long.)—This is a sensational story, written, to all appearance, by a novice. It opens with the murder of a man who is, happily, perhaps a good deal more of a villain than of...

and Co.)—The second and third volumes of the Illustrator for St. Luke have now appeared, containing together nearly fifteen hundred additional pages. Surely this is a length...

(Macmillan and Co.)—The author of "Fo'c's'le Yarns" is one of the few writers of dialect verse who have been able to achieve a distinct literary success. "The Manx Witch" will...

Hedges. By Isabella Fyvie Mayo. (Religious Tract Society.)—This volume touches at some points the subject dealt with by that which has been just noticed. Generally one may say...