of slaves in East Africa has at length been published in Berlin. It appears to have been drawn up by Arabs under German authority, and transmitted by an influential Arab to the...

that the McKinley Tariff is creating great irritation throughout the States. The consumers had been told that prices would not be increased, business being only transferred from...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 1st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

case.

(AN Wednesday we suffered a disastrous defeat at Eccles, ‘..1 in Lancashire, where Mr. Roby, the Gladstonian, was re- turned, pledged not only to Home-rule it to an...

on Monday, and on Tuesday made his first speech in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange. We have dealt with the most important part of his speech, his declaration that the exceptional...

the most energetic of the workers, declares that in every district where there were no colliers the Unionists increased their poll, but that the colliers turned the scale. But...

were patriots before anything, and who were prepared to ." liberate " Ireland honourably by armed insurrection, has addressed a strong letter to the Archbishop of Cashel on the...

which seemed to promise real guidance on the labour question, but which, directly it came to its operative part, quavered off into uncertainty and hesitation. He began, of...

classes, Mr. Gladstone described with great force and eloquence what they had gained by Free-trade, and by Joseph Hume's success in repealing the laws against combination, and...

cleared up. Besides the £120,000 subscribed by the Duchesse d'ITzes, the Comte de Paris gave £100,000, making, with other smaller subscriptions, nearly £300,000 in all. An...

article which implied that the new Union of Shipowners intended to "lay up" all shipping in order to compel the sub- mission of the labourers' Unions connected with their...

Tipperary proceedings of the Government. He denied posi- tively that Mr. Shannon, who is Bitting on the Bench at Tipperary, is engaged in the executive duties of controlling the...

yesterday week from the Northern Union of Conserva- tive Associations, and made speeches which have given rise to various sharp collisions between himself and Mr. John Morley,...

and reorganising of its Army, and has now 160,000 men, Reserves included, all provided with the newest rifles. Every State in the Eastern Peninsula is doing the same thing,...

of Cleopatra, has departed from the traditional idea of the Queen's physique, and appears with auburn or reddish- brown hair. That is probably an innovation in the direction of...

difficulties with his Budget. He is still £600,000 short, and proposed to raise this sum by sharp duties on patent medi- cines, cosmetics, and mineral waters. The Budget Com-...

age of sixty-nine. He was one of the earliest and greatest of modern African explorers—he discovered Lake Tanganyika —a profound Arabic scholar, who really understood Arab...

Bishop of Lincoln's case next Friday, too late, we fear, for our next issue. It is a judgment which must have great interest for the Church at large, and may have very weighty...

at New- castle, and afterwards in letters to the Times, that whether or not Colonel Caddell were right in anticipating mis- chief, he yet, acting on Mr. Morley's own advice, did...

New Console (g) were on Friday 944 to 94-I.

called the " Reconciliation Service " held in St. Paul's as a sort of formal recognition of the desecration of the act of suicide committed there at the end of September, and by...

■ 411.■ THE CATASTROPHE AT ECCLES. T HE catastrophe at Eccles is a serious one, though it should only make the Unionists fight the harder. What it shows, as almost all the...

by the Times on Tuesday, that the federated shipowners of Great Britain had in principle approved a plan for resisting the oppression of the Unions by laying up their ships in...

M R. GLADSTONE certainly succeeds in inflicting great pain on his opponents by his speeches on the Irish Question. But we doubt whether the kind of pain which he inflicts is...

left in the world, it appears, in which the " hands " are notjealous of the brain which guides them, and that is the soldier's. The German Emperor wishes that October 26th,...

New Orleans would find the suppression of the Sicilian Secret Society which has just murdered their Chief of Police, an exceedingly difficult task. The suspects, as it happens,...

" B ULGARIA wants nothing more from Russia, neither her honey, nor her sting," was not a grateful speech from the Premier of that country to the repre- sentative of the nation...

I N opening the new public library given by Mr. Livesey to the parish of Camberwell last Saturday, Sir E. Clarke took occasion to enlarge on the educating power of books, and...

W E remarked last year that Mr. Marks, while remaining a master of the quaint and sad aspects of bird-life, gave us in his brilliant pictures of macaws and parrots, promise of...

-i-T was a pity that Mrs. Fawcett and Mr. Grant Allen should have chosen the same night at the end of last week for their addresses on the subject of Socialism ; other- - wise,...

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND THE COMMANDMENTS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—You do me justice in supposing that I cannot have meant what my words at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—Will you permit me, as a clergyman in the neighbour- hood where the Dean of Windsor must be best known, to observe, that the estimate...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT08."1 Ste,—While thanking you for your thoughtful review of my last story, " The Moment Alter," and thoroughly appreciating the earnestness of...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the Spectator of October 18th, in a review of "Lectures on Language," by Professor Laurie, we read the following :— " He...

EDITOR 01 TRY "EPICTATO8." . 1 SIR,—My attention has only to-day, through Mr. W. K. Gill's kind letter to the Spectator, been drawn to the extraordinary statement which...

MR. LECKY'S NEW VOLUMES.* [FIRST NOTICE.] MR. LECKY need not have apologised, as he implicitly does in his preface, for the size of these two volumes, which are devoted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your review of October 11th of Mr. Page's " Exmoor," you quote an anecdote given by him concerning " parsons " and " guide-posts...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In your review of Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse's volume of poems, " Corn and Poppies," you quote three stanzas from a poem called " Any Soul...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the Spectator of October 4th is an attiele on " Talking Birds," in which I was surprised to read the following statement :—"...

English scholars who have sufficient learning to follow the story of the criticism of the Fourth Gospel in Archdeacon Watkins's very learned and elaborate Bampton Lectures with...

Moncure Conway is in many ways a pleasant and sympathetic one. He has managed to convey a very real impression of the charm of Hawthorne's unworldly and simple character, and...

A Al.73101:01 has appeared in the papers during the last few weeks, that the military authorities are taking some steps to stop the entry into the officers' lists of our Army of...

MANY years ago, there issued from the press a series bearing the title we have adopted for the heading of our article, and which may most fitly be applied to the little volume...

THERE are months of good and bad novels, just as there are months of good and bad weather; and the October of 1890 may be regarded with satisfaction by the meteorologist of...

GIFT-BOOKS. Mamma's Black Nurse Stories. By M. P. Milne - Home. (Black- wood and Sons.)—Negro folk-lore, when told with the gestures and in the indescribable jargon peculiar...

Waite, in Prince Starbeam, wishes us to understand an allegory of the sufferings and final purification of the Human Soul. As a fairy-story it is too long and diffuse, and...

by Edith folk-tales. There is, indeed, a certain difficulty in identifying them sometimes ; the Russian tale-teller is not happy unless he can put plenty of meaningless padding...

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a bright and vigorous story, enforcing the moral of obedience in a very forcible way. The hero is a well-meaning lad who is in too great...

and Long.)—There is a fair amount of incident in Phil, though it is -scarcely up to the average of school-tales. The author does not seem to us to know much about schoolboys....

is a tale of sunk treasure, always an attractive subject. In real life, very vague schemes for recovering it commonly succeed, at least in finding the money of the credulous ;...

the Vicar's "trio," are those delightfully original -children we sometimes meet with in stories and sometimes in life. quaint, grown-up, little Mattis, Bernard, with his head...

to have thrown her strength into the por- traiture of the Gypsy girl Mahala. The figure is drawn with power, and very carefully and skilfully shaded. Most of the personages in...

Howell's tale is penetrated throughout with a religious spirit. If all the expressions that it takes are not exactly to our taste, yet we gladly acknowledge the wise...

con- tinues his account of the difficulties of an artist in war-time, and his recollections of "Twenty Years Ago" are some of them gruesome and others highly entertaining ; but...

Dahomey, and feel - unpleasantly thrilled at the description of Dahomian customs. - The zest of Dick's adventures—they are nothing very original or exciting in...

it treats of ; but it has other good points, the first of which is the old-fashioned style. It is readable all the way through, and if occasionally prolix, it is of that...

Ewald's new volume of " historical sketches " is interesting and readable,—that is a matter of course. But it un- doubtedly suggests book-making more than any previous volume...

Long.) —There is a terrible murder in this short tale, and that no doubt will be a sufficient recommendation of it. But, indeed, it is fairly well told, without attempting to...

LL.D. (Routledge.)—Mr. Saintsbury, in his " History of Elizabethan Literature," doubts whether Ben Jonson has attained anything like his proper place in English literary...

is a very vigorous, brightly coloured picture of life in one of the islands of the Pacific. Christian North, an English sailor, escapes with a Polynesian shipmate from his ship,...

Richardson deserves thanks for this capital abridgment of Sir Edwin Chadwick's " The Health of Nations." It will serve to remind many of us of the pressing needs of our...

Mrs. Saxby is disappointing in her attempt to interest us in her trip to the Far West. She tells us nothing that we have not heard before, nothing that is fresh, or put in a new...

Bige- low. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.) —Bryant, to use Hawthorn's words, was a man of excellent good sense, and a very pleasant man to associate with, but, he...

(Griffith, Farrau, and Co.)—If Mr. Homersham Cox would be con- tent with the assertion that "Protestant" is an inadequate description of the Church of England, we should have...

of the Christian Church," edited by Henry Wace, D.D., and Philip Schaff, D.D. (Parker, Oxford ; and Christian Literature Company, New York), we have the first volume of a second...

upon - Avon, edited by L. Clarke Davis (Cambridge, U.S.A.), con- tains not only an account of the Fountain, but also a description of various other gifts, such as the " Herbert...

that books of this kind serve any good purpose. They are not amusing; they are not instructive; they are almost certain to give offence. If the writer could have given us...

and Stoughton.)—Mr. Wells, whose ministerial work lies at Glasgow, tells some pathetic stories, interesting and encouraging, of his experience among the "criminal clialses."...

Low and Co.)—This is a second volume, and deals with a variety of topics "from Elizabeth to Anne," its predecessor having done the same for the period "from Celt to Saxon."...

of a West Indian Slave" takes us to a new scene. It is a tale of Martinique in the days before slavery was abolished, and a very striking story it is. Youma, the heroine, is...

Verse by John Dunning Cooper. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—We cannot compliment Mr. Cooper on his work. Had he no candid and competent friend, that a reviewer has to tell him that...

the Parachute and the Present Etonian. (R. Ingalton Drake, Eton.)— There are certainly some amusing things in this book. Perhaps the best of the papers is that which is headed...

by Henry Irving and Frank Marshall (Blackie and Son) con- tains, besides Prolegomena to the whole, Hamlet, King Henry VIII., and Pericles of Tyre, together with the poems. The...

the persona' of Mrs. Everett- Green's drama, there are five who may be described as being more or less firm, not to say obstinate. There is Mr. Cadwallader, who is bent on...

Scripture Gazetteer (Religious Tract Society). The maps, which are by Mr. Henry Courtier, F.R.G.S., are eighteen in number, and are accompanied by explanatory letterpress.

and Co.)—Mr. Axon tells, in the compass of some hundred and fifty pages, the story of one of the eminent men who worked for Negro freedom in the States. Those who can read Mr....

editions of two classics,—Homeri /liadis Carmina, edited by Professor Rzaeh, of Prague; and Q. Horati Flacci Opera, edited by 0. Keller and L. Hasussner. Professor Rzach's...

useful volumes known as "Letts's Diaries," a property important enough, we see, to be managed by a limited company. A Rough Diary, in three sizes, with either a week or a day in...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—One's first feeling, after reading these sermons, is regret that there can be no more of them. They seem so very specially adapted to the state of...