T HE week has not been a pleasant one to the political observer. The useless and wearisome Session has, indeed, practically ended ; but Mr. Parnell, aided by the excusable but...

it had no opposition to fear. It has demanded the command of the Bulgarian troops, and has handed in to the Regency a Note insisting that the traitors who seized Prince...

be the Prince of Montenegro, and that his chance is not a bad one, the leaders in Sofia having an idea that any Prince they may elect will be unable to endure Russian dictation....

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...

any case.

explanation of his policy in Bulgaria. It is sub- stantially the one we ventured to suggest a fortnight since. A hostile attitude, says the writer, on the part of Germany to-...

foreign policy, considered on the Continent to be of some import- ance. After floods of talk from the Parnellites about the Fahy case, which is a case for the tribunals, and not...

Closure while the Liberals were in power ; but six weeks of debate, with the Parnellites obstructing business, have made them hearty converts. Lord Salisbury, speaking at St....

Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Matthews, Lord Harlington, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Mr. Gibson pointed out that the Bill prejudged the ordered inquiry into rents, that no...

Mon- day in a studiously moderate speech, gritty with statistics. He rested his case on figures showing that the Land Court had not anticipated any fall in prices, that the fall...

justice in our reference last week to his attitude towards obstruction. We spoke of "the absence of any spoken censure of his followers and allies." It is pointed out that Mr....

the Tory Party was either present or had paired ; and of 38 Unionists present, 35 voted with Sir M. Hicks-Beach. They had very little option, for the Government must be...

once a Bishop, a Nationalist, and a Christian,—characters, unfortu- nately, not invariably united. In a recent address to his clergy, while speaking dolefully as to the peace of...

for Stock Exchange purposes, but no one would have been surprised had it been true. The crime would be no worse than the kidnapping of Prince Alexander, which all Europe has...

gold-fields, is announced this week. The first is in Tasmania, and is a little too brilliant for belief, the local editors writing of reefs which yield 164 ounces to the ton....

account of the means by which M. de Freycinet compelled the Pope to give up his project of sending a Legate, and afterwards a Nuncio, to Pekin. The Legate, Mgr. Agliardi, was...

favourable to violence, have made another futile attempt at revo- lution. Late on Sunday night, three hundred men, infantry and cavalry belonging to the garrison of Madrid,...

celebra- tion of her Majesty's Jubilee year. He wishes an Institute to be founded, by subscription, of course, to be devoted to India and the Colonies, which shall be at once a...

with all its recommendations, hurts the general feeling, and consequently does not spread so rapidly as it should. Their latest idea is that if the dead body were placed in a...

THE DEBATE ON MR. PARNELL'S BILL. T HE debate has not convinced us that the Government was wise in refusing all concession to Mr. Parnell. Mr. Gladstone, it is true, was for...

I T impossible that things in Belfast can be much longer i allowed to go on as they have been going for the past two months. Not mere disorder, but definite street-fighting has...

T HE outlook of Europe is on one side very bad. We are unable to accept either the ethics or the policy taught by the Peace Society, holding that war may sometimes be a duty,...

N OW that there is no risk of any misunderstanding with Prince Bismarck in reference to the colonial pro- jects of our Teutonic neighbours, the proceedings of the General German...

rpHE vague and shadowy proposals for a fitting memorial of the Queen's Jubilee have this week taken definite shape. On Monday the papers published a letter addressed by the...

W E ventured last week, when recording the Pope's sub- mission to France in the matter of the protectorate of Chinese Catholics, to suggest that the menace addressed to his...

A PARAGRAPH has been going the round of the papers in which a list is given of the sums of money left by some forty Bishops whose wills were proved between 1856 and 1885. These...

out of ordinary humanity. The message she gave was one not inconsistent with their earlier faith ; and as to her discipline, the poverty, the vegetarianism, the constant labour,...

What fools the Hindoos must be !' exclaim sensible Euro- peans, who would be furious, nevertheless, if deceived into eating human flesh, or if they knew that human milk was sold...

S URELY Sir John Lubbock has gone too far in his "Bill to Regulate the Hours of Labour in Shops." We have always held, and still hold, that the long hours kept in the retail...

RIPON MILLENARY. [To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow me to say a word or two in reply to Pro- fessor Freeman's comment upon the Ripon Millenary ? 1. The...

cannot allow my friend Mr. MacColl to get out of any share that he may have had in the doings of Ripon quite so easily as he tries to do in your issue of September 18th. I have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 • Sin,—This heading is the title which the author of "Three Acres and a Cow" gives to the paper which he read at the late meeting of the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 SIR,-1 have been for some years a constant reader of the Spectator, seldom agreeing with its political views, but highly appreciating...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—In your issue of September 18th, in the article on "Two Electric-Boats," you comment on one of the crew of the Volta' seizing a...

[" Der Mansell hat drittehalb Minuten, eine an liioheln, eine zu seufren, mid eine halt* rn lieben, dont mitten in dieser Minute stirht er."j Two minutes and a half has man to...

FOSSIL MAN.* THE latest chapter in the Great Stone Book, the genesis and development of man, seems to have concentrated on itself during some years past the popular interest in...

of the arts, is in one respect the easiest. To model in clay or work in marble, to paint, with even a faint appearance of skill, upon canvas, or to compose music, needs...

THE name of its author is a sufficient guarantee for the ability with which this little book has been written, and for the accuracy and fullness of knowledge which it displays....

to be either manu- factured at home or largely coloured by the views of the English Press, which has "never yet condescended to speak the truth pure and simple about Ireland,"...

IF the historians of the future do not improve upon the methods of their predecessors, it will not be for lack of counsellors. A few weeks ago we reviewed in these columns Mr....

points of dissimilarity than of resemblance between the American author of Rudder Grange and the English author of Thomas Wanless, Peasant. The one seems to have "a mind at...

from the Russian, with Life and Introduction, by R. I. Lipmann. (Ward and Downey.)—Lermontoff's most characteristic work, if not his chef d'ceuvre, first appeared in an English...

by Henry John, Earl of Dade. (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle,and Rivington.)—A Norwegian novel will have an attraction for many of us as taking us to a new field of fiction; if...

the account given by Mr. Gladstone to the electors of Midlothian in September, 1885, of the principal measures that the Government had carried to a successful issue, with Lord...