to closure the Report stage of the Irish Home-rule Bill, with even more severity than he has previously closured its earlier stages, for last night it was to be closured...

T HE French elections took place on Sunday. The papers differ a good deal as to the distribution of parties in the New Chamber; but according to the Standard correspondent, the...

forbidding the Irish Legislature to give any undue preference to any Irish trade or industry which would affect prejudicially any trade or industry in Great Britain. which was...

week at the Salt Works at Aigues-mortes—a town in that little-known portion of the French coast of the Mediterranean which lies between . Marseilles and the Spanish...

of praising Particularism. (We shall have to change the epigram and make Particularism, not patriotism, the last refuge of hurried and irritable statesmen of mature years.) On...

any case.

proposal that there should be a Secretary for Ireland holding office in the Imperial Ministry. He had little difficulty in showing that the interdependence of English and L•ish...

Bill, and discussed Sir John Goret's proposal to add the words "or residence" to Mr. Morley's amendment preventing the imposition of any disability by the Irish Par- liament on...

for preventing the Irish Parliament suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus, passing Bills of Attainder or ex. post facto laws. This was, however, lost on a division by 44 (16G. to...

between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bolton. Mr. Bolton proposed to make the Irish Executive consist simply of such persons as her Majesty might think fit, and not as in the Bill, "or...

act of exhibiting his mocleratieni and respec - (ability on- Mr. Gladstone's side, than by anything he said. He alleged that this nies_tim was necessary to vindicate the right...

a short speech in which he merely claimed that it Was the necessary and logical corollary of the previous guillo- tine resolutions which the House had carried, and that it was...

The Times of Wednesday publishes a letter, dated Apia, July 14th, which states that war has broken out between the forces of Mataafa and Mallietoa, and describes several...

on Tuesday night, at a quarter to twelve, at the Castle of Rheinhardsbrunn, from the effects of a paralytic attack brought on by a chill caught while out shooting. The Duke was...

all point to its early collapse in South Wales. A mass-meeting of colliers was called to assemble at the Rocking-stone at Pontypridd, near Cardiff, on Thursday, but, according...

Federal Constitution took place in Switzerland. It will be remembered that by means of the Initiative the whole body of electors are asked to vote on the question, Shall the...

in- crease. An evening paper of Thursday, for instance, reported six suicides and four attempts at suicide as the latest additions to the series. No doubt there is something...

alarmist account of the sharks off the English coast. "Sharks of such size as to render them dangerous to human life " abound just now, says the writer, in the western portion...

of the Home-rule Bill in the House of Lords, made a masterly speech at Otley on Thursday, from which it may be inferred that he will speak in the true spirit of Liberalism, and...

Company is anything but reassuring. A telegram despatched from the Cape on Wednesday states that the Company's scouts report that a strong Matabele impi has taken-up a...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 9715u-971re

majority for Home-rule as if that were the Veto Bill, the Employers' Liability Bill, the Welsh decisive of the national question, is working out gradually its own destruction....

form more than half the House. That is the chief feature of the French Elec. Lions. Next in importance are the facts that the Monarchists as a party have ceased, or almost...

Mr. John Bryn Roberts, seems to understand the most dangerous reef now ahead of the Gladstonians better than any other Member of the Welsh party. That rock is the impatience of...

" I T is now time to undeceive Omichund. Omichund, the treaty is a trick. You are to have nothing." These were the words in which Clive announced to Omichund, whose help and...

WRIDAY-WEEK'S debate in the House of Commons, -1.2 on the question of a Catholie University for Ireland, -was full of hopefulness for the future of the country when Mr....

of the world, and everywhere it displays one permanent characteristic. It grows and flourishes so long as one i brother is not asked to put himself to any inconvenience for the...

W E regret to see that the Daily Chronicle has been opening its columns to a correspondence on the subject of suicide, in which great prominence has been given to letters not...

a very limited class, even among naturalists, who will rejoice in the amazing fertility of the wasp-broods during the present summer. Yet there are persons who by their own...

• with our fellow-travellers. Under no other conceivable circum- stances should we enter a room nine feet by five, or whatever may be the exact dimensions, and pass a whole day...

T HE love of possessing is so obviously one of the strongest characteristics of human nature, and offers so wide a field for thought, that perhaps it would be worth while to...

was Mr. Disraeli who brought back the name of " Tory," after Sir Robert Peel had for some years replaced it by that of " Conservative."—I am, Sir, &o., A.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "srE0peTou."] Sin, — Two errors, of a dangerous and far-reaching kind, are at present being made. The first, that a majority, however large, can make what...

MR. GLA.DSTONE. [To T8 1 E EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' ilt, — Why do you constantly speak of Mr. G ladstone's " magnificent " energy, " magnificent " courage, or what not, when...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I am one of many English Nonconformists who revolt at the policy of the Welsh Nonconformists as represented by their Parliamentary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — It would have been fairer to me and to your readers if Mr. Murphy, before writing on my views in regard to the glacial age, had...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I have seen a letter in the Spectator of August 19th from Dr. W. A. Greenhill, saying that "Richard Burton never met Dr, Newman and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Srn,—Referring to Mr. J. J. Murphy's stipulation that in any alteration in the standard of value, provision should be made that money...

" SPEOTATOE."] Sin,—Most of your readers are probably under the impres- sion that imprisonment without trial (except∎in the case of a person awaiting trial) is impossible in...

[To THE EDITOR, OF MD " SPRCTATOR."] SIR, — A week or two ago we took our little six-year-old daughter to the Crystal Palace, and when in the parrot- house, she became very...

["I fiction is it beautiful cliseass of the I am inclined to believe that bran. Something, an incident or an experience, or a reftection, gots imbedded, incrusted, in tho...

A HYMN FOR HARVEST. Now to Thee, gracious Lord of the Seasons, be honour and glory and praise, That again in the joy of the harvest our jubilant anthem we raise. Though many...

CHRONICLES OF A STROLLER IN NEW ENGLAND,* OF the more startling features of American scenery we hear plenty. The Falls of Niagara, the Rookies, the Yosemite Valley, the great...

[To TER EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Permit me to ask those bird-loving correspondents of yours, whose letters I have read with great interest in the Spectator, whether...

Justin McCarthy's novels which is always attractive, and which is not absent from the pages of The Dictator, though it is a good deal thinner a book than most of its...

man had all this world could afford him, according to the most luxurious ideal of the age in which he lived—wealth, honour, position, influence, long life, troops of friends,...

readers of this volume will admit that its author is a moderate Anglican, who wishes to be scrupulously fair to such as he does not see eye-to.eye with in ecclesiastical...

and enlarged edition of a work which was originally published in 1883, and reissued in 1884 and 1887. As a handbook for those who are likely to have any commercial relations...

doubt that its author is in possession of considerable knowledge in regard to the present condition of Greece, whatever may be the views that would be entertained as to his...

Columbia College in the City of New York :—" Progress in Knowledge through Love : " a baccalaureate Sermon, June 11th, 1893, by Alfred Barry, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of Windsor,...

—There is some fine character-drawing in this novel, but as a story it hangs somewhat heavily. This criticism applies rather to the earlier part, which is, to our thinking,...

into English Verso by T. A. Walker, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—We cannot compliment Mr. Walker on his work. Look where we will, wo see proof that he has but an imperfect comprehension...

Bird.) —This volume contains a careful estimate, derived from the latest research, of the character and work of Columbus. Dr. Adams has tried, he tells us, to " avoid the common...

—This is one of the valuable series of " University Extension Manuals." The work of an author of the very highest reputation on his subject, it admirably fulfils its purposes....

(Burns and Oates.)—This is an interesting and valuable book, bringing together into a small compass a great quantity of notable facts bearing on the subject of slavery and...

French by Elisabeth Luther Cary. (W. Heinemann.)— There is a charming egotism, which never by any chance offends, in M. Sarcey. Beginning life as a teacher, ho gave offence to...

of Edward I. as a statesman—this volume is the last but one of the series of " Twelve English Statesmen "—may be de- scribed as a comparatively recent discovery. Mr. R. B....

Fairbairn, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—" Our discussion," writes Dr. Fairbairn in his preface, " will fall into two main parts : one his- torical and critical, and one positive...

operations of the various institutions described by the phrase that forms the title of his volume, as they are carried on in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and France....

E. McKnight. (Mitchell and Hughes.)—Mr. McKnight has written in a very pleasant fashion about the parish of Lydiard, its church, its manor, and his own work there, which was...

and Sons.)—" The following pages," says Professor Burrows in his preface, "are an attempt to interpret the History of England in accordance with the latest researches." Further...

(Literary Revision and Translation Office.)—" Anglophil " would have done better to omit his (" ? ") after " English." Irony thus mechanically pointed is not effective....

printed for the Author by Spottiswoode.)—We can give but the briefest notice to a book not published ; still, it is only right to say that this is a most interesting volume,—the...

and Downey.)—We are much obliged to Miss Esm6 Stuart for giving us the pleasure of reading again a novel of the old-fashioned kind, with its vicissitudes of fortune, its...

jun. (Leadenhall Press.)—This is an agreeably written and handsomely illustrated book. It must be allowed that there is not much in it. The reader who happens to know something...

The splendours of life among the "upper ten" of New York, the social ambitions of mother and daughter, and other ,passions an i motives are described here with no little force....

(Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Hall states his view, which, briefly put, is that the Anglican Church has erred in rejecting the Primacy, but done fell in rejecting the...

of practical wisdom. It is admirably short (some eighty duo- decimo pages) ; it is intelligible ; it aims at nothing which moderate means and the probably available cook may not...

book is an expansion of an essay which won a prize offered by the Government of Jamaica. "Intending settlers in tropical countries " are one of the classes for whose benefit it...

Gordon Duff. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—The editor gives us an entertaining introduction on " Pilgrims " of old, beginning with St. Willibald (700-86), down to Richard Torkington,...

(Williams and Norgate.)—This is the eleventh edition—equiva- lent, we are told, to the "third hundred thousand "—of this ex- cellent atlas. The twelve maps are the Ancient World...

book, giving hints on various profitable kinds of cul- tivation. The contents were originally given as lectures, and it is an excellent idea to have them republished.

name will not be unknown to the readers of the Spectator, and it will be sufficient to commend to their notice this volume of graceful verse. Some of the poems have appeared in...