can be effective on occasion. The Shah recently sold a monopoly of tobacco to a European Company, from which great benefit to the revenue and great profits to the Company were...

under which Central Europe and Belgium enter into a Zollverein, almost unanimously. The German Emperor is greatly delighted with this work, which, he thinks, besides binding...

pearls. Captain Osborne and his wife, formerly Miss Ethel Elliott, sued Major Hargreave and his wife for slander, in asserting that Mrs. Osborne before her marriage had stolen...

T HE Duke of Devonshire, who died at Holker Hall on Monday, at the age of eighty-three, from general ex- haustion, was not only the father of Lord Harlington. He was a great...

Captain Osborne, who behaved perfectly through the whole business, and no doubt the sentence of social death which the world will pass on Mrs. Osborne is of itself a heavy one ;...

case.

of Angers, and a prominent Member of the French Chamber. We regret it not only because he was a frank-spoken man. who pleaded his 171tramontan.e cause very ably, but because we...

appeal of "The Mogul Steamship Company (Limited) v. Mac- gregor, Gow, and others," which raised a very important point as to the right of shipowners to combine for the purpose...

which we cannot know before we go to press this week, as the arrangements for Christmas compel us to go to press much earlier than usual, it is quite clear that there is a great...

they are not building new forts, but they are strengthening and repairing old ones, so that they may hold "three times" the number of troops. This is not done, says Mr. Proctor,...

kind. Province after province, it is said to the number of eleven, has risen, has cast out its Governor, and has elected a substi- tute, usually a soldier. The Central...

report, charging the Ministry of Lower Canada with corruption, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, M. Angers, has dismissed it from power. He has sent for the Con-...

Browne, who resigned the bishopric of Winchester a year ago, died on Thursday week at Southampton, at the age of eighty. He was a man of learning, wisdom, and piety, who became...

long time M.P. for Leicester, marks the decay of a school of Radicals who were in many respects manlier and more stoical than the modern race. For one thing, Mr. Peter Taylor...

in what seems to outsiders a most unsatisfactory way. The Nizam, according to his own statement, asked Mr. Jacob, the jewel-merchant of Simla, to bring him the "Imperial," an...

all events, the old notion that a hard frost generally implies a clear, bright sky, is in a fair way to be dismissed altogether. We hardly ever have frost in London and its...

on Monday, one of the weirdest of discoveries. There is in that wild region a hill called "the Hill of the Foot- steps," on the rock of which are imprinted a crowd of foot-...

in opening a new Polytechnic school at Croydon. He explained that its object was not to teach children trades, but to train them in that flexibility and receptiveness of body...

from Rochdale Vicarage to Tuesday's Times, makes some excellent remarks on the astonishing declaration of the thirty-eight clergymen to whose judgment on the modern criticism of...

tended, as Mr. Jesse Collings, for instance, with almost all the Unionists contends, that Irish Home-rule has got such a big front seat in the Gladstonian programme, that...

New Consols (21) were on Wednesday 951.

LORD HARTINGTON'S ELEVATION. T HE death of the Duke of Devonshire will make two very great changes in our Parliamentary campaign. It will remove Lord Hartington from the House...

the short speech of high laudation pronounced on the [8th inst. by the Emperor, indicate two facts of some political importance. The German Emperor is more willing than the...

I T is perhaps a good omen for the Church of England that not a single Bishop was found to join the reac- tionary Deans and Archdeacons who signed the singular document...

W E deeply regret that the Tory majority in the Liverpool Council have refused to grant the free- dom of the city to Mr. Gladstone. They did not, indeed, vote against the...

W E fear that M. Angers, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, has made not only a grave blunder in tactics, but in constitutional law, in summarily dismissing M....

day told a story which . seemed to its hearers a little surprising, as well as comic. He had been listening with much attention to a case of some importance, in which the...

N 0 doubt Mr. Stanhope, to whose excellent speech on the Army and the great recruiting difficulty we referred briefly in the Spectator of last week, is anxiously awaiting the...

A GREAT physician said the other day to a friend, speaking of a common acquaintance : "Yes, she is a very amiable girl, suffering as so many now do, from an en- larged...

A GOOD many London newspapers have adopted a new custom, that of publishing, besides the lists of birthe, marriages, and deaths, a list of the well-known personages who are ill,...

T HE average Englishman, if not altogether a creature of habit, is certainly a slave to old customs, even when those customs are preserved in a most undesirable form. It is for...

ENGLISH AID TO INDIAN WOMEN. THE writer assisted at a conversation recently between an Indian statesman of reputation, and a lady who had worked towards establishing the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Agreeing entirely in your doubt whether any project of State-aided pensions for the aged, based upon contributions compulsory or...

CLERICALISM IN IRELAND.. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—For a good many years I have been admiring the know- ledge of Irish affairs and penetration in Irish...

A CHRONICLE OF FROCKS.* IT was a woman, and not a philosopher, who said there was nothing new in the world but what was old enough. So says the opening sentence of the quaint...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—Allow me to make a very brief answer to your comment upon our " Declaration " in the Spectator of the 19th inst., with request for...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some may think that the writer of the interesting article on this subject in the Spectator of December 19th, should have mentioned the...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] your review of Mr. Churton Collins's "Illustrations of Tennyson," in the Spectator of December 12th, you call the past half-century "an era...

Mn. GORE in these Lectures reoccupies tbe position which Cardinal Newman abandoned when he gave up the idea that the primitive Church really held a different position, both...

Miss MABEL Ronibisoli has always been a pleasing writer, but her previous work has hardly prepared us for so strong a novel as Hovenden, V.C. The theme of the story she has...

AT first sight it might seem that this volume appeals primarily to artists, and to the personal friends of the painter and etcher Samuel Palmer ; but when we close the book, we...

AMONG those who during the past half-century have largely contributed to raise bibliography, if not, as some of its enthu- siastic devotees say, to the rank of an exact science,...

WHEN we open Mr. Shorthouse's book after a somewhat dis- cursive perusal of modern fiction, we feel at once that we have reached a purer atmosphere, and we compose ourselves to...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Portfolio, 1801. Edited by P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and Co.)—The yearly volume of the Portfolio is introduced, so to speak, by a fine title-page, after one...

MR. LANG begins his charming little volume with a chapter which he entitles "Confessions of a Duffer." These, we imagine, are not unlike other confessions which most of us make,...

prettily illustrated books :—Milton's Ode on the Nativity, illustrated with coloured reproductions of some famous paintings, as "The Sistine Madonna."—Voices in the Starlight,...

L. Price, M.A. (Methuen.)—This volume, one of the "University Exten- sion Series," gives an account, in biographical form, of Political Economy in England, beginning with Adam...

is a volume of verses in the style which the late Mr. Lear introduced, accompanied by appropriate drawings. The pictures are some- times fairly successful ; but we cannot praise...

lain and W. B. Mason. (John Murray.)—This is a "third edition, revised, and mostly rewritten." Japan is a country which changes as rapidly as any in the world, and books of this...

(Mac- millan.)—This is a most useful manual, giving, within a small compass, a sketch of commercial history from the Phomicians, who appear as the chief traders of the West with...

By Walter Wentworth. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—We have the same characters in this story as we had in " Kibboo Ganey." This time, however, the party start from England to rescue the...

Character. By M. H. Spielmaun. (Cassell and Co.)—Art as well as science is being highly subdivided, when an artist finds it worth while to live for painting cats. This Madame...

Corney's Money, though a short story with a moral to it, is better, and better written, than the generality of the class of books to which it appears to belong. But beyond...

is nothing particularly exciting about the adventures of the "Little Marine." He goes to Japan, adopts a little Japanese child, and eventually loses her, through quarrelling...

this periodical, together with the January number of the approaching year, have been devoted to representations of the Indian collections of the Prince of Wales, consisting...

Mrs. Warren (Bemrose and Sons), containing, besides miscellaneous contents of fiction, &c., articles on the fashions, &c.—The Church Sunday-School Magazine, Vol. XXVII. (Church...

less to praise this work, which, while it grows bigger every year, is brought out with undiminished carefulness as to details, details so numerous and so varied that it is...

Co.)—This volume belongs to the series of "Eminent Actors," following the editor's (Mr. W. Archer's) account of Macready. There is a certain appropriateness in the sequence,...

(Ward and Downey.)—A reader may do as he pleases with Mr Brougham's account of his expedition. If he can get through it, it will do him no harm. But he should by all means read...

Haller. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Professor Sabatier is an orthodox theologian, with an open mind, and, as Mr. Findlay (who has added an essay on the Pastoral Epistles) remarks,...

—This little volume does not require any criticism. It consists of notes published, the writer tells us, in obedience "to the wishes of one who is now no more." It is,...

Stough- ton.)—Mr. Thayer has some advice to give, and enforces it with abundance of illustrative anecdote. He quotes a saying of one of his heroes, who was asked to describe the...

trator, edited by the Rev. Joseph S. Exell, M.A. (J. Nisbet and Co.) One of these completes the Gospel of St. John (chaps. xvi.-xxi.); the other, the two Epistles to the...

vols. By John Foster Kirk. (J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia.) —" The original work," writes Mr. Kirk in his preface, "con- tains the names and enumerates the works of over...

J. Greenstreet, M.A. (Walter Scott.)—This volume, translated from a posthumous work, is full of interesting matter. It deals with many important questions the answers to which...