D URING the whole of the past week the country has been deeply moved in regard to the news from West Africa. On the night of Friday, February 18th, as the House of Commons was...

THE DISPUTE IN WEST AFRICA. T HOUGH as we write there are signs that the French Government are unwilling to push matters in West Africa to extremities, it cannot be denied that...

T HIS Zola Trial is a bad business, both in itself and in its possible consequences. It has lowered the credit of France as a great civilised State, and it has greatly increased...

W E wonder what are the feelings of the more thoughtful and serious members of the Liberal party—and there are plenty of them who are both— when they read a speech like that...

T ORD SALISBURY is steering the ship very care- fully, and the fact ought to be specially acknow- ledged by those who, like ourselves, are irritated by the failure in Eastern...

-E NGLISH politicians have one quality which is not always reconcilable with their general temperament, ?but which greatly helps to make their legislation effective. 'They are...

F EW persons who passed by the massive structure known as the Grosvenor Hotel would have supposed that its chief shareholder was a Knightsbridge butcher, that he had nominated...

W HEN the Southern Convocation met last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury had an important announcement to make to the Lower House. That House has spent much time and labour on...

I T is easy to ridicule M. Zola's self-glorification in his speech at the trial, but we should much prefer to under- stand it. With faults which are to all moralists most...

T HE place of the eat in literature is a very curious one. Nobody has taken the trouble to notice the cat in verse or prose who is not a cat-lover, and so one of those who...

A CIRCULAR is now being issued to sportsmen, inviting them to join in a big-game shooting expedition to British East Africa. The particular district selected as a hunting ground...

THE WIND ON THE HILLS. Go not to the hills of Erin When the night winds are about, Put up your bar and shutter, And so keep the danger out. For the good-folk whirl within it,...

AMERICAN DIALECT POEMS.* WE welcome with no ordinary pleasure the two volumes which form the subject of the present notice. Neither of them contains great poetry in any sense...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sesciveroa."] SIB,—In reference to Mr. Stillman's letter, I write to say that the charming little squirrel is well cared for—he was very miserable—but my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOS."1 SIR, —In the Spectator of February 5th is an article on " The 'Cat About Town." The writer does not know if cats ever molest goldfish in a...

THE CAPE UNIVERSITY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —The writer of the interesting article that appeared in the Spectator of February 12th under the heading " What...

THE "SPECTATOR."] :SIE,"I am gratified to find, on carefully re-reading the very Linteresting article in the Spectator of February 19th, that the writer supports in the main my...

No young girl ever stepped into a more difficult position than Marie Antoinette of Austria, when at fifteen she became the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France. Few young girls of...

MR. DAKYNS has found it convenient to divide his third volume, which would otherwise have been of an inconvenient bulk, into two parts. Part I. contains the Socratic or quasi-...

Mrs. Simpson, as Lowell said of Dryden, that she stands " between the age before and that which followed, giving a hand to each." Dryden was six years old when Ben Jonson died,...

WE welcome with becoming gratitude the latest instalment of the excellent English translation of the great work of Gregorovius, which carries us into the beginning of the...

THOUGH Simon Dale is described as a historical novel, we may be pardoned for doubting whether it is based on any very profound study of contemporary documents, while in regard...

N. Spon.)—Many of our readers will remember the panic about the imminent exhaustion of our coal-supplylwhich prevailed some years ago. It lasted long enough to make some...

Vol. I. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co. 50s. net.)—Arch- deacon Baly explains that the term " Eur-Aryan" (suggested, he says, by Mr. W hitley Stokes) is intended to connote all the...

P. Hillier,. M.D., &c. (Macmillan and Co.)—The adherents of the Reform movement in Johannesburg are as garrulous on paper as they were ineffectual in action, but Dr. Hillier's...

Lays of Iona, and other Poems. By S. J. Stone, M.A. (Long- mans and Co.)—There is nothing better in Mr. Stone's volume than the introductory poem bearing the title of " The...

Heinemann.)—Mr. Williams has the courage of his opinion. He would put a duty on foreign wheat, not a uniform duty, but "heavier against silver and paper countries." He would...

and Sons.)—A vigorously written and eminently readable volume of " Bell's Cathedral Series." Oxford Cathedral has had, as Mr. Dearmer remarks, a somewhat unfortunate history. It...

title is given to a collection of very modern essays. These vary much in merit and tone. H. H. fiwyesen praises Ibsen. "Never has the great master written anything simpler and...

Son, J. Deane Hilton (Isbister and Co. '7s. 6d.)—Marie Hilton busied herself for many years with good works at the East End of London. Her activities were various....

Somerville gives us in this little volume a number of curious and interesting facts. The interest, of course, lies chiefly in the abnormal development of insect Ltfe. All life,...

of these angling stories are of the best quality. The Norwegian experiences especially are good. Nor are they mere narratives of catching or losing fish ; the writer feels and...

Sons.)—Leigh Cameron, making it:gleat sensation in Washing- ton as the belle of the season, has a crowd of: suitors, two of them standing out of the ruck. One of them gains the...

White. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a description of four volumes of MSS. by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Some of 'these are letters ; others are " copy " of various poems,...

a Kempis. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—The Greek and Latin Devotions of Bishop Andrewes. Carefully edited and arranged in Sectional Paragraphs by the Rev. Henry Veale. (Elliot...

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