from official sources in the great Province of Nijni, whose centre is the ancient and wealthy commercial depot, Nijni-Novogorod. According to this account, the posi- tion of the...

humanity on the gigantic scale. As our readers are aware, Baron Hirsch, the billionaire, is employing part of his vast wealth in an effort to found large colonies of Russian...

case.

arrested, against whom, it is said, there is evidence that they intended to carry out their principles by poisoning all the members of a fashionable club. Substances supposed to...

fix. Although secure of a majority, through the coalition of Catholics and Conservatives in its favour, the irritation of all Liberals against his Prussian Education Bill, an...

T HE Behring Sea dispute with the United States is again becoming active, though the treaty referring it to arbitra- tion is settled, and it is said that the Senate of the...

Melbourne murders, except that the house which Swanston,. alias Williams, alias Deeming, had taken in Perth had already had its floor cemented since he took it, which some...

Times a remarkable resolution of the Swinford Board of Guardians with reference to the recent speech of Mr. Dillon (M.P. for East Mayo) on Mr. Balfour's administra- tion of the...

a really interesting debate. Usually, Wednesday's discussions are entirely infrnctuous, a thin House listening wearily to philanthropic maundering ; but on the 23rd some four...

City Liberal Club, delivered a striking and original speech there on Wednesday, partly in praise of Lord Granville, partly by way of review of the vast changes in the character...

in attending the annual dinner of the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, where he seconded the toast to the Houses of Parliament, reproaching the pro- poser...

ford, to the Archbishopric of Westminster ; and though the Bishop is very anxious to stay in his present See, it is thought that he will be induced to acquiesce in the Pope's...

much humour, though with much deeper respect. He did not think that the House of Commons is losing any of its influence with the country,—an opinion on which we differ from him,...

the age of eighty, of Professor Noah Porter, of Yale, one of the most dis- tinguished and thoughtful of the ethical students and teachers in the United States, who till within...

has undergone, Lord Rosebery remarked that England is now really outside the European system, and that her Foreign policy is not now determined, like that of the other European...

without a division, amid cheers from both sides. The only remarkable speech came from Mr. Gladstone, who supported the Bill, but wished for compulsion and a vast extension of...

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the full benefits of one of those wealth-producing Trusts on the merits of which our correspondent, Mr. Horace Smith, was recently so eloquent. The sugar-refining business of...

at the house dinner of the City Carlton CM), expressed his hope that the crushing defeat of the Moderates in the County Council elections would at least induce them to make up...

Barbour shows, indeed, a large surplus for 1890-91, namely, 3,688,000 rx.; but that is ancient history. The revised esti- mates for 1891-92, on the other hand, reveal a deficit,...

THE DEFEAT OF THE EIGHT-HOURS BILL. T HE crushing vote given by the House of Commons on Wednesday against the Eight-Hours Bill for coal- miners (272 to 160, in a House of 436),...

it/F R CHAMBERLAIN protested warmly, in his in- teresting speech of Saturday last, against the notion that the House of Commons is in its decline. Indeed, he did not seem to...

could hardly have regretted that taboo of the Irish Question which was a natural consequence of the large admixture of Unionists in the City Liberal Club, when he delivered his...

a flood of light upon the most interesting of all German subjects, the true character of the picturesque young Emperor. That light, we fear, is not altogether favourable, the...

I T is difficult to conceive anything more thoroughly un- satisfactory than the debate raised on Mr. Robertson's motion in regard to the Law of Conspiracy. If the mover of the...

London County Council which is to examine into the present organisation of the Council's business and the method of conducting it, will approach the subject with the advantage...

the Rainhill murderer a monster, and won- dering how such a human being could exist at all. That a man should take a special satisfaction in murder, should murder his own wife...

T HIS is supposed, or at least we read so in many magazines, to be a time of extreme intellectual; tolerance, when everything is permitted by the wise except a belief in...

L IKE the other survivals of medireval life, the Carnival is rapidly dying out in Spain and Italy, and the local Press at Seville, far from lamenting the decay of the ancient...

T T is right that the notices of the great historian who has just laid down the pen for the last time should be written from the point of view of the outside public ; but it...

" WILDE, AND WHIRLING WORDS." [TO THS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The quotation in a recent Spectator of an epigrammatic observation of Mr. Oscar Wilde's, set me...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I wish Mr. Haines had been more precise in naming the "two or three propositions laid down" by me, which he hesitates to accept. When he says of one...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—From the kindly note you append to my letter of last week, I rather fear that in one respect I failed to make my meaning quite clear. My...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to suggest a new interpretation of the word "translated" in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act iii., Scene I,. where Quince,...

THE PAINTER-ETCHERS. THE Visions, to use the dialect of William Blake, which s eems here the most appropriate, have been rather angry with Mr. Strang. He has been afflicted by...

ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. A HUNDRED paces from the human tide That fills the Strand; one crooked street, and soon Behold a silent world of waters wide, Lit by a wandering...

MISS LAWLESS'S " GRANIA."* THIS sketch of human life on the frontiers of the Atlantic—. that "Old Sea" which has ever been in European fancy the battle-place where natural...

COULD we combine the Scotch landscapes of Sir John Millais with the deer of Landseer, the hawks and game-birds of Mr. Wolf, the vignettes of Bewick, the wild-fowl of Bai Rei,...

Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of the great books of the world,- an epoch-making if not a war-making book, which stirred the pulses of two continents from end to end, and played a...

the sermons of a preacher after he has passed into the silence of death, which is greater than the pathos of any other posthumous publication. There is nothing so personal, so...

sudden death of the greatest his- torical writer of the present generation must have come with a shook of regret not merely to every student of history, but to every lover of...

IT was with no little eagerness of expectation that we turned to examine Mr. du Manner's story. His Punch drawings, if we had been asked to infer from them the probable...

(Kogan Paul, Trench, Triibner, and Co.)—These "Thoughts for In- curables" are chiefly, though not exclusively, intended for widows and, in their more practical advice, for...

M. Spence and the Rev. Joseph S. Ezell. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The volume before us contains the Book of Job, the Rev. G. Rawlinson contributing the Exposition ; the Rev....

Fiji, and New Guinea, and is well furnished with maps. This is the "twenty-third year of issue."—We have also received the first yearly volume of The Economic Journal, edited by...

Sons.)—This is a very convenient, very complete, and very reasonably priced atlas. It bears the title of " Imperial " on account of the special attention which has been paid by...

Putnam's Sons.)—" Making muscle and reducing flesh without dietary or apparatus," is the attractive promise which Mr. Checkley holds out on his title-page. How far it may be...

Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand. Edited by the Duc de Broglie. Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. IV. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—As we have long since given up the...

scholars ; and he has not Virgil's power of attracting the young. Schoolboys and schoolgirls do not appreciate his human insight, are rather bored by his "droppings of warm...

Fourth Series, Vol. IV. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We may mention as noticeable papers in this volume, Dr. A. Plummer's "Advance of Christ in IONA," "Some Fragments of a Pre-...

convenient little volume, the carrying of which would not overtask the very feeblest admirer of the poet, Lyrics and Sonnets of Wordsworth, selected and edited by Clement King...

(F. Warne and Co.)—This is the story of a plucky Scotch boy who goes to work in a Pennsylvanian coal-mine, has a tough fight with the Union, and is eventually victorious,...