name from the Reform Club, and of course speculation is very active as to what this step may mean. It may mean little or nothing, —dissatisfaction, for instance, with the...

A RUHOUR which has been floating about for some days, was confirmed on Tuesday. The German flag has been raised on the Northern coast of New Guinea, on New Britain, an island to...

feeble attempt to treat the Government triumph on the Lord John Manners, speaking at Syston yesterday week, made a feeble attempt to treat the Government triumph on the...

any case.

effective use of the condition of the present Metropolitan counties as illustrating the one-sided results of the existing system. He said you might find in the three divisions...

annexation of Angra Pequena, which, however, do not explain the main question,—How did it happen that the Colonial Office did not believe that the German Government would annex...

attempting to blow up the German Emperor during the unveiling of the statue of Germania, has been sentenced to death. There is no doubt of his guilt, which, indeed, he did not...

the recent British expedition into the Valley of Zhob (Job), undertaken to punish a chief who claims to be a descendant of the patriarch, but who has been raiding on our border,...

of the internal condition of Russia. Count Tolstoi, the Minister of the Interior, exaggerates the old despotism, suppresses even local Councils, prohibits the discussion of any...

French. It is stated• that the fleet off Formosa has cholera on board, that the blockade is imperfect, and that nothing whatever can be done towards the occupation of the island...

that the single object of Prince Bismarck in resisting British policy in Egypt, and producing small embarrassments for the British Government, is to bring about the fall of Mr....

been in mutiny for arrears of pay, and the Treasury has with great difficulty scraped together enough to keep them quiet, and in doing it has increased the discontent among the...

Reay to the Governorship of Bombay, about to be vacated by Sir James Ferguson, whose time is expiring, and who has had but a limited success. The selection is very English. Lord...

the House of Lords, asking each Peer whether he is favourable to the general principle of a Reform of the Lords, and if he is, in what direction he would be inclined to propose...

Thursday's Times, comments on a paper read by Mr. Lywood at the Warminster meeting of the South Wilts Chamber of Agriculture, on "Agricultural Depressions,"—the object of the...

hand in Egypt, and have demanded seats and votes in the Office of the Debt. Their object, of course, is to strengthen the representa- tion of the Bondholders, and at the same...

hundredth anniversary, having been founded on December 22nd, 1284. Mr. Lowell, who as usual had to answer to the toast of the Cambridge of the Transatlantic world, congratulated...

record,—the price of the splendid " Psalmortun Codex" of 1459, printed by Fust and Schoeffer, having even exceeded that of the "Mazarin Bible" by £1,050. The latter (the...

of trade. In spite of the outcry about it, which appears to be nearly universal, we are told this week that at a meeting of some of the Liverpool guardians,—the guardians for...

to issue a weekly penny paper, which is to be edited by the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, and to be called the Methodist Times. From the programme which has been pat forth, we should...

Consols were on Wednesday 99i to 99f xd.

fessor Ferrier's experiments on the monkeys' brains, so much vaunted by the Times of Tuesday week as having led to the exact localisation of the tumour in a paralytic patient's...

British steamer ' Chelydra,' 1,148 tons, and a Norwegian barque. Early on Thursday morning, the Chelydra,' bound for Bremerhaven with rice, was passing up Channel, and the...

THE MIGRATION OF ELECTORAL POWER. N OTHING is more remarkable than the migration of electoral power which will result from the Redistribu- tion Bill. After allowing for the...

T HIS new Australasian business is a disagreeable one, and all the more so because the Government is not entirely in the wrong. The plain truth of the matter is that the...

numerous, though they call themselves by many names and put forward very different grounds for hope—must find the trials of the Anarchists at Leipsic very sad reading. They have...

W E very much doubt whether " the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " has not been greatly misunderstood, when it has been understood as...

A SENSATIONAL legal sitting has come to a sensational conclusion in the great Lotinga case. The case raised a great many points of interest, legal, commercial, and social. It...

It happens that this moment has appropriately been chosen by the Pall Mall Gazette for a series of articles on the rival aspects of the recent changes at Oxford and Cambridge....

I N Mrs. Fenwick Miller's interesting study of Harriet Mar- tineau, in the " Eminent Women Series,"* she concludes by anticipating that a great many women will follow where...

W E are not entirely satisfied that Mrs. Gibbons, the Uxbridge murderess, ought to be executed. Our readers will, we believe, exonerate us from any prejudice against the penalty...

T HE above heading was suggested to us by a friend as the subject of a paper some months back, but it was not until much time had elapsed, and not a little reflection had been...

THE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 Sin,—In the letter from Sir T. D. Acland, published in your paper of the 20th inst., I see that he refers to...

to see his way as far as possible through the subject of the Allotments Act, I wish to under- stand the way in which it is provided or contemplated that allotments are to be...

THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—With you, "I trust that the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control" will discuss and reverse its decision, to make...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The remarks of Aristotle on this topic at the end of the Fourth Book of the Ethics are valuable, and very much agree with the...

Sta,—In these parts the demand for allotments near home is as brisk as ever, and the benefit resulting to the labourer there- from more and more generally acknowledged. When I...

with much interest your remarks ou the impolicy of the executive of the Liberation Society in forcing on Disestablishment as a test-question for candidates in the approaching...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SIR, — I am surprised at the opposition that has been presented to the proposed division made by the Government Seats Bill of large towns...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — May I be again allowed to call your attention to the ridiculous and misleading compilation, " The Aristocracy and the Public...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — The Spectator never lacks the courage of its opinions; but I do not know how far you have worked out the startling results of your...

WITHOUT, the wintry sky is overcast : The floods descend—fierce hail and rushing rain ; Whilst ever and anon the raving blast Clutches the casement pane. Within, our darling...

WE rejoice at the appearance of this book ; but we rejoice with somewhat of a sigh. If Mr. Friedmann is held to have made good his case, a great deal of mischievous error which...

CRADLED in the arms of slumber Athens lay at dead of night ; I alone my vigils keeping, watched the lamp's unsteady light Burning in my silent chamber with a dim and fitful...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,— Reading your article on this subject in the Spectator of September 27th reminds me that the strongest " Hibernicism" I ever heard fell...

IT would be a mistake to call this pleasant little book a novel. It is hardly even a novelette. It is rather a study of the extent to which ignorance may smother even true...

the pages of Punch with some care. Not only will they thus obtain an insight into political and social evolution otherwise unattainable,—where else can the improvement in the...

Percival gave the world assurance of a novelist of no ordinary promise. We do not propose, on the present occasion, to weigh Mitchelhurst Place in the balance against its...

who look at life from very different standpoints. Miss Faithful' is always in earnest, and Serjeant Ballantine is never altogether dull. Neither author deals exclusively with...

THE custom of publishing at this time of the year quantities of volumes popularly known as Christmas gift-books, presses as hardly upon the patience of the reviewer as it does...

FOR humanity, with its instinctive horror of death, to regard being chained to earthly life as an especially fearful doom, seems inconsistent. Yet is not a strong argument in...

a companion-volume to one of which we had occasion to speak with high praise some time ago "Sun, Moon, and Stars." But it is meant to be " much easier," and indeed in style and...

GIFT-BOOBS, ANNUALS, ETC. Illustrated Poems. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is in every way one of the best gift-books of the year . Twenty-nine poems have...

are very properly told in the preface, for the most part appeared in Little Folks. They certainly are worthy of collection and repub- lication, and indeed make up a very...

begin by being a very unlucky, and end by being a very lucky family. Not only do they exchange poverty for riches, but what is far more difficult, they give up, in some...

H. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—Miss Mulholland has a very graceful and ingenious fancy at her command. The first story in the book has, perhaps, a little too much description in...

is a pleasant little volume, which will serve excellently for such an acquaintance with the life of our German kinsfolk as can be got without personal acquaintance. It is amply...

Mr. Clements Markham begins his " series of lives of great navigators of former times" with Prince Henry the Navigator, and ends it with a chapter on " Cook, Scoresby, and...

and Co.) —Mrs. Tooley tells here in the space of some 280 pages twenty lives- She should, we think, have named her authorities. Not one of the lives, we may safely conjecture,...

(Cassell and Co.)—This is a pleasant, readable volume, telling us about Spain as it is, and as it was, and abundantly illustrated with landscapes, drawings of cathedrals,...

De Sanctis. (W. Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)—We are not told anything about the retelling of this old story. Surely a short preface about so in- teresting a book would have been...

Bray. (Griffith, Farren, Okeden, and Welsh.)—Mrs. Bray tells here a number of adven- tures, founded on fact, she assures us, in every instance, which came in the way of the...

under the direction of the Library Committee of the Corporation, contains an account of the various presentations of the honorary freedom of the City to distinguished personages...

readable book, though it strikes us that the point is a little strained by the multiplicity of details. The point is the superiority of a cer- tain Tom, who stays at home and...

(W. H. Allen), are good in their way, being really quaint, as well as well-drawn, but it is a way of which we cannot honestly approve.

a slightly-increased difficulty in finding sufficient celebrities. When it suits to caricature a man, he is caricatured ; when it suits to give him some such face and figure as...

is a book of the "Alice in Worderland" kind. Mabel, the heroine, meets with the personages of various nursery-rhymes,—with the " Man in the Moon, who came down too soon, to ask...

H. Batten. (John C. Nimuto.)—Mr. Batten divides his "Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time" into three parts, " Christmas Chants and Carols," " Carmine...

and Downey.)—There are still stories to tell, Mr. Farjeon seems to think, and his readers will probably agree with him. That the tale of the murder in "Great Porter Square"...

a notice which, under the present pressure of time and space, can be little more than an enumeration. The precedence may fairly be allowed to Peter Parley's Annual (Ben George),...

it with the most care and comprehension have commonly but little sympathy with this side of the subject. We are, therefore, the more obliged to Mr. Masson for this excellent...

is being done for the young folk at this time on the other side of the Atlantic. •

leaves and flowers, is The Beauty of the King, by " F. M. 11." (James Hawkins.)

to some in the varied and often rugged path of life." We believe that that hope will be fulfilled. There is a good deal of originality and taste dis-

in which we have a short record of cotton- spinning in the past, followed by a second which describes the principal varieties of the cotton-plant, as it is grown in various...

Max- well.)—The " Pharisees " against whom the author is so severe, are worshippers of social distinctions, who will not pardon " Star," the wife of a certain Guy, a county...