Kentish Town murderess, on the ground of her liability to epileptic attacks, failed, Mr. Matthews, who as regards the administra- tion of justice has been an excellent Home...

a Bishop as strong, unless the Bishop of Chester, who also belongs to the Northern Province, should be named, and should turn out to be a man of the same calibre. We hardly...

coma which frequently follows diabetes, from which he had long been suffering. He was certainly an able Archbishop, though he did not succeed in conciliating the Lower House of...

Scotland. Seven thousand permanent hands, signalmen, shunters, engine- drivers, and all classes employed in the yards, making up the majority. The Companies continue with great...

Poland of Germans continues intense. According to the Vienna correspondent of the Times, the authorities have ascertained that eleven thousand Germans and Austrians still remain...

ARDINAL LAVIGERTE'S project for recivilising great kJ tracts of the Sahara may be a dream, but it is a noble one. He is organising a French Sahara Brotherhood, who will live as...

case.

Christmas Eve in Dublin, Mr. Healy made a characteristic- speech, charging the Government with having paid the extra- vagant expenditure of Mr. Vincent Scully's contested...

Gregory, who has long been familiar with the practice and policy of that great Cathedral, and will probably carry out, so far as he enters into them, the intentions of Dean...

of the Irish Party. What in the world is the meaning of all this talk about the compromise which it is supposed that Mr. O'Brien's conference with Mr. Parnell in France is to...

has been the reiteration of protests of innocence as regards the charges brought against him in the Divorce Court. "I feel no ill-will," said Mr. Parnell last Saturday, "...

in the return of Sir John Pope Hennessy over Mr. Vincent Scully by a majority of not very far short of two to one. Sir J. P. Hennessy, the candidate of the Bishops and priests,...

clergy, at the request of his Archdeacon and Rural Deans, the drift of which is to - urge on his clergy not to introduce any new forms into the eucharistic service, even though...

on Mr. Parnell's side, declared that there had been so much priestly coercion, that if Sir John Pope Hennessy should be returned, there would certainly be a petition. And that...

desire of the German Emperor to visit Paris, on his way to see some sick relatives at Cannes. He would travel in strict incognito, but of course with the full knowledge and...

a Convention at Ocala, in Florida, which was attended by all the representatives of the party in the South, and some Western men. They wished for a certain measure of secrecy,...

East Marylebone Liberal and Radical Association, Canon Barker in the chair, Mr. Robert Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, and grandson of the great Conservative Minister, was...

not been for twenty years so good a prospect of durable peace as this Christmas presents. The Powers have no new causes of .quarrel among themselves, and have evidently agreed...

" Guilty." The penalty of death was imposed upon the male prisoner, but his accomplice only received a sentence of twenty years' penal servitude, owing to the fact that in her...

Wednesday at 951 to 94.

political offence, at least when the victims are Russian subjects. After General Seliverstoff had been murdered, a journalist named Labruyere heard that the guilty man was...

THE KILKENNY ELECTION. Kilkenny election shows that we were probably T HE wrong in estimating Mr. Parnell's personal power in Ireland, after the greater number of the...

in the recent Irish explosion has amazed us so much as Mr. Parnell's sudden dropping of his assumed character. It was so inexpedient. He is dearly an Irishman at bottom, though...

may be dismissed as of no account. If the Pope is going to help one .established Government to pat down Socialism, it is not :unreasonable to assume that he is equally willing...

to concede that a lad who enters the Universities shall not be compelled to master the rudiments of Greek. But they are trembling on the verge of that momentous resolve, and we...

"T HROUGHOUT the course of the Kilkenny election, Mr. Parnell and his supporters have been protesting against the intimidation which they allege has been prac- tised wholesale...

I N his general conduct of the Eyraud trial, the Pro- cureur-Gen6ral no doubt yielded to the inclination towards sensationalism and melodrama felt with greater or less strength...

the Statistical Society last week on the relative cost of armies was in many respects interesting. The newspapers have dealt almost exclusively with the lecture of Sir Charles...

I N the first number of a little monthly publication called " The Coming Day," edited by Mr. John Page Hoppa, the minister, we believe, of a Unitarian or Free Christian Church...

T HE position taken up by Mr. Huxley in the first part of his able letter of Saturday against General Booth is rather a weak one. He says the Salvation Army was better managed...

"And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold."—Ancient Mariner. T HE sufferings which fell on the Ancient Mariner and his comrades for his wanton killing...

THE CYNICISM OF THE SPECTATOR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.".1 SIB, — I had not intended to address you again on a subject on which I feel almost too strongly for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Is Home-rule the demon of Nationality ? From a recent article in the Spectator, as copied into the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " 13PECTLTOR."3 SIB., — Warning Unionists, you say to-day that to dissolve Parliament now would be foolish and mean. Warning Con- servatives, might I...

[To THE Winos OP Tar - SPEcreroct."] Sts,—When the first College for Women at Oxford adopted the name of " Somerville," it was understood to indicate the ambition of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — In your interesting notice of " The Riverside Natura- list," I think you have made a mistake in attributing the charming story of the...

A FRENCHWOMAN'S TRAVELS IN IRELAND.* WE should advise the reader who wants to know something of Ireland without entering into the storm of her politics, to learn French at once,...

THE OLD YEAR. On, for the year dying in the dark December weather, The year that we loved so, the year that was so fair, Can we not save it, ere it passes altogether, The year...

[To THY EDITOR 01 THE " BPSCTATOB." J SIR,—As the support accorded to the third object of the fund originally chosen,—viz., " To promote and perpetuate the study of Cardinal...

that rises naturally to one's lips, when a translation of Les Bois en Exil, with its French look, with its clever French pictures, is put into one's hands. The question, " Why ?...

THERE is always some risk in a comparison based on recollec- tions of varying distinctness ; but we do not think that we do injustice to Mr. Clark Russell's new story when we...

his "humble" task "of writing the letterpress for a series of illustrations," in the manner of one who takes a very deep interest in his work; and so far as the present reviewer...

one of the most remarkable, philanthropic, and enlightened men who have lived and worked even in Birmingham during the latter portion of the present century ; indeed, the book...

FOR a Presbyterian clergyman, the author of this volume is remarkably bold in a peculiar way. No doubt there is what is termed a Broad Church party in the Church of Scotland to...

Co., Edinburgh.)—Here are nine little stories, in which reality and fancy are not unskilfully mingled. Now flowers, now birds and beasts, confabulate, andnow we have little bits...

and Co.)—This book contains verses for every day in the year. These it is impossible to praise. They seem to us to have not much sense, and next to no metre. Then there are...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Polar Crusoes. Edited by Percy St. John. (Dean and Son.) —Two boys are cast away on an island in the Arctic seas, and then provide for themselves, with very...

of Australian life" has plenty of picturesque description and incident. The " find " is naturally a "claim" rich in gold, and gold, all the world over, creates history. The...

Hay, and Co., Edinburgh.)—This is a story of the mildly sensational kind, in which a waif is found to be the lost child of a titled lady. There are benevolent people, serious...

an interesting and instructive little story of a village lad who by courage and honesty makes his way up in the world, doing good as he rises to others as well as to himself, a...

Girls." (Religious Tract Society.)—We may explain that "Do the next thing," is the motto which Christie Gilbert chooses for her rule of conduct, and which she applies to life...

D." (Religious Tract Society.)—Of course there is a certain amount of caricature in General Marston's perplexity when he has to do with his orphaned nephews and niece, and in...

a pity that the talented and skilful writer of this story, to which the commonplace second title, "I. Tale of the Days of Good Queen Bess," is given, should, by writing of the...

and Co.)—Mr. Child seeks by the aid of copious illustra- tions to reproduce the life of children in the past. He uses the works of painters, more or less famous, in which they...

With Illustrations by Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman, and others. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a sixth edition of a very popular and successful work. Its six hundred...

gaily coloured picture-books, all with attractions of their own. These are Cinderella, The Three Tiny Pigs, A B C of the World, each letter of the alphabet being illustrated...

—This story reminds us a little of the familiar fairy-tale i n w hi c h we have two more or less disagreeable elder daughters, and a younger sister who is as amiable as she is...

: a Magazine for Sunday School-Teachers and Church- Workers Generally; and for younger readers, The Boys and Girls' Own Companion. — Golden Bells (Dean and Son) is the Christmas...

Professor Perry delivered at the Leeds meeting of the British Association. The author, on that occasion, had the gyratal, or spinning-top in his hand, and explained its action...

not impossible, to differentiate the numerous maga- zines which compete for popular favour. To a certain extent utility is a prominent characteristic of the Family Magazine....

story is mainly concerned with women's work for a livelihood, It has the look of being drawn from life. Janie is a very vigorous young person, whose sayings and doings are...

editor contributes papers on " Household Manage- ment" and "The Management of House and Servants;" there are "Notes on Dressmaking," by Madame Vevey, "Notes on Millinery," "...

must say that the central idea of this story is somewhat repulsive. There are other things also in it that we do not like. But there is certainly ability in the way in which it...

Marshall's story takes us to a variety of scenes, to the ragged Corners miserable home, and to the fine house where Pauline, heiress-presumptive of the barony of Saintsbury, has...

say, socially sentimental?—class, a better gift-book could hardly be suggested than the first annual volume of Igdrasil, the journal of the Ruskin Reading Guild (George...

-Co.)—This is a story of a pleasure-trip taken in a small yacht of ten tons along the Western Coast of Scotland. A certain kind of humour is appropriated to this kind of...

Society.)—Mr. Frederick Langbridge has put together a number of extracts from well-known writers on religious subjects. John Fox, Jeremy Taylor, Southey, Dean Vaughan, and...

to see an announcement from the editor and proprietor stating that it is the last. The Review deserved a better fate ; but we have always understood that there are trade...

Wood- berry. (Houghton and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Woodberry has an ear for music, but too frequently the music is not wholly his own, being caught from earlier composers. The...

(Routledge and Sons), and Hero's Story, by Harriett Boultwood (P. Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh), may be classed together as stories of dog-life, told from the dog point of view....

noticed, if our memory serves us, Mr. Cox's first " Brownie Book " last year. This volume has the same characteristics,—a quite surprising variety of quaint figures, full,...

Munro goes far back for his beginning of electrical know- ledge. His first chapter is devoted to Thales. The fact, authentic or not, that Thales knew a piece of amber when...

The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth (G. Routledge and Sons). Who does not like to hear again of Rosamond and the Purple Jar, of Frank, of Harry and Lucy, and the...

Baring- Gould. (Skeffington and Son.)—These short stories have been reprinted from various periodicals to which the author has con- tributed them. " The Prague Pig" is an...

edition. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The Unknown Horn of Africa. By F. L. James, M.A., F.R.G.S. Second edition. (G. Philip and Son-)—The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. By W. C. Lefroy,...

none of the Parliamentary Companions which seem to us so compendious and useful as Dod's, and we always welcome a new edition of his Parliamentary analysis. In the present case,...

on matters ecclesiastical, together with some leading facts in civil affairs. There is also to be found much that it is desirable to know about Universities, Colleges, Schools,...

and Co.), we have The Reign of Tiberius, from Gordon's translation of the " Annals" of Tacitus, and edited by Arthur Gahm; and Chase's Translation of the Ethics of Aristotle,...

Putnam's Sons), we have republished, under the editorial care of Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Ben- jamin Franklin, as Originally Printed in...

M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—Professor Green begins by an interesting account of Dr. Thomas Burnet's " Sacred Theory of the Earth," and of other cosmical speculations of the pre-scientific...

guide for all mistresses and servants. Entirely new edition, revised, and greatly enlarged. With new coloured plates, and full-page and other engravings. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—...