are sent to the Times on the Radical rout. Sir Henry Howorth on Thursday attributes a good deal of it to Mr. Gladstone's desertion of his party, and failure to put forth a great...

General Election, than the need of having some better machinery than that of a General Election for discriminating the special points on which it really turned. There are...

rumour published by the Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette, and referred to by the Pall Mall Gazette. It is to the effect that the Duke of Connaught is to succeed the Duke of...

T H - F1 Elections during the week have more than answered our expectations, though they have proved, in several instances, in Forfarshire, in Brigg (Lincolnshire), and in...

case.

state. With that medieval fierceness which characterises South- Eastern Europe, the wounds were fully displayed., in order that those who viewed the body might be appealed to by...

the Sultan, and has promptly had conferred upon him the Order of Khanedan Osman, "in recognition of his fidelity and exceptional services." We wonder what that phrase imports,...

occasion for a demonstration of sympathy and indignation by the friends of the murdered man, and of hostility by his enemies. At the spot where M. Stambouloff was cut down, the...

of Mr. Reid and Free-trade, against Sir Henry Parkes and the Upper House. The Members of the Upper House are, indeed, said to have been pelted by the crowd when they appeared at...

Speaking at Duns yesterday week in aid of his cousin's unsuccessful attempt to capture Berwickshire for the Unionist party, he remarked that Mr. Asquith and his colleagues "had...

murder with the encouragement and sanction of the authorities—and it appears to us most likely that the rumours to that effect are ill-founded—the friends of Russia are...

the Government proposals in regard to taxation,—in which they are wise. They may have been unjustly treated, but except in matters of conscience, and no matter of conscience was...

Spanish Government, now thoroughly alarmed, is sending out a fresh army of thirty thousand men,—a tremendous strain on the finances of a country so poor and so badly managed as...

The first is that the Porte has appointed Shakir Pasha to super- vise the carrying out of the promised reforms in Armenia. Shakir is a Turk, and was sent to Crete to restore...

and priestly intimidation at the elections. The Independent reports a strange scene in a chapel. A priest, who was reported in the course of the late Meath petition to have...

of Winchester, who had filled the See of Rochester and had done much good there before he was raised to the Bishopric of Winchester. He died at Farnham Castle on Thursday morn-...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 107i.

of the Times in Thursday's paper. It: is to the effect that the Japanese are delaying the negotiations for a commercial treaty with China, and also for the execution of the...

North Worcestershire in support of Mr. Wilson, the Liberal Unionist candidate, who won so remarkable a success on the following Tuesday. The most significant portion of the...

week. Sir George Goldie, the Governor, in his address, described "the campaign against the Company" carried on by the French Colonial party, and related how Captain Lugard...

-Mr. Balfour declared that it was not till Mr. Gladstone had had seven years to meditate the changes he was anxious to make in his first great attempt to give Ireland Home-rule...

1HE GENERAL CAUSES OF COLLAPSE. I T was the policy of the Newcastle programme to wrap up the confessedly unwelcome Irish policy of the Gladstonians in tempting scraps of...

going to make the mistake of being absorbed in Irish affairs, and of neglecting the claims of the larger island. But though Ireland will not block the way, they will have, and...

C ANDOUR requires an acknowledgment of the candour shown by not a few Radicals in the work of self- examination as to the causes of their delocicle. Con- spicuous in this...

T O those who watch carefully the political signs of the times, the rather exceptional victory of Mr. George Harwood at Bolton, in Lancashire, for the Radicals, and his share in...

I T has often been said in the last few days that the magnitude of the Unionist majority secures the adoption by the new Government of a strictly Conserva- tive policy. Had they...

IN OW that the dust and confusion of the General Elec- tion have subsided, Lord Salisbury will be able to turn his attention to foreign affairs, and not too soon, for if we...

O NE of the most important Parliamentary papers recently issued, is that which contains the Marquis of Ripon's answers to the various resolutions passed by the representatives...

C ANON AINGER called attention in our last impres- sion to the very obvious connection,—as we should deem it,—between Mr. Watson's recent poem on the grave of Burns and those...

T HE murder of a mother by her two sons of eleven and thirteen, recorded by us last week, was one of the most horrible acts of boy-wickedness which has occurred within living...

F IRED by the report that the work of women in the present General Election has been of greater extent and has exercised a greater influence than has ever been the ease before,...

W HEN Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. W. J. Orsman insti- tuted the " Costermonger and Street-Traders' Donkey and Pony Show," their motives were in the first instance directed to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sia, — A railway journey through Ireland, from East to West, undertaken the other day, led to a curious train of reflections! The country...

MR. BALFOUR'S BENIGNITY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcitTos."] Sin,—As one who has had the privilege of knowing Mr. A. J. Balfour from his early years, I should like to bear...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BrECTATOR."1 SIR, — It is clear by this time that the Unionist Government will come into power with a sufficient majority at their back. Is it too much...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR"] Six,—I thank you for your kindly notice of my novel, " Tandem," in the Spectator of June 29th. I ask leave to point out that the main incident...

[To EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J STR,—I fear that Father John S. Vaughan only too correctly interprets the teaching of the Catholic Church on the question of the relations of...

is fond of quoting Newman, it will startle him no doubt to read the following passage which does bear upon vivisection, from Newman's "Sermon on the Crucifixion," republished in...

anti-vivisectionist, may I venture to express a word of doubt whether Cardinal Newman's defini- tion of cruelty, as given in the letter from Father John Vaughan, in the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—In your review of Mr. Courthope's "History of English Poetry," in the Spectator of July 20th, you notice his accept- ance of Professor...

MR. CORNISH'S " WILD ENGLAND OF TO-DAY."* THE appreciation with which the public has welcomed Life at the Zoo finds a natural sequel in the appearance of the present volume,...

[TO 27111 EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,""It may perhaps interest you to know that the belief— probably well founded—that animals know instinctively the proper remedies for...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR."] Sra,—May I add to your animal stories a striking instance of that spirit of jealousy which insists on all or none? I had a cat which had...

IT is not easy for an athlete to bring home to the non-athletic reader the peculiar fascination exerted by a pastime or sport. For it too often happens that the athlete's powers...

A WEEK or two ago, in our review of the latest novels of Mr. Zangwill and Mrs. Herbert Martin, we referred to the im- portance of the part played by " the artistic temperament"...

Ms cAuLs.Y, it is said, was anxious that his article on Barrere should not be republished and stand among his collected works. He considered it too darkly coloured, too full of...

READERS of a very charming book of travel, When We Were Strolling Players in the East, will tarn to a new book by the same author with some pleasurable expectation, only, we...

THERE is humour and pathos and a great love of Nature bound up in this sober brown-paper-covered book. We con- clude that Mrs. Fuller Maitland, with her love of old words and...

Watteau. By Claude Phillips. (The Portfolio for June.) (Seeley and Co.)—Everybody knows the charm of Watteau, but it is not every one who could point out for us what the...

Oman progresses fast in his mighty task. In the fullness of time he has been born to rewrite our text-books for us, and so he is conquering kingdom after kingdom, forgetting,...

Co., Portsmouth.)—This year's volume of the Naval Annual cannot compare in interest with some of its predecessors. A few years ago there seemed no end to the competition as to...

D. Ines, M.A. (A. D. Lanes and Co.)—This is a spirited, enthusiastic little book, hill of excellent reading for those who have a general acquaintance with English history, and...

Lucy wields a facile and skilful pen, and he can, when he pleases, be, or at least appear, impartial. Neither faculty appears here to great advantage. To write a biography of...

Royal Natural History, which is edited by Mr. Richard Lydekker, and published by Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. The third volume, which is now published, gives the conclusion...

of Parlia- Pearson for Colchester (February 19th). Manifestly, then, i .cannot be said not to be "up to date." The convenience of such a volume is great. To search through the...

of the feeling of a kindly heart, without being the better disposed ideal Fanny Pallas, and give up sculpture for the music-hall by it towards the humble friends of man. stage,...

Waugh, M.A. (For Private Circulation.)—Mr. Waugh has also published a record of the members of the Athenaeum. In this volume he tells us how the Club was thought of and set...

Sons.)—Dr. Stables wrote, some little time ago, the piteous story of a show-dog. He takes up the same theme again, though this time it is an episode rather than the main story....

of curiosities and marvels with which Mr. Dyer is wont from time to time to amuse, perplex, or possibly terrify his readers. Strange curses, mysterious rooms, bloodstains that...

Kegneys " to " Metham." To judge from the analogy of similar works, the whole will be completed in two more volumes. The patience and industry of the writer who has to deal with...

were —say, the `Majestic,' which will cost a million nearly—will be

By the Hon. Francis Lawley. (Vinton and Co.)—It is indeed "time," as Mr. Lawley writes," that a life of perhaps the most pleasing sporting writer of the century should be...