T HE Pause continues, and the departure of Lord Salisbury for his house on the Riviera seems to indicate that he expects it to continue for some days. The Premier probably...

WILLIAM L AND WILLIAM IL O F all the surprising things that the German Emperor says the most surprising are his incessant laudations of his grandfather, William I. of Germany....

Mediterranean is a very curious incident. In theory the six Powers, who claim in Europe a sort of legislative right, which international jurists like Mr. Westlake will one day...

M R. GLADSTONE'S letter to the Duke of West- minster is one of his best and most pithy per- formances. He touches the true key to the situation in a single sentence when he...

W E have never expected much from the Treaty of Arbitration with the United States, though we have supported it as an interesting, and indeed noble, attempt to find a peaceful...

M R. BALFOUR'S double success, first in making the proper arrangements for getting through Supply within the limits of an ordinary Session, without either haste or delay, and...

A MORE grotesque proposal than that made on behalf of the City in Parliament on Monday night can hardly be conceived. The City proposed, by means of a Private Member's Bill—it...

"T SAY, young Copperfield, you are going it ! " his schoolfellow remarked to David when he consented to spend "another shilling or so in fruit and another in biscuits," and it...

on Tuesday evening were certainly with the speakers in support of Mr. Round's motion. The speeches on the other side were curiously wide of the mark. Few of them gave any indi-...

"WTHEN Dr. Johnson invented the word " clubbable," he had no idea how large a class of qualities he was trying to define. The newspapers tell us that a gentleman has just been...

A MONG the reasons which induce certain classes of Englishmen, especially soldiers, sailors, and City men, to despise, and even in a way to dislike, the Greeks there is one, the...

T HE St. Louis Democrat (Colorado) contains an account of an "elk-farm" owned and created by an American gentleman named Captain Marcus Coon. The " elk " are wapiti-deer, much...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPICTATOR."] common, I believe, with many of your readers, I have read with dismay the speech of Lord Salisbury to the House of Lords apparently making...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your article in the Spectator of March 20th on " West African Views of the Soul" was very interesting. Perhaps the following story may...

CLERGY INCOMES. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sza,—My income, according to Crockford, is 2440 commuted tithe, but owing to E86 going in rates alone and other...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—One day in 1878 I came by chance upon a village in Syria. I might have passed it unaware, for the hovels were of the same colour as the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SM—In the concluding sentences of your review on " The Battlefields of England" in the Spectator of March 20th you state that "the...

AN AUTUMN EVENING. GRAY is the sky, and gray the fading land, And a thin rim of starved gray fainting light On the bleak ridges flickers, that ring round This pastoral hollow...

SHAKESPEARE'S "RICHARD III."* SHAKESPEARE'S Richard III. undoubtedly makes a good acting play. Garrick, Cooke, and Edmund Kean found in Richard a part startlingly effective,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR:] STR,—There is good authority for the views expressed in the article in the Spectator of March 20th under the above heading. The author of the...

HELP THEM—A REJOINDER. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTAT011.."] SIE,—Two articles on the above subject have recently appeared, one in the Nineteenth Century, the other in the...

of these ten essays of the late Mr. Romanes are full of interest, both theoretical and practical, for in the theory of instinct, and in his mastery of Mr. Darwin's view of it,...

THE last volume of the Far and Feather Series" would have gained by compression. Its two main subjects, stalking the red-deer of the Highlands and hunting on Exmoor, are well...

TEE life of Sir George Airy gives an interesting example of the great effectiveness of order and method.. The amount of active and useful work that he was able to accomplish in...

THE constitution of the atmosphere which we breathe, the separation of the various gases contained therein into certain well-defined groups, and their individual action in...

in Mr. Baring-Gonld's method,—to point out, for example, that the language and sentiments of his characters are rarely suitable to their social position or true to the period...

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. Fifth Series, Vol. IV. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The first paper in this volume is a description, with commentary, of the...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a second edition, appearing fifteen years after the first, and comprising the results of so much addi- tional study. As the first edition...

Co.)—This is a story of a well-known type,—the braggart discomfited by the lad of quiet courage. Another excellent moral is well enforced. The kindness shown to the hungry...

not easy to choose from the mass of information which Mr. Blashill has collected about the history of Sutton an adequately illustrative specimen. Perhaps an outline of the...

Baghot-de in Bore. (Seeley and Co.)—Mr. de la Bore claims that in this little book he shows "the one and only way of making farm poultry a rent-paying industry ; " unfortunately...

Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—A very little of the supernatural is sufficient in fiction. In fact we are in- clined to think that ghost-stories are scarcely worth...

Unwin), is an account given of a journey up the Nile on one of Mr. Cook's big tourist steamers. When one thinks of the poetry and majesty of the great ruins of Egypt, there is...

(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Dr. Whyte says what he has to say, which is not seldom of a thoughtful and original sort, in a vigorous fashion. Sometimes he gives the...

and Co.) —We found so much to like in Mrs. Panton's earlier works that we are sorry to have to express a grave dissent from much that we find in the volume before us. Mrs....

Leask has lost, or, to put the matter as gently as possible, has failed to improve, a great opportunity. The announcement in the preface that "to treat Hugh Miller apart from...

Sons.)— Mr. Marden, in a book of some five hundred pages, has collected a vast number of instances of men who, by possession of some qualities, have risen to honour, or fame, or...

(Cassell and Co.)—Sir Humphry Davy's fame, in the case of the vast majority of those who know his name, rests on the discovery of the safety-lamp. His claim to the merit of this...

is, as usual, the most important of all the books of reference for the politician and the statistician. The new edition has some excellent maps showing the political changes...

Black.)—This useful work, now issued in a new form, gives a large amount of information about most of the people whose names are at all before the public. The addition of the...

a volume of the "Famous Scots Series," and has the best of rights to a place in it. But the title is in a way a misnomer. As Mr. Geddie remarks, "Who would set forth to explore...

size as the famous Almanack, and forms a very cheap and handy Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. There are no pedigrees, but plenty of addresses.

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