T EEEPope has thought it wise to express publicly his dis- satisfaction with the Emperor of Germany's treatment -of him, and has chosen for the purpose a singular medium. He has...

Reform Club, and though hinting that he might have preferred to speak on such a subject as "Is marriage a failure ?" submitted to the will of the chairman by returning to the...

regular sittings on Monday, had been occupied almost exclusively in listening to the Attorney-General's opening of his case for the Times. In the conversation on Wednesday...

to scandals. He had applied to the Consistory of Servia to grant him a divorce from his wife, Queen Natalie, on the ground of mutual detestation; and when her reply was received...

case.

Ulster Hall at Belfast. He used Mr. Morley's recent attacks on him for his defensive policy as a virtual admission J:iy Mr. Morley that Lord Hartington had been quite right in...

denied the charge with suspicious earnestness, and certainly the last proceeding of his Cabinet gives some colour to the supposition. It is a tradition of French Governments...

to the policy of pursuing political methods by consti- tutional means. Well, if so, why does he call Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Dillon his friends ? No one can pretend for a moment...

States. As the day for balloting approaches, the friends of Mr. Cleveland grow more anxious. They are certain of obtaining a majority on the mass vote, but are by no means so...

and Ava, and Earl of Ava. The Viceroy has deserved a public recognition of his great services, and we suppose the marquisate was the easiest, though we never can understand how...

It is part of the policy of Mr. Blaine, to whom Mr. Harrison, the Republican candidate, is a mere cloak, to repre- sent Mr. Cleveland as the British nominee. An Englishman in...

but eminently partisan. Mr. Morley is losing that detachment of mind which used specially to characterise him as a politician, and the loss of which is far from com- pensated by...

seen on the White Nile are revived in a telegram of the 24th inst. from Cairo, announcing that natives who have arrived at Wady Ralf& confirm the stories of the white Christian...

speaking at Salford on Tuesday, made a good point by remarking on Mr. Gla.dstone's condition for a successful Home-rule measure, that it must be a final measure. How many final...

a ton since July, and is still rising, owing mainly to an impending strike of the pitmen. Thirty-five thousand men are now " out " in the Midlands, with the full sympathy of...

West of Scotland branch of the Imperial Federation League, at which Lord Rosebery and Lord Brassey urged the im- portance of Federation to British foreign policy, Lord Brassey...

It is stated on good authority that the Copper Syndicate hope to fix the price of copper for the next twelve years, and to fix it at the price now beginning to be felt so...

instruction, if not exactly to the relief of mankind— but Sir J. Lubbock's speech of Thursday, though too much condensed in the reporting, is well worth reading. It is full of...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday 97t to 971.

Germany has been in Vienna, and the Prince of Wales has been hunting bears unsuccessfully in Transylvania. The Preraclenblatt, a semi-official journal, has this week expressed...

1885 have been succeeded by a National Conference on Apples and Pears in 1888, which was held last week in the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chelsea. The Conference...

LORD GRANVILLE'S CUE. L ORD GRANVILLE never attempts the earnest style of oratory. Nor does he ever attempt the severe style. He is nothing if not bland. He is one of those...

the internal unrest of the French Republicans which is very serious, and is growing worse. As a rule, we question if the mass of electors in any country are much moved by coming...

Quarterly Review, in an article upon "Robert Elsmere," blames Mr. Justice Stephen for under- mining by certain magazine articles those sanctions of religion to which he...

he has com- mitted the error of his life. We say "we fear," not because of any sympathy with him, but because his position in Servia helps to preserve the European peace, and to...

T T is not quite creditable to economists that they have not explained the long depression of trade and its recent revival a little more clearly. Some of them believed in...

I T must be very hard for some of the politicians whose judgment on public affairs is best worth having, to understand or estimate the enormous influence exerted over the...

A FEW days ago, the Times described the scene in the underground vaults of the Victoria Embankment, where the police were engaged by the dim light of candles in putting a...

MITE extreme dislike of intellectual insolence which is felt 1 by most educated Englishmen, has had this week a singular illustration. The reviewers, commenting on the "Life of...

st AA T OMAN is the last thing that man will civilise," says somewhere Mr. George Meredith's aphoristic baronet. The generalisation—as generalisations go, not a bad one—is...

17P THE FEEDER. CONGLETON Cloud, standing out grey-blue against a clear distance of September sky, seemed to beckon us from our hills and valleys to the plains of Cheshire ;...

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I ask you to insert a suggestion by way of con- tribution to the discussion going on upon all sides about...

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Concerning the letter of your correspondent, "A. G.," will you kindly allow me to say I have found statements which,. I think,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I was glad to see in your article on "A Technical Insti- tute," in the Spectator of October 13th, that you warmly acknowledge the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—Pray allow me to correct a misapprehension about what we vegetarians maintain on the above subject. The vege- tarianism of the great...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Please allow me to offer the following correction as to a matter of fact. In a review of Professor Roemer's "Origin of the English...

SOMETHING has come : I felt it yestereve The lark on high was singing, The happy church-bells ringing ; How could I grieve ? I could not grieve. An old man weary lay; I...

SPRING, long awaited, blossomed but to fleet, For hardly had she from their moaning won The winds to melody, and coaxed the sun To tinge with emerald the trembling wheat, Than...

JOHN WARD, PREACHER.* John Ward, Preacher, is a remarkable book,—the power of which seems to us, however, to consist even more in the side-sketches than in that of the...

I know it by this pain : But yesterday I had it, To-morrow though I bade it, It would not come again. Something is gone : What shall we that thing call ? A touch, a tone, that...

THE traditions of pre-historic Greece have been defined by a. very competent judge as the history of a past which never had a present. It may seem rash, therefore, to make any...

title, and in spite of a somewhat chaotic arrangement—there is nothing so confusing as an unsuccessful attempt at a logical system of exposition—Mr. Tallack has written a very...

works upon our list of recent novels are from the pens of the two feminine writers who, for a quarter of a century or more, have been most successful in appealing to the tastes...

IN his new edition of the Jacobite Songs and Ballads, Mr. Macquoid has done much more than bring before our notice a collection of stirring songs and ballads full of the spirit...

and Sons.)— Mr. Brodie's verses would perhaps be best described by the term "rhetorical." The two lyrics which stand first in the volume and which give to it its title are very...

POETRY. In Hours of Leisure. By Clifford Harrison. (Kogan Paul). Trench, and Co.)—There is much in Mr. Harrison's poems to admire. Some of the pieces composed more especially...

Sons.)—This volume consists of several short pieces; and one long poem which is dramatic in its treatment. The latter is a very thoughtful study of character. Mr. Raymond brings...

can fail to read these poems with a great deal of pleasure. If Mr. Thring was not a poet, he had nevertheless a strong vein of poetry in his nature. His verses are not merely...

than Mr. Ambler has been able to give them. More than this we cannot say. "A Leaf from Marc Antony" is a short poem after the model of Lord Tennyson's " Locksley Hall." But if...

Stewart's poems are for the most part of a somewhat morbid nature. His melancholy, as far as we can discover, is chiefly caused by the general shortness of human life. But as...

B.A. (Pitt Press.)—Mr Adam has given, us in his Crito a work which is quite equal in merit to his edition of the "Apology." The Crito is certainly the most interesting, if,...

Cuchulain : a Dramatic Poem. By W. C. Upton. (M. H. Gill and Son.)—We are not impressed by Mr. Upton's poem. It is poor and bombastic in style, as well as generally devoid of...

(James Maclehose and Sons.)—Mr. Smith is well known to the public as a poet. His poem entitled " Hilda " has stamped him as a writer possessed of great power and thought, as...

pleted his edition of the Oresteia. When we have said that his Eumenides reaches the same high standard of excellence that his Agamtermon and Chcaphoroi did, we feel that we...

T. Tatham, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Both from its shortness and the comparative simplicity of its matter, the Lazhes is doubtless better adapted than the majority of Plato's...

lary. "Rivington's Greek Texts."—These two little volumes are printed in good, clear type, and are of a very convenient size. They are furnished with notes and vocabularies. We...

Third edition. (E. Stanford.)—Heartsease. By C. M. Yonge. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. —Theological Essays. By R. H. Hutton. Third edition, revised.—Literary Essays. By R. H....

Edited by E. D. Stone, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— Mr. Stone has in this volume done for Greek what Mr. Wilkinson haadcme for Latinin his " Selections from Ovid." The part of the...

B.A. (Clarendon Press.)—For schoolmasters who are in want of a Greek book for the fourth or fifth forms which is not too hard, Mr. Snell's book will be very useful. The...

J. B. Greenough. (Ginn and Co.)—Mr. Greenough tells us that his work is meant for the class-room, and yet he attempts nothing in the way of commenting on the difficulties of the...

and Notes by W. W. Capes, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—The final struggle of the Greeks to retain their national independence in the face of foreign aggression and internal...

Appendices. Edited by G. M. Edwards, M.A. (Cambridge University Press.)—The chief value of this book consists in its introduction and appendices. The notes are good and...

handy little edition, beautifully printed, and fit to be carried in the pocket, as "Ella" deserves. But why, oh ! why will not pub- lishers who take so much trouble and risk so...

A. Sloman, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—This edition is intended for use in the higher forms at schools. There is every reason to suppose that it will prove very useful in this...