issued a pamphlet, which we have received only just before going to press, on the subject of the Irish Question. It is in part devoted to the explanation of the growth of h is...

O N Monday, Europe was dismayed by news of a fresh revolution in the Balkan Peninsula. In the early hours of the morning of Saturday, August 21st, Prince Alexander of Bulgaria...

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who made a good slashing speech of a commonplace sort, charging the Belfast riots on Lord Randolph Churchill, treating the large Liberal vote given for...

any case.

is usually to strike terror among those who may possibly resist the revolu- tion. This, however, was not the course pursued at Sofia. Instead, the conspirators tried to deceive....

rode in front of the line amid a tempest of bullets, and whose moral courage and pertinacity enabled him to force the hand of Russia in Eastern Europe, had not, the world...

against the Government for not proposing coercion, though it would apparently have been much more bitter if they had proposed it. He treated the declarations of the Government...

his comparison of the Government, in its fancy for Com- missions, to the artist of whom Canning tells us, who held that the only thing that it was worth the while of a...

speech of the usual kind, in which there was one fair joke, the remark that if Mr. Chamberlain did not pause in his down- ward career, the next thing we should hear of him would...

of the Government as a sober policy, a policy intended to give Ireland a rest after the policy of constant agitation. In defending his Commissions, which were made the occasion...

a speech of great force and weight. He pointed out that the Parnellite Party could not be expected to wish for the restoration of social order in Ireland till they had gained...

last four months the number of evictions had greatly decreased; that in 1885, of 3,127 tenants legally evicted, only 600 were actually evicted, all the others being reinstated....

the usual kind,—cold, clear, sardonic. He held that with three more weeks' time for agitation, the Government would have had a majority, instead of incurring a defeat ; but as...

who moved the adjournment of the House in order to question the Government on the appointment of Sir R. Buller to the magis- tracy in Kerry, Clare, and parts of the adjoining...

He enlarged greatly on Lord Salisbury's suggestion that where the judicial rent turned out too high, the Irish landowner should be compensated, if at all, out of the British...

any note were an angry one from Mr. Chaplin which did the Government no good, and a speech from one of the Sub-Com- missioners under the Land Act, Mr. Mahoney, who stated that...

resolution for the boycotting of English goods, conceived in these terms :—" To hurt the enemy where he will feel it most, by refusing to purchase any article of English...

paltry expedients indeed when it peremptorily expels an English chaplain from his French home, after a residence of upwards of six years in France, for presenting a little...

W. Jarvis, was declared returned by a majority of 255 over his Gladstonian opponent ; for Mr. Jarvis there voted 1,423 electors, for Mr. J. H. Sanders, the Gladstonian, 1,168....

Member for North Armagh, and Mr. Matthew Harris, the Member for East Galway. Major Saunderson having quoted a remark made by Mr. Harris to the effect that "the landlords were an...

though not a very clear account, in the letter which appeared on Wednesday, of the collision which has occurred between the Governor, Sir J. Pope Hennessy, and the Lieutenant-...

only one of inadequate provision against emergencies, but one of almost unparalleled misfortunes. Tho last, and in some respects the greatest, of these is the disaster which...

THE BULGARIAN COUP D'iTAT. I NDIGNATION and disgust are weak words with which to describe the feelings of Englishmen at the shameful treatment that Prince Alexander of Bulgaria...

T HE tactics of the Opposition in relation to the Irish Ques- tion are at once simple and effective. They consist in a coherent and pertinacious attempt to electro-biologise...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech had two great charac- teristics which will make all the Unionists of Great Britain grateful to him. He was as firm as a rock in his Unionism ; and he...

of the new House of Commons is hardly ten days old, and yet no one can have watched its proceedings without feeling that even with it, young as it is, speech counts much more as...

I F the columns of the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade have not helped us much to a positive know- ledge of the cause of that depression, they have at least shown...

Samuel Montague, the Jewish Member of Parliament for Whitechapel, in reference to which a question was pat in the House of Commons on Monday last, will once again draw attention...

I T looks very much as if it would be the effect of democratic institutions to increase extremely the pleasure to be derived from putting any sort of distinctive mark on...

T O a carefully trained or to a naturally sensitive ear, there is often a beauty of rhythm in prose as powerful as the most exquisite in verse. Indeed, on some natures the...

R OBIN Hood's Bay, or, as it is commonly called, Bay Town, is assuredly one of the strangest and most picturesque places on the English coast. It contains a population of...

THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW IN IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—It is quite natural that upon each succeeding crisis in Irish affairs, the first thought that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sra,—In your issue of August 21st there appeared a letter signed " Walter Hobhouse." It was a very good letter, containing true facts and...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Sin,—I hope you will kindly allow me to explain that you mis- apprehend my position with regard to the Irish policy of this present...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — Mr. Hobhonse, in his letter of August 21st, points out clearly that under the present system of single-Member seats the loyal...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — If " Ludovicus " can persist in saying "that Mr. Chamberlain was in no way guilty of auy misrepresentation" of the late Government at...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . ] Sue,—My attention has been called to' a letter by "Emeritus " in your issue of August 14th, in which he condemns the system of sharing the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Your note of August 14th on the Oxford Laymen's League appears to me to be based on a misconception of its object. Whatever may be the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, -- YOU have permitted Mr. Bishop to advocate the appoint- ment of an Ambassador at the Court of the Vatican ; and this step, which has...

quite agree (as a Catholic priest) with Mr. W. H. Bishop, that the English Government should have a properly accredited representative at the Vatican. As my friend, Mr. Oxenham,...

to your editorial note on my letter of August 21st, I beg leave to state that those four lines left out in your paper on the plea of their being " grossly offensive to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SrEctaron."] SIR,—The most suggestive and interesting illustration that I know of, as showing what co-operation and good management amongst working men...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sra,—In a letter from me you were good enough to print in the Spectator of August 21st, I am made to say "administration is not an...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR, — I have read your interesting article on " Land and Labour," published in your issue of August 21st, in which you call attention to...

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD.—XIII. ASIUS. WHEN from the windy plain of Ilium, Between the Xanthns and the seaward sands, The Greeks within the fencework and the trench By Hector's...

ACADEMY REFORM. Ix my last week's article upon this subject, I pointed out very briefly some of the chief reasons for believing that the administration of the Academy had been,...

"TERRE DE FRANCE."* A BOOK which has been crowned by the French Academy, and whose author has been adjudged the Prix Monthyon of 2,000 francs, ought only to need a few words of...

as hardly any one else knows it. Every burn and torrent, every ravine and pass, every ridge and slope, is familiar to him under all its myriad aspects in sunshine or gloom ;...

book on the law of contract is well known to lawyers as an admirably concise and scientific exposition of the subject, has attempted in this book to do for the law of the...

day," says De Quincey, in his queer, rambling, scrambling essay on " Style," " to read our noble language in its native beauty, picturesque from idiomatic propriety, racy iu its...

of three visits to Marocco, the latest having been made in 1883. Certain changes have taken place since then, notably the retirement of Sir John Drummond Hay from the post...

WE sometimes wonder if the anomalies and awkwardnesses of modern scientific nomenclature will ever become so glaring as to give rise to a special department or association, with...

an introduction, by Alfred Ainger. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Ainger, as our readers probably know, has already edited with great judiciousness the essays and poems of Lamb. In the same...

Edited by John Morris, S.J. (Roehampton.)—At the time Henrietta Kerr was born, her father, Lord Henry Kerr, was Rector of Dittisham, a village on the Dart. His wife was the...

and Co.)—Anything relating to the Navy should always find many readers among Englishmen, and this little volume is admirably calculated to diffuse accurate information on the...

fess that we opened this book with some misgivings. The lives of the Saints of the Roman Church are seldom very interesting to the general reader, and we expected little more...

it is quite harmless is the beat we can say of this book. The plot is difficult to follow, and when unravelled is not so original as to repay the trouble involved in discovering...

Kershaw. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a praiseworthy record of the main facts relating to the settlement of the Huguenot refugees in England, and their relations to the Church...

The Heiress of Haredale. By Lady Virginia Sandars. (F. V. White and Co.) —This novel possesses considerable merit, in spite of certain blemishes in point of literary form. The...

By Leander Richardson. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—In a note prefixed to this book, the English editor observes that he does not suppose the author intends his countrymen to...

K. Roamer. (Fisher Unwin.)—To write, as Professor Hosmer has attempted to do, a history of the Jews which shall be so colour. less as to offend neither the Christian nor the...