A LL the news of the week has a gray colour. It must, we fear, be accepted that the chances of war with Russia have increased, though the negotiations scarcely advance ; and the...

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST OSMAN DIGNA. T HE difficulties in the way of successful action on the Red Sea are endless, or, at least, while the country is waiting for intelligence of...

certain bitterness,—a sense that Providence is dealing-out to him some of that severe irony with which the Almighty not unfrequently tries men of high aspirations,—at Mr....

I T is pleasant, amidst so much that is wearisome or disheartening, to read the news from India. Lord Dufferin, who knows Russia, and understands how doubtful the contest is...

T HE French Chamber's vote on the principle of representation has been singularly different from the one taken in May, 1881, when the plan of electing all the Members for a...

T HE tenderness of English law for the liberty of the sub ject is marvellously exemplified in the proceedings of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved. Whenever a Judge on Circuit...

E sketches of Bishop Wordsworth's life which have appeared in several journals have had one common and natural fault. They pass lightly over the intellectual narrowness which...

M ISS COBBE has republished* her very striking essay in the Contemporary Review on "A Faithless World," the essay in which she commented on James Stephen's no less remarkable...

W HAT a flood of light these skirmishes on the Red Sea throw upon Mahommedan history, and especially upon those two most obscure series of events,—the early conquests of the...

CLOTHWORKERS' HALL. Ito THE EDITOR OP THE " SPRCTATOR."1 avail myself of your invitation to put the matter at issue between as a little more distinctly. Your article in effect...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,---You have so often expressed sympathy for the poor persecuted tourist in his struggle to gain access to the beauties of Nature, now...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J am right glad to see Mr. Portal's letter admitted into your paper. To make a monetary qualification necessary in a constituency like the...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J you kindly allow me to correct one of three or four misprints in my letter, which seriously affects, or rather eliminates, the sense of...

rm THE EDITOR Olt THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — L3 it "the first necessity of a memorial that, apart from the memories it evokes, it should be useless "? Is it not rather a mockery...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "13PECTATOR."1 So„—Your note so well answers the particular issue which Professor Dicey's letter opens, that perhaps you will think further comment...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR '1 Sra,—With reference to letter on "The Curse of Scotland" by me in yesterday's Spectator, allow me to mention that my name is not William...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Thanks are due to your correspondent " 0. " for bringing before us that delightful French story about Herat. May I suggest a slight...

THE VIRGIN IN HOLMAN HUNTS NEW PICTURE. DIVINELY sad, but yet serene, Worn with fatigue, but tranquil still, On foot, on hand, on form, on mien, Trace of the subjugated will,...

"A GREAT PICTURE."t Ma. HOLMAN HUNT'S great picture of "The Triumph of the Innocents" is at last finished, and is now being exhibited in iBond Street, at the Fine-Art Society's...

MARIUS THE EPICUREAN.* A READER who brings to the study of Mr. Pater's romance the popular conception of the Epicurean will find himself in the presence of an individuality of...

now pass as Liberals are Tories of a new type" is the theme of this book, which consists of four essays reprinted from the Contemporary Review. These essays were hailed with...

CARLYLE, writing half a century ago on Diderot, lifted up his voice and warned British novelists that their hour had come and their vocation gone. The reading public was sated...

of Merimee's Letters to. Panizzi, makes Merimee tell his friend that there is nothing more beautiful than the river between Savona and Frejus. Most of us could have assured this...

THE author of this poem has grossly misnamed it. The subject of it is no Mephistopheles, though he appears to have bad experience of the temptations of Mephistopheles, and to...

• The Chancellor of the Tyrol, by Herman Schmid (Unwin), which has been translated by Mrs. or 'Miss Dorothea Roberts, is a historical novel, based on fact, that is popular in...