funeral have so far gone forward without a hitch. The body was sent by rail from Hawarden on the night of Wednesday, and lay in state in Westminster Hall on Thursday and Friday....

IVL>,r has lifted a little. Unless all the accounts received this week are false—and they include, among other things, a vote of thanks to Admiral Cervera passed by the Cortes...

MR. GLADSTONE'S INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH LIFE. T HE whole country is honouring Mr. Gladstone to-day not merely as a great statesman and a great ruler and law-maker, but also as a...

the effect which will be produced in the United States by the " slowness " of the present war. Politicians there evidently calculate that the Americans will grow weary of...

E NGLISHMEN who do not pay special attention to foreign affairs are inclined to ask how it is that public opinion in France is so deeply moved over the Spanish war, and why the...

T HE total result of the French elections, which was undetermined when we wrote a fortnight ago owing to the vexatious and illogical system of second ballots, proves to be most...

T HE approach of Whitsuntide and the adjournment of Parliament for the consequent Recess bring with them the customary comparisons between the legislative work done and the...

M R. GLADSTONE'S family have, we think, been in the right in submitting to the general desire that he should have a public funeral. Even if he had left explicit instructions...

T HE brief conversation in the House of Lords on the question of foreign immigration, and the attitude taken up by Lord Salisbury, suggest the question of the general hostility...

D URING the last four years the Duke of Bedford has carried out a scheme of animal acclimatisation in the park at Woburn Abbey on a scale never before attempted in this country....

A MEMORIAL TO MR. GLADSTONE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOIC.J Sin,—If it should be the desire of the English people to raise some memorial to Mr. Gladstone besides that...

[TO Tug EDITOR Or THZ " SYRCIATOR.1 SIR,—You are quite right as to the folly of going to war with Russia, on every ground,—and certainly for trade. Oar trade with Russia for...

[To THR EDITOR 07 TIM " SPECTATOR:1 Sin.—You recommended Dean Church's sermons in the Spectator of May 14th as models for the village preacher. May I ask, not captiously,...

[To THE EDITOR Or Tug " SFECTATOR." . ] Srn,—Concerning vineyards in England, .1 send you the following extract from "A Treatise of Fruit-Trees," by R. A. Austen, the third...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The appeal for "Flowers for Friedenheim " that you kindly inserted in the Spectator of April 2nd has brought so generous a response that...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In regard to your criticisms in your very kind notice, in the Spectator of May 21st, of "When War Breaks Out," may we point out certain...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—My attention has been drawn to the fact that in a review of my book, "The Debateable Land," published in the Spectator of May 14th, the...

To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] your article in the Spectator of May 14th relative to sharks you state that sharks have never been known to jump out of the sea. Well, it may...

me THE EDITOR Or THE “ SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — A most interesting letter on this subject from Captain. E. A. Wilson appeared in the Spectator of May 14th. But this letter leaves a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—We also in Italy produce a fine breed of "bulls.' Here is an example. My servant was sent the other day to bespeak an early cab for the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE “ SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Your correspondent "n," in his letter on "The Stupider Race" in the Spectator of May 21st, asserts obiter that Latin prevailed in Gaul,...

[To THE ED/TOZ OF TEM " SPECTATOR:] Sliti — Your reviewer, in the course of his very interesting remarks on the real Judge Jeffreys in the Spectator of May 21st, admits that he...

HEREAFTER. WHAT, you saw Gladstone ? men will sometime ask ; Had he that look, as if he, straining, saw A tiger creeping on an innocent child, And none to help it; or a...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—The circular recently issued by the Education Depart- ment for the instruction of the Associations of Voluntary Schools is putting the...

TWO BOOKS ON DANTE.* THERE is abundant evidence of the increasing study of Dante in England and America, a fact on which we may well congratulate English-speaking peoples, who...

Ix is not every Irish chronicler who can truly claim to possess a knowledge of the inner life of the Irish people. Whether Miss Lawless is reanimating the dry bones of • Traits...

RECENT events give an interest to Prince Henry's book,_ which, to tell the truth, it somewhat needed. The stipula- tion made by our Government that, in return for the loan of...

almost overpowers us by the manysidedness of its information and the multitude of associations it touches. The writer confesses very frankly in his preface and his early...

IT is not surprising that Mr. Arnold-Forster should have been drawn to employ his undoubted gifts for lucid exposition and narrative in the production of a short popular History...

THE dreariness of most modern dreary novels is gratuitous. Now and again, however, one encounters a book like S cider- znann's _Regina; or, The Sims of the Fathers, in which the...

Paul Kruger. By F. Reginald Statham. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. 6d.)—This is a mere piece of book-making, probably in- tended as a counterblast to the extravagant "Appreciation of...

W. A. Fitzgerald. (Chapman and Hall. 28s.)—Mr. Fitzgerald here records, in a rather bulky volume, the results of two years' exploration of the British East African coast-line,...

Co. 21s.)—Whatever may be the value from a scientific point of view of this record of wanderings in South Africa, there can be no doubt whatever as to its popular merits. Mr....

and Co.)—There is a gentle and ingenue simplicity about these essays that almost disarms criticism. But with the burden of literary overproduction now upon us, some under-...

John Dalrymple Hay, Bart. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 18s.)— The sixty years which have passed since Admiral Sir John Hay joined his first ship in 1834 have been fraught with...

W. Wilberforce. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 75. 6d.)—The authors of this little work have aimed at providing for the practitioner, within the limits of a book of moderate size, such...

mans and Co. 7s. 6d.)—" What think you of Jean Ingelow, the wonderful poet ?" Christina Rossetti wrote in 1863, and it was with something like wonder that her earliest "Poems,"...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons )—This book is what it pro- fesses to be, a careful account, without abstract economic dis- cussion, of the series of financial events of the period chosen....

islands. By F. G. Aflalo. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—Zoology is a progressive science, and even in the British fauna new discoveries are for ever being made and the results...

Gibbs. (George Allen.)—" To my early knowledge of the Bible," says Ruskin, "I owe the best part of my taste in literature, and the most precious, an d, on the whole, the one...

Vic- torian Era Series." (Blackie and Son.)—To the question whether the practice of Free-trade is destined to be a permanent feature of British policy we believe there can be...

(Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—Brought up on the banks of the river Neb, in the Isle of Man, Harry Druidale became an ardent angler from his earliest youth, and of the various...

W. Fortescue. (Macmillan and Co.)—We opened this book with rather a. prejudice against stories in which animals are made to talk like human beings, and were most agreeably...

Swan, Sonnensehein and Co. 12s.)—Of the Indian Mutiny most readers are daily exclaiming, " Ohe, jam satis !" and even of the siege and capitulation of Paris Sir Charles Gordon...

Montagu. (I. and C. Black.)—This is a well-got-up volume, and the illustrations, giving views of the picturesque warships of a day long past, are decidedly interesting. Not loss...

(W. Scott.)—Mrs. Dunn has collected into a book a series of articles contributed to magazines, descriptive of the impressions made upon her by Indian life and scenery. Read...

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