for some time been preparing for a rising, and it is asserted that Zorrilla, the leader of the Revolutionary party of action, has issued orders for an insurrection, and himself...

other side, it is only fair to remember that Birmingham has returned an unbroken Liberal representation, Mr. Bright having defeated Lord Randolph Churchill in the only contest...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Fourteenth of...

25th inst. of dysentery acting on a constitution enfeebled by consumption of scol':e standing. Never very strong, the King had of late suffered greatly from the keen air of...

T HE week has been one of profound gloom, a gloom to Liberals at least both physical and moral. In the larger boroughs the new depositories of power are using their great...

case.

give very nearly a tie between the Conservatives and Liberals. And all now depends on the counties, or the comparatively few boroughs still to be polled. We may count on a...

Mandelay ; but as a portion of the British force is marching along the river, there could hardly be any decisive intelligence before to-day. It would appear, according to the...

Scotland almost too late to affect the Elections, and it is impos- sible to look back upon them now without a keen sense of pain at the blindness which has stricken the English...

" that King Milan intends to abdicate, and that the Austrian Government proposes to prevent disorder by occupying Belgrade. This, however, is denied, and is, primci facie,...

24th inst. Prince Alexander repulsed their final attack with heavy slaughter, and on the 26th he crossed the frontier with his forces and advanced towards Pirot. The Servians...

signed by the Council of the Irish Nationalists of Great Britain, calling upon all his countrymen in England and Scot- land to vote for Tories. The Liberals, it is declared, as...

where he hoped to carry the Exchange Division, and to fall back on Cork. In a speech of scarcely concealed bitter- ness, he announced that success was impossible, reproached the...

by the University of London, delivered on the occa- sion a speech which is, we think, a perfect model of a speech for a University Member,—an ideal rarely even aimed at by...

Times, on the evidence of a Cork paper, what utter and open contempt of the law the members of the National League in Ireland are now displaying. These aro specimens of the evi-...

rejection of the Marquis of Lorne for Hampstead. He was a candidate who combined the Liberals, in spite of a certain ten- dency to vacillate and accept pledges which he ought to...

disfigured by that air of personal acrimony which always appears to us unmanly. He sneered at Mr. Chamberlain, sneered at Mr. Gladstone, sneered most of all at the Liberal...

Edinburgh, was the most powerful of the whole series. Mr. Gladstone dwelt on the anxiety of the Tory Party to divert attention from the issues really raised by the Liberals to...

in Mr. Bright. He never showed that conser- vatism in a healthier form than in a speech made on Monday in reference to the old Chartist demands. Those demands, he declared, had...

• THE LIBERAL REVERSES. T HE Liberal reverses have been many and great. Two of the Liberal Cabinet have been defeated,—Mr. Childers and Mr. Shaw-Lefevre,—men whose steady and,...

T HE saying that " there is no cloud without its silver lining " must be true, or it would be untrue that the destiny of man is overruled by a perfectly wise and righteous mind...

M R. PARNELL'S manifesto presents to almost all Englishmen an almost insoluble intellectual puzzle. Why does he, of all men in the world, sanction writing like that We all know...

I T seems evident from Lord Salisbury's speech at the St. Stephen's Club that he hopes to obtain a sufficient majority to enable him to retain office. That means, of course,...

O UR contemporaries are too pessimist about recent events in the Balkan Peninsula. They may lead to a great war, or to an agreement of partition ; but as yet, the gain to the...

F RANCE seems for the present to be wholly without eminent politicians ; but she is so far true to herself that she is not even now without interesting politicians. M. Brisson...

M R. BOSWORTH SMITH has republished the earnest and eloquent letters to the Times, in which, if he over- did, as we think he did, the bellicose aspect of his case, he never-...

I N his letter to Tuesday's Times Professor Tyndall seems almost to boast of having set that bad example, for following which the more cultivated classes in the United States...

Sia,—It is customary for advocates of Disestablishment to take the flourishing condition of American and Colonial Churches for granted; in fact, to make it one of their stock...

SPECTATOR."1 Sat,—I am directed by the Diocesan Council of Derry and Raphoe to forward their reply to the Rev. J. Galbraith's letter which appeared in your paper, and to request...

Sin,—The question as to the "large sacrifice" lies in a nut- shell. Is the absolute possession of £54,400, which the Bishop got from the Church Body, only worth the yearly...

Sin,—In your article on " Mr. Bright on Disestablishment," you (in common with many of your contemporaries) seem to mis- apprehend the feeling of Nonconformists for the...

DISE ST.AB LI SHMENT. r To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Six,—The Church Question in Exeter seems to have obliterated every other political issue from the minds of Liberal...

THE PLAIN OF COLONUS, NEAR ATHENS. Sopa., (ED. Km., 667-692. STRANGER, here earth's choicest home, In this land where fair steeds roam, Hast thou found—Colonus bright. Here...

supposed that Mr. Carl Haag would have seen to be no more—should have made "Dodgson " into " Dobson," and that my description of the gaze of the Prince of Wales should not have...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—With reference to the article in your paper of the 14th inst., which you have done me the honour to write upon the subject of my...

[To TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 Stit,—If, on our county polling-day next week, I should offer, as I shall not, to provide my friends, the labourers, who have a long way to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTICTOR.'1 SIR,—Any suggestions by Professor Unwin deserve the respect due to those of an able and single-minded critic. I only regret that they were...

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE INSTITUTE.* TILE Institute of Painters in Oil-Colours is, to the autumn exhibitions, in a somewhat similar position to that which the Academy occupies...

SELECTIONS FROM STEELE.* THE place occupied by Steele in English literature is remark- able. Among the wits of the Queen Anne period his name is conspicuous. It is difficult to...

TILE Old-World Idylls are still Mr. Austin Dobson's chief claim to recognition as a poet,—and as a very true poet,—for the Old- World Idylls contain, what this pleasant little...

ONE more of Mrs. Molesworth's pictures of child-life serves to remind us how much we already owe her ; and we are the readier to acknowledge our debt, because, notwithstanding...

IF these are commonplace, then what eccentric specimens of humanity I and all my acquaintances must be !' will probably be the first remark to occur to people on laying down...

Preface, "is to give a clear and concise view of the principal results of modern science, and of the revolution they have effected in modern thought," for the benefit mainly of...

"THE wet fogs came, an icy wind blew, and the long, dark nights drew on apace. The Ruler of the year stood there with locks as white as snow, but he knew not that it was his...

founded upon the traditional privilege of leap-year before this one, which is painful, but clever and well sustained. It is, however, marred by the writer's incessant efforts to...

GIFT BOOKS. Ursula's Stumbling•Block; or, Pride Cometh Before a Fall. By Julia Goddard. (Cassell and Co.)—This little story belongs to what is called the "Proverb Series," and...

Constance Cross. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Here the heroine is a girl picked up in the river, a variation from the customary casting on shore by a storm from a shipwreck. Her...

is a fairly good school-story. Hugh is a high-principled boy who suffers for the faults of others. The cause of his sufferings is one of those difficult situations in which the...

Boys and Girls. Second Series. By Ethel Coxon, Madame Colomb, Mrs. M. Douglass, and other Authors. (John Hogg.) —By " Proverb Stories " are meant stories to illustrate and...

—The owner and captain of a merchantman, in the days when mer- chantmen were passenger-ships, tells the story of how he sailed from London to Rio de Janeiro, and how his...

tale has for its central interest a grave matter, which, we think, is hardly a fitting subject for fiction. That some unity of belief should be considered as an essential...

Caroline Austin. (Mackie and Son.)—This is a story, told in the form of a diary kept Marie's Home ; or, a Glimpse of the Past. By Caroline Austin. (Mackie and Son.)—This is a...

Yardley is a boy who begins life by " bird-keeping." His experiences are arranged in the order of the seasons, and we hope that if the book gets into the hands of any "Time " in...

a very quaint volume, in which are printed, in type of the seventeenth century, the "songs and poesies" contained in the "Complete Angler," the said songs being " newly set...

Short Biographies for the People. These are published monthly at the price of a penny, each containing sixteen pages and a portrait. The subjects of the volume before us are...

Sir Walter Scott, selected and arranged by William T. Dobson (Bickers and Son), the editor has gone to a mine fall of admirable metal. The historical works, the novels, the...

a little story built on the incident more familiar, we fancy, in fiction than in real life, of a little child that is thrown ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. There is a...

a passably good imitation of "Alice in Wonderland." But this is not the kind of book which lends itself easily to imitation.

two of the pictures, as that which is supposed to illustrate the " Parable of the Wheat and the Tares," which might, we think, have been advantageously omitted. There is some...

H. Martyn (office of Christian Commonwealth), is a book of extracts from Dr. Maclaren's discourses, and a satisfactory proof of the high estimation in which they are held.--A...

M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here are between thirty and forty well-chosen narratives from history, ancient and modern. Perhaps it is a little pedantic to wish that they had...

Mine : Her Stories while I Paint. Outline Pictures by T. Pym, Stories by C. Shaw. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Some of these are very charming little pictures, Miss Pym having not a...

volume full of interesting reading. It is an illustrated weekly, well worth, we should say, the low price at which it is sold. Certainly it makes, when the annual issue is thus...

Brothers Dalziel. The time for criticising them is not now. It is curious to see the " wolf " in the parable of the " Good Shepherd" transmuted into an undoubted lion. Messrs....

Italy, through Paris and Switzerland, by the route of the St. Gothard Railway. Turin, Florence, Geneva, and Naples are among the places which they visit. Perhaps the narrative,...

Richard Doyle's father was the celebrated " H. B.," though his authorship of the famous sketches was always ignored by him. The son inherited his gift, and showed it very early,...

tale " A Diamond in the Rough," and Miss A. M. Hopkinson another under the title of "Sweet Christabel." There are contributions from " The Family Doctor," besides pieces of...

: its Rivers, its Lakes, its Cities, its Art (Virtue and Co.), are two good illustrated works which mutually complement each other. Dr. Macmillan is a well-known writer, from...

Coopooswamey an Autobiography. (Religious Tract Society.)—We learn from the Preface (which, we take it for granted, is genuine) that the writer is a native of the Madras...

and Co.)—This " romance of the northern marches in the reign of Edward III." has, perhaps, the fault of dealing with characters and events not sufficiently striking. Historical...

Co.), is a far from satisfactory performance, even as three-volume fiction now-a-days goes—all the less satisfactory that its author shows here and there a power of sketching...

Co.)—Our readers are already aware how highly we appreciate thii thorough-going pirate story, with all its blood-and- thunder and delightful crises and hair-breadth escapes....

H. Ingram. (G. Redway.)—This is an interesting monograph on Poe's famous poem. First comes the poet's own account of the genesis of the poem, with a criticism, in which Mr....

of a new series inaugurated with the beginning of the current year by a considerable reduction in price. We are glad to learn that the change has had the good effect of more...

Low and Co.), belongs to the wet-blanket order of literature. Mr. Row- botham's experiences of Dakota are unpleasantly suggestive of the doings, and still more of the...

second edition of his Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. (Blackwood.)—It is a very careful and essentially sound piece of criticism, but free from the...

but not offensively, religious. Of the two girls who figure in it most prominently, Marjory and Lilies, the one is sacrificed, and in the long-run sacrifices herself, for the...

a little History of Scotland (W. and R. Cham ), by Francis Watt. It is written in an easy but not too colloquial or "graphic " style, and is well illustrated with pictures and...

and Sons.)—This volume is intended to fulfil the useful function of supplementing that which is known as "Men of the Time." The latter work gives biographical sketches of living...

By James Payn. (Chatto and Windus.)—Readers who bay this book on the strength of advertisements which imply, if they do not positively state, that In Peril and Privation is the...