satisfied with the condition of his Army. He has taken the very unusual step of receiving a " syndicate " of military editors, to whom on Monday he made a speech which would...

Turkey should not be allowed to declare herself bank- rupt, the greater portion of the Ottoman Debt, which now amounts to 2120,000,000, being held in France, and in powerful...

T HERE is something going on in France in connection with the Turkish subject which is worth our readers' attention, for it may produce large consequences. The first and last...

Trarieux, for example, ex-Minister of Justice and sober politician, advises his countrymen to receive all British advances with favour, because an alliance with Great Britain...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 5111, will be issued, ;gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

case.

treated Mr. George Russell's desire to regard the Armenian question as a question of party, and to prove it to be the duty of the Liberals to compel a more effective inter-...

local Liberal Association of Leicester in the Leicester Temperance Hall. He thought that though the level of average comfort had risen very sensibly in the last twenty years,...

Works Committee. Lord Onslow in a moderate speech proposed that a special committee should inquire into the management and financial position of the Works Department and as to...

Agency that the rumour so widely believed of an advance on Khartoum next year is, at all events, prema- ture. Sir H. Kitchener may advance from Dongola to a bend in the Nile...

the Loughborough division of Leicestershire, has incurred the wrath of the Liberal Association of the Loughborough division, by making a speech at a Lough- borough licensed...

of Canterbury on Wednesday the Archbishop of that diocese. He is now, therefore, the Archbishop-Elect, and no longer the Archbishop Designate. What would have happened if a...

at the National Liberal Club on Tuesday, Lord Farrer. after criticising Mr. Chamberlain's proposals for commercial federation and declaring that they had fallen flat, went on to...

French and German attacks on England with comparative indifference. When, however, he learns that the reputation of the oyster is being undermined, and that it is doubtful...

John Soane, architect-antiquary, who in 1836 left his house and his collec- tions in Lincoln's Inn Fields to the nation for a museum. The will contained a clause that certain...

upon the railways, will not, it appears, be remedied jest yet. It has now risen to such a height that all luggage is searched in transit, all valuables extracted, and the boxes...

wittiest and most amusing speeches of his life. It did iot instruct anybody much, but it sent everybody away delighted. It was a concrete of happy stories about orators, ranging...

the members of the St. Stephen's Club. His speech in reply deserves notice for his reference to a point which has lately been too much overlooked. He could not, he said, admit...

Patmore, who died at the age of seventy-three at his own house at Lymington on Thursday afternoon after a short illness. He was one of the most popular poets of the day during...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 111f.

GENERAL BILLOT'S CONFESSION. T HE vast armies of the Continent, which seem on land so irresistible, have all, like our own small Army, their points of weakness, differing in...

W E mean no disrespect to the faddists when we suggest that legislation, and the use of compul- sion without which legislation is a farce, is often about the most fatal method...

Catholic Bishops have put forth a very effective argument to show that even if rate-aid be included in the Government measure for voluntary schools within the area of any School...

W E have been much struck this autumn by the diffi- culty which orators evidently find in discovering subjects in home politics in which their audiences will take an interest. A...

the Italian Government is about to abandon its attempt at colonisation in Eastern Africa, evacuating Erythrea com- pletely and restoring Massowah either to the British or to the...

gives an interesting account of a paper read at the Aldershot Military Society by Colonel Hutton, late the Officer Commanding in New South Wales. The subject of the paper was...

ISHOP TEMPLE'S last public appearance in the great diocese he has governed so wisely was as an advocate of Church reform. At a conference at the Oxford House on Monday he...

North and South, on which we commented three weeks ago, illustrates it thus pithily :—" In the South, if we like a friend's bonnet, we tell her so; if we do not like it, we hold...

T HAT is Mrs. Hemans's opinion, bat it is not Lord Carrington's. He, who owns, or used to own, one of them thinks "the stately homes of England" are whited sepulchres, fair...

VERY one knows a squirrel by sight, but few people— when you come to question them—have really made a. study of this interesting and fascinating little animal. To gain all...

E.TO TEM EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I hope I may profit by your kindly criticism of my little collection of "Hymns that have Helped," but may I beg the favour of a word...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your "Provincial Characteristics" are delightful, and we have here an excellent example of the difference between Yorkshiremen and East...

doubt his "power to regenerate the Liberal party." Oar object is not to " regenerate " any party, but simply and solely to force the Government into more vigorous efforts to...

THE AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS. THE Galleries have again opened their doors and the pictures are on the walls, "thick as autumn leaves that strew the brooks in Vallombrosa." Again the...

GOLD AND SILVER. OUT upon your earthly pelf— Give me gold and silver's self : Glint of golden suns at noon, Lustres of the argent moon— All the gold you sky receives For his...

THE GIRLHOOD OF MARIA JOSEPHA HOLROYD.* IN a notice published in the Spectator of December 26th, 1885, on Mr. Oscar Browning's work on Lord Gower's despatches, we mentioned that...

to us as a lively Trish poet with a large dash of humour. Here he appears for the first time as an idealist of the deepest, and we might.almost say most passionate, convictions....

THE study of naval affairs would lose nothing from a good classification of its various branches. It would be safe to distinguish between naval tactics, of which the subject is...

AXONG the many interesting subjects of inquiry that have sprung up of late years, owing to our enlarged ideas of the age and history of the world, the study of the origin and...

THE very simple and modest introduction which prefaces this volume for the English-reading public does not tell us in what capacity, whether as professional lecturer or...

it turns out it is a perfectly accurate description of the hero of a curiously fascinating and often beautiful book. One cannot call it a novel, for the principal characters are...

the World" appears in its seventeenth annual volume. Mr. Henty furnishes a story, "A Tale of the Buccaneers," and that is enough to recommend the volume; another story, "Hunted...

discusses in several chapters some of the legends of the sea which these days of steamships have relegated to the limbo of vanities. The Kraken, witches, the Flying Dutchman,...

GIFT-BOOKS. /tie at Sea. By G. Manville Fenn. (S.P.C.K.)—The process of writing down to a certain level of boyish intelligence is a little too obvious in this last story of Mr....

venture to think even children will think absurd in the plot of this story,—viz., the grave offence which a lad takes when he finds that an old blind man's dog is called by his...

who will soon be looking out for other worlds to write about, has taken this time for his subject the war between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy. "A Tale of the White Hoods...

Coleridge has, with a wise moderation, limited the range of her subject. Her story belongs to the dark days when the glories of Edward M.'s reign were passing into gloom. The...

is a stirring little tale of the year 1650, in which we are introduced to all sorts of characters, good, bad, and indifferent from a moral point of view, but all interesting...

by M. B. Synge. (Nelson and Sons.)—The three voyages of Cook occupied altogether about eleven years (1168-1779), of which time a little more than two years were spent at home....

Ferrier.)—This is a story of the troubles which culminated in the rising of Wat Tyler. Archbishop Simon of Sudbury is a prominent character, and his personality is drawn with no...

who "mothers" the family of her father, the quarryman. and Digby Thomasina Montmorency, granddaughter of a. Mrs. Montmorency at the Hall, are the heroines of this story, which...

A. B. Frost. (John C. Nimmo.)—These are two books of comic draw- ings. They would be better if they were not so laboriously funny. *r. Frost is quite capable of giving a...

original sketches of the boys and girls of the London streets. Mr. Phil May's artistic characteristics are well known, and it is not necessary to say more than that they are to...

Margaret Keith, but George Keith is a fine character, and his stern moral sense, his deep feelings, and his temporary blindness to the awakening of his wife's love, are all...