T HE Russian Admiral and his officers have left Paris, and after a brilliant reception at Lyons, have returned to Toulon. Not a single untoward incident seems to have marked...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, November 4th, win be issued, .gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the Government's Home-rule Bill in his first speech to his East Fife constituents, yesterday week at Leven. We have dealt in another column with what we regard as the main...

been abandoned. It was announced everywhere that Count Taaffe had given it up, but an interview with the Emperor changed his mind, and on October 23rd he proposed the first...

into the necessity for proclaiming the minor state of siege in Prague was marked by an unexpected incident. Count Taaffe brought all necessary papers into the Committee; but, to...

that Sir Henry Loch, under orders from England, bad informed Mr. Rhodes that the settlement of the Mate.bele question had been entrusted to himself alone. Furious com- ments...

any caie.

on the 21st inst., is not of political importance. He held an important post, and must therefore have been trusted by the Foreign Office ? ) but he was unknown to the public,...

a sensible speech at Bedlington, Northumberland. He was in favour, he said, of Mr. Mundella's Bill for Arbitration. He did not believe the arbitrators appointed under that Bill...

constituents at Ladybank ; but the speech was not an important one, except that he reiterated his views on the duty of keeping order, and the criminal character of what the...

are at last getting tired of it. The former have exhausted their stocks, and the latter are weary of short commons, often reduced to bare bread. They still receive subscriptions...

Defence Union held its first meeting in the Ulster Hall, under the presidency of the Duke of Abercorn. The assembly con- sists of 600 delegates, representing all classes,...

exertions this week to stir up Irish feeling against the Anti-Parnellites on the ground of their alliance with Mr. Glad- stone's Government. At Milltown, County Dublin, last...

of Members and election expenses, and second ballots, was held on Sunday afternoon in Trafalgar Square. Processions were organised to march to the Square via, the Embankment,...

Country Brewers' Society held at the Hotel Mitropole, and to a sympathetic audience unfolded his scheme for settling the licensing question. We have dealt at length with his...

intended to hold three thousand five hundred per- sons on part of the site occupied by Millbank Prison. The proposal was strongly resisted by Sir John Lubbock and Lord Farrer,...

the United States over the repeal of the Sherman Ad will, it is stated; end next week in the repeal of the Act without any compromise whatever. The silver-men belonging to the...

some very good advice as to the attitude which the Church ought to take in relation to the Parish Councils Bill. Anything like bitterness or jealous hostility on ecclesiastical...

at Manchester on Tuesday, Sir Wilfrid Lawson expressed his conviction of the bona fides of the Government in regard to their Local Veto Bill. He went on to argue that the...

at Warwick on Wednesday to the toast of "the House of Commons," described the only occasion on which he had voted since he occupied the Chair as a comparatively unimportant one,...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 98.

THE ULSTER CENTRAL ASSEMBLY. A MID the weariness and apathy which this endless Irish controversy induces in us all, and from which even the Irish Nationalists themselves are not...

M R. ASQUITH is one of the strongest men in the Cabinet, but his elaborate speech on the Home-rule Bill, delivered yesterday week at Leven, would not have enabled us to discover...

right enough so far in its action in South Africa. The friends of the Chartered Company of South Africa made on Tuesday an immense fuss over an announcement that the Colonial...

W E wish those who discuss the reconstitution of the House of Lords would keep a little more closely to the point they care about. They often desire to defend the Lords for...

W E believed the Viennese correspondents of the London papers a little too readily, and ought to have relied with more confidence upon the tenacity which the House of Hapsburg,...

CHURCHILL is nothing if not daring and original On Monday, he gave us a taste of his quality by proposing at a. banquet of the Country Brewers' Society a brand-new solution of...

I F one wants to find a real sceptic, one should attend a philanthropic or religious conference, and listen carefully to the panaceas there proposed. At the confer- ence of the...

to those who can see than that of the Maharaja Dhuleep Singh, who died in Paris on Sunday of apoplexy. He finished life a despised exile, but no man of modern days ever had such...

I N an interesting letter from Mr. Andrew Lang, which we publish in another column, he calls attention to the very wide distribution of the kind of phenomena which the Germans...

B Y the time this article is in the hands of our readers, it is more than probable that the French will have awakened to the fact that in M. Gounod they have lost their foremost...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—I have read Canon MacColl's letter, in the Spectator of October 14th, on this subject with particular pleasure. Last week I was...

A QUESTION OF. EVIDENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The Spectator lately honoured with its notice my edition of Kirk's "Secret Commonwealth," and an article...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SrEcxaron."] SIR, —Your allusion to the late Master of Balliol's sermon, in the Spectator of October 7th, on Dean Stanley and his pretty conceit, that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BPECTATOR."1 have just seen Mr. Ludlow's letter in the Spectator of October 14th. Allow me to point out that he is quite mis- taken in supposing that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Do not your correspondents give the sparrows and canaries credit for a great amount of reasoning-power, when they suppose the birds...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srxervron:1 SIR,—It seems to me that the most pressing want of the day is a short and simple exposure of the fundamental error of Socialistic teaching,...

A DRESSMAKER'S DILEMMA. (FOUNDED UPON FACT.) I'm but a simple dressmaker in quite a humble way, Who tries to do her duty and would never disobey A plain commandment given in...

THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION. THE death of Madox Brown shortly after the opening of this exhibition will draw a closer attention upon some examples of his design that in...

VICTOR HUGO.* IT is unfortunate that M. Mabilleau's book upon Victor Hugo so far departs from the general law of the "Series of Great French Writers," in which it appears, as to...

LSECOND NOTICE.] DEAN CHURCH, with the true insight which seldom failed him, wrote as follows of the principle which sustained the High-Church party under the crushing blow of...

Mr. James Rice, many people wondered greatly what had been his share in the series of capital stories which he and Mr. Walter Besant had pro- duced in happy partnership of...

THE Life of Agassiz which Mr. Holder has compiled for the American series of Biographies of Leaders of Science, should be welcome to English readers ; but The We and Letters of...

all her delightful tales children of the modern world, children more or less of the type of little Lord Fanntleroy, without the somewhat too exuberant aplomb which the...

Way. By J. D. Hoeken. with a Critical and Biographical Introduction by "Q." London : Methuen and Co. HOS3CEN, known as the "Postman Poet," is gradually making a name among the...

is a comparatively new annual, dating from 1892, and considering its cheapness, well got up and well illustrated. There are some capital serial stories in it ; innumerable short...

its characteristic merits. Its fiction is sound and whole- some ; the miscellaneous contents of great variety and unfailing interest. The "interviewer," of course, appears, but...

is a story of the Far North of Western America, the border- land of doubtful ownership between the Dogrib Indians and the Eskimo. (The tale is of a time now passed away.)...

and Co.)— Mrs. Saxby is as charming and fresh as ever in Tom and his Crows. Tom is the typical good uncle, and the " Crows " are his nephews and nieces, who are all of a most...

respectable, but over-confident in himself. He gets into a serape in a poaching affair—he is on the keeper's side, and there is a question of carrying firearms—is convicted...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Light of the World. By Sir Edwin Arnold. Illustrated after Designs by W. Holman Hunt. (Longmans.)—It is not necessary for us to say anything on this occasion...

Atalanta does not give its readers the mass of matter which some of its rivals furnish, but what it gives is of the best. Mr. Steven- son's new story is in itself a great...

us plenty of sound, but scarcely enough sense. It is hardly fair, however, to judge a song without its music. There are "songs without words" which we all admire, but the words...

is good of its kind. There is plenty of fiction, but, considering the times, it does not occupy so dis- proportionate a space as one sometimes finds in publications of this...

very good as far as incident and dialogue go, and the hero himself is a very fine character and most natural. The general current of school-life is well rendered and sustained...

is a simple story, without any particular moral, but not, perhaps, the worse for that. The title describes the character of "Ned," the elder brother, who conceals generosity,...

Ferrier.)—Our writer deals with a period ending in the "Forty- five," and her scene is laid in Skye and the mainland, and intro- duces the names of Macleod and Macdonald....

is scarcely necessary to explain, the yearly volume of the Girl's Own Paper, which a high authority lately told us is "quite the best thing of its kind." To go so far as this...

of Zululand" would have been, we cannot but think, more effective if it had been compressed into smaller space. Some things, which it would have sufficed to indicate, are...

is, in other words, a benevolent effort at match- making. A very pretty girl, related to her family, Lynda Leigh by name, comes down to see her. Lynda is full of emancipation-...

and Co.)—We cannot congratulate Mr. Barnett Smith on a successful book. He tells us nothing new, though he has collected with considerable diligence information that was open,...