reform " of Asia Minor. We are told every week that Sir Austen Layard has a "scheme," and that it is approved by Safvet Pasha, who always approves everything in words, but that...

A CCORDING to telegrams of September 26th from Calcutta, published in the Times and Telegraph, the Government of India is not about to act so rapidly as the telegrams referred...

than give up his independence. The necessity of a decision before the winter seems to have hurried Lord Lytton, and on September 21st, Sir Neville Chamberlain, with an immense...

have steadily continued the evacuation of their positions near Con- stantinople. The lines of San Stefano have been occupied by the Turks. Much of the apparent delay was caused...

is quite ready. In that case, he must have intended war from the first, and has been playing a comedy, but we believe this is only an after-thought. If he had intended war, he...

which its folly and panic dread of Russia have produced, only two alternatives. It can recall Lord Lytton, and treat the whole affair as a blunder, or it can invade Afghanistan...

case.

that Russia would conquer them, have for some weeks been flying into Russian territory ; while those who remain are organising insurrections, and making alliances with...

understood, for work as Lord Chancellor, but for services rendered to the State as a Cabinet Minister. He has been a most faithful follower of the Premier, has found legal...

Times on Turkish Bonds and the means of providing for them. He thinks that Turkey will not, after the war, have more than 122,000,000 a year of revenue ;—will she have half...

Socialist Bill, and the Committee of twenty-one is whittling down its provisions, until it will only enable the authorities to sup- press Socialist meetings, to shut Socialist...

Generals, though sorely hampered by difficulties of commissariat and locomotion, drove their enemies from the valleys, stormed Bielina, and finally occupied Zwornik, their last...

the Tory candidate, but the result is, nevertheless, very un- pleasant to the Tories. At the last election Sir F. M. Williams was returned by 795 votes, against 565 given to the...

Europe, may hereafter prove of high importance to Asia by bringing China and Russia into conflict, has been of the most thorough kind. According to the Shanghai correspondent of...

M. Hicks-Beach made a speech at Chipping Norton on Tuesday, and his two points were that the House of Commons talked too much— which may be true, but is hard on the House, as...

Prince Bismarck did two months ago personally assure him that the great " scare " of 1875, when it was believed by all Europe that Germany was threatening France once more, was...

on September 5th, contains some good news, both for English holders of American bonds and for all other friends of America. The President declares that in August, 1865, the Debt...

speech to his late constituents at Inverary on Tuesday. It was not a very good one. The Marquis praised the voters for not asking him to come and address them every year or...

on the subject, that so far from France being over- supplied with priests, as M. Gambetta in his recent speech assumes, the want of priests is a great danger to the Church. The...

new and serious danger. An Act was passed last Session, when Parliament was in a state of imbecility on account of foreign affairs, making it a penal offence for any journal to...

of Ithaca, the land of the much-travelled Ulysses. In a letter to the Times he gives the results at which he has arrived. Beginning at the northern end, he found that the valley...

THE THIRD AFGHAN WAR. T HIS Afghan business is a very bad business. Lord Lytton, in the foolish feverishness of his desire for action, and Lord Beaconsfield, in his eagerness...

TT is the duty of a journalist to say what he thinks, even if I he stands alone, or if inconsiderate men deem his saying unpatriotic, and we think there is serious danger of a...

I T is very difficult even for Protestants to comprehend the influence which induced M. Gambetta to make his recent attack upon the Catholic priesthood of France, an attack...

the Times, with the singular want of tact which sometimes marks its management, thinks it necessary to justify the promotion. The Lord Chancellor, it says, defended the...

studies his own mind, and can explain the principles which have governed his conduct. On Saturday, at Teversall, he did more ; he explained to the party which he once helped to...

from Rome which appeared in the Times of Tuesday is made less intelligible than it might be by a confusion in the writer's mind, or at all events, in his language, between...

A N appeal has recently been made by a sporting news- paper for increased remuneration to Jockeys, on the ground that the fees to be paid to them were fixed many years ago, when...

I S there any comfort to be found for those people who are slow in all they think, say, or do, and who are painfully conscious of their own slowness? They need consolation, if...

M R. GEORGE BIDDER, once well known to all the world as "the Devonshire Calculating Boy," died the other day at a ripe age. He had the good-sense, after delighting the " ground-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There is a legend in the apocryphal Gospel of Mary accord- ing to which Joseph was chosen for Mary's husband because his rod budded...

ARMENIA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A telegram from Constantinople, dated September 22nd, has appeared in the leading daily journals announcing that " Safvet...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your paper of September 21st, you say that if the Canadians "put on duties as heavy as those of the Union, they may obtain...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is one aspect of Trial by Jury that is left out of view in your interesting article in last week's Spectator, and that is, its...

THE LUSIADS OF CAMOENS.* THE author of this new translation of the Lusiads—or as English- men prefer to say (it would seem erroneously) the Lusiad—of Camoens, is a sanguine...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SesersroR.1 SIR,—The argument of a " Rationalist "may be a very good argu- ment in favour of Diaestablishment ; it is hardly an argument in favour of...

THERE is in German fiction one peculiarity which, as far as we are aware, is wholly confined to the works of that school,—we mean a plain directness of statement and...

Lestures : Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events. By Joseph Cook. Glasgow : Bryce and Son. 1878. THESE lectures form a part of the series delivered in Boston under...

Er may sound paradoxical, but we believe it to be the fact that those who hoped for much future enjoyment from the author of Culmshire Folk, (and few things are more enjoyable...

Blackett.) —The principal character in this book is a man in whom virtue "was not the inherent love of good for its own sake, but simply a condition of thought and life,...

to the filial piety which suggested to Mr. E. B. Michell the idea of giving to the world the Creweian orations of his father, speeches which at the time of their delivery the...

English Echoes of German Song. Edited by N. D'Anvers. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—The simplicity of German poetry is often apt to look like homeliness, in translation, and the...

Allen and Co.)—This volume contains as much information about India as could conveniently be put within a compass which is small rather in relation to the magnitude of the...

which appeared in the September number of the Nineteenth Century, and which has been reprinted, and published as the first of a series of penny pamphlets, under the title of...

series of "Grammar- School Texts," The Acts of the Apostles, an edition of the Greek, with a vocabulary, which, as a matter of fact, contains much of the informa- tion which is...

has now reached its sixteenth annual publication. In his preface, Mr. Herbert Fry shows that "the enormous sums contributed to the numerous funds connected with the War in the...

—Any reader who likes to hear about the sayings and doings of titled personages will find full satisfaction of his likings in this volume, but we cannot encourage him to look...