G ENERAL BOULANGER has at last an opportunity of putting his popularity to the teat in Paris. During the whole of his campaign, there has been no vacancy in the thirty- eight...

with as much pertinacity as was displayed by Dickens's favourite bird which ate up a whole flight of stairs, attacked Lord Salisbury yesterday week on the subject of the delay...

affairs in Servia. The King, it is asserted, tells the Austrian Govern- ment that unless he can carry his Constitution, he shall abdicate in favour of his son with a...

week, which in its main features was hardly marked by his usual strength. But he quizzed Lord Salisbury on his apparent belief that Scotland was turning Conservative, and asked...

see most clearly what inroads have been made on his system both by the constitutional malady and by the chest attack, are beginning to hope that he will more or less recover,...

case.

make the Panama Canal. He has, therefore, called a grand meeting of shareholders, which met in Paris on Thursday, and was most enthusiastic. The meeting was assured that the...

proroguing Parliament was read. It is not an interesting document ; indeed, there were no materials for making it interesting. Her Majesty stated that her relations with all...

and the death of Count 'Loris Melikoft excites, therefore, com- paratively little attention. Only twelve years ago, however, the Count, who, like General Bagration, was born an...

Saturday. Sir Horace Davey (the Gladstonian) won the seat, but by so narrow a majority (395) that the victory was really a defeat. Sir Horace Davey polled 3,889 votes, against...

began. It began with eleven nights' debate on the Address,—that is, with a waste of ten nights,—and it ended with a waste of we know not how many nights in wrangling over...

"all naked feeling and raw life," ready to ,fight the world for any- thing, however valueless, which can be considered a right. This time the grievance is fishing off...

the area of operations in the Soudan, and on Friday the British troops were already quitting Suakin. The black garrison will, however, remain, and strong outworks have been...

hands of the Mahdi has become stronger this week. A letter was received at Stanley Falls on August 25th, written by the explorer on August 17th—that is, less than five months...

able one, preached by the Rev. Aubrey Moore,—and the sermon at Westminster Abbey,—an equally able one, preached by the Dean,—dwelt very appropriately on hmnility as the special...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 96:i to 97.

at Allahabad on December 26th, and Mr. George Yule, a Calcutta merchant, was elected Chairman It appears from his speech, and from the resolutions to be proposed, that it is...

in London is about to sustain in the removal of Mr. Llewelyn Davies to a living on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. That loss is well illustrated by the admirable letter...

the Wilkinson Sword Company, to the Director- General of Contracts, explaining the condition of the sword and bayonet manufacture in this country. Up to 1887 it was dead, all...

Teleki's exploring expedition in East Africa, which many will read because it appears to have gone in the same direction as Alan Quatermain's imaginary journey to the land of...

THE LESSONS OF THE SESSION. T HE dreary Session which terminated on Monday has furnished us with several lessons, though these lessons are not, perhaps, of the most stimulating...

A RE not we English getting a little stupid in the matter of news ? There have been pages published during the past month about occurrences in East Africa which are not, at all...

admirable administration of the Foreign Office proved. But in his speech this day week at Airdrie, near Glasgow, he certainly did. not display himself in this aspect ; and but...

I T is evident that public opinion in America is by no means satisfied with the manner in which the late Presidential election was carried out. The air is full of complaints of...

TII: weakest point in the journalism of the hour is ts perpetual outcry for grand results without the slightest consideration for the means by which they are to be attained....

p ARTY names are seldom completely satisfying except when they are completely meaningless. To be per- fect, they must be denotative, and nothing else. The moment that questions...

County Councils are, on the whole, satisfactory. There are not enough of the greatest proprietors, who ought to be as keenly in- terested in county government as Italian nobles...

rilll regrets which are expressed so freely, and with so E much sincerity, at the death of Mr. Laurence Oliphant are, we think, well justified. Though he never did a great deed,...

P ROFESSOR KARL PEARSON has provided not exactly very fruitful, still less very cheerful reading for Christmas, in his "Positive Creed of Freethought, with Some Remarks on the...

T ORD WOLSELEY has just told the public through the columns of the Fortnightly Review that the article on • " War," in the latest edition of the "Encyclopmdia Britannica," is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article of December 22nd on Mr. Giffen's recent address, there are many interesting remarks, to discuss which adequately would...

THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR,-It may not be without interest to your readers to know the dgnouement of the "Plan of Campaign" referred to by...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — In writing that none of the leaders of the Liberal Unionist Party share Lord Salisbury ' s desire for the adoption of woman ' s...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Dean of Lincoln asked for suggestions as to how, without cost to the reduced incomes of cathedral bodies, to afford what the public...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR, — May I be allowed to suggest that the late Dean Cony- beare did not confer a benefit on the English Church or the English language...

on "The Evil Eye, " you have touched on a question which seems curiously overlooked by scientific observers. I am not quite sure that there is not some ground of fact at the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:] Si,—Would you allow me to say that there is another hymnal which has, I think, been very successful in excluding " the nonsense and vulgarity...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] STR,—The Bengalese superstition that you speak of, as to the "Evil Eyes " of those who praise their children, is not, or at least was not,...

[TO THE EDITOR 'OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Si,—Would you allow me to point out what I am sure the reviewer of Mr. Tylor ' s book will see on a second reading ? The apparent giving of...

SIR, — The feeling alluded to in the latter part of your article of December 22nd on "The Evil Eye," is not unknown in Europe. My wife and I observed it on two occasions during...

[FROM HEINE.] MY bairn, when we were bairnies, Wee bairnies in oor play, We creepit into the henhouse, An' hid oorsels in the strae. We crawed like cocks an' hens there, And...

WORDSWORTH.* THE only part of The Recluse which Wordsworth had finished is now given to the public for the first time. It might well have formed one of the books of The...

A SONG OF BATTLE. IMPERATOR MILITIBUS BUIS. CHARGE, bayonets, charge! But gently, not too wildly ! For fear they "buckle in," prod not too hard ! Out, sabres, out ! But, mind...

article on "The Evil Eye," in the Spectator of December 22nd, is not aware of the existence of a converse belief in the "Good Eye." May I refer him to "Three Generations of...

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE most interesting volume in Mr. Bryce's book is, as we said in our previous notice, the second, which is chiefly con- cerned with State government ; but the...

WITH the exception of Captain Hawley Smart's vivacious tale, the principal novels of the month provide reading which is, for the most part, rather unseasonably sombre and...

on the best of terms with the Russians, had already seen much of Central Asia, started forth three years ago, under the same high protection, to make his way from their...

M. EMILE HENNEQUIN, not to be confounded with the play- wright of that name, is a promising young writer who is dissatisfied with the methods of contemporary criticism. He has,...

THIS remarkable book is in the form of a story, but it would be unfair to review it by any usual standard of story-writing. The characters, their talk, their actions, are all...

"Brenda," as usual, lays the opening of her story in the East- End, and we recognise instantly the same power of sympathy and exquisite photographic accuracy of detail which...

pictures from "Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery" hardly need to be praised. Every one knows them as they appear, week by week, in what most people, we fancy, think the...

compilation contains instructions in the leading branches of technical science and industrial arts and processes, and comprises building and mechanical design and con-...

GIFT-BOOKS. We have to notice the first annual volume of the Children's Illustrated Magazine. (Seeley and Co.)—The illustrations are of the high quality for which the name of...

and Co.)— A perusal of this story will, we hope, teach young women the wisdom of being satisfied with their own homes. It is rather a weak production, but will doubtless find...

Harper. (Sampson Low and Co.)—It is a perilous adventure to illustrate Endyntion. All the excellences, even all the defects, of the poem, test with the utmost severity the...

a translation, by A. W. Verrall and Margaret de G. Verrall, of M. Daudet's seething satire, " L'Immortel," which, on account of what are believed to be its personalities, and...

Verity. (John C. Nimmo.)—In Etheredge we have the Restoration period of our literature at its morally worst, but also at its "politest." He was, as Hazlitt maintained, the true...

books upon it. The book before us hardly strikes us as the most valuable of these. It is very little more than a reprint of the Local Govern- ment Act, with cross references....

(Longmans and Co.)—Those who have read Mr. Hunt's little book on Bristol in "Historic Towns" will expect this sketch of the Church from Augustine to William of Wykeham, for the...

Publication. (Belly and Co.)—As an instance of the correctness up to date of this useful business directory, the names of Sir Richard Baggallay, Lady Willoughby de Eresby, and...

and Co.), is very much above the average of theatrical annuals, in spite of the fact that it is essentially American. Mr. William Archer contributes a long paper on "The Season...

reformers or intending County Councillors. The sketches are humorous and clearly written, and if somewhat too technical for the non-engineering mind in some of their details,...

A title which is unintelligible except by a long sub-title is a failure. For those people who enjoy the kind of fun which consists in saying in an infinite variety of vulgar...

York, a "Chart of the World, showing Distances Saved by the Interoceanic Canal of Nicaragua and Costa Rica;" also a "profile" and "bird's-eye view" of the same.