to themselves. Could not some of the more sensible English Radicals try the same process ? Could they not ask him, late as it is, how he proposes to garrison India without an...

Balkan. The Servian Ministry, presided over by M. Pirotchanatz, which is pro-Austrian, was considered so safe that King Milano went holiday-making to Vienna, and sought an...

bility in which nations, like men, are capable of almost any blunder. The King of Spain is to be the guest of the Republic for three days, but he has accepted the titular...

humane type, and not an English Radical at all, is now the sole Liberal candidate for Manchester, and has a fair chance of being seated. He has pledged himself to Home-rule and...

case.

are extremely irritated by Mr. Parnell's "invasion" of the Province, and on Friday morning Dublin and London were almost simultaneously disturbed by a rumour that the Home-role...

A N accident, which might have been most terrible, occurred at Woolwich on Monday. From some unexplained cause, a rocket which was being filled in the war-rocket store exploded,...

which even his own friends must have regarded as most foolish. Its drift was that the Government were sure to go wrong in all parts of the world, and, therefore, the country...

related his case on Thursday to a vast crowd in Exeter Hall. We have said enough of his statement elsewhere, but we wish to notice a statement made by the Rev. G. Cousins, of...

grand national monument of the War of 1870. It is erected on the edge of the Niederwald, overlooking the Rhine, and its main feature is a colossal bronze statue of Germania,...

Government may be forced, but it is probably exaggerated. According to rumour, the mob of Pekin has shown excitement, and the War Party has, therefore, triumphed. The Marquis...

and reserves all violence for Parliament, has this week run an unusual risk. In a speech at Tallow, County Carlow, he is reported to have said :—" Of course, they were bound to...

between France and China. It is reported and denied that the Chinese reply to the French proposals has been re- ceived, and reported and denied that the Chinese have forwarded...

been interviewed by the correspondent of the Standard, and has stated his impression of the position in Egypt. It is not optimist. Sir Evelyn repudiates all idea of permanent...

that Russia and Great Britain are engaged in a duel of intrigue in Central Asia, and Reuter about once a fortnight solemnly informs us that a Russian has been seen in Herat, or...

debentures, and are circulating statements of the most hope- ful kind. They say they have no difficulty as to their supplies of labour, that their people are contented and in-...

sixpence, has appeared this month, and deserves a word. The letterpress is neither better nor worse, that we see, than the letterpress of most magazines, but the illustrations,...

completely to the Comte de Paris. He has signified privately through his friends, and semi-publicly through the Francais, that he does not wish, for the present, to take the...

opinion that a marine laboratory, or rather observatory, should be established. upon the coast. The object is the close and continuous observation of the habits of fishes, and...

read in the Biological Section, Dr. Stone gave an account of a very curious modification of aphasia which is occasionally observed. The patient who cannot express his thought...

letters, and reports upon the Congo. They all come to this,—that the Congo, with its affluents, has a waterway of 4,500 miles ; that it drains a territory far larger than...

DR. PANKHUIIST. I T may prove that the managers of the Liberal party in Manchester, in refusing to fight the seat, have done a greater injury to the cause than we suspected. It...

I T is very good of Germany, being, as she is, so much stronger than anybody else, not to use her strength in conquering everybody around. That is, we suppose, the true meaning...

T HE tone of the Meeting at Exeter Hall which welcomed the returned Missionaries from Madagascar on Thursday night was all that could be desired, and Mr. Shaw's account of his...

S Ulster converted, or likely to be converted, to Nation- alism I The Parnellite invasion of Tyrone and the adjoining counties ought to supply the answer to this, the most...

THh RE are some aspects of the Suez-Canal Question which ave not been sufficiently studied. In the heated dis- cussion which followed the announcement of the Government scheme,...

W E wonder whether it is quite impossible to feed one generation properly. We are no seekers after Utopia, and have little faith that man, with all his efforts, will ever escape...

I N the most brilliant of his poems, the late Professor Clerk Maxwell described Professor Cayley as one,— Whose soul, too large for vulgar space, In n dimensions flourished...

O UR remarks on the anti-Christian Church of Geneva seem to have attracted some attention in Switzerland, and have evoked there, as might be expected, several diverse judg-...

T HE interesting treatise on Natural Religion to which we have recently adverted, in taking its start from the assump- tion that the most important subjects of human...

PROFESSOR RAY LANKESTER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] £4114—Should you have the courtesy to insert this letter in your journal, your readers will perceive that your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "firEcreroa."] Sts,—Your article in last week's Spectator upon Scotch Pro- fessors ought to provide matter for reflection for those who, like Mr. Ray...

[To THE EDITOR or rug "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—Will you allow me to draw your attention to an import- ant consideration which is not adverted to in the remarks on the situation in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The review of my work in your number of the 15th inst. contains an error respecting a matter of fact, which I shall be much obliged by...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—As one intimately acquainted with Savoy, may I ask space for a few remarks on the very bitter and hostile article in your number for...

[To THE EDITOR 01 . THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,-You are mistaken in supposing that " at present the highest age known capable of absolute proof is 106, at which Lady Smith died a...

SPECTATOR. " ] Siu,-In your last issue, Mr. Hilary Skinner says "that the native fears the reformer almost as much as he hates the usurer." Very true, but why? Because what we...

ME WSL ADE. STRANGE powers are they that work 'twixt sea and land; Where winds and waves, the rivals of the shore, In tempest or in calm, for evermore, Beat on the cliff, or...

A SAINT'S CORRESPONDENCE.* As excellent preface by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Menevia and Newport introduces this first volume of the translated works of St. Francis de Sales,...

AMONG the minor humorous characters created by Dickens, there is one which, however its features may vary with the changing social aspects of the time, remains permanent as a...

studies on the English Trade Unions, on the Chartist move- ment—both of them works which have no equivalents in our own language, and which would well have deserved...

and as such might be supposed to be written only for readers of a particular class, but it is really one that should claim the attention of a wider circle, and will well repay...

MACLISE'S portraits, and what publishers now-a-days term "the accompanying descriptive letter-press " of Maginn, are so well • Ths Mortis. Portrait-Gallery of "IlIasfrMvs...

The contents of the fourth number of that new and energetic quarterly, the Scottish Review, are even more varied than those of its predecessors. Theology, for a wonder, has no...

are a family of the name of Hampton, who, having made money in the Far West (of the United States), naturally come to spend it in the East. There is a father, who is a vulgar,...

vole. (F. V. White and Co.)—It is always somewhat of an annoy- ance to find what one had expected to be a novel of the customary length disintegrated, so to speak, into some...

By James Freeman Clarke. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.) The plan and purpose of this book are thus described in the preface : —" Instead of describing and...

(Remington.)—We have here three closely-printed volumes, giving the lives of Joan of Kent, Anne of Warwick, Katharine of Amgen, Caroline of Anspach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and...

Allen.)—Mr. Stent, who is known as the author of a Chinese dictionary, here presents us with a book of a very different and much livelier kind. It consists of his personal...

their "Murray." It does not, of course, pretend to fulfil the function of a guide-book, but it takes some twenty or so interesting spots, and gives a lively description of them....

always liked Miss King's novels, for their healthy and happy tone, the breezy, open-air life, and the ready sympathy and common-sense there are in them. They are perfectly...

and Translation. By J. C. Moyle, B.C.L. (The Clarendon Press.)—Though Mr. Moyle's volumes are, of course, intended as a text-book for students of law, his general introduction...

pretty volume of pleasant tales, by a writer who possesses an excellent gift of humour, and an easy and refined style. "Uncle George's Will," originally published in Temple Bar,...

a very dell satire, as unlike as possible to what should be the model of such attempts, Swift's "Brobdignag" and "Lilliput." Thousands have read these books without a suspicion...