has demanded and obtained from the Emperor William a criminal prosecution of the Deutsche Rundschau, intended, it is supposed, to compel the proprietor to give up his authority....

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 13th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

case.

A telegram (Renter's) was received in London on Tuesday announcing that Colonel Graham, in command of some 2,500 Europeans and Goorkhas, had attacked the positions held by the...

foibles, is a shrewd observer, takes a very despondent view of the French Parliamentary campaign which opens on October 9th. He evidently thinks the dissensions among the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK A GREAT excitement has been caused in Germany by the publication, in the Deutsche Rundschau, of a diary kept by the late Emperor Frederick, when Crown Prince,...

the Albert Hall, Nottingham, noticed that though " the Irish Question has occupied almost exclusively the field of politics " for the last three years, we are no nearer." a...

the French Government that their Ambassador to Italy, M. de Mony, shall not be in Rome while the German Emperor is there. He is now away, and his leave has been extended, it is...

at home and abroad has reported that, on the whole, the Mayfair system has worked well, and should be continued in spirit, though apparently-greater opportunities to rise will...

and already she is beginning to feel some of the unpleasantnesses of foreign adventure. For some time there have been diffi- culties with the natives along the coast of the...

The fall of the Nile has been so continuous, that the loss of revenue next year will hardly be less than a quarter of a million ; and the Dervishes are suddenly developing...

murders, has justified his conduct in insisting on the publicity which we last week condemned. He has been the first to offer a reasonable explanation of the murders. They are...

Dillon, referring to the impatience with which some of the Nationalists regard the attitude of the English people, declared that he could not share the feeling, though he...

Cardiff during the past week. A resolution in favour of national defence was passed at the meeting on Wednesday, many speakers alluding to the defencelessness of the Bristol...

borough Magistracy has been again raised, this time by Mr. Burt, who tells the workmen of East Bromwich that he approves the innovation. So do we, if workmen who are clearly fit...

September 11th, an old gentleman residing at Brooklyn received a letter from Ojee, one of the islands of the South Sea, hitherto supposed to be uninhabited, written by a certain...

Central Criminal Court last week during the coarse of a trial. Mr. Justice Charles, the presiding Judge, dwelt in his charge upon the heavy responsibility imposed upon a Judge...

heart-disease, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He must have been a man with unusual ability of a kind, for he rose from the ranks to be a Marshal of France, and his...

that the gold-reefs found to exist in Wales extend to Ireland. Gold is known to have been found in Wicklow from time to time, twice in paying quantities, and Mr. Berger-Spence...

New Consols (2) were on Friday 97 to 9n.

THE EMPEROR FREDERICK'S DIARY. T HE Diary of the Emperor Frederick in 1870-71 has naturally more interest for Germans than for Englishmen; but - it has a keen interest also for...

I T is high time, if the irresponsible and ill-informed force called " public opinion " is to prove its right to rule, that it should insist on a radical change in the present...

W E do not believe that the English people are weary of the discussion of the Irish Question, or inclined to vote for Home-rule in order to be rid of it. Mr. Cham- berlain's...

" N APOLEON quietly seeking a rapprochement with .1.N us ; moderation of peace conditions on promise of a common war against England." Such is the simple matter-of-fact entry in...

W E noticed last week three of the categories into which Home-rulers can be divided. We forgot, however, the fourth, and perhaps the largest class of all,— those who have taken...

r E German Army has just given fresh proofs to observant minds that its guiding principles—unity of direction, thoroughness, and growth—are as active and vigorous as ever. There...

T HE first thing which strikes the reader of the Mapleson Memoirs, just published, is the peculiar light in which that most experienced purchaser of "talent" regards the great...

W E must say plainly we do not believe one word of the constantly repeated story that savages exist who cannot count up to ten. There is no cretin tribe, and no tribe which can...

H UMOUR is many - sided, and the mirth-giving faculty, though it baffles further definition, may be exercised in a hundred different ways. There is the exquisite humour of...

A WORD OF COUNSEL. MO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIE,W11.1 you allow me to say with what great pleasure I read your " Word of Counsel " to Liberal Unionists in the...

the Constable family. Lionel Constable had no wife. We are asked to mention further that the lady misdescribed as his wife was his sister. The blunder was made in compressing an...

Sin, I entirely agree with your remarks on " Literary Anodynes." My own article was " written in dejection, ' like a poem of Mr. Shelley's, on the first day of the University...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB, — Mr. Ainger, in giving his interesting incident of strange- friendships between animals, asks if there are any precedents for such...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin;--In your article of September 1st, describing the Naples panic about child-stealing, you mention that there was no known cause to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB, As the editor who is responsible for introducing, in the pages of the Universal Review, the " L'Immorter of M. Daudet to the English...

Sin,—In reply to Mr. Ainger's question as to there being " any precedent for such close intimacies between animals so widely separated in kind and habit" as the dog and pigeon...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Stn,—The limitation of oppressive appeals of the class de- nounced in your article of September 22nd, would be a reform by no means...

JANKA WOHL'S RECOLLECTIONS OF LISZT.* TnE author of these striking reminiscences—a Hungarian lady who for several years acted as Liszt's private secretary —has executed an...

MIST. I can rejoice that I have not been born In. Southern climes, where heavens are deep and clear, Where stars are brighter, and the hues of morn And sunset shine with richer...

that " snub," 4 ' sneap," and " snib " are undoubtedly connected with " snip," so that when you snub a man, you simply "cut him short," or "take him down a bit."—I am, Sir, &c.,...

[To ma EDITOR 01 TN11 "SPECTATOR." J 'Snt,-1 am informed by a Lincolnshire man that in his part of the country the word " snipy " (i long), as equivalent to 4 ' fault-finding,"...

hard measure to judge M. de Lesseps's Recol- lections (an English translation of which has been published) by the strict rules of literary criticism, albeit the author be one of...

the Rise of the Huguenots, Mr. Baird traced their progress from the feeble and obscure beginnings of the Reformation to the close of the reign of Charles IX., when, by reason of...

Stepniak has given to the English public in their own language, will probably be deemed the most important, as it is certainly the most solid and elaborate, which he has yet...

stage of Biblical studies, it can hardly be ques- tioned that the problems of greatest controversial interest are those which arise around the Old Testament. It is not that they...

WE think that the warmest admirer and least discriminating critic would hardly describe Paid in His Own Coin as a pleasant - book. To use the American adaptation of a familiar...

the Rev. H. H. Stephenson. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Stephenson has devoted his introduction to oomments on the diction of Virgil, and to hints on hexameter versification. In his...

Haigh, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—In spite of the number of editions of Virgil which already exist, and the fresh ones which are Con- tinually coming into existence, it is not easy...

Cicero pro Cluentio. By W. Yorke Fausset. (Rivingtons.)—A fresh edition of the Pro Cluentio is a dangerous task to undertake, for two reasons. First and foremost, because of the...

be a most charming book if the value of its contents were proportionate to its elegance in the matter of appearance. But although not without a certain interest, and although...

and Notes. (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co.)—Books of this kind expose more forcibly than anything else some of the evils which competitive examinations have brought upon us....

(Chap- man and Hall.)—Mr. Courtney states that the majority of these essays—the book contains eleven—were published in the Fort- nightly Review, and that the papers on Hobbes...

Edition. (Sampson Low.)—From the earliest times observant minds have noticed that the most dreadful epidemics have been preceded or accompanied by aerial phenomena of se...

Jerram. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr.Jerram's edition - was, we imagine, written to supply help to boys who are reading Virgil for the first time. There is no reason why it should not...

Okeden, and Welsh.)—The number of tourists who visit Norway is increasing every year with rapidity, and the number of those who on their return feel constrained to print their...

the author that "novelty and originality are great aids to all narration;" but when carried to excess they render narrative, particularly historical narrative, clumsy. Is it...

Turner.)—We would regard this little book simply from the literary point of view. The social questions which it suggests are far too large for us to deal with in these columns....

M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—This, one of the first of the crop of Armada story-books we are sure to see, has been chiefly taken from Hakluyt's collection of " Voyages and...

the nature and properties of marble, cements, and mastics, and giving the elementary principles of mosaic work and marble mouldings and carved ornament, the writer devotes the...

plan does not commend itself to us, and is surely the very last to be thought of when a number of facts have to be strung tog ether. Apart from this, the book maybe found useful.

Mrs. de Sails again appears, and we hope it is not her last appearance. This time she gives over two hundred recipes for dressing vegetables,—an art of which we English know...

A. Axon. (John Heywood.)—A regular a/a podrida of , essays and articles on the most diverse subjects. The style is clear and not too diffuse, and the pieces themselves not too...

Co.)—Some very useful hints for suburban amateur gardeners are given by Mr. Castle, as well as general information on the subject of annuals and perennials, hardy or otherwise....

Drowley.)—In writing a popular yet scientific introduction to geology, the author has drawn attention to the fact that nearly all the "formations" are exposed within two hundred...

has recast a volume, edited by Mr. Brander Matthews, that was published last year in New York, making some additions and some omissions, these latter of his own verses chiefly....

Fisher writes well, and possessed as she is of a spirited and flowing style, she suffers history to lose none of its charm, and while she touches with a careful and feeling pen...

Wilkins Aveling. (Rolfe Brothers.)—It is only too plainly to be seen that Mr. Aveling has written in a great hurry, and that his work shows the inevitable result of haste,—a...

we have an attempt to clear up something at least of the mystery which surrounds the fall of the great Order of the Knights Templars.—History of Philosophy. Part I., "...

curious medley of effective prose and hare-brained verse. When the author begins to poetise, he seems to make a conscious, dervish- like effort to go " off his head,"—and too...