T HE Government have decided on an Autumn Session, to the exasperation of sensible men, who think that the .country could very well wait for further legislation. The Radiaals,...

speech to a great gathering of his constituents in the New- castle Town-hall. The speech was oratorically an able one, but Mr. Morley said absolutely nothing in answer to the...

M. Carnot, According to one account, he is in a dangerous con- dition, must go through a serious operation, and will probably resign on the ground of insufficient health to...

case.

ended on Monday in a triumph for the monometal- lists. It had been agreed that the House of Representatives .13.ould vote first on the free coinage of silver, ratios, or ,fixed...

French always want to get cash for their jobbers out of a dependency—witness the Tunis loan business—and their Special Commissioner in Siam, M. le Myre de Tillers, is trying to...

was begun by Mr. Gladstone on Wednesday at noon, in a speech which produced an extraordinary effect in the House of Com- mons, but which certainly does not impress its readers...

of Scotch Dieestablishment, headed by Sir Charles Cameron, M.P. for the College Division of Glasgow. To this deputation,—who boasted of the great liberality of the con- ditions...

ex- cept for Mr. T. W. Russell's speech and the statesmanlike speech , of Sir Henry James. Sir Charles Russell made an eloquent but somewhat hackneyed Attorney-General's...

was very vigorous. He pointed out that since the country had been kept so sedulously in the dark as to the. provisions of the Home-rule Bill,—in spite of the powerful'...

a close on Friday week, under the guillotine Closure. In the debate, Mr. Maeartney proposed that the Lord-Lieutenant should be given the powers of reserving Bills "for the...

success- ful maiden speech, cast very much in the mould of his uncle's rhetoric, of which the happiest point was that, as regards the retention of the Irish Members, Mr....

brilliant -speech against the Bill, pointing out that this was , not a popular revolution in any sense as regarded the followers of Mr. Gladstone. It was a revolution made by...

Southern States of the American Union. The plane to suffer most was Port Royal, in South Carolina. A wind going at the rate of a hundred miles an hour struck the town like a...

England, but as yet it has not assumed its terrifying character. It is worst in Galicia, where the people dislike sanitary pre- -cautions, and in part of Hungary, where 143...

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like ten thousand people on Thursday in Aithorpe Park. It Mr. Asquith made a long speech at Althorpe to something like ten thousand people on Thursday in Aithorpe Park. It as...

be abolished on all Prussian State railways from October 1st, and the reporter, who approves the change, says that it is another step towards the adoption of the third as the...

the probability is that they will accentuate that victory of -commonplace men which is so remarkable in the first elec- tions. Not one new candidate has attracted national...

George Hamilton blamed the Government for not supple- menting the now nearly expired programme of the Naval Defence Act by a new scheme. The present Board's inaction during the...

WHAT MR. GLADSTONE HAS ACHIEVED. A S we write, the debate in the House of Commons has not yet terminated. We are compelled to go to press without reading the epitaphs which the...

T HE Times on Wednesday did great injustice not ouly to the Home-rulers, but to the Unionists also, when it represented Mr. Gladstone as caring not a jot for the cause for which...

even more un- satisfactory than such debates usually are. It was, that is, both alarmist and hopeless. The alarmists who say, "Your Navy is suffering from certain defects which...

T' " world is in, we fear, for a most serious and possibly a protracted currency agitation. The re- vulsion of opinion in America about silver has been unexpectedly strong....

of the French Electione, except perhaps the evideece they afforded of thse lingering power of the Papacy in France, is the me/verge refusal of the country to punish these...

one of those Home-rulers to —U. whom the "union of hearts" is something more than a phrase, and who believe in a permanent alliance founded on a close community of sentiment and...

week sti r cmhinues, and certainly a great part of the reasoning or . those who apologise for it, seems, like that of Mr. Ernest Clarke to be based on the extraordinary...

at the beginning of autumn, is trying to get up a discus- sion on a social topic,—this time the necessity or superfluity of chaperonage. It is not a bad subject to start, for it...

W RITING of the threatened war between Mr. Rhodes', Company and the Matabele King, Lobengula, the Times' correspondent judges that the Kaffir chieftain can be beaten and his...

A WEEK AT SCHIERMONNIKOOG, THE ISLE OF THE GREY FRIARS. "To the north-west of Groningen lies the island and bathing resort of Schiermonnikoog. Inn in the village. Ba,dinhel one...

A MAJORITY OF THIRTY-EIGHT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " FIPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The Ministerial Party in the House of Commons con- siders that it has a warrant to bring about a great...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,") SIEs—It is difficult for an Englishman to understand that "Anti-Semitism" should form the acknowledged basis of a party in Germany, and...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A suggestion was made not long since (I think in your- columns) that some of the best argumentative speeches of the- leaders of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In vindication of my class, may I be allowed to point out that the sentence quoted in "Pillow-Problems," in the Spectator of August...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THZ " 5PEOFATOR."] Slit,—Sir Henry Howorth's letter in the Spectator of August 20th, on "The Glacial Age," does not reply to mine in the the Spectator of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.') SIR,—You say, "'Heads, I win; tails, you lose,' is nothing to the game of developing Africa by chartered companies." Allow me to point out...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " sricarnon.1 tSra.,—On Sunday, August 20th, a question of some interest 'from various standpoints was decided in Switzerland. It eeems that in one of the...

[To nut EDITOR OF THE "Srscritroa.":1 Sin,—As you and your readers seem interested in odds-and- ends of natural history, I send you one which may be worth publishing. Some time...

think it is worth mentioning, though I can only give second-hand authority, that some friends of mine, living in the Close, at Salisbury, were alarmed on the evening of August...

A JUNE STORM. SULLENLY fell the rain while under the oak we stood, It hissed in the leaves above us, and big drops plash'd to the ground, And a horror of darkness fell over...

THE NOVELS OF MISS EDGE WORTH. ALL children owe a debt of gratitude to Miss Edgeworth. Rosamond and the Purple Jar, for instance, is as perennial a, favourite as Jack and the...

volumes describing the state of France before and during the Revolution, were reviewed in the Spectator two years ago. He has now compiled from family papers, from Madame de...

he uses the above some- what singular title simply "as a convenient term to indicate a rational and organised system of securing the conditions of health as against the private,...

rather very lively sketches than tales, and, indeed, furnish us with a very good second to Miss Wilkins's admirable tales like "A Humble Romance," "A Far-away Melody," and "A...

the Jewish race is better known to the English reader than any other,—that of his own country not excepted ; but his knowledge usually ends with the fall of Jerusalem. Perhaps a...

doubtless those rudimentary instincts which we can observe any day among animals. The dog, for instance, selects one or two grasses which he eats whenever he has time and...

a rule points -of interest lacking in ordinary biographies. It is a marvellous change in a man's environment, as well as in his inner life, when he passes from one religious...

this volume we have a great amount of information on Biblical history and antiquities put together in a convenient shape. We should be inclined to put a higher value on this....

The City and the Land. By Colonel Sir Charles Wilson and others. (A.. P. Watt.)—Last year the Committee of the Palestine Fund arranged for the delivery of certain lectures which...

(W. Heine- mann.)—The author describes her tale as a "Study in Human Relationship." Vere Vandeleur falls in love with Iris Hope, bin tutor's daughter. Failing to obtain a post...

last we get an Irish story which it is possible to enjoy in something of the same fashion as that in which we enjoyed the Irish stories of our youth. "The O'Mahoney" is, we are...

Langford. (Remington and Co.)—A. book from the Colonies is always welcome ; for the links of kindly sentiment are more permanently fastened by the gossamer fibres of sympathetic...

Co.)—We cannot discuss the questions which furnish subjects to the essayists. "The Criticism of the Old and New Testaments," "The Atonement," "The Theory and Practice of...

of Medum, though not producing any results of great matesial—perhaps we should say commercial—value, have eontributed largely to Egyptology. The annals of Medum go back as far...

Nutt.)—Mr. Jacobs ha e collected with great industry a num- 'bar of notices of the life of the Jews and of their relations with various classes of English society during a part...

Dosvie has reprinted the original narratives of four " women adventurers." The fous are Madame Velasquez Otherwise Henry T. Buford), who served in the Confederate Army ; Hannah...

Series, Vol. VII, (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume fully maintains the interest of tho series. We may make special mention of Professor A. B. Bruce's six papers on "Paul's...

placs, among those that Helvellyn shades, of which Mr. Barber writes is the Valley of Wythburn, part of Crosthwaite parish, and N.B. of Keswick. The author writes pleasantly...

the Works of Nicholas Breton. By Alexander B. Grosart, (Elliot Stock.)— We value, Mr. Grosart thinks, what Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Raleigh wrote, chiefly for the men's...

Brown was a Minister of the United Presbyterian body. We have here a memoir written by his son, and revealing a highly interesting personality, an extract—we wish that it had...

Co.)—" Prue and I" are an old-fashioned couple who look on life with a certain genial philosophy. We are reminded again and again as we read, of Charles Lamb. There is something...

(Samp- son Low and Co.)—Although the Congo has, in a literary sense, been very well done, if not positively overdone, of late years, yet this handsome and not too large...

Mac- alpine. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—The story which gives a title to the volume is decidedly good. Joel is an admirable character. Among the other stories, the tragical power...

Company, New York.)— The title of this book is un- pleasantly suggestive, and the volume itself, although the author shows clearly enough that she is honestly seeking, by means...

i th, Farran, and Co.)—In this story Mrs. Linnoaus Banks provides a certain surprise for her readers. She has long ago taken her place among writers of novels as an expert in...