the deep-seated Cravings of our national vanity. The Government told the 'nation that the "voice of England had spoken," and the nation was so pleased to know that the voice of...

able speech at Ripon on Tuesday. He explained his own peculiar position as unfavourable to further unsettlements of the present Reform Act; he was willing, he said, to put up...

Hill, died on Wednesday, in his house at Hampstead, at the age of eighty-four. He was the third son of Thomas Wright Hill, formerly o f Kidd erm inster, a man fertile in...

guilty of "misbehaviour before the enemy," and sentenced him to be cashiered, recommending him, however, strongly to mercy, for five reasons—his good character, the smallness of...

the death. of the late Prince Imperial is a some- what unsatisfactory document, reflecting rather a temper very natural and appropriate to the catastrophe, than a judicial state...

General Grant has consented to take the chairmanship of the company for " suppressing " the isthmus of Panama—to use the phrase first applied to M. Lesseps—by-carrying out the...

under which , he sat so long in the- House-of Commons,,--in -addressing the Lancashire Agricultural- Association on.Neesday, very prudently- endeavoured to undo , some of the...

week on the political situation, in, which-he made a general de- fence of his Government, and showed how successful it had been in the various difficult problems with which it...

King' of Spain.with..the --Princess Marie 'Christina, daughter of". the' lute Archclulte•Charles,,Ferdinand and cousin of the --Emperor of 'Austria, are now proceeding...

drift of an interview, of an hour's duration between one of its staff and Count Andrasey, on the subjeet of the Count's poli- tical aims, and his reasons for resigning....

views of the 7th Clause of M. Jules Ferry's Educa- tion Bill. Thirteen of these bodies hove passed resolutions in its favour ; more than twice as many, twenty-seven, have passed...

authentic colloquies, the hero of the occasion being, in this instance, Prince Jerome Napoleon. Like M. Jules Simon, Prince Napoleon is stated to disapprove- of Article 7 in M....

Hawarden Park, on Thursday, on the opportunities for a greater development, of profitable gardening. He pointed out that we import yearly,into the country, fruits such- as we...

whole, a lively one, and the discussions on geographical dis- covery and the various native races of South Africa have been unusually interesting. A very curious account was...

murder, which we urged a week or two ago, in writing on the scandal at Derby concerning the verdict on Mainwariug for his murder of a policeman, has been illustrated with great...

Animals (Thierschutz Verein) has just closed its labours at A Congress of German Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Thierschutz Verein) has just closed its labours...

the clearness of their sight as .on the strength of their wings. In an experiment recently made with some Berlin pigeons, on a clear day, a. distance of over 300 miles, from...

paper 'on colour-blindness, brought out the very great danger.to which, in certain callings, colour-blindness, especially when not recog- nised by those who suffer from it,...

ject of Dr. Pye Smith's address to the Section of Anatomy and Physiology in the British Association last Monday, in praise of Vivisection. But we must make one remark on a...

CONSERVATIVE LIBERALS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS. jR. GOSCHEN'S speech at Ripon, in which he announces .111 frankly the peculiar position which he holds in the Liberal party, as a...

T HE last claim which we have seen made for Lord Salis- bury's foreign policy in the Conservative Press is the wisest claim hitherto put forward, because the most unsubstantial...

T HE letter from the Adjutant-General in which the opinion of the Duke of Cambridge on the Court-martial on Captain Carey is conveyed to the General commanding in South Africa...

T HE Chinese reconquest of Eastern Turkestan, which was described in the Spectator of April 13th, 1878, has been followed, as the fitful intelligence received from Central "Asia...

W E should be sorry to make light of the• generosity of certain landowners who, in consideration of the terrible character of the season, have remitted a portion of their...

W ALTER SCOTT, who, to quote the words of Dr. Whitaker, the learned historian of Richrnoudshire, "diffused much innocent and elegant pleasure by his writings," has no doubt done...

H ISS GENEVIEVE WARD is an. actress of very remark. able power,. second to none certainly , but Miss Ellen Terrynow on the. English Stage. In the very clever 'little melodrama...

fl R: PYIt- SMITH intended to hit hard in his address to the Biological Section of the British Association, and Dr. Pye Smith in a man of the very highest ability, who generally...

A LAZY JOURNEY.—VI. TT had been my full intention, with Mrs. Balbus's approval— and indeed, she often indicates to me the line my thoughts should take—to begin this chapter...

THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF ADVERSITY. ere ms EIHTOR Or THZ " EPETATOR.") Sin,—I venture to ask you whether the position which you take in last week's Spectator in regard to...

"SPECTATOR:] SIR,—May I be allowed to point out that the sentences you do me the honour to quote from the introduction to Clifford's Essays, in your last number, appear with two...

[TO THE EDIT= OF THE "SPECTATOR:] am bound to enter a protest against an expression in your last number, — that john Wesley was " disowned " by the Church. For a literary...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOU.1 am called over the coals, though, I confess, in a far from scorching, indeed, in a very kindly spirit, by the Rev. E. D. Cleaver, for...

MR. DE VERE'S LEGENDS OF THE SAXON SAINTS.* WE prefer Mr. de Vero as a dramatist to Mr. de Vere as the writer of idyls or lyrical pieces, for his dramatic instinct is keen, and...

Tuts is a fine book, probably one of the books on Art for a good many years, full of clearly and deftly-wrought-out explanations upon subjects of much intricacy. But the...

Le' one respect, this book is unsatisfactory. Its chief interest should consist in Colonel Prjevalsky's description of his journey in 1876.!7 - from Kuldja, in Russian...

ON any subject, philosophical 'or otherwi se , on which you have any commons ground with Dr. Ward, he is always worth listen. ing to ; for he always makes his meaning clear,...

Religion in England under Queen Anne and the Georges, 1702 - 1800.. By John Stoughton, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.) This book gives us a very fair as well as a comprehensive...

By J. G.Whyte- Melville. (Chapman and Hall.)—This novel, the last work of the well- known writer and sportsman, Major Whyte-Molville, is not equal to many of its predecessors....

German Priest, in Prison and in Exile. Told by the Victim. (Bentley and Son.)—The "German priest" accepted the cure of a parish in Germany, con- trary to the provisions of the...

of Records known as the Remembrancla Preserved among the Archives of the City of London, A.D. 1579-1661. (Privately printed for the Cor- poration, by E. J. Francis and Co.)—Wo...

Hall.)—This pleasant, crisply written story is merely a too lengthy variation on the old theme, "Love is the best phy- sician." There is little plot, and that little is...

volumes been constructed out of scantier materials than those which Miss Craik has employed in this instance. Mr. Trelawney marries Letty, the niece of his housekeeper, is...

Stoughton ; Oswestry, Woodall and Venabltte.)—To review a guide- book properly, it is necessary that one should be able to write ono. Who else is qualified to check the author's...

contents of which are of too technical a nature to be discussed in these columns, Loss of Weight, Blood-Spitting, and Lung Disease. By Horace Dobell, M.D. (J. and A....