of French medical arrangements in Tunis. A writer whose " sin- cerity and competence " are guaranteed by the Tinier, and who is now stationed at Carthage, declares that the...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the Srsc- "TATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The First of...

T HE Irish Executive is turning its attention, not too soon, to improved administration. The Privy Council has sanctioned a change proposed by the Judges which will, it is...

case.

what passes in the Palace, recognising that the pivot of power in Turkey is there, has been alluding, for some weeks past, to a kind of plot which is believed there to have been...

has discovered in Insurance a cure for the social diffi- culties of Germany, and is exasperated at the contemptuous treatment which, as he conceives, it has received from...

Prince Bismarck and the Pope. It is fancied that the Prince offers the Vatican some assistance in compelling Italy to quit Rome, as the price of support with the Ultramontane...

'` God gave the earth to the children of men," "any settlement of the land of this or any other country that would exclude the humblest man in this or that country from his...

Yorkshire loses its Conservative Member, and the contest for the seat will probably be very close. At the last contest, in November, 1868, Mr. 0. Duncombe, the Conservative, was...

last soldier has crossed Laing's Nek, and the great meeting of Boers, at which it was feared that the Convention might be repudiated, has passed off in silence. A new question,...

end, though the facts are admitted, and though expert after expert testifies that the accused is perfectly sane. Indeed, he admits this himself, only protesting that he was...

sum- marises and analyses some of the recent religious statistics of attendances at religions worship on the Sunday. He makes out that in the population of 17 towns, amounting...

subject of these statistics, points out the reasons for doubting their sufficiency ; while quite admitting the admirable zeal of the Nonconformist bodies, and their...

the party character of the movement, and has extracted from Mr. Gladstone a testimonial to this effect,—that so far as his lordship's correspondence with the Prime Minister...

the Lord Mayor, to enclose a contribution of L'25 to the Property Defence Association which the Lord Mayor has founded, begins by dashing his handful of gold, as it were, in the...

condition of the British Army in 1880, from which it appears that through the whole year recruiting was so success- ful, that the Army was above its fixed strength, and...

on the spot, and who gives his estimates in careful detail, states that American meat costs 50. a pound to land in England, and that 61d. a pound yields the shippers'...

Day, in the Abbey, a sermon to children worthy of his predecessor, partly, no doubt, because it said so much about him, and made what was said so simple and interesting. The...

believe that they will discover the perpetrators of the outrage at Dunecht. The Home Office has promised a free pardon and £100 to any -one who will give information, not being...

the Exeter School of Science and Art, and in remark- ing on the system of competition, he observed that he himself did not feel disposed to say all the evil things of " cram"...

of a lad named Percy John by his brother-in-law, Dr. Lamson, still continues. The father of the accused, a clergy- man of the Church of England acting as chaplain at Florence,...

seat in the Senate of the University of London, which is to be filled by the election of Convocation at its next meeting,—Dr. Buchanan and Mr. Newth. But as it is admitted to be...

TRITE CONSERVATISM IN RELATION TO IRELAND. T HE worst result, perhaps, of the Tory democracy of Lord Beaconsfield is that it has set so many light-headed young Tories, who have...

O NE of the most striking signs of the deep unrest within the Mahommedan world, an unrest visible in the Panislamic movement, the insurrection throughout North Africa, and the...

B Y the death of Lord Justice Lush, the Bench loses its senior member, and the public a most faithful and valuable servant. Upon the retirement of Sir George Bram- well, the...

OMETIMES, when reading , the masa of reports, letters, 10 speeches, and pamphlets which arrive daily from Ireland, we feel compelled to doubt whether the perversity of the...

P OLITICALLY speaking, the year that ends to-day has certainly been the most disagreeable of years, theugh neither the most calamitous nor the most devoid of prows!). It has...

T HE announcement made this week by the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette and those of the St. James's Gazette that they intend to publish their papers at a penny has...

M R. CHARLES MIALL has given in the Times a table of the attendances at Church and Chapel respectively in six large towns, drawn from figures which have recently been published...

N EW ZEALAND sends us home a very masterly con- tribution to the discussion on Materialism, in the shape of a lecture delivered by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of that...

P ANTOMIME, and more especially Pantomime proper, though it dies hard, is evidently dying in London. Very few first-class theatres even attempt to produce it at Christmas, only...

T HE discussion on Mr. Gladstone's retirement must have brought home to the minds of many persons the convic- tion that ours is a time when influence and fame are, to a pecu-...

remarks that justice which you habitually exercise towards your correspondents. I accept your analogy between the nature of the trust placed in a voter to that placed in a...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Stn,—The average Protestant Englishman prides himself on his singular exemption from the prejudices which blind men of other religions and...

THE BRIBERY SENTENCES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your article of the 24th inst. answers your corre- spondent " B." so completely, that I need not add...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Perhaps, in the present state of affairs, you may think it worth while to place before your readers the following passage, taken from a...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The complaint is a very common one that Englishmen, too often, do not understand, and so misjudge, and mismanage, Irish affairs. No doubt it is so,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am reluctant to enter into a controversy with your kindly reviewer on what is, after all, a mere question of taste ; but as Pope's...

THE DYING BUDDHIST'S HYMN. I GO to Him in whom all is, The self-existent Perfectness; Who knows not of finality, The only Being that can be ; Who, without motion can create,...

Suppose we had written, `Dr. Magee, though a Bishop, is a human being,' would that have meant that the rest of the Episcopal Bench were not human beings ?" as suggesting that we...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEETATOR."] SIR,—Nothing can be more true than what you say, that the most amusing misprints arise from what may be termed " printers' sense," which is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — IS it worthy to be recorded in the last number of the Spectator for the year 1881, that this year is notable for the largest census...

PATROCLUS. " ROUSE thee, Patroclus, fire is on the ships, And Hector's crest is flaunting in our lines ; Rouse thee, Mencetius' son ; thou hast thy wish ; Don thou my harness...

MR. JUSTIN McCARI 'S NEW NOVEL.* FOR certain qualities in Mr. Justin McCarthy's novels, his readers may always look with serene confidence. These quali- ties are more...

books of the season,—one of the most important in size, price, and outward show. The binding is cream-coloured vellum, elaborated, embroidered in gold and colours ; the paper is...

Howson to deliver the lecture, very probably requested him to make his lecture one addressed rather to the general public than to students ; and in any case, it is clear that...

this volume gives more valu- able information about the doctrines and polity of Islam than any book of moderate size that we are acquainted with in the • The Faith of Islam. By...

hundred small pages—a volume of Messrs. Cassell's Monthly Library—the evident outcome and condensation of well-digested thought and study, is a most useful work on the subject...

GIFT BOOKS. some and interesting volume are those of Windsor, Deepdene, Stafford House, Hertford House, Grosvenor House, and Castle Howard. Perhaps the most pleasing of all are...

late Superintendent of Education at Natal. (Edward fitanford.)—Amongst the many good aid useful books lately pub- lished on these subjects, the one before us seems particularly...

lated. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We recommend this book, which is the work of a German Lutheran pastor of considerable learning, to students of Church history. The author has made...

the course of instruction followed in the Board Schools at Leeds ; and so excellent is it, that if every household in the kingdom possessed the book, and the presiding genius of...

and Co.)—Some of Pliny's most interesting letters are contained in this book. There is the letter in which he gives a detailed account of his uncle's various and numerous works,...

Stoughton.)—It is not likely that many people now-a-days read Robert Hall's sermons, but the man himself is not by any means for- gotten. Mr. Hood does good service, when he...

Theodore Bent. (C. Began Peal and Co.)—Mr. Bent's work on Genoa is another proof of the reaction against a Teutonic despotism in literature which began a few years ago. Taylor...

Rev. Dr. Cobham Brewer, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. (De la Rue and Co.)—This history being comprehensive, reaching "from the commencement to the present day," one wonders that it...

the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Rogers has much more to say about the Church of England than about the Nonconforming bodies. Niue of the thirteen...

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