T HE Concert of Europe still resembles an Alexandrine line, and "like a wounded snake drags its slow length along." It has accomplished nothing this week beyond killing a few...

THE CONTINUED PAUSE. T HE Pause continues, and its effects grow worse. The six Powers are so distrustful of each other that they dare not confide the pacification of Crete to...

Education Bill through all its stages without amendment is to our mind still more interesting as an omen of the future than even as a political event of the past. There can be...

T HE financial relations debate has been a very useful one, and will, in our opinion, show that only those who bold to Home-rule for Ireland,—who are likely to be fewer with...

I F we understand the situation aright, the Government of France, apart from all moral considerations, is politically wise in deciding to "revive," as it is called, "the Panama...

M R CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at the dinner to Sir Alfred Milner has been called unwise and pro- vocative. We do not find it so. Rather we regard it as a statesmanlike expression of...

connected with the government of India on which it is so difficult to make up one's mind as on that of our right to enforce great sanitary laws. It looks so simple, and it is so...

W E have a humble apology to offer to the Sporting League. We have entirely misunderstood their attitude on the question of betting. We were under the impression—so easy is it...

the strong collisions of feeling between substantially good men, men indeed whose main efforts have tended towards many of the same results while approaching them on lines...

D OES any one nowadays sincerely believe that a fine church is an impediment to the worship of God? We ask because forty years ago a great many earnest and sincere people so...

W AR and the chase are the ultimate objects for which the Commission on Irish Horse Breeding has lately been hearing the evidence of experts on both sides of the Channel. The...

THE TAXATION OF CLERICAL INCOMES. [To THI EDITOR OP THZ " SrzcTiT026 . 9 Sin,—May I, having given, for good reasons, close attention to this matter, thank you for your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srscrkroa."] SIR,—The sentiment quoted by your correspondent, Mr. Howell, from Ecclesiasticus, in the Spectator of March 27th, was expressed by Dr....

[To Tin EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on "Clubbable Men" you mention the name of Mr. Abraham Hayward, the essayist. If the publishers of his series of...

[To TES EDITOR Or TEX " SPECTAT0R:1 SIR,—Adverting to your agreeable article on this subject in the Spectator of March 20th, I may mention that a most effective way of...

[TO TEN EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."3 2i,—May I offer the probably unpopular suggestion that asceticism is the most visible note of religion, as distinguished from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—Being myself of the Waller race, I naturally held to a detail of no great importance with which I had been familiar from my...

[TO TEX EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."] - SIR —I should like to show you, for publication or not, as you think well, quite another aspect of Tennyson as a guest. In 1850, just...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The writer of this very entertaining paper in the Spectator of March 13th alludes to the "myth" of pigs cutting their own throats...

of the jackal has never stood high, and has been still further—and, I am inclined to think, a little unfairly—depreciated by the role assigned to Tabaqui in Mr. R. Kipling's...

islands of the Mediterranean, made, in what year we are not, told, by Monsieur Gaston Vuillier, and translated into English by Mr. Frederic Breton. It has a great many curious...

When first the lofty lakeland hymn From Grasmere's brink, and Loughrigg's side, And Rotha's waters floated wide, And of pure song upsprang the fount In the grave air of Rydal...

[To TIM EDITOR 07 TH1 " BPZOTATOE."] Sru,—The following instance of longevity in a bird may be of interest to your readers. My cousin, Mrs. C., had a siskin given to her in...

THE idea of this series is certainly good. It is to present the English reader with the impressions formed with regard to England and placed on record in their own respective...

MR. JOHN O'LEARY is an Irish gentleman, who in his boyhood came under the influence of the writings of Thomas Davis; was imprisoned before he was out of his teens for complicity...

interesting and useful book is already well known to us through his work on the farm live-stock of Great Britain, and also by those on Indian agriculture and the agricultural...

this little book is composed, selected, and arranged by a Roman Catholic lady as it is published by a Roman Catholic Society, prefaced by a distinguished Roman Catholic poet,...

attempt at a critical life of his brother-in-law, but has given us a great mass of material, interesting and the reverse, chiefly in the form of Frederick Walker's letters. The...

illustrated volumes Sir James Mackenzie gives as what may be called a roll-call of the Castles of England. County by county he goes over the mediasval strongholds, and tells of...

The Century of Louis %W. By M. Bourgeois. Translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—About a year ago we noticed the French edition of this beautiful...

of this book is simple and conventional, but the story itself is eminently wholesome. A young English aristocrat seeking his fortune in Australia meets with an accident which...

Professor C. A. Buchheim. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Martin Luther. By Gustav Freytag. Translated by H. E. 0. Heinemann. (Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago.) — Some...

&kerma (P. B.). k Another, Triscombe Stone: a Romance (Bliss & Sands) 6/0 Alden (W. L.), His Daughter (New Vagabond Library), Cr Svo ...(Briemen) 1/6 Box (E. B.) Outspoken...