Har- court which, though eloquent and conclusive, would have been better avoided, the occasion not being one for debate, and after stating the economic facts of the situation in...

success. The first meeting, on Tuesday, in the Leinster Han, was attended by more than four thousand persons, representing the landlords, bankers, professionals, large traders,...

a desire to coerce the Congress ; and, of course, it will increase with every day's delay. It is evident that the Communists are astir and watchful, and it is asserted that they...

one of the most eloquent he has delivered. He commented a good deal on the pitting of the masses against the classes, and said that while he did not in the least deny the dumb...

F RESIDENT GREVY resigned on Friday, after a delay which has excited all Paris, and which will furnish one -clay a curious chapter in the history of France. He agreed last...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 10th, will be issued, gratis, a SPROUL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

Division of Camberwell,—has resulted in the choice of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Maple, by a majority very slightly decreased from that obtained by his predecessor, Mr....

Peshawar. It was attended, of course, by all the nobles of the district, but also by hundreds of the hill chiefs with whora the Government has relations, which is unusual, and...

to the Czar is obviously important in some way, or diplomatists would not discuss it so much; but it has not as yet been reason- ably explained. No evidence is offered as to the...

that boycotting in Ireland and obstructing the deliberations of the British Parliament were practically one and the same policy, the policy of rendering the existing situation...

bitter speech, in which he charged the Chancellor of the Exchequer with hitting "below the belt" when he said that the obstruc- tion during the last Session had prevented the...

gaiety of heart for which Ireland was once celebrated, has departed from the country with the rise of Mr. Parnell's cold and grim ascendency. But this is not quite the case. At...

always, in grappling with argumentative issues, the ablest of Home-rule orators,—was the part of his speech in relation to Irish Land.parohase. His point was that any Purchase...

but which we have not seen confirmed in any other journal. According to its information, a rising of the slaves occurred in the St. Paulo District of Brazil on October 22nd, the...

225,000 offered by the Government of New South Wales for some mode of destroying the rabbits which have become a pest there, and he proposes in the Tempo what seems to us an...

Console were on Friday 101i to 101i.

Trafalgar Square will be fairly tested in the cases of Messrs. Cunninghame Graham and Burns, who were committed for trial on Wednesday, on charges of disorderly conduct in...

what they call the British adhesion to the alliance of the Central Powers. That, they say, makes peace almost a cer- tainty. We dare say Lord Salisbury is friendly to that...

in the Bankruptcy Court, that of the partners in "Green- ways," the Warwickshire Bank. They give their evidence with frankness, it must be owned, and it seems clear, from the...

to-day for Rome, if his uncle, Lord Lyons's condition permits, for the mission entrusted to him,—namely, to thank the Pope for the congratulations sent to the Queen of England...

THE RESIGNATION OF M. GREVY. - E1RENCHMEN are changing, they say, and in the direction of dullness, but certainly they have not lost the gift of making their politics...

T HE object alike of the splendid gathering of Tuesday in Dublin, and of the impressive speeches delivered by Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschen in the Leinster Hall, was to bring...

W E have now more than once sketched the course which Me. Gladstone should have adopted, if, after taking up the very sincere belief which he evidently entertains that a...

N OTHING even in the tragi-comedy of French politics, seems to us so startling as M. Pasteur's deliberate proposal to export the seeds of the disease called chicken- cholera to...

S 0 far Lord Dufferin has been exceedingly successful in his foreign policy. The key-note of that policy has been to avoid wars of conquest, and especially any war which might...

rrIHE publication of Mr. Burnett's Report to the Board of _1. Trade, and the appearance about the same time of Mr. Schloss's article in the Fortnightly Review, will dispel some...

well-to-do villager. Two persons enter, perfectly nude except for a narrow slip of sheepskin round the loins. The elder of the two is Baghir, proprietor of the place; the...

MR. GLADSTONE AND SCOTTISH CENTRIFUGALISM. [To ma Barron ow nro "ElpRozAroo."1 Bra,—Will you admit a remonstrance from a reader in Scotland against the terms in which you...

C ANON SCOTT HOLLAND, in the very vivid sketch which he gives of Jenny Lind in the new number of Murray's Magazine, dwells on her originality much, on her vividness more, but on...

I T is difficult for men who study history to read the discussion now raging on the progress of Islam in Africa without recurring to the old question—which so greatly interested...

[To THX EDITOR OF THE ”EIPSCTATOILl BIR,—I/ost authorities seem to agree that to make the Irish tenant-farmers owners of their land would be the best solution of the Irish...

THE MEETING OF TUESDAY. To Tar EDITOR OF THY SPECTATOR.") ha — In my mind, full of that marvellous gathering in the Leinster Hall last night to do honour to Lord Harlington and...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THE SPLCTAT08.1 SIR, -- In the Spectator of November 26th, when commenting on the state of Ireland, there is a statement made which is both incorrect and...

[TD Tax Zenon or rEr . 1314 , CT , T0101 SIR, —Nothing can be more conclusive than your exposure of Sir George Trevelyan's distortion of facts in consequence of his blinding...

[To THE EDITOR Or TES SFECTATOH."] SIR,--TO endorse what Mr. Hall said on this subject in your issue of November 26th, and to show that the rights of public meeting and the...

Sia,—Friends sometimes rush in where angels fear to tread. Referring to the letter in your issue of November 26th, it is manifestly unfair for a connection of Mrs. Spencer Bell...

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN OIL - COLOURS. [FIRST NOTICE.] TUE influence of the general depression in trade is very evident amongst the artists, both in the size of the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Yonr sanguine anticipations as to the result of the revival of the great beanstalk controversy received an instructive com- ment on the...

Sut,—It is doubtless a kind and chivalrous feeling that has in- duced Mr. Thomas Hodgkin to follow the example of Mrs. Lynn Linton in taking up the defence of the obstructors of...

CARMEN MYSTICUM. Dzsa Lord, since thou didst make the earth, Thou mad'st it not for grief, but mirth ; Therefore will I be glad. And let who will be sad. For if I load my life...

CHARLES DARWIN.. [SECOND NOTICE.] Ix answering one of Mr. Galton's anthropological circulars in 1874, Darwin wrote,—" My innate taste for natural history was strongly...

THESE two interesting volumes give us the best possible materials for the delineation of a group of friends who have exerted a better influence over the spiritual as well as the...

SOME thirty years ago, a revolution took place in the artistic world. A school arose which scorned to follow any one master, even Raphael himself, and preached the daring...

example of that foresight and rapidity which cannot always be displayed or realised-in warfare. Sir Garnet Wolseley sketched out on July 3rd the well-designed plan which he...

published an article under the above heading. On October 22nd a letter appeared from Mr. James O'Doherty, writing from Bunerana, challenging certain statements made in that...

[To ma Emma or ram . , 13rocraroo.1 Sin,—As my letter (the postscript to which you published), in which I endeavoured to answer fully the letter of the Duke of Argyll, was too...

independence.—En. Spectator.]

THE "SPECT770.:] your notices of new books on June 25th, you mention my book on the Georgian Jubilee, and an anonymous one published by Burapus. Though you give the palm to my...

[To ma EDITOR 07 TIM ..13.7.07■70‘...1 Sra,—The entire boating community—that is to say, the many thousands who escape from their work in London and other towns to enjoy pure...

[To um EDITOR 07 Sae " syscrArea. " 1 Stu,—The elections which have just gone against the Unionists are owing to three causes, which must be dealt with, or endless disaster will...

[To ma EDITOR 07 UDR •.EPROTATOR.'1 Ent,—Mr. Gladstone, in his speech to his American sympathisers, appears to exult in the possibility of the Unionists being put in a minority...

great pity that a book so excellent as Professor Brandl's Life of Coleridge should be disfigured and almost spoilt by teasing blunders of all sorts. First of all, what are we to...

THE serious magazines of the month are, we think, rather unusually devoid of interest for the ordinary reader. There are plenty of fair, if rather heavy essays ; but the supply...

is a very successful attempt to express, in the form of a diary, the moral experiences of a schoolboy of twelve. This boy, Harold Seymour, has a good genius in the person of...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Fiddler of Lagoa (Hatchards) is a good example of the well- known style of the author of "Mademoiselle Mori," although it errs in being far too long. Gods, the...

M. Ballautyne. (James Nisbet and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne's new volume consists of two stories, unequal in size and, it must be added, in merit. Rather curiously, too, the longer and...

Catherine Ray. (.Tames Nisbet and Co.)—This is a very pleasing story of modern Protestantism and persecution in the Tyrol—or, at least, of each Pro- testantism and persecution...

Christmas Cards, and their reproductions of one or two of the most famous of Raffaelle's Madonnas on Christmas cards is wonderfully successful and happy. The intoxicated mice,...

On Saturday, November 26th, at Fairfield. Glasnevin. near Dublin, Mary, the eldest daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Hutton, in the ninety.fifth year ether age.

Lauriston Condor. (E. Davy and Sons.)—This handsome volume contains a history of the Parish Church of Long Mefferd, as it was and as it is. The present edifice was completed...

Co.)— This, the first volume of the series, contains the biographies of Pro- fessor Tyndall, Wheatstone, and Morse. It would be difficult to select three greater examples than...

and Diaries, from Messrs. Cassell and Co. ; and also of some useful Calend Ars and Diaries from Messrs. Bemrose, of Derby (and of Old Bailey, London).

variety of Christmas and New Year's Cards, of all sixes, with scented millions, or embossed cards, and plain. There are Army and Navy cards, " cluotint modern" cards,—which we...

Edited by William Stephen. (Sampson Low and Co.)—If this Educational List is to be of any value, it mast be thoroughly remodelled. Oxford and Cambridge have less than a page...

Addams (F. H.), Hundred and Fifty Problems in Arithmetic, erg. (Addams) 3,6 Aloott (L. Id.), A Carlon] for Girls, co Ors (Mackie) 2/0 Aristotle's Ethics, Books i. to iv., and...

and Co.)—Mr. Bonwick divides his work into four parts,— " Sheep," "Wool," "Sheep and Wool in Australasia," and "Woollen Manufactures." All are interesting, but perhaps the most...

their various very useful Pocket - Books, Calendars, Desk Diaries, Condensed Diaries, 'ha. The pocketbooks are beautifully got up, and the condensed diaries for the...

GEORGE TINWORTH : A STUDY OF A SCULPTOR. blesses. Dourrox have lately employed their most gifted artist, Mr. George Tinworth, to procheze a gigantic terra-cotta panel, weighing...

pre THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR:1 Sca,—Yon appreciate good dogs. Let me introduce you to one, a bull-terrier, ugly, staunch, perfect in temper, trained by a poacher to...

JULY AT THE LeFFS. LEsS frequent now the corncrake thro' the night With harsh mechanic utterance speeds the hours, Scarce sleep the birds in never-darkened bowers, And ever...

adopted after my book had been registered. Your paper is the first (of the many which have noticed my book) which has not ignored the anonymous imitation, the only attempt at...

.Srsersros.1 &a, — When I wrote my little book on organisation and inherit- ance in character, I was not vain enough to suppose I should oonvert the Spectator and its staff. But...