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The public reconciliation of the German Emperor with Prince Bismarck
The Spectatortook place on Friday week at the Royal Palace in Berlin. The Prince was received by the Emperor like a crowned head, with the most honorific ceremonial, the Empress and all...
It is stated in a telegram from Cairo that as
The Spectatorsoon as Lord Cromer has recovered from the influenza, Abbas II. will pub- lish a new and fuller apology for his escapade. The first one is not accepted, as it has been followed...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE Pall Mall Gazette caused great sensation on Wednesday by announcing in its fourth edition that Mr. Gladstone had "fully decided to resign office almost immediately," and...
M. Lockroy, on Tuesday, brought forward in the Chamber the
The Spectatorindictment against the Navy, which he and M. ClemEnceau have carefully prepared. His grand points are that the French coast, and especially Cherbourg, are insufficiently...
The intrigues in the American House of Representatives against the
The SpectatorTariff Bill have not been very successful. The Home of Representatives on February 1st closed the debate, and voted the Bill by 203 to 140 votes,—a majority of 63. The Inland...
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Mr. Chamberlain was on Tuesday the principal guest at a.
The SpectatorHouse dinner of the Edgbaston Conservative Club, the Earl of Dudley in the chair. His speech was intended to emphasise his desire to assure the permanence of the- Unionist...
On Monday, the House of Lords considered the Commons' reasons
The Spectatorfor disagreeing with the Lords' amendments to the Employers' Liability Bill. The result of the debate was that the Lords insisted upon their chief amendment,—i.e., Lord Dudley's...
It seemed early in the week that the dreary civil
The Spectatorwar raging in the harbour of Rio might he brought to a close by the interference of the American Admiral Benham. Three American captains of traders applied to him to escort them...
We take the Secretary for War, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman to be
The Spectator"a serious politician ; " but it is evident that he can know very little of other serious politicians, for he told a meeting at Dunfermline on Wednesday, that "there is not a...
Mr. Chamberlain made an amusing speech this day week at
The Spectatorthe dinner of the Birmingham Silversmiths' Association. On the part which concerns the love of ornament, we have said enough in another column ; but may add here that he made...
On Monday, Mr. Chamberlain addressed a large meeting in the
The SpectatorTown Hall, Stourbridge. Though the earlier part of his speech was broken into by a number of noisy and irrelevant interrup- tions, he contrived to deal some very telling blows....
A statement is made in the Times' telegram from Wash-
The Spectatorington of the 1st inst. which can hardly be inaccurate, and, if true, is of some political importance. It is affirmed that Admiral Benham's instructions from the President...
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It appears from the accounts of the London County Council,
The Spectatoras verified by the auditor, that the Metropolitan Debt now amounts to 230,011,000, and was increased during the year by 21,200,000. The revenue for the fiscal year ending March...
The Socialists in the French Chamber have been indulging themselves
The Spectatorwith a violent scene. On Saturday M. Clovie-- Hugues protested against the recent arrest of Anarchists, and especially of M. Elisee Reclus, and during the discussion M. Chaudey,...
The Times of Monday gives some interesting facts as to
The Spectatorthe destruction of the Great Mosque at Damascus on October 14th last,—an event of which little has been heard owing to the action of the Turkish authorities. They regard it as a...
On Wednesday, the Harness prosecution, which has occu- pied Mr.
The SpectatorHannay at the Marlborough Street Police Court for a great number of days, ended in the discharge of the defendants. Mr. Hannay stopped the calling of witnesses for the defence,...
In the House of Lords on Thursday, the Local Government
The SpectatorBill was considered in Committee, and many amendments were passed, some probably that the Lords will insist upon, -others that they will not insist upon when the Commons dis-...
The Czar has been suffering from a severe attack of
The Spectatorinfluenza, aggravated by sligut pneumonia. On Sunday night, after he had been imprudently sitting in a window, the symptoms became so severe and the temperature so high that the...
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MR. CECIL RHODES.
The SpectatorI T is difficult to read a speech by Mr. Cecil Rhodes, when one receives it in extenso, without a feeling at once of admiration and distaste. The man is at once so great and so...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMR. GLADSTONE'S INDECISION. W E are not surprised at the political dismay which the indecision expressed in Mr. Gladstone's com- munication from Biarritz, through Sir Algernon...
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S UNIONISM.
The SpectatorM R. CHAMBERLAIN'S fine defence of his Unionism on Tuesday at Birmingham in his address at the house dinner of the Ed gbaston Conservative Club, might have been pitched even a...
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S "INGRATITUDE." T HE time has come to deal with
The Spectatorthe preposterous legend which represents Mr. Chamberlain as the most ungrateful of created beings because he ventures to oppose and. condemn Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy. The...
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A FRENCH PESSIMIST VIEW.
The SpectatorW E suppose it is to the advantage of Englishmen that they are so slow to accept the pessimist view of any subject in which they are keenly interested. They grumble and growl...
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CLERICS AND LAYMEN IN CONVOCATION. T HE proceedings of the Canterbury
The SpectatorHouse of Laymen on Tuesday, and those of the Lower House of Con- vocation on Wednesday, offer an accidental contrast of some interest We are not of those who wish to decry the...
SIR HERBERT MAXWELL ON BORES.
The SpectatorW HY does Sir Herbert Maxwell, in the Nineteenth Century, say with so singularly confident an air, "The bore has no place in primitive stages of society"? He cannot, we presume,...
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THE FUTURE OF THE JEWELLERY TRADE.
The SpectatorM R. CHAMBERLAIN was doubtless right on Saturday in reassuring the jewellers of Birmingham as to the prospects of their trade. There is little prospect of its dying away, except...
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"MODERN YOUNG MEN."
The SpectatorA LADY contributor to the Pall Mall Gazelle makes a complaint, in bright and rather bitter language, against the modern young man. Men are so used to look upon the other sex as...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Spectator"LINKS WITH THE PAST. " [To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—With regard to the anecdote recorded in the Spectator -of January 27th, there must surely have been some error...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE OLD SQUIRES. [To THE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTHE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We have noticed in the Spectator of January 27th an article entitled "The Disappearance of the Old Squires, " based apparently upon an announcement which...
THE CODE OF HONOUR AMONG WOMEN. [To THE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTHE " SPECTATOR."] should like to say a few words in reply to an article in the Spectator of January 13th. My paper on " Women ' s Sense of Honour " in Woman was necessarily...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1
The SpectatorStn,—I hare been much interested by your quotation of Lord Lovelace ' s memorandum of Lord Onslow ' s acquaintance with a man who had witnessed King Charles ' s execution. Xt...
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIBf.4 should like to
The Spectatorgive some parallels to the facts about Lady Sidmouth, mentioned in the Spectator of January 27th. (1.) I had the privilege of knowing a lady who lived in this parish till a...
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—With reference to " links
The Spectatorwith the past, " in the Spectator of January 27th, I give you a story, but do not vouch for its accuracy, though it was told me the other day by a person of good faith. A...
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"THE SHERBORNE REGISTER."
The SpectatorEro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of January 27th, I found a kindly notice of the "The Sherborne Register ; " there was one sentence of that notice,...
`IRE "PALL MALL'S" CORRESPONDENCE ON PATHOS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Yon will attribute it, I fear, to confusion of thought, but I cannot help asking whether you can be right in re- quiring hope as an...
POETRY.
The SpectatorSI VIS PACEM BELLUM PARA. I. Go forth into the gay and careless street, The Exahange, the Mart, and, with a tongue of fire,. Make proclamation, whomsoe'er ye meet, We are not...
CONTEMPTI PIMA. CONTEMNUNTUR VIRTITTES.
The SpectatorThere are who whisper to us to come down From our high place; and, 'mid our Christmas mirth, While at the feast still sate the spectre Dearth, The Cynic cried : "What profit in...
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ART.
The SpectatorTHE GRAFTON GALLERIES. THE managers of these Galleries have once more earned the thanks of the public by bringing together a liberally con- ceived exhibition of pictures. It...
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BOOKS.
The Spectator[Our attention has been called by the editors of the Pall Mall Magazine to an article which was published in our last impression, entitled "The Uprising against Napoleon in...
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MR. F.A.NSHAWE'S POEM.*
The SpectatorBy Iteginn'd Fanshawe. London: George Bel an) NO reader of this small volume, whether he be perplexed or delighted, can lay it down without a feeling of profound , respect for...
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THE ENGLISH RELIGIOUS DRAMA.* Tars latest contribution to the consideration
The Spectatorof the growth and spread of the English religious drama comes to us from America. In the words of the authoress, Miss (?) Katharine Lee Bates, "this little volume embodies a,...
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S LETTERS.* SIR WALTER SCOTT'S familiar letters are
The Spectatorrather like a new visit from a very old friend, which brings back the familiar features of his frank and unaffected character in all their force and charm, than a new book. The...
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THE BALLAD-POETRY OF SOUTHERN SPAIN.* " GrvE me the making
The Spectatorof a nation's ballads, and let who will make their laws," was the maxim of Fletcher, of Saltoun, a learned and high-principled patriot, though a crotchety and unpractical...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorNONE of the half-crown magazines contain any startling article this month. They suffer, we fancy, like newspapers, from the general dullness of the times, and also, in a more...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorTranslations of the English Goethe Society, 1891-92. (David Nutt.) —After passing through a period of temporary obscuration, the English Goethe Society has rallied its forces,...
Diana Tempest. By Mary Cholmondeley. 3 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—This
The Spectatoris a very cleverly written and interesting novel. The fact on which the plot turns is of a painful kind,—an adapta- tion, under different circumstances, of the "Lord Ronald and...
Gospel and the Revelation is established. The annotation is of
The Spectatorthe kind to which we are accustomed in Mr. Sadler's work ; its value lies in the practical rather than in the critical element. From this point of view, this new volume will be...
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The Clergy List, 1894. (Kelly and Co.)—This "Clerical Guide and
The SpectatorEcclesiastical Directory" is arranged in the way that has been followed now for some years past, and needs no recommenda- tion to our readers. But the proprietors claim to have...
