a very grave statement about Russian rela- tions with China. It is informed from St. Petersburg that the Russian Asiatic Department will not be a party to the English plan of...

all that is required in that way ; but at Osnabruck on Sunday he spoke at a breakfast given by the Magistracy. "The anxiety," he said, "as to whether the present situation could...

September 30th. Ever since the death of his mistress, Madame Bonnemain, who for several years had devoted to him herself and her considerable fortune, he had lived a depressed...

but we wish to point out here that even since his death no one has seemed able to state what his political opinions were. He never, that we can recollect, professed any, except...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 10th, trill be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

M RIBOT, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, made • on Sunday an important speech at Bapaume, where he was unveiling a statue to General Faidherbe. It had taken twenty years,...

case.

politics, on the ground of ill-health, at the compatively early age for politics of sixty-four. He has agreed, at the request of his constituents, to sit for South Edinburgh...

from the Throne, the "honourable gentlemen of the Senate and gentlemen of the House of Commons" were informed by Lord Stanley, that the negotiations in regard to Behring Sea,...

Thursday, amidst great party enthusiasm. Its. proceedings are not of much importance until Mr. Gladstone has spoken, for should he deride Home-rule, the Federation will take Mr....

Mr. Gladstone, dated September 29th, in which the writer declares that until there has been "a reasonable settlement of the Irish Question," there can be "no effectual...

try the enormous experiment of a conscription in their African possessions. No European Power has done this yet, but the German system of government provokes armed resistance,...

Secretary for Foreign Affairs, vacated by Sir James Fer- gusson's appointment to the Post Office, had been given to Mr. James William Lowther, M.P. for the Penrith Division of...

forth the record of the present Government with great clearness and ability. They have added seventy-two new vessels to the Navy ; they have reduced the capital of the National...

rapidly. On Tuesday, the Ince section of the Ship Canal was opened to traffic, and there are, therefore, now no less than eleven miles of artificial water-way, or one-third of...

- thinks, when speaking, that he is addressing a jury or a com- mittee, with whom every statement tells if it is not exposed before the verdict is given. Under this impression,...

Congress, delivered on Thursday an address in which one suggestion in particular interests us exceedingly. He maintains not only that there was a stock of folk-lore or popular...

to which interference with personal liberty is carried in Prussia. A joiner wanted to call his daughter Lassalline Bebeline, after Lassalle and Bebel, the Socialists. The...

-spondent," intended by the writer to frighten the public into supporting the demand of the British East Africa Company for help in constructing a railway from the coast to Lake...

perfected. The Times of Tuesday describes it as a dial fixed inside the cab, on which the number of revolutions made by the wheel are expressed in miles. No doubt the invention,...

New Consols (2f) - were on Friday 941 to 94.

- V ERY little that is done in the Foreign Office just now comes before the public. The Foreign Secretary is also Premier, with a strong hold over his Cabinet ; he sits in the...

THE THREAT TO MR. MORLEY. M R. MORLEY'S honesty and plain speaking in the matter of the Eight-Hours question has not passed unnoticed among the leaders of the Socialists. His...

is not an event of importance, for, politically, the man had been dead fot at least two years. His followers did not care that he was living openly, and even boastfully, in...

I F the "Sovereigns and statesmen" of Europe actually govern, as Lord Beaconsfield thought they did, there must be peace in Europe for some years. They rise one after another,...

W E wish that all advocates of Disestablishment were as moderate and reasonable as Mr. G-oldwin Smith. His article in the Nineteenth Century has not convinced us, for reasons...

T HE real interest of the great political picnic which began at Newcastle on Friday, centres in Mr. Glad- stone's speech. Till he has spoken, no one can tell in what particular...

W E had thought that the cult of the pretty simpleton had died away, like the cult of " sensibility " which distinguished Miss Austen's time, and with it the fear of the pretty...

T HE correspondent who has been watching the French Autumn Mancenvres for the Times, betrays, in one of his letters, a habit of thought which belongs to many Englishmen of the...

I T is yet a moot question whether the bore is made, or whether he is born,—whether, that is to say, he is des- tined from his birth upwards to be the scourge of his fellow-...

I N making trial, with the aid of a skilled musician, of the effect of sweet sounds on animal ears, we knew that there was good reason to doubt whether Orpheus himself might not...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " EIPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In your article on "Accidental Conversation," in the Spectator of September 26th, you give a "distinct denial" the proposition that...

MR. GOLD WIN SMITH AND THE JEWS. [TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on "Mr. Goldwin Smith and the Jews," you blame the Jew for his "exorbitant terms" and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Srn,—Through absence from home, I have only this week -observed Miss Tod's answer to your article on "Women under an Agnostic Regime," and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Allow me to correct a mistake of your correspondent, -" J. P. K.," in your issue of September 26th. He doubtless refers to the case of...

AN AUTUMN FLITTING. Mr roof is hardly picturesque— It lacks the pleasant reddish brown Of the tiled house-tops out of town, And cannot even hope to match The modest beauty of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • SIR,—The word " glede " may be found in the old English ballad of "Chevy Chace." Describing "the Douglas," it says :— "His armour...

M. RENAN'S "ISRAEL."* IT is not easy to ascertain distinctly M. Renan's standpoint, but it evidently lies somewhere between a very vague pan- theism and atheism. It is true that...

by Miss Wilkins, should prove of interest to English readers, if it were only for the reason that it affords a fuller illustration of that American village life of which they...

THE title of the first book on our list is, we must confess, not altogether to our taste. That our Lord grew in wisdom as he grew in stature, is as much an article of faith with...

of Great Artists" essay to give the general English reader compendious accounts of the life and work of celebrated painters. The results in a series of the kind are bound to be...

volume of his mighty History of the Church of England, has displayed the same industry and patience in accumulation of materials as in his earlier volumes. But 737 pages devoted...

THE object aimed at, and successfully achieved, in M. de Broc's last book, is to make a true and realistic picture of the state of France during the Revolution—that is to say,...

edited by G. Gregory Smith. (D. Nutt.)—The work done for English history is now being extended to the annalists of the Northern Kingdom. We have the actual narrative of con-...

Social Evolution. By Philip Delbert. Edited by Frederick Wingfield. (Eden, Remington, and Co.)—M. Delbert thinks that if we know the past and the present of society, we ought to...

Co.)—Mr. Winn begins by classifying boats (a " boat " proper means a craft that can be drawn up on the beach, but the term is extended to almost everything that floats). He...

tions" (G. Philip and Son), which began with "John Davis," we have to notice two volumes, Ferdinand Magellan, by F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., and Sir John Franklin, by Captain...

R. Heatley, M.A. (Percival and Co.)—Mr. Heatley adds some notes, which he has made very brief. In viii., sec. 10, he takes, we see, the participles Aiivra Kai Savaltkovra as...

Co.)—Sir William Roberts approaches the subject from the scientific point of view, though he does not fail to make Isis work useful by drawing practical conclusions. One of his...