4 APRIL 1896

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The latest intelligence from South Africa, published on Friday morning,

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and extending to April 2nd, is more favourable as to the chance of suppressing the Matabele revolt. Its general drift is that Buluwayo is safe, that all South Africa has woke...

We have space only to mention a few principal features

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of Sir John Gorses measure. He gave the most convincing evidence that in the poorer country Board-schools the instruction is very inadequate and that the teachers are very...

Sir John Gorst introduced the Education Bill of the Government

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on Tuesday afternoon in a very able speech, of which the introductory part, before he got to his account of the new measure, was singularly interesting. He told the House that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A S we expected, the Matabele revolt proves to be a serious affair. The whole tribe would appear to be in arms, headed by seven hundred black policemen, who were levied and...

Mr. Acland's criticism was more or less held in reserve,

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though he spoke of the measure as a great upheaval of the existing system, and expressed very frankly his dislike to what he called the virtual abolition of the Cowper-Temple...

IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, Apra 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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When Mr. Balfour moved, on Monday, that the House of

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Commons should meet at noon on Tuesday to bear Sir J. Gorst introduce the Education Bill, and that it should on its rising on Tuesday adjourn to Thursday, April 9th, a great...

Paris was excited on Sunday by the news that M.

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Berthelot, the chemist recently appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, had resigned, and by a hundred explanations of that event. The official account is that some of M....

The revenue returns for the past financial year are extra-

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ordinary. The total sum paid into the Imperial Exchequer is £101,973,829, to which must be added the sum paid to the Local Taxation account, which is 27,366,117, making...

There is much discussion whether this incident is favour- able

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or not to this country, it being reported on one side that M. Bourgeois will take a " firmer " tone, and on the other that he regards the position of Great Britain with a...

The troublesome little affair of the Duke of Cambridge's pension

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has ended. The pension would have been voted to anybody else who had served in such a capacity for forty years—indeed, it is less by 2200 a year than the Duke would have been...

Lord Rosebery on Saturday last made a speech at a

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breakfast given at Huddersfield to the Liberal agents and secretaries of the various Liberal organisations, on the subject of the peerages he had bestowed on two Members of the...

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If the Guardians of the Gloucester Union were to be

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indicted for manslaughter, no one could object on the ground of injustice. For some ten years, according to the Times, they have neglected to carry out compulsory vaccination in...

The Italian position on the Red Sea has become much

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easier. The siege of Kassala has not been raised in the technical sense, for Arabs are still attacking the fortress, but their ablest leader, Osman Digna, has started for Suakin...

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The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race was rowed last Saturday in

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tempestuous weather. The race, which was won by Oxford, was a most exciting one. Cambridge led almost for the whole distance, but towards the end of the course Oxford crept up...

The Report of the Departmental Committee, appointed to report on

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the condition of Poor-law schools, was published on Thursday. The Committee consisted of experts like Mr. Mundella, Mr. Lynlph Stanley, Sir J. Gorat, and the Rev. Brooke...

Mr. Gladstone on Saturday last assisted at the opening of

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the new line across the Wirral Peninsula, which not only shortens the journey between North Wales and Lancashire, but opens up a country hitherto untouched by the railways. At...

On Friday week, during the debate on the vote on

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account, Mr. J. A. Pease drew attention to the abominable system of slavery allowed by us in Zanzibar and Pemba. Mr. Curzon, in reply, declared that the Government had been...

The scope of the little war in the Soudan is

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widening. According to the latest accounts Osman Digna, with fifteen thonsandlighting men, has arrived within thirty miles of Suakin, and is threatening that port and Tokar. At...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (4) were on Thursday, 109I.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE EDUCATION BILL. O F course it is impossible as yet to gauge the effect of all the great changes which Sir John Gorst's Education Bill offers us. The provisions of the Bill...

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OUR TWO LITTLE WARS. T HE old tendency of the English

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towards little wars is developing itself again. We have but just finished an expensive little war in the Northern Himalaya, and a cheap little war in Asbantee, and we are...

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MR. BALFOUR AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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M R. BALFOUR'S only fault in leading the House is that he is somewhat too unconventional. Last Monday, for instance, when the Opposition, and some two, at least, of his own...

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THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE. T HERE is a weak place in the

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Franco-Russian Alliance which the publicists who discuss it often forget, but which has in the last ten days given rise to an important incident. The two parties to the...

THE REVENUE RETURNS. T HE total revenue of the United Kingdom

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for the year ending March 31st, 1896, was £109,339,946. At first sight these are undoubtedly figures to be proud of. That the sum is enormous is in itself nothing. It might be...

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THE POLICY OF WORRY.

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W E wish some old and highly experienced diplomatist of the first-class would tell the world whether in his time the great Governments were as ill-natured as they are now. We...

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" THE RATES."

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isn't the 'ackin' or 'untin' as does it. It's the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard 'igh road." So the " vet." in Leech's immortal picture explains the break-down of the "...

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A DREAMY SPECULATION.

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C APTAIN F. YOUNGHUSBAND ends the remarkable book of travel in unexplored regions which he calls " The Heart of a Continent"* with a chapter of rather dreamy speculations,...

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PROFESSIONAL SECRECY.

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I T can hardly he doubted that the jury which gave such almost unexampled damages in the great libel trial of last week, intended that they should be understood less as the...

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OVER-EQUIPPED ANIMALS.

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A LECTURE recently given at the Royal Institution by Dr. Fraser on the medical treatment of the bite of venomous serpents fully confirms the popular estimate of the deadly...

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR.

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"HUMAN DOCUMENTS." [To TIM EDITOR OP TRY SPECTATOR."' SIR,—You have honoured me with so powerful a destructive criticism of my " Human Documents," in the Spectator of March...

BOOKS.

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MARY ANDERSON'S "MEMORIES." • THIS is a lively and unaffected book, which errs only in finding a motive for its appearance, which, though very likely one of the motives, we can...

NANSEN.

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Fain is the Sword, a weapon of delight ! But fairest when the flashing blade obeys A practised hand, an arm of giant might: Swift as-a meteor flaming through the night, With...

POETRY.

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Noir semper imbres nubibus hispidos Mutant in agros aut mare Cas- ium Vexant inaequales procellae Usque, nec Armeniis in oris, Arnica Valgi, stat glades iners Menses per omnes...

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MORE RECOLLECTIONS OF PARIS.*

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Astoria the many chroniclers of the stirring history of the French capital during the eventful times of the new Republic, Captain Bingham certainly deserves a favourite's place....

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MR. FROUDE ON THE COUNCIL OF TRENT.* IN this volume

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of Lectures we have Mr. Fronde, not indeed at his best, but by no means at his worst. It is in some ways a particularly characteristic production. As habits and mannerisms often...

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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THERE is something more than the mere touch of the vanished hand that wrote The Scarlet Letter in Illumination, which, as a close though not too morbidly psychological study of...

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THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.*

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IT is impossible to say anything of this work except in the way of praise. Lord Lilford writes like a man who has devoted a large portion of his life to the study of birds, and...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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Mn. E. J. Mixon's articles on foreign politics, one of which he contributes to the Contemporary Review this month, leave on us the impression of exceedingly clever shallowness....

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The Christ upon the Hill. A Ballad by Cosmo Monkhouse.

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(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—It is not at all a reflection upon Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse, who has essayed with great daring and a con- siderable amount of success, to deal in " ballad"...

The Teaching of Jesus. By R. F. Horton, D.D. (Isbister

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and Co.)— This book, without being quite so new or so important as Dr. Horton seems to think, is a decidedly good one. It is practically an effort to go back from Christendom to...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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A Memoir of Mrs. Augustus Craven (Pauline de la Ferronays), with Extracts from her Diaries and Correspondence. By Marie Catherine Bishop. Third Edition, in 1 vol. (Richard...

Episcopal Palaces of England. By Edmund Venables and Others. (Isbister

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and Co.)—This volume is, we suppose, the last for which we shall- have to thank the learning and taste of the late Canon Venables. Of the eleven Bishops' palaces here described,...

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Some Passages in the Life of Plantagenet Paul. By Himself.

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(Digby, Long, and Co.)—There is a want of finish, an inconse- quence, about these reminiscences which seem to show that they are fairly faithful transcripts from life. The...

Cruising Among the Caribbees. By C. A. Stoddart. (Kegan Paul,

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Trench, Trabner, and Co.) — The author of this little book of travel seems to have been a member of an American tourist party,—an institution with which Mark Twain's book, " The...