plaining that he had no objection at all to Lord Randolph Churchill's political menu, but that all the same he should refuse to say grace till the dish-covers were removed, and...

meeting in the Corn Exchange, and his address was perhaps more remarkable for what he did not say than for what he did. He made no allusion to the victory over his former...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the " SPECT ATOR" SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENTS, the outside pages of which will be devoted-to Advertisements. The Twentieth...

account of the effect of this (somewhat tardy) interference of the Government in his own ease, in a letter headed "Cause and Effect." On the previous Friday, he says, his agent...

up Lord Randolph Churchill's inconsistency in first promising "simul- taneous" reforms in local government for England, Scotland, and Ireland, and then declaring that, as...

Y E S TE RD A Y week, the Government served a notice on Mr. Dillon at Ballaghadereen, in the County of Sligo, requiring him to find sufficient sureties to be of good behaviour...

at some length for the position that to give Ireland a separate Legis- lature, and yet not to give her a separate Executive dependent on that Legislature, would be to mock her...

Walsh) on the new plan of campaign, and, if we may trust the accuracy of the report in Wednesday's Pall Mall of the inter- view,—which we hope that his Grace will...

not be allowed to rejoin his appointment as Russian Mili- tary Attaché at Vienna. It will be remembered that Count Kalnoky spoke of his " mission " with quite unusual...

has left the Principality a free and orderly country. The want of a Prince, though probably felt in the Army, does not weaken the Administration, which is quietly, and to all...

after made a widely different speech. He announced that the Government had seen with regret the deposition of Prince Alexander, "a Prince worthy of a better fate," and that it...

Saturday, in the French Chamber, explained his foreign policy. France, he said, needs peace in order to complete the transition from a Monarchical to a Republican state of...

conception of the obligations of tenants in Ireland at the, present time is this,—that the law of 1881 broke up finally the landlord's sole right of ownership in the land;...

bands are being rapidly hunted down, and as they turn and fight, their leaders are generally killed. These once discouraged, General Roberts, who prefers civil administration to...

trials are beginning to fill in our social system. This week, London has been flooded with suggestive reports of the divorce snit instituted by Lord Colin Campbell against his...

of London, waited on the Home Secretary on Thursday to press on him the creation of a central Municipality for the whole Metropolis. Mr. Matthews, after quizzing them rather...

the Victoria Docks. The boat, invented by Mr. A. Campbell, and built by Messrs. Fletcher, Son, and Fearnall, of Limehouse, is of steel, cigar-shaped, 60 ft. long, 8 ft. broad,...

Consols were on Friday 100i to 100axd.

is, the employers of dynamite—have, it is said, dismissed O'Donovan Rossa from his leadership, and promoted Dr. Hamilton Williams thereto. The latter is said to be an able...

East- End Palace during the Sundays, except at certain hours, was a very wise, and even necessary one. Hal they decided otherwise, half the sympathy which the wish to brighten...

specimens of the ominous threats launched by the Press against the Munster jurors who are to try the Kerry moonlighters apprehended by General Redvers Buller, and asks very...

statue to the Dorset poet, the Rev. W. Barnes, and to devote the residue of the fund raised for this purpose to the establishment of a Barnes Exhibition, tenable at the...

M. DE FREYCINET UPON EGYPT. W E distrust M. de Freycinet. He talks civilly enough in the Chamber, but there is every reason to believe that he talks in order to conceal part of...

M R. JOHN MORLEY, in his speech at Hawick, expresses himself as very anxious to combine with any reasonable party to improve the condition of Ireland. But he avoids, both at...

I - 4 0RD SELBORNE'S new book, and the letter to Mr. Gladstone which accompanies it, will no doubt exert a very considerable influence on the discussions which are pretty sure...

O NE of the most remarkable phenomena attending the struggle for Home-rule is the intensity of the faith which the project has developed in a considerable number of English-...

W E smile at Americans for dwelling on the." magnetic." qualities of their candidates for office (Mr. Blaine, for example, is described as the most " magnetic " man in America),...

T IBERALS who have scoffed at Lord Randolph Churchill in his character of Grand Educator of the Conservative Party, and have predicted his speedy rejection by the party he...

"G REAT cases" are becoming great public nuisances, and ought to be stamped out. Ever since the Tichborne trial—which ought to have been finished in a week, and was allowed to...

M R. LILLY'S eloquent and impressive paper in the November Fortnightly, on "Materialism and Morality," in which, while confessing that Professor Huxley does not accept the name...

MR. JOHN MORLEY AND THE ACT OF UNION. Cr0 THE EDIT013 OF THE " BYECT/T011."] Sia,—Anything that Mr. Morley has said about the Union of Ireland with Great Britain is likely to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In the remarks appended to Mr. Mozley's letter on the John Lucas Walker studentship, you express the belief that "patho- logical...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—The same day I read your article and Mr. Reaney's letter, I came across the following passage from Lord Shaftesbury's journals ("...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I am sorry that my inability to express myself clearly should have led you to think that I evaded your point. I quite meant to meet...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."_1 SIE, — Your notice, on November 20th, of the opening of an -orphan asylum for the teaching of handicrafts, has no doubt awakened...

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN OIL-COLOURS. [FIRST NOTICE.] Tax present exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Oil-Colours is remarkable chiefly for the average merit of...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the last return published by Sir Charles Warren of the dogs destroyed in the streets of London, supposed to be suffering from...

CANNIBALS AND CONVICTS IN MELANESIA.* Tins is emphatically a smartly written book. The author makes no attempt at any kind of "word-painting," and is- content to describe...

at least of the prime requisites of a novelist. His object, from the first chapter to the last, is to tell his story. He does not trouble the reader with wearisome reflections...

LET Socialists say what they will, and the" unco' guid "denounce wealth as they may, the greater part of civilised mankind will always like to be rich, and take a warm interest...

Tins amusing book is to some extent a counterblast to the Colonial " blow " which Mr. Anthony Trollope was the first to make us understand as a manifestation of Australian...

IT is a poor number of the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Justice Stephen gives us a good plan for the treatment of boycotting, which is, briefly, to punish it as conspiracy whenever...

provoking book, we shall take it for granted that "Maxwell Gray" is the real name of its author, that that author is a man and not a woman, and that this is his first effort in...

foreigner who observes our habits, our dwellings, and our country generally, is always welcome, especially so when he is interpreted to us by a translator who knows how to...

GIFT BOOKS, Exc. Messrs. Macmillan send us a beautiful little edition of Lord Tenny. son's Poems, in ten small volumes, in a box. The type and paper are perfection, the former...

Low and Co.)—Fifteen of the essays, the best, if we may presume to make the distinction, anyhow the best-known, are plentifully illus. trated in this volume by Mr. Murray's...

is a story of a strongly religions tendency, exhibiting the way in which a. man, himself without belief, is brought to a recognition of the truths which he had been accustomed...

to Now. By Jane Andrews. (Mackie and Son.)—Miss Andrews begins with "Sabin, the Aryan boy who came down to the plains of the Indus," and so takes us through Persia, Greece,...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—In spite of some affectation—for we cannot believe that. schoolboys ever talk in the way in which Frederick Jackineon opens his narrative—this...

and Co.)—A simply told story of the career of a young Christian soldier, one who does his duty first by giving up his desire for the soldier's life when other things seemed to...

Nelson and Sons.)—This book is a kind of miscellany, an account of how some young people amused themselves, or were amused by their elders, during the holidays ; stories from...

same publishers we have also The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories, 1887.—Quick March, by "An Old Soldier" (F. Warne and Co.), is a volume of rhymes, with coloured...

are generally satisfactory, both in point of writing and illustra- tion. A Soldier's Son, written by Miss E. Strickland, revised by Philip H. Hemyng, is a story of school life,...

the old favourites,—" Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts," and the rest, some two hundred in number ; the illustra- tions are, we suppose, new, and certainly good. There is...

(Warne and Co.), have all merits of their own. We are inclined to give the preference among them to The Outpost : a Tale of the Backwoods, by R. Andi é. The scene is laid on...

E. Wynne. (Cassell and Co.)—This story is laid in the time of Hadrian. The character of this Emperor, his many great qualities, marred as they were by a certain...

is a story of school life in which the familiar incident of the stolen essay and the wrongful accusation plays an important part. Familiar we call it ; but it belongs, we fancy,...

in the Region of Icebergs (S.P.C.K.), a muituns in parvo of 121 pages on Newfoundland. The author, the Rev. F. E. J. Lloyd, was appointed in 1882 to the Mission of the Strait of...

This is a story of domestic life, the " secrets " being surprises which a family of children prepare against the return of their mother, and other things less agreeable. The...

this volume has collected a great variety of subjects belonging to all times and places, from Hegistrates of Elea, who cut off half his foot to escape from the Spartan stocks,...

usual, full of verses, charades, enigmas, and the like, sometimes good, sometimes indifferent, but always intended to wile away a heavy hour. The illustrations are, we think,...

" Chambers's Miscellany," are six in number :—" The British Conquest of India," "Story of the Indian Mutiny," "France : its Revolutions and Misfortunes," "The Crusaders," "The...