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Mr. Morley's speech in accepting the freedom of the City
The Spectatorof Dublin, dwelt a good deal on the Lord Mayor's remark that the mass of Irishmen are not Separatists; but no one supposes that they are, so long as they perceive clearly that...
The speeches of Lord Ripon and Mr. Morley were good
The Spectatorof their kind,—good, that is, as speeches of convinced Home- rulers. Lord Ripon, in accepting the freedom of the City of Dublin, and remarking on the great rareness of that...
The Vienna correspondent of the Times believes, upon infor- mation
The Spectatorfrom Berlin, that the Russian Government has almost succeeded in arranging with some French bankers for a loan of 300,000,000 roubles, or, say, 223,000,000. The Rothschilds...
Considerable interest has been taken this week by Parisians in
The Spectatora sort of formal reconciliation between the Russian Govern- ment and M. Floquet, now President of the Chamber. M. Floquet, who is a Radical of the Clemenceau stripe, has...
• In his evening speech, Mr. Morley repudiated Mr. Davitt's
The SpectatorSocialist views, and anticipated that, an Irish Parliament once established, and the Irish peasantry once made freeholders, property would be as safe in Ireland as in France....
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorM R. MORLEY and the Marquis of Ripon have visited Dublin this week, and have been received with an en- thusiasm which has been carefully stimulated as a counterblast to the...
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A controversy has been got up in the Times as
The Spectatorto the reason why a Home-rule conversazione in Dublin was substituted for a Home-rule dinner, and the reason given by the Home Secretary and others was that at a dinner the...
Mr. Goschen's address as Lord Rector of the University of
The SpectatorAberdeen was delivered on Tuesday, and was singularly in- teresting. The Chancellor of the Exchequer pleaded for carrying the intellectual temper not only into all studies, but...
On Tuesday, just one day before the Nationalist demonstra- tion
The Spectatorin Dublin, the morality of the movement was once more dreadfully illustrated. Two brothers, named Fitzmaurice, held a small farm near Listowel, in Kerry. They were evicted, but...
The Scotsman of last Monday published a remarkable report from
The Spectatorfour Edinburgh Liberal Unionists who went over to Ireland to judge the question for themselves, and who say :— "We made it one condition of going to Ireland that our hands...
Mr. W. H. Smith made a useful and sagacious speech
The Spectatoron Monday night to the Chelsea Conservative Club. The Govern- ment proposed, he said, to ask the House of Commons to con- duct its business in reasonable hours, and to end its...
Mr. Goschen also maintained that Sc3tland does not need the
The Spectatorlesson he was enforcing half as much as England. The Scotch education is from the first more "rousing." Youthful dialectics began in Scotland at an earlier age than in England....
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It is said that the relentless prosecutor of Mr. Bell
The SpectatorCox intends to apply to Lord Penzance, giving evidence of the con- tinuation of the ritualistic practices which have been condemned, and thus to obtain an order for his...
The Times is a little unjust on one point to
The SpectatorCardinal Manning's political economy. His Eminence only said that profit was not always spent in reproductive work, which is perfectly true. Suppose the profit-maker buys...
Another examination has been made of the Crown Prince's throat,
The Spectatorfollowed by the usual crop of contradictory telegrams, according to many of which the Prince is rapidly recovering. The following is, however, the official bulletin signed on...
The German Government has just brought in a Bill lengthening
The Spectatorthe duration of Parliaments from three years to five. The Bill is supported by the Conservatives of all sections, who argue that, under the present system, one year is lost in...
Mr. Herbert Gladstone, in a speech to his constituents at
The SpectatorLeeds, delivered yesterday week, remarked on an element in recent Conservative speeches which to us seems quite invisible, "an expectation of defeat,"—and said that as the...
An important deputation, including men like Cardinal Manning, the Bishop
The Spectatorof Bedford, Lord Herschell, Lord Comp- ton, ;lad many noted philanthropists and leaders of Trade Societies, waited on Wednesday on the Premier, to press on him an inquiry into...
We regret to notice the death of Mr. Edward Lear
The Spectatorat San Remo last Sunday, at an advanced age. He is best known in England by the admirable "Book of Nonsense," which is as great a favourite with grown-up children as with those...
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HERR TISZA'S SPEECH.
The SpectatorJ T is most characteristic of Englishmen to have considered the speech of the Hungarian Premier as, on the whole, tending to peace. The Stock Exchange, on reading it, actually...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE HOME-RULE DEMONSTRATION IN DUBLIN. N O candid man will deny that the people of Dahlia have done all that they could do, short of singing "God Save the Queen," or cheering...
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PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE SOCIAL DANGER.
The Spectatorp ROFESSOR HUXLEY, in his essay in the Nineteenth Century on "The Struggle for Existence," wishes to alarm us all, and, we doubt not, will succeed in alarming a great many, and...
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MR. GOSCHEN AT ABERDEEN.
The SpectatorM R. GOSCHEITS speech at Aberdeen was nothing if not "rousing." And as no education is what it ought to be, according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, unless it be rousing,...
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MR. MOBLEY AND IRISH CATHOLICS.
The SpectatorT HE Times of Monday contained a letter, signed " Catho- lions," and dated from Dublin, which states with great force and clearness a view of Irish politics which is not common...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND THE RIVAL SCHEMES.
The SpectatorT HE elaborate communications to the Times, and the original articles which the Times has itself published, on the subject of the so-called Teaching University for London, have...
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MR. TRAILL ON THE SENSE OF HUMOUR.
The SpectatorW E are surprised to see in Mr. Traill's interesting paper in the Fortnightly for February, on "The Evolution of Humour," that he revives the old view of Hobbes that laughter...
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MR. EDWARD RUSSELL ON ART CRITICISM.
The Spectator'11HE popularisation of Art criticism and knowledge was the subject chosen by Mr. Edward Russell for his address at the distribution of prizes at the Liverpool School of Art on...
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THE LILIES OF THE FIELD.
The SpectatorI T seems to us that, in spite of the incessant discussion of the topic, the true argument for work and the true apology for idleness are almost constantly missed. It is assumed...
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EXCEPTIONAL SENSES.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH."] SIR,—I do not think instances of the survival of exceptional faculties in man are as utterly unknown as you say. I know a bright, placid,...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorMR. S. SMITH, M.P., AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTITOli."] SIB,—My attention has been called to a reference to myself in your article on "Technical...
THE SPIRIT OF DISRUPTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — In your issue of January 28th, you quote a story, told at Oxford by the Warden of Merton, of a Free Church minister who once offered...
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ART.
The SpectatorTHE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] ON the whole, the impression given by a second visit to this collection substantiates our first estimate. Despite many short- comings,...
THE REV. W. WHISTLER.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of January 28th, I notice a racy story about the Rev. W. Whistler, once Rector of Hastings. May I match it by another...
RICHARD CRASHAW.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") STR,—A propos of your interesting review of Mr. Tutin's selected poems of Crashaw, will you permit me to remark that Crashaw is not really so...
POETRY.
The SpectatorENGLAND TO IRELAND. SPOUSE whom my sword in the olden time won me, Winning me hatred more sharp than a sword— Mother of children who hiss at or shun me, Curse or revile me, and...
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'BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. AUBREY DE VERE'S ESSAYS.* Mn. AUBREY DE VERB is a charming essayist. If his writing is not marked by that unity of purpose, by that desire of the critic to keep his eye...
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THE GREAT SEALS OF ENGLAND.* CONSIDERING that some member of
The Spectatorthe Wyon family has filled the post of "Chief Engraver of her [or hisi Majesty's Seals" during the greater part of the century, it is not surprising that one of the series of...
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JOHANNES BRAHMS.*
The SpectatorTHE publication in an English dress of Dr. Deiters's interesting study of Brahms, will, we fear, be regarded as little less than an affront by a large section of our native...
TWO NOVELS.*
The Spectator"I DAVE never seen a novel in which there was so much to read," was the verdict pronounced on Paul Pato"' by an unpro- fessional critic whose opinion the present writer has...
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M. RECLUS ON EARTH AND OCEAN.* WE cannot pretend to
The Spectatorbe able to estimate the scientific value of these truly wonderful and delightful volumes. Nor, fortunately, is it necessary to do so. In the scientific world, they are already...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTHE Contemporary begins with a strongly written statement of the comparative progress of Mahommedanism and Christianity in India, the writer's conclusion being that India will...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorIt is really remarkable how the editor of Temple Bar manages to keep up with the time in its demand for fiction without neglecting the interests of his original clientele that...
annuals. Yet it contains a great deal of entertaining as
The Spectatorwell as of instructive reading; and some of the lighter articles—such as "New Old Maids" and "Anglo-Indian Boys "—may be read with more pleasure when they are seen in the yearly...
a rather well-worn topic treated in a somewhat fresh style.
The SpectatorThe writer seems to be a Scotchman who has settled in the United States as a Presbyterian minister. These sketches were originally addressed to the students of Yale Theological...
As we had occasion to note some falling-off in St.
The SpectatorNicholas during 1887, it 113 both a duty and a pleasure to chronicle a decided recovery in 1888,—at all events, if the year may be judged by the February number. There is...
Cassell's Family Magazine has so decidedly a character and a
The Spectatorconstituency of its own, that all one needs to consider when a new number appears, is whether the character is sustained in such a way as to satisfy the constituency. This may,...
John Bull's Army, from a French Point of View. By
The SpectatorHector France. (Whittaker and Co.)—M. Hector France quotes on his second page the well-known saying of General %gem:0 :—" The British infantry is the most redoubtable in Europe....
Memoirs of the Princesse de Ligne. Edited by L. Perey.
The SpectatorTrans- kited by Laura Ensor. (Bentley and Son.)—This is, on the whole, a readable translation of a very delightful book ; but we fear that we cannot say much for the...
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The County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire. By James Croston.
The Spectator(J. Heywood, Manchester and London.)—" The Palatine Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire," says Mr. Croston, "have been aptly described as seed-plots of gentility.'" Of some of...
EltRATIIM.—In the review of the "Dictionary of Christian Biography," the
The Spectatorarticle on "St. Athanasins " was attributed by mistake to Canon Yenables. It is the work of Canon Bright, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford.
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. OUTSIDE PAGE, TWELVE GUINEAS,
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DEATH.
The SpectatorOn the 1st inst., at 37 Ridge Road, Hornsey, N. (the residence of her daughter, Miss Mary E. Johnson), Mrs. Mary Edwards, late of New Barnet, in her 75th year, deeply regretted.
