Tuesday from a sharp attack of pneumonia, may prove to have some political importance. The deceased lady, though she failed to prevent the baptism of her son, Prince Boris, into...

a very curious screed refusing to be silent on the Dreyfus case. The letter seems at first sight to be a mere deluge of words, but if you read it carefully you will see that in...

made a speech worthy of M. Drumont himself. " I know," he says, "the tenacity and valour of your patriotic efforts against the parricidal acts of an occult and cosmo- politan...

the Upper Congo have suffered a series of defeats, that their native troops have mutinied, and that Baron Dhanis, the Commander-in-Chief, and Major Lothaire are prisoners....

WHE French Government have surrendered to the Army. -IL M. de Beaurepaire, the ex-Judge who acts for the moment as military spokesman, from the first demanded that the trial of...

in any case.

rail- way, but it now appears that he is only asking for a guarantee for a line running north from Bulawayo to the confines of the Chartered Company's territories. This seems to...

the former American Minister at Madrid, made a remarkable speech at the New York Army and Navy Club on Saturday last.. The 'Maine,' he declared, carried with her to the bottom...

a paper embodying her experiences before the Colonial Institute on Tuesday. Disclaiming all credit for her achievement, Miss Shaw nevertheless admitted that she travelled quite...

Manchester branch of the National Protestant League was in his very best manner. He exposed the monstrous absurdity of saying that Roman Catholics are bigots because they refuse...

freedom, and unless its arrears are paid up will die in the last ditch for both. That is very Spanish, as is also the fact that in the last resort the Cubans will die, and be...

Manchester on Monday last, as is usual with his utterances, was marked by real originality of thought. He very properly insisted not only that it was necessary for the good...

on Tuesday evening, over ten thousand persons being present. Lord Kinnaird was in the chair, and he was sup- ported by one English and one Scotch Peer and a good number of...

on Saturday last, Mr. Chamberlain showed the absurdity of a resolution lately passed by a committee at Aylesbury which declared this Government to be "the worst Government of...

The mob, having elected a Council of Nationalists, and indirectly a Mayor with a record as a "fighting patriot," thought they would be welcome in the Council Chamber, and...

article on the question of admitting aliens to the Bar,—a question which is now being considered by the Inns of Court. Unfortunately, a Joint Committee of the Inns appears to...

decision of the Australian Premiers (arrived at on Thursday) in favour of Federation. The establishment of the Australian Commonwealth—the excellent name already agreed upon—is...

Australia, and the newspapers have all made the absurd comment that it is an excellent appointment because Lord Tennyson's father was a great poet, who wrote vigorous verses in...

the Duke of Devonshire in the chair, it was decided to establish a Cambridge University Association, with a view to e nlarging the resources of the University for educational...

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MR. BALFOUR AND THE " CRISIS" IN THE CHURCH. M R. BALFOUR'S courage, straightforwardness, and absolute soundness of view were never more strongly exhibited than in his two...

of France, the small caste of thoughtful and experienced men of unquestioned probite—the word covers more than probity—who in quiet times stand aloof from the stream of...

W E feel somewhat at a loss what to say about the meeting of Liberal Members of Parliament next Monday. Such remarks as we have already offered on the condition of the Liberal...

M R. BALFOUR made a remark in his speech of Monday at Manchester which, uttered as it was by a statesman of the first rank, raises a commonplace into a thought of high political...

I S the Government going to take up Mr. Balfour's Irish University scheme ? That is the question which, naturally enough, every one is now asking. It is clear that the...

W E suspect that the failure of the first attempt to found an India upon the Congo will in no long time be publicly admitted. Bing Leopold IL, who, though he inherits some of...

in the current IX Nineteenth Century on " The New Psychology," scarcely tells us what he means by that term, but he does enter into a very interesting theme when he considers...

T HE" walking fish " now to be seen in the tortoise-house at the " Zoo" are the most recent instance shown in London of a striking anomaly in Nature. But it may he doubted...

M R. G. W. STEEPENS, who wrote "With Kitchener to Khartum," has accompanied Lord Curzon to India as special correspondent for the Daily Mall, and we have waited with great...

SIR, — The origin of the metre and the various sources of in- spiration of " In Memoriam " are very fully discussed in chap. 7 of Mr. Churton Collins's " Illustrations of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] venture to send you an extract freely translated from an interesting and well-written Welsh work published last week—" The History of the...

Slit,—Your article on " Industry and Scenery " gives much food for reflection. As our population increases day by day, and coal grows scarcer year by year, it does seem...

THE NEW FOREST AS A SANCTUARY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIR, —The writer of the article ender the above title in the Spectator of January 28th suggests that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The poem, in a metre now and for ever consecrated as the peculiar property of Tennyson, which Dr. Garnett repub- lishes for the...

THE LIFE OF SIR GEORGE POMEROY-COLLEY.a WHEN a great disaster has closed the career of any man of action, soldier or statesman, the world in general has no time to inquire what...

THE MIDNIGHT SKIES. To finite minds there can but be The finite in infinity; And as within its system's space Each planet has allotted place, The whole must be a continent...

TEL " SPZCZATOR."] SIR,—It is curious in reading Sir W. Harcourt's philippics to note how wilfully and contemptuously he breaks the Fifth Commandment by abusing his "spiritual...

"Logic and sermons do not convince," said Walt Whitman, and. speaking generally, there is not a little truth in that utterance. The sermon has become too conventional to arouse...

FOR the message, as we understand it, which Mr. Davidson ooneidere himself charged to deliver, we do not greatly care. Occasionally we regard it with the strongest detestation ;...

Miss KINGSLEY needs no commendation as a narrator of experiences. No living traveller is half so amusing to read, and very few are half as instructive. In this book instruction...

WE are not familiar with the earlier work of Mr. (or Miss?) Shakespear, whose latest novel, Rupert Armstrong, has, alike in tbeme and treatment, qualities that honourably exempt...

Tae Contemporary Review has several serious papers, of which the most attractive, judging by public comments, is one from General Gatacre on the barbarities alleged to have...

10s. sa.), contains the results of a not inconsiderable ex- perience in India. Four winters of, say, three months each do not indeed make up a very long time for the observa-...

MINOR BOOKS OF THE WEEK. 117nder this Breading we intend to notioe such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in ocher forms.] Matters theological and...

Fleet Street, 21s.), reaches to nearly two thousand pages. The information is, it is true, given in different forms for sake of convenience of reference, and so repeated, but...