INDEX. FROM JANUARY 41/i TO JUNE 28th, 7890, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A BILITY, Men of, their Marriages ... ... 263 Academy Dinner, Mr. Morley at ... ... 654 Address,...

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deluge of volumes which have poured this year from the press, that many fewer have actually been published than were published last year,—the total being 4,694 new books in...

Russian Emperor will, it is said, at his New Year's reception (Old Style), speak reassuring words to the world, and the German Emperor has already spoken them in the form of a...

case.

E UROPE was disturbed on Thursday by rumours of the Czar's fatal illness, and of consequent trouble in St. Petersburg, so grave that the Guard, which numbers 60,000 men, had...

in his first speech to Parliament, delivered on Thursday, expresses, of course, his determination to guard his " rights " in Africa ; but he does not define his rights, and he...

of Germany, the Reichsgericht, has just decided that to incite workmen to strike without giving their legal notice is to " incite to disobedience to the law," and therefore a...

of £100,000 to London, and done it in a sensible way. He has limited the object of his charity so that his money may really accomplish something definite. It is to be expended...

calamity. There is an industrial school at Forest Gate whither the children of several. Unions are sent, and on New Year's morning upwards of six hundred boys and girls were...

has of late become exasperated to a datgerous point. The Clericals now in power are supported by a large majority, and are inclined to use it in order to make their power...

different cases. In the form in which it generally appears to attack institutions, it is said to be a very sharp fever, generally involving delirium, though not lasting above...

Yule, which occurred on December 30th, 1889, at what is now the premature age of sixty-nine. Sir Henry belonged to that limited but invaluable class of Indian officers who are...

the last day of 1889, which was also one of the darkest days of a dark year. He was buried next to the poet Cowley, as great a contrast to him in style as could well be chosen,—...

on Thursday, when he dealt with Mr. Parnell's representations as to Home-rule, and remarked that if Mr. Parnell was really as anxious about giving an industrial stimulus to...

danger that Governments, in their anxiety to get votes at the polling-booths, would forget that, after all, the preparation of attractive legislative changes is not the main...

the year is unusually short, and contains no remarkable names except that of Sir J. Lubbock, who is made a Privy Coun- cillor, of Mr. Savory, the President of the College of...

pretentious. Positivism alone understood how to solve the Socialist problems, he said. Their solution was the only true one, " a Socialism which was founded in the Family," a...

being now eager to pull to pieces the electoral law which they had themselves accepted in 1885 with a flourish of trumpets, and to replace it by a totally different system,...

of Humanity,"—New Year's Day,—in the solemnity of the airs with which he interpreted " the Great Power " in whose presence, he said, that he and his congregation stood. " It was...

cent., the stock of gold being unusually low, and the demand both for the provinces and abroad unusually large. By Friday the market rate had become lighter, but there is still...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 971 to 974.

MR. GLADSTONE'S BIRTHDAY. M R. GLADSTONE'S eightieth birthday cannot be regarded with exactly the same pride by those who think his last phase of policy disastrous for the...

I T would be foolish, of course, to predict that peace would endure throughout the present year. The armies are there, armed to the teeth, and made exquisitely uncomfortable by...

I T cannot be doubted that, whether we look to the speeches of the Gladstonians or the speeches of Mr. Parnell, the upshot of the year's evidence as to Mr. Glad- stone's policy,...

path in the matter of divorce, and improving on their in- structors. It is now more than two years since we con- demned the Divorce Bill passed by the Legislature of New South...

the Tudors, whose portraits London is just now running to see, which has always seemed to us to require further explanation, and that is their popularity. It is all very well to...

little of it in England, there is hardly anything more interesting in European politics than the conflict between the Italian Liberals and the Pope. The temper in which the war...

I S payment by results doomed ? Mr. Mundella is re- ported to have declared that it is, and in many quarters there is an evident determination to make a vigorous on- slaught...

T HERE is one subject at least upon which the Western world has certainly not gone pessimist, and that is upon the probability of universal or widespread calamity. The epidemics...

Ti ADY COWPER has contributed to the new Nineteenth Century an excellent article on " The Decline of Reserve among Women ; " and while lamenting that decline, she has certainly...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : THE BOLDNESS OF IGNORANCE-SETTLING QUESTIONS-MR. BRAD- LAUGH IN INDIA-A STORY OF THE PUNJAB. IT is very curious to the calm observer looking on...

MR. GIFFEN ON BIMETALLISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOL1 Sra,—I crave a little space to deprecate. your criticism of my letter to the Times on " The Inevitable Results of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sat—The clergy, and most thoughtful members of the Church of England, will be very grateful to you for your article on " The State of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Will you allow me to make a few remarks on your correspondent's letter on the above subject in the Spectator of December 28th, 1889...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I have read, in common with a large number of Church- men, your interesting and truthful articles on the late Bishop of Durham. It is...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—In reference to the feeling of exclusiveness which appears to be growing amongst the Negroes in the Southern States, I may mention that...

It had fallen from an unknown hand, In the home of the pine and myrtle, Far of in this Southern land. And I know not whose hand had cast it, Or careless or rude with scorn,...

THE TUDOR EXHIBITION.—NEW GALLERY. WE would venture to prophesy for the present Exhibition - are even greater success than that of its Stuart predecessor, and our chief ground...

[To vox EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Cannot say how heartily I sympathise with the main tendency of your remarks on divorce, or how necessary they seem to me. But for that...

GUSTAVUS VASA.* THE story of Gustaf Vasa—a mere name to most people— was well worth the telling, if only for the fact that he, a Swedish gentleman, led and carried through' al...

the true position of the Tithe question in Wales should read the admirably clear, and at the same time moderately written, letters which Mr. R. E. • The Anti-Tithe Agitation in...

Ma. SHUCKBURGH has rendered a distinct service to letters by presenting the complete remains of Polybius for the first time to the English reader. Polybius has never been a...

the first sentence of Mr. Nicoll's bio- graphy, "is the life of a journalist,—perhaps the only life of a journalist pure and simple ever written." However this may be, the...

man earnestly sincere, inspired with a high purpose, whose mind is both comprehensive and acute. It will draw attention and win influence, though perhaps slowly and against...

Blackwood has this month, of all the magazines, by far the most readable paper. It is called "In the Days of the Dandies," and contains the reminiscences apparently of a man of...

GIFT-BOOKS. Readings for the People. (Religions Tract Society.)—The aid of colour is sometimes brought in for making the illustrations. The frontispiece, a nest of young birds...

the work of a skilful pen, a conclusion at which the present writer arrived before he had noticed that it came from the hand that wrote "A Minor Poet " and "Reuben Sachs." Elsie...

and Dobson.)—Mr. Barrett begins by giving an engraving of the Tower from a manuscript of the fifteenth century. Then follow thirteen full-page etchings, not perhaps of the first...

something in this story that reminds us of Charles Dickens's Christmas books. Elsie goes into fairy-land and sees, by fairy help, a number of mirrors of human life. The book is...

L. Alden. (Sampson Low and Co.) —" Jimmy Brown " is of the type of the " bad boy " of American fiction, the sort of boy into which children of the " Helen's Babies " kind may be...

very gracefully and skilfully told story of the reclamation to civilisation of a little orphan boy, the child of a dissolute tramp. There is genuine power in the opening...

(Skeffington.)—Perhaps there is no such thing as novelty in gift- books; otherwise we should have said that the idea which has been worked out in this book, as in others issued...

(Printed by Order of the Trustees.)—As this is a third edition, it is scarcely needful to do more than draw the attention of students to the fact that this useful work has been...

(Kelly and Co.) —Ono substantial proof of the growth in bulk, and consequently completeness in contents of this Directory, is the fact that the present volume contains 142 more...

an almost painfully close study of a little girl whom it takes a great deal of time and trouble to discipline into that negative unselfishness which means abstinence from...

Harris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a handsome volume, but then the contents are not of the average gift-book sort. The principal story is admirable. " Daddy Jake" is a Negro...

schein.)—The authoress of this new version of the pathetic story of the heroic Joseph de Veuster has not, and does not pretend to have, anything fresh to say. She carefully read...

Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Rawnsley read part of this little volume as a paper before the Birmingham Association of School-Teachers, and has now published it at their request, adding a...

Andersen's Fairy-Tales, illustrated by Bertall, er 8vo (Heywood) 20 Broadbent (W. H.), The Nils-, l2mo (Cassell & Co) 00 Brsoksmitn (J.), Arithmetic for Beginners, 12mo en)...

Giurria.—On December 80th. 1889, at Landour, Bexhill, in her 65th year, Ellin, widow of the late John Palk Griffin, Ecq. Friends please accept this intimation.