INDEX. FROM JULY 4th TO DECEMBER 26th, 1891, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. OCIDENTAL Conversation .. A Agriculture : Harvest Prospects (July 24th) Aix Prosecution of the...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

T HE German Emperor, during a visit to Hamburg on Monday, stated publicly that the Treaty extending the Triple Alliance to 1897 had been signed on the 28th ult. It is believed...

mittee on the Free Education Bill, to make Provision, "in the case of districts where there is no school under public control," for the introduction of "the principle of local...

present a good occasion for publishing, through the Times' Paris correspondent, an account of his last inter- view with Prince Bismarck. It occurred on March 19th,, 1890, when...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, July 18th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To 'secure...

Extreme Left, or Republican Party, which desires a closer union with France. They recently put up Signor Colajanni to interpellate the Government on the subject ; but the...

case.

speech, proving that, at present at least, the choice lies between Local Control and Free Education, and that those who want the former must give up the latter, — a course of...

Thursday, with only one important amendment. This was moved by Lord Londonderry, who proposed that if the sum allocated to any county should not be applied for by the small...

Mr. Summers to omit the sub-section of Section 3 empower- ing the Education Department to convert a free school into a fee-paying school, in case a school of a superior sort...

Holloway, the first part of which was devoted to quizzing Mr. Goschen for his political change of front in joining a Conservative Government. Mr. Goschen, however, has not...

given Sir Henry Parkes a majority. The majority returned at recent elections is believed to be opposed to Federation, and in favour of particularism, though as the balance of...

by the Government. The minimum age on which the 108. grant is to be paid was reduced to three years from five years, and the maximum age was, owing to the earnest and repeated...

the Government case against the instruction, showed that as a remedy for religious intolerance, "local control" would be perfectly futile. The "religious grievance" exists no...

encourage the workmen to bring forward their wilder secret ideas into the light of day, so that the whole body of the community may understand and discuss them. That will do...

hosts: during his approaching visit, which commences to-day. The former is expected to spend his time here in a con- stant series of ceremonial functions which will leave him no...

etiquette. Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern.. Sigmaringen, brother and Heir-Presumptive of the King, has fallen in love with Mademoiselle Helene Vacaresco, daughter of a great...

tion, signed by all of them except the Bishop of Limerick, that, in their judgment, "as pastors of the Irish people, Mr. Parnell by his public misconduct has utterly...

appears, reached its jubilee year. Its founder began his busi- ness in 1841 by taking about temperance trippers, and the firm is now perhaps the best-known organiser of travel...

the Limpopo, and have been arrested and turned back by the "police "—that is, soldiers—of the South Africa Com- pany. It is assumed, therefore, that the plan of a great trek has...

Egham, for women, is making steady though somewhat slow progress. It opened in 1887 with twenty-eight students. It was closed this year for the long vacation with sixty-six....

has resigned his functions, on the ground of age. It is to be hoped that his place will be filled by the appointment of the Assistant-Registrar for England, Mr. Brabrook, whose...

appeal is made against confining the use of the Church House to Churchmen who subscribe a guinea towards the expense of keeping it up. That is no doubt much too large a sum for...

to ex- communicate Catholics who do not repudiate Mr. Parnell's leadership. And it is clear that Roman Catholic principles would not sustain them in any course so extreme. Yet...

New Consols (23) were on Friday 961 to 96i.

THE IRISH BISHOPS' OUTLOOK. I T is evident from the recent letter of Archbishop Walsh, as well as from the tone taken even by so -vehement a political partisan as Archbishop...

I T is not difficult to state the objections which a, disinterested statesman of experience who was only watching events might bring against the Triple Alliance_ The first,...

M R. FOWLER introduced the debate on the popular control to be imposed under his amendment upon those Denominational schools which are the only schools available for the...

consider the best means for increasing the space available at Westminster for fresh monuments, must be pronounced on the whole to be very satisfactory. It proves that there are...

I T is exceedingly difficult to understand the policy of the French Republic as regards Colonial extension. To all appearance, the " directing classes," including suc- cessive...

A REFERENCE to a Standing Committee has the effect of withdrawing the details of a Bill from public criticism. In many cases this is an advantage. It ensures speed, and in these...

-Ai PILES FERRY told the Association of Paris IN • Students, at their annual gathering on Friday week, "at all costs to be young." The Gallic spirit, he said, is made up above...

O NE of the most curious and unpleasant characteristics of human nature is its inability to resist the temptation of fraud, should ever an opportunity of wrongful possession,...

T HE Archbishop of Canterbury dined on Wednesday, together with most of the Bishops, at the Mansion House, and began his speech after dinner with a remark on crises. His "...

THE CHURCH HOUSE : A PROPOSAL TO WIDEN THE BASIS OF ITS CORPORATION. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Will the Spectator help us to break down the present exclusive...

[To TIER EDITOR OF THR sFIGTATOR. ° 9 Sin,—In connection with the article in the Spectator of May 2nd, giving examples of the love of beauty by animals, your readers may be...

EDITOR OF TRI "Spxorwros."] SIR,—I am sure all lovers of animals will rejoice that Sir M. Hicks-Beach refused to give a licence for a Pasteur Institute in London. In connection...

THII EDITOR OF TER " EIPRITrATOR.1 SIR,—Mr. Arthur Brook, writing in the Spectator of June 27th, says that " Christianity, in bearing witness to certain miraculous events, is...

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE AT THE ACADEMY. THE architectural drawings exhibited this time are not nearly so interesting a collection as those of last year. Many of the best men...

TWO BOOKS ON GOLF.* " GrvE these fellows a good thing," said Mr. Puff, when his- satellites, in the generosity of their hearts, had fired three consecutive 1 o'clock guns, "and...

one of the most popular books of our day is enriched by a prefatory memoir and contributions from the pens of friends, which bring the author before us with singular vividness,...

IT is rather characteristic of the spirit in which some of us receive the benefits which are showered upon us, that almost our first feeling on reading the additional chapters...

very disagreeable reading. The tone in which he thinks it proper to criticise the judgment of the Archbishop's Court deserves severe censure. The judg- ment is now sub judice,...

so greatly enlarged and improved, that it may be described as sub- stantially a new book. Eight hundred pages have been added, or, to put the amount in round numbers, about...

IF Mr. Frank Harris, the editor of the Fortnightly Review, is, as we half-fancy, from his recent attempts, just trying his strength as a novelist, he may rest content. His story...

Hill. (Swan Sonnenschein. and Co.)—Mr. Hill is an expert in all the matters that concern dogs ; a s many readers of the Spectator are interested in them, this little volume may...

(Bentley and Son.)—This book, though bearing the name of an English publisher, was written and printed in America. That is no fault ; indeed, it may owe to its origin a certain...

The Unity of Isaiah. By John Kennedy, MA., D.D. (J. Clarke.) —Dr. Kennedy argues against what is something like a consensus among recent critics of the first class, when he...

author of this pamphlet pleads for "a wider recognition of the Vocation." Part of what he says is certainly irrelevant, and part, it seems to us, not very sensible. Patristic...

volume, one of the " Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour," is certainly entertaining. That being so, what more does the reader want ? One can hardly say that it is ever witty...

(Brown and Gross, Hartford, Conn., U.S.A.)- The Goodwins are the descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin, and date back to the seventeenth century. A very numerous race they...

White. 2 vole (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—For nearly half-a-century, " S. G. 0." (at full length, the Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin. Osborne) wrote letters to the Times, in which...

makes up his volume of fiction and fact, and so sets off each by the other. The fiction is perhaps the more amusing, Mr. Payn, as our readers can scarcely fail to know, having a...

story, but not sensationally treated, The Countess Muta is decidedly a powerful tale. It is told in a most vivid manner, the situations are elaborated with care, though not too...