would dare invent, and which could occur only in Farther Asia. The g reat capital, with its palace citadel half a mile s q uare covered with g ilded roofs, its pa g odas, and...

tainly, he has not yet been elected. The Liberal, Mr. Dickson, was defeated in Mid-Antrim by a Conservative, Mr. O'Neill. The Liberal, Mr. Walker, was defeated in the Northern...

case.

B URMESE resistance has collapsed. After capturin g the Minhla forts, as mentioned in our last issue, General Pren- der g ast proceeded q uietly up the River Irrawaddy with his...

Mr. Gladstone was returned for Midlothian by the ma g nificent majority of 4,631 over Mr. Dalrymple ; Lord Hartin g ton was returned for the Rossendale division of Lancashire by...

for their magnificent support, does not quite strike the key we should have wished. It breathes the spirit of an elec- tion contest rather than the spirit of high statesmanship....

that the grant of household suffrage has, as yet, made any great difference to suburbanity. Only a single division of any of the home counties, properly so called, has as yet...

are very curious, and show that subdivision of the large boroughs and counties has succeeded in giving a very effective expression t . the views of minorities. The Conservatives...

captured First on November 27th, but was there met by a General in the Austrian service, who asked him in the name of the Emperor to agree to an armistice, hinting that if he...

most Tory wire-puller could have hoped. There are sixty-one boroughs, returning sixty-two Members, which may be properly caii . Metropolitan, including, of course, Hampstead,...

It appears that the astounding stories of the expulsion of thou- sands of Poles from East Prussia and Silesia are true, and the Polish Deputies, supported by the Centre, rose to...

Mr. W. S. Caine, formerly Civil Lord of the Admir- alty, has been rejected in the Tottenham division of Middlesex, Mr. Evelyn Ashley (formerly Colonial Under-Secretary) in the...

Crofter movement, which has obtained great influence in the Highlands, should be returned to Parliament. Mr. Macdonald, whom the cottagers have made Member for Ross and Cromarty...

have occurred in modern Europe, and might form a precedent for outrages such as have rarely shocked modern civilisation. Austria, for example, might expel half - the population...

will, wehelieve, include more than half the heads of houses and two- thirds of the resident professors in the University ; —are about to present a declaration to the...

of the American Commission on the Depression of Trade, to which we referred last week in our article on "Tory Contingencies." The report of the Commission is not yet pub-...

asked ou Tuesday to vote the appointment of a new Committee to consider Mr. Magnus's plan for reforming the Uni- versity. We believe that that plan is free from some of the...

has handed over the rook fortress of Gwalior, which dominates the eity of that name, to the Maharajah Scindiah, and has allowed him to keep three thousand more troops. Had Lord...

Mr. E. N. Batton, as its new chairman, has preferred to elect the Rev. J. R. niggle, whose policy is supposed to repre- sent a policy of stricter economy, and one opposed to the...

about the execution of the murderer, Goodale, at Norwich. Berry, the executioner, adjusted the rope in the usual way, and the prisoner fell a drop of only six feet; but owing,...

THE POLLS AND THE CRISIS. T HIS week has seen a considerable improvement in the prospects of the Liberal Party. As we write, 533 Members of the new Parliament have been...

N O one can dispassionately study the returns from counties and boroughs in this election without perceiving that the Reform Bills of 1883 have introduced one remarkable change....

I F the returns to be announced on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday leave the Liberals with a majority of twenty over Conservatives and Parnellites united, Lord Salisbriry ought to...

T HE correspondent of the Times has somewhat prematurely revealed to the world that some of the ablest and most in- fluential of the Churchmen of Cambridge University are about...

T HERE is something very impressive to the imagination in the audacious calmness with which this conquest of Burmah has been carried through. From first to last the Indian....

A LTHOUGH there can be little question that Lancashire manufacturing towns are less Liberal than those of Yorkshire, it would, perhaps, be more accurate to say that the former...

A T a supper given to discharged criminals last Tuesday, Lord Coleridge again insisted on a favourite topic of his, the too great severity of our penal system. "There should be...

T HE evidence about young Princes is rarely trustworthy, and after a good deal of reading, we find ourselves uncertain whether Edward VI. was a rather goody young man, or the...

I N theaddress delivered on Monday by the President of the Royal Society,—the address which we all regret to hear is to be his last in that capacity,—he touches a subject on...

l're THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—Permit me to say that Mr. Shaw-Lefevre's failure at Reading is not to be set down to Liberal disapproval of con- cessions to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—To be "driven to the poll" has acquired a new meaning, which any one living, as I do, on the boundary of two counties, will have...

Stn,—Many persons have wondered what the agricultural labourer would do with his vote. May I tell the story of an agricultural district in the West of England ? We had about...

THE VOTE OF LANCASHIRE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sig,—It is of some importance that the vote of the Lancashire boroughs should be understood. In Manchester the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I have read with great interest your article entitled "Liberal Reverses," and can cordially agree with a great deal of it ; but it...

rTo THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Since the last meeting of Convocation several conferences and meetings of graduates have been held, at which the action to be taken...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator obviously wishes to deal fairly with the Nonconformists ; yet, somehow or other, it does not understand them, and it...

1To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR - J SIR,—In your article on "Superfine Politicians," you show how prone is human nature to generalise from a single case, and derive therefrom...

"SCIENCE AND POLITICS." [Hence the sort of amused contempt which "is felt by the physicist for the professional politicians, and- for the crowds who throw up their caps in his...

Sin,—The problem before Convocation at the London Uni- versity is not merely of the simple nature supposed in Dr. Pye Smith's letter to you. The desires which the London...

THE OLD SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- C 0 LOUR S.* • THE present Exhibition of sketches and studies at the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours is notable for one...

HENRY FAWCETT.* THIS is a remarkable sketch of a very wonderful man,—a man wonderful for his courage, wonderful for his steadfastness, wonderful for his cheerfulness,...

to prove that Mr. Percy Greg aims at becoming the novelist of Conservatism, or of Con- servative society ; and certainly the death of Lord Beaconsfield has left an important...

BOMB of the versions contained in this volume have already appeared in the Spectator, and we should be very much sur- prised to hear that our readers have not agreed with the...

A NEW work by the author of Mademoiselle de Mersac is always looked forward to with hope ; and that hope is less likely to be disappointed in his case than in that of most of...

THERE are some books, published either of old or now-a-days, which nothing but a genuine love of their subjects could have inspired; and of such a kind is the one before us. Mr....

Father is attributed the significant saying,—" Give me a child till he is seven years old, and you can do what you like with him afterwards." If the Jesuit was right in...

the German by Frances Younghasband. (Longmans.)—Here we have the story of the Odyssey given with mach detail. The work is well done, both by author and translator, as might be...

year now coming to an end of an excellent little magazine, intended for the little ones, and made, we should say, to suit their wants and tastes very well. The illustrations,...

Davenport Adams. (Nelson and Sons.) —Mr. Adams describes the caves of Egypt and India, the cave of Trophonins, the catacombs of Rome (which naturally occupy a considerable...

and Cod)— Miss Holt has chosen for the subject of her tale the perplexed his- torical problem of Perkin Warbeek, and has woven the facts (she adheres to the impostor theory,...

which we have here the first volume, including the eight numbers from May to December. It is good of its kind ; bright in every way, and we cordially- wish it success.

Brawn (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.), contains the working-out of a good idea. Mr. Brown begins with the reign of the Queen, and picks oat a number of interesting persons and...

and Son.)— Here, in this "Tale of the Time of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion," we have another pleasant admixture of history and fiction. No one produces this kind...

ledge and Sons),—Oliver Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Glory ef Mistress Mary Blaize" and The Great Panjandrum Himself. It isueedless to praise them. We are interested in learning...

and Sons.) —This is a story of the going forth of the Pilgrim Fathers of the "Mayflower,' and the other familiar names connected - with the founding of the New England...

GIFT BOOKS. The Dragon and the Raven ; or, the Days of King Alfred. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a spirited romance, told by Mr. Henty with all the skill which...

illustrations of Mr. Whittier'a well-known poem are like the poem itself,—pretty enough at first sight, but not such as to bear looking into. For some reason or other the...

very unequal work. There is a first-rule woodcut of "Dan and Dobbin," a Newfoundland holding a horse's bridle. On the other hand, them is one of an ant-bill which is deplorably...

performance. Some of the stories and illustrations are very-good, some extremely bad. There are two very .pretty ones, "Wild Flowers," and a little sailor-boy giving a girl a...

the Lord Bishop of Ripon. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The illustra- tione consist of twenty-seven engravings-after original drawings, the artists being H. Fenn, H. Sandham, F. S....

Sons.)—We are inclined to think that either Mr. Randolph Caldecott or the stock of nursery rhymes is played out. With the exception of one picture showing the King following...

Forbes Robertson. (Cassell and Co.)—Here we have sketohes of the life and work of more than a hundred artiste, divided into the Italian, the Flemish, Dutch and German, the...

like Mr. Caldeeott, suffers from her own &UMW/3 or excess. But happily for her she does not depend on fun, but on pretty drawings ; and her drawings and her poems are as pretty...

J. Edwards (Hildesheimer and Faulkner), is a volume of verses and pictures for children.

from Rrlibel's " Matter-kind Koeelieder," by Frances and Emily Lord, and , contains "the whole of the original illustrations, and the music, rearranged for children's voices,...

—This is a picture, drawn with the touches, minute as well as vigorous, which the author knows how to give, of life among the poor. A certain tin box which a sailor has left...

Emma Marshall. (Cassell and Co )—In the Atrium Vesta, not longago discovered in the Forum, there are certain statues of the Vestales Maxima, and among them one from which the...

Leslie. (Mackie and Son.)—This is a well-drawn picture of some part of English life before the days of the Conquest and after it. The story opens with the arrival of a party...

tales, told by dogs and cats in propriis personis, and the woodcuts which illustrate them, are very good. The coloured illustrations are not an good, the colours being poor and...

Century. Selected and edited by Mrs. Valentine. (F. Warne)—Here are between fifty and a hundred stories of adventure and enterprise, gathered together from famous books of...

and, from the literary point of view, rather superior novel, with a conventional plot. It is the old story of a desperate mother sacrificing truth and justice for the sake of...

attractively got up and illustrated. We cannot say much for the illustrations in Good Cheer; but the story is capital. The description of "the toun " and its inhabitants on the...

author of these essays is obviously a Scotch Conservative publicist ; but as his Conservatism is composed chiefly of kind-heartedness, Wordsworthian sympathy with Nature and the...

Fisher Unwin.)—This is a too closely printed, and not too well illas- trated, but pleasantly written volume on a subject which has not lost any of its attractiveness for...

(Ward and Downey.)—As a rule, stories which depend for their interest on dreams or visions, or on some sort of super- natural machinery, are not to be commended. If the fact...

Henry Frith from the French of MM. Tissot and Amero. A very good story it is. The hero is a student who is banished because his sympathy with the exiled poet Davidoff excites...

numbers of Good Words and the Sunday Magazine —namely, Good Cheer, The Paths of Peace, and Snow-Flakes—the last being the children's Christmas number of the Sunday Magazine...

is one of the most delightful and original of living American essayists ; and like most of his tribe, haring paid us a visit; he tells us what be thinks of as in a little volume...

Co.)—This book is of the sort which the reviewer must "damn with faint praise." It is not tedious, because not devoid of all interest, and it has the merit of being confined...

a Biography; with a supplementary chapter on Ultra-Democracy. By Charles Mackay. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—The founders of the American Republic, according to our author,...

Co.)—One of oar greatest living poets has said that "any one can write verse." Unfortunately, it is too true. The author of Onnalinda can write verse for the space of 242...

—This is not a bad novel, as novels of the kind and of the period go. Miss (or Mrs.) Mayo writes with very much more than ordinary Care; and she does not trouble her readers...