FROM JANUARY 5th TO JUNE 29th, 1889, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A ERICA :—European Position in, the ... 78 ..t3L Africa:—Lake Nyanza, the Coup d'Etat on 225 Africa, Our...

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

Paris. He is vague, as usual, about his purposes, and denies any idea of claiming a dictatorship ; but he is not vague about his hostility to the Parliamentary regime. Its...

K ING MILAN of Servia has beaten back his revolution. His second appeal to his people resulted in the return of a Great Skuptschina, or Constituent Assembly, in which he had...

speech at Wavertree, near Liverpool, yesterday week, in which he remarked that the condition of Parliamentary business was the great question of the hour; that in the Session...

Bazaine's denial that he had ever attri- buted his information as to the crossing of the Moselle by the German Army in 1870, to a telegram of Mr. Morier's (then representing...

bitterly disappointed, and according to a statement made on the following day in Parliament, bribed peasant Members heavily. The impression made, however, was too deep ; it was...

it is true, settles the question as to the fate of Emin Pasha. An Egyptian soldier who had been living for nine months at Khartoum, which he left on November 23rd, has arrived...

letter to a Conservative M.P. on Lord Salisbury's strange "leap in the dark" in relation to female suffrage. He remarks that the Tory leader no doubt counts on it confidently as...

as Charles Shaw-Lefevre,--died yesterday week at his house, Heckfield Place, Hampshire, at the age of ninety-four. He succeeded Mr. Speaker Abercomby in 1839, and though a...

the Unionist candidate, for the Govan District of Glasgow, in place of the late Sir W. Pearce, who was a Conservative Unionist. Sir John Pender, as every one knows, is a strong...

on New Year's Day, and except the Emperor of Germany, they all spoke hopefully of peace. The Emperor of Austria telegraphed to his brother Kaiser that he thought peace would be...

defence yet offered for the government of the counties by the country gentlemen. He showed that in Hamp- shire, the seventy gentlemen who have really done the work have managed...

a striking illustration this week. The great brewing firm of Truman,Hanbury, and Buxton have turned their concern into a limited liability Company. The partners keep all their...

more than half the members of the future Legisla- tive Council, and an unlimited right of raising volunteer regi- ments; but the sittings were marked by a suggestive incident....

law. In a speech at the Junior Reform Club, Liver- pool, on Thursday, he "commented" on the proceedings of the Parnell Commission in a manner for which any orator not in...

illustrated the genuine humanity of the order not to fear to fire, if once it became necessary to use force at all to put down illegal violence. The Resident Magistrate was...

Ireland have actually ventured to suppose that rents are really to rise when the price of produce rises, as well as to fall when the price of produce falls. At this assumption...

eight years of age occurred in Bradford on Thursday week. The child in question, John Gill, the son of a cabdriver, had been accus- tomed for some time past to go out with...

fires in London increased during 1888, and it is satisfactory to find that it is inaccurate. According to the official report of the Fire Brigade, though fires in 1888 were of a...

blow in the Far East. Hitherto it has always been regarded as the protector of all Roman Catholic Missions in China, and has in that character exercised an iunnense in- fluence...

Friday 981 to 981.

MR. GLADSTONE ON O'CONNELL. T HERE is a curious irony in the destiny which has brought Mr. Gladstone at the close of one of the longest public careers of the century, to the...

TH-P Morier correspondence is not very pleasant reading. here is a tone in Count Herbert Bismarck's reply to Sir Robert Morier, declining his request to have Sir Robert Morier's...

over opinion—democratic opinion we mean—which if it continues will seriously affect all politics, and may profoundly modify the develop- ment of half the States of the world. It...

T is impossible to mistake the signs of improvement everywhere visible in Ireland. Looked at from whatever point of view, the year 1889 opens for Ireland with far brighter...

K G MILAN has won the game,—won it, we suspect, IN as we argue below, more completely than is as yet quite understood either in London or Belgrade. We have ventured all through...

has been relieved by the robbery of the jewels of the Austrian Ambassadress. When these things happen to great people, a number of smaller people feel the burden of life a...

W HEN it became known that Miss Terry was about to appear as Lady Macbeth, there was a good deal of speculation as to whether she would endeavour to conform to the traditional...

'E NGLISH poets are certainly not to be accounted great at all in proportion to their success in dealing with the sea. Some cu. the very greatest have concerned themselves...

W E have heard men, and men of undoubted piety and large experience, maintain that the best instrument for the propagation of a creed is assertion, persistent, un- flinching,...

WOMEN ON COUNTY COUNCILS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sim - resort:1 SIB, — The consideration of who are to act as our representa- tives on these new bodies is attracting much...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It is not difficult to point to the antiquity of the belief in the influence of the " Evil Eye, " but it is surprising to find....

Quick, commits a slight error in attributing the division of Churchmen into High, Low, and Broad to the late Dean Conybeare. It was Dean Conybeare ' s eldest son, the Rev....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — Your article on the " Encyclopmdia Britannica, " in the Spectator of December 15th, contains a suggestion that it might be possible to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In his criticism of your interesting article on the above subject, Professor Freeman states as his opinion that Austria is not, and...

A GREY DAY AT NAPLES, 1888. Tits lazy waters of the tideless sea, That murmur homage to Parthenope, Enveloped in November's cloak of brown, Hide their bright azure, as the...

SIE, -" P. C. W." speaks of the "Evil Eye" as a supersti- tion prevalent in the Ireland of forty years ago. I can tell him that at this hour it is as widespread as ever. I have...

THE LAND OF DARKNESS.* WE could dispense with "the experience of the little Pilgrim," who has never seemed to us half as impressive as the other spiritual conceptions of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] had not intended to trouble you again on the subject of opening cathedrals. But as two of your correspondents have taken notice of my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] St,—In your interesting article of December 22nd, 1888, on Mr. John Morley's essay on Wordsworth, you say,—" We cannot agree with Mr. Morley...

of an English monk, and is dedicated to the Pope as "the first-fruit of work undertaken in obedience to his command." We must confess that we began to read it with some dread,...

accord to "the Canaries," fancy will always delight to think of them as "the six [really seven] Islands of the Gods, which some persons have called the Fortunate Islands," where...

NOTHING is more interesting than to trace in modern legis- lation the resistless influence of the past. Those even who are ignorant of, or feel no sympathy with, the spirit in...

one with which all students of primitive Christianity will have to reckon. In it Professor Pfleiderer recognises that the solution offered by the Tubingen school is no longer...

undiminished reputation out of the publication of their collected works, and, as a rule, few have cause to congratulate themselves on the undis- criminating zeal of the admirers...

WE have discussed elsewhere Mr. Gladstone's essay on "Daniel O'Connell," which will be, we suppose, the most read paper in the Nineteenth Century for January ; but there are...

of meditation than maiden, is the reflection that will probably strike the reader of this book. The authoress gives us a description of her various suitors, and of the different...

We have received a new edition of The Book of Household Manage- ment, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—The edition is described on the title-page as being...

is a capital selection of recitations, and the general tone of the pieces does great credit to Mr. Garry. It is both an extremely well-selected and useful volume, and an...

White and Co.)—The author of this military story, the latest of a long line of similar works, must have astonished others besides the present writer by dedicating her book to...

and Co.), contains 128 pages of selections, divided into humorous, serious, and dramatic (a cross division, but intelligible, and, from the writer's point of view, useful, for a...

"Every Man His Own Mechanic" issues another volume of this excellent series. To judge by the large correspondence which the editor conducts, it is more popular than ever, and...

it is true that ushers as a class are held in low esteem by the rest of mankind, we are afraid that Mr. Holt's book will not do much to improve their position. He establishes,...

by W. B. Yeats. Camelot Series. (Walter Scott.)—This book, made up mainly from the writings of Crofton Croker, W. Carleton, and others, was intended by its editor to be...

Co.) we have received, West Somerset Word - Book, by Frederick Of the publications of the English Dialect Society (Triibner and Co.) we have received, West Somerset Word - Book,...

by Arthur Marshall. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Marshall has figured on fifty plates a number of fine specimens of chairs, chests, tables, bedsteads, cabinets, and the like. They...

Hall.)—The author declares that he has discovered the second rotation of the earth, and that by this fact properly grasped thirty thousand years of the earth's past history can...

the Crew" (W. H. Allen and Co.), deserves some special attention as being superior in style to most accounts of pleasure trips. Its author and one or two other friends accepted,...

Vols. II. and III.: Text. (C. J. Clay and Sons.)— Professor Maitland has made in these volumes a most valuable contribution to the study of English law. The sub-title of his...

(Hurst and Blackett)—Miss Dora Russell's latest novel is not behind her previous work in the qualities of readableness and interest. Some of her materials are tolerably...

Co.)—Mr. Herbertson, who is apparently a new writer, cannot be regarded as an important addition to the ranks of contemporary ' novelists. His present story is neither very bad...

and Co.)—For some time now Mrs. Kennard has been before the public as a writer of sporting novels. We are, however, unable to discover that experience has had the effect of...