INDEX. FROM JULY 5th TO DECEMBER 271h, 1890, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE D.A.Y. A CTING and Intellect 111 Aerial Advertisements Africa (British East) ... ... 108 — Dahomey and...

Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published ha hits at the' OPEC/M . 0E' Ofiice, No. 1 Wellington...

found guilty of treason under the instigation of Russian agents, was carried out on June 28th. The Court had recom- mended him to mercy, and Prince Ferdinand wished to com- mute...

which would enable a telephone operator to see as well as hear his interlocutor at the other end, and at last the dis- covery has been completed. The Telegraph reports that...

which occurred on Saturday, at the age of fifty-nine. He was one of the few remaining statesmen of the old fad thorough culture. A much better scholar than the late Lord Derby,...

case.

T HE Anglo-German Agreement was signed in i3erlin on July 1st, and now requires only ratification by the two Parliaments. The English one will not be refused, as the Glad....

of the Gladstonian candidate, Mr. Duncan, by a narrow majority (132) over the Conservative, Mr. Wainwright, Mr. Caine being left at the bottom of the poll with only 1,280 votes,...

of Mr. Wainwright's, made a very clever speech for him at Barrow on Monday; but whether the cleverness of his speech did more good to Mr. Wainwright than the mercurial political...

questions affecting the health and morality of the working classes, beginning with the Ten-Hours Bill, the Tories had hitherto led the way. And the sole claim of the Radicals to...

in order to plead the cause of the Maharaja of Cashmere, who was at the beginning of last year deprived of his authority for long-continued misgovernment. Mr. Bradlaugh alleged...

was a brilliant one, and showed that the Conservatives are still full of life and hope. Mr. Balfour's speech was confidence itself, and gave the most striking evidence that he...

expectation of a triumphant return, unless the sanguine anticipations attributed to him were imagined by the reporters, accepted the decision of the electors with an almost...

party on the same day at the Westminster Palace Hotel, by way of celebrating his forty-fourth birthday. We suppose it was his cue on this occasion to exaggerate his success,...

Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops at the Mansion House, and the Archbishop, in replying to the toast of the health of the Archbishops and Bishops, declared that one of...

published in the Times on Thursday, and will be signed at once. It is for the most part a detailed Code for the guidance of the marine and other officers employed to put down...

New Consols (2) were on Friday 96i to 961.

of the Directors' Liability Bill by 224 to 50. This Bill is the heaviest blow yet struck at the modern brigand, the fraudulent promoter. Its principle is that if there is any...

length come to an end. He resigned on Thursday, and it is believed that he will be replaced by the Tory leader, Serior Canovas del Castillo. The cause of this rather abrupt...

Wednesday a deputation from the Catholic Truth Society, and replying to their congratulations with warmth and candour, he said that the time had at last come when Roman...

School Board for a fund to establish in London swimming-classes, and helps to physical recreation of other kinds, such as football, cricket, tennis, &c. The object is certainly...

and of the women who in Italy sold aqua tofana as the best means of satisfying jealousy, or hate, or greed; but the Hungarian tribunals are trying a case which makes all those...

I T is sometimes a little difficult on moral grounds to , defend the execution of a conscript for mutiny. He is too nearly in the position of a slave. He may be a lad from a...

THE FIRST DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT. W E are not sorry that the First Lord of the Treasury has delayed for another week making his statement as to the procedure which the...

candidate at the General Election. The actual figures (as given in the Pall Mall Gazette of Thursday) show the highest possible presumption that Mr. Caine's support was derived...

to the Wesleyan body with regard to its mis- sionaries in India ; it will, we are convinced, seriously impede the success of all missionary labour there. The managers of that...

S OME fine morning, an obstructive party, possibly a Temperance party, or possibly a party organised by brewers, will try to stop some measure that the country really desires,...

all, it is not so bad a world as we are some- times tempted to think it. Often enough, indeed, we have to grieve over merit unnoticed and labour un- rewarded. Men work hard and...

W E wonder whether Sir Alfred Lyall's most impressive account of what he calls "Official Polytheism in China" will stir up the "Society for the Liberation of Religion from State...

M R. SPURGEON sometimes says original things, but it is one of the sources of his influence that he fre- quently embodies in a short colloquial sentence a belief current for...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: RETURNING TO THE WORLD-A NEW FORM OF ADVERTISE.. lifENT-THE AUTHOR'S OPINION OF HIMSELF. THERE is something curious in returning to the world...

FEW people, perhaps, can boast of having been the owners of more ravens than have fallen to my lot. With one exception, I had them as callow blind young from their cradles in...

" FADS " AND PRINCIPLES. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " EPECTAT01121 SIB,—I have always felt that the Spectator was injuring political morality by continually sneering at its...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Canon Liddon replies to my letter with his unfailing courtesy and candour. He objects, however, to being treated as an advocate of a...

SIR, —As no animosity against Cromwell inspired the investi- gation which led to the production of this book, and as to agree with the conclusions reached by its accomplished...

[10 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The gravity of the question raised by Canon Liddon (and, I may add, by Archdeacon Denison also) may be pleaded as an excuse for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—I thank you for your condensed but singularly clear conception of the meaning and scope of my letter, in the Spectator of June 21st....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] do not appear to have been so fortunate as to have. made my meaning clear to your reviewer. I therefore ask of your courtesy space for the...

"SPECTATOR.'] Sia,—The animal world abounds in examples of parental affection ; still, the following incident, which I take from a German paper, may interest both your...

BEATRICE.* MR. RIDER HAGGARD has, for the novelist, the great gift that he can imagine passion, and passion in very different forms. This story is full of genuine passion....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE r –Your correspondent, "G.," forgets that when the lid in removed from the wide mouth of the All Baba jar used for baking in India, the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Remembering well two delightful letters in your cor- respondence columns some time ago about the " Doctor-Duke " at Meran, and "...

WE have in the little volume before us a confession of faith which has a wider interest than that suggested by its title. In form a discussion of those principles which unite...

Sir Henry Taylor; and his daughter, Mrs. Towle, has written a very attractive bio- graphy. It puts the reader in a position where he can judge for himself of a remarkable...

The Way of Transgressors is a quotation requiring for its com- pletion two words whose omission from the title of this book is significant of its contents, inasmuch as the...

THE July number of the Nineteenth Century is nearly as good as a magazine can be, at all events at a time when magazines are so over-numerous that there are scarcely enough...

not merely a collection of Scotch ballads in the ordinary sense ; the author describes it not inaccurately—if to the English reader also not quite intelligibly—as "a 'reel-rall'...

History of the Scottish Nation. Vol. III. By the Rev. J. A. Wylie, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The author of this book, who was a very ardent Protestant, has died before...

by Dr. L. Loewe. 2 vols. (Griffith, Farrau, and Co.)—Moses Montefiore was born at Leghorn on October 24th, 1784; he died on July 27th, 1885, his wife having died before him in...

Dr. Rogers. (Grampian Club.)—The second volume of Dr. Rogers's large work, concerning rather than on Burns, is quite as interesting as the first, giving biographies of such...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This volume is one of considerable interest. Jefferson's views on education are worth considering ; not less so are his views on slavery. If his voice had...

and Co.)—Mrs. Rossetti has been unfortunate. Last year Mrs. Marshall's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley appeared in two large volumes, containing all that a reader would care...

By Hume Nisbet. (" My Diary" Publishing Company.)—" 'My Illus- trated Diary' is published for the exclusive purpose of enabling those who take lengthened journeys by sea to...

(Rivingtons.)—The book of which specimens are here given was a "Prayer-Book in English for the use of the Laity, containing the Calendar, Hours of the Virgin, the Lord's Prayer,...

)—This book is disappointing. It reverses the usual methods of books of travel by being entertaining at the beginning, and while the traveller is going over the old ground from...

(Cambridge University Press.)—Dr. Corrie was an admirable specimen of the old-style "Head of a House," a species which, we should imagine, survives more at Cambridge than at the...

(Nisbet and Co.)—This second volume of his work Pro- fessor Vincent devotes to the writings of St. John. Naturally he prefaces it with an introduction, of which the main...

—This "Romance of the Primitive Church" is a volume of the " Town and Country Library." It is noticeable, apart from its other qualities, as an effort to put a heretic's case...

—An irritating prefatory note goes far towards destroying the value of a book that is clever and entertaining. We are told that the volume is written in the first person as a...

(Alexander and Shepheard.)—Mr. Cox gives a number of useful hints about baths and bathing; a large subject when all the varieties of the bath are considered,—soaps, cosmetics,...

—This book is described on the title-page as "a novel," and in a remarkably complacent preface the author, who "has for some years been viewing from a somewhat advantageous...

Tallack's subjects, as exhibited in his table of contents, include all the questions which are commonly discussed in reference to the prevention and punishment of crime. He...

Edinburgh.)—This is a rather disappointing book to be. produced by a Scotch Sheriff-Substitute who is also entitled to write " F.S.A. Scot." after his name. It is neither more...

In these "Five Essays on Life and Character," Dr. Waterhouse touches on many important subjects. The moral order of the world, and its reference to the Theistic argument; hence...

Co.)—It may be as well to recall the services of the author of this voliime in the department of the Public Health. He was Officer of Health for the City of London, 1848-1855;...