T ORD HARTINGTON has had the courage to deliver a strongly Unionist speech in Aberdeen, which was unex- pectedly well received. Mr. Gladstone's recent utterances have awakened a...

begin with, the elections have ended in the return of 102 Radicals to 15 Liberals, which, as the Regency is Liberal, is not favourable to its authority. Then the distribution of...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 12th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

at the Circus, Newcastle. The speech, which was one of the most brilliant pieces of oratorical fighting we ever remember to have read, taxed the Gladstonians with the " policy...

some importance. He stated his intention of opposing any Land-Purchase scheme,—first, because British money would go to the landlords ; and secondly, because he was afraid of...

obstructive attitude of the Home-rule Party towards any reforms proposed for Ireland, an attitude which, he doubted not, would be maintained even towards the final Land Bill...

case.

by Mr. Blaine, met on October 2nd at Washington, where they were addressed by the Secretary of State. He disclaimed any idea of conquest, or any selfish plan of alliance against...

and certainly makes himself felt, especially in the Army, a department in which the Chancellor is powerless, and in which the Emperor is steadily superseding the worn-out men of...

M. Stambouloff by the Turkish Commissioner at Sofia, that Bulgaria, if invaded by Russia, would be supported by Turkish troops, meant that the Sultan had received certain...

Congress as to the utility of the system of Brotherhoods recently advocated by Archdeacon Farrar, the general consensus being that a community of clergymen who postponed...

the Archbishop of Canterbury opening the pro- ceedings with a historic sketch of the Church in Wales, which ended with an exhortation to the clergy to bear their persecu- tion...

was completed on Tuesday, when North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington held their first elections for the purpose of adopting State Constitutions, and for choosing...

going to get a general rise in wages,—a result which, if it does not paralyse trade, and so injure the poor, must be regarded as ex- tremely satisfactory. The whole of the...

Con- gregational Union, held on Tuesday at Hull, Dr. Fading, the Chairman of the year, made a speech remarkable for the vehemence with which he protested against " the...

Saturday an interesting account of the centri- petal forces at work in the great American trades and industries. " Trusts " and " Combines," which are fast developing into...

mulatto Abolitionist, its Minister to Hayti, and the appointment is quoted everywhere as proof that the dis- like between the races is dying out. It is undoubtedly proof that...

public amusements, Mr. E. Terry, the comedian, was received with great applause. He maintained, as is usual with actors when defending their profession, that the influence of...

the appointment of a successor to Mr. Firth. As to the policy which ought to be pursued in regard to the Deputy-Chairmanship, there can be no question among reasonable men....

room, Pugh Road, addressed the electors of Battersea,—the constituency for which he intends to stand at the next General Election, and which he represents already on the London...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 961 to 9611.

LORD HARTINGTON AND MR. GLADSTONE. T HAT possession with the subject of Ireland which Mr. Gladstone has recently betrayed, and which comes out even in his most thoughtful...

defeat; and after all ' the other side forcing itself momentarily on their minds. We doubt if any one is quite unaffected in his mind by a plebiscitum, if General Boulanger, for...

A PART altogether from the grave European interests involved—for the long-expected war may break out over Servia—the imbroglio there, as described by telegraph every morning, is...

W HEN Joseph, King of Naples, wrote to his Im- perial brother that the people of his Kingdom hated the ex-Bourbon Queen, the great Napoleon im- patiently brushed aside the...

ordinary British elector does not at all relish a general scheme of Irish Land-Purchase. It is not that he is afraid of the risk, or grudges the money, or that he disbelieves in...

shade. At any rate, he was anxious to fight on the frontier in July ; but he was left in Algeria to witness, not to share, the disasters which so swiftly smote down the...

I N spite of glib assertions which we frequently hear to the effect that arable farming does not pay, and that if landlords and tenants knew their own interest they would...

sense of amused surprise that we find ourselves directly opposed to Mr. Llewelyn Davies upon a moral question, but certainly the opposition is there. In the letter which will be...

HAT is the use of these perpetual Congresses?" is a question which the public is beginning to ask. Nor can the interrogatory be regarded as an unnatural one, for day by day the...

I T is possible to distinguish three kinds of ignorant men. Two are unconsciously ignorant,—the ignoramus and the ordinary ignorant man ; the third is the man who knows he is...

T TING between the rivers Crouch and Roach—alias the Broomhill Water—and the Maplin Sands, are the six Essex Islands, Wallasea, Potton, Rashley, New England, Havengore, and...

[TO THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —I am unwilling to trouble you with my experience in tkis matter, because of the avowed antagonism of our re- spective opinions in...

THE STATE AND THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Referring to what I said at Carlisle as to the dangers of which socialistic legislation has to...

SIR,—Mr. W. H. S. McKnight's letter with reference to the above is but another instance of the way in which a smattering of science is made to do duty for profound know- ledge,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE ". SPECTATOR. " ] thanking you very heartily for your appreciative notice of the opening volume of my little series—Mr. Alfred Fitzmaurice King's Irish...

a house in Gloucestershire in the early part of this year, I was present at some water-divining experiments. Most of the spectators, after watching the pro- fessional diviner,...

AN INVOCATION. WHAT, cold and silent quite, Oh heart of mine, to-night ! Where is thine offering ? Poet, the hour is late ! Hast thou no song to sing, No joy to celebrate P...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Here is a translation sent up yesterday in my fifth form :—" Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Pcena claudo :" " Rarely did a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPZOTATOE:] Sin,—Allow me to correct some misapprehensions in your article on Cyprus of August 24th. The quotations you make are not from a despatch of...

IN his hall, the hero Rudolph Sits in peace, his battles done : O'er him hangs Burgundia's banner In the fight of Laupen won. All his vassals in the village Hold their revel...

which has been inadvertently lost ?]

THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE.* Ma. STEVENSON has given conspicuous proof of the versatility of his genius by the character of the last two works that have proceeded from his pen....

IF there is not very much sparkle in Mr. Gretton's discursive reminiscences, they are at least free from sting and untainted by egotism; and when an octogenarian's memory and...

MR. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, who for years "lived and worked like any other frontiersman" on the banks of the little Missouri and the foot-hills of the Bighorn, pioneer and hunter,...

a mediaeval book-collector would be very interesting, if we only could get them. Unfortunately, the Philobiblon of Bishop de Bury does not supply them,—at least, of the kind or...

SEVERAL of these letters were addressed to Eliza Stodart, Mr. Ritchie's great-aunt, when she and Jane Welsh were unmarried ; others were written during Mrs. Carlyle's early...

THE great multiplication of magazines begins to tell a little upon the quality of each one. At least, we fancy there is less concentration of ability, and greater readiness to...

popularly written treatise, The Earth and its Story (Cassell and Co.), is published. It is, in its way, the historical romance of geology,—or perhaps, when one looks to the...

Sudden Death; or, My Lady the Wolf. By Britiffe Skottowe. (Swan Sormenschein and Co.)—This is a telling sensation story by a skilful hand that is capable of something more than...

is an advance even on that most delicate study, "Angela." It is a simple story of every-day life, and every-day people of the End that have houses both in town and country, and...

" The Comedy of the Law " ("John Popplestone," " forty years town clerk of Stourmouth," is, as might be guessed, nominis umbra). In this he reviews similar productions m the...

together in these pages about a subject which really interests people more than they are always willing to allow. In the first we have a clergyman telling us why he is going to...

this volume. It contains a supplement to the text, extending to about four hundred pages, and a brief addition to the original preface. These have been collected from the...

Oswald Dykes. (Nisbet and Co.)—This volume, partly reprinted from the Homiletic Magazine, is a study of Romans i.-viii. The limitation • excludes the most difficult part of the...

and Sons.)—This volume belongs to " Bohn's Select Library." It contains the "Apology" and three Dialogues,—viz., the " Crito," " Phsedo," and " Protagoras." Each is prefaced...

Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Croby has, so to speak, set up in business as a prophet. But his prophesying is of the right kind. By this we mean, not that in our judgment his predictions...

Froude's name is in Australia " as the red rag to the Colonial bull," what will Miss Bates's be, always supposing that the said bull sees it? Australia is "a second or...

Dr. Ullathorne's works. Among them are two publications levelled against the system of transportation which still prevailed when the writer commenced his ministerial work in...

E. de Pressense,. D.D., by Annie Harwood Holman. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—In this volume, evidently the work of a man of great learning, M. de Pressenae traces what he conceives...

and H. Macnaghten, B.A. (Rivingtons.)—Messrs. Inge and Mae- naghten have made an excellent school-book out of these selec- tions from Lucian. The Greek is just of the kind to be...

Denny Willis and Joseph A. Shearwood. (C. W. Deacon.)—Mr. Willis's portion "contains a general account, historical and statistical, of the Income-tax ;" that contributed by Mr....

Society.)—Alter an interesting introduction (which gives, by-the-way, a lower estimate than is commonly received of the population of Chins) we have chapters on " The Bible in...

Verschoyle, M.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—This handbook, which the editor has " based upon M. Gustave Ducoudray's Histoire Sommaire de In Civilisation,"' obviously attempts too much....

Norgate.)—This is a well-intended and courageous effort to solve one of the great questions of the day ; but we question whether it will prove acceptable either to the believer...

Barnet and Co.)—This volume contains thirteen lectures on the Book of Daniel, planned with a special view to edification. We have no fault to find with the writer's carrying out...

Edited, with a Preface, by Professor Thorold Rogers. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Dr. Rogers spent his life in advocating various reforms, and specially in manful and, in the end,...

Stoughton.)—Mr. Clark describes his book as an " ecclesias- tical pilgrimage." We may begin by saying that the experiences therein related would have been better put in a...

By J. Shield Nicholson, M.A. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The first third of this volume is occupied by a treatise on "Money," originally published for the Annual of the Wholesale Co...