T HE news from Constantinople is serious. The Armenians of the capital are, of course, greatly excited by the outrages on their kinsfolk, and on Monday a body of them resolved...

has demanded that the Viceroy of Sze chnen, who is respon- sible for the non-prevention of the massacre of missionaries in that province, should be dismissed ; and has ordered...

to the probable course of events. All the conditions of a frightful outbreak are present in Constantinople. The Sovereign is a man of keen but unstable mind, dominated at one...

case.

in London up to Friday afternoon. According to the Times' correspondent there, writing as late as August 23rd, no de- fence against the French is possible, the Hovas being...

Mussulman rising against China, if it occurs within the State itself. There can be no doubt, however, that the Court regards such a rising as a formidable danger. It crashed the...

With the " Sin:memos " of Saturday, October 12th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the scheme for bringing water to London from Wales, which has been drawn up by Mr. Binnie, the engineer of the County Council. He would make five artificial lakes (one of them...

measure to the activity of the Navy League, South Africa seems likely to do the very thing which we lately advocated in these columns, found a local navy, which could be, were...

wholly unimportant, or the signal of a great change. The German Emperor has sent to the Czar, by the hands of Captain von Moltke, a much-trusted Aide-de-camp, an autograph...

as it has done in the past, Sir M. Hicks-Beach will be able to calculate upon a considerable surplus to dispose of. There is a large increase for the six months ending September...

Cloud on Saturday, France loses the man whom she thought most eminent in the scientific world. Originally a student of chemistry, M. Pasteur is credited with discoveries in the...

Socialistic legislation. Last week a proposal to amend the Federal Constitution in such a way as to authorise the Legislature to make the manufacture of matches a Govern- ment...

St. George's Hospital on the opening of the Medical Session, gave on Monday some curious instances of idiosyncrasy. It is well known that there are many persons who cannot eat...

residents in the protected Native States of the Malay Peninsula and the general report of the Governor, is a very remarkable State paper, and contains a record of pro- gress and...

columns to protests in regard to the condition of Hyde Park. Complaint is made as to the filthy condition of many of the tramps and roughs who sprawl on the grass and infest the...

the world—it had a population of two hundred thousand in the fourteenth century—but is now little but a place of memories, with a quarter of its inhabitants living on clarity,...

—that is, the conveyance of small quantities of batter, eggs, vegetables, fruit, cream, Sx., through the Post Office at cheap rates—will not be overlooked by the Government....

Tuesday, October 1st, was fairly warm, but the day grew colder as it went on; and Wednesday and Thursday set the fires going in most country and many town houses. Early on...

of memory which raise such perplexing and appalling problems as to the nature of the personality of man is reported this week from Brighton. Whilst sitting on the sea-front a...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1071.

THE ULTIMATUM TO CHINA. S ITBJECT to a reservation which we discuss below, Lord Salisbury has managed very well in China. It was quite certain that we must protect English mis-...

full of rumours as to the intentions of the Government in regard to the House of Lords, and certain prominent Peers are said to be at work on schemes of reconstruction. These...

people are singing about the rise in the Revenue are, we suppose, most natural; but they mark a change in national sentiment which will have far-reaching consequences. They are...

the black race every- where—we do not mean the Asiatic race, but the African—and it will have to make up its mind very soon as to the conditions of its guardianship, otherwise...

W E sometimes talk as if it were only Englishmen who could take over a province full of mountains and brigands and torn with tribal feuds and religious hatreds, and in ten or a...

D URING the past week there have appeared two some- what notable manifestoes on the Voluntary School question, neither of which, unfortunately, can be said to have contributed...

I T is difficult for us to write about M. Pasteur. It is impossible not to respect a man so devoted to an intellectual pursuit, that he gave his whole life to it, worked on...

M R. STEAD has devoted one of the numbers of his "Masterpiece Library," or, to speak more intelligibly, of his "Penny Poets," to Tom Moore. That he should have done so is a sign...

T HE author of "Happy Thoughts," on comparing the in- formation received in a country visit as to the habits of domestic animals, concluded that they were nearly all dangerous,...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of September 28th, you commence one of your notes as follows : The Agricultural Returns for Great Britain during 1894...

IRISH HATRED OF ENGLAND. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I think you are unduly despondent in your article on the Chicago Convention in the Spectator of September...

[To THE EDITOR OF IRE " BPRCTATOR,n SIR,—Many have read with profound thankfulness the strong;. and, let me add, statesmanlike, article in the Spectator or September 28th, on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIM 8FECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to make a few comments on some- statements contained in your review of Sir W. Conway's.- book, "The Alps, from End to...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—If a Wolff may presume to answer a Bear, speaking about a Cow, I should like to be allowed to say just two words in reply to Mr. Bear's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] desire to express my pleasure on reading a very kind notice in the Spectator of August 17th, of a book written by me about a year ago. It is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR, — Can any of your numerous readers who are lovers of natural history throw light upon the laws and government of that curious...

[To THE EDITOR OE THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have lately come across another example of "lack- mindedness," as I would call it rather than "absent-minded- ness." A Berne...

M. PAUL BOURGET ON AMERICA.* No one who begins this charming book will lay it down with- out finishing it, or without a doubt whether he has gained from its perusal quite so...

THE OLD GARDEN. AN odour rich of full-bloomed flowers Bids me restrain my steps, and lean Over an old grey wall, where cowers The shrinking moss in crevice green. Spread here...

DEATH, when I die, I pray thee let it be In autumn, when across the spiky furze There floats the film of silver gossamers : In early autumn, when the cherry-tree Is touched with...

• Aspeafa of Jact,ians being Sixteen SerntOns byliraal Abrahams and Claude G. Xantejiatra. Loadox I Ilacmilan and Co. So little is accurately known of the special and...

IN The Old Missionary Sir William Hunter has revealed a hitherto unsuspected power. We were aware that the erudite and brilliant interpreter to England of its Indian Empire...

IT is quite impossible to do justice within any space which we can command to this interesting and beautiful book. Written by an expert of the first eminence, who joins a finely...

Jr we could have welcomed this little story as an original conception it would have given us considerable pleasure, since it is prettily and daintily written; but as it is...

THERE is no article in the Nineteenth Century of commanding interest, but several that are very readable. "The Trafalgar Captains," by Mr. Laird Clowes, would have delighted...

Hubbard. (Longmans.)—This is a book which is quite worthy to be ranked with Mr. Warde Fowler's, and which, so far- as its special subject is concerned, the letters of White of...

Popular Astronomy. By Camille Flammarion. Translated from the French by J. Ellard Gore. (Chatto and Windus.)— M. Flammarion has, in a very large measure, that gift of a....

A. Burstall. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—It would not be fair to attempt an epitome of Miss Burstall's most interesting volume. Indeed, it is itself an epitome, crowded with...

Glossary, by J. T. Fowler, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Fowler's introduction deals with early Irish Church history. The first section is given to the pre-Patrician period, the...

"Handbook of Instruction and Counsel for the Young Journalist" is of a very practical, and, we should imagine, very useful kind. If you aspire to journalism, you must begin by...

Arrowsmith.)—If "England v. Australia" matches and the like are indeed, as an eminent authority tells us, the "things that Englishmen really care about," here is a book that...

complexities of the Local Government Act, 1894, with its Parish Councils and Meetings, Charities, Allotments, and the rest of it, are here discussed in a series of dialogues in...

A.M. (Longmans.)—Three of the sections in this volume are of special value, those which deal with China, Greece, and Rome. In respect of China—where, however, there is more...