at Swansea, at a public meeting held after the opening of a new Liberal Club recently erected there. The only fault of it was that he assumed too much as matter of course (and...

P RESIDENT BALMACEDA has fallen prone, the im- pression of his success current last week having been due solely to enormous lying. The Parliamentary army of 10,000 carefully...

troops on board, recently tried to pass through the Dardanelles, but was seized, the Porte alleging that she was violating the Treaty of Paris, which turns the Dardanelles into...

The peasants in the huge Valley of the Volga are said to be literally starving, in all the Polish provinces the scarcity is intense, and from government after government...

case.

which will create deep, perhaps permanent, cleavages in Chilian society. They are fearfully excited, not only by the war itself, but by the cruelties through which Balmaceda...

was not given in last week, as the articles by which the limited Company was constituted appeared to require a delay of a fortnight before the vote of the proprietors could take...

proportions. The Census Department, in a report issued on August 18th, and prepared with exceptional care on special data furnished by every county in the Union, estimate the...

Feast on Thursday. He once heard, he said, one of his own children at church " endeavour, with only moderate success, to follow the clergyman in one of the best-known prayers of...

rumours of coming troubles in the East which are just now agitating the German capital, reminds his readers that on March. 2nd, 1885, Prince Bismarck delivered a speech on the...

of Mr. Gladstone's calculations in his Nineteenth Century paper on " Electoral Facts." "Mr. Gladstone," he says, " for reasons which he explains, deals only with 584 seats." But...

the Phoenix Park, to a passionate advocacy of the amnesty movement on behalf of those whom he called the Irish political prisoners,—in other words, dynamiters who had risked...

vindicates all the principles which to Liberal Unionists are the dearest of all principles; but we have pointed out elsewhere that democratic principles, though Liberals accept...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 95 to 95k.

despite the apparent civilisation of Bangkok, with its electric lights, tram-cars, and fine buildings, is a purely Oriental State. The King is despotic, even in details ; the...

the materialism of Charles Bradlaugh to the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, and now believes in the power of the Mahatmas to " precipitate " letters from the recesses of the...

illustration of what the highest culture,—spiritual, moral, and intellectual,—really means, from the life and mind of the late Dean of St. Paul's :—" One name will you suffer me...

Dominion is wonderfully quick. The mails; for example, which left Yokohama, in Japan, on August 19th, arrived in Vancouver at noon on August 29th, and in Ontario at 9 on...

has been compelled to resign her office as consulting entomo- logist to the Royal Agricultural Society. According to a statement in the Times, confirmed in great part by a...

Sunday, August 2nd, at the beginning of the Oxford summer session for the students of the University Extension movement, and his eloquent sermon is fully re- ported in last...

LORD HERSCHELL ON LIBERALISM. L ORD HERSCHELL made an admirable speech at Swansea last Saturday, with the political drift of almost every sentence of which we fully concur,...

many sides the history of the Italian Republics ; but there is one important difference. There is the same struggle of the citizens to govern themselves, without facing the...

M R. GLADSTONE'S electoral computations are shown to be in some respects inexact. On his first method of calculation, where he takes the 89 British seats which have been filled...

T HOUGH the various investigations now being held before the Public Accounts Committee, the Com- mittee of the Lower House on Privileges and Elections, and the Committee of the...

THE importance of the recent incident at Constanti- .1 nople about the passage of a Russian ship through the Dardanelles, has, we feel convinced, been gravely exaggerated ; and...

on its " Village Commissioner," the writer whom it has sent into the Eastern Counties to report on the condition of the labourers, and the reasons which are inducing them to...

John Bunyan, "he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little...

Sunday at the Hall of Science, Old Street, in which she renounces the Materialism of the National Reformer for the Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, is in many ways a significant...

W E do not exactly see why it would be immoral to punish the editor of the Bangabasi if convicted of printing a treasonable article, as at least one of our contemporaries...

M OST animals have such a dislikeof solitude, that nothing less than some form of social banishment enforced by their species can ever induce them to seek loneliness and...

RATIONALISTIC ANATHEMAS. [TO TEE EDIrOlt OF THE " SPFCTATOR."1 Siu,—Mr. Matthews accuses me of writing "in a heated and reckless temper." Let us see how he writes himself. He...

1_10 THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Poston Crane, holds that " if the Church once admits the necessity for her doctrine to be consistent with...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In your interesting criticism of Professor Oliver Lodge's paper on " Time "—a paper read at the recent meeting of the British...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—I have only just seen the Spectator of August 15th, in which Mr. Lloyd Evans writes to inform your readers that " Mr. Chamberlain had...

—O bright and unforgotten love— Once in the circuit of the year, I bend thy lonely grave above. There, where steep soars the virgin hill, And the blue channel-waters roll, I go...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Dr. Strahan—vide article, " Coddling Criminals "—has really made an astonishing statement, " in the fact that in the prison and...

THE JOURNAL OF A YOUNG NATURALIST.' THE narratives of precocious young men and maidens whose fair flower of life fades before it is fully blown, are not generally instructive...

IT is not long since, on the occasion of her death, we wrote of the literary work of Mrs. Craven, but we welcome this trans- • Adelaide G■peee Minatelo. By Mrs. Augustus Craven,...

WE review this story separately, not because we think it specially able as a study of character, or specially impressive as a chapter of incident, but because it is the not...

great part the city has played in the commercial history of America—indeed, of the world—it may be doubted whether New York has any considerable claim to be ranked among...

St. Clair has compiled an interesting book. His subject is the most attractive in the whole range of archaeology. Not only is Palestine the special land of ruins and buried...

As a rule, the Magazines, light and heavy, are very dull this month. The exception is the Nineteenth Century, which has somehow contrived to avoid the effects of the...

and certainly instructive text-book this. Analogies and comparisons are pointed out, and the reader is persuaded to be observant; and this is a step in the right direc- tion,...

(Seeley and Co.)—So very much has been written about Africa of late, that one is glad to note that Dr. Pruen does not claim for his book that it is a specially ambitious one,...

be, above all things, a " practical " work, dealing exhaustively with the construction, arrangement, and management of fresh- water and marine aquaria ; and it is most...

and Co.)—This is a thoroughly comprehensive manual of what we may call analytical geology, going in more for the microscopical, mineralogical, and chemical structure, as the...

edition of Miss Rossetti's poems. It will be welcome to many whose hearts were won long ago by " Goblin Market," and who have not ceased to admire the delicate fancy, the...

an uncanny story of what may be called hypnotism. A German girl, of noble birth, but very poor, goes to live as companion to a French bourgeoise, who has inherited great wealth....

Purves, M.A. Edited, with Introduction, by Evelyn Abbott, M.A. (Percival and Co.)—Mr. Pnrves, a scholar of no little eminence, spent many years on this book, but did not live to...

best thing in Quits is the contrast which " Cecil Dunstan " draws between the unaffected girl who has imbibed the freedom and generosity of Colonial life, and her London...

Dna. 3 vols. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta )—Mr. Dutt devotes the first of his three volumes to what he calls the " Vedic and Epic Ages." The first includes the six...

This is a sufficiently amusing book. A. club of bachelors who promise celibacy, and one after another commit matrimony, furnishes the main idea. This is not exactly novel, but...

is a new edition of a work which originally ap- peared just a quarter of a century ago, and was, indeed, the first of the highly popular "Pen and Pencil Series." It was written...