Mid- lothian asking for re-election, but it does not give any clear indication of the policy of the Government. He explains his reason for turning out the late Government, which...

T HE Government is formed, but no one seems to have the least idea what it is going to do first. Mr. Gladstone keeps his secret, and while one set of men declare that a plan of...

Local Government Board is, we suppose, a guarantee that Mr. Chamberlain is to have his way completely in relation to the policy affecting allotments and small holdings,—unless,...

one, especially as including Lord Spencer (the President of the Council), whose adherence to a Cabinet universally believed to be a Home-rule Cabinet, is a great puzzle to the...

yet know—and most important are those of Mr. Courtney as Chairman of Committees, a duty for which he seems ex- pressly fitted ; of Sir Lyon Playfair as Vice-President of the...

any case.

both of them wish to give the Government a hearty support on all subjects on which they honestly can do BO, and not to play the part of " candid ft iends." We have said...

is remark- able.that none of the gentlemen selected, except perhaps Sir E. Denison-Beckett, has done any public service. Sir Charles Millais the banker, and Sir H. Allsopp the...

have succeeded. The Sultan has signed a decree appointing Prince Alexander Governor-General of Roumelia for five years, with power to modify the "Organic Statute" of the...

at last. As regards Egypt, they are vague, the Foreign Office only telling him to strengthen the Khedive's Govern- ment, to look to the payment of the Bondholders as the best...

which occurred on board an American ship, the Frank N. Thayer,' of 1,000 tons, Captain Clarke, some seven hundred miles from St. Helena. According to the captain's account, two...

the French Army. The Minister at War, General Boulanger, finding that the officers of two cavalry regiments at Tours expressed anti-Republican sentiments, and avoided the usual...

nego- tiation with China on his hands. The statesmen of Pekin say, and say truly, that the King of Ava was a feudatory of theirs, and sent tribute ; and demand, if we cannot...

exonerates the Provost-Marshal at Mandelay from some of the charges of cruelty brought by the Times' correspondent. He did, the Viceroy telegraphs, extort evidence by the...

charge he had hastily made against the Irish Parliamentary Party of living in debauchery in London, a charge which he admitted that he could not sustain; and Mr. Tom Hughes, the...

Home-rule ; indeed, we doubt very much whether Liberals in any part of the United Kingdom have fully realised what the half-and-half union implied by Home- rule really means....

Chamber for three days, and was marked by great bitterness, the War Minister, General von Schellendorf, even stating that Polish soldiers had been successfully tampered with in...

hold on Ireland. At the meeting held in Dublin on Monday, Mr. Sexton declared that the whole legislative work of the Empire would continue to be challenged until the Irish Ques-...

con- ference on the subject of Free Education was held at the Society of Arts,—Mr. Philip Magnus being the advocate of free educa- tion, while the Rev. J. R. Diggle, the...

the dissolution of the Union with Ireland, in an open meeting, with the Duke of Westminster in the chair, attended by a few Irishmen, but so crowded with loyalists, both Liberal...

which brings out the "Official Year-Book of the Church of England," sends to the papers a statement that the voluntary expenditure of English Churchmen during the twenty- five...

Board the Budget of the year. It is not a pleasant one, the total to be expended by March 25th, 1887, being 21,568,406, or, roughly speaking, a rate on the new and increased...

THE NEW GOVERNMENT. A S we expected, Mr. Gladstone has accepted office, and has, with rather less than tha usual difficulty, formed a working Cabinet. There have been the usual...

I T is at least something gained for the political mind of the day, that Lord Hartington and Sir Henry James should have shown definitively that the power of saying "No" has not...

W E sincerely trust that when Mr. Gladstone's Govern- ment has been formed, and those wretched re-elections have been got through, the Ministry will make of Home-rule their...

1 - 4 ITERARY men can hardly help looking on Mr. Morley's sudden spring into the most important Cabinet office under Mr. Gladstone's Government with a certain amount of pride....

T HE Bishop of Peterborough takes credit to himself, and takes it with good reason, for having been very much earlier in the field of Church Reform than some of those who have...

they have in their own, provided that the period of copyright in a foreign country should never be allowed to exceed that granted in the country of origin. For example, the...

T HERE is a feature in the new situation now arising in the Balkans which has not received much attention in London, but which may possibly be the key to a good deal of...

T HE interest felt in any proposal for lowering the price of butcher's meat is natural enough, for it is the increase in the butcher's bill which middle-class housekeepers...

D R. ROBSON ROOSE discourses in the Fortnightly Review for February on "The Wear and Tear of London," without perhaps adding very much, even from the medical point of view, to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa..—Your correspondent, "A Liberal Land Agent," replies to Mr. Chamberlain's statement that fifty millions sterling have been paid to...

IRISH LANDED PROPERTY. [To THE EDITOR OR THE "SPECTATOR."] S111, - 1 should like, by your favour, to put one or two questions to your correspondent, "A Workman." He evidently...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—I thank you for your courtesy in publishing my former letter. I venture to trespass further on your space in order to answer the...

SIR JOHN MILLAIS" [SECOND NOTICE.] IN our first article on this Gallery, we dwelt chiefly upon the change that had taken place in Sir John Millais's work since his early days of...

CIVILISATION AND PROGRESS.* WE are somewhat surprised that this book, which has now been more than six months before the world, has not attracted a larger share of attention....

A WHIFF of cosmopolitanism is grateful to the sore-tried critic of fiction, after a surfeit of the petty and ultra-feminine realisms of which three out of four modern English...

failed to read the lessons of history, or a man upon whom those of life were thrown away, it was he who, when he had "his own again," made the worst use of it. Charles IL has...

Ma. GOSSE, as our readers are aware, has made a special study of the seventeenth century, and this study has led him to the inquiry which forms the subject of these six...

of making can never be quite repaid,—unless, indeed, the labour itself is a sufficient reward. They are, perhaps, by their very nature capable only of a very limited circulation...

THE Fortnightly is bright this mouth. The political article, "A Radical View of the Irish Crisis," is said to be by a most eminent Radical, and but that events travel so fast,...

THE liberal provision of unmarried people of both sexes, evidently pre-ordained for each other, which is made in this book, almost equals the large-heartedness of Love's Labour...

—As in "Only an Incident," so in Criss-Cross, Miss Litchfield takes up her parable against flirtation. Humphrey Davenant travels across the Atlantic in company with Miss...

THE SCOTCH MAGAZINES.—In the new number of the Scottish Review, the most generally interesting articles are those on "The Scottish Peerage" (a good example of the historical...

Lee has some very sensible remarks to make on the subject of " second-grade " schools. Himself the Head Master of one of those foundations which have been reconstituted on this...

vols. (Bentley.)—Probably Englishmen know less of Malaya than of any other portion of the globe under British dominion or protection, save, perhaps, the West Indies. Who knows...

Trench, and Co.)—This is a story told in a series of letters, and told in such a way that, if a few of the earlier epistles had been moderated in tone, if Frank had not been so...

of Leopold Witte by John T. Betts. (Religious Tract Society.)— This " glance " is really an account of the opinions and execution by burning of Pietro Carnesecchi, a reforming...

Co.)—This "Chronicle of Breton Life" is a story of the old regime. Jeanneton is a farmer's daughter, and being taken up by the great people at the Castle of Kerleonik, is not a...

readable book is a young man who is somewhat of a paragon without being a prig, and is sorely perplexed as to whether or not he shall marry a charming, sensible, and in every...

Washbourne.)—Mr. Robinson tells this story from the Spanish and Catholic point of view. In this, as in other matters, it is a good thing to obey the precept, Audi atteram...

Co.)—Mr. Mackay's novel has something to do with "still waters," more to do with the green-rooms of theatres, and the gathering-places of pressmen and theatrical critics. The...

Society.)—Mr. Dukes, who describes his book by its second title as "Scenes along River and Road in Fah-Kien," has been a missionary in China for some years. He is hopeful about...

curiosities of literature. Lander had discovered some resemblances between the "Paradise Lost" and Du Bartaa and Grotius ; but he was not con- tented with these. To make his...

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MR. SAINTSBURY ON ENGLISH PROSE STYLE.* THERE is nothing, perhaps, which strikes the student more forcibly than the variety and magnificence of our poetical literature....

at least with the name of the great Dane, Ludwig Heiberg, but it is doubtful whether this familiarity extends to the works or life of the man. There is a general impression...

an attractive book. Tastefully got up, pleasantly written, and liberally illustrated, it cannot fail to awaken an interest in the picturesque old Palace, whilst many will learn...

TIIE rather startling title of this book—namely, "The Dead and the Living "—does not, as might be supposed, imply that it treats either of the seen or the unseen, or of the...

IT is amusing to observe the different aspects in which that much-talked-of personage, the peasant-proprietor, comes at present before the British public, according as he is to...

and Wolfe, which was noticed some time ago in these columns, was published in England by Messrs. Macmillan, the name of Francis Parkman was almost unknown on this side of the...