INDEX. FROM JULY 61h TO DECEMBER 28th, 1895, INCLUSIVE. 132 508 476 718 682 928 110 6% 202 811 357 891 297 233 550 12 432 718 169 513 73 511 483 686 630 204 924 332 133 553...

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All the Cabinet Ministers in the Commons have been, of course, re-elected without a poll, so that it was possible on Wednesday to pass the Factory Bill, with Mr. Chamberlain's...

the Cabinet); Mr. Gerald Balfour (Mr. Arthur Balfour's brother) is to be Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, also without a seat in the Cabinet ; Sir John Gorst is...

cluding one for Captain Naylor-Leyland, the Conserva- tive Member for Colchester, who, it will be remembered, embraced Gladetonianism after a kind of instantaneous conversion....

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to all expectation he has given strength and vitality to the hereditary principle in the Legislature by adding four new Peers to the House of Lords. Imagine Lord Grey in the...

T4 ORD SALISBURY'S Ministry is now complete, and is, we regret to say, the largest Cabinet of recent years, number- ing nineteen in all. In our opinion representative and...

by drawing attention to the fact that certain posts are held by members of the Premier's family. If, how- ever, the facts are fairly examined, we do not believe that it can...

chiefly devoted to the task of insisting that the appeal to the country must be on " the annihilation of the House of Lords as regards its legislative preponderance." This is an...

to the Russo-Chinese loan,—one telegram dOlaring the negotia- tions to have collapsed, another intimating that they are proceeding. On Friday, however, a Renter's telegram from...

a . notable proposal. At a public meeting held in Sydney on Monday, he announced that he intended to introduce a Bill for putting an end to deadlocks between the two Houses. The...

genius for diplomacy possessed by the Turk,. actually contriving to use the serious state of things that has been developed in Macedonia as a weapon of defence. The Sultan has,...

raised by the scales of the Tapers and Tadpoles, to be able to record a really heroic deed. On Monday, a labourer named Arthur Rutter had occasion to go down a well connected...

the new treaty of delimitation between France and China. The French Press, however, declares that M. Hanotaux has made a great coup. The _Republique Franfaise, for example,...

Ministry of War on Wednesday. On the morning of June 29th, several thousand Hovas made a determined attack on the French advanced post at Tsarasoatra. The attack was, however,...

and to his present constituency in Midlothian, in a letter to Sir John Cowan, dated last Monday, in which he congratulates the country, and especially the Scotch portion of it,...

account which Lord Halifax gave to the Church Union on Thursday week of his visit to Rome, the sympathy which the Pope and Cardinal Rampolla gave to his eager desire for a...

South Africa by its special commissioner on board the Tantallon Castle' at the time Mr. Gladstone was a passenger on it, of Mr. Gladstone's remarks, first with reference to...

at Eastbourne, on Saturday last, at the age of seventy. He was one of the ablest of our living biologists, the leader of the Agnostics, and the most combative of the critics of...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 107007i.

to the people of England, signed by the Duke of Westminster, the Bishops of Durham and Chester, Lord Thring, and Mr. Tom Hughes, appealing to them to adopt a. broader policy for...

THE DEATH OF TORYISM. W E read political history very differently from Mr. Morley. He regards the new Administration as registering the death of Liberal Unionism. We read. it...

T ORD ROSEBERY, in default of a better cry, is 4 going to raise that of " Down with the Lords ! " If he can have his way, it is to be the foremost question before the country. "...

that it scored something by resigning and not dissolving. And it did score thus much, that the moment it became the Opposition, it obtained all the advantage which a democracy...

W E have no wish to exaggerate the difficulty with France that has arisen over the new Franco-Chinese Treaty. It may well be that the buffer-State was not an ideal arrangement,...

The authors of these melancholy predictions seem to forget that in one most important respect the new Govern- ment and the old are exactly alike. Both depend for their...

the Times on Monday last opened with the statement that " a steady, though slow, improvement in the state of commerce and finance has been perceptible since the beginning of the...

P ROFESSOR HUXLEY has not lived to conclude his reply to Mr. Balfour's book on "The Foundations of Belief " in the Nineteenth Century for March. He had proposed to himself to...

W E have noticed in another column the pleasant and readable article on " Intellectual Detachment," con- tributed by Sir Herbert Maxwell to this month's Nineteenth Century. But...

M R. HERBERT SPENCER publishes, in this month's number of the Contemporary Review, a serious con- sideration of the origin and development of dancing and dancers. It falls into...

CROMWELL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. [To THZ EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May I add a few words in support of your (and surely the more general) view of Cromwell's attitude in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Yon demur to Mr. Gladstone's epithet of "impious," as applied to the "principle " of gambling. May I hazard a conjecture as to his...

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[To ins EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR." J Srn,--I am tempted by the letter which appears in the Spectator of June 29th, to think that others besides myself are interested in the...

(To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I have read with much interest your article in the Spectator of June 22nd on "The Decay of the Giant Beasts." First I wish to thank the...

[TO TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE;No one speaking from experience will say that Mr. G. F, Watts, or the writer of your article on this subject in the Spectator of June...

THE LETTERS OF COLERIDGE.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] THE chief interest, we think, of these letters is less the light which they throw on Coleridge as a poet, a humourist, or even as...

of what Mr. Harry Jones has done, and is happily still doing, will welcome this pleasant little volume, in which the author relates some of his • Fifty Years ; or, Dead Leaves...

THE most sceptical of Mr. Tarver's readers will, at all events, agree with him that the well-known French novelist, who, under the bold and comprehensive category of " one of...

THE new volume of The Dictionary of National Biography includes the life of Mr. Parnell. The task of putting on record the story of the great Irish leader was an exceedingly...

redeeming feature in the reputation of the unspeakable Tark that, in the midst of all the destruction with which he is credited, he has left practically untouched the church of...

THE most interesting article in this month's magazines is Captain Lugard's "England and France in the Nile Valley" in the National Review. Captain Lugard urges, with the...

and Co.)—Mrs. Gamlin, having done her best for her client, Lady Hamilton, finds what we must confess to be a more hopeful subject in George Romney. It is barely possible that...

the work of the clergy in 1765. The two are specimens of archaic and modern Gaelic of the Manx variety. We do not profess to have an opinion on the comparative merits of the...

Unwin.)—We do not propose to criticise this book in detail. That it is preposterously long is manifest at once. More than eight hundred closely printed pages are too much for...

Week by Week. By Fraser Cornish. (Macmillan and Co.)— This interesting little book challenges no comparison with Keble's "Christian Year," which is a series of (for the most...

Sons.)—This "fifth " edition of a useful book contains some additions and improvements. The author, in a new appendix, shows the advantages of American leads. He pleads for a...

by Walter Crane. (George Allen.)—Mr. Crane's drawings have been reproduced in " Dallas type." Mr. D. C. Dallas certifies that he has himself printed and engraved them in...

Rev. Alexander Dyer. 3 vols. (Lawrence and Bullen )— Gifford published his edition of Ford, with an introduction of some length, about seventy years ago. His work was revised,...