M R. GLADSTONE, at the reassembling of the House of Commons on Wednesday, informed the Members present that negotiations with Russia were still proceeding, and that he bad...

THE REMAINING AFGHAN TROUBLES. T HE papers are a little too much in a hurry in shouting "Peace." It is peace, we believe, and the frontier difficulty may be considered over,...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at Birmingham is the speech of a statesman, whereas several of his previous speeches were the speeches of an agitator. We do not mean to suggest either...

M R. TREVELYAN'S speeches at Selkirk and Galashiels should be studied by all the leading men in the new constituencies, whether Liberals or Tories. They pointed out with....

M R. GIFFEN, in the able paper which he has contributed to this month's Contemporary on Trade Depression, leaves us in one perplexity. If his theory, which is also Mr....

T 01W RA.NDOLPH CHURCHILL has never displayed I the cleverness, the impudence, and the utter want of political mind, which distinguish him among politicians, more distinctly...

home to us that English society is about to sustain a real, if inevitable, loss. The toast of "The American Minister" has been duly honoured at a Mansion House dinner, and the...

T HE cheap fun levelled at the Society for Psychical Research will not prevent those who really care, we will not say as yet to understand, but even to trace the exact outline...

W E wonder why Englishmen always attach an idea of ridicule to municipal patriotism, especially wheu avowed or defended with rhetorical eloquence. They respect patriotism in...

THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE SICK. I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIE,—Your suggestion that a short Bill should at once be brought in to suspend for two years the...

the "Disfranchisement of the Sick" concludes by saying that "an engine-minder who goes to the doctor because a spark has flown in his eye" is not a pauper and, should not be...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR 1 consequence of your article upon the medical clause of the Registration Act, I beg to furnish you with the following information. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I do not think it would serve any useful purpose if I were to ask you to allow me to prolong the controversy in your columns on Church...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Yon unconsciously misrepresent an eminent statesman. Speaking at Haxey in the autumn of last year, Mr. James Lowther vehemently denied...

[To TILE EDITOR Oy THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sta,—In your issue of May 23rd, which I have only seen to-day, you did me the honour of noticing my paper on the above subject, read before...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE 'SPECTATOR.'] Sts,—Having read with interest the excellent article in the Spectator of May 16th, on the report of the Commission on the Housing of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0R:1 SIE,—In allowing me to refute Mr. Archer Gurney's " corroboration " of your statement of Scripture, you reiterate the statement itself,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The method adopted by " Topsy " in opening the door is not only simple, as mentioned by your correspondent, but, I think, not...

A WALK IN SPRING. A VOICE allured me on by vale and stream, I heard the ring-dove cooing in the trees, And stept light-hearted in a happy dream, Fanned by the April breeze....

THE INSTErtn.e; OF PAINTERS IN WATERCOLOURS. [SECOND AND LAST NOTICE.] THOSE of our readers who have seen our first notice of this Gallery will doubtless have been somewhat...

FRANK BUCKLAND.* THE charm of this book consists in the strong impression it gives us that Frank Buckland, with all his earnestness of character and scientific zeal, took his...

an easier task in dealing with the historical, than with the poetical and the prophetical, books of the Old Testament. Excepting the ancient songs and ballads which are...

Faom a writer who attributes great importance in novels to the plot, and who, if we do not misremember, has spent a certain amount of scorn on claims to recognition as literary...

IT is highly probable that the publication of this work marks a stage in the history of the Congo and of Africa ; it is morally certain that it marks a stage in the career of...

IN An American Politician Mr. Marion Crawford has given us another of those sketches for novels with which he now seems content to come before the public. We cannot help...

Tax Magazines are decidedly dull this month. There is no paper in any one of them of the first class, and not many are readable at all. The best by far is Miss Dorothy Tennant's...

The Magazine of Art ; June. (Cassell and Co.)—The first article is on "Handel and his Portraits." Mr. R. A. M. Stephenson brings together six likenesses of the great musician,...