T HE old story that Lord Salisbury had signed a treaty with Italy by which he made Great Britain a party to the Triple Alliance has cropped up again, probably because the...

annual meeting of the Women's Liberal Unionist Asso- ciation on Wednesday, after expressing his hearty sympathy with Miss Tod's attack on the English Nonconformists for...

the French Chamber. Any workman will be authorised. by law to have certain deductions made from his wages, and if he does, will be entitled after thirty years to a pension,...

about evicted tenants. He on Thursday accepted a clause proposed by Mr. T. W. Russell, under which tenants evicted since May 1st, 1879, may purchase their former holdings under...

case.

and fear is felt in London that very great numbers will take refuge in this country, which has the unique attraction of being exempt from the conscription. It is even asserted...

carat Case," in which Sir W. Gordon-Cumming, Bart., asks damages for slander from Mrs. Wilson, her son, Mr. A. S. Wilson, and others, for stating, as he alleges, that he had...

yesterday week, in defending himself from the charge of political inconsistency for now supporting Free Education, which in 1885 he had condemned. In the first place, he said....

and the Daily News that the Dean of Worcester (Dr. Gott, formerly Vicar of Leeds) has been offered, and has accepted, the Bishopric of Truro, which Dr. Wilkinson has been com-...

are reported dangerously ill. Sir J. A. Macdonald, Premier of Canada, has been struck down by paralysis of the brain, from overwork and excitement during the recent election,...

yesterday week, dwelt on the great advantages of the strict alliance between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists, and on the honourable way in which the Conserva- tives...

writes to the Times of Monday a long and, as it seems to us, very unjust attack on the Government, in which he finds fault with everything, including even the- courtesy with...

Cavendish's death and that of Sir Robert Fowler, there has been no disposition on the part of the Gladstonians to pro- voke a contest. Mr. Victor Cavendish has been returned for...

GladstAmian majority, and no tendency whatever in the electors to resent Mr. Gladstone's declaration in favour of disestablishing the Church of Scotland. Mr. Dunn, the...

band of brigands, said to be Greeks and Mahout- medane of Bulgaria, on Saturday stopped an express-train near Teherkesskeui by removing rails, robbed all the pas- sengers of...

New Consols (2.1) were on Friday 94 to P51.

and his final lecture was full of a weighty and impressive eloquence which will make the public very anxious to read the course in print. The most significant point of general...

delimitation of their African possessions has been laid before the Cortes, and will, it is said, be accepted. The Republicans profess discontent in . order to deprive the...

yesterday's Times on the Westminster Chapter-House, which the late Dean (Dr. Stanley) had it so much at heart to restore, appeals to the British public for the relatively small...

London County Council on that body's finance. Broadly, the Council now owes £17,045,000—the whole debt of London being nearly 240,000,000—its annual expenditure is 22,844,000,...

the Blanco Encalada ' was sunk by the torpedoes of the Almirante Lynch' and the Almirante Condell,' these two vessels, with their comrade, the Sargeante Aldea,' attacked the...

THE ENCYCLICAL ON LABOUR. T HE kind of rapture with which English Catholics have received the Encyclical on Labour, is justified by its contents, which are worthy at once of...

I T is quite natural that the story of a secret alliance between Great Britain and Italy should revive, and revive at this time. The period, for the renewal of the Triple...

R. GOSCHEN'S speech on Free Education at St. James's Hall yesterday week has hardly attracted the attention it deserved. It was a very frank admission that, so far as the...

dence with the Queen concerning the Disestablish- ment of the Irish Church, in the new Life of Archbishop Tait by Dr. Davidson and Dr. Benham, presents the Queen's political...

I T may, we think, be fairly assumed that the dispute between Great Britain and Portugal as to their respective rights in Africa has come at last to an end. The Portuguese...

which have just been published for Ireland, are of very great interest and importance, and in any other democratic country but the United Kingdom they would at once lead to...

longer confined to the country of its origin. It spreads as fast abroad as it does at home. The influence of the successful strike among the omnibus men of Paris has been seen...

I N the New Review. . for June, there is a very remarkable paper by Professor Garner on the language of apes, which he has been studying with the help of the phonograph, and of...

cannot account, the paper on South Africa quoted as an authority in our article of last week, was attributed to the Civil and Military Gazette, so far as we know, a non-existent...

T HE opinion which we expressed on April 25th as to the cause of the interest felt in sensational trials is fully justified by the baccarat case which has this week preoccupied...

I N a paper contributed to the Nineteenth Century of this month, Mr. Hamilton Aide, who records his impressions of American society, offers a tribute of warm admiration to the...

T HE power of locality to form tastes, and its impotence to subdue character, are shown with curious completeness in the cases of Gilbert White and William Clobbett. The same...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPROTATOE.":1 Sin,—If the belief in miracles were attended by no more difficulties than those felt by your correspondent, Mr. Dobell, theological...

SCOTTISH CHURCH PROPOSALS. [To THE EDITOR OP THH "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Moderator of the Church of Scotland has been pleading at great length for union, but the Presbyterians...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article upon genius, in which you challenge my conclusions as to the effect of neurotic conditions upon thought, you state with...

THE PARTING AND THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. BENEATH the twin grey summits oozed a spring, And trickled through the brown and spongy moss, And wore a channel down the stony fell;...

[To THE EllifOlt OF THE " SPEcTATOTc.1 SIR,—There seems to me to be another and a better ground for the widespread belief in the possibility of the conversion of other metals...

THE LIFE OF BROWNING.t MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR has written with great depth of feeling and great simplicity, and every one who has felt a strong interest in Browning's singular and...

[To THE EMITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent is substantially correct about the late Sir R. Anstruther. He did stammer,—Nrcu badly in early life, as one of his...

Summer lies bound in her tangled hair, When the grass on the hills is in waving feather, And the scent of the orchis is in the air, And the lilies lie in fragrant masses, White...

IN the year 1815, Cardinal Newman was received by the Pope himself into the Church of Rome. From that time, he tells us in his immortal Apologia, he lived in perfect peace and...

A WORK which purports to contain a classified list of the best fifty thousand available books in every department of science, art, and literature, deserves at least a...

The Sin of least Avelingh was a novel sufficiently unusual, in its subject, in the seriousness of its analysis of character and motive, and in the command shown by its author...

THERE is nothing very striking in the heavier Reviews dila month. Perhaps the paper which will be most read is that by Sir James Johnston on Muneepore in the Nineteenth...

more heartily because it is, we understand, the first instalment of a complete edition of the poet. Little labour has been spent by English scholars on Pindar, who, indeed, lies...

Colonial Office List for 1891. Compiled by John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This annual publication contains a mass of manifold information concerning the...

Co., Limited, Edinburgh.)—The author of this curious little book is the leader of the Home-rule movement in Scotland. His object in writing it is to advocate the revival of a...

Harland and Paul Sylvester. (William Heinemann.)— Mr. Gosse, who edits the curious "International Library" series of books to which this volume belongs, claims for its author,...

Wife." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an undoubtedly clever, and, within limits, successful, attempt to reproduce certain phases of American neo-Puritanism and country life. The...

we have to acknowledge three volumes, David Car and Peter de "Wint, by Gilbert E. Redgrave ; Mulready, by Frederick G. Stephens ; and George Cruikshank, by the same author. Cox...

Applied Chemistry, by T. G. Thorpe, B S.C. (Longmans). Mr. Thorpe gives a list of contributors which, coupled with his own name, sufficiently commends the volume to the notice...

Hubert takes his motto from Thoreau, and, on hie own showing, has tried to live on Thoreauist principles, for his. book is "an attempt to secure bread and 'butter, sunshine and...

—This book does not profess to be a collection of " ana," or to be in any respect fragmentary in character ; on the contrary, the alternative title is "A Popular Subject more...

(Trischler and Co.)—This is a talc of Spain and Secret Societies, and for a fiction which is not written with the intention of producing any great effect, there is a great deal...

(Mac- millan.)—Professor Church has, in a greater measure than perhaps any contemporary writer, the gift of narrating a simple story in English that is at once simple and...

that Cartwright, the hero in Scot-Free, is made to commit, is certainly surprising and unexpected, and, we cannot help thinking, absurd ; men of his typo, however unscrupulous,...