have been lost by the Unionists this week, one in the Frome division of Somerset, where Mr. Barlow has defeated Lord Alexander Thynne by 299 votes (5,062 against 4763), though a...

T HE brightness of the Coronation festivities at Moscow was entirely marred on Saturday by an accident so destructive of human life that it resembles rather the accident in the...

Roman Catholic policy of the present Pope in setting his Cardinals to work to re-examine the question of the validity or in- validity of our Anglican orders,—which Mr. Gladstone...

Turkish Government, after a brief interval of hesitation, during which a project of selling the island appears to have been discussed, decided to put down "the insurrection " by...

case.

With the " SrEcrkron" of Saturday, June 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Wales's horse 'Persimmon,' the last occasion on which a Prince of Wales had won the race having been one hundred and eight years ago—in 1788—with a horse called Sir Thomas.' It...

the Derby allowed the Benefices Bill to be considered on Wednes- day afternoon. It was, however, bitterly opposed by a small group of Tories, who, rather than see the sacred...

of the different parties of French Monarchists, who have been re- conciled by the intervention of the Empress Eugenie, intend to hold a great conference in August, and that...

a rapprochement between the English Church and Rome, though we should have thought that the more Romanising the English Church becomes,—and we have no belief that much will be...

to power. It is believed that they will have a majority of 100 in the Democratic Convention at Chicago, that they will reject . Mr. Cleveland, and that they will accept a...

House over the Derby-day was not supported with much animation even by those who brought it forward (Mr. Muntz and Major Rasch), and when it was re- sisted by Mr. Bartley and...

sixty or so prisoners condemned to minor sentences for their . share in the Johannesburg insurrection, on condition of their paying their fines, £2,000 each, and remaining...

is a good one, if, instead of taking the form of some dull monument to his merits as an officer and an Indian politician, it takes the form of some monument on Box Hill to the...

Russrll Reynolds, recently President of the College of Physicians, and a specialist in nervous diseases of unusual reputation. Besides his professional skill he was a man who...

of Commons of which we do not at all approve. Women waitresses have been started to serve the tea on the river terrace instead of the conventional waiters of former times. They...

his treatment of the "aid to Italy" side of the argument. He analysed the Italian Green-book, and showed that the order to advance was telegraphed to Cairo the day after the...

a conference held at Leeds to oppose the policy of the Government in the Soudan. Mr. Morley, analysing the reasons given for the advance, said that the first object alleged was...

the Royal Institution on " John Wesley : Some Aspects of the Eighteenth Century," the chief point of which was a defence of the eighteenth century. Though it was a brutal....

recently discussed in connection with the work of saving life, is well illustrated by some recent occurrences in Egypt. Cholera is raging in that country. We do not believe the...

British colony in Paris, marked by all his usual literary skill and by a little of his habit of saying pleasant things. It is rather strong, for example, to describe Paris as an...

New Consols (4) were on Friday, 1131.

THE ACCIDENT AT MOSCOW. T HE awful accident at Moscow, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of those which in modern times have been caused by human agency, furnishes one...

of resignation and panic with which Mr. Gladstone's letter on the subject of Anglican orders has been received, especially by eminent Nonconformists, in this country, has...

and Ava bade farewell on Tuesday to the English colony in Paris would be interesting if it were only for one terrible sen- tence. Whatever view men may take of Lord Dufferin's...

die very slowly. It was not unnatural that when the English middle class governed the whole region of politics, and the secret desire of the English middle class was to live...

W HAT has happened to the Spanish army, only recently reorganised by King Alfonso XII., and supposed to be equal for its numbers to any army in Europe, to afflict it with the...

annex Madagascar, and to declare it a French colony with all the consequences, and a Bill to carry this into effect has been introduced into the Chamber. That France is wise in...

over the Derby- day was more interesting than the debate. It exhibited some notable instances of consistency and inconsistency. Among the former were Mr. Morley, Sir Henry...

THE usual fate of severely practical measures, which afford little opportunity for rhetoric and partisan recrimination, has befallen the Light Railways Bill. Public opinion...

AI R. STEAD may well congratulate himself on "the wide diffusion of taste for good literature," of which he has produced evidence by the sale, "within less than six months," of...

M R. W. H. MALLOCK, in a controversy which he is waging in the Contemporary Review against Mr. Hobson upon the old "condition of England " dispute, raises incidentally a...

V ISITORS to the London Zoo must often be struck with the difference in condition and plumage of the various species of birds in the collection. Some, such as the water- fowl,...

SIR HERCULES ROBINSON. [TO THE EDITOR OR IRE " EPECTATOR.”1 Sin,—The impending arrival in this country of Sir Hercules Robinson leads me to beg you to insert a few lines about...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — I have read the article entitled " The Mind and the Body," in the Spectator of May 30,h, with some surprise, for the writer of it...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "spzeTvros..] SIR,—I send you as nearly as possible in the words it was told to me an Arabic account of the origin of rabies which I expect was unknown...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:1' Sin,—May I be allowed to express the grateful thanks of some of your readers to your correspondent who wrote concerning the Scilly Isles in...

THE ACADEMY.—III. THE experiment of placing a full-sized model of Mr. Harry Bates's equestrian statue of Lord Roberts in the Quadrangle of Burlington House is an interesting...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sns, — The tenth anniversary of the institution of the Mission of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Assyrian (or " Nestorian") Christians...

[To TRY EDITOR OF THE “SrrcrATOa."] SIR, I notice that you state in the Spectator of May 30th that at the Coronation of the Czar the highest place among the ecclesiastics was...

Yates ? quid orat, de paters thought of forming novum This library, and lo! opimae temple-warming. Apollinem To keep your memory green I Fundens liquorem P Non Behold me...

Churchmen and the Nonconformist Conscience," in line 17, for "isms" read "inns," and in line 26, for "ten years ago," read "two years ago."]

PROFESSOR RAMSAY ON ST. PAUL.* "IT is impossible," writes Professor Ramsay in his preface, "to find anything to say about the Acts that has not been said before by somebody."...

Ma. CANTOS; is always delightful in his studies of childhood. He has a special genius for interpreting that waywardness and vividness and changefulness in children which Mr....

IN the present handsome reprint of Pepys's Diary, of which the first seven volumes have appeared, we are for the first time allowed to see all, or practically all, that Pepys...

THE handsome volume before us, though issued during the winter season, is not one which is likely to be thrown aside by those interested in its contents as soon as the fine...

THE now venerable but indefatigable writer of this work has produced one or two livelier books, but none more interesting from the personal point of view, and none more...

BY much the most interesting and important article in the magazines of June is Mr. Seymour Fort's upon " The True Motive and Reason of Dr. Jameson's Raid," in the Nineteenth...

Archer has collected his theatrical criticisms of the year in this volume, the third, we observe, of its kind. They mean, of course, much more to those who saw the plays...

(A. Southey and Co.)—So much has been written lately about Archbishop Laud that it is not necessary to do more than briefly describe the contents of this volume. The editor...

of Jose Echegaray. By Hannah Lynch. (John Lane.)—Miss Lynch laments that the Spanish dramatist lacks the "humorous de- pravity" of the French play-writers, and has "no...

P. Hamlin. (Longmans and Co.)—Tho good arrangement of this book makes the mass of information it contains upon the architec- ture, both of Europe and Asia, easily available....

of blank paper we come upon a lithograph by Mr. C. H. Shannon, called "Delia." There is a fine largeness of form and treatment in this drawing which is a great contrast to the...

of fiction, the Zeit-Geist Library (Hutchinson and Co.), viz., The Zeit- Geist, by L. Dougall, and Chiffon's Marriage, by "Gyp." Tho first is a clever study, but of characters...

will be found of varying interest to the general reader. Part of it will be more or less over his head, as, for example, the chapters on " Plato's Doctrine of Being" and "...

Cox.)—We have here a curious picture of Italian life, not without a certain photographic minuteness in some of its parts. Tito, selfish and indolent, content to be the great man...

P. Putnam's Sons.) — This book gives a good general view of the art and spirit of the Renaissance, and will prove useful to those who have not before taken a general survey of...

Disturbing Elements. By Mabel C. Birchenough. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Disturbing Elements is not likely to cause any mental excitement in the mind of the reader, but for all...

technical articles,—one by Mr. Staadage upon the chemistry of oil in painting, the other by Mra:sa. Lea Merritt and Professor Roberts-Austen, on the manipulation of the "...

have not been able to discern the connecting thread which runs, or should ran, through this story. The scone is laid first in a Pacific island, where some one finds a magic...

Keane. (E. Stanford.)—This is a volume of the new issue of " Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel." The book is largely changed, being brought up to date from recent...