" T HE mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small." For a whole year the States of Europe listened callously to the cries of the Armenians, whom they were bound...

THE POWERS AND GREECE. W E are painfully dissatisfied with the present position of Great Britain in Eastern Europe, and we believe that the dissatisfaction is shared by a large...

the individuality, rather than from the policy, of the German Emperor. He is displaying a character with which it is most difficult for diplomatists to deal, and which is not...

T HE Report which the Executive Committee of the National Liberal Federation is to submit to the annual meeting at Norwich next Thursday week, must have cost that Committee some...

W E recommend Mr. John Mackenzie's paper in the Contemporary Review—" The Chartered Company in South Africa "—to the most earnest attention of our readers, and of the...

speech at the Lord Mayor's dinner to Mr. Bayard has not received the attention it deserved. In his opinion the greatest merit of Mr. Bayard has not been his admirable official...

T HE silent process is so nearly finished that we suspect few of our readers have even noticed how complete is the effacement of the Little Powers revealed by the recent...

strike on the North-Eastern Railway, though it removes for the moment a great public inconvenience, has been the occasion of some hostile comment. Undoubtedly the surrender of...

I N a delightful book on the place of landscape in poetry, by Mr. Palgrave, formerly Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, published by Messrs. Macmillan, we have an...

would benefit them most, minute additional pensions of from 7s. to 10s. a week, can hardly be obtained. Even the charitable dislike to bind themselves to perpetual giving, and...

D URING the winter a bird found its way into the windows of the London game shops, which early naturalists, who had only seen Oriental drawings of it, thought only existed in...

[TO Till EDITOR OF THC " SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Allow a constant reader to draw your attention to a similarity in superstitions that exists between the Welsh and Scotch people. I...

[TO TITS EDITOR OP THE •• Bract/ave.:9 SIR, —In a short review, in the Spectator of January 30th, of a book entitled "Six Months in Jerusalem," by Rev. Charles Biggs, you...

[TO THC EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Referring to your very interesting review of Mr. Lang's book on Jacobitism, in the Spectator of February 13th, I beg you to allow me...

MR. RHODES AND THE CAPE DUTCH. [TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following translation of an article in Ons Land of February 6th, the organ of Cape Afrikander...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I cannot aspire ever to be again—like my own " Pastorals of France " of twenty years ago—so " full of genuine simplicity" as to...

[To THE EDITOR OY THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In the Spectator of February 6th a quotation is given from the "Essays and Addresses of the late Sir John Russell Reynolds, Bart.,...

[To THZ EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR.”) Sin,—I think that a little account of our dog Tim' may be• of interest to some of your readers. 'Tim' was a well-bred,. good-tempered...

SIR MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF'S DIARY.* IT is no wonder that diaries by any one with a gift for reflecting either his own state of mind, or that of his fellow- men and the society...

[TO THZ EDITOR 07 TKR " SPECTATOR:"] Sin,—Among your many interesting accounts of dogs, squirrels, and other animals I think I have not read of a talking starling, and it may...

It is therefore quite in keeping that although her monuments and natural features are the most ancient and unchanging in the world, yet a • Handbook for $ppt. Plinth Edition,...

WE have here the story, most admirably told by Sir William Hunter, of one of the finest Englishmen who ever devoted the indomitable energy and superb moral and mental endow-...

THE three hundred and fifty illustrations which adorn or deform these weighty volumes form their most curious feature. The book, despite its dignified title, abounds with...

Miss KINGSLEY has given us a very striking and original book of travels. Most travellers digest, abstract, and edit their original notes, diaries, and impressions into a...

Tan number of the Fortnightly Review for March ie an unusually good one,—that is to say, there is hardly an essay in it which in one way or another will not repay careful...

this book Professors A. Marquand and A. L. Frothingham, of Princeton University, have collected a great mass of information from prehistoric Egyptian times down to America of...

Sim was a fine, vigorous, honest Englishman. with no special intellectual gifts, but a clear judgment, common-sense, and strong principle. His mind was firmly set on the...

The Quarto (Virtue and Co.) is a magazine issued in connection with the Slade School, and contains an interesting account by Professor Brown of one of his students, Miss...

Hall.) —One hardly recognises the author of "The Englishman of the Rue Cain," in a political brochure ; nevertheless, Mr. Wood has mastered the politics and the circumstances...

of its kind, but it nevertheless deserves a warm welcome. It contains a wonderful amount of political, constitutional, and statistical information of all kinds. An analysis of...

introduction to this collection Mr. Mabie rightly gives as the characteristic of ballad poetry, the quality of giving the story pure and simple ; the moralising being left to...

Nutt.)—Mr. Brook has put together here frag- ments, with now and then a complete poem, of the Greek lyrists. There are between thirty and forty of them, with some popular...

Rev. G. Herbert Smith. (S.P.C.K.)—The M(iab are a division of the SakaLava tribe which inhabits the west coast of Madagascar. If the novas, who have, or had, a nominal...

Chnrton Collins has given us an interesting collection of short pieces of verse. His aim is not to make an anthology of all the greatest things in our lyric verse, but rather to...

rovius by M. Douglas Fairbairn. (T. Fisher lJnwin.)—The author tells us that he visited the island in 1855, and again in 1876. He describes the place and its people with...

Sydenham Clarke, R.E., F.R.S. (Murray.)—In this volume are collected the most important letters and speeches of the late Lord Carnarvon dealing with the Empire and its...

Q.C., M.P., and Frederic Kenyon. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—These well-printed volumes contain the whole of Mr. Browning's poems, dramatic and lyrical, didactic and narrative....

—As it will probably be some time before we shall get an authentic story of the fighting now going on in Cuba from a combatant on the Spanish or the Cuban side, we may take...

interesting set of artistic posters. He has also given us some of Cheret's original studies, which for their ease and power are marvellous. Mr. Penfield's own drawing of himself...

Co.) —These collections of prints are unbound, and will be useful to those who wish to study prints from the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century....

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