which he declared himself entirely unrepentant for the speeches which gave so much offence in the spring. None the less, the tone was certainly softened, and he did his best to...

p ARMAMENT will not be prorogued till the middle of next week at earliest. The Irish Land Purchase Bill has got over its chief difficulties in the Commons, and will now probably...

and remarkable speech on his miscarried Merchant Shipping Bill. Nothing could be more masterly than his array of the facts and his proof, out of their own months, that the most...

tional Minister. Some two centuries ago a learned English Jesuit wrote a book to prove that the classics were written by monks in the Middle Ages. And when the critics exposed...

case.

asked for on the principle that equality of taxation should mean equality of sacrifice, Mr. Chamberlain assumed that the working- classes pay in per cent, on the income...

week, Mr. H. Fowler's amendment, permitting the Judge to add a flogging to the imprisonment to be inflicted on the wretches who abuse girls under thirteen years of age, was lost...

Wednesday, when Mr. O'Brien read a letter which, as he asserted, had been written by Sir George Errington to Lord Granville on the subject of representations to be made to the...

a farewell which was really a farewell only in form, —being his last speech to the undivided constituency of Bradford. In reality, however, as candidate for the Central Division...

the late Government, and expressed general distrust of Mr. Gladstone's foreign policy. What is matter of more interest, he declared himself against any interference with a...

on a cliff overlooking the Hudson. The public funeral, which began with a private service at Mount M`Gregor, the General's cottage, and proceeded to Saratoga and thence to...

Green, the art of which consisted in the majestic innocence which he affected of any proceeding by the new Government which had invited attack or called for apology. He had...

dimensions every week. It is spreading a panic like the plague itself. On August 5th, there were 4,294 cases reported in Spain and 1,638 deaths. In some of the villages where...

of Sir H. Drummond Wolff's mission, on Wednesday, insisted on two points,—(1), That the Government fully recognise that in the affairs of Egypt they must proceed in concert with...

the Bill, substituting a whipping for imprisonment in the case of offenders under sixteen years of age, and permitting the Court to send them to a reformatory school after the...

brought out at 944. A portion was offered in Germany and a portion in France; but immediately on its being brought out here the price went up to 3 premium. This was made a...

South African Committee, and other bodies, was introduced to the Colonial Secretary, Colonel Stanley, by Mr. Fonder, and urged upon him the necessity of heartily support- ing...

commit offences of the kind dealt with by the Bill on girls, was raised to 13, and the age under which it shall be a misdemeanour, was raised from 13 to 16, a letter from Mr....

a very unsatisfactory way. Miss Neave, the lady who had been six weeks confined in a lunatic asylum on certificates one of which had been signed by Mr. Hatherley, the family...

Bank's request that, on the giving of adequate security, its affairs should be wound-up by voluntary liquidation, the names mentioned as liqnidators being three directors,—Mr....

T ORD SALISBURY'S reply to the Duke of Marlborough on Tuesday should be perfectly satisfactory to men of both parties. If he acts fully up to the spirit of that reply, we, at...

till yesterday week that its course had been dictated by noble motives, we find it next to impossible to hold to that view after reading the shocking paper of that day by the...

S UCH is the title of the first article, written by Mr. Stanley Leighton, in this month's National Review. It is one of the most discreditable electioneering appeals we have...

T T is a curious thing that scandals, like sorrows, always come in battalions. The Weldon case was followed by a crop of lunacy eases in which sane people had been hurried into...

W E augured little good and not a little mischief from the recent change of Government, but we did hope that the change might involve one incidental advantage, the incorpora-...

Secretary of State is at last in sight of port. For a few years back there has been a mild agitation in Scotland over it ; but Englishmen generally have found themselves unable...

M R. LILLY, in a dialogue published in the new number of the Contemporary, which has the merit of much literary finish as well as a very interesting drift, maintains that all...

T WO articles in the magazines of the present month, one by Mr. Mackray in Macmillan, and another by Lord Melgund in the Nineteenth Century, give a clearer and more intelligible...

S INCE the time when the English regicides found a safe asylum at Vevey, Switzerland has always extended a generous hospitality to the political waifs and strays of neigh-...

W HAT magic lies hidden within the dilapidated cover of the old brown volume of "Gerard's Herbal " ! Another England than this of the nineteenth century rises before us as we...

Sta,—I regret to observe a careless expression in my letter of last week, which I beg leave to correct. The phrase "than the hospital pays" should be "than the hospital would...

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sia,—We are agreed in our practical result as regards University College Hospital, but as you have done me the...

[To me EDITCOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,—I have been member of a School Board for more than fourteen years ; but I cannot agree with Mr. Buxton that the diffi;ulties of...

Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Bell, advises "your friends " to inquire "what the physicians and surgeons of the Hotel Dieu in Paris say on the subject of changing the smurs to...

Sia,—Surely Mr. Buxton must see that the sincerity, or other- wise, of those who support the abolition of school fees, is quite beside the question. What is questioned is, not...

r TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The letter of " Ratepayer " on the above subject in your issue of July 25th escaped my attention until it was too late to reply to it...

HORACE. BOOK IL, ODE 16. WHEN the pale moon is wrapt in cloud, And blinding mists the stars enshroud, When on the dark 2Egean shore The bursting surges flash and roar, The...

OF THE " BFBOTATORel Sat,—As one of the Committee for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—a member also of the Victoria Street Society—and of 180 Brompton Road, I write to...

[A copy of Cardinal Newman's poem, "The Dream of Gerontius,"' was given by General Gordon to Frank Power at Khartoum, February 18th, 1884. Deep, incisive pencil-marks had been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to your allusion of the mistranslation of the word " lily " in the Bible, in connection with the above article, may I quote...

THE REHABILITATION OF SIR ELIJAH IMPEY.* IN these volumes Sir James Stephen examines a part of the great Hastings dossier, the case against Sir Elijah Impey, formulated in such...

[TO EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of July 18th, some remarks are made upon my little book, "Prooemia GrEeca." The gentleman who has written about the book...

the dis- passionate, coldly judicial style which marks the great Staff history of the German operations of 1870-71 are almost wholly wanting. There is no military department...

IT is melancholy .to notice a book of considerable promise like this when the writer for whom it gave so much pro- mise has passed where this promise can never be fulfilled. A...

in the Bay of Bengal, lying half- way between the peninsula of Hindostau and the shores of Further India, attracted the attention of the Government of India towards the end of...

WE give the first place in a set of rather inferior novels by writers who are quite capable of better than third-rate work, to Mrs. Alexander's A Second Life, not because it is...

THE Nineteenth. Century for this month leads off with a reminis- cence of the "Metaphysical Society," by Mr. Hutton, "with a note by the Editor." The Society, which was born in...

Mrs. Meynell (Miss Alice Thompson), entitled, "The Modern Poet." It is of unusual merit; quite equal, we think, to the best of her collected poems. Mrs. Urquhart urges some of...

H. C. Banner. (David Douglas.)—The first of these stories is told in letters and telegrams, and perhaps reads better in that form than in any other that could have been given to...

Friend "—meaning Love ; and a pleasant contribution, "On Horse- back," by Charles Dudley Warner. The other contents are common- place.

The Expositor continues its analysis of the Revised Version of the Old Testament, dealing in this number with the Book of Exodus ; and it also contains a second paper of its...

(J. and R. Maxwell.)—The relatives to whom Nell Fraser is sent are exactly the uncle and aunt of fiction, personages who, as Miss Yonge complains in her last novel, have taken...

Windas.)—This work, the author tells us, is based on a series of papers which appeared in Knowledge during the years 1883-84. It handles a most important subject, one which Mr....

Ormsby. Vole. I. and II. (Smith and Elder.)—We have here the first and second volumes of a new translation of Don Quixote. They include the First Part of the great romance. The...

(Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Farjeon is an ingenious writer, and after he left off imitating the mawkish and unreal sentiment which constituted Mr. Dickena's chief fault, he became a...

— No reader of this story will complain of a want of thrilling in- cident. Incidents abound, and the stage, so to speak—for the term seems to suggest itself naturally when we...

a compilation of very doubtful utility. The older history of Japan is accessible to Europeans in Dr. Dickson's excellent volume, and in the pages of the "Transactions of the...

V. White.) — Here is one of Mrs. Hibbert Ware's realistic stories. It has not much of a plot, but then this is often characteristic of real life. Things move on without any...

Introduction, and Notes, by Boswell D. Hitchcock and Francis Brown. (J. C. Nimmo.)—Of the several editions of the " Teaching " none is more worthy of the student's attention...

—Mr. Kayser went in the Nelson ' on the voyage which it made from Sydney to New Guinea last autumn, for the purpose of pro- claiming a Protectorate over New Guinea. And he gives...

and Tuer.)—This volume is constructed on the same plan as other " Mementoes " which have been noticed in these columns. Mr. Robinson's " Introduction " is too brief; but he has,...

Trench, and Co.)—If the author would keep her political pre- possessions a little more in the background, it would be as well. The cause of the Pope's "temporal power" may be a...

thing truly dramatic about the conception and the execution of this story. Mrs. Keith is left a widow, with two children—a boy and a girl. She loves both dearly ; but her heart...

Midland Railway, the London and North-Western Railway, and the Great Western Railway. All three are useful and even readable volumes, appropriately illustrated, and written with...

of com- piler or publisher to this very meritorious collection of wise sayings. There is something for every day in the year, these " somethings " being gathered from a very...