I Lord Wolseley's unfortunate and entirely uncalled-for re- marks regarding the inability of the Indian troops to iace a European Army have created an extraordinary amount of...

I Crete is rapidly approaching a condition of anarchy. At Heraklion on Monday Hassan Pasha, the Governor, who arrived on the previous day, was surrounded near the gate of the...

A televram from Pretoria announces that the Volksraad has passed a Bill making provision for the education of Outlanders' children on all the gold-fields and stand townships in...

During the past week Li Hung Chang (who is residing in Lord Lonsdale's house in Carlton House Terrace) has, in spite of his age and his previous travels, been dragged to a...

Lord Cromer gave some very interesting evidence before the Indian Financial Oommission on Alonclay, tnouga ne declined to offer an opinion on the temporary question in dispute...

The Lisbon papers announce that Portugal, which has been arbitrating between us and Brazil in regard to the smalt island of Trinidad, has decided that it belongs to Brazil. As...

President Faure has been making a State progress in I Brittany,-a part of France never before visited by a Republican head of the State. Though the Royalist Senators kept away...

In Thursday's Committee on the Bill, the Government ex- I perienced three defeats, of which only one appears to us at all formidable. Lord Templetown carried by 125 votes t& 67...

I The South African Committee which is to inquire into the Chartered Company's proceedings, and to suggest the necessary changes, is to consist of fifteen Members of the House...

I-Mr. Gladstone made a taking little speech at the annual show of the Hawarden and Buckley Horticultural Society, which was held on Monday in his own grounds. He lamented that...

I The first results of the census tulken in France last March have just been publislhed. The returns make the total population of France 3S,22Q.9d9 persons, an increase of...

The naval mancenvres have ended in a victory for Admiral I Seymour, though he had the slower and weaker fleet under his command. The fleet opposed to him was neither able to...

The Times of Tuesdav (rives an interesting obitnarv notice of one of the most celebrated of French vivandieres, Madame Ibrahim, who died at Vichy a few days ago, aged...

I Lord Rosebery has written a letter to Mr. Davidson, a Brazilian merchant, who had previously addressed him in regard to his Epsom speech on the decline of British industries...

An article in Tuesday's Times shows that considerable I progress is being made in the carrying out of the experiment in agricultural co-operation which has been instituted by...

GOETHE ON THE PANAMA ISTHMUS. [TO THU EDITOR oF TE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The mention of Goethe in your instructive article on Mr. Colquhoun's book on " The Key of the Pacific,"...

ARBITRATION AND VENEZUELA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SprcTATOR."] SIR,-In " The News of the Week " published in the Spectator of August 1st, you refer to a conversation with the...

DOG-STORIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I wish to tell you of a strange "rescue" by 'T,'izle,' my Skye terrier. When the servant toolk down the bird-cage one...

SUNDAY IN SCOTLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In the article on "Edmond de Goncourt" in the Spectator of July 25th, a reference is made to a statement of his...

A WVASP-STORY. [TO TlE EDITOlR OF TIHE "tSrECTATOR."1 SIR,-This morning I killed a wasp in the dining-room and laid his body outside the window on the sill. Walking up to the...

I Lord Londonderry led the attack on the Bill, which be declared gave no satisfaction to any class in Ireland. Mr. Dillon denounced it as a sham [but voted for it all the same,...

I The Irish Land Bill was read a second time without a division in the House of Lords yesterday week, but the debate of the evening was not at all favourable to the Government...

I Yesterday week the Home Secretary, Sir Matthew White- Ridley, announced to the House of Commons amidst great cheering that he had thought it his duty to advise the Queen to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE latest news from Rhodesia is much more satisfactory, and points to the beginning of the end. It appears that on Wednesday a column under Colonel Plumer...

The trial of Major Lothaire, which has been proceeding at Brussels during the week, ended on Thursday in his acquittal. The Court decided " that whereas murder did not exist...

I An Idol's Passion. Written by Irene Osgood. Illustrated by ' I R. Machell, R.B.A. (The Transatlantic Publishing Co., New , York and London.)-This is the poorest trash, both...

The Principles of Art as Illustrated by Example in the Ruskin M Museum at Sheffield. By William White. (George Allen.)-This is a collection of passages from Mr. Ruskin's...

WlilN Rose I By Francis Francis. (Macmillan and Co.)-Mr. I Fra-ncis has drawn a very vivid picture of life on the Mexican frontier. The heroine of the story is Rose Carlin; "W...

I Picture Posters. By Charles Hiatt. (Bell and Sons.)-Thia volume is addressed to those who have interested themselves in the history and collection of the poster. It attempts...

The Coin Collector. By W. G. Hazlitt. (G. Redway.)-A .. I .. I volume of the " Collector Series," and perhaps the most attractive of the set. There is nothing in which there...

Lessons about "Plants," "Common Objects" (e.g., box, apple, &c.), "Myself," and "Animals" follow. This completes the " First Stage." The same method is pursued in the second,...

In the " Cambridge Bible for Schools' R (Cambridge University I Press) we have The Epistles to Timothy and Tites, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A. E. Humphreys, M.A....

Old Dutch and Flemtish Masters. Engraved by Timothy Cole. With Critical Notes by John C. Van Dyke, and Comments by the I Engraver. (T. Fisher Unwin.)-In this volume Mr. Cole...

Thoughts and Aspirations of the Ages. Edited by Dr. W. C. I Coupland. -a -S a h t (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)-The sub-title of thisI volume is "Selections in Prose and Verse...

I Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. (John Lane.)-iMr. Gibson is a clever draughtsman, who works for some of the American comic papers and monthlies. He has been described as...

I TALEs.-The Silk of the Hine. By L. McManus. (T. Fisher IUnwin.)-This is a really fine story. Margery ny uAtre, daughter S of the Earl of Fermanagh, is among the "...

BO OK S. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON IN IRELAND.* SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON was a man of many accomplish. ments, considerable scholarship, and a wide range of intellectual and personal...

" BULLS." [To Tuz EDMOL OF THC Srcs rTATOsL SIR,-During the Trinity College tercentenary celebrations in Dublin a few years ago two Irishmen were heard to express their...

POETRY. A MASTERLESS MAID. A MASTERLESS maid, with my heart in my keeping, I wander the world, and I'll wander again; With gladness my portion where others know weeping, And...

THE MAGAZINES. THE first paper in the Nineteenth Century is Mr. Sidney Low's " Decline of Cobdenism." " Most people," Mfr. Sidney Low tells us, " will be ready to admit that...

MENDIN'G AND REPAIR1NG.* IN the introduction to this work Mr. Leland writes elotquently on the Art of mending, for an Art it certainly develops into in his pages, if only a...

SOME SHORT STORIES.* THE tendency of modern literature is to become snippety. News is retailed in paragraphs and novels are condensed into short stories. We cannot help...

BRITAIN'S GREAT UNION.* WHEN a nation, powerful in population, wealth, and in. tellectual culture, finds on its border a people inferior in these attributes, it will certainly...

DAINTIES OF ANIMAL DIET. T HE well-informed persons who wrote to the papers on the nature and uses of the persimmon, after the Prince of Wales's horse of that name won the...

MR. LOCKER-LAMPSON'S "CONFIDENCES." I "A YOUNG friend of mine," writes Mr. Locker-Lampson, "had a favourite cat. It grew old, extremely old, but it retained its vivacity to the...

THE COMMUTATION OF THE SENTENCES. I W E gravely fear that the English people are losing N ~their instinct for governing. The chorus of praisc with which the commutation of the...

Object -iL:9rs jar infis. By Vincent T. Murch6. (Macmillan and Co )-The task of "1 giving early impressions " is carried on here in a systematic way. The first way of...

CURRENT LITER ATURE. A Thane of Wessex. By Charles W. Whistler. (Blackie and Son.)-The period of this story is the tiume of the great Viking raids into Somerset. Heregar, a...

MR. PLUNKETT'S "RECESS COMMITTEE." IN spite of Anti-Parnellite abstentions Mr. Horace Plunkett's Recess Committee have done a thoroughly useful piece of work. They have brought...

CORRES PONDENCE. TWO DEVOTEES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SiB,-Of the incongruities that jostle each other on the world's highways there is no end, but of a single...

PROFESSOR COURTHOPE ON POETRY. P ROFESSOR COURTHOPE, in the lecture on poetry n whi h he publishes in the August number of the itie-ftcnlti Cht-nury, says, " We may, I think,...

SPEAKING OUT ON FOREIGN POLITICS. W E cannot feel altogether satisfied as to the position NV' of England in regard to foreign politics. There is an unpleasant sense abroad that...

LI HUNG CHANG AND THE FUTURE OF CHINA. 1TE are all glad to see Li Hung Chang, to show e him our ironclads and our foundries, and to hear his opinion of them and of us, but...

LETTERS TO TIHE EDITOR. THE LORDS AND THE IRISH LAND BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Your article on " The Lords and the Irish Land Bill,'' in the Spectator of...

JACK'S FRIENDS. IT is needless to say that all Jack's friends are heroes. If you were to get him to note the fact he would, without doubt, accept it as most natural. Of course...

WOMEN IN ENGLISH LIFE.* MISS HILL'S history of women in English life is both interesting and usef al. As might be expected, the spectacles through which she looks at the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE LORDS AND THE IRISH LAND BILL. I W E need hardly repeat what we have often said, that no journalist can claim to discuss all the moot points of the...

THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONGRESS. I THREE days spent in tumultuous wrangling on preT liminaries, however fundamental, and three days more in the adoption, with a few...