Mr. Labouchere, speaking, at Norwichl on Wednesday, I remarked that he had not been there since the murderer Rush was executed for his crimes,-the sensational crimes of an...

The Germans are sulkily angry with Great Britain because they say she is everywhere in the way of everybody, and especially in the way of Germany in Samoa and Delagoa Bay. But...

On Friday week, speaking at an agricultural dinner at I Chippenham, Lord Lansdowne also had his say upon the Rouse of Lords. He quoted Lord Rosebery's declarations, made ten...

We cannot comment ISully on the German Repressive Bills until their nature is more fally described; but if the Frankcfort Nem's has been correctly informed, they wilj create...

Mr. Balfour made a remarkable speech at Nottingbam on I Wednesday, which we do not wonder that the writer in the Daily Chronicle of Thursday foun'! Unvarying, for it is...

Tie German Emperor opened Parliament on Wednesday in the vast new " Reicha-haus," which has cost £1,500,000, and which, though convenient inside, is declared by the Emperor to...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VIGNETTES.* THE "good fates" invoked by Mr. Austin Dobson in the preface to his previous volume have been propitious, and we welcome a second series of...

MR. CLEVELANDtS MESSAGE. THE President's Message to the United States ConT gress is by no means pleasant reading to those who are interested, materially or otherwise, ia the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. ASIATIC ATROCITIES. rIIIE Japanese must take care. Europe has watched Jo with intense interest and some sympathy the rise of a new Power in the Far East,...

In "The Children's Library" (T. Fisher UJnwin), we have I Robinson Crusoe, somewhat abridged and with an occasional change of phrase. The First Part only has been given,...

Twenty Little Maidens. By Amy E. Blanchard. (Isbister.) - These are delightful little talles. Of the simplest kind, but such as cannot fail to please. Some are fanciful, some...

fessire. By Frances E. Crompton. (A. D. Innes and Co.)- I One of the -Dainty Book" series. Tche first story, from which the volume gets its name, is prettfly told. There is a...

I The Life and Adventtures of Robin Hood. By John B. Marsh. (Routledge and Sons.)-Mr. Marsh tells us that "'the incidents are drawn chiefly from the Robin Hood ballads." This...

Sir Philip Sidney, v I - . By Anna M. Stoddart. (Blackwood and I Sons.)-Miss Stoddart, it is clear, has studied the history of Sidney's times well, and knows her subject....

Good King Wenceslas: a Carol. Written by Dr. Neale. Pictured by Arthur J. Gaskin, with an Introduction by William Morris. I (Cornish Brothers, Birmingham,)-Mr. W. Morris tells...

I Killeen: aStudy of Girlhood. By 1 O'Connor Morris, (Elliot Stock )-This is a study of girlhood evidently made by a girl who loves what is sweet and true in literature, and...

I The Fibles of Nsop. Selected, told anelw, and their History I traced. By Joseph Jacobs, (Macmillan.)-Mr. Jacobs is an acknowledged expert in the matter of fables and...

The Whist Table. By "Portland." (Jobn Hog-.)-Rules of I the game, suggestions for playing it, arguments on the great question of " signalling," anecdotes of great players,...

I Of illustrated books for children, we have received the annual volume of Sunday Reading for the Young. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)-The title-page exhibits a promising...

Art Pictures from the Old Testament. Letterpress by Aley Fox. I I em (S.P.C.X.) -Here we have a series of ninety illustrations of Bible scenes taken from original drawings by...

I The Artiflcial Mother. By " G. H. P." (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) -" G. 11. P.," whose initials will probably suggest his identity to not a few readers, has published an amusing...

I Eric's Good News. (:Religious Tract Society.)-This is a short story telling how an invalid boy is the means of bringing a careless friend and a sceptical father to better...

Under the Rose. By P. Anstey. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.) I -This " Story in Scenes " has doubtless found so many readers in Punch, where it first appeared, that it is needless...

When Charles the First was King. By S. S. Fletcher. X!_ 1 - ml . . - (Gay and I blrd.)-This tale, of which we took occasion to speak highly some little time ago, now appears...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOONS. The SSketchL-Bookc of GeoO'rey Crayon, Gent. By Wasbington I Irving. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)-This "Van Tassel" - . . . . edition,...

Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. (Chapmuan and Hall.)-We have here an 6dition de Nuxe. It is an octavo of the largost size, and, as regards typography, paper, and general...

I The Real Princess. fly Blanche Atkinson. (A. D. Innes.)- The passion iff ~writing fairy-tales is not, it seems, to be checked hov fdisure. Yet it is almost impossible to do...

I The Last Leaf. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Illustrated by I George Wharton Edwards and F. IHopkinson Smith. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)-In 1832, or thereabouts-Dr. Holmes...

I A Piunge into the Sahara, By G. Demage. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)-Marius Meravine, a French tradesman, thinks that he should like to see something of the world. He...

I A Son of Reubent. By Silas K. Hocking. (Warne and Co.)- It is easy for an experienced reader to guess, even without the suggestion of the title, what will be the end of...

The Surprising Acdventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrated by | William Strana and J. B. Clarke, with an Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. (Lawrence and Bullen.)-Mr. Seccombe...

I Young Travellers' Taoes. By Ascott R. Hope. (Blackie and I Son.)-These tales are, we suppose, of Mr. Hope's own inventing. They bear the mark of his humorous cleverness. The...

Mr. Brycer, M.P., the President of the Local Government I Dt-yard, delivered an interesting address yesterday week at the 'fugh Myddelton School, Clerkenwell, on the duties of...

The Bishop of Bath and Wells romarked the other day tc a friend that he is not a total abstainer; that he had found that it was for him a question "of giving up work...

London is discussing two murders, of which one is only interesting from the class of the suspected murderer, and the other from the total absence of clues. An " unfortunate "'...

No action of importance has been reported from China I this week; nor is there any further light as to negotiations. Indeed, the latest accounts show that the Japanese will not...

Lord R-sebery ha83 Made a very good appointment to I tie vacant Ca-nonry of Westminster, which he offered to the Rev. Charles Gore, who has accepted it. This will !ace Mr. Gore...

Professor A. Dicey made a speech on Thursday at Liver- pool, notable because be proposed a definite plan for the reform of the House of Lords. After declaring that he should...

There is not muolh in President Cleveland's Message, I delivered to Congress on Monday, beyond the plan for -currency reform, which we have described and discussed elseo whre....

PROFESSOR JEBB'S "SOPHOOLES?''* TH:E Electra a~fords especial opportunity for the exercise of the gift of literary criticism which Professor Jebb possesses in so distinguished...

" THE PILGRIM OF ETERNITY." [To TH1R EDITOR OF THX " SPHCTATOR."] Sim,-Will you pardon me for pointing out what seems to me a misconception in your extremely interesting...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ARNOLD TOYNBEE: A PROTEST. [To THR EDITOR o0 TIM "SPROTATORY." SIR,-In a paragraph relating to Mr. Alfred Milner's recent lecture on " Arnold Toynbee,"...

THE PROPOSED SNOWDON RAILWAY: A PROTEST. [TO THff EDITOB OF TER " SPXCTATORl."] *SIR,-The local press assures us that, " owing to unforeseen circumstances, the function of...

CHILD PHILOSOPHY. [To THE EDrTOr OF THE " 'SP]OTATOR."] SIn,-A few days ago I was told of a touchingly pretty remark made by a little girl of four years old. It is, I think,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE Times of Tuesday, in a special article, announces that i it has reihotantly been convinced, by testimony not derived trom Armenians, that the outrages...

I On the previous evening (Friday week), Lord Tweedmouth, speaking at the Junior Reform Club, had denied that there was any division in the Cabinet on the question of securing...

Lord George Hamilton was on Thursday elected Chairman of the new School Board, and General Moberly (a Moderate who has been fairly popular with both parties) Vice- Chairman. We...

Our only fear as to the action of the present Ministry is that if the Porte disavows and punishes its agents, they will be content. As we have argued elsewhere, that is not...

-- Last Saturday, Lord Tweedmouth was the guest of the Liverpool Reform Club, in which he indulged himself in u rather dreary attack on Mr. Chamberlain, which must have wearied...

The friends of the Armenians in England in their just I horror at these crimes, accuse the British Government of slackness, but we do not find that the accusation is justified....

TIDINESS. IF there is a good quality in the world which the majority of men think a small one, it is the one which women have agreed to describe as tidiness. There are...

THE MAGAZINES. NEXT month we do not doubt the magazines will be stiff with articles on the war between Japan and China, but this month their principal subject is the attack on...

MR. BALFOUR ON THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. M R. BALFOUR'S speech at Nottinghnam was received L by the Government Press with" an afftetation. of laDguid indifference. What did he...

THE PAROCHIAL ELECTIONS. TUESDAY last has been so generally looked forward tg T as the date of the new English Revolution, that it is some consolation to realise that the day...

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.* MR. STEVENSON'S essays are as difficult to criticise as they are delightful to read. They are written with a charm of style and transparency of...

PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD. CANON MACCOLL, in the very interesting volume of sermons, "Life Here and Hereafter," which has just been published by Messrs. Longmans, has an appendix on...

A DREAM SUGGESTED BY SIR JOHN LUBBOCK,. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTATOR."' Sip,-Is there not a fundamental misconception underlying a part of the article on the above snbject...

BOO KS. 'MR. WILLIAM WATSON'S NEW POEMS. I CANON AINGER, in the lecture which he has just published in Macmillan's Magazine, has been endeavouring to find some criterion of...

COURTESY ACROSS THE COUNTER. IT is by no fault of their own that the English people are not the best bebaved of all European nations, for when they are not striving to improve...

THE LTFE AND LETTERS OF MARIA EDGEWORTH.* MISS EDGEWORTH died in i81i, The first letter given in the two volumes of correspondence that have been for very nearly fifty years...

",IMPERIAL PAUPERS." THE Daily Chronicle, on Tuesday, made use of an, T expression which, now that that journal has become the accepted mouthpiece of London democracy, is worth...

THE FOLLY OF A "CONSULTATIVE " CHAMBER. TORD) SALISBUIRY, in writing on "Lord Rosebery's LJ Plan " in the current number of the National Review, seems to assume that Lord...