MODERN PAGANISM AND PIERRE LOTI. IT is but a short while since the well-known French writer and traveller, Pierre Loti, was made a member of the Acad-mie Franqaise. Most...

I For once, the Leisure Hour is rather dull. The liveliest article is Mr. Massingham's on the Standard newspaper, which gives a considerable amount of information that cannot...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Of late, a good deal of liveliness has been imported into the I Monthly Packet (A. D. Innes and Co.) Thus, in the April number there is the commencement,...

The Newbery House Magazine is now recognised as one of the organs of the Church of England. There are several articles in the April number dealing with questions of a more or...

I All that can well be said of a periodical which is so decidedly professional as the Law Magazine and Review, is that it sustains its reputation by dealing with almost every...

I The new number of that very unpretentious little quarterly, the Foreign Church Chronicle and Review, contains a number of readable papers, but none that can be said to be of...

The most notable of the April contents of the Century is a short paper by Mr. Edmund Gosse on that very promising American man of letters, Mr. Wolcott Balestier, who recently...

A sketch of the new military Peer, Lord Roberts, by Mr. Archi- bald Forbes, will probably be considered the most generally interesting paper in the new number of the English...

T~Arrl Snencer. speaking at Worcester on Wednesday I evening, accused the Tories of having no policy of their own, and especially of having borrowed their Foreign policy from...

I A most difficult question was discussed in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday,-namely, the rateability of moveable manufacturing machinery. Ought a manufactory to be...

Mr. Balfour made a very animated and interesting speech at the Conservative Club yesterday week, in which he began by describing himself as an " Old Tory," not, we think, as we...

I The House of Commons on Thursday spent the whole evening in debating a breach of privilege case. In the inquiry into the overwork of railway servants, a stationmaster on the...

The election to the Presidency of the Argentine Republic takes place this month, and the two dominant factions, followers of Generals Mitre and Roca, have coalesced to support...

Lord Ashbourne spoke in the Corn Exchange at Oxford on Monday in favour of the Unionist candidate for that city, bir George Chesney, the brilliant author of " The Battle of...

A BROWNING CYCLOPEDIA.4 IF the readers of Browning can be held to bear any proportion to the number of books that have appeared commenting upon and interpreting his poetry,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. -4--- THE cosmopolitan character of the Anarchist movement against society is becoming more clearly revealed. and a serious portion of the general scheme...

The Coroner's jury at Melbourne on Thursday found Deeming guilty of the wilful murder of his wife, Emily Mather. The difficulty about identification proved to be imaginary, and...

The story is, that the Anarchists have discovered a methoI of greatly increasing the force of dynamite, and it is evident that one of the precautions taken throughout Europe...

The Porte, probably instigated by some over-clever Euro. pean politician, is playing a curious trick on the Khedive. The Firman, or legal order of investiture, has been long...

Two Doges of Venice. By Alethea Weil. (The Chiswick Press.) I -The ' two Doges " are Tomaso Mocenigo and Francesco Foscari. Mocenigo, born in 1343, became Doge in 1413, and...

With my Friends. By Brander Matthews. (Longmans.)-Here I we have six " tales told in partnership," prefaced by a dissertation on " The Art and Mystery of Collaboration." This...

I Egyptian Science. By V. E. Johnson. B.A. (Griffith. Farran. and Co.)-Air. Johnson has much that is curious and interesting to tell us on the subject of his book. The...

The AbbotsofTavistock. By the Rev. D. P. Alford. (Brendon and I Son, Plymouth.)-Mr. Alford has followed an example growing happily more and more common among our parochial...

The Story qf the Hills. By the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. (Seeley I and Co.)-Mr. Hutchinson divides his book into two parts, " The Mountains as They Are," and " How the Mountains...

I Arun Field. By Mrs. Jerome Mercier. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)-Arum Field is a young lady of a romantic turn of mind who falls in love with a minor poet. The poet,...

When it is said of The Heretic (Charlton Tucker, Leamington), I that it is "opposed to Jesuitry and Ritualistic Mummery," it is hardly necessary to add that it is distinguished...

Wlomen and their Work. By Veva Karsland. (Sampson Low, I TMarston, and Co.)-Miss Karsland gives us, arranged in alphabetical order, between fifty and sixty chapters on various...

The Commerce of Nations. By C. F. Bastable, LL.D. (Metlluen and Co.)-This volume, belonging to the series of "Social Questions of To-Day," is substantially an examination of...

THE SPANISH ANARCHISTS. WIT E most sincerely trust that Europe is not about to VV lose its head over the Anarchist scare. A great many signs seem to indicate that this is...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. BALFOUR'S TORYISM. a IR. BALFOUR, in his speech to the Conservative A1 Club yesterday week, declared that he had been accurately described as an Old...

THREE NOVELS.* THE difficulty of judging what anybody would or would not do in circumstances which are practically as much out of the range of possibility as though actually...

TILE REPORTED -APPROAVClI OF RUSSIA TO GERMAINY. aW~t' C.'n1 see no aT priori reason for doubting that Russia has suggested a commercial treaty to Germanv, or for regarding the...

I Mr. J. A. Froude has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Freeman as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, an appointment which reminds one of the view of some...

The Times' correspondent at Berlin reports certain fiyureR given by the Statistischle Correspiondcnz on the growth of the religious life and the religious indifferentism of...

The Paris correspondent of the Times reaffirms in the I ~strongest way what he has been hinting for weeks past, that Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Minister in Berlin, has...

The Pall Mall has been drawing up a class-list of political popularity, adopting as its test the length at which newspapers generally report various speakers. It gives a...

One of the most gracious, accomplished, and fascinating of the members of a great house died on Tuesday,-Lord Arthur Russell, the younger brother of the late Duke of Bedford,...

A fiendish outrage is reported from Ireland. The tenant - ~of a farm on the Clanricarde estate, near Loughrea, has been evicted, and the farm let to a police pensioner named...

We record with much regret the death of Mr. John Murray, I head of the great publishing house, when within a few days ,of eighty-four. Though not so surrounded by men of genius...

MRS. MONTAGU'S SENTENCE. CASES of abnormal wickedness are commonly subject C to a special difficulty of interpretation. In their simplest form, they are merely exaggerations of...

HOW WOMEN PROPOSE. W EARIED, perhaps, of discussing the question why '"T men do not propose in snfficient numbers, the other sex seems to have taken to criticising the methods...

BO OK S. CARLYLE'S POSTHUMOUS BOOK.* [FIRST NOTICE.] WE find it very difficult to believe in the',addresses before-us as altogether genuine Carlyle. And, indeed, the account...

POETRY. " NASCENTE LUNi." I SEE a stretch of shining sky Like some fair ocean sunset-lit. Peaceful and wide its spaces lie, And purple shores encompass it. A little slender...

THE MAGAZINES. SIR CHARLES TUPPER'S paper in the Ninieteenth Century, "How to Federate the Empire," is really only a plea for a differential duty on corn in favour of the free...

THE ULSTER QUESTION. THOUGH we are obliged to write without seeing the T reports of the meeting he'd at Belfast on Friday to settle the preliminaries of the Ulster Unionist...

LORD SPENCER ON A NEGATIVE POLICY. I L ORD SPENCER has taken up Mr. John Morley's L cue, and in his speech at Worcester on Wednesday, has declared that the Unionists have no "...

"iEXTRAkORDINARY" EVENTS. A CORRESPONDENT of Tuesday's Times writes to A report an extraordinary deal at whist which occurred at the New Club, Brighton. "After the cards had...

MR. PINERO'S "HOBBY-HORSE."* MIR. PINERO might, we think, better have called The HobbyHorse a farce than a comedy. In a comedy, we expect the situations to he amusing, but to...

THE FRIEND OF KEATS.* MucH has already been written about Keats, so that the fame of the young poet who passed away almost unknown, and whose bitter disappointment caused him...

THE GENESIS OF DISCIPLINE. M TE should agree with Colonel Maurice, in the interesting -I lecture which he delivered last December in Ireland, and which has just been published...