The German Emperor is anxious to press a Bill against I drunkenness, to be operative throughout all Germany. under its provisions the sale of spirits to persons under sixteen...

I The Lord Chief Justice admits that the procedure of our Courts under the Judicature Acts requires revision. He therefore proposes, in a letter to the Lord Chancellor, that...

There is a kind of conspiracy among those who write international bulletins, to represent the " Question of Morocco " as coming to the front. According to some English...

The French journals announce that M. Guy de Maupassant, the great French novelist, has been removed to a lunatic asylum, overwork and morphine having between them shattered a...

It appears that M. Gr6vy and Leo XIII. had in 1883 a very sharp, though perfectly decorous, correspondence. The difficulty which has risen again now, was as serious then. The...

It seems clear that the Franco-Bulgarian incident has - - . - - ended in a defeat for M. Ribot. The Russians bave refused to support him, having themselves demanded the...

We have said enough of the progress of the Russian famine I elsewhere, but must add here that the Czar even yet aoes not fully believe in it. It is stated, in a letter from St....

BROW-N`S "HISTORY OF N-OTTINGHAMSIIIRE." TO TOlTHE EoIITOn OF THIE "SPECTATOR."] Siat-I must ask you to be good enough to allow me to cxplain,-(l), that the phrase, " the...

POETRY. WASTEPAPER. HERE in this dusty drawer repose, For better fate equipped, My daughters Muriel, Maud, and Rose, In careful manuscript. And here is little Miss Lynette Who...

SIR CHARLES DUFFY'S REMINISCENCES OF CARLYLE. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I Sin,-I have only just seen your issue of January 2nd, in which an extract is given from...

A IWVRKINl(;' MEN'S CLUB AT HAGG-ERSTON. iTO THE EDITOr OF TH' "SPEcrATOR."] Sir.,-Will you allow ine, through the columns ot the SyPeciator, to appeal fior help to start and...

ART. THE WINTER EXHIBITION AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.-I. ENGLISH MASTERS. To enter the Exhibition this year is to be proud of Eiiglish painting. The feeling with which one casts an...

BO OK S. - - -DR. TUCKEY ON HYPNOTISMI. THIS is a third edition, but a third edition with so much that is new in it, that it may be treated tas a very mituch completer book...

I The Record of Technical and Secondary Education, which is published twice a month by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. for the National Association for the Promotion of Technical and...

I The Universal Atlas has reached its tenth mart. which contains European Russia, Asia Minor with Persia, and Paletine. In thle last, the Scriptural as well as the modern names...

There is a great deal of admirable work in that now establisheod monthly, The Art Amateur. The three coloured plates in the January number, a portrait-study (in progressive...

With the New Year there comes the first number of another new I magazine, The Thinker, which is published by James Nisbet and Co., and which is described as " a review of...

I Little Folks for January is an exceptionally good number. Th, illustrations, including a coloured picture of a little girl playing a concertina in the street, which is...

The Educational Review, with which Education has been incor- porated, is a wonderfully bright magazine, and deals with practically every topic connected with advanced...

The Journal of Education, 1891. (86 Fleet Street.)-There is little to say of this periodical except that it has more than maintained its position. To be an educational journal...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Bookman, published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, and described as "a monthly journal for bookreaders, bookbuyers, and booksellers," has now reached...

I The Enitr'acte Aninual is, as usual, notable mainly for MI. Alfred Bryan's entertaining representations-they can hardly be called caricatures-of actors and actresses, and...

I Atalanta has now secured a special groove for itself, and under Mrs. Meade's eminently capable editorship, is certain to stick tM it. The January number is only an average...

I A modest but interesting new quarterly makes its first appearance this month,-The Annals of Scottish Natural History, which is published by Mr. David Douglas, of Edinburgh....

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in addressing his constituents at I Bristol on Wednesday, showed a good deal more desire to outbid the Gladstonians in his offers to the working...

Mr. Healy, speaking at Leith this week, has declared that I the measure of the denunciations with which he assailed Mr. Gladstone while Mr. Gladstone resisted Home-rule, is...

We deeply regret to record the death, at the age of sixty- three, of Mr. John Casbel Hoey, Secretary to the Agency for the Colony of Victoria, and in former years not an...

It is said that Dr. Richard Pfeiffer, of Berlin, has discovered I the influenza bacillus, and that he has found it to be the bacillus by inoculating monkeys and rabbits with...

The correspondence about the infallibility of the Bible which the Times has inserted, has seemed to us unusually urprofitable. Hardly any of the correspondents go to the root...

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday a curious evidence of scientific and professional interest strong enough to overrule even in the moment of...

The Positivist address on New Year's Day, which was de- I livered by Professor Beesly, was not devoted to the subject of what the Positivists call their religion, but to the...

SIR HENRY JAMES ON DRUNKENNESS AND CRIME. S IR HIENPRY JA-MES'S opinion on the question, e whether drunkenness should ever be taken into consideration as palliating crime, has...

LONDON FOGS. THE lesson of the rise in the London death-rate in the T week ending January 2nd, is emphasised by the conjunction of two distinct causes, one of which is likely...

NEEWS OF THE WEEK. , MISFORTUNE has befallen Egypt and England. Ai Tewfik Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, died suddenly in Cairo on Thursday from influenza, followed by acute...

I The Duke of Devonshire took leave of his former con- stituents in Rossendale in an address of great dignity, which appeared in the papers of Saturday last. "By the lamented...

Whether Rossendale will fulfil the Duke of Devonshire's hopes, is just the most interesting of the immediate questions of the day. Sir Thomas Brooks is the Unionist candidate,...

The change, nevertheless, is a disturbing one. Tewfik| Khedive was a perfect occupant for a subordinate throne. Though heir of a fierce Albanian House which had produced...

CLERICALISMI IN IRELAND. L rO Tiu EDITOR OF THIE " SPECTATOR." SiR,-Allow me to add my testimony to that of ';An Irish Unionist" and "Anothler UlnioniAt' upon thle above...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE DECLARATION. LTO TIHE EDITOR OF TIIF "'SPECTATOU.1"I Sip.,-As the Guardiaa, in its unconsciousness of itself, resorts to the...

ENGLISH AID TO INDIAN- WOMEN. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,-It may be at matter of some interest to the reziders of the excellent artiele in the Spectator of December...

MR. BRUDENELL CARTER'S LETTER. LONDON has no visible Executive Government. So L far as such a function has been entrusted to the County Council, it is not performed by visible...

THE MOROCCO QUESTION. E are wholly unable to believe in any present or WV! immediate desire on the part of France to seize the Protectorate of Morocco. Splendid as the prize...

AN EMPEROR ON DANCING. THERE are many people in the world-not in any way T disliked, though somewhat feared, by their friendswhose business it seems to be to set everything in...

THE WILD BOY OF PINDUS. W HEN a Greek newspaper condescends to drop the W eternal discussion of the Eastern Question and chronicle the gossip of the market-place, it is apt to...

HYMNOLOGY. THE gigantic Dictionary of Hymnology edited by the Rev. John Julian, which Mr. Murray has just published, gives us, we admit, a somewhat melancholy feeling of labour...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. NE of the plainest, as well as one of the most stately 0 figures in the House of Commons disappeared finally from that House with...

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN IRELAND. IF we mistake not, there is going on in Ireland at the present moment a process of political evolution which, when it comes to be understood in...

THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY. THE contrast between the ethical innocence of gambling and its ethical inexpediency becomes most violent when we consider a lottery like that of...

ANTIQUITIES OF THE EXCHEQUER.* THE earliest Exchequer House was the room in which the lousiness of accounts was transacted, the revenue received, and the paraphernalia and...

FIN DE SIfCLE. THE fact that we are approaching the end of another century of our era, strongly affects the popular imagination. It is supposed that, in some undefined way, we...

THREE ENDS OF THE EMPIRE.* BY an odd coincidence, three books have appeared at the same time dealing with the early history of three different British Colonies at the three...

THE CHANCES OF REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. I r[HERE are other sides to this Russian tragedy besides T the side which presents such awful pictures of human suffering. That side, no...

THE LATEST FAIRY-LORE.* WE do not quite understand, even with the help of Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie's introduction, why in the world we should have anew translation of Madame...

LIFE OF DEAN BURGON.* DR. GOULBURN prefixes what we may call a very aggressive preface to his biography of his friend. His language is thoroughly in accord with the unfortunate...