With the " SPECTATOU" of Saturday, January 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

M DE NELIDOFF, the Russian Ambassador at Con- • stantinople, has announced to the Sultan, under circumstances detailed elsewhere, that Russia and the other Powers positively...

M. DE NELIDOFF'S NOTE. T HE Note banded in to the Porte by the Russian Ambassador on December 23rd, 1896, is a striking symptom of one of the diseases which now cripple the...

S IR EDWARD CLARKE certainly shows no indis- position to force upon the Unionist Government the duty of accepting a defeat from its antagonists. A few weeks ago he was just too...

I T would appear, in spite of all the inevitable denials, that the Government is going to Khartoum this year. It is still officially stated that all action to the south of Egypt...

W E have always a great dread of the interference of the Press in the quarrels between capitalists and labourers. There is a good deal of danger of doing mischief from the...

for "more effectively preventing duelling" in his Army. It is difficult to read this long and. technical "Cabinet Order" without the feeling that what the Emperor wants to do is...

W E do not envy Mr. Chamberlain his position. Within the next three months he will have to face a problem which we believe to be insoluble, or at all events in which all the...

W E are sorry that our first observation on the letter from Mr. Minton which we print to-day must be of the disillusioning order. Our correspondent has been living in an...

M R. FREDERIC HARRISON in his New Year's address to the Positivists admits frankly that no one who could carry his mind back thirty or forty years could fail to be conscious "of...

W E do not know the personal history of Dr. Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and cannot, there- fore, go into ecstasies over the nobility of his character as displayed...

T HERE are some persons to whom poetry is as much foolishness as Christianity was to the Greeks of St.. Paul's day. They are not merely indifferent to it, but regard it, in some...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—It seems to me that the writer of your article on this subject, in the Spectator of December 19th, has begged the question entirely in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In the very interesting article on "A New Fibre" in. the Spectator of January 2nd there is a statement which needs correction,—"...

[To max EDITOR Of TMZ "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Has not the lately expressed will of the community, registered in the Clergy Discipline Act of 1892, afforded evidence of a desire to...

IRISH TAXATION. [TO THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This question of Irish taxation seems to affect one like a nightmare. There is not, so far as I can see, any argument...

[TO THR EDITOR OF TER "SFICT1TOR.'9 Sin—It may be thought that the following (the truth of which I can vouch for) is worthy of being included among the Spectator's "...

[To ?HZ EDITOR OF THZ " EIPICCTATOR."] SIE,—It is not fair for cats and dogs to carry off all the glory. Allow me to tell two stories from ray own personal experience -of...

go MR EDITOR Or TH1 " SPRCTIITOR."1 Sitt,—In the Spectator of August 22nd there is a snake-story by "C. N." I wish to offer my experience, which extends over a period of...

THE MYSTIC. WITHIN a squalid city-court A weaver rents one cellar-room ; The neighbours' children deem it sport To watch the old man at his loom. So half in daring, half in...

LORD BOWEN.* EVERY one who knew Lord Bowen well must be grateful to Sir Henry Cunningham for writing, and to Lady Bowen for em- powering him to publish, this brilliant sketch of...

OF writing Lives of Napoleon there is no end. Each month almost each week, produces a new contribution towards the history of the Emperor. Mr. Sarin g-Gould's is the last, but...

Dr. Jevons has entitled An Introduction to the History of Religion introduces us, unless we altogether miscalculate the effect of his book, to a new chapter in the history of...

and all the world is learned in books, an insatiable curiosity too often takes the place of legitimate interest. We are seldom content with the poems and novels which a great...

WE have been re-reading the old novels, and were this paper to appear this day four years, we might say with literal truth, what we may already say with actual truth—we have...

THESE two volumes contain, in the first place, a narrative by Lord Roberts, who is the most distinguished soldier that India has produced in our time, of all that he has seen...

The first number of Cosmopolis for 1897 does more than justify the note of universality, or citizen-of-the-worldishness, which is suggested by its name, and was struck on its...

F. Molynenx. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume, which would be interesting at any time, is especially seasonable now. General Molyneux served in South Africa in the war with...

Blair, who marries without the faintest notion of accepting any of the responsibilities of marriage, is to us a somewhat absurd person. She does not interest us in the least,...

Literary History of the Period. Vol. II. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A., LL.D and Thomas J. Wise. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume is more interesting than its pre-...

Letters, 1804-1813. Vol. I. (W. Heinemann.)—Lord Macaulay, writing a few years after Byron's death, looked forward to the time when the "magical potency" which belonged to his...

"East Coast" is Malaya, and Mr. Clifford is the British Resident at Pahang. We cannot quite understand the pcint of view from which he regards the relations between the European...

are : " Disburdened—Disobservant," Vol. III., edited by Dr. James A. Murray; and " Flip—Flexuore," Vol. IV., edited by Henry Bradley, M.A. The latter editor mentions in his...

In the series of "Arnold's School Shakespeare," edited by J. Chnrton Collins (E. Arnold), we have Hamlet, edited by W. Hall Griffin, and King Henry V., edited by S. E. Winbolt....

(Chap- man and Hall.)—It is a disheartening fact that no attention has been paid to the past history of the Boers by the politicians of the day, because no other race requires a...

Co.)—Some lectures delivered by Professor Lasser- Cohn, of Heidelberg, are herein translated by Mr. Pattison Muir, and we hope they will prove as interesting to the English...

(G. Bell and Sons.)—There is really all that the intelli- gent reader wants to know about torpedoes and their management in this clearly written little volume of Lieutenant...

by Richard G. Moulton, MA. (Macmillan and Co.), Genesis, The Exodus, Judges, Ruth, Esther, and Tobit. — Fanelcrn on Pulpit Eloquence. With Introductory Essay by the late S. J....

: — The Century, Scribner's Magazine, St. Nicholas, the New Review, Macmillan's Magazine, India, Review of Reviews, Blackwood's Magazine, the Cornhili Magazine, Harper's...

Grump (A.), Wide Asunder as the Poles, cr Svcs (Longman.) 6/0 Curtis (W.), A Short History & Description of the Town of Alton (Simpkin) 6,0 Edmonds (H.) A Another, Elementary...