NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE European demonistration of artisans in favour of all Eight-Hours Law did not pass off without catastrophes. In England the workmen postponed their...

The German Emperor has adopted a habit of carefully editing his own speeches, which enables him to speak with more spontaneity, but rather takes the human interest out of the...

It will not be easy to fill up his place. We could wish that Lord Salisbury might again go to the Church of Ireland for his successor, for there it would certainly not be...

The Jewish financiers are inclined, it is said, to use their I influence in the Money Market on behalf of their Russian fellow-tribesmen, and already the expulsions from...

Archbishop Magee's death from influenza on Tuesday morning was a painful shock to the whole nation. No one had been made acquainted with the serious character of his illness,...

I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. CONSERVATISM AND FREE EDUCATION.. FTO THE EDITOR OF T1lE0 I' SPECTATOR."'1 Siu,-As one who for nearly fifty years has devoted eonstant attention to...

In South Dorsetshire the contest has ended in the retm I the Conservative, Mr. Brymer, by a still narrower majority, only 40. The elections of 1885 and 1886 compare. with the...

The Royal Academy banquet on Saturday was marked by some very bright speeches, the best being 31r. Goschen's, on which we have commented elsewhere. His idea obviously was, that...

| The Grauid Jury of NewOrleans hbas refused to bring in a true bill against the citizens accusedof lynching Italians. They allege that the " first, best, and most law-abiding...

It is believed that the civil war in Chili approacbes its closer both parties being wearied out, and the President short of funds. He can raise no loan without an independent...

The Lord Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, vacant since the death of Lord Granville, has been conferred upon the First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. W. H. Smith, who, by aceepting...

There have been three by-elections this week, but we can only know the result of two of them before we go to press. The Gladstonians carried the election for the Sto2wnmarket...

I A most surprising case came before the sitting Magistrate , - y at Marlborough Street Police-Coturt on Tuesday. One Edward Pinter was charged with trying to cheat Mr. E....

Engiish Men of Action: Sir Francis Drake. By Julian Corlbett. | (Macmillan and Co.)-This is a picturesque and interesting biography of one of the most famous of naval heroes;...

I Manual of Bibliograiphly. By Walter T. Rogers. (E. Grovel and Co.)-MIr. Rogers begins his book with an account of the "'invention and progress of printing," in which he...

First Principles of Electrical Engineering. By C. H. W. Biggs. (Biggs and Co.)-This "guide for those intending to enter the profession " is likely to give plenty of assistance...

An Introduction to the Korean spoken Languagc. By H. G. I: I Underwood, A.M. Korean-Rnglish and English-Korean Dictionarjy. I By the Samo Author. (Triibner.)-Now that the...

I Latin Verse for the Use of Classical Tutors and Students. By the I Rev. C. II. Bousfield, M.A. (B3ell and Sons.)-We opened this book with a favourable prepossession. Latin...

I Astrovnomi'. By W. Durbani, FI.R.S.E. (A. and C. Black, Ediin- burgh.)-We have seen few books on science that we like better than this one. "Science in plain language," is...

THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. RCHBISHOP MAGEE was perhaps the only man Alin England who could have made England feel the full tragedy in his own apparently purposeless elevation to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE QUESTION OF A DISSOLUTION. THE Times has raised the question whether there should Tor should not be a dissolution in the autumn, and holds, apparently,...

The Verney case has come to an unexpectedly speedy end. On Wednesday, when the prisoner was brought up for trial before Mr. Justice Smith, he pleaded "i Guilty" to the charge...

I Dr. Frederick George Lee, the well-known Vicar of All Saints', Lainbeth, writes to Monday's Times exposing a very disgraceful trick by which the increase of the Free Library...

I At the annual meeting of the Liberation Society on Wednesday, Sir George Trevelyan, who occupied the chair, madc a rather unnecessary defence of religious men for giving...

The Quieen 1as been pleased to appoint the Earl of Derby to the Chancellorship of the London University, vacated by the death of the late Earl Granville. This was the choice...

The letter of Lord Justice Fry in yesterday's Times, on the new Charter which is to be offered to the Convocation of the London University on Taesday, is a very temperate and...

A At the hundred-and-first anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on Wednesday, the most remarkable statement made was that of Sir Edwin Arnold, who answered to the...

I How fast the world shrinks! It is positively affiluxmed that there are passengers now in London who, leavllng Yolihohana; by the new route for Europe across the Canadian...

MR. W. G. GRACE ON CRICKET.* IN compiling the cricket annals of the last forty years, quorum pars rnaximafat, Mr. Grace has had a difficult tasic, on the completion of which he...

THE "VERNEY CASE" IN PARLIAMENT. IT is, of course, highly expedient that Sir Henry James's IBill allowing any Member who pleases to apply to the House of Commons for leave to...

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD ON MIRACLES. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD concludes a highly symM pathetic, though not entirely approving, notice of Dr. Abbott's attack on Cardinal Newxnan, with a...

Parson and Peasant. By J. B. Burno. (Mothuen and Co.)-A young clergyman taking up tho charge of a country parish can hardly do better than study this book. There are...

Beethoven, by H. A. lRudall (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.), I is one of the series of the i' Great Musicians." Beethoven came of a musical race; his grandfather was...

Golden Bullets. By William W. Ireland, M.D. (Bell and I Bradfute.)-Tlis Ad Story of the Days of Akbor and Elizabeth " is a picturesque talo, full of interest, and with the...

Under Orders. By Kirk Munroe. (G-. P. Putnain'B Sons.)- This "Story of a Young Reporter" is a somewhat surprising narrative. A reporter in the States has, it would seem, to...

Rupert Alison. By Gortrude Forde. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackott.) i-It is not easy to read the first volume of this story. It is both tedious and painful. Painful the story...

Violin Chat for Beginners. By A. If. Raikes, M.A. (T. Fisher I Unwin.)-Mr. Raikes begins by discoursing about old violinmakers, giving, of course, the place of honour to...

I ComnerciaZ Botany of the Nineteenth Century. By John R. I Jackson. (Cassell and Co.)-Mr. Jackson, who is Curator of the Kew Museumns, has made a very interesting book out...

I Against Heavy Odds. By Hjallmr Hjorth Boyosen. (Sampsoon Low, Marston, and Co.)-This is a story of the rise of a brave and clever Norwegian lad, and is, we suppose, founded...

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLAND.*X As far as we can see, this book has only one faultlt,-the field it covers is so wide, the period of time is so long, the developments and...

ART. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. ESECOND NOTICE.1 BY a slip in last week's notice, the picture called Night, by Mr. W. E. Norton, was attributed to another artist. An apology is due to...

MR. BROWNING AND LORD BEACONSFIELD. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SrPCTATOR.'"] SIR,-On reading my letter in print, I find that I omitted one characteristic passage. On recovering...

POETRY. THE CUCKOO. MAAY'S minstrel swings on the topmost bough, The greenest bough of an old elm-tree; He plights no troth and he breaks no vow, A houseless wanderer bold and...

THE CLERGY DISCIPLINE BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Woald not the conscientious clerical scruple be best satisfied, in the case of future institutions, by the...

THE NAVAL EXHIBITION. JACK a-shore " is perhaps hardly seen at his best; eJ and the sea-show at Chelsea sufters, like the citybleguiled seaman, fromr strange surroundings. In...

Esther Pentreath. By J. Ii. Pearce. (T. Fisher Unwin.)-We I are always prepared, when an author chooses to transport us to Cornwall, for something weird, and even horrible....

CURRENT LITERATURE. I MITNORD MAG aZINES.- -The Ludgate Mronthly is a now illustratod magazino, edited by Mr. Philip May, and published at tho extremely low price of...

MR. SPOONER'S "HISTORIES OF TACITUS." 0 IT is certainly strange that Tacitus should have been so much favoured by translators, so little by editors. It is only two or three...

I|TO THI] EDITOR OF THE, "SPECTATOR."] SIn,-As managegr and chief supporter of three Voluntary ~schools on my Canmbridgeshire estate, I decidedly approve of thc Governuient...

[TO T1m13 EI)ITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.'] 'SIn,-Inl tlwuI article in the Spectator of May 2n1d on I1 Free Education," stress is laid on the advantages that will ensue from the...

DR. ABBOTT ON CARDINAL NEWMAN. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATO1I."] -SIRn,-Oosidering the tone and substance of Dr. Abbott's .book, I do not think that he has cause for...

THE IMMORALITY OF COSTLINESS. N4XTO true Liberal would even own a diamond," according ...L1to Mr. Grant Allen, who discourses this month in the pages of the Contenporary Review...

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. TUESDAY next is the day for the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and we hope that what is...

LAPSUS CALAMI.* "J. K. S." need not despair of being thought to have more than a touch of the genius of Calverley. Many of these little poems are almost as good as Calverley's,...

MALINGERING FOR MONEY. IF certain statistics as to the New York Insurance Offices, published in the Manchester Examiner of Monday last, are to be trusted, the passionate desire...

THE MAGAZINES. I TIi Magazines are not specially bright this month, though, as usual, papers of some interest may be picked out among them. Perhaps the most attractive is the...

BOOKS. CLEVELAND AND THE DALE-FOLK.* IN anl age of globe-trotting and "shilling shockers "-when our eyes, like those of the fool, whether we will or no, are, during...

MR. GOSCHEN ON ENGLISH ART. TO-DAY in England is not, we fear, a, favourable time for the highest Art, at least as regards its subject-matter, though Mr. Goselien, in his...

THE FIRST OF MAY. ONE need not be a Socialist to feel the imaginative 0 impact of the scene which Western Eiirope presented on May 1st. "A wave of whiteness went over the...