WILLIAM HAZLITT.* THE interest in Hazlitt which Mr. Ireland's admirable volume of Selections will hardly fail to reawaken, will be purely for" good. There has been a great...

THE ATTACK ON MR. CHAMBERLAIN. IT seems to be thought that the most successful method of attacking Mr. Chamberlain is to single him out as the most " provincial " of our...

Little IVidc-A wake. (Routledge.)-This annual, if not so lively as St. Nicholas, consisting, as it does, chiefly of stories, fairy and otherwise, has yet some good food for...

- The Cent ury. (T. Fisher Urnwin.)-The Century, May to October, though it is hardly so interesting as we can remember to have seen it, has yet a profusion of those...

I The Rosebuld Annual. (J. Clarke and Co.)-This pleasant little annual is as lively as ever, full of short stories, numerous funny little adventures in rhyme, and a variety of...

I The Brook and its Banks. By the Rev. J. G. Wood. (ReligioUs I Tract Society.)-The editor teUs us that this is one of the last of Mr. Wood's charming books, and adds that "...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOOKS. L I St. Nicholas. (The Centturv Companv.)-The volume of St. Nicholas for the last six months, which is now before us, has some capital short...

Minnic Cahlwell, and other Stories. Partly for girls and partly I for their elders. By the Rev. F. C. Kolbe, D.D. (Burns and I Oates.)-'! his volume is dedicated to "the...

Orkney, Past and Present: its Races, Relics, and Resources, by J. Foster Palmer, L.R.C.P. (Cousins and Co.), resembles ordinary -popular guide-books in nothing except in...

L I Lille of the Mgarquzess Wtellesley, K.G. B~y Colonel G. B. Mlallesou. C.S.I. (WV. H. Allen and Co.)-Nlacaulay should have done for I Wellesley what he did for Clive and...

THE NEWCASTLE SOCIALISTS. M R. MORLEY has had rather hard measure about A~l the chat he held with the Socialists, or Labour party, of Newcastle last Monday. He refused to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE news of the week from Africa is, on the whole, disastrous. A letter has, it is true, been received from Mr. Stanley at Zanzibar, announcing that on...

I Vienna- has been disturbed bya rumour that the Cesarewitch, now, since the Emperor of China is married, the greatest parti in the world, is about to be betrothed to a sister...

I The Paris Exhibition was closed on Wednesday in the presence of all Paris, the visitors to the buildings themselves exceeding 400,000, and the remaining population, as it...

On Wednesday, also, news was received in London that I Dr. Carl Peters, the German explorer, and founder of the German Colonial Society, who had been sent out to " rescue "...

| The Emperor of Germany left Constantinople on Wed- nesday, after a visit full of picturesque incidents. He expressed himself delighted with the lavish hospitality of the...

POETRY. OULD DOCTOR MACK. BY THE AUTHOR OF " FATHER O'FLYNN." Yz may tramp the world over From Delhi to Dover, And sail the salt say from Archangel to Arragou, Circumvint...

A CORRECTION FROM MR. PRICE HUGHES. [To T~s EDITOR OF THE " SPBCT.TOR '] Sin,-It is a pity that the writer of the attack on me in yourissue of November 2nd does not read the...

THE LONDON B.A. DEGREE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-You do not-with your limited space, perhaps you cannot-encourage me to proceed in the Spectator to proof of my...

THE DOG-OWNERS' PROTECTION ASSOGIATION AND UNIVERSAL MUZZLING. [To THB EDITOR OF In "SPBCTATOR."] SIB;-As the reports which have appeared in several of your oonterperaries, of...

A UNIVERSAL MONEY. [To TIlE I DITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I thank you for the publication of my letter. The insertion of an unnecessary comma after the word " coined," and...

DR. ASCHROTT ON THE ENGLISH POOR-LAW. [O TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-While thanking you for the generally appreciative notice of "The English Poor-Law System," by Dr....

EAST AND WEST. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-The following incident illustrates the interesting comparison drawn between the Eastern and Western type of mind in the...

IRISH CATHOLIC INTOLERANCE. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-" C. P. M. " denounces the confiscation, by James II.'s Irish Parliament. of the estates of two thousand...

A "Rustic Moralist," writing to yesterday's Times, declares that long sermons are the greatest grievance of a half-urban, half-rural parish in the South of England. If so, the...

The speeches of Mr. Davitt and Sir Henry James have made I the session of the Special Commission during last week and this especially interesting. Sir James Hannen complimented...

The Bishop of Peterborough seems half-inclined to hedge with regard to the statement concerning betting which has given so much offence to the strait-laced amongst the readers...

Mr. Herbert Spencer having been quoted as an authority in I favour of nationalisation of the land, in the interview between Mr. Morley and his Socialist constituents, Mr....

The Institution of Electrical Engineers held bigh revel on Monday, giving their first annual dinner, an event which induced the Premier, their principal guest, to say the...

I It is said that the lightermen of London are about to strike again, and that the dockers will join them out of gratitude for their recent support. That will dislocate the...

At Lismore last week, a woman named Byrne was refused I outdoor relief, the Guardians considering that she was not destitute. Thereupon her son committed a serious assault upon...

I The Cask-et Letters and Matty Queen of Scots. By T. E. Henderson. (Adam and Charles Black.)-Mr. Henderson examines the question of the genuineness of the letters in view of...

Good Men and Trie. By A. H. Japp. (T. Fisher Unwin.)-Mr. I Japp has prepared very appreciative sketches of some of our most famous and more modern philanthropists and workers...

Short Biographies for the People. Vol. VI. (Religious Tract| . .. . . . . - . I Society.)-There is much to be said for this series of biographical notices; they are short, and...

I Literary Influence in British History. By the Hon. Albert S. G. Canning. (W. H. Allen and Co.)-The writer's modest hope that his book may be " useful to readers not familiar...

I A Dream of the North Sea. By James Runciman. (James Nisbet and Co.)-This is not "all a dream," for the North Sea Mission is an accomplished fact, and is achieving great...

I In Ole Virginia. By Thomas Nelson Page. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)-On opening this book at random, the reader's first thought will probably be that it is written in a foreign...

Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. (Routledge.)-This is a boys' and I girls' edition of - The Deerslayer," " The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers," and "...

Soups, Savouries, and Sweets; with a Chapter on Breads. By " A I I Practical Housewife." ' (Bentley and Son.)-This is a book intended I I for the guidance of a lady in...

The Crew of the 'Wagtail.' By R. W. Ballantyne. (Nisbet and | ,I . . . 11 Co.)-Mr. Ballantyne, electing to lay the scene of his story in Newfoundland while that country still...

Johns Winter. By Edward Garrett. (Partridge and Co.)-This I is a ' study" rather than a story; but not the less valuable, or to thoughtful readers, less interesting for that....

THE NEW REGIME IN FRANCE. WE wonder if France really likes the government of ' 1, plain men." She has certainly got it. The new couches sociales, whose arrival at power...

I The first of our duties to Ireland, said Mr. Morley, is to win her affection. That depends a good deal on the price you pay for it. So far, we have found that those who have...

I The London County Council on Thursday elected its officers for the year. Lord Rosebery was, of course, re-elected to the chair, and made a spirited speech about the rough...

I Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New South Wales, has followed up his recent speech on Australian Federation by a definite proposal. In a long and important letter to Mr....

Mr WY. H. Smith was received with great enthusiasm at a I meeting of the Glasgow Conservative Association in St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, last Tuesday. He dwelt on the...

Mr. Morley addressed a great meeting at Middlesbrough on | Wednesday, as President of the Middlesbrough Liberal tlub. He expressed his satisfaction that after three and a half...

A confelrelce was held at Birmingham on Monday between I the Liberal Unionists and Conservatives, on the subject of the dispute between the two parties as to the undue...

THE WOES OF WOMEN OF THE WORLD. L ADY CATHERINE MILNES GASKELL does not, L we suppose, wish to plead for an Eight-Hours Bill for the women of the upper classes, in her paper on...

THE MAGAZINES. THE magazines are " good " this month,-that is, they are full of papers which repay, in one way or another, the trouble of reading them. In the Fortnightly...

THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION. THE Stanley telegrams published this week by Sir William Mackinnon, reveal another dramatic event in the great African revolution slowly unfolding...

BO OK S. MR. PALGRAVE'S SELECTION OF SACRED POETRY.* IT-HE lovers of English poetry are so greatly indebted to Mr. Palgrave for the fine taste displayed in his Golden Treasury...

MR. MORLEY'S REJOINDER. M R. JOHN MORLEY, in his speech at Middlesbrough on Wednesday, virtually withdrew the hasty imputation which he had thrown out against Lord Hartington...

HIMATLAYAN HUNTING-FIELDS. - So great and varied are the attractions of good books narrating the experiences of hunting expeditions, especially when they lead the hunter into...

THE POETRY OF CANINE FIDELITY.* MISS COBBE has made a beautiful selection of the poetry which the fidelity and companionability of the dog has elicited from the poets of many...

MR. FORSYTH'S LECTURES ON IVAGNER.* " THE controversy about Wagner," so writes an able anonymous reviewer in the October number of M-acmiiillia, " is still too hot to hope for...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ITALY AND FRANCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your issue of October 19th, Mr. Hodgson Pratt draws attention to what he calls " the...

WHITES AND BLACKS IN AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J SIR,-I give you hearty thanks for your article on the above subject which appeared on October 26th. When the...

THE INTELLECTUAL EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY. LORD SALISBURY, in the impressive though all too L brief speech which he delivered on Mond-ay before the Institution of Electrical...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE KAISER IN CONSTANTINOPLE. THE meeting of the German Kaiser and the Sultan in T Constantinople on the 2nd inst. is from any point of view a most...