I Mr. A. Akers-Douglas, the First Commissioner of Works, and a member of the Cabinet, who spoke at Nonington on Thursday on the present state of agricultural depression, said;...

Mr. George Curzon, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, made a speech at Derby on Wednesday, in which be expressed his belief that the overgrown armaments, of the...

The British Envoy at Cabul, Colonel Mahommed Akram Khan, has been murdered, but fortunately not by Afghans. His son had chastised a servant of the Embassy, who, becoming...

I New York Ciby remains Democrat, but Tammany Hall has once more defeated the Reformers. The latter made the blunder of Sir William Harcourt. They insisted on tying-up the...

I Mr. Oleveland's star is setting. Moved, it would seem, mainly by Protectionist feeling, the Republicans have carried the elections of the year by immense majorities, winning...

M. Bourgeois announced his programme to the Chamber I on Monday. It was boldly Radical. The Government would put a progressive succession-duty in its Budget; it would impose a...

M. Bourgeois has found it most difficult to find a Foreign Secretary. The few Deputies in the Chamber who understand foreign affairs do not sympathise with Radicalism; while...

I At War with Pontiac. By Kirk Munroe. (Blackie and Son.)- This is a ta1e of the- American frontier at the end of the eighteenth century, when French and English were...

The Making of the Empire. By Arthur Temple. (Andrew Melrose.)-In these days when the love for Greater Britain is growing into a passion, this book should prove very acceptable...

TUnder the Lone Star. By Herbeit Hayens. (T. Nelson and j .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sons.)-This is a conscientiously written and indeed very powerful story of "revolution ia.Nicaragua."...

I An Old Boy's Yarns. By Harold Avery. (Cassell and Co.)-- Perhaps this book is mainly notable as offering evidence that the old passion for hearing stories of school-life has...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOOKS. The King's Recruits. By Sarah M. S. Clarke. (James Nisbet and Co.)-This is a delightful story of the historical romance type, which has been...

The Fur Seal's Tooth. By Kirk Munroe. (Arnold.)-We are not aware whether Alaska has hitherto supplied the theme for any tales of adventure, but the land of the salmon and the...

Phcebe Deacon. By Hude Myddleton. (Jarrold and Sons.)- This is a story written with the best intentions, but not quite equal to its purpose in execution. The winding up, by...

Spun Yarns. By N. J. Preston. (Digby, Long, and Co.)- This volume contains some very truthful looking sketches of life at sea. They have indeed all the appearance of being...

Work. (Cassell and Co )-We have to acknowledge Vol. IX. | (January-July, 1895) of this "Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics." " Mechanics " being taken in a large sense,...

Pictures of Rustic Landscape. By Birket Foster. With Passages I in Prose and Verse Selected by John Davidson. (John C. Nimmo.) -It is common to illustrate books by pictures,...

A Duke of Britain. By Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P. (Blackwood.)-The author has ewidently spent a world of pains on filling in the details of this "Romance of the Fourth...

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information: Relating to all Ages and Nations. Twenty-first Edition, containing the History of the World to the Autumn of 1895 By...

Masterpieces of the Great Artists: 1400-1700. By Mrs. Arthur I Bell (N. D'Anvers). (Bell and Sons.)-Mrs. Bell has collected I here forty-one of the greatest pictures in the...

The Mushroomn Cave. By Evelyn Raymond. (Arnold.) -A very I pleasing, pathetic story is this of an old Quaker family who have fallen on evil days, and find themselves, on the...

By Adverse Winds. By Oliphant Smeaton. (Oliphant, Anderson, I and Ferrier.)-It is discouraging to find such Latinity as "theologice dictu" on the first page of a book, and...

Sir Hew Dalrymple at Gibraltar and in Portugal in 1808. By Admiral Sir E. G. Fanshawe. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)- Admiral Fanshawe vindicates the part which Sir Hew...

Marmontel's Moral Tales. Selected, with a Revised Translation, Biographical Introduction and Notes, by George Saintsbury. (G. Allen.)-Mr. Saintsbury's appreciation of Marmontel...

The Spirit of Cookery. By J. L. W. Thudichum, M.D. (Baillibre, Tindall, and Cox.)-This is a book about cookery, treated, we may say, from the scientific side. Further, the...

A NAVAL OFFICER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.* THE life of Captain Stephen Martin as recorded by his son Stephen Martin-Leake, the Garter King of Arms, affords a very interesting...

Mr. Bayard, the Ambassador of the United States to this country, delivered on Thursday, in the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, an eloquent and striking address on...

Mr. Walter Long, M.P., the President of the Board of I Agriculture, and a member of the Cabinet, was present on Tuesday at the annual dinner of the Country Brewers' Society at...

A A great effort has just been made by the party of Mri-. McCarthy to expel Mr. Healy and his friends, and to induce Mr. Sexton to re-enter the party in his place. What was...

Mr. G. W. E. Russell, Under-Secretary to the Riome Office I in the last Government, addressed a vigorous letter to the Daily Chronicle of this day week on the subject of the...

We are sorry to see the Seottish shipbuilders on the Clyde following the example of the Unions of workmen by locking out their men, by way of supporting the cause of their...

A sensational trial ended at Bourges on Tuesday. The Marquis de Nayve, a man descended from a Crusader, but with no money, married a wealthy young woman who had borne an...

THlE LOMlBARDS IN ITALY.* MR. HODGKIN'S new volumes are devoted to the rise of the Lombard dominion in Italy. All the earlier waves of bar. barian invasion had been shattered...

Lord Wolseley on Wednesday made an important speech in the hall of the Clothworkers' Company. He was asked to reply for "the defensive forces of the Crown," and took occasion...

Mr. Chamberlain made a very interesting speech on Wednesday at the dinner given by the Agent-General for Natal, to celebrate the completion of the Natal-Transvaal Railway from...

The Emperor of Austria has refused to Eanction the I1 election of Dr. Lueger as Burgomaster of Vienna. As Dr. Lueger is the Anti-Semite champion, is favoured by the Clericals,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE great Eastern fact of the week is that Austria, which has direct access to the very heart of European Turkey, has joined Great Britain and the other...

Some of our contemporaries still doubt whether the stories I of massacre and disorder in Turkey are true. If they are right, will they explain why six Ambassadors at...

The Duke of Devonshire, who was the principal speaker at the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast on Thursday, suggested that though he did not suppose that the party led by Lord Rose....

THE LATEST STEP IN TURKEY. THERE is movement visible in Constantinople which, T though as yet without defined object, will, we believe, produce one of two results, either a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. BEWARE OF PROMISES AND PROGRAMMES! I MR. LONG'S promise to the country brewers on Al Tuesday, that if anything were to be done on the licensing question...

MAGNIFICENCE. E confess to an interest, which to many excellent - W persons will seem unaccountable, in the details of the Vanderbilt wedding. It interests us, who disbelieve...

MR. WILFRID WARD ON "THE RIGIDITY OF ROME." MR. WILFRID WARD, in an able and interesting Al article on this subject which he contributes to the Nineteenth Century for November,...

THE TRIAL OF THE MARQUIS DE NAYVE. THE irritation of the British public at a trial like that T of the Marquis de Nayve, which ended on Tuesday at Bourges, is natural enough....

RECENT RAT-LORE. A JUROR, in a coroner's inquest held last week in the A East End, complained that his attendance on the jury had cost him a sovereign. He explained that he was...

THE LIFE OF SIR HENRY HALFORD.* THE portrait painted by Dr. Munk of Sir Henry Halford is that of a courtly physician, elegant scholar, and popular member of society, who,...

THE MAGAZINES. THic conductors of the serious magazines must know their own business best, but as outsiders we cannot but doubt whether their tendency to increase the number...

THE HABITS OF ROOKS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPrCTATO40] SiR,-The rookery here is of considerable antiquity, although -at first sight it is not easy to see what has so endeared...

POETRY. ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE INAUGURAL EXHIBITION OF THE IRISH ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY.-NOVEMBER 26TH, 1895.* CHORUS. GLADLY, gladly heart and voice Now uplift in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 6aSPECTATOP. ] 6SIr,-Rooks must either have very keen sight or very keen scent. I have fr quently passed near a flight of rooks settled on a field, with a...

THE SAGACITY OF BEARS. [TO TIE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIr.,-I was interested to observe in the Zoological Gardens at Hanley this summer the faculty which bears possess of...

M. BOURGEOIS' PROPOSALS. THE question for the new Ministry in France is whether the country will like their proposals, for without strong external support they will most...

BO OK S. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.* THE present generation derives most of its knowledge of the statesmen of the more recent past from turning over the pages of old volumes of Punch...

THE VOICE OF THE TREES. SWEET is the sound of the wind in the trees, Softly it rises in whispering keys, Murmurs of sound as the voice of the seas, Growing in power as it...

The Meeting of the Three Choirs. Commenced by the Rev. Daniel I Lysons, carried on to 1864 by John Amott, and continued to 1894 by C. Leo Williams and H. Godwin Chance. (Chance...

Da-ys of MSy Life on Waters Fresh and Salt. By John Bickerdyke. I (Longmans.)-The writer who uses the pseudonym of -'John Bickerdyke," is well known to all readers ef angling...

BURYING ALIVE. [To Ton EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,-The case reported by your correspondent, Mr. Peveril Turnbull, in the Spectator of October 19th, appears to be one of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. WOMEN'S ARMENIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE. [TO TRE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SiPS,-I trust you will courteously afford me space to reply to Canon MacColl's...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON OUR COLONIAL EMPIRE. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at a dinner given last M Wednesday in honour of the completion of the railway communication between Natal and...

"THREE CENTURIES OF THE MOGULS." w THAT " often an action of small note, a short saying or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,"...

MR. LECKY AND DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. THE changes which the House of Commons has insensibly undergone, and is still insensibly undergoing, give a new value to University...

THE NEW AND THE OLD AT THE HORSEGUARDS. THE farewell order of the late Commander-iu.Chief, T and the order of Lord Wolseley on assuming command, were published at the end of...

MR. GEORGE RUSSELL AND THE ARCHBISHOPS. THE article contributed to last Saturday's Daily T Chronicle by Mr. George Russell, as President of the "Liberal Churchmen's Union," on...