THE CHURCH CONGRESS. HE Church Congress shows no sign of following the 1 example of its relative, the Social Science Congress. That well-intentioned but wearisome body died of...

The meeting of the Church Congress at Walefield, which I commenced on Tuesday, was remarkable for a suggestion on patronage, made by Canon W. H. Fremantle, which is really...

The Due d'Aumale has given the grand domain and ChAteau of Chantilly-said to be unrivalled in France-with its art collections, valued at a million sterling, to the Institute,...

The Committee appointed after the Socialist riot to inquire I into the organisation of the Metropolitan Police, has made a wise Report, which says in many words that the force,...

The labourers of New Yorlk have nominated Air. H. George, the lecturer on the nationalisation of the laud, as their candidate for the Mayoralty. The business men are greatly...

On Wednesday, Dr. Bickerstetli, Bislhop of Exeter, discussed some questions which have long perplexed the Missionary bodies. One was whether a convert married to two wives...

The French Government has, it appears, sent orders to the I Ilayors of all Communes to furnish a complete account of all property belonging to the Catholic Church within their...

For some unexplained cause, Hindoos and Mahomedans in I India are just now at daggers drawn. The Mahomedans in particular are seriously out of temper. On Monday evening, in...

I The National Liberal Federation of Scotland have issued a manifesto advocating Home-rule for that Kingdom. They declare that Scotland pays large fees to English lawyers for...

FOSSIL MAN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrATOR."1 SIR,-In your review of Sir William Dawson's " Fossil Man," in the Spectator of September 25th, mention is made of the heap of...

CHRISTIANITY AND EQUALITY, [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-" Did God make some tall and some short, in order that the men of 6 ft. might help the men of .o ft. to...

POETRY. A VILLAGE ROMANCE (CHESHIRE). ATE, Nellie wur married to-day To Dick, up at th' farm on the 'ill; An' ye've 'eered nought abaout it, ye say? Why, mon, ye man keep very...

SALVATION ARMY MARRIAGES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Allow me to call attention to an extraordinary mistake made by the writer of the paragraph in the Spectator...

THE URIPON MILLENARY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Is not my friend Mr. Freeman a little too exacting ? The statement which he controverts, as far as I am...

THE CZAR IN SOFIA. TTIE scene at Sofia is so singular, so utterly unlike anything T ordinarily visible in Europe, that it is worth while to endeavour to understand it. We said...

I The Great Wedtern Mystery; o0-, M-'row the Caucasuts to the " Caucus." I By J. Manners Itumanis. 3 vols. (F. V'. White and Co.)-There is a great deal of clever writing in...

Fatal Bonds. By Richard Dowlitig. (Ward and Downey.)- Although Mr. Dowling cannot, like the dramatist beloved hy Charles Lamb, " move a horror quickly "-that is hardly...

Leaves front St. Augustine. By Mary H. Allies. Edited by T. W. I Allies. (Burns and Oates.)-Miss Allies has done a service of much value to a considerable class of readers....

There is not much depth of feeling or ingenuity of plot-construction I in Old Iniquity, by Phoebe Allen (Sonnenschein), but it is written with simplicity and care, and the...

I The Facourite of Fortine. By Ella Curtis (" Sbirley Smith "). (Hurst and Blackett.)-This is essentially a pretty story. We do Lot mean by saying so that it is meek and mild,...

In Letters of Gold. By Thomas St. E. Hake. (Hurst and I Blackett.)-This novel can be cordially recommended to all who love what may be termed wholesome sensation. The plot is...

In spite of an affected title and an over-ambitious commencement, I A Lily Maid, by William George Waters (Hurst and Blackett), is a I decidedly strong story of the kind...

Mr. Chamberlain disapproved of Mr. Parnell's Land Bill as strongly as Lord Hartington. He was, he writes to a friend at 3olton, in favour of restricting evictions, because the...

- It is pleasant to read of any case of successful resistance to, the National League by an individual. A special correspondent of the Timnes who is reporting upon Ireland,...

Another desperate outrage has been perpetrated in County I Cork. Some moonliglhters visited the house of a farmer named Joues, a member of the National League, but probably...

Mr. Gladstone was visited on Moncday by five deputations, I one of which presented an address, painfully fulsome in its eulogy, from four hundred thousand women of Ireland,...

The Qneen-Regent of Spain has yielded to the cry for mercy to the mutineers, and has thus become very popular at the price of all discipline in the Armny. The courts.martial...

I The journals of the Continent, and for that matter, of this country also, are greatly exercised about a visit now being paid by Lord R. Churchill to Berlin. According to the...

BO OK S. SUSSEX IN DOMESDAY.* THE o'd Ileptarchic-or, as modern historians will have it, Octarchic-Kingdom of the South Saxons, the present county of Sussex, has a stronger...

Transformei ; or, TPowe Weeks in a Lifetime. By Florence Mont- I gomery. (Bentley.) -By the help of large type, and by breaking up the | text into short paragraphs, Miss...

The Literature of Local Institttions. By George Laurence Gomnme, I F.S.A. (Eliot Stock.)-This little volume will be found invaluable I to the student who wishes to...

Teresa Itasca, by Avcry Mlacalpine (Clitto and Windaxs), is a collection of three stories, the style of which may be fairly enough summed up in a Eentence from the first :-"...

Loudon: a Sketch of the IMilitary Life of Gide'on Ernest, Freiherr | von London, som-etime Gencratissibno of thle Austrian Forces. By I Colonel G. B. Malleson, C.S.I. (Chapman...

I A Tour Round ture World. By George E. Baum. (Triibner and Co.)-Within thc compass of this volu me there is pacsked a great deal of information, of a kind which would render...

P Passing to foreign politics, Lord R. Churchill described the situation as grave. The English feeling ha! always been for the freedom of nationalities. It was to Eng,-land...

Lord Randolph Churchill's speech has created great irritation among Radicals, who accuse him of having stolen all their plans, which is in a r-ense true, and of being an...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE rumours that the Russian Government will retire from its position in Bulgaria gather strength; but all the facts reported from Bulgaria this week look-...

The latest rumour of all from St. Petersburg is that Russia, I t indignant at the ingratitude of Bulgaria, will " contemptuously desert " her until a better opportunity of...

Lord Randolph Churchill delivered a speech of some im- portance at Dartford, Kent, on Saturday. After sonie local compliments, which are usual, but which strike all men outside...

The next step taken by General Kaulbars, though not nearly I so audacious as some others, has startled the diplomatists of all Europe. A great meeting was called at Sofia on...

BO OK S. ROWBOTHAM'S "HISTORY OF MUSIC."' THIE development of music, as the word is now understood, is of such comparatively recent date, that most historical writers upon...

THE MOTHER OF THE WESLEYS.* TIIE mother of the great founder of Methodism deserves a biography, and Mrs. Clarke's narrative is singularly attractive. Indeed, there is no family...

A BOOK ABOUr NEW ZEALAND.* THE Maoris are generally acknowledged to be a fine people, perhaps the most gentlemanly savages in existence-if we except that magnificent race of...

PERSIAN POETRY: A RETROSPECT. THE Mogul conquerers of India made Persian the language of diplomacy, of the Courts of Justice, and of all other official business throughout...

CHILD-HEROES IN RECENT FICTION. X ENOPHON'S " Cyropawdia " appears to be the first fiction X centring in a boy, and even that aims at exhibiting not the boy as a boy, bat the...

TIHE MAGAZINES. THE October magazines contain a great deal that will interest the serious reader. In the lighter sort of article, however, they are by no means strong. The...

PROFESSOR MINTO'S NOVEL.* Tills is a clever novel, but it is a novel without charm, since there is not a character in it which is likely to attract the reader. Moreover, the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. GLADSTONE'S SPEECI. rR. GLADSTONE'S speech of Monday at Hawarden, AL when receiving the address of 400,000 Irishwomen, and the freedom voted him by...

LORD R. CHURCHILL IN KENT. HE speech of Lord Randolph Churchill on Saturday at 1 Dartford was by far the most statesmanlike he has ever delivered. We do not say this because of...

CHRISTIA-NITY AN'D EIQUALITY. M R. J. C. SNOW, who in another columni scolds us so imperiously for what he deems the iu-Cliristian character of our paper of last weekl on Dr....

THE PROPOSAL ABOUT TITHE. L ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, at Dartford, spoke very m lightheartedly of the ability of the Government to deal with the question of tithe. His words...

FAINT HOPES FOR IRELAND. A TERRIBLE calendar of agrarian crime committed in A Ireland during September is published in the Tines of Tuesday. At first sight,the record seems to...

BANKRUPTCY LAW AND COMMERCIAL MORALITY. THE Report of the Board of Trade on the working of the T Bankruptcy Act, 1S83, just laid before Parliament, is an important document,...

CURRENT LITERATURE. - .- York Plays. The Plays performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York, on the Day of Corpus Christi, iu the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth...

LETTERS TO TIHE EDITOR. SIR JOHN- LUBBOCK'S SHOP BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THIE "SPCTATORt."J SIR,-In your article of September 25th, headed "Sir John Lubbock's Shop Bill," you...

FOUR BOOKS OF VERSE.* MR. TOYNBEE explains that the absence of several well-known songs from his selection is not due to accident, but to the circumstance that Thackeray has...

WEST-COUN'TRY HU7MOUR.* A\EST-COUNTRY humour, like all humour, indeed, would be difficult to detine. It wants the imaginative play of Irish humour, but resembles it in its...

AN INCOME-TAX IN FR\i NCE. THEIE decision of the Budget Committee of the French Chamber to impose an Income-tax is a most serious matter, and may produce grave dang rs for the...

FLORA- MACDONALD. ON a wet Sunday morning, two men stood by the door of a ruined cottage in the south end of South Fist, in the solitude of a tenantless waste. The elder of the...

A NOBLE LIFE.* THE subject of this memoir was the eighth son of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, of Gracedieu and Garendon, and Mary, eldest daughter of the fourth Lord Clifford of...

IN OLD FRANCE.-I. F RENCH books on England show amusingly enough how F little our neighbours understand us. We understand them just as little, though we visit them so much...