written in April last, which show him to be a man if feeling and humour, as well as of deep piety. In it he describes how the Vegetarians attacked the city of Kuchen, and how...

T HE most horrible massacre of white people by Chinamen recorded in modern times was committed on English mis- sionaries on Thursday week at Whasang, some hundred miles...

the extreme ; but apparently Russia after all refuses to be reconciled with Bulgaria unless Prince Ferdinand is sent about his business. Meantime, there is reason to believe...

his promised speech on the Armenian question. The speech was in his best manner. Though full of fire and eloquence it was, as a whole, moderate and statesmanlike in tone....

by the British Ambassador, the Vali of Van, Babri Pasha, of whose conduct the Armenians have for a long time complained, has been dismissed and replaced by the Mutessarif of...

case.

of Connaught has intimated that he is not a- candidate for the post of Commander-in-Chief, "at least at present." That is a satisfactory announcement, and will leave the...

intervene, Mr. Gladstone cited the Treaty of 1856 and the Treaty made with England in 1878, under which the Turks solemnly promised to give security to the Christian populations...

very interesting items of information. French interference between China and Japan is, he says, likely to. cost French firms the loos of all contracts for the Japanese...

the Birmingham Conservative Club to celebrate the recent Unionist victories in the city and suburbs, and declared that he stood before his hosts as the representative of a...

suspect, in opposition to the proverb, means bad news, for in the present state of public opinion in France—the news- papers of all kinds are clamouring for something...

which seems to be felt by States which are almost impotent for the orderly management of their own most important domestic affairs, to exclude other States, however distant and...

the distribution of prizes to the Hawarden and Buckley Horticultural Society, which held its annual show in the grounds of Hawarden Castle. He dwelt on his own personal...

become the new Bishop of Winchester,—to succeed Bishop Thorold. He has made a very good and able Bishop of Rochester, in spite of a good deal of ill-health, and he him- self...

is to be found in this week's Woman. " Grandpaps," said a little girl of seven to her governess, "has been made a Peer. I don't know what it means, but mother is now 'the...

the Anti-Parnellite party is proceeding in a very lively fashion. Mr. Justin McCarthy has rebuked Mr. Healy severely, though vaguely, in a letter addressed "to the Irish...

last Satur- day of one of the very ablest of our Colonial Judges, Mr. Justice Richmond, who died there of pneumonia about three weeks after completing his seventy-fourth year....

important scouting expedition down the Upper Nile, which started from Uganda by order of the Commissioner. It will be remembered that Major Owen only penetrated as far as...

uncommon to find streams of water which plunge into the bowels of the earth like the sacred river in Coleridge's poem of " Kubla Khan." The holes into which the streams run are...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 10.

MR. GLADSTONE ON ARMENIA. N OTHING could possibly have been better than the tone of Mr. Gladstone's speech on the Armenian question. Not a word was said by him which could...

M R. PLIMSOLL, whose great services to the cause of English seamen will be remembered by all whose Parliamentary memory goes back more than fifteen years, and for whom Sir...

been examining the two Elections of 1892 and 1895 with the object of showing that there is something quite arbitrary and accidental in the way in which the ultimate popular...

I N our suggestions for the Irish policy which the Unionist Government would probably adopt, we mentioned the abolition of the Irish Viceroyalty as one of the items. The subject...

T HE "Omagh scandal" bids fair to take developments of grave magnitude, and of the highest instructive value. In view of the meeting to be held next Monday of the...

of Rochester to. Win- cheater was almost a foregone conclusion save for one thing. His antecedents had marked him out for the post provided that his health permitted him to...

rPHE Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the necessity for amending the various Acts relating to the formation and conduct of limited liability Companies,...

T HERE is something truly pathetic in the thought of the kind-hearted and scientifically minded naturalist who writes books about country pastimes for boys, such as that by Mr....

T HERE are qualities which seem to be contagious, and qualities which we should at the first glance imagine to be absolutely free from any contagious character. For instance,...

T HE ancient See of Winchester is once more vacant, and the historic Castle of Farnham tenantless. On the lawn, from under the grand cedars of Lebanon—planted in Bishop North's...

C ARICATURE of animals seems to grow in favour among the readers of comic papers. Popular natural history has extended the limits of what was always a favourite subject. Mr. E....

WANTED, A CHECK ON CONSTITUTIONAL SURPRISES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I, a life-long Radical, was advocating on July 13th, in this town, the choice of a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR, " ] SIR,—The cause of temperance is deeply indebted to you for the large welcome you have given to Judge Hughes's most timely Eirenicon. A...

a word of thanks for your article, as timely as excellent, on" Temperance Reform in the New Parliament" 1 4 ' The question has for some time past urgently called for a shuffle...

feel the responsibility of any Government in connection with the problems of drunken- ness, will feel grateful to you for your leader on the subject in the Spectator of August...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Hughes's letter has struck the right note. It is time for a "United Temperance party" to be formed. As one who was closely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Will any of your correspondents who claim " rights " for irrational animals be good enough, firstly, to define what they mean by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] many of your readers are not likely to know much of the Independent Labour party, will you permit me to correct a sentence in your article on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Siszclicroa."] SIR,—I observe that Sir Charles Dilke has recently published an article in Le Malin explaining for French readers, in their own language,...

THE NEW POLITICAL ARITHMETIC. HAVE you heard of the famous Professor— His college is near the Thames ' side— Whose theme is the science of numbers To political matters applied...

(To Tim ED/TOR Or TER " SPECTATOR:I Sin, — There is a Jenny Wren ' s nest on a bough of a cedar- tree in this garden. Noticing a female house-sparrow con- stantly flying towards...

go MB EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Among your numerous dog-stories perhaps the follow- ing may find a place. I have a skye-terrier puppy, only nine months old. On Thursday...

A VAGABOND IN SPAIN.* WERE it for nothing else, we ought to thank Mr. Luff mann for having beguiled us to take down from our shelves two old friends, Mr. George Dennis's Summer...

of the "Social England" series, and agreeing with its main proposition that no history of a nation is complete which does not render some account of the social life of the...

THE great Hellenic philosopher, a portion of whose volu- minous writings we propose to notice, possessed a truly encyclopmffic mind, and was therefore justly designated by the...

in a few remarks appended to his volume, that his Thorstein of the Mere was he who gave his name to Coniston Lake, or Thurston Water, and adds that there were old folk of the...

Miss BLACIIBUBNE has shown in this little book, not only that she sees and recognises many of the difficulties that beset girls on first entering into life, but that she can...

this collection of biographies is Charles Kingsley's saying, "If you would understand history, study men." Kingsley, we imagine, would have resented such an application of his...

Guildford.)—The Hall-House at Hawkhurst was pur- chased by Mr. Nathaniel Collyer (1620-1700), grocer and citizen of London, about the year 1665 (it is supposed, by way of a...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—We have here some of the most exquisite scenery and vegetation in the world, presented in photographs that are not unworthy of the scenes which...

Co.)—The Avenger of Blood is the story of a young Arab chief who follows to England the man who has brought about his father's ruin and his brother's murder, in the hope of...

M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We cannot undertake to analyse Mr. Pember's views on prophecy. Moses and Balsam, Abijah and Daniel, are the prophets whom he seeks to interpret, on...

The Pour Gospels, Harmonised and Translated. By Leo Tolstoy. Part I. (Walter Scott.)—Count Tolstol has titles to our respect, but he can hardly be regarded as a critic. Anything...

and Windua.)—Beyond the fact that it contains six short stories, instead of, what we should have by far preferred, one long one, there is nothing to disappoint us in this...

and Mifflin, Boston, U.S.)—Christine D'Arcy, a The Story of Christine Rochefort. By Helen Choate Prince. (Houghton and Mifflin, Boston, U.S.)—Christine D'Arcy, a daughter of an...

firm a hand. The heroine, whom we first see in a picture that startles the world from its place on the walls of the Academy, is the finest of the three ; then comes the...

(Isbister.)—Mr. Buckland tells some stories that the world should never suffer to be forgotten. The first is one eminent instance of "entering into another man's labour," and...

is needless to say that these papers, most of them read or spoken before various assemblies, meetings, or societies, are well worth study. They are divided between "Religious"...

and Windus.)—The most striking of these stories, all of them vigorous and picturesque sketches, is that of the slaying of the man-eating tigress. All devices for her...

Oltley gives us here a sympathetic account of Bishop Andrews's life and work. It is clear that Andrews represents to him in his ecclesiastical position and in his theology,...

all, we are glad to see, is written in a kindly and friendly spirit. What is said of Thackeray is possibly an exception. Mr. Fitzgerald certainly takes an unfavourable view of...

tale very tedious, and must confess, to be quite candid, that we did not finish it. Indeed, it seemed to us that enough had been done for practically estimating the writer's...

these qualities are, with a curious recklessness of consequences, and of the good opinion of mankind, is an attractive one ; and we feel sorry when the inevitable ending comes....