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That political wanderer, the Solicitor-General, is no longer " houseless,
The Spectatorsole, forlorn." He was elected for Launceston this day week, the poll showing for Sir Hardinge Giffard 392, for Mr. Collier 274,—majority, 118,—a result which must somewhat...
The new American President has nominated his Cabinet, which is
The Spectatora good, though extremely moderate one. Mr. Evarts, an able lawyer, well known in this country, is to be Secretary of State ; Mr. Sherman, a brother of the General, Secretary of...
A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, whom we have reason
The Spectatorto believe entirely trustworthy, reports from the Bosnian frontier that matters were never less like settling down. The Christian insurgents hold a mountain district of 2,000...
Mr. Courtney, M.P. for Liskeard, has given notice that on
The Spectatorthe 23rd of March he will draw the attention of the House of Com- mons to the Treaties of Guarantee of 1856, and will move a reso- lution that the conduct of Turkey has entirely...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE situation has remained unaltered through the week. The Russian Government has mobilised eight more corps d'armie, and has despatched. General Ignatieff to Berlin and Faris,...
The Times of Tuesday published in leaded type a letter
The Spectatorsigned "X.," obviously written by some leading member of the Opposition. In it the Writer declares that events bring out three conclusions ; that the real evil in Turkey is...
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On Wednesday, Sir John Lubbock carried the second reading of
The Spectatorhis Bill for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, against the opposition of the Government, by a majority of 48 (211 to 163), being probably very much helped thereto not only...
The Germans appear determined not to conciliate Alsace- Lorraine. Under
The Spectatorthe new French military law, soldiers who have served their terms are liable to be recalled to their colours. There are some 5,000 families in Alsace-Lorraine, in each of which...
On Tuesday, Lord Beaconsfield was presented by a deputation from
The Spectatorthe factory operatives of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a framed letter of congratulation on his elevation to the Peerage, containing the warm thanks of the operatives...
The resolution of yesterday week, moved by Mr. Percy Wyndham,
The Spectatorrequesting the Government to give notice of its intention to-with- draw from the Declaration of the Treaty of Paris on the subject of Maritime Belligerent rights—especially, of...
Mr. Seely, the Member for Lincoln, raised a debate on
The Spectatorthe administration of the Navy, on Tuesday night, by moving two resolutions in favour of substituting a Secretary of State for the First Lord of the Admiralty, and of appointing...
The Comte de Chambord has addressed a kind of manifesto
The Spectatorto some merchants of Marseilles, who had presented him with an address. He indignantly denied the calumny that "in order to remain in an easy repose, he left France in peril,...
Mr. Hardy moved the Army Estimates on Monday, providing for
The Spectatoran Army of 131,720 men of all arms and a total expendi- ture of £13,935,200, and the debate was remarkable for the , universal testimony borne to the success of Lord Cardwell's...
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The magistrates of Tsdcaster have sentenced a man named Leathern,
The Spectatorwho is said to be in a good position in life, to two months' imprisonment for twice audibly cursing her Majesty the Queen during public worship held in a school-room, while the...
The Berlin correspondent of the Times states that General S.
The SpectatorBerdan, of the United States, has invented an instrument which will greatly improve and cheapen the art of killing. He calls his invention a "range-finder." It consists of a...
ft is curious to hear What efforts the Xew Englanders
The Spectatormake to acelimatiee the English sparrow, and how very shy that little bird is of its Yankee hosts. In Massachusetts they constantly furnish the sparrows with ready-made nests...
Drinking, it would seem, is not altogether confined to the
The Spectatorlower classes. Ina recent trial in London for conspiracy to defraud Mr. Le Hunt Doyle, it came out that Mr. Doyle and three other gen- tlemen, one of them a bankrupt baronet,...
The Committee on the Aretic Expedition has, says the &eatery
The SpectatorRecord, fitted its report on the outbreak of scurvy, teed thin report condemns the omission of the radon of lane-joke, /aid shows that Sir George Nitres, though ex- eitettly...
Lord Coleridge recently refused to grant the costa of prose-
The Spectatordating some acquitted poachers out of the rates, remarking that the law must be enforced, but that "as the law protected the amuse- riaents of rich people, they must pay for its...
, Professor Barff, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Academy, has
The Spectatormade a great practical discovery, if we may trust the Times -of Tuesday last. He has discovered how to treat iron vessels so as to render them wholly safe from the tendency to...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorGENERAL IGNATIEFF'S MISSION. " TF war must be in the spring, then let it be. Have every- 1 thing ready ; mobilise the whole Army, except the corps in Finland ; but meanwhile,...
MR. WARD HUNT'S ADMISSIONS.
The SpectatorW RITING about a year and a half ago on the Court- martial which sat to inquire into the sinking of the 'Vanguard,' we pointed out that all the evidence taken in that case went...
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lab NEW PRESIDENT'S FIRST ADDRESS.
The SpectatorT HE quotation from the English Prayer-Book with which President Hayes concluded his "inaugural" was quite in place, as well as rather effective. The entire speech was of the...
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LORD BEACONSFIELD AND WEE MASSES.
The SpectatorL ORD BEACONSFIELD was well justified in feeling a certain amount of pride last Thesday at the part he had taken in improving the condition of the factory opera- tives, and in...
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MONUMENTS AND MONUMENTS.
The SpectatorI F the objectors to Sir John Lubbock's Bill for preserving Ancient Monuments were in earnest when they say that it does not go far enough, they would have a strong claim to be...
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THE DANGER IN GERMANY.
The SpectatorE NGLISH athletics—the men who care about running, jump- ing, swimming, and the rest of the " sports " by which young men of fortune try to raise themselves to the level of Red...
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THE HYPOCRISIES OF NATURE.
The SpectatorTT is a carious fact that the severest school of Natural History has confirmed rather than undermined the favourite notion of idealist and mystical schools that in the world of...
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A MERCHANTS FAITH.
The SpectatorTHERE is one little-noticed but very formidable difficulty just now in the way of religious discussion considered as a useful instrument of diffusing thought, and that is the...
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MR. GEORGE ODGER.
The Spectator,T HE death, on Sunday morning last, of Mr. George Odger makes a sensible gap in the ranks of contemporary English Democracy. The prolonged and painful illness which preceded...
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IS THE CHURCH WORTH PRESERVING?
The Spectator[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIII,—Your correspondents frequently state, by way of preface, that they are presuming on your usual fairness to those who differ from you. I...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorA PROPOSAL FOR AN OXFORD GIRTON. [TO THE EDITOR OF Till ..EPROTILT071.1 &n,—Notices have appeared in some papers that thoughts are entertained of establishing at Malvern a...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorTEND thou our children, Paulus, take this care That stirs my charred bones withlingering pain ; Thy hands, unwont, must learn a mother's arts, Thy neck must bend to btuthens...
ART.
The SpectatorPOPULAR ART.—L DECORATIVE. DURING the last few years, there have come into common usage many phrases unfamiliar to our fathers, and even in some eases doubtfully comprehended...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMRS. CHAPMAN ON HARRIET MARTINEAU.* [FIRST NOTICE.] BIOGRAPHY is always fascinating, when it deals in any competent manner at all with any one so remarkable and so full of life...
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MISS TYTLERIS LAST STORIES.*
The SpectatorOUR popular modern novelists appear to possess the art of writing much and also well. Instead of being contented, like some of their illustrious predecessors, with four or five...
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MODERN SWEDENBORGIANISM.*
The SpectatorIT is a trite observation that human thought has always more or less tended and now more distinctly than ever tends to the two opposite poles of Materialism and Spiritualism,...
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COMETS.*
The SpectatorTuvalu are few subjects at once more interesting or more perplexing than cometary astronomy. The remarkable ap- pearance presented by many comets, their strange apparent...
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SOME MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTHE first number of the Nineteenth Century is a very good one, though, perhaps, not quite equal to the exaggerated expectations naturally entertained. Englishmen are so little...
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M. Tullii Ciceronis in Q. Caeciliwn Divinatio, et in C.
The SpectatorVerrem Actio Prima. With Introduction and Notes by W. C. Heitland and Herbert Cowie. (Cambridge University Press.)—This volume is one of the "Pitt Press Series," and as such is...
On the Track of the Pilgrim Fathers, or, Holidays in
The SpectatorHolland. By J. Ewing Ritchie. 1 vol. (Tinsley).—The writer of this book expresses himself as having been deeply shocked at the ignorance of his fellow- country men concerning...
The very handsome edition of the Dramatic Works of Moliere,
The Spectatorrendered into English by Henri Van Laun (Edinburgh, Paterson), has now reached its sixth and concluding volume. The principal plays in this are "Le Fourberies de Scapin," "Lee...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorWives, Mothers, and Sisters in the Olden Time. From French, Italian, and Latin authors. By Lady Herbert. 2 vols. (Bentley.)—The aim of Lady Herbert in these handsome, coroneted...
Warrawarra, the Carib Chief: a Tale of 1770. By Henry
The SpectatorH. Breen, F.S.A. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—In former days, Mr. Breen would have styled his story a" A Narrative of a Two Years' Visit to the Island of Sidonie, in the...
Nameless : a Novel. By F. A. Newbonld. (Remington and
The SpectatorCo.)— In the first few pages of this tale we are introduced to people of such extraordinary distinction that we can hardly fail to be interested in their fortunes. The heroine,...
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Flower and Thorn. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. (Routledge.)—In this volume
The Spectatorwe have three longer poems, containing together about two- fifths of the whole. These three are "Spring in New England," "Miantowona," and "The Legend of Ara Caeli." The second...
of writing. Her three volumes average more than three hundred
The Spectatorpagee each, and the pages have an almost discouragingly close look. If only the allowance of interest, whether in incident or character, were some- thing to correspond! Her...
We have to notice the annual issue of Debrett's Illustrated
The SpectatorPeerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy, and the Snightage (Dean and Co.), which, we are reminded, has the advantage of being under" direct per- sonal revision and...
Underground Jerusalem. By Charles Warren, R.E. (Bentley.)— Captain Warren has
The Spectatormuch to say, but does not possess the art of saying it in a lucid or attractive way. What it is that he has discovered it would puzzle any reader not an expert in the Jerusalem...
One of the most important of the interesting fac-simile reprints
The Spectatorwhich have lately found such favour with the public is Paradise Lost, as Originally Published by John Milton, with an Introduction by David Masson (Elliot Stock). Mr. Masson,...
