thing but the weather, which has been excessively uncertain. He attended the wedding of his cousin, a daughter of Princess Christian, with Prince Aribert of .Anhalt, on Monday,...

Supply, raised a serious debate on the foreign policy of the Government, Mr. Labouchere making a speech in which he endeavoured to prove that Lord Salisbury's relations with...

A GENUINE " famine " in Russia, a famine of the Chinese kind, in which the difficulty is not want of money, but want of anything eatable by man, would be the most awful calamity...

the morning of Saturday last, after an exploratory operation, of which the intention was to find out whether or not it would be possible to remove a tumour which was pressing on...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 3rd to June 27th, 1891, inclusive.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, July 18th, unit be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the Russian naval authorities are preparing for a grand demonstration of friendliness, if not of agreement, in foreign policy. As this could not have been arranged without the...

case.

the 7th inst. For some reason, the authorities had decided to exclude the public, and as an additional precaution to secure secrecy, the executions took place before 6 in the...

several Mission stations in the interior been attacked, but the foreign quarter of Shanghai has been threatened, and is watched by English, French, and German gunboats. The...

gold coins from circulation, in a speech containing some interesting figures. It appears to be most difficult to ascertain the amount of gold coinage in the country, but the...

accusing him of having Wrongly advised his clients in the Gweedore case to plead guilty of a crime they had never committed, and for repeating Mr. P. M. Fitzgerald's accusa-...

the Report stage was concluded on Tuesday. On Wednesday it was read a third time in the House of Commons without a division, and sent up to the Lords. Nothing could show more...

among politicians which are so common in the United States, are extending to Canada. Sir H. Langevin, who was recently Minister of Public Works, is distinctly charged with...

of the O'Gorman Mahon, has given a crushing triumph to the Anti- Parnellites. Their candidate, Mr. Hammond, was elected on Tuesday by a majority of considerably over two to one....

the Manchester Guardian of last Tuesday on the wrongs and woes of women, has arrived at a rather hasty generali- sation that women are suffering, that they are the victims of...

at the opening of a new Conservative club at Guildford on Wednesday, that the naval departments of the Government now work so much cheaper than the private traders who compete...

Stanley, have determined to throw open all their schools as free schools after the passing of the Free Education Bill, and not to encourage what Mr. Stanley very unjustly calla...

an initiative to the people. The project was put to the vote on Sunday, and it was accepted by a mass-vote of 169,142 votes to 117,388, the innovators triumphing in 18 Cantons...

in its order placing all newspaper writers in any territory administered on its behalf, but not within legal "India," at the mercy of the administrative officer. The consent of...

anxiously scanning the bulletins in hope of finding some encouragement to expect his recovery. It is a favourable sign of the times that the Archbishop of Canterbury and his...

Wednesday, at the fifty-second anniversary festival of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, at the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole. He quoted Bacon's essay in...

Friday 95i to 96.

I T has become quite a fashion to say that the success of the German Emperor in establishing his authority, which is indubitable, though the success has not yet been tested by...

THE CARLOW ELECTION. I F Mr. Parnell has anything like the political long- sightedness for which the world at one time almost universally gave him credit, he will feel that the...

who will not have had their thoughts fixed on Mr. Gladstone during the present week. To a statesman who at his age has the misfortune which his great model, Mr. Burke, had at an...

the representatives of London labourers to say their say, is irritatingly unjust. One of the great objects of that Commission—in our judgment, the very first object—is to...

improve upon examination. It is grand, it is heroic, but it is hard to establish its financial soundness. M. Leroy- Beaulieu has been going into its working with more benefit to...

O F every hundred Englishmen who have read the accounts of the executions by electricity in New York, ninety disapprove the new method, and eighty are puzzled to know exactly...

WHAT interests us in the reception of the German V V Emperor is not the reception itself, though that has been well managed, or even the impression made by the recep- tion on...

T HERE are special dangers in a day of small things which do not beset us in times of larger issues and higher passion. When patriotic indignation• against Germany for robbing...

A TURKEY stuffed with chestnuts is by no means an unknown dish, nor is it to be despised by those who have any liking for Italian cookery ; but a burlesque stuffed with...

THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE ON THE CHURCH HOUSE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR../ SIR,—In the Spectator of July 4th, appears a letter on the subject of the Church House from "A...

(To THU EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—" Popular control over schools,"—this is not merely a bid for popularity; it is, perhaps for lack of information, a serious conviction...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] should in all probability not have ventured to write. to you this morning, but for the tone of your article on " Youth," in the Spectator of...

LTO TES EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Srn,—In your article of May 30th on the Russian Jews, which has just reached me, you ask if anybody has ever seen a Jew plough "under any...

[To THE EDI MR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—The writer of the admirable article on "Animal ..Eisthetics "which was published in your columns on May 2nd last, will, I am sure, be...

THE SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT-PAINTERS, AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS. THE galleries of the Royal Institute are filled with a collection of portraits, the works of a new exhibiting Society...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Will you give me space to make a request on a wider scale than it is possible to do in private, for a great boon to a great many people,...

LA FIN DU PAGANISME.* IN this book, as pleasant to read as it is learned and impartial, M. Boissier proves himself master of that historical method by which the reader is made a...

Tam is a very interesting poetic effort. There is life in it, though there are many faults. One is aware that the writer has put his own life into it, and the result is that, in...

by far the most satis- factory biography of De Quincey, and, thanks to the labours of Dr. Masson and others, the curiosity of most readers with regard to the" Opium-Eater "is...

year, an old man who had reached the patriarchal age of ninety-four, might have been seen sitting in the noontide sunshine in the beautiful garden of Wemyss House, a picturesque...

us has wilfully set herself a rather difficult task. She has undertaken to give us the history of a personage who is still living and has presumably many years of life before...

SCHOOL slang in general can hardly be said to possess much literary or philological value, and by a great many persons the peculiar lingo which flourishes at Winchester College...

Johnson. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is an excellent addition to the series which, designated "Stepping-Stones to Bible History," is so well adapted for Biblical teaching....

The History and Topography of Hendon. By Edward J. Evans. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This local history originated in a number of " disjointed " notes which appeared in a...

brilliancy can ensure success, Mr. Wilde should be the most popular of writers ; if truth is only to be reached though paradox, he is the most suggestive. Paradox, indeed, is...

Duckitt. (Chapman and Hall.)—The distinguishing features of this cookery- book are the arrangement of the recipes, given in alphabetical form, and the fact that it is written...

specially affecting Newspapers. By Joseph R. Fisher, B.A., and James Andrew Strahan, LL.B., of the Middle Temple, Barristers-at-Law. (William Clowes and Sons.)—There is a good...

Translated by Thomas Sergeant Parry. (Hutchinson and Co.)— Under the above title, M. Imbert de Saint-Amand has produced during the past few years, and is still, we believe,...

Co.) — This is one of those useful parish histories of which during the past few years a good number have appeared, and deals with an interesting district at the edge of the...

Pollen, S.J. With a Preface by John Morris, S.J. (Burns and Oates.)—The title of this painful but interesting volume may seem rather to beg the question, but it is not easy to...

of his Works. Compiled and Illustrated by Alfred Dawson. (Seeley and Co.)—This is an account of Dawson the landscape-painter, in the shape of an autobiographic sketch, with...

contains verses written by a child, or, in some cases, dictated before she could write. They are certainly surprising, con- sidering the authorship ; but it would have increased...