week. Mr. A. C. Morton once more brought up the question of the Duke of Coburg's annuity, and moved that the £10,000 a year still paid to his Royal Highness should be stopped....

for the mobilisation of the Siberian Army and the pre- paration of the Pacific fleet for war, were actually issued by the Czar. The extra staff-officers required left St....

case.

most laborious of the Lord Chancellors of this century, Lord Selborne, died in the eighty-third year of his age. Roundell Palmer was born in 1812, was educated at Winchester and...

Anti-Parnellite) moved the repeal of the Irish Crimes Act of 1887, and was seconded by Mr. J. O'Connor. The usual amend- ment, that the Bill be read a second time that day six...

I T was announced on Tuesday that Japan had surrendered her claim to the Liau-tung Peninsula, including, of course, Port Arthur, and that consequently peace would be preserved...

was in Committee on Tuesday, but the various amendments have been defeated by majorities varying between 64 and 23. The Unionists were flagging in their attendance, till they...

revel on Wednesday at the National Liberal Club, when the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer both spoke ; but Lord Rosebery was far from well, and with diffi-...

on Tues- day to protest against the further tolerance of the atrocities in Armenia. The meeting was attended by the representatives of almost all the Churches, English and...

a stranger in the gallery, who turned out to be (as it is alleged) O'Donovan Rossa, and who had to be removed finally from the House and its precincts. He wanted, it is said, to...

that the Nuncio, Mgr. Agliardi, has been making a tour in Hungary, and has made speeches which, in the opinion of the Government, ought not to have been made by a foreign...

pay, and doubtless the Political Agent and the officer in command will have honours and promotion besides. All that is quite right ; but we wish more means existed of...

interesting and curious points in connection with the question uf what vacates a seat in the House of Commons, for the .heirs of both peerages, Mr. Sidney Herbert and Lord...

dinner of the Newspaper Society, in which he actually con- trived to say something on the exhausted subject of the Press, which was at once new and true. He said that in this...

the popular leader who finds that he must either abandon sense and reason or be abandoned by the people ; who is called upon, that is, to sacrifice the true interests of the...

before the Royal Commission on the financial re- lations between Great Britain and Ireland. He stated it to be his opinion that the proposal to construct a submarine tunnel...

New Consols (2 3 1) were on Friday, 106i.

out a fact in the financial position which has been generally overlooked, but which is of the most satisfactory kind. We could at this moment raise a war loan of fully...

place of Sir Frederic Leighton being taken by Sir John Millais. Perhaps for that reason the speeches were not so brilliant as usual. The Duke of Cambridge, now a very old man,...

RUSSIA AND JAPAN. T HIS Japanese imbroglio, which has not ended yet, as most of our contemporaries seem to fancy, reveals in a strong light the immense weight of Russia in the...

T HAT "convivial" view of the duty of the party in Office with which Mr. Balfour expressed so playful a sympathy last week, was, according to the leading evening organ of the...

year was unusually dull. Sir J. Millais, great artist as he is, has not Sir Frederic Leighton's gift of fascinating, though over- ornate, eloquence, and in his final speech...

on Tuesday for the death of Lord Selborne had an unusually unconventional and personal ring about it, which it is only too easy to understand. It is twenty- seven years since we...

W E write about that wretched debate of Friday week on the Coburg annuity because we believe it is much more important than it seems to be, or than it ought to have been, and...

W E greatly trust that the active and able Member of Parliament whom we used to know as Lord Wolmer, and whom we must now call Lord Selborne, will take the opportunity of...

W E wonder who it is that had the choice of speakers at the Armenian Meeting in St. James's Hall, and on what principle the selection was made. If we look at the majority of the...

I N the May number of Blackwood, Dr. Louie Robinson returns to the subject which he treated thirteen months ago (in the April number of last year), of the mode in which external...

INTE are not of those who doubt women's capacity for literary 'work; but certainly, if we ever distrusted it, it would be after glancing through a number of newspapers written...

S PRING is the one season of the year when bird-language can be perfectly studied. The musical warblers are with us and all birds are in fall song, and while they watch over...

LAMBING-TIME. " SAVEZ-VOUS oi gite Mai, cc joli mois P" I often wondere& where Stevenson unearthed that haunting, delicious refrain. Yet even May's advent is hardly so...

[To TH2 EDITOR Or TIE "BrzorAros."] Sru,—May I be allowed to point out one or two errors into which your reviewer has fallen in his notice of Mr. Steele's "Story of Alexander,"...

[To TRH EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—In the article headed "Our Statesmen as Humouriats," in the Spectator of May 4th, Sir Robert Peel is bracketed with Lord Althorp and...

THE HERRING SEA TREATY. [To THZ EDITOR 01 THZ " BPECTATOR.1 Bin,—TO my mind the United States have done a very foolish thing in not accepting the fair and reasonable offer of...

[To THZ EDITOR. 01 THE " SPZOTATOIL" J Sin,—My attention has been drawn to a strange paragraph about the " Herrnhuters " on p. 552 of the Spectator for April 27th. The statement...

[To THZ EDITOR 0/ TEl " SPROTATOZ."] Sin,—In your interesting review of "St. Andrews and Else- where," in the Spectator of April 27th, you quote an anecdote of a Scottish...

[To TEX EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—Seeing the great interest which many of your readers take in the study of canine character and intelligence, I think perhaps the...

TO A LARK SINGING IN THE BLACK COUNTRY. 0 BONNIE bird, thou surely art not wise To nestle in this poor pretence of grass, To bear aloft into our grimy skies Thy song divine ;...

THE ACADEMY.—I. BEING REFLECTIONS ON SIMPLE TASTES. WHY all this huge pretence of painting and pretence of a taste for painting ? In matters the public really has a taste...

THE STORY OF THE ARMADA.* THESE State Papers relate to the condition of the English Navy during the year 1588. They are many and various ; there are letters from Howard of...

of Irish song without entering into the life of the Irish people. Strangely enough, Matthew Arnold, in spite of his own somewhat restrained lyre, has sympathised most thoroughly...

THE gap between the medireval mind and the modern theory of life is not likely to be bridged by the present volume ; we cannot look upon it as a history, but as a polished...

MRS. STEEL and Mr. Temple have described in the preface to this charming little book how they got the story-tellers of the Punjab,—generally boys,—to give them the various...

IT is not too much to say that The Clarke Papers, the second volume of which work has jest been issued by the Camden Society, constitute one of the most interesting...

book before us explains its story. S-iphie Kovalewsky, a young Russian of good birth, obtained during her brief life a considerable scientific celebrity, carrying off, amongst...

and valuable for its containing quite a host of papers dealing with questions of present-day interest, such as "Newfoundland in Revolt," "Women's Work," "The Origin of...

The English Historical Review continues, in an admirable manner, to discharge its proper function,—that of providing reliable material, in the shape of papers giving the results...

traditions of a somewhat sombre past as does the Atlantic Monthly. It despises illustrations, and never breaks out into eccentricity of type. Yet the May number stands out con-...

the contents of the May number; "simplicity," indeed, is perhaps carried to excess in the opening sentences of "The Place of Iron in Nature," which runs thus :—" Few elements...

strong one, and fairly interesting to non-Jewish readers. Mr. Lionel Abrahams concludes his valuable papers on "The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290." Mr. Abrahams...

new number of the Thinker is an answer to a paper which appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review, — the Rev. Mr. Woods' " The Fourth Gospel from a Jewish Point of View." Mr....

been read before the Royal Geographical Society, and which have been of necessity reported in the newspapers, the magazine has often a rather belated look. Thus, in the April...

the Critical Review. Yet it is, in all respects, up to date ; thus, among the books criticised are Mr. Ritchie's "Natural Rights," Mr. Balfour's "Foundations of Belief," Dr....

LL.D., and T. Whittaker, BA. (Williams and Norgate.)—This volume contains "Miscellaneous Papers," five in number, five articles written for the Encyclopxdia Britannica, and a...

of variety or of quality, in the contents of the little organ of the Colonial College. Old pupils appear to take a positive delight in giving such bits of information as come...

Co.)—The authors, mostly well known, have contributed to this volume (a reprint from Atalanta), and have endeavoured to im- part the secret of their craft to young aspirants...

Sutter. With an Essay by Edmund Geese. (Heinemann.)—This is a new edition of the first volume in the series of Bjornson's novels. Mr. Gosse's study of this writer's work is an...

papers on Rye ; Sir George Duckett argues for the title "Battle of Hastings" against the " Senlac " which Professor Freeman made fashionable. Among other contents of the volume...

Oxford. New Series. Vol. I. Fellows to the Year 1520. By William Dunn Macray, M.A. (Henry Frowde.)—Yagdalen College was not actually oocupied by the Society till the year 1480....