O UR readers will be grieved to hear of the death of Mr. R. H. Hutton, so long one of the editors of this journal. After an illness of many months, marked by severe though...

• THE INDIAN FRONTIER. A ' yet no news of a decisive character has been received from the Indian frontier. None of the tribes, that is, have gathered in sufficient numbers to...

on the Continent to make a dead-set against England cannot be doubted. It has failed, no doubt, but it has been made. The items of news that have been leaking out little by...

told of a would-be revolutionary Frenchman who was discovered, with dejected aspect, timidly following at the tail-end of a procession to the barricades. " I must follow them,"...

I T was inevitable that a good deal should be heard at the Trade-Union Congress, which has been holding its meetings in Birmingham this week, as to the need for a closer...

A CABLE message from Washington has informed the world that Mr. Bryan is not in the least afraid of the effect of the wheat " boom," and the higher prices realised, upon the...

R. W. J." which will be found in another column puts a question to which we are not able to give an exhaustive answer. Why, he asks, should it "take two, and sometimes three or...

I F we could all compare notes with one another as to our life experiences we should probably find that it is not the tragedies, the great sorrows, which are hardest to bear....

W E know on the highest authority that " for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain " the heathen Chinee is peculiar. But still stranger and more peculiar are the ways...

I N the penultimate number of the This Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant relates the story of what is perhaps the most interesting ornithological discovery of recent years. Mr. John...

ENGLAND AND AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR Or THY " SPECTATOR."] have read with great interest in the Spectator of August 14th your temperately expressed and interesting editorial...

FAITH. THOU Power, that beyond the wind Rulest, to thee I am resigned. My child from me is snatched away; She vanished at the peer of day. Yet I discern with clearer brow A...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with considerable surprise your article in the Spectator of September 4th upon "Curates and Pensions," inasmuch as it entirely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In perusing lately some letters in the daily papers on the immunity of certain human beings from the effects of snake-bite, the following...

[0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.. "] SIR,—Yonr article on "Nursing as a Calling" in the Spectator of September 4th, together with the treatment of the same subject in Mrs....

A NEW WORK ON BYZANTINE HISTORY.* IN a well-known passage of his history Gibbon writes that we owe it to the victory of Charles Martel at Poitiers that the interpretation of...

THE editor of this Diary tells us that some of the earlier portions of it appeared in the Scottish Antiquary in January and April of last year. We are very glad that he has now...

THE sumptuous and beautiful edition of Mr. George Meredith's collected novels which is now being issued constitutes a visible testimony that this remarkable writer has finally...

he believes to be beyond the powers of any landsman, many a representative of her Majesty's bluejackets is known to remark that, if he cannot do so much, he is a Dutchman. Naval...

picture of a very remarkable woman, the sister of the present Lord Carling- ford, better known during many Sessions of Parliament as Mr. Chichester Fortescue, who took so...

AT first sight it would seem to be a somewhat vain under- taking to attempt to teach by any rules or maxims the art of writing English. Though not altogether agreeing with this...

The Public Man : his Duties, Powers, and Privileges, and How to Exercise Them. By James Tayler. (Effingham Wilson.)—This is a small volume intended for any one who may be...

Oxford. Vol. II., Fellows, 1522-1575. By William Dunn Macray. (H. Frowde.)—Mr. Macray's volume consists of two parts, (1) Extracts, illustrative of the history of the College,...

of C. A. Wilkens, Doctor of Theology and Philosophy, by Rachel Challice. With an Introduction by the late most Reverend Lord Plunket, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, and Preface by...

By the Rev. J. Ll. Thomas, M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—It may be doubted whether any contrast can be greater than that between the Japan so vividly described by Sir Rutherford...

Thucydides: Book VI. Edited by E. I. Merchant. (Macmillan and Co.) —Mr. Merchant begins with a brief but sufficient account of the policy of Athens in the attempted conquest of...

Co.)—This third volume tells the story of the fourth century B.C. as far as the death of Alexander. It must be confessed that Dr. Holm's narrative has nothing fascinating about...

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