M R. GLADSTONE made two short railway-station speeches on Tuesday,—one at Weybridge in the morn- ing, in answer to an address from the Weybridge, Chertsey, and Egham Liberal...

a conflict in the streets of Paris. The leaders of the Socialists have summoned their followers of all nationalities to make a grand demonstration around the Are de Triomphe, in...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 19th, will be issued, .gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages -of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

evidence in the Crewe murder, decided that George Davies, the younger of the lads convicted, who was only sixteen, was too young for execution, and accordingly commuted his sen-...

but the vigour was decidedly more aggressive than it needed to be, and, to our thinking, than it should have been. "Mr. Gladstone's Home-rule policy was conceived in secrecy,...

case.

Monday, made a remark which may be of considerable im- portance. "He supposed he was coming very near to the end of his career, and he was glad to think that during the brief...

on Wed- nesday, in which he indulged in the vain aspiration that Members of the House of Commons would not insist on using the same arguments over and over again, very seldom...

Stanley's officers, protests in the Times against the small modicum of praise given to his Zanzibari followers, and the general indifference to the interests of the Negroes, the...

by the reluctance of the peasantry, and possibly of the soldiers also, to allow conscripts to be sent on distant tropical expeditions. It could, for instance, take pos- session...

time to the Army. His Majesty complains that he cannot complete the equipment required by recent additions to the strength of the Army for want of officers, and that this want...

financial crash in the capital of Italy can no longer be avoided. The Municipality has overspent its resources in the maddest way, and stories are rife of the wildest...

Parnell Commission by attacks on Mr. Balfour's Irish Land Bill, which he has thrown into the form of letters to the Morning Post. His chief criticism is the same as Mr. Glad-...

Salisbury's foreign policy, and told his audience that England does not raise, and probably cannot with advantage raise, more than one-third of the food of the people of this...

annual banquet of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, ventured to think that the more carefully labour was organised in England, the less we should hear of the mischievous effect...

Wednesday, in which he did justice to Sir William Harcourt's remarkable aptitude for turning round upon himself,—in rela- tion to the Tithes measure. Sir William, he said, was...

to the Times on Wednesday, asking for a short word to express the idea of carriage by electric power. He himself suggested the verbs to " ohm " or to "volt," neither of which...

think, precisely the right note, in reference to the action of the House of Commons in relation to the Parnell Com- mission. He pointed out, as we have done, that the...

madevery much of their deliberations. They have got as far as saying that they wish the Church to act like a living Church, and to give her own advice, through her own proper...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S HINT. O NE of Mr. Gladstone's most earnest supporters in the Press says of him, that he "is never so dangerous as when he is smiling." We have not been...

I T will be some time before any of us, whether Germans or outsiders, even think that we thoroughly under- stand the character of the German Emperor. We have not seen him yet in...

M R. W. H. SMITH said very justly, in his modest speech at Henley on Wednesday, that his claim to assist in directing the affairs of this country consisted in his being a man of...

W E do not believe that there has been, as is alleged, an "explosion of public feeling" against Mr. Matthews on account of his decision in the Crewe murder case. On the...

T HE epidemic of strikes now visiting every part of the Continent, which amazes many politicians, and is said to have elicited from Prince Bismarck a despondent doubt whether...

A NEWSPAPER trial which took place at Paris on Tuesday suggests a difficulty which will probably be increasingly felt in all civilised countries. Ministers may be weak and...

E YEN among that large class of readers whose perusal of anything requiring close attention is limited to its title, many have probably derived satisfaction from Mr. Herbert...

week's Lancet (of April 5th) of a meeting of medical men at Leeds, to witness Dr. Milne Bramwell's feats in producing by a mere exercise of will, the same effects which the...

T HERE is a very general expectation abroad that Mr. Goschen, in his forthcoming Budget, will take off the duty upon plate. We heartily hope it is correct, for though plate may...

THE INFALLIBILITY OF OUR LORD. [TO TEE EDITOS OF THE " SpacraTort."] SIR, — May I be permitted to say one word more on the serious subject of my last letter? If one Evangelist...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think it may not be altogether useless to intimate that many of us who cannot go all the way with Dr. Liddon in his letter to you of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Dr. Liddon may possibly be on safe ground when he argues that, being divine, Christ though man must be in- fallible. None the less the...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR."] SxR,—The attempt to identify the authority of our Lord with certain passing opinions on the books of the Old Testament, seems to me likely to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I entirely agree with you in thinking it very important that Mr. Gladstone should consent to disclose before the next General Election...

[To THE EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Spectator, in noticing on April 5th my article in the Fortnightly _Review on "The Physique of European Armies," inquires whether the...

too low and driven In a whirl of rain O'er the shivering plain : But a cloud all white In a heaven all blue, Hanging in men's sight Half a long day through, And, when daylight...

THE UNKNOWN EROS.* Mn. COVENTRY PATMORE has added BO much to this edition of his poem, that it may be regarded as practically new. No doubt it is a very remarkable volume of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") your notice of Professor Stokes's lecture, allusion is made to the suspended consciousness of a bricklayer struck down by a falling brick,...

lTo ma EDITOR or THE " BPSCTATOR."] Sin,—Your remark in the article on "Old Age," in the Spectator of April 5th, that " centenarianism is an undoubted fact," in spite of the...

DYING FOR THE FLAG. (AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1814.) I. 'Twes amid most of the strife When our England risked her life, With but lukewarm friends...

the game of Golf which during the past few years has seized all, but especially the sedentary, classes of the community, has naturally led to a production of a whole literature...

IT is quite refreshing in these days, when every other news- paper writer and almost every politician wearies us with the jargon of Socialism, and tells us that laisser - faire...

stage in the evolution of the military art when the defence of fortresses and fortified areas has become superior to the attack ? General Brialmont, who is an accomplished...

Is this admirably illustrated and most pleasantly written volume, Mr. Doughty shows how picturesque a country may be that can hardly boast of a hill. Not that Hollandsch and...

being "to pre- sent in historic order the lives and work of those leading actors in our affairs who, by their direct influence, have left an abiding mark on the policy, the...

W. M. Thayer. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This is the story of the early life of Benjamin Franklin, drawn in the inain from the diary. It is a very readable volume, and puts into a...

The new number of the Political Science Quarterly—the first of a new volume—is a trifle dry, legal, and economic, dealing largely with such subjects as "The General Property...

D.D., LL.D. Vol. I. (Printed for the Grampian Club, Edinburgh.)— It says a good deal for the zeal and industry of any man, that he should be able to publish a book about Robert...

R. Lupton (W. H. Allen and Co.), is a record of athletic achieve- ments in ancient and modern times,—of course giving recent per- formances in great detail. It is a great pity...

(Williams and Norgate.)—The object of this volume, says the author, "is to give in a condensed form the general principles of Mr. Herbert Spencer's philosophy, as far as...

(D. Nutt.)—The Restoration and the Treaty of Nimeguen are the boundary events of the period dealt with in this volume. Mr. Taylor has gone to a great number of authorities for...

British West Indies By Owen T. Bulkeley. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Emigration to the West Indies is an idea that has a certain novelty about it. We commonly look upon them as...

Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul and Co.), we have the Second Book of Kings. Canon Rawlinson contributes the Commentary. He allows, we see, that it is "difficult to reconcile...

Danish by Gordius Nielsen. (Triibner.)—This is a remarkably repulsive story, which it would have been far better to leave in a language which would necessarily have kept the...

writer started from London in one of the Orient Line steamers, saw Naples and Pompeii, went through the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea, through the Chagos Archipelago, and...

Captain W. A. Gale, R.E. Vol. XIV. 1888. (W. and I. Mackay, Chatham.)—This volume contains various lectures delivered by Engineer officers and others at the Royal Engineers'...

School was founded in 1554, by Lord Rich, at the beginning of the Marian reaction,—or, rather, Lord Rich founded something like a chantry which, ten years later, when another...

(Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Vaughan, whom some of our readers will remember as Professor of Modern History at Oxford, employed his last years in collecting and translating...

Woodruff Shields, D.D. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The first volume of this work was originally published in 1877. Dr. Shields has abridged and revised this volume, the...

Ward and Co.)—This is a revised edition of a book of travel which was published some four or five years ago. The author was a pioneer, so to speak, in opening the Canary Islands...

Harris and Co.)—This is the story of three sisters, aunts of the writer, and, we may add, the story, more or less, of a number of other people. There is, indeed, an embarrassing...

and Hallam.)—This very pretty story is republished, if we remember aright, from Atalanta. Nothing more suitable could be written for a circle of girl-readers. "When Elma went to...

By Francis Joseph Baigent and James Edwin Millard. (C. J. Jacob, Basingstoke; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—The authors have devoted to the production of this work a careful...

is merit in this story, though it certainly is not free from faults. One can hardly, perhaps, blame a novelist for using the recognised stock-in-trade of her craft—children...

2 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—This is a tragic story of love, jealousy, and murder, but told by its accomplished author in such a way, with such graceful touches of life and...