O NCE more the Sultan triumphs,—it may be for the last time. The only solid resistance to the appointment of Prince George of Greece as Governor-General of Crete came from him,...

THE GENERAL OUTLOOK. T HE Government begins the Session with a majority of 143, and with a disorganised and dispirited Opposition ; but its leading members, unless report and...

I T is all very well to say that the Opposition are weak and distracted, without a policy and without a leader, and accordingly not worth troubling about or writing about....

W E are unable to believe in Lord George Hamilton as we should wish to do, his appearances in Parlia- ment always leaving on our mind an effect of want of insight. He is...

TT is difficult to read M. Hanotaux's speech of Monday -11-. upon the Franco-Russian Affiance without a feeling of amazement. It is so entirely unlike anything which any French...

stolen letter addressed by the Spanish Minister in Washington to the editor of a Madrid newspaper has already led to what is in fact the expulsion of Senor Dupuy de Lome from...

passing of church patronage from one owner to another are not of modern growth. What is new about them is the sense that they are matters with which the law ought further to...

I N the Queen's Speech we find a reference to that evergreen question of a teaching University for London as a subject on which we may look for legislation. We do not propose to...

the L habitual selfishness of England, and denouncing the selfish policy which she always pursues. No doubt, rightly or wrongly, those who think evil of us on the Continent...

A N interesting find of buried treasure has just been credited to a mole. Coins were seen shining in the earth of a freshly cast-up mole-hill at Penicuick, near Edin. -burgh,...

A LL imaginative minds are inevitably impressed by the solemn grandeur of the sea. Some shudder at its awful loneliness, its apparent illimitability, its air of brooding, age-...

THE COST OF THE WAR. [TO TH1 EDITOR OP THY " SPFCTATOR2 Sin, — It was Sunday, and over the quiet landscape brooded a Sabbath calm. In the fallow, where the teams had left them...

[To Tag EDITOR or THU " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Recruiting for the Royal Irish Constabulary has been stopped, and rightly, since half the present force would suffice. But here is...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TR& "SPICTATOR."] Sta,—The following passage from a leading article in the Voce della Verita, the Jesuit organ in Rome, will interest the Society for the...

SIE,—Your delightful article in the Spectator of Feb- ruary 5th on the Bishop of London's triumphant use of the "interview" should help to make us of the parochial -clergy more...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SrscuTOB.1 SIR,—Your reviewer, writing of "Dublin in the Eighteenth. Century " in the Spectator of February 5th, corrects Miss Gerard for confusing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J read with peculiar interest the article in the Spectator of February 5th on " A Forgotten Novel," not forgotten by myself, if by many of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR " ] SIR, —I was much interested in your article on Uganda in the Spectator of January 29th, and more especially in the con- cluding paragraph,...

[To TEE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECPAPOR."] SIR,—I have read with much pleasure the article in the Spectator of January 29th on " Feathered Citizens." With regard to the owls, which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] cannot understand how you can have any difficulty in staying in bed (Spectator, February 5th). You have only got to establish a reputation...

" SPECTATOR." SIR; I have not noticed in the newspapers any explanation of the German Emperor's " Tamen," as written upon the photograph which he sent to the German Bishop....

THE FRENCH POLITICAL PROBLEM.* WE have in this work a most lucid, able, impartial, and com- prehensive treatment of the political situation in France. Mr. Bodley tells us in hie...

OXFORD. 0 HOLY Land to which I longed to go, Long, long ago ! On Israel's stony mountains there to trace The prints of Grace; From Hebron's starting-point each rock to see...

WHO would have thought that Rossetti's letters would make a delightful book P Anything more unlike his art or his poetry it would be difficult to fancy; the letters are, on the...

say of Captain Younghttsband's admirably fair and lucid book—largely a reprint of letters written by him to the Times — that it is the sanest and most statesmanlike work that...

ONE is struck on reading accounts of Eastern weddings by the fact that they are far more elaborate than English customs. In fact, no civilised peoples have a simpler rite than...

century, when everything in art, literature, and science alike is pointing to a new develop- ment, there are signs of a singular revival of the Shakespearian legend, both in the...

the volume before us, an extract is given from a letter in which William Butler writes :—" I suppose that different people find comfort and help in different manners. To me...

Poems from Horace, Catulius, and Sappho, and other Pieces. By Edward George Harman. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—Scholars and lovers of belles lettres will welcome this pleasant little...

is a goodly collection of ghosts and apparitions from Poe to Fouque, as well as some short legends of traditional horror. Of the latter sort is " Earl Beardie's Game at Cards,"...

Murray. (Clarendon Press.)—The first instalment of the Dictionary for 1893 appears under the care of Mr. Henry Bradley, and includes " Frank-Law—Fuz " (completing " F ") and "...

A new edition of Vasari's Lives is given us by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield. and A. A. Hopkins (Bell and Sons ; 36s.) The editors have selected seventy of the most important "...

I. (Wake and Dean.) —Mr. Simpkinson has followed the excel- lent plan of choosing important events in the history of our country, and describing these with as much detail as...

- Smith. With Introductory Essay by Austin Dobson. (J. M. Dent.) — The Spectator. With Introduction and Notes by G. A. Aitken. (John C. Nimmo. 7s. net.)—It is a good sign for...

of this number is the article by Sir Wyke Bayliss on the face of Christ. The author asserts that portraiture was com- mon in the Roman Empire at the time of our Lord, and he...

From an announcement in the present number we learn with pleasure that the publishers are about to reproduce Piranesi's Carceri. These are the engravings founded on the artist's...

ever of information as to exhibitions, sales, and schools. At the end of the volume there is a directory of artists.

enlarged, and contains a quantity of good illustration* and articles.

Flamstead Walters, M.A. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Walters has followed up a good book on Latin prose with another which will doubtless be found equally useful. Some twenty pages...

(illus- trated and printed by T. Hasegawa, Tokyo, Japan, for the Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago) ; and Karma (same author and publisher).—Both these little books are...

the world already in Mrs. Ady's Life, with the exception of some beautiful letters from Louise Jumelin, the grandmother to whom Millet owed so much. Mr. Naegely very properly...

Beeby (C. E.), Creed and Life, 8vo (Simpkin) 2/6 Bonwiok (J.), Australia's First Preacher, or 8vo (S. Low) 4/0 Braddon (M. E.), Rough Justice, or 8vo (Simpkin) 6/0 Brailsford...

By the late Rev. J. H. Wanklyn. Vol. VIII., Proper Lessons for Morning and Evening Prayer. (Bemrose and Sons.) — A Benedictine Martyr in England : the Life and Times of Dom John...