given this week in Munich to the German Emperor, but it does not amount to much. The Bavarians do not like the Prussians, Hohenzollerns included; they detest the cruel German...

the Tsang Li Yamen in regard to the anti-European riots in China, is given in the Times of Thursday. It was on this memorial that the Imperial Edict which we summarised a few...

to be acting sensibly enough. They are letting their new army go home, and, relying on the Regular Army and Fleet, have dismissed Balmaceda's creatures without inquiries into...

declaration of his views to the Paris correspondent of the Times, obviously for publication. M. Tricoupis admits that he hopes to regain power, and acknowledges that if he...

M JULES GREVY died on Wednesday, the 9th inst., • aged, according to the best accounts, eighty-four, 'but according to his own account, only seventy-eight. Although he had been...

coming out. The Sultan has been greatly impressed by the friendship of France for Russia, and has hastened to make friends with his enemy in the gate. That is to say, he has...

ease.

Russifying Russia." In addition to its deadly quarrel with its Jewish subjects, it is withdrawing privileges from the Finlanders, and sharpening the edicts against refractory...

can be called, consisted in discussing the Eight-Hours question. On . Tuesday, a resolution was carried in favour of an international eight-hours day by 302 to 136, but not...

at Newcastle on Monday. Six hundred delegates were present, and these claim to represent 2,000,000 working men and women in the United Kingdom. Mr. Burt was unanimously named...

It is obvious that he is personally opposed to State interference, and has little belief in virtue by Act of Parlia: ment. He prefers, he told the delegates, " self-help and...

minor Canadian officials has been produced before the Com- mittee of .Public Accounts. It is evident, indeed, that they believed the " boodle "—Angliee "swag "—which they...

some tables which have a direct bearing on a pressing English question. The urban population of the Union has grown in the ten years ending 1890 from 10,700,000 to...

complains that the Captain of H.M.S. Espiegle ' should have helped President Balmaceda by conveying 3,000,000 silver pesos (L120,000) to Monte Video. Admiral de Horsey ex-...

Congress of Orientalists ? It is evident that interest in their gatherings increases rapidly, and this year some of the papers read to them, especially the antiquarian papers,...

Census. The total for the whole Dominion is 4,823,344, an increase of about half-a-million, or 11.52 per cent. on the pre- vious enumeration. Naturally the Canadians are much...

tation from the National Provisioner—an American trade journal—in rega.;d to the manufacture of tin-plate. It appears that, owing to want of skill on the part of the American...

Sun- -day, leaves a vacancy in one of the most curious occupations in the country. " The wild-beast man," as he was sometimes familiarly called, had an establishment in the...

a -country-village museum established by General Pitt-Rivers at Farnham, in North Dorset. It is not a "rubbish-shoot," but a really interesting collection of antiquities, and is...

Friday 94i to 95.

M. GRt VY. T HE death of M. Grevy will excite little regret in France, and is of no political importance whatever, for he had long lost any hold he might have had on the...

the French Autumn Manceuvres appears to be admitted on all hands, and is important to Europe because of the effect it will exert upon general French opinion. The manoeuvres in...

A7 first sight, there is something very bewildering about the doings of the Parliament of Labour. The dele- gates begin by unanimously electing a President who offers' a...

of Protective tariffs has been something very different from that which was expected of them. They have always failed to pro- tect. It is, therefore, with no little interest...

.A. FEW years ago, a wave of opinion flowed over Europe beneath which all confidence in Navies seemed to be submerged. The, day of fleets, it was said, had passed away. They...

and the first impression derived from a walk over the land which he has purchased for his Farm Colony near Leigh, in Essex, is that he has unnecessarily undertaken a great deal...

Tale" on which we commented last week has been filled up, and " Miss " now becomes " Miss Golding." We have further to confess that our first impression of the story was an...

T HE women who think themselves "emancipated," or who desire to be so, will not thank Mr. Frederic Harrison for his speech of Saturday night in commemoration of Auguste Comte....

N OTHING more profoundly astonishes mankind in general than the discovery that a certain portion of the human race, or of a particular community, have been keeping a secret from...

I F we were asked what was the most notable change that had been effected in our life during the last half-century, we think we should say that it was to be found in the changed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Your article on Mrs. Besant's exchange of materialism. for the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, with its letters wafted. without hands...

THE IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ”] SIR,—The Spectator has been so wise a champion of the Union, that its opposition to the introduction of an...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Will you permit a constant reader of the Spectator to question a piece of reasoning contained in the editorial foot- note to Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In a short review of Christina G. Rossetti's poems, in your issue of September 5th, you take her to task for ascribing "wisdom" to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Not the least interesting among the various subjects discussed in your paper, to many of your admiring subscribers, amongst whom I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT6R."] Sin,—The following fine passage from " The Princess " embodies in a most perfect form the idea of the subjective character of Time. Those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The boy recorded in your columns (August 22nd, p. 246), belaboured the toad with his stick simply on the ground that " he war a...

A DEFENCE. You stand before that picture there and say, " 'Tis marvellously like, and yet—too fair ! Hers are the features, and these eyes are grey, But the sad gaze of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB, —Your article in the Spectator of September 5th on " Village Life" is very true, and many statements can be proved at the present time,...

BROWNING AS PROPHET.* IT is Browning's credentials as prophet, rather than. as poet, that Mr. Jones examines in this really able, though not particularly well-written volume....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —May I supplement your correspondent's account of the cuckoo by our own experience this summer ? A wagtail built in the ivy on our...

Sherman observes—nay, it should—cause sur- prise that we must go to Germany for the best account of English Trade-Unions, contained in that really great work Die Arbeitergilden...

no dropped stitches, or rents here and there big enough to let a good fish through ? We doubt it. At any rate, we have to own that here is a very bright fish which has escaped...

Tuis little story, a volume of " The Pseudonym Library," is made interesting by its subject, without the help of subtle drawing of character or intricate plot. Cyril...

FIDELITY to reality is the note and the single common feature of these two books,—the one of which deals with modern life in the North, and the other with essentially ancient...

IT is not possible to congratulate Mr. L'Estrange on his success as a biographer. To write a biography which will be at once faithful and interesting, and which will satisfy...

Wordsworth's Grave, and other Poems. By William Watson. "Cameo Series." Second edition. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We are very glad to welcome a new edition of these striking poems,...

B.A. Vol. I. (Bell and Sons.)—It must be confessed that a translation of Euripides into prose is not very interesting. But, such as it is, the work has been well done by Mr. E....

Hindmarsh—Hovendon. (Smith and Elder.)—The Dictionary continues to be so well conducted and so punctually issued, that it is scarcely necessary to do more than chronicle its...

Co.)—This is a volume of exceptionally good—yet not painfully smart "—American stories by the popular author of " Uncle Remus," although the reader need not look for the special...

plot of this story—and the plot is everything—is daringly American, exciting, and in parts highly entertaining. A young Nihilist Jewess, whose capacity for hatred and intrigue...

Schwabe. Translated by George C. W. Warr, M.A. (Bell and Sons ; Deighton, Bell, and Co.)—Dr. Teuffel's History of Roman Literature was published in 1870. After his death in...

vols. (Richardson and Co.)—These two volumes, containing together between thirteen and fourteen hundred pages, should indeed con- tain "all about oysters." Nothing could be more...

vols. (H urst and Blackett.)—In the second rank of living novelists we have no more conscientious and careful workman than Mr. F. W. Robinson, and he never gives us a book that...

Co.)—This is not so much a story as a delightful—and delightfully American—character-sketch, executed in a style which here and there recalls Thackeray. Colonel Carter, indeed,...

This is one of those admirable tourists' companions—something more and better than ordinary guide-books—of which Messrs. Seeley and Co. have published a good number during the...

Harrison. (Bemrose and Sons.)—It is rather unfortunate, to say the least of it, that the type of this book is so small, and exhibits therefore so great a contrast to the...

by Coventry Patmore. " Golden Treasury Series." (Mac- millan and Co.)-1 volume that has been popular for thirty years does not call for criticism. The Children's Garland has...

V. White and Co.)—Colonel Hamilton's novel consists of a couple of very slim volumes, which can easily be got through in a few hours, and it must regretfully be said that its...

New edition, revised by Edward Bell, 31.A., F.S.A. (George Bell and Sons.)—This is a new edition of a work well known to students of architecture, which first appeared in 1854....

Maxwell. 4 vols. (Nimmo and Co.)—This is a new edition (printed with some luxury and in limited numbers) of the standard history of Spanish artists. The old edition had become...