Roberts arguing that we ought to keep Chitral, and assert what is practically sovereignty over all the Pathan tribes between India and the Hindoo Koosh. That will, he main-...

that the Japanese terms of peace are now known at Pekin. They include the payment of an indemnity (amount not settled, but not less than £50,000,000 sterling', the independence...

of War issued in Japan in 186S, shortly after the accession of the present Mikado. Their tone is almost exactly that of the German Emperor. The Japanese soldier is exhorted to...

case.

of the Chair with the eloquence and good taste which is habitual with him. No man living knows so well how to be calm, stately, solemn, without being in the least ridiculous. He...

T HE expedition to Chitral from Peshawur advances slowly but steadily. The Swat river was crossed on Sunday without loss; the engineers complete the road as fast as the brigades...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

giving the thanks of the House to the Speaker, and praying the Queen to show him some signal mark of her favour, laid down what was expected of a Speaker. " We expect dignity...

of Commons for taking a second ballot whenever, at an election, the candidate who stood first on the list had not received an absolute majority of the votes recorded. In other...

place on Wednesday. At 12 o'clock the Mace entered the House and was deposited below the table, all the Members standing un- covered, and the Chair remaining vacant. The Clerk...

Sir Edward Clarke and Mr. Goschen chiefly turned `• On what principle," said Mr. Goschen, " are the Licensing Justices to proceed P There is to be a clean sheet, and they are to...

the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced the new edition of his Local Veto Bill. Under this Bill, a requisi- tion for putting in force the popular veto on public-houses must...

lose more than they gain by their compact with the Liberal Unionists is the worst political omen of the moment. In the first place, it is an omen of retrograde policy, which...

New Consols (24) were on Thursday, 105j.

of the Prime Minister, that on an early date after Easter, Lord Rosebery would present a Bill to permit certain Colonial Judges to be made members of the Judicial Com- mittee of...

a clan for granting a State pension to aged workpeople. A scheme was adopted by the Chamber on Tuesday, under which a pension will be granted to workmen who have sub- scribed...

Balfour, who started for Southampton from Buenos Ayres, on board the Tartar Prince,' on Wednesday. Up to the last moment, efforts were made to detain him, the Judge of the...

man of wealth, married in 1867 Mabel Laura Eaton, of Cheshire. He gave her £40,000, which on her death, intestate, in 18S7, reverted to him, and was by him bequeathed to his...

W. H. Fremantle, Canon of Canterbury,—an ultra Broad Church- man, whose theology is as hazy and uncertain as that of the late Dean of Westminster, to say the least. We cannot...

THE NEW SPEAKER. O N Wednesday Mr. Gully became Speaker of the House of Commons. Though he is not our choice, and though we should have preferred Mr. Courtney as a man marked...

Government in dealing with the liquor trade, is, to us, something of a puzzle. It is quite clear that they are not actuated by the horror of alcohol, which with many teetotalers...

I ORD SALISBURY'S letter to Monday's Times was a final and most consummate answer to a very unin- telligent reproach. Two Cabinet Ministers and the Solicitor-General had all...

I T hardly seems to be understood by some of the Con- servative Members what it is that pertains to the position of allies. Lord Teynham, for instance, writing to Tuesday's...

stand European opinion, especially the baser side of it, as well as they understand the art of mobilisation, and the terms they offer China are, if correctly reported, drawn...

Ayres, and his departure for Europe in the ' Tartar Prince,' is an important incident for many reasons, but principally for this. It will help to cow the great swindlers, of...

M R. DALZIEL, whose misdirected ingenuity has been specially successful this season in providing the House of Commons with material for profitless discussion, was again to the...

W E do not deny that there is a certain interest in the folk-speech and folk-phrases of any country. We learn from it what the natural language of the common people is in its...

T HE quality of stateliness, of which we have heard so much this week during the discussions upon the resig- nation of Mr. Peel, derives, we suspect, at least some of its repute...

TT is not often that an army finds itself ahead of its trans. ports at the end of the first day's march. That, however, is what happened after the first day's advance of the...

unknown to the Spectator once sung of " Silver-tongued Morley wid the lures of the Loreley." Thirty years' exposure to real home-grown blarney has made me obtuse to feebler...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Twice during the present Session you have expressed your inability to understand my position on what has come to...

[To ray liorros or Tin "firrenTos."] Sin,—The announcement just made that the Pope has issued a brief forming a separate " Vicariate Apostolic" for eleven of the Welsh...

THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —I venture to think that you may regard the following extracts from private letters, recently received from Corea, of sufficient...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In reference to the question of Bimetallism, have you space for the following notes of conversation with the Duke of Wellington,...

[To Taw EDITOR or TRH " SPZOTATOR:1 SIR,—In these days, when the most seriously thoughtful minds of Europe are apprehending that science itself begins shyly to feel after God,...

MISS EDGEWORTH'S IRISH NOVELS.* MESSRS. MACMILLAN have done well to begin their series of "Illustrated Standard Novels" with Miss Edgeworth's Irish stories, not only because...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTIT0101 SIR, — In the Spectator of December 8th, 1894, you publish a letter about a child who referred to a cemetery as a place where people left...

SERENADE. THE thrush upon the apple-bough A-sway each tardy daybreak now, Hath a new song within his mouth, Taught by the breezes of the south. Of loosened soil he softly...

[To TEl EDITOR 01 TRH "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Mr. Clarke has read very carelessly the passage which he criticises. His quarrel is with Cardinal Newman, not with me. The words with...

"THESE gentlemen, when they get up to speak, do not know what they are going to say ; while they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying ; and when they have sat...

AN instructive commentary on the indolence of modern readers is furnished by two books connected with Adam Smith, which have been recently published by Messrs. Macmillan. One is...

IT is not difficult to account for the confidence we feel, before opening this book, that we shall find it both interesting and pleasant reading. Dean Buckland's was one of...

ME. BENSON has published another volume of his graceful little poems, but we are disappointed to find that instead of its being an advance on the first one, there is a decided...

Press at Oxford, of a new and complete edition of the works of Dante, is an event suffi- ciently exceptional to merit a few words of notice in addition to those which have...

Generals the one whose career has been least understood. In 1796, at the age of twenty-five, in spite of the bungling and dis- obedience of incapable old subordinates, he...

(Methuen.)—Dr. Farrar, in his introduction, deals at some lea gth with the question of authorship. He is inclined to. find the writer in Chancellor Gerson rather than in Thomas...

are published by Messrs. Dent and Co. These are, Lure Tales from the German, the first and longest being " Dumb Love," a translation from Musaeus by Carlyle, and others by...

A Life of Archbishop Laud. By " A Romish Recusant." (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This book is noteworthy for two reasons. (1) It is the result of a very careful study of the...

are assured by the author that this story of capture by Greek brigands is in the main true, and certainly it reads with a very strong flavour of probability about it. The word...

(George Allen.)—We must own ourselves somewhat disappointed with these short stories. We expected something more pleasing from the author of " North Itslian Folk," for the tales...

Buchanan flake, B.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.) — This most useful series is carried on by a volume which deals satisfactorily with a very difficult subject. Mr. Blake...

Whitehead gives directions and suggestions for the culture of fruit. These will, without doubt, be found useful in them- selves. Those who own gardens or orchards will find it...

is a capital and well-illustrated guide to the succulent dainties of the fields and woods, and adds so much more to the debt the public owe to the S.P.C.K. Alas ! to the...

nothing particularly wise or clever in these essays. On the other hand, there is little that is objectionable, beyond an occasional remark savouring of a commonplace...

and Windus.)—Mr. Dewar tells us that he caught a cold "when fighting for the Moderate cause in West Marylebone, for a seat in the London County Council, against representatives...

and Hall.) — This account of a visit to Somaliland is the very barest record of marching and sport, and can be run through in half-an-hour. It is interesting enough to make us...

" confessions " relate, for the most part, to Companies of the kind about which Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams is wont to speak - out his mind with such refresh- ing frankness....

remember to have seen Mr. Binyon's name before. Some of his verses, however, have found acceptance in various publications of repute ; and he was among the authors of a book...

(Sunday School Union.)—In one of Dean Church's " Village Sermons " will be found a powerful discourse in which he points out that the final cause of all the work and discipline...

Hogg.) —The doings of some interesting children are recorded with faithful detail and plenty of sympathetic insight into childish ways of thought and speech. Nor are the elderly...

Trade.)—Ben Holt's humour is of a light, one might almost say, fleecy nature. There is plenty of it, but it is very quiet and is embodied in an easy, somewhat diffuse style. He...

book, not always intelligible, but when it is intelligible, distinctly unwholesome. There is a certain subject of which an ancient writer, who, whatever else he may have been,...

(Con- stable and Co., Edinburgh.)—There is some enjoyable reading to .be got from these reminiscences,—a season spent in fishing for salmon and shooting the wild coast-rabbits...

(Routledge and Sons.)—We must content ourselves with giving the actual words of the sub-title, "giving the correct spelling, pronunciation, and definitions of words, with an ap-...