day week, Lord Salisbury commented at some length on Lord Rose- bery's account of the House of Lords as having a "legis- lative preponderance over the House of Commons." Since...

the Duke of Argyll, who had on the previous evening made a rather severe attack upon him, with a good deal of spirit. To Lord Salisbury he said that what he meant by the...

: "Above all other present purposes, vindicate the rights of the House of Commons as the organ of the nation ; and es- tablish the honour of England as well as consolidate the...

from its Japanese correspondent, dated Yokohama. June 7th. Every one feels, it says, that the peace is only a lull in a storm which will presently rage all the more furicasly....

T HE Russian diplomatists have triumphed at last. On July 6th the representatives of six French and four Russian banks, and the plenipotentiaries of the Chinese Government,...

case.

stituency in East Manchester, we have said almost enough in another column. On Tuesday he spoke again, mostly on the Veto Bill, and quizzed some of the Ministerial speakers on...

a great gathering of Home-rulers at the Albert Hall. There was nothing, he said, in the late Government to defend,— "nothing in its life, nothing in its death, nothing in its...

take n place at a meeting, held in Omagh, to choose Anti-Parnellite- candidates for North and Mid Tyrone. The Irish Times, the only paper which has printed an account of what...

the report of the Times—appears to this effect:— "He was not going to argue as to the propriety or impropriety of attempting to modify the ancient Constitution of the country so...

has really become an enthusiastic philanthropist at this late stage of his political life. It is almost as bewildering as it was to the visitor at one of the provincial...

Rosebery's cumbrous phrase, "the annihilation of the House of Lords as regards its legislative preponderance," as abolition pure and simple. The Daily Chronicle of Monday...

of Mr. H. M. Stanley, and made a speech full of hard hits. Excellent was his capping of Lord Rosebery's remark that the late Government had lived a noble life and died a noble...

on Monday night, but there was little of real interest in it. The fact is, that a man with so much width of philosophic vision as the late Irish Secretary, finds it very hard to...

Mr. Goschen at their head, have been busy entertaining the Italian Fleet at Spithead. The Duke of Genoa, who is in command, has under him a very fine squadron, and all the...

im- portant announcement made by the new Irish Secretary, Mr. 'Gerald Balfour. Speaking at Leeds on Friday, July 5th, he explained the policy of the Irish Government in regard...

Chitral) delivered a lecture on the recent Chitral expedition before the United Service Institute. The lecturer declared that the gallant defence of the fort, and the advance of...

New Consols (24) were on Friday, 1078-107.1

the House of Lords. Was it the last word of political wisdom, at the end of the nineteenth century, that the deci- sions of the representatives of the people should be subject...

constituents, dealt with the absurd and contra- dictory allegations,—first, that the Liberal Unionists have swamped Lord Salisbury, and made a Birmingham Ministry, and next that...

MR. BALFOUR'S BENIGNITY. W HAT we admire more and more every day is the unruffled benignity which Mr. Balfour maintains amidst all this welter of angry and sometimes even...

it is possible to establish with another nation. When one nation guarantees the debt of another it means in reality that the guaranteeing nation lends the borrowing nation the...

T HE Opposition have tried to make capital out of the large number of Peers in the new Cabinet. Of the nineteen Ministers of whom it is composed, nine will be Peers when Sir...

the strange story• from Ireland which has filled the newspapers with allegations that the Gladstonians have been hiring Irish seats from the Nationalists at £200 a year. This...

yet intermingled with, the main electoral battle of the day, there is proceeding a battle which, for more reasons than one, is deserving of closer attention than is likely to be...

from the Welsh Dis- establishment Bill has apparently turned the heads of some Churchmen. They seem to think that they can not do enough to turn the respite to good account. One...

M R. H. G. WELLS has written a very clever story as to the condition of this planet in the year 802,701 A.D., though the two letters A.D. appear to have lost their meaning in...

N OTHING is more despotic, more arbitrary, more re- sistless, than the tyranny exercised by coincidence. Fate gives no more smashing blow than that which she delivers by means...

E NGLISH explorers are seldom reticent as to the motives which impel them to adventure, or as to the objects which they have in view. From the days of Hakluyt they have been a...

T HE passion for detailed information about every con- spicuous person must be energetic in mankind to con- sume the piles of biography which are annually heaped up for...

DUBLIN CASTLE AND COURT. [To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTATORri SIII,—One thing is pretty certain,—namely, that if a Crom- well were the arbiter of the destinies of the United...

[TO TR& EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srs,—All speculations regarding religious movements in India must continue to be vague and inconclusive until we are in a position to...

THE MEMORIES OF IRISHMEN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BrECTATOR."] SIR,—I have only just seen the interesting paper on " The Memories of Irishmen" in the Spectator of June 22nd. I...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SpzerAToz."] Sin,—The Spectator of July 6th contains a letter on " Crom- well and Religious Liberty." At present, when the principle- of Local Veto is so...

THE GRAFTON GALLERY AND OTHER . EXHIBITIONS. CHILDREN are deadly judges of the affected and insincere. Among the grown-up, there is a tacit allowance made for all those social...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Why do people never suggest that parents will be willing to pay towards the support of voluntary schools ? There are large numbers, I...

"SPECTATOR. " ] SIB,—Catholice do not expect their Church to teach authori- tatively all their pet principles. It is quite open to a Catholic to condemn vivisection ; many do....

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—I think the following incident may be worth re- cording in connection with the present attitude of the Radical party towards Home-rule....

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your paper will no doubt be presently full of memories of Professor Huxley. I should like, with your permission, to add one while his...

IRONY. WHAT would the world be if the good ceased striving ; Did no one stand for justice, no one say I am for virtue ; but the truth betray, Raising no protest, silently...

MR. STANLEY'S EARLY TRAVELS.* WE are so accustomed to think of Mr. Stanley as an African explorer that it is almost with a start of incredulity that one learns from these new...

SINCE the fulmination of Mr. Gladstone's latest bull against the impiety of gambling in all shapes, we presume that Lord Rosebery's dealing with ' Ladas ' and Sir Visto ' on the...

MANY truths have been lighted up and shown to the world by the torch-light of allegory. Macaulay says that the Pilgrim's Progress is the only work of its kind which possesses a...

EVERY link in the chain which binds the Old World to the New—whether the link be science, theology, fiction, or fable —is in a large-hearted way welcomed on both sides of the...

deserves to be read twice, is, as a rule, only a more definite and emphatic way of declaring it excellent. When, however, we say that Mr. Zangwill's new novel, The Master,...

years ago—by a distinguished English writer, to show that the grossness and brutality which he considered to be spreading amongst his fellow-countrymen was mainly due to the...

A. Young and Co., Edinburgh.) —This is the sixth edition, " revised throughout," of a very elaborate work. Every word, the proper names being conveniently arranged in their...

The Veiled Figure. (Williams and Norgate.)—The author of this little volume, presumably a first venture, has naturally much to learn. The principal poem fails to interest ; the...

Russian of Usevolod Sergyeevich Solovyoff by Walter Leaf, Litt.D. (Longmans.)—Dr. Leaf has performed this task, useful probably, but certainly, we should say, not attractive, at...

Co.)—Mr. Oman takes these four centuries and a half (roughly speaking) as his " First Period of European His- tory." In 476 Romulus Augustulus was deposed ; in the following...

Foster.)—It is certainly late for notes of a campaign fought eighteen years ago to appear, but it is not too late. Mr. Huysshe, who was war correspondent of the New York Herald,...

by the Author. (Seeley and Co.)—These plates "have," we are told, "been produced entirely by the artist, and are from his own paintings." The lakes which the region taken in by...

Right Rev. Phillips Brooks. By " H. L. S." and " L. H. S." (Dickin- son.)—This book needs no criticism. Bishop Brooke was a thinker who had a great power of giving to his...

Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers). With Introduction by H. D. Traill, D.C.L. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a chatty, pleasant book about Venice and things and persons...

On the Processes for the Production of "Ex Libris," by John Vinycomb (A. and C. Black). He tells us how they can be made, the alterna- tives being now varions,—wood, copper, or...

(Macmillan.)—Not a few readers have learnt to look for one of Mr. Warde Fowler's rare papers, and still rarer books, as a great treat. In this volume we have eleven essays,...

home and abroad" maintains its character. It is readable, and no quality is so difficult to attain in summaries of this kind. Readers of the Spectator will not find an objection...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This volume is described as the "First Supplement to the Best Books," and fur- ther as a " Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books...

Hope. (Wilsons and Milne.)—The first and longest story in this volume shows considerable power. The same praise may, indeed, be given to all, but the " Mystery" is the best; " A...

may be mentioned together. These are : — Black's Guide to Ireland, Black's Guide to Devonshire, edited by A. R. Hope Moncrieff ; Black's Guide to the Isle of Wight (same...