plebiscite for Prince Ferdinand and his strong-fisted Premier, M. Stam- bouloff. The latter has been elected for five districts, and the total vote for the Administration in the...

Liddon, who had for some time been ailing, but who was supposed to be on his way to recovery, expired suddenly on Tuesday at his sister's house at Weston-super-Mare. The son of...

case.

On Saturday, M. Rochefort fought with M. Thiebaud under conditions which, in any country but France, would make duelling impossible for the future. To begin with, M. Rochefort...

romance from that formidable movement. The Duchesse d'Uzes has admitted to an interviewer that she found the money for the General ; that she contributed 2120,000 of which she...

T HE news from Armenia is becoming exceedingly grave, graver even than the Daily News makes it out to be. The Xoords, whose natural leaders have just "escaped" from...

form Unions of its own. A correspondent of the Times, who is obviously well informed, states that the shipowning interests of Great Britain are about next week to register...

force are loudly accused of weakness ; and undoubtedly they forgot the maxim that if soldiers are called out at all, order should be at once restored, even at a sacri- fice of...

unusually readable, but there have been few striking ones among them. One of the most valuable was by Mr. Rhodes, of Manchester, who showed that, although pauperism in England...

of its most famous preacher, will rob a great many Englishmen and Englishwomen of their most valued friend. There was a charm about Dr. Liddon's conversation and manner which...

brought up serious questions. The dock- men went out on strike on Monday, insisting that their em- ployers should " recognise " the Union—that is, submit to its interference—and...

Eight-Hours Bill has already proved sterile. Mr. Birtwistle r the principal representative of the textile manufactures, at once resigned his seat on the Parliamentary Committee...

appeal to the public which we trust will meet with a response. He wants money subscribed to do three things. First, to buy the land on which, or rather, under which lie the...

a paper reviving the old idea that the world would one day be eaten up by its people, like a cheese by maggots. He maintained that the world could not maintain more than...

the current number of the Review of Reviews, contains a curious statement on the part of the soldier. He believes that the Chinese are the coming race, and that they will over-...

have now come to hand, show the calamity to have been a very great one. The conflagration had burnt itself out by Friday, September 5th, but not before some twenty thousand...

have heard with no ordinary regret of the death of Miss Marianne North, which took place on Saturday, August 30th. Miss North, who was born at Hastings in 1830, and who was,...

of importance. Mr. Reed is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the " Czar Reed" whose deter- mined action has, for the time at all events, brought obstruction to a...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 951 to 95xd,.

•••-■0.- THE LESSONS OF SOUTHAMPTON. rn S strife between Trade-Unionists and workmen outside the pale, may become at any moment a political question of the first magnitude. It...

T HERE will be trouble, and that very speedily, in the Foreign Office about Armenia, and probably trouble also in the Unionist Party. The situation there, as we understand it,...

means far more than the loss of a great preacher. The force and beauty of his character made themselves felt beyond the circle of even his occasional hearers, wide as that...

W E have every sympathy with the central idea of the Trade-Unions. We believe, too, that in the past they have done good service to the cause of labour, and that after they have...

more interesting in the Boulangist " revelations" which are now scandalising Paris than the new evidence they afford of the power of the political capitalist in Europe. There...

T "passage of the McKinley Bill through the Senate, and the consequent assurance that it will become law, closes one of the most singular chapters in the whole history of...

one shrewdly suspects that, with all their increased knowledge of this planet and • their mechanical facilities for travel, modern Englishmen are not much less insular than...

T ADY WELBY has been very badly reported, so badly that it is difficult to decide from the condensed account in the Times whether she was on the side of the materialists or on...

T HE mutual criticism that is indulged in by England and America is certainly that of old and attached friends, or rather, we should say, of very near relatives ;—it is so ex-...

W E have often wondered that a single personal anti- thesis—the relation between young men and young women—should have engrossed the whole attention of writers of fiction. No...

munication than that which came to hand a few days ago, to the honour and glory of an American millionaire. Not to know him probably argues one's self unknown ; but I confess...

THE MERRIMAC ' AND THE MONITOR.' [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.:`] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. R. W. Murray, claims, as an eye-witness of the action. between the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BFECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be allowed to point out a singular error in the article on the above subject in the Spectator of September 6th It says that no...

SIR,—A propos of your last week's article, permit me to make a contribution to the story of the Lucknow discussion. A friend of mine, lately dead, was a great admirer of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTILTOR."1 SIR,—Allow me to offer you a quaint illustration of your remark, in the Spectator of September 6th, that crude "pro- phetic " theories are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I thank you for your efforts to abate the bitterness of the difference which exists between us on the Irish Question. But when last...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") have not read Dr. Dale's article which you criticise, but the sentence which you quote—that " the authority of the New Testament comes from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —Your• remarks about swifts remind me how often, during the past eleven years that I have been here, the accuracy of Gilbert White's...

ON KILLIN BRIDGE. DARK stream, that forcest thy dark way Through rocks primzeval, lichened, grey, Thou evert not born of yesterday ; But long ere birth of social man, Ere...

HETTINGER'S "APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY." THE volume before us is a translation and abbreviation of the first part of Dr. Hettinger's well-known work, the Apologie des...

THE reigning families of Europe are at the present moment singularly lacking in female members who have any claim to intellectual distinction. The Queen of Spain has won for...

A READER who can reconcile himself to the fact that satire does not and cannot pretend to be just, will find a vast amount of enjoyment in reading the political ballads to...

As Mr. Story is, we believe, an artist, he ought to have some respect for that law of art which decrees a certain recognisable harmony between substance and form ; but it is not...

THERE is generally in England a tendency to regard with somewhat excessive contempt the views of our own nation entertained by that class of writer who is derisively referred to...

THE two delightful Scotch Woks which we have bracketed together agree in this, that their authors are absolutely absorbed by their subjects. They do not belong to the tribe of...

This is a collection of letters to some New York newspapers, republished, as the writer says in the preface, with the idea that they may form a general guide to the countries...

The new volume of The Pulpit Commentary, edited by the Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence, and the Rev. Joseph S. Ezell (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is Chronicles II., the Exposition...

usual, into two parts. Part I. gives " English History," with a supplementary chapter for Scotland and' Ireland, and a subdivision in eight chapters devoted to " Foreign and...

this tale, " Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel," seems to point out the unfortunate and infatuated Kenneth Errol as its hero ; but there are other characters which run him...

edited by George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. (Elliot Stock), we have Part I. of "Architectural Antiquities."—Along with this may be mentioned The Antiquary, January to June, 1890...

(Brentano.)—Miss Lilian Leland went round the world, and had the good sense to take two years about it. That is a point in her favour, though we are old-fashioned enough to...

Postgate. (Bell and Sons.)—This edition deserves a hearty welcome from all lovers of Catullus. The text has been considered throughout with great care and judgment, that the...

S. C. Malan, D.D. Vol. I., Chaps. i.-x. (Williams and Norgate.)—The Book of Proverbs lends itself very well to illustrative annotation. Dr. Malan has chiefly gone to Eastern...

and Co.)—This third volume includes the history of thirty years, 1726-1756. But it takes in portions of an earlier time. We have, that is, an account of Hudson's Bay from 1660...

and Blackett.)—The author who calls himself or herself " Vere Clavering" shows no signs of growth, for this new book, with its pretentious and inappropriate title, is not an...

Co.)—We shall not attempt a criticism of Mr. Richmond's book. It would be possible to dispute some of his arguments ; but his main contention is so just, so greatly needed, that...