N GL AN D and Russia still wait. All kinds of rumours are, of course, circulated ; and on Wednesday there was something like a panic in the City. The Berlin dealers had begun to...

WHY ENGLAND IS NOT DESPISED. WHY ENGLAND IS NOT DESPISED. T HE Governments of Europe know pretty accurately the strength and weakness of England, and it is fortunate they do ;...

T HOUGH we agree with many of the positions taken-up by Mr. Bryce in his speech of Friday week, we cannot say that, on the whole, we agree with his conclusion },hat at the...

T HE country still waits to know if it is peace or war, with a quiet patience which puzzles foreigners, but does not perplex any one familiar with English moods. When the...

W E suppose Prince Bismarck and Lord Granville understand their own business ; but there is as yet no visible reason why the British and German Foreign Offices should have...

a great defeat for the Liberals ; but wo are not sure that it was not a defeat auguring a greater victory at the next election. ' Sir William Marling was undoubtedly defeated...

T HE scheme for the reorganisation of Christ's Hospital, which the Charity Commission have published this week, is on a scale commensurate with the greatness of the Foundation...

T HERE is nothing like the concrete and particular for bringing home to the mind that which is lost in the abstract and general. The City Companies are always complaining of...

W E cannot see the special "hardship" to Lord Durham upon which some of our contemporaries are so eloquent. It is a terrible misfortune for any man to see his wife become...

O NE of the most serious of the late Rector of Lincorn'e troubles was certainly that chronic moral complaint of home-bred boys and girls called " shyness.' " I," he says, "who...

F EW persons who have not actually lived in Lithuania are at all able to realise the distinctive character of that ancient Grand Duchy, which is to most of us just a part of...

AN EPISTLE FROM "DEMOS." fTo THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOD."1 Ma. SCECTA.TOR,—Will you, as among our best and best-beloved instructors, tell me who I am and what I think ?...

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE " SPECTLTOH."1 Sin,—As an old reader of the Spectator, and a Liberal who quite agrees with your firm tone upon Indian questions, I wish that you could...

L're THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBOTATOE."1 Sin,—Men are wisely using their breathing-time by asking what right have we in the Soudan P We have been deceived, and might have been...

IT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — In your interesting review of "Prose Masterpieces from British Essayists," in your last /lumber, your reviewer wonders how such a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Might it not be well in future for the authorities of the University of Oxford, whenever they think it expedient (as they did...

I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "1 Stn,—I have been ranch interested in the communications which have appeared from time to time in the Spectator in reference to " animal...

THE EXILE. FROM THE GREEK OF ALEXANDER HYPSHANTI. "SAY, foreign bird of mournful mien, with sadness in thy singing, Where is the nest thou lovest best, say, whither art thou...

MEMOIRS BYMARK PATTISON.* Tile severe reticence on which we commented as one of Mr. Mark Pattison's chief characteristics, in commenting a few weeks agot on Mr. Althaus's...

Tins volume of excerpts from old numbers of the Gentleman's Maga:lite is full of amusing reading. But it deals with" Dialect, Proverbs, and Folk-lore "; and the science of...

make delineation of character their principal object need to be especially on their guard against the introduction of too many insignificant details which hamper a story's...

LANGUAGES are usually taught upon a plan that merely stuffs the student with dogmatic rules without providing him with the materials for their application. These he is left to...

WE question whether Mr. Oxenham has done wisely in republishing his Short Studies, Ethical and Religious, from the Saturday Review, in their present form, although we prefer to...

hit the right time—when wealthy yachtsmen are overhauling their vessels and thinking of their plans for the coming autumn—for drawing their attention to this interesting...

Songs and Rhymes for the Little Ones. Compiled by Mary T. Morrison. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and Loadon.)—This is a capital collection. There are didactic pieces, and...