of Southern Europe would be wiped out," and he took occasion to repudiate emphatically and with scorn the idea that England could conciliate the Continent by "splendid...

Gosohen's was the tersest and most graphic, with its happy description of all the different branches of the naval services, from the stokers and bluejackets to the midshipmen...

sort of fervour, the general idea obviously being that now that Great Britain joins the European Concert peace is certainly secured. We cannot discover, however, in all the...

to raise a million sterling for the London hospitals, and we are glad to see the denial. The older hospitals will benefit like other great landlords by the rise in the price of...

A LDERMAN FAUDEL-PHILLIPS has been elected Lord Mayor, being the fifth Jew who has held that honourable position, and the usual banquet at the Guildhall on November 9th was...

case.

With the " SpEcrwroa" of Saturday, November 21st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

her colonies he should read the correspondence from Hong-kong published in the Times of Friday, p. 9. The Spaniards in the Philippines, aware of their feebleness and of the...

Greville (Conservative) by a majority of 395 over the Glad- stonian candidate, Mr. A. Billson.. The numbers were Captain Greville, 4,921; Mr. A. Billson, 4,526; and Mr. Keir...

upon the conduct of English missionaries in Algeria. M. Saint Germain, Deputy for Oran, complained that English missionaries had told the Kabyles that if England had Algeria she...

that the American Government hesitates about Cuba, but that public opinion will force it to take some steps towards either the enfranchisement or the annexation of the island....

in Scotland. He began at Glasgow yesterday week, with a general review of the situation, in which he maintained, with the Irishman, that he and his party "were in a majority all...

declared that Egypt is a source of weakness to us,— whether it be so or not, it is certainly a source of unalloyed blessing to the valley of the Nile,—and concluded by...

on Tuesday at Montrose, and on Wednes- day at Brechin. The former speech had little independent interest. But in his speech at Brechin he showed that his mind was fall of the...

the Town Hall, Oswaldtwistle, near Accrington, in Lancashire. It was not an important speech except in one particular. Mr. Asquith apparently believes what every other sign of...

week convicted of stealing valuable furs, and other articles, including toast-racks, from her hotel. It was shown that her husband, who was originally included in the prosecu-...

the establishment of a Cambridge House for South London,—a scheme which the Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Talbot) had set his heart upon, and which has been taken up by the...

in a correspondence just published in Rome between the Pope and Menelek, the Negns of Abyssinia. The Pope had besought the Negus in the name of their common Christianity to...

Education question to a. meeting of the metropolitan division of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations at the Constitutional Club on Thursday, in...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1101.

LORD SALISBURY AT THE GUILDHALL. L ORD SALISBURY'S speech at the Guildhall was a little too like that of M. Hanotaux, but it was not quite so depressing. There were points in...

realise how enormously im- portant this settlement of the Venezuelan question is ; we do not mean for Great Britain only, but for the whole world. The Americans, as soon as they...

in the return of Captain Greville, the Unionist candidate, by a sufficient majority in the place of the former Unionist, Mr. Byron Reed, who was a great favourite in the...

AT R. JOHN MORLEY'S speech at Glasgow yesterday _111 week is much the most interesting Opposition address which has been delivered for many months. It is quite true that Sir...

that England is unpopular among the nations, or that this unpopularity pro- duces some grave consequences. It frequently, to begin with, disables foreign statesmen from doing us...

enthusiasm which pervaded the great University meeting held in the Cambridge Guildhall on Tuesday evening was of excellent augury for the realisation of the object of that...

second week of November, 1896, may hereafter be looked back to as the epoch of the first executive recognition of a vast change in the methods of locomotion. Motor carriages...

M R. STEAD has hardly discovered a true principle for the selection of the best hymns when he makes it his chief criterion that a hymn shall" have helped." If, indeed, he could...

I NDIA will be revealed one day to Englishmen, if it is ever revealed, in a novel. No man writing a history or a description or a book of travels could infuse into it enough of...

I NDIA-RUBBER is in a fair way to become one of the prime necessities of civilisation. Numberless human beings, in the class which could not afford wet-nurses, owe their lives...

THE FAMINE IN INDIA. [To THZ EDTTOR OF THE " SPECTITOD-"] you allow me to notice briefly a few aspects of this question touched on in the Spectator of November 7th ? (1) Rice...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I demur altogether to the description of the natives of East Anglia in the interesting article which appeared in the Spectator of...

Sru,—I recently tried to sell a piece of furniture to an old lady, which she steadily declined on the ground that "she always assaulted her husband before Fhe bought any...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Colonel Slade's plea that the Small Arms Committee took more than three years to decide between the weapons before them hardly avails....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOE."] Sin,—A paragraph in the diary of Gouverneur Morris, American Ambassador daring the Reign of Terror in Paris, gives a melancholy...

fallacy in the strange saying that "a world of Yorkshiremen would not be a pleasant world ; " for certain it is that Yorkshiremen would never find it unpleasant, and yet that...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many years ago, I kept a canary in a cage which was suspended by a thickish cord in a window recess. I had noticed that the bird seemed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8PECTATOR."1 SIR,—I send you the following story of my fox-terrier dog. This little animal has formed numerous carious friendships during its lifetime,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Possibly you may think the following incident, related to me by a friend in a letter received last week, worthy of a place in your...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIn, •;4 propos of a story told in the Spectator of November 7th, I can repeat the following conversation that actually occurred. Verger:...

IMMORTALITY. 0 THINKING brain that lately with us wrought'st, By death surprised at thine unfinished task, For one, a thousand lives thou shouldest ask ; Learning is endless,...

A SECOND SERIES OF SHIRLEY'S TABLE-TALK. 0 Da. SKELTON, the historian and champion of Mary Queen of Scots, and author of that charming collection of essays and. reminiscences...

IT is, we presume, with the view to an attractive title for the hour that Professor Laughton publishes his book as "The Nelson Memorial," the definite article having no especial...

DID the Church of England for two centuries and a half hold solemn festival of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the Sovereign and Parliament of this country from a danger...

a book delightful to read and painful to summarise Too admirably written, too well balanced and mature, too rich and complete to stand curtailment, its high argument mast be...

THERE is always a certain amount of refreshment to be gained by turning the leaves of an open. air book. In fancy • (1.) Life in Arcadia. 13y J. B. Fletcher. London : John...

which is being published under the title of "The Story of the Nations" is an attempt to give in one volume a concise account of the four Balkan States, Roumania, Bulgaria,...

Allegorical. By Frances Clare. (Skeffington and Son.)—This is a sequel to Miss Clare's "A Child's Pilgrimage ;" indeed some of the allegorical stories which appear in it have...

her usual skill in this story of a poor woman and her six grand-children, who live in a model lodging-house off Whitechapel Road. It contains more tragedy than comedy, for...

—This is a most delightful, pathetic, and humorous—yet neither too pathetic nor too humorous—story of the impoverished yet struggling Carruther family in Sydney. The life and...

GIFT-BOOKS. Making His Wag. By J. Macdonald Oxley. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—This is one of the American stories for boys which Mr. Oxley has shown such an aptitude for producing....

and Co.)—The title of this story is unnecessarily mysterious, and when its mystery is cleared up it can hardly be very satisfactory to the ordinary boy or girl to find out that...

consists of Turkish fairy and folk tales, collected by Dr. Ignicz Kunos, and translated by Mr. R. Nisbet Bain in his usual competent fashion, is not only very readable and...

the stories collected in this thin little book seems to believe in cynicism and realism, and to hold that "men," in the " worldly " sense, however much they may desire to impose...

White and Col- Mrs. Meade is developing a quite extraordinary power of pro- ducing novels dealing with the enterprises and detection of scoundrels. Her new story deserves to be...

E M. Lynch. (Kegan Paul and Co.)-This is really a very clever, amusing, and perhaps not unprofitable combination or " stew " of the newer Italian economics and Irish humour,...