W E are by no means sure that the "Dreyfus Affair" is not the most important question now before Europe. Immediately after the acquittal of Major Esterhazy, amid the...

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MR. BALFOUR AT MANCHESTER. T HE speech which Mr. Balfour delivered on Monday to his constituents in Manchester will help greatly, so far as it goes, to clear the air. The...

T HERE seems no end to the difficulties and per- plexities of the Liberal party. The Nationalists declare that they will not give their support unless Home- rule for Ireland is...

S IR HERBERT KITCHENER may be in the wrong in forbidding special correspondents to accompany the Egyptian army, but our contemporaries in their furious attacks upon him for his...

I T is the Foreign Secretaries of Europe rather than the diplomatists proper who are fretting just now at the way things are going. The latter, even when in difficul- ties, can...

'T HE meeting to support the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland which was held in Dublin on Tuesday ought to dispose of the objection sometimes urged...

brigade into the Soudan, and the expectation that either the Khalifa will attack us or that we shall attack the Khalifa, is very naturally inducing the public to canvass the...

A MERICA is the land of contrasts. As her physical atmosphere is brilliant and generally devoid of the misty effects and half-tones of Europe, so is her social life clearly...

the Papal Bull on Anglican Orders issued by Cardinal Vaughan and his fellow-Bishops is a very able piece of controversial writing, and should prove a very useful tonic to the...

I S not Dr. Temple going rather far when he declares, with all the weight of his great position, that thrift is "a Christian virtue "? It is a virtue, at any rate, which under...

A NATURAL pang of regret was doubtless felt by most of us who read the other day of the sale of the last of the British whaling fleet. That an industry so closely associated...

room for some notice of one who' has just passed away (January 7th), letters from whom have on five different occasions appeared in your columns,—" The Close of the Montenegrin...

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THE NEW GALLERY. ROSSETTIB, old masters, and English pictures, each occupying a room, are what the New Gallery has to show this year. Each group of pictures is a good one; the...

[To THE Roma or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to reply to your article in the Spectator of January 1st in regard to the Egyptian sugar factories ? You point out that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . ] SIR,—In October, 1894, Mr. Hamerton lunched with my wife and me in Paris. I had never seen him before, though he had mentioned me in his...

CARDINAL WISEMAN, Mn. WARD speaks in his preface of "the great interest (to him largely unexpected) which he has derived from the study both of the Cardinal's personality and...

Tuotroa nothing can really justify either the "few words" with which modern fashion thinks it decorous to introduce all classical writers, or the illustrations with which it...

religion may now obtain, through the medium of Dr. Budge's learned work, a fairly complete knowledge of the central ideas of the religion of ancient Egypt. We cannot say a...

OF that wonder-world which lies in scattered fragments of beauty all about the vast South Pacific much, very much, still remains to be written. For although it is, in truth, a...

THE treatment of the infant-pauper is obviously the most important question with which those who are responsible for the administration of the Poor-law have to deal. He comes on...

Nom very long before his death Charles Lever, whose later years were clouded with embarrassment and disappointment, wrote his own epitaph in the following spirited doggerel...

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