regard to Uganda. We are going to make the railway between the Lakes and the coast, and the work is to be begun at once. The East Africa Company is to be bought out for...

some danger. The Mandarins there are determined not to admit that the Japanese beat them fairly, and accuse the foreigners of having assisted them by advice, and probably by...

French Chamber on foreign policy. They objected to the visit of a French squadron to Kiel, to the recent action of France in the Far East, and generally to the expansion of...

time of the House, and declared that he intended to pass all the principal Bills which the Government had brought forward, but that he did not wish to pass them without...

T HE story of the Russian guarantee for a Chinese loan is fully confirmed. Five Paris houses have agreed to furnish -a loan to China of sixteen millions sterling, secured upon...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, June 29th, will be issued, -gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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subscription of £5,000, on the ground that their collection of books has become of such magnitude as to be almost of national importance. They now possess one hundred and...

So far from subsiding, it is spreading into the central districts of the great island, which is only seven thousand square miles less than England, and it has evidently the...

in a speech in which he prophesied confidently of peace,. and lauded the sympathy which the British Government had shown for the Italians in Africa. He would con- tinue his...

In the Times of this day week there was pub- lished a very acrid letter from Mr. Healy to Mr. O'Brien, asking him for proof of the innuendo that he (Mr. Healy) had been...

(Ireland) Bill on Wednesday by the use of a sort of strategy in the Grand Committee which we should be sorry to see often repeated. If no amendment is carried in the Grand...

Dublin hotel on Sunday. It was a very feeble reply. It professed to assume that Mr. Healy asked for legal proof of conspiracy, and not for such moral evidence as would satisfy...

politan Association for Befriending Young Servants," and observe with pleasure that it will on July 4th celebrate the attainment of its majority by a festival at the Albert...

Society's meeting on Wednesday in favour of the Archbishops' Educational programme, discussed at length in another column. But his speech, though very hearty, was not very...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1061.

on Tuesday, when Mr. Shaw-Lefevre received a depu- tation representing over two hundred Boards of Guardians. Mr. Albert Pell, the well-known Poor-law expert, stated that...

History at Cambridge on Tuesday. It was a very successful performance, full of thought and epigram, the brightness of which is often concealed by the exceeding condensation of...

vehicles. The actual starting-place was Versailles, though the course was nominally from Paris to Bordeaux and back,—a distance of about seven hundred and fifty miles. The only...

report lately made by the assistant constructor of the United States Navy, in regard to the naval strength of England, France, and Russia. This very able and perfectly...

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S IDEA. T "plan, if it be a plan, of dissolving on the Local Veto Bill, is by no means so futile as some of our contemporaries imagine. It will fail...

I T is clear that the journey of the present Czar through the Far East, and the ideas which he acquired in its progress, are destined to bear large fruit. It is impossible to...

GLADSTONIAN contemporary seems to be sur- prised that, since Mr. Gladstone's resignation, the Opposition Press have treated his public appearances with so much geniality and so...

W E wish we could agree with Mr. Chamberlain in his speech at St. Paul's School on Wednesday, that in spite of the deficiencies of the present House of Commons, that House " as...

M HANOTAEX was right in reading his speech of • Monday. No Frenchman, even if he is as learned as Lord Acton pronounces the present Minister of Foreign Affairs to be, can make a...

A T last we seem getting within measurable distance of the inevitable overthrow of animal traction and the general use of homeless carriages. When it was first demonstrated that...

the friends of voluntary schools propose to present to Parliament, has at last taken definite shape, so far, at all events, as regards schools belonging to the Church of...

ORD ACTON'S "inaugural" lecture, as Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, as reported in the Times, is full of thought so compact and so compressed as occasionally to be...

I N the interesting and graphic life which Mr. Leslie Stephen has just published of his brother, the late Sir James Fitzjames Stephen* he records a very characteristic and also...

G REEK fancy personified grief lasting and unconsolable in the metamorphosis of Philomel into the nightingale, bewailing the loss of Itys through ages of midnight melody. Keats,...

ON RECEIVING A PROSPECTUS OF THE SNOWDON SUMMIT RAILWAY AND HOTEL. UNTHRONE him ; let the crowd's horse-laughter flout. Those solemn brows that commune with the sky ; Let...

TRAMPS. [To TEl EDITOR 01 TEL " SrscrATos. — ] SIE,—Your timely article on tramps and the dangerous con- dition of some of the main roads will assist the healthy reaction...

A STATUETTE AND SOME PICTURES. IT is wonderful with what pleasure one comes upon Mr. Swan's little figure of Orpheus at the Academy. Almost persuaded here and there that a...

THE LIFE OF SIR E. HAMLEY.* THE life of Sir E. Hamley has all the interest of a tragedy. The most varied and brilliant abilities, the most sustained powers of work, a great...

somewhat scornful superiority which is' sounded in the title selected by Mr. Mallock for his new volume, may certainly be said to be well sustained in the of essays of which it...

University and Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity, Cambridge, the author of these collected essays from the Fortnightly has won himself his title to a hearing on...

THERE is a prejudice against articles republished from the newspapers,—often a very mistaken one. Take the present work. It would have been a great pity if Mr. Smalley had...

,;0]IE months ago, in reviewing the first volume of this work, we had occasion to say that however right Mr. Brooks might be in his general contentions, he adopted an unwise...

process, has played a huge part in the recent multiplication of illustrations, inven- tions, caricatures, and book decorations. A second edition of the well-known book issued by...

Notes, by T. E. Page, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—(The binder has " Vergil ;" the editor, knowing that if you use an Anglicism you should spell it Englishwise, rightly has "...

The Church Plate of the County of Northampton. By Christopher A. Markham. (Tebbutt, Northampton.)—It would be well that every county, or at the least every diocese, should have...

might be described as a " temperance story." Undoubtecily the author has this purpose in view ; but she pursues it with an amount of literary skill, tact, and insight into...

Shaw has sup- plied a not very encouraging disquisition on the drama as it is at present carried on in London. Mr. Shaw is, as our readers possibly know, a fervent Ibsenite, and...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Professor . Mason traces with great ingenuity the development of the arts of human life through woman's work. To a certain extent he is working in the dark...

and Co.)—This is a story, of the extravaganza kind, of how certain ladies combined to " run " a market-garden in Cornwall ; how they agreed to exclude all male mankind from...

(Cambridge University Press.)—This volume belongs to the ‘` Cambridge Historical Series," appearing under the editorship of Professor Prothero, a series intended to " sketch the...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Pollard explains in his introduction the circumstances under which this edition appears. It had been planned on a different scale, and was to have been...

(Elliot Stock.)— This volume professes to contain extracts from the note-book of an Indian surgeon. We must confess that we found the stories somewhat tedious, though we wish to...