however the resignation of Prince Bismarck may be delayed, it has been resolved on, and that his successor as Chancellor will be Herr von BeAticher, Vice-President of the...

D R. WESTCOTT, the Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, has after all accepted the Bishopric of Durham, in succession to his former friend and col- league, Bishop...

case.

chiefly by two very able speeches from Sir Henry James and Mr. Asquith,—the one, of course in defence of the Govern- ment, the other in opposition to it. Sir Henry James...

Europe, to a visit which M , Paschitch, the leader of the Servian Radicals, has recently paid to St. Petersburg. He is said to have secured the adhesion of great Russian...

the German Emperor in calling his Labour Conference of the nations. The preliminaries have been arranged with unusual speed, the delegates have been selected—England sending Sir...

in one of great power. He asked Mr. Sexton why the letter from Lord Salisbury to Pigott was not read, and announced on Lord Salisbury's authority that it might be read or...

with no result except that of blowing himself once more into the air. Instead of speaking, as was expected, in favour of Mr. Jennings's amendment, he spoke against Mr. W. H....

attack on the Government from behind, and after speeches from Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered a vigorous defence...

to pass into the atmosphere of Mr. Chamberlain's calm, moderate, and able speech. He insisted that if the Judges' findings on matter of fact were to be trusted, they included...

ignoring the personal accusations based on forgery. He insisted that the Attorney-General had gone further than a mere advocate would in speaking for the Times, and that the...

the count-out without a long dispute as to the proper mode of picking up the dropped thread, which the Speaker decided on common-sense principles, declaring that though it was...

nearly three hours long. He dwelt on the duty of an assembly of politicians to take into account political excuses for the violence of the agitation which the Judges were...

Dowse, of the Irish Exchequer, who took so prominent a part in the Irish debates of Mr. Gladstone's first Government, between 1868 and 1872. He was not only a very able and keen...

compelled to resign at last. He still possessed a majority, and his Government was unbroken; but a section of his own party, headed by Count Apponyi, had begun to dislike him,...

the following table, taken by the Times from the Chicago Tribune, sufficiently shows :— Legal Year Murders. Executions. Lynchings. 1884... ... 3,377 103 219 1885... ... 1,808...

by attacking a chief whom they protected, and threatening their trading-posts, which have, however, been successfully defended, the few Whites, with Negro followers, defeating...

investors the danger they run in buying Trust shares so eagerly. Many of these Trusts are exCellent, but many more are purely speculations in the underwriting of new Companies,...

Friday 974 to 971.

of the Unionist Government has been incurred through its dread of extravagance. The Volunteers require for complete efficiency certain equipments which they either cannot or...

Bill being in Committee, Lord Northbrook moved, and the Government accepted, a noteworthy amendment. It provides that the Viceroy, with the approval of the Secretary of State,...

LORD RANDOLPH'S POSE. T, ORD RANDOLPH'S lofty bearin g in relation to the Parnell Commission Report has been the chief interest of the last days of the debate. There is always a...

S OME one said a few years ago—we think it was Lord Derby—that democracy was the most difficult of all governments ; but it is hard to look round Europe and not believe that the...

which no doubt delayed, and probably imperilled, the acceptance by Dr. Westcott of the Bishopric of Durham, have been removed, and an appointment is made which is in every...

thrown into agitation by a letter like that from Madame Tshebrikova must be conscious of an inherent weakness somewhere in its system. No doubt the circumstances are...

C RITICS say that all the literature of the hour shows a pessimistic tinge, and the observers of society declare that the cultivated boys of to-day are most of them pessimists ;...

" T HE Parish Councils Bill" is a moderate one, in spite of the fact that the names of Mr. Cobb and Mr. Halley Stewart appear upon the back. Whether this is due to the fact that...

on Tuesday afternoon showed a curious inability on the part of the majority to adapt means to ends. The matter under discussion was a Bill to flog burglars using firearms, and...

moral symptoms of the present day is the great craving for religious sympathy and co- operation amongst those who have hardly any common intellectual convictions on the subject...

I T must be a difficult thing, even for a practised speaker, to make a good speech to a trade, not to be too shoppy and yet to be specially interesting to his audience; and Mr....

T H B sun gains in power each day, and at noon quickens all life. The chaffinches call from out the beeches, and sometimes even their song is heard. The metallic " clink " of...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : THE ADVANTAGES OF SOMETHING TO DO-MR. GLADSTONE IN HIS LIBRARY-THE RIGHT PLACE FOR BOOKS. THERE have been many wonderful exhibitions of the...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have only now read your article of March 1st on• " The New Surrender to Australia " of our convictions respect- ing the law of divorce. I agree with you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . J SIR,—Will the Spectator—always the animals' friend—allow me to call attention to recent instances of the cruelties of our so-called "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.••] SIR,— Referring to a remark in your article of March 8th on our defeat at St. Pancras, I have for some considerable time thought it a...

HISTORY AND POLITICS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The views of such eminent historical writers as Professor• Dicey and Mr. Bryce upon such a topic as the...

THE JAPANESE EXHIBITION. A GOOD many years ago, one of the De Goncourts solemnly recounted to the other De Goncourt their three most memorable feats. The first was the...

LOVE AND NATURE. O YE birds there, our sweetest in singing, Did ye learn your glad music of streams ? From yon fountain melodiously springing Like a sleeper awakened from...

A NATURALIST AND THE HEAD-HUNTERS.* Is there any lay enthusiasm more sustained and bright than that of the " naturalist " who is also a collector ? Mr. Lumholtz quits his...

MR. CHRISTIE MURRAY has certainly more power and genius for the delineation of English rustic life than any half-dozen of our surviving novelists put together. Aunt Rachel is a...

SIR BALDWYN LEIGHTON made a valuable contribution to the literature of Christian philanthropy when he published the Life and Letters of Edward Denison. He has now written a...

A STUDY of the Quakers is not likely at the first glance to much interest or a wide circle of readers. Once a company of enthusiasts, the objects of a senseless persecution for...

ingenious editor of Longman's New Atlas, which we recently noticed, has produced a solid and valuable work on Commercial Geography, a subject that has not hitherto been fully or...

Ma. PENNELL, like other men both literary and artistic, magnifies his office. We are not disposed to quarrel with him for this. = Pen-drawing is an art worthy of honour, we...

author of - " Rudder Grange" in the character of a tourist's guide is a surprising but pleasing novelty. He goes with the reader, as with the traveller, step by step and hand in...

" magazine devoted to the study of the past," and contains the issue during the second half of 1889. The interest is, as usual, of a very varied kind. Mr. Talfourd Ely, for...

and classified by W. H. Howe. (Howe and Co )—This is a nice little book, in the best of all bindings, a soft-padded leather cover; but its usefulness is much diminished by the...

Though " Naseby's " story only fills two volumes, it is too long, for the volumes are closely packed, and contain a good deal which will strike most readers as of the nature of...

and Co.)—The sporting descriptions in this book are the least in- teresting portions of it, and the vulgarity of the preface is sufficient to induce fastidious readers to lay it...

Ready Reference : the Universal Cyclopxdia. Compiled by William Ralston Balch. (Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh.)—This is, in its way, a wonderful volume. Running to some...

and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell.—The book dealt with in the present volume is the Revelation. Mr. T. Randell furnishes an introduc- tion and assists in the exposition, parts of...

By Mrs. E. H. Carbutt. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Naturally, one's first feeling on seeing the title of this pleasant book is incredulity. But the author, who is alive to its...

(Harper Brothers, New York.)—A prefatory note informs us that the sketches of which the book is composed appeared originally in various English and American periodicals ; that...

Company.)—This little volume, composed largely of sketches of New Zealand life, has in every sense a realistic look,—that is to say, both the adventures of the authoress, and...

Co., London and Philadelphia.)—This is a pleasantly written and otherwise agreeable story. William Mainwaring is a young Englishman who, being rendered wretched by the...

admitting that Miss Edna Lyall's latest novel is dis- appointing, and being of opinion that one reason for its falling-off from the standard of merit set up by its predecessors,...

importance, and interest. An arrangement made with scholars on the other side of the Atlantic has enabled the pub- lisher and editors to add considerably to the available space....

do not think that anything in this novel is quite so strong as certain chapters in its predecessor, " Lucy Carter ;" but it is, nevertheless, a very bright, readable,...