the Departments, and has this week visited Normandy. He makes everywhere short speeches praising the Army or Navy, inculcating union among Republicans, and promising to put down...

to contend in his composite Empire are well illustrated by an incident which occurred on the 12th inst. Dr. Strossmayer, Bishop of Diakovar, in Croatia, is the richest, the...

the Ameer's army are approaching each other, and that a great battle is expected. It comes, however, from Russian sources, and the Russians are informed by Ishak's friends.

at the news about Stanley which was brought by deserters in April last, organised an expedition for his relief. He set out accordingly from the Stanley Falls, with Mr. Jameson...

American Presidency, repeat their programmes in letters accepting nomination. Their main topic is, of course, the high tariff, which Mr. Cleveland describes as a burden on the...

RE has been a lull of a week in English politics, Mem- bers of Parliament having allowed themselves for a few days to keep silence even from good words. It is a short respite,...

case.

consider that for a foreign lady to dislike Germany is good ground for her divorce ! The North German Gazette, followed by many others, supports King Milan's demand for a...

on Friday evening, September 7th, was one of the most remarkable given during this year's meeting. The great desideratum of the age is an easy transmission of motive- power from...

On the morning of Saturday, between 5.30 and 6 o'clock, the body of a woman, since identified as that of Mrs. Annie Chapman, an " unfortunate " of a low class, was found in the...

the day, that most of the semi-political papers read this year before the British Association were devoted to Socialism or Collectivism of some kind, and that opinions of the...

Manners—addressed at Ilkeston a large meeting of Derbyshire Unionists, Conservative and Liberal, in a speech which well illustrates that quality of sensibleness which has made...

Mackinnon, and other directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company, empowering them to govern all the terri- tories they have acquired from the Sultan of Zanzibar. These...

have been falling foul of the Gladstonians for not organising an eviction atrocities campaign on the scale of the old Bulgarian agitation. Mr. Davitt, in a letter to the Daily...

to examine into the resources and capacities of the Great Mackenzie Basin—the region stretching from the Saskatchewan to the Arctic. shores, and from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky...

yearly Irrigation Report of Sir Colin Scott Moncreiff, the head of the Egyptian Public Works Department. Egypt is the cradle of hydraulic engineering, for the possibilities of...

Adami, Demonstrator in Pathology at the same University, are bold men. They read a paper on Friday week before the British Association in defence of stays, and naturally...

eruption ever recorded, is that given in a letter from a Mr. Narlian describing a volcanic outburst in the Lipari Islands on August 3rd. Mr. Narlian and his children were in...

said, to have been used at the O'Donnell trial, has been got hold of and published by the Press Association. It contains an assertion that he was unjustly convicted in 1870, the...

Friday 98 to 98+.

A WORD OF COUNSEL. A T the end of next week the Liberal Unionists are going to begin their autumn political campaign, and for the next three months we may expect to be reading...

W 11 can join in the chorus of approval which has hailed the grant of a Charter to the Imperial British East Africa Company, but not without some reservations. That Charter...

/ITEM marriage of the Duke of Aosta, once King Amadeo of Spain, to his niece, the Princess Letitia Bonaparte, reported in the journals of Wednesday at such preposterous length...

is a thing of the past. That is the message which Mr. Bear, one of the most experienced of agricultural statisticians, brings to the farmers of Great Britain in his book, " The...

of flame on the extensive frontier of India, which touches so many tribes and races on its great curve from China to Beloochistan, seem to have created a little needless...

W E do not see that society, or the Home Secretary, or the police, or any one else except the criminal, is guilty in this horrible Whitechapel affair. The crime was not due to...

RE is serious danger to capital involved in THE RE President Cleveland's almost savage menace to the managers of Trusts," as the monopolies which have grown up in America are...

E NGLISHMEN, and still more Englishwomen, are by habit so didactic, so much given to utter thoughts graver than their real opinions, that to find the head of a great female...

"1 - 1 1 a Roman patrician had been asked his opinion of the .I- arts, and of the artists who work in words, in marble, or in pigments, the spirit of his reply would have been...

W HILE lovers of Art have been rejoicing in the collection of drawings and sketches by John Constable lately presented to the South Kensington Museum, and in the promise of...

SUNDAY BY THE SEA. Whitby, September 7th. WE saw something of the industrial life of Whitby last week. The spiritual is quite as interesting, and certainly, so fax as my...

the old Norman church and the mill, was consider- ably stirred by the invitation to receive, for a fortnight at a time through the summer, successive parties of little lodgers...

[To TER EDITOR or TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I suggest that your " bewilderment " over the votes for land-nationalisation at the Trade-Union Congress is of your own making? You...

Sra,—Your readers may possibly feel some interest in this little glimpse of settlers' life in the Far West of Canada. I should say that the " we " of the letter are two lads...

THE FUTURE OF PROPERTY. [To THE EDITOR or TIIE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—It has long been evident to any one who has watched the signs of the times, that an attack upon property by...

TRONDHJEM. AND was it there,—the splendour I behold P This great fjord with its silver grace outspread.. And thousand-wreck'd and thousand-islanded? Those far-off hills,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is a passage in Bacon's " Essay on Atheism" which is entirely in harmony with the views expressed in your article, " The...

HENRY II.* Mas. GREEN'S Henry II. is an admirable study of the life and work of the great Angevin. Henry II. interests us oft many sides and from many points of view, and to...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It appears to me that the praises of machinery by Sir Frederick Bramwell are just now singularly inopportune, since it is evident that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article on " Panics," in the Spectator of September 1st, reference was made to the world-wide belief that to secure the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Siu,—In the course of your interesting notice of the Poet Cowper, in the Spectator of September 8th, you speak of the " jejune but sincere"...

Minister of the United States to France from the spring of 1869 to the autumn of 1877. Two-thirds of his splendidly printed and finely illustrated volumes deal with the siege...

Tait author of this brochure is an able and honest man who does not shrink from carrying out all his premisses to their logical results. He writes from the point of view of a...

THE undiscovered places of the earth are rapidly disappearing, and the hidden are being made known. Now that the Celestial Empire is no longer concealed from the eyes of the...

A GREAT many years ago, Sam Lover—whose memory is not kept so green as it deserves—wrote a story called My Nor'- East Course, which possessed a kind of humour as delightful as...

Tars story is a companion to the author's previous volume, The Broken Vow ; but it is not, like The Broken Vow, wholly a ghost-story. A ghost, or rather two ghosts, play an im-...

The Gallery of a Random Collector, by Clinton Ross (Panama, New York), is a collection of sketches and stories by an American writer, deserving a word of special notice on...

Sons), is a very artistic combination of a story with a purpose and a sensational novel. One is reminded just a little of the younger Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley by the...

misery, alcoholism, and camaraderie--(Ward and Downey), Mr. James Greenwood shows,—and to greater advantage than in any- thing he has published since "The Amateur Casual,"—his...

the reductio ad absurdum of literature of the "Reminis- cences " type. Mr. Grossmith was born in 1847, and yet here he is in effect publishing his autobiography ! There is...

origin of totemism is still obscure, so much we gather from what Mr. Frazer says. Indeed, he leaves the question where he finds it, having done little besides collect a quantity...

schein and Co.)—This book is described on the title-page as "a romance of the future." Mr. Gladstone is supposed to have passed a Home-rule measure for Ireland, and the story...

not every would-be swindler that has a twin- brother exactly like himself, whose corpse he can introduce into his office, and so cheat the world into the belief that he has...

Co.)—This is a very unedifying, and, to us, an exceedingly dull book ; in fact, it is one of those novels which are so utterly devoid of anything calculated to attract a reader...

Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton), opens with a paper by Archdeacon Farrar on " Modern English Exegesis," which makes a very appropriate preface to the work...