dinner of the Glasgow Liberal Club, which, acting in a larger spirit than the National Liberal Club in London, has not yet made the Club too hot to hold the Liberal Unionists by...

of General Boulanger in the election for the Seine. M. Leon Renault informed the correspondent of the Times that the Premier had himself promised to issue a decree on the Monday...

the advisability of moving forward, as had been done last Session with the Local Government measure ; not that he would force his views upon other Unionists as a condition sine...

T HE English accuse the French of chattering; but when Parliamentary business has to be done, it is the English who chatter, and the French who act. The House of Commons would...

Glasgow, on Tuesday. He did not regard the Clerkenwell- cum-Limehouse programme, he said, as serious. He looked upon it as so much political birdlime ; for its authors hardly...

case.

his arrest, from which it would seem that he was for some time unaware of the existence of any mob or of any violent conduct on the part of his people, and that Inspector Martin...

his constituents in the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, was very sore. He asserted that Mr. Chamberlain, in his speech of the pre- vious day, had seemed to look down upon Mr....

signatures at last, Mr. Soames having been examined on Thursday as to the letter in which Frank Byrne is asserted to have acknowledged the receipt of the £100 from Mr. Parnell...

Most of the arguments were old, though they were put with extraordinary vigour, and were studded with sharp sentences. The Gladstonians, he said, " have caught the contagion of...

which he treated the institution of trial by jury almost as an absolute right of man, without any relation at all to the genius or character of the people amongst whom it should...

the article " Remember Gweedore ! " which appeared in our last number, as to suppose that the words, " Hardly a week passes without a policeman or a soldier being killed while...

week from St. Petersburg. According to them, the Ameer of Afghanistan is on the frontier with 30,000 men ; he demands the surrender of Ishak Khan, now in Samarcand, and he has...

people of Japan. It is based, according to an over-brief telegram, upon the " German" system, by which we presume that of Prussia is intended ; and the whole executive power is...

statement about German action off the East African Coast which we quote textually. " The German war-ships," he says, " have been steaming two miles from the mainland coast at...

letter, published on Tuesday, upon the best plan of organising the defences of the country both military and naval. His idea is that there should be a separate Ministry of...

to the Times denouncing the practice of insuring children's lives to pay the expenses of their burial. He says the insurances act as a temptation to the parents to neglect them,...

to elect its permanent Chairmen. Somewhat to the surprise of the meeting, Lord Rosebery's nomination was opposed, principally by the two arguments that he was an orator, and...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 981 to 99.

THE FALL OF M. FLOQUET. G ENERAL BOULANGER has registered another success. He has overturned M. Floquet, who was about to propose repressive legislation directed against him ;...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is making a great and states- manlike endeavour to reconcile his duty as the leader of an advanced party with his still more imperative duty as a representative...

importance, in the struggle now going on in Russia between the Czar and the Council of the Empire upon local institutions. We call it " struggle," though perhaps the word is...

the trial of the Bishop of Lincoln, to be guilty of contempt of Court. To do that, we should. have to comment on the proceedings, and to have opinions as to the issue. What we...

watching the London County Council closely ; but then, that is a very grave reason. The Council has been created, first of all, to supersede the Metropolitan Board of Works,...

W E do not know whether Mr. Schnadhorst and his colleagues have fully considered the probable effect on the English electorate of the agitation which they are getting up against...

S TUDENTS of our early history will remember how the conversion of the English people was checked in its progress by a reaction towards Paganism, and bow for a moment it seemed...

the mind, or, at all events, the non - scientific mind, in the contest between electricity and steam. At present, and pending the utilisation of the tides, or of the fall of the...

I T is not a great thoroughfare engineered and paved for traffic, like Watling Street, joining now, as it did in Roman times, great markets and factories, carrying trade and war...

P ROFESSOR Hl7XLEY professes great difficulty in determining which aspect of Christ he shall accept as the true one,—the gentle and loving aspect depicted in the Catecombs, or...

PRIMITIVE TRADITION AND THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I Sin, — In your review—to me personally, your too kindly review—of " The Church and the...

To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In 1884, you opened your columns and lent your most effective aid to those who resisted the attempt made in the Salmon Fisheries...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—In the article upon National Defence, published in your issue of the 9th inst., you admit that in England one of the greatest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Some of your readers may fail to see the connection between " Remember lYlitcheistown !" and Mr. Martin's murder. Yet it should be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE, — In connection with your most admirable article on this subject in the Spectator of February 9th, permit me to put on record another...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I should better have said simply that Franklin's sugges- tion of a new version was not a serious proposition, than that it was made...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It occurs to me that there is one deduction from the strange history of the demoniac kor demoniacs) of Gadara (or Gergesa), which, so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The following story of friendship between two dogs may, I think, interest some of your readers. Some time ago, I used often to stay...

BLACK DAYS IN ROME, 1888.89. GROWLING by my fire of logs, (Lightning, thunder, cats and dogs),— Watch I how the waters vex Passers-by about the necks: For each soul that...

A GOOD-BYE! I HOPE my readers will pardon me for addressing them for once personally ; and as I want to talk rather than write to them (for no one wishes to say "Good-bye !"...

AGASSIZ'S " THREE CRUISES OF THE BLAKE."* IMPORTANT as are the subjects treated in this profusely illustrated work, the abstruse nature of most of the problems with which he has...

as it is called on the title-page, than either a novel or even a story, for there is exceedingly little story in it, and the merit of the book, which is great, consists in the...

Mr. Ruskin's chapters on " Clouds " in Modern Painters, which must remain unique in their beauty of language and unrivalled in the way they combine scientific description with...

usefully spent life or a more kindly and loving nature than that of Mr. Alexander Balfour, the Liverpool merchant, the record of whose goodness and benevolence is...

reveals a phase of character unknown to the world at large. George Eliot the letter-writer is a very different person from George • Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to /plias and...

scholastic readers, are aware that there was a revolt some years ago against the domination of The Public School Latin Primer. Simultaneously there was a movement for...

A PERIOD of twenty-one years has gone by since the appear- ance of the first two volumes of this laborious undertaking, and an interval of five years has elapsed since Volumes...

Verse, by F. A. Paley, LL.D. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)— In the late Professor Paley, whose last work this is, the cause of scholarship has lost an able and devoted servant....

are not so sure as Mr. Hiorns is that no suitable text-book of practical metallurgy exists ; still, we have not too many of them, and the progress of that branch of science has,...

Co.)—We do not quite understand when this book was first published ; but it was before the trial of John D. Lee, so- called Bishop, for his share in the Mountain Meadows...

the Antiquary (Elliot Stock), " a magazine devoted to the study of the past." It contains, as usual, much curious and interesting matter, notes on parish registers, experiences...

The Classical Review. February. (D. Nutt.)—The present number of this periodical shows, we are glad to see, signs of advance. Relations have been established with American...

second part of the seventh volume (" Urceola " to " Zythum") brings this most useful work to a close. It has amply fulfilled its promise, and, indeed, may now claim to be among...

by F. C. Montague, are two volumes in " The Statesmen Series," published by Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. Both are valuable contributions to history. Colonel Malleson draws an...

the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. (Walter Scott.)— Anything more dismal than the principal story in this volume it would be difficult to imagine. Tragical, one can hardly call...

House of Commons elected since the General Election by a special mark,—which will be found very convenient to politicians,—and it also gives a list of those who have vacated...

and Co.)—This is a cheerful little book about what seems to have been a cheerful experience. The author went to Constantinople and back in a P. and 0. steamer, saw some...

Arthur John Bell. (W. Isbister.)—We cannot pretend to follow Mr. Bell through his arguments,—which, indeed, lead by many devious paths of metaphysics and physics. We must...

the Club. (Christian Commonwealth Publishing Company.)—The object of this book may be conveniently described by its sub-title. It is "a popular discussion of religious...

Katharine Fry. Edited and Revised by G. Pagensleeper. (A. Siegle.) —Though this volume is intended for private circulation only, and so scarcely comes within the ordinary scope...

by William S. Walsh. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—This volume comes from the other side of the Atlantic, and gives a selection of some of the best work that has been done in trans-...

mation and Modern Work." By the Rev. C. Arthur Lane. (S.P.C.K.)—When we say that Mr. Lane is one of the lecturers of the Church Defence Institution, it will be guessed what line...

Benjamin Dawson, B.A. (Simpkin and Marshall.) —This is the third of a series of Shakespeare's plays to be edited by members of the New Shakespeare Society. The annotation is...

Havelock Ellis (Vizetelly and Co.), we have Thomas Heywood. Edited by A. Wilson Verity. With an Introduction by J. A. Addington Symons.—The volume contains five plays : A Woman...

D. Roberts. (Walter Scott.)—This addition to "The Canterbury Poets " is especially notable for the fact that scarcely a single English writer of distinction, with the exception...

Translated by the Rev. Aaron Bernstein, B.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—This is a monument of labour and learning. Professor Cassel knows his subject thoroughly, and collects...

Co.)—A party goes to spend a week at some delightful retreat, the " Arcadia " of the tale, and find that even such paradises are disturbed by human passions. It is a complicated...

Missions of the World, 1888. Edited by the Rev. James Johnston. (Nisbet and Co.)—Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Vol. XIII. Edited by Major Francis J. Day....

The Art Journal.—The Magazine of Art. — The Scottish Art Review.—The English Illustrated Magazine.— No. S of Our Celebrities, with photographs of the Marquis of Abergavenny,...