tenant-farmers into freeholders, and spoke of these two boons as amply justifying Liberal Unionists—whose main objection to the Home-rule Bill was the injustice of handing over...

as facts by the Parnellites, and by some of their allies on Parnellite authority, was very vigorous. He showed that even Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, whom he would as soon suspect of...

Eighty Club which has got rid of its Unionists and supplied their places with Home-rulers. He was, as usual, amusing. Referring to Lord Selborne's sarcasm on the alacrity with...

constituents in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday evening. He began with quoting his address to the electors, to prove, in answer to Sir George Trevelyan, that he...

uncertain what to do about Purchase, and has practically post- poned the subject until the meeting to be held just before the Session begins. A detailed scheme will then be...

at considerable length. There was nothing new in his speech—for his glorification of himself as ameeonomist is not new—but there were two points in it worthy of notice. One was...

being Separation. He maintained that Ireland could not maintain herself as an independent State, for her resources would not suffice, and she would be constantly overshadowed by...

war with Bulgaria ; but he is certainly not a man without an opinion of Cs own. His present Ministers are very Russian, and their majority in Parliament have sent up an address...

nental sugar-bounties, is an admirable exposure of the nonsense talked by some pseudo-Free-traders who profess to regard interference with Free-trade in other countries,—if it...

the Crown Prince of Germany had suddenly and urgently telegraphed for Sir Morell Mackenzie. This turned out to be true ; but up to Friday afternoon there was no confirmation of...

on the pleasures of miscellaneous reading, and especially on the large part which the gratification of curiosity plays in the satisfactions of every educated man's life, was an...

their leaders. At Avonloo, County Sligo, at a meeting of the National League, the Rev. C. Filen presiding, it was resolved the other day that "we cannot find words to express...

historian, after a long tour in the United States, predicted in our columns that the Americans would sooner or later closely restrict immigra- tion. A direct Bill for this...

Consols were ola Priday 1Qi to AOliz4.

grapple with a portentous cipher which Mr. Donnelly has discovered or invented in the Shakespeare folio of 1623, and which, when interpreted, purports to assert that...

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. T HERE is one condition of the present European problem, the precise relation of the Eastern Courts to each other, which no one, or at least no one...

I_13 GEORGE TREVELYAN'S speeches, ever since he Ai accepted the Glasgow candidature, have read to us like the speeches of a man who, having with pain and inward doubt decided to...

T HEpoliticians of France are by no means out of the wood yet. The different fractions of the Republican Party, pressed at once by their responsibility to their con- stituents...

T HAT Mr. Gladstone is at the present moment essential to the cohesion and spirit of the Liberal Party, no one who knows anything of English politics can doubt for a moment. His...

I - 11HE most serious fact in connection with the attempt on 1 M. Ferry, is the statement of the Times' correspondent that no jury in Paris could be trusted to convict the...

word, and sculpture would no doubt soon be superseded by some mechanical contrivance which would be to clay and marble what the camera is to plane surfaces. Still, Mr. Emerson...

Tars is, in the main, a readable book, eminently a book for those hours of leisure in which we are too lazy to be very critical. It is often trivial in substance and careless in...

T HE Commissioners appointed to decide judicially, upon applications from either landlord or tenant, what sum the Highland crofters ought to pay as fair rent, have concluded...

T HE address of certain English Catholics to Monsignor Persia) reminds us of the extempore prayer that began, —" Strange as it may appear, 0 Lord, thou knoweet yet it is true."...

N O one who has taken the trouble to examine such a con- troversy as was closed last week in the rimes as to " What the Canons saw," can doubt that some of the most passionate...

M R. BALFOITR'S delightful Rectorial address at St. Andrews reminds ue that we have a Chief Secretary who is no less remarkable for dexterity of mind than he is for strength of...

P ROFESSOR MAHAFFY, in the little book, or rather pamphlet, which he has recently issued upon " The Art of Conversation," raises a question as to the cause of the great...

Snt,—Perhaps you will allow me space for a reply to Mr. O'Doherty. Mr. O'Doherty begins by objecting to my" delivering judgment in a case to which I am a party." As you are...

FACTS FROM GWEEDORE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE ..SPECTATOH..] SIR,—With reference to your second notice of the above, in the Spectator of December 3rd, I desire to say only a few...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ..SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Here is a curious corroboration of the opinion with regard to the future of Brazil expressed by the late Mr. Christie. In a letter of...

[To THY EDITOB 07 THE “EFECTATOIL.] SIR,—Yon have so long been an advocate of reasonable reforms in the Land Laws, that I trust you will lift up your voice on behalf of those...

[To THE Burros or Tea SPECTATOR'"] 818,—The strange spectacle of politicians taking their women- kind with them to prohibited meetings, when there is every prospect of a...

your article of the 3rd as to the extreme dangerousness of M. Pasteur's proposal to destroy the rabbits in Australia by making "hen cholera" endemic. The effects of so doing...

perhaps, as much space as it deserves ; though, as a typical case of a chronic dispute, it is one of great interest.]

THE EPEOTATOVI SLR,—In your leader of December 3rd under the above heading, with regard to the acclimitisation in the Antipodes of a plague, limited perhaps in intention to the...

(To um Banos or sus .1SrscrAros."1 Sla,—In the interesting article that appeared in the Spectator of December 10th on " Charles Darwin," the writer dwells on the point that we...

SYSCTATOR:1 Sia,—In your issue of December 10th, under the heading " Current Literature," you notice the reduction in price recently made in certain editions of the Revised New...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THY •• 131.CTA1OR.1 Sta, — Yon have moat kindly from time to time aided in giving publicity to the work that has during the last year been taken up by the...

[To ram Exam or sus SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—Will you kindly permit us to bring before your readers the claims of the work in which we are engaged in the London Society for the...

HORACE—BOOK IV., ODE 4. [This noble Ode, if composed, as some suppose, at the instance of Augustus, manifests nothing of the feebleness which so often charac- terises poems...

Pater's, it is as well to bear in mind Mr. Pater's own definition of the aim of asethetie criticism, with one of the objects of which, "artistic and accom. plished forms of...

not hesitate to ex- press his belief—which was also that of the clubs, and of society in general—that Lord Brougham himself was the ooncoctor and author of the hoax. Mr. Black,...

MR. MORRIS'S " ODYSSEY."' Mn. MORRIS'S Odyssey is completed in this volume, and corn; plated, we need hardly say, in the same fashion in which the task was commenced. It is...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN THERE is no doubt a charm about the Old Water-Colour Society's Gallery which, seek the (London exhibition) world round, is not met with...

By the end of the seventh of Mr. Kinglake's volumes, the Court intrigue, and the consequent " impuissance" of the French Army, have come to an en& The form which the indictment...

and other papers, written in 1802 and 1803, is creditable to the Royal Historical Society ; but we must express a wish that an editor with a broader conception of his duties had...

view of the effect of knowledge the very reverse of that put into Lord Say's mouth by Shakespeare,—" Ignorance is the curse of God ; knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to...

TIM novel, in spite of various faults of which we shall have something to say later on, is a very powerful and remarkable book ; and we shall best and most briefly indicate the...

than papers which work out the hints they contain, on the ethical and theological subjects of the day. But they are the papers of a very genuine man, who really faces the...

of the many important books that have been published on South Africa, since the native question there became a burning one. It is important as putting the special "case " of its...

and Co.) —This story is, we think, one of Mrs. Marshall's happiest efforts. The scene is laid in the little Bedfordshire town of Olney, about a hundred years ago. The poet...

Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Chatto and Windus.)—The illustra- tions, executed in photogravure, are by George Wharton Edwards. They are naturally unequal in merit. Indeed,...

twelve stories (republished from the St. Nicholas Magasine) picture to as twelve heroines of the ancient and modern world, beginning with Zenobia of Palmyra, and ending with...

seven hundred drawings, of John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, front the Collection of " dfr. Punch." (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)— They range over a considerable space...

(Ticknor and Co., Boston,II.8.A.)—We are not quite mire that Miss Perry's poetry, limited in range though it is, is not better than her prose. But there is a great deal of...

Gilson, in this "tribute to the woods and fields," as he calls it, enlarges on the beauties of his native scenery as they seem in diverse seasons'. (It should be said that his...

Low and Co.)—Sir Launfal was en early work of Mr. Lowell's, and some of bin admirers think that he has never surpassed it. Some of the best thoughts of the new time, which,...

GIFT-BOOKS. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. (Ward and Downey.)—There is a very agreeable air of reality in this hook which renders it of little or no consequence whether it is...

The leading serial attraction in Scribner's Magazine is, of course, the Thackeray correspondent*, to more than one of the monthly instalments of which we have already had...

for the variety of its contents, which include "Education in China," " Bishop Fraser," "Miss Roasettra Poetry," " Louis XIV. and his Court," "The Service of Man, Positivist and...

of the valuable abstract of Parliamentary Papers and Blue-Books published by Messrs. Cassell and Co., in every way maintains the high standard of efficiency and accuracy reached...

would have teen capable of it. Such prophetic criticism as this, for instance :— " And at last one has actual eight of his work—what it is. He has brought with him certain...

Harts. 2 vole. (F. V. White and Co.)—This is hardly one of Mr. Bret Harte's best stories. The sketch of the Senor Perkins, the bland, keen filibuster, is good, and the picture...

a plot just sufficiently involved to arouse a half-waking attention, and written in flowing but rather dull and not distinct or emphatic language, often achieves a certain...

Low and Co.)—We do not expect that we shall please Mr. Doveton when we say that his prose is better than his verse. Yet it can scarcely be doubted that his sketches of Nature...

by Thomas Ingoldsby. Pictured by Ernest M. Jossop. (Eyre and Spottiewoode.)—We hardly recognised under this fine title our old friend, "The Little Vulgar Boy." But here he is,...

a Course of Instruction for Use in Church, School, or Home. By E. H. Pitcairn. With Preface by Rev. George Body, M.A. (Skeffington and Son.)— This book ie, as the title-page...

Caroline Birley, Lord Brabourne (E. H. Knatolibnll-Hugeesen), Mrs. Massey, Mrs. Molesworth, Mrs. Richmead Ritchie (Mies Thaokeray), Ethel M. Wilmot Barton, and Charlotte M....

Champney. (Blackie and Son.)—The central idea of this awry is a pretty conceit. Flossy Tangleakein is in the habit of posing to Mr. Rose, an artist whose studio ie on the top of...

The Band of Mercy, Vol. IX. (S. W. Partridge and Co.), are two periodicals, differing in some respects, as in size and method (the Chet being wider and, we may say, more...

are few readers who may not derive some profit from Dr. MacDonald's books ; but theists whom Home Again seems especially intended to benefit are not the young. In fact, it may...

perhaps the completest in the United Kingdom, and the fullest of new information. In the number for 1888 there are some very valuable papers,—for example, one on German trade...

AlTe, ti tTiN t e l la!:Iti.is:O2 6 M 1 ;?. rjOrInaLt711111.1e"i'gt". aged 24 years, Elizabeth

its supply of engravings, poetry, and rhymed puzzles. The engravings are this year unusually good, and some of the enigmas, the demand for which seems never to die out. The...

inane of this useful and carefully edited business compendium contains forty-one extra pages of information. To the "New Trades" list, 151 additions have been made ; and as...

AI iaglatm (tv.), Irish Songs and Poems, 1.1mo (Reeves & Turner) 5/0 Beard (L. and A. B.), The Girl's Handy-Book. or Bee (Sattaby) 8j6 Bertram (R..1.), Preseher's Commentary :...

1888, which are useful ; and also of Blackwood's No. 4 Diary and Almanac. (Messrs. Griffith and Ferran), which contains a useful map of London, showing the postal districts. We...

and Co.), is a " Field Memorandum-Book" for the practical use of those who are interested in the study of fungi. We noticed the larger work some little time ago, and willingly...

Trench, and Co.), we recognise both moral earnestness, and a power of forcible and not ungraceful expression which accompanies that earnestness, and perhaps springs from it. His...

(Macmillan.)—" It is an ill wind that blows no one good," and the public of students has reason to be obliged to the fire which destroyed the plates of Mr. Iabberton's former...

Stock.)—This is a very interesting and unpretentious book, which it has taken several years to prepare. "Letter-founding bidding fair," Mr. Reed says, "to break all her old ties...

Moore, D.D. (David Natt.)—This little volume contains the two inaugural lectures delivered by Dr. Moore after his appointment to the Barlow Lectureship (on Dante), at University...

and Co.)—MienPhlllimore's " Studies " extend over a considerable period. The first is on the Paradise of Dante ; the last four deal with writers who may be said to belong to our...

con- tains an account of the " educational systems of the Colonies and India." The information, we need hardly say, is highly interesting. In Australasia, the average cost per...

(Remington and Co.)—A series, this, of pleasant sketches of scenery and life in Northern Greece and in the Eastern Peloponnese. Bceotia, Delphi, and Larissa are the chief points...

and Co.)—Among the many reminders of the flight of time, is the gradual passing out of the limitation of copyright of books of which one re- members the first appearance. Mr....

General Readers. By C. H. Waterhouse. (J. S. Virtue and CO— This book purports to be written for general readers, but it is a real puzzle what class of minds it would appeal...

Thacker's Indian Directory (Thacker and Spink, Calcutta ; Thacker and Co., London), an enlarged form, as we understand, of what was known as "The Bengal Directory." It is...

of Mexican California is not without a freshness, and even a poetry, of its own.