personal statement. It was not the attacks of the news- papers which had driven him from public life. The Armenian question was only the last straw,—" the last of a series of...

which he is understood to regard with extreme aversion. He has at once to conciliate the Queen, who, as head of the Church, has a direct and personal interest in the...

and upon this there is the most extraordinary con- flict of opinion as to what he meant. We can only express our own judgment, which we have elsewhere justified by textual...

D R. EDWARD WHITE BENSON, ninety-fifth Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who was on a visit to Mr. Glad- stone at Hawarden, died on Sunday morning while kneeling in Hawarden Church,...

at the Empire Palace Theatre, Edinburgh. Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael, M.P., was in the chair, and was supported by Lord Crewe, Sir Henry Fowler, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bryce, Sir R....

case.

that an emotion is spreading through the States of the Union which will materially affect Mr. Bryan's chances. This is an emotion of pride. His followers resist the argument...

has been released unconditionally. It is stated that the grounds for this decision were :—(1) The descrip- tion of "No. 1" does not agree with Tynan's appearance ; (2) even if...

on Wednesday an amount of belief not very creditable to British intelligence. It was affirmed that the Government of Washington, which has grave cause of complaint against the...

brigand tribes, whom the Hovas kept down or bribed, finding the Hova authority destroyed, have broken loose, have be n joined by many of the Hovas who, in their rage at the...

about to report, and to report in a sense hostile to the British case. The statement is to some extent supported by the very serious view of the situation evidently entertained...

night. After affirming that Lord Rosebery's re- signation was due to no sudden resolution, he declared that the party would have to determine in course of time "not only by what...

whole accepts Lord Rosebery's resignation with calmness, looks to Sir William Harcourt as leader in the Commons, and as regards the general leadership proposes to await...

suit, but the German Press, probably under instigation from very high quarters, is angrier than ever. It is of course delighted with Lord Rosebery's confession that Great...

fear, pro- ducing a serious situation. At a meeting of the Legislative Connell in Simla on Thursday Mr. Woodburn acknowledged that distress would probably be sharp in about half...

Society, Mr. Addison, given on Tuesday, strikes us as above the average of such speeches. It shows the usual jealousy of legal reform in the matter of land transfer, but is free...

where they will remain for the present,—a proof that Egypt will digest the province of Dongola before she makes another move. Meantime, the news from Merawi—Meroe, "where the...

magazine, The Far East, some astonishing statistics of suicide in Japan. No disgrace attaches to self-slaughter among the Japanese, with the result that, on the average, about...

New Consols (2.1) were on Friday, 108g.

LORD ROSEBERY'S DELIVERANCE. T ORD ROSEBERY has, indeed, as he promised, cleared 4 the air,—of most of the Armenian people. We do not see how any one can read. his Edinburgh...

S IR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH was too plain-spoken for politeness when he compared the present difficulties in the Gladstonian party with those occasioned by the split among the...

I F the character and powers of a man in exalted station are to be judged by the manner in which he deals with the most critical situation presenting itself during the most...

W E do earnestly trust that the leading electors of Great Britain, and especially the leading electors of the cities and boroughs, will study the present develop- ment of...

the Continental Press be looked on as a political barometer ? This is a question of no little interest at all times, but one of vital importance just now when English statesmen...

W E are often asked what we suppose the future of the Mahommedan peoples will be. "Is the problem," inquires one recent interlocutor, "so absolutely hopeless -as it seems to be...

He is. , so useful, so indispensable, we may say, that it is hard even to imagine a. state of life from w lich he should be absent. Yet there is no institutio”, not even the...

W E wonder whether any statist or any doctor in great practice knows accurately whether there is any posi- tive increase among the educated classes in the number of sudden...

W HAT is culpable luxury ? "I kno - w when you do not ask me," said one of the Fathers when he was challenged to define time. One may almost say the same of culpable luxury. It...

F IFTY years must have gone by since we read Miss Martineau's "Life in a Sick-Room;" but it has left -with us one at least of those truths which never perish, one of those...

D OGS are already, it is said, becoming scarcer in the London streets, partly because they cannot keep up with their owners when riding bicycles, or if they do so are often...

own best critic. Some years ago he remarked to an Edinburgh audience (I quote the words from memory), "There is an unfortunate difference between Mr. Gladstone and me. Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—It is not only needful to read a speech, but to see it delivered. It is quite impossible to convey in words the effect of Lord...

To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.") Srit,—Is it possible to trace the origin of a constant misquota- tion, for which there is no very obvious reason In the article by Cecil de...

BIG v. SMALL BULLETS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sue, —In the Spectator of October 3rd you say :—" Unless you are an elephant, a small bullet will serve as well as a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THS 'SPECTATOR.'] you and your readers are not tired of church notices„ let me commend this to their attention, vouched to me by the hearer, a curate of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Are the following worth recording ? I have heard them daring the last few months. A gentleman near here had "a hydraulic ram" erected...

ADIEU, white Alps, from here I wave farewell ! Here, where across the glittering green expanse Of breeze-kissed laughing waves that dance and swell,. The swift white sails,...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, - It would be interesting to know whether the Czar ever heard the words of the "Marseillaise " to the strains of which. he made his triumphal march...

[To TOE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATO2: 9 ] SIR,—May I add my pin-thrust to the Battle of the Books, provoked by Mrs. Fuller Maitland's admirable eight lines ? Were she required to go...

THE SACRED USE. THE body is the spirit's cell, But 'tis the avenue as well Charged, through the finite, to transmit The message of the infinite. 'Tis by the aid of mortal eyes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of October 10th Dr. Beet (p. 465) is so styled in a review, and also Dr. William Wright (p. 464), but in the far more...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—The editor of the Cycling Tourist Club Gazttte—which speaks with authority on matters of cycling mechanics and riding, but hardly so on English—has...

SI 1,—Your article on the tranquillising effect of William Morris's verse, in the Spectator of 0..tober 10th, reminds me of the story of a young man living somewhere up the...

A FRENCH VIEW OF THE BRITISH LABOUR QUESTION.* IT is agreeable to discover that our French neighbours find us not only interesting, but instructive. Dismal jeremiads are so...

THE Thirty-nine Articles, according to law, have a like authority with the Book of Common Prayer. But while the latter has profoundly influenced the religious life of England,...

a century there has been a multitude of scholars urging upon the British public the need of historical knowledge. The historians have turned schoolmasters. Freeman published in...

Wu fear that the chief drawback to the success or effect of the two volumes before us will lie in the ignorance of the world in general of the name of Baron Thiebault....

THE value of Mr. Chaffers's work is certainly enhanced by the addition of an essay on the history of plate, thus enabling the ordinary reader to place a piece of old plate in...

contribution of notable value to the classical literature of the day. It is conceived on a scale and executed in a manner which rank it among the works, happily grown more...

W. Page. (Horace Cox.) —Mr. Page has got in the Devonshire coasts, with their great variety of scenery, a large and fertile subject. He has, it is true, no great power of...

Alan Scott's Talisman, and other Stories. By Charles Aitken. (William Hodge and Co., Glasgow.)—This is one of those col- lections of short stories illustrative of S.Jotch "...

M.A. (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford.)—Joachim Hane was an engineer, born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, who entered the service of the Common- wealth in 1649. (England had to resort, then...

I. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This first part contains ten poems, specimens of ten great poets, from Chaucer to Coleridge. We do not know what standard of intelligence and knowledge...

)—Mr. Parsons went to Japan with the main purpose of painting. Flowers were the chief subject of his pencil, but he also busied himself with landscape and figures. Japan and the...

a somewhat ambiguous title, is meant English for "intermediate classes." The book is well put together, and gives the information wanted in a clear and orderly form. lathe...

—This is a story of the Irish Insurrection of 1798, especially 83 it centred in Vinegar Hill. The narrative, whioh is told in the first person, is full of picturesque touches...

republishes in a somewhat enlarged form an article on Dean Stanley which appeared not long after the Dean's death in Macmillan's Magazine. Larger biographies have, of course,...

and Charles Black.)—Professor Nicholson publishes here some lectures delivered by him in his capacity of Professor of Political Economy, and essays contributed to various...

J. Gore. (John Murray.)—This is a very attractive record of a traveller and sportsman's experiences in the Himalayan region. Mr. Gore adds to his other qualifications the skill...

Co,) —This "Story of California" is fairly readable and thoroughly wholesome. Life in California is always at high pressure—so far, at least, as it finds its way into...

{Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) — Sir Charles Lawson contributed an article on this subject to the Journal of Indian Art and Industry, and this he has now expanded in the volume...