hours, introduced his new Irish Land Bill. It is a vast measure, but unless we greatly mistake the omens, it will pass, for, though fair to the landlords, it offers boons to the...

are as follows :- Revenue (Exchequer Receipts) ... £101,074,000 Expenditure (Exchequer Issues) ... 97,761,000 Excess of Revenue over Expenditure ... £1,210,000 This sum would in...

in a speech of two hours' duration, marked by great lucidity. The main feature of the statement was that no taxes are to be increased or taken off. The revenue for the coming...

T HE Continent is watching the movements of the German Emperor, who on Saturday met King Humbert at Venice, and on Tuesday embraced the Emperor Francis Joseph in Vienna. In both...

The officer in command at Bulawayo telegraphs that the hills round the town are full of the enemy, and that be has certainly not more than three hundred and fifty men avail-...

case.

With Use " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, April 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

thisk week. Stores are accumulating at Wady Haifa, the railway thence to Akasheh is going on, and reports come in daily of Dervish parties which have been seen scouting, but...

sittings at 2 o'clock on Tuesdays, and to take these morning sittings for the Government. He made his statement ex- tremely short, pointing out that in 1895 all the Tuesdays...

coming year contrasted with the actual issues of last year :— National Debt Services ... ... £25,000,000 .R25,000,000 Other Consolidated Fund Ser- vices ... ... ... ......

indifference in matters of religion just one step too far. He first baptised his son Boris according to the Greek rite, then he professed his own willingness to join the Greek...

" Court party," with the Emperor at its centre, is accused of acting with great "barbarism." Herr von Kotze was, it appears, suspected of forwarding obscene libels to various...

Government and practically its Education Minister) made a, speech to his constituents at Rotherham on the Education Bill on Wednesday night, attacking it, as it seems to us, in...

curious facts. For example, he stated that he believed the increased yield of the Tobacco-duty-033,000 over the previous year—was due to increased cigarette smoking. Cigarette...

last week, and, of course, the first impulse of all the men in the river was to kill it, since a stranger ought to be killed for being a stranger. It did not manage to return...

suggestion. They should send half a dozen picked surgeons to Bulawayo with antiseptic appliances. It is a great aggra- vation of the horrors of a war such as is raging there, in...

man or men who murdered old Mr. Smith on Muswell Hill on February 13th. They have been most persevering in their investigation of this case, and they recently discovered the...

Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1111. upon the extreme step of forming a separate group. The Committee of Radical and Labour Members has resigned, and a new Committee will be...

on the Education Bill to Thursday's Daily Chronicle. He calls it "a crude and heterogeneous" Bill. He complains of the constitution of the new Education Authority as originating...

of the private Bill brought in by the London and North-Western Railway had been read a second time by the unusually small majority of 79 (203 to 124). Sir W.Houlds- worth, who...

THE BUDGET. T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer maintains the taxes at their present figure, and estimates the revenue of the coming financial year at £101,755,000. But the total...

I T is a curious illustration of the English way of doing things that our countrymen, with so many wild ter- ritories to govern and so many fighting tribes to keep in some sort...

in watching the de- velopment of a "funny man" in the House of Commons. It is not that one need anticipate for a moment the coming of a day when the House will cease to laugh at...

the new Irish Land Bill is that section which deals with purchase. It is the desire of the Government to accelerate the process by which Irish occupiers are bein g turned into...

A N arch with a movable keystone is hardly a con- ceivable structure, yet that is what the statesmen are engaged in building up. The Kings of Central Europe, with their Foreign...

T HE short debate on the question whether directors or even shareholders should be permitted to vote on Bills which directly affect their private interests, came up- once more...

I T is not the Times alone that has been victorious in the case of Walter v. The Central News Agency." The result is equally a triumph for all who value accuracy in the...

M R. GLADSTONE'S general introduction to the new American work on the Bible history* is marked by passages of singular eloquence and beauty of which his description of the great...

I F the police have caught the Mnswell Hill murderers, as they evidently think, they have performed a great public service. There could hardly be a greater danger to the...

T HE Bradford Corporation, in the performance of a necessary duty, have invaded one of the wildest and most remote regions of the Yorkshire Moors to increase their water-supply....

[TO THY EDITOR 07 TER " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—I note that in your paper you are publishing anecdotes about dogs. Permit me to relate one of a dog belonging to us named Forte,' a...

TENANT-RIGHT. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.`] SIR„ — I am trustee for a small estate near this place. A respectable looking peasant called on me yesterday on some other...

Sra,—A few days ago Mrs. Bardsley, wife of Canon Bardsley of Huddersfield, saw her cat jump on a table in the drawing- room, take a reel of cotton from a work-basket, and, after...

[To THE EDFfOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Miss Frances Power Coble, in a letter which appeared in the Spectator of April 11th, generously offers £20, together with f.-.5 from a...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I once heard a sermon from an eloquent Irish Roman Catholic priest, in which his reverence enjoined upon his hearers the observance of...

be new to your readers :— A. lecturer on chemistry said : " One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a. cat is sufficient to kill the strongest man." Lieutenant Ellizon...

very ill when the physician told him that he must prescribe an emetic for him, said, "Indeed, doctor, an emetic will never do me any good, for I have taken several, and could...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] . SIR, — Anecdotes about doge and cats are no new things, but it is a new experience for a cat to do "sentry duty" while waiting for rats....

[To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Will these verses on ' Kaiser,' a Dachshund, written by a little girl, be worthy of a space among your dog-stories ?- I have a...

TO A LADY, WITH A COPY OF "THE PURPLE EAST." DAUGHTER of Ireland,—nay, 'twere better said, Daughter of Ireland's beauty, Ireland's grace, Child of her charm, of her romance ;...

M. TISSOT'S RELIGIOUS PICTURES. THERE is nothing new in M. Tissot's method of illustrating the Gospels. To free the sacred narrative from the conven- tional forms of...

semel Nascentem placid() lumine videris, Ilium non labor Isthni ins Clarabit pugilem, non equus impiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem, neque res bellica Deliis Ornatum foliis...

MR. LECHY'S accustomed gift of orderly and lucid and well-balanced statement is abundantly illustrated in his latest book ; but we cannot think that, as a whole, it is quite as...

THE prominent position assigned to the heroes and heroines of fiction is due in some instances to mere circumstances, and in others to inherent qualities ; and an instance of...

READERS of Six Months in the Apennines—a book which, if not very attractive to the general public, was found most interesting by all those who cared for its special subjects—...

domain of poetry. The Celt is nothing if not poetical, and there- fore, whenever his intellectual activity is aroused, he turns naturally to verse. How large is the number of...

A SERIOUS reader perhaps feels a semi-apologetic mental attitude when acknowledging to himself the undoubted pleasure derived from the perusal of books on jangle life, but tber,...

Vol. III. By James Ford Rhodes. (Macmillan and Co.)—This third volume of Mr. Rhodes's very full narrative includes some- thing more than two years. It takes up the story at the...

James Raven. D.D. (Jarrold and Sons.)—Mr. Holland was for more than forty years vicar of Cratfield, a small benefice in Suffolk, not far from Halesworth. He found there parish...

by R. B. Marston. (F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Burgess's book, published some twenty-seven years ago, has been revised and brought up to date by a gentleman who has an excellent right...

is a curious story of life in Bengal as it is in a wealthy house. There is a certain simplicity about it which a Weatern reader notices at once. Nothing could be more artless...

(Chatto and Windus.)—This "Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India" is one of the most charming volumes that we have ever seen. Mrs. Gardner does not spend...

Justus von Liebig : his Life and Work. By W. A. Shenstone . (Cassell and Co.)—Justus Liebig, as Mr. Shenstone well remarks, was a pioneer. He was born in what, as far as his...

Retold by Frank Rusder. (George Allen.)—These legends are curious,— little like, we are inclined to say, what we should have expected from the place of their origin. They are...

Trevelyan. (Hogg.)—The theorists who locate the great Celtic hero in Cumbria will find their hands full when they seek to dispose of Miss Trevelyan's arguments. She collects and...

and Co.)—Does the reader wish to sup full of horrors ? Here is his chance. If his taste lies especially in the direction of " blugginess," let him read how Manus MacCodrum was...

Wright. (Combridge, Birmingham.) — There are some very pretty poems here. Sir Edwin Arnold, C.S.I., Mr. Norman Gale, Mr. Le Gallienne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Kingsley,...

marries his step-son, Eugene de Beauharnais, to the Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and his step-daughter to the Crown Prince of Baden, himself, in former days, the lover of the...

Press.)—In this volume we have a critical study of those passages in the Old Testament where the same incident is repeated in language that is either practically identical or...

Mrs. Marshall has got hold of a real historical personage for the central figure, if not exactly the heroine, of her story. Mrs. Bridget Bendyst, of the Salt Palls, near...

interesting little stories, with a touch of the marvellous in them, as when a water-lily turns into a little girl, a daughter of the Nines, or a country maiden pays a visit to...

and Co.)—Dr. Wines gives us here the re- sult of study and of experience. He has made himself acquainted with the history of human thought on the question of punishment, and he...

St. John Hope. 2 vols. (Bemrose and Sons.)—The late Mr. Jewitt put together the substance of t his book, and Mr. Hope has enlarged, corrected, and generally completed it. It may...

Ceylon, by Henry W. Cave, M.A. The first and second parts of the series have met everywhere—and in Ceylon itself as much as elsewhere—with well-deserved appreciation. We are...

and Co.)—Mr. Matthews has much that is interesting to tell us about copyright, the subject of his first essay. Who would not be a Venezuelan author ? Venezuela gives a...

have found in earlier books by Mr. Dawson so much to like, that this volume has been a great disappointment. A magnilo- quent preface introduces us to ten stories and sketches...

)—The verdict pronounced upon Mrs. Hungerford's last new work will depend a good deal upon whether the reader is, or is not, of the number of those who usually enjoy her novels,...