A Committee of Englishmen raised a sum of money to be spent in relieving the distress arising from the disturbances in Crete. Naturally enough, they thought that the British...

Assembly was opened on Monday by Georgi Pasha Berovitch, the Governor-General, accompanied by Abdullah Pasha, the Military Governor. An unfortunate impression was, it is re-...

Chicago eruption, and will only give here an outline of Mr. Bryan's career as it is described in the New York Herald of Saturday last. Mr. Bryan, we are told, was born in Salem,...

O N Friday, July 10th, Mr. William Jennings Bryan, ex-Con- gressman for Nebraska, was "nominated for President" by the Democratic Convention at Chicago. The New York delegates...

on the Trinle Alliance which declares that Italy must not be driven out of the pact by attempts to force her to keep up an army that is too large for her resources. Even if...

President of the Republic was driving to the review he was fired at by a man in the crowd. The police at once seized the culprit, but on examination it was found that the...

case.

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and was received with great cheering. However, nothing farther was said about the time which might be devoted to the Irish Land Bill should it appear likely that it might be...

telegrams from Rhodesia. Telegraphing on Tuesday, the Bulawayo correspondent declares that the Mafeking road "appears to be closed," that fifteen hundred friendlies have...

Wednesday during Mr. Balfour's absence from indis- position, in order to extract from the Government a definite answer concerning the course of public business,—and especially...

as contemporaries had taken the most opposite: lines in religious belief, were inaugurated on Wednesday,—a statue to Cardinal Newman outside the Brompton Oratory, and a bust to...

deceased wife's sister was carried in the Lords yesterday week by a majority of 38 (142 to 101) against the Duke of Argyll, who had moved its rejection. He maintained that...

in a very short speech in which he explained that the expenditure on elementary education last year had exceeded the expenditure in the previous year by £275,000, and that for...

on Monday Mr. John Morley, who was needlessly apologetic in taking the chair, modestly said that be was not quite so destitute of the right to speak to an assembly of Greek...

A speech made by him at a dinner given to the officers of the North-American Sqr.adron shows how absurdly unfair were the accusations of disloyalty brought against him by his...

was debated in the House of Lords, Lord Onslow moving the necessary motion in a sensible and workmanlike speech. Of the ex-Indian Governors in the House, Lord Reay and tc some...

William Harcourt showed his fairness and courage as a politician and his soundness as a financier in a very able speech on the Land-tax. There was, he said, a great deal of...

terest of India in Egypt proved too much, because if carried to its logical conclusion it would burden India with the whole of our Mediterranean charges. It would not be...

in memory of Philip llassinger,—the first of the series of memorial windows to the great dramatic writers of the Elizabethan age to be placed in the nave of the old Priory...

the Establishment Committee to seek Parlia- mentary powers to acquire, at an estimated cost of £813,000, a triangular piece of land in Trafalgar Square and Spring -Gardens, and...

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THE SET-OFFS AGAINST LARGE MAJORITIES. W E are beginning to see a good many of the dis- advantages of large majorities, which, indeed, are more serious than it is easy for the...

T HE eyes of the whole English-speaking race are turned upon the new man who has suddenly sprung from the ground in America. A fortnight ago no one in England, and only...

I T is entirely satisfactory that the first French Canadian Premier of British North America has been able to gather round him a Cabinet which appears to be of quite exceptional...

which the Radicals seem to dislike most is finding the opposite party approximating in any tangible degree to their own opinions. The Standard on Monday had a very sensible...

Review contains a very able and statesmanlike article on Egypt, which begins by dealing with the situation created by the advance into the Soudan. On the points raised by this...

of Canterbury devoted a part of its last sittings to the consideration of a plan sent down from the Upper House for providing easier means than at present exist of making...

by the Home Secretary to inquire into the working conditions of the indus- trial " hands " employed in 'dangerous trades" has made its Report. Unlike most of the accounts of...

T HE unveiling of Cardinal Newman's statue on Wednes- day at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, was an event which we cannot help looking on as the consequence of a national...

A N Atm rican critic of our institutions is said to have dec!ared that it would be absolutely impossible for any politician on the other side of the Atlantic to be con- *idered...

T HOUGH the Thatch are most successful in the manage- ment of animals in captivity, not every zoological collection in Holland equals that at Amsterdam. At the Hague, for...

NEW ENGLAND AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE • SPECTATOR] SIR,—Your correspondent "G." wishes, I gather, to confine the term Pilgrim Fathers strictly to the...

[To VIZ EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Yolar article in the Spectator of July 11th on "The Growth of Human Faculties" reminds me of an incident in my life which may be of...

SIR,—I am not an Englishman, so please excuse if my English be bad. In the Spectator of June 20th I see there is still the question about "Animals and Colours." I have a small...

LAZ ARITS. "THE light, which I have followed all this way Out of the darkness, grows into a face; Thy face, dear friend, whom I so lone have known. Have we not wandered with...

[To 7WZ EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—A lady friend of mine has a wonderful collie-dog,. named 'Doctor.' It had for sole animal companion in a. suburban London garden a...

[To arm EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In a leading weekly of last Saturday you may read that "those of us who love the mountains lie awake in London and dream of the great...

'HE LATE LORD SELBORNE'S "MEMORIALS." FEE British statesmen have had so high a reputation as that achieved by the late Lord Selborne for single-mindedness, for readiness, that...

writers of all ranks that a reviewer naturally opens Mr. Somerville's • Curiosities of Impecuniosity. By H. G. Soinerrilla. London : Richard Bentley and Eon. monograph on the...

the whole an attractive and intelligible account of the life and work of the great Jesuit missionary of the sixteenth century. The desire of the writer (who died before her book...

THERE will be no disappointment for those readers whose admiration of Life at the Zoo and Wild England of To-Day tempts them to turn to Mr. Cornish's latest book, Animals at •...

MOST of us are aware that the Nicaragua Canal is a work of great difficulty, but few really understand what the cutting of a canal from Greytown to Brito across the Isthmus...

As the charm of living childhood is perpetual, and is felt with even increasing strength by those who are passing onward through middle life, so to the world growing consciously...

Knowledge, Duty, and Faith. By the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—In this volume Sir T. Dyke Acland gives us a lucid exposition of the...

is a story of Russian life, and has no small portion of the prominent characteristic of such stories, a melancholy that verges close upon despair. No words are too strong for...

Romance" is a book of the "Alice in Wonderland" kind. It is told in a businesslike way, and will probably succeed in entertaining the readers for whom it is intended. There is...

work bears the name of an English publisher, it comes from the other side of the Atlantic, and is wholly adapted to the conditions of American life. It is interesting certainly,...

and Co.)—In this well-condensed volume we have "a brief memoir of Samuel Lee, D.D., Professor of Arabic and afterwards- Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of...

subject-matter of this story, one of the publishers' "Pocket Library," is of but small dimensions. Lady Bonney is an emancipated lady who does some odd things, but her experi-...

Atkinson. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—The period in- cludes the disastrous battle of Armagh, and may be generally described as one in which the interests of England in Ireland were...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—The capitals included in this volume are six,—Paris, Berlin, Brussels, and the three Scandinavian cities, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. Dr. Legge...

be mentioned together, Handbook for Parish Meetings and Handbook for Parish Councils, both by George Frederick Emery, LL.M., and both published by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston,...

to the series of "Leaders of Religion," appearing under the editorship of the Rev. H. C. Beeching. Howe well deserves the title of "leader." He was an admirable specimen of...

Murray.)—This is one of those unfortunate books, unfor- tunate for the reviewer though not for the author, which is singularly destitute of faults calling for critical comment....

By Ferdinand Gregorovius. Translated by Annie Hamilton. (G. Bell and Sons.)—Dr.Gregorovius in this third volume carries on the history to the end of the tenth century. As he...