T HE Times of Friday publishes a telegram from its corre- spondent at Conatantinople in regard to the peace negotiations, which is to the effect that both the disputed articles...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 9th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

■ 411,. ■ GOVERNMENT BY THE MAN IN POSSESSION. T HOUGH peace has not yet been signed, it seems at last almost certain that the terms have been agreed to. Practically they...

horrified by the brutality with which law and order are maintained in the United States. Once more we have seen an armed party of Sheriff's deputies fire at close quarters into...

diplomatic chess-board has become definite and—till further orders—final, it is reasonable to take stock of the situa- tion and see how we like it. Europe is definitely split up...

as a problem which must be explicable yet remains unexplained ; and the curious movement which has set in among the Jews of East London is none the less significant because no...

A FEW months after taking office as Colonial Secre- tary, Mr. Chamberlain issued a circular despatch to the Governors of British Colonies requesting information with regard to...

C ONTROVERSIALISTS do not always know the virtue of reserve. They heap together arguments of various degrees of force, and forget that the stronger are quite as likely to suffer...

of the many strange things connected with what is roughly classed as "the supernatural " — ghosts, wraiths, second-sight, hauntings, and the like—is "the balance of doubt," or...

A N elderly lady, in other respects luxurious enough remorselessly blocks up her fireplace with mirrors ferns, grasses, and other incongruous impediments from May till October...

M OST animals are so admirably equipped for transporting themselves on long journeys, whether by land, air, or water, that they have the greatest possible dislike to any...

THE THESSILIAN REFUGEES. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—The question of the indemnity to be paid by Greece to Turkey seems, after a delay considerably longer than...

KLONDTR' 1. go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—M. Maeterlinck may be right in prophesying a new period of spiritual activity for mankind ; but meanwhile the fresh...

" BrZCTATOR.”] Sin,—Your story of the child who wanted God to love -even when he was naughty reminds me that (calidi juventd) —more than thirty years ago—I asked my uncle, the...

TO A SISTER. SISTER, so like to her I dare not name For tears; so like, and liker every day ; The same sad eyes, the same glad heart, the same Wise lips that mean so much...

THE SUPERIORITY OF THE .A.NGLO-SAXON.* Is it national modesty or national indifference to foreign opinion which has led us to take so little notice of the extraordinary...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Your editorial note at the foot of Mr. Robinson's letter in the Spectator of September 11th is very much to the point. The scheme of...

was a very young man, and had not begun to give up to the Liberal party what was meant for the entertainment of mankind, he wrote some capital lines on some well-known London...

THE Liter Memorandorain Eeclesiae de Bernewelle, a volume which has been largely drawn upon for the history of the Priory, gives in the last of its eight books a...

IT will be remembered that between the years 1879 and 1889 Professor Knight produced a library edition of Wordsworth's poetry, which was followed in the latter year by a Life of...

very few English people have personal knowledge ; but at the present moment it is a country about which a great many English people want to converse, and Mr. Maxwell...

THE world has made enormous strides in the science of sani- tation during the last half-century,—in the science, that is to say, of defending its health against the thousand...

Co.) —Mr. Holiday gives an interesting and thorough account of the art of stained glass, both from the points of view of designing and of carrying out the work. The book is...

An Essay on Comedy. By George Meredith. (Constable and Co.)—We are not perfervid admirers of Mr. Meredith the novelist, but we have read the present essay with pure delight from...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Miss Yonge shows no little of her wonted skill in filling up with imaginary figures the outlined story which we have in Exodus. Thera are the believers and...

is an exhaustive account of the crowns, sceptres, robes, and other things belonging to the coronation of our Sovereigns. Most of the jewellery dates from the reign of Charles...

—Mrs. Fielding (Alice M. Kipling) has certainly contrived in this story an excellent surprise. We do not, indeed, believe that the heroine would ever have masqueraded in such a...

Zangwill makes fools of his readers with fair success. Mr. Robert Ashfield is swept off the deck of a steamer into the sea, and his body is found at the same hour in a London...

and Co.)—It was a happy idea to collect together the illustrations scattered through books and magazines of such men as Millais, Sandys, Whistler, Houghton, and others. Besides...

-Is there, indeed, any region in Canada of which "Four Corners" village, as Mr. Burgin graphically describes it, is typical ? We know the familiar properties, the fighting...

of essays deals with a wide range of subjects connected with art. There is still a good deal of romance left in the collector's world, it seems ; and Mr. Robinson recounts many...

Hall.)— These lectures, which were delivered at various places between 1879 and 1885, cover a wide ground. They deal with art theories in the abstract, and also, in those...

and Co.)—These sketches in words and lines both repel and attract. Repel by their vulgarity, and attract by their cleverness. Mr. Furniss is at his best when drawing Mr. Glad-...

In the excellent series of "Arnold's School Shakespeare," under the general editorship of Mr. J. Churton Collins (E. Arnold), we have The Life and Death of King John, edited by...

Miintz tells us that his object has been to go to the Tuscan towns, which are seldom now visited by the tourist, who hurries by them in the train. This thick quarto, profusely...

by Mr. Walter Crane. The last number contains an introduction by Mr. J. T. Wise. The parts will make, when put together, a fine and beautiful reprint of the great poem.

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