account of the dispute between this country and Venezuela. That dispute has been carried on for a hundred years, and without result. It is difficult to put the matter shortly...

A CCORDING to the latest telegrams, the Sultan and the Ambassadors came to terms on Thursday. An Imperial Decree has been issued conceding the original demands of the Powers,...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 2nd, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMVNT, the outside pages ef which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Mussulman movement for the deposition of the Sultan. The Mussulman populace everywhere is furiously irritated, it is believed that the garrison shares the excitement, and...

war with Ashantee. Sir Francis Scott, Inspector-General of the Gold Coast Forces, states that no peace is possible in that region until Coomassie is compelled to submit. The...

main for some days, very obscure. It is known that General Duchesne entered Antananarivo—henceforward, we suppose, to be called Tananarive—on September 30th, after a skirmish in...

any case.

Anti- Slavery Society on Monday. It is perfectly clear that our officers in Zanzibar, like our officers formerly in the West Indies, have shrank from dealing firmly with the...

at the Markham Mutual Improvement Society in Chelsea. Referring to the subject of arbitration, he expressed very grave doubts as to its applicability to our disputes with...

Dr. Michaux, the only European present when Mr. Stokes was sentenced to death, which is almost final as to the guilt of Captain Lothaire. That officer executed a native chief...

intended by his speeches to M. de Blowitz, reported in the Times of Saturday. They have given such profound umbrage, either to St. Petersburg or Paris, that the Agence Busse has...

denies that he has offered the Congo State to France, or ever thought of doing so. He intends to go on with his experiment. Possibly ; but he did publicly offer the State to...

to agitate the American politician. If any man who would accept a nomination must be considered a candi- date for nomination—as he certainly must be—then on the Republican side...

made a short speech to his constituents at Leeds, .chiefly on Ireland. He thought there was "a real and important change in the spirit of people there," which had extended even...

which took place on Tuesday at Tnnbi idge Wells, can hardly be called a success. There were no elec- trically propelled vehicles, and only two moved by petroleum. But though...

all quarters that Ireland is settling down, and that for the time, at any rate, the will-o'-the-wisp of Home- rule is very little and very languidly followed. A Chicago notable,...

the Bishop of Derry, which took place last Saturday at the Palace, Derry, has been received with deep regret throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, for wherever the English language...

Peary and his party in the Arctic regions have come to hand during the week. Ill-luck attended the expedition throughout its course, and but for the splendid devotion shown by...

compels Lord Salisbury to undertake the harassing duty of filling an English See. How he must wish that he could order a competitive examination ! The place, however, is not so...

the University of Dublin if formally asked, will, we pre- sume, be followed by his election. The result is one for general congratulation. Mr. Lecky is an ideal University...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 107a. •

THE COMPROMISE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. T HE Sultan, it is said, and we can readily believe, is much more disturbed by his great unpopularity among Mussulmans than by all the pressure...

Mr. Gerald Balfour, struck the right note on Wednesday in his short speech on Ireland to his constituents at Leeds. There are no mistakes which we commit in regard to Ireland...

should ask the most unpopular man of his acquaintance to dinner. They sat down thirteen, for the twelve votes had all fallen on one man. It is very much to be feared that if the...

r ORD SALISBURY must make up his mind, and I that quickly, as to what be will do in the Black question. The facts are coming on and when they have once filtered into the British...

S IR EDWARD MALET made the farewell dinner given him by the English Colony in Berlin the excuse for a very interesting discussion as to the qualities which are to be looked for...

paid by the Press to the admirable manner in which the late Bishop of Chichester administered, for a quarter of a century, the diocese to which he was appointed in his sixty-...

M R. ST. LOE STRACHEY has made a capital selection of the dog-stories in the Spectator *—though we wish he had left out two in which the narrators, though perfectly honest, have...

I F the present Czar decides that the Trans-Siberian Rail- way shall be completed at any cost, and in the shortest possible time, it is because he knows that in Southern Siberia...

p EOPLE are apt to talk as if the poet had no function in the modern world, or at any rate as if his only function were to amuse and entertain, and as if the State, in its...

W E owe a great deal to science, but our obligations—or at least, our feelings of gratitude—are not a little diminished by the aggressive fashion in which it attacks some of our...

A TRAMP'S DIARY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—May and June had been blessed with weather against which no complaint could be urged. We had enjoyed our.- selves to...

IRISH HATRED OF ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATORn SIR,—In your article in the Spectator of September 28th, on , "The Chicago Convention," you express a somewhat...

SIR,—Lord Monteagle is probably right. There are, no doubt, many people in Ireland of all creeds and opinions, who would join in an endeavour to promote the welfare of the...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THS SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A propos of your article and the correspondence about being buried alive, in the Spectator of September 28th, the inclosed may interest...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—This agitation is a Canadian edition of the "Three- Tailors of Tooley Street." We have a scarcity of live poli- tical questions, so that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Bob,' the South Australian railway dog, has ended his eventful career, which is, I think, worthy of notice in the Spectator.* Like many other...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Here is the story of a eat and a bird. Two young ladies dwelt together,—one the owner of a canary, which she petted and played with ;...

the Spectator of October 5th, about rooks leads me to tell you an incident which always seems to me one of the strangest of the many stories of the sagacity of rooks. We were...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—That these birds are weatberwise I am firmly convinced, and I think, after continual observation of their habits, that they do elect a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: P i SIR,—As your readers seem interested in stories of affection and fidelity in animals, I think it possible you might consider the inclosed...

SLEEP! the spirits that attend On thy waking hours are fled. Heaven thou canst not now offend Till thy slumber-plumes are shed; Consciousness alone doth lend Life its pain, and...

THE QUEST. 0 TIME, where hast thou laid My Self of yesterday ? Where at his tomb I prayed, I come again to pray- 'Tis empty ! Who has hither strayed And taken him away ?

EACH wave that breaks upon the strand, How swift soe'er to spurn the sand And seek again the sea, Christ-like, within its lifted hand Must bear the stigma of the land For all...

ARCHIBALD FORBES'S MEMORIES.* THE author of these pages is nothing if not a war-corre- spondent. He is the very form and image of that product of the present times, of and from...

personality in the whole range of illustrious Englishwomen than Elizabeth Fry, the Quakeress. Biographers have drawn lifelike pictures of her dignified presence, her fervent...

HISTORY presents James Wolfe to our notice as the successor of Sidney, and the precursor of Havelock. Not only did he possess great personal courage—a quality in which few...

THERE are, we believe, people who regard the production of an effective historical novel as one of the easiest of imaginative tasks, for the reason that the writer has his work...

THE debt that civilisation owes to banks and bankers is seldom recognised. Without the development of the banking system, the enormous advance that has been accomplished in the...

MODERN Dundee resembles the scion of an old house, who, having made a fortune in trade, does not bestow a thought upon his knightly ancestors and the barren acres he inherited...

(S.P.C.K.)—There will be some scientifically minded young persons, such as the "Rugby schoolboy," of whom Professor Worthington—perhaps autobiographically—speaks, to whom this...

GIFT-BOOKS. On Either Side of the Red Sea. By "H. M. B.," "C. E. B.," and "T. B." With an Introduction and Footnotes by E. N. Buxton. (Edward Stanford.)—It is perhaps...

Winifred Maryon is not content with domestic duties, though these are considerable, seeing that she has a large inheritance, but wants to make herself of real use in the world,...

Melrose.)—Mr. Groser gives us an introductory chapter on early maritime discovery, telling briefly the story of Phcenician, Phocasan, and Roman voyagers, with a notice of Arab...

(R.T.S.)— Canon Vernon's books, with their thoughtful observations and interpretations of Nature, are, we trust, known to many of our readers. "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye," a...

Groves. (Cassell and Co.)—This story, with its sober but not uninteresting succession of incidents, has all the appearance of truth. Donald Geddes does not carry a...

"Life of Christ for Little Folks" seems to be carefully done, with a due regard for the capacities of the young readers for whom it is intended. One might, of course, criticise...

two hundred and fifty portraits of monarchs, states- men, men of letters, painters, singers, actors and actresses, and of other personages whom it is not necessary and, possibly...

is a very clever little story, told in Mr. Ascott Hope's best manner. It is in the manner of Hans Christian Andersen. The Kite talks to other items which he meets—a golf-ball...

is no little merit in this story, though we cannot think that the central idea is a very happy one. That such a man as Maurice Kennedy should ever have done the deed which...

Young People throughout the English- speaking World" continues to do well. There are two serial stories, "The Boys of Huntingley," by Mr. R. M. Eady and R. Eady—we somewhat...

the sixth appearance of this most useful work, and we may therefore assume that it is firmly established amongst the annuals. The industry and research involved in such a work...

and Co.) —No one can complain that the adventures of the two West Point young officers who go out one morning to explore a certain ravine near the frontier-station where they...

a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction. Almayer, a Dutchman, tries his fortune in Macassar among Englishmen, who are mostly ad-...

Co.)—Here Mr. Christie Murray essays, and not without a certain measure of success, a study in Australia and Anarchism. The hero and "fool" of the story is Evan Rhys, a young...

is a particularly disagreeable specimen of the "new fiction." The story is indeed old enough, "lust hard by hate," but there is something novel in the mode of combination. We...