their English allies expect to get by obstructing business, but they are certainly doing it. The Ashbourne Act, formally admitted by Mr. Parnell to be good in intention, and...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 8th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

T HE greatest importance is attached in Paris to an immense demonstration, which is to take place to-morrow, in honour of M. Baudin, the Radical Deputy who was shot on a...

on Monday night, when Mr. Sheehy, M.P., raised a question of privilege, on the ground that a member of the Irish Con- stabulary had tried • to arrest 'him within the precincts...

case.

the ablest he has delivered for a very long time. He took for his principal subject the enormous advance on any his- torical precedent which is involved in Mr. Gladstone's...

Germany ; and it is alleged that the German Ambassador, Prince Reuss, is quarrelling with the Cis-Leithan Premier, Count Taaffe. This is denied, of course ; but it will be...

his constituents of Rossendale last Saturday, speaking at Has- lingden. He remarked that if the Liberal Unionists had accepted Mr. Gladstone's advice as to their conduct in the...

in referring to what "Lord Spencer and I" did in Ireland. He made use of that great historical example only once. But he gave a promise, for which we should like to know his...

from Mr. Labouchere. The Member for Northampton on Wednesday week declared it indecent that the Unionist leader should support the Ashbourne Act, and with his usual recklessness...

Lord Compton was an excellent candidate for the Gladstonians, and Mr. Gainsford Bruce was not a very brilliant candidate for the Conservatives. The Conservative registration had...

Warren is to be Mr. Monro, formerly an Indian civilian and head of the police in Bengal, and later, chief in London of the detective police. Mr. Monro is said to have every...

in one of which he complained bitterly, as he is too apt to do, of the attacks made upon him. "For the last eighteen months he had had a great storm of angry criticism directed...

man., one vote," Lord Hartington remarked that he did not think that even if Mr. Gladstone returned to power, he could give effect to this declaration at any very near date. The...

Thursday, on an important point of ecclesiastical administra- tion. Mr. Howorth thinks that Bishops should retire when they grow old, and asked Mr. Smith if he was aware that...

a bust of the late Sir George Jessel, for ten years Master of the Rolls, in the presence of a distinguished group of lawyers, who were all eager to do homage to the great...

in which he includes the remarkable statement that Lord Hartington "appears to make the astonishing demand that the Irish people shall abandon all its national aspirations...

carry, an immense extension of the suffrage, the franchise being bestowed on all males, not in the Army, of twenty-five years of age. The object is to strengthen Liberalism ;...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 96. to 961.

East Africa which the British Government is unwilling to afford. In a semi-official note which is going the round of the German Press, it is pointed out that the Sultan of...

the whole, we think, satisfactory. It has given a majority to the Chairman, Mr. Diggle, and the policy of economy; but it has diminished the majority for that policy, and so far...

of M. de Lesseps are for the present at an end. The Republican Government, in view of the discredit which a crash would bring upon French enterprise, and of the great secession...

LORD SALISBURY IN EDINBURGH. ORD SALISBURY'S powerful speech on the signifi cance of that separate Irish Administration which is now insisted upon by Irish Home-rulers for the...

T HERE will be great gratulations in the Liberal camp over Mr. Frederic Harrison's very eloquent invective against the Liberal Unionists in the new number of the Contemporary...

that "the Republic itself," or, in other words, the existing Government, may shortly take some violent step to "defend itself" against Reactionaries, is rejected in this country...

T HE most ominous feature of the scenes which have this week discredited both the British and French Parlia- ments, is not their disorderliness so much as the evidence they...

only of the second importance ; but we cannot see that the British Government has any alternative policy to pursue. The Red Sea port is held nominally by the Egyptians, really...

I F the man of average sense and discretion had been asked before the late School Board elections, how he would like things to go at the polls, he would, if not specially in-...

was unsatisfactory. Had the Government deter- mined to stand by their appointment in Queensland, Sir Henry Blake would hardly have declined to be their representative. His...

T HE volume of "Essays in Criticism" which had been collected by Matthew Arnold from various periodicals before his death, and which has just been published by Messrs. Macmillan...

S NOBBISHNESS, it is said, is dead ; Thackeray killed that particular form of English imbecility. The state- ment may be true, though to those who read the daily papers, and...

YEti after year, and term after term, the Judges of the l l ieen's Bench Division meet in the vain hope of reforming the circuit system. The summit of their reasonable ambition...

MR. JOHN BRIGHT ON HOME-RULE. I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Six,—Your article, "What they Say of Mr. Bright," is one which his friends must have read with an interest...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—An article in the Spectator of November 17th, referring to a speech which I delivered at Swindon on October 9th, accuses me of "an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE:1 Su,—Mr. Frederic Harrison says :—" No one can conceive the scheme of salvation growing up with anything but a geocentric system of thought....

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your article in the Spectator of November 24th on thin subject, left out of account one of the important considera- tions which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] Stn,—As one who (though without scientific training) has taken interest in the "astronomical difficulty" so ably dealt within the article...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The writer of your article on this subject has fallen into an error which is somewhat widespread, and as I know that you would not...

to the question of -closed cathedrals. There seems to be all the difference in the world between obliging payment for admission, and leaving it to the good-will of the visitor....

TO PH1LLIS, TEN MONTHS OLD. BABY PHILL 4 18, lady fair, Fat and small of size, With the sun's gold in your hair, And the sea's blue in your eyes ;— How I wonder what your will...

MR. FRITH'S REMINISCENCES.* AMONG other genial qualities, Mr. Frith deserves the especial thanks of the reviewer for his frankness. In the amusing volumes of the Autobiography...

John Inglesant so good as this little tale, though, of course, it cannot fairly be compared with the high effort of imagination by which he gained his literary fame. The...

" GERMANY " has become so large and potent, that it requires an effort to realise what it was thirty years ago,—a. thing of "shreds and patches," the loosest Confederation the...

Site-siona qt Papa. . By.Frederick Pollock. Loudon: Steve* .*d$oas. 1887. FIRST NOTICEd Mn. POLLOCK is a distinguished member of the school represented by Sir Henry Maine, Mr....

Amorta the recent additions which have been made to the "Mermaid" series, the volume comprising the twin tragic masterpieces of John Webster, and the two sole surviving plays of...

E are more and more amazed at the impermeability of Mr. Shaw-Lefevre and his fellows to the obvious conclusions of honest and sober Englishmen even after they carefully read his...

delightful children's tales are from the German of Madame Johanna Spyri. They are essentially for children, but would fascinate older and less enthusiastic minds with their...

hoped that no such persons as Alma Ryan and her grandmother really exist; if they do, their conversation is most unnatural and stilted, and would soon become unbearable. The...

good story with a good moral, and one that all girls should read. Martha is compelled, by a fatal accident to her father, to go into domestic service. She has, of course, many...

Ca.)—There is a good deal that is interesting in this simple narrative. The family of a poor tradesman are left almost desti- tute by his failure. In the belief that it is...

of ambition, and the pride which goes before a fall. The heroine, a fisherman's daughter, develops a talent for dressmaking, and wishes to better herself. She goes to London as...

—A pitiful story of two poor motherless little girls, who are left to the tender mercies of a dissolute father and a rough and kind- hearted friend, Sandy by name. Without him,...

Christmas in Many Lands. By Florence and Edith Scannell. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—We seem to have a favourable recollection, surviving from last year, of excellent work done...

and Co.)— This fairy-story relates the misfortunes which befell the people of Cheeriland from the machinations of a wizard. The incident of the song, the four-and-twenty...

is the story of a little girl's temptation. And doubtless a ruby necklet would prove a great temptation to many. How Rose kept her treasure-trove, and her bitter repentance,...

Ernstone, the hero of Mr. Frith's tale, is left alone in the world by the disappearance of his father, and then the tragic death of his mother. In the last he is nearly...

Shaw and Co.)—The " earls " of the village are tradespeople, and a very unhappy time they seem to have. Affairs finally improve, though not till one of the " earls " has killed...

and Co.) —Harold Seymour gives us, in the form of a diary, a year's ex- perience of a schoolboy's life and temptations. With a little of the prig about him, he is yet a thorough...

Chimes." (Gardner, Dart,on, and Co.)—A pleasant little story about the troubles which happened to • two little orphans. It is a fairly interesting story, and should interest all...

a reprint of papers which have appeared in the British. Weekly. It abounds with strange, interesting, and, it need hardly be said, often very painful facts. It is not only the...

pretty little story. The influence which- his young visitor works on the rather miserly Jersey farmer is well portrayed, though we have some doubts as to its probability. When...

M.A., and W. Timbrel Pierce. (Triibner and Co.)—That Messrs. Pierce should have dedicated these admirable chess studies to the Poet-Laureate, may seem strange to many, though...

Life of the Rev. Stephen Hislop. By G. Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. (Murray.)—This is an excellent life of one of the most remarkable and successful of Indian missionaries. Mr. S....

—Mr. Hocking's pictures of cottage life are always natural and well-drawn. The scene of his last book is for the most part laid in a small Cornish village. The hero of the story...

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The simple annals of the old school- master at Sommerhausen form an exceedingly touching story. The scene is laid in the time of the Thirty Years' War....

and Marshall.)—The editor's idea has been to supply "a volume of complete religious service for use at sea." He has accordingly gone to clergymen of the Church of England and...

Harry Quilter (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), are collected into a volume, which, after the notices given in these columns of the Review as it appeared, calls for little more than...

191 Regent Street, some specimens of their very pretty Christmas Cards, which include not only the usual ideal children in innocent costumes, and dressed-up hares and rabbits,...

Wall Calendars, and the Monthly Diary (Bemrose and Sons); also a Dial of Daies, Wall Calendar, Pettitt's and Blackwood's Diaries, in various sizes and bindings, and Pettitt's...

their very attractive Pocket - Books, Diaries, and Calendars for 1889, which are in every respect as useful and beautiful in form as those of former years, and it is impossible...