enabling him to retaliate on Canada for the injuries which Canada is declared to have inflicted on the United States fishermen, has been of a very varied kind. It has, in a...

case.

the Austrian Minister, at Eger, on the Austrian frontier, and had two hours' conference with him on his return to Italy. The Italian papers seem nearly all united in praising...

its last sitting, and the Treaty em- bodying the results of its deliberations was signed by the plenipotentiaries of all the Powers willing to accept its condi- tions. Besides...

in the composition of Mr. Fitzgerald's address, published on Thursday, asking for a subscription to defend Mr. Parnell,— for, if we may be permitted a thoroughgoing Irish "...

P RESIDENT CLEVELAND'S Message on the rejection of the Fisheries Treaty by the Senate, of which we beard just before going to press last week, seems to have been more seri-...

that Mr. Gladstone's assertion that " Ireland stops the way," had not been verified in the Session of 1888. Mr. Goschen had done, with regard to the National Debt, what Mr....

difficulties in his attempt to crush the Kabyle insur- rection, though he seems to have taken a considerable army into the field for that pm-pose. His cousin was massacred and...

well- known Fenian of the 1867 movement, who during Mr. Glad- -stone's period of coercion refused to give evidence before a Magistrate holding an investigation under the secret...

on Tuesday. He replied to Mr. John Morley's Lincolnshire speech, showing that it was not the defeat of the Government in the Spalding Division of Lincolnshire that had spurred...

is very moderate in tone, and shows that the French Minister is not at all anxious to drive matters at present to a quarrel. He certainly seems to show that Signor Crispi is not...

ar convicted of promoting the " Plan of Campaign " on the Curras estate of Mr. Leader, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, was also arrested, and lodged in the Cork...

Mr. John E. Redmond, M.P., and Mr. William Redmond, M.P., were arrested at Wexford, and brought before a Magistrate. Mr. Walsh and Mr. John Redmond were charged with having, at...

Vosges, on Sunday, in which he again sought to rally the Republicans by reminding them of their various hatreds. " What you would desire, I know," he said, " is a strong power,...

has lately been making balloon ascents from different places of amusement in and near London, was killed while descending, always the most dangerous operation of the whole...

Major Thomas Hare having been shot dead by his son, Gordon Horace Hare, who immediately committed suicide on the steps of Major Hare's house there. It was the old. story of a...

New Consols (g) were on Friday 991 to 99*.

easily have been caused, on Sunday, by the mischievousness or ignorant curiosity of a passenger on the Thames steamer Bridegroom,' from Kew to London Bridge, who removed the pin...

Belgian by birth, has been visiting his native town of Termonde, in state, and accompanied by the Sheriffs. The welcome given him by his old townsmen has been quite royal, a...

tures, the Great Eastern' is to be broken up. No doubt the sailors will tell us that she is quite useless as a ship ; still, it seems a pity that one of the greatest wonders of...

THE DISPUTE WITH THE UNITED STATES. t ORD DERBY once suggested that it would be very convenient if we could only manage to introduce wars with limited liability. The exigencies...

M R. GLADSTONE'S article on Mr. Forster in the Nine- teenth Century has been made the subject of some very bitter and even malignant comment, which shows nothing except the...

W ILL nations consent to play at war, to treat hostile operations as a game, and to stick to the rules laid down by Conferences and Professors of International Law —that is a...

A CORRESPONDENT takes us to task this week for affirming, in our article on the Bishop of Liver- pool, that " such denunciations of the Mass as are to be met with in the...

T WENTY years ago, the possibility of constructing a Central Asian Railway, present to a few minds, was generally regarded as the dream of politicians who are always in a...

T HERE is a paper on "The Glorified Spinster" in Macmillan's Magazine which gives a striking picture of the new class of young women who do not regard marriage even among the...

B AKERS' if we are to judge from a recent correspondence in the Times, appear to look upon themselves as a hardly used class. The price of bread is no lon g er, as in old times,...

A CURIOUS story comes from Italy of a panic which lately seized upon a portion of the population of Naples. Oar readers may remember how in cholera years rumours have suddenly...

A WORD OF WARNING FROM PROFESSOR DICEY. THE time for criticising the policy of the Special Com- mission Act, 1888, is past. To speculate on the event of a judicial investigation...

Tab IRISH BAND AT OLYMPIA. [To Ths EDITOS OF Tar "SPECTATOR. " ] SIE:4 ought not to be surprised at the tenor of your article, "The Irish Incident at Olympia," seeing as I do...

I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SIE,—AS you have noticed the " coming-of-age banquet " of the Canadians in London, I venture to address a few lines to you to express my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I always read with some pleasure your political articles, because you are always fair to your political opponents, though I regret you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Allow me to thank you for your explanatory note in the Spectator of August 25th on the relation between Free- trade and the Irish Land...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Speaking again of the Lambeth Encylical, you said last week that the denunciations of the Mass to be found in the literature of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is a serious difficulty to be overcome before your suggestion that ornamental waters should be stocked with sporting fish can be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." _I SIR, —May I call your attention to the opening passage of the Bishop of Albany's sermon preached in St. Paul's Cathedral on June 13th, at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—You cite the judgments in "Ditcher v. Denison" and "Sheppard v. Bennett," as permitting the clergy to teach the doctrine of the Real...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—The following incident in dog-life may perhaps find a place in the Spectator. I quote from a letter received a few days ago from my...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—I agree with Mr. Benson that the tower of Peterborough Cathedral, as it now appears, is "unemphatic," and it is un- finished. But...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] -STR,—We notice in your issue of August 25th that you have reviewed a novel of ours, entitled " Mine Own Familiar Friend;" but since sending...

MITRIEL. BENEATH the sheltering oak she lay, And dreamed the love-long afternoon, That blent the burning height of day With the cool eve of royal June. What are her dreams...

MR. HURLBERT ON IRELAND UNDER COERCION.* [SECOND NOTICE.] Mn. HtraLBERT's book is so full of facts of all kinds bearing on the present state of Ireland,—facts verified by a...

• Euterpe : being the Second Book of the /knows History of Herodotur. Burnished " B. R.," 1584, and Edited by Andrew Lang. Loudon ; David Nut 1888. MR. LANG deserves no small...

THESE two books of travels, both dealing with parts of the East hitherto barely known to English people, and both written by women, are yet very different in style, in...

THE Dismal Science would be well worthy of its nick name if it were all composed in the same style as the terribly dull and almost necessarily discursive letters from Ricardo to...

IN laying stress on the philological justification of such a work as this dictionary, M. Barrere takes safe ground, though a perusal of its pages makes it evident that he uses...

THOSE who have the power of expressing themselves easily and melodiously in verse, who have, moreover, a quick eye and a ready heart and sympathy for the thousand little...

in 1884 has been enlarged, and illustrations and time-tables have been added to it. It has maps of the Sogne and Hardanger Fjords, Dovre Fjeld, Romsdalen, Gudbrandsdal, &c. ;...

Low and Co.), is a dull collection of newspaper articles on all sorts of life, chiefly of the poorest, in Melbourne. There is very little local colour, and almost all the...

Eugene Fasnacht (Macmillan), gives help which should surely be superfluous to any teacher of the French language. But those who are working on their own account may find it useful.

of the Italian Schools in the Dresden Gallery. By " C. J. Ff." (W. H Allen and Co.)—The pictures are between six and seven hundred in number, and are discussed in the...

Works of Victor Hugo, translated by Frederick L. Slous and Mrs. Newton Crossland (Bell and Sons), and Russian Lyrics in English Verse, by the Rev. C. T. Wilson, M.A. (Trubner...

Edited by Appleton Morgan. (Shakespeare Society of New York.) —This volume contains The Merry Wives of Windsor. The growth of the play is carefully discussed, and much attention...

diagrams, and containing special discussions on the connection of experimental data, and the working strength of iron and steel, and wind-pressure, points which have become of...

(Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.), is a republication of some amusing papers which have already appeared in the pages of Punch.

and Suddick, Leeds.)—This is a handsome volume, adorned with some remarkably good illustrations. The author evidently knows all about the greyling, how he lives, and how he is...

fine thoughts so frequently to be found in Canon Westcott's writings, brought con- veniently together in a volume. Such a volume they will find in Thoughts on Revelation and...

Fancy-Fair Religion. By the Rev. J. Priestley Foster, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Foster denounces in emphatic and pointed language a practice which no one, we presume,...

useful publication, and of shape and size that quite justify its name. The "Australasia," for instance, contains sixteen plates, measuring about bin. by 5 in., clearly printed....

a smaller form the information given in the "Handy Assurance Directory," a publication on the utility of which we expressed a strong opinion last year.

Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cam- bridge. (Macmillan and Co.)—The object of this treatise is to explain the relation of phenomena, and to develop...

The Laws of Every - Day Life. By H. 0. Arnold-Forster. (Cassell and Co.)—The preface describes this little work as "a first intro- duction to the study of elementary political...

Gurney Hoare, M.A. (Nisbet and Co.), are really a series of embryo. sermons of considerable ingenuity and some freshness on the his- torical facts of the two books mentioned on...

MA (Belle Brothers.)—There is some merit in the arrangement of the notes as aids to memory and leading to clearness of thought.. although there is nothing strikingly original...

A. C. Jennings, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton), contains a large amount of information condensed into the shortest possible space. A his- tory in the strict sense of the term it is...

By Elizabeth P. Peabody. With an Introduction by E. Adelaide Manning. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The greater part of the book consists of lectures delivered to the students of...

illustrated from Holy Scripture and the Book of Common Prayer, with Appendices. By C. S. Graeber. (Parker and Co.)—This is a catechism on the Catechism,.written from the High...

schools. (Bell and Sons.)—We wonder whether Sir Walter ever supposed that the lines of Horace,- " Hoe (moque to menet, nt poems elements docentem Omnapet extremie in viols baba...

R. W. Taylor, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—The editor has divided the work into three parts, each consisting of two cantos, with the object that each may be obtained separately. This has...

addition to our school histories forms one of the series "The Highways of History," and supplies a want which must have been often felt by teachers of history ; the subject-...