K ING GEORGE of Greece has fired a shot, possibly a shell, into the European magazine. His people had been greatly exasperated by the accounts of their kinsfolk who recently...

THE EXPLOSION IN EASTERN EUROPE. T HE King of Greece has forced the hand of the Powers, and though he may not at once acquire Crete for his people, he has rescued the island for...

in the Education debate have not been very candidly raised. One, no doubt, has been this, —whether the Government are honest in wishing to improve the character of the secular...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is showing that he has the first quality of a governing statesman. He knows how to choose men. After all, that is the essential thing in controlling and...

the majority in a thin House inflicted on Wednesday on the Home Office, and of course, as it was said by the Radical journalists, upon " the'Government," by passing the second...

W E hope our readers will allow us to bore them with this question once again. It really concerns their honour in the most direct way, and indirectly, as we believe, their...

" T HERE'S a deal of human nature in man," said the wise American jester, and it would be well if sanguine politicians more often remembered the truth. They are suffering just...

provide the London County Council with a dwelling befitting the amount of its work and the wealth and importance of the great city it administers, which was defeated on...

W E do not enjoy murders, or, as a rule, like to see the public enjoy them, but the interest taken in the murder of Elizabeth Camp is in the highest degree natural. She was a...

T HERE is one aspect of the Queen's great reign to which we think sufficient attention has not been given. At all events the greater portion of it, all that has elapsed since...

T, IEUTENANT PEARY, discussing the hardships of Arctic travel, refuses to admit that living on Esquimaux - diet is any hardship at all. On the contrary, he holds that conformity...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ S1ECTATOR:] SIR, — May I be allowed to add my suggestion to that in the the Spectator of February 13th as to the "Charity Stamp": Have sheets of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — I hope that I may be permitted to plead "Not guilty" of the rather extreme view of Highland character, and of Prince Charles's...

CRETE AND THE SULTAN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—There can exist no doubt whatever in the mind of any reasonable man in the least conversant with affairs in Con-...

"SPECTATOR. " ) Sis,—May I call attention to a slight inaccuracy in your article on "The Difficulties of Religions Poetry" in the Spectator of February 13th? You say : "The one...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer, speaking of myself in his notice of "Lady Vars Elopement," published in the Spectator on February 13th, writes : "His...

FRIDTJOF NANSEN'S "FARTHEST NORTH."* THE charm of Dr. Nansen's personality, the reflection in his daring of the old Viking spirit, the glamour that imagination and hero-worship...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In a paragraph on the Plague in the Spectator of February 13th you mentioned that the export of Indian carpets has commenced to suffer, and that the prices...

MR. WATTS'S "HOPE." HER feet are travel-stained, and bruised, and torn. Her eyes are blinded that she cannot see One step before her. All the harmony Out of her life with those...

"IT is easy to abandon one's mind to write such staff," said Dr. Johnson of the poems of Ossiap. The opinion of Johnson need not seriously detain us. Temperament goes for much...

so numerous, and the output of their industry so enormous, that there is a serious risk—especially in the case of things Japanese—of works of real value being overlooked and...

THIS completes Professor Jebb's edition of the seven extant plays of Sophocles, though we are promised yet another volume, dealing with the Fragments,—and the Fragments give...

PERHAPS the lower classes of Italy are among the most difficult in the world for a foreigner to understand thoroughly. If all that lies below the surface makes them the despair...

chilly account of an expedition in North-West America, starting from Vancouver's Island, striking inland from Fort Wrangel, exploring the Stikine, Pelly, Yukon, and Kuskokvim...

Son.)—This is a good story. The rugged old peasant, Peter Lucas, is a peculiarly well-drawn figure. An ignorant old man, with the narrowest views of life, but hard-headed and...

On Southern English Roads. By J. J. Riney. (Bentley and Son.)—In this book Mr. Hissey gives an account of a driving- tour made in the summer of 1805. To say that his volume...

" bounty " is a school-prize which certain candidates con- tend for, one of them using unfair means to secure it. We must own that we do not quite realise what these means...

Greer. (R. D. Dickinson.)—This volume contains the "Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching," delivered at Yale last year. Dr. Greer's counsel strikes us as being eminently...

Warne and Co.)—Mr. Step need not have made any apology for issuing a second series of his Wayside and Woodland Blossoms. It is justification enough that out of seventeen hundred...

W. Partridge and Co.)—We are always glad to see Mr. Manville Penn's name on the title-page of a tale. It promises good entertainment, and never fails to fulfil the promise more...

the annual volume of the periodical in which the S.P.G. words its "proceedings at home and abroad." It is not less full of interest than usual "The Strange Impostor in Chota...

Illustrated trom Punch. Vol. I. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This first volume, as far as 1876, the year of the Bulgarian atrocities, is not a book that can be properly criticised...

Co.)—This is the first volume of a proposed "Isthmian Library" which Mr. Max Pemberton is to edit. The chapter given to the k Past " is brief. This is probably prudent. The...

the Fourth." (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a story of school life. The fault of its construction, as it appears to us, is that the interest culminates too soon. Generally...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Jeaffreson takes a full and definite statement of what, to use a familiar phrase, may be called the Doctrine of Apostolical Succ ession as the...

We have here a variety of short stories or snippets—one can hardly call them stories—some of which are good of their kind, others being altogether formless and uninteresting....

Bart., M.P., and J. Lawrence Hammond. (John Heywood.)—Sir John Brunner and his colleague have collected in this volume a number of facts and figures, and they have drawn certain...

and Co.)—Mr. Heywood was a preacher of the "mission" type, very vigorous, plain-speaking, and, if we can judge from the written word, effective. Four of the sermons have great...

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