number of seats by its self-will; and the leader of that party, Mr. Keir Hardie, has lost his seat for South West Ham. Even Mr. John Burns's majority at Battersea dwindled from...

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index Nand Title-Page,—i.e., from January 5th to June 29th, 1895, inclusive.

Elections are the return of both Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman for the Stirling Burghs, and of Mr. Asquith for East Fife, by decidedly increased majorities. But we very much...

T HE Gladstonians are scattered like dust before the wind. The late leader of the House of Commons, who was returned by Derby in 1892 at the head of the poll by 7,507 votes...

ment is the return of the counties to a Moderate policy after the wild and illusory hopes which Mr. Gladstone inspired in them in 1892. As yet hardly a county seat in Great...

deserves special notice. There are sixty-two London seats, and out of these the Unionists bold fifty-four and the Home-rulers only eight. Considering that 75 per cent. of the...

case.

long agony of the death-struggle is said to have begun at 10 o'clock on the previous night, but life was not extinct till 35 minutes past 3 on the following morning. We have...

issue ; one last Saturday at Birkenhead, one on Tuesday at Glasgow, and one on Wednesday at Dalkeith. He is making a formal political tour in Scotland, where a Scot of...

day's papers, has made one of those wise and moderate political statements which mark him out as the most essen- tially English of our politicians. "A Liberal, though a...

hand on the rope ready either to haul down the Home-rule banner or to secure it still more firmly,—according to circum- stances. At least, that is how we read his letter...

Stambouloff. The ex-Prime Minister of Bulgaria left the Union Club at Sofia at 8 o'clock on Monday evening, and took a flacre to drive home. His body-servant went on the box,...

prison, for the City of Limerick, where he succeeds an Anti-Parnellite who had, however, no very large majority 'over his Parnellite opponent, is a curious and impressive...

in spite of the numerous scandals that have been con- nected with its lower ranks, fills so large a place in French public life, is going through a curious crisis. Last Saturday...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 107i-1071.

published in the Daily Telegraph of Thursday. It is to the effect that the agreement between Russia and China includes the junction of the Chinese railways with those of...

at St. Petersburg deserves attention. Not only have the authorities, lay and clerical, shown them marked attention, but the Czar is said to have bestowed upon the - Emperor...

Monday, gives some very curious information as to Southern China. The true Chinese, the Chinese of the South, were, it appears, on the point of rising against the Manchoos...

Tuesday. First is a General Order of the Government of India, in which "his Excellency in Council" expresses his "deep sense of the admirable and valuable services" rendered by...

Plaistow on Wednesday. Two boys, aged thirteen and eleven, murdered their mother some ten days ago for apparently no reason, except that she had punished one of them and was...

THE ISSUE OF THE GENERAL ELECTION. A RADICAL contemporary impresses upon us that though the Gladstonians have been beaten hip and thigh from Dan to Beersheba, there is nothing...

A S we write, M. Stambouloff is reported to have sunk under the twenty terrible wounds on the head and the other mutilations inflicted on him by his murderers. Both hands were...

very significant article on the first day of the General Election,—before any result was known,—to show that democracy is on the whole a mere show, and not a reality at...

O F the individual results of these wonderful Elections, few, if any, are more striking than the overthrow of Mr. Keir Hardie, the president of the Independent Labour party, in...

Q OME ten days ago, the great military port which the French have constructed at Bizerta, in the country which is still technically known as the dominion of the Bey of Tunis,...

to the troubles of the unfortunate English farmer. His case would be hard enough even if Nature smiled upon him always, as the prices of some of his principal products for years...

A T last we have got an account of a modern sea - fight at first hand,—a description, that is, of an ironclad in action from a man who was there, and saw the shells rip the...

I F one judged by the political caricature and irony of the day, one would be disposed to prefer Mr. Chamber- lain's position to that of any other of our statesmen. Mr. F. C....

T HE legend that the young 2Esculapius cured a man by the use of a herb which he had seen a sick goat search for and eat upon the slopes of Pelion, is evidence of the antiquity...

A T the Church Congress, the duties of women are to be- discussed under three heads,—" At Home," "In Busi- ness," and "In Service." Of the three headings, the one that starts...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The position of the Catholic Church towards this subject cannot be more clearly nor more accurately expressed than in the words of one...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of July 13th, " Utopian " asks, "Why do people never suggest that the parents will be willing to pay ? " &c. People...

THE HEALY-DILLON QUARREL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,—There seems to me to be a general disposition in the English Press, both Conservative and Radical, to assume...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — Your interesting article under the above heading suggests to me how its scope might be enlarged, especially as regards charges of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRY "SPECTATOR."] make it a rule not to answer any criticism of my literary work, feeling that the writers have formed their opinions on grounds sufficient to...

MISS CAILLARD'S "PROGRESSIVE REVELATION." * IN one of the noblest essays in the Spectator, Addison has drawn an argument for the immortality of the soul from the infinite...

SIR,—On reading your article on the "Tyranny of Coin- cidence" in the Spectator of July 13th, it occurred to me that the following might not be uninteresting. There prevails in...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TEL "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — In the kindly little review of my Period L of "Euro- pean History," published in the Spectator of July 13th, your reviewer seems to...

This is a painful but very powerful story, which is as like a bit of actual life as, in its very different field, a painting by Rembrandt of the interior of a Dutch cottage. We...

on the horse—more than four thousand, according to the authors of the little work before us—and there is yet no sign of the subject being exhausted. The excuse, however, offered...

THE prefatory note attached to the volume before us will give the reader an idea of the scope and purpose of Mr. Courthope's book. While the published volume deals with the...

a writer has given anything noteworthy to the world, to collect together everything else that he has written, noteworthy or otherwise, bind it up together in an ill-assorted...

IN a short preface, Mr. Brassingthn informs his readers that his work is based upon a little book, by the late John Hannet, entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of • A...

WHEN some toady attempted to cajole grim old Lord Chancellor Thurlow by a pedigree showing his descent from Cromwell's famous Secretary (who was also a Suffolk man), he gruffly...

the .Academy, distributing praises on all hands which are mutually destructive. Mr. Gosse urges, in the first of a series of articles, the claims of sculpture. Two things, it...

The Studio contains some excellent reproductions of dry-points by M. Helleu, several brilliant sketches in Dalmatia by Mr. Pennell, and an account of the Salon of the Champ de...

of Mr. J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls. It is beautifully printed on large paper; but the most notable feature of it is the illustrations, which have been executed by Mr....

the Venetian house of Ongania. It contains some two hundred pages of reproductions of famous examples of the early art of printing and book-decoration at Venice. It will be...

in many respects, a pleasanter and more wholesome book than "A Superfluous Woman," perhaps because -it deals more with questions of the spirit and less with problems -of the...

those pleasing and picturesque historical romances which Mrs. Emma Marshall produces with positively marvellous facility. There are no signs of falling off in this story of...

-Jones, and Co.)—This is the fourth edition, revised and illustrated, of an excellent and eminently practical little manual, which has -done not a little to introduce into...

illustrations. The present number contains a story by Mr. George Gissing.—The Portfolio for the month is an account of the Isle of Wight, by Mr. C. J. Cornish.—The Century...

Neville, D.Litt. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—M. Neville tells us in this Memoir (the twelfth of the series published by the Egypt Exploration Fund) about the previous efforts...

Staining. ' By the Rev. Alfred Povah, D.D. (Blades, East, and Blades.)— Dr. Povah is Rector of the United Parishes (united in 1870). He has been Rector of St. Olave's since...