greater success than was at first reported. The number of killed, wounded, and prisoners is now estimated at two thousand, among whom were all the bravest Emirs in the Khalifa's...

evident that the Colony is temporarily lost. According to the latest accounts, all Mashonaland is " up," and must be subdued by troops shipped from the Cape via Beira, while in...

L ORD ROSEBERY on Friday week drew from Lord Salisbury a most important speech on the campaign in the Soudan. Something, indeed, must have eccurred in Europe of which the...

Mr. Balfour spoke with his usual equanimity and courtesy, pointing out how much more difficult it has been made to pass such a measure now, from the number of the amendments...

case.

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

though Mr. Courtney pointed out the danger that there might not be sufficient time to get through all that would be needed between the early part of January and the middle of...

falls off as a detached thinker. His speech on Wednesday at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester was a capital. rattling party speech. But it was not a good speech. It made a...

ment to confine the new Education Authority to secondary education, Sir W. Harcourt proposed to the Government to drop the part of the Bill creating an Authority that was in-...

a proposal of Mr. Evans's to give every Council of urban districts, " containing not less than twenty thousand inhabitants according to the last census," the same right in...

party must win, but that is premature. It is not certain what policy the Democrat Convention, still to meet at Chicago, will adopt, or what candidate they will ultimately...

amendment to the effect that wherever the area of a School Board was conterminous with that of the County or Borough Council the Education Authority should be a body...

of minorities, for which apparently the Opposition wished, though after inveighing against the scheme of the Government for giving too much power to the local authority, they...

which has been sitting at St. Louis, has unanimously accepted Mr. McKinley as its candidate for the Presidency, with a programme including a high tariff and adhesion to a . gold...

politics. The Russians are interfering in Con- stantinople to protect the Cretans, whom the Sultan promises in a vague way to forgive, and some hint seems to have been given to...

Oxford the " Romans" lecture, choosing for his subject the English character. He believed national character to be "the abiding product of a nation's past," and more important...

night of Wednesday, the 17th inst., the Castle Line steamer, Drummond Castle,' 3,600 tons, with one hundred and forty-eight passengers on board, besides a crew of one hundred...

better known to the older generation as Sir William Thomson) as Professor of Natural Philosophy in Glasgow University, has taken place this week in Glasgow, and has produced a...

interesting lecture this day week in the Taylor Institution, on "Life in Poetry," the first of a series of three, of which the first was on "Poetical Conception," while the...

Kelvin's practical discoveries. He has given us the theory of the speed of electric signalling through submarine cables, and has rendered the most effective assistance to the...

New Consols (24) were on Friday, 11Zi.

MR. MORLEY AND THE HARUM-SCARUM GOVERNMENT. I T is a curious failing for a man of Mr. John Morley's intellectual calibre, to be liable to fall into such an ecstasy of...

T ORD SALISBURY did well on Friday week in J making his statement about the war in the Soudan. The kind of informal arrangement which ever since the death of Lord Palmerston has...

M R. BALFOUR, could hardly have said anything more significant than when he reminded the members of the Unionist party last Monday that it is now a vastly more difficult thing...

T HE victory of Mr. McKinley, if he is to win at the Presidential election in November, will be, in one way at all events, something of a triumph for the advocates of democracy....

Peterborough, in the most interesting lecture which he delivered at Oxford on Wednesday, on the English national character, had dwelt at greater length upon the second part of...

S PEAKING at the annual dinner of the Palmerston Club at Oxford last Saturday, Mr. Bryce observed that he was one of the oldest of its members. He must, therefore, have a...

p OETRY, said Mr. Courthope in the lecture which he delivered in the Taylor Institution on Saturday last, is "the art which produces pleasure for the imagination by imitating...

I T is not often that one reads of a murder committed for pecuniary gain which excites in any strong degree the sense of surprise. Murders of that kind are usually the dullest...

T HOUGH " iced beds " cooled by a " warming " pan filled with ice are now being recommended as a means to secure sleep by night in hot weather, the effect of the rise in...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. [To re■ EDITOR. or isr " EPSCTATOR Sra,—I hope you will permit me, as a constant reader and admirer of the Spectator, to venture upon a few criticisms of...

[TO TR1 EDITOR Or TIM " SPICTATOR."J SIR, —In a notice, excellently intended to be kind, in the Spectator of June 6th, of a paper of mine in the Contem- porary Review, you are...

(To Tay EDITOR or Tas " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The state of affairs in the House of Commons at the present moment constrains me to address you on an incidental matter which I believe...

[To 21111 Roma OF TRH mtarscraroa."3 — A. carpenter residing at Newent, named Jones, possesses a dog which is considered a local wonder. He has, at my request, kindly written me...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIE " SPZOTAT01."3 SIR, — It is often stated, almost as unromantic truth, "that animals do not observe colours." The many instances to the contrary which have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your article in the Spectator of June 13th on " The Boy-Poet," commenting on the lines— "For sweet to the ear comes the now -...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE '13PICTAT013..1 SIR, —The Spectator reaches me late, and the letter of Mr. J. M. Ludlow, which appeared in the issue of May 30th with the above title, may...

" SpzcnTos."] SIR,—I have to apologise to Sir H. Fowler, for having attributed to him, in my letter in the Spectator of June 13th, the remarks on the Agricultural Land Rating...

[TO THI EDITOR 0/ THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your review of Channing's History of the United States, in the Spectator of June 13th, you speak of "Burgoyne's capitulation." This...

MR. FITZGERALD'S NEW LIFE OF STERNE.* - MORE than thirty years ago Mr. Fitzgerald wrote a life of Sterne which exhibited a large amount of research and a number of critical...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A correspondent in the Spectator of May 16th appears to believe that " bulls " are not especially fostered by the Irish climate, but...

• ON AN OLD LONDON STREET. 'MID mushroom streets that rise in a day, Smart with stucco, with painting gay, In cloistral quiet the old street stands, A relic of days that have...

A STORY has been told of the famous Mr. Buckle that on being once asked his opinion of a scholastic dictionary newly published, he said oracularly that it was very good. "It...

THE death of Alexander III., which occurred after some portions of this book had already been written, has now been followed by the death of its author, and both accused and...

Greece. The essays here collected (to quote the editor's preface) " fall into two distinct groups, one dealing with the subjects of Greek mythology and Greek poetry, the other...

information has been brought to light as to the courtships of the Virgin Queen. The Count de la Ferriere has compiled from the documents in the National Library at Paris a...

an Irishman with a difference. He was the great-grandson of an Archbishop of Tnam ; his great- grandmother was a Fitzmaurice, and his grandmother a Butler ; and he was born in...

Tales of South Africa. By H. A. Bryden. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—These admirably told tales give a better conception of the life of the wanderer in South Africa than any...

that he was asked by a lady to give her some hints about writing short stories, that he did what he could, though without much hope of doing any good, but that he achieved the...

(A. D. Ines and Co.)—This is a novel with a good deal in it that reminds ns of Bret Harte, a good deal that reminds us of Dickens, and a fair remainder of original matter and...

Co.) — The Life of Nancy is the title-story of a pleasant little volution of tales of provincial life in America. " Nancy " and " The War- Debt" are quite the best things in the...

(W. Blackwood and Sons.)—These stories are doubtless faithful representations of the semi-savage life and character of the Gaelic district to which they belong. But they would...

Co.)—Mr. Wakeling—who died before the publication of this volume—has collected a great mass of recollections—his own and other people's—about men who took a part in the Oxford...

biggiug. (Elliot Stock.)—A pleasant and sufficiently complete account of its subject. Mr. Newbigging rightly declines to be critical. He tells, for instance, the story of .1Esop...

Co.)—Mrs. Irving propounds views, it may be dramatically, as to the expediency of increasing facilities for divorce, and she sends off one couple of lovers " with no words said...

(Mac- millan and Co.)—One of the delightful little books which the Americans write about the Old Country. If they are only as pleasant to write as they are pleasant to read, the...

in the order of publication) of the International Critical Com- mentary, edited by the Rev. S. R. Driver, the Rev. Dr. Plummer, and the Rev. Dr. C. A. Briggs (of Union...

and Co.)—This is a volume of the " Anthropological Series " which is in course of publication under the editorial care of Professor Starr of the University of Chicago. Dr....

Co.)—It ie not easy to say too much in praise of these delightful sketches. The "Frieze" portion is Irish ; the " Fustian" is English ; and we do not know which we prefer....