old prestige, besides equipping the school with costly and most valuable aids to health and education, is to be succeeded by Dr. Percival, the President of Trinity College,...

that a Treaty exists binding Germany, Austria, England, and Italy to resist Russia if she enters the Balkans. Austria would attack her by land, while the British and Italian...

his incognito travels, the incognito being, ho said, quite unneces- sary to secure him from being the object of too much attention on the part of foreign statesmen, and laid...

case.

for the first has already altered the situation. General Kaulbars and the Consular Agents of Russia have received instructions to quit Bulgaria, with which Russia breaks off...

Hicks-Beach, the Irish Secretary, was the chief speaker at the Conservative, or " Dolphin " dinner ; while Lord Herschell was the chief speaker at the " Anchor," or Liberal...

C OUNT KALNOKY'S expected declaration was made to the Hungarian Delegations on Saturday, and proved to be important. He stated distinctly that while Germany and Austria had many...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the " SPECTATOR" SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENTS, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Twentieth...

their report upon the proceedings of the year. They raised last year, which was one of exceptional severity, a sum of £78,600, and expended it ; but they are not contented with...

Arnold by two hundred and fifty-two teachers of the Westminster district, on his retirement from the inspectorship of Westminster, in recognition of " the happy relations which...

Goschen as a Liberal, and he has declined to accept a nomination as the Liberal candidate. The difficulty is natural enough on both sides ; but the Tories ought to take a little...

last to the condition of the national finances. The Finance Minister pro- posed to extinguish another portion of the Floating Debt by raising another loan, and to fill up the...

has summoned all rough London to meet on Sunday in Trafalgar Square, and intends to send a deputation to Lord Salisbury, who is accused of being the author of part of the...

active operations. His plan, it is said, is to hold the river stations strongly, to send out light columns to suppress all armed resistance, to disarm the county thoroughly,...

of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works, praying the Government to renew the Coal and Wine Duties, which produce £450,000 net a year, and expire shortly. With- out these...

acknowledged a very large debt of gratitude, and no less to his colleagues, his brother-Inspectors. To his assistants he was profuse in his acknowledgments. And as for the...

West Norwood, the principle of which is to teach the children handicrafts, as well as to give them an ordinary elementary education. The new building has been built and endowed...

which seems not unlikely to result in a fusion of some at least of the Methodist Churches. An interesting correspondence between four ex-Presidents of the Methodist Conference...

attempt made to breed a potato which shall not be averse to wet soils as our ordinary potato, the origin of which is an Andes potato growing in places where rain is almost...

deadly poison into a specimen of beer submitted for analysis to the public analyst,—poison which was not discovered by the analyst,—seems to us to show that the Adulteration...

of Thursday week, states that a - meeting is to be held in the Town Hall of Dor- chesteron Thursday, December 2nd, at 3 p.m., for decidink on the best monument to the memory of...

town was decided on Wednesday. Miss Line Scott, who had married Mr. Arthur Sebright before a Registrar in South Andley Street, prayed for a declaration of nullity, on the ground...

M R. STANSFELD, in his speech at Bristol on Monday, made his great point the profound conviction of the Liberals that Irishmen desire a separate national existence, and that...

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. I F the Bulgarians are really determined to win their independence, they should be able to breathe now. They are not out of the wood, and may still have to...

A "portions of the English Press really falling into a per- manent condition of chronic hysteria? We cannot imagine a more dangerous symptom of it than the sensational views-...

I T is a little difficult to discuss anything with the Social Democratic Federation. Their leaders not only employ the style of the " authoritative " democrats of the Continent,...

M ISS SCOTT is much to be congratulated on being Miss Scott, and not Mrs. Arthur Saunders Sebright. The individual answering to the latter name appears to have thought the...

T HE Governing Body of Rugby have elected Dr. Percival to succeed Mr. Jex-Blake. We have said enough of the selection—a most excellent one—elsewhere, and desire here to note...

T HERE are so many anti-social theories in the air, and a doubt is so clearly arising as to the ultimate right of holding property, that Mr. Phelps's lecture at Edinburgh on...

T is the question asked by Professor Upton in his thoughtful address to the students of a Theological College which has just entered on its second century of existence,—...

W E have read Mr. Frederic Harrison's lecture on " Cities," or rather the reports of his lecture—which will, we hope, appear in extenso in one of the magazines—with mingled...

CHRISTIANITY AND THE PEOPLE. [To 7111 EDITOR or via 87147711101:1 the Spectator of November 6th, you end your article on "Retrogression in America" with the following striking...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIB, - It is with no desire to set forward the Clergy Pensions Institution as a rival to the proposed Church House, or as a concurrent...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE " Srserlros."] SIR,—I will not trouble you any further about the new scheme for the recovery of fees until it has been more folly developed, and tabulated...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—May I call your attention to a fact which you seem, in part at least, to have overlooked in your article with the above heading in the...

WE are disposed to think that even those who disagree with the conclusions of this book will concur in conceding its extra- ordinary lucidity, force, and dispassionateness....

And gazed on the flaring town Men rushed here, and men rushed there, And the stars looked coldly down. I sate at my casement window, And gazed on the starlit sky : Silent their...

[To THE Minos OP vu " SPECTATOR:] Sni,—The article in the Spectator of November 13th called" An Unmarked Cause of the Depression" is fall of important truth. But I am struck by...

lying on the table in French houses, and you hear people say to each other, a little mysteriously,—" Tres interessant." Certainly the whole book is interesting, for one reason...

THIS is a clever book. In reading it, one feels that, unequal as her books are, Mrs. Oliphant's hand has not lost its cunning. The old power of analysis of human motives and the...

of sermons requires no apology, though Mr. Danks has prefaced it with one,—namely, the spontaneous subscription of two hundred members of his con- gregation. There is not a...

most charming books of travel that we ever remember to have read. It is full of incident and adventure, described in the pleasantest of sub-humorous styles. The author travelled...

to give a high place among the Christmas books of the year to the memoir of Randolph Caldeoott, one whose pencil charmed so many with its graceful humour. It is written by a...

of this book and its publica- tion in England deserve well of that section of the public which must have a great love for literary bon-bons at this time, considering the...

reviewed in our last impression, wishes us to say that that review conveys a more pessimist conception of Brazil than is, in his opinion, contained in his book, and especially...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. WE have received the annual volumes of two magazines which it is needless to commend to our readers. Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D. (Isbister and...

the title of "Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics" (Field and Tuer), "Classics" being understood, it will be seen, in a sense somewhat different from that which the word...

tale appeared many years ago in AU the Year Round, and was honoured by being printed in the same volume of the Tauchnitz collection with Charles Dickens's "No Thoroughfare." It...

Stoughton.)—This is a tale of Anglo-Indian life. The scene is laid prin- cipally at a small station, and the latter half of the book is concerned with the fortunes of the...

is a tale drawn from a store which, unhappily, is inexhaustible, the troubles and sorrows of the poor. A certain Mrs. Murphy is falsely convicted on the charge of having...

and Adams.)—The editor claims for his collection that it is modern. " They do not, for the most part, go farther back than Walpole's ' Letters,' and they come down as far as the...

Walton. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mrs. Walton has collected here a number of anecdotes of the Queen's life, and these are illustrated by pictures, taken, where it has been...

unworthily illustrated ; the faces are pretty or humorous ; the scenes from Nature faithfully rendered ; the page-borders grace- ful. And four of the songs, " Where the Bee...

Catherine Mary MacSorley. (John Hogg.)—Mrs. Somerville's singularly interesting story is the first in this volume, and perhaps the best. But there is one of a person little...

and Bruce. By Annie S. Swan. With Eight Original Illustrations by C. J. Stanilaud, R.I. (Cassell and Co.)—The heroes of the story, Wallace and Bruce, are well presented, and...

is the twelfth annual volume of a magazine, edited by Dr. Bernardo, and described as "The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories." One of its principal features is to be...

this is meant for a book of the season to please and instruct young readers, we must call it a mistake. It is a commonplace tale of bigamy, or apparent bigamy, well meant...

With Illustra- tions. (James Nisbet and Co.)—The title-page enumerates twenty- seven books, followed by "&o., &o.," of which Mr. Ballantyne is the author ; it may therefore be...

S. Whitchurch Sadler, R.N. (S.P.C.K.)—We have hero four capital stories, first published some years ago in the Boys' Own Paper, and now very properly reprinted. The heroes hunt...

we suppose, utilised a select number of engravings relating to famous events and personages in the history of these Kingdoms, out of the vast store of illustrations which must...

"J. J. G." and "J. L. G." (C. Clarke, Mid-Sussex Times office, Haywards Heath ; and sold for the Restoration Fund of Lindfield Church, Sussex.)—This is, on the whole, an...

sent us a large portfolio of Christmas and New Years' Cards of all kinds,—chromo-painted children and:dogs and flowers in great variety ; cards with messages adorned with very...

usual, among the very best which reach us. The information in the pocket-books is arranged with unusual care and skill, and the single improvement we could suggest would be even...