Freeman's Journal, and has expressed a variety of opinions on the situation, of which this is the most important,—that it would be very bad policy for Irish Members to prevent...

highly imaginative assumptions,—especially that Lord Salis- bury, in his recent speech at Liverpool, expressed the in- tention neither to resign nor dissolve if defeated on an...

case.

A CCORDING to the accounts of Friday, the "Florentine incident" is to be in some way passed over both by France and Italy; but during the week it assumed a dangerous character....

Twelve-Page Supplement, containing the Index and Title-Page for the Volume for 1887.

new action having been taken. The Czar, in reply to an address from the Governor of Moscow, has telegraphed his " hope " that peace will endure in future and in the present year...

case seems one to be settled by diplomacy, the point at issue being the interpretation of the Treaty of 1884; but the journals of Paris, which hold the French claim to Tunis to...

maths "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, Ianuary 28th, will be issued, grati , a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of witch will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

does not appear to be at all serious. Osman Digna, with a few Soudanese, has been threatening the port for some time, and on January 17th a force of friendly Arabs, some...

not to regard all the violent rhetoric reported from Ireland as if it really represented the average opinion of the Irish people. Many of these bursts of rhetoric represent no...

a new plan for improving the control of the House of Commons over the Estimates. He would appoint three Committees at the commencement of each Session, to which the Army, Navy,...

stituents at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, on Tuesday night, made the first announcement to the public that he had resigned his seat in the Cabinet (in which there still remain,...

for renewing the law against the Socialists for five more years, and greatly aggravating its provisions. The Government urge that the Socialists, though compelled to abstain...

Radicals in the French Chamber has for its pivot the posi- tion of the Municipality of Paris. It came to a head on Monday, M. de Lamarzelle proposing what was, in all but form,...

after a very good debate,—in which, however, one speaker attempted a style of oratory very unsuitable to a Uni- versity,—the petition of University College and King's College,...

Lord Justice Clerk Moncreiff and an Edinburgh jury on Monday and Tuesday for shooting the deer, trespassing on the deer-forest, and intimidating those who were appointed to...

period of eighteen years, two of the accomplices in a most cruel and cold-blooded Kerry murder,—a murder that occurred in the early part of last year,—Mr. Justice Murphy made...

firms the accounts received last week of the destruction caused by the Yellow River. A body of four thousand labourers, under some mandarins, were repairing one of the dykes,...

dinner of the City Liberal Club on Wednesday, on the causes of the recent depression in trade, and some of the reasons why it had lasted longer in England than in the United...

Lord of the Admiralty, and has been succeeded by Admiral Tryon. The ostensible cause of his resignation was, it is stated, a dispute about the cost of the Naval Intelligence...

share in the Trafalgar Square riots ended on Wednesday. They were accused of rioting, assault, and unlawful assembly ; but the jury found them guilty on the last count only, and...

Cnneols were on Friday 102i to 1021.

T HE result of the trial of Mr. Graham and Mr. Burns at the Central Criminal Court has been to show without doubt that those who refused to believe that the right of public...

SIR MICHAEL BEACH AT BRISTOL. S IR MICHAEL BEACH does not wish, he says, to make the political situation more difficult for his former colleagues than it already is ; yet he...

M R. PARNELL has confided to the Freeman's Journal his hope that the Irish Members will facilitate the transaction of English and Scotch business during the next Parliamentary...

T HE long-expected Radical journal, the Star, appeared on Tuesday afternoon as an evening journal, and, as is usual in this country, contained a programme of its policy and...

T "great value of the speech delivered on Wednesday to the law students of Birmingham by Sir Edward Clarke consists in this. It has always been alleged that the fusion of the...

W E are as convinced as any one can be of the necessity of distinguishing between a criminal trial as it is heard by the jury, and a criminal trial as it is read by the public....

R ECENT discussions in the London School Board and other public bodies have called public attention to the abortive Technical Education Bill of last Session, and rendered...

M R. RUSKIN, in an interesting letter to the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, complains almost piteously of the vanishing landmarks in the British character, the elements of which he...

T HE reign of the new romance-writer, the novelist who refuses to obey conditions, and uses the supernatural, or the half-supernatural, or the impossible, or the wildly im-...

IRISH ADMINISTRATION AND MR. GOLDWIN SMITH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIN,—Some one has sent me a letter addressed to you by Lord Emly, marking for my special...

" SPECTATOR:"J STR,—With reference to the notice of my book on Luther which appeared in your last issue, permit me to suggest that the mistake of saying that Savonarola died...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR..1 Sra,—In the course of the fine speech delivered on the night of January 13th at the Liberal Unionist meeting held at the Paddington Baths,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—" Coming as he did from Guernsey, there was in Bonamy Price not a little of the genial alertness of the French intellect."...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" A Convert of Thirty Years' Standing" thinks that the Vatican Decrees concerning Infallibility have stopped the stream of converts to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Welsh jurymen are not devoid of ordinary intelligence. They did not condemn the gun because it had " shot " two men, but because there...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—The account in the Spectator of January 14th of the panic which so curiously prevailed at Birmingham, has reminded me of my old nurse,...

BONAMY PRICE. [IN MEMORIAM.1 Wuo that beheld and knew thee, but would fain Preserve thy image for the coming race P The prompt, quick mien ; the vivid, mobile face; Broad...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with interest your article on "Luck," but venture to think that the Welsh jury was (unconsciously, perhaps) following the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —In the Spectator of September 4th, 1887, you were good enough to insert a letter headed "A Suggestion for the Kyrle Society." In it I...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [FIRST NOTICE.] AN interest of a peculiar kind attaches to the present exhibition, since it is the first which has been held at the Academy under the...

THE ETHIC OF FREE-THOUGHT" AN Y one who takes up this volume in the hope of finding what sort of ethical creed Mr. Karl Pearson thinks justified by "Free- Thought," will be...

Mn. FROUDE'S winter trip to the West Indies has given the public another opportunity of enjoying one of his delightful books of travel. The sunlike floods of rhetoric with...

KNOWN daring nearly forty years as Captain Burton, Haji Barton, Consul Burton, and now, finally, as Sir Richard, an original and picturesque man, although still, happily, sur-...

new editions which are much to be preferred to new books. Dr. Geikie is perhaps the most agreeable writer on geology now left to us. When his Scenery of Scotland originally...

INCOMPARABLY the best of these three novels is An Olt l Man's Favour, whose author is evidently a clever, capable observer, possessed of a very pleasant sense of humour, and...

IT is always amusing, and sometimes instructive, to see our- selves as seen through foreign spectacles, and the author of The Equality of the Sexes in England had a pair of very...

Among the new starts just made by old magazines, may be noticed that of the Church Review, an organ of the American Episcopal Church, whose editor hopes to make it "the foremost...

W. A. Clouston. 2 vols. (Blackwood.) —Mr. Clouston's book supplies a want which has been increasingly felt ; and while its appearance will be hailed with satisfaction by the...

Bailor° (M. 11.), Under the Southern Cross, or 8vo (Trilliner) 7/6 Barnes (G A.), George and Joseph : Poems, 12mo (Bemrose) 5,0 Bryant (T.), Diseases of the Breast, 12ine...

On the 16th inst., at Hyeres, Frederick John Church, only son of the Dean of St. .Paul's, aged 33.

of England as they affect the Poor. By Francis Peek. (W. Isbister.)—Sandringhanz, Past and Present. By Mrs. Herbert Jones. (Jerrold and Sons.) — Murray's Handbook to Russia,...