week, due mainly to the fact that the Government having given Major Esterhazy a safe conduct, be has arrived in Paris and is to be examined. It is not known if he means to...

to be laid before the Peace Conference when it meets to consider the Czar's proposals. Substantially they are only four—first, that the Powers shall agree not to in- crease...

to keep the Soudan in touch with the rest of our rule in Egypt, and yet to banish from the reconquered provinces that internationalism in the shape of the Mixed Tribunals and...

T HE Egyptian official Journal published on Thursday a Convention between the British and Egyptian Govern- ments dealing with the future of the Soudan. The document begins by...

a Carlist on the chances of Don Carlos in Spain. He declares that a feeling that Carlism is the only solution has spread rapidly through all classes in Spain, especially in the...

case.

issued, gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July tad to December 31st, 1898, inclusive.

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

papers have been full of long and laudatory articles. In reality, though Nnbar was a man of intelligence and of immense adroitness, he was by no means a great statesman. He...

reasons why Mr. Morley could not be a Jingo, or even an Imperialist, except in the sense of fulfilling engagements already entered into, or compelling the fulfilment of them by...

Budget, has this week made two pessimist speeches. In the first he declared that the Navy was the most " petrified " department in the service, that it took five years to build...

speech at Louth on Thursday was an energetic, almost a fierce, attack upon Mr. Morley. He denied his friend's statements as to the spread of Jingoism among the Liberal chiefs,...

speech to his constituents at Brechin. After a few cordial words about his reception, he plunged at once into politics. There were, he admitted, cross-currents running in the...

Chamberlain's speech at the dinner of the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce, held last Wednesday. The rest of his speech was taken up with our relations with France; and here...

intentions with regard to the Cape to Cairo route, was published by the Central News on Thursday. He estimates that, to bridge the existing gap of some three thousand five...

the Ruridecanal Conferences in November and December (just issued by Messrs. Longmans and Co.) an appendix which deals specifically with some of the causes of the recent...

Daily Chronicle on the subject of old-age pensions is one—in the issue of Thursday—from Mr. Edwin Ransom dealing with the Spectator's plan for old-age pensions. His most...

Wednesday contained towards the end apassage of great weight and importance, and one whisk will, we hope, be taken to heart by all persons who are concerned for the welfare of...

read a paper on " The Excess of Imports." Sir Robert Giffen's handling of the subject, as was to be expected, was of a most masterly kind, and it is to be hoped that he has...

the progress of recruiting. In spite of last year being a prosperous year for trade, it was a record year in the matter of recruiting, and the number of men who joined the...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 1111.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND FREE-TRADE. W E hold, as our readers know, that England has no more fearless and patriotic statesman than Mr. Chamberlain. We have never hesitated to...

O UR readers will be very unwise if they omit to study the speech which Mr. Morley delivered at Brechin on Tuesday, or even if they indulge in skipping as they read. Mr. Morley...

W E are not attracted—we confess it with regret—by the thirteen proposals in which Count Muravieff is said to have embodied the great idea of the Czar. They are intended, as it...

A S soon as people begin to talk about a crisis one may be sure that there is plenty of exaggeration in the air. The present talk about the crisis in the Church is no exception....

T HE result of the Irish local elections in the towns is in one way rather a triumph for the Spectator. Almost alone in the Press, we have maintained for twenty years that in...

T HE industrial monopoly known as a Trust is only some dozen years old in the United States, yet it already controls about one-half of the industrial capital of the Republic;...

M R. LECKY is known wherever the English language is spoken for the lucidity and felicity of his style and for the penetrating and well-balanced mind with which he approaches...

T HERE are two foibles or peculiarities in the French character which differentiate it from that of the Englishman, and in a less degree from that of the German, with a certain...

B IRDS have always been bringers of omens, and some- times political prophets. The caladrus foretold the death of Kings, rooks the decline of families, storks the decay of...

MADAGASCAR AND THE COBDEN CLUB. [To TEE EDITOR OP TER " SrscTivroa."] Sin,—You have attacked the policy of the Cobden Club as stated in its recently published memorandum, and...

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Every one who has studied the condition of modern France will be in general agreement with your article upon the "New St. Bartholomew"...

Sin,--The point I wished to urge, in the Spectator of January 7th, was not that territorial sovereignty is the only conceivable means of securing that the Pope should be really...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Will you allow me, from a distance, to put in my pro- test—which I am sure will not be an isolated one—against Mr. Tollemache's view...

[TO THY EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, — If your correspondent will turn to the fourteenth chapter of the " Memoir of Lord Tennyson," by his son (Vol. I., p. 305), he will...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—In the brisk correspondence at present going on re- garding children's want of sensitiveness in giving pain to living creatures, it...

THE CZAR'S ALLY. [The Czar on his way to Livadia stopped at the railway station of Tula and sent a request that Count Tolstoi would come to meet him. The greeting and...

LET them be a little space, Though they lack our crowning grace ; Though their talk be not about Things we talk of, dining out; Though their jokes are hard to see : Let them...

THE INNER LIFE.• Mn. CROZIER is known to English readers as one of the most versatile and original thinkers of the day, and there is nothing which he is disposed to say which...

trustworthy memoir of a man who did the State good service in two branches of public employment. Captain Wilmot's portraiture is impressive, his judgments are impartial, he does...

THE materials from which Dr. Cone seeks to construct his portrait of the Apostle are, it seems to us, insufficient ; and this insufficiency is the result of his own critical...

Da. GARNETT'S sense of humour must undoubtedly have become damaged (perhaps in editing the Poems of Victor and Cazire) before he could have permitted himself to say that Gibbon...

Girl is exceedingly familiar. This is not the first time that we have met the beautiful daughter of the dreamy old scholar, who loses her heart to the handsome and eligible...

F. Adeney. (Service and Paton. 3s. 6d.)—The object of this fresh addition to the "Popular Biblical Library Series" is to bring the women of the New Testament more vividly before...

In a compact and convenient form, a volume on Working Men's Insurance, by William Franklin Willoughby, of the United States Department of Labour (T. Y. Crowell and Co., New York...

6c1.) —This is not a child's book, but a very pleasantly written story for elder girls,—indeed, the present writer has enjoyed reading it. The characters of the two little girl...

reprinted essays'are fairly good reading, with just a sub-acid dash of satire in them. The English Constitution and method of government afford endless opportunities of...

Minister of the City Temple, London. (Hurst and Blackett.) —In this volume a cultivated Indian lady is supposed to give her impressions of English Christianity, in a series of...

and Co. 6s.)—The stories in this book are very attractive. The first one is worked out on the traditional fairy-tale plan, in which the kind-hearted hero shows hospitality to...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Evans is of opinion that the Graal legends are an elaborate allegory of the struggle between Pope Innocent III., John of England, Philip of...

Hiatt. (G. Bell and Sons. 5s.)—This book will sell,—let a reviewer say what he may. But it is, as a matter of fact, a per- fectly delightful set of illustrations of Miss Ellen...

Marshall and Son) we have to notice The Story of Canada, by Howard A. Kennedy, and The Story of South Africa, by W. Basil Worsfold. Both these are striking little books. In the...

Stanford.)—Miss Helen Blackburn and Miss Palliser have edited this charming "story of the world," for its writer is dead, and so is the child for whom it was put together. It is...

6s. 6d.) —This is a volume of the " University Tutorial Series." It aims at giving every word to be found in authors commonly road. A useful feature is that it gives proper...