T HE long illness, watched with such keenness of sympathy by all English-speaking men, has ended at last. Mr. Gladstone died at Hawarden at 5 o'clock in the morning of Thursday,...

MR. GLADSTONE. T HEgreatest Englishman of this generation has passed away. The present writer has never been one of Mr. Gladstone's personal following, recognising in his...

atmosphere which we are now breathing, coupled also with that power of causing excitement which belongs to all great orators, has given the world at large a strangely mistaken...

W E have expressed in another column our dissent from Mr. Chamberlain's speech as far as it regards Russia. With the portion which deals with the United States and the...

A CHANGE in our Parliamentary practice which is certainly of great importance, and which, as we think, would produce great public benefit, was formally suggested on Tuesday, and...

history can have been more dramatic, as few have been more pregnant with possible conse- quences, than the interview between Prince Henry of Prussia and the Chinese Emperor...

impression that the recent revolutionary outbreak in Italy is in part the work of the Vatican. Pat in this naked fashion, the statement may be dismissed as quite untrue. Outside...

T HE English ought to respect the memory of Vasco da Gama, for he made their fortune. With the possible exception of Columbus, no explorer ever exercised such an influence on...

W E should have supposed that no reasonable person would disagree with the judgment read last Saturday in the Queen's Bench Division by the Lord Chief Justice as regards the...

T HE shooting of an osprey in Yorkshire, recently reported in the newspapers, is an offence against public opinion which, we believe, will be almost impossible in a few years'...

AN ENGLISHMAN IN SPAIN.—II. [TO THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Yes, it is impossible not to feel a deep regret for the whole matter. Spanish courtesy, before this...

AN ALLIANCE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACES. [TO TIM IEDITOZ OF TER " BPZCTATOV.1 SIR,-It may be that the twentieth century is to see a federa- tion of the Teutonic races. Such...

QUID LEONE FORTIUS. THE night is full of darkness and doubt, The stars are dim and the Hunters out: The waves begin to wrestle and moan; The Lion stands by his shore alone And...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR.—I can vouch for the following stories. Two years ago, while in the North of Ireland, one of our party entered into conversation with a...

['To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Sza,—Heaven knows there is enough obscurity about our place-names without importing into speculation about them the hypothesis of a change...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Mr. M. H. Mahony informs us in the Spectator of May 14th that "in a collision between two tongues that of the stupider race always...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As a regular reader of your paper I came across, in the Spectator of May 14th, an article headed " An Englishman in Spain," signed...

THE ACADEMY.—III. THE pictures of sea and land this year are not of the first impor- tance, although some good things are to be found among them. Mr. Alfred Parsons's large...

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.• A LITTLE more than a third of the Complete Prose Works is occupied with " Specimen Days," very brief records of a great variety of impressions. They...

present century the question had been asked in any literary coterie what two names on record were the most generally infamous, the answer would probably have been Machiavelli...

FOB some years Professor Sayce has been publishing a series of books and articles on the history of Israel, the modern criticism of the Old Testament, and the geography and...

THE book which bears the above title consists of a series of " newsy " letters from the London correspondent of Calner's Weekly, New York, written during the war between Great •...

WE have not heard quite so much in England of late of the Single Tax and of Land Nationalisation ; not indeed because the movements to which the proposals have given rise have...

Van Wagener's Ways. By W. L. Alden. (C. Arthur Pearson.)— These short stories, all strung together by having the same hero, will provide any one with a sense of humour with...

the Pudd'nhead maxims, with which Mark Twain heads his chapters, there is one to the effect that " it is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right,"—a sentiment which...

H. S. Merewether, Reuter's Special Famine Commissioner. (A. D. Ines and Co. 16s.)—This large book has no claim to be called literature. It is journalism pure and simple, or,...

Newman records the history of the transition from slavery to freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba,—a transition, by the way, which has not yet been fully effected. Not long ago a...

and Hall. 2 vole., 14s.)—The author of this book has attempted an almost impossible task, and the most one can say in his praise is that he has failed not without credit to...

(The Roxburghe Press. 7s. 6d.)—This is a second edition of a book, which first appeared about four years ago, giving a vivid and very interesting account of the seamy side of...

from the biographical point of view, Pasteur has been pretty effectually exploited of recent years—it is little more than two years since he died, at the age of seventy-...

(A. D. Innes and Co.) — Colonel Ross.of Bladensburgh has now supplemented his "History of the Coldstream Guards from 1815 to 1885," a review of which appeared in our columns...

C.M.G. (Archibald Constable and Co. 14s.)—The recent dis- turbances in Western India have attracted anxious attention to a district which the author, Mr. Arthur Crawford, knows...

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