T HERE is some news this week from Mashonaland. The Chartered Company's forces having defeated the enemy in two small battles, have effected their junction, and are mov- ing on...

case.

-4-- With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 4th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

on all hands that Count Taaffe and his Emperor intend to recede from their determination to introduce a nearly universal suffrage. The nationalities, it appears, have caught our...

usually right, announces (October MI) that President Cleve- land has come to a most important resolution. He has resolved to set the Senate, and possibly the law, aside alto-...

of old age at eighty-five, one year older than Mr. Gladstone. He was a good but not great soldier, and an honest but vacillating politician, who owed his hold upon France,...

the reception of. the Russian Admiral and his officers in Paris. It was almost Royal. The Admiral was received on Tues- day at the railway station by representatives of all the...

gone back to work at the old rates, the vast majority are still out—the men kicking to their old demand, and the masters requiring a 15 per cent. reduction as their irreducible...

home one danger from Home-rule which has been very little discussed. . He thought any Home-rule Governs ment would stop recruiting in Ireland, and thus deprive the Empire of one...

son, an event of much interest to the Kingdom, where the perman- ence of the dynasty is of importance, and of some interest to Englishmen. The heirs to the Crowns of Germany,...

of which we have said almost enough elsewhere. The peroration is curiously fine, quite beyond Mr. Asquith's usual style, but public interest has fastened on a statement that Mr....

Premier, made at a political banquet, attended by the whole of the Government and a great number of Deputies and Senators, an important statement as to Italy's policy. Italy's...

Habitation of the Primrose League. The passage of chief importance was that in which he drew attention to the necessity for maintaining the strength of the Navy. We must be...

at Preston. After noting that the country had suffered from a famine of discussion, rather than, as Mr. Gladstone complained, from a famine of legislation, he welcomed the...

necessary to modify its ideas on the subject of corporal punishment. It hoped, we believe, once to do without it altogether, and that hope proving illusory, it entrusted the...

Lauder Brunton, and Malcolm M. McHardy, the th.•ee doctors attending Dr. Herz, draws attention to the position in which their patient is placed by the operation of the...

scandal of the Gladstonians, to demand that some of the magnificent abstractions floated by them shall be reduced to cash down. On Monday, Sir Charles Russell met in Hackney...

Wales Property Defence Association, gave evidence before the Welsh Land Commission. He denied most emphatically the suggestion, " made in a question in the syllabus of the...

Bedford, presided over by the Duke of Bedford. After hurling at the head of Mr. Whitbread, the sitting Member for the town, a series of extracts from the Spectator, Lord...

New Consols (21 1 ) were on Friday 98i.

revised Belgian Constitution, under which power will pass from 140,000 privileged electors to 1,200,000 citizens, and in which has been inserted a check never before attempted...

THE SERIOUS SIDE OF THE FRENCH FJiTES. W E cannot help thinking that Punch, often as sharp- sighted as most humorists are, is this week gravely in error, and that the reception...

speech of Tuesday in Glasgow consists in the light it throws on his own character and views. He is supposed, it is true, to have made an important statement about next Session ;...

was read by Mr. Blake at the Irish-Day Celebration at the World's Fair, and which has only this week found its way into the English papers, is interesting, if for no other...

W E have no parti pris on the Welsh Land Question,— unless a general belief that two and two make four and not any more, and that the best way to prevent men making improvident...

WHY is Italy so poor ? Her land is among the most productive in the world, and her climate on the whole is healthy and temperate. In other words, it is never too hot or too cold...

completed by the revisers but not yet circulated, reveals, we are told, a fact which may prove of the highest political—and is certainly of the highest intellectual—interest....

parish schools and parish rooms there can, we think, be no doubt whatever as to the intention of the Government. They have invariably treated the Parish Councils Bill as in...

treat the accusation of cruelty in their way of It is not always easy to get an amending Bill passed, and killing animals for food as a new mode of persecution. It is in the...

as volunteers which is among the minor embarrassments of the Colonial Department whenever there is the slightest prospect of active service, has been diverted to the offices of...

is as fond of abstract resolutions as old women are of poultices. They have an unshakable belief in the soothing effect of the outward application to the body politic of a...

MIRACLES. [To Tea EDITOR. OF TICE SPECTATOIL"] Sria,—As your correspondents have failed to apprehend my explanation of the origin of the miraculous story about Mal- ohus's ear,...

[To THE EDITOR Or TIII0 SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I must question the accuracy of " G. P. W.'s " state- ment, in the Spectator of October 14th, on the subject of "Dreams and Smelling." I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR," J STE, — Your correspondent, " F. C.," in the Spectator of August 26th, refers to the singular fancy which sparrows occasionally betray for...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SpEcTsmon. " 3 SIR, — It seems to me that the statement in one of your notes in the Spectator of October 14th, in which you assert that all the arts are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sia,—In the interesting article on the coal crisis in the Spectator of October 14th, it is implied that a small rise in the price of coal...

LIFE OF DR. PUSEY.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THIS first instalment of the long-expected Life of Dr. Pusey will have for the student of the great religious revival known as the Oxford...

RAPPROCHEMENT. SA.Y the followers of the Rights of Man, " One man, one vote" is the only plan ; Says the Czar of Russia, I quite agree, " Ore man, one vote " is the plan for me.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ",.SPECTATOR." Sin,—In the Spectator of October 14th you mention that the new volume of the " Cabinet Portrait Gallery " contains a portrait of Mr. W....

MR. SELOUS could hardly have better served the cause which he has so much at heart, and for which he has done and is now doing so much active work in the field, than by the pub-...

work must be regarded as another addition to the collection of literature which has risen from the ashes of Carlyle, and been, generally speaking, brought to the surface by the...

M. DE LA SIEERANNE'S touching book is not merely written to interest those who care for the blind philanthropically ; it is full of general and curious information, is even, in...

than want a spirit," might have supplied a maxim for the decision to include Clive among the Rulers of India, in this series of Indian Historical Retrospects, of which Sir...

ordinary sense of the word, for he was among the most blameless of men, but from what Mrs. Oliphant calls the " whirlwinds and tempest of thought" which swept over his soul....

and Co.)—Miss Hone tells us a number of stories, more or less familiar, about the way in which women have made them- selves useful or famous, and sometimes both, in literature,...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Orchid-Seekers in Borneo. By Ashmore Russan and Frederic Boyle. (Chapman and Hall.)—It is rarely we find botany and adventure combined in so interesting a...

and Downey.)—This tale of adventure continues the story of some characters who have appeared in " The Rajah of Monkey Island." This fact the author takes care to remind us of...

Translated by B. Nisbet Bain, Illustrated by R. Weguelin. (Lawrence and Sullen.) — Mr. Bain gives a short biography of Andersen, quite free, it must be allowed, from any...

Son.)—This a pretty story of a musical foundling who becomes one of the family who adopt her, and tries to forget her birth and ignore the presence of a devoted half-brother....

Anderson, and Ferrier.)—If this is a beginning—and we do not remember to have seen the name of " Maggie Swan " before—it is distinctly a promising one. The heroine, Effie, is...

K.)—Mrs. Molesworth is writing bore for very young readers, and is at her best. The eight stories are as good of their kind as they well can be. What are we to say of the young...

of Word Christmas Cards, varying in price from sixpence to a penny. All seem to be well worth the money, the cheapest being, perhaps, the most conspicuously so. It would not be...