NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE great French Election, the most important in its possible results of our time, comes off to-morrow, and as yet there is no disturbance whatever in France....

for an alliance between Servia and Montenegro, such as preceded the Turkish War in 1876. The object of the Russian Government in promoting this alliance is, it is believed in...

to the propriety of the Emperor being crowned King of Bohemia. This would be Home-rule for Bohemia, as the separate king- dom must have a separate Parliament and a Ministry of...

at Huddersfield on Tuesday, Lord Selborne made a speech which, if it contained nothing very new, was full of the good sense and moderation which the public always expects from...

a great popular gathering in the Huddersfield Town Hall. The backbone of his speech was an appeal, not to the followers of Mr. Labouchere, who are "mere mischief-makers," or of...

any case.

remarkable for the heartiness with which he endorsed Lord Hartington's expression of belief that the Unionists and Conservatives must ultimately be fused into a National Party,...

derous Secret Societies meet with a short-shrift. Thirty years ago the Chinese Secret Societies of Sarawak nearly destroyed Rajah Brooke, and compelled him to appeal to the Dyak...

men's terms of pay, 6d. an hour for day work and 8d. an hour for overtime, from November 4th. Work recommenced on Monday; but very few hands were at first required, and the...

a reasonable compromise. The Government of Bombay had promised immunity to such native officials as gave evidence, but when they accused themselves of giving bribes, the Supreme...

cotton. A Jew speculator in Liverpool, aided by some active brokers, has contracted for all the cotton to arrive, and in a few weeks will be owner of the whole of the staple...

in Thursday's Times, shows the complete change that has come over that country since the opening of the gold-mines. Ten years ago the Boer Republic was a community as primitive...

paper on " Insurance " on Tuesday, before the British Association, which contains some facts of interest. He declared that an annuity of 5s. a week, payable from sixty-five...

persuade the British Association that our ancestors were not Saxons but Scandinavians, and that we have, therefore, no right to regard ourselves as one of the Teutonic races....

a reply to the address of the Newcastle Trades' Council, contained an interesting defence of the naturalist, who Professor Huxley once declared was looked on by the world at...

men's meeting of the British Association last Saturday evening is very striking. In effect, the engineers have stretched six horizontal Eiffel towers, at a height of 370 ft....

a banquet given him on Thursday, took occasion to point out the utter impartiality with which the Empire bestowed its patronage. At this moment, India was governed by an...

has, on behalf of the Metropolitan Railway Company, offered the manager of the Water-Railway a piece of ground near London on which to lay down a line two miles in length. We...

has decided that Marshal Nagle, who shot Mr. Terry for striking Judge Field, was legally justified in his act, the Judge whom he was appointed to protect being legally, even...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 96-i to 97.

THE GREAT FRENCH ELECTION. B EFORE our next issue appears the great French election, upon which so much depends in the imme- diate future, will have come and gone, and Europe...

the reign of law has been established in Ireland, there is a tendency among a certain class of minds to be fascinated by the glittering fictions and sophistries that are...

I F the new Liberals are really represented by Mr. W. T. Stead in his paper on "The Liberalism of To-morrow," in this month's issue of the Universal Review, their faith is of an...

'E VERY one who speaks or writes just now admits that the Tories have become liberalised, and that there exists no longer - anywhere an English party of absolute resistance to...

relieve Bulgaria, in some degree, from the irritating and menacing pressure exerted by the unexplained armament of Servia. It seems that M. Stambouloff recently said to Reshid...

semi- patriotic offence which many persons in England believe it to be, chiefly on the evidence of the Times corre- spondent, who is obviously strongly prejudiced against...

O N and after October . 30th, fathers of families through- out the Metropolis will find themselves, in regard. to the health of their households, under a new series of statutory...

in a carefully drawn. up monograph on the Subject, that the majority of University students, and, indeed, of all educated lads in Germany, were living in a dream. They all...

B ECATJSE we in England feel a momentary pressure of population, or because it is possible to calculate the time at which our own coal, iron, lead, and copper will be exhausted,...

F LORIDA is a sub-tropical Netherlands—without the dykes—so flat that, at an altitude of two or three thousand feet, and with a good glass, one might survey the entire peninsula...

THE DIVINING-ROD. ABOUT a quarter of a century ago, I had the chance of seeing some experiments in the search for water by the use , of "the divining-rod" on a thirsty stretch...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Permit me to state a fact which confirms Mr. Booth's statement as to the proportion of the increase of the popula- tion of London,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In a recent number of the Spectator there appeared a letter from your correspondent "C?' referring to my "Fish Farms." I think that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—You will be inundated with specimens of ingenious translations. Is this one good enough for insertion ? "Own grano salis ;" "With a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,— " ' Pardon me, Sir : I am the dependent minister of an Independent congregation" (Spectator, September 14th, p. 334, col. 2, line 15...

CASTE AND RAILWAYS. pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 am surprised to read in the Spectator of September 15th, that "Caste has survived, and will survive, the creation of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The accompanying Sapphics are, I venture to think, worthy of insertion. They are, I believe, part of an original copy of verses by an...

A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION.* OF the many books called into being by the centenary of the French Revolution, Mr. Lilly has written one of the most striking. His book is a study of...

IN his Men and Measures of Half-a-Century, Mr. Hugh M'Ctilloch shows us the actual working of some • of those American institutions which Mr. Bryce has so ably and elaborately...

this edition of his famous Bampton Lectures Dr. Liddon has made some caustic criticism on the "New Reformation," which Mrs. Humphry Ward offers as a sub- stitute for historical...

Mn. CRAWFORD'S stories are always interesting and well told. As we have remarked before, he is a first-rate story-teller, and Sant' Ilario is likely to be quite as popular as...

THE author of Auld Licht Idylls showed such a genuine—and above all such a genuinely Scotch—literary faculty, that its admirers have been naturally on the outlook for something...

profoundly practical subject, so practical, indeed, that one is inclined to doubt at first whether much good is likely to come of writing books about it. The breeding and...

and Downey), makes an excellent gift-book for a boy with a turn for science. It retells in a pleasant, but not too day-nurseryish style, various tolerably familiar stories, such...

into the hands of a promising boy. It contains stories of excep- tional bravery, essentially of the civilian sort, from the year 1837, when the Queen ascended the throne, to the...

Cork pub- lisher, it describes fully, not too rhetorically, and, so far as we have been able to test it, accurately, the beautiful scenery, antiquities, &c., of the South of...

mans, Green, and Co.)—This is a terribly earnest yet somewhat grotesque attempt by a very patriotic Welshman to strike a blow at sectarianism, bard drinking, payment by...

Essays Towards a Critical Method. By John W. Robertson. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—It is to be feared that Mr. Robertson's effort to promote "scientific criticism" is not likely to be...

series of penny biographical tracts published by the Religious Tract Society, but the issue of a special number, containing the Biographies of the Reformers — Luther, Calvin,...

(Oliphant, Ander- son, and Ferrier, Edinburgh), is a pretty and pathetic rather than powerful Scotch story with a purpose. A little waif of a boy, in whom and whose natural...

Blackett.)—This is an enjoyable and well-constructed story, but it strikes us as, coming from Mrs. Hodgson Burnett, somewhat of a tour de force. She is capable, unquestionably,...

who has edited the Portfolio since its foundation, now nearly twenty years ago (to be exact, it completes its twentieth year next December), has here collected some papers...

contains preliminary sections on syntax, idioms, style, &c., followed by 160 extracts, graduated as to difficulty. Suggestions are made for the rendering of expressions for...

Mr. H. 0. Araold-Forster's Citizen. Reader (Cassell and Co.), by the fact that, although it was originally published immediately after the passing of the last Franchise Act, it...

bearing the title of "The Dawn of European Literature." Motiere's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme." Edited, with Life of Moliere and Grammatical and Philological Notes, by the Rev. A....

Strong is a pleasantly written book, showing literary taste and feeling, and free, in consequence, from many defects which are too common in novels of the present day. The book...

object," says the author, "has been to produce a work which should be as thoroughly representative of the present state of the logic of the Oxford Schools as any of the...

College, Poona, has followed up his edition of Bacon's "Advance- ment of Learning" with a reissue (Macmillan and Co.), of the Essays, based on the text of 1625. It is intended...

J. Ellicott, D.D. (Longmans.)—The carefulness and accuracy of Dr. Ellicott's work is well known. He states, and in a way apologises for, his specialty in the following passage...

Guides." Their arrival is somewhat late in the season, but not, we hope, altogether for this notice of them to be of some service. All have to do with Scotland, and deal...

the Rev. George Coulson Workman, M.A. With Introductory Notice by Professor Franz Delitzsch, D.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edin- burgh.)—This is a critical investigation of the Greek...