England and the great houses was expected to terminate the crisis, but it did not. The London banks are weak, large sums having been advanced to industrial undertakings and to...

T HE last ten days have been marked by an excitement in the City which has twice almost reached the proportions of a Teat panic. It had been for some time whispered about that...

Friday and Saturday of last week. On Friday week, he showed that Mr. Gladstone had greatly overstated the case in relation to the Scotch Parliamentary vote in favour of Scotch...

case.

loss to the House, and the great impulse to the policy of obstruction, caused by Mr. Gladstone's necessary absence in most of the wearisome debates in which obstruction chiefly...

cede Free Education this Session. Mr. W. Long, Secretary to the Local Government Board, made this statement at Devizes on Thursday, making only the reserves that there must be a...

some Of the Members who take up most of the time of the House might be reduced to silence by a rule which would finally close their mouths after they had incurred the...

he had never said that he should be willing to concede Home-rule for Scotland any more than for Ireland, since he thought it altogether a retrograde and mischievous step ; but...

Crimes Act ended on Wednesay, when the Magis- trates sentenced Mr. Dillon, Mr. William O'Brien, and Mr. Patrick O'Brien to six months' simple imprisonment, four other defendants...

Party. It was the full belief of Mr. Parnell's followers in England, and of some of them in Ireland, that the divorce suit instituted by Captain O'Shea against him would break...

have no alternative leader to bring forward, are expressing themselves everywhere as determined to continue their confidence in Mr. Parnell, and the Catholic Bishops, who ought...

introduced to the meeting as the new Lord Rector of Edin- burgh University, replied to the taunts brought against the Government for not bringing in its promised Bill for local...

on the subject of the Union, it is clear that the Universities of Scotland are heartily Unionist. On Saturday, Edinburgh elected Mr. Goschen Lord Rector by 1,378 votes over 805...

nesday, and laid down general principles on which he thought it would be possible for electors who do not know how to meet the details of the charges brought against the Irish...

covery for the cure of consumption, and doctors and patients are hurrying to Berlin from every part of Europe, and even from America. He has published an account of his method,...

right of Irishmen to combine, Mr. Balfour asked if it were likely that the party which has done most for the English workmen's right to combine would attack the Irish...

The Indian Department, or rather its agents, have for years past treated the Indians infamously, driving them into reservations too small for hunting tribes, allowing white men...

Mr. John Morley at Sheffield, in which he discussed State intervention between capital and labour, and told Mr. Balfour that a Parliament on College Green is the only effective...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 941 to 95.

Police, General Michael Seliverskoff having on Wed- nesday been found murdered in his rooms in Paris. He was head of the Secret Police in 1878, and was noted for severity so...

is believed, be enabled to start his plan for the redemption of the London residuum. In two meetings held in London this week, he informed his audiences that he had received...

MR. PARNELL'S POSITION. T HE result of the divorce suit in which Mr. Parnell has been the co-respondent, will very justly diminish the kind of popularity which he has gained in...

T HE Bank of England has displayed sense and spirit this week, though also it may have displayed audacity. As we understand the many accounts published, the great house of...

W E suppose it is impossible to convince the Glad- stonian electors that the heart of the Unionist Party, so far from being anti-Irish, is very genuinely set upon promoting the...

moral impossi- bility of the hideous crime of which the late Mr. Jameson stands accused, that we think it necessary to mention prominently the new evidence which has appeared...

W E suppose, from some figures given elsewhere, that General Booth will get the money he asks—that is, £100,000 down, and £30,000 a year so long as his experi- ment succeeds—and...

O UR English Municipalities are singularly free from corruption, no instance of the direct bribery of 'popular representatives ever occurring. But if not corrupt, ' , they are...

Party in France goes steadily forward, in spite of the many difficulties with which the process is necessarily attended. Indeed, these difficulties promise to count for less...

T HE first interest of Dr. Koch's discovery consists, for us, in the extraordinary sensation it has caused. The German people, both at home and in Austria, seem to be all agog...

T HE recurring discussion on the relation of domestic servants to their employers, of which an example has lately been given us in the magazines, even when it elicits nothing...

W E have not much reason to be proud of the new journalism that is flourishing among us at home, but at least we may congratulate ourselves that it has not yet reached the pitch...

T HE addition of a conscientious and sympathetic worker to the ranks of British animal-painters is always welcome ; and the interesting, if unequal, sketches in pastel by Mr....

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Six, Having read in the Spectator of November 15th, I confess with astonishment, your verdict of Mr. Stanley, in the article on the sad...

LIABILITY FOR MURDERS COMMITTED ABROAD. [To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—The article on " The African Horrors," in your issue of the 15th inst., reads as though it may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPIICTATOR."1 Six,—I crave a small portion of your apace to express my demurral as well to the reasoning as to the accuracy of " A Churchman," who...

ITO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...1 Siu,—In an article entitled " Radicalism and Revelation," in the Spectator of November 15th, some observations are made which, as a regular...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your remarks in the Spectator of November 1st on poetical misquotations might receive illustration from a contemporary (Saturday...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The sentence in your issue of November 15th (p. 669), "Even Mr. Bonny accuses himself of selling Negro women for food, amid much...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The interesting article on " The Soaring of Birds," in the Spectator of November 8th, brings to my memory an incident which I witnessed...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It was the intention of the Legislature, in passing the Act introduced by Sir John Lubbock in 1882, called " The Ancient Monuments...

ARTS AND CRAFTS. 'THERE exists in the ritual of the Presbyterian Churches a form known as "Fencing the Tables." By it the sinful and thoughtless are warned away from the...

IRELAND'S APPEAL. PEOPLE of England! the question confronts you— You have to settle the Irishman's fate : Will you abandon your friends to your foemen ?— Fling them a prey to...

SAINTE-BEUT E.* SECOND NOTICE.] FROM Lausanne, after a journey in Italy, in which he was haunted by spectres of his own rather than of her past, Sainte-Beuve returned, not to...

read by young people for the sake of the story, and by older people for the sake of the picture which they give so pleasantly and so vividly of all that is known of the social...

To the general reader, the titles, and indeed the contents, of works like this of Mr. Ryland's cannot be described as volup- tuously seductive ; yet there is a sense in which...

five and six 'thousand epigrams. There are the two collections known as the Palatine and the Planudian Anthologies, from which we get, in round numbers, about four thousand....

A PRESENTMENT of humanity as it develops itself amongst the exigences and surroundings of existence at the Antipodes, is necessarily a welcome and refreshing change to jaded...

and Welsh.)—This is not quite so ambitious a story as some that Mr. Manville Fenn has written, and perhaps it would be using language of exaggerated eulogy to describe it as a...

curious story of two children that are adopted by the wife of a prosperous solicitor who is described as " a splendid little woman, just such a woman as a husband can praise at...

is a pretty little story of how two girls, with the Tenny- sonian and Cornish names of Iseult and Joan, bring happiness to their somewhat aristocratic relatives and their humble...

and Welsh.)—This is a good public-school story, which runs on almost too conventional lines. It gives the familiar weakish or susceptible boy, Owen, who is pulled one way by his...

GIFT-BOOKS. A Southern Cross Fairy-Tale. By Kate McCosh Clark. (Samp- son Low.)—In this sumptuous gift-book, we have Santa Klaus at the Antipodes, introducing a little boy and...

costume beyond what can be easily managed in most homes." At the same time, he has provided the opportunity for making thesis more elaborate, if circumstances should permit....

aim of the author of this work, who is a Yorkshire clergyman, is an excellent one ; it is, indeed, a good deal better than his performance. It is "to take a humble part with...

S. Turner. (F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Turner, by the exercise of much industry and ingenuity, has collected so many quotations of all kinds about horses as to furnish a motto for...

(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The " others " include a most dis- tinguished company of writers for the young. Mrs Emma Marshall, Mrs. L. T. Meade, G. Manville Fenn, and Edward...

will probably be known to most of our readers. But we may remind them that the familiar "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "The White Cat," and the like are not among them. The stories...

Co.) has many attractions, literary as well ae artistic. The principal pictures are twelve photogravures or etchings. It would not be easy to pick out from these the best, but...

the moral of which is to all intents and purposes conveyed by the title. The only fault to be found with the story is its length. The " spoilt twins," Eric and Hilda, who have...

and the Sunday at Home. (Religious Tract Society.)—The chief serial tale of the Leisure Hour is " Senior and Junior," by Leslie Keith. This has been running through the whole...

Co.) —This story has a somewhat complicated and not very probable plot. We wonder how many well•authenticated cases there are on record of children having been stolen. Perhaps...

time by a curate- in-charge, a soft-spoken gentleman, who makes himself a great favourite by the unction of his demeanour. Really he is a hard rider, only that he disguises his...

Edited by Dr. Barnardo. (J. F. Shaw.)—We always welcome this magazine, both for its own sake and for the sake of the good work with which it is connected, and which finds notice...

fear for the lady who ventures on the terra incognita of schoolboy life. On the whole, Miss Goddard contrives to avoid its pitfalls pretty well. Her hero, Philip, is caned for...

M. Stanley (Dorothy Tennant). (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)— These are about as pretty and well-told stories of their kind as we have ever seen. It is difficult to say which of...

Son.) —Alexandria is the nominal scene of action in this story, as New Zealand is in that which has just been noticed. And again we are delayed considerably on our journey...

well drawn. At the same time, it is not quite to our taste. We fear that the children will find some parts, at least, of it somewhat hard to understand. And then we must own...

Low and Co.)—This is a humorous story of how Andy An Irish Midsummer Night's Dream. By John Bickerdyke, M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a humorous story of how Andy Allan, a...

lJnwin.)— The "Heart of Sheba" is the Queen of that country of whom the Hebrew Historian tells us. She pays a visit to King Shel8m8h (Solomon), falls in love with him, as the...

must be allowed that there is a good deal of " padding" in this story. We are nearly half-way through the book before Mr. Renshaw and his family are permitted to land in New...

Rev. A. D. Crake, B.A. (Printed at Holy Trinity Convent, Oxford.)— These stories, the work of a writer whose premature death was a great loss to the cause of wholesome...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Colonel Spalding makes eight epochs, beginning with the Commonwealth (for, as he remarks, "though the British Army dates from the Restoration, several of...

new novel, Mr. Manville Fenn sets himself to be humorous rather than melodramatic, and meets with a fair amount of success. Certainly Lord Barmouth, the most henpecked of...

A Selection of the Oxford Series of Christmas Cards. These are all, we need hardly say, of the serious kind. Many are photographs of famous pictures, accompanied with...

marvels of the typographic kind with which printers occasionally astonish us. We cannot honestly say that we should like to read out of it; but then there are eyes and eyes. The...

and Son.)—This is an excellent contribution to the admirable series of "Science Ladders" to which it belongs. It is not conspicuous for originality—indeed, it makes no pretence...

Williams. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This book is one of the "Young Collector" series. It is published in a shilling form, with an astonishing number of figures for the price....

and Co.), we have three, The Book of Birds, The Book of Beasts, The Book of Fishes, all by E. C. Phillips (Mrs. Horace B. Locker). All are meritorious in their way, the...

Allen and Co.)—Mr. Dixon is an expert in all that concerns birds. He begins by letting us into the secret of his knowledge, which, indeed, is nothing more or less than the habit...

a daily text, notes on the months, with a variety of useful information (Religious Tract Society) ; and the Religious Tract Society's Pocket-Book and Scripture Calendar, with...

and Windus.)—It is hardly possible not to believe that Mr. Sims was laughing in his sleeve when he wrote this story, and that he means it to be the reductio ad absurdum of...