National Liberal Club, by the Scottish Liberal Members. In replying to the toast of his health, he declared that he would have nothing to do with any solution of the Irish...

-of these modifications, and in Sir William Harcourt's and Mr. Labonchere's bitter taunts on the Government for their change of front. Mr. Parnell, however, was very adroit. He...

House of Lords on Monday, and is now the law of the land. The speech of the evening was Lord Selborne's. He maintained boldly that if Ireland is to remain in any way connected...

W. H. Smith proposing to move Dr. Tanner's suspension for a month, but Dr. Tanner was not in attendance. Mr. Gladstone, speaking of Dr. Tanner's offence in the gravest way,...

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some length on the immense advantages to Scotland and Wales of the great extension of the Home-role movement there which he expected to arise out of the long resistance to his...

of the House of Commons. This is Mr. Long's own account of the affair :—" I had no intention whatever of offering the hon. Member any offence, or of wounding his feelings, or of...

TrIHE Conservative meeting at the Carlton Club on Tuesday was a very important one. Lord Salisbury, in his address, explained that the Government is more or less dependent on a...

Prince Ferdinand is evidently determined not to accept the offer of the Sobranje without the unanimous assent of the Powers, and this he seems unlikely to obtain, since Russia...

not so much the violence which he objected to; as the fact that Mr. Davitt's speech showed a division in the ranks of the Irish Party. "I trust," he concluded, "that we shall in...

Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal Party in terms which should be set off against the terms in which he vituperated them before the Election of 1885. These praises should be...

the polls, and the ..lonatituencies were to reverse the judgment of 1886, the result would be that the British Government would rank among the most unstable of Governments for...

16th, Mr. Devitt gave expression to perhaps the most violent and outrageous encouragement of lawlessness yet made use of by the Nationalist leaders. The first evictions had been...

at the dinner given to Mr. Parnell on Wednesday by certain Liberal Members of Parliament, Mr. Dillwyn in the chair. Not a single official or semi-official Liberal was present....

Palace last Saturday, to the Metropolitan Union of Conserva- tive and Constitutional Associations, which reads now as if the speaker had been to some extent overruled by his...

that Monsignor Persico is entirely in the hands of Archbishop Walsh. Very properly, he went first to the house of the Arch- bishop of Dublin, for the etiquettes of the Roman...

the vote for the Dockyards to make a detailed attack upon the waste and improvidence connected with the administration of the Dockyards. His analysis went to show that £700,000...

in the Times three months ago, proves, now that the details are known, in no way to have truly represented their beauty or interest. Four sepulchral chambers were found, each...

Russo. Afghan line of delimitation is at length agreed upon. Afghanistan restores to the Saryk Turcomans certain aide valleys radiating from Penjdeh, while Russia acknowledges...

had been killed in a combat with the natives,—a great blow to Emin Pasha if it be true. There is, however, very little reason to attach credit to the rumour. Mr. Stanley had...

1,988. Sir J. M'Garel Hogg, a very popular candidate, who was returned unopposed in 1886, obtained in 1885 a majority of only 1,320 over Lord Kensington, so that the majority...

Exchequer's strictures was conceived in a thoroughly reasonable vein. He by no means attempted to defend the Admiralty in the usual spirit of official pedantry, though,...

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of the Government, but with reduced majorities in the case of Brixton and the Basingstoke Division of Hampshire, while at Ramsey they have greatly improved their poll as...

from General Boulanger, stating his determination to do his duty "in spite of hatreds and defections." It is enough for him, he says, to remain with those "who want to see a...

N OTHING gives lees satisfaction to politicians in discussing the personalities of politics than the truth. By those who enthusiastically support Mr. Glaclatone's policy,...

THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR CONCESSIONS. ItT THIERS'S somewhat pathetic expression for the .1‘./. • French Republic—" the form of government which divides ns least,"—often recurs...

W E greatly fear that the Prince-Elect of Bulgaria has made a great mistake in not hastening to Sofia after his election, and there waiting the decision of the Powers. This is...

I N his speech at the National Liberal Club on Saturday last, Mr. Gladstone made a statement as to the effect of the Crimes Bill which he has made on several previous occasions....

T HE harvest which is about to be gathered in will be one of unusually striking contrasts. On one side will be seen splendid abundance, and on the other miserable scarcity ;...

I F the Opposition attempt to make much capital out of Sir H. D. Wolff's return without obtaining the ratification of the Anglo-Turkish Convention, they will be ill-advised....

I N the seventeenth of the "Oxford House Papers," by the help of which the Oxford House at Bethnal Green is endeavouring to explain its view of Christian teaching to those with...

T HAOKERAY, in his "Paris Sketch-Book," has analysed -I- with the utmost force and point the manner in which a great murder-trial is conducted in France. He shows how, from the...

I T seems strange that Loch Mame, which in Scotland is most justly styled the " Queen of Scottish lochs," is so little known. Since 1877, when, as a memorial-stone records, the...

Bra, That article in the Spectator of July 16th on "The Irish Land Bill" threatens to break up our friendship of thirty years It used to be a real pleasure to read the "other...

SCOTTISH CENTBIFUGALISM. [To raz F.Drros or urn .[frscrszoz."] Brit,—Your correspondent, "A Liberal Elector," assumes to speak for the people of Scotland, Conservative as well...

go THE EDITOIL or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sur,—It is so often alleged that Irish landlords as a class habitually exacted rack.rente, Lord Denbigh even, in his epee,* in the House of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 4. SPECTAT012."] Sia,—My opponent on " The Flight of the Albatross " says that I alone am responsible for the assertion that the albatross " can fly in...

[To Till EDITOR 07 'rill SeseTLTon."] Sra,—Your article in the Spectator of July 16th has much interested me. In it, though to some extent you have put the finger on the weak...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SrscrATes."] SIR,—The reviewer of Prebendary Row on " Future Retribu- tion," in the Spectator for July 16th, observes :—" We cannot say that the various...

[To rue Homo or TER .Srsorrros."] SIR,—Can you find room for a few words upon a matter of considerable public interest, the unexplained delay which has occurred in dealing with...

[To TITS EDITOR OP TEM "SPECTAT08.1 SIE,—Your article on this case appears to me to rest on a misconception of the principle on which the Court of Appeal proceeded. You argue...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER SPECTATOR." I Slit, —Will you allow me, while thanking you for the friendly tone of your article on the meeting at the Drapers' Hall to advocate the...

the Spectator of July 16th seems calculated to mislead those whose sole information on the work of training for higher-grade teachers in England is derived from it. May I, then,...

PROFESSOR JEBB'S "HOMER."* This admirable little book needs no eulogy. IrlospOs /343Ttoy Istyx. siva ( Ur is the salutary truth which it confirms ; and we shall waste no words...

CrO TSB EDITOR Os THR .. E3PRCTATOE:1 SIR,—We beg to call your attention to a slight inaccuracy in your issue of July 9th. In reviewing "Land in Fetters," by T. E. Scrutton, p....

SIR,—You will, I am sure, be glad to learn that one statement in the article "Pedagogy," which appeared in the Spectator of July 16th, is incorrect. Yoa say of the Maria Grey...

" PATRIOTISK " is a term to which such a narrow signification, not to say misinterpretation, is frequently lent, that many persons might accuse M. Daryl of a want of patriotic...

WE do not think the " Society for Psychical Research " receive half the credit that they deserve for their industrious, patient, and moat candid. series of investigations. Those...

Mits. Mar, better known to the reading public as Mills Georgiana Craik, though not a great artist, has always shown herself a true artist ; but we doubt whether she has ever...

THE reproduction by the Fine Art Society of the line-engravings after Turner of the series best known as " The Rivers of France," shows, at all events on the part of the...

sure to arouse adverse criticism, and when one small volume contains two distinct stories, both without plan and very slightly related to each other, it requires many good...

TWIOR in our literary history England has been a "nest of singing-birds." It was so in the sixteenth century, it is so now. Of second-rate Elizabethan poetry comparatively...

writes the less ambitious of the two books we have bracketed together, and who is the • (1.) Sport, and Anecdotes of Bygone Days. By C. T. S. Birch Beynardson. London Chapman...

by George Lawrence Gomme. (Elliot Stock.)—The notes (extending over nearly a century and a half) are arranged topographically, under the beads, first of counties, then of...

German by John Hill. (Ward and Downey.)—" We require another Franco-German war," frankly says the author of this treatise, and he is, of course, anxious that the war should take...

is a volume of the series "Great Writers," now appearing under the care of Professor Eric Robertson. We are inclined to think that, considering its subject, it appears too soon....

Cloud and Sunshine. By Georges Ohnet. Translated by Mrs. Helen Stott. (Vizetelly and Co.)—These two love-stories are described by the titles which they respectively bear. In the...

Done into English by William Arlington, with a Discourse on the Fable by Andrew Lang. (David Nutt.)—Mr. Istag's "discourse" deals, of course, with the subject of comparative...

Mr. Henry James's powerful novel on the Nihilists, The Princess Casamassima (Macmillan and Co.), which we reviewed not long ago in the's° columns with much appreciation.

Chelmsford.)—This book deals with what may be called one of the by-ways of history. The signs, carious, and often, it would seem, meaningless, which used to appear on every...

the original MS. by Henry Stevens, of Vermont. With Introduction by Sir George Birdwood. (Harry Stevens and Son.)—This volume con- tains the early records of the East India...

of David Selvagni by Fanny McLaughlin. Vol. III. (Elliot Stock.) —We have noticed the earlier volumes of this work, and need only say of that now before us, that it contains an...

by the Rev. John Brown. (Hodder and Stoughton.)

Rev. C. Swainson. (Elliot Stook.)—This is, as may readily be supposed, a book fall of =km, information. Such articles as " The Raven," "The Swallow," "The Robin Redbreast," may...

E. T. Millington, and completed by Margaret Stokes. 2 vols. (Bell and Sons.)—This elaborate work, which, left unfinished by its author, owes very much to the completing hand of...

(T. Fisher trnwin.)—This is a terribly interesting book. Mr. Horsley has had many opportunities of observing the causes and developments of crime, and he gives the results of...