THE financial crisis was brought up in the French Chamber on Thursday in a rather curious way. No impartial man can doubt that the Government, in persuading the Bank of France...

calls itself the Radical Committee, has for recognised leader Mr. Labouchere, comprises from forty to fifty Radical Members, and will set itself specially to organise "set...

thoroughly as possible was carried out by Sir W. Harcourt on Wednesday, in reference to Dr. Barr, the medical inspector of the Liverpool Prison, who gave evidence which so...

the alleged omission by the Times' report of Mr. Matthews's expression, in relation to the inquiry held before Sir James Hannen's Com- mission, of the word " State " from the...

Parisian populace suspects both the Ministry and the Chamber of "undue subservience to financial interests "—that is. in plain English, of corruption—and the Boulangists are...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 30th, will be issued, -gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages -of which will be devoted to Adi:ertiselnints....

Lord Rosebery made an interesting speech to " the County Council of the administrative County of London" on March 21st, the day on which it took over the duties and rights of...

Club at Watford, and made a speech in the evening at a dinner in the Agricultural Hall, in which he repudiated with some warmth the charge that the Govern- ment had any interest...

by Mr. Morley and Sir William Harcourt ; but the more it is studied, the more clearly it will be seen that there is really no case at all to be made against them for offering...

if Mr. Beaufoy can properly be called a Gladstonian. He came in by a majority of 630 (4,069, against 3,439 for Mr. Beresford-Hope), whereas in 1886 Mr. Beaufoy was defeated by a...

Holloway Hall, North Islington, in which he was wild enough to say that the Liberal Party was being reorganised " under the pressure of the most Tory Government that the country...

lame attempt to fasten on Lord Hartington responsibility for what Lord Hartington has absolutely disavowed,—the assertion of the authenticity of the forged letters attributed by...

Vienna, whence, after depositing the bulk of his private property, he will, it is believed, proceed to Spain. He intended, it is said, to live in Constantinople, but was warned...

a little perplexing. On the 18th inst., seventeen elections to the Municipal Council were held, and eleven Councillors were returned avowedly as anti-Semites. There are now no...

of Dublin, who resigned his seat a few days ago because a vote of censure had been passed on him and on two other Unionists for attending the dinner to Mr. Balfour, has been...

saying that, while he approved its principle, he did not approve its method. If they were to expel any Peer con- victed of malpractice, they would have to recognise the Jockey...

more openly than usuaL On Wednesday, a deputation from them waited on the President to say that they had not at all approved of Mr. Phelps, and wished for a Minister not likely...

February 11th, the 2,548th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the dynasty, has at length arrived, and shows that the Constitution is the English one, with some...

of a new Post-Office in Birmingham, stating that within the last twenty years,—since 1870,—the number of letters delivered in Birmingham had more than trebled, while the...

its correspondent in St. Petersburg. It con- tains a statement, worded with a sort of official care, that the Servian revolution will have less effect in Russia than is...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 97i to 98.

THE NEW FOURTH PARTY. T HE more extreme English Radicals, dissatisfied with the tactics of Mr. Gladstone, who never can forget that the Queen's Government must be carried on,...

I there were such a rarity as a really " detached " but -L. vigilant observer of political life,--but that is a region in which " detachment ' is apt to degenerate into in-...

W E do not apologise for recurring so often to the steps of General Boulanger's progress, for his success or failure involves the whole immediate future of the Con- tinent, and...

T ORD ROSEBERY speaks with the utmost hopeful- ) ness, we may almost say, with the utmost optimism, of the career which the London County Council is just commencing ; and though...

M R. BEAUFOY, the newly elected Member for Kennington, tells an interviewer that he owes his return for that borough at least as much to his support of the Eight-Hours Day as to...

" W E are all Liberals now," has become a common- place at Conservative gatherings. That the phrase is no mere rhetorical flourish, but expresses an actual fact, no further...

a Coal Syndicate ? Certainly syndi- cates are in fashion, and the warning conveyed by the collapse of the Copper Ring has little or no applica- tion to coal. Copper is almost...

T AXES THOMSON, the author of "The City of Dreadful Night," the only English poet of Despair, the " Dante in delirium," as we called him fifteen years ago, and should call him...

I) R. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, in the interesting paper which he read at York last week on " The Insanity of Children," appears to have treated the fancies of children as if they were...

DOLCEACQUA. AMONG writers of guide-books, it seems to be only Mr. Hare, in his " Cities of Northern and Central Italy," who gives Dolceacqua any just amount of praise. He calls...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the review of Mr. Besant's " For Faith and Freedom," in the Spectator of March 16th, your reviewer speaks of " that slavery in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —To-day, somewhat late, my attention has been called to your remarks of a fortnight ago in reference to the large expenditure upon the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The writer of the suggestive article on this subject which appeared in the Spectator of March 9th, deserves gratitude for calling...

LORD SPENCER. [To THE EDITOR OY THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—You observed in one of your notes last week that " Lqrd Spencer [at the Eighty Club] spoke of the attacks made on Mr....

" HE PURGETH IT." NATIONS need sometime suffering : when our mood Is soft, emasculate, and fearing pain ; When indolence and torpor chill the blood, And insolence and bluster...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Will you permit a grammatical observation on the title —the title only—of " A. G. B.'s " admirable poem in the Spectator of the 16th...

[" In some of the United States, the local Congress does not most every year." —Barns.] On for a year of silence ! Could we go Each to our quiet desk, or house, or field, And...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . ] Stn,—I do not know the exact particulars of the Crewe Pension Fund, but if the regulations are the same that obtain in some of the other...

PATTISON'S ESSAYS.* EIGHTEEN of the twenty-one " Essays" contained in these two volumes appeared in various periodicals between the years 1845-1882. " Tendencies of Religious...

THE MODERN SCHOOL OF WATER-COLOUR ARTISTS IN HOLLAND. THERE is but little doubt that could life be breathed again into the dry ashes of some old Dutch painter, and were it...

• The First Ascent of the Mimi, being some Records of Service under the Lone Star. By Charles Somerville Latrobe Bateman. London: George Philip and Son. Mn. LATROBE BATEMAN, who...

As a wholesome corrective to what may be called the oleo- graphic style of depicting military life, now so much in vogue, Mr. Kipling's brilliant sketches of the barrack-room,...

THROUGHOUT the greater part of this clever story, in which Mr. Christie Murray has used his happiest art in delineating a first-rate detective in the police force,—the kind of...

THE literature of America has fairly kept pace with that of England during the last half-century. But Mr. Motley must have smiled, we think, when Washington Irving called the...

conscientious moments, there are times when we rise in rebellion against the ever-growing practice of collecting and reprinting whatever, having any semblance of Lost Leaders....

The Universal Review for March has two most readable papers, one, intended to ridicule the special vanity of the nineteenth century, being as humorous in conception as anything...

Charles Annandale. (Blackie and Son.)—In these days of encyclopaedias and encyclopedic dictionaries, it must be regarded as rather a daring experiment on the part of the Messrs....

William Copeland Borlase. (Bell and Sons).—The Borlases seem to be able to trace a pedigree to which there are few parallels. William II. gave the lordship of Borlase to one...

B.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The work of supplying preachers with ready-made thought goes briskly on. The other day we had "a thousand new illustrations for pulpit, platform,...

Poetry and Fiction." (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)— This second volume completes Mr. Richardson's valuable summary of American literature. As to poetry, Mr. Richardson thinks that...

Fisher Unwin.)—This volume bears the name of an English publisher, but has been produced in America. Mr. Stockton's humorous stories are well known, and two of the five here...

Setting, by Adam Hammond (Crosby Lockwood and Son), " showing the most advanced methods of setting out, taking off, and applying bevels for arched work, groins, columns,...

H. Payne, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The author is a Professor in a French normal school ; the translator holds an American chair of "the Science and Art of Teaching."...

Gretton, who describes himself as an old teacher, has put together a pleasant little book, the result of a wide and varied reading. Hannibal at Saguntum and Henry at Agincourt...

Catalogue of the Printed Books Bequeathed by John Forster, LL.D. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Forster died in 1876, at the age of sixty-four, and bequeathed his library,...

—" Brother John, a bachelor, and myself, a confirmed old-maid," take a hunting-box for the season ; and the "confirmed old-maid" portrays their adventures with her pencil,...

sufficient for these things ? As for the industry of the editor, it is beyond all com- prehension. He is, if we mistake not, joint conductor of one, if not two other huge works...

Autobiography. Edited by his Brother. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume opens with a very pleasant picture of Scottish peasant-life and Scottish piety in the opening years of...

(W. Scott.)—As a cabinet portrait of Schiller, this volume will be welcome to the English reader, and all the more so since, in com- mon with the series to which it belongs, it...

Murray. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—This is an account of missionary enterprise in the islands of the Pacific, with a special view to the work of Bible translation. A vast amount of...

its Publications for the Year 1888. (Grafton Street, Dublin.)—A. very choice collection of deeds and words by the Parnellites it gives us. The friends of these gentlemen, while...