the 'Hartlepool election, and declares that it is far the most important election since 1886. " Tile limits of a message," be telegraphs, "preclude my giving my full meaning,...

Wednesday, to a meeting of more than three thousand Unionists. He did not agree in the least with Mr. Morley's assertion that on the eve of the Eccles election, the Hotac- rule...

W E have lost the Hartlepool election by a majority of 298 against n a. Sir William Gray polled 4,305 votes, against 4,603 given to Mr. Furness, the Gladstonian candidate. The...

case.

Salisbury promised the House of Lords that it should soon have the Tithe Bill, and the Bill for establishing a new mode of dealing with the Scotch Private Bills, sent up to it...

Parliament as if be were still their chief, while Mr. McCarthy has issued no notice, made on Saturday a speech at Tralee, on which we have commented sufficiently elsewhere. It...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, Janugry 31st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages 'of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the border of Kent that he told his Kent audience on Tuesday that his Sussex dog, if he goes above fifty yards from his house, "has to suffer the indignity of a Kentish muzzle,"...

extension of peasant properties, which must certainly give a great impulse both to Irish industry and to Irish emigration. So long as emigration is regarded as a remedy proposed...

of European interference in a very unfortunate way. It declines altogether to accept the very moderate reforms which Mr. Justice Scott declares to be necessary in the judicial...

Chambers of Commerce throughout the older States are furiously protesting against any measure allowing the free coinage of silver, which they affirm will disorganise all com-...

Mr. Parnell's own violence of attitude in order to recommend themselves to the Irish people. Their whole policy consists in trying to widen Mr. Gladstone's concessions to...

the quarrels between England and Portugal, until the terms of the new Convention have been made public. It is clear that such a Convention exists, and that the Government of...

the President, Marshal (la Fonseca ; and the Times of Friday publishes a long and exceptionally bitter telegram from Lisbon in explanation. The writer, who, though obviously...

doubtful whether an Eight-Hours Bill would be favour- able to their interests. A Commission, presided over by the Minister of Commerce, has recently asked 22,000 workmen to...

journal, and has written to that paper, now the recognised organ of Mr. Parnell, a most significant letter. It accuses its conductor of writing leaders "not unworthy of the...

speech in the Bradford Chamber of Com- merce on Monday against the attempts of Parliament to interfere with trade, which were almost always, he said, 'failures. In a dwindling...

to have been killed by the recent burst of cold, shot himself in his bedroom. He had latterly become so pronounced a hypochondriac, that his family began to fear for his reason....

give him material assistance in his fight with Socialism, and he is eagerly sweeping away the last relics of the Culturkampf. He has caused a Bill to be introduced into the...

raising the "'age of consent" from ten to twelve, has excited a general spirit of resistance among orthodox Hindoos. The Bengalees, in particular, are nearly unanimous in...

Friday 97i to 97 1 t •

on "The Difference between Physical and Moral Law" and "God without Religion" we re- viewed years ago in these columns, has sent a singularly 'masterly letter on the...

THE HARTLEPOOL DEFEAT. I T is certainly not the purpose of that divinity which shapes our political ends, to permit the Unionists to revel in the hope of an easy victory. We...

M R. PARNELL is becoming More satisfied with his own position, or, in other words, he thinks that his chances of leading the unbroken Home-rule Party are becoming brighter. We...

lr HE Bishop of Wakefield, in a very fair and moderate • letter published in another column, says that he does not share our perplexity at "consciences more scandalised by...

I T has hardly been noticed that the severe and wide- spread suffering which a protracted sharp frost now produces in Europe is, in its degree at least, a new thing. Formerly...

a written Constitution which seem odd to Englishmen, but perhaps the oddest is what we may now see in Belgium,—a very re- stricted franchise which cannot be enlarged by any...

Times who has for many weeks past been describing the condition of the Negro problem in the United States, has concluded a series of exceedingly instructive letters by a...

31 ISS MOZLEY heads her interesting and frequently fascinating volumes containing the letters written by Cardinal Newman while still an Anglican to his family and friends, with...

T HERE is an undue tendency, we think, to depreciate the positive value of the " find " at the British Museum. If _lent history is worth studying at all, a proposition we shall...

A RHAPSODY DEDICATED TO THE SEASON 1890 - 91. T HE Walker . . . . the Roof and Crown of Things toiling about on its lonely hind-legs, is, we believe, a spectacle that has an...

T HE lively controversy that has been carried on in the pages of the National Observer on the subject of man's dress, does not yet seem to have been brought to a definite...

allow me—as a Nonconformist of a somewhat extreme type, and at the same time a staunch Unionist—to try whether I can throw any light on the interesting questiona raised in your...

THE "NONCONFORMIST CONSCIENCE." [To THE EDITOIL OF THE " SrEcTATou."] SIR, — I am unable to share your perplexity at the phenomenon, of consciences, whether Church or...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TI R "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—The difficulty in accepting Mr. Price Hughes's challenge is his impenetrable ignorance about Ireland and things Irish. It is like...

SIR,—I wish, with your permission, to refer to one or two points on which Mr. Price Hughes touches in his letter pub- lished in the Spectator of January 17th, and on which you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"1 SIR,—" Canonicus " must have eaten well, slept heavily, and dreamed of the subject of his letter to the Spectator. I have made inquiries at...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think I can cap the story which " Canonicus " tells in the Spectator of January 17th; and show, too, that whatever may be the case in...

TO PAUL, EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD. WHAT am I to sing of you, Sturdy, fat, and rosy Paul ? Pit-a-pat you toddle through Every room with footsteps small, Like a sailor on the ocean,...

[To Tau ED2TOP. OF me " SIR,—A very much petted eat of mine, aged ten, was with me while sewing lately. She had seated herself on a portion of the calico which was before me on...

r.To Till EDITOR OP THE " BFECTATOri,"1 your interesting article, "A Word for the Anti- quarians," you justly remark upon the slowness of rich men to engage in those researches...

[To THE . LIDITOIL OP THE " BPECTATOrt,"i have read with much interest your appreciative article upon the humorist of the pencil, and do not think you are chargeable with the...

DR. MARTINEAU'S PERSONAL SKETCHES.* THIS is the first volume of a new edition of Dr. Martineau's Essays, and contains chiefly personal sketches, together with three very able...

IT was only natural that the recent centenary of Father Mathew's birth should be marked by the appearance of two biographies,—one a reprint of Maguire's Life, abridged and...

THERE are a large number of intelligent people who are, in their relation to General Booth and his social scheme, very much in the attitude of Gamaliel : they have witnessed the...

upon the joint work of Mrs. Hug and Mr. Stead if one knew with what object their History of Switzerland had been written: If they intended it to be merely a pleasant and...

THESE essays, though largely linguistic in their subjects and methods, have nothing to do with so-called Americanisms, as. the title their author has given himself might lead...

ELE GANTIARUM."* WE can all tell social and occasional verse when we see it ; but where is there to be discovered a definition which can. in any true sense be described as...

publications for the last seven years bound together in one volume. Each contains an account of the life and work of some great artist, and is handsomely and plentifully...

its editors—the University Faculty of Political Science in Columbia—should beware lest they make it dull to a spiritless ex- tent by giving too many continued articles like...

The "twenty-second series" of Vanity Pain. (Vanity Pair Office), is not materially different from its recent predecessors. It suffers, as these have done, from a certain dearth...

Seeley and Co.) — Although the Indian Mutiny has been abundantly written upon, no apology is needed for a volume giving in convenient compass and in a readable style the history...

cally impossible to conceive of a neater, cheaper, compacter, better-printed, or in every way handier little manual of the operation known as "the weekly wash," than this. It is...

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. (Longssians, Green, and Co., London and New York.)—This is the kind of book which is just so fairly well- written as to make a reviewer wonder why the...

Lily Watson. (Religious Tract Society.)—Of these two bright, cheerful stories, the first will probably be preferred by the girl-readers for whom they are obviously intended,...

Hall.)—Mr. Beatty-Kingston, who decorates his title-page with several foreign orders of merit, has collected in these volumes a number of papers contributed to the Daily Tele-...

obituary and chronicle for 1890, and other information of a useful and "professional" kind, which are naturally looked for in a pro- duction of this sort, it contains a number...

of an Ancient. Race, By Mr. Serjeant Robinson. Third edition. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The late Mr. Serjeant Robinson, encouraged by the success of his very entertaining...

(General Publishing Company.)—There are armies, it is said, in which all are officers ; so, in the community of the stage, all are peers or peeresses. Hero are 265 pages, and...

Alfred Bryan's most expressive portrait-illustrations—at once grotesque and realistic—which in themselves tell the theatrical story of 1890. The letterpress, contributed by Mr....

and Co.), is not a work that greatly commends itself to us. The people therein described are uninteresting, and sometimes inclined to be vulgar ; and we doubt many readers being...

Philip and Son), is sufficiently commended, by its title, and by the contrast which it suggests to all that we are enduring here. This volume, of handy size for the pocket,...

wood by Levoi116, from drawings by Julien lo Blant, newly translated into English by George Saintsbury. (Nimmo.)—There are cases in which a translation is bettor than the...

Spon.)—Mr. Salwey, who is a practical engineer, shows how and at what cost light railways may be made for exploring and military purposes. The precise point at which it will pay...