situation on the Continent, and, indeed, there could hardly be any, for Eastern and Central Europe lie buried in snow. The unrest in Roumania, however, still continues, and...

it was expected to be. It was introduced by Mr. Ritchie on Monday, in a lucid but strictly descriptive speech of two hours, and was received by Unionists with delight, by...

case

of this huge Bill, which provides also—as we think, prematurely —for District Councils, with sanitary and other powers; but the Tories care only about the general principle, and...

it/FR GOSCHEN has so far been wonderfully successful with his Conversion Bill. There has been no obstruction, and little serious resistance, except to the clause giving is. 6d....

of secrecy has fallen round him, as it falls round all modern Sovereigns—he is doing most of his work punctually and well. Prince Bismarck drives every day to Charlottenburg to...

of rating now possessed by Quarter-Sessions, plus an income of 25,600,000, which they will derive from the transfer of the licence- duties on the sale of liquor—which are to be...

into the constitution of the House of Lords. He referred to Franklin's remark (with which, however, he did not appear to agree) that there would be more propriety, because less...

accused by the organs both of his opponents and of his supporters, of having taken quite a new departure on the subject of local government in Ireland, in consequence of the...

of Assembly which could safely co-operate with the House of Commons without exciting its jealousy is one consisting, not like every representative Assembly of persons who have...

Lords, but denied that that popularity could survive such trials as Lord Salisbury's speech at Oxford, in which he entreated the House of Lords to reject all measures sent up by...

de Cassagnac asked leave to make an interpellation about him, and so taunted M. Tirard with moral cowardice, that the Premier fixed Tuesday for the debate, adding that other...

Union Club on Tuesday. He said that the Liberal Unionists had endured the winter of their discontent; but referring to the election of Mr. Fitzwilliam for the Doncaster Division...

a speech last Saturday (St. Patrick's Day),—Mr. Dillon in London, at the Cannon Street Hotel, Mr. O'Brien in Birmingham. Mr. Dillon's speech was very moderate, and consisted...

Signor Crispi says be is all in favour of peace, but hints at past complications ; and the Esercito, the leading mili- tary journal, affirms that, "some weeks since," France was...

attack on Mr. Chamberlain, of whom he said that "he would tell the meeting solemnly and in plain English, that it was not so many years ago since Mr. Chamberlain told Mr....

on Thursday night between the Parnellites and the Government on the question whether or not the Criminal Evidence Bill,— which allows, without compelling, the person charged...

Wednes- day, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, to the Federation League, compared the colonisation of our Colonial Empire first to the tapping for underground rivers which has...

and with the usual appalling results. On the night of the 20th inst , while the Baguet Theatre of Oporto—a house for comic opera— was crowded to the roof, some scenery was moved...

Consols were on Friday 101ft to 1014.

THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILL. I F any proof were needed that the present two-headed Government is a strong one, capable of doing most effective work, it would be found in the...

T ORD ROSEBERY'S great speech of Monday night was full of keen and thoughtful criticism ; but, in our opinion, the weakest part of it was the part which should have been the...

T HE interest of the Boulanger dispute is, for foreigners, concentrated in a single question. What makes the Government of France, and the Chamber, and the leaders of all...

T HE Irish Arrears Question is perhaps as perplexed and confused as any that has ever been presented to Parlia- ment. Essentially it is a choice of evils. To do anything in it,...

T ORD GRANVILLE is to take the chair at a dinner to be I given next month at the Devonshire Club, by way of • compliment to Mr. Chamberlain for his services in negotiating the...

T HE rather remarkable debate of Thursday, in which the Parnellites made so fierce a resistance to the application to Ireland of the Criminal Evidence Bill,—a Bill which makes...

one of the privileges of a free people for which the Spectator has hitherto con- tended. On the contrary, we have always maintained that the grand drawback to the usefulness of...

T HAT the age is tolerant,—tolerant to a degree which could hardly have been conceived by the largest-minded Englishman fifty years ago,—no witness of Mr. Bradlaugh's triumph of...

E NGLISH statesmen have a practice, unknown, as far as we have observed, upon the Continent, of occasionally lecturing upon some subject of human interest unconnected, or but...

DOES MR. GLADSTONE CONTEMPLATE FEDERALISM ? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."j Sin,—In your observations on the letter Mr. Gladstone has written to Mr. Watson, declining to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your kind appreciation of my speech in defence of the utility and sanctity of oaths, encourages me to ask you to allow me to make a...

THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Will you kindly permit me to ask your correspondent, the Rev. Brooke Lambert, of Greenwich, to read a letter, addressed "To a Friend in Scotland," written...

[To THE EDITOR OF ins "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is perhaps nothing more than a coincidence, neverthe- less it is carious to note how closely Mr. Leslie Stephen follows Sainte-Beuve...

JULIANA HORATIA EWING.* To summarise adequately within the narrow limits of a Spectator review the impressions derived from a careful study of Mrs. Ewing's stories, is a task...

SPRING. VIDEO MELIOKA. BLACKTHORN white, and willow green, Calm delight of beauty seen,— In between, with hidden might, Breaks a flash of the unseen, Breaks the vision...

Tins is a singularly interesting book, and conveys, perhaps, a more vivid impression of the new world of New Guinea than many more elaborate and pretentious works. The reason is...

THE Bohemia of which Balzac drew so sinister a picture in Un Grand Somme de Province a Paris, and of which Murger has left a strange and. touching record in his immortal Scenes,...

DR. REYNOLDS'S introduction to the Fourth Gospel is so clear and terse, and so fall of learning, that we hope to see it published separately in a volume which it would be easier...

Mahdi, rose against Egyptian, or, as they called it, Turkish rule, there were three foreign gentlemen governing the outlying provinces,— Slatin Bey, an Austrian, in Darfur ;...

WHEN, in 1801, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, of Frankfort, was appointed "Court Jew" to the Landgrave of Hesse, it was a curiously significant title that he received. Serene...

Co.)—Much of Dr. Craise's book has been antici- pated by former writers on the subject. The authorship of the "De Imitatione" had, for instance, been already settled to the...

Other Suns than Ours. By Richard A. Proctor. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—We need hardly say that Mr. Proctor's volume is interesting. His first nine chapters are devoted to the stars,...

volume to which we cannot assent, to the complaint, for instance, of a "Clerical Critic" that the "clergy will soon be bound hand and foot to the Bishops." Was there ever such a...

and Hall.)—When Mr. Beatty-Kingston has disarmed a possible criticism by confessing what he calls the "ad captandum character," and what might be called the " swagger " of his...

recruit his health, which had been impaired at Hong Kong, and expands his note-book into a series of light and readable chapters, under the title of Sketches of Life in Japan...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—We are reminded—of course, it is meant that we should be reminded—of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Possibly the late "Mr. John gnod," who "prepared to write a...

F. H. Storer. (Sampson Low and Co.)—In the two volumes before us Professor Storer has embodied the substance of lectures delivered at the Bussey Institute during a period of...

General Average, English and Foreign. By Richard Lowndes. (Stevens and Sons.) —" General average," it may be necessary to explain, is a technical term connected with damage to...

(F. V. White and Co.)—This is a " military " story, and as inane as most sue& stories are when they have to do with soldiers in times of peace. As usual, there is scarcely a...

Forrester tells the story of how a fashionable woman, who had never thought of anything but how to look charming, learns to feel for the sorrows of others. Her awakening to the...

and Downey.)—Mr. Fenn shows in this tale the same mastery of his sub- ject, and the same capacity for telling a good story, that we have before noticed in him. He takes us. to...

vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mies Stanley's heroine is of the Becky Sharp order ; perhaps we ought rather to say that she is a Lamia. Opal Carew is a born adventuress, with more...

pathos and some not less admirable humour in this little volume. The old scholar who pawns a volume of lEschylas for foarpenoe and spends threepence of it on a poor child whom...

Downey.) —"Uncle Bob" is a Scotchman who has made a "pile," and comes to London to spend it, and to struggle, by help of that money, into the circles of the Upper Ten. This is...

great relief, after the ordinary experience of the shilling novel, to come acmes such a delicate and tasteful piece of work as this. The love of Christopher Pane for Hagar makes...

Spanish and German. By the late James Young Gibson. Edited by Margaret D. Gibson. 2 vols. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Gilson was a minister of the United Presbyterian...