too much reason to fear that though dead, it yet speaketh. Its last acts were full of what the Positivists call "immortal life,"—in other words, posthumous energy — and...

case.

way bad. No worse insolence to a constitutional body than the Ministerial order to the authorities in the provinces to refuse their co-operation to the official investigation...

E ARLY on Sunday morning Kars surrendered to the Russians. General Loris Melikoff, aware of the demoralised condition of the garrison, had decided on the daring plan of an...

result of the elections. The Correctional Tribunal of Dole has, for example, dismissed a charge of insulting the Marshal brought against the Avenir du Jura. The Tribunal held...

war feeling in Constantinople. The Sultan has been implored to "unfurl the Standard of the Prophet "—that is, to call all Musulmano to a religious war—but has as yet declined....

the Turkish Commander on the Lom has made a reconnaissanr.o in force, during which, according to Constantinople, he killed or wounded 1,300 Russians. The Russians declare,...

hands. The Jowakis, a mountain tribe near Kohat, have been invading and plundering English villages. As the Government is- bound to protect its villagers, a force of '2,500 men,...

insurrection is virtually over, a telegram announcing that the Galeka tribe is retreating from its territory and breaking up. This is evidently also the opinion of Lord...

Brahmin of Benares, named Suradschi,rwho has visited Australia, intends to establish a Mission to convert the English in that region to a better faith, and more especially to...

at West Bromwich, on Monday, at a meeting to promote the ends of the Liberal Association, on the domestic policy of Which we have said enough elsewhere. Treating on foreign...

tion of the Army, and restored the original number of 25,000 men. The House of Representatives was inclined to resist the change, but the Texan Democrats, who represent a people...

to let off guilty swindlers ended on Tuesday, in a verdict against all but Inspector Clarke ; and all were condemned to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, the heaviest...

grievance,—the excessive delay in settling civil causes. There are 001 cases standing for hearing on the Chancery side, and 860 jury cases down for trial at Westminster. He...

Univer- sity of Cambridge last Saturday, the public orator addressing him in a very neat Latin speech, which commemorated his father, his school (Shrewsbury), his Cambridge...

that of the Duke of Norfolk, the head of the English nobility, with Lady Flora Abney-Hastings, daughter of the Countess of Loudoun, who now represents the Marquis of Hastings...

that he had, in conversation with Sir G. Duffy, given some sanction to a protective policy in Victoria, has produced an explanation from Sir Govan, supported by notes taken at...

to style a precision almost as superfine as the Yankee ladies who objected to speaking of the legs of a piano,' cultivated in rela- tion to the subjects of conversation. In...

borough, on Tuesday, made a very amusing reply to Mr. Bright's recent Rochdale criticism on the Church of England. Mr. Bright, said the Bishop, was something like Lord...

v. , ith- out various heavy undergraduate jokes. "The missing link "- an ape-like man, or man-like ape—was swung over his head, and the usual courtesies of undergraduate...

THE FALL OF LABS. slaughter inevitable in a successful attack. The Russian General, however, evidently conceived that if the attack were made by night, the power of the...

is shown very strikingly in the general acquiescence in the sentences pronounced in the Detectives' Case. With the verdict of the jury it is impossible to quarrel....

lost a great opportunity of gaining real political weight, both for themselves and for the Senate itself. The Senate, if it is ever to have any genuine weight in the...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is, no doubt, an "advanced " Liberal, though he himself quite justly remarks, in his clever speech at West Bromwich, on Monday, that he has never advanced...

W E take leave to offer the tribute of our sincere pity to the Church Association. We have not the least sym- pathy with the ends which the Association sets before itself, • or...

W E need scarcely say that we are not about to write either of bridesmaids or of bracelets, of ladies' dresses or of the array of jewels which the friends of the Howards and...

W HY is the highest eloquence so often scornful? Looking through a collection of specimens of British eloquence taken from the statesmen and preachers of the last three cen-...

T HE marked success attending Lord Hartington's recent visit to Scotland, as leader of the Liberal party, has been justly ascribed, in the first instance, mainly to his own...

Westminster will not give us that lecture we want of him, a good solid 2 NNW lecture on the beat method of self-education for grown men who have already learned a good deal ;...

THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE. Paris, November 20. IN my slight sketch which I sent you the other day of our posi- tion here, I had not time to describe fully the forces that are...

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN VICTORIA. To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SM,—In your issue of July 7 appears a letter from "A Victorian Colonist," containing statements which...

July 28 contains an answer, by 4 ' J. D. W.," to a letter from me which you printed on July 7, .concerning "The Political Situation in Victoria." On one point "J. D. W." is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—When I read Mr. Frederic Harrison's remarkable letter in the Times on the abuse of the powers of Government by a nominally Republican...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") Si,—In your issue of November 17 the writer of one of the notes on page 1,423 says, referring to Lord Bateman's recent speech, "But to rip...

(TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Szn,—Before discussing the precise weight to be attached to St. Paul's "hasty denunciation" of Alexander the Coppersmith, it seems worth...

A CRY. Lo ! I am weary of all,— Of men, and their love and their hate ; I hav.e been long enough Life's thrall, And the toy of a tyrant Fate. I would have nothing but rest, I...

ARMENIA.* [SECOND NOTICE.) RATTLING out of Tiflis in a tarantass—the vehicle which was fully described to us for the first time by Mr. MacGahan—Mr. Bryce and his companion...

IT is now more than two-and-twenty years since, in a list of announcements, some of them unfortunately still unfulfilled, there appeared the promise of " Aristoteles de...

Mn. RAE has fairly earned his right to a hearing on American subjects by his Westward by flail, now in a third edition, to which he tells us on his title-page that the present...

Tnrcrui are certain writers in the ranks of fiction whose aim would seem to be a purely negative one, and amongst such writers Richard Blackmore is perhaps the best known and...

was of opinion that an entirely independent judgment on French affairs is beat formed out of the country, near the frontier, for instance, at Geneva or at Brussels ; and...

Tim is in effect an attempt, ingenious and not unskilful, but very much the reverse of convincing, to prove that the world would go on pretty much as it done if society made up...

Jenkins. (Mullen and Son.)—The author of " Gina's Baby " reminds ats of Mrs. Hominy, when she talked her own books, accompanied by the use of the Major's pocket-handkerchief. He...

Fulcher's Pocket - Book. (Sudbury.)--.This is one of two pocket-books which for many years past—nearly fifty, we believe—have hold their own in Suffolk against all more modern...

and Preserving Natural Objects. By Harland Couttas„ (Religious Trust Society.)—This valuable and pretty little volume,. chiefly designed "to assist amateurs" of the way of...

Henry Joseph, Costa de Beauregard. Edited from the French by Charlotte M. Yonge.. (Hurst and Blaekett.)—This is an interesting book, though a stiff, un- graeeful translation....

13y E. C. Fermat. (Samuel Tinsley.)—The " Reign of Terror " in the Argentine Confederation forma the subject of this volume. The scene labours under the disadvantage of...

its People, and its Places. 7%e Western and Northern Suburbs. By E. Walford, Vol. V. (Cassell.)—Mr. Walford's work continues to be as carefully executed and as full of interest...

is almost a reflection upon our early scientific enterprise that though essentially a maritime people, we allowed the French to be pioneers in the adaptation of the methods of...

(D. Appleton and Co., New York.)—It is very rarely that we find among short poems on homely subjects, songs of the affections, memories of the past, so much true, tender, and...

Breakfast, Luncheon, and Supper. By Mary Hooper. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Our already deep obligations to Miss Hooper, to whom the public owes its rescue from "cold mutton, again...

Professor of Surgery at King's College, and Surgeon to King's College Hospital. (J. and A. Churehill.)—Of the many Seotchmen who "could not help coming from Scotland," there are...

Series. Vol. II. (Chapman and Hall.)—This volume contains the description of a variety of experiences which will make sportsmen envious,—sportsmon, that is, who are willing to...

and Blackett.)—Mrs. Daniel's last book was " One Golden Summer," and her readers were not allowed to get to the subject of it till somewhere in the third volume. Here, too, we...

ticket-of-leave woman, steals a pair of boots. These boots act the part of an evil genius throughout the story. As the author gives us no rationalising explanation of their...

(Marcus Ward.)—There is a certain went of proportion in this book. The legends of the early history suit the tastes of children, it is true, but if children are to learn...

the Last Century Classified: Religious and Scriptural. (Lindsay, Glasgow.)—Some of the contents of this volume are interesting, some are simply curious, B01710 are quite out of...

(Charing Cross Publishing Company), seems to have been written in Now Zealand. We would not insult the colony by supposing that they cannot write as good verse there as we do...

Age and Authorship of the Old and New Testaments. By the Rev. Dr. Giles. 2 vols. (Trilbner.) The first of these two volumes deals with "Hebrew," the second with "Christian...