the secret treaty is exceedingly significant. We have for some time seen reason to believe that of all the many ques- tions before Europe none is more delicate than that of...

on October 21st, telegraphs that the Govern- ment contemplates "energetic action" to bring the never- ending conflict in Cuba to a close. Apparently it proposes to buy the...

five piastres—a shilling—a head to be levied on the Mussulman population, and increasing the tax on sheep. Both imposts will be excessively unpopular, and are therefore...

T HE Daily Chronicle publishes what its conductors believe to be an " unquestionably " accurate account of the Treaty of Alliance between France and Russia. The document was...

that of China. A Chinese doctor of Hong- kong, named Sun Yat Sen, was suspected of a conspiracy to dethrone the Mings, and fled first to America and then to England. On Saturday...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

interesting address to the Birmingham and Midland Institute in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Thursday. The address, which was in Mr. Goachen's happiest manner, and was full of...

servative Club held at Birmingham on Wednesday to celebrate Trafalgar Day. Had Lord Charles stuck to his last he would no doubt have made a pleasant and interesting speech....

annual Oyster Feast at Colchester, when the company are supposed to have eaten twelve thousand oysters,—at least that was the number provided. He made a humorous speech about...

Monday to support the Government in its efforts to arrest the career of the Sultan. The meeting was attended by a great many Bishops and other persons of distinction, and was...

spirit, of Mr. Courtney's proposal, made in a letter to the Times published on Monday, to withdraw from Egypt in order to convince Europe that we were disinterested. That, he...

public. commemoration of Trafalgar Day have this year met with a great success. The League obtained leave from the Office of Works to decorate the Nelson Column in Trafalgar...

last gives a most thrilling account of the bombard- ment of Zanzibar. He mentions, among other curious facts, that the St. George,' the flagship, with the Admiral's wife, son,...

fortune let him perfect the etylographic pen. That little machine would kill all existing pens, but for two cardinal imperfections. The ink does not always flow easily, which is...

Friday, October 16th, where he is now taking a seaside holiday. A new road has been constructed connecting the station with the centre of the town, and Mr. Gladstone's visit was...

little speech at the prize-giving at the Yorkshire College, Leeds. The age for educational benefactions was not dead. We had witnessed a splendid renaissance in that respect....

people at Galashiels. He began by chaffing the Unionist critics for their futile prophecies as to the dis- integration of the Liberal party. " The Liberal party," he went on,...

news as to the expedition, collected by the various newspaper correspondents. The army is apparently without boots, and almost without underclothing. The former item is not so...

New Consols (24) were on Friday, 1081-.

THE SITUATION TO-DAY. T HE German Emperor may yet prove himself a great soldier or a great administrator, but he cannot be said to have shown himself a great diplomatist....

anniversary which they care to celebrate. For two generations they have persistently neglected every great event in their past history, and have refused to take the slightest...

7 E did not recommend the cession of Cyprus, either to its own people or to Greece, because that with- drawal would destroy or even diminish the Continental impression that...

I N a letter signed " Politicos " which appeared in the Daily Chronicle of Saturday last, the writer incidentally discussed a subject which must always be of interest to...

11DRIMUS inter pares." This was the phrase by which 1. the older Anglican divines were wont to describe 'the position of an imaginary Pope in an imaginary Church. If the Bishops...

' E have always refused to admit that the Presidential election in the United States is a foregone con- clusion, and the vehemence with which the Republican managers are...

O NE American millionaire at least has found a worthy method of employing his surplus wealth. Mr. Percival Lowell, an astronomer with dollars, has, according to the Edinburgh...

I T is one thing to read a book, quite another to re-read it, perhaps for the fifth or sixth time. The operations must in no way be confounded. The first time we read a book we...

T HE country roads converging towards the high table-land overlooking the south-eastern corner of Salisbury Plain 4 criarl through pleasant valleys bordered with rich water....

TT is one thing to make up your mind that in the course of the summer holidays you will see a Dartmoor potty-drift, and quite another thing to realise your intention. To get at...

M R. GARNER'S latest book,* giving the results of his. visit to the West African forest to study the habits, and, if possible, to learn the language, of the larger apes, is...

CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1S73. 17 0 THR EDITOR 07 THB 8PROTATOR:1 Sza,—I have only just seen Mr. Julian Sturgis's interesting letter on the subject in the Spectator of September 26th....

[To THE EDITOR Of TITS "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Your admirable article in the Spectator of October 3rdl on the proposed Doctors' Union, in which you point out the difficulties, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of October 17th there appeared a letter signed " C. M.," and with your permission I should like to reply to the first...

[To TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—As a bicyclist I have been much interested in the subject you discuss in the Spectator of October 17th, and I have observed a marked...

THE OLD VILLAGE CHURCH. HERE, on a gently swelling perch, Backed by a straggling strip of wood, Half in the village stands the church, Half in a sacred solitude :— A. square...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I heard the following announcement made by the precentor many years ago at the close of the service in a country place in Scotland :—" It...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have a son, an officer serving in the Egyptian Army, who is very fond of observing bird-life; so also am I. It occurs to me that the...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—I do not know that it is any part of a translator's duties to take up the cudgels in support of his author's credibility; but you will...

[To Till EDITOR OF TEl`SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The late William Barnes, the Dorset poet, who was a careful philologist, objected strongly to the needless use of words derived from...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " 8PR0TATOTO1 SIR,—Will you allow me to correct a mistake you made in the opening part of the Spectator of October 17th, that the late Primate was the...

day-dreaming, always see Your heather lit by sunset's glow To scarcely earthly brilliancy : Or should a storm-cloud dome your land I picture it as rainbow spanned. Some other...

THE LIFE OF LOCKHART.* MR. LANG and his publishers have taken time by the forelock in boldly claiming next year for their date of publication, in advance upon the early methods...

IT was inevitable that the present crisis in the relations between the Sultan and his Armenian subjects should be the cause of many new books on the past and present history of...

born in 1347 and died in 1380; but in her thirty-three years of life she took a remarkable place in the history of the Church. The multifarious occupations and the marvellously...

THIS is an age, among other things, of tabulation and enumeration. The facts of human life, as far as they are capable of numerical expression, are put together and worked out...

Ms. SIBREE has written so much on Madagascar in past years that this latest book of his could hardly be, and certainly is not, any such systematic study of the state of politics...

WE should say that the valuable parts of Mr. Pennell's book were the early chapters, in which an interesting account is given of the history, technical and personal, of modern...

by Mrs. C. H. Gordon. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)- "Tante Claire" is, as will be seen, the name of affection by which Mdlle. Aubert was known to her family and intimate friends....

Weekly Journal for Mechanics, January-July, 1896 (Cassell and Co.) A very curious supplement to No. 357 contains a number of letters from subscribers to the journal who have...

.St. Nicholas, 1895-96, conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge, Vol. XXIII., Part II. (Macmillan and Co.), begins well with a spirited " Ballad of Betty the Bound-Girl," belonging to the...

: an Illustrated Paper for Boys (Cassell and Co.) The frontispiece is a spirited picture of a lad rescued from a shark. The contents gives the same variety of entertainment as...

and Co.)—Henry Callaway was an excellent specimen of the medical missionary. In early youth he joined the Society of Friends, and his consequent abandonment of a still earlier...

By Henry James Fowle Swayne. With Introduction by Amy M. Straton. (Bennett Bros., Salisbury.)—The late Mr. Swayne expended a vast amount of labour on the deciphering of the...

by Omar-el-Aziz. Edited by Archibald Clavering Gunton. (G. Routledge and Sons.)—We need not inquire too particularly into the nationality of " Omar-el-Aziz," or of his original....

(Methuen and Co.) —There is very good reading in these tales, as indeed there is sure to be in whatever Mr. Baring-Gould is pleased to give us. It is true that we are never...

a volume of the " Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts," of which we have already noticed Mr. W. Leaf's "Iliad" and Mr. Page's " 2Eneid." The latter scholars has also...

Bentley and Son.)—This story is a great advance in some im- portant respects on that from the same pen which we noticed some time ago. That a Judge in a Western town should turn...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is one of the " Story of the Nations" series. Of what nation—the question has been suggested by more than one of the later volumes bearing this title—is...

Fisher Unwin.)—This is the " second year " of this publica- tion. The first volume did not, we think, come our way. Of this, the second, we may say that it distinctly interests...

these thirteen essays have appeared in various periodicals ; that on "William Blake " is now published for the first time. The characteristic excellences of Mr. Benson's work,...

have been better, we think, in view of the situation of affairs in Ireland, if Mrs. or Miss Hamilton had not chosen for the plot of her story this shameful business of sin and...

Co.)— Here we have again the old story of which there is an endless supply, and, we can hardly refuse to believe, for which there is an endless demand. A wife marries the wrong...

—The " City " in which the "Garden" lies is, we suppose, Glasgow, for such we take to be meant by the " Western Babylon" (? to be so distinguished from the Eastern, which,...

is the fourth edition of a story which has evidently pleased young readers. Nor is it difficult to understand why it should. It is full of brisk movement. Perhaps one ought to...

Friedrich Hegel. Translated from the German by Elizabeth S. Haldane and Francis H. Simson, M.A. Vol. III. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), containing Parts II. and IIT., viz., "...

Mather sketches here with much force, with some humour, and more pathos—for the subject lends itself to pathos rather than to humour—a portion of life among the Lancashire moors...

—There is no little merit in this novel. The dialogue is always good, sometimes brilliant. There is occasional inspiration in the thought. Arnold, the musician, is a...

and Sons.)—" The last forty years of the seventeenth century" is the period with which Dr. Garnett's volume deals. But he rightly keeps to these limits in the spirit rather than...