With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 8th, will be issued gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

intend to ask for an increase of the military estimates by £3,200,000 a year. An increase will also be asked for by the Austrian Government; and it is believed that the addition...

• T HE French have been holding what they are pleased to consider the centenary of the Republic, the First Republic having been proclaimed on September 22nd, 1792. There was a...

the abomi- nable Kingdom of Dahomey are drawing to a close. King Behanzin's repeated attacks have forced the French to act with energy, and they have taken possession of Whydah,...

Friday week an important speech at Poitiers. The Mayor, in his address, had expressed a hope—it is said in the Times, after a hint from headquarters—that the guest of the...

whole, satisfactory. The Ameer has followed the advice of the British Government, and has ceased from threatening the tribes which he has been informed are under British protec-...

case.

the other dynamiters was held at Cork on Sunday. Mr. Davitt had been invited, but he declined, on the ground that the meeting would be attended by men who had made libellous and...

that the Welsh landlords have dealt harshly with their tenants, and have not made as great reductions as the English. Lord Sudeley—a Liberal Peer—writes a very temperate letter...

return of Mr. Walton, Gladstonian, by 4,414 votes, against 3,466 given to the Unionist, Mr. Neville. In 1886, Sir L. Playfair had 4,665 votes, and his opponent only 2,925, so...

of differing from Mr. Gladstone. In the last number of his journal he not only declares that the electors are sick of Home-rule, but predicts that if it is put first in the work...

Federation—the Anti-Parnellite organisation—on Wednesday.. Mr. Bodkin, M.P., the chairman, declared that Mr. Parnell, in spite of "the last wild year of his life," had done good...

of the note appended by us to Sir Thomas Bazley's letter. We have dealt with the article elsewhere, but may state here that we no more desire than does the Post that the...

Monday's issue, gives an account of the recent seizure of three British sealing-vessels by Russian cruisers in the North Pacific, which, unless exaggerated, shows that a very...

the excavations which have been recently made at Hardknott Castle in Eskdale, Cumberland, "that lone camp whose guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars," as Wordsworth termed...

made by Mr. Gaylord, an American " show-agent," to an interviewer at Hong-Kong. It appears that the excitement in regard to the expatriation of 'Jumbo,' and his cruel separa-...

New Consols (2k) were on Friesy 94.

weather, the number of seizures and deaths declining every- where. From Hamburg, St. Petersburg, and Paris the accounts are all the same. No outburst has yet occurred in the...

-week, had a remarkable history. A man of good birth, large means, and unusual range of culture—he was educated at Oxford with Mr. Gladstone—he, at the age of thirty-nine, con-...

Asso- ciated Chambers of Commerce, which met at Newport, Mon- mouthshire, on Tuesday, in the course of his opening address declared that the prosperity of the past had given way...

1848 secured him the warmest sympathies of Englishmen, but he is not a great statesman. He has lived since the emancipation of his country chiefly in North Italy, and on...

I T is impossible to interpret M. Carnot's speech of Friday week at Poitiers, except as a calculated hint to the people of France that he is willing to seek re-election, and...

FIRMNESS IN OFFICE. T HE rough sentence attributed to Mr. Flower, the Governor of New York, when he sent the State soldiers to occupy Fire Island, ought to be pondered deeply by...

T HE speech delivered on Wednesday by Mr. Justice Scott, in returning thanks on being made a Free- man of the Borough of Wigan, is perhaps the most significant account of our...

has fallen foul of the Spectator for the answer we appended to Sir Thomas Bazley's letter last week, raising the question of the proper attitude of the Liberal Unionists to the...

T "Sharpshooter ' court-martial, which closed on Saturday at Devonport, is an unpleasant comment on the naval record of the year. The Chief Engineer of that vessel was accused...

I T is a very good thing that the Birkbeck Bank stood the run on it so well, a better thing than the public yet imagines. If that institution had closed its doors, a panic of...

Palermo, just issued by the Foreign Office, gives a deplorable pic- ture of the state of public security in Sicily. Brigandage, which some sixteen years ago was put down, as it...

T HE Sunday Question, so fiercely fought out among our- selves about thirty-five years ago, has suddenly come up in the United States, in a form which will almost involve the...

H ERE and there in most country places there is found some untenanted house, or struggling cluster of trees, which goes by the name of " So-and-So's Folly." That is the polite...

O NE of the commonest forms of male conceit is its utter disbelief in the existence of any female capacity for the care of property. " A woman," says this bland superiority, "...

rr HE world of Englishmen may be divided into two,—those- 1 who feel, and those who do not feel, the charm of London. Let it be understood, however, that feeling the charm of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to record in the Spectator " another dog story " ? It is one that testifies, for the thousandth time, to canine...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The writer of the article on " The New Mobilisation Scheme," in the Spectator of September 17th, may not be aware that an infantry...

LIGHT IN THE EGYPTIAN TOMBS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] S in,—Yoar correspondent, " G. V. S.," will see that his suggestion is inadmissible when I tell him that the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your readers interested in the first of these questions might find some information in the second volume of the fourth edition of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—There can be little doubt that your correspondent, Mr. Bruce, is correct in drawing the inference from the facts he relates, that...

"Vultures," in the Spectator of September 17th, suggests that these birds are guided from afar, either by sight or by smell, to their prey. Within certain limits this is no...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator of August 20th, you speak of " that singularly-named institution, the Johns Hopkins University? But the late Johns...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—My attention has been called to a most instructive article in your issue of April 23rd last, on the ruthless de- struction of animal...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—I gave no authority for the statement that TO 151)4 in- cluded the whole of the sacred precinct, because I did not know that it was...

THE LOFTUS REMINISCENCES.* THE first two volumes of the diplomatic reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus are of high political and personal im- portance,—and that in virtue not...

'• THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT." As we wax older on this earth, Till many a toy that charmed us seems Emptied of beauty, stripped of worth, And mean as dust and vain as...

MB. LITCHFIELD's book is a very pretty one. The illustra- tions are excellent, and the " pieces " given as examples of the various styles are well selected. We fear, however,...

THERE is certainly no lack of promise in the maiden effort, the name of which we have placed at the head of our list. Quixote, the Weaver, is a pleasant and interesting story,...

" IF any one," says Gray, " were to form a book of what he has seen and heard, it must, in whatever hands, form a most useful and entertaining record." Fortified by this motto...

Ma. MAHAITY'S "problems " will be more or less familiar to the readers of his other books on Greek literature and history. He has now put together a short review of the course...

in Ireland left by the late Mr. Clifford Lloyd, gives a very curious and interesting picture of the con- dition of the island during the worst period of the Land Revolution. It...

story of an undoubtedly admirable, though not specially great man, who did excellent work, mainly of the pioneer sort, for the Anglican Church in Australia, and who was so...

Thomas and Paul Sandby, Royal Academicians. By William Sandby. (Seeley and Co.)—There is necessarily much that is general, if not positively vague, in this handsome and well-...

steeped in Teutonism of the Dutch variety—even the hero's " strongly-marked features made him look like one of those Teuton chiefs whose place was more in one of those old...

and Hall.) —"Racing," writes Mr. Curzon in his preface, " has unfortunately become a ' business ' of the most sordid kind ; the majority of the men engaged in the ' sport' run...

Ashford. (Swan Sonnenschein.)—Miss Ashford gives us here 43;ght sufficiently-amusing little dialogues, the Latin and English being benevolently put on opposite pages. She...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—E. 0. Tregelles, described as a "civil engineer and minister of the Gospel," belonged to the Society of Friends, and devoted much of his time to...

—Obviously this book is not one to be criticised by a reviewer• Sir W. Hunter is an expert of the first eminence. Other experts may possibly differ from some of his views ; but...

Co.) —Mr. Terrell thinks meanly of City financiers, company-pro- moters, and the like. Indeed, he thinks meanly of mankind. He writes, for instance :—" In every man's character...

better than a mere picture-book, and the numerous illustrations will be found full of interest to all lovers of Tennyson's poetry. The work is an enlargement of a small volume...

than once. "English History by Contemporary Writers," "Gas- coigne," " Whelhamstide's Register," " William of Worcester," and " The Paston Letters," are among the sources from...

is to have a quantity of jewellery, and always to have it by her bed-side. The heroine is a rich widow, who loves, and is secretly loved by, a young nobleman who has run through...

This is a better book than the very silly title would lead one to expect. It is a volume of essays which show, now and then, traces of wit and wisdom. But there are sad...

is a new edition of a book originally published thirty-three years ago. To most readers it will be new; to all, certainly, for whom it is in the first instance intended. It...