Unionists, and made it necessary for us to redouble our exertions if we are not to have the political affairs of the Kingdom plunged into chaos by an electoral pledge to do what...

less importance, because Mr. Buchanan, who, from being a Unionist, deserted to the Home-rulers, and in a very honourable fashion resigned his seat to test the feeling of the...

A WAVE of peaceful rumour is passing over Europe. The Russian Government has stated, through an official journal, that it never had an intention of pressing its claims in...

Mr. Parnell's amendment, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir William Harcourt were the principal speakers. Mr. Balfour's defence of his policy...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 10th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

week at the condition of the German Crown Prince. The doctors feared that bronchitis might set in, and spoke of the "unusual want of recuperative power" iii their patient. On...

the Unionists achieved a great victory, and wrested a Yorkshire seat from the hands of the Home-rulers,—an augury even more hopeful for the Unionists than the Southwark...

case.

Manners made what he evidently thought an important announcement. The Government propose to bring in imme- diately a Bill establishing an independent Department of Agriculture,...

Southwark election,—the news of which was received in the House while Mr. Goschen was speaking,—and one long-con- tinued panegyric of the Parnellites, and especially of Mr....

one of the most eloquent of all his many great speeches, speak- ing for nearly two hours. He declared Mr. O'Brien and his friends "the advocates and organs of a nation." He...

Sir W. Harcourt amongst others,—was a great and impressive effiwt. He remarked on the dismay with which Mr. Gladstone's identification of himself with the Par- nellites had...

not promising remedial legislation for the Scottish crofters, particularly in the Island of Lewis, came on on Tuesday, and produced an animated debate. The advocates of the...

a speech of immense gratulation and triumph, and one intended expressly to cement still more closely the alliance between the Parnellites and the Gladstonians. As for his own...

of pictures is to be opened at Easter at the St. Jude's Schools, Commercial Street, Whitechapel, by the Rev. S. A. Barnett, at which crowds of the poor at the East End will be...

times, the efforts of the Universities to take part in improving the relations between the educated and the poorest of the poor in East London, was illustrated last Saturday by...

to 102i.

the members of the Oxford Union on Wednesday. He declared that the Irish Question was always with us, and always would be, and that its essence, even when the island was ruled...

his teeth. His enemies, the Right and the Radicals, had agreed to coalesce and to turn him out by refusing the 275,000 demanded on account of Secret-Service money. Most of this...

night by Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, who complained that no measure had been promised dealing with arrears of rent in Ireland, and that great evictions would go on upon the estates of...

been published, and is sufficiently described in another column. It seems a perfectly fair and honourable Treaty, and is so described by President Cleveland in his message to...

scale for street purposes, has for the present failed. The City Commissioners of Sewers proposed to allow the Brush Company to light the whole district from Cheapside, Ludgate...

MR. GLADSTONE'S LAST STEP. M R. GLADSTONE'S speech of Friday week is not merely a shock to his former followers ; it is a calamity to the country. It passes, in the first...

M R. GLADSTONE'S speech on Wednesday, in relation to Mr. Labouchere's amendment on the Address, has been, we are happy to observe, unanimously recognised by the Press, —even...

T HE "situation in Europe" is, of course, accurately known to very few persons ; perhaps only to two,—Prince Bismarck and the Czar ; but it appears to an attentive observer to...

I T is quite possible to exaggerate the value of the recent elections in West Southwark and West Edinburgh, but it is foolish to deny that they are, for the present, blows to...

N EVER has a more sordid spectacle of middle-class corruptian been presented to the world than that which has been daring the past week unfolded day by day in the French...

I T is painful to read the debate of Tuesday on the condition of the population of Lewis ; the mental ability is so entirely on one side. The "advocates of the people," as they...

T HE conclusion of the Fisheries Treaty between Great Britain and the United States must be an immense relief to those members of the Opposition who were so profuse in the...

M R. ROGERS, the sagacious old Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, concludes his amusing and often in- structive " Reminiscences " by saying,—" I might talk on ; but I pride...

T HERE is a very little chance that Mr. Goschen's project for the conversion of the Three per Cents, will be resisted in Parliament, for Members and electors alike understand...

EXCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN BARNET UNION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] heartily acknowledge the general fairness and courtesy of your article on this subject. There...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,-I did not happen to see the letter of " Catholicus," nor your article on the subject of his letter, till it was too late to reply in...

[TO THE EDITOS OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit me to point out what I venture to think is the true principle on which to determ'ne the question, dis- cussed so...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I see that in your article upon "Mr. Frith's Autobio- graphy," you quote his anecdotes of Turner the artist. One of them has...

pro THE EDITOR ON THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The letter in your issue of February 18th from "A Boarding-House Mistress" seems to call for a reply. To those who have opportunity of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Your reviewer, in his notice of Mr. Frey's book last week, gave us some amusing instances of nicknames. Amongst them occurred that of...

TO THE RULERS OF IRELAND. CHAMPIONS of Law and Freedom truly named, Not that ill Spirit which with lying show Of heavenly light conceals the lurid glow Of Hell's own fires,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—By a slip of the pen, or a momentary lapse of memory, your reviewer, in his notice of two volumes of the "Present-Day Tracts," in...

A JAPANESE EXHIBITION.* IT is quite impossible that any collection of Japanese art which is worth the name should be wholly uninteresting ; so much may be taken for...

lTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Permit me to point out that Mr. Chaloner W. Chute does not, in his charming "Book of the Vyne," claim descent from Mr. Speaker Chute...

WHEN Dr. Martineau comes to connect the Cause of the Universe with the moral Ruler of the human mind, he comes, of course, to the most difficult part of his subject. He has,...

MRS. OLIPHANT is beyond all doubt the most versatile of living novelists, probably the most versatile novelist we have ever had. In saying this we do not forget the late Lord...

WHAT a contrast there is between Fleeming Jenkin as repro- duced by the sometimes misleading art of the photographer, and the Fleeming Jenkin of fact and of Mr. R. L. Stevenson...

Mrs. Owen wrote the stamp rather of a spiritual than a literary mind,—in other words, the stamp of a rare nature rather than the stamp of rare powers. She was always attracted...

To say that Lord Grey writes of Ireland and Irish affairs as if he were in another planet, would perhaps be unfair. To say that he treats the Irish Question as if he lived in...

example of the general progress of the nineteenth century and the march of mind, than the fact that a book upon golf is nowadays sure of commanding an audience. The golfing...

indicates, is partly historical, partly polemical. As regards the latter purpose, the author, to quote his own words, considers that the facts which he cites establish the...

A BOOK has certainly achieved a success when a reviewer can honestly say of it, as we can of Mr. Stedman's volume, that it deserves to be read by the people for whom it is...

by Lewis R. S. Tomalin. (Waterlow and Sons.)—" There is nothing like wool" is Dr. Jaeger's adaptation of an old saying (though leather is not absolutely excluded from human...

Writings and MSS. of the late Norman Macleod, D.D. Selected and arranged by his Daughter, A. C. Macleod. (Charles Burnet.)—The greater part of this volume is occupied by...

—It is difficult to speak of this book in words that are suitable to its undoubted literary merits. We have never read anything more pain- ful. From beginning to end there i8...

‘' Petrel." Illus- tmted by " Twain." (Grant and Son, Edinbargh.)—A pleasant little book of travel, though it tells us nothing new. The writer went to Tasmania, xi/...

Fifty Years. By the Rev. W. Walsh. (Rivingtons.)-1 book of this kind is the best contribution possible to the cause of Church Defence. Figures do not adequately represent the...

is plenty of liveliness, though no attempt at the direct drollery of the book that first drew the universal attention of the public to its author. It is curious that Mr....

Colour. By Professor A. H. Church. (Cassell and Co.)—The object of the volume now before us is to present to the intelligent and cultivated student considerations which, while...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—" How we may best manage, and most speedily pay off, our great public debt, will practically be a vital question in American politics for a long time to...

schein and Co.)—The story, so far as it is described by the title, might be told in a very few pages. The hero does not appear till about four-fifths of the book have been...

M.D. (Macmillan.)—Dr. Lindsay possesses two special qualifications for his task. One is positive, he has visited many sanatoria; the other is negative, he is not interested in...

them their situations and adventures. But this is scarcely fair. We might as justly complain of Miss Yonge that she is not Miss Austen. When all is said, Mr. Habberton has given...

edition" has been brought up to time. The recently passed Bankruptcy Acts, for instance, are summarised, and there is an appendix describing the legislation of 1887. The work is...

suppose that we may:consider the " edited " a literary artifice. The little drama of George Stalden's life—for it is "a personal memoir of the American Revolutionary War" that...

—It is possible that some of our readers may not know that "massage" is a kind of medical or quasi-medical treatment by means of rubbing. The author, or at least the teller,...

and Son.)—This volume contains a descriptive account of the various " Orders of Knighthood " throughout Europe, beginning with the "Order of Albert the Bear" (Anhalt), and...

course of improvement. Last year we noticed some topographical additions which made it more practically valuable as a directory. Now we have some information about Universities,...