A CCORDING to the latest accounts, Mr. Rhodes has won the game completely. Lobengula, who had fled with his regiments to Umshlagana, was there abandoned by his soldiers, and...

the Lord Chancellor lectured last week on his responsi- bilities with regard to the County Bench, and be has replied, in one of his most cautious letters, vindicating Lord...

and its insurrection. The accounts of Admiral de Mello's progress are utterly conflicting, though it would seem clear that Marshal Peixoto is fortifying Rio, and that the...

case.

wish to note here, as a fact in history, that the French Chamber is dividing itself into two large parties, roughly definable as those who sympathise with Socialism, and those...

the agitation which has arisen as to the condition of the Navy ; that a debate on the subject is certain ; and that the Government will make a declaration. Under these...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 2nd, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

The Committee are still engaged on the second clause, and the discussions of the week have chiefly resulted in two changes. The first we understand to be the acquiescence of the...

Friday, November 17th, at his castle of Hartenau, near Gratz, of ulcer of the bowels. He was only thirty-six, but he had had a marvellous life. A son of a Hessian Prince by a...

and very well content. It is not probable that a full account of the negotiations will be presented even to Parliament, for reasons of public policy, but some main points in the...

Hall, Bristol, in which he gave-in his adhesion to the policy of Mr. Asquith, Mr. Camp1)011-Bannerman, Sir George Trevelyan, and other Members of the Cabinet, who go in, like...

subject of the vote of married women for any Local Government election. Last Thursday week, Mr. McLaren defeated the Government on the subject of these married women's votes....

time and passed, after a vigorous protest from Mr. Chamberlain, who thinks that the Bill will prove to be much more mischievous than salutary. It omits, he says, to provide, by...

twenty-eight representatives of the Federated Coalowners and the Miners' Federation, who met on Friday week, decided, after a discussion of four hours and a half, that the men...

and, for the most part, said ditto to Mr. Labouchere. He wanted to hurry out of Egypt, to get rid of the House of Lords, and he censured the proposed Legislative Council in the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 98',.

the applicants for grants in aid to the various middle-class Colleges, though he intended to continue those granted by the late Government, except where the teaching is...

called the "Eleusis Club" dinner at Chelsea, in which he insisted vehemently on the duty of evacuating Egypt, on the wickedness of the Matabele war, on the folly of increasing...

from upwards of one hundred medical officers and civilians to an independent inquiry started by the British Medical Association as to the use and abuse of opium in India. It is,...

and lasted till Tuesday, with scarcely diminished violence. From the Orkneys to the Isle of Wight, the wind blew with irresistible force, reaching at times and places an unpre-...

University Teaching was held this day week at Goldsmiths' Hall, Mr. Goschen, the President, in the chair, when the Pre- sident congratulated the Society on its rapidly...

THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COAL STRIKE. T HE men have won, and the public have lost, in Lord Rosebery's settlement of the coal strike. We are heartily glad it is settled, because its...

T " great change which has come over Parliamentary parties and Parliamentary procedure can hardly be better considered than in the week in which the Session has passed the point...

themselves, and not without reason, on the practical solidity of their majority when they see how invariably the agri- cultural labourers' and the miners' representatives, and...

is a lamentable symptom of an evil which seems to be increasing throughout the world. The local police have arrested three young officers of the local Militia, one of whom is a...

M DUPUY and his colleagues evidently believe that France has sent them up a very Moderate Chamber, and they have put forward a programme to which even the thirty-three Deputies...

M R. LECKY'S address at the Imperial Institute dealt with a large range of topics, and contained many points of interest ; but perhaps his most pregnant and suggestive...

O UR contemporary, Woman, has been offering a prize for the best essay in answer to this question, What is Unwomanly P' and one prize has been gained by a lady who sends in the...

B UT few, we fear, of our present readers remember a time when hypocrisy of a kind was rife in the land. The great Evangelical movement had in the forties produced many of the...

P OOLS and still waters are as characteristic of the country in which they lie as' rivers and running brooks. The beauties of a Highland tarn and a Norfolk broad are as separate...

AN OPEN LETTER FROM JUDGE HUGHES TO THE BISHOP OF CHESTER ON PUBLIC-HOUSE REFORM. [Our readers will be interested by the letter which his 'honour Judge Hughes has written to...

" SCRUTATOR " AND HIS CRITICS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—I had no intention of writing to you again, but as the Duke of Argyll and another correspondent have...

[To TWO EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR." J Sin,—This little parish is, I believe, typical of many others in which, if the new Local Government Bill passes into law, the voting-power...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—In the Spectator of November 18th, you speak of Women's Suffrage having been carried in New Zealand by " a fluke." There may be...

[ To MB EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Siu, — I assent to every word of your article on this subject in the Spectator of November 18th. But may not the vote of the Radicals be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE srscrwroa.."3 SIR,—Your interesting article in the Spectator of November 18th, entitled " Pathos," is, alas ! founded upon a hoax. No such person as...

WHAT DOEST THOU HERE ? RETHOUGHT upon a time that, led astray By fondlconceit of my own worthiness, Scorning a world which God still deigns to bless, Like the great Prophet of...

THE GRAFTON GALLERY. OUR native decorators have no reason to be alarmed, and a good. deal of reason to be disappointed, by the exhibition of French decorative art opened at the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE.1 SIR, Will the leaders of the late coal strike continue to insist upon the "minimum wage " ? If so, are they prepared for what will follow P...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BPECTATOR."I have read with great gratification, in the Spectator of November 18th, your very discriminating review of my daughter's book, "A History of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] you permit me, late as it is, to call your attention to an error made by your reviewer in the Spectator of October 28th, of Mrs. Caldwell...

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.* His was a very delightful personality. The present writer. remembers an afternoon spent with him in his home at Cambridge (Mass.) in the year '68, when he...

Southern Arabia against the Turks in 1891 threatened a blow at the prestige of the * A Journey through Yemen. By W. B. Harris. London and Edinburgh ; W. Blackwood and Bons....

without comment." We are not widely read in the reviews of Mr. Crawford's work ; but possibly some critic may have sug- gested that he is unduly given to the introduction of...

authors, it is evident that this book is due chiefly to one alone, and that one Miss Blennerhassett ; an inference which we make not only from the internal evidence of the book,...

in consequence of Professor Knight's preference for the intuitional proof of the existence of God, in our opinion hardly does adequate justice to the old-fashioned natural...

ONLY a year has elapsed since Francis Parkman, whose death at Boston, at the age of seventy, has been just announced, completed the main work of his lifetime, the history of the...

book tells of the good done to a somewhat frivolous, though harmless, social circle in the country by a girl with a religious upbringing. It is pleasantly enough told ; it...

• G 1FT-BO OKS. Supplejack. By R. Ward. (Chapman and Hall.)—Here we have a delightful romance of Maoriland, full of action and humour, and with just enough of love and local...

and Co.)—This is, in every sense, an excellent story of border life among the Indians during that struggle between the British and the French for the sovereignty of Canada, that...

(Day and Son.)—Here we have stories and pictures which should please the children. The " Story of the First Scareeia," with its curious little brownies, the " Three Little...

this story, though not unfamiliar to readers of sensational fiction, seems almost startlingly strong meat to be pur- veyed by a popular and practised writer for young women. In...

anted by the "Little Women." (Sampson Low and Co.)—In these plays, the work of children of sixteen and seventeen, the memory of Louisa Alcott and her elder sister Annie is once...

(Blackie rienk begin and Son.)—This is a story of the sea, in several acts. W with an animated account of a Lowestoft herring-boat caught in a storm, with the greater part of...

and Son.)—This is a fairly interesting story, though there are defeats in the construction of the plot. There is a surprise when the family difficulties of the Follett family...

a very carefully constructed story of , the historical romance order, dealing with England in the early days of the Methodist movement, and of that curious body of " labour "...

Wareham takes the hero of this story on an Arctic voyage, in search of the lad's uncle, who, with his ship and crew, has been lost in those latitudes. He calls at a Norwegian...

Bison. (Chapman and Hall.)—For a writer so fond of his subject as Mr: Dixon, to be dull is a little strange. But though he has written much on natural history, he is seldom...

a story—through its being overweighted by its own moral and religious purpose. Sybil Garth is an almost painfully good girl, and most readers will think she is a trifle too hard...

is a practical book intended for beginners. The author wastes neither time nor. space, but goes directly to his subject, and puts his instructions into plain words. His volume...

is a pleasant and unpretentious little story of a boy who worked on a farm and who, being guided by principle and some- thing more (as his nickname of " Bible Noel" indicates),...

We are always glad to meet with Mrs. Reaney's work. Writing always with a serious purpose, she brings to her tank much taste and good sense. This little tale, one of the "...

Co.)—This "study of simple folk" is a little story, the scene of which is laid in a Lowland Scotch village. There are two plots—one might even say three—the loves of Dod Aitken...

Blake. (Methuen.)—Toddleben is a little boy, distinguished from the Russian engineer who defended Sebastopol by a second "d," and his hero is a cousin who has just got a...

Society.)—This is a fairly well-written, well-constructed, easy- flowing story of a conventional kind. Roger Price, a self-made man, adopts the son of George Ciunberland, one of...

Edinburgh.)—Various 'animals, assisted by Mr. Aseott Hope's clever pen, give autobiographical sketches. The black- beetle, for instance, describes life from his point of view....

and Stoughton.) —This " Tale of the First Jacobite Insurrection " begins with the battle of Killiecrankie. Mr. Adams, it will be seen, neglects the Horatian maxim of plunging in...

by James Tuckey. (Sonnenschein.)—The Amphioxus lanceolatus is the representative, and the only representative, of the very lowest sub-class of all the fishes ; in Fact, it is a...

(Chapman and Hall.)—This is a handbook to the " oology " of the British Islands. We wish such a " science" did not exist, for the sole value of wild birds' eggs to nineteen...

but the " Op. 1" of Master T. X. Tanner is of more modest pretensions, consisting of a simple but pleasing setting of some plaintive lines, entitled The Spinster. Master...