-4•--- T HE crisis has ended ; and on Tuesday Mr. Gladstone announced that Lord Salisbury had accepted office. In forming his Government he has obviously found it necessary to...

THE NEW GOVERNMENT — ITS WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH. F EW Governments act precisely as they promised to act, or end as they were expected to end - , and this one may not. On the...

I T is obvious that the Queen has used her prescriptive prerogative in the course of the recent negotiations, and that the consequence of her use of that prerogative has been...

T HERE are some practical reforms which, as it seems, can never get themselves accomplished. In the lifetime of this generation there never has been a change of government...

of Ireland more anomalous than the relation borne by the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church to the party of disaffection and to the organisation ot agrarian crime. The...

I T is not only on account of his rank as a statesman that we attach high value to Mr. Goschen's speeches on economics, but because,—partly on account of his separate position,...

T HE recent disclosures about the traffic which supplies Queensland with the labour wanted for the cultivation of sugar do not give a very encouraging view of Native chances in...

D R. MARTINEAU,—who has this week retired from his duties as Principal of Manchester New College, after a laborious career, which 'has now passed the four-score years which are...

T HERE are differences of detail between the Whalley will case, on which we commented in December of last year, and the Warburton will case, which ended on Tuesday ; but the...

DR. RIGG ON EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — A recent American pamphlet casts a curious light on the question of "free education" in...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I SIR,—I have read with much interest the paper in your number of the 13th inst., headed "The True State of the SuccessionDuty Case," and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] Sut,—In your note on the launch of the Benbow,' you remark : —" Of Admiral Benbow, after whom it was named, it appears to be only known that...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [LAST NOTICE.] WE ended our third notice of this exhibition with the pictures in the third gallery. In this present notice we begin, therefore, with those...

THE STORY OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR.* THESE two books give between them as fall an account of the purely defensive operations of our countrymen daring the Transvaal War as it is...

ONE would think at times that there must be something in the old belief that the divinities which preside over the various provinces of human life exact an appropriate vengeance...

THE courage of their convictions is not always given even to those whose convictions are the strongest and most abiding. Indeed, we may go farther, and say it is a rare...

the author of these very readable, and often very graceful verses, called them by so inappropriate a name. If he had called them " Stifle and Ruhe," instead of Sturm und Drang,...

TxrEns is, perhaps, no subject of discussion in which reason plays a less prominent, or guessing a more prominent, part than in the question of the origin of myths. Every...

The Monthly Interpreter. Edited by the Rev. Joseph S. Etta. (T. and T. Clark, and Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Exell is to be congratulated on the appearance of this the...