-R UMOURS of the approaching downfall of the Government have been very persistent this week,—and very baseless. Of course the necessary withdrawal of their licensing proposals...

nominally because the cession of Heligoland makes Germany stronger in her own seas, really because it reveals a friendship between England and Germany which renders in- trigue...

of the licensing question as the heroic protagonist of the Temperance party, asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government proposed to proceed with the Local...

Spain. It was stated in the beginning of the week that the outburst in Valencia was declining ; but it is now known that it has not disappeared, and that of 196 seizures, 113...

tion, and Sir Edward Bradford, an Indian soldier of great experience and success in civil administration, has been appointed to his place. The whole dispute was on Friday week...

case.

strong one, who in 1885, though unsuccessful, polled a splendid poll at Burnley, but who did not contest the seat in 1886, when Mr. Peter Rylands came forward as a Unionist...

not to talk so much to interviewers, and is furiously angry thereat. On Sunday, a deputation from Berlin pre- sented him with an address from 30,000 citizens, and he addressed...

is important only because it will show how far English electors resent this kind of political pettiness. Per- haps the best result of all would be a very emphatic rejection of...

Irish people is more political than religious. In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, dated on Thursday week (June 19th), he calls attention to the critical division on the Ascot...

Hundreds, in order that he might vacate his seat for Barrow-in-Furness and test the feeling of his constituents by asking for re-election, which he evidently hoped would elicit...

reopening of the Eastern Question. The Bulgarian Note mentioned last week, demanding of the Sultan recognition for Prince Ferdinand, has been followed by a Note from the Russian...

meeting under the presidency of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and came to the conclusion that this suggestion placed them in a worse rather than in a better position for the resistance...

Michael Morris, the ex-Lord Chief Justice of Ireland) made a lively speech at the Cecil Club on Wednesday, on the best way of promoting Constitutionalism in a democratic...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 961 to 962.

City, which is not the place where they are expected to form a crowd. The shareholders in Allsopp's Brewery are discon- tented with their profits, and assert that, when the...

may be gauged by the German vote of Thursday on the new Mili- tary Bill. That the Austro-Hungarian Delegations should vote General von Bauer's supplies, is not surprising, for...

place on Wednesday in the House of Commons, Sir William Harcourt posed as the representative of the small occupier against a Bill which would, he said, practically repeal the...

22nd, and will apparently be ratified by the Repre- sentatives, but not submitted to the people. In the main, it resembles the Constitution of the United States ; but the...

settled, but it approaches settlement. The Senate passed the Silver Bill, with amendments looking to free coinage ; but the House of Representatives threw out these, and a...

Sophocles was given at Bradfield College, near Reading. For the first time since the overthrow of the ancient world, a Greek play was produced under much the same physical con-...

THE PROSPECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. T HAT the Government miscalculated the amount of diffi- culty that there would be in dealing with the licensing question, there is now no doubt....

A MIDST the medley of stories, rumours, " disclosures," and falsehoods now circulating in the political world, it is difficult to be sure of anything, except that Heligoland is...

M R. CAINE is no doubt an excellent man, but he is not an excellent politician. In politics he makes that worst of all mistakes, confounding and in- verting the true proportions...

P EOPLE in England are surprised at Prince Bismarck's frequent assertion that he has a right to talk, and ask if his mind is giving way, and if anybody has ever attempted to...

T T is useless to deny, grieved as reflective men may be at the fact, that Obstruction has won a great victory this Session. The Government may have overloaded itself with work...

T HE high hopes entertained by the financial zealots of the London County Council have been sadly depressed.. by the Report of the Committee which sat to investigate• the Strand...

of French politics is the con- tradiction between the action of the Chamber and the supposed wishes of the people. Before the last elections, a great deal was said about the...

I F we were asked the most remarkable religions phenomenon of the present day, we should say that it was the tendency of almost every religion to dissipate itself in some little...

M EN who dislike female education—and they exist, though the class is rapidly diminishing—when they grow spiteful, always assert that it is only the ugly women who learn hard,...

NOTES OF A PILGRIMAGE. vi.— DAMASCUS. THE incidents of the road on such a journey as ours, though very new to our little company, would probably be of little interest to the...

M.R. GEORGE RUSSELL AND THE COERCION ACT OF 1882. [To THE EDITOR 07 TEE " SPECTATOR. " 1 Sin,—In your leading article in the Spectator of June 21st on " The Alienation of...

THE OLD AND NEW SALONS.—I. To those who study what may be called the politics of picture exhibitions, the present season in Paris, the capital of painting, is one of critical...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. Howorth, describes me as maintaining that " Christ, in appealing to the Old Testament, gave its words an...

held over.]

KEATS AND HIS EDITOR.* IT is twelve years since Mr. Forman printed the love-letters of Keats to Fanny Brawne, which it would have been kinder to suppress. The editor of a great...

while English literature is comparatively poor in private memoirs and personal anecdotes, that of France, on the contrary, abounds in pleasant and agreeable chronicles which...

MR. PALGRAVE presents Cromwell in a novel light. According to the latest historian of the Protectorate, Cromwell was neither the hero-saint of Mr. Carlyle's hagiology, nor the...

FOB the two centuries between the death of Suetonins (who, after all, does not count for much) and the time when Ansonius began to write, somewhere, it may be presumed, in the...

A FEW years ago, a little volume rose to the surface of the flood-tide of literature which has surged about the great Italian poet during the present century, entitled Dante...

A Winter Tour in South Africa. By Sir Frederick Young. (Petherick and Co.)—Sir Frederick Young has much to say in favour of the progress of South Africa, and also of its...

given any author's name, as the " cure " purports to be " com- municated through a living friend by Chichester's Ghost." Sir G. Chichester, Lord Deputy for Ireland in the time...

Nasmith regards Roman history from the side of its jurisprudence. We do not, indeed, see much utility in his brief sketch of political events. When he comes to speak of the...

Brown (H.), Jack Abbot's Log, 2 vols. or 8vo (S. Low) 210 Bunge (G.), Text-Book, Physiological, Pathological. &o., 8vo (C. K. Paul) 160 Carnot (N. L. S ), Reflections on the...

we mis- quoted the title of Mr. Frank Hudson's novel as "A Loose Rein." The true title of the book we reviewed is "Running Double."]

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RECENT NOVELS.* FOR sheer relaxation there is nothing to beat a really good Irish story, and the reader who fails to enjoy The Nugents of Carri- conna must be a person of very...

LONDON : JUNE 28, 1890.

THE River Karlin, towards which attention has in this country been recently directed, is hardly to be classed among the best- known rivers of Asia in the present day. In ancient...

that Africa begins with the Pyrenees, but the traveller must wander across the Peninsula, and traverse the secluded valleys of the Sierra Morena, or visit the quaint old towns...

Mr. Gladstone, followed by the official section of the Opposition, has taken up towards Disestablishment, the Church of Scotland is at the present moment on its defence, and the...

intended to produce a popular work, it might be questionable whether it were wise to publish them, as thirty-five years have elapsed since the latest of them was penned, and,...

* IN 1875, the Delegates of the Press at Oxford University proposed to Professor Nettleship that he " should under- take the compilation of a new Latin-English Lexicon, of...

The Badminton Library : Fencing, Boxing, Wrestling. By W. H. Pollock, F. C. Grove, E. B. Michell, and W. Armstrong. (Long- mans and Co.)—" Fencing" commences with a capital...

his Sons. (Seeley and Co.)—One would not willingly sneer at anything of earnest religious life, manifested in whatever shape ; yet there is always something peculiarly repulsive...

(Hutchin- son and Co.)—The story of Anna Klosstock, a Jewish girl of Czarovna, is sufficiently tragic. The tale of her wrong and of her revenge, if it had been told without...

Society) is Athartasius : his Life and Life - Work, by Henry Robert Reynolds, D.D. "I have endeavoured," writes Dr. Reynolds, "to tell the story of the life of Athanasius from...

Tract Society.)—Benjamin Rice, after spending some years in secular work, which, however, did not make him forget other aims, was accepted as a student by the London Missionary...

the Rev. J. H. Whitehead, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Whitehead has gone with praiseworthy diligence through the Book of Common Prayer, and marked the pauses, varieties of...

Putnam's Sons.)—It is interesting to see the problems which are perplexing us on this side of the Atlantic, causing at least equal difficulties on the other, and to note how...

"historical and critical study" is a book of great interest and merit. Mr. Turner traces with much ability and with unfailing fairness the history of Quakerism in its rise, its...

and Co.)—The writer claims the authorship of an earlier book which, by its title of " The Superior Sex," seems to indicate a satire on man ; the book itself we do not remember....

Long.)—Dick Jones comes up to London with some knowledge of Latin and Greek and other ordinary bubjects of education, very little acquaintance with English, and two exceedingly...

63 Fleet Street.)—These seven essays are the manifesto of the English " Socialists of the Chair." " The Basis of Socialism" is discussed under various aspects : "The Economic,"...

and Bradfute, Edinburgh.)—We do not quite see the unity of design which the author claims for these " Studies in Psychology and History." "All the characters described in the...

(Longmans.)—To say that Mr. Lang has written a clever book is superfluous, for Mr. Lang can write nothing which is not clever. Old Friends has the additional merit of...

and Long.)—At the beginning of this story we are led to suppose that the misdoing of Mrs. Digby Kaufman consists in her utilising in literary matters private family histories....

Murray Moore. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a very useful book, well calculated to supply the information wanted by the classes for whom it is especially written. The author...

Five plays are included — Timon of Athens, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, and The Winter's Tale. Various contributors have assisted in the work, among them Mr....

Robinson. (Began Paul, Trench and Co.)—These are stories of the supernatural kind. In The Dead Sailor, a corpse plays a part not unlike that of a vam- pire, and can only be...

1831. Edited by John Macdonell, M.A. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Macdonell, the editor of the " State Trials—New Series," has not allowed his new duties as Master of the...

Wood, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—In this little volume Mr. Wood dis- cusses twenty-five passages of more or less difficulty. The " Rock on which the Church is built," " The Slave's Call...

—This " Romance " of the times of the St. Bartholomew massacre professes to be "a modern English version of a curious French memoir or fragment of autobiography." We can only...

Co.)—We might say that these chapters are studies of human life as regarded from without. The " Fairy Godfather " has an interest in a certain child assigned to him by his...

Horder prefaces the main subject of his work, " an account of the rise and growth of English hymnody," with some interesting chapters on kindred topics. First we have an account...

Stoughton.) —Mr. Grant has made a very laborious attempt to expound the Apocalypse. It is quite impossible to examine his exegesis in detail ; but we may say that the key of it...

By R. T. Cooke. (Trabner and Co.)—This book tells with much ability and force the story of the experiences of Parson Hall in his marriages and in his relations with his clerical...

vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mrs. Conney has written a lively and readable story. The first volume is the best, as is often the case in these books, not so much because the...

Adams, and Co.)—Ayrshire is noted for some of the bloodiest feuds that have ever made the Scotch famous. Mr. Robertson, we need scarcely add, does full justice to them. The...

smith : Bristol.)—There is much curious matter iu this volume, and a number of very elaborate tables, relating not only to Shake- speare's dramas, but to a number of plays in...

Tuer.)—This is a very neat and honest piece of satire on the Court, customs, and laws of a country called Toadyland, whose real name there is no need to reveal. It is very well...

by Isabel F. Hopgood. (Walter Scott.)—A. more striking example of the sombre realism of Tasters work could not be found than this story. Story, indeed, one may say that there is...

English Prose by Edward P. Coleridge. (Bell and Sons.)—From the literary point of view, Mr. Coleridge's translation is satis- factory. The style is dignified, the rhythm of the...

B. Kroupa. (Ward and Downey.)—This artist's tour is written with considerable vivacity, and much more than the usual descrip- tive talent peculiar to the travels of artists. Not...

a story of early Methodist days. The hero is a parish clerk who begins by hating the movement of Wesley and ends by loving it. His vicar thinks him too valuable a servant to...

Blackett.)—There is little to be said about this novel except that it is constructed on the ordinary lines. There is a hero who suffers wrongfully, and a villain—not, however,...

of a Swedish officer," is certainly readable. It belongs to the time of Charles XII. " Pultowa's day," which the poet bids " blushing glory" hide, occurs early in the volume; so...