Salis- bury did not at all expect that any measure would be carried which would diminish the power of the House of Commons. Yet all proposals for strengthening the Lords were...

at the Town Hall, held in the evening of Tuesday, -on some of the principal features of which we have dwelt at length in another column. We may add here that he regarded...

T HE National Union of Conservatives met at Birmingham on Tuesday, and at the discussion of the delegates much objection was taken to the Irish Local Government Bill promised...

British Ambassador in Paris, died suddenly on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 24th inst. He had been more or less seriously ill for many weeks, and was compelled to take much...

case.

strongest influence at present existing in human action, was party feeling. "It selects for us our friend ; it changes for us sometimes,—very frequently,—our opponent. It...

Town Hall, attended by Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Salisbury, in his speech, dwelt first on the difficulties which were springing up from the various Protectionist...

on the election in East Dorset. It is addressed nominally to the candidate, and assures all agricultural labourers that "Collin is the friend, not Short." The Liberal Party, he...

accumulation and transmission of *no/sledge has any necessary tendency to secure civilisation, and he denied that the cohesion of society is in any sense due to the knowledge...

it is reported that thirty thousand persons have been qtricken by the pest, a number which would suggest a con- tagious character for it, and is, we should hope, an...

banquet presided over by the Very Rev. Principal Caird, in which it was not permissible to talk politics. In reply to the toast of Mr. Balfour's health, in proposing which...

Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, who died suddenly on Wednes- day at Bishopthorpe, the residence of the Archbishop of York. He had been suffering from an affection of the heart, and...

of Glasgow on Thursday. It was one of remarkable power. He took for his subject the modern belief (or illusion) that there is some irresistible "law of progress" by which human...

self very seriously indeed. He has a habit, it seems, in the absence of a chaplain, of preaching on Sundays to the sailors on board his yacht, a custom which, though unusual in...

of ship-canals. The city was induced to lend the Company three millions by estimates showing that this sum would be ample for the completion of the works. It is now reported by...

Times in- tended to demolish the argument that the Lords may, when certain measures have passed the Commons, compel, by re- jecting them, a reference to the electorate. He asks...

The new head of the Government, General Peixoto, is not a Dictator, but has summoned back the expelled Con- gress, which was legally elected, and has chosen the civil members of...

Corporation Hall, Ramsbottom, on Thursday, in which he expressed great satisfaction in the suppression of boycotting in Ireland, but thought the credit of it was due to Mr....

the Echo, that the members of the International Peace Congress, which has just concluded its sittings at Rome, believe that they have done some substantial work ; and perhaps,...

a terrible catastrophe. The shocks were felt in thirty-one provinces, and the towns affected were either destroyed or set on fire, the falling timbers upsetting all lamps and...

not qnite satisfactorily, a cue having been given to the Press to minimise its importance, which, however, would have been done even if he had carried a Franco-Russian treaty...

brilliant but a very frankly democratic speech. There all events it was hearty conviction of its kind. From the happy contempt with which he suggested that, for British to...

T ORD LYTTON'S death is a regrettable event, not 4 because of his personality, but because of the extreme difficulty of refilling adequately a post of supreme im- portance which...

Brazil should have sent up Brazilian securities, is natural enough. The dis- missed Dictator, Marshal da Fonseca, was not only an incompetent ruler who had created no party for...

W HATEVER reasonable doubt there may be,—and we think there is a good deal,—concerning the truth of the proposition that the progress of the race is assured by any natural law...

British Con- stitution would never be fairly tested until a man of genius had ascended the throne,—a calamity from which the House of Hanover has hitherto always preserved its...

the courage of its in- tentions. It should not spoil a policy for the sake of a pennyworth of compromise. This, unfortunately for itself, is what the French Government has been...

W E regard it as the principal lesson of Mr. Goschen's very striking and delightful Rectorial address last week to the University of Edinburgh, that the imagination has achieved...

W E are unable, on careful consideration, to agree with those of our contemporaries who condemn Mr. Justice Cave for the leniency of his sentence on Dr. Clutterbuck, the...

T HE Daily Chronicle having begun soberly enough by dis- cussing the preponderance of unmarried women over single men shown by recent statistics, has fallen into a some- what...

Sin,—The following letter, which I have received among others on the subject of the increase of the golden eagle, seems to me so interesting and so fresh, that I venture to ask...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of November 21st, you give cogent reasons for thinking that the Act of Union is not conclusive as to the number of Irish...

Fro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—You may consider the following worth printing. An Irish peasant brought a litter of kittens to a Protestant vicar in a certain town in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —In the interesting article on "The Mahommedans of Liverpool," allusion is made to the Crucifixion as a Roman sentence and a Roman form...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — If South Molton resembles other rural constituencies, the result of the election there neither means electoral in- difference to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read your note and article in the Spectator of November 21st on "Mr. Arnold-Forster on the Army," and feel sure that most people...

[To Tax EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with great interest your article in the Spectator on "Children's Poetry," and may I say how heartily I concur in your opinion on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, as having had some years' experience in London local government, venture to express my firm conviction that you are right in...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] notice in the Spectator for August 29th, the resume of an article on "Chinese Secret Societies," by Mr. Frederick Boyle, in the course of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sr,—In the Spectator of November 21st, it was remarked of Virgil that he "could never say a plain thing in a plain way. No doubt the...

MIKE HOURIGA.N'S PUP. DON'T be shpakin' at all to Mike Hourigan's pup ; 'Tie your wake an' no less av ye're wakin' him up. He denuded the town of sheep, poulthry, an' eats, An'...

MRS. GRIMWOOD'S NARRATIVE.* Mss. GRIMWOOD showed during the agony at Manipur and the retreat to Cachar an abundance of courage, and the verdict that will be passed on her by...

Mn. CHURCH'S Stories from Homer, published in 1878, had only one serious fault, that the compression was far too great to give, we will not say an adequate conception, but a...

in Gerard she not only borrows the motive of Faust, but presents its three prominent figures in modern guise, and sets them down in the London of to-day. There are also...

interesting district in Europe, for its size, than "the Country of the Vosges;" and Mr. Wolff's new book will do much to attract his countrymen there in future years. The...

MR. WILKINSON'S book is much narrower than his title. Without going into Sanskrit derivations, if we hold thrift to be that by which man thrives, and mutual thrift to be that by...

Miss AMiLIE RIVES is one of those provoking writers of whom it is hard to speak, except in terms which can appear little else than a series of contradictions and opposing state-...

GIFT-BOOKS. Lilian and Lai. By the Author of "Mademoiselle Mori." (A. D. Innes and Co.)—The Squire of //war disinherits his son on account of an imprudent marriage. The younger...

are seven beautiful little stories in this small volume—folk-tales, at least of the nature of folk-tales more than fairy-stories—and children will be delighted with them. They...

with a variety of outlines which children are to practise themselves in colouring. Some are of the very simplest, even rudest kind ; others more advanced.—We have also from the...

Long.)—This is a little volume of stories, mostly true, we fancy, or at least founded on truth, which ought to interest children, and "grown-ups" too, for that matter.

volume contains a series of papers which originally appeared in the Leisure Hour. (It is the third of a series entitled "The Leisure Hour Library.") Few of the names will be...

R. Chambers.)—Mr. Fenn lays the scene of his story in the Malayan Peninsula. Johnstone Murray, a gentleman of fortune, whose hobby is natural history, goes with his nephew on a...

of children's picture-books of various kinds, all copiously illustrated, and, for the most part, in excellent taste. It is only fair to observe how much the average of the...

and Co.)—Mr. Hewett tells in these pages a spirited little story of naval adventure. Joe Mathers is a youngster belonging to a seafaring family whom his mother had somehow...

other pictures, of games, &e a very fairly coloured indeed.

collection of Christmas Cards, single, or in sets of two or three. Among them are many pretty designs, landscapes, flowers, figures ; and some humorous, comic men and comic...

with readable matter giving descriptions of the ways of animals in their wild state and in captivity,—Hunters and Hunted, and The Forest and the Field. Both have drawings by Mr....

Co.)—In this volume we have two children's stories. The heroine of the first is a little Lady Betty, and the hero, if he may be so called, a scapegrace cousin, who is,...

Sons, Glasgow.)—This volume contains the sub- stance of lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1889, in fulfilment of the conditions of the Shaw Fellowship. We cannot follow Mr....

is a very readable little story. Mr. Barstow, senior, haa acquired a powerful hold over the estate of his neighbour, Mr. Fetherston, and seeks to turn it to advantage by...

very pretty book indeed, with many illustrations, all good in their way.

MA. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Poste has had no little practice in trans- lating Aristotle. A scholar who has successfully grappled with the Sophistici Eletwhi would not have much...

Press Series." Edited, with Biographical Notice, Introductions, Notes, and a Glossary, by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—There was a time when Thomson's "...

Edward Watts. (Walter Scott.)—It was fitting that Mr. Watts should be asked to write this brief biography of Cervantes, since there is probably no living Englishman more...

Rev. F. R. Raines. Edited by Frank Renaud, M.D. Part I. (Printed for the Chetham Society.)—Manchester Parish Church was made into a College for secular priests by the last Lord...

is a careful and complete local history, over. long, it may be, viewed from the literary standpoint, but probably containing nothing that local readers would willingly have dis-...

edition of a well-known book, and is, the author tells us, the final form which the work is to bear. Very considerable additions have been made since the appearance of the last...

Rue's Diaries and Pocket - Books, which keep up fully their high character for usefulness. The pocket-books in particular, es- pecially "size C," are perfect marvels of packed...