who on Wednesday week all purchased his picture, expressed the feeling of their class ; and when the ballots were counted, it was found that he had received nearly 150,000...

next Thursday fortnight, —for the transaction of business. That is about a fortnight later than usual, by way of making up for the very late and very protracted Autumn...

the French Government against Bonlangism. They could have treated the election as an ordinary incident, and have passed on without comment, or they could have added the General...

A GREAT blow has fallen upon the House of Hapsburg. Upon the morning of the 30th ult., the Crown Prince Rudolph, who was staying at his hunting-seat near Baden (Austria), was...

present slight, as his father is only fifty-eight, and still in full health and energy. In the future, however, Austria- Hungary may feel a serious loss, as the Prince was an...

any case.

Mr. O'Brien's happy thought of breaking away from the police at Carrick-on-Suir on Thursday, in order to reappear at Hulme on Tuesday. It cheered wildly for many minutes, and...

to Scotland and a revision of the Navy as the chief constructive features of the coming campaign. -He thought that a great deal of the dissatisfaction with our Navy is not...

if the Gladstonians are serious in their Clerkenwell-cum-Limehonse promises, they could get to work at that part of them affecting the social comfort of the working classes till...

excited, the .general idea being that Germany is breaking treaties in defiance of American remonstrance. Congress has accordingly authorised the President to spend £100,004) in...

at Carrick-en-Suir, by which he was on the next day sentenced in his absence to four months' „imprisonment without bard labour, and 'disappeared. in space. - It is said that...

Most men had almost made up their-minds that while Stanley had escaped, Emin Pasha and the Italian, Casati, had been captured. An Indian Mahommedan teader, however, -who arrived...

the day for an adjournment of the election of Alder- men by a satisfactory majority (24),—the number for the adjournment being 66, against 42 for the immediate election. Sir...

_at Stratford, in the East End of London, on Wednesday, with great effect. He criticised the programme announced by Mr. John Morley at Clerkenwell, and by Mr. Gladstone a few...

if anything, Conservative, has done a very sensible thing. lift. John King stood for the Council as a labour candidate, but was defeated, as most of the labour candidates in...

Commission is there trying Mr. Crawford, a civilian of high rank, on charges of corruption, and in order to facilitate inquiry, the Government promised that any witness who...

the thorny subject of bimetallism, to us the most interesting part was his proof that the fall of prices had been, in his opinion, even 'more due to the enormous economy of...

as to the Muswell Hill robbery in another column, but have to record here a much more effective robbery, en.tirelylfree from violence, which' will illustrate by the strong...

in proposing "Prosperity to the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association." It will be a surprise to the world to - know that the jewellers' and silversmiths' trade is...

contest East Perthshire, vacant by the death of Mr. Menzies. The Gladstonian majority in 1886 was very large, 1,309 (Mr. Menzies having polled 3,504 votes, against only 2,195...

Friday 99 to 991.

GENERAL BOULANGER'S SUCCESS. T HERE can be no mistake about the meaning of General Boulanger's election. Parisian journalists may amuse themselves and their readers with...

W HILE Mr. Bright slowly recovers from his almost mortal sickness at Rochdale, his brother Jacob has been playing the rather undistinguished part of heavy father in the little...

T HE most disappointed among the rulers of men, the . Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, has 'sustained '- this week- a crowning disappointment. The Throne is rebuilt, but...

GOSCHENTS speech at Stratford struck the right ILL note. If you want to get to business, he said to the electors, if you really want to grapple with the ques- tion of the policy...

T HE debate of Saturday on East Africa displayed Prince Bismarck in a character in which it is not easy to recognise him. Something of his old frankness, indeed, ' remained; but...

S INCE the last occurrence of a vacancy in a Welsh- speaking diocese, the qualifications most to be sought for in its occupant have been often discussed. Controversies of this...

T HE ordinary Englishman who winters on the Riviera for health or pleasure is, especially if country- bred, anxious to find out something about the con- ditions under which the...

MHE confession of Clarke, one of the Muswell Hill burglars, is remarkable as showing the extraordinary levity of the three men who not merely broke into a house to rob it...

- FORD WOLSELEY, in his excellent speech of Friday I I week to the Volunteers of Birmingham, made an assertion in defence of military training as a means of educa- tion which it...

-u - NDER the title, "Is Tennyson a Spiritualist ?" there appeared recently in the Pall Mall Gazette* an amount of a letter which has been published in Chicago. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A London Association of Builders, organised on the principle of industrial partnership, has just held its first annual meeting, and...

COLONEL VON BUREN AND THE SIEGE OF STRASBURG. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTAT011."] Sin,—Colonel von Biiren, whose death took place early this month, was at one time for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH."] 'Sin,—Being at a distance from home of 6,500 miles, I have only within the last week had the pleasure of reading your article, "Astronomy...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—As a member of the deputation who waited on the Lord Mayor to ask his assistance in raising a fund for those who are now starving...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—From various quarters my attention has been directed to a paragraph in the Daily News of January 25th, headed "An Interesting...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of January 12th, when reviewing Sir J. Strachey's recent work on India, you say :—" They" (certain Indian gentlemen)...

the present. day very much what William Hazlitt did for his generation. He knows it well; he is a good deal out of humour with it; he cannot help seeing what is good in it, and...

THIS title, though an inviting one, may be, we suspect, a little puzzling to some of our readers. It does not refer to Scotland, where pink pearls were found not so long ago,...

placing the real facts of Irish history before the people of England have already been many and conspicuous, no work undertaken by him has been more important than his present...

Two facts which render Comte Vasiti's Monde Politique especially attractive, and even original, are that he almost ignores General Boulanger, and that he takes quite a cheerful...

AMONG the persons who resided unwillingly at the Court or in the Eastern dominions of Mahmud of Ghazna, or Ghuznee, as we call it, was a certain Alberuni, or Al Biruni, as...

Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill is, to the best of our knowledge, only the third work of fiction possessing remarkable merit that has come to us from the Antipodes. The first of...

a novel with purpose—as Mr. Gladstone's review of it will show to every one—but in spite of its excellent purpose, its literary skill is -not of a very effective kind. This...

and Co.)—This stout volume of stories may be described—and its compiler would prefer that it should be described—as an addition to the narrative rather than to the...

English Historical Review. January. Edited by the Rev. Mandell Creighton, MA. (Longmans.)—The first place in the list of con- tents is occupied by Mr. Douglas M. Ford's...

a sojourn in Davos- Platz,-St. Moritz, or Maloja, may see a presentment of these places in their winter aspect in the St. Moritz Post, - Davos anclifaieja News, Christmas...

Co.)—The spirit of this extraordinary "epic poem in five books," which treats of life and love and sin and misery, and in which "Christ" and " Satan " figure as rival...

emphatically a pretty book,—pretty in the spirit in which it is written, pretty in its vivid and yet idealising if not idealistic illustrations, which are executed by Mr....

are by no means at one with this author and his friends in their views of socio-economical questions ; certain points of difference in opinion between us are, indeed, alluded to...

Century, by William Garden Blaikie, D.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh), consists of a series of essentially historical lectures on Scotch divines of various persuasions, who have...

before us takes in II. Samuel. The Exposition is contributed by the Dean of Canterbury, the Homiletics by the Rev. Professor C. Chapman, and the Homilies by the Rev. B. Dale,...

regret that a literary artist of such undoubted power as the creator of Gwynnie Lloyd in "A Modern Lover," should think it his duty to persevere in writing " realistic "...

Smythe Company, Boston, U.S.A.), is described on the title-page as " a , novel," and although a not unambitious attempt is made in it to depict "society - ," Bohemian and other,...

since it ends badly, it must be re- garded as a tragedy—is written with great care, and with a genuine sweetness of style which will no doubt be found very enjoyable by what...

Co.)—In the preface to this volume, dealing with Hindostan and China, under somewhat affected titles—for the alternatives to " Turbans " and " Tails " are "The Mild Hindu"...

of more notice than it is entitled to, on account of its purely literary merits, because it throws a little light on various social questions which agitate certain sections of...