man of twenty-two, named Rumbold, a machine. minder, was walking on the night of Thursday week, with a young woman named Lizzie Lee, towards the Inner Circle of the Regent's...

the German Embassy in Paris, and the Embassy now refuses to issue them without twelve days' delay, the excuse being that they must be forwarded to Strasburg for examination. As...

O N Saturday last, Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, made a speech which has created a good deal of excite- ment. Replying to a Deputy who wished the Hungarians to join in the...

case.

morning, attended with unusual loss of life. Soon after 6, the cook at one of Messrs. Garrould's shops in Queen Street noticed fire, and in a few minutes the flames spread...

much else, to the vote in the Department of the Charente. He has asked the electors there to choose M. Paul Deroulede as Deputy, telling them in so many words that "to vote for...

a propos of Herr Tisza's speech, to inform the Chamber and the world as to his view of the foreign policy of France. It was, he said, a policy "absolutely pacific." France is...

a new Board school in Birmingham yesterday week. He showed that the Education Act had increased the accommo- dation for elementary scholars from a little over 2,000,000 in 1871,...

the one prelate in Ireland who does not shrink from popular attack. A great Limerick meeting was announced for last Sunday to protest against the Papal Rescript. Accordingly,...

Chamberlain, of course, took up his old position ; but he did not argue it very well, except on the ground,—much the strongest ground,—that the collection of the school-pence...

fire. Virtually, the Sunday meetings held on the subject of the Papal Rescript were meetings held for furious invective against Dr. O'Dwyer. Mr. O'Brien at Limerick was beside...

Clonliffe, Dublin, and have agreed to resolutions concerning the Papal Rescript which they have ordered to be published, resolutions in which they declare, first, that in...

in accepting the presidency of the newly founded Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association. He pointed out that the Liberal Unionists of Birmingham had recently shown in two...

United States, that the selection of Mr. James G. Blaine as candidate would divide the Republican Party. Though worshipped by his own friends, he is distrusted for many reasons,...

to be removed yesterday from Charlottenburg to the New Palace at Potsdam. The Emperor now drives abroad, and attends to mach business, having even, it is said, severely censured...

weakest point in our preparations for war is the manufacture of large guns. Five of the large armoured ships are now ready and waiting only for their guns, some of which will...

New Consols (g) were on Friday 99t, to 99i.

Gladstone on the licensing clauses in the rather bitter party speech which he made at Leeds on Tuesday. In that speech be maintained that a licence simply gives a permission to...

litiga- tion proposed as to the reredos at St. Paul's. The question was whether a reredos showing our Lord on the cross in a conspicuous position immediately above the...

at length discovered a perfect rifle, and a new and more powerful kind of powder. This powder explodes itself so completely that it is smokeless, and discharges the bullet so...

on Saturday from some places in the immediate neighbourhood of Rochdale, and addressed them on the dis- credit it would be to Rochdale if they allowed a Unionist to displace Mr....

MR. GLADSTONE AND COMPENSATION. " I SHOULD have been better pleased with the matter of the resolution if my hon. friend [Sir Wilfrid Lawson] had included in it some reference...

it/F CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at Birmingham on Monday will effectually dissipate the hope which some of his opponents had conceived that the article which lately appeared in the...

I T is very difficult to understand clearly the attitude which Prince Bismarck is just now assuming towards. both Russia and France. He has professed in all his. recent speeches...

T HAT newspaper proprietors or editors who happen to be Members of Parliament should back the new Bill for the Amendment of the Law of Libel, which has recently passed its...

T HE Irish Bishops' submission to the Pope's Rescript is as formally complete as a submission could be. They acknowledge explicitly the Pope's right to lay down the law on a...

T HERE never was a more annoying or embarrassing quarrel than this one of ours with the Government of Tibet. Our consciences are clear, fortunately; but our course is to the...

T is natural enough that the executive of the National Rifle Association should mourn over the loss of • Wimbledon. There the Association has grown to its present importance ;...

M R. GLADSTONE'S criticism on Colonel Ingersoll, in the May number of the North American Review, has not been as widely read as it would have been, had it been as easy as it...

NI T E recommend those philanthropists among us who are in earnest, and are searching about for objects of benevolence, to consider gravely the problem which underlies the...

O UTSIDE the ranks of such words and phrases as are to be found in dictionaries, and are sanctioned by Academies —the " regulars " of speech, in fact—exist a great number of...

BURNING OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. SIR,—Gibbon is, I believe, the first writer who has cast doubt ,on the generally received account of the burning of the library of Alexandria...

THE ARREARS QUESTION. [To THE Eorroa OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you permit an Irish Unionist to support, in a few words, the position which you have taken up in respect of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, - Will you allow me, as having been a delegate in attendance at the Co-operative Congress, to point out that, in consequence obviously...

content to attach more importance to the value of time in working out our reforms, many of the diffi- culties in the way would disappear ; but we choose rather to delay...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR...1. was glad to see that, in your able article of May 26th on the "Compensation Clauses," you pointed out a difficulty which has not, I...

excelled in giving an accurate account of the principles of Co-operation. The article in your issue of May 26th was a luminous statement of the question before the Dewsbury...

THE CITY OF DREAM.* THE City of Dream contains much fine poetry, but we cannot think with Mr. Lecky, who eulogised it at the Royal Academy dinner as a noble poem. Perhaps Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is interesting to find from your article, "The Last Sensation," that the belief that the Romans turned down their thumbs when they...

IN MEMORIAM. OH, to recall the days when, on the road That led me, cheerful or depressed, towards home, My little timid son was wont to come Within my ken, not far from my...

CHARLES LAMB'S Letters are as characteristic of this fine humorist as his Essays. It is scarcely too much to say that not one of them could have been written by any other pen...

THE Princess Christian judged rightly when she thought that "the interesting little volume" published by Dr. Horn "would be a fitting sequel to the curious Memoirs of the...

to praise this third instalment of Professor Jebb's unequalled edition of Sophocles too warmly, and it is almost a work of supererogation to praise it at all. It is equal, at...

of the present day, Dean Church's noble and scholarlike essay on the great Florentine poet will be no less welcome than it was to their predecessors of some forty years ago....

and for a time War Minister of Pius IX., the brother-in-law and, in a sense, also the disciple of Montalembert, deserved to be written by so enthusiastic a biographer as...

Among the Cape Kafirs. By E. Glanville. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—.A. couple of stories of Cape life. The first, "On the Border," the story of a Kaffir raid, is well told,...

of that charming story, "A Danish Parsonage," may be mentioned together,—Saga Time (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), and 0/air the King, and Mao, King and Martyr (W. H. Allen and...

art; literature, as represented by the Laurentian Library of Florence ; early attempts at organ-building ; old Florentine furniture and tapestry, are among the subjects of this...

Roger of Howden, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of New- bury may be mentioned as among the former, while "The Annals of the Four Masters," "The Annals of Clarmacnoise," may...

and Co.)—Miss O'Connor claims for her "Index" that it combines the perfections of various preceding indexes, and not their imper- fections. Even if we allow such a result to...

to "Beaufort." (W. and R. Chambers.)—This Encyclopedia was completed just twenty years ago. It has been revised from time to time. Now a wholly new edition is published. Much...

(Walter Scott.)—Mr. Robertson tells the story of Longfellow's life—a story, indeed, easily told—sufficiently well, and readers who have not leisure for the bulky volumes of the...

to live with her four aunts, and consequently leads a somewhat uninteresting life, until, when conveying an invalided aunt to a warmer climate, there seems a chance of her...

—This "Sequel to the Casting-away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine," appeared, as did that amusing story, in the Century Magazine. The " Dusantes," it will be remembered, were...

This is the plot of the tale ; and the heroine, Doris Cheyne, one of the five daughters, manages to keep her mother, her sisters, and herself till the wheel of fortune comes...

Earl of Meath, better known by the title which he bears on the title-page, has collected a number of papers con- tributed by himself and others at various times to periodicals...

call this "study from life" a happy effort. It contains very little of that "inward culture" which the writer urges, and too much slang, and, we must say, is sometimes some-...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Two motherless children are adopted by Gabrielle: or, Worth the Winning. By Mrs. John M. Bradshaw. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Two motherless children are...

and John Fiske. Vol. III., Grinnell—Lockwood. (D. Appleton, New York.)—This work is proceeding with a rapidity which promises to bring it to a conclusion within a desirably...

Co.)—This, a fourth edition, with an increased number of illustrations, really forms most interesting reading, both for foreigners and natives, and especially for Londoners, who...

Renton briefly explains in this volume the system of English heraldry, and explains, with the help of illustrations, the terms which it uses. An index and glossary complete the...

Allen and Co.)—One can hardly conceive a more healthy and delightful occupation than botanising in the Alps. And those who are so inclined will find Miss Pratten's guide a great...