the bombardment of Sagan°. The Panslavists, anxious to put a spoke in the wheel of Italy, sent an expedition to Obock, on the coast of the Red Sea, with the object of enter- ing...

offered in Court and out of Court about these letters ; but the gist of it is this. The Times, which obtained the letters from Mr. Houston, had no witness to produce except Mr....

M R. PARNELL spoke the truth when he stated in Par- liament that the letters attributed to him by the Times were forgeries. That is, in brief, the result of the investigation...

a very indecent and, we fancy, impolitic way. Not only are they accusing the Times, which has, it is clear, acted with foolishness and precipitation, of all manner of con-...

The day had been fixed for the allotment of shares in Mr. Streeter's Company which is to work the ruby- mines of Burmah, and the street was choked with applicants. So terrible...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

with the brutal treatment of Mr. O'Brien, and on the com- plete disappearance of a long list of calumnies with which the Irish papers had teemed. He pointed out that he had...

speeches of Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. T. W. Russell, and Mr. Healy. Mr. Chamberlain remarked on the absolute suppression of all mention of that part of the amendment which...

the debate, as a debate, collapsed. Mr. Courtney gave vigorous support to the Government, though he wished to see the Local Government Act extended to Ireland, with special pre....

the state of affairs in Afghanistan, which greatly irritates the neighbouring Russian officials, and especially General Komaroff, Governor of Eastern Turkestan. It is, however,...

Office, may have important effects. It desperately annoys Paris and the Chamber, and on Thursday was con- demned by the Opposition as an "act of sanguinary repres- sion." M....

intimidation which pursues Irish tenants who are eager to pay their rent and most desirous to do so, wherever the ." Plan of Campaign" has been instituted. One tenant who had...

of the Government on Monday, in a speech shot with triumphant anticipations and containing more than one distinct assumption of the collapse of the case against the Parnellites....

Chinese distress has been very speedily justified. On Thursday it was reported that the distress was increasing, till millions were threatened with famine, and that the Emperor...

Times, respecting the charge brought against Mr. W. H. Gladstone of evicting a tenant on the Hawarden estate. Mr. Gladstone denies that he has ever said that an evic- tion is a...

the value of the land within its jurisdiction, apart from the value of the buildings standing upon it. The avowed object of the order is to find a substitute for the Coal and...

night, and began by demagogic remarks on the results of the Parnell Commission, which he defended by airily remarking :—" For my part, at an English public meeting of my own...

its President, gave on Wednesday a dinner to which Lord Salisbury and other guests, belonging to both parties, were invited. The speaking, of course, was non-political, but Lord...

day, which was as marked a contrast to Sir Wam Harcourt's as a speech of the elder Pitt's might have been to a speech of Mr. Wilkes's. He firmly refused to touch the sensation...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 98i to 99.

TIISTICE must be done even to the internal enemies of the State. We have argued from the first that the authenticity of the letters attributed by the Times to Mr. Parnell could...

W E are compelled to write before the Irish debate is concluded, before Mr. Gladstone has spoken, before Mr. Parnell has spoken, before the Government has given its final reply....

ANDRIEITX failed to turn out the Government on • Thursday by his motion condemning the adminis- tration of Tonquin; but the contest between the Repub- licans and the "...

S IR WILT,TAM HARCOURT'S speech at Derby is a miserable proof of the rapid degeneration which our political life is undergoing. One would have thought that the man who is most...

W E have always held that Mr. Gladstone and his followers were only half-sincere, though doubtless unconscious that they were only half-sincere, in their advocacy of the...

statesmanlike writer who has been discoursing in Macmillan's Magazine on the possibility of Boulangism in England, raisdescribes, in using that word, the real danger which...

W E welcome the speech of Lord Carnarvon yesterday week, because it is the first indication of any adequate appreciation among laymen not specially in- terested in...

M RS. HUMPHRY WARD has produced, in the March number of the Nineteenth Century, a fresh chapter in her apology for the New Reformation. It is not so effective, we think, as many...

T HE outburst of annoyed surprise which has followed the reported morganatic marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenberg to the Fritulein Loisinger, a public singer of the third...

NON-INTERVENTION IN 1870. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Lord Granville has given in the House of Lords a fiat contradiction to a statement of mine that the late...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is surely one oversight in Mr. McCann's letter, to which you make no reference in your article. He says that "every Christian...

FTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."J Sin,—I have seldom laid your paper down since the Home- 'rule controversy began, without being tempted to correct some -error of fact with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—At the last council meeting of the Selborne Society, it was determined in the cause of natural history and national education, to do all...

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF STUART.- NEW GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] On entering the North Gallery, devoted to portraits and relics of the later Stuarts, we feel at once on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Having greatly enjoyed your article on "Irish Bulls," I should be glad if you would tell me to what variety to allocate these. A young...

AN ELEGY ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. [Suggested by a phrase in "Poets at Play," Spectator, December 22nd, 1881] " On ! where are the quips of Trevelyan" For all the old lovers of...

A BREATHING - SPACE! We have a respite still. The storm is gathering, and the clouds of war, Big with their deep-voiced thunder, growl afar Portending ruin: yet with palsied...

SIR, GEORGE YOUNG'S TRANSLATION OF SOPHOCLES.* SIR GEORGE YOUNG'S opinion that Sophocles offers a more tempting field to a translator than any other "of the principal authors of...

one time to speak of Sir Richard Steele with an air of patronage and pity. Because he could not write with the delicate art of Addison, he was regarded as an essayist whose...

MR. BARKER'S little book is much more interesting for the glimpse it gives us of the children's minds, than for the light it sheds on children's feats in grammar and spelling....

game called "forfeits," in which the unhappy victim was sometimes ordered to "bow to the wittiest, kneel to the prettiest, and kiss the one you love the best." This book seems,...

Morris, apparently moved thereto by family affection, has thought fit to publish in two volumes more than twelve hundred closely printed pages of his diary and letters. It is an...

AT a time when the great City Companies are threatened with extinction, it is well that the ancient career of one dis- tinguished among them should be recorded authentically...

Polybius has a well- founded confidence in the general accuracy of that honest if unattractive historian. But he gives a little too much weight, perhaps, to the honesty of the...

THE meaning and end of these essays in history, which deal with such widely different subjects as the early Beguines of Liege and the Malatestas of Rimini, is explained by...

Co.)—The arrangement of this " birthday- book " is slightly different from that commonly adopted. A separate page is allotted to each day, and the space for names is left below...

(Sampson Low.)—Mrs. Stranahan's history of French art is one of those volumes which, while containing a store of interesting information, is, on account of the absence of...

Speeches and Addresses of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1863-1888. Edited by James Macaulay, M.A. (John Murray.)—It would be -a foolish flattery, at which no one would be more...

The Swedenborg Concordance, compiled, edited, and translated by the Rev. John Faulkner Potts, B.A. (Swedenborg Society), "a com- plete work of reference to the theological...

the Author of "Hints to Country Bumpkins." (Hatchards.)—For all that this pamphlet is so sweeping in its tone, it unquestion- ably contains in its pages elements of truth....

by John Ashton. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Ashton has gathered into this volume a hundred ballads "illustrative," as he puts it, "of the Life, Manners, and Habits of the English nation...

Mr. Davidson professes to "tell the story of Ireland to the new Democracy." He describes himself as " Scotissimus Scotorum," and we may describe him as " Hibernia Hibernior."...

and Co.), though a very unpleasant book, deserves to have a word of special notice given to it, because the earnestness which per- vades it, and renders it a novel with a...

Nutt.)—This is a clever book by a clever man, who has not yet altogether done justice to himself. Mr. Wilde can scarcely have intended these five tales, which (notably the...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Colonial Bishops appear to be becoming a favourite subject with biographers ; this is the second that has come into our hands within the past...

Morris has been for some time quite certain that the world is out of joint, and that the balance of society needs to be entirely readjusted. The aim and object of the seven...

Stock.)—We have here some interesting gossip about great authors and their chief works. Mr. Saunders does not, we think, give us anything in the way of fresh information in his...

Co.)—Seldom, if ever, have we Been a novel from the pen of this author that we liked better than the one now before us. It cannot, indeed, be exactly described as high-class;...

(Belford, Clark, and Co., Chicago.)—If any one should imagine from this title that the romance, like the scene of its enactment, is of peaceful nature, he will be much deceived....

and Son), is described as "being Aids to Commercial Correspondence in Five Languages, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish." The book can hardly supersede a knowledge of...

and Co.)—We must confess to feeling some disappointment after reading this book. It is hard to fix on any particular part as blameworthy ; yet we leave the book rather with the...

Halifax, Gentleman." (Macmillan.)—These papers, numbering altogether eight, are the last that Mrs. Craik wrote. They illus- trate with great felicity two sides of her...

of Letters" edited. by John Morley, we have Bentley, by Professor R. C. Jebb (Macmillan and Co.) ; and from the same publishers, in the collected edition of Miss Charlotte M....