T HE tension of the situation has been in no way relaxed. It is rumoured, we believe on good grounds, that the Government has offered to submit the question as to the character...

THE BUDGET. R. CHILDERS'S object in the Budget of this year has _Al_ evidently been to make a great deficit the occasion for fastening firmly on the nation some salutary...

T HERE is still little or no change in the situation. Fresh rumours are spread every day, and the speculators on the Bourse cause heavy fluctuations almost hourly ; but the...

I T is quite possible to agree with many of the principles laid down both by Mr. Goschen and by Mr. Chamberlain in their recent addresses to the Eighty Club ; but it is...

W E know of few incidents in modern history better worth studying than the profound impression produced upon the Continent by Mr. Gladstone's speech of Monday. It has worked a...

O NE thing which it is essential to understand before this struggle begins is the position of the Afghan Ameer, his ideas, his military resources, and the aid he can afford Us...

I T is with some mixture of feeling that we criticise the Lunacy Acts Amendment Bill. On the one hand, it introduces so many and such important improvements into the existing...

I N his last April sermon at St. Paul's, Dr. Liddon discussed the old, and yet ever new, subject of the so-called " progress " of the age and species. He drew a very graphic...

W E have been amused with some of the comments on the case of the "Queen v. Helmore," as marking, with other circumstances, an odd change in opinion on the subject of courtship....

MR. PARNELL'S PLAN FOR OBTAINING HOME-RULE. ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Every one interested in Irish affairs must be glad to see attention called to the question...

Sra,—I should be glad if I might be allowed to say a few words on a question of political casuistry which seems likely to come home to some of us who profess to be sincere...

LT0 THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I observe in the Spectator of April 25th a letter under the heading "Effect of Disestablishment," with the signature of Mr. Carvell...

THE "SPECTATOR." I you allow me to call your attention to the bearing -on the present crisis of a sentence in your excellent article last week, on "The Democracy and the Crisis...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Silt, — As Sir Spetcer Wells's address on "Cremation " (reported in the Times of April 24th) has drawn public attention to the subject of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.] SIR,--In the Spectator of April 25th, you published a notice upon a work of mine on Harrow School, and made an inference derived from an...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In reference to your note on Dr. Candlish's letter, does it not occur to yen that if the Scriptural prohibition of unlawful relations...

CO WPE R. As o'er the hushed hills and the sleeping plain, After long hours, the weary watcher sees The night grow pale, and hears amid the trees The wind that swooned at even...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.1 Tile great picture-show of the year—greater by five hundred pictures than it has formerly been—has had its "private view," and will open to...

TYPES OF ETHICAL THEORY. 4 [FIRST NOTICE.] THIS is unquestionably one of the most powerful of those not too numerous books which the rare philosophical genius of English...

Millard's Weird is a return on the part of Miss Braddon to her (and our) first literary love. It is welcome; we prefer this story to Ishmael, although it is not so clever,...

THE victory which the Chinese recently won in Tonquin, although it has been followed by what promises to be a pacific solution of the difficulty, at least for the time, will...

Tuts is an age of analysis, and particularly of that kind of analysis which is, perhaps, more appropriately termed a summary or epitome. What Mr. Green did for the England of...

NE. HALL CAINE is known to the reading public principally as the author of an interesting volume of recollections of the last 'days of Mr. D. G. Rossetti, which, though marred...

The Church Quarterly, April. (Spottiswoode.)—The most important article in this number is that which treats of the "Textual Development of the Greek Liturgies." The main...