his frank avowal that Mr. Gladstone and the Home-rulers cannot and will not deliberate in public on their new scheme for retaining the Irish Members at Westminster, and yet...

more votes than their opponents, he declared the former to be "a stiff-necked and stubborn generation," sure of their duty and indifferent to success. He pointed out that " the...

His principal speech was made at the Colston Hall on Tuesday. After dwelling on the trials at Maryborough for offences against the law in the Gweedore riot (to many of which...

date, Mr. Loder, yesterday week. He was elected by a majority of 2,507 over Sir Robert Peel (7,132 against 4,625) ; and though the Unionists did not obtain so great a victory as...

case.

T HE Royal wedding in Greece came off on Sunday without a hitch. The day was beautiful, though oppressively hot, and the ceremonial in the Cathedral gorgeous, though so...

of Commerce on Wednesday, and in returning thanks for his health, alluded to the great value of India as a market. Our trade with the Empire amounts to £64,000,000 a year,...

was his parallel between the actual results of Home-rule in Crete and the probable results of Home-rule in Ireland. " Turkey parted with her authority and granted Home-rule to...

the Times, who is seldom inaccurate unless Austrian statesmen deceive him, has prospered greatly in his recent journey. He has secured the loan of a million for his Principality...

remarked of Mr. Morley's excuse for his reluctance to let the public gain any glimpse of the counsels of the Home-rulers, that there was very little analogy between that...

Hull on Tuesday. He pointed out that, taking the more recent by-elections, the last nine, from that at Birmingham up to that at Brighton, 32,000 odd Unionist votes had been...

expressions of tolerance for the " Plan of Campaign," and indignantly denied that any combination of the kind could go unpunished in England. "I tell you what world have been a...

murdering District-Inspector Martin during the attempt to arrest Father MacFadden, ended on Tuesday in the conviction of them all, except Father MacFadden, for the minor offence...

on Thursday with Mr. Barnum's new and enormous menagerie. In ten days' voyage, only four animals had died,—two horses, an ibex, and a monkey. Yet there were 200 horses, 16...

opening the new Literary Institute at Saltney, a suburb of Chester. He dwelt chiefly on the extraordinary change for the better in the general condition of the working class...

is now in possession of a new and for- midable explosive, the discovery of two engineers. It is called " ecrasite," and is of the nature of dynamite ; but its force is to that...

of some cricket-matches which has in it something of the pathetic as well as curious. The matches are played by the students of the College for the Blind at Worcester, who use a...

Thursday 961 to 97.

at Ormskirk, while giving prizes in the Grammar-School there, and said he thought the Act of 1870 had done most useful work, reducing the totally ignorant class to an...

is quite an unsafe place in which to show evidence of having a good watch, at least as regards those quieter thoroughfares where it is impossible to have police always on the...

its first loan at 2i per cent., accepting the best offers it can get above 88. It should raise the money easily at 93, two points below the price of 21 Consols, the security...

THE MEANING OF MR. MORLEY'S DEMAND. M R. MORLEY, in his speech at Bristol on Tuesday, made a demand which we are by no means disposed to treat with contempt, that the...

T WO views of the present situation in France have been published in London this week, which, taken together, have much instruction in them. One is by M. Gabriel Monod, the...

Price Hughes professes to think it a public scandal that any Bishop should regard the Sermon on the Mount as not in any sense intended to lay down the principles on which the...

federalism which we just now call Home-rule that almost escapes public attention. So far from relieving the statesmen who have to administer it, it overtaxes their intellects...

T "project of consolidating the Australian Continent into one powerful State has taken a great step forward. Most of the Colonies have been willing to co- operate in the work,...

fortune to win the approval of the Germans and the French, who have both strong reasons for knowing what it is and what it is worth. Nor is it surprising that each, after due...

T ORD DERBY'S speeches, though he is perhaps, of all public men among us, the one who best deserves to be called wise, will hardly live down through the ages as the sentences of...

S IR ALFRED LYALL'S " Verses Written in India "* will be read with the liveliest enjoyment and admiration by a great number of his fellow-countrymen, less on account of their...

THE WELSH TITHE QUESTION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sxn, — It is not easy to apportion the blame among those who have had a share in bringing about the present...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra, — The article, " A Universal Money," in the Spectator of October 26th, is very interesting. With regard to British money, I beg leave...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " 8nm-rims:I Siu,—In an article headed " Mr. Balfour and the People," you observe :—" At bottom, what Englishmen care for, and what influences them, is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Saa,—Irish " Catholics," as they choose to call themselves, must think the readers of the Spectator either very ignorant, or gifted with...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Your article (in the Spectator of October 19th) on "A Forgotten Element in the Land Question," argues that the Irish peasantry will not...

T11Ji NEW LIFE OF STEELE.* IT was not until the .present century that Sir-Richard Steele received the attention from men of letters to which he was entitled. His merit as the "...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The Home Secretary was reported the other day in the Times as saying at Birmingham that he always felt the move- ment for a Teaching...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." read with great pleasure the kindly and sympathetic article in the Spectator of October 26th, entitled "Bird-Life in Art," in which your...

[To rife EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sul,—Your remarks upon the artiCle "John Durie " will do good -service if they should provoke any young scholar to devote.several years of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—When in Ireland some years since, I heard a similar tale to that related in your issue of October 26th, with this exception,—that it...

and very far indeed from one the interest of which will be confined chiefly to professional theologians. Canon MacColl is master of a very winning and easy style, has studied...

" GREAT Explorers," by land and sea, are to have their " series " of handy volumes like everybody else ; and we do not know that the set of geographical books could have begun...

are not authors at all, but only unliterary cynics, are wont to accuse critics of reviewing books without previously taking the trouble to read them; and the ancient joke about...

Ismail, PASHA succeeded to the throne, if it may be so called, early in 1863. His way to it had been cleared by a curious acci- dent,—the submersion of a train as it was...

short article on Firdusi, the Persian epic poet, has just been published, and, like its predecessors, contains a vast amount of information carefully and almost painfully...

Nutt. (David Nutt.)—This is one of the books which, unfortunately for their chance of due appreciation, very few persons besides the author are competent to review. Mr. Nutt has...

The fourth volume of the new issue of Chambers's Encyclopceclia carries the reader from " Dionysius " to " Friction," and indicates even more completely than the three volumes...

Trench, and Co.)—Dr. Romanes writes in his first chapter : —" After centuries of intellectual conquest in all regions of the phenomenal universe, man has at last begun to find...

F. Aschrolt. Teanslated by Herbert Preston-Thomas. (Knight and Co.)—This is another of the many instances in which we English people have been indebted to a foreign observer for...

Wife. (Nelson and Sons.)—William Stevenson was an Irishman of the North, descended on his father's side from a settler who had come over with Cromwell, but having much Scotch...

annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. 3 vols. The Prose Works. 2 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Shepherd has gone back to the original editions for his text. While we wish to...

cutta.)—This volume, the work of a writer who is already favourably known for powers of observation and humorous description through his book on Indian natural history under the...

Nisbet and Co.)—Mrs. Sewell—her maiden name was Wright—came of a family of Friends. In afterlife she left this community, but did not find satisfaction for her religious...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Andrews (WO, North-Country Poets, 8vo (Brown) 5, Bayley (T.), Pocket-Book for Pharmacists, 32mo (Spon) 6/ Bennett (W. H.), On Varicose Veins, 8vo (Longmans) 6/ Besant (W.), The...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by hint at the " BrEcraroa" Office, No.1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

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Llb.bl OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.* THIS volume, which is " compiled, translated, and gathered from various published and unpublished sources," is the work of a translator...

THE intellectual life of Emma Lazarus is one of remarkable interest. She was the daughter of a Jewish family in New York. Her kinsfolk were of the orthodox section; but she...

and progress of English politics that the Fair-traders have never yet found their vates sacer. They have had many prophets, but all of the minor sort; and none of them have...

THE charm of this biography no doubt consists in the singular beauty of nature, and fineness of character and talent, possessed by those who are the subjects of it. The best...

ALTHOUGH a quarter of a century has gone by since the close of the American Civil War, it still remains one of the most epoch- making episodes of this century, and books on the...

not printed, but handed down orally from generation to generation, with much ceremony and solemnity, in former times by the priests. But in these latter days, even those who had...

THIS is an excellent piece of work, as good in its way as any- thing that Miss Yonge has done ; though we cannot but say that the style now and then shows signs of haste. (In "...

Mr. Ballantyne has worked out the vein which supplied the material for his previous works, he can still lay his stories of adventures amidst scenes comparatively fresh. In Blown...

Low and Co.)—This is an old favourite which it is scarcely neces- sary to praise. It is an American journal, and shows all the enterprise and spirit which our friends across the...

GIFT-BOOKS. Prince Prigio. By Andrew Lang. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.) —No one can read Mr. Lang's fairy-story without being reminded of " The Rose and the Ring." There is the...

a story of two hundred years ago, of the days when a good many people were looking to "King Monmouth" as the hope of Protestantism. A coach accident—we presume that Miss...

must be authenticated cases of children cast ashore alive from wrecked ships. Anyhow, it is a convenient way of bringing in one of the elements of a future surprise. An author...

E. Palgrave. (National Society.)—Miss Palgrave shows no little skill in the construction of her plot, and tells her story in a very pleasing way. The "rough times" are the...

Unwin.)—We do not know whether this volume is rightly classed under the head of "Gift-Books ;" but we are sure that it would be a good book to give. It contains between fifty...

his father plunge with a hunting party into the depths of the " Dark Continent," and meet with some very remarkable adven- tures. The father, indeed, is disposed of at the...

and Co.)— This is another of Mrs. Saxby's charming stories of Shetland life. The Yarl's Yacht is a continuation of " The Lads of Lunde," and we meet the Laird and the lads...

Goldenlea and Flower Callaway—Miss Bramston is clearly resolved to have names that have not been anticipated in fiction —make a cleverly contrived contrast. One is town, and the...

vols. (Ward and Downey.)—Sir Peter Critchett, a fairly amusing busybody, takes into his house a foreign-looking young lady who has been stranded in the neighbourhood by the...

and Co.)—Master Harold must have been a remarkably intelligent "boy of six," if he could dream, and, what is more, relate to his mother, on awakening, these very well-ordered...

Californian vineyards " relates the very narrow escape that a certain Jack Scott had of meeting with summary vengeance at the hands of the Vigilance Committee of San Pablo. A...

Son.)— This is a very spirited story of the sea, interspersed with pleasant and lively sketches of Scandinavian manners. John Humble is the son of a Swedish peasant, left an...

Co.)—The stories are in large, clear type, and very well suited for young readers. The pictures are good, the animals being for the most part well drawn ; but the horse's head...

Rev. C. R. Ball. (S.P.C.K.)—The " Old Parishioner " is, we may suppose, not a literary fiction, but gives us a view of Church matters from a layman's standpoint. The relations...

William Black. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The first of these three tales is one of the most striking and effective pieces of work that we have ever seen from Mr. Black's pen. John...

by Constance Majendie. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—This is the story of about fifty years (1838-1887), for it begins with the marriage of the Duc d'Orleans, and ends with the...

Co.)— Miss Barr has written here a fine story, as, indeed, it is her wont to write. If the restoration to right and goodness of George Pennington and the wonderful...

Trench, and Co.)—The first of the six tales collected in this volume is a very simple story of how a woodcutter in the Niederwald, not hearing of his son in the Franco-Prussian...

Co.)—This one-volume novel is all very well in its way— though we must confess that it seems to us a rather poor way—but we cannot help expressing our regret at seeing Mr....

Stoughton.)—This volume is a sequel to one noticed some months ago in these columns, and bearing the title of "Tempted London," and consists, like its predecessor, of papers...

A. S. Krausse. (Chatto and Windus.)—This seems to be a very complete book of its kind. Starting from Thames Head, we are conducted by it as far as Richmond, hearing by the way...

(Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Farj eon's latest story, which he calls "a novel," and which we should describe as a rather wild romance, resembles rather too closely the literary...

Sims. (Chatto and Windus.)—In these papers, reprinted from two news- papers, Mr. Sims's facts do not always justify his arguments. His taste is sometimes questionable; but his...

Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—We turned naturally to the chapter on " Sordello," and found it most interesting reading. Once at least the commentator owns himself baffled by his...

vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—This is a work to make the judicious grieve. Mrs. Pender Cudlip has been before the public for about a quarter of a century; and though we have had...

Edgar, who has already made his mark by his work on " Old Church Life in Scotland," has given here to the public a very valuable "plain account for plain people of the principal...

(Cambridge University Press.)—Mr. Dimsdale begins with a useful introduction, in which he summarises the available information about the authors (ten in number, it would seem)...

Frances Marie Norton. (G-. Eedway.)—The publisher describes this as "the new American novel," and the author speaks of herself on the title-page as " the only sister of Charles...

Library.)—The volume before us contains the second or "miscellaneous" portion of the Barton collection of books (the first is " Shakespearian ") belonging to the Public Library...

by J. J. Thomas. (Fisher Unwin.)—The author of this criticism of Mr. Froude's " English in the West Indies " died shortly after its publication, owing it is said, to the...

W. Skeat, Litt.D. (Clarendon Press.)—Professor Skeat begins by discussing the question of the genuineness of the minor poems attributed to Chaucer, after first giving the...