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against Alfred John Monson, of murdering Lieutenant Cecil Uambrough at Ardlamont, in Argyllshire—ended on Friday week in a verdict of " Not proven," which is said to have been...

Members who had spent Christmas in the country to travel back to London on Boxing-Day—when the trains and stations are much crowded, and many of the best trains are taken off....

older than any of our Monarchs or any of our Prime Ministers,—in short, than any one who could in any sense have been regarded as a ruler of England. Yet to him certainly the...

S 1GN OR CRISPI has another grave difficulty to meet besides the condition of Italian finance. The discontent which has been long smouldering in Sicily threatens to burst into...

£10,000 a year which is still to be paid to the Duke of Coburg in his capacity as a Prince of the reigning House in Britain. We think, as we have said elsewhere, that the Prince...

in the last Ministry, who died at his brother's seat at Ohevening, Sevenoaks, on Thursday, December 21st, took place on Wednes- day at Revesby, Lincolnshire. Mr. Stanhope's...

the poorer London parishes, who wished to employ the unemployed in making light railways, reclaiming tidal estuaries, and encouraging labour farms. The parishes declared...

exist also in the French. M. 016menceau and M. Lockroy are publishing statements, according to which the French ironclads lack stability, the torpedo-boats are neglected and...

or may not have a connection with Anarchism. The Omla- dine is a society supposed to be founded by Young Czechs for patriotic purposes ; but really, according to the leader of...

unaccountably died away. Having accumulated twenty- five thousand men at Melilla and much of the equipments, necessary for a campaign, they have demanded terms which, as...

miners who object altogether to any contracting-out clause in the Employers' Liability Bill, and from the various Trades-Unions which also oppose that clause. The general tenor...

of the Bechuanaland police, with forty men, half of them in the employ of the Chartered Company, have been cut off by the Matabele. Up to Friday afternoon, however, there was no...

the utmost importance—the cost of Private Bill legisla- tion—and quotes some remarkable figures on the subject taken from a Parliamentary return as to the sums spent in the last...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 98i.

blot on the Local Government Bill. That measure misses an excellent opportunity for protecting commons and open spaces, since it gives neither the Parish nor the District...

of " Howlers," so charming a list of blun- dering answers to examination questions, that we can hardly believe that it was not prepared by some artistic hand,—some one who loved...

the - first magnitude. On Wednesday, December 20th, the 'Re- solution,' a new first-class battle-ship, while proceeding to Gibraltar, encountered in the Bay of Biscay a gale of...

been carrying on against the Anarchists, but may mention here the incidents of the week. A doctor's house has been blown up in Austria, two attempts at explosion are reported...

the age of eighty-five, after a long life of scholarly culture and work. He will be remembered chiefly by his Roman histories and his lectures on the conversion to Christianity...

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT. P ARLIAMENT is at work again, and the Government will certainly take credit for surpassing all other Governments in industry and public...

Europe wishes it to be governed, that is, by Englishmen acting through an Egyptian Khedive, increases every month. Even our success tells against us. We have rescued the...

0 far as can be judged from the events of a fortnight, 10 the Continental Governments are prospering in their campaign against the Anarchists. The governing idea with them all,...

W HAT surprises us about the proposed change in the election of Poor-law Guardians is that the Gladstonians do not see the terrible moral danger, not to the rich, but to the...

I NTO the question whether those members of Mr. Glad- stone's Cabinet who are connected with trading companies have or have not behaved as well as their i opponents in the...

sible to say whether London has more than its share of this increase. But we should not be surprised to learn that it had. The notion that there is something to be got in London...

of ours upon the Duke of Edinburgh's annuity, hints that we are possibly biassed against the new arrangement by the fact that Mr. Gladstone has accepted it. That is an entire...

M R. TRAILL, in the New Review for January, writes a paper on "The Future of Humour," in which he seeks to reassure us that humour is not likely to die out, even though for a...

in the difference between violent presumption and solid evidence. We do not suppose Mr. Monson's closest friends would deny that when his trial began there was a violent...

B URGLARY is almost the only form of violent crime which at present shows no tendency to decrease. It .exhibits, on the contrary, a steady growth, both in the organi- sation and...

A LETTER FROM THE NILE. EGYPT, like Gibraltar, is a name which suggests cross-roads of thoughts. Is it the Bible for us ; or is it Herodotus ; or the Egyptological jargon of...

LT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The writer of the review on Major Griffiths' work on prison life, in the Spectator of December 9th, is apparently not aware of the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In the very interesting extracts from the late Miss Bagot's journal, communicated by her niece to the Spectator of December 23rd, there...

VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS AND BOARD-SCHOOLS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I cannot think that the writer of the article in your issue of December 23rd, on the Archbishop...

[To THE EDITOR OF THIO "BrillOTATOR."3 Sin,—In connection with yoar article under this heading, in the Spectator of December 23rd, I venture to communicate a personal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBOTATOR."] suppose my writing was indistinct, as my note appears in the Spectator of December 23rd with three misprints, viz.,- " Articus," " duch,"...

FIVE SONNETS. I.—THE RIVALS. MAN'S good and evil angels came to dwell As housemates, at his board and hearth alway ; One, secret as the night, one, frank as day, Both lovely,...

SIR, — The subject of reclaiming the Wash is naturally one of very considerable interest in the part of Nor- folk from which I take the liberty of asking you to con- sider a few...

NEW MEXICO.* ON the southern border of the United States there exists a territory which, though nominally a part of the great Northern Republic, belongs to it only in name....

,9. Will. When in the golden days of yore Thy favour I enjoyed (Though purely Scottish to the core), My bliss was unalloyed : Proud of a love that jealous fate . Methought...

THE fiction of the month is, in the main, disappointing. Well- known novelists have not been doing their best work, and though some fairly capable new writers have put in an...

beginning of the great war of 1870, Lord Beaconsfield warned an audience to which be was speaking that they must not, in the course of it, " expect dramatic oata.stroplaes." It...

Mail Gazette some of the little articles here collected, will be glad to welcome them in their new and more attractive setting. Some writing is more impressive if read in a...

a sort of semi-biography of a man of letters,—that is, of a man who, through almost two-thirds of his life, has made literature his means of earning a livelihood, and his joy...

tells the story of her childhood—for, of course, her own self is " the one that she knew best "—reminds us strongly of Madame Michelet's Story of my Childhood, and less directly...

Thackeray Ritchie. One hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. (Macmillan.)—This volume offers a rare combination of attractions. The delights of Miss Mitford's descriptions of...

(S.P.C.K.)—Archbishop Tait, Bishops Pattoson, Daniel Wilson, Samuel Wilberforce, Hannington, and G. A. Selwyn, with Lord Shaftesbury, Dr. Arnold, and George Moore, are the...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Log of a 24 Pilot. By the Rev. Thomas Stanley Treanor. (Religious Tract Society.)—A " sky pilot," in sailors' parlance is a clergyman generally, and specially a...

Shaw and Co.)—This is a thoroughly well-intentioned but very prolix and long. drawn-out story of two girls,—Nan, known in her own circle ae " Ladybird." and her capricious but...

volumes now before us are :—Rotanson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Sir Walter Scott's Talisman, Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Marryatt's Master:nen Beady, and Owen...

Wales. By Thomas Haughton. (G. Philip and Son.) —.The writer's object is best explained by the first paragraph of his preface :—" This manual follows the lines of the ordinary...

now periodical for children published in Paris, and a very good volume it is. It is most abundantly illustrated, many of the pictures being coloured, and very well coloured too,...

is nothing new to be said about the Album. It is no fault of the conductors that celebrities grow yearly more difficult to find, the world not being able to bring a really great...

—This is a volume of essays taking its title from the first, which is, perhaps, the least attractive of the set. Among the best we should put "The Oldest of the Arts," which is,...

Notes, by Peter Ross. Third edition. (Gardner.) —The Ballad-Minstrelsy of Scotland, Romantic and Historical, Col- lated and annotated. New and revised edition. (Same publisher.)...

B. Clive), are The Tutorial History of Rome, by A. H. Allcroft, M.A., and W. F. Masora, M.A. ; and The Intermediate Text-Book of English History (1485-1608), by C. J....

Bullen.)—Mr. Prideaux gives a very circumstantial account of bookbinding and the several masters of that most delightful of crafts. It is not too long, nor is it too compressed...

The dozen writers who furnish a tale each to this collection are all well known, and the sexes are equally divided. They are all good, for it is becoming a sine gut non of a...

innumerable traditions of ghosts, ghostly forms, and ideas relating to ghosts collected by Mr. Thiselton- Dyer, there are many curious and some beautiful legends. Beauti- ful is...

There is still room apparently for more histories of the "iron horse." Mr. Frith has collected some of the more remarkable inci- dents and events of railway history in this...

T. Jeffery Parker. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Parker was for some years Hunterian Professor of Anatomy. Men of science are well acquainted with his name ; to the public generally, he was...

Very Rev. P. White, P.P. (M. H. Gill and Co., Dublin.)— We have in this volume an account of Clare from the earliest times, and it is such an account as an Irish county is proud...

fine specimens of various processes of artistic reprodUction. There are two etchings by M. E. aaujean after pictures by Mr. Dandy Sadler, entitled respectively " The Rivals "...

the Danish of Jonas Lie. (Kagan Paul and Co.)---The student of folk-lore will be delighted with these gloomy legends of the Traug and the Gan-Finn, embodying as they do myths as...

(Cassell and Co.)—This is a book that suits its subject very well. Paris is, beyond all cities of ancient times and modern, a city of contrasts. What gaiety, and what horrors !...

Leech. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Gladstone is made to tell his Mr. Gladstone's Life, Told by Himself. Compiled by H. J. Leech. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr....