case.

O'Brien's were perhaps in some respects the most note- worthy of the debate. Mr. T. W. Russell was very impressive. He showed,—what, indeed, Mr. Parnell had avowed weeks...

weight of their speeches into attacks on the Resident Magistrates, dealing at great length with the Killea.gh case, in which it is admitted that the Resident Magistrates...

Y ESTERDAY week Mr. John Morley gave notice in the House of Commons that he would move, "That in the opinion of this House, the operation of the Criminal Law and Procedure...

close of his speech, effective. He calmly maintained that the tears shed over Norah Fitzmaurice are crocodile tears, and that there is no more connection between the Kerry...

on Tuesday, when it ended with a majority of 93 for the Government in a full House, containing, with tellers and Speaker, 644 Members (273 against 36o). It was not, in our...

of Mr. Benjamin Harrison, lawyer, of Indiana, formerly Brigadier-General during the war, as the candidate of the Republican Party for the Presidency. The result was partly...

in person, amidst unusual ceremonial and display, the occasion being considered so grave that the King of Saxony and the Regent of Bavaria, who are Catholics, were permitted to...

Paris. The Panama Lottery Loan has failed, the advantages offered to subscribers not being sufficient, and lotteries not attracting the cool-headed peasantry. There has been a...

nearly as important as that to the German Reichstag. The King, after the regular reference to his father and to his grand- father's "glorious reign," declared his resolution to...

(Experimental Works) Bill on its second reading by 307 to 165, a division the more remarkable because Mr. Gladstone made a speech for the Bill, explaining that his own...

being marked, however, here and there by an accent of scorn that was in excess of wisdom. He commented on the singular ingratitude with which the Opposition treated the...

on authority which is believed both in Suakim and in London, that a "White Pasha," with a considerable force, has appeared at Bahr-el-Ghazul, and is threatening Kordofan, to the...

in which he appealed for subscriptions to the memorial which it is proposed to raise to Matthew Arnold. Our readers will find this letter reproduced in our advertising columns,...

retain part of the licensing clauses in the County Government Bill. They tried their strength twice on Thursday, but twice failed. Sir W. Harcourt, who has suddenly discovered...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 99i to 991 ad.

Bulgaria, the Ministry consenting to a compromise. The sentence of the court-martial on Major Popoff was confirmed, but he was exonerated from all penalties except the loss of...

Dr. Mackarness, Bishop of Orford, on the ground of ill-health. He has throughout shown a manliness and independence worthy of the English Episcopate, but not often regarded as...

seventeen of them have signed it, while a minority of eight, consisting of Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Lyulph Stanley, Mr. Henry Richard, Sir Bernhard Samuelson, Dr. Dale, Mr. Sydney...

prosecute the Bishop of Lincoln, which we treated with some- thing like scorn the other day, is regarded as serious, and it is even said that if persisted in, the case will be...

our hands. The Governor of Natal has telegraphed to the Colonial Office that Dinizulu, the heir of the relics of Cetewayo's power, on June 23rd attacked Usibepu, a chief under...

THE UPSHOT OF THE IRISH DEBATE. AI R. GLADSTONE'S wish that the Irish debate should have lasted for at least six nights instead of two, betrayed a limitless confidence in the...

of Germany has delivered this week, one as Emperor to the Reichstag, and one as King to the Prussian Diet, completely bear out the impression produced by his earlier utterances....

W E rather regret, for one reason, that the Government did not leave the Channel Tunnel an open question. They were quite right from a constitutional point of view, for the...

T "prevalent idea in this country that Mr. Cleveland is already assured of his second election may not prove quite exact. He is no doubt by much the more attractive candidate....

four years, Mr. T. W. Russell passed his life as a Temperance agitator. The whole of his wonderful gift of speaking, of his indomitable courage, of his unflagging enthusiasm and...

W HEN a child of seven can recognise distinctly in the phonograph the voice of a friend which he has not heard since he was five, we may feel pretty sure that that marvellous...

Pi-l "Paradox Club," to which Mr. Edward Garnett has ust introduced us in an agreeable little book* distin- guished by a good deal of poetical feeling, appears to use the word "...

I T is certainly not from meanness or from want of interest in scenic display that the British people has for two hundred years consistently refused to subsidise the theatre. If...

I N a volume which we owe to the enterprise of Mr. Elliot Stock,* we find arranged conveniently for reference the prices paid during last year (to speak accurately, December,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR," I Sm„—One whom I am privileged to call my friend, the Bishop of Jamaica, wrote to me some time since to call my attention to certain...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—In the very appreciative review of "Christian Economics" in the Spectator of June 23rd, there is a suggestion made which I should...

THE .A.YR ELECTION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] 'Sra,—In the extremely interesting article, entitled "The Defeat in Scotland," which appeared in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I thank you for your kindness in publishing my former letter in the Spectator of May 12th. Having read the recent discussion upon this...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] beg to call your attention to an error in the Spectator of June 23rd, in the second notice of the New Gallery. My brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I can bear out Mr. Andrewes Reeve in his testimony to the eagerness of persons of small education to get at the originals of the...

HANDEL.* WERE it not for the incontrovertible testimony afforded by the great Festival which ended yesterday, one might almost be led to suppose that the popularity of Handel...

SONNETS IN MY LIBRARY. GIBBON'S "MEMOIRS." I. HE lived to learn ; to watch his knowledge grow ; Nightly to question what advance precise Twelve hours had given to that tide...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Four months after its publication, your literary critic has been good enough to notice our book (Spectator, Saturday, June 23rd)....

KING for a hundred days, a hundred years Shall not undo the greatness of thy reign, Lord of a realm no sovereign might of pain Could crush, nor death with its ten thousand...

admirable illustration of the old truth that "one touch of Nature makes the whole world kin." It is a volume which records the experiences of a very young woman, not during the...

him should be written, the editor of these volumes has been placed in difficult circumstances. To print the correspondence without some biographical details would have been to...

CHARLES LAMB, recalling the childhood he spent as a young Templar, counts among the sights and associations that so thrilled him as to become influential and abiding memories,...

Edmund Gurney, at an age when he was but beginning to do the work for which he was so admirably fitted, is a very great misfortune not only to the "Society for Psychical...

partial portraits is full of clever writing and pleasantly suggestive criticism on books and men of letters. In it he shows an excellent faculty for getting at the heart of...

IT is odd—or is it a proof of the magnificent " thoroughness " of the tyranny of Presbyterian Protestantism in the North ?— that Dr. Bellesheim, a German scholar, should be...

THE work of the Spaniards in Southern and Central America was taken up by the English in the Northern Continent, with at first very much the same motives, and upon not...

Co.)—This is a book of Australian scenery and sport. The scenery occupies more space than the sport, nor will this be an objection in the eyes of most readers. Of animals to...

By Walter Tomlinson. Edited by John H. Nodal. (J. E. Cornish, Manchester.)—This is a handsome volume, appropriately illustrated. Exhibitions are a glorified sort of...

Sacred Song : a Volume of Religious Verse. Selected and Arranged, with Notes, by Samuel Waddington. (Walter Scott.)— A selection of sacred verse satisfactory to a student well...

and Co.)—The young lady from whom this story gets its name is an attractive creature who, seeming at first to be little more than a flirt, turns out to be a woman of sterling...

the advice of one who has made the game of cricket a lifelong study," have issued these reprints of three once popular books on the game. The first is "Nyren's Cricketer's...

HARVEY — MADILEY. — On June 23rd, at St. Matthew's, West Kensington Park, London, by the Rev. W. 0. Tucker, Vicar, brotherin-law of the bride, Henry Samuel Bourn, youngest...

incomparable of its kind, The Book of Nonsense. By Edward Lear. (Warne and Co.)—This is the twenty-fifth edition, and contains all the original pictures and verses, the...

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MR. SAINTSBURY'S ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE.* IN a volume of about 450 pages, Mr. Saintsbury has en- deavoured to give a complete view of the actual literary performance of the...

IN his latest Oxford lectures, Mr. Freeman once more enters the lists against the opponents of his view of the Teutonic conquest of Britain. As all the world knows, Mr. Freeman...

Miss FLORENCE WARDEN always supplies us with one class of literary wares, so we have a very good general idea of what to expect when we open a book with her name upon the title-...

to find that Mr. Brown has not been able to keep up to the level of his first essay. It is extremely probable that the subjects of the book before us are not so well suited to...

THE regular appearance of the volumes of The Dictionary of National Biography every three months exactly on the quarter- days, is not the least remarkable characteristic of...

two murders achieved and one murder attempted, and its early chapters are, therefore, full of promise for readers who love condiments. As the provision of these condiments...

Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co.)—This work, by a member of the Cape Civil Service, and mainly compiled from the original official records of the Colony, after an introductory...

Edition. (Macmillan and Co.)—The first edition having appeared in. 1862, the author has taken the opportunity of thoroughly revising and enlarging his treatise, and of adding...

these tales have a fascination in them, thin as they are. But they certainly are of the goldbeater-skin kind of literature,—beaten out into a texture as thin and fine as it is...

The Pillar House. By Florence Severne. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a tale of considerable power, of the drift of which we cannot even give a hint without greatly...

Marzials. (Walter Scott.)—In spite of a fantastic style which constantly draws the reader's attention to its eccentricities, this is an in- teresting volume, and shows that...

P. Putna,m's Sons.)—Professor Glisan is a physician of eminence in the United States, and he visited England, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy some five years ago. It is...

Chequers " is a shady sort of public-house, where the "Loafer," extracts from whose diary are supposed to be here given to the public, met various strange characters. The plan...

(D. Appleton and Co., New York.)—The principal portion of Mr. Patton's work is devoted to the mineral resources of the thirty- two States, which, incalculable as they are,...

Shakespeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. (Blackie and Son.)—The volume contains the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI. These are supplemented by the drama...

and Co.)—This is an account of a cable-laying expedition on the West African Coast, which, starting from Bathurst, ended at St. Paul de Loanda ; the writer's narrative,...

gigantic ranges of mountains separate the sea- coast towns of Peru from the Montana, that magnificent country which, starting from the slopes of the Eastern Cordilleras,...

of the life of two Anglo-Indian children. We find in it insight into the feelings and imaginations of children ; and a happy description of the surroundings and events, ordinary...

and Co.)—Lord Ronald Gower introduces this "description of some photo-prints illustrating objects of art at Gower Lodge, Windsor," by some good-humoured observations on the...

of boisterous humour and with an apparent appreciation of the rough, unrefined, occasionally vulgar life of these up-country colonists. "A Night's Drive" is a brisk account of...

set out on that !- as soon as we become conscious agents at all ; and how many we find even of those who mean us no harm, even of friends and more than friends, to help us along...

most interesting of these discourses is that preached after the decision of the Court of Session on the Cardross Case, and setting forth, under the title of "The Spiritual...

Woodford, D.D. Edited by H. M. Luckock, D.D. (Rivingtons.)—Bishop Woodford was thought by many to have received the mantle of Samuel Wilberforce, whose disciple he had...

Co.)—This book, originally written in the form of letters by one who was for a few years a Government official at Sierra Leone, gives a slight and sketchy description of the...

can a man sincerely believe himself, and yet hold that relation to those who believe otherwise that is expressed by the word " tolerance "? If he does not solve it, it is...