S ERIOUS riots occurred in Paris on Sunday and Monday. A crowd of Anarchists were attending the funeral of one of their number, M. Conrnet, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise on...

THE RADICALS AND IRELAND. W E suppose we are bound to believe that there really has been a grave difference of opinion in the Cabinet as to the renewal of the provisions of the...

grave danger, latent in disturbances such as occurred in Paris on Monday and Tuesday ; but it is not exactly the danger Englishmen seem to fear. Neither the Red Revolution nor...

I T will, we think, be found necessary to bring in a short Bill virtually, though not nominally, repealing the clause in the Registration Act which disfranchises the labourer...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S speeches of late years always leave on us a curious impression of cowardice in an unusual direction. He never seems to have the courage to be as...

M R. DILLWYN has been for thirty years a close and keen observer of the procedure of the House of Commons. He is a Radical of Radicals, if that word is to be used in its old...

T HE Beaumont Trustees are wisely not content with administering a small fund with small results. They have at their disposal £12,000, left by the late Mr. Beaumont for the...

M ISS DOROTHY TENNANT, in her amusing and admirably illustrated article in the English Illustrated Magazine, on " The London Ragamuffin," makes the interesting remark that there...

T HE world does not gain much in direct knowledge from the new application of photography described in the Times of Wednesday, but it does gain something in the widening of our...

A REBEL in letters, the great dithyrambist to whom France is about to pay the last honours with forty thousand men to keep the peace, met with nothing but derision and...

DISFRANCHISEMENT BY MEDICAL RELIEF. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.. "] Sit,—The following incident will confirm what you say on the above subject. A few weeks ago, at a...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—It was suggested some time ago in the Spectator that a scheme should be set on foot for the purpose of granting small loans to...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In reference to your article, "A Word of Warning to the Liberals," in which you speak of a supposed desire of Radicals. to have their...

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sut,—In your first leading article on the 23rd inst., in alludingto the proposed renewal of certain portions of the Irish CrimesAct, you say...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "I Six, I read with regret in last week's Spectator the adverse -criticism passed upon the British Government for taking measures to protect...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—From your not inserting my answer to your view of the Scriptural prohibition of unions within the degrees of affinity, I inferred that...

Sin,—All friends and admirers of Dr. Martineau will highly value your careful, kindly, reverential notice of his great work. I think most readers will sympathise with your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SLE, — I think that women may justly complain of the tendency shown lately in the Spectator to lower the meaning of the beautiful word...

[To TILE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] So.,—In your review of Mr. Keenan's "Trajan," you say that its appearance in England has been " heralded by nearly as emphatic a enlogium...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR, —" The King sent books to Oxford." I only quote from memory, but I am certain of the lines as I knew them when a boy ; also of the...

fTo TEE EDITOR OF Tire " SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—The domestic cat is a wonderful animal; but I fancy your readers are not aware that they can open doors. I have one that always...

THE RELIGIOUS TEACHING OF HORACE. ODI PROFANUM. PREFATORY NOTE. [This Ode, as indicated by its solemn exordium, is the assertion of a religions and moral philosophy. It...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] IT is almost a truism that the second look at any picture gallery is pleasanter than the first; the pictures are our acquaintances at...

COLONEL ENDERBY'S WIFE.* THIS story has been rightly spoken of as involving a tragedy, and a tragedy of no ordinary power. In writing last week on the reasons why women so...

German and Dutch critics are with renewed eagerness tearing into more fragments the Hebrew books, and bringing them again out of their Medea's cauldron as Elobistic Documents,...

THE enterprising publisher of these volumes has undertaken to produce a collective edition of the dramatists who lived about the time of Shakespeare, and the cost and labour of...

"Fait all right judgment of men or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see the good qualities before pronouncing on the bad," is a maxim quoted approvingly by Carlyle in a...

Prayer for Peace ; or, the Evils and the Moral Uses of War. A Sermon preached in St. Michael's Church, Highgate, on Rogation 'Sunday, May 10th, 1885. By the Rev. D. Trinder,...

LONDON : MAY 30, 1885. BOOKS. TWO REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES.* THERE is perhaps no more interesting period in all history than that of the great French Revolution, and of the...

THE latter half of the nineteenth century promisee to be as prolific of memoirs in England as were the closing decades of the seventeenth century in France. But the journals,...

for lenient treatment, the author's pathetic preface would be enough to secure indulgent consideration. He is, as he tells us, the editor and publisher of a small evening...

novel, with a purpose cleverly carried oat. That purpose is one which the present writer has sometimes entertained, and it has a special interest for us. It is the delineation...

work, which has been translated from the French by Lady Claud Hamilton, remarks :—" The task expected of me is now accomplished, and the reader is here presented with a record,...

WE are compelled to say—and we say it with real regret—that as a writer of prose fiction, Mr. Buchanan is not fulfilling the great expectations raised by those singularly...

Copyright and Trade Marks, " treated more particularly with reference to infringement" (Stevens and Sons), is forcibly and clearly written. It claims attention, further, as...