T HE Coronation of the Czar was completed at 11 o'clock on Tuesday amidst a magnificent ecclesiastical cere- monial, the new Monarch, according to precedent, first crowning...

the victory of the British, whose plan is to drive in the enemy upon their position in the Matoppo hills. The column with Mr. Rhodes advancing from Gwelo has not yet reached the...

this week from Crete. The Christian inhabitants of the island, who are about two hundred and seventy thousand in number, have been quarrelling with the Mussulman inhabitants,...

was visited on Wednesday evening with a terrible cyclone, which sunk many vessels in the Mississippi, overthrew most of the tall buildings, rooted up great trees, and so...

to announce publicly his preference for M. de Witte, the giant Minister of Finance, who has put the Russian Treasury straight, who has determined, it is believed, to introduce a...

case.

headed "A Warning," and directed against the policy of doming the Education Bill in compartments (in the way in which the Irish Home-rule Bill of 1893 was closured), which is of...

candid friends. He writes te yesterday's Times to suggest that the Government should withdraw their Education Bill for this year, and in place of it propose to Parliament to...

that the Presidential election this year will be a most un- certain one. There is no probable candidate who excites personal enthusiasm, and the two great parties are both split...

correspondent on the all-night sitting, which was published in Wednesday's Times. He defended the violent resistance to. the Agricultural Rating Bill which took place on the...

for the total absence of the hostility usually shown to the English delegates, who have hitherto annoyed their colleagues by insisting on sticking to business and leaving...

be repeated next year, when Queen Victoria will have reigned for sixty years, are semi-officially denied. The Queen's health, say her doctors, might be injured by the fatigue...

show that he never said that the Education Bill was intended to destroy School Boards and School Board schools. On the contrary, it was intended to preserve them so long as they...

but even his most prejudiced detractors must agree that it has had one excellent effect. It has forced the great benefit societies to turn their attention to the matter, and has...

Neil, complained that the landlords asked too high rents, and ought to reduce them. Lord Winchilsea replied that on his estate he was getting no rent at all, and not even...

in session during the week at Woolwich. On Monday Lord Winchilsea gave the inaugural address. During the last thirty years the Co-operators' capital has gone up from 21,000,000...

posals for an Income-tax in France that some new source of revenue must absolutely be discovered if deficits are not to be perpetual. Large reductions in expenditure cannot be...

by its correspondent at Constantinople, of Ahmed Izzet Bey, the favourite adviser of the Sultan. He was a lawyer, and has been a Judge, and since his introduc- tion to the...

in last Saturday's Times, explaining his position in regard to the Government's legislative programme. Mr. Dillon, he says, is deliberately wrecking the Irish Land Bill. The...

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THE QUEEN. T HERE is something in the position of Queen Victoria, as she approaches the confines of late old age, which deeply moves the European imagination. In all history...

at Moscow with which the papers of Wednesday were all filled, columns which seem to us heavy alike with splendour and servility, leave on our minds a single pre- dominant...

p ROFESSOR DICEY'S " warning " addressed to Monday's Times is thoroughly characteristic of the man,—candid, earnest, impartial, and perhaps we may add, a little hypercritical in...

right with a zeal which drives the Cretans from time to time to take up arms. Either they are unfairly taxed, or they are im- prisoned in too great numbers, or their women, who...

question which, with various forms of emphasis, is being perpetually repeated by the thousands of people who argue about agricultural depression. For the time, at any rate,...

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S Parliamentary strategy is a good imitation of the old constitutional style of weighty Opposition, but it is only a good imitation. It rings hollow and...

I T would be of real advantage to the clearness of their own thoughts, and occasionally to the welfare of those whom they seek to befriend, if Englishmen would consider a little...

I T is a curious fact that just at the time when we are all endeavouring to "educate our masters," as the late Lord Sherbrooke put it, the great feature of the higher educa-...

T HE death of Mr. David Gray, of Peterhead, removes an interesting figure from the ranks of practical naturalists and Arctic pioneers. Mr. Gray came of a family which for more...

B ICYCLING will, we believe, within a few years produce social effects of some importance. The notion that it is a -mere fashion or" craze," like the skating on little wheels...

TO MRS. HERBERT STUDD. AMID the billowing leagues of Sarum Plain I read the heroic songs, which he, the bard Of your own house* and lineage, lovingly Rath fashioned, out of...

pyramidum al- tins ; Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere, aut innumer- abilis Annorum series et fuga tem- porum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit...

LIBERAL CHURCHMEN AND THE NONCON- FORMIST CONSCIENCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have read the outpourings of Mr. Hugh Price Hughes, also the deliveries of Dr....

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—From the review in the Spectator of May 23rd, "Studies= in Monasticism," I see that Miss Eckenstein in her "Woman Under Monasticism"...

SIR THOMAS MORE.* MANY characters of the early Reformation were formed by it, and we can scarcely conceive of their separation from their -environment. But Sir Thomas More could...

far as it deals with the feats of horses, is of quite remarkable merit, containing, as Rolf Boldrewood says, in the short preface, "the best bush ballads written since the death...

man, and still more to the plain woman, who like their sentiment strong, and do not resent the obvious and expected, Correggio's pictures are oases in the desert of early...

for antiquarian and historical research, and some facts have been brought to light and errors corrected by the more critical study of ancient authors, the discovery of...

The Paget Papers will be regarded by historians occupied with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as a mine of valuable material for arriving at the true "inwardness" of...

The Fiddler of Calve is a weird story full of romantic beauty and pathos, which carries the reader away on the stream of its imaginative influence. It is a good tale, though a...

H. Belly.)—Dr. Rigg rightly claims for his book the dis- tinction of being the "only attempt to write anything like a history of Oxford High Anglicanism yet made by a...

of Burmah" seem to us somewhat wanting in style. The English is too much of the newspaper kind. But there is a good deal that is curious and picturesque in them. Surely it...

An Introduction to Folk-Lore. By Marion Roalfe Cox. (David Nutt.)—It would take us too far to examine Miss Cox's book in detail, but we may generally commend it to readers...

E. Tucker. (Doxey, San Francisco.)—Dr. Tucker, who died in San Francisco In 1891, was in his youth one of the first gold-hunters in Cali- fornia. In 1848, that province had been...

Co.)—This is a volume of pleasant little essays. Their first object is to describe Nature in New England, taking in the course of a year from autumn to autumn. Now and then the...

Co.)—Mr. Hallard is not without the critical faculty. This he exercises to some purpose in treating of Corneille and Racine. The essays on these two classics are well worth...

and Blackett.)—There is nothing startling or sensational in this story, nothing at all to disturb the even tenour of the narrative, yet there are two excellent characters in...

Introduction to Astronomy" will be found intelligible and interesting. As the author tells us that it was written under the supervision of Mr. Aldis, its scientific correctness...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Seebohm puts together from Greek sources, illustrating from Semitic and other records, the facts about Greek family relationships. He discusses...

Acland Armstrong. (Cornish Brothers, Birmingham.) — Mr. Crosskey began preaching very young, for he was little more than twenty-one when be accepted a settled charge, and he had...

D. Innes and Co.)—Mr. Brendon is a somewhat remarkable person, and not quite easy to realise. Still more remarkable and more difficult is his son Roger. His content with the...

"under the sanction of the Lord Bishop of London," and contains, besides general ecclesiastical information, full particu- lars as to the institutions, churches, societies,...

Co.)— " Harry Brancepeth" is indeed "spoilt." Indeed, we venture to think that she is impossible. She and her five brothers are, to our mind, caricatured copies of Di Vernon and...

by Dr. James A. H. Murray (Clarendon Press`, continues to appear in accordance with the new plan in a monthly instalment. We have before us, in the portion under the special...

Co.)—The writer of this volume went out in 1889 to learn farming from a settler near Strathcluir on the Manitoba and North- Western Railway. After a while he bought a farm of...