T HE news from Constantinople is almost disastrous. Information that "disorders "—that is, massacres insti- gated by authority—have occurred all over the Empire accumulates at...

evidently confides, draws an alarming picture of the con- dition of Syria. The Druses are said to be in revolt, and the Sultan has called out a kind of lerie en masse to put...

liable have ended this week in convictions. The two selected to be tried first were his conduct in regard to the Lands Allotment Company, and in regard to the House and Land...

case.

enabled the Goveinment to state clearly its position in the East. It is one of absolute accord with the other five Powers, and of menace to the Sultan, who was distinctly warned...

of the Madagascar Expedition. The question was brought up on Wednesday in the form of a demand for inquiry into the sufferings of the soldiers, which the Radicals attributed to...

With the " Sexcfrroa " of Saturday, December 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

M. Delafosse is noteworthy as marking the points at which thoughtful Frenchmen consider that their much-praised administrative system breaks down. M. Delafosse, speaking, of...

Morley to come forward as the Radical candidate, in place of Mr. Shiress Will, Q.C., the sitting Member, who has announced his intention to retire. Mr. Morley was told that if...

Wednesday to impress upon him the wrongs which Wesleyan children suffer in the denominational schools of the Church of England, where they must either renounce all religions...

what Mr. J. S. Brownrigg, the secretary to the National Society, shows still more conclusively, in a letter to the Times of last Wednesday, that nothing can be further from the...

a passion both in Germany and Austria, was fully expressed on Saturday, in two speeches in the Austrian Reichsrath. In one of them, Dr. Lueger, who, it must be remembered, was...

his health, given at a banquet at the Manchester Conservative Club, remarked that out of the 70 seats in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire 61 had been filled by Unionists....

one of the very few poets among the present aristocracy. He died yesterday week. His first poem, " Philoctetes in Lemnos," was probably his best, and a very fine study in the...

by encouraging the production of beet. A tax, ex- pected to yield £1,570,000 a year, is to be laid on the importation of sugar, and of this amount £1,000,000 is to be expended...

favour of the proposal to establish a new teaching University of London, and to unite that University with the present examining University, as was proposed by the recent...

Royal Society of Literature by an interesting paper on poetry. The drift was rather to minimise (we think, even excessively) the significance of metre and rhyme, and to treat...

which is endorsed by English witnesses. The Hovas did fight a little when Antananarivo was attacked, but, nevertheless, when the French got in, they maintained perfect order....

of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, for the pur- pose of erecting a memorial to the late Professor Huxley, the eminent biologist and the founder, as we may call him, certainly...

to the Speaker who so recently resigned the Chair of the House of Commons—Viscount Peel,—for their new Rector. Lord Bute obtained 120 votes to 80 given to Lord Peel. We sup-...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 1071.

THE POSSIBLE EXTIRPATION OF THE ARMENIANS. -E NGLISFIMEN have a great difficulty in believing that the dominant party in Yildiz Kiosk intend, or at least intended till Europe...

M R. JOHN MORLEY is about to return to political life after the extremely short interval which has elapsed since his defeat at Newcastle. The Montrose Burghs will, no doubt,...

T HE news from Germany is not good. Statements reach us from all sides that a change has passed over the Emperor's mind with regard to Socialism, and the kindred body of opinion...

regard to the question of primary education by the deputation who waited on Lord Salisbury on Wednesday, on behalf of the Wesleyan Conference, is one which, to whatever...

Jabez Balfour is a heavy one, being practically, for a man of his years, imprisonment for life; but few will feel in their hearts that it is an unjust or severe one. He did not...

School of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, set forth fully not only Professor Huxley's great services as a scientific man, but also his many great moral qualities, especially...

I T is long since a contest for a University seat has excited much notice beyond the limits of the con- stituency. In the case of Dublin, this indifference is due in great...

M R. SULLY, in his very interesting and popular book on "Studies of Children,"* devotes a good portion of his attention to the origin of sympathy in their hearts, and is...

" I NEVER knew what England was," said the late Lord Derby, in the hearing of the present writer, "until [was Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Then I discovered that this country...

"VT R. RUDYARD KIPLING has reserved for the climax of his epic of the Jungle the triumph of Mowgli over the red-dogs of the Deccan. Nothing in his inimitable series of pictures...

A VISIT TO THE LIBRARY OF R. L. STEVENSON, AT VAILIMA, SAMOA. [To THE EDITOR OY THE " SPECTATOR.'] "And the stately ships sail on To their haven under the hill, But 0 for the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTA.TOR."] SIR,—In your article on "Magnificence," in the Spectator of November 9th, you say that millionaires of to-day have done nothing towards...

suggestive paper on " Magni- ficence" in the Spectator of November 9th, it may be of interest to remind your readers of the fact that it has long been the custom in Italy to...

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is refreshing to read comments upon the affairs of Australia, however short, which do not unwittingly proclaim...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a kind notice of Mrs. Trail's "Pearls and Pebbles," in the Spectator of November end, you express a doubt whether she is still...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR:] Sin,—For nine years I lived under the shadow of a rookery, and took notes of proceedings there. It was not a very old one, but a recent...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPZCIATOR:] Srn,—About a fortnight ago I was given a fox-terrier, on condition that if it did not suit me I should return it to the donor. Last Sunday...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:7 SIE,—Having read in your paper many curious stories illus- trating the instincts of dogs and eats, it seems to me that the following,...

some mancenvres of an army of rooks in Normandy, may be of interest to some of your readers. Early in this month I was passing along the valley of the river Eure, in Normandy,...

SIR,—I have two dogs, a spaniel and a little Highland terrier, also a cat. The latter has a kitten, born last Monday week. All the rest of her family were drowned, and this, I...

interesting article on "Recent Rat- lore," in the Spectator of November 96, the incidents named from Mr. 31. C. Barkley's graphic "Studies on Rat-catching," suggest my writing...

LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS.* THERE is very little that is actually new in this volume,---only some ten or eleven letters and notes not included in former col- lections, which throw...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,.. -Referring to your correspondent's letter, in the Spectator of November 9th, noticing the faculty which bears possess of putting two...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article in the Spectator of November 9th, under the above heading, you remark that rats transporting eggs on level ground, were...

A ROBIN. WHAT art thou doing there, Robin, sweet Robin, On yonder bough so bare, Singing, or sobbing ? Through the long summer days Heard wert thou rarely : Lark, thrush, and...

given us quite enough of the diary which he wrote during his travels in Europe and America in 1893, to make us wish either that he had kept fuller records of his experiences and...

reminiscences inherited much of that strong conscientiousness and true benevolence that dis- tinguished her father, William Freud. Her earliest recol- lections are of Sir...

Mn. NISBET BAIN deserves great praise for having compiled • so satisfactory a biography of Hans Andersen. Andersen is a person of whom it is comparatively easy to turn out an...

MR. S. R. CROCKETT'S romance of the days of the Covenanters is a strong, stirring, and picturesque story, which it is im- possible to read without interest and admiration. It...

THE most unlettered of great Reformers of the sixteenth century has become of recent years the special favourite of literary men. The vindication to which Knox confidently...

is with considerable pleasure that we resume our acquaintaace with Boris, the Bear Hunter. This time he shares with two English brothers, in the service of Peter the Great, the...

relate the life of three sisters on board a man-o'-war is not many, and our young readers will probably find in the seafaring life of Sally, Jane, and Caroline, something quite...

"Story-Hunter" conceives a notion that by hypnotising likely individuals and then compelling them to relate some strange experience, he will be able to get narratives truthful,...

five " Work-a-day Stories" there are scene capital sketches of character and considerable pathos, and the writer has made very effective use of that abundant material provided...

(R.T.S.)-1 read- able little story is Bob, with some good girl-characters in it and an obvious moral. Children will have no difficulty in admiring the courageous obstinacy of...

GIFT-BOOKS. Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford University Press, has put forth three very beautiful editions of Wordsworth's Poems, edited by Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., who is,...

and Co.)—The heroine Brownie makes her appear- ance in a Welsh village under somewhat tragical circumstances,— her father dying without leaving any information as to what her...

Sons.)— English children will be interested in this pretty little sketch of the life of two little boys in Japan. Ernest and Humphrey seem to enjoy themselves fairly well, and...

Co.)— We have nothing but praise for these stories, which recall to us many famous fields and heroic acts which have earned the Victoria Cross. All the narratives are clearly...

Co.)—We cannot say that the people we read about in For Honour's Sake are very interesting. They have their troubles and trials, and the story of them is readable; but there is...

and Son.)—This story of life in a girls-school, a continuation, some readers will be interested to know, of "Ida Cameron," by the same author, is more successful than most of...

more do the old " properties " do service for a story of adventure. An old hunter leaves a map to his nephew with which he is to find a mountain of gold somewhere beyond the...

Fenn. (W. and R. Chambers.)—We recognise some of Mr. Fenn's best-known characteristics in this" Story of the Civil War." He has a way of making himself master of the details of...

Henry and Co.)—No reader can possibly complain of want of variety and excitement in this tale. We are taken quite beyond the bounds of ordinary adventure. Captain Betterton and...

Co.)—This tale, a story of New Orleans, is not the less charm- ing because the plot, in one or other of its variations, has done duty many times. Ola, daughter of a poor...

family of girls would behave so badly to a cousin as the young Lynns do, and yet we are to believe that these young ladies put every imaginable insult on their cousin Margaret....

& Co.) —A thoroughly wholesome story is Ship Daphne, and one that can be read with appreciation by any one who likes to hear some- thing of business life in the city and...

children may be mentioned together. These are The Rosebud Annual (James Clarke and Co.) and Little Folks (Cassell and Co.) The illustrations in both keep up the improvement...

Co.)—This story of "a lost Napoleon" is a romance, one might almost say of the extravaganza species. We doubt whether the author is justified in inventing—for we suppose he has...

Christian Year and the De Imitatione Christi. Each has two forms of binding, "German Calf" and " Mogador Levant." The admirable Oxford paper permits the quite legible printing...