of the largest and most orderly strike of which there is any record. Something like a hundred thousand men have been on strike, beginning with the dock-labourers, but the strike...

low salaries earned by the Irish teachers in primary schools, male and female, the average head-master's salary being £79, and head-mistress's, £66; while the average male...

the Czar has apparently given up the intention of returning the German Emperor's visit, and this though he is now at Copen- hagen, whence he could very easily visit Germany. The...

of the men on strike, and they have exerted themselves to prevent anything like the use of violence. Of course, a great many charges of intimidation have been brought, and no...

NEWS OF THE WEEK p ARLT A MTINT was prorogued yesterday in a speech made by the Lord Chancellor, in which the Queen gave the usual assurance that her relations with other...

case.

great enthusiasm on the part of the inhabitants, but by little else that is noteworthy. On Monday she lunched with Sir Theodore Martin, and afterwards visited Llangollen, where,...

full reports makes it impossible to give any detailed account of the result of the operations, it is clear that another proof has been given of the extreme difficulty of...

Parnell indicated a cautious approval. Mr. Wallace was very bitter on the billings and cooings which had been going on between Irish Members and the Government. He had at first...

an almost empty House,—a curious commentary on the interest which the New Radicals pretend to take in the inhabitants of our Asian possessions. The Under-Secretary dealt with...

what he said on University education. He did not conceal his regret "that the clergy had felt it their duty to discourage members of the Catholic Church from taking full...

Cretan question, contributed by, its correspondent at Athens, who appears to have a special knowledge of the con- dition of the island, and, indeed, to have played a...

presidency of M. Carnot, and the decree fixing the polling-day for the General Elections was duly signed. The ordinary voting is to take place on September 22nd, and the second...

the charge of conspiracy was concluded on Monday at Clonakilty. Both Members of Parliament were declared guilty of the offence charged against them,—the former being sentenced...

G. Hubbard) creates a vacancy in North Buckinghamshire, for which Mr. Hubbard (who now goes to the Upper House) was returned in 1886 by the very narrow majority of 71,—Captain...

about the popular enjoyment of Art and Literature. He held that "there is more innocent hypocrisy talked about the admiration of picture-galleries, than about any other sub-...

be operating with terrible effect. In 1884 there were 3,657 divorces ; in 1885, 4,123; in 1886, 4,007; in 1887, 5,797. But the most astounding statement made is that in the...

efforts on the part of the prisoners' counsel to get separate trials for the separate prisoners, and to press other dilatory motions. In the meantime, an attempt has been made...

books as "a sovereign specific for dissipating the petty cares and troubles of life," was not he, too, a little conventional? " Petty " cares and troubles no doubt they may...

rocks near Malta, has been raised, and was on Monday floated safely into port. The work of recovery, abandoned by the Admiralty, was carried out by an Italian Company, who are...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 97f-97i.

Daily News,—which published his letter on Tuesday,— enclosed a report he had received from Armenia of the out- rages of Moussa Bey, which appears to confirm all that has been...

THE STRIKE AT THE DOCKS. T HEgreat strike of the last ten days has in it aspects at once humiliating and encouraging. It is humiliating to see that there is so little knowledge...

just closed has been a humble Session,— indeed, to all parties something more than a humble Session, a humbling Session. The work done has neither been ambitious nor great. The...

TH E enterprise and sound judgment of the Manchester Examiner enable English readers to learn something of the real progress of social and political events in the United States...

I F King Milan of Servia, wished to make himself a puzzle to the European community which interests itself in Eastern politics, he may be said to have succeeded. Not every man...

M R. GLADSTONE'S letter to the Daily News of Tuesday last will not be pleasant reading for the most influential of his political lieutenants, Mr. Labouchere. Mr. Gladstone...

English rule in India cannot fairly be applied to Egypt. Burke declared that, were we turned out of Asia on the morrow of his harangue, we should have left nothing more to...

I T is something, after all, to live in an age of progress. In the old conservative days, it took a generation to work out a change which is now effected in a fortnight. Can it...

M R. AUBREY DE VERE had not, in all probability, read the discussion on "Astronomy and Theology" which appeared in these columns a few months ago, when he wrote the fine poem on...

T HERE can be little doubt, we think, that American illustrated magazines are decidedly better and, having regard to the quality of their engravings and the quantity of their...

.E VERY ONE remembers Addison's apologue of the Eastern King, who went through the vicissitudes of many years in the interval of time that passed between his plunging his head...

PAPAL INFALLIBILITY AND HISTORY. [To TER EDITOR OP THE " SPHOTATOB: 2 1 SIR, — Will you allow me to correct two misstatements which - your reviewer of Father Richardson ' s book...

Si, — You generously allow me a few words of reply "to' substantiate any misrepresentations of my meaning or any perversion of facts. " Of the latter there can be surely no...

[To THE NOME or THE " 871.CTLT011.”J SIR,—In the kind review which you have been good enough to give of my little book above named, there occurs a remark which I cannot allow...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The letter of Mr. Pearson in your issue of August 17th is a good example of the temper of Colonial secularists, with which a long...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR:1 am afraid the Indian Forest Officer's report on Manipur (not Minapur), as noticed by you in the Spectator of August 24th, must be...

"SPECTATOR.") Sfit,—Your correspondent has kindly pointed out my careless error in referring the well-known phrase to anything but to Wordsworth's "Poet's Epitaph."...

A VILLAGE PORTRAIT GALLERY.* "To all lovers of the rural life of Old England, this little book is respectfully dedicated, by the author." Such is the modest inscription on the...

A HOLIDAY SONNET. NORWAY, AUGUST 1Sra, 1889. ONE week, a thousand chimneys belching night Above the throbbing of a thousand mills :— Next week, deep hidden 'mid the towering...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In the Spectator of August 17th, you point out that from nineteen to twenty-two thousand deaths in India are each year reported as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] Ville de Paris,' mentioned in the Spectator of August 24th, was, according to the Navy Lists of that time, built at Chatham in 1795. She...

THERM is no novelist of our time whose work exhibits a greater equality of excellence than that which is to be found in the books of Mr. W. E. Norris. If, pace Mr. Grant Allen,...

Tars contains what one wants to hear about such visits. It is very well written, delightfully illustrated, and whilst accu- rate in all historical and scientific facts is...

THERE appears to be a demand just now for fine editions, and Mr. Nimmo understands how to supply it. These are two beautiful volumes, "printed on fine double-edge demy 8vo paper...

which is likely to prove of permanent value, though it is impossible to say what scrap of fact may be a thing of price to the historian of the future ; but they are very rich in...

There has just been issued the first number of a new artistic periodical, entitled the Dial, edited by Messrs. C. H. Shannon and C. Ricketts, and published by the former at The...

rarely read a story in which the signs of unskilful treat- ment and the absence of any real dramatic power were more man:- feat. The style is always commonplace, and sometimes...

(Longmans.)—This is in many ways not an ordinary atlas, and we think that its original features will win for it a wide and lasting popularity, not only in schools, for which it...

and Co.)---There is a curious attraction about these conversational dishes of Mr. Goodchild which, even when we are not at one with the opinions in them, compels us to read and...

or finished, and is evidently—too evidently—the result of amplified notes. Much is left unsaid that might well have been said, and the whole seems to want fullness. However, the...

an ordinary and commonplace love-story, is varied by chapters in which a love-sick young woman is carried about the planetary system and initiated into the geology and...

a translation of the life, or one might very well say, the adven- tures, of the "Master of the Law," by two Shamans. Hiuen- Tsiang, in the year 630 A.D., started on a great...

the convicts of Western Australia in the year 1848. Every one is agitated by a large reward-offered for the dis- covery of a fabulously rich gold-mine; one man only, the hero,...

378 Illustrations. (Longmans and Co.)—If, ELS the writers say, no general handbook of cryptogamic botany has appeared since 1857, it is time indeed that the gap was filled. The...

Williams, J. W. Taylor, and W. Denison Roebuck. (Swan, Son- nenschein.)—This is a capital little guide to "Shells." A great deal of the space is devoted to the anatomy and...

Company.)—Mr. Turnerelli, or "The Old Russian Traveller," as he evidently likes to be called, bursts upon us like a thunderclap, with an " authentic " story dating from the days...

Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Emerton's introduction takes in European history from 375 to 815 A.D. He has given a sufficiently clear summary of the forces at work which led to the...

(R.T.S.) —Though great pains have been taken to identify the animals mentioned in Scripture, and many have been identified, yet some seem still able to evade any classification...

given us a very useful guide to the granite quarries of the United Kingdom. He tells us where and what the granites are, to whom the quarries belong, and some of the monuments...

doubtless somewhat difficult to draw the line between our less common and our rarer birds. Mr. Dixon's ingenious title, at any rate, gives him great scope, of which he has not...

Perelaer. Trans- lated from the Dutch by the Rev. E. J. Venning. (Vizetelly and Co.)—The scene of this somewhat bloodcurdling tale is laid in Java, and the characters are...

Holden, St. Andrews.)—Professor Meikkjohn has produced a very readable geography, likely to help the young student to remember the dry facts. Everywhere the comparative method...

work, by an American author, and printed at the Eclectic Press, Cincinnati, appears to give a comprehensive and, in the main, clear account of the principal phenomena observed...

Case divides his Physical Realism into two parts,—" The General Proof of Physical Realism," and "Psychological Idealism." Both are interesting; the second part particularly so...