been to St. Petersburg with the deputation to the Czar, was interviewed by the editor of the Neue Fret's Presse. He declared that "the grateful feelings which Bulgarians enter-...

more favourable to the Unionist party than the popular majority obtained by adding up the total votes would have warranted us in expecting, that it has excited a good deal of...

and the Government is being asked to give more explicit information in order to quiet the fears of those who are misled by false and slanderous rumours as to the difficulties...

case

T HE final majority of the Unionists in the House of Commons is 152, the Orkney Election, which is certain to issue, as usual, in a Gladstonian choice, being now the only one...

on Thursday week (the poll was not declared till late yesterday week) by an increased majority, a result on which we heartily congratulate both South-East Cornwall and Mr....

Press Association's Chester correspondent, that the Duke of Westminster had been in negotiation with Mr. Gladstone, with the result that Mr. Gladstone had intimated his wil-...

and too strong a man for Colonial Secretary. He would be sure, said the prophets, to get the country into difficulties with Mr. Rhodes. Well, they have had their first...

is admitted by the Macedonian Committees that the insurrection has proved a failure. The Turkish troops seem to have acted with promptitude and vigour. They cut off all the...

Russell Reynolds, is also President, for the year, of the British Medical Association, which commenced its sixty-third annual meeting on Tuesday at the Imperial Institute, where...

been occupying the Parisian press during the past week, have raised the question,—Can the President of the Republic and his Ministers conclude a secret alliance, or at any rate,...

Session in London during the past week, the most interesting discussion was that on "Tropical Africa and its Development by the White Races." In this discussion Sir John Kirk,...

letter on public-house reform, entitled "A Temperance Eirenicon." The present moment, he thinks, and we agree with him, offers an excellent opportunity for trying to solve the...

'Courtney, no doubt sturdy independence is a very valuable quality, but we think he greatly underrates the difficulty which this quality would introduce into the working of...

Holiday Fund—one of the most useful and best managed charities in existence—for there is a danger that the excitement of the Elections may have caused the appeal of the Bishop...

a conversation between Slatin Pasha and the Secre- tary of the Anti-Slavery Society. The slave trade in the Soudan is more rampant now than ever. When a raid is made on any of...

'held throughout France. The Councils not only act as County Councils for the Departments, but elect the Senators. The battle was in effect between the Socialists and Anti-...

on Thursday that he must resign his chairmanship in consequence of his appointment as Secretary for India, made a very conciliatory, as well as a very interesting, speech, in...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1071-1071.

THE MONARCHY AND THE COMMANDER-IN- I T is with very deep concern that we notice the con- tinuance of the rumours that the appointment of the Duke of Connaught as...

I T is sometimes said,—Carlyle said it often, and with bitter raillery,—that the English Parliament had reduced government to a matter of words, to a babble- ment, to an...

have been making great play with the Russian Alliance. One paper announces that the alliance really does exist, another that it is far closer than that of the Central Powers,...

W E do not wonder that the minds of some of the greater statesmen of the Unionist party have been much exercised on the subject of the Speakership. The election of Mr. Gully was...

feeling abroad that in the new House of Commons legislative enterprises will be undertaken and carried through because the nation really needs them, and on lines really...

elections in France is seldom excessive. They have only a remote con- nection with politics, though, as seems to be the case everywhere, they are usually fought on political...

going to discuss at the British Medical Association the subject of "morbid doubt." We should have thought that they ought to have joined with that subject the very closely...

T HE President of the Museum Association, which has been holding its annual meeting at Newcastle, protests once more against the current notion that "museums should be made...

T HE Round Pond and the Ornamental Lake in Kew Gardens have become, during the last ten or twelve years, scenes of a very busy and stirring community life. From forty to fifty...

THE GENERAL ELECTION. pro ma EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I have made an analysis of the polling in the Election, which is now all but over, that may be of some interest....

Sia,—It will perhaps be of interest to present a summary of the actual votes cast at the Elections, counting the Orkney result as similar in 1895 to that of 189:2. In the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOR."1 SIR, — Perhaps I ought to say a few words in reply to your article on the above subject in the Spectator of July 27th, as my name is...

OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — The Spectator has, I think, failed to appreciate the full extent of the railway men's hostility to the late Government. In addition to Crewe, the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR..] SIR,—May I put a question to Father Vaughan through your columns ? A man comes to him and Bays: "A year ago I starved a horse to death. I was...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE SPECTATOR:} SIE,In your very kindly notice, in the Spectator of July 27th, of my "Britain and Her Rivals," there is a sentence which must be due to a slip...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] Sine...III the Spectator of July 13th and 20th your corre- spondents suggest that parents are ready to pay for educa- tion, if thereby some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—As you sometimes insert incidents illustrative of natural history, the following may be interesting to some of your readers :—About...

WILLIAM THE SILENT.* IT was no light task to which Miss Putnam set herself, viz., to write a life of the great Stadtholder of the Netherlands, William the Silent, to depict...

THIS is a very clear and pleasant edition, in five volumes, of the best known and, on the whole, perhaps (with three exceptions) most remarkable of Mr. Bagehot's works. It does...

PERFECT impartiality is generally long-winded, and very often dull. To state all the pros and cons of a question, and weigh them carefully in an absolutely even balance, is...

A GARDENING-BOOK by "E. V. B." is always sure of a welcome, and A Garden of Pleasure will be no exception to the rule. Mrs. Boyle is such a true lover of her garden, that she...

THIS book, which aims at giving English readers a general view of the social conditions and the popular movements of Germany at the period of the Reformation, is remarkable for...

HORACE, if he is the despair of translators, lends himself very happily to adaptations, serious or grotesque. Not to speak of Pope's famous imitations, we have lately had,...

THE shadow of the General Election is over the magazines, and on all sides there are attempts to explain its meaning and emphasize its leading incidents. In the Nineteenth...

My First Book. With an Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome_ (Chatto and Windus.)—Twenty-two authors, Mr. Jerome among them, tell the story of how their first book came to be...

Co.) —This is a story of essentially modern Ireland, which is yet written in that style which made Irish novels of a generation ago so very popular to readers of that period. In...

author of "The Green Carnation" presents in his new book nothing of the character of a chronique eeandaleuse, but only a very remarkable study of a man who, brooding over the...

, stable.)—These are undoubtedly very clever studies of men and -women in the guise of stories, although there is in some of them rather too much of subtle psychological...

this guileless story describes it as a "Welsh Idyll ; " and unquestionably, if Welsh scenery and a sweet girl who paints fairly and answers to the attractive name of Meg, and...

—Miss Hesba Stratton's story relates the sorrows and troubles of the Stundists, the Nonconformists, as they may be called, of Russia. That they are an interesting community is...

The Friend of Sir Philip Sidney ; being Selections from the Works in Verse and Prose of Greville, Lord Brooke, made by Alexander B. Grosart. Mr. Grosart begins with a number of...

Co.)—The author of this collection of clever but unpleasant stories and dramatic scenes dedicates it to Count Tolstoi; but he is a pupil of M. Paul Bourget, rather than of the...

of the World. By the Rev. W. Earle. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Earle is very much troubled at the division of Christendom, and has a remedy to propose. "Let every one agree with me,"...

—" Grip the Miser" seems to be a reincarnation of our old friend .Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol;" "Poor Marjorie" is a melan- choly story with no particular meaning; "The...

William T. Charley, Q.C. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) — We should like to see a quite impartial, non-partisan appre- ciation of the House of Lords. Its action in English...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—As might be expected, the scientific interest of their quarry is stronger than any excitement likely to be felt in the adventures of the hunters...

(A. and a Black.)—There seem to have been great struggles and disputes in the seventeenth century over the Postmastership, which was usually granted to some one, who in his turn...

millan and Co.)—Mr. Craik carries on his very useful work in this volume, which takes in the period of the "Seventeenth Century." It should be explained that by this is meant...

(Sunday School Union.)—John Horden was the son of a printer in Exeter. He set his heart on missionary work from very early years, and offered himself to the Church Missionary...

J. Fitzgerald Molloy. (J. Lippincott, Philadelphia.)— This is a new edition of a book which the world could have spared without much loss. Mrs. Robinson told her own story, not...

and Hall.)—Mrs. Lineham takes us through a course of prehistoric research, with special regard to the dwellings of man. We are introduced to the "Men of Bone and the Men of...