T HE Egyptian campaign advances. A letter has been received in Korti from General Gordon, dated December 14th, announcing that Khartoum is " all right;" and General Wolseley,...

MR. GLADSTONE'S EXPERIENCE. A T the close of three-quarters of a century, Mr. Gladstone has an even more varied and more fruitful experience to look back upon than Lord...

and far more dangerous. The idea of the Jingoes of 1874-79 was substantially that England, besides picking-up any wild territories that lay handy, should regard Russia as a...

—ENGLISH journalists are as clumsy in their use of the language of ceremonial as all other Englishmen, except Lord Granville. It is a pleasant and a graceful custom that all...

the second act in the Soudanese drama, and the action will henceforward be more exciting. It is difficult to keep on watching a military regatta, even in Ethiopia, when the...

T HE promotion of a hard-working and vigorous Evangelical to the Deanery of Gloucester, iu the place of the late Dean Law, is evidence that the present Prime Minister does not...

I T is plain that Protectionists are becoming more sanguine in view of the change in the electorate ; and we are not at all sure that they have not more reason for their hope...

W E published on October 20th,1383, a paper on the " Autobiography of Anthony Trollope," in which we maintained, what a great many correspondents evidently considered a very odd...

T HE world is thoughtless even in its most amiable aspects. It congratulated Sir Moses Montefiore on attaining the age of 100 after a fashion that very nearly ensured his not...

THE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." have read with much interest the letters which have appeared in the Spectator on the above subject during the...

of Argyll has far more than an hereditary claim to be listened to in matters of legislation, his opinion would have carried great weight with it had he taken the trouble to look...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."1 Sin,—Iu your note on the Angra Pequena business, you observe that it is not explained how Lord Derby came to be ignorant of the change of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SiR,—The statement commented on in your last number that Prince Bismarck is desirous of placing Mr. Gladstone in a dilemma respecting...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—Your current article on Disestablishment is a pleasant surprise to, at least, one Nonconformist who reads diligently the Spectator,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—It is still possible, I presume, that the parties to the Redistribution compact may substitute, by mutual consent, some form of...

70 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the Spectator of December 27th, the question is put,— How is the present diminution in the number of paupers consistent with the...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The postscript of a correspondent's letter in last week's= issue reminded me of a visit paid some time ago to an Irish Coonty Court. A...

RELIGIO ACADEMICL—II. WJIAT ? You have nowhere found Him ? And I, I see Him around me Everywhere ; here first, throned in the spirit of Man. Not in the rushing of worlds, or...

INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS.* A GOOD deal of comment, mostly of the satirical kind, has been bestowed upon Mr. H. F. Stock's " Two Lovers Meeting After Death,"—a picture which,...

FRIEDMANN'S "ANNE BOLEYN."* [SECOND NOTICE.] MR. FRIED3I.INN'S position, as a foreigner writing of English affairs mainly from foreign archives, gives him some advantages and...

are so familiar to us, there is hardly one whose personality is so little known as that of Algernon Sidney. The facts of his life have indeed been frequently put before the...

are at least worthy of the author of The Beleaguered City; and though there is nothing on the title-page to identify them with that authorship, we can hardly conceive their...

Tins is a book to be very grateful for. Not only does it add to our knowledge of the Peninsular War, and especially of the glorious tragedy of Corufia; not only does it throw...

TEE Fortnightly has a strikingly vigorous paper on "The Revolution of 1884," the drift of which is that, under the two Reform Bills, the future House of Commons will be almost...

Memoir of Benjamin, Lord Bloomfield. Edited by Lady Georgiana Bloomfield. 2 vole. (Chapman and Hall.)—These pleasantly-written memoirs afford an interesting picture of the Court...