T HE Americans are considering a project which, if carried out, will probably sweep away the remains of English agricultural rental. According to the Outlook, a sober as well as...

THE SPITHEAD REVIEW. " P E Queen's Navy exceeds all others in the world for three things, viz., beauty, strength, and safety. For beauty they are so many Royal Palaces ; for...

I T is, we think, quite clear that whatever the effect abroad of the Jubilee celebrations generally, the Spithead. Review will tend strongly towards peace and amity, more...

W E ventured last week to express our belief, opposition to to that of many experts, that the shower of misfortunes which had recently fallen upon India would to a certain...

M R. DILLON'S proposed clause providing for the reduction of the Tobacco-duty in Great Britain and Ireland was brought forward primarily for the pur- pose of securing a debate...

tact, and what is better than tact, for tact is often merely wise cynicism,. with her habitual good sense and good nature, has cut the .tangle of wounded dignity, bitterness,...

T "questions put by Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Pease in the House of Commons about slavery in Zanzibar, and the answers of Mr. Curzon, given in detail in another column, make up...

T HE objection to prophesying unless you know has been unexpectedly justified by the result of the Dutch Elections. Up to the day of the second ballots there was a curious...

W E have the Colonies very much and very agreeably in evidence at present. Great Britain swims, in the eye of the world, like a mother duck on the Round Pond with her handsome...

M RS. OLIPHANT'S marvellous industry impeded the public recognition of her still more marvellous gifts. From early womanhood, before she was quite twenty-one, she determined to...

A N American writer, Mr. Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, gives in the July Nineteenth Century a moat curious and interesting account of the growth of caste in the United States of...

T HE recent rains in India will bring relief to the famine- struck animals before they lighten the sufferings of their owners. The green-staff will spring up and give food for...

THE JUBILEE BONFIRES. [To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—You are right in thinking that the effect of the Jubilee bonfires was great to those who, looking across the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—A correspondent has told you some of the remarks made by a London crowd on Jubilee Day. May I add what I heard in a village crowd in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six, I had during the Jubilee Procession a conversation with an extremely intelligent sergeant in a regiment of the Guards, which bears out...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEl "SPECTATOR. "] snt, — Yon condemn the recent distribution of honours on the- ground that the occasion of her Majesty's Jubilee was not utilised to decorate...

THE CAPTIVE'S DREAM. FROM birth we have his captives been : For freedom, vain to strive ! This is our chamber: windows five Look forth on his demesne; And each to its own...

[To TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—One morning, not long ago, my sister went to see a friend, who lived a mile or so from the rectory, taking with her our little brown...

[TO TER EDITOR Or THE " STRETATOR:] SIE,—In connection with the article in the Spectator of June 26th on "The Illiterate Undergraduate," the charge is by no means new. In...

A PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENCE OF THEISM.* ANT one who has met with either of Professor James's treatises upon psychology is not likely to let the grass grow under his feet before...

ALL things considered, the sailors were, after the Queen, the first favourites of the Jubilee Procession. It seems as if recent years and latest events have brought home to us...

cannot fail to awaken eager hopes in the breasts of many of those " untaught lovers of the art " for whom it is expressly intended. On every hand men and women are to be found...

Mr. Scudder's "Biographical Out- line " was latterly the head of one of the greatest American publishing firms, he was essentially a printer. By printing he began at thirteen to...

COIGNET'S "Narrative," dealing as it does with the most stirring and eventful period of the century, and being written with the realism of a Defoe and the gaiety of a...

THE July number of the Contemporary is hardly of the first interest ; but it contains one article, signed " Quaesitor," and supposed to have been inspired by Mr. Labouchere,...

Fads of an Old Physician : a Sequel to "A Plea for a Simpler Life." By George S. Keith, M.D., LL D., &c. (A. and C. Black.)— There was much in Dr. Keith's " Plea for a Simpler...

M.D. By William Brock. (R. H. Allenson.)—S. R. Webb was one of the men who are marked out from early years by religions purpose. He had many interests, was something of an...

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(Bentley and Son.)—The Earl of Pembroke succeeded to his father's title in his boyhood, and so missed the advantage of serving an apprenticeship to politics in the House of...

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M. Croker. (Chatto and Windus.)—The first of these seven stories is perfect in its way. Mary Shandhan is of the best type of Irish girl, witty, beautiful, with a tender heart,...

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