at Cam- bridge, he was more effective than usual. He laughed at the Tory policy of " inquiry " into everything, asked if the country had not a right to answers, instead of...

N OTHING new has occurred in the Balkan Peninsula; but there is no peace there yet, or reason for believing in peace. The accounts received all indicate that the Ambassadors who...

at Folkestone. He was one of the very few men of whom it is easy to say with certainty that the world was the better because he lived. There are literally hundreds of thou-...

W. Harcourt, who, speaking at Blandford on Monday, declared that he entirely agreed with him, and that "the more he was abused the stronger be grew." The sentence will have...

case.

the Balgarias. Wiser than Lord Beaconsfield, they see not only that a strong Bulgaria will be independent of them, but that as soon as each State in the Balkans obtains its...

statements. He said the " Roumelian Revolution, as it at present stands in our estimation, is not a matter in which this country is specially conoerned beyond any other of the...

rumour is afloat, and he is already suspect. The evil ones declare that he wishes to buy Airthrie Castle, a lovely place in Stirlingshire. He is even credited with an intention...

Confederation, which even for _him is singularly able and vigorous, recapitulated his well-known proposals. He is, however, minimising one of them. He says he supposes that in...

the electors of the Damen division of Lancashire. He not only stamps the towns, but makes speeches to rough audiences in remote places, and some of his hearers occasionally give...

with Mr. Chamberlain in refusing to enter a Cabinet in which his proposals about the land might not be pressed. We do not, however, understand him to endorse the particular pro-...

main an emphasized statement that the Liberal leaders accepted Mr. Gladstone's Manifesto, and intended to walk under his umbrella ; but it contained some felicitous sentences....

its way, able speech at Salisbury. He declared that the Tory possession of power was a real possession, and that they intended to use it ; and affirmed that when the Liberals...

extension of boycotting, which might, under certain circum- stances, lead to the suppression of the National League. They, therefore, urge moderation ; but as we noticed last...

fact. It appears to disturb the Chief Commissioner, Mr. Bernard, formerly Lord Lawrence's Private Secretary, and an unusually cool and able man. Setting aside rumours, the known...

committed for trial, Mr. B. Booth and Mrs. Combo being, how- ever, exonerated from the charge of indecent assault.

peoples unpleasantly close. One would hardly think that the comfort of most Anglo-Indian families in England depended upon the pliability or obstinacy of President Cleveland ;...

to 99i.

own towns, have produced an insurrection in Montreal. An epidemic of small-pox has recently visited that city, and, of course, has fallen with tremendous severity on the French,...

makes a suggestion for the benefit of Hindoo widows which deserves attention. He would prohibit child-marriages, or rather betrothals, thus by degrees extinguishing the corrupt...

not encouraging. The curious shrinking in Excise returns, which has never yet been fully explained, still goes on, and the revenue from that source is less by 2310,000 than it...

-.■011.■■ TORY ELECTIONEERING. I T is not difficult, after the recent speeches of Lord Iddesleigh, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord George Hamilton, and Mr. Stanhope, and the...

I T is becoming clear that the struggle between the Agrarian Radicals and all other Liberals will be fought out round the question of Expropriation. That word does not cover the...

W E take the situation in the Balkans to be this. The reunion of the two Bulgarias is complete. The Powers have accepted the decision of the people. Turkey will move no troops;...

W E do not wonder at the interest which the choice of the Pope as mediator, or arbitrator, between Germany and Spain has excited. It is in itself a most dramatic incident, and...

M R. MORLEY is excellent at phrase-making, and his summing-up of Conservative methods of governing Ireland deserves to live. It is a policy of "soft words and hard cash." All...

A S next week the Mayors of our Municipal Corporations are going to celebrate the jubilee of the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, it may be interesting to look back for a...

I N theory, nothing seems more just than that people should contribute to the cost of Government in proportion to their means. An ideal system, imagined by a French economist,...

I T rains words ; and some of us, more perhaps than is suspected, are shivering in the rain. Of late years, what with the spread of education, and the untying of men's months...

T HE bigamy case at the Central Criminal Court, which came to an abortive end on Saturday, is certainly one of the most remarkable cases which have ever been tried. As Mr,...

I T would probably be unjust to some unknown or little-known men to say that the cultured Professor of Poetry in Oxford —cultured in impulse even more than in intellect—who a...

SUCCESSFUL SMALL HOLDINGS. to ME EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIB.,—I venture to premise, for the sake of brevity, that those of your readers who are interested in this subject...

[To um EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The term has begun, and I have little time for corre- spondence. Bat, with your permission, I should like to say a word in reply to Mr....

A LAY AFTER MACAITLAY. FAST by the Tory standard, O'erlooking all the war, Famed S-l-sb-ry, of H-ti-Id, Sate in his first-class car. By the right wheel rode 11-nd-lph, Prince...

writer of the interesting article on " Face- Memory," in last week's Spectator, done some injustice to St. James ? Granting that many men remember, though probably as many...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] STE, - It would be incorrect to assume, as many persons might be disposed to do from the letter of Sir Louis Mallet in your issue of...

[To nos Santa ON THR "spit-mom - 1 So.„—The allusion in your interesting article on this subject to the fact (which has been suggested) that "every man has his double" reminds...

PROFESSOR GREEN'S PHILOSOPHY.* ENGLLSJI Philosophy sustained a great loss in the death of Pro- fessor Green. He was cut down in the prime of life, when his powers were coming to...

BEFORE treating of Socialism, it is well to know what meaning we attach to the word. A generation ago it was used chiefly to describe the theories of the 0 wenites, St....

from the literary point of view, the more im- posing of the two works on China and the Chinese which we have bracketed together, is very lively, very amusing, and very...

To present a picture of the life of the Irish peasantry which shall be at once faithful to the original and intelligible to the chenille of the circulating libraries, is such a...

and all child-lovers have lost one who was to many of them as a personal friend—unknown, except through her books, yet possessing that magnetic attraction granted to some...

of a short constitutional history, disclaims any desire to throw a new light upon the period of which he treats. His aim, as he states in his preface, is to supply "a short...

W. Brown. (G. P. Patnam's Sons, New York and London.)—It is very diffi- cult to give an at all adequate account of this book within the limits of a short notice. It aims at...

a powerful novel. We cannot help wishing that Corinna had pre- ferred her English to her Russian lover, and the splendid self- sacrifice of the former 'seems to deserve some...

Principles of Scientific Criticism. By R. G. Moulton. (Frowde.)— Mr. Moulton states that he had three objects in writing this book :— (1), To show that Shakespeare's greatness...

Look Here : a Book for the Rail. By Charles Searle. (Field and Taer.)—This is a book of "wise and witty" sayings, and we think that the author would have done well to have kept...

and Co, Chicago.)—The biographer of Lincoln has a theme of almost unrivalled interest. The lives of most American politicians lack 040 essential to success in Europe—the issues...

Powell James, already known as the author of "Guesses at Purpose in Nature," has collected a variety of information as to rivers, what they are, what they have done, and what...

and Co.)—This is one of the pleasantest novels we have seen for along time. Aubrey Brooke, the heroine, is charming, and her character is well-sustained and true to nature...

(London Literary Society.)—There is an air of crudeness about the construction and telling of this story which prevents us from according to it much praise. To arrive at the...

3 vole. (Bentley and Son.)—This will, we fear, be something of a disappoint- ment to readers coming to it with expectations raised high by that very interesting story, "Dr....

White.)—It will probably suffice to give a brief sketch of the plot of this novel. Gladys Fuller marries Lord Moantoarron, not because she loves him, but because he is an earl...

preliminary paper on "Briton and Saxon," sketching in a general way the history of Christianity in our island before the Norman Con- quest, we have a number of sketches of some...

book is strongly marked throughout with Rersonal feeling. The author dedicates it to her doctors ; she pleads her feeble health as an apology for its faults ; its pages often...

his position as Deputy-Coroner for Central Middlesex, Mr. Westcott is peculiarly fitted to write upon suicide. His work professes to be a social-science treatise, and thus we...

by John Hogben. (Walter Scott.)—This is one of the series of "Canterbury Poets." It is, like its fellows, a pleasant and con- venient little volume; and Mr. Hogben's...

Co.)—These essays are reprinted, for the most part, from two periodicals published by the Society of Friends. Some are biographical (they are mostly reviews). Of these, the most...

and Co.)—Times have changed for the usher since Goldsmith sketched him in the Bee as an ignorant and ill-treated animal ; bat still his lot in life is by no means an enviable...

may rely upon Mr. Gibbon, whether he elects to place his scene in our own days or in the time of the Stuarts, to give us an interesting and wholesome story, and we are not...

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AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS SIXTY YEARS AGO.* WHILE we are in the midst of one of our periodical agricultural crises which landlords and farmers are never going to survive, but...

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A CRITIC is always at a disadvantage when he endeavours to judge a story that takes the form of an autobiography. The dramatic form is as perplexing to him as it is sometimes...

grateful to Mr. Myers for the delightful little volume of selections from Milton which he has prepared for the "Parchment Series." His introduction is a most able and...

event happened in the spring or early summer of 1803-8ince we took possession of Tasmania, or, as it was then called, Van Diemen's Land, as a dependency of the fifteen-years-old...

given to a reviewer as to examine and report on this latest volume of the " Golden Treasury Series." Time has both ripened our judgment of these poems and fully justified our...

brought to bear upon such an abstruse subject as "The Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester in the Reign of Henry III." are equally conspicuous in this slight sketch...

limited value. To students, they are sometimes of great service, and residents in a neigh- bourhood like to know all that can be told about it. Works of this class involve no...

— John Lyster, alias Frederick Berl, and Edward Rolt conspire together to murder a certain old man named Richard Lyster, into whose confidence the so-called John Lyster has...

American novel of the type which Mr. Henry James has made popular. There is a good deal of sentiment, a good deal about art, some pictures of social life, much talk about these...

is not inferior to its predecessors in variety of interest. We may especially note the "London Episodes," "London Theatres," "Rebellions in English History," as valuable...