Liberal and Radical Union Club, in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, and made a great electioneering speech. His idea evidently was, that as the Progressives had carried the...

Glasgow yesterday week, to the freshest and most weighty part of which, on the disastrous weakness which must be introduced into the government of Ireland by the separation of...

that civil war has broken out in Uganda, the State on Lake Victoria, between the Catholic Negroes, assisted by the King li'wanga, and the Protestant Negroes who support Captain...

the Durham miners' strike has proved successful. He pre- sided over a conference between the Miners' Federation Board and the Coalowners' Wages Committee at Bishop Auckland on...

IT is officially announced that the Princess Marie, eldest is of the Duke of Edinburgh, is betrothed to Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, statutory heir to the...

case.

Government has almost succeeded in its grand object of creating a deficit. The total receipts for eleven months of the fiscal year were, according to the Philadelphia corre-...

on April 29th. About 9 a.m. on that day, the wind began to rise to a hurricane, and about 3 p.m. became a tornado such as even in the tropics is witnessed only once in a...

pronounced by the King "a trumpet of sedition," for pre- dicting and justifying an American revolt against the Crown, as the consequence of measures which many would have...

at the end of a regular Gladstonian invasion of Essex, in which he laid about him with much energy, and rained blows on Lord Salisbury, Mr. Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire....

foreigners in the United States is very large, but few people are aware of the precise figures. The Census Bureau has now reported that in the great block of populous territory...

Emperors of Russia and Germany are to meet for a few hours at Kiel, probably on the 7th inst. The Czar owes hia cousin a visit, but he hates the idea of a reception in Berlin ;...

regret that they were prevented by a professional call involving a question of life and death, from hearing Professor Lawson Tait's promised address on Thursday on the mis-...

to prefer duty to pleasure, and on Wednesday it broke its resolution. On the former day, Major Rasch moved the .adjournment over the Derby, reminding the House that there was no...

on Thursday in "Walter v. Steinkopf," but we hardly see where it is. The proprietor of the Times claimed damages from the proprietor of the St. James's Gazette for republishing...

the American invitation to discuss the Silver Ques- tion, with the view of re-establishing a fixed ratio between the values of the precious metals. None, however, commit them-...

a House, though several attempts were made ; and at one time, at least eighty Members were in the precincts of the House, who kept away instead of helping to form it. The truth...

the House on Thursday, in their attempt to render the Clergy Discipline Bill as ineffective, and as unwelcome to the Church for whose benefit it had been introduced, as it was...

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THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE ON HOME-RULE AND REBELLION. S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT, at Braintree on Satur- day, was so determined to make up for the dreari- ness of his recent speeches,...

T HEprecise political position of the Gladstonians could hardly be better described than it was by Mr. Glad- stone in Farringdon Street on Tuesday. They are making promises of...

T HE immense commotion caused by a Dissolution is not entirely due to the possible changes it may pro- duce in the general policy of the State. It is not true that the country...

w E congratulate the Bishop of Durham on the result of his mediation between the coalowners and the colliers of his diocese. It is the simple duty of the great officers of every...

life is the extraordinary indifference we display at times when some really great issue is at stake. In the eyes of foreign nations, we are above everything else a political...

exalted virtue of the House of Commons on Tuesday, and its full participation in the frailty of our common humanity on Wednesday, is a common one. Most of us can be heroes for a...

ments, because they are sore under defeat ; but on the first point of the Uganda question they are clearly in the right. They have a locus standi in complaining to the British...

the monotony of village life, and its effect in driving the population into the towns, and all describe the impulse of restlessness as one confined to the country-side. We are...

I T seems certain that the younger Mr. Astor will sooner or later be in possession of about fifteen millions sterling of his own, yielding something like an average of 8 per...

T HE inquiries of the Committee appointed by the Chamber of Agriculture to report on the plague of field-mice which has for the past two years been devastating the hill- farms...

MADAGASCAR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Government of this country refuse to recognise the Anglo-French Convention, whereby France and England exchanged...

SCULPTURE. THE English sculptor pursues a mournful and harassing trade, and must be endowed with a rare stoutness or levity of heart. It is his, at the bidding of private or...

THE AGNOSTIC'S QUESTION: "IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?" LIFE is a thing worth living to the brave Who fear not Fortune's spite; in Truth who trust, Whose spirit, not thralled by pride...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I have read with interest a portion of your article on " Disestablishment " (quoted in a Glasgow newspaper), in which it is proposed to...

KEATS.* IF not the greatest among English poets, nor in the first rank of those of all times and nations. Keats nevertheless possesses as large a share of true poetical...

Born these little books are lively, imaginative, and, let us add, perhaps a shade too edifying; for children are very apt to turn the cold-shoulder to books which are intended...

superb book that it is without a rival in Scottish, and almost without a rival in English, litera- ture. In several dioceses on this side of the Tweed, steps have, indeed, been...

Mn. TOOLE has now for so many years been the accepted head of the comedians of London, that it would be idle to discuss his merits at this time of day. It is to the class with...

NOT only every Wykehamist, but every Public School man has incurred a debt of gratitude to Mr. Kirby, the Bursar of Win- chester College, for having brought back to knowledge...

THE Contemporary Review almost eschews politics this month, for the discussion of "The Women's Suffrage Question," which is continued by Mr. Courtney, among others, can hardly...

Grisons Incidents in Olden Times. By Beatrix L. Tollemache. (Percival.)—The "Olden Times" do not go very far back. The " incident " that occupies the greater part of the book is...

essay obtained the Cobden Club Prize for 1891, and is a careful, well-reasoned piece of work. Miss Jeans remarks that the Act of 1850 practically fixed the working-day of adult...

Shelley. Compiled and arranged by F. S. Ellis. (B. Quaritch.)—We hope, for the sake of the author, that the admirers of Shelley's poetry are more numerous than he thinks....

some twenty papers giving information about the men who work the administration, permanent-way, traffic (passenger and goods), of a railway. There are few readers who will not...

a photographer, his friendly reception in the homes of the nobility, and his personal adventures in travelling through the country, are pleasantly described in these pages....

most of his novels, Mr. Thomas Cobb has aimed at the kind of interest inspired by curiosity concerning the evolution of a some- what elaborate plot. In his new one-volume tale...

Darton, and Co.), gives the lives of the Emperor Frederick III., Daniel Macmillan, Bishop Hannington, Sir Herbert Edwardes, Edward Denison, Rev. E. Thring, and Lord Shaftes-...

is a new and enlarged edition of a work originally pub- lished in 1871. The designs for cottages are twenty in number, all representing buildings which have been actually...

useful manual, telling the traveller who is willing and able to rough it, "where to go" (the information takes in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, with some neighbouring...

Co.)—The author of I Will Repay dedicates his book to the author of "The Kreutzer Sonata," and in the ability to conceive and tell a thoroughly unpleasant story, the disciple...

Scott.)—A bookseller, named John Dunton, early in the year 1691 published a paper which should give answers to all questions that correspondents might choose to put to it. It...

Widdicombe, who has a parish in Basutoland, gives us here the result of a long experience. He has much that is interesting to say about the country, about the people, and about...

Bartholomew (A. and C. Black), is a work carefully brought up to date. The plates are sixty-four in number, giving the counties and plans of some of the largest cities and...

is a very remarkable American story,—a story of the Union when it was very much younger than it is at the present time. The America which figures here is the America in which...

This contains various essays and papers by the members of the Manchester Literary Club. We may mention the brief memoir of the Rev. W. A. O'Conor, by Mr. Peter Okell ; "The...

of literature. And yet the author is enthusiastic and reverent enough, and has an eye to the genuine glories of Florence. She is, however, a little too effusively feminine,...