makes it easier to forecast the ultimate issue. Indeed, for the moment it appears as if the powers of reaction had regained a temporary ascendency. In SL Petersburg the...

succeeded. Engineered by men of whose names or precise objects nothing as yet is known, it became universal, and as soon as its universality was perceived, it was supported by...

the city, who, however, sung the Russian equivalent of the " Marseillaise," and when they arrived at the spot where on January 22nd the people were massacred, raised the Russian...

honour of the late Field-Marshal Moltke, ended a speech with the following sentences :—" The second glass is for the future and the present. You have seen, gentlemen, how we...

kept, it implies a renunciation of the autocracy. The Czar pro- fesses that the sorrow of the people is the sorrow of the Sovereign, and while declaring that he ha e provided...

of the Municipal Councillors of Paris who recently visited London, has publicly recanted his Anglophobia, and con- tributes to the Daily Express an explanation of his change of...

Sunderland on Wednesday night on the present position of political parties. After illustrating the ambiguity and divergence of the views of the Opposition on education and...

who presumably knows his master's mind, is inclined to recede from the position taken up by the Sultan as regards the financial control of Macedonia. The German Emperor has kept...

having rejected the proposal to submit the question of Monarchy or Republic to a plebiscite by 86 votes to 30. The offer of the throne to Prince Charles of Denmark was then...

reassuring auguries from the by-elections. Mr. Masse tells us in the National Review that "electors will not vote for what they do not understand, and no one knows what a...

the whole scheme, the impossibility of giving such a Council any executive powers, any real right of making its advice effective, without giving it a right of interference with...

Johannesburg correspondent which, if well founded, casts a strong light on the difficulties of the South African native problem. A native from German South-West Africa admitted...

of resolutions urging the establishment of a permanent Imperial Council in London, on which India and the Colonies should be represented, and which should act as an advisory...

ing address at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institute on Tuesday. He believed that the popular conception of disease was wrong. We thought of it as something malign, evil in...

Stirchley, and said certain things which deserve to be considered by all who would understand the policy of the present Government. Dealing with Lord Rose- bevy's recent...

on Tuesday evening at the Society of Arts, took for his subject "Colour and Race." After pointing out the drawbacks in the way of observation and classification of...

Submarine A4 on the occasion of the recent mishap to, that vessel, was held at Portsmouth on Friday week. From the evidence it appeared that the accident occurred during some...

long apologia for Chinese labour. The arguments were mostly familiar,—the shortage of native labour which threatened a financial crisis after the war ; the alleged fact that an...

any conviction that the policy was desirable in itself. The burden of Mr. Lyttelton's speech was, in fact, "We couldn't help ourselves." As for the argument that the Home...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. W E greatly fear that the Czar's Manifesto, over which .so many people both in Russia and. the West have been throwing up their caps with joy, is only a step...

A NEW Association, known as the British Science Guild, has been started, with Mr. Haldane as its first president, and its inaugural meeting was held at the Mansion House on...

cussed on the Continent, as a catastrophe, sure to produce some dangerous, and to Englishmen most unacceptable, results. The programme, however, if considered in detail, has an...

Mr. Eltzbacher begins by a striking comparison between: the output of coal in France and in three other countries. Great Britain annually produces five and a half tons per head,...

old Universities than that suggested by the meeting held at the Mansion House on Tuesday in support of the Cambridge House in Camberwell. South London is the scene in which the...

which over and over again they have deciphered poked away in some corner where it does not take the room of more paying inscriptions. The caution to remember the 'bus-horses is...

new ground for attack. The great majority of those who are always finding fault with English methods of teaching—both those who, knowing very little about schoolmasters,...

Common, an exquisite piece of natural woodland of the primeval kind, where heather and bilberry are broken by clusters of hazel and branching oaks, and the characteristic pool...

BURIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. SI31,—Your correspondent " Onlooker " in your issue of October 28th is under a very erroneous impression if he thinks that Sir Henry Irving owes to...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Miss A. Werner (Spectator, October 28th), says it is impossible to secure Chinese labour for the mines without depriving the immigrants of the society...

Sin,—There have recently been some references in your columns to speed in fighting-ships and to the value of superiority in that quality for tactical purposes. The question is...

Sin,—The Bill of 1871 for the abolition of Army purchase provided for compensating officers for the over-Regulation as well as the Regulation prices of their commissions. On the...

issue of September 30th I find mention of the Canadian bear, coupled with a statement that one of these animals was sent as a gift to a stationmaster in England. I happen to...

Sru,—Your correspondent "X." (Spectator, October 21st) might be glad to know that I have lately reissued George Macdonald's "Diary of an Old Soul" in a cheaper form, including...

asking subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet the cost are. raised, he will undertake in six months to g...

SIR, — In the Spectator of October 21st your reviewer quotes an isolated paragraph from my book of three hundred and thirty-five pages, with the prefacing remark : "Here is his...

eanon of Greek literature are those of Marcue Aurelius and Lucian of Samosata. A Roman Emperor • and an obscure Syrian are the last writers in the tongue of Homer who rank among...

perch above A hundred brown half-sleeping things Went tumbling down from bough to bough In sudden strange alarm enthralled : A flitting shadow crossed Night's brow And then—an...

snbt. title of his book. Whatever its merits, it has none of the features of a "study." It is a compendium of interesting facts and less interesting opinions ; but we look in...

upon the evil of reckless vanity and impossible ideals. Hayden was a man of sanguine temper and untiring energy, and had he been gifted with some sense of humour and proportion,...

article on "Germany and English War Scares" in the new Nineteenth. Century we find ourselves in hearty accord. But his vigorous repudiation of anti-English sentiments on behalf...

his new book for the more modest function' of delineator. Of contemporary life. In this he reverts -to the earliei manner represented in comedy by his delightful extravaganza...

Nelson has much that is worth hearing to say on this subject, and he quotes words of wisdom from others. The one of these utterances which seems to us best to suit the case is...

net.)—The progress of this Association seems satisfactory. It now numbers more than a thousand members, and its annual meeting (the second), held in London in January last, was...

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