an important speech upon the McKinley Tariff. He asserts that it is intended, among other things, to compel the Dominion to annex itself to the Union, or to declare itself an...

and has not been renewed. It is, indeed, almost impossible to renew it, for the Socialist vote has risen from 457,000 votes in 1878 to 1,427,000 votes in 1890, a sufficient...

by the Austrian Emperor with cordiality, and by the Viennese with enthusiastic approval. The:entire people turned out, and, it is said, so deep was the anxiety to see the...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 11th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

it comes into force on Monday next. It will hardly be operative, however, for three months, as the ware- houses are choked with goods imported in anticipation of the Bill. It is...

A CONTRIBUTOR to the Figaro has been allowed two in- terviews, one of them lasting four hours, with the Italian Premier, Signor Crispi, and has published a condensed epitome of...

case.

the Argentine Republic, the separate States so mismanaging their financial affairs that the Central Government considers them bankrupt. A Bill has accordingly been brought in to...

Tuesday's papers, notes the Standard correspondent at Paris, reported no less than four murders. In the village of Ville d'Avary, a man of twenty, named Wladimizoff, of Russian...

morning papers from their correspondents with the Mashonaland Expedition. When these were written, Mount Hampden—where the Mashonas are known to wash the alluvial deposits for...

place on September 25th outside the Tipperary Court- house. The facts, as usual, are affirmed and denied ; but, according to Mr. Morley, who was present, and who ought to be a...

last published of M. Mermeix's disclosures, which is summarised in Monday's Standard, deals with the efforts made to prevent the election of M. Ferry to the Presidency of the...

before they close is contrary to a most wise rule. We may point out, however, that one object of defendants' counsel is obviously delay, probably in order to protract...

with an address from the Bishop of Durham, Dr. West- cott, who is Acting President in consequence of the illness of the Archbishop of York. We have commented elsewhere on what...

Liverpool School of Science, made one of those speeches full of clear thought and mellow wisdom which are his monopoly. We have shown cause elsewhere for differing from one of...

Relief Fund," and are issuing an appeal for subscriptions. The chairman, it was announced on Thursday, is General Grant Wilson, an ex-soldier and literary philanthropist, and,...

New Consols (21) were I M Friday 9 41 to 94k.

account of an interesting speech delivered by Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the Cape Premier, at a banquet given him on his return from his Parliamentary duties. His Government, he said,...

recess was held on Tuesday, Sir John Lubbock presiding, and Sir Thomas Farrer acting as Vice-Chairman. The principal business discussed was the London water-supply, with the...

MR. MORLEY ON IRELAND. T HE very first thing which an English politician who plunges into the Irish controversy usually loses, is his sense of proper proportion. The measure...

T NTER V IEWING is a bad method of reporting opinion. The public is left too dependent on an individual reporter, who may misunderstand, or misrepresent, or amplify, or, as has...

T HE jury in the Benwell case have given the only verdict possible under the circumstances, that of " Wilful murder." The trial, apart from the special interest created by the...

I T is both natural and right that a Church Congress sitting in a country like this and a year like the present, should devote much thought and many speeches to the great Labour...

I N spite of official assurances that nothing serious is contemplated or likely to take place in Dahomey, we very much fear that the French Government, without knowing it, may...

to a traveller than his first impressions of the prosperity and con- dition of a Colony. Familiar with Old World States and cities, he is surprised, even overawed, by the...

T ORD DERBY, in his speech at the Liverpool School of Science, was not, in our opinion, as happy as usual in his diagnosis of the conditions under which mankind are moving...

T HERE is a marked distinction between the call-notes of birds, which are hereditary and invariable, and the song, which is an accomplishment, the result of effort and practice,...

D OUBTLESS it is safer to quarrel with a public dinner than with one's private bread-and-butter; but even in the case of the former, it would perhaps be better for the guest to...

T HE conquest of England by the specially Scotch game of Golf is now as complete as the conquest of Scotland by the specially English game of Football. Mr. Horace Hutchin- son,...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : THE SKILLED AND THE UNSKILLED—WASHERWOMEN AND , RAG-PICKERS—SC A/WING WORK. IT appears, which is a thing I had scarcely foreseen, that there...

ON a stormy, blustering day in March, we bailed a cab, and bade the driver find the Rue Lecourbe, which on our map of Paris seemed to hide itself in a tangle of unfamiliar...

THE LATE DR. LIDDON. t To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] Sin,—I hope that the following may be of interest to the many who revere the memory of Dr. Liddon, as illustrating...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—The Times of September 18th contained a disparaging and inaccurate account of Cardinal Newman's literary labours subsequent to his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,-In an article on " Slang, Jargon, and Cant," you speak of the unsatisfactory explanation of " giving the office." May not " office " be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, -Surely numerous additions from " distinguished English writers " might be made to the passage in " The Mill on the Floss " in praise...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-You do mention my friend the cat in your charming little paper• on "Animals' Toilettes," but hardly, I submit, with that emphasis that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, -Your• interesting article in the Spectator of September• 6th on " Sortes Bibliese " (which I have only just seen), may per- haps be...

ALEXANDER VINET.* VINET was not only a fine critic and man of letters ; he was also a theologian of deep spiritual insight, whose comprehen- siveness and breadth of charity led...

A ROBIN IN GUERNSEY. THERE where the paths through heath and lichened stone To sapphire waters bend, Sat on a pointed rock, as on a throne, My sweet red-breasted friend. A...

a fairly successful attempt to express after a methodical and scientific manner the causes, the mechanism, and the effects of bodily exercise. To us, the study should have no...

MR. BEVA.N is a young and adventurous explorer, and we hope to hear from him again. He is of that order of explorer which, we venture to think, does the most beneficent work,...

WHEN this book was reviewed in the Spectator twenty-two years ago, the critic expressed a fear that the author would not find as many readers as he deserved. The fear, it seems,...

Ix these days of gathering up the fragments, when the collection of literary and biographical scraps—too often rub- bish—has almost become a mania, it is at first startling to...

THE " Remarks about South Africa by a South African," in the Fortnightly Review, are not very instructive. The writer is evidently either a Dutch Colonist or an Englishman who...

By Joseph Thomson. (Philip and Son.)—Probably no African ex- plorer has had greater difficulties to overcome than Mungo Park, and it may be doubted if any traveller has...

for Travellers Series" (William Paterson and Co.), are Love Tales, with the differentia of being English, Scottish, Irish, American, and German. Various authors, among whom we...

said to be increasing. "Commission is frequently paid to the assured himself, or divided with the agent." In France, 20 per cent. per annum is regularly paid. Mr. Bourne thinks...

Speeches Delivered in India. By the Marquis of Dufferin and Ara. (John Murray.)—" Lord Dufferin," writes Mr. D. M. Wallace, who edits this book, "was compelled during his term...

the Secretary. (Colonial Institute.)—The contents of this volume are of an interest as wide and varied as usual. We may specify the paper by Mr. Matthew Macfie on " Aids to...

London News will be glad to renew their acquaintance with what must often have given them the pleasure of a very hearty laugh. Notes from the News, by James Payn (Chatto and...

of Geology. By Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. Second edition. (Macmillan and Co.)—Orient Line Guide. By H. J. Loftie, B.A., F.S.A. Fourth edition, revised. (Sampson Low and Co.; and...

Polden, Chatham), we have :—The Non-Commissioned Officer's Guide to Promo- tion. This is in two volumes, — (1), From Lance-Corporal to Corporal, and (2), From Corporal to...

Grammar of French Grammars, by Dr. V. de Fives, M.A. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.)—In the series of "Handbooks for Bible Classes," is Church and State : a Historical Handbook, by...

Revised by the Editor. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is a volume of "The Minerva Library," edited by G. T. Bettany, M.A. It is a compact volume, containing thirteen comedies in...

commenda- tion to our readers : — Physiology and Hygiene for Home Nursing. By C. C. Fitzgerald, M.D. (Bell and Sons.)—Dr. Fitzgerald com- bines in an excellent way the...

Co.)—That Macready was a great actor, few who have seen him will dispute. That he ranks with the greatest, seems on a priori grounds unlikely, for he did not love his...