D URING the week there has been no news of importance from the Indian frontier, and on Friday the telegrams showed that the expected move had not yet begun. That serious action...

THE EUROPEAN CHESS-BOARD. Ai FAURE has returned to Paris with a treaty of • alliance, or at any rate something very like it, in his pocket. Let us see how the pieces stand on...

I N the musical drama of Die Meistersinger Wagner represents Nuremberg as sleeping quietly in the midst of Germany. That beautiful old city is scarcely peaceful just now, for at...

A WHOLE series of circumstances have during the past few weeks drawn attention to the state of the British Army. To begin with, we are at the present moment conducting military...

held at Bale, thanks mainly to the energy of Herr Max Nordau, and its proceedings have attracted not a little attention throughout the world. Apparently there was manifested at...

steadily in England. From week to week the Employers' Federation are able to report that considerable additions have been made to the number of firms adopting the lock- out...

T HE letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Dr. Thackeray, on which we made some observations last week, ended with the statement that the true way out of the curate...

nineteenth century—a century which has been so full of change and marked by progress in so many directions—are ushering in a change perhaps more important in its significance...

I N the current number of the Fortnightly Review Mr. William Watson publishes a poem, entitled "The Unknown God," which is marked with the thoughtfulness the power of language,...

W E suppose that the Duke of Devonshire in his speech at Bradford was thinking of what has been called "The Revolt of the Nurses," or in other words, the dis- content which is...

T HE Agricultural Returns for 1897, encouraging in other respects, disclose a very sad falling-off in the pig popu- lation of the United Kingdom. There is a decrease of -more...

THE ITALIAN SITUATION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA1'OR:] Sia,—No one acquainted with the present condition of Italy can find much to except to in your excellent article on...

SOME CONNEMARA STORIES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In and out amongst the bays that encircle the coast of Connemara numerous small islets are dotted here and...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE mSPZOTATOR..9 SIE,".-111 the very interesting little book on "National Defences" which Major-General Maurice has recently pub- lished, he speaks, inter...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has been called to the article in the Spectator of August 28th on "Elderly Curates," and I should be glad if you will...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Many of your readers will no doubt feel indebted to you for publishing in the Spectator of August 21st Mr. Stephen Phillips's fine poem...

ITO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your vivid and picturesque article in the Spectator of August 14th on "The Tidiness of Rural England" has stimulated your...

[To rim EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—I have not seen the passage quoted below remarked on recently, though of course it may have been :—" By the same reason [largeness of...

A FRENCH STUDY OF RUSKIN.* Tins book is something of a literary curiosity, and in two ways. First, it is rare indeed that an English writer in his words, thoughts,...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTAT011.1 Sin,—We are staying in the little village of West Burton, near Aysgarth, in Wensleydale. On coming down this morning we found a little red...

BLIND. BLOW, blow, 0 wind, the clouds aside That I may see the stars ! In heaven glimmers far and wide The burnished shield of Mars; And Jupiter and Venus ride The night in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " EIP ECT ATOR.1 Sin,—As I also feel great interest in the subject of the "Extermination of Squirrels," will you kindly allow me a little space in which...

Titis contribution to a general survey of European literature is the second in chronological order, but the first in point of publication, of a series of "Periods of European...

THIS is the most important contribution to the archology of Western Europe that has appeared for some time. The title of the work restricts it to Ireland, but in scope it is an...

by way of frontispiece to this volume, is a wonderfully full-dress affair. Lord Vivian, • Richard Hussey Vivian, First Baron Vivian: a Memoir. By the Hon. Claud Vivian. London...

of pictures, old and new, in London could hardly be said to have existed. Loan collections of old Masters and the num- bers of galleries devoted to modern work now provide...

THE Fortnightly has a strong number this month. We have noticed Mr. Watson's fine poem elsewhere. In "Georges Darien" Oaida deals with a new French writer who describes the...

The North - Western Provinces of India. By W. Crooke. (Methuen and Co.)—This volume contains the results of years of careful and intelligent observation. We have not space to...

and Co.)—Dr. Macmillan enforces familiar truths with illustrations from natural objects. Few things are so attractive as these, handled as they are by a preacher who is at home...

Co.), is the new volume of "The Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts." It is printed in the new or old-fashioned type which Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have in- troduced....

is needless to say much about this volume beyond what is told in the sub-title, "A Biographical Dictionary of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England and of all...

England, Illustrated by Thoughts in Verse. By the late Rev. J. H. Wanklyn, MA. Vol. VII. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This volume contains the proper lessons for the Sundays of the...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Everything that concerns the Queen interests her people, and this book, though in the way of a com- pilation, and containing little that may not be found...

Professor W. W. Skeat (Clarendon Press), completes this edition with " Chaucerian and other Pieces." These are twenty-nine in number, the best known among them being "Thomas...

and Son.) — By an accident, which we regret, the Duchess of Bedford's little book of extracts from early Greek liturgies has escaped our review until now when, amid many...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Baring- Gould. Vol. V., May. (John C. Nimmo.) — Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. By J. Howard Collins. With a Preface by Herbert Spencer. (Williams and...

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