of Lord Randolph Churelill. He pointed out that all the pressure exerted in Van House on the discussion of the Naval Estimates is pressure to increase the expelditure. Nine out...

of his conduct in Ireland,—the account which he had refused to give to the Court of Justice in Dublin, because he felt that he ought to reserve it for the House of Commons. He...

ease.

House of Commons were those of Colonel Saunderson and Sir Michael Hicks-Beacb. The former did good service by showing that since 1880, vastly the greater number of agrarian...

some weeks in Southern Europe. The step was unexpected, and all kinds of explanations are offered ; but we are inclined to believe his own is nearly true. He is ill, and he...

T HE belief in a speedy war spreads rapidly, and though not justified by new official facts, is supported by the harried arming of the nations, by a host of petty details, and...

money to England. This is going on so fast, the wealthy seeking safety for their hoards, that the Bank of England on Thursday reduced its rata of discount to 4 per cent. Easier...

not hopefully. It was his own duty, he said, not to go into negotiations of that kind at all, but to retain his liberty, and watch the situation on behalf of the nation. He did...

speeches which mark rather the sagacious and resolute statesman than the eloquent orator,—which register force and purpose, not persuasiveness or passion. He was not sorry, he...

regards Mr. Winterbotham's speech, do not deserve notice. Mr. Winterbotham, a Liberal Unionist, and M.P. for the Cirencester Division of Gloucestershire, made a speech, however,...

made his maiden speech, in the character of a new Parliamentary hamourist of a very ambitions kind. The jokes do not appear to us very good, though they were certainly...

Lord Randolph Churchill, showing that it was not, even on Lord Randolph's own showing, the Dartford speech which initiated for the Conservative Party the policy of progressive...

to his own constituents. It was specially noteworthy for two points. He declares in the strongest way that he actually has a plan for the settlement of the Irish agrarian...

of support given to Sr Wilfrid Lawson's somewhat malicious attempt to delay his return for the division of St. George's, Hanover Square. On the ground that a longer notice than...

else- where, and which excited much public attention, was decided on Monday. Miss Allcard, daughter of a wealthy merchant, in 1871 entered an Anglican Sisterhood devoted to...

Baptistery of Westminster Abbey yesterday week, by Mr. Gilbert, the sculptor. Previously to the ceremony, there was a meeting in the Jerusalem Chamber, at which the Dean of...

of the American routes. Warned by his readiness to employ foreign vessels, the Cunard Company and the others have now accepted contracts under which four mails may be despatched...

the fishing industry which assembled on Tuesday at Fish- mongers' Hall, were unanimous in their condemnation of the railways, and seem to have a solid case. Their contention is...

at the same conclusion as ourselves as to the publication of the reports of suits for divorce. The Home Secretary stated on Thursday, in answer to Mr. J. Howard, that...

are at present favourable to Prince Bismarck. It is believed that a much greater number of Conservatives will be elected, and that the unity of the Catholic districts will be...

Sea, which has greatly roused public feeling. They have been holding Massowah, partly as a port from which to trade with Abyssinia, partly as a place of arms from which, if the...

Consols were on Friday l00 to 100A.

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LORD HARTINGTON. L ORD HARTINGTON is not a figure to take the demo- cracy of any country by storm ; but we do no more than justice to the respect of the democracy in this...

M R. GLADSTONE'S paper in the Nineteenth Century for February is in style and spirit one of .his best political essays. It shows his own deep, though far too suddenly expressed,...

-NA T .t.1 do not understand the admiration which we hear some Liberals express for Lord Randolph Offorchill'a speech of Monday on the Address. It was a clever and striking...

purposes of party warfare; with most people whose feelings have been inflamed and sympathies aroused by a tale of wrong, to point out that there is very good reason to believe...

W E object strongly to the payment of Members, for we believe it would make of politics a profession; but if we ever felt inclined to reconsider that judgment, it would be this...

S PECULATION'S as to the increase of population are a little like speculations as to the decay of the sun's heat. If the world lasts long enough, and if nothing happens to give...

W E understand, and to a great extent sympathise with, the feelings which in all countries underlie the Law of Mortmain. It is probably not expedient that great masses of...

W E should not like to affirm that all the persons who propose prize competitions are knaves, or even, though this would be a more defensible proposition, that all who take part...

PROFEPROFE SSOR HUXLEY'S genius is doubtless for science ; SSOR his weakness is evidently for theology and meta- physics. He is always dashing into new controversies on these...

[To Tax EDITOR or THE firsCrsros."] SIB.,—For the last three years I have spent several months of each in daily interviews with Frenchmen and Germans, and I have therefore had...

HOME-RULE AND SEPARATION. [To THE EDITOR Or TER SPECTET0a..] Sts, — I have been asked by several correspondents to give the reference to the passage which I quoted from...

['To Tan EDITOR 07 TR. SPECTATOR."] Sne,—For the first time, I am compelled to withhold from the Spectator the liking and respect due to a loyal and honourable antagonist. You...

[To Tan EDITOR 07 ass .Ersenyos."] Sts, In your review of " Phantasms of the Living." you are good enough to commend our experimental work. I believe that it is sound ; but it...

[TO TIM EDITOR or VIZ "aPsCTsTOR.'] Slit,—Your friendly review of "Phantasms of the Living" encourages me to ask for space for a few words on one of the points which you...

[To mu Boma 07 ass BrEcuron."] Sts,—Many of your readers may be interested to hear that int this parish, some months ego, the wife of a highly respectable farmer presented him...

THE DREAM-LOVERS. [ATHEILEUS, %Ill., 35.] ODATIS, child of him who ruled the lands Eastward from Tends, in her dreams beheld Prince Zariadres, whom the tribes obeyed To Tamils...

MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON.• MR. SKELTON has been fortunate enough to find a new hero for his work on Queen Mary and her times, a man whose import- ance no one is likely to...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE •• BPROTATOR.1 Sue,—In your review of Mr. Arnold White's "Problems of a Great City," you say, with reference to the marriage scenes described as taking...

[To Tice EDITOR cm yarn ../31WOTATOn....1 SIR, — The question of lending books from the Bodleian is hardly so simple as you represent it. First, it is an overstatement to say...

Ma. Baowmwo does not condescend more generously to the minds of his readers in age than he did in youth. The Dean of St. Paul's, in the gracious and exquisitely written...

Tins erudite yet extremely readable book supplies a want long felt by students of the English language. The moat recent de- velopments of our speech have been explained and...

A Bachelor's Blunder is in many respects an inferior book to My Friend Jim, from the same pen, which, to say the least, threatens to become too prolific. Neither in style nor in...

Tax Fortnightly continues, at perhaps rather too great a length, the papers on European politics, popularly attributed to Sir Charles Dilke. The writer, whoever he is, this time...

(F. V. White.)—The plot of this novel may be briefly put in this way, —the hero is married by a bad woman, and afterwards marries a good one. In the meanwhile, till the bad wife...

Food-Grains of India. By A. H. Church. (Chapman and Hall.)— Professor Church commences with an account of the necessary qualifications of food, and explains the meaning of the...

from which Mr. Paterson draws his description of mountaineering—mountaineering, as he is careful to explain, of the humbler sort—are four; Snowdonia, the peaks and passes near...

teenth) volume of "Gale and Polden's Military Series." It is corn. piled by William Gordon, Quartermaster in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, and is intended to contain...

Lock.) —Mr. Farjeon has constructed here a clever tale of circumstantial evidence, showing how a twist may be given to it by a malicious purpose, and how the truth may be...

It ie unfortunate for these two large volumes that they should have appeared jest before Sir Francis Doyle's mnob more interesting book. These memories ought never to have...

Co.) —The "realistic novels" which Messrs. Vizetelly take such a pride, it would seem, in introducing to the British public are bad enough ; but they are not so bad, in our...

has been done under the Public Libraries Aot in a country town of moderate size. A penny rate has been imposed (it produces £240 per annum now, three times the amount it yielded...

of a book which describes itself. It contains sixty-five maps, exhibiting by different colours (Conservatives, Liberals, Unionists, and Nationalists each having their own hoe)...

and Co.) —A writer who can lay the scene of his story, or at least of part of his story, in the Andaman Islands, begins with a certain advantage ; and when be takes us to...

has been published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and reviews what has been done under its auspices since its founda- tion. The first report was made by...

of photographic negatives taken from life. By Major J. Forten4 Nott. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is one of those beautiful books which are the despair of all who strive to place...

Allen (a.), The Beckoning Hand, or 8vo (Matto & Winded) 6/0 Bain (A.), On Teaching English, or 8vo (Longman) 2/6 Bartholomew (I.), Gazetteer of the British Isles, 8vo (A. & 0....

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middles. at 13 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Publish.' by him at the " Srscrsmon" Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

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HALF-A-CENTURY OF MUSICAL ANECDOTE.* GREAT men are liable to be turned to strange uses after death, and Dr. Engel's two volumes afford a striking illustration of the pertinence...

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wheat, so long the staple of our agricultural products, is becoming commercially extinct ; that though the small-allotment holder will still find economy in growing so much of...

IT is not easy to give a name to such a work as Count Tolstors War and Peace. It is something more than a novel, in that it deals largely with the history of actual events ;...

Tins book is the most valuable contribution to Railway literature since the appearance of Professor Hadley's Railroad Trans- portation, (Putnams). It deals with facts, and not...

Tars is a perplexing book ; but in the stream of novels written by recipe—and very good recipes are those of Mr. Payn or Mr. Black, or even Miss Braddon—it at least fixes the...

its authors to be "the arrangement of well-ascertained facts connected with the growth of our institutions in such a way as to make the study of them • Essays Introductory to...

bracketed together are singularly unlike in style and subject. Yet they resemble each other in three respects. They deal with what may be termed the personal as distin- guished...

really powerful story. It professes to be a chapter in the autobio- graphy of Thomas Jack, a Scotch clergyman who settles in a Shetland parish—Mr. Temple writes of the Shetland...

The Life and Labours of John Mercer, by Edward A. Parnell (Longman), is an interesting biography of a self-made man, who, if he did not quite reach the stature of Mr. Smiles's...

thinks that men might be more exactly classified by their temperaments. The temperaments are four, but these, as the author allows, seldom occur in their pure state. His...

Co.)—This is a vehement defence of the sparrow against the enemies who question his right to exist, too vehement, indeed ; for Mr. Morris, whatever the justice of his cause,...

of "About the Jews since Bible Timee." (Longmans.)—This book will take its readers over ground that will probably be unfamiliar to them. A strange and pathetic history it is,...

very voluminous literature on French history, regarded on the gay as well as on the grave side, a new and singularly handsome edition in three volumes of Louis the Fourteenth...

and Sons.)—The idea of this little law-book is good, but its execution is bad. It professes to be intended for layman as well as lawyers. But it is not very well adapted for...

(Skeffington.)—This is a series of sermons, illustrated by Church history from the Apostolic times down to the Civil War, and even later, the earlier period being treated at...

S. Gottsberger.)—We cannot say that either the original or the translation of this book is a work of high artistic merit. The story is a prose amplification of the story of...

By Reginald Winslow. (Stevens and Sons.)—This is a very clear and excellent handbook of the subjects with which it deals. It is apparently exhaustive, and treats of Protestant...

reviewer looks with little favour on "A Complete Guide to Authorship." Still, Mr. Russell gives some good advice, and if he can help young writers to learn their trade—young...

cannot be expected to know very mach. Accordingly, we can do little more than chronicle the appearance of a good-looking volume, The Science of the Hand, translated from the...

and P. H. Goese, F.R.S. (Lougmans and Co.)—This is the last of the six volumes, and thus completes the series on the rotifers. The illustration leave nothing to be desired. The...

and Bon.)—A tragical story, this, of the love between Waldine de Stair, a lady of high degree, and John Lyne, a bailiff's son. Its great fault is a want of clearness. There are...

M.A. (T. Vickers Wood.)—We welcome this little volume, not exactly as a new departure, but as a novel and valuable contribution to a kind of literature now happily coming into...