INDEX. FROM JANUARY 511i TO JUNE 29th, 1895, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ji CADEMY Dinner, Lord Rosebery at the ... 638 It Anton, Lord, his First Lecture ... 814 Address,...

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T HERE is hope—as yet it is only hope—of much better days in Russia. The new Emperor, Nicholas II., has appointed Count Shouvaloff, an experienced diplomatist with Western...

except that the Japanese armies have many sick from the cold.

of M. de Lanessan, Governor-General of French Indo- China, and the petted representative of the forward Colonial party. He is a man of remarkable energy, and has openly stated...

said to include half the newspapers of Paris, and a new scandal has just been opened up, the drift of which is that one railway, and therefore probably more, has been buying...

are too smooth. Sir W. Lockhart has penetrated to the seats of the Mahsud clans, who have refused to fight him, but have in no way submitted. Though they were defeated, as a...

Bulgaria, and almost everybody is wriggling and swearing aloud. His enemies have persuaded Prince Ferdinand to allow of his arrest on a charge of murder, for which, as yet,...

case.

Hawarden Church a deputation intended to plead for the strenuous support of England in obtaining securities against the cruel and intolerable outrages to which the Armenian...

lull such as we have never noticed in the first week of the new year, when representatives are usually preparing for the meeting of Parliament by addressing their constituents,...

of' the "Union of Hearts," and to bear out the remark made by Mr. Sexton in 1881 (at Dublin, on October 14th),—namely, that the "one prevailing and unchangeable passion between...

Tillett in which the dockers' leader reiterates his state- ments about the unemployed, and repeats that Collectivism is the only cure for the miseries of poverty. We have dealt...

John Hampden, and naturally eager to justify his lineage by his political career, has determined to join the Gladstonians, and the Gladstonians, who are just now depressed by...

by starting a new land agitation, does not seem to be succeeding. It is not, however, for want of violent speaking, as may be seen in a speech on the subject of land- grabbing,...

by deploring the rise of a great military Power in the East, which seemed likely to extend to Asia the overgrown arma- ments which we find so heavy a burden in the West. Sir E....

of New York appear determined to cleanse the administration of the great city, if they can. An honest Recorder has already been appointed, two leading men in the police have...

is really a misfortune to his territory. The representative of the ancient House which preceded the usurper Hyder Ali, the Maharaja has exhibited genuine capacity for...

Year's Day, Lord Rosebery apparently fearing that if he translated any supporter to the Upper House, his resolution to deal with that House in the true Radical, spirit might be...

of Miss Christina Rossetti, the best probably of our women poets since Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the youngest of a family distinguished by great literary and artistic...

favour of a treaty of Arbitration between this country and the States signed by three hundred and fifty-four Members of the House of Commons—i.e., considerably more than half...

so great a loss of life as that which took place in the Edgware Road early on Wednesday morning—i.e., a little after 1 o'clock —on the premises of Madame Martin, a French...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday, 104.

WILL THERE BE A DISSOLUTION? T HE first topic of conversation when politicians meet is the prospect of a Dissolution ; and as far as we can discover, the chances are considered...

as something almost unintelligible, in the accounts of corruption which pour in upon us from every quarter of the world. No form of Government and no pride of race seems to be...

completely how true it is that the party who call themselves Liberal are really essentially Gladstonian and nothing but Gladstonian, than the little speech which Mr. Gladstone...

Member for Haddington, wto was designated by a good many of the Glad- stonians for the post of Solicitor-General when Lord Russell of Killowen was made Lord Chief Justice of...

I N the current number of the National _Review, Mr. Chamberlain states with great force and clearness, and also, as it seems to us, with the moderation of states- manship, his...

I T is too early yet to be more than hopeful, but there really seems to be a probability that with the new Czar a better, or at least more humane, 6,2i me may com- mence in...

M R. BEN TILLETT has given us in the Times of Tuesday his solution of the problem of the unemployed. Unfortunately, though the oracle has spoken, it has spoken after the manner...

A MONG the great creeds which have influenced masses of mankind, there is none the inner strength of which it is so difficult to discern, as Hindooiam. Its governing tenets are...

T HE rather dry list of persons, — often very rich persons,— who have died intestate, and whose next-of-kin are vainly inquired for, was given in a letter to the Times of...

A MERICAN medical , science, casting about for some definite cause to which to attribute the increasing ravages of nervous diseases in the United States, has at last hit upon...

A MONG the many problems left by the smash of the " Liberator " Companies, that of the present and future. management of the reclaimed lands at Brading, in the Isle of Wight, is...

A SHORT WAY WITH THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [To THR EDITOR OF THR " SPICCIATOE."1 SIR,—In the January number of the Fortnightly Review, Mr. Swift McNeill has propounded a short way...

[To TH1 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The following history of canine sympathy may interest your readers. I was once the happy owner of a large and beauti- ful...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The possibility of sounds being visible, and sights. audible, seems to have occurred to George Herbert, when he- wrote :— " His beams...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — There are two sides to everything except—as a learned Judge (adding a saving clause) remarked—to Reading Station. You have dealt with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I rejoice to note that in the Spectator of December 29th, 1894, you express "pleasure in putting anything before your readers which is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin, — No one wishes to deny that there is a separation between the Church of England and Rome ; we suppose, few would assert that to cast...

VENETIAN ART AT THE NEW GALLERY. No visitor who is frank with himself will pretend in one or even several visits to have seen all the pictures now hung at the New Gallery, nor...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In the Spectator of December 29th, the writer of the very interesting article on "Wild-Cattle Breeding at the Zoo," uses the word "...

BIRTH-DAY AND WEDDING-DAY. (SUGGESTED BY MARTIAL, IX. 53.) On happy day that gave me this fair life ! Oh happier day that gave me thee, sweet wife ! I know not which would...

NOT till life's heat has cooled, The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, And every purblind passion that had ruled Our noisier years, at last, Spurs us in vain, and, weary of...

IN editing this book, Miss Church has shown in a very remark- able degree what, throughout his life, her father showed in the very highest degree,—at once delicacy and judgment....

Mn. THOR/317RX has written what the French call une here de bonne foi, and this character of his book, coupled with his own position and experience, gives it unusual value. He...

BIOGRAPHERS of Defoe labour under great disadvantages. His manifold activity of pen and brain make it almost impossible to present a picture of his life or writings which...

THis appears to be a book which, for every sort of reason, had far better have been left unwritten. The testimony of all who heard the famous Dominican preach is that he was one...

at an early age, and it must be nearly twenty years since he claimed the attention of the public by his first volume of lyrics. On Viol and Flute, of which a new edition was...

CANON MACCOLL has the place of honour in the Con- temporary Review with an article the drift of which is that England and Russia should strike up a friendly alliance, and above...

Hogarth's most famous pictures reproduced. (We do not see, by the way, the most famous of all, "The March to Finchley.") Some of them, on the other hand, are but rarely seen,...

Press.)—Lord Amherst was certainly not conspicuous among the "Rulers of India," as far as personal abilities were concerned. As an administrator of internal govern- ment he was...

The Administration of the Marquis of Lansdowne. By George W. Forrest, B.A. (Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta.)—A useful volume this, if only to show the...

II. Morgan. (Cambridge, U.S.)—This is in every respect a scholarly production. The volume itself has a classical air about it. Professor Greenough, his name happily metamor-...

volumes now to be mentioned : — Attempt at a Catalogue of the late Prince Louis - Lucien Buoztaparte. By Victor Collins. (Sotheran and Co.) —Prince Lucien Buonaparte carried the...

to limit the subject by adding, "In its Commercial Aspect ; with Some Account of the Premiums paid at 'Lloyd's ' from 180:i to 1816." Our enormous commerce and carrying trade...

(Elliot Stock.)—There is, of course, much that is technical and inappro priate to these columns in Mr. Daniel's book. He aims, however, at promoting edification, a thing which...

to his two sons, and to be describing to them how they may develop the faculties which find their outcome in invention. These conversa- tions contain, it is almost needless to...

(Sir Joseph Caueton and Sons.)—This is an illustrated guide to the traveller who desires to journey from Glasgow to Fort William by the West Highland Railway. He first has...

as usual. We may notice especially an excellent article on "An Elizabethan Schoolboy and his Book,' by Mr. A. M. Bell. Mr. Bell, we gather, picked up the book for half-a- crown...

by William Oliver Roper. Vol. II. (Printed for the Chetham Society.)—This second volume continues the printing of the Chartulary of the Priory of Lancaster. The documents, which...

by means of hypnotism, of a piece of villainy committed five years before, that is referred to by the title of Bun to Ground, furnishes a sensational, dramatic, and extremely...

readers whom its subject concerns, The Organisation and Adminis- tration of Lines of Communication in War, by Colonel George Armand Furse, C.B. (W. Clowes and Sons),...