a thin House, moved a resolution in favour of "Home-rule all round," or, as Mr. Balfour pointed out, in favour of four local Legislatures and one Imperial Legislature in the...

the new Speaker, as he is the accepted candidate of the Govern- ment, and any defection from the Gladstonian ranks in Sir Matthew White Ridley's favour will be compen- sated by...

had been no time to bring up transport from the North-Western stations, and when the start was ordered, there were insufficient beasts collected to move the munitions, the...

MHE expedition to Chitral has begun well, though it is evident that it will cost much money and many lives. The difficulty of collecting sufficient transport at Peshawur proved...

from the Anglo-Armenian Association, made some important statements. He admitted that he was suppressing Consular reports upon the atrocities, because he feared their effect on...

any case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Irish Land Bill. His tone was meant to be moderate, but he was not careful enough to avoid saying things which would frighten or wound the Irish landlords, who not unnaturally—...

the Irish Land Bill in a speech of great good sense and moderation. He pointed out, just as we have pointed out elsewhere, the necessity for treating the feelings and the fears...

of the Liberal Union Club, took the opportunity of denying the ridiculous rumours as to there being any friction either between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists, or...

carried on Monday night by the unexpectedly large majority of 44(304 to 260), the Parnellites voting for the Bill, —we conclude, because they did not like to offend too far...

Mr. Hayes Fisher's Church Patronage Bill, the object of which is to give the Bishops of the Church more power to refuse to allow unfit presentations to livings, and to remove...

not differ "from the views which have been expressed as to the several provisions of the Bill by my hon. friend, the Member for South Tyrone." If the amendments suggested by Mr....

remarked on the earnestness of the Welsh Disestablishers to improve the temper of the Church by afflicting it with poverty, and asked mildly "why not try a little burning ?" He...

refusing to accept as Premier the leader of the Radicals, who had described his Majesty as "a foreigner," and the Storthing refusing to accept the "Ministry of affairs" which...

at the Mansion House. We have said enough about the speech elsewhere ; but may mention here that Mr. Balfour ridicules the present currency of the Empire, which, he says, is...

together. The price of silver has risen to 300. an ounce, and the relief, which amounts to more than 8 per cent., on the home re- mittances of India will probably pay for the...

Hall, Nottingham. The most interesting portion of his speech was that which dealt with the Boot- . strike. After noting with satisfaction that a conference between the...

under a strong light the burdens which the Governments which have ruled since 1870 have imposed on France. M. Loubet, Chairman of the Financial Committee, suggested that the...

George Chesney, M.P. for Oxford, which occurred on Sunday, the cause being angina pectoris. Sir George was beat known in England as the author of "The Battle of Dorking," a...

New Console (2!) were on Friday, 1041.

GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. W E entirely agree with those who assert that our present relations with France are most unsatis- factory and even a cause of danger. We cannot...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speeches to the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association are always interesting ; but he has seldom given even to them an address so interesting...

I T is curious that Spain, which is so frequently forgotten as a European Power, should be in danger of having to fight for her last remaining Colonies, but there can be little...

M R. BIRRELL'S speech on the Welsh Disestablish- went Bill was, we think, falsely described, even by its friends, as a light-minded speech. It contained, no doubt, some lively...

I T is greatly to be feared that Mr. 3/Corley's Irish Land Bill will not effect that improvement in the Irish land-system which was to be hoped from it. The temper of both...

I S it not time that some change was made in the present method of choosing the members of Royal Com- missions? As things stand, these Commissions are likely to become more and...

M R. BALFOUR can make any speech, even one on Bimetallism, interesting ; and there was much to interest in his speech on that subject on Wednesday at the Mansion House. It is...

T HE Home Secretary was quite right in sparing the life of Amy Gregory, the married woman convicted last week of strangling her illegitimate child, then three months old, in...

" Ir L yt. WHEELER of Chicago," says a telegram in the Westminster Gazette of April Fools' Day, "claims to have discovered what he is pleased to term the microbe of death, which...

G ERMANY, which feels the want of a reliable beast of burden in her East African territory even more than England, seems to have resolved on the re-domestication of the African...

F OR a man who has to oppose an innovation before an audience of average Englishmen, it is bad strategy to assail the principle. He should not attempt to demonstrate that it...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The English papers (including the Spectator) seem to have missed the real point of that horrible chapter in the history of...

LIFE OF DR. PUSEY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I have no wish to endeavour to enter into theological controversy in your columns, but I hope that in the interests...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Balfour seems to have made a mistake in saying on Monday night that the Church of Scotland is freer as regards statute and creed...

FRIEND of the dusky visage, whereupon, When all things else have yielded to the light, Abides the cleaving shadow of a night The darker for the noonday's fiercer sun : Among...

[To TEX EDITOR OF TRI" BPXCTATOB."] Sin.,—Yon have sometimes noticed in your columns interest- ing stories of children ; perhaps the following would amuse your readers. My...

HODGE IN THE SADDLE. I DON'T know of a lot o' things, thare's sum as thinks me slow : Poke torks so fast o' fifty things; I torks o' wot I know : Of Squoire, an' rabbuts,—drat...

MR. CHTIRTON COLLINS'S ESSAYS.* THE closing passage in the essay on the "Predecessors of Shakespeare" will at once arrest and retain the interest of those who are given to...

are due to Messrs. Macmillan for providing them with a cheap, handy, and readable edition of The Chronicles of Froissart. In the volume before us we get the essential part of...

be in the air at a given time, appearing (like the influenza) in numerous places • The Curse of Intellect, By Machiavelli Colin Cleat. Loudon Vachwuoti, ...a Anna....

it is better to trust to the vanity that prompts us to say "First impressions are beat," or to trust to the old proverb that teaches us "Second thoughts are best." In mentally...

Mn. BALDRY has produced the book about Albert Moore and his work which could at the moment be most usefully put together. He is a pupil and admiring disciple of the artist who...

THE magazines for April are not very interesting. The supply of interesting matter is, we fancy, too much scattered, awing to the severity of competition ; but upon points there...

of late, especially in the matter tions. The April number, in addition to the us " useful " articles on dress and kindred topics, specially interesting papers of different...

graphical character in the new number of the Leisure Hour, such as Mr. Porritt's on "The American Capitol," and Dr. Japp's on Mrs. Henry Wood. Dr. Japp, who knew the...

In spite of the disappearance and death of Sherlock Holmes, the Strand Magazine still maintains its character for brightness, variety, and" up-to-dateness." The sense onalism of...

monthly magazines, which has just begun its career unaer the editorship of Miss Ella Hepworth Dixon, will ultimately find a special mission. Meanwhile, however, it recalls...

changed its appearance for the better, or at least the brighter, although the general character of its contents remains the same. The April number can hardly be said to contain...

Magazine is the Strand Musical Magazine, which has now reached its third number, and which, being well written and well printed, and most varied in its contents, has all the...

number of the Porton is Mr. Frederic Harrison's article on "Charlotte Bronte's Place in Literature." It is not at all strident, though heartily eulogistic. It has certainly much...

one. What to some will no doubt be its chief attraction—Mr. Rudyard Kipling's new story, "My Sunday at Home "—is rather disappointing. There are, of course, " strong " passages...

It is quite impossible to criticise these sermons, more than twenty in number, and dealing with all the social subjects which have been debated during the last ten years and...

always describes his Canadian scenery and life with vigour and vividness, and this tale of the great fur-trading days, and Indians, and other dangers, will fascinate boys. The...

Co.)—This is one of the most delightful and delicately written stories for children that have been published since the appearance of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which indeed it...

is a vigorous and most interesting story of Luther's time. The hero having made himself objectionable to the priests, is kidnapped, and disappears for some time. He is released...

nam's Sons.)—" The civilisation in our cities breeds disease, and it breeds cowards We wear our nerves outside of cur clothes, and we tremble at the rustle of a mortgage. In...

(J. Masters and Co.) — These are a series of eight short a Idresses written by a mother for children between the ages of eight and fourteen. As Mr. Eyton says of them in the...

and Co.)—This is not exactly a book of devotion, but it is a book about the devout life, and of where its true ideal is to be found. Mrs. Bevan has studied her subject in books...

Long, and Co.)—The plot of this story was capable of being developed into a stirring sensation, but its treatment by Percy de Lisle can only be described as flat. It is far too...

is a book which recalls far too readily the Shakespearian "slight, unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands." It is a well-intentioned, genuinely though not intrusively...

and Review, contains several articles which are of a popular character. Thus, there are two on India by Sir Richard Garth and Mr. John Dacosta, and a most exhaustive paper on...

Bristol.)—This is the thirteenth annual publication of this "Work of Reference for Medical Practitioners." The editors and contributors number more than thirty, and have among...

Howells is in his element in A Traveller from A/traria. A traveller from a continent whose inhabitants have reached the perfection of social life, and which is placed some- ....

a modernised version, not without an appropriate moral for the times, of the Two Apprentices. Both have a "splendid shilling" given to them. Ben gives his away to a poor widow ;...

bciefest possible way. Outlines of the History of Dogma. By Dr. Adolf Harnack. Translated by Edwin Knox Mitchell, M.A. (Hodder & Stoughton.)—Especially noticeable in this volume...

of convenient size and moderate price, with the usual information carefully brought up to date. We have to notice again the inconsistency of statement to be found in various...

Ferrier.)—Lewis Read, a young medical student, inclined to be vicious, becomes a changed man through the gentle influence of a woman's sympathy. The good stuff in the man...