SUPPLEMENT TO THE SPECTATOR,] Jan. 19, 1878. TOPICS OF THE DAY; A DAM, Mr., in Scotland 1466 Africa, the Danger in South ... 109 Africa, South, in the House of Commons... ......

The Turkish Delegates, who had refused to discuss the propositions about the gendarmerie and the International Com- mission, did discuss them, though still refusing them, and...

of this generation, Mr. Bright told an amusing story. He referred to there being third-class carriages now, even in ex- press trains, on almost all the lines, and remarked, "You...

Turkish Constitution. Two clauses of that Constitution affirm that the Empire is indivisible, and that the Sultan has the right of in- vestiture over all the chiefs of...

T HE world is still waiting for the Turkish answer. On Tuesday it was understood, through a telegram from Constantinople published in the Telegraph, and obviously inspired, that...

They are tired of European tutelage, and mean to have done with it, and think war rather leas troublesome than peace. There is more doubt about the attitude of Russia. It is...

in another column that a sun, constituted apparently of very much the same chemical substances as our own, has suddenly assumed a brilliance which implies an enormous addition...

Club on Tuesday, in which he first panegyrised the principle of these clubs, which provide amusement and refreshment without affording any dangerous temptation to drink, and...

case.

Northern Ohio, on the 20th December, at 8 o'clock. The Pacific mail train was passing Ashtabula Creek by an iren bridge seventy- five feet high, when the bridge—possibly from...

motion in the Birmingham Town Council that it is desirable for the local representative authorities of the municipality to get a power "to acquire, on payment of a fair...

strong. The editor of one of their journals, summoned to a conference with the late Grand Vizier, was set upon by the police, and so severely beaten that he has since died. Van...

tion to the inadequate time given to science and modern languages in our public schools, explains the principal drift of his previous letters, by saying that if thirty-six hours...

"Druids" on Monday on the Eastern Question, attacking the Liberals bitterly for not supporting the Government, but yet throwing the whole of his own influence into the scale of...

to his constituents last week, and told them that England had for some months back been exhibiting the strange spectacle of a nation positively dragging a most unwilling Govern-...

while the parties are waiting for the joint report of the Com- mittees of both Houses, and the President has therefore been interviewed. His deliverance is very clear and...

i most accomplished of living geographers,—has been paying a second visit to London, after a lapse of many years, and in writing his view of London to the Holnische Zeitung, has...

vitality, is dead at last. He is believed to have been the wealthiest man in America, and was certainly one of its most succesaful money-makers, dying, we believe, owner of at...

that the golden masks which he finds on the faces of those buried in the tomb called "the tomb of Agamemnon," at Mycenee, are intended as copies of the faces which lie beneath...

to the Jews. Just at this very moment, when one of the heaviest weights in the scale against them is the resentment of the cosmo- politan race, the Mayor of Baslui, in Moldavia,...

finally, with a certain enthusiasm, the cause of Vivisection and all that is contained under that name, made a proposal in its outside sheet of Wednesday to set on foot a...

and the Queen was proclaimed " Kaiser-i-Hind," amidst endless salvoes of artillery. No important announcement was made, the Viceroy only describing the ceremonial as a new claim...

L ORD DERBY can have few satisfactions in these dark days; The history of his dealings with the Eastern Question is one long history of almost unmitigated and assuredly of...

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE. T HE crisis is still delayed, and a final decision cannot now be expected before Monday. All through the week an impression has prevailed...

S O many English journals are publishing accounts of Russian. military weakness, that it is well to warn our readers that though many of the isolated facts stated may be true,...

T HE address of the Crown Prince of Germany to the Emperor on New-Year's Day does not do more than justice to the Army in whose name it was presented. As the Emperor said in his...

I T will be seen by our own correspondence columns, as well as those of the Times, that there are not wanting men, usually esteemed among the more moderate and sensible of the...

P ROFESSOR CLIFFORD, continuing his ethical disquisitions in the Contemporary Review for January, dilates with much unction and more eloquence on the sin of credulity. "If I let...

propo un ds in d a s v th e e ry th n e o s te ry wo t r h t s h t y there ag ar e e o m f C w o h n c,, though without sympathy for the individual—indeed, without heart, if not...

S TRANGE news has recently reached us from the star-depths. We say news, but in reality the event of which we have just heard must have occurred many years, possibly many...

wish to make my meaning more clear, if possible, than I appear to have done last week, and I hope you will give me a little space for that purpose. Two questions are involved in...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Kindly allow me one brief reply to your argument that even granting the Purchas Judgment to be such that it ought to be, and probably...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrscrATOR.") SIR,—I am sure you will excuse my calling attention to a serious error in the article of your last number headed, "The Hall Will Case." The...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &a,—Will you allow me to answer your correspondent "0.," who last week recommended the reprint of the old modernisation of Chaucer's...

letter of your correspondent "C." upon the above subject, will you permit us to inform him, and your readers generally, that Mr. Cowden Clarke's "Tales from Chaucer" was...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you or some of your readers kindly inform me whether Mr. Rawson, whose Evening Hymn you quote in last week's Spectator, is the author of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sra,—There is no doubt that "diligence and faculty" should "command success ;" bat, as a matter of fact, they are far from doing so with any...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Mr. Russell Martineau seems to be of opinion that it is the pronunciation, not the spelling, that makes a word. That strikes me as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Those who sympathise with the sufferings of animals must have felt great satisfaction at the warm interest which has lately been excited...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—May I point out the extent to which you have been misinformed about my sermon on " Health ?" The title, as originally given out, was,...

RAHEL.* MRS. JENNINGS has undertaken a difficult task. To produce a vivid and accurate representation of Rahel Levin is to present a picture of intellectual life in Germany at...

WE never read any critical essay, much less any volume of criti- cism, which did not contain remarks and opinions in which we could not perfectly acquiesce ; and we have several...

Tins is the second edition of a book which on its first appearance -was recognised as possessing sterling merits. Indeed, it is full of sound and recent information on the...

WE have enjoyed to-day a rare pleasure, having just closed a volume of sermons which rings true mettle from title-page to finis, and proves that another and very powerful...

THE editor of the Fortnightly makes, we think, only one mistake in his management. The magazine appears too often without a " light " article, that is, an essay which, for some...

edited by Mr. George Gladstone (Hodder and Stoughton), a magazine of merit, the most notable feature of which is the "Reports on the Progress of Science." Among the papers, we...

• The Vanity Fair Album. Volume VIII. (Vanity Fair Office)— " Jehu Junior" claims as the great merit of the portraits which he introduces to the world that "they present the...

annual volume of the Expositor, editod by the Rev. S. Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton, and Strahan and Co.)—First we have a series of excellent articles by the editor on the Book of...

(F. W..7. Baker.)—This is a clever, well-written story. An elder son is disinherited and robbed of the property which the late repentance of his father would have given to him,...

Society.)—This is "a new and revised edition," its last chapter carrying us down to the deposition of Murad V. It is a careful and well-written book, and may, we think, be...

1877, specially adapted for professional engagements, and published under the immediate direction of Sir Julius Benedict. (Rudall, Carte, and Co.)—A very convenient form of...

and Hall.)—This is a romantic story of two girls, one of whom is carried off by gipsies, the other brought up by the Lady of the Manor. It does not differ, except in the general...

By the Rev. W. R. W. Stephens. (Bentley.)—Chichester has not given many great prelates to the English Church, though one of them, Richard of Wych, who was bishop from 1245 to...

and Blackett.)—We are always glad to hear what Mr. Mac- Donald has to say, but we do not think that he does himself justice by his manner of saying it. He can write a good...

—It is somewhat amusing to observe the amount of material with which Miss Yonge always takes care to provide herself. If she sets herself to relate the history of a family, it...

is a little story of a woman's life, which, though slight in texture, gives- promise of something better in the future. The characters are marked with more distinctness than is...

By John Evans. (Lengmans and Co.)-A book of well-executed plates, repre- senting the different objects of the Bronze Age which have been found in Great Britain, and drawn...

" Power" is a genial, broad-shouldered giant, for whom Miss Byrne feels, it is evident, a truly feminine liking ; his " partner " is an unhappy man, who, after a life of...

description of the name of the locality where the object was found. It is intended as the precursor to a great work on the subject, and is published in French, in order to put...