string of the merest party platitudes, though, it must be con- fessed, of platitudes dressed with the utmost literary grace and charm. The Liberal Unionists have determined to...

four thousand people in St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, dealt chiefly with the questions raised in the Mandeville and Ridley inquests. Though relieved by many touches of irony and...

T4 ORD HARTINGTON was admitted a burgess of Inver- ness on Wednesday, and made in the evening a lengthy speech of great dignity and interest. Part of it was too con- troversial,...

case.

he pointed out to his Scotch audience the effect of a demand for Home-rule in Scotland. He was not only willing, but eager to give Scotland the means of arranging her Private-...

the true Austrian way,—that is, with cordiality and an almost Asiatic display of splendour, but without undignified worship. The Court was magnificent and gracious, but not...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 13th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

has been collecting the opinions of the leading Welsh Gladstonian Members upon the subject of Welsh National policy, and especially upon whether it is expedient to form a...

men owing to the competition of foreign immigrants, has at last induced the Government to move ; and this week it is announced that M. Floquet has advised President Carnot to...

Not to mention a serious quarrel between the Budget Com- mittee and the Finance Ministry, M. Floquet has decided to ask the Chambers for an immediate revision of the...

the German Government to Dr. Geffcken, a Professor of Hamburg, known in England through his contributions to some of the magazines. He has been arrested, has been refused bail,...

elsewhere the many difficulties of a war in Tibet ; but it appears from the latest telegram from Calcutta, that the Tibetans have given in. The occupation of his palace in the...

opened on Tuesday by the President, Dr. Moorhouse; Bishop of the diocese, with a very interesting address, in which he argued that Congresses helped to form opinion, which,...

of the Church to Democracy revealed deep differences of opinion. Mr. Llewelyn Davies, who read one paper, held belief in democracy to be "as foolish and dangerous" as belief in...

author of "Central and Eastern Arabia," the most remark- able of a remarkable family, who missed in part his true career. He was essentially an Oriental with the European brain,...

Birkbeck Institution on Wednesday, declared that, while we had few good portraits of any historic personages, we had no satisfactory portrait either of Lord Beaconsfield or of...

before 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, the body of a woman named Elizabeth Stride, originally most re- spectable, but , utterly lost through drink, was found in a yard off Berner...

New Consols (21 1 ) were on Friday 96. to 97.

nothing to act on, has brought down on them a torrent of obloquy. Mr. Matthews, the - Home Secretary, and Sir Charles Warren, the Chief Commissioner, have in particular been the...

is their power to infect even those who do not seriously believe in them with an utter inability to see facts as they really are. On Friday, September 28th, a conference of...

gives in Wednesday's Times an account of an interview with Stanley, which is specially interesting as con- taining Stanley's opinion as to the ease with which the Nile stream...

THE U UltE OF MODERATE LIBERALS. L ORD HARTINGTON'S declaration at Nairn on Tuesday that be still remains a Whig, will be received with a certain shock by a great many worthy...

r HERE is one radical and, so to speak, innermost dif- rence between American and French Republicanism which never receives adequate attention. The American has been, from the...

THE failure of the Gladstonian leaders in their public 1 utterances to make out a case for Home-rule, is one of the most striking features of the present political situation....

T HE hope that the progress of material civilisation would ultimately put an end to war, break down the seclusion in which the various nations of the earth once lived in regard...

T Whitechapel should. lose its head over the recent murders is natural enough, and not otherwise than creditable to Whitechapel. For the people of a limited though populous...

mountain region of Sikkim is over —for the present ; we trust that winter will prove to be a peacemaker, and that the strife with the Lamas will not have to be renewed. Colonel...

T HE British public does not quite know Mr. Arthur Balfour yet. It has been his ill-fortune or good-fortune, as it may prove, to occupy the most prominent post during the...

A FTER all, this world of ours is but a tiny garden with a pond in it. There cannot be a fire and an explosion in one remote corner but the whole of the rest must be pestered...

TOHNSON'S definition of the noun "malignant," as " a tl word used of the defenders of Church and monarchy by the rebel sectaries in the Civil Wars," will no longer do. If Dr....

SMALL FARMS AND AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. [To THE Borrolt or THE "13PEcTATOZ.,"] Sin,—On February 27th, 1885, you published a letter on this subject, giving an account of a...

['re mos EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] Sin,—In commenting on the paper read by Professor Roy in defence of stays, at the recent meeting of the British Association, after quoting...

THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB, — I may remind your correspondents of Chaucer's use of this word. It occurs in the well-known description of " The Poor Parson," in the " Prologue,"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Ainger's letter in the Spectator of September 22nd reminds me of an almost identical friendship that existed some years ago at Grove House,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] *Sin,—I beg leave to make a remark on one point in your -valuable notice of Professor Jebb's edition of the Antigone, in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—When I read (in your review of Mr. Yorke Fausset's • edition of the " Pro Cluentio") that Cicero "afterwards boasted to Quintilian "...

EWALD'S BIBLICAL THEOLOGY.* " AT present," says Mr. Goadby, " there is absolutely no original work in the English language dealing with the theology of Scripture from a purely...

THE literature of the Thames would fill a bookcase, and it would be not the least delightful bookcase in a library. Its upper courses, indeed, have been scantly described ; the...

THE Alexanders of Ballochmyle are an ancient and honourable- family of Western Scotland. Their present head is Sir Claud Alexander, Bart., formerly M.P. for South Ayrshire. In...

A PERSON who has written a good ordinary novel should not on that account rashly conclude himself capable of undertaking a historical one, because the gifts requisite for this...

Mn. SKELTON'S new volume must have been looked for with pleasant anticipation by the many readers to whom the first portion of his brilliant picture of Scotland under Mary...

THE Contemporary Review is full of good papers, the best, perhaps, being Mr. James Runciman's account of the Mission among the fishermen. It will, if we are not mistaken, bring...

Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of the twelfth century, The Shadow of the Raggexlstone, by Charles F. Grindrod (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of...

In .Lothian's Fields : Essays. By Violet Chambers. (J. Drum- mond, North Berwick.)—This is a collection of interesting and prettily-written papers by a lady who knows the...

Edinburgh), is a readable account, chiefly by Professor Kirkpatrick, of Edinburgh, of the great llistorice-academic func- tion of June last, in the form of a reprint of gossipy...

City of New York (Putnams) in a (literally) very weighty volume of nearly five hundred pages, does not command the pen of Washington Irving, which is rather to be regretted,...

Co., Bombay.)—These are some beautiful Hindoo mythological legends, taken from the primary sources of Hindoo inspiration, a s nd are given a rich and flowing style.

writing a succinct biography of the great German Emperor, Mr. Forbes has endeavoured to give an equal prominence to the soldier and the monarch, hardly an easy task, for though...

(Chatto and Windus.)—What does the reader expect to find under this title ? Surely, what the present writer expected, a tale of wonder, full of unaccountable events and...

Sime is well known as an accomplished student of German literature, although too level-headed and too Scotch to quite lose his head in raptures over it. His Life of Goethe, con-...

James Stevenson. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Mr. Stevenson's pamphlet is timely. We are just now anxiously waiting the result of the effort to stem the tide of Arab invasion,...

B.A. 2 vols. (John C. Nimmo.)—It may be doubted whether Peelo's works were worth reprinting. Some of them certainly have very slender merit indeed. The " Arraignment of Paris"...

covers familiar ground, describing for us once more Joppa, Mount Oarmel, Tiberias, Damascus (which, it seems, "must for ever ramain the mother-city of the world"), Baalbec,...

much of a novel with a purpose that it can hardly be considered a novel at all. It is really an exposition of present-day Free- thought and Socialism, although it is nominally a...

V. White and Co.)—The obvious thing to say about this novel is that it is a " ghost-story and no mistake." We are not terrified with appearances that seem to be supernatural,...

Twain " collects into a volume of somewhat more than seven hundred pages, some hundred and sixty specimens of Ameri- can humour. Brief biographical notices of the writers are...

—Here we have yet another of the volumes which are intended to make the preacher's work easy. "In the following pages it is attempted," says the compiler in his introduction,...

of a novelty for the main thread of his plot ; but it is scarcely of sufficient importance to warrant the use that is made of it. Most readers will find the denouement of Uncle...

by Harriett F. Powell. (Bell and Son.)—This volume concludes those admirable " Sketches of Berlin Life " which have delighted so many readers under the title of " The Buchholz...