A GRAVE misfortune has fallen on civilisation. Khartoum has been taken, having, it is believed, been surrendered by treachery—a Pasha having admitted the Arab besiegers into a...

THE FALL OF KHARTOUM. THE FALL OF KHARTOUM. T HE fall of Khartoum is a grave misfortune for this country in two ways. It will indirectly increase the Mandi's power, and it will...

I T is quite possible that when Parliament meets, Lord! Granville, amidst some small failures and perhaps some blunders, may be found to have achieved an important diplomatic...

M R. JUSTIN McCARTHY'S manifesto against Dublin Castle, published in this month's Contemporary, is a most disappointing performance, more especially to Englishmen who, like...

Companies' Commissioners have shown a good deal of the wisdom of the serpent in keeping back the two last volumes of their Report till Parliament is on the eve of meeting. In so...

T HE death of Lord O'Hagan is an event which will not only give sincere pain to all who personally knew that genial and thoughtful statesman, but to many who will recognise in...

I T is probable that the news which the Roman correspondent of the Times gave on Wednesday must be taken with a good deal of qualification. It is, in effect, that the Pope has...

I T is, we suppose, only natural that many Englishmen and Americans should rejoice because someone has attempted to kill O'Donovan Rossa. The air of the world would have seemed...

M R. FREDERIC HARRISON, in the lecture which he delivered on New-Year's Day, and which is published in the February number of the Fortnightly Review, shows some indications of...

A YEAR and a half ago, a brilliant gathering took place at Marlborough House, under the presidency of the Prince of Vales, in support of a project for establishing at Athens a...

• MR. FYFFE ON THE LAND QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j have read with great interest Mr. Fyffe's Lecture on the Land Question, and your excellent comments...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] 13IR,—Will you oblige us by elucidating an obscure passage which has perplexed us in your last issue ? We both agree with your criticism of...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Slit , — Do you not, in your article of the 31st ult., unintentionally misrepresent the references to Mrs. Harold Browne in the Echo of...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] think the Archbishop of York is, on his own showing, rather unfair to Colonel Maurice in his letter to the Tines of Tuesday last. In the "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcTAToR."1 SIR,—About two months ago, while staying in the Rocky Mountains in Northern Colorado, I witnessed an example of fatherly affection in a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.i Sin,—Have you room for one more dog-story which resembles one lately reported in a French journal ? A few years since I was sitting inside...

THE SONNET. MISCALL me not the poet's prison-cage Albeit of golden woof, his laurel tree To pattern pruned, Andromeda by the sea Fettered for death or Phoebus' starveling page...

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.* EXCEPT for a certain bitterness of tone shown towards some individuals, which, though not unnatural, and perhaps not unjustifiable, has the odour of...

THE readers of Good Words pondered this very fur from commonplace novel from month to month during the year just past. It is not often that this way of reading a novel is either...

That same November afternoon closed in darkly and heavily ; a wide band of gleaming light stretched right across the outer seaedge ; the sullen curtain above dropped its fringe...

the most spiritual writers among the Unitarians of the United States ; and the present reviewer still remembers vividly the delight which some of Dr. Furness's books, published...

hook will not be confounded with the "birthday books" which crowd every drawing-room table, and which are intended to connect the name of sonic loved relative or friend with a...

Tan Magazines are full of politics this month. The Nineteenth Century begins with a paper by Mr. W. E. Forster on "Imperial Federation." Mr. Forster is strongly moved by the...

Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift. With a Preface and Notes. By Stanley Lane-Poole. (Kogan Paul.)—In the rather desultory preface to this volume Mr....