Times newspaper for its articles on " Parnellism and Crime," name on on Monday, and ended in a collapse on Thursday, the Judge intimating his doubt whether there was any case to...

greatly strengthened by a vote given in the Chamber on Tuesday about a singular affair. In last October, M. Jour- danne was Mayor of Carcassonne. There was an election, and the...

T HE new Emperor of Germany is determined to lose no time. Communications have already been opened with Russia, and on or about the 18th inst., the Emperor, escorted by a...

week, resulted in the return of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Lowther, by a majority of 658, after a very hard-fought contest. Mr. Lowther polled 3,547 votes, or more votes...

garden party at Hampstead on Saturday afternoon, in Mr. Holiday's grounds, which would have run off much more happily had the return for the Isle of Thanet been the return he...

case.

the object of which was to show that the National League was in some way responsible for recent agrarian murders. No new facts were given, but the debate was remarkable for an...

Bills to drain the land within the catchment areas of the rivers Bann, Barrow, and Shannon. He declared that this country owes something like a historic debt to Ireland for that...

satisfied, though Mr. Conybeare protested against the British taxpayer incurring any charge at all for Irish works, and Mr. Illingworth grudged any attempt to anticipate what...

licensing difficulty is over, and the two prin- cipal subjects of controversy remaining are the organisation of London and the financial arrangements. The former sub- ject is...

Hall a letter strongly condemning Protectionist tariffs. His argument is that the people are plundered by the "exaction of a tribute" beyond the needs of the Treasury, and...

Association that he does not think the only precedent with which they have furnished him for his right to try the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. King) for his alleged ritualistic...

unwise either to attempt to set on foot great industries, or to devote more at present to technical training. He did hope to do a good deal to facilitate railway communi- cation...

hard fight, in which Mr. Bradlaugh fought on the Con- servative side, maintaining, justly enough as we think, that Dr. Hunter's amendment, which required that any one claiming...

high political importance. King Milan married in 1875 a girl of sixteen, the daughter of a Russian Colonel, with whom he fell in love, and with whom he lived on fair terms for...

on Thursday night by a long wrangle as to the conduct of the Charitable Trusts Commissioners in having failed to appoint any Nonconformist on the body of Governors of the Royal...

has been received in London ; but Zebehr Pasha, who of all men best knows the Soudan, has given his opinion. He believes the "White Pasha" of rumour is Emin Pasha, who told him...

to be made next month, that all dignities hitherto granted by the Crown shall cease to be hereditary. Powers may cease to be hereditary; but dignities are, we fancy, beyond...

a resolution on the condition of the tenant-farmers of Wales, declaring that it needed the serious attention of the Government, and virtually that a measure should be introduced...

New Consols (2, 1 1-) were on Friday 991 to 991ad.

not seem to us hopeful. It was reported on Saturday that the Lamas, under the influence of a new Chinese Resident at Lhassa, were inclined to treat; but on Monday it was stated...

THE LIBEL CASE. T O a great many readers of the O'Donnell libel case, the chief interest will appear to be not political, but psychological. What can have been the motive which...

discussing the coming JL meeting of the Northern Emperors, and it has reason. They are by far the two most powerful persons now living in the world, and their decisions may...

W HEN Mr. Balfour proposes to contribute materially from the resources of the richer island for the advantage of the poorer, he meets neither with dis- honourable reluctance on...

Irish Felon—a Nationalist newspaper of 1848—and. the inventor of the most potent method of political agitation ever known, has hardly received the recognition he deserves. If a...

T HOSE who read the weekly tele g rams from India in the Times will have remarked the g rowin g fre q uency of Mahommedan addresses to the Viceroy, and Mahom- inedan meetin g s...

was the fashion to speak with g ood or ill humoured contempt of every attempt the An g lican Church made to realise or g ive expression to the immense responsibilities which...

W IA note, and note with regret, a change which has occurred in the opinion of the highly placed as to the propriety of selling their art property by auction. When Stowe was...

T HE subject which the Bishops discussed in conference on Wednesday is one on which it is impossible even to conceive a satisfactory decision. Christian principles of both...

THREE hundred feet of level lawn, Blithe songsters welcoming the dawn, Cedars that, though storm-stricken oft, Green against blue still tower aloft, And wealth of blossom-laden...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following instance of dog-instinct (or reasoning P) will, I think, interest some of your readers. About a fortnight ago, while...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Your dog-loving readers may be into ested in the following instance of animal sagacity. 'Bob' is a fine two- year-old mastiff, with head...

MORT AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR. THE Austrian has stolen on us, our men are scattered wide, Ill for France if he win yon fort where the hills divide ; Much were the gain if we held it...

CURIOSITIES OF TROUT-FISHING. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] - SIn,—As a member of one of the angling clubs competing on Loch Leven, I can corroborate your article on the...

National Biography on "Catherine Davies" protests against our comment upon it in the review of that Dictionary which appeared in our last number (June 30th), and writes us a...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FINAL NOTICE.] IN this, our last notice of this year's Academy, we shall chiefly mention pictures by the younger artists, and our readers will - understand...

DEKKER, AND SOME ELIZABETHAN LYRISTS.* THE wisdom of the rule which the somewhat cynical banker- poet Rogers laid down for himself, "always to read an old book when a new one...

disappointing book. The very title is a misnomer, for a great part of the book is taken up with dis- quisitions upon various subjects—steam, the duties of Consuls, Algeria,...

OF these poems, the "romantic ballads" seem to us much the best. They have grace, movement, passion, and strength, which we could hardly say of the greater number of the "Poems...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED deserved to have its history recorded, and Mr. John Scott has done the needful work. His goodly volume, produced with great labour and care, contains the story...

DE. BALL's work is a clear, comprehensive, and judicial review of the various legislative systems under which Ireland has been governed in the past. At no time more than at the...

THE magazines are very grave this month, not to say dull. There are several instructive papers scattered among them, but none that are pre-eminently readable. One of the best is...

chief purpose of this volume is to explain the habits and customs at high life in England, "such being the society to which American ladies and gentlemen have the entrée," and...

More's "Utopia," in which Sir Thomas More pleaded for the culture of the mind by the citizens of his Utopian State. Miss Swanwick's subject, therefore, is the duty of...

and generally readable of the sixpenny monthlies. In the July The Seals' Magazine has become one of the most varied and generally readable of the sixpenny monthlies. In the...

by L. T. Meade, which has been begun in the "The Be.auforts of Beatrice Gardens" is an exceptionally promising story by L. T. Meade, which has been begun in the July number of...

Although the illustrations in the English Illustrated Magazine continue to maintain their very high standard of excellence, the letterpress has become drill in the extreme. This...

as the English Illustrated. In this case it is the Civil War that most readers will find too much for them. At the same time, the July instalment of the biography of Abraham...

of stories in the July number of Belgravia on account not of the plot, which is commonplace enough, but of a distinct though as yet undisciplined power of characterisation which...

the new editor used to write under such a title as "Letters from Majorca." Their place can hardly be said to have been taken by such papers as Dr. A. H. Japp's on "Pearls,"...

Mr. Dixon's series of essays, "Among the Birds," if not quite up to the standard of the late Richard Jefferies or the living Mr. Burroughs, will bear reading twice. In his...

taste of the literary quality of the Queen of Roumania (" Carmen Sylva ") in "Decebars Daughter," which is meant to bring out the contrast between Andrade, the stately and proud...

of Eliza Southgate Bovine. With an Introduction by Clarence Cook. (Chapman and Hall.)—These letters show that Miss Southgate was a charming girl, clever, mirthful, and...

The Encyclopedic Dictionary. (Cassell and Co.)—This part takes in from " tas " to " urbiculons." As far as we have examined, it supports the high character for thoroughness and...

Low and Co.)—There can be no doubt that if the young devotee of science knew what exquisite and beautiful, yet simple, home experi- ments he could perform, he would be happy at...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A guide to British birds, their appearance, nests, and eggs. The descriptions are very slight indeed, and might have been well made more minute;...

Chloe. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—A very useful and handy cookery guide, and one that is much wanted and will be much appreciated.—Dainties, English and Foreign. By Mrs. H. C....

at Home invited their readers some little time ago to vote for their favourite hymns. Three thousand five hundred replied to this invitation, and here we have the result of the...

Boston and New York.)—This little story preaches in a way that is not less forcible because it is unobtrusive, the moral of the insidious influence of luxury and the craving for...

Journal for the half-year ending March, 1888. The publishers do well to let us have this very entertaining magazine in a more manageable shape than is assumed by the whole-year...