no man of his ability whose lead is so inauspicious ; and we hold that his usual destiny,—to initiate a thoroughly unwise movement, for which, nevertheless, many very plausible...

the Chinese Government would, on the whole, prefer that Great Britain annexed Barmah. That is possible, because the Chinese would gain by the enlarged frontier duties, and...

case.

Smith, has quite truly described the great panic which is being stimulated concerning Church defence as a Tory manoeuvre intended to divert attention from the issues 110w before...

speeches at once conciliatory towards the Irish Party, and firm on behalf, not merely of the Union, but of that just treatment of all classes in Ireland which the Union can...

T HE Czar has at last announced his personal hostility to the Prince of Bulgaria to the whole world. Irritated by his independence, and probably by other causes of which we know...

Tuesday that the Tory Plenipotentiaries at Berlin in 1878 were so intent on the separation of the two Bul- garias that they threatened to leave the Congress,—which would have...

on Tuesday. After some humorous remarks on local opponents, and a sarcastic comparison of Lord Randolph Churchill's speeches as Minister with his speeches as Free-lance, Mr....

Bishops on the question of Disestablishment, we overlooked the address of the Bishop of Ripon to his Clergy. We are glad to welcome him among the prelates who have wisely...

he had " a constitutional objection to strong language." His constitution must then have undergone an extraordinary crisis within a very few months. Almost at the time be was...

of some importance. It was a Fair-trade speech. He declared that foreign countries were depressing our trade by rais- ing a wall of tariffs against us, and that, unless we could...

the country, we have not noticed many features which are at all unique. There is, however, a passage in Mr. Maakelyne's interesting address to the electors of North Wilts which...

his very weighty reference to the Irish question. If ever partial Home-rule were to be established in Ireland, he was anxious to know what kind of laws the Home-rulers were to...

Wednes- day, struck the same note as that to which we have directed attention in Mr. Maakelyne's address. He said that it is not a class question, but a question for the whole...

not in the least addicted to screaming, on Saturday made an almost passionate appeal to the people of Scotland not to press forward questions outside the Liberal programme...

Tuesday, in which he remarked on Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's promise of a great work of foreign and Colonial policy. What Sir Michael meant was, he said, clearly indicated by this...

eagerly dismissing the subject of Disestablishment and Disendowment was read last week by Mr. W. H. Porter, at the Diocesan Con- ference, Londonderry, on the financial results...

that M. G-ritey and the Cabinet have made up their minds what to do. M. Brisson and his Cabinet will resign ; but M. Brisson will be reappointed with a new band of more Radical...

Liberal Federation," was held at Worcester on Wednesday, and passed almost unanimously resolutions for the reform of Procedure, for the enfranchisement of the soil, by the...

his abilities on politics. Whenever he talks about anything else, he is a charming speaker, full of dry wit and anecdote, of pleasant discursiveness, and of apt quotation, all...

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the great mountain district in East Africa, visited last year by Mr. H. H. Johnston, and described in our columns on January 31st of this year ? It is a beautiful place, the...

T HE Times of Wednesday has misrepresented Mr. Chamber- lain's speech at Birmingham on one important point. Mr. Chamberlain did not intimate, as the Times affirms, that if Mr....

THE CHURCH DEFENCE MOVEMENT. T N the influential appeal for Church defence which has been got up by Lord Grey, and signed by the Duke of West- minster, the Duke of Bedford,...

114 0RD HARTINGTON'S speech at Belfast on Thursday would mark a great epoch in our politics, if only the electors of Great Britain would study it attentively, and act upon it in...

School- Board. Elections is the meagreness of the total vote, It may be truly said, in extenuation of that meagreness, that the highly, electric state of the political...

T HE years go by for us all, and we fear the number of Eng- lishmen who took an absorbing interest in the events of the great American War begins rapidly to diminish. It is a...

T, ORD SALISBURY has taken a step which, if it were thoroughly understood by the electors, would produce a profound impression. He has declared for "Fair-trade," not as a vague...

T HE interest of the late registration appeals has mainly been with reference to two classes of claimants, dis- similar in their avocations, being indeed the representatives...

T HE Poet-Laureate has seldom written anything more powerful than the poem in the new number of Macmillan's Magazine, to which he has given the rather inadequate name of...

T HE Netberby burglary interests everybody, and ourselves in particular. It interests everybody, because a burglary so picturesque in its details rarely occurs in this country....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SES, - I shall be much obliged if you will allow me to explain through your columns that the article appearing under the above title in the...

OF THE "Hpaoriroa."] Sin,—In a paragraph in the Spectator of October 31st, referring to Lord Rosebery's speech at Wrexham, and his attempt to improve the constitution of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." I Sia,—In answer to Mr. Gill, it should be remembered that the Clergy have no selfish pecuniary interest in preserving the Church from...

DISESTABLISHMENT IN SCOTLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 . SIR,—Will you admit one last letter to say why your admirable expostulation seems to me to have failed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Many graduates of the University of London will, I am sure, thank you for your judicious observations on the scheme of Lord Justice Fry....

Mn. REEVE has published three further volumes of the Greville Memoirs, and his reasons for so doing, as explained in the preface, are, we think, cogent and sufficient. The new...

THE LAST PIPE. WHEN bead is sick and brain doth swim, And heavy hangs each unstrung limb, 'Ti, sweet, through smoke-puffs, wreathing slow, To watch the firelight flash or...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Having just read your article on " Rural Rebuilding," it occurs to me you may be interested to hear my experiences in this matter....

"A WRITER," says Mr. Church, in his preface, " who has been engaged in teaching for the greater part of his life, can hardly help trying to make his book useful. I hope,...

THERE are some compilations which take rank as original creations, and are even greater contributions to the stock of knowledge than an original creation. Such a book is the...

MR. GL tDSTONE, undisturbed by the roar of the conflict round him, sends to the Nineteenth Century an answer to Professor Dr. Reville, which he calls the " Dawn of Creation and...

is more difficult for the novelist of to-day to write a fresh and novel book of adventure than it was for his predecessors. The possible combinations of human life are in theory...

in this book, some of them familiar to most readers, some new, we should imagine, to all but a few. Such is the story of " Maldonata," belonging to the time of the foundation of...

"Romantic Biographies illustrative of the Adventurous Life," which Mr. Davenport Adams here tells over again, are eleven in number. The subjects are Sir Sidney Smith, Lord...

is happily out of the domain of criticism, and it is only necessary to say that the volume before us has been retrenched with a necessary regard to decency. The illustrations,...

volume of extracts from Dickens of some of the most famous of the children (the word being used rather widely, for it includes Smike and Florence Dombey) that are portrayed in...

The first of these pictures puts before us the lives of the women who work in the dust-yards. There are worse occupations than this ; still it is one which will well bear a...

(Alfred Hays.)—The preface, from the pen of Mr. E. L. Blanchard, explains the object of this volume. The illustrations, fourteen in number (but why no table of contents ?) are...

edition of Longfellow's poem,—an authorised edition, it is right to say. Six artists have contributed the illustrations, which are twelve in number. They are mostly good, but...

GIFT BOOKS. Three Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century. By the Author of Chranicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family." (S.P.C.K.)—The "three martyrs" are Livingstone, Gordon, and...

M.D. (J. and A. Churchill.)—This is a second edition of a book which first appeared under the title of "Alpine Winter Cure." Subjects hitherto but little treated, as the quality...

Bengali of Bunkin Chandra Chatterjee, by H. A. D. Phillips. (Triibner and Co.)—This tale takes us back to the times of Akber Shah and Jehangir. This is a disadvantage....

is interesting to see how these stories are beginning more and more to turn upon socio-political questions. Miss Lane begins by express. ing her obligations to two well-known...

is a well-written story with a plot which turns on an incident familiar to fiction. A miserly old farmer hoards some five hundred sovereigns ; of these he is robbed by a...

Archer tells this " story of the Huguenots " very well. It concerns the fortunes of a certain family of Nimes, one of the strongholds of Protestantism in the South, and follows...

and Co.) —This is a fine naval yarn, with pirates, mutineers, and all the other circumstances, not, of course, forgetting the beautiful heroine, whioh are required to make it...

of the latter days of the French Revolution. The scene is laid in Toulon, when that town was held by the Royalists. Early in the narrative occurs the striking scene where the...

by J. C. Beard. (Griffith and Ferran.)—This is a book which comes to us from the other side of the Atlantic ; and the pets, which are supposed to belong to two children, Maria...

and Co.)—The publishers have been obliged, they tell us, " to omit several passages which they can only regard as scandalous, if not libellous!' We commend their discretion...

the third of a series of Military Biographies which are being issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Colonel Hozier has done his work so carefully that we hardly like to say a...

and Co.) — Here is a book full of charming little pictures of boys and girls, represented after the quaint, pretty fashion which Mr. Walter Crane and his school have brought in....

Art Journal, the line engraving in which is " A Visit to /Bonnie- pins," by W. Ridgway, after E. J. Poynter, R.A.—The Art Annurd,which is devoted to an account of the life and...

in this work first a chapter descriptive of Russia which affords its readers a bird's-eye view of the country. Then the story proceeds gradually to the formation of the Russian...

and Mowbray Morris. (Longmans, Green, and Co.) —There is already, one would think, a sufficiently plentiful literature bearing on the chase ; but hunting-men are never tired of...

and Hall.)—Mrs. Campbell Praed has the pen of a ready writer ; and as she can describe well, and possesses an ample budget of characteristic stories, her pictures of Australian...

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This is one of a series of little books, which Messrs. Rivington are publishing for the perusal of young children. Mr. Sidgwick has carried out her method of writing the story...

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GUSTAVE DORE.* ALTHOUGH the author of this lively volume was only acquainted with Dore during the last years of his life, we are inclined to think that, so far from suffering...

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Tam is a curious book—almbst unique of its kind in the present Asp, and resembling in its method and form a Jesuit manual of philosophy for theological students rather than a...

THROUGH the medium of some one or other of the many modern versions extant, Bidpai's Fables are tolerably familiar to most Englishmen who claim to know anything of the popular...

THE. Russian Revolt, as Mr. Noble aptly terms the Russian revolutionary movement, is neither a fortuitous event nor a passing phenomenon ; it is the necessary outcome of the...

bating some obvious imper- fections due to its composite character, an. acceptable volume, containing close on fifty of the less familiar airs of the High- lands and Lowlands of...

lotion. By Henry Thornton Wharton, M.A. (D. Stott.)—This is a very complete, as it is in appearance a very elegant, little book. The fragments of Sappho number in all one...