In the August number of Free Russia, Stepniak shows that I the prospects of the Russian corn-crop are even more alarming than was at first supposed. The famine will, he...

In the Times of Tuesday, Senor Risopatron Cafias, con- -fidential agent of the Government of Chili, writes to contradict certain statements made at Lisbon as to the treatment...

We regret to see the evidence of corruption among the high Canadian officials and statesmen steadily accumulating. Bribes were, it is alleged, sometimes given in the shape of...

I Mr. H. J. Atkinson reappeared after his week's suspension on Monday. He immediately called attention to his grievances, and was told by the Speaker and by Mr. Goschen that he...

IAulong the remarkable men of the present century, there is no doubt that Leo XIII. is one of those who will leave his mark long after this generation has passed away. There...

| Archbishop Walsh has written a long letter on divorce to the Irish Catholic, intended to show that, even treating Mr. Parnell on Protestant principles, his marriage to Mrs....

The seventh volume of the new edition of Chamnbers's Encvclo- pwdia covers the -round between Malt 'biun and Pearson, and is notable spocially for the admirable biographies it...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Portfolio. August. (Seeley and Co.)-The principal illus- trations are a reproduction by some photographic process of Guercino's " Dead Christ with...

I The Devil's Acrcs. (Leadenball Press.)-Tle author of this story, which has for its subject the life in some of the lawless districts of the States, has clearly had Do...

The County Council Year-Book-, 1891. By T. B. Browne. (163 Queen Victoria Street.)-The contents of this volume are, first, a reprint of the Local Government Act of 1888 ;...

THE LINCOLN CASE. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Will you permit me to make a few remarks on the review of Mr. Tomlinson's pamphlet on the Archbishop's judgment in...

THE IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. FTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SIR,-I do not at all agree with the article in the Spectator of July 25th deprecating the introduction of...

A WOMAN'S WOMAN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR."] SiR,-May I, as a woman, give an answer to the query in theSpectator of August 1st respecting what women mean by a. "...

On Monday night, Mr. Redmond moved an amendment to I the second reading of the Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill, intended to secure the release of Daly, Egan, and the other...

I On the whole, the statement of the Under-Secretary is satisfactory, though it is evident that, if the falling-off in the opium revenue continues, there may be serious...

I On Wednesday, the jury at Winchester found the two- constables indicted for perjury in the Alice Millard case not guilty, but nine added " that the police had greatly...

Mr. Francis Buxton writes an excellent letter in Wednesday's Times to protest against the smouldering agitation in regard to the immigration of aliens, which lately took active...

Further. Mr. Morley taunted the Conservatives with having done nothing, in their five years of power, towards solving the question howv to make the old age of the industrious...

Sir John Gorst introduced the Indian Budget on Tuesday night in an almost empty House. As usual, the figures given were for three years. The expectations for the year ]889-90...

Mr. P. O'Brien, during the debate that followed, asserted that "no fewer than three attempts had been made by the police to entrap himself by sending him parcels of dynamite; "...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. PARLIAMENT was prorogued on Wednesday to October 20th. The Queen's Speech, or Message, was sedulously, -almost ostentatiously dull. The Queen dwelt on her...

Xr. Dwyer Gray, the proprietor of much the largest in. dividual share in the Freeman's Jourizal, has taken advantage I of Mr. Dillon's and Mr. O'Brien's declaration against...

The Times' correspondent's letter from the Fleet last Monday confirmed entirely our view of the failure of the new fleet to attain the speed for which it was designed. "Last...

It is persistently alleged by the St. Petersburg correspondent I of the Tihes that a preliminary agreement between France and Russia has come into existence, and support for...

I Mr. John Morley spent the Bank Holiday in addressing a large meeting of Gladstonians at Lord Leigh's, in Stoneleigh Deer Park, in Warwickshire. He began by congratulating his...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE TWO POLITICAL RESULTS OF THE SESSION. THE recent by-elections have taken so much heart out T of the Government and the Liberal Unionists, that the...

Gideon and the Jutdges. By the Rev. John Marshall Lang, D.D. (Nisbet and Co.)-The materials for this book are naturally somewhat slight. The period of history with which it...

GeorgeMeredith: Some Chracteristics. ByRichardLeGallienne. I (Elkin Mathews.)-We are always glad to have a carefully consider3d essay on the style of a notable writer. Such Mr....

M Master of her Life. By Lady Constance Howard and Ada. Fielder-King. I. - I . I .. (F. V. White and Co.)-The wearisome iteration with which the same things are said over and...

Principles of Economics. By Alfred Marshall. Vol. I. Second edition. (Macmillan.)-Professor Marshall has improved his book in this second edition without materially altering...

A Harvest of Tares. By Vere Clavering. 2 vols. (Hurst and! Blackett.)-This is a fairly readable story. The most original incident in it does not seem to us a probable one. A...

The Undergraduate. By Ross George Dering. 2 vols. (Bentley I and Son.)-A Nonconformist minister of the " Broad " school has a son at Oxford. Father and son are the heroes, so...

The Cost of Production. (Incorporated Society of Authors.)-| The Society, laudably anxious to protect the interests of authors, has collected here the items of cost in the...

The First Pr ayer-Book of King Edward VI. (Griffith, Farran, I and Co.)-This is a a reprint, verbatim et literatint, of the First English Liturgy of the National Church." We...

I Sixty-three Years' Angling. By John Mac Vine. (Longmans.)- Every angler, especially he who has had the good fortune-daily, alas! becoming less accessible-of catching a...

I Haythorne's Daughter. By Paul Warren. (Hurst and Blackett.) -The story of Haythorne's Daughter combines into one whole sketches of the following subjects:-Anglo-Indians and...

Tinkletop's Crimne. By George R. Sims. __. I I . .1 . (Chatto and Windus.) -Here are nineteen stories, sometimes magical, but mostly of the comic kind. They are all worth...

BO OK S. RICHARD REDGRAVE.* IN compiling this memoir of a distinguished Academician and a good man, Miss Redgrave has exhibited great discretion. No attempt is made to discuss...

ATTACKS ON THE LAMBETH JUDGMENT. I THE letter in our correspondence column signed T " Edmund Lawrence," is a good illustration of that "little learning " which is proverbially...

[ro THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J SiR,-Will you allow me to say, in reference to the amusing article in the Spectator of August 1st, entitled " A Woman's Woman," that I...

A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES. LTO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."l SIR,-What has become of the Spectator's sense of humour ? A woman is supposed to have none; but, guided by the...

THE REVIVAL OF QUAKERISM. [TO TH EDITOR OF THE "SSPzCTATOB."J SIR,-In your review of an article in the Edinburgh Review on " The Revival of Quakerism," you quote from it a...

POETRY. THE FELLOWS' GARDEN. KING'S COLLEGE. CAMBRID3E. SITTING on a garden-seat, All a summer afternoon, Reading, while the envious heat Haunts you like a weary tune:...

KEATS'S LATIN BLUNDER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SiR,-Precisely the same "singular grammatical blunder in the use of a Latin word" as you notice in one of Keats's...

IRISH TRAINING COLLEGES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your article in the Spectator of August 1st on the Irish Training Colleges Bill, was no doubt written on the...

THE WISBECH ELECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,-Thouah I am mindful of the proverb about the uselessness of " crying over spilt milk," I cannot rest satisfied...

THE BERKELEY PEERAGE. THERE are not a few people of both sexes who, in spite of everything, hold firmly to the belief that romances do not happen. In their opinion, the world...

3IR. PARNELL AND MR. DILLON. M R DILLON and Mr. O'Brien are under a heavy Al/1 obligation to Mr. Balfour. Through him theV have been enabled to pass the last six months in the...

THE ENJOYMENT OF RISK. M R. DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, who devotes an article in the Contemporary Review for August to " The Ethics of Gambling," and pays us the compliment of...

HOW COUNTRY LIFE IS POSSIBLE. IF any one of those now making sojourn among the fields has lately felt, as he watched the ordered march of the great white piles of cloud between...

THE MAGAZINES. THE Contemporary is, on the whole, the best of the August magazines. Its first article, " Italy, France, and the Papacy," by Signor Crispi, is of great...

THE DEFENCE OF NEWMAN.* THE two able Roman Catholics, Father Ryder, the successor of Cardinal Newman at the head of the Birmingham Oratory, and Mr. Wilfrid Ward, who has...

THREE CENTURIES OF DERBYSHIRE HISTORY.*I THE well-known and well-appreciated antiquarian, Dr. Cox, who has edited these volumes, concludes his preface with the boast that "...

THE PERMANENT ELEMENTS OF RELIGION.* THE Bishop of Ripon's Bampton Lectures were oratorically a tour de force. It was a unique experience to hear the Bampton Lecturer discourse...

MIR. JOHN MORLEY'S "MUDDY" POLITICAL STREAM. Ml R. JOHN MORLEY was rather more candid than -^ -he intended to be, we fancy, when, after taunting the Government with having...

THE INSTINCTS OF CATrLE. THE behaviour of cattle and other gregarious animals of the same nature, under certain conditions of life and surroundings, can be generally explained...

A FORGOTTEN INDUSTRY. NO one passing through the region geographically known as the Wealden Heights of Sussex would imagine that it had been within the last two centuries one...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. PEERS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-Although many of your readers will lament, with you, the accident of birth...

TWO NOVELS.* On Heather Hills is an original novel considerably above the average in merit, and somewhat different from the generality of novels also in construction. It is...

PEERS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. OIUR article of last week insisting that constituencies 0 should be allowed full freedom of choice in regard to whom they shall send to...