ART. THE SOCIETY OF PAINTER-ETCHERS.* [FIRST EXHIBITION.] Tiars first exhibition of the new Society of Painter-Etchers is an interestingone,but cannot be takenonly as a fair...

CORRUPT PRACTICES. [TO THE EDITOR OF MlE lSE 1PCTATOR."] SiR,-Some of us 'Who live in places where these prevail may well feel a grave doubt as to the success of the proposed...

THE CASE OF GEORGE WILSON. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE 41SVEaTATOR."J SiR,-I send what I expect will be the last list of subscriptions, though to-clay I received a fresh one. I find...

" SUZERAIN." [TO THE EDLTOR OF TIIE "I SPCTATOR."] SiR,-Earl Cairns, in his speech last Thursday in the House of 'Lords on the Transvaal, twitted the Government on their...

SHERWOOD FOREST. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sim,-Will you permit me to point out to your correspondent, Mr. John Hutton, that the passage which he attributes to me, "...

Old Ali; or, Travela Long Ago. By bun Qsuiaston. (lHatchards.) -"Long ago " appears to mean twenty years ago, when Mr. Osmas. ton travelled through "Norway, Sweden, Russia,...

Our Litle Gip.9y. Bly Emma C. C. Steinman. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)-" What is bred in the bone will come oat in the blood." Snch is the moral of Miss Steinman's story. Hel6no...

Rabbi JeAhua: an Eastern Story. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)- This book adds anotber to the long list of attempts to write the life of Christ. But the author proceeds on a...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Classics for th, Million. By Henry Grey. (Grifflth and I wIsan.)-IC is quite right that the "million" should know something of the Classis; but that...

I If Lord Randolph Churchill wishes to become a flgiur inl Parliament, he should give up freakish spite. Puck cannot lead a party. Mr. Maltmnan Barry, a man who is the extreme...

This speech brought up Mr. Gladstone, who, in words which 'were visibly and deeply impressive on the whole House, E "ondemned Mr. McCarthy in the gravest way for launching...

Mr. Gladstoue's characteristic power,-the power of a great .I . I S. . . ,character reflected in speech,- was never more conspicuously shown than in the little debate of...

I The Oxford and Cambri-idge Boat-race was rmu, as usual, on Friday, in the presence of a large crowd, though the hour was 8.3o, and the east wind cut the spectators to the...

In addition to these changes, Mr. Gladstone proposes to take I off the duty on silver plate, by deductions of 3d. an ounce per annum, till the whole duty of 1s. Gd. an ounce...

I No less than five seats are now vacant, and to be filled by election. One is for Wigan, where the Judges have unseated Mr. Powell for corrupt practices; a second is...

As regards thbe apparent inelasticity of the yield of the I taxes, Mr. Gladstone digressed into an interesting comparison of the yield of a penny on the Iucometax-after making...

Were seem to be in a cycle of earthquakes. A fewv monthbsaio. I Agrmun was destroyed; then Ischia, in the Bay of Naples', was I shaken, and its principal town thrown down;...

TIHE BUDGET. MR. GLADSTONE spoke of the Budget on Monday night R as the eleventh, and "probably the last," he should! ever have to submit to the House of Commons. Many will,...

The colonists of Natal are still expending their irritation upon I the British Government. Mr. Gladstone has been burnt in effigy in Newcastle, the British flag has been...

In the close of his speech, Mr. Gladston e expressed in powerful I language the profound confidence lie felt in the future of Ireland, and the depth of his conviction that so...

I Mr. Gladstone produced his Budget on Monday night. Comparing the Estimates of Revenue with the results, he showed that there was an £1,345,288. Customs Excise Stamps ......

The position of the Greek question appears to be this,-the I Powers have submitted their proposal to the Porte, which is the Porte's own line, plus the cession of Punta, on the...

The Tunisian affair grows serious. The desert tribe called I the Kroumirs have invaded Algeria, and the French Govern- I ment, excited by the insult, and by the bearing of...

I For the coming year, Mr. Gladstone's Estimates, on the- suppositiou of no change in the taxation, were as follows:1881.1882. REVENrE. EXPENDITURE. Customs . ... ..£...

Our Pulblic Schools. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)-These papers were, I 'we believe, originally published in the New Quarterly Magazine. They are, as one might expect, of varying...

Oxford Study Guidee: Theology. By the Rtev. F. 31. Woods? M.A. (Oxford: James Thornton.)-Tbings are changed very mnuch at Oxford, since the days, not very far off, when the...

The Flightt of the ' Lapwuig.' By the lon. 11, Noel Shoro, R.N.. - . (Longmans and Co.)-This narrative of a cruise off the Chinese coasts during the years 1876-77 appears to be...

Dunmcker'8 Historv of Antiquity. TranBlated from tie Gorman of I Professor Mnx Dunckor, by Evelyn Abbott, M.A. I - .. . I . . . Vol. IV. (Bentley I and Son.)-Wo have hero two...

NEw EDITIONS.- -A Coonpendium of BEcclaiastical flistory, by the Rev. William Palmer, MA. (Pickering and Co.), deserves the popa. larity wich it has obtained. It gives mncl in...

Tales of the Castle Guard,. By Colonel Eden. (Newman.)-This . . I little book seems to us worth a shelf-full of the stories of the military kind which are constantly...

I THE PANSLAVIST LEADER ON RUSSIAN REFORM.. IT is quite possible, we think ourselves it is nearly certain, that the 1Russian Government has to struggle with a difficulty in the...

BOO KS. .--- - & SIR EDWARD REED'S "JAPAN."* Tupl days for regarding Japan as a mysterious terra ihcoquila have now all passed away. The knowledge of a subject may safely be...

Such are the most important of the provisions of the Bill as regards fixity of tenure, of which we may say that while it does not secure it, it renders it very much indeed to...

On Thursday, after more than fifty questions had been rut I to the Government and answered, most of them of the most trivial nature,-indeed, their number and their length...

The Times of Thursday contained a very remarkable and conspicuous paragraph, headed, "The Court," and describing her Mujesty's journey from Windsor to Osborne. It appears that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. 0 L ORD BEACONSFIELD'S condition is a very precarious one. On Weduesday it was hoped that he was really recover- ing, but early on Thursday morning a very...

I Mr. Gladstone then showed how complete was the consensus of authority on both the Land Commissions in favour of legislative interference between landlord and tenant in...

BUSINESS OF THlE HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE cessation of ObstrucLion, among other and more T obvious advantages, has the very great one that it gives Members of Parliament time to...

THE PERMANENCE OF ENGLISH PROSPERITY. 7[EIGHE true significance of Mr. Gladstone's remarks, in his .1 Budget speech, about the recent intermissions in English prosperity, has,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. PREVESA AND THE GULF OF ARTA. rTo THR EDITOn OF THE " SPECTATOR."] STR,-While the question of the cession of Prevesa to free Greece is pending, it may...

GtfNTIIER ON FISHES.* GBLIWIIT WHITE, of pleasant memory, with his usual straightforwardness, made an admission that must have been shared by many another honest lover of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE IRISH LAND BILL. THllERE can be no doubt that the measure introduced on Thursdav was one of the greatest which an English statesman has ever produced....

THE POLITICAL EFFECT OF THE LAND BILL. I-ID, political effectof the Irish Land Bill cannot,of course,bh 1 predicted as yet, but we may put together a few facts and arguments...

PHILOZOOISM.* Wi-, sadly want some homely English word to express kind feeling for animals. The sentiments of compassion and sympathy whicli, when addressed to human beings, we...

I THE MENTAL EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKES. T HE outbreak of new earthquakes, first at Agram, then in Ischia, and now in Chios, the last the most destructive of all, and costing...

AN ENGLISH MYSTIC.* Tiiis is a delightful book. It is such a book as we had a right to expect from the accomplished pOen of the joint author of he English Church in 17te...

THE HAIL OF PROSPECTUSES. IT is hailing Prospectuses. Residents in London, at all events, have no need to consult financial newspapers to know - that a mania for forming...

THE MAGAZINES. CARLYLE'S " Reminiscences " interest contributors to the Magazines very much. Perhaps the best paper about them, certainly the most readable, is Mrs. Oliphant's,...

AN UNLESSONED GIRL.* As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and whoever sends up his plate for a second helping affords strong evidence that the first one has been to...