THE OXFORD VIVISECTION VOTE. THE Oxford Vote of Tuesday is a great calamity. What T we know of the Physiological Professor there, Professor Sanderson, is that he is a man of...

THE INSTALLATION OF THE NIZAM. W TE wish Mr. W. H. Russell had been present at the In. stallation of the Nizam in the Hvdrabad Palace on the 5th inst. He would have given us an...

WILL THE LONDON BILL PASS? THE great meeting of Monday in Exeter Hall on behalf of T Municipal Reform, attended by four thousand representative men who were nearly unanimous,...

AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC ON IRELAND. IIN the last number of the Weekly Register is contained a I long, earnest, and generous letter from an eminent English Catholic-Mr. Orby...

A detailed story of the subsequent massacre of Tewfik Pasha, I commanding at Sincat, and 400 of his men is officially denied, and there is no confirmation of the singular...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. AS we ventured in our last issue to predict, Baker-Pasha has suffered a crushing defeat. Urged by the imminent danger of Tokar, and possibly by orders from...

I C Are have endeavoured elsewhere to show that the Cabinet. though utterly wrong about Egypt, is right about the Soudan. We must, however, add that if it is thought necessary...

Parliament was opened by Commission on Tuesday, the Sovereign, of course, being absent. The Queen's Message was a little lengthy, and unusually cautious in its wording....

I In the House of Lords, where the Address was moved by the I Marqais of Tweeddale, and seconded by Lord Vernon, Lord Salisbury remarked that at any other time the optimism of...

I If the telegrams from Madrid are true, there will be trouble in Spain speedily. S. Canovas del Castillo is evidently hopeful to attract] the Carlists, by governing from the...

I M. Rouher, once " Vice-Emperor " in France, died on Sun- day. He was a curiously mixed character. Essentially, he was a vulgar-minded, jocular attorney, with a talent for...

The Address was moved in the Commons by Mr. A. I Elliot, in a speech of some promise, and seconded by Mr. S. Smith, the new Member for Liverpool, who strongly approved of the...

Lord Granville's reply was a masterpiece, in Lord Granville's I own vein, not merely as a reply to the speech just made, but to the unlimited invective of the Long Vacation. He...

I A singular incident then occurred. It had been arranged that the debate should go on, and that Sir C. Dilke should be the first Minister to reply; but while Mr. Bourke was...

I Not the least of the disabters of the week,-if we look at it from the point of view of the principle involved,-is the carrying, in the Oxford Convocation on Tuesdsy, of the...

OVER-WORK IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. A" NOTHER of Mr. Mundella's murders. How long ?" A This is the brief and pregnant comment which accompanies a newspaper cutting which a...

AYSGARTH AND WENSLEYDALE DEFENCE ASSOCIATIONS. [To THE EDITOR Or TN " PzCTATOE."] 'SmR,-Keats's hackneyed statement that " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever " must be...

I SiR,-Unless something is done, and that quickly, one of the prettiest spots in Yorkshire will be ruined, by the simple process of running a railway-bridge over quite the...

NOVELS.-Peeress and Player. By Florence Marryat. (White.)- I This is one of the stories of Bohemia which Miss Marryat seems to I have now devoted herself to telling; as such,...

MAGAZINEs, ETC.- We have xeceived the following, for Febraryy: -The Magazine of Art, a good number.-Decoration.-3ferry England.-The English Illustrated Magazine.-Harper's...

BOOKS. WVRAXALL'S MEMOIRS.* [FIRST NOTICE.-HISTORICAL MEMOIRS.] PROBABLY no more acceptable present could be found for a person in his "anecdotage" than the five substantial...

Our Homes, and How to Make Them Healthy. Edited by Shirley I Forster Murphy. (Cassell and Co.) -Mr. Murphy, assisted 'by fifteen contributors of repute, some of them bearing...

A Naval Career during the Old War: the Life of Admiral Johns Markham. (Sampson Low and Co.)-John Markham had a good start in life. He came of a good Nottinghamshire family,...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Rhyme ? and Reason ? By Lewis Carroll. With Illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and Henry Holliday. (Macmillan and Co.)-The I poems, as the writer explains,...

I"E. P. B." is allowed, as usual, the honours of large print in Tuesday's Timpes while he rails against the innumerable speeches and meetings of the Recess, which he regards as...

During a debate in the Hungarian Lower House on I Wednesday, Herr Tisza made a statement singularly confirmatory of the stories of the deep alarm felt by the Russian Jews -at...

Mr. Ruskin, on Monday, delivered an eloquent lecture at the London Institution on "The Storm cloud of the Nineteenth Century," from which it appears that lie regards the fine...

A misfortune of a somewhat unique kind. has befallen the I . I - . - Bishop or Sydney, Dr. Barry, in the loss of his library and all his MSS. in the ' Simla,' which was run...

The Government's promise of a Bill to amend the Contagious I Diseases (Animals) Act, in other words, the measure which restrains the importation of live meat, given in order to...

Mr. Goseben, speaking at Ripon yesterday week, tried to I define the limits within which it is and is not lawful for politicians to exult in the discomfiture of the opposite...

The other speakers were chiefly favourable to the vote. The| . ,. I Warden of Keble surprised and grieved a great many of his friends by deprecating at this stage resistance...

I Mr. Abraham Hayward, the well -known essayist and raconteur,-in his youth he made the best prose translation we have of the first part of "Faust," -died on Saturday, at his...

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS.* ON a high mountain in the Californian coast range there is,. says Mr. Stevenson, an old silver-mining town called Silverado. It had palmy days a few...

In Colston's Days: a Story of Old Bristol. By Emma Marshall. I (Seeley and Co.)-The life of Edward Colston was extended over more than eighty years (1636-1722), a period of...

IT Gr --t -e -a o The G~irl of the Period, and other Social Essays. Reprinted fromI the Saturday Review. By E. Lynn Linton. (.R. Bentley and Son.)-I Mrs. Lynn Linton would...

I SERMONS AND LECTURFs.-SermonoS ald Addresses. By the late IGeorge Gould. (Jarrold and Sons.)-Mr. Gould's son has prefixed to this collection of his father's sermons an...

Machiavelli's Discourses on the First Decade of Liv'y. Translated I by Ninian Hill Thompson, M.A. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)-It is .. . _ . ., . I _ . I curious, after all...

I Thirty Thousand Thoughts. Edited by the Rev. Canon H. D. M. I Spence, Rev. Joseph S. Exell, and Rev. Charles Neil. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)-These " Thoughts" are...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. VIVISECTION AT OXFORD. [TO THZ EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-To all who, whether or not they are convinced of its uselessne3s for medical science,...

TRE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND THE RITUALISTS. I To EM EDITOX OF THE " SPECTATOR."] e SIR,-It makes one sad to read such a letter in the Spectator as t that signed "An Historical...

SOME OF THE MAGAZINES. 7T11E Magazines are not very bright this month. They have excellent and instructive papers, as usual; but there are none conspicuous, unless it be...

THE GREAT "CONFIDENCE TRICK." W E know of no social puzzle equal in perplexity to the NV T continued success of the Confidence Trick, whether it is played in a little pothouse...

URBANITY OF LANGUAGE. IT is, of course, not always true that moderation and urbanity of language indicate strength. They may indicate simply coolness of feeling, and coolness...

THE CLERGY AND VIVISECTION.* MR. TiORmIILL has written a most admirable pamphlet, which shows, as much by its careful sobriety and moderation, as by the accumulation of...

ART. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS'S PAINTINGS AT TIM GROSVENOR GALLERY. [SECOND AND LAST NOTICE.] FEW things are more difficult to understand in Art matters than the relation-the real...

THE SAFE-KEEPING OF SECURITIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,-As you have already inserted several letters on this subject, it occurs to me that many of your...

THE FARMERS AND THE GOVERNMENT. [To THE EDrrOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sm,-Will you allow me to say I really do not understand your assertion that " the Department finds the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE DEFEAT OF BAKER PASHA. THE destruction of Baker Pasha's Army is a severe blow to T the British Government, though not for the reason that so many of the...

MR. GARDINER'S "HISTORY."* "'TRUE 'tis, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true," but there can be no doubt about it that the great work of Mr. Gardiner is not a great work in the...

POEMS BY FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE.* WHEN we review this volume of poems, we are tempted rather to draw attention to what they are not than to what they are. The serene criticism...

THE ASPECTS OF THE SESSION. PERHAPS it is the general tendency of a great anxiety on one subject to swallow up all the minor anxieties which beset a Government; and we may...