Serious debating on the County Government Bill began on Thursday. The Speaker ruled out five out of six instructions as irrelevant or needless, but left one. Mr. Stevenson's,...

Mr. John Morley addressed a great imieeting of the Loudon Liberal and Radical Union at St. James's Hall on Thursday night, on the Irish Question. He repudiated all further...

Mr. Blight is getting better, and is now, we believe, pro- | nounced quite out of danger. It is a great relief, not only to all his many political admirers, but especially to...

Lord Cadogan on Thursday stated in the Lords that a Bill i enabling the Uovernment to appoint -Lite--'eers, and the House of Lords to expel black sheep, would be introduced...

Mrs. Faweett said somie very good things in her address on Wednesday at Salisbury, to the girls to whom she presented the certificates of having passed the Oxford and Cambridge...

There was a very interesting paper in Tuesday's St. James's Gazette, on the evidence that birds often carry their young for considerable distances.-for example, the guillemots...

Ourselves a(ild Our Xeighblsurs. By Louise Chandler Moulton- (Robert Brothers, Boston, U.S.A.)-The second title, perhaps, best describes the book, " Short Chats on Social...

Is not the Expositor in danger of becoming entirely a collection of skeleton discourses, instead of expositions suited to the minds of laymen? The very excellence of the June...

Life and Nattire Studies. By Hume Nisbet. (Sampson Low and Co.)--Mr. Nisbet has an intimate acquaintance with all the resources of art, and he is seldom at a loss to supply...

The Gentleman's Magazine for June has a decidedly scrappy look, I more partiellarly Mr. Davenport Adams's " Physical Peculiarities of Great Men." Mr. Farrer's " Some Ideas of...

The summer number of Atalanta is, unlike most summer numbers, distinguished rather by solidity than by triviality. At all events, Mr. Staples's account of the Herkomer School...

CURRENT LITERATURE. There seems a danger-it is very marked in the number for I June-of Longinan's Magazine losing both distinctiveness and that air of literary distinction...

There is nothing that is unreadable, except the poetry, in the June number of Chaimibers's Journaal. The minor stories are hardly, however, up to the usual level of this...

There is much that is fantastic and not a little that is true I in Mr. R. L. Stevenson's "Some Gentlemen in Fiction," which appears in the June number of Scribner's Magazine....

Temiple Bar for June is worth reading if only for the sake of Mr. I Herman Merivale's delightful and discursive paper, " About Two Great Novelists," these two novelists being...

A confliet is said to have arisen in the highest circles of I Berlin which greatly interests Germans, but the details of which are still uncertain. Prince Bismarck recently...

I The Indian correspondent of the Times states that the Tibetans are only irritated by their recent defeat, and are massing larger forces for a descent through the Jalep Pass,...

I The vote of £2,600,000 for protecting coaling-stations was carried on Monday by 216 to 136; and in the course of the debate, Lord G. Hamilton, as First Lord of the Admiralty,...

I The Democratic Convention to select the party candidate for the American Presidency met at St. Louis on June 6th, and Mr. Cleveland was nominated by a unanimous vote, the...

.Sinela isto attempt to wini the Ayr Boroughs (vacated by the death of the late Unionist Member, Mr. Canipbell for the Home-rulers, while Mr. Evelyn Ashley, the gallant...

A hanlniet was Liven to Mr. Jesse Collings, M.P., by the Liberal Union Club oC Tuesday, Lord Hartington presiding. In proposing the health of the guest of the evening, Lord...

Nor was Mr. Chamberlain far behind Lord Hartington when he remarked that if Sir William Harcourt had realised his wish to hear what the Unionists said at the " consolation...

THE NEW AMAGAZINE-RIFLE. [TO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-Your comment, in your issue of June 2nd, on the "perfeet French rifle and the new and more powerful powder"...

BURNING OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Canon MacColl has, somewhat inconveniently, changed the venue of this controversy from the columns...

"iTHE CITY OF DREAM." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOr:.", SiR,-Such gentle and friendly animadversion as is contained in your article on " The City of Dream " might be...

I The agitation against the Papal Rescript has certainly not been conducted with much moderation in Ireland by Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues, who seem to us to speak with all...

NI. Floquet's reply was rather spirited than able, and I amounted to this,-tbat General Boulanger spoke in a tone which might have become Bonaparte returning from victory...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. G ENERAL BOULANGER on Monday made his apkG!- pearance in the Chamber, and amid incessant insults and interruptions, to which he paid no attention, read a...

The teetotal societies of London had quite a pleasant | -.fternoon on Saturday. The day was exquisite, and they i thronged Hyde Park to the number, it is said, of from 25,000...

| Sir William Harcourt delivered last SatuidaIy, at Golcar, near Huddersfield, one of those dashing and lashing speeches il which he delights, and in which we arc bound to add...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-You imply that Parliament proposes to dispossess the .publican " by legislative enactment of the right to trade." If I " Local Option"...

EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Absence from home prevented my seeing your issue of May 26th until Saturday night. In your otherwise able...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MIR. GLADSTONE AND COMPENSATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 'SiP@,-Tbere are many who will like the scheme put forth by Mr. Hobhouse, but he...

THE TASTE FOR PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. T HERE is a growing impression, we think, that, far from T its being a great grievance that a man's (or even a woman's) private affairs...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE REPLY TO MR. MORLEY. Nh is speech at St. James's Hall on Thursday, Mr. Morley justly enough remarked that he had never (liosen to live in a fool's...

MR. CABOT'S MEMOIR OF EMERSON.* WHETHER this admirable memoir will gratify or satisfy thickand-thin admirers of Emerson, is questionable. The author's object was to give to "...

THE MAGAZINES. THE National Review is unusually bright this month. Lord Wolmer, under the title of "The Bitter Cry of the Eldest Sons," sends a half-satirical, half-earnest...

" IDOLATRY.' THE controversy about placing " images" in Protestant T churches, though it has recently revived both in Scotland and in England, has not, we think, much reality...

MADAME DE GASPARIN AND - SUNNY FIELDS AND SHADY WOODS." [TO TH1E EDITOR OF TIHE "SPECTATOR."] MON SIE uR,-Contrainte, par des raisomis que vous comprendrez sans peine, ....

B O K S. .4 MR. LAURENCE OLIPHANT ON SCIENTIFIC RELIGION.i IT is idle to talk of reviewing a book which rests entirely.-so far as it has a special character of its own,-on...

ALICE AYRES. [TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE "'SPECTATOR., SiR,-On Saturday, on the occasion of the open1inIg of Red Cross Hall and Garden, St. Sa-iours, Southwark, a letter, reprinted...

-TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."j SIR,-May I be allowed to make two remarks on your excellent article, Our Larrikins," in the Spectator of June 2nd? 1. Precisely the effort...

" LARRIKIN." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."l .SIR,-In your article on "Our Larrikins" of June 2nd, you invite an explanation of the origin of this Colonial synonym for "...

' SNEAP." [TO THE EDITOR OF TIHI " SI'EtATAIt." SiR,-Will you allow me to say that the word Knea),"' quoted in the article on the " Vagaries of Speeeh," in the Spectvto;v of...

IRELAND AT OLYMPIA. -I THE London public owe a debt of cordial gratitude to the energetic promoters of the new show just opened beneath the great dome at Addison Road. Some of...

SIR RICHARD TEMPLE'S 'i PALESTINE."* .SIR RICHARD TEMPLE. never walnting in courage, has tried the *daring experiment of representing the colours of the scenery of the Holy...

THE RARITY OF POLITICAL COURAGE. SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, in his speech at the banquet "iv eA to Mr. Jesse Collillgs on Tuesday, siginalised Lord Hartinlgton's courage as his most...

THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION AND THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN. THE announcement that thle Church Association are T going to prosecute the Bishop of Lincoln in the Court of the Archbishop of...

THE FIRST DEBATE ON THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILL. IT is, we fear, only too clear that the Glatlstoiie-Parnell Party intend, so far as they can, to olbstruct. the County...

THE BANQUET TO MR. JESSE COLLINGS. WHATEVER we may think of the mnerits of manv VWT of MIr. Jesse Collings's proposals for creating a class of small proprietors in England,...

GENERAL BOLTLANGER IN THE TRIBUNE. IT is not at all clear that General Boulanger's speech of Monday in the Chamber was such a failure as the irritated journalists and...

THE LIQUOR TRADE. INISTERS must judge for themselves as to the -wL expediency of withdrawing the licensing clauses of the County Government Bill. We think the withdrawal at...

SAMUEL ROGERS.* THE present generation of readers knows little of 8amnel Rogers, and is probably not aware that at the close of the last century he was the most popular poet of...