case.

Ladas' won the race, to Lord Rosebery's great delight, as he is the first man who, being Premier of the Kingdom, has won the Blue Ribbon of the Turf. So interesting was the race...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, Tune 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

in perplexity. M. Carnot has found a Premier who suits him in M. Dupny, but is not sure in the temper of the Chamber that he will keep him for a week ; the Emperor of Germany is...

be rather anti-English, and to be, moreover, a captive of the Colonial party. He read to the Chamber on Thursday -a declaration in which he affirms that under the Berlin agree-...

as King of Hungary. He probably does not care one straw about the Civil Marriage Bill, but he does not like quarrelling with the great ecclesiastics who preach to him, or with...

A TELEGRAM from Simla has been received in London which professes to explain the smearing of the mango. trees in Behar, a smearing which has now spread upwards to Allahabad....

the candidature of Lord Randolph Churchill for Central Bradford, where he is to contest the seat of Mr. Lefevre at the General Election. We have said enough in another column on...

were condemned to fourteen years' penal servi- tude for having suppressed a message of submission sent by Lobengula, and for stealing from the Indunas who carried' the message,...

He has an impossible Chamber to deal with. Signor Crispi asked them to grant him powers to levy new taxes and make civil reductions, and so produce a financial equilibrium...

the Government wisely declining to closure a money Bill,. but the Opposition make nothing by their resistance. They , are beaten on small amendments, intended really to improve...

deputation from the Associated Chambers' of Shipping and Chambers of Commerce waited on Lord' Spencer and Mr. Bryce with reference to "the best means of' providing an adequate...

on Tuesday to concert the programme of the National Reform Union with relation to the House of Lords and other =attars, Mr. Philip Stanhope, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Labouchere...

Third Reading of his Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act Amendment Bill, which passed on Wednesday, we suppose by favour of the Government. We cannot under- stand the view...

Switzerland is very significant. On Sunday, the adult males of the Republic were asked to accept or reject a law embodying "Le droit de travail," the right of every man who...

Sutherland will case came on for trial on Thursday in the Probate Court, and as the amount at stake was 21,500,000, and as the Dowager Duchess who claimed the money had burned a...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 101i x.d.

of Smith, Elder, and Co., was entertained on Wednesday by the -editors and contributors who have made his "Dictionary of National Biography" the great work it undoubtedly is,...

their policy in Uganda. It is probably the result of a compromise within the Cabinet, and is a wretchedly weak one. The Government retain the Protectorate of Uganda, and will...

W. Russell called the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the fact that the Local Veto Bill had disappeared from the Order Book of the House, and begged to know if...

Judges of the Queen's Bench Division on May . 2.141, was published on Saturday last. The most important is that which provides for continuous sittings " throughout the legal...

FROM PALMERSTON TO ROSEBERY. T HE Daily News of Thursday is reminded by Lord Rosebery's success on the turf, and the easy pleasantry with which he assures the public that he is...

to the disgraceful conduct of the two men Daniels and Wilson, troopers in the Bechuanaland Police, who on May 29th were sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. A crime...

W E find ourselves, somewhat to our annoyance, entirely at variance with our Unionist friends in regard to their treatment of the Budget. They are demonstrably wrong in...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S reply to Lord Rosebery in the Bradford speech of this day week had only one defect. He made rather too much of Lord Rosebery's attempt to foist upon him...

on Friday week to the Commons by Sir E. Grey, and to the Lords by Lord Kimberley, is a most wretched affair. It appears to be the result of a conflict in the Cabinet between two...

W E are by no means sure that Mr. Asquith is wise in accepting the position of mediator between the cab-owners and cab-drivers of London. It is true he has before him the...

that it will be satisfied with nothing less than perfection, and burns to bring Churchmen up to the level of heroic self-sacrifice. We do not complain that it is impossible to...

S OCIETY has been saying for weeks past that if Lord Rosebery won the Derby, "the blue ribbon of the Tart" as Lord Beaconsfield called it, he would win also the next General...

T HE jubilee of the Young Men's Christian Association has elicited from an evening contemporary the contemptuous remark that he wishes it all the good in the world so long as he...

T HE natural liking of Englishmen for domestic animals of all kinds is quite equalled by the skill they usually show in their management. Yet the sufferings of our transport...

T HE death of this able English scholar and original thinker, who was, both twenty years ago, and again during the last two years, a frequent and valued con- tributor to this...

ESTATE-DUTY ON PRINCIPAL VALUES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Poor country gentlemen like myself, and they are many, fail to understand that portion of the Budget...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "Srsoveros."] SIR,—If Mr. Hunt's intention when he related his adventure, in the Spectator of June 2nd, with the Wesleyan schoolboy, was to provide us with...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mrs. Malaprop's dictum has seldom been more applicable than to the persistent efforts of certain people to place in. antagonism two...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is the great Dr. Gaisford,—" I have come all the way from Germany to see the great Dr. Gaisford," said a Pro- fessor, who, after calling...

ITo TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on "The Tenacity of Childish Errors," in the Spectator of June 2nd, you instance the many stumbling. blocks presented to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Last November you were kind enough to publish an appreciative review of my novel, "Dr. Mirabel's Theory," the plot of which turns upon...

Catholic readers of the Spectator to whom your correspondent, "A. N.," addresses an inquiry on the above subject, may I be allowed to submit the following answers?— (1.) In his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—That my verse should be thought like Wordsworth's is an honour. But still my knowledge of him and of many other- English poets is all...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of June 2nd appears a letter by "A. N.," headed " Catholic Priests and Bull-Fights." The writer states that "while in...

SIR,—May I add one or two anecdotes illustrating children's queer readings? A son of mine was much puzzled for many years with the line in the hymn, "Jesus lives : no longer...

`Sin,—In the autobiography of Sir C. Lyell, he tells of a childish error on a petition in the Litany, that struck me as recalling two errors of my own on the same. We ask that...

SIE,—Let me supplement your amusing article, in the Spectator of June 2nd, on the misapprehension of words in the Bible and Prayer-Book. A friend, whom we will call Mr. Smith,...

universal experience in your article on this subject in the Spectator of the 2nd inst. The following illustration may be found interesting as exhibiting the matter in an...

father had an old lodge-keeper, named Speed. One of my brothers, when the prayer was read in church, "Make speed to save us," wondered why this feeble old man was to be the...

about the man borne of four, so amusingly described in your capital article in the Spectator of June 2nd, I have a fellow-story. A schoolfellow of my niece's when learning her...

Sik,—Have the following—ill-favoured things, but mine own —interest for you or your readers ? I was taught some hymns before I could read them, with curious results in some...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—II. A SCHEME of decorative painting for the interior of a large building, such as Mr. Sargent has undertaken for the Public Library at Boston, raises a host...

in her earliest youth, was much perplexed by the line, "Foul, I to the Fountain fly," in Top- lady's hymn, "Rock of Ages." Her comprehension had suggested "Fowl, I to the...

MY soul is full of beauty of the spring, Sweet scents of flowers and birds' ecstatic song, The hawthorn's breath and hyacinth mingling Have caused ten thousand memories to...

THE HAWARDEN HORACE. AD MILESIIIM GLORIOSUM. 'TwouLD please me greatly, dear Tay Pay, If from exaggeration's sway You could be weaned. I'm not, although you'd have it so, A...

SIR,-1 can add an illustration to the instances mentioned on June 2nd in the Spectator of the misapprehension of the phrase, "The Scripture moveth us in sundry places." The...

THE POET'S GARDEN.* WE are glad to welcome Mr. Alfred Austin's delightful Garden that I Love in a compact book form. Mr. Austin is the laureate of gardens ; he is, as Addison...

be handled with reverence. Yet her life becomes more interest- ing as by imagination working on the ungarbled facts of history we penetrate, in some measure, to the real...

4 I'wz association of the great Artistic Twin Brethren has become historical. It is on record that an inquirer, being told that the music of an anthem, which he had just heard...

IT is difficult to say positively whether the title of Mr. Merri- man's new novel, With _Edged Tools, is intended to indicate sharp tongues and wits employed in polished fencing...

IN the fine sermon on "The Barren Fig-tree," the late Dean of Bt. Paul's points out how comparatively easy and common it is for character to take the first steps towards the...

M. .A-RVEDE BA.RINE has given us in this book five sketches, four of which deal with persons who really existed, though, with one exception, rather obscurely, while the fifth...

arranged, with notes, by Estelle Davenport Adams. (Elliot Stock.)—The "Poets' Praise" consists of two parts,—their praise of their own art, and their praise of particular poets....

The World's Parliament of Religions. Edited by the Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.D. 2 vols. (Review of Reviews Office.)—Here we have nearly sixteen hundred close-printed pages of...

3 vols. (E. Arnold.)—There was more of the strange than of the interesting in "The Medicine Lady," and the same will, we think, be said by most readers of the tale which claims...

Gant. (Nisbet and Co.)—The "dead selves" of the poet are not the same as the "dead selves" of these essays ; but the words form a convenient motto. Mr. Gant speaks of various...

is little that is unusual in this story. It is the life of a bank-clerk who speculates, forges, is convicted, tries in vain to earn an honest livelihood when he is released from...

and Son.)—The "running title" throughout the book is "The Professor's Daughter." The change has had to be made, we sup- pose, for copyright reasons, but it is a change for the...

stories and sketches, from various parts of Asia and Australasia, are decidedly striking and effective. We may presume that they have been somewhat idealised—" Far Inland...

and Blackett.)—We wish that we had more of this simple, pleasant, well-written kind of novel. William Johnson, a fairly wealthy bachelor of middle age, wakes up to the...

The author has been living among coloured people, and has two observations to make on the result of her experience. They have as little regard to morals, as far as the Seventh...

Foster.)—There is no doubt that this story is "latter-day." The " latter-day " characteristics—not altogether pleasing, at least to tastes which have been accustomed to other...

by Major L. Edge. Vol. 1664-1704. (Harrison and Sons.) —Major Edge did well to reject the suggestion of the injudicious friends who would have had him go back to the earliest...

and Co.)—The late Mr. Rand was a rare linguist, and possessed a remarkable gift for acquiring a grasp of the structure of a language. His long work among the Micmacs gave him a...

The painful situation which is the motive of this story is described with no little force. The hero is a filius nultius, and nothing can reconcile him to the hardship of the...

and Co.)—Clergymen, especially clergymen who are pre- paring candidates of average attainments for Confirmation, will find this a useful volume. It puts things clearly and...