LORD CLARENCE PAGET'S JOURNALS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* LORD CLARENCE PAGET was the ideal English sailor. To the affectionate testimony of Sir Arthur Otwav, whose sister he married,...

I The exact facts as to the resignation of Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Beit as directors of the Chartered Company are contained in a letter from Mr. Bourchier F. Hawksley read at a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. W E are nowadays compelled to go to press so early that we are unable to report the decision in the matter of the Chartered South Africa Company which Mr....

Nasr-ed-din, for nearly fifty years Shah of Persia, was on Friday week assassinated in the Mosque of Shah Abdul Azim, near Teheran. He was kneeling in prayer when the assassin,...

The news from Bulawayo must be considered a little uncertain. Earl Grey, who has taken up the reins there, considers that the back of the rebellion is broken, and has even...

The contest of opinion over the Chartered Company is very I bitter in London. The friends of that body, supported by the Times, the Telegraph, and some other less important...

We deeply regret to record the death of Mr. Alfred Hunt, I the well-known landscape painter, which occurred on Sunday, almost suddenly, though he had been ill. Mr. Alfred Hunt...

On Tuesday Mr. Goschen spoke at the annual dinner of the I 'cfficers of the Royal Naval Reserve, held at the St. George's Clab, Hanover Square. After noticing how 100 officers...

At the annual dinner of the Hardwicke Debating Society I beld at the Criterion on Wednesday, Mr. John Dillon, returning thanks for the House of Commons, said that though it...

I At the meeting of the British Iron Trade Conferenco which took place at the Westminster PjIlace Hotel on Wednesday, the President, Sir Alfred Hickl lan, M.P., made a very...

At the conversazionc of the Royal Society on ANednesdiy there were exhibited some remarkable results of the new photography, which prove that in the domain of surgery the X...

At the one hundred and sixth anniversary dinner in aid of the Royal Literary Fund, with the Earl of Crewe, himself a poet as well as the son of a poet, in the chair, the most...

I Sir William Harcourt made a good, rattling speech at tib National Liberal Club on Tuesday night, in which le endeavoured to persuade his hearers that the great majority of...

Sir John Gorst moved the second reading of the Education I Bill on Tuesday in a speech of great ability and clearness, He defined the four objects of the Bill as, first, the...

May-day, which is recognised all over the Continent as the I Fete of Labour, passed off this year without disturbances anywhere except in Yienna. Even there the rioting was...

Thursday's rather languid debate began with an attack cm the Bill by Sir Charles Dilke, but the most important spcccli was that of Sir William Hart-Dyke, who, as having been...

Mr. Asquith's speech was the very reverse of conciliatory. It was trenchant, able, and severe. It appears that he disapproves of all decentralisation unless it can be shown...

Wednesday's debate was not very remarkable except for Lord George Hamilton's speech, though Mr. Yoxall condemned the Bill from the teacher's point of view, and declared that...

ORATORS AS WRITERS. [To THl EDITOz 0P THE I SrECTATOR.1 'SIR,-In your interesting article on Mr. Morley's Press Club Speech, in the Spertator of Mlay 2nd, you say that " he...

"WILD MIRTH O' THE DESERT." [To TEX HDITOx 0P THE " SPECTATOR."] SiB,-_My friend Mr. Canninghame Graham's letter in the Spectator of May 2nd has puzzled and amused me at the...

POETRY. MORE HAWVARDEN HORACE. AD AuSTINU:.".-(Od. IV. 2.) PINDAnC5r quisquis studet Ir the fatal fall that ended silly aennulari lcarus you'd shun, Inle, ceratis ope...

SPRING-CLEANING. IT was given to Mrs. Carlyle to write the epic of housecleaning. Until Mr. Froude gave that vivacious little lady's "Letters and Memorials" to the public, we...

,,DIVINE DISCONTENT." P RINCE BISMARCK just at present tries to say P popular things, and we suppose he said a popular thing on Monday when he uttered his dithyramb in praise...

CURRENT LITERATURE. -4- I In spite of the death of Sherlock Holmes, the Strand Magazine maintains its reputation for exciting stories as well as for the lively representations...

" BLACK LISTS." W E are in no sense enemies of the Trade-Unions. We hold that those bodies have done, and are doing, good work in enabling the hand-worker to sell his labour to...

SIR GEORGE GROVE ON BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES.* THAT Sir George Grove has not been idle since his resignation of the Directorship of the Royal College of Music this welcome and...

TIHE MURDER OF THE SHAH. ASSASSINATION is murder, and inexcusable, be the L provocwition what it may; but if ever a Sovereign tempted fate it was Nasr-ed-din, the late Persian...

DISESTABLISHMENT AND CHURCH REFORM. I T HE resurrection of old theories under new forms is T illustrated in an interesting letter, signed " Chairman," which we print in another...

A REPLY TO MAX NORDAU ON DEGENERAT1ON.* MOST of the Englishmen who read Max Nordau's diatribe on the present state of affairs felt sorry for him as a man who had had an...

BO OK S. = EOTHEN.* I IT was time we bad a new edition of Eothen, though we could wish that Mr. Shand's sketch of Mr. Kinglake bad been a little more interesting and graphic,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE CHARTERED COMPANY OF SOUTH AFRICA. IF we had the courage, or shall we say the impudence, of some of our dailv contemporaries, we should be tempted to...

A NEW LIFE OF SHERIDAN.* A NEW life of Sheridan was badly needed. Moore's irresponsible and fallacious life gives no true picture of the man it professes to depict. There is no...

PROFESSOR DOWDEN ON GOETHE. THE attack on Goethe's greatness as a poet delivered by TProfessor Dowden, a brief report of which was given in the Daily Chronicle of Monday, has...

ART. THE ACADEMY. COULD Sir Joshua Reynolds revisit the Academy he helped to found, and the policy of which he endeavoured to shape in his discourses, would he find that his...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. DISESTABLISHMENT AND CHURCH REFORM. [TO THE BDITOR 0O TH1C TH SPRCTATOR."] SIR,-Only last year the late Government brought in a Bill to Disestablish the...

THE UNDERMINING OF GREAT MAJORITIES. SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT allowed himself a few minutes of almost riotous delight on Tuesday at the National Liberal Club, in glorying over the...

THE MAGAZINES. THE best article in this month's magazines-the best, that is, in the literary sense-is the review of Mr. Lecky's book on "Democracy" by Mr. Morley in the...

THE EDUCATION DEBATE. WE are disappointed with the spirit of the Education W debate which, though not wanting in ability, seems to us wanting in impartiality, in detachment, in...

Nouveau Dictionnaire de Geographic Universelle. Par MA. Vivicn I de Saint Martin et Louis Rousselet. (Ilaclietto et Cie.)-Tbhi habitable globe seems to impress those who...

MR. MORLEY ON DEMOCRACY AND WAR. I IN the rather cruel review of Mr. Lecky's book on Democracy which Mr. Morley contributes to the Nineteenth Century for May, he does a little...