10 MARCH 1883

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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O N Thursday, Sir Stafford. Northcote asked for a day on which he might move for his Committee to inquire into the -circumstances attending the release of Mr. Parnell, Mr....

The new Ministry in France is, apparently, to be allowed

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to exist. The Extremists on Monday tried their strength by pro- posing a revision of the Constitution, which M. Jules Ferry resisted with some determination. He said that the...

The Americans have been withdrawing gold this week, about 2450,000,

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and the price of all Securities is falling. It is evident from the condition of the Exchanges that more will be with- drawn, and the dealers are panic-stricken by a story that...

On Monday, the case against the editor, proprietor, and pub-

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lisher of the Freethinker, for a blasphemous libel,—a case which failed last week in consequence of the disagreement of the jury,— was tried again at the Central Criminal Court,...

The cost of the Egyptian Expedition has, so far, not

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been great. It appears from a Treasury Minute of February 17th that the total cost is 24,558,000, of which 23,416,000 is expended by the United Kingdom, and 21,142,000 by India....

.*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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Lord Stanhope's Bill prohibiting the payment of wages in public-houses,--on

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account of the overwhelming temptation which that choice of a locality causes to weak men to spend their wages in drink,—was read a second time in the House of Lords on Tuesday...

There was an interesting discussion yesterday week on a resolution

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of Mr. O'Shaughnessy's, seconded by Lord Lymiug- ton, in favour of the application of the principle of compulsion to Irish education. Mr. O'Shaughnessy brought out that though...

The news of the week from Ireland consists mainly of

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rumours, most of them little better than gossip derived from detectives. It appears certain, however, that Mr. Egan, Secre- tary to the Land League, has left Ireland secretly,...

It would seem that an English jury, when it gets

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an oppor- tunity of fining Mr. Biggar, thinks that such an opportunity ought not to be neglected on the slight plea that the evidence is hardly adequate to sustain...

Lord Lansdowne on Monday moved for the appointment of a

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Royal Commission to inquire into the best means of promoting the acquisition by the peasants of a proprietary interest in the soil of Ireland, a motion supported byLord...

Mr. Anderson carried the second reading of his Bill against

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pigeon-shooting on Wednesday, by 195 votes against 40, but only at the cost of sacrificing the second clause, which was in- tended to give a remedy for cruelties committed on...

The Standard has sent a Correspondent to Madagascar, who announces

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that four French armed vessels have appeared off the north-west coast of that island, and that the Hovas are pre- paring for war. A large force has already assembled at the...

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At the banquet given by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday

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to the bankers and merchants of London, Mr. Chamberlain made an interesting speech, chiefly on the failure of the present Bankruptcy Law to discourage fraud. He pointed out that...

The Calcutta Correspondent of the Times states that the excitement

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created by the Bill subjecting Europeans to direct trial by Native Magistrates has extended to the Army. One officer doing duty in a large garrison states, in a letter to a...

It is curious with what persistency the Tories go on

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asserting that the Liberal Government is much more prodigal in its expenditure than the late Tory Government, taking as their only test the sums paid out of the Exchequer, a...

Anarchists of different types, and with different objects, are mow

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under trial in Russia, Austria, France, Spain, Belgium, and Ireland. They all profess to be moved by the sufferings -of the poor, all deny personal aims, and all justify murder...

The Lord Chancellor, on Thursday, brought in an important Bill

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regulating the inherent powers of English Courts to punish for contempt, or disobedience to their orders. Under the Bill, a Judge can only imprison for contempt for a maximum...

Germany appears to be much interested in the resignation of

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the Prussian Minister of War, General von Kameke, who sue- -ceeded General von Roon in 1866. He is an elderly officer of great ability, and said to have been very popular with...

We regret deeply to record the death at Menton° of

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Mr. J. R. Green, tho author of "A Short History of the English People," of which, to the credit of the British public, 85,000 copies have been sold. Mr. Green, a born student,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CONTEST IN MID-CHESHIRE. T HE Election for Mid-Cheshire, which comes off on Wednesday, the 14th, is one of unusual interest, because the result will turn almost exclusively...

HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION.

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I F it be true that the Fourth Party objected to the proposal to move the adjournment of the House, in order to raise a new discussion on that great Kilmainham question which...

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THE BLASPHEMY SENTENCE.

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T T is a curious and rather significant fact that those who are most disposed to defend Mr. Justice North's applica- tion of the law of blasphemy last Monday, are most disposed...

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FORMLESS DISAFFECTION.

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A LL politics in England are suffering for the moment under the influence of what we believe to be a political illusion. The governing party is divided, seriously divided, by an...

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THE FINANCIAL REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED' STATES.

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-E NGLISH Free-traders must not rejoice too soon in the passage of the great American Tax and Tariff Bill." The acceptance of that remarkable measure shows, no doubt, that...

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THE NEW SUFFERING OF THE POOR.

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M OST Tory writers—and, indeed, most writers of all parties, for literature is, as against labour, instinctively conservative—are apt to accuse the Poor of our day of seeking in...

HOW TO SAVE THE EMBANKMENT.

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T HE History of the Thames Embankment may be written in three chapters,—How it was made, how it is being paid for, and how it has been spoiled. The first of these belongs to a...

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M THE CONDITIONS OF "THE GRAND STYLE." ATTHEW ARNOLD has told

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us much of the Grand Style in prose and poetry, and has illustrated with no mean success what he has told us by his own example. There are few modern writers who have thrown so...

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THE BILL TO PUT DOWN PIGEON-SHOOTING.

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T HE discussion on Mr. Anderson's excellent Bill entirely verified our recent remarks on the extraordinary power exerted ,by the leaders of Fashion to give the coup de grcice to...

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CANON RAWLINSON ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—In your appreciative notice of the " Present-Day Tracts" issued by this Society, you say, with reference to Canon Raw- linson's tract on...

MR. BRADLAUGH'S DISCLAIMER OF ATHEISM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your notice of "The Present-day Tracts" of the Religious Tract Society, in your issue of March 3rd, you say, with reference to Dr....

COMPENSATION FOR PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN TOWNS AND SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The annual reports of the two Sanitary Associations established in London have shown us pretty plainly how bad is the sanitary state...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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'THE LITERARY DIFFICULTIES OF THE TORIES. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:) Le, — Will the writer of the article on "The Literary Difficul- ties of Tories" tell us where...

THE PROSPECTS OF ENGLISH LAND.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") ‘Sra,—Mr. F. Impey remarks that la petite culture is a lost art n England. Can he prove that, apart from pasture dairy- farming and market...

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THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

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(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Sfs,—The following passage, taken from an address of the late' Dr. Vaughan, of Manchester, delivered in 1853 at a meeting of the Geological...

BRAITHWAITE AND BUTTE RMERE RAILWAY.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE .` SPECTATOR:) Sra,—Will you allow me space to call attention to a matter„ recently come to light, which deserves not only that careful consideration...

THE "SCAMPER THROUGH AMERICA." iTo THE EDITOR OF THE "

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SPECTATOR:] SIE,—In your interesting notice of Mr. Hudson's "Scamper through America," in the Spectator of January 27th, I find the statement made, I presume on his authority,...

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BOOKS.

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KOMPERT'S SKETCHES OF JEWISH LIFE.* 'LEESE stories, though written, apparently, as far back as 1848, are tolerably fair transcripts of Jewish life in Slavonic countries at the...

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BRIGHTER BRITAIN.*

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BRISK, frank, and cheery is the tone of these volumes, and they are written with sense, as well as spirit. The author, Mr. William Delisle Hay, dashes at once in medEas res,...

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SUMMER SONGS AND POEMS.*

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"AFTER a certain period," says Thomas Warton, "in: every country and in every language, men grow weary of the natural, and search after the singular." The truth of the saying...

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PROFESSOR MORRIS ON KANT.*

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MANY of our readers will remember Brown's remark with reference to the philosophies of Reid and Hume. Home—the typical sceptic—and Reid—scepticism's deadliest foe—did not, in...

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AN ICONOGRAPHY OF CULTIVATED ORCHIDS * OF this sumptuous volume,

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it may fairly be said qu'il sent l'opulettoe. There is a ring of wealth about the very name of the publisher, one of the first among the half-score or so of Parisian gditeurs...

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THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK FOR 1883.*

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Tnz new issue of this well-known annual deserves some- what more attention than is usually given to revised editions. The Statesman's Year - book is now within a short period of...

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THE PICTURE'S SECRET.*

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THE subject of this book will probably remind those who have read Gil Bias, of Elvira de Pinares, and that which she spoke of as "une peinture fidele des malheurs de ma famine."...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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TEE Magazines of the month are fairly interesting. The solid paper of the Nineteenth Century is the conclusion of Mr. Rathbone's essay on self-government in England, in which,...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The most interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly is Mr. G. P. Lathrop's account of the "Hawthorne Manuscripts." There is scant piety to the dead in publishing what was...

The Story of Chief Joseph. By Martha Perry Lowe. (Lothrop,

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Boston.)—Chief Joseph is, as was shown a few years ago in the North- American Review, an interesting Indian, and his story deserved pre- servation in prose and in such...

Letts's Illustrated Household Magazine is a new venture, which promises

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to perform a useful function. It is to be "a complete encycloptedia of domestic requirements," telling us where we are to live and how, what we are to eat and drink and how we...

Juvenal, Persius, Martial, and Catches. An Experiment in Trans- lation.

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By W. F. Shaw, M.A. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—The question whether it is desirable to render these four poets (or, as Mr. Shaw in one place calls them, "these amusing writers ")...

Victor Emanuel (the New Plutarch Series), by Edward Dicey (Marcus

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Ward), is in every respect an admirable biography. It is written with spirit, fairness, and knowledge. That Mr. Dicey was- the very man to write such a book those were aware,...

Holidays in Spain. By F. R. McClintock. (Stanford.)—Thie little volume

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contains some account of the tours made in Spain by the author, and, we believe, his wife, in 1880 and 1881. He was so- delighted with his experiences, that he is anxious to...

Essays in Philosophical Criticism. Edited by Andrew Seth and R.

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B. Haldane, with a Preface by Edward Caird. (Longmans.)—That this collection is not unworthy of the memory to which it is dedicated, would probably be felt by its contributors...

Three Recruits, and the Girls They Left behind Them. By

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Joseph Hatton. (Low and Co.)—This is a vigorous novel, in the best style of the author, who can tell a rattling story literally well enough, and can paint villains and heroes of...

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Mr. R. A. Proctor republishes from Knowledge twelve star maps,

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under the title The Stars in their Seasons. (Wyman and Sons.)— There is a list of stars of the first three magnitudes, a table of reference for using the maps, and a general...

Flowers of the Sky. By R. A. Proctor. A new

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edition. (Chatto and Windus.)—We have no doubt that this handy little edition of one of Mr. Procter's most attractive series of papers will be welcome to many. It is a fine...

Madelaine's Fault : a Story of French Life, translated by

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Morris Neale (Remington and Co.), is pathetic enough, and has the merit of being short. The " fault " of Madeleine, though French in character, will not be considered a very...

An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folk-

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'lore. By the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Bart., M.A. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—This work, of which our notice has been delayed too long, is intended by its learned author to occupy a middle...

The Library Manual, by j. Herbert Slater (L. Upcott Gill),

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which aims at being a guide to the formation of a library, and "the valuation of rare and splendid books," is one of those works which it would be perfectly easy to pick holes...