11 JULY 1896

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Grave Americans in the Eastern States and in London continue

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to doubt whether this outburst of Socialist feeling can be formidable, but we give elsewhere what seem to us serious reasons for doubting their conclusion. The West rules the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE most important events of the week, it may be the most important events of the year, have been the proceedings in the Democratic Convention which began to sit at Chicago on...

The news from Rhodesia is very bad this week. Colonel

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Plumer, with four hundred and fifty whites and some Cape natives, did, indeed, on Sunday attack a large body of Matabeles on the slopes of some hills two days' march from...

We take from the Westminster Gazette a short list which

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seems to us to bear directly on the new attitude of the West. It is an account, derived ultimately, we presume, from the taxing offices, of the wealth of the millionaires in New...

Matters are mending a little in Crete. The Sultan, dis-

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mayed by the unanimity of the Powers, has agreed to a general amnesty, has appointed a Christian Governor-General, has called the Assembly together, and has promised to con-...

.** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript. sn any

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case.

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The Radical party in France is accepting the idea of

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an Income-tax more heartily than we recently thought possible. M. Doumer, the recent Minister of Finance, proposed his Bill in the Chamber on Tuesday ; and though the Government...

The reply made by Mr. Charles Villiers to the address

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presented to him by the Cobden Club to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the repeal of the Corn-laws, published in last Saturday's papers, is a most interesting and...

Mr. Bhovrnaggree, the native of India who sits for Bethnal

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Green, and is a supporter of the Government, denied that India had any interest in the expedition to Dongola. The resolution, he declared, would give rise to an amount of...

The Finance Bill (Committee stage) was under discussion in the

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House of Commons on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. The chief subject debated was the proposal made by the Government that the Treasury should have the power to exempt from...

When the division was taken the serious character of the-

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defection among the followers of the Government was apparent, the resolution only being carried by a majority of 85 (275 to 190). Matters were, however, in reality worse than...

The Times on Wednesday published a curious "find," a translation

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of the letters from Wad-el-Bishera, the young Emir commanding in Dongola, to his subordinate Emirs at Firkeh. In all except their religious phraseology, which mainly consists of...

On Monday Lord George Hamilton's motion asking for the consent

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of the House of Commons to the revenues of India being charged with the ordinary pay of the native troops sent to Suakin was the subject of a full-dress debate. After Lord...

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At the Hotel Metropole on Wednesday evening Lord Rosebery made

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a bright and amusing speech to past and present members of the London County Council. Three distinct waves had passed over the country. The first was the great movement for...

Sir William Harcourt delivered an exultant speech on Monday at

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Holloway Hall, Islington. "Great majorities," he said, "have a knack of falling in pieces, and the heavier the majority the heavier its fall." Champion giants are "usually men...

Mr. Chamberlain on Wednesday also spoke on municipal progress at

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a dinner given to celebrate the conferring of the title of Lord Mayor on the Chief Magistrate of Birmingham. Municipal success depended, he said, on three things,—(1) the...

On Tuesday England witnessed a very interesting and, to those

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who love and feel proud of our race, a very touching incident, —the landing on our shores of the officers and men of the Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, the American...

It was announced on Monday that a peerage is to

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be con- ferred on Sir Hercules Robinson. The honour is well deserved, and we are glad to think that it does not mark the close of a useful career, for the Governor of Cape...

We regret to notice the death of Sir John Pender,

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a man to whom human progress upon its modern lines owed much. Acquiring very early a large fortune in the piece-goods trade, Mr. Pender devoted himself to trans-oceanic...

The clergy have, we think, some grounds for their new

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grievance against the Government, which was the subject of discussion in the Upper House of Convocation on Thursday. They are as dependent upon agricultural prices as the...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (21') were on Friday, 113. a

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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BOUNCE. I S it from policy or as an indulgence that the Radicals everywhere, in conversation as well as in writing, are pouring out such a quantity of bounce ? Listening to...

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THE POSSIBLE DANGER IN AMERICA. T HE Western and Southern States

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of the Union have revolted against property. If things were always what they seem, which in America they very often are not, that would be the meaning of the course which the...

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ANARCHY IN RHODESIA. T HE Matabele are wiser than we are.

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They have chosen a King to lead them in battle, while the whites endure a dual, or rather a multiplex, control, and military officers under the Crown, civil administrators...

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THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE TREASURY AND INDIA.

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T HE agitation against the Government on account of its decision, that when India lends troops for the reconquest of the Soudan she ought to pay their usual expenses, which has...

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THE IRISH LAND BILL: AN APPEAL.

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W E sincerely trust that the rumours in regard to the fate of the Irish Land Bill are unfounded. According to the Lobby correspondent of the Times " the outlook of the Irish...

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ETHICS OF UNIVERSITY CRICKET.

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T "past week has afforded another striking example of that concentration of the public mind on games which we discussed in a recent issue. There can hardly be a doubt that for...

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SPEECH IN 111E PARKS. "A LAND where girt with friends

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or foes A man may speak the thing he will." Is this to remain true of Iltle Park ? We do not ask this question in a rhetorical spirit. We are not touched by the woes of the...

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THE GROWTH OF HUMAN FACULTIES. T HERE is nothing new that

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we see in the exhibition of Herr Heinhaus at the Aquarium. He undoubtedly possesses, by all accounts, the power, which was also possessed by Mr. Bidder, of doing sums in his...

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t " . " I saw him go, o'er the white Alps alone."—DONNE.]

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W HY do the Alps and the glaciers attract us, and the " untrampled deserts where the snows are" draw us like a charm ? We, that is, those of us who love the mountains, lie awake...

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THE ART OF RECITATION.

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“R EADERS or reciters," says Madame de Navarre . still popularly known as Mary Anderson, in her winsome and unaffected book, "are as a rule wearisome. They look to the right...

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ANIMALS' ILLUSIONS.

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A CURIOUS instance of animal illusion was seen on the- Thames at the beginning of the week by those on their way to Henley by river. A cock-swan was fighting his own reflection...

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THE HAPPY MOUNTAIN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Srn,—Having recently discovered an Elysium, I hasten, as a practical altruist, to communicate its whereabouts to my fellow-readers of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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OUR DANGERS IN EUROPE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a paragraph discussing an article of mine on Mr. Spenser Wilkinson's book, you allude to what I have said in...

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MR. BAYARD AND THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

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[To THZ EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOZ.".1 SIR, — In your article in the Spectator of last week, the words occur : "They [Dissenters] may not, it is tree, recognise this description...

POETRY.

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' SWEEP ': AN ELEGY. POOR bird! you left your windy shaws A callow squab, with vigorous caws Denouncing man, his ways and laws And dull dominions; But age and philosophic...

THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your interesting and acute article on the Pope's last Encyclical, in the Spectator of July 4th, I find a state- ment of what the...

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BOOKS.

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MEMOIRS OF BARRAS.* THE new volumes of the Memoirs of Barras show their writer in quite as nnamiable a light as did the first two. The sense of disgust and indignation is indeed...

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SIX NOVELS.*

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THE ten short stories entitled Miss Armstrong, and other Circumstances are—as usual in works of this kind—not all of equal merit, and comprise some which are probably only...

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BISHOP HARVEY GOODWIN.*

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BISHOP HARVEY GOODWIN "had," says his biographer, "the genius of common-sense ; saneness was the chief characteristic of his life; sweet reasonableness was from first to last an...

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THE COMING INDIVIDUALISM.*

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LIBERTY is much in need of a champion in these days, and she has found a pair of apostles in Messrs. Hake and Weisslau, so uncompromising and thorough as to be ready not only to...

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THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA?*

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DIMING her brief, though busy, career of two years the Alabama' attracted a considerable amount of attention and interest in this country. Had we known that we should ultimately...

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HILL TRIBES, WILD AND TAME.*

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WE have read Mr. Gore's book on Indian hill life with much pleasure. The work is no more than a record of what he saw on holiday tours in the mountains of the Northern and...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Rainy Days in a Library. By Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P. (Elliot Stock.)—A library in a country house on a really wet morning is the place and time, says the author, for...

The Plower of Gala Water. By Amelia E. Barr. (Sampson

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Low, Marston, and Co.)— Katharine Janfarie is the step-daughter of a very self-opinionated and cantankerous laird, Brathous by name, for such is the title of his estate. With...

Adventures in Criticism. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. (Cassell and Co.)—These

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fresh and sparkling criticisms appeared originally in. the columns of a contemporary, and although very brief, justify the writer's hope that they are "worth a second reading."...

English Literary Criticism. By C. E. Vaughan. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr.

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Vaughan states in his preface that his aim has been to sketch the development of criticism, and particularly of critical method, in England, and to illustrate each phase of its...

Cretin Pictographs and Prae-Phcenician Script. By Arthur T.

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Evans. (Bernard Quarita.) — In this volume Mr. Evans describes interesting discoveries made in Crete in the course of the years 1894-95 A system of picture-writing and another,...

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Food and its Functions. By James Knight, M.A. (Blackie and

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Son.) —In this volume we have an account, both scientific and practical, of food and its action on the human system. An -outline of the chemistry of food introduces us to the...

Cause and Effect. By Ellinor Meirion. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—

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'This is certainly not up to the standard of the "Pseudonym Library," the series to which it belongs. Compare it with "Mademoiselle Ixe," for instance, or "A Russian Priest"!...

Our Rambles in Old London. By E. S. Michell Smith.

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(Samp- son Low, Marston, and Co.)—Here we have six " walks" aboat London, in which we are "personally conducted" by its observing and well-informed author, who makes us see...

We have received the first part of Naval and Military

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T ophies. ik (John C. Nimmo). This is a series, to be completed in nine parts, of water-colour drawings by Mr. William Gibb, and descriptive rotes by Mr. Richard R. Holmes, of...

The Monks of the West. By the Count de Montalembert.

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With Introduction by the Rev. F. A. Gasquet. 6 vols. (John C. Nimmo.)—This is one of the new editions, which we are some- what surprised to see, as indicating an unexpected...

A Sunday Salmon, and Another. By Frederick Gordon. (Digby and

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Long.)—This volume contains two stories, which, though they cannot boast much novelty of plot, are quite read- able. Love and sport are combined in them with reasonable...