"OUT OF TM! EAST." * MR. LAFCADIO HEARN is in love, and Japan is his mistress. He does not write, at least he does not publish, sonnets to her ; but his "reveries and studies"...

LONDON: OCTOBER 12, 1895.

THE worst of a collection of this kind, extending as it does over a space of eleven years of lecturing, is that it necessarily alters so much of its character as it goes on as...

IT is always interesting to hear the impressions of an outside observer concerning our own practices and institutions, not, indeed, that we join in any vain aspirations after...

Studies in European History is to be congratulated on this second attempt, for she has to a very remarkable degree preserved the dignified simplicity of style which is so...

THERE can be little doubt that we are suffering just now from a literary surfeit of biographies of obscure men. A man may have been a perfectly honest and perfectly re-...

since the publication of the first volumes of this history of mediaeval Rome. A French translation has long been in existence, but it has hitherto been inaccessible in English....

The Higher Criticism and the Monuments. By the Rev. A. H. Sayce. (S.P.C.K.)—The Society has acted, we think, with real courage and wisdom in publishing this volume. It will not,...

an improvident bargain in surrendering Heligo- land. Herr Gatke, a native of the Mark of Brandenburg, settled more than half a century ago in Heligoland, intending to pursue...

(Longmans.) —This Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor is one of the most remarkable phenomena of the time. Fifty years ago it did not exist. Now it has more than two hundred...

and Co.)—Mr. Robinson has, as usual, many curious things to say to us, and says them in his very lively and agreeable fashion, as, for instance, about the migration of birds....

Kernahan's first paper is on Heinrich Heine, and he rightly describes it as " A Problem in Personality." He deals with Heine with no little severity ; " in his writings, as in...

Newnes.) —Mr. Toomey, late Colour-Sergeant of the 1st Battalion of the " Royal Irish," has put together, in this neat little volume, some interesting facts, illustrated by...

D. Innes and Co.)—Mr. Robertson begins with Andre Chinier (who does not belong to the century) and ends with Jean Monies, a Frenchman of Greek descent, who is attempting to...

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is certainly the hardest task that the series of "The National Churches" has imposed upon any of its contributors. Practically the history of the...

Breton, and Anglo-Norman Versions of the Story and Tennyson's Idylls of the King. By S. Humphreys Gurteen, MA., LL.B. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Gurteen opens his ably written...

F. J. Antrobus. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We have received the third and fourth volumes of this monumental work, constructed, in a large degree, on documents found in the...

and Co.)—This story, hopefully inscribed to the African Colonisation Societies of the Future, " deals with the race- antipathies" and the " negro question" in general as the...

F. N. Macnamara, M.D. (Hardy and Page.)—One must indeed be a pedantic churl to scoff at work such as that of Mr. Macnamara. One may add that it is generally the ignorant who...

English. By W. Peterson, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan and Co.)— Whether the use of translations by schoolboys and undergraduates should be permitted is a question we have often heard...

Co.)—This can hardly be called a story. One incident it has, and about this critics are specially requested to be silent. We may call it a study, possibly taken from nature, for...

some stories of the West (of the United States, it must be understood). Character develops there in a curious way, and a literature grows up to describe it. This specimen is not...

and Hall.)—Colonel Pollock is one of the few born sportsmen who can write, and thus enable others to participate in the keen delights of hunting. As far as we can make out, his...

to know on what principle of selection Mr. Leopold Wagner constructed this compilation of commonplaces. We say commonplaces because, though many of these manners and customs are...

indefatigable author of " Aldersyde," who by this time must have written almost as much as Mrs. Oliphant or Miss Braddon, has found in the career of a lady doctor a thoroughly...

Hall.)—These reminiscences are of the usual sporting type, though they include an unusual variety of shooting and hunting experiences. The writer seems to have tried his hand at...

P. Chr. Asbjornsen and Jurgen Moe. (George Routledge and Co.)—We should say that these tales have very various derivations, and some of them have a curious want of proportion,...

by F. Remington. (Gay and Bird.)—Mr. Bigelow's knowledge of the German military system is comprehensive and minute, and he describes with a thoroughly appreciative and kindly...

and Co.)—Professor Shaler devotes himself more particularly to the configuration of coasts and the action of the tide on cliffs and beaches. The action of the sea is patent...

M.A. (David Nutt.)—The counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham, were laid under contribution for these tales, and Derbyshire, as may be imagined, supplies the greater...

Trench, and Co.)—In this volume of sermons Archdeacon Wilson makes a notable contribution to various discussions, religious and social. Perhaps the most important of all are the...

and Co.)—Mr. Robinson has told the story of a disreputable nobleman whom it would have been better to forget. He exer- cises, it is true, a commendable discretion in dealing...

Boll. (Elliot Stock.)—We do not see that Dr. Bell has anything quite new about the " English Poets "—there are six chosen for his themes, Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Scott,...

E. Cuthell. (Ward and Downey.)—Mrs. Cuthell, having, it would seem, some knowledge of yachting, and of the geography of such places as Poole Harbour and the like, makes it...

Sons.)— This seems to us a very sensible and clearly expressed guide to billiards and the theory of the game. It is illustrated with many diagrams, and the advice given, from...

man and Hall.)—Of course every one ought to know that Landor died more than thirty years ago, and John Forster nearly twenty, and that, consequently, this is a new edition. Yet...

tale, a volume of the "Antonym Library," shows the author of the " Anglomaniacs " as equal to herself. That, we take it, is sufficient praise. The plot is simple enough. Morison...

I. Woodhouse. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—It is a pity that Morton's life should not have been thoroughly worked out. Mr. Woodhouse has not contributed a great deal to his...

Great Queen Street, W.O.; and Published by JOHN JAMES BAKER, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Str a nd, in the County of Middlesex, at the " SPECTATOR"...

be any foundation for the strange rumour that the young Emperor of Russia is afflicted with melancholia. The story is most improbable, and rests upon nothing more solid than his...

his action. One, no doubt, is the belief that if all Armenians were dead or cowed, there would be no Armenian question ; the other is fear of the roused temper of the...

_N EWS that Antananarivo fell on September 27th, and that the Court had fled, was received in Paris on Tuesday from English sources, and created great excitement. It was...

with an interviewer, strongly supports our contention that the Hovas are good fighting material. He himself has seen them attack and defeat French troops in the open, and in the...

doubt that the savage repression which followed the ill- advised demonstration of the Armenians on September 30th was ordered by great men in the Palace, if not by the Sultan...

case.

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was celebrated in Dublin with the usual procession, great efforts having been made by the National League to secure an im- posing ceremony. The ivy-leaf was again worn as the...

meeting of the National Temperance Congress at Chester on Friday week. After stating that he seems to see pretty clearly certain things about the question, " but as a whole it...

his party by making a vehement declaration of policy. The only way to meet the 150 majority of the Government was by following Mr. Parnell's old policy,—the policy of making it...

city, which was opened on Tuesday, read a striking paper on the poverty in which the clergy have been plunged by the fall in the value of corn. Four hundred beneficed clergymen...

the credibility of the Bible as attested by recent arch mological research, contained some very curious and interesting facts connected with the Babylonians. The Mosaic age, it...

piece of news to Tuesday's paper. He states that thirty-four Ulemas of the Azhar University have addressed a telegram to the Sultan complaining that the intrigues of certain...

a lecture on Abraham Lincoln at Toyn- bee Hall, which, to judge by the highly abbreviated report in the Times, must have been a very remarkable attempt to focus Mr. Lincoln's...

restrictive liquor laws is curiously exemplified by what is pass- ing in New York. The reformers there had, it was believed, squelched Tammany, and set up an honest government ;...

day, contains some very interesting and satisfactory figures. On June 1st last there were 222,151 men and officers in the Regular army,—that number being the highest reached...

the most striking engineering feats ever undertaken. Colonel John Pennycuick, who has just been made a C.S.I. on the corn- 4aletion of the Periyar irrigation works, has...

will steam 301 knots, or say 35 miles, an hour. This vessel, named the Sokol,' built for the Russian government, is the fastest in the world, no other steamer having attained to...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1071.

man named Dean, skipper of a ferry-boat, was accused of poisoning his wife. Under a " strong " charge from the Judge, the jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to death....

THE SUSPENSE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. T HIS business in Constantinople must gravely in- crease Lord Salisbury's already heavy anxieties. Sir John Tenniel in this week's Punch may...

the white peoples to undertake the government of all Africa almost in their own despite has received one more illustration. The last semi-civilised, or at least self-governing,...

'E NGLAND has on her hands a diplomatic quarrel with Venezuela, which concerns the boundaries of that State and British Guiana, and, if we remember rightly, involves also some...

C LEARLY the Socialists do not believe in the maxim, "Don't kick a man when he's down." The Home- rule party is very much down ; but that does not in the least prevent Mr....

1 1HE death of Admiral the Hon. Sir J. R. Drummond releases a sinecure; and all the newspapers are con- gratulating the nation on the opportunity of saving a certain amount of...

T HE most generally interesting features of the earlier proceedings of the Church Congress at Norwich have been the references made by the Archbishop of York in his opening...

T HE revolt of the curates has brought the clergyman's wife a good deal in evidence during the past few weeks. In much of the controversy on the curates' side, there has been an...

T HIS very ugly word, which might have been a compres- sion of " blood-guiltiness," but was first used, we be- lieve, as a mispronunciation of " bloody " by one of "Helen's...

I N Natural History, Lore and Legend,"* Mr. Hulme has made a very interesting contribution to our knowledge of the mediaeval naturalists. He bas collected, mainly from the most...

THE ULTIMATUM TO CHINA. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—Yotir paragraph and article in the Spectator of October 5th, " The Ultimatum to China," are calculated, in...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Just a few lines in reply to Mr. Wolff. I have often recommended co-operative butter-factories where there is no retail sale for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—My attention has been drawn to an able and apprecia- tive review of my new novel, " My Japanese Wife," in the Spectator of October...

THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN.* Mn. H. C. THOMSON is careful to explain in the course of his preface that his book is not intended to add any argument to the vexed political and...

A BALLAD OF OLD JAPAN. THE lordship over the Hinin (i.e., "not-men," the outcast beggar population of Yedo) was given three centuries ago by the great Shogun Iyeyasu to a...

IT is a favourite argument of the Bimetallists, that the sys- tem which they advocate—of gold and silver current side by side without restriction as to legal tender — is no new...

MR. ROBERT CAMPBELL'S new collection of Ruling Cases, the first two volumes of which have now appeared, is a bold attempt to add to the standard works of legal reference, and...

THE world, says the author of "Philip Van Artevelde " in a line which is more familiar to "the general reader" than its author's name,—the world knows nothing of its greatest...

GIFT-BOOKS. Hidden Beauties of Nature. By Richard Kerr, F.G.S. (R.T.S.) —This book contains the main points of lectures delivered to scientific societies, colleges,...

AFTER " the paging of the Clarke Manuscript" follows the name of the Dialogue on the title-page, and the words suggest a singularly interesting story. Early in this century, Dr....

out of its treasury " things new and old." It is an excellent idea, for instance, to give such a classic as " Treasure Island." Generations of boys and girls are growing up who...

Victoria Street.)—" This volume," writes the editor in his pre- face, "contains the first sixteen monthly issues of The Animals' Friend, and therefore represents the birth and...

"And Some New Ones." We must own that we have not cared to look for these. How is a grown—in fact, a grown-old—man to say whether a " nursery-rhyme " is good or bad ? The...

Sir Thomas More (J. C. Nimmo), a delightful book, which is also a careful study of manners and character. Mr. W. H. Hutton furnishes an introduction, in which he gives a...

book of comic pictures and verses, fairly good, but hardly coming up to the high ideal which we cherish of " nonsense " proper ; for this nonsense is at least as good as sense.

we have Captain Marryat's Peter Simple. It is illus- trated by Mr. J. Ayton Symington, and Mr. David Hannay con- tributes an introduction in which, while observing that there is...

if not also a very cheerful story of love and misery in what is little better than a London slum. Matthew Furth, the hero, is a dock-labourer, who, at the time the story opens,...