13 FEBRUARY 1897

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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- "NATE must offer the Government a word of warning as to a serious danger in its path. The country has assented, with reluctance and shame, but still has assented, to a policy...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE OUTBREAK IN CRETE. T "great uneasiness which the disturbance in Crete creates among European Governments seems to most of our countrymen a little exaggerated, but we...

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ENGLAND AND EGYPT.

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S IR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH'S firm speech in regard to Egypt acted like a drop of some chemical substance used to precipitate a cloudy liquor. It has cleared and improved the...

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THE BATTLE OF BIDA.

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W E hardly expected so rapid a confirmation of the views we ventured to put forward on January 23rd. Every one, however, will read the thrilling account of the battle of Bida,...

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SIR C. DILITR'S PROPOSAL. T HE military organisation of this country

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will be re- formed after we have suffered some great disaster and not before. We expressed that opinion in these columns thirty years ago, and we have seen no substantial reason...

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SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH.

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destinies could be safely deposited. If the electors at large thought of Sir Michael Hick-Beach at all, it was with feelings in no special way complimentary. Rightly or wrongly,...

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THE MEANING OF CHEAP MONEY.

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p ERSONS not conversant with the methods and language of business, especially ladies, find no phrase more incomprehensible and irritatingly absurd on the face of it than that...

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THE DIFFICULTIES OF RELIGIOUS POETRY.

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T HE purpose of all poetry is to illuminate our experience of the world by means of passion and imaginative thought. Passion is necessary, because it is only when the mind is at...

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THE MECHANISM OF PHILANTHROPY.

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T HE appeal made by the Prince of Wales, that the Queen's " Diamond Jubilee" may be commemorated by the establishment of a voluntary fund for the support of the London...

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ANIMALS ON THE MARCH.

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S IR JOHN OGLANDER, writing of the manners and customs of the Isle of Wight in the days of Charles I., quaintly remarks that persons out of " owre island" who undertook a...

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STORIES TO LET.

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S TORY-TELLING has had a place among the fine arts from before the nights of Scheherazade down to the day on which the present writer heard from infant lips in his own nursery...

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THE QUEEN AND EAST LONDON.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There are probably many precedents and other excel- lent reasons which would prevent her Majesty's advisers from indicating St....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES. [TO Tax EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.) SIR,—Several times I have been on the point of calling your attention to statements made in your...

AN UNIMPEACHABLE PRESENTIMENT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] you allow a distant reader to supplement the incident recorded by Mr. Ogi]vy, in the Spectator of December 12th, by another which occurred...

THE SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Six,—Since, at the accession of James I., the statutes then in. force vested the succession to the Crown in the heirs of Mary Tudor (Duchess...

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THE CONSCRIPTION IN FRANCE.

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[To TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While strolling this afternoon along the remains of the Via Aurelia, which is still known as " Camin Aurelion," where it passes through...

SQUIRRELS AND BIRDS.

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[To THR EDITOR Or THE " SPECTAT0R...9 SIR,—I think a curious bit of observation of the habits of the squirrel will interest your readers. It is in a letter from a Scotch...

MR. VOYSEY AND THE UNITARIANS.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " EPECTITOB."] SIR,—I do not know whether Mr. E. A. Voysey gave his father instructions to speak for him in the letter which appeared in the Spectator of...

A BIRD-STORY. [To TWA EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOL1 SIR,—A

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robin has been on very friendly terms with my household for many months, coming in at the open windows, ad at meal-times helping himself to food from the table at which we have...

POETRY.

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THE SIN OF SIR PERTAB SINGH. A KING is great, and the gods are high ; Beyond all gods and kings Is the Veda's timeless rule whose bonds Hold all created things. A. king may...

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BOOKS.

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THE LAND OF THE DOLLAR.* IT was, no doubt, a great relief and solace to the general reader, whose interest in any matter that may happen to be - uppermost we are so apt to take...

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"NULLI SECUNDITS."*

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THE Coldstream Guards is fortunate in its chronicler. Colonel Ross, of Bladensburg, whose designation honourably perpetuates one of the few good memories of the American War,...

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TRADE FACTS AND FIGURES.*

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THERE has been a good deal of irresponsible chatter lately on the subject of the extent to which British trade is being - • Board of Trade Memorandum on the Comparative...

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MR. LANG'S EXPOSURE OF JACOBITISM.*

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WE have no hesitation in saying that this is Mr. Lang's most serious contribution to historical, if not to British, literature. And we hasten to add that it is written with a...

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HISTORY OF THE GERMAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY.* THIS interesting account

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of the Prussian War of Liberation from the tyranny of Napoleon is by the American associate of the Emperor William's school time, Mr. Bigelow, whom the newspapers represent one...

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FORD MADOX BROWN,

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FORD MADOX BROWN was born in 1821 and died in 1893. He is usually classed with the Preraphaelite brethren, though, as a matter of fact, he was never a member of that fraternity....

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Medicine and Kindred Arts in the Plays of Shakespeare. By

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Dr. John Moyes. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Shakespeare's universality of knowledge is one characteristic, among many, which confounds his critics. He appears to have known...

The Washer of the Ford. By Fiona Macleod. (Patrick ,Geddes,

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Edinburgh.)—Our author has dived deep into the ancient Celtic legends, and she has given us some stirring and weird tales of Vikings and bloodshed generally. The early monks...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Critical Review has, under the editorship of the Bev. Professor Salmond, succeeded so well, that the publishers announce an increase in its size. Probably readers of, as...

Hygiene for Beginners. By Ernest Septimus Reynolds, M.D. (Macmillan and

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Co.)—Three years ago Dr. Reynolds wrote a small primer on hygiene for the use of higher-grade school children and for these who attended elementary lectures on the subject. That...

• Selections from Steele's Contributions to the " Tatter." With an

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Introduction. and Notes, by L. E. Steele, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.) —Despite the contempt cast upon Steele by Macaulay, his genius in recent days has been fully recognised. He...

The World and a Han. By Z. Z. (W. Heinemann.)—The

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literature, or so-called literature, which "Z. Z." affects is of this kind. He takes for his subject some casual person and describes . what he thinks and does. There is nothing...

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Robert Whittaker MoAl2. (R.T.S.)—This volume consists of a very brief

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autobiographical note by Mr. McAll and a memoir written by his wife. Mr. McAlrs ministerial life began in 1848 with a call to the Congregational church in Sunderland. He...

The Books qf. the Prophets. By C. G. Findlay, BA.

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Vol. I. (Charles' H. Kelly.)—This is one of the series of "Books for Bible Students " now appearing under the editorship of the Rev. Arthur E. Gregory. It carries on its subject...

The New Charter. (G. Bell and Sons.)—This volunie consists of

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lectures delivered under the auspices of the Humani- tarian League, and now published for it. The various 'speakers had for their common subject the "Rights of Men and the...

A History of the Ancient City of Chester, from the

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Earliest Times. With Plans and many Illustrations. By George Lee Fenwick. (Phillipson and Golder, Chester.)—This fine quarto volume does high credit to the local publishers, and...

The Pilgrim Child. by Theodora Elmslie. (Ward and Downey.) —This

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is a prettily written and fairly well illustrated tale of the allegorical kind. There is perhaps more ornament than substance about it, but it will certainly please many readers.

In the Kingdom of the Shah. By E. Treacher Collins.

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(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Trencher Collins was suddenly summoned from London to proceed to "spatula by way of Bushire in order to eralrine the eyes of the Shah's eldest son, or, as...

The Sacrifice of Pools. By R. Manifold Craig. (F. A.

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Stokes, New York.)—The gradual development of the madness of Carlo Montanaro is very well worked out, and we get strongly interested in the unfortunate man's efforts to ward it...

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Stripped of the Tinsel. By J. E. Muddock. (Digby and

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Long.) —Mr. Muddock has not a very pleasing set of people to introduce to us. On p. 42 he tells us that "very few clergymen practise what they preach." This seems a little hard,...

Three books on Geography may be mentioned together. A New

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Manual of Geography, by E. R. Wethey, M.A. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.), intended for "Middle and Higher Forms," is constructed on the principle of assisting oral teaching....

Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica. By Members of the University of

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Oxford. Vol. IV. (Clarendon Press.)—The most elaborate and, in a sense, the most valuable of these five papers is Mr. E. W. Watson's essay on "The Style and Language of St....

Heredity and Christian Problems. By Amory H. Bradford. (Macmillan and

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Co.)—This is an able and thoughtful book, which will be found to repay perusal. We find ourselves differing seriously both from the ethics and from the theology of the writer....

Musa Pedestrie. Collected and annotated by John S. Farmer,

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(Privately printed.)—As this volume, though "printed for sub- scribers only," has been sent to us for review, we shall not scruple to express an opinion about it. With the...

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Lady Tel's Elopement. By John Bickerdyke. (Hutchinson and Co.)—We may

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say at once, to avoid misapprehension, that the " elopement " is a sham. How it is a sham the reader may, if he please, discover for himself. Lady Val is very badly treated by...

DEATH.

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On On Tuesday, February 9th, at Cross Deep Lodge, Twickenham, Eliza, wife of Richard bolt Hutton, and daughter of the late Robert Roscoe, aged 73.

Thotn's Official Directory, 1897. (Alex. Thom and Co., Dublin ;

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Simpkin and Marshall.)—It will be sufficient to record the annual appearance of this volume, now in its fifty - fourth year. It is a book of reference of much general utility,...

Bryce's English Dictionary, Atlas, Gazetteer, and Book of General Information

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(Bryce and Son, Glasgow), is a useful little volume of more than a thousand pages, which can be conveniently carried in a coat-pocket.

Joe Smith and his Waxworks. (Neville Beeman.)—This is said to

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have been "written by Bill Smith, with the help of Mrs. Smith and Mr. Saunders ; with pictures by Mr. Pitcher." It has every appearance of being a genuine record, and in some...

Leeway. By Howard Kerr. (A. D. lanes and Co.)—The hero

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of Leeway is a man of good principle but weak, of a kind and chivalrous nature, which leads him to throw reason to the winds and to be indifferent to social criticism. No less...

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.—In the "Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare" (G. Newnes), we

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have Vol. XII., containing Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and the Poems. — The Lyric Poems of Robert Herrick. Edited by Ernest Rhys. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—" In all English lyric...

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Abbott (13. A.), The Spirit on the Waters, 8vo (Macmillan) 12/6 Adams (G.), Transformer Design, or 8vo ' (Sport) 4/0 Adams (Mrs. Leith), Colour-Sergeant, No. 1 Company, or 8vo...

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