13 MAY 1893

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If General Dodds is a man of political faculty, he

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may occupy an important position in France. He landed at Marseilles on Thursday, and was received as a hero who had defeated an army and conquered a province. Even the Socialist...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE whole week in Parliament has been occupied with the Home-rule Bill, and even Mr. Gladstone begins to perceive that it may not get through Committee this Session. The...

The Emperor retains his confidence, and has, as usual, spoken

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frankly to his people. The occasion selected was an inspection of the Guard on Tuesday, when his Majesty addressed the Generals round him, saying that he had not anti- cipated...

The statement that photographs have been produced in natural colours

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has been so often circulated, that every account is received with natural distrust. The evidence, however, appears conclusive that M. Lipman, of Paris, has devised, and that M....

The struggle between the German Emperor and his Opposition over

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the Army Bills has ended in his de- feat. The final vote was taken on Saturday, when the vital clause of the Bills, as they originally stood, was rejected by the Reichstag so...

* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

Lord Randolph Churchill invited Mr. Balfour to address his Paddington

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constituents at the Metropolitan Music-Hall, Edgware Road, last Saturday; and very lively the speeches were, though whether they were the wisest possible prepara- tions for the...

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Lord Randolph Churchill described the Bill as the product of

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the most elephantine gestation, which had issued in the produc- tion of a most misshapen and mutilated monster. He was amazed that one of the greatest and most popular of...

Next moment the scene was changed. Mr. Redmond moved that

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the Irish Legislature should be called the Irish Parliament, declaring that the concession would be most agreeable to Irish sentiment; and Mr. Gladstone objected, nominally...

Of the first night in Committee we have said so

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much in another column that we need only add here that it was a debate on the Supremacy question, in which the great object of both the Irish Party and the Government was to...

In Tuesday's and Wednesday's debate on Mr. T. W. Russell's

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motion to omit all reference to the Legislative Council, there was no real difference of opinion among the Unionists as to the utter worthlessness of the Council actually...

Thursday's debate was memorable for two things,—a Homeric encounter between

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Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Glad- stone, and a fierce scrimmage in regard to the Closure. On the motion that Clause 1 stand part of the Bill, Mr. Chamberlain asked the supporters of...

The majority in the House of Commons contradicted itself on

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Tuesday in a very curious way, upon whioh we have dwelt elsewhere. Mr. Bartley moved that the Irish Legislature should be described in the First Clause of the Home-rule Bill as...

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If Ulster determines on the policy of refusing to pay

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taxes to a Dublin Parliament, the 'Ulstermen may (if they choose) shelter themselves under the authority of the Archbishop of Cashel (Dr. Croke), who gave-in his deliberate...

The success of the Exhibition at Chicago is threatened by

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a difficulty of quite a novel kind. Apparently, the Commis- sioners representing the different countries distrust the fairness of the awards to be expected. These are to be...

The mandate of the French Assembly does not expire till

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September, and it is now said that it will be allowed to run out its full term. There was hope less than a week ago that a dissolution might be proposed in June so that a new...

On Friday, May 5th, the House of Commons carried, by

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293 to 240, a resolution proposed by Sir Charles Dike to the effect that County Magistrates should no longer be made by the Lord Chancellor only on the recommendation of the...

On Friday, May 5th, Mr. Shaw-Lefevre announced in the House

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of Commons that Hampton Court Park, with the exception of one or two meadows, would in future be thrown open to the public ; and that the Queen had withdrawn the per- mission to...

Bank Rate, 31 per cent. New Consols (21) were on

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Friday 98f.

On Wednesday, the Queen opened the Imperial Institute in •

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state,—that is, the cream-coloured horses drew her carriage, and the great officers of state, the Judges, and the Lord Mayor attended in their robes. The most striking fea- ture...

Investors seeking interest rather larger than Consols have this week

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suffered a new misfortune. They have been heavily hit by the failure of the Argentine Republic, of the Portu- guese Treasury, and of so many Australian banks ; and now it seems...

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TOPICS OF THE D.Y.

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A BAD BEGINNING OF COMMITTEE. T HE Committee stage has not commenced under good auspices. Mr. Balfour's very lively and, for the most part, good-humoured speech on Saturday...

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THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S DEFEAT. T HE defeat of the German Army

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Bill, from whatever point of view it is regarded, is a very serious affair. In the first place, it increases—only a little perhaps, but still increases—the probability of war....

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THE COLLISION OF TWO IDEAS. T HERE is something half-comic, half-painful

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in the inability of the Gladstonians to make up their minds as to what they want in Ireland. It is not that they are divided among themselves, for no " Jonah in the whale ' was...

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THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

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I F the Fates love irony as much as they are reputed to love it, Wednesday's pageant must have filled them with delight. In South Kensington, the Queen, with all the Pomp and...

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THE DEBATE ON THE SECOND CHAMBER.

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T HE debate of Tuesday evening and Wednesday on the Legislative Council for Ireland was a curious illustration of the profound indifference of our various political groups to...

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THE POVERTY OF THE CLERGY.

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W E are indebted to the Lower House of the Convoca- tion of Canterbury for more precise information than has hitherto been attainable with respect to the incomes of the clergy....

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THE CHARITY COMMISSION AND ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL. T HE " ladder

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of learning" is a phrase of which we are likely to hear more during the next few years than will be welcome either to the rate-paying public, who have to find the money to set...

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CUCKOOS AND NIGHTINGALES. T HROUGH all Western Europe and Asia Minor,

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from the groves of " old Colonus " and the temples of Baal-bee, to the valleys of Andalusia and the combes of the Surrey hills, the nightingales are now in song, awakening...

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THE GREAT LADIES.

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I T is difficult not to ask oneself, when noting the death of " Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury," whether the race of " great ladies "—we do not mean of aristocratic women, but...

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ONE AVOIDABLE CAUSE OF CRUELTY.

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T HE new Report of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a very remarkable and in- teresting document, to two of the statements of which we desire to...

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" A COMMON CHRISTIANITY."

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[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPEOTAT010] SrR, — It is deeply interesting to learn from Dr. Martineau's letters to the Times, on which you commented in the Spectator of May 6th,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY ON THE " SPOILS SYSTEM" IN IRELAND. [To TOE EDITOR OE THE "BrEaTATon."] SIR,—I do not think I have entered into a controversy with a critic of any book...

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POETRY.

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AT THE SEA-SIDE. FAR from this land of summer weather To where two children roam together In thought I wander; Meseems by Cambria's wave-beat shore, Mingling their voices with...

BULLFINCHES AND APPLE-BLOSSOM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] Sin,—Your correspondent asks whether bullfinches really destroy the blossom of the apple-trees. They do ; and they do this, not to reach some...

SCHOOL-BOARD RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] . SIR, — In your article on " School-Board Religious Education," in the Spectator of May gbh, referring to the teaching actually given in...

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ART.

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THE OLD OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE ACADEMY. I.—THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. THE ideals and practice of the majority of the exhibitors in this Society...

II.—ARCHITECTURE AT THE ACADEMY.

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IT is a most ungrateful task to assail the respected practi- tioners and official representatives of an art ; but if the Academy is to be taken as pretending to represent...

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BOOKS.

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THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH PROSE.* Is , is of the greatest interest to all who care seriously for literature, to know how a language is built up, to learn what causes help to shape...

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A HANDBOOK OF SPANISH LITERATURE.* IN comparison with that of

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other countries, the literature of Spain has so far suffered neglect in England. Of Italian, French, and German authors, we can generally talk glibly -enough ; we have even...

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RECOLLECTIONS OF COUNT LEO TOLSTOY.*

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Evuar recollection which helps us to understand and appre- ciate a great mind cannot fail to be interesting, especially when we know that the record comes from a reliable...

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SCHLEIERMACHER ON RELIGION.* THIS is a remarkable book because it

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had a remarkable in- fluence upon a nation which for several centuries has guided the religious thought of all Protestant countries. Moreover, it, together with another book,...

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JEREMY TAYLOR'S GOLDEN SAYINGS.*

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" A SINGLE selection from Jeremy Taylor is fine ; but it requires a skilful hand to put many detached bits of him together;" so wrote Fitzgerald to his friend John Allen. That...

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PRISONERS AND PAUPERS IN THE UNITED STATES.*

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IN this wprk Mr. Boies will at least succeed in startling his readers, both by his facts, in many respects very dismal, and by his " remedies," in more than one particular...

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Tho now number of the English Historical Review is an

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excep- tionally interesting one. A passage of Byzantine history which even in the pages of Gibbon is dark and doubtful, is to some extent lighted up by Mr. E. W. Brooks, in an...

The ordinary layman, looking to the contents of the new

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num- ber of the Church Quarterly Review, will probably turn in the first instance to "The Journalist in Fiction." He will find it to be a very careful and complimentary...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Perhaps the most generally interesting and popular paper in the new number of the Economic Review at the present time is Mr. Joseph King's, on " The Alcohol Monopoly in Switzer-...

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The Juridical Review, which is published by Messrs. William Green

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and Sons, Edinburgh, has now taken a high place among the periodicals that are devoted to legal subjects. There is, perhaps, rather too much of the air of the New Journalism...

The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature, which is

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edited by Professor Salmond, of Aberdeen, has now entered on its third volume, and—to use a popular phrase which is being rapidly classicised— " it looks as if it had come to...

It would be impossible to criticise justly a magazine of

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such a special character as Natural Science without noticing it at consider- able, and here impossible, length. It must suffice, therefore, to say that this magazine, which has...

Farm - Produce Realisation. By D. Tallerman. (Simpkin. Mar- shall and Co.)—This

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is a reprint of a work published four years ago, with an appendix bringing it up to the present day. Mr. Tallerman urges that the salvation of the British farmer would be found...

The new number of that valuable but too little known

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quarterly, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, contains, among other papers, a most valuable, well-written, and well-arranged paper on " The Distribution and Movement...

Babette Vivian. By" Christel." (Digby, Long, and Co.) Exag- geration

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and romance are the too evident faults of Babette Vivian; the absence of all semblance to life is too obvious. The young nobleman who fancies he has angina pectoris because he...