13 OCTOBER 1877

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We have commented elsewhere on the three addresses published during

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the week by M. Grdvy, M. Gambetta, and the Duke de Broglie, but must add here that M. Gambetta has also made a =speech to the electors of Belleville, in which he denied that he...

There is no intelligence of importance from the seat of

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war. Suleiman Pasha has arrived in the camp on the Loin, but is still taking stock of the situation ; the Russians are still receiving re- inforcements, but are doing nothing ;...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in presiding on Monday at

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a meeting of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce, made an effort to wash-in lightly a little rose-colour over the present rather dim, not to say dun-coloured, horizon of the...

'IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE interest of the week has centred on the French elections. They come off to-morrow, and each party professes perfect , confidence in the result. M. Gambetta has again...

Marshal MacMahori has been advised to issue a final Manifesto

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to the French people so late in the day, that no one in the pro- Tinces can reply to it. The document is not very spirit, stirring, and is not countersigned by any Minister. The...

A correspondent of the Standard, writing from &thumb% on September

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27, makes a very remarkable statement. Ho is most friendly to Mehemet Ali and the Turkish cause, but he affirms that the battalions under Cheyket Pasha who have just entered...

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Lord Salisbury made two political speeches at Bradford on Thursday.

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In the first he shattered the hopes of those who had built on Sir Stafford Northoote's wistful vision of a patch of ' blue eky ' in the East, by declaring that "no indication of...

In the second speech, before a meeting of the Bradford

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Con- servative Association, Lord Salisbury went into a general defence of the policy of the Government, which, though very unsubstantial, he made very amusing. He complimented...

President Hayes and his policy have sustained a severe defeat

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in Ohio, his own State, in which he was so popular, and to which he has assigned so much patronage. The Inflationists, the Demo- crats, and the Workmens' party have combined,...

The seventeenth Church Congress met at Croydon on Tues- day,

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under the presidency of the Arohbishop of Canterbury. Canon Lightfoot, who had been chosen to preach before the Congress, appears to have dwelt with great eloquence on "the...

Up to Friday night no intimation of the decision of

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the Home Office in the Penge case had been published, though Tuesday is the day fixed for execution. The showers of letters continue, but it is by no means certain that the...

The marriage of King Alfonso of Spain has, it is

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stated, been arranged. He is to marry his cousin, the Infanta Mercedes, daughter of the Duke de Montpensier. The marriage is not popular, as the Duke is so hated that he has...

The latest famine news from India is more cheering. Rain

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has fallen all over the North-West, and even in Madras it is thought that four more months will see the end of the severe distress. The need, however, for the present continues...

A conference of Irish Members of Parliament in favour of

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Home-rule was held in Dublin on Tuesday, to settle if possible the quarrel between the Constitutional Home-rulers and the Obstructionists. It ended, on the whole, in favour of...

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Dr. Appleton, the strenuous critic of Owens College, Man- chester,

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and the most active antagonist of the scheme for raising Owens College to the rank of a University, writes to Thursday's Times to denounce that project, chiefly on the ground...

The tone taken by the higher Clergy in relation to

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the repre- centation of the Laity- in the Church is not very promising to those who wish to see a Church living in the present, and not merely claiming to be the lineal...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, of whose rather optimist in- augural

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address we have said almost enough elsewhere, glided over the ground he had traced out for himself with a good deal of dexterity, aiming, it would seem, rather to keep the...

The Bank of England on ThursdEty raised its rate of

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discount to 5 per cent. Money was steadily going out, much of it for trade pur- poses, and the Bank deemed it necessary to protect itself. Busi- ness, however, does not revive...

Commie were on Friday 951 to 951.

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Mr. Roberts, formerly librarian of All Souls', sent to Wed-

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nesday's Times a very sufficient reply to the complaint urged last week in our own columns against the Oxford University Com- mission, by , Mr. A. J. Butler, of Winchester, for...

The two most important subjects of discussion at the Con-

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gress have been that on the first evening, concerning the adequacy of "sceptical culture" to take the place of Christian faith in relation to the moral life of society ; and...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TURKEY AND INDIA. W E should like to know how those who are exulting in Turkish victories over the Russians justify the English reconquest of India in 1857. If they are right...

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THE OLD " SATURDAY " REVIEWER ON THE STATE OF

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POLITICS. L ORD SALISBURY is very amusing, at Lord Granville's expense, on the ambition of Liberal statesmen to connect their names with some great act of legislation. The...

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THE EVE OF THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.

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O F the three addresses which have been issued to the French public this week, that of M. do Broglie, though not perhaps the most important, is intellectually the most in-...

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ECCLESIASTICAL OPTIMISM.

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N O doubt much that is said on behalf of Church Congresses is both very true and important. Especially it cannot be denied for a moment that such assemblies are signs of life,...

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"STURDY BEGGARS" IN THE UNITED STATES. A MERICAN institutions have many

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merits—the greatest of all, perhaps, being that they are almost worshipped by the people submitted to their influence—but they have not the special merits which their admirers a...

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A PAPAL COUP D'ETAT.

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T HERE has been a groat deal of going to and fro among the Cardinals at Rome. That interesting question, which cannot be kept for three consecutive weeks out of the Roman...

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FORGETFULNESS.

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I N the October number of Mind, — which keeps up its high standard of scholarly thoroughness in all its papers, though it might, we think, give at times rather more space than...

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MR. BRYCE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT ARARAT.

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F ROM the plain of the Araxes, where the Armenians place the lost Paradise of man, rises an extinct volcano, of im- measurable antiquity, its peak, 17,000 feet high, soaring...

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THE "ROOT OF ALL EVIL."

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TT is a bad thing, we suppose, that the contempt for money should die, for that contempt has helped to strengthen many noble minds ; but it must be a good thing that the...

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PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S 'POETICAL' SOUL.

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[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—In your tussle with Professor Tyndall last week, you leave. your adversary on the horns of a dilemma, from which, in the- judgment, we...

THE PENGE CASE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1

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Sin,—While fully concurring with your article on the agitation in this matter and on the Cannon-Street meeting, I mu o st e a xp sk on l e e n a ts. ve n to express a view...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE COLOUR-SENSE IN HOMER. [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your criticism last week of Mr. Gladstone's article in the Nineteenth Century, on the sense of colour in...

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P OE TRY.

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VILLANELLE. '0 SUMMER-TIME, SO passing sweet, But heavy with the breath of flowers, But languid with the fervent heat, They chide amiss who call thee fleet,— Thee, with thy...

BOOKS.

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GEORGE CHAPMAN.* GEORGE CHAPMAN was endowed by nature with groat poetical gifts, he achieved by industry great poetical deeds, and great poetical fame has been thrust upon his...

PENNY BANKS.

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In THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—In a recent number of the Spectator, a correspondent, 44 M. G. G.," gives some striking facts in regard to the success of 44 the National...

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SPENCER'S PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY.*

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ONE can scarcely think without wonder of the work on which Mr.. Herbert Spencer is now engaged, and which he has partly per- formed in the volume before us. He has undertaken to...

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MEMOIR OF ALEXANDER EWING.*

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Tins is an admirable biography of a noble-hearted and highly gifted man. Bishop Ewing's great aim throughout his too brief existence was to see into the life of things. He...

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MAZADE ON CAVOIJR.*

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Tim publication of a reasonably faithful translation of M. Mazade's papers in the Revue des Deux Mon des on Cavour at such a period as the present is even more important as a...

MR. PALGRAVE'S SELECTIONS FROM IIERRICK.* IT seems strange that the

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delightful task accomplished so admirably by Mr. Palgrave has not been undertaken before. Herrick's grossness has kept his otherwise lovely poetry out of the hands of women, and...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Commentary on the First Epistle of St. John. By E. Jelf, MD. (Longmans.) — We quito think, with Dr. Ellicott, who has added a few words to the editor's preface to this volume,...

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Glory. By Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. 3 vole. (Hurst and

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Blackett.) —Mrs. Banks describes from life, and weaves real foetal into her narra- tive. The result which she produces is effective. It would not be easy to find a story which...

The Student's Grammar. By C. H. Pearson, M.A., and H.

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A. Strong, M.A. (Samuel Mullen, Melhourno.)—The special feature of this new grammar is the prominence that has been given to the elements of comparative grammar. It will...

Gwen Wynn: a Romance of the Wye. By Captain Mayne

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Reid.. (Tinsley.)—We used to find Captain Reid's stories amusing ; we used to like his impossible heroes, their unheard-of adventures and hair's-breadth 'scopes, his dashing...

The Roman Forum. By N. M. Nichols, M.A., F.S.A. (Longmans.)

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—This is a scholarly book, on which the author must have bestowed much time and research. It is quite a student's book, the chief pas- sages from classical authors bearing on...

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Routledge's American Library — We have received three volumes of 'this series,

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respectively entitled, 7'h Four Irrepressibles, That Husband of Mine, and Mr. Miggs of Danbury, by the Danbury Dustman. For the two first the author of Helen's Babies is...

Jasper Deane, Wood Carver of St. Paul's : a Tale.

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By John Saunders. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Thie pretty story, quaintly told in the style which Mr. Saundors most frequently adopts, a little stiff and old-fashioned, without going...

Joyce. By Pauline Biddulph. (Griffith and Farran.)—This neat, unmeaning, ladylike

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little story, which has been made into a presentable ono-volume tale by moans of a wastefully liberal margin and very large type, is written by a young lady who has evidently...

Doubleday's Children : a Novel. By Dutton Cook. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—Mr. Dutton Cook is rather a lively and entertaining writer, than a successful novelist. He has the faculty of attracting his readers by fits and starts, of fixing their...

Harrington ; or, the Exiled Royalist : a Tale of

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the Hague. fly Frederick Spencer Bird. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This is a conscientious, laborious, one may say plodding attempt, on the part of a writer who has nothing of genius...