15 NOVEMBER 1890

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The new Lord Mayor, Alderman Joseph Savory, of the Goldsmiths'

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Alliance, a man of considerable accomplishments, and, according to the Recorder, of Huguenot blood on the father's side, and tracing his descent directly to Edward I. on the...

On Friday week, the Bank, unexpectedly and late in the

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day, raised its rate to 6 per cent., a movement which caused a fall in stocks and much alarm. The alarm was increased by bad news from New York, where on Monday a panic set in,...

NEWS OF THE W EEK.

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A FRICA has grown darker this week. Mr. Stanley has been compelled by opinion to formulate his charges against his Rear-Guard, and they prove to be of the most frightful kind....

The entire controversy leaves the most painful impression on our

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minds. It certainly does appear as if Englishmen going to tropical Africa left their moral natures behind them, and in particular lost their abhorrence of cruelty,—a change...

* * 11 The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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Mr. Morley made a vehement attack on Lord Harlington, of

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the injustice of which we have said enough in another column. On the subject of Land-purchase, he adhered to his old line, asserting that many of the recent purchases had been...

Mr. Morley made a speech at Scarborough yesterday week in

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which he declared that he felt no alarm at the contest between Capital and Labour which was breaking out not only in this country, but in the Colonies also. If the unionist...

The new Dean of Peterborough is to be Canon Marsharo

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Argles, who has been a liberal giver to the Peterborough Cathedral Restoration Fund, and who has also restored his own fine parish church at Barnack ; so that he is regarded by...

Sir Charles Pearson, Solicitor-General for Scotland, who• has not had

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a seat in Parliament since he was appointed to. that office last year, was elected by the Universities of Edin- burgh and St. Andrews on Wednesday without opposition. Even in...

Lord Salisbury's prognostics were entirely pacific, " at all events,

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for the period of your Lordship's administration ;" but the world, though at peace, had agreed " to quarrel very much," especially about tariffs. The pig, the lobster, and the...

The country has been saddened this week by two great

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accidents. On Tuesday, at 1.30 a.m., a special train from Plymouth, which was conveying forty-seven passengers by the Cape steamer ' Norham Castle' to London, ran into a...

There have been several not very important ecclesiastical appointments announced

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this week, of which much the most considerable is the promotion of the Rev. P. F. Eliot, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth, and a Canon of Windsor, to be Dean of Windsor, in...

exception of a promise of continued peace, was entirely occupied

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with internal reforms. The communal system is to be improved, the teachers' salaries raised, more inspectors of workshops appointed, the railway system to be extended, and...

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We greatly regret to observe the announcement of the death

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of Mr. Justice O'Hagan, formerly head of the Land Commission in Ireland, whose appointment by Mr. Gladstone in 1881 was heartily approved by all moderate men, and who discharged...

The Colston Day at Bristol is not generally a festival

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at which the speakers even profess to tame their tongues. The speech of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach on Thursday leaves much to be desired, as he very unwisely warned his opponents...

The London County Council is determined to go forward with

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its project for the great clearance in Bethnal Green. At its meeting on Tuesday, it was proposed on behalf of the Finance Committee, that the expenditure—£300,000—should be...

Bank Rate, 6 per cent.

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New Consols (21-) were on Friday 941 to 94.

The Times' correspondent at Rangoon declares that the Burmese are

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everywhere regilding and redecorating their pagodas, both large and small, and that excitement prevails throughout the whole country. This is interpreted in Burmah to mean that...

The Irish vote will be so valuable in the American

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elections of 1892, that prominent politicians, especially the Governor of New York, are supporting Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien in their application for a fighting fund. Money is...

The American Government adheres to its policy of com- pelling

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Canada to enter into a commercial union with the United States by impeding her prosperity. The owners of the Buffalo Grain Elevator applied on Thursday to the Secretary of the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE AFRICAN HORRORS. T HIS kind of thing is not endurable, and must be stopped, even if Parliament has to interfere with enterprise by a strong restrictive law. We are not going...

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MR. MORLEY ON LORD HARTINGTON AND MR. GLADSTONE.

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I T is stated that when Mr. Morley edited the articles of his second-in-command in the Pall Mall Gazette, he used to strike out that vivid writer's favourite passages, with the...

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THE VISIT OF THE CESA.REWITCH TO INDIA.

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" R ATHER hard on the chickens, to be compelled to welcome the fox in their own farmyard, and to be exceedingly grateful for the honour done them by the visit." That; we fancy,...

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THE NEW PERPLEXITIES OF SPECULATORS.

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NIVE do not care much about Stock Exchange specu- lators, though we suppose that, like mosquitoes, they have their use in the scheme of the universe, to be revealed in God's...

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LORD SALISBURY AT THE GUILDHALL.

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T ORD SALISBURY at the Guildhall was evidently determined not to be sensational. Even his pacific anticipations were not too confidently expressed, as he limited his prophecy of...

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FRANCE AND THE VATICAN. T WICE a year—once on the vote

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for the Embassy to the Vatican ; once on the Ecclesiastical Estimates— the French Radicals have a field-day after their own heart. It gives them an opportunity of annoying the...

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EXTRADITION FOR POLITICAL OFFENCES.

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A VERY interesting problem in international law was discussed on Tuesday last by the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Justice Denman, Mr. Justice Hawkins, and Mr. Justice Stephen...

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RADICALISM AND REVELATION.

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T HE Rev. Stewart Headlam has introduced a discus- sion into the London School Board which is just of the kind that shows how little power Revelation has at the present time...

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MAJOR BARTTELOT AND MR. JAMESON.

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W E believe the Barttelot story—though we hold the Major irresponsible—and we do not believe the Jameson story ; and as the evidence is pretty much the same in both cases, we...

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THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

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() NE cannot help wondering what effect a Lord Mayor's Show is likely to produce upon the mind of that un- tiring and ubiquitous critic, the intelligent foreigner. The general...

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THE STATURE OF GREAT GENERALS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — In continuation of your correspondent's letter of the- 25th ult., on " The Stature of Great Generals," I believe that. there is but...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. GLADSTONE AND CHURCH DEFENCE. Pro THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:i Sin,-11 you take the extract which you quote from the Times with its context, you will find that Mr....

LITERARY PROPERTY.

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ITo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Will you kindly spare me space to deny in the strongest • terms each of the assertions made by Mr. Besant in the Spectator of November...

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PARSONS AND SIGN-POSTS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The parson and sign-post story is another of those -" stories to let " which the good story-teller gives point to by telling it of...

A TALKING CANARY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Having read your article on " Talking Birds," in the Spectator of October 4th, I think you may like to hear of a canary who had been...

BOOKS.

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SAINTE-BEUVE.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE European world rightly holds Sainte-Beuve to be at once the most erudite and the most brilliant of critics, though pos- sibly our...

POETRY.

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REVERENCE. THERE is an inner voice in woods and bills Most sweet that it hath no articulate word ; The mystic chant of rivulet and bird With dreamlike longing all my spirit...

THE CANARY BIRD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—One word more on this subject. Having at one time bred canaries for a good many years, and having also spent a winter in Madeira, I...

DIOCESAN CONFERENCES.

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iTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sis,—Your article has given us the showy side of Diocesan Conferences ; but there is also a seamy side. " The old isolation" no doubt "was...

A VILLAGE NATURALIST.

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[In Memoriam: William Greenip (rural postman), a close observer of Natal) : obiit November let, at Keswick.] GOD sometimes fills a poor man's patient heart With His own...

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HISTORICAL FANS.*

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THE greater number of the fans and fan-leaves represented in the second volume of Lady Charlotte Schreiber's handsome but inconvenient work belong to the period of French...

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THE REBELS OF '45.*

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THIS is one of the most interesting documents of a historical character which have ever been unearthed and printed for the benefit of that section of the public which belongs to...

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DR. O'DWYER AND HIS ASSAILANTS.*

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Tins excellent pamphlet, though written in French, and primarily addressed to French Catholics, deserves the careful attention of all who, whether they incline to Home-rule or...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Song of Hiawatha. By H. W. Longfellow. Illustrated by F. Remington. (Sampson Low.)—This edition of Hiawatha is admirably printed, and the pen-and-ink drawings at the side of...

Etyma Latina. By Edward Ross Wharton, M.A.. (Rivingtons.) —Mr. Wharton

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cannot expect to find an implicit following on the part of the students whom he addresses in this book, but he will certainly find gratitude. It is a courageous, sometimes, we...

EDMUNDS ON PATENTS.*

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Ix mere point of size, Mr. Lewis Edmunds's work on The Law and Practice of Letters Patent for Inventions fairly dwarfs everything of the kind that has appeared before. Indeed,...

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Aunt Abigail Dykes. By Lieutenant-Colonel George Randolph, U.S.A. (Chatto and

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Windus.)—This interminable story, twice the length of any other we have ever tried to read, and concerned with the deeds and sufferings of innumerable persons in " Wayne- vine...

The Country Clergyman and his Work. By the Rev. Herbert

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James. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume is a reprint of six lectures delivered at Cambridge to candidates for holy orders, their special subject being " Pastoral Work in the...

has been edited and supplemented by Colonel Lawrie, the author

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of " Our Burmese War." This gentleman holds strong views as to the necessity of a more complete organised system of military defence in India, a system in which voluntary...

Incurable. By Paul Heyse. Translated by Mrs. H. W. Eve.

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(D. Nutt.)—A young lady, whose uncomfortable position at home is hinted at rather than described, is induced by an ingenious stratagem of her doctor to try a complete change of...

book. Described as " a consideration of some intellectual hindrances

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to faith," it seems to have been very successful in fulfilling its purpose. Mr. Tymms takes up a rational, and there- fore tenable position, by refusing to claim verbal...

some at least of the poetry of the Bible was

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written in hexameters. That is a thesis which we leave to Hebrew scholars. He gives a translation of various poems, putting the Hebrew, in English transliteration, on the...

BOOKS RECEIVED.—Domleight, not Domiet. By Rev. F. T. Bramston. (Skeffington.)—The

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Magnificat. By H. P. Liddon, D.D. (Rivingtons.) — By Paths of English Church History. By Rev. C. Hole, B.A.—Doctrina Pastoratis. By R. F. L. Blunt, D.D. (S.P.C.K.)—Shakespeare's...

MAGAZINES, ETC.—We have received the following for November :—No. 1

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of the Critical Review (Clark), the Theological Monthly, the Anglican Church Magazine, the Homiletic Magazine, the Review of Reviews, the Forum, the Arena.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Allen (G.), The Great Taboo, cr 8ro (Matto & Wiadus) 3/8 Allingliam (E.). New and Original Poems, or 8ro (Reeves & Turner) 4/0 Anglomanias, The, 12mo (Cassell & Co.) 4/0...

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NOTICE.—In future, the INDEX to the " SPECTATOR " null

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be published half-yearly, instead of yearly (from January to June, and from July to December), on the third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for the Half-yearly Volumes...

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Loans Printed by Joan CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street,

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in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the " SPam:ToR" Office, No. I Wellington Street, Strand,...

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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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TO c , T p//errtator FOR No. 3,255.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1890. [REGISTERED FOR GRATI TRANSMISSION ABROAD. S.

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BOOKS.

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MR. FREDERICK TENNYSON'S NEW POEM.* MR. FREDERICK TENNYSON'S early efforts as a poet were obscured by the splendour of his younger brother's fame. It is thirty-six years since...

1.ittrarp Ouppinitria.

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LONDON : NOVEMBER 15, 1890.

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ROUND THE CALENDAR IN PORTUGAL.*

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IT is a pleasant task at the present moment, when Portugal is offering to Europe the unedifying and rather ridiculous spectacle of a little State in a great rage, to read the...

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RECENT ECONOMIC CHANGES.*

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THESE two books are written by well-known and accomplished American economists. Mr. Atkinson's work, as its title indicates, is confined more to the consideration of the...

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ENGLISH MIRACLE-PLAYS.*

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THIS is a valuable little book. It fills a vacant place in English literature, by giving well-chosen specimens of those very curious Miracle-Plays, Mysteries, Moralities, and...

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IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS.*

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THE third and concluding volume of Mr. Bagwell's exhaustive work on Ireland under the Tudors, covers the period of the Desmond and Tyrone rebellions (1579-1603). It is a monu-...

MISS WALKER'S "MUSICAL EXPERIENCES."* THOUGH traversing much the same ground

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as that covered by Miss Amy Fay in her Music-Study in Germany, Miss Walker's Experiences differ tote ado from the genial rhapsodies of her sister in Art. They were both in quest...

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THE HENRY IRVING SHA.KESPEA.RE.*

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Tins is not an ideal edition of Shakespeare. We have pointed out what we conceived to be defects in it, in notices of some of the volumes as they appeared. The commentary, in...

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MISS YONGE'S " SLAVES OF SABINUS."* Miss YONGE has taken

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for her subject one of the most romantic stories of antiquity, the fortunes of Sabinus and Epponina. Tacitus refers to it briefly in his Histories, and promises to relate it at...

MR. W. S. CAINE'S " PICTURESQUE INDIA."* "THESE pages," writes

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Mr. Caine in his preface, "contain no controversial matter, either political or religious. I only try to rouse superficial interest by a plain statement of what may be seen by...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. The Red Mountain of Alaska. By Willis Boyd Allen. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—Treasures of gold, whether coined or in nugget and ore, are familiar "properties " of...

Everybody's Business. By Ismay Thorn. (Blackie and Son.)— This is

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a pleasant little story about a cobbler, a cripple, and a good girl, and though the scene is laid in a slum, there is no reason why children should not enjoy the story, except...

Alexis and the Flowers. By Beatrice F. Cresswell. (T. Fisher

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Unwin.)—This is a pretty book, nicely illustrated, and full of the stories, legends, folk-lore fancies, and the like which, in the course of time, have gathered about flowers....

Through Thorny Paths. By F. A. McKenzie. (James Knapp.) —This

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is after the usual style of temperance tales. The hero, if there is one, is either the sceptic or the reclaimed drunkard,—we are not sure which. It is a good little book, and...

Rex Raynor. By Silas R. Hocking. (F. Warne and Co.)—If

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we are to have children changed at nurse, an incident which has been a little too much used in fiction, it is better to have it frankly done in the first chapter, as is the case...

which does not bristle with adventures, pleasant, readab le, and

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instructive. And such a story is that of Fred Hallam, a Scotch farmer's son. The details and the ordinary routine of a school- boy's life in a wild part of Scotland, the...

Edwin's Fairing. By tho Rev. E. Monro. (Mowbray and Co.)—

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This is one of those pretty and pathetic old-fashioned stories that children like. Edwin, the hero, a poetically treated character, and Helen, and the crusty, but of course...

The Rosebud Annual, 1891. (J. Clarke and Co.) — The Rosebud is

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full of illustrations of every variety and size ; and on its illus- trations its popularity doubtless depends. They are good, some of them being very well drawn ; and all...

The Farm on the Down. By Anne Beale. (Hodder and

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Stoughton.) —In this volume Miss Beale gives us two really excellent stories. In" The Farm on the Down," an undutiful daughter, who has left her home because a foolish...

The Locked Desk. By Frances Mary Peard. (National Society.) —Miss

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Peard has given us here a tale of modern life, in lieu of the historical studies which we have been accustomed to have from her at this time. The motive of her story is well...

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Shadow - Land in E//an Vannin. By I. H. Leucy. (Elliot Stock.)—The

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folk-lore of the Isle of Man is, as this little collection will show, of a thoroughly Celtic nature. " Changelings " and " second-sight " play an important part in it, and the...

On the Bank's Threshold. By W. Haig Millar. (S. W.

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Part- ridge and Co.)—Mr. Millar gives a number of experiences— personal, or derived from others—much good advice and sagacious hints, not a few practical details, all of them...

A Story of Stops. By Mrs. Davidson. (The Leadenhall Press.)

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—This is a book full of quaint fancy, with a moral delicately insinuated. Molly, one of a pair of twins, falls under the power of two sinister creatures called Gauks, or, in...

College School Memories. By F. Hannam-Clarke. (Mrs. Packer, Gloucester.)—Reminiscences of

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school-days are interesting to all people who have been boys, even should they not belong to the school itself. To the "old boys" themselves, a collection of names, incidents,...

An English - Latin Gradus, or Verse Dictionary. Compiled by A. C.

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Ainger, M.A., and H. G. Wintle, M.A. (John Murray.)—This is an English-Latin dictionary especially adapted for the purposes of verse composition. Every word likely to occur in...

Teufel the Terrier. Told by J. Yates Carrington. (Pall Mall

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Gazette Office.)—This story of the " life and adventures of an artist's dog" is nothing less than delightful. A large dog-life literature, to which the Spectator has made some...

Models and Exercises in Unseen Translation. By H. F. Fox,

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M.A., and the Rev. T. M. Bromley, M.A. (The Clarendon Press.)—This is likely to be a very useful volume. Messrs. Fox and Bromley not only give their readers a number of pieces,...

The Growth of Capital. By Robert Giffen. (Bell and Sons.)—In

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this essay, Mr. Giffen proposes to resume and continue his notes of 1878 on the accumulation of capital : the results at which he arrives are accordingly interesting. The...

Little Wide - Awake. Edited by Mrs. Sale Barker. (Routledge and Son.)—This

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"Illustrated Magazine for Children " keeps up to its standard in a satisfactory manner. The illustrations, to begin with, are, we think, a decided improvement on what we have...

Games and puzzles do not come within the definition of

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literary matter; but as we are invited to express an opinion on The Game of the Burglar and Bobbies (E. Wolff and Son), we may say that, apart from the vulgarity of the name, we...

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Taales fra Linkisheere. By Mabel Peacock. (G. Jackson and Son,

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Brigg.)—There are really three dialects in Lincolnshire— North, Mid, and South Lincolnshire—though the first and third only are generally recognised. Lord Tennyson's " Northern...

History of Modern Europe. By C. A. Fyffe, M.A. Vol.

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III. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Fyffe concludes his work by this third volume, in which he deals with the period 1848-78, beginning with the great democratic uprising that upset the...

The Scenery of the Heavens. By J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S.

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(Roper and Drowley.)—Mr. Gore has chosen a subject of inexhaustible interest, and will be certain to find readers. Now and then, per- haps, he might have spared 1113 a word of...

Calabar and its Mission. By Hugh Goldie. (Oliphant, Anderson, and

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Ferrier.)—Calabar lies on the northern shore of the Bight of Biafra, and occupies what may be called the delta between the Cross and Great Qua Rivers, the Old Calabar River...

London (Ancient and Modern) from the Sanitary and Medical Point

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of View. By G. V. Poore, M.D. (Cassell and Co.)—Professor Poore has published here two lectures, which, indeed, were well worth preserving in a permanent shape. The first is...

than forty years, and saw it grow into one of

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the most important places in the South of France. To this development he helped largely, always acting from a disinterested desire to do good. The story of this useful life was...

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The Plerarna. By the Rev. E. P. Chittenden, M.A. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons.)-Mr. Chittenden's purpose is so high that we should be sorry to cast any ridicule upon his work. Yet we cannot but say that it seems a mistake. It reminds a...

The New Chapel of Marlborough College. By the Rev. Newton

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Mant. (W. H. Allen and Co.)-This monograph cannot fail to have a success. The chapel of Marlborough College is one of the finest that England possesses. Among all modern...