16 MARCH 1895

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T I HUNG CHANG left Tientsin on Thursday in a German A steamer for Japan, to commence the negotiations for peace. He has obtained full powers, and is authorised, it is stated,...

Last Saturday it was announced that the Speaker was about

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to resign the chair before the adjournment for Easter, —an announcement which has caused everywhere the deepest regret and something like consternation. No Speaker since the...

On Tuesday Mr. Robertson explained the Navy Estimates. These we

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have already dealt with, but may note that the Per- =anent works to be paid for by a loan will cost 29,000,000. Th's loan will be raised by terminable annuities running for...

On Monday, on the motion to go into supply on

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the Navy Estimates, Mr. Arnold-Forster proposed a resolution asking for an assurance that the Estimates were "based upon a con- sideration of the needs of possible war by sea...

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

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case.

While we were discussing our Navy, the French were dis-

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cussing theirs. On Monday, M. Lockroy made an impressive speech, the gist of which was,—" They order things better in England." The French Estimates were two-thirds of the...

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We have elsewhere described the " Kanitz Plan "for raising

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the price of corn in Germany, which has so alarmed the Prussian Government. It is sure, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Times, to be rejected by the Committee on...

The disposition towards direct taxation on property must be increasing

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rapidly in France. Rentes have been considered the safest of all investments because they are held by such multi- tudes of investors, and because Frenchmen understand that good...

Mr. R. Sewell read on Monday before the Asiatic Society

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a paper on some relics of Gautama or Buddha, now lying in the Central Museum in Madras. They consist of three pieces of bone taken from his corpse after cremation, and inclosed...

Every now and then the outspokenness of the Irish Members

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becomes positively bewildering. Here is what is known in the picturesque vernacular of Irish politicians as a "blazing indiscretion" lately committed by Mr. Edward Harrington....

Mr. Balfour, who followed Mr. John Morley, took occasion to

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declare that he still held as much as ever to his former policy, that it is right to extend to Ireland a popular system of local government, though it is right also to insist in...

Mr. Bryce on Tuesday made a speech at the dinner

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of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in which he prophesied tolerably cheerful things. Cycles of depression, he said, never lasted in this country more than six years, and we...

There was an amusing debate on Wednesday on Mr. Crilly's

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Board of Guardians (Ireland) Bill, of which the second reading was carried without a division ; but not till Mr. Morley had intimated that he had no intention of accepting all...

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Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (2-1) were on Friday, 1o41.

The death of Dr. Dale, at the age of sixty-five,

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deprives the Congregationalists of one of the most learned and scholarly, as well as one of the most high-minded, of their leaders. He was a leader in their political no less...

The Rev. Clifford Rickard, the chaplain of the convict- prison

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in Dartmoor, who last Sunday had a desperate conflict with a burglar whom he found in his drawing-room about half an hour before midnight, has given an account of the struggle...

CaptainYounghusband, lately Assistant-Resident at Chitral, gave a lecture at. the

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Metropole on Tuesday, which we recom- mend to the Fabian Society. He found that the principal evil in the mountains outside his station was the want of desire for money. The...

The Registrar-General's returns of mortality are again very bad, the

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average in London for last week being 41 . 2 per 1,000, or double the normal rate. The deaths exceeded by 1,583 the average for the same week during the last ten years ; 473...

Ex-Khedive Ismail was buried in Cairo in his own mauso-

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leum in his own mosque on Tuesday. It was resolved to make the ceremonial, which is foreign to the genius of Islam, as splendid as possible, and a procession was arranged in...

The Progressives on the County Council weary very quickly in

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well-doing. As they were hopelessly beaten at the elections, they were bound on their ctwn principles to regard the Moderates as the depositaries of the popular "mandate," which...

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THE NAVAL DEBATE.

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A LL the chief newspapers seemed very much shocked at Mr. Arnold-Forster for moving the resolution he moved last Monday, but for our lives we cannot tell why. In our opinion, he...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE SPEAKERSHIP. T HE resignation of Mr. Peel deprives the House of Commons of the ablest Speaker of this century. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre (afterwards Lord Eversley) indeed was quite...

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THE JAPANESE TERMS OF PEACE. T HE Japanese keep secrets well.

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They have baffled. the European newspaper correspondents ; they have defied the Chinese, who must at least have tried to keep spies at Hiroshima ; and they have managed to hide...

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MR. BALFOUR'S POLITICAL SCHOOLING.

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M R. BALFOITR'S little speech on Wednesday after- noon in the discussion on Mr. Crilly's "Board of Guardians (Ireland) Bill," was not at first sight an important one. But read...

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Al OFFICIAL TRUSTEE. T, ORD H.A.LSBITRY would do the community a

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con- siderable service if he would limit the scope of his Bill for the appointment of an official Trustee. At pre- sent, it is too wide. His idea is to appoint a State official...

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THE "KANITZ PLAN" IN GERMANY. T HE struggle of European artisans

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for more security and comfort, which we now dignify with the title of the "Social Question," is hardly more interesting, and certainly not more important, than the struggle of...

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THE COMMITTEE ON THE UNEMPLOYED. T HE Interim Report of the

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Committee on the Unem- ployed is a very much more satisfactory document than it seemed likely to be when the Committee was appointed. Perhaps we may say that it is a more satis-...

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DUAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

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II GOOD deal of bewilderment and almost of conster- nation has been aroused in those who have studied some of the recent cases of French hysteria by the apparent change of...

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THE SUPERSTITION ABOUT BOASTING-.

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T HE present writer believes in a superstition which his reason peremptorily rejects, but which, instilled into him as it was in the nursery, he is unable completely to discard....

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THE SAND-HILLS BY THE SEA.

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T HE difference between the sea-sands which we love and play with, and the desert-sands which are terrible and feared, lies in the presence or absence of the friendly sea. For...

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VARIETIES IN SMILES.

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I T would seem at first sight as if a smile were a smile, one and indivisible, and there was no more to say about it ; but, as in the case of the few notes of a scale or the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. MORLEY'S PROPOSAL. [To THY EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR?'] Sin,—Although in your admirable article in the Spectator of March 9th, on the Irish Land Bill, you state that you...

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THE DEPTFORD POLL.

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[To TEl EDITOR OF TEl " SIZCTILTOR."] SIR,—In your note and article upon the London County Council Elections, in the Spectator of March 9th, there are some errors of fact which...

THE "NEW MAGISTRATE" IN IRELAND. [To THI Elms OF THR

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"SFICTATOR."] SI11,—In commenting on a recent °biter dictum of one of Mr. Morley's Magistrates, in the Spectator of March 9th, you write :—" The idea that people who refrain...

"TALES OF MEAN STREETS."

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[To THR EDITOR OF TEl " SPIOTLTOR."] Sin,—Your reviewer treais my "Tales of Mean Streets" with a kindness which I acknowledge with gratitude,—a kindness. which I might venture...

THE MING DYNASTY.

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[To TEl EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm—In an article in the Spectator of March 2nd, you ask whether there exists at present any scion of the Ming dynasty. It happened to me...

THE WELSH CATHEDRALS.

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ITO TEl EDITOR Or TEl " SPRCTATOZ."1 Sin,—A circumstance has come to my knowledge in respect to Llandaff Cathedral, which seems to have a distinct and important bearing upon...

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BOOKS.

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LIFE OF BISHOP HAROLD BROWNE.* IT is as a chapter of contemporary ecclesiastical history, rather than as a biography of very striking personal interest, that Dr. Kitchin's...

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THE POETRY OF PESSIMISM.* THE late Mr. John Addington Symonds,

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in one of the diaries contained in his Life, in criticising the poetry of James Thomson, the author of "The City of Dreadful Night," speaks of him as being almost in the first...

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THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ODES OF HORACE.*

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IT is known, we assume, to all educated persons, that the learned Bentley laboured to arrange the various portions of the poems of Horace according to the dates of their...

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WITH WILSON IN MATABELELAND.* THERE is always something pleasing about

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a book which makes no pretension to literary skill. So many writers insist on bringing out works which are mere exhibitions of agility in piecing words together, that it is most...

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DR. DRUMMOND'S HIBBERT LECTURES ON CHRISTIANITY.* THIS is both a

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learned and a modest book. The head of Manchester College, Oxford, is conscious not only of the difficulty of determining what "Christianity in its most simple and intelligible...

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A FRENCH HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.*

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M. JUSSERAND is a French diplomatist who resided, we believe, for some time amongst us in that capacity, and has abandoned his profession in order to devote himself to the...

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The Diversions of an Autograph - Hunter, by "J. H." (Elliot Stock),—or,

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as it might be phrased, "The Confessions of an Auto- graph Fiend." Still, it is only fair to say that if all the tribe were as clever and appreciative as "3. H.," their offence...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Christopher Columbus: his own Boole of Privileges. Compiled and edited by Benjamin Franklin Stevens. (B. F. Stevens.)— This is "a photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the...

Addiscombe: its Heroes and Men of Note. By Colonel H.

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M. Vibart. (Archibald Constable.)—This volume may be described as a counterpart to that lately noticed in our columns, which had Haileybury for its subject. Here we have the...

Pudd'nhead Wilson. By " Mark Twain." (Chatto and Windus.) —Has

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Mr. Samuel H. Clemens found Missouri audiences or readers slow to appreciate his jokes P Mr. David Wilson comes to a Missouri town to push his fortunes. Unluckily his first...

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A Born Soldier. By John Strange Winter. (F. V. White

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and Co.)—" John Strange Winter's" soldiers seldom do much in the fighting line. They excel in love and sport. A "born soldier" might, we thought, be an exception. It is not so....

It Bread and Butter Miss. By George Paston. (Osgood, McIlvaine,

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and Co.)—Notwithstanding its title, this story is scarcely one for a "bread-and-butter Miss" to read. Theodora Western is invited by her cousin Cara. She fancies the invita-...

Latin Phrase - Book. By C. Meissner. Translated by H. W. Auden,

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M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" Ideally speaking," writes Mr. Auden with perfect truth, "a phrase-book should always be compiled by the pupil himself from his own individual...

With Havelock from Allahabad to Lucknow, 1857. (Sampson Low, Marston,

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and Co.)—This volume contains extracts from letters written by an officer in the First Madras Royal Fusiliers to his wife. It cannot be said that we learn anything from them ;...

Roman Gossip. By Frances Elliot. (John Murray.)—The title which Mrs.

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Elliot has given to her book disarms criticism. The severest judge could not deny that the contents answer exactly to the description which this gives of them. We are not led to...

Love in Idleness. By F. Marion Crawford. (Macmillan and Co.)—

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This is a short story, some hundred and sixty pages, neither large nor closely printed, and it is certainly slight in texture. It is of the "no-incident" kind, and the...

Ecce Ancilla Domini. By Elizabeth Rundle Charles. (S.P.C.K.) —Mrs. Charles

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has put together in this little volume a number of "Studies in the Christian Ideal of Womanhood," suggested by the notices which the Evangelists have left us of "Mary the Mother...