16 NOVEMBER 1889

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The new Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Ministers at Guildhall

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on Saturday as usual, and Lord Salisbury made the speech of the evening. It was not very interesting, how- ever. On foreign affairs the Premier, after saying that all Europe was...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Times' correspondent at Vienna forwarded on Wednes- day an immensely long telegram about Bulgaria, in which, as we read it, he is trying to convey something he does not...

Men often complain of the tyranny of weakness, but we

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do not know if the tyranny of ignorance is not sometimes worse. The Lamas who govern Tibet cannot believe that the Indian Government is stronger than they, and besides claiming...

Lord Salisbury made two other statements about British policy,—one definite,

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one a little vague. He repeated distinctly that we should not evacuate Egypt until she was safe against every enemy, foreign and domestic, a sufficiently long date. He did not...

NOTICE. — With this week's " SrEcTeroit " is issued, gratis, a

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LrritRABT SUPPLEMENT.

* * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any ease. a

It seems probable that a real split in the reactionary

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parties of France is about to occur. Out of one hundred and seventy Deputies who call themselves Monarchists, onlyninety attended a meeting called to resolve upon a common...

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Sir William Harcourt, at Stratford on Tuesday, devoted himself in

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great measure to chaffing Mr. W. H. Smith, and the Times for suggesting that the public orators of the day should all take as their models the discourses of Mr. W. H. Smith. He...

In the Dolphin Society on Wednesday (Colston Day), Sir Michael

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Hicks-Beach and Mr. Goschen both touched the sub- ject of fusion between the Tories and Liberal Unionists, the former expressing a very earnest hope that this might take place...

At Ipswich, on Tuesday, Mr. Balfour delivered a very weighty

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speech in answer to the Southport address of Mr. Gladstone. He examined the marvellous assertion that the Crimes Act bad been directed against combinations legal in England, and...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's first or Tuesday's speech at

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Bristol, was in the main an answer to Mr. Morley's speech at Bristol on October 29th. Mr. Goschen replied to the taunts levelled against the distrust of juries in Ireland by...

Even exclusively of the Guildhall dinner, it has been a

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week of speeches. Mr. Chamberlain has spoken at Birmingham, Mr. Goschen has spoken twice and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach once at Bristol, and Lord Rosebery has spoken at Bristol...

This was the part of Mr. Goschen's speech on which

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Lord Rosebery chiefly fastened in his acrid speech of the following day at the Anchor Society. Lord Rosebery vehemently denied that any great constitutional revolution is...

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Mr. Chamberlain made on Wednesday an amusing speech to the

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Master-Bakers' Association of Birmingham. He had an idea, he said, that something in a trade affected the politics of the traders. Thus, "a shoemaker or a tailor is almost...

As to the land controversy itself, nothing can be more

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remarkable than the sharpness and point with which Mr. Morley's "heckler," Mr. Laidler, who signs himself "Brick- layer," condenses the abstractions and axioms of Mr. Herbert...

J. W. Laurie, the pattern-maker, accused of murdering a tourist

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named Rose on Goatfell, was on November 9th found guilty, and sentenced to death. The evidence, which to most men will seem absolute, did not convince one or two of the jury ;...

Mr. Herbert Spencer wrote a long letter to the Tithes

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of yesterday defending himself in reply to an extremely able letter of Profeassor Huxley's in the Times of Wednesday, —a letter pointed at his assertion that the ethics he had...

Those who believe in Imperial Federation should read a letter

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from Sir T. Cockburn-Campbell, member of the Legisla- tive Council of Western Australia, published in Friday's Times. He will there find how much authority Australians are...

The Secretary of State for India has restored the old

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age for admission to the Civil Service. From 1892, a candidate must be above twenty-one and under twenty-three on April 1st of the year in which the competition takes place....

Bank Rape, 5 per cent. New Consols (2i) were on

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Friday 97+ to 97k.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE FORCE OF POLITICAL NAMES. THE chief impression which was produced upon us by the account of the Birmingham Conference on Monday was one of pathos. There is surely something...

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LAST TUESDAY IN PARIS.

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W E commented last week on the apparent:content of the majority of Frenchmen with their Government of "plain men," content so surprising that it is hard for any mind full of the...

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THE STANDARD ON LORD SALISBURY. rE RE was not very much

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in Lord. Salisbury's Guild- hall speech of Saturday, but we cannot agree with the Standard that he missed. an opportunity in not declaring his sympathy with all efforts to raise...

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THE WOES OF' TILE PAN-AMERICANS W E feel a deep compassion

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for the delegates to the Pan-American Congress. They are worthy folk, we doubt not, and pleasant folk, and they are critelly entreated. Cultivated Americans, when they speak...

LORD ROSEBERY AT BRISTOL.

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T ORD ROSEBERY is a brilliant speaker, but we regret to see his usual pleasant vein of sarcasm becoming a little, if only a little, venomous. He spoke at Bristol on Wednesday in...

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THE PORTUGUESE CHALLENGE.

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7r7, challenge to the British South African Company Portuguese Government has boldly thrown down by declaring itself possessed of one large cantle of the linge domain handed...

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THE GOSPEL OF CHANGE. E VEN our spiritual advisers are beginning

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to harp more, we think, than is wholesome on the gospel of change. Mr. Chapman, the eloquent and earnest Vicar of St. Luke's, Camberwell, who did so much to teach the world the...

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THE GOATFELL MURDER.

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MHE murder, on July 15th last, of Mr. Rose on Goatiell by John Watson Laurie, pattern-maker, has excited unusual interest in Scotland, for two reasons. In the 'first place, the...

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IRISH "WAKES."

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rpHE custom of " waking " the dead in Ireland, though by no means existing in its ancient glory and vigour, still obtains in a modified and shorn form in many country dis-...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CHRISTIANS IN THE OTTOMAN SERVICE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE, — May I be allowed to correct one rather important but not uncommon error into which the writer of...

AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC ON IRELAND.

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THE following letter from an English Catholic has been sent to us for publication :— "DEAR —,—I return you 'C. ' letter. Certainly the posi- tion of things in Ireland is very...

THE POPULATION. OF THE UNITED STATES.

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[To THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In the Spectator's courteous notice of my article in the Nineteenth Century on "The Roman Catholic Church in America," the reviewer...

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IRISH " CATHOLIC " INTOLERANCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Colthurst's letter in the Spectator of November 9th needs no reply. But it throws a vivid light upon our present dangers. Mr....

CLEVER BLUNDERS. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — You have

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sometimes inserted the answers of children at examinations in the Spectator, but I do not remember seeing any showing unaided intellectual activity. I had a young delicate boy...

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH ON BETTING.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Kindly permit me to say. that whatever else I may have done in the matter of my recent utterance. on betting and gambling, I certainly...

DECIMAL CURRENCY.

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iTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." 1 SIE, — In the Spectator of 9th November you say, in a note to a letter on "A Universal Money," that a decimal system with the pound...

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MR. FORSYTH'S LECTURES ON WAGNER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Stu,---You print among the reviews in the Spectator of November 9th, a notice of my book, "Religion in Recent Art," against which I...

ART.

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THE NEW GALLERY.—ARTS AND CRAFTS SECOND. EXHIBITION. THERE is something refreshing in an art exhibition not purely pictorial, in which taste and talent direct themselves into....

THE DISTRESS AMONG THE WELSH CLERGY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Allow me to express my warmest thanks to all those- who have so promptly and generously responded to my appeal in your columns. I am...

FAIR-TRADE versus HISTORY.

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!To Tim EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Stu,—Your reviewer asserts that "I both appeal to facts and disclaim the appeal to facts" (p. 609). I reply, that my endeavour was simply...

POETRY.

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SONNET. "CHURCH-DOORS SHOULD STILL STAND OPEN.' CHURCH-DOORS should still stand open, night and day,. Open to all who come for praise or prayer, Laden with gift of love or...

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BOOKS.

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THE LIFE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL.* Mn. SPENCER WALPOLE'S Life of Lord John Russell throws more light on the inner working of politics than any book which has appeared of recent...

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POPUL.A_R, PREACHER: MR. J. R. GILLIES.* THIS thin volume, containing

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only five sermons,—none of them long sermons,--exemplifies many of the best qualities and some of the faults, though none of the worst faults, of a popular preacher. In the...

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MUNK'S CICERO.*

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THE reputation of Cicero, literary and political, has fallen on such evil times of late years, that it is satisfactory to find in the present volume an estimate of the great...

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THE HISTORY OF SLIGO.*

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CANON O'RORKE has executed the task which he proposed to himself—that of embodying in his work the secular, religious, social, and in some measure the natural history of...

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MR. SOTHERN.*

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Ma. PEMBERTON, an intimate friend of Sothern's, has given us within the compass of some three hundred pages of large print, a very sympathetic and entertaining sketch of one of...

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FALLOW AND FODDER CROPS.*

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WILL England ever be given up so exclusively to the produc- tion of non-edible things—like coal, steel, hardware, and calico—as to leave no room within her coasts for farming,-...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Home Counsels. By Gertrude Martineau. (Sunday School Association.)—This is a very wise little children's book or mother's book,—or, rather, both. We have seldom read anything...

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Booxs RECEIVED.—Life and Letters of Father Damien. (Catholic Truth Society.) — The

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Calendar of the University College of Wales, Aberyst with, 1889-90. (J. E. Cornish, Manchester.) — .4 Complete Catalogue of the Elzevir Presses. Volume I. (E. and G. Goldsmid,...

The History of the Parish Church of All Saints, Maidstone.

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By J. Cave-Browne, MA. (G. Bunyard and others, Maidstone.)— Mr. Cave-Browne discusses the question of the building of this fine church, and decides that, though it owes much to...

DIARIES, CALENDARS, ETC.—We have received specimens of Letts's Diaries for

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the year 1890. There are varieties suited to wants of all kinds, "rough," "scribbling," " commercial " of all sorts and sizes, with different capacities and convenience, and...

In " Gale and Polden's Military Series," we have Military

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Administration for Volunteer Officers, by Captain H. Walker (Gale and Polden), a volume which will help the Volunteer officer in gaining that practical acquaintance with the...

Reports on, Elementary Schools. By Matthew Arnold. (Mac- millan and

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Co.)—Mr. Arnold was an Inspector of Schools for thirty-five years. Here we have nineteen of his reports on Ele- mentary Schools, and extracts, from various other reports on...

NOTICE .—In future, the INDEX to the" SPECTATOR" will he

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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...

NEW EDITIONS.—Stephens' Book of the Farm. Division III. By J.

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Macdonald. Fourth edition. (Blackwood.)—Three Lectures on the Science of Language. By F. Max Muller. Second edition. (Longmans.)—Investment Hints. By M. C. Hime, LLD. Second...

• MAGAZINES AND SERIAL PunLicemorts.—We have received the following for

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November :—The Art Journal, the Art Annual (which is devoted to "Rosa Bonheur : her Life and Work"), the Magazine of Art, the Scottish Art Review, the English Illustrated...

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PUBLICATIONS OF IRE WEEK.

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' ' Allen ( . ) , g (Smith & Elder) 6;0 Alstine (R. K. V.), Charl otte Corday, or Svo (W. H. Allen) 5;0 Anstey (F.), The Pariah, 3 vols. or 8vo Smith &Elder) 31/6 Baigent (F....

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LONDON: Printed by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street,

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in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. at 18 lizeter Street. Strand; and Published by him at the " firEcraroa " Office, No. 1 Wellington Street,...

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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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TO FOR THE No. 3,203.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1889. [ REGISTERED FOR ) GRATIS. TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

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BOOKS.

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REMINISCENCES, LITERARY AND CLERICAL.* THE public that likes Reminiscences—we imagine that it is a numerous body—will probably rejoice at the appearance of these volumes, which...

liiittrarp •Ouppirmint.

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LONDON: NOVEMBER 16, 1889.

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MISS ALCOTT'S LIFE AND LETTERS.*

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"Nor a bit sensational, but simple and true, for we really lived most of it; and if it succeeds, that will be the reason," says the author of Little Women on receiving its proof...

A CENTURY OF ARTISTS.*

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THIS truly magnificent volume is evidence of the artistic comprehensiveness of the International Exhibition held in Glasgow in the summer and autumn of 1888. which "resulted in...

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RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA IN 1889.*

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MR. GEORGE CURZON has put together a lively and in- teresting account of his journey to Bokhara and Samarcand by General Annenkoff's famous railway, supplemented by a dash upon...

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TWO ILLUSTRATED PLAYS.* THE specialties which distinguish Mr. Nor Smith's

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edition of Macbeth are not, we think, equally deserving of praise. • ("1„) The Tragedie of Macbeth. With Illustrations and Notes by J. Moyr Smith.—(2.) The Rivals. By Richard...

A CRUISE IN WEST AFRICAN WATERS.*

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THOSE who remember On a Surf-Bound Coast will not be unwilling to accompany its author on another cable-laying voyage off the coast of Africa. This time we have lees of...

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A TALE BY MISS C. COLERIDGE.*

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ONE'S first thought, as one reads the opening chapters of this story, is,—What in the world will the author do with so very unpromising a heroine ? The girl with the many...

GRETTIR THE OUTLAW.*

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MR. BARING-GOULD tells us in an interesting preface how be made acquaintance thirty years ago with the" Saga of Grettir the Strong," painfully labouring out the meaning by help...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. It is always a pleasure to review volumes of such sterling value as the annual issues of Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D., and the Sunday Magazine, edited...

TWO TALES BY MR. HENTY.*

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WE are inclined to regret that in the first of these tales Mr. Henty has chosen to walk "where the fires smoulder under treacherous ashes." He does, indeed, his best to walk...

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Two Old Stories Retold. By Mona Noel Paton. Illustrated by

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Hubert Paton. (Banks and Co., Edinburgh.)—The two "old stories" are "Beauty and the Beast" and "Jack the Giant- Killer," old favourites which one is always glad to meet again....

Church. Bells Album. (Southampton Street, Strand.)—The Album for this year

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bears the title of "Notable Churches of the City of London." There are twenty-two in all, St. Paul's and the Temple Church having accorded to them the honour of a double notice...

A 1 Annual. (S. W. Partridge and Co.).—This is the

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second annual volume of an excellent periodical. It contains a plentiful supply of fiction, for there are no less than six stories, among them a tale of adventure, "Eagle...

Randolph Caldecott's Sketches. With Introduction by Henry Blackburn. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting volume. In it we get, with the help of Mr. Blackburn's introduction, something like a complete view of Caldecott's career as a...

Our Darlings. Edited by Dr. Barnard°. (J. F. Shaw.)—This "Children's

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Treasury of Pictures and Stories" is always welcome, both for its own sake, for it is full of entertainment and instruc- tion, and also for that of its editor, whose good work...

Adrift in the Pacific. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and

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Co.) —This tale calls, as may be supposed, for something more than the • cursory notice which we gave it in the magazine volume in which it first appeared. A number of boys who...

The Waverley Proverbial Birthday - Book (Remington and Co.) is a collection

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of the "Proverbs and other Wise Sayings to be found in the Waverley Novels," collected by Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews. It is curious to see how Scott repeated himself in...

Japanese Jingles. Written and Illustrated by Katheleen Lucas. (Wells Gardner,

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Darton, and Co.)—Unfortunately, we cannot transfer to our columns any specimens of Miss Lucas's drawings ; and it would not be fair to her jingles to quote them apart from the...

iniquity of the opium traffic. Chang and Lingsam are lovers,

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and by a happy combination of circumstances—for marriages are arranged in China, it would seem, without much regard to the affections—become man and wife. Everything seems to...

A Narrative of the Peninsular Campaign. Abridged from Sir W.

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Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula," by William T Dobson. (Bickers and Son.)—Mr. Dobson has taken the narrative of the principal battles and sieges of the eight...

Severn - Side : the Story of a Friendship. (W. P. Nimmo

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and Co., Edinburgh.)—We hope that the readers for whom this volume— part of a "Young Ladies' Library "—is intended will not have so stormy an experience of love as Dorothy and...

Kate Greenawwy's Book of Games (Routledge and Sons) gives descriptions

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of some forty games, outdoor and indoor, with rules and, when they are wanted, as in "hop-scotch," a diagram, and above all, with drawings from her always charming pencil. Her...

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found to disappoint them by its contents. These seem admirably

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adapted for young readers. The serial stories are "Uncle Silvio's Secret," by H. Atteridge, and "Freda's Conquest," by Frederick Macdonald, whose entertaining "Pink and Pearl"...

The Gentleman's Magazine Library. Edited by George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A.

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"Bibliographical Notes," edited by A. C. Bickley. (Elliot Stock.)—How many volumes this library will consist of, the editor does not state; nor, indeed, does it greatly matter,...

The Girl's Own Annual and The Boy's Own Annual (56

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Paternoster Row) are yearly volumes, containing the weekly issue of two papers, and are always welcome. Both have a special suitability to the audience for whom they are...

Unknown Switzerland. By Victor Tissot. Translated by Mrs. Wilson. (Hodder

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and Stoughton.)—A pleasant book enough, and for the most part entertaining; yet absurdly misnamed, and as full of French conceit as an egg is full of meat. The "unknown...

possibly find a little long, but which children will certainly

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like very much. There are children in it, of course, and dolls, who are taken with proper seriousness, and some good "grown-ups." Altogether, Right Side Up is a book of the...

Marcus Stratford's Charge. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Religious Tract Society.)—The story

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has a certain interest, though perhaps it is made a little too long, and the characters are somewhat wanting in colour. But Mrs. Everett-Green's purpose is excellent. She writes...

out of "songs, facts, and legends" which she has collected

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and illustrated. Her first intimate acquaintance with the robin was made, she tells us, during her recovery from illness. Many birds came to her garden; but none which made...

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The Sacrifice of Education to Examination. Edited by Auberon Herbert.

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(Williams and Norgate.)—Here are massed together some two hundred letters from "all sorts and conditions of men," edited, or rather collected, by Mr. Herbert, who adds a...

Bounds and Inftexicnto in Greek and Latin. By J. C.

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King, M.A., and C. Cookson, MA. (The Clarendon Press.)—This book is of a kind so elaborate, and in its way technical, that we cannot pre- tend to do it justice in these columns....

The Freaks of Lady Fortune. By May Crommelin. (Hurst and

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Blackett.)—At the opening of this story, the heroine, a regally beau- tiful farm-girl, is found picking bluebells for market in company with her young brother. To them enters a...

Marriage and Heredity : a View of Psychological Evolution. By

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J. F. Nisbet. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Nisbet gives in his first chapter some curious facts to prove that, as he puts it, "there is not a single sentiment of the modern European...

Hints to Lady-Travellers at Home and Abroad. By Miss Campbell

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Davidson. (Iliffe and Son.)—This is a useful kind of handbook, and readers with a sense of humour will also find it entertaining. The author observes that since so many women...

A Dictionary of Heraldry. By Charles Norton Elvin, M.A. (Kent

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and Co.)—This is a dictionary "of the terms met with in the Science [of Heraldry], with their appropriate illustrations." The plates are forty-six in number, each of full-page...

Three Men in a Boat. By Jerome K. Jerome. (J.

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W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—This is an account of a boating journey on the Thames. Humour is always sought, and sometimes attained. We found the straining after humour, we must...

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Tai.xs.—The Romance of an Alter Ego. By Lloyd Bryce. (Brentano's,

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London, New York, (Lc.) —This tale is constructed on something like the lines of the Comedy of Errors. The hero is claimed by a lady whom be assists in alighting from a New York...

Grandison Mather. By Sidney Luska. (Cassell and Co., New York.)—The

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name that serves as the title of this story is the pseudonym which one Thomas Gardiner adopts when he tries his powers in literature. He has lost his money by the roguery of a...

The Book of the Pscents. A new Translation, with a

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Commentary. By the Rev. T. K. Cheyne. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Professor Cheyne's attitude with retard to the authorship of the Psalms is well known. To him they are not...

The Questions of the Bible. Compiled by W. Carnelley. (T.

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Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Carnelley has here put together, with references to chapter and verse, all the questions—that is, sentences put in the interrogative form—that occur in the...

Christianity and War. By J. F. Bethune-Baker. (Macmillan and Bowes.)—The

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motto which Mr. Bethune-Baker borrows from Augustine for his title-page expresses with admirable brevity the main spirit of his essay, a composition, it may be said, which...

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City Slums. By J. A. Ingham, jun. (Swan Sonnenschein and

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Co.)—Mr. Ingham's "Remedy "—and one always turns at once to this chapter—seems to be the building of suitable houses for the poor a short way out of London, at the public...