17 JANUARY 1891

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Bishop of Peterborough is to succeed Archbishop Thomson in the Archbishopric of York, and the appoint- ment has been received with general, we might almost say, universal...

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

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case.

M. Ribot, the French Foreign Minister, has addressed an im-

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portant letter to the Customs Commission. All the commercial treaties now in operation can be made to expire on February 1st, 1892, and the Government intends to take the...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 31st, will be issued, .gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages ..of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

Sir William Harcourt has written two letters this week on

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the canards and dreams of the Unionists as to divisions amongst the Gladstonian. leaders. For our own party we never believed in those divisions any more than we believed in the...

On Saturday last, the Recorder of Plymouth, Mr. H. M.

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Bompas, Q.C., in condemning on appeal three of the leaders in a recent strike for intimidatioh, pronounced a judgment which, if it is upheld, will render strikes under- taken to...

NOTICE.—With this week's number of the " SPECTATOR" is issued, gratis,

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an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index ' ,and from July 5th to December 27th, 1890, inclusive.

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A. very hitter letter on the Anti-Parnellito revolt has been

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written by .Miss Anna Parnell to the Freeman's Journal, from which the larger part of it was transferred to the Times of this day week. She proposes a revival de novo of the...

Professor Dicey, in an admirable speech at Workington on Tuesday,

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said some hard things. Mr. Gladstone, he said, was a man who always told truth, but was never understood, and always, therefore, deceived those who listened to him. That is...

Mr. Morley spoke at Newcastle on Tuesday, and did not

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conceal for a moment the reverse from which the Gladstonians are suffering. He believed that it was only temporary. And with a democracy that would defeat the Government one day...

Mr. Parnell spoke at Limerick on Saturday, and has made,

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indeed, a series of Irish speeches this week. He has returned more or loss to his old calm style, and maintains absolutely his contention as to the tenor of his interview with...

Mr. Chamberlain spoke very well at Birmingham on Thurs- day.

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He brought out the drift of Mr. John Motley's speech at Newcastle with great clearness and force, and made some- very pregnant remarks on Mr. Gladetone's proclamation of the "...

On the subject of Mr. Chamberlain's queries as to whether

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he was prepared to satisfy the demands of either of the two existing Irish parties,—the Parnellites or the Anti-Parnellites, —Mr. Morley was perfectly frank. He evidently is...

. The whole speech at Limerick was pervaded by eulogy

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on Mr. O'Brien as a true patriot, and so forth. With him Mr. Parnell had come to a complete agreement, if only Mr. O'Brien could persuade his former colleagues to adopt his view...

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At Sunderland, on Tuesday, the Shipping Federation, in placing a

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crew of free sailors on board the Claudius,' met with considerable opposition from a crowd composed either of members of "The National Seamen's and Firemen's Union," or of...

Baron Haussmann, the man who found Paris a strange mixture

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of slums and palaces, and left it the city of magnifi- cent, tasteless, dreary boulevards we all know, died on Sunday at the age of seventy-nine. He owed his favour with Napo-...

Archdeacon Denison has again given notice of his gravamen in

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Convocation with reference to " Lux Mundi." So far from being satisfied with Mr. Gore's explanations in the preface to the tenth edition of that work, and his letter to the...

Mr. Burns shows very badly beside the responsible officials of

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the regular Trade-Unions, who, though often violent in intention, never degenerate into mere frothy Jacobinism. One of his speeches to the Scotch strikers—that made at Glasgow...

the recent disturbance in the normal calm of Chilian politics.

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The President, Senor Balmaceda, has of late been attempting to overstep the very wide powers already lodged in his hands by the Constitution ; but the Chilians, anxious to...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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New Consols (24) were on Friday 978 to 97k.

The strike on the Scotch railways is neither settled nor

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in process of settlement. On Tuesday, attempts were made, both at Glasgow and at Edinburgh—the Lord Provost of each city conducting the negotiations—to induce the Com- panies to...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY

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MR. MORLEY'S AVOWALS AT NEWCASTLE. I T is difficult to conceive a speech more discouraging to the Gladstonian Party than Mr. Morley's speech of Tuesday. Except an artificial...

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THE LEGALITY OF STRIKES.

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T HOUGH we have the greatest possible respect for the opinion of so able a lawyer as Mr. Bompas, we find it difficult to believe that his decision in the case of the Ply- mouth...

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ARCHBISHOP MAGEE. T HERE are, no doubt, more gifted theologians amongst

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the clergy of England than the Archbishop-Designate of York, but there is hardly a more interesting public man amongst them, and assuredly there is none who has shown himself so...

LORD GRIMTHORPE ON THE ,LINCOLN JUDGMENT.

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W E have had three pronouncements lately on the Archbishop of Canterbury's judgment in the Lincoln case, which may serve as so many drops of acid to, prevent the general chorus...

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• sin for which all who palliate the proceedings of

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Parnellites without defiance of the law. There is not only no analogy and Anti-Parnellites alike are more or less directly re- between the case of Ireland and the case of Italy...

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A. PHYSICAL UNION WITH IRELAND. T HE notion of a tunnel

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between the coasts of Ireland and Scotland is just now attracting a great deal of attention in Belfast. During the autumn, a large and enthusiastic meeting was convened by the...

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FIRESIDE POLITICS.

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T O Sir William Harcourt belongs the honour of having first broken the silence that seemed to have settled upon the leaders of the Opposition, together with the lowering...

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CHILDREN'S PARTIES.

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O P all the months in the year, perhaps the month. of January is the most dear to the heart of childhood, the most productive of rapturous pleasures and joys that arc never put...

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ENGLISH BIRDS IN SNOW.

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AS the late snow-storm swept over London, flocks of sky- larks were all day passing over Piccadilly and Kensington Gore, in ceaseless flight towards the south-west. Thousands of...

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THE HEROISM OF CHILDHOOD.

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frIHERE is something very pathetic about the heroism of childhood, where we mean by heroism something of really independent daring and presence of mind, something 'beyond mere...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE "NONCONFORMIST CONSCIENCE." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOE."1 Snt s —In your issue of January 3rd, you express a wish that I would " openly discuss in the pulpit " the...

A POLITICAL FORECAST.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIOJ Sin,—I fear the Unionists are indulging a dangerous hope that the cause of Home-rule is already finally defeated, It is the unexpected that...

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THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUESTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "J SIE,—I have always observed and admired in the Spectator a spirit of fairness in dealing with any subject, which is in striking contrast to the...

'THE LATE' MR. CHARLES LEVER AND HOME-RULE. Pro THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTATOR. "3 Sus,—In an interesting note in the Spectator of January 10th, passages from the dialogue of "The Knight of Gwynn() " are -cited, with the object of...

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THE SCOTCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

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[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—It is to be hoped that when Parliament reassembles within the next fortnight, some noble Lord may see his way to take up the mantle...

A DOG'S AFFECTION AND CRAFTINESS.. [Po THE EDITOR OF TILE

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d ' SPEOTATOR."] SIR, —The insertion of the story of "A Wise Dog," in the- Spectator of January 10th, encourages me to relate an incident that happened to me in ,Cape Colony...

CHARLES KEENE.

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[TO THE EDITOR of THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Having read with much interest your note and article on Charles Keene, I should like to supplement the instance you adduce of his...

THE EFFACEMENT OF ST. PAUL'S.

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[To TILE EDITOR, OF TIM "SPECL'ATOR, "1 SIR,—It must be matter of sincere regret to all who have owed much in times past to the sermons at St. Paul's Cathedral, to find that,...

THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.

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[To THE EDITOR, OF THE "SrscTAron."1 SIR, — A short time since, a letter reached the Lincoln Post- Office addressed as follows : " sa Grandeur Monseigneur- l'Eveglie de...

WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT.

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• [To THE EDI , OR OF THE " SFEOTAIOS.1 SIR, — A charming kdition of the poems of William and Mary Hewitt, in three small volumes (separate), illustrated by Giacomelli, is...

MR. BISHOP AND FATHER GASQUET ON EDWARD' VI.'S PRAYER-BOOK.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TES SrP.O1'*Yoii_"] SIR,—In the review you kindly gave of "Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer," the writer says " We do not know what share his (i.e.,...

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ART.

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THE PORTRAIT ART AT THE GUELPH EXHIBITION. THERE are those who admire Wedgwood ware, and are learned in Salopian. There are those who doat on genealogies, and fables of...

POETRY.

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THE LARK. "Monte, monte, vive alouetto ! Vive alouette, monto aux eieux !" THE lark above our heads doth know A heaven we see not here below. She sees it, and for joy she...

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BOOKS.

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EDMOND SCHERER.* THIS biography is of extreme interest, and we have to thank M. Greard for the delicately painted portrait of a man whose spiritual experience is not unlike...

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THREE NOVELS.*

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WHEN a young lady meets a man whose fortune and social standing are such as to command the approval of her family, whose character is good, whose personal appearance is not...

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60IINOD. * MADEMOISELLE DE BOVET, whose valuable book on Ireland was

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recently noticed in these columns, has here essayed a task of a widely different character,—that of portraying the " artistic life " of the most popular of living French...

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TURNER'S " RICIIMONDSHIRE." *

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THE History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York, by Mr. Whitaker, with illustrations by Turner, has, in course of time, become a picture-book by Turner,...

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THE LATE REV. AUBREY MOORE'S ESSAYS.* WE must confess that

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we are disappointed by this volume. Personal friends of the late Mr. Aubrey Moore may be in- terested in it for other than historical reasons, but the general opinion will...

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FACE TO FACE WITH THE MEXICANS.*

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To a Scotch lady, Madame Calderon de la Barca, who wrote fifty years ago, belongs the credit of having produced what still remains the best presentment of life in Mexico. An...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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War-Path and Bivouac. By John F. Finerty. (Unity Building, Chicago.)—Mr. Finerty accompanied the United States Army, when employed against the Sioux in 1876, and again in 1879,...

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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems

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in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by Francis Turner Palgrave. (Macmillan.)—When Mr. Pal grave published his Golden Treasury in 1801, it received from...

The Flora of Warwickshire. By James E. Bagnall. (Gurney and

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Jackson.)—This elaborate work, the result of not loss than a q uarter of a Century's diligence and careful observation, is of too technical a kind to be noticed in detail in...

We have received The British Almanac and Companion for 1891.

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(Stationers' Company.)—Its contents include the usual eccle- siastical and civil information, a Parliamentary guide, statistics of commerce and taxation, chronicle of games and...

The Journal of Education. (W. Rico.) — This "monthly record and review

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" of the higher education continues to do an excellent work in its proper sphere. An editorial in the first number of the year just past, contains some self-congratulation,...

The Year's Art, 1890. Compiled by Marcus B. Huish, LL.D.

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(J. S. Virtue and Co.)—This is described as a " concise epitome of all matters relating to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture which have occurred during the year...

The Royal Kalendar and Twice, (W. H. Allen and Co.)

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contains in a convenient arrangement the, usual information, political, civil, and ecclesiastical, together with an almanac and other useful matters. We observe the days for...

Of periodical volumes, we have : The National Church :

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a Monthly 'Record of Church Work (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.); The Young Standard - Bearer (Wells Gardner, Marton, and Co) ; and a new venture, Mothers in Couwil , edited by...

Theory of Physics. By Camilo Calloja. (Kogan Paul and Co.)

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—This is a rectification, the author tells us, of the theories of molar mechanics, heat, chemistry, sound, light, and electricity. The three last ho calls " progenic physics,"...

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Illustrations. Conducted by Francis George Heath, (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—We

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welcome this, the annual volume of an excellent periodical. It has the merit of being entirely free from the element of fiction, of which surely we have now more than enough. "...

The Portfolio, 1890. Edited by Philip Gilbert Hamorton. (Seeley and

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Co.)—This periodical has been noticed from time to time during the past year. It will suffice, therefore, to remind our readers that this is the first volume of a second series,...

Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 16244690. Selected and edited

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by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. (The Clarendon Press.)—These Documents "are intended," says Mr. Gardiner, " to servo either as a basis for the study of the consti- tutional...

The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend. (Walter Scott.)—"

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Legend " does not occupy any very prominent place in this very interesting periodical. It is chiefly concerned with the record of historical and local facts, The volume now...

Oar Boys and Girls at School. By Henry J. Barker.

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(J. W. Arrowsmith.)----This is another of Mr. Barker's most entertaining volumes. That he is exceptionally fortunate in getting hold of• good things is beyond doubt. Does he...