17 NOVEMBER 1883

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Mr. Gladstone's speech commenced with a cordial acknow- ledgment of

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the Lord Mayor's personal compliments to himself, —namely, those Homeric and Horatian passages to which we have already referred, with the kindly commentary in which they were...

The Paris correspondent of the Times states on "good "autho-

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rity that the general basis of an agreement between the Suez Canal Company and the British shipowners is to be as follows : —A second Canal is to be cut, the British Government...

The Delegates from the Transvaal now in London have pre-

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sented their demands in writing to the Colonial Office. They are marked by the one-sidedness which usually distinguishes requests from South Africa. The Boers ask that the Sand...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE Government of Germany is most desirous of conciliating Spain, and the Emperor, therefore, wished to return the visit of King Alfonso in the stateliest fashion. A personal...

The Lord Mayor's Day, yesterday week, had its remark- able

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aspects, but they were hardly aspects involving any political surprise to the nation. It was remarkable for the interpolation in the procession of a van of frozen meat from the...

• * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any case.

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He reviewed also the remarkable change which had taken place

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in the popular view of foreign affairs, under the influence of what Mr. Disraeli used to sneer at as the " cosmopolitan" ideas of the Liberal party,—in other words, the idea...

The Reading celebration was continued on Thursday, when Mr. Shaw

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Lefevre made another speech, in which he gave a very clear and interesting review both of the Rookeries evil and of the serious condition of agricultural labour at the present...

The English are beginning in a vague way to realise

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the magnitude of India, and to comprehend that it contains some fifty millions more people than all Europe west of the Vistula. Few, however, are quite aware of the number of...

After Mr. Lefevre, Lord Selborne made a very gentle Liberal-Conservative

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speech ; Mr. Walter a very safe one, insisting on the love of constituencies for their old Members ; and Mr. John Morley a vigorous Radical speech, of which the key was that if,...

Mr. Fawcett, who spoke after Mr. Lefevre, and who bore

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testimony to Mr. Lefevre's admirable administration of the Post Office during his own serious illness last year, made some - criticism on our own columns in relation to the...

M. Tirard, the French Chancellor of the Exchequer, is.we fear,

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not a safe financier. The French economists complain strongly of his budgets as concealing deficits, and he has now made to the Budget Committee a most insidious proposal. The...

On Wednesday was celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Mr. Shaw

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Lefevre's election as M.P. for Reading, and the dinner, at which 350 guests were present, was followed by speeches of unusual interest. First came Mr. Lefevre's review of his...

It is a great pity that orators in English meetings

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are not allowed by etiquette to swear. We are quite sure that if Mr. Lowther, at the Tory Colston Dinner at Bristol on Tuesday, had been allowed to swear at Mr. Gladstone and...

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Mr. Forster, in presiding ou Wednesday over a large public

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meeting at St. George's Hall, Bradford, in connection with the Luther Commemoration, described Luther as " the most courage- ous man, for both physical and moral courage, that...

The difficulties of the historian are well illustrated in the

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dis- cussion in the Times on turtle soup. Sir Henry Thompson, who is an eminent authority on food and cooking, as well as surgery, writes to say that turtle soup is " never "...

Dean Cowie is to be translated from Manchester to Exeter,

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and to fill the Deanery vacated by the death of Dean Boyd. The appointment is a good one. Dean Cowie is, in the first place, a Senior Wrangler, and so considerable an authority...

The Dean of Carlisle has, it appears, been offered the

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Deanery of Manchester, but has not yet made up his mind to abandon his present sphere of work, so soon after he had entered on it. We trust, however, that he will accept the...

The statement of the Echo that nearly all Mr. Gladstone's

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ecclesiastical appointments have been of a High-Church character is not only false, but ridiculous. What do they think of Dean Bradley ? of Dean Connor ? of Dean Davidson ? of...

Bank Rate, 3 per oont.

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Console were on Friday 101i to 102.

From a letter by Dr. Murrell to this week's Lancet,

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it appears that Dr. Sydney Ringer had no share in the responsibility for the experiments, of which we gave a brief account last week, on the poisonous effects of nitrite of...

Mr. Chamberlain made a most able speech at the Trinity

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House on Wednesday upon the losses of British shipping. He quite acknowledged the failure of Mr. Plimsoll's Act, under which the losses have steadily increased. In 1882, the...

A most regrettable error crept into our:reviews last week. The

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reviewer of Mr. O'Donovan's new edition of his book on Mery spoke iu feeling terms of the "premature decease" of the author, who is alive, and sending to the Daily News most...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE SPEAKERSHIP. T O our mind, the Speaker ought to be a much more important figure in the Democratic House of Commons of the future than lie has ever been in the Middle-class...

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LORD RIPON. T HAT Lord Ripon should be attacked by those

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who dis- approve the Ilbert Bill is natural enough, for the dis- pute which underlies that question rouses very fierce antagon- isms, as well of modes of thinking, as of caste,...

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THE CHEERFULNESS OF POLITICIANS.

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T HE celebration of Mr. Shaw Lefevre's twenty years con- nection with Readin g has not only plenty of special political interest of its own, but it g ives a bri g hter...

GERMANY AND SPAIN.

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-TYIN G ALFONSO of Spain recently visited the German Emperor at Hombur g , received at his hands the hi g hest honour he could confer, and was treated in all respects as the...

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THE FRANCHISE IN IRELAND.

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W E do not understand the sort of rage with which not only Tories, but some moderate Liberals regard any proposal for reducing the Irish Franchise. That men like Lord...

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THE FAILURE OF MR. PLIMSOLL'S ACT.

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O NE of the most frequent of Tory fallacies is that which represents the Liberal Party as a destructive one, and a Liberal Government as a company of Destroying Angels, whose...

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M ARTIN LUTHER.

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I T is no wonder that the estimates of Luther di ff er so widely as they do. Even the keenest Roman Catholic must• often be bewildered by the passionate intensity of his faith,...

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AN EMANCIPATED MIDDLE-CLASS.

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M R. MATTHEW ARNOLD has either been scolding the Americans afresh for their Philistinism, or his arrival has revived discussion about his former lectures in England, in which he...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sia,—After your appeal to any one who knows bow to make the representation of minorities feasible to...

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rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOILl SIR, — In the Spectator

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of this week you say, " If any one knows how to make the representation of minorities feasible, and not liable to a catastrophe" whenever a minority Member dies or resigns, we...

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BEARDS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stn,—May I point out that the writer of the article on "Beards," in your paper of November 3rd, has mistaken the force of the sayings...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — It has often been

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said in the discussions on minority representation that the methods by which it is proposed to secure it are wanting in simplicity, and not easily understood by ordinary people....

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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Sia,—Fully agreeing that no representative system can be satisfactory which does not provide for the representation of important minorities, I would suggest that, until the...

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MAGDALEN COLLEGE AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL. LABORATORY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A paragraph appeared in the Spectator of last Saturday on the Oxford Memorial concerning the University Physiological Laboratory. That...

CHILDREN AND THEIR DINNERS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —My attention has just been called to the letter of your correspondent " J. G. F.," in last week's issue, in which it seems that those...

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POETRY.

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POETS, AND POETS. I KNEW a poet,—one with eyes of laughter, A face like a sun-smile, eager as a boy, .Singing as the birds sing, trusting the Hereafter : I knew a poet, and...

X.—THANKSGIVING ODE.

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Enthroned upon a silver beam Of perfect light, Our lady reigns as doth beseem The Queen of Night! Whate'er thy pastime is, Dian or Artemis,— Whether as huntress fair and...

THE NON-RESIDENTIAL COUNTY FRANCHISE.

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(TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.'l SIR,—The non-residential county franchise has a value which the Spectator is not likely to depreciate as merely sentimental. It provides a...

IX.—THE DREAM OF PERICLES.

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I am called, so thou would'st know, Dian of the silver bow ; And, while slumber seals thine eyne, Bid thee list the voice divine : Seek out mine Ephesian shrine ; And, before...

LYRICS OF PERICLES.—III.• VIII.—ODE TO NEPTUNE.

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Gon of the steed and the spear and the Ocean, Speed thou our barks o'er the wandering foam ; Steer us by reef, and by headland and island, Outward and onward, and inward and...

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ART.

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" PHIZ." THERE is an unpretending little exhibition, at the Rooms of the Fine-Art Society in Bond Street, which should be seen by those who are interested in English art. The...

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BOOKS.

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MR. FLINDERS PETRIE ON THE PYRAMIDS.* No one interested in Egyptian archaeology can fail to profit by the study of the exact, sober, and luminous account of the Pyramids of...

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MR. CLARK RUSSELL'S NEW NOVEL.* THERE are two novelists of

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the day who, while they do not re- semble each other in any other respect, equally possess the power of blending romance with reality, and whose works " consequently stand apart...

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THE AUTHOR OF " TTJLLOCHGORUM."

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THIS is not the first biography that has appeared of the modest, scholarly, genial, but withal sagacious, Episcopalian divine, who found time, in the midst of varied labours and...

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE.*

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WITH this book Mr. Turner has supplied a want which has long been keenly felt by the majority of the English-reading public. For this good deed he deserves thanks. Now, at any...

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POLAR EXPEDITIONS.* WHEN the history of the nineteenth century comes

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to be written by an impartial Lecky of the twenty-fifth century, it is a matter of curious speculation to think what he will say about Polar Expeditions. For they stand apart...

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We give a hearty welcome to Miss Kate Greenaway's very

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pretty illustrations of Little Anne, and other Poems. By Jane and Aone Taylor. (Rontledge and Sons.)—" Little Anne" and its companions have held their place in many nurseries,...

The Truant Hares and their Friends, by Arthur S. Gibson

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(Griffith and Ferran), is another moderately successful book, the illustrations being, perhaps, better than the letterpress.

0n/when's Chap-Book . Chaplets (Field and Tuer) is a quaint revival

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of the ballads, with their rude coloured engravings, which delighted an older generation. Of these ballads there are eight, " The Barkeshire Lady," Jemmy and Nancy, of...

Prince Pertinaz : a Fairy Tale. By Mrs. George Hooper.

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Illus- trated by Margaret L. Hooper and Margery May. (Field and Tuer.) —Mrs. Hooper's tale, first published, though not quite in its present form, twenty years ago, in the...

The Maids of Lee, written by F. E. Weatherly, illustrated

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by W.I. Hodgson (Hildesheimer and Faulkner), is decidedly good. The various suitors are depicted with pleasant humour in some good drawings, to which the verso supplies a...

The Nodding Mandarin : a Tragedy in China, edited by

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Lewis F. Day (Simpkin and Marshall), is a tale in verse, somewhat after the manner of Hans Christian Anderson, of two china figures, a chimney-sweep and a shepherdess, that...

Three Blind Mice, with music and words from an early

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edition, illustrated by C. A. Doyle (George Waterston), sufficiently describes itself.

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Gray's Elegy, Artist's Edition. (J. B. Lippincott and Co., Phila-

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delphia, U.S.; John Stark, London.)—This volume is adorned with some twenty illustrations of landscape and figures, not unworthy in design of the poem of which they are the...

From the same publishers we also get " Phiz's" Funny

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Alphabet, " Phies " Funny Stories, and " Phiz's" Baby Sweethearts, the last not being much to our taste.

When is Your Birthday ? A Year of Good Wishes.

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A Set of Twelve Designs, by Edwin J. Ellis, with Sonnets by the Artist. (Field and Tuer.)—Mr. Ellis has given us twelve female heads, illustrating the months of the year,...

From Messrs. Routledge we get R. Caldecott's Hey-Diddle.Diddle Picture-Book, containing

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tho four rhymes, " Where are you going, my Pretty Maid ?" "Hey, Diddle, Diddle," "The Fox Jumped over the Parson's Gate," and " Froggio's Wooing," illustrated in the style which...

Told in the Twilight. By F. E. Weatherly. Illustrated by

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M. E. Edwards and J. C. Staples. (IIildesheimer and Faulkner.)—Both verses and illustrations are pleasing. " 31innie Counting her Chickens," on p. 27, and " The Unappreciative...

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POETRY.—A Volume of Poems:, by G. W. Bettany (Londob Literary

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Society), is perhaps beat criticised by an extract. Hero are two stanzas from the " Battle of Tel-ol-Kebir :"— " On they go to death or glory, Trampling on rebellions sand...

The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by Mr. Roscoe

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; and The Elephant's Ball and Grand Fete Champotre, by "W. D." (Griffith and Farran), are fac-simile reproductions of the editions of 1808 and 1807, published by "J. Harris,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by David Scott, R.S.A. With Life of the Artist, and Descriptive Notices of the Plates, by Rev. A. L. Simpson, D.D....

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The Land of Fetish. By Captain A. B. Ellis. (Chapman

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and Hall.)—Captain Ellis has nothing very complimentary to say about African kings, or colonial governors, or missionaries. These last are indeed his special abhorrence. The...