LONDON: NOVEMBER 17, 1894.

A STRANGE CAREER.* WE are not curious to inquire how far the ostensible author of this book is the real author, and how far an accurate state- ment of facts has been coloured by...

doubt that, judging from recent historical literature, much of the best work of English historical scholars is being devoted to the history of institutions rather than to the...

THERE is no literature of travel that has the charm of Arctic adventure ; the scaling of awful mountain peaks, the plodding wanderings in deserts, the rash voyaging on unknown...

to meet with individuals credited with an influence little short of miraculous, but by no means equally common for them so to impress the reader as to satisfy him that the...

typical man and King of the thirteenth century. With his brilliant talents and strong character, he would have made his mark at any time in his- tory, but in all his ideals and...

"LET who will translate Dumas, but give us the binding of him." That seems to be the principle which has produced this edition. Dumas deserves a good cover, and he has got it ;...

yet in no irksome way, on the shoulders of Mr. Longman and Colonel Walrond, whilst foremost amongst the contributors is Mr. Hussey, with ample and excellent instructions on the...

of distinction among the crowd of rivals which claim notice at this time. It reminds us in a way, though not in the least by any repetition, of one of the most successful of her...

TWO TALES BY MR. G. MANVILLE FENN.* THERE is certainly a touch of genius in the way in which Mr. Manville Fenn realises the very various circumstances among which the scenes of...

a young Moujik renowned for his strength and courage, is employed by his owners in killing the bears that infest the country-side. On one of these expeditions he is saved from...

is a poodle, ` Betsy ' by name, who tells the story of how her master was ordered abroad, how she meanwhile went to live with certain unsympathetic persons, how he came home,...

"Told in a Verandah." (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Of these short stories, "A. Black Prince" is undoubtedly the best and longest. The rest are very unequal in merit, some—" The Rishi...

is one of the "three wanderers." His fellows are two grey squirrels which a French sailor had given him. Johnny is an orphan, without any one to care for him, but he falls upon...

Bell and Sons.)—The author explains the purpose of his book thus. It gives, for the first time, the whole series of Madonnas that are, beyond doubt, the work of Raphael's...

by H.R.H. the Princess Louise. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh.) —Mr. Campbell's ballad tells in spirited verse how "Auld Robin" won a curling match for the laird, who gives him the farm...

of this "Illustrated Magazine for Young People throughout the English - speaking World." We cannot pretend to have an accurate recollection of the character of the many...

for its plot a, somewhat novel idea, which may, in- deed, be half suspected from the title. We are introduced to a hard working young Emperor, whom it is no disrespect to call a...

and Drawings by Gordon Browne. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. Baring-Gould explains the three kinds of fairy-tales. First comes the unadorned folk-tale, taken down, as it...

of John Banyan's Pilgrim's Progress, illustrated by W. Strang (John C. Nimmo). The frontispiece is a portrait of Bunyan, reproduced by Mr. Strang from a contemporary drawing; on...

C. Dibdin and John Ayling. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This handsome volume, well printed and well illustrated, is not un- worthy of the great subject to which it is...

supplement to the Magazine of Art, and, it is almost needless to say, a very interesting volume. There are representative pictures of every European nation, the quite minor...

are My Book of Adventures, My Book of Travel-Stories, and My Book of the Sea. There is no very sharp line of distinction between them. In My Book of the Sea, for instance, we...

"A Book for Girls," consists of brief readings—not selections, it must be understood, but original words of admonition and encouragement—adapted for every Sunday in the year....

to be said about the Saturday Journal. It is a per- petual surprise to see how well these things are kept up, so large is the mass of reading supplied, and so good the level at...

is one Richard Dalby, and the personality and career of Richard make up an interesting narrative stirring enough to fascinate the greediest of young readers. We are intro- duced...

a capital story, and though the guardian is not a remark- able character, Lucy Bright and her lover are very truthful studies of two lovers. There is another pair of lovers who...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This tale offers that mixture of love- making and religion which is so popular with a large class of readers. "How about love-making?" said an...

by George Macdonald, with twenty-five Illustrations by john Bell (Matto and - Windus).

and Bowden )—This is a volume of simple tales and sketches, illustrated with pictures of good average quality.

76 Great Queen tiltreet,W.C.; and Published by Join JAMES BARRE, Of No.1 Wellington Street, in the Pr ealnot ot th Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the "...

M. Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question pressed by M. Boissy d'Anglas, declared that the Hovas had persistently broken the Treaty of 1885. The...

case.

special means of information from the palace at Pekin, and who is certainly not in the Japanese interest, gives a deplorable account of the Chinese position in the capital. He...

No. 3,464.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1891. [ REOISTERED AS Al PRICK 611. NEWSPAPER. Blr POST, 60.

T HE news from the Far East as to the progress of the war is a little dubious. It appears to be clear that Talienwan and Kinchow, the two great outposts of Port Arthur, have...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 1st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisentents. To secure...

where a Conference of the National Union of Conservative Associations was to be held. He remarked on Lord Roaebery's assertion that the question of reforming the House of Lords...

to the Disestablishment of the English Church in Wales, and to postpone anything beyond a mere first reading of the Liquor 'Veto Bill to a future Session, Lord Rosebery...

He is said to have been unwell ; and certainly the speech, though full of thoughts, lacks the flashes of wit and the epigrams which marked the speech at Newcastle. The party now...

by the House of Commons, solely on the ground that one amendment favourable to the interests of a large class of workmen, had been passed by the House of Lords, Mr. Balfour held...

at Chelmsford this week. The accused, a clerk named James Canham Read, was believed to have shot, in Plaistow Marshes,, a girl named Florence Dennis, whom he had seduced, and...

Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, a great part of which was devoted to answering some rather extravagant remarks of Lord Salisbury's as to the independent character and im- partiality of...

passed a resolution highly eulogising their retired chairman, Mr. Schnacihorst. They praise his "wisdom in council," his "unfailing tact in policy ; " and Dr. Spence Watson...

effect of spraying potatoes during their growth with a liquid intended to save the potato crop from disease. The dreaming twice given to the growing crop (one towards the end of...

and especially to restrict it at horse-races, had an interview on Tuesday with Mr. Asquith, but went away rather despon-

of the centenary of Gibbon's death [January 16th, 1794], was held under the auspices of the Historical Society, under the presidency of Sir Mountstnart Grant Duff, in the Museum...

of the late Czar's body from Livadia to St. Petersburg, with a long halt at Moscow. The pageant at the ancient capital was a most tedious but most stately one, the shoals of...

speaking on Wednesday at Parkgate, near Rotherham, cad the grievances of the Gladstonians in being unable, even when they command a majority in the Commons, to carry any measure...

Asquith upon the rapid increase in infant mortality. It appears to have increased in the past nine years in the North of England by more than 20 per cent., and the Asso- ciation...

Friemy, 103.

H. lKing, the chaplain to that family of Vaugbans to which 'Cardinal Vaughan belongs,—but not the official chaplain of the Cardinal,—against the description of Cardinal Vaughan...

THE COLLAPSE OF CHINA. rilHE collapse of the Chinese Empire is not only the most amazing incident of the present half-century, but one of the most extraordinary incidents in...

W E do not understand why the London School Board controversy goes on so blithely without any refer- ence whatever to that which seems to us the main factor in the whole...

j the impression that most careful observers have formed of his fundamental weakness. We have no quarrel with the earlier part of his speech in which he explained why he must...

W E object to all these praises of the late Chairman of the Committee of the Liberal Federation. Personally, Mr. Schnadhorst may have deserved them all, and in any case it is no...

I N the two great speeches which be has delivered this week at Newcastle and Sunderland—speeches of which the first is perhaps the wittiest, and the second the most solid he has...

T O take any of the sections of the Irish Nationalist " party " seriously just now would be waste of time. The gentlemen who compose the motley groups which claim to represent...

week in another column so delicate a specimen in Mr. Charles Graves's " H.awarden Horace," seems to have its most natural home in Ireland. Goldsmith, indeed, has been its...

who at twenty- four, when his training is just done, sets to win himself a great fortune as his ideal object, should avoid the service of the State and all the professions...

I T is characteristic of the human mind to mistake its own local conventions for laws of the universe. A most familiar instance of this delusion is the superstition relating to...

I N the Field of November 3rd, Mr. W. Baillie-Grohman gives an interesting account of the bouquetins, or Alpine ibexes, probably the rarest of all European animals, except the...

DR. JOHNSON AND NONSENSE. are IRE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May I be allowed to vindicate Dr. Johnson's memory , from the serious charge you bring against him, in the-...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Before the python at the Zoo has finished digesting his companion, may I quote a surprising tale from Mr. Cooper Chadwick's book," Three...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECT&TOR." J r,—You have given a charming definition of Nonsense in the Spectator of November 10th, as "the buoyancy of a dancing heart ; " but do you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " STECTLTOR.'] Sin,—In the Spectator of October 13th, you refer to Mr. C. L. Johnstone's book, "Winter and Summer Excursions in Canada," as laying a "part...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEE " BPEOTATOR.'l Sin,—In the favourable notice which you were good enough to publish in the Spectator of November 10th on "The British Fleet," you noted...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE EPECTATO15...] Sin, — In a volume published a few years ago, being a list of the "Somerset Incumbents" for a period of nearly six hundred years, it is...

MR. GLADSTONE'S HORACE.* WREN it was announced, just a year ago, that Mr. Gladstone was engaged on a tra.nalation of Horace, we confess to have harboured a more than momentary...

THE OLD VIOLIN. [ANTON. STRAPIErAUIUS CIIMONENBIL FACIEDAT ANN° , 1704.] IT boasts a peerless colour, dried By suns of Southern lands, As fair as when, a thing of pride, It...

READERS of the Spectator will remember, not, we are sure, without pleasure, some poems—travesties, shall we call them? or adaptations of Horace—which have appeared under this...

their impressions of Japan, have written rather in the spirit of the lover who can see no defect in the object of affection, and Mr. Hearn is no excep- tion to the rule. His...

at all in love with the edition of Mrs. Gaskell with which the publishers have provided us. For a pocket edition, as which it is announced, it is distinctly • Pocket Edition of...

is the first that has been issued by Mr. John Lane at his new sign of The Bodley Head.' When a publication of this kind reaches its third number and can no longer be looked on...

sets herself a hard task,—to make her readers like her heroine. She has achieved, we should say, a fair success. The " adventuress "—unless indeed this title more properly...

French by Winifred Heaton. (W. Heinemann.)—We have here two short stories in which M. Coppae insinuates, with all the grate that a skilful French pen can command, an admirable...

South Africa. By George M. Theal. (T. Fisher TJnwin.)— The "Story of the Nations" is certainly extending its range of operations. We shall have to - enlarge the definition of a...

John Roche Dasent. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—The editor complains of the idleness of the Clerk of the Council in that he unduly abbreviated the proceedings which he had to...

and Co.)--If these thirteen stories had been reduced by one, we should have had nothing to say against this volume. Comedy and tragedy are mixed in the tales, with the result of...

Chandos. (John Murray.)—The writer of these lively and agreeable letters took the overland route as far as Colombo ; thence she crossed the ocean to Australia. Of Asia and...

Kendal.)—Here we have printed, with explanatory notes, a glossary, indices, &c., a series of wills from the register of the Bishops of Carlisle during the years 1353-86. They...

Stock.)—Haddlesey is a village near Selby, in the valley of the Aire, a river which seems to have the habit of causing severe inundations (in October, 1892, two-thirds of the...

New Death Duty, with Introduction, Forms, &c., by Evelyn Freeth (Stevens and Sons) ; A Synopsis of the New Estate Duty and the Finance Act, 1894, with Forms, by C. Harris...