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Mr. Goschen's Budget on Thursday night was received with great
The Spectatorfavour on both sides of the House. In his speech he gave a very much less formal exposition of the figures than any Chancellor of the Exchequer during the last twenty years, not...
General Caprivi has also delighted Liberals by abolishing what has
The Spectatorbeen called the "Reptile Fund." He will not sub- sidise newspapers, or use them, as Prince Bismarck did, to attack his enemies. The whole House cheered this declaration, the...
⢠A debate occurred in Supply on Monday which, though
The Spectatorlittle noticed, was of some importance. Mr. Buchanan, Sir G. Campbell, Mr. Bethell, Sir L. Pelly, and others tried to extract from Sir J. Fergusson definite accounts of what is...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorG ENERAL CAPRIVI has made his first official speech. The new Chancellor of Germany is also Premier of Prussia, and he made an address on Monday to the Prussian Diet. He...
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We regret to notice the death of the Marquis Tseng,
The Spectatorformerly Chinese Ambassador to London and Paris, though not for the reasons we see assigned. We do not believe that the deceased statesman desired to introduce European ideas...
For the current year, Mr. Goschen estimated the expenditure at
The Spectator£86,857,000, and the revenue at £90,406,000, showing a surplus of £3,549,000. Of this surplus, Mr. Goschen pro- posed to spend £300,000 in the year on barracks for the Army;...
The Gladstonians have gained a seat in the Carnarvon Boroughs.
The SpectatorThe election took place yesterday week, when Mr. Lloyd George was elected by the very narrow majority of 18 votes (for Mr. Lloyd George, 1,963 votes ; for Mr. Ellis Nanney,...
In considering the revenue of the year, Mr. Goschen remarked
The Spectatorthat the chief improvement had taken place in the first nine months, and that there had been a real retardation in the last quarter, which had suggested the necessity for great...
M. Carnot is making a progress through Southern France, and
The Spectatorintends even to visit Corsica, where the Napoleonic legend still lingers, constituting, in fact, the great popular epic. He is well received everywhere, and we note, as a...
But in order to find the local taxation necessary to
The Spectatorreplace the rejected Wheel and Horse taxes of last year, Mr. Goschen further proposed not only to transfer the Beer-duty (£386,000) to the Local Councils, but to put a tax of...
The value of silver has been going up all the
The Spectatorweek, and may go much higher, the two Houses of Congress having agreed on a Bill to compel the Treasury to buy $4,500,000 a month of silver, instead of $2,000,000. Certificates...
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Professor Case has pointed out, in a letter to last
The SpectatorSaturday's Times, that Mr. Gladstone already appears to be repenting of the opposition he gave to Dr. Clark's amendment to the address in favour of Home-rule for Scotland on...
On Saturday last, a murder took place at Messrs. Nevill's
The Spectatorbakery, Milkwood Road, Brixton, which is remarkable only for the exceeding smallness of the motive. The victim, Thomas Furlonger, one of the bread-packers, was found in a pool...
Sir F. Bramwell, at Tuesday's meeting of the Institute of
The SpectatorCivil Engineers, gave an interesting account of a new method of welding metals by electricity. The methods hitherto used have been imperfect, mainly because the heat has been...
The death is announced of Mr. Matthew Harris, M.P. for
The SpectatorEast Galway, one of the most open of the Fenian party, who compared the resistance to be made to the landlords to partridge-shooting, and honestly told the Special Commission...
The devotees of education oftenNeclare:that:it is practically impossible to press
The Spectatorpupils too hard, they defending themselves when needful by an inner determination not to learn. This iá probably true of English Public Schools, where the tone is really set by...
Dr. Hans Meyer, the German traveller who has successfully ascended
The Spectatorthe high snow-peak of Kibo, which towers above Kilima-Njaro, gave a very interesting account of his ascent to the Geographical Society on Monday evening. He had reached as high...
Mr. Caine, M.P. for Barrow-in-Furness, made a speech to his
The Spectatorconstituents on Friday week which shows that he is no more contemplating the desertion of the Unionist Party, than he is contemplating turning Conservative. He was more of a...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMR GOSCHEN'S BUDGET. S IR WILLIAM HARCOITRT was evidently not in spirits when he got up to criticise Mr. Goschen's Budget. He spoke with more genuineness than usual when he...
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MR. PARNELL AND THE LAND-PURCHASE BILL.
The SpectatorI T is very hard to be just to Mr. Parnell when he throws himself, as he is about to do next Monday, right across the road which the State coach must traverse, and not to regard...
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THE NEW CAUSE OF QUARREL IN EUROPE.
The SpectatorW E do not like these telegrams from East Africa, whether English, German, or Portuguese. They point to a coming danger which, if the Powers concerned do not take care, may...
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GENERAL CAPRrVI IN PARLIAMENT.
The SpectatorPriHAT a new regime, and a most interesting one, is _L coming in Germany, is sufficiently clear; but it is a mistake to think that it will be a constitutional one, after the...
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NOISY OPINION AND PUBLIC OPINION.
The SpectatorP ROBABLY the most common mistake which Paxlia- mentary politicians make, is the confusion between noisy opinion and public opinion. Mr. Matthews is wise in that he does not...
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, MR. RAIKES AND 1.111, TELEGRAPH-CLERKS.
The SpectatorA QUESTION of considerable interest would have been raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday, had Sir Algernon Borthwick moved his amendment to Lord Compton's motion about the...
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DR. MARTINEA17 ON SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY.
The SpectatorD R. MARTINEAU'S new book on "The Seat of Authority in Religion," published by Longmans, is not one that it is easy to read and master in a few days, or even in a few weeks. It...
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THE "MAN IN THE STREET" AS GRAMMARIAN. MHE Times is
The Spectatorquite right : it is the "man in the street" who makes, and sometimes unmakes, the English language,âwho, that is, adopts a new word, or modifies a grammatical form, or...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorWHICH "OLD TESTAMENT" DID CHRIST QUOTE FROM P [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,âThe most dramatic episode at the Manchester Church Congress was the reading of four...
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DR. LIDDON ON CHRIST'S HUMANITY.
The Spectator[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,âThe correlation of the divine and human in our Lord's Person is altogether so mysterious, that it is necessary to write very...
DR. LIDDON ON THE OLD TESTAMENT.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 'SIR,âPermit me to remark on Mr. Page's letter under the above title, that whether or no the charge of "unhesitating dogmatism" which he...
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DEFINITIONS OF CHRIST'S NATURE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,âWith some reluctance I venture to go rather farther than your other correspondents, and to deprecate that whole manner of regarding...
THE TITHE QUESTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,âMight I reply through your columns to a number of clergymen who have been good enough to write to me privately in regard to the Tithe...
THE RIGHT WORD FOR ELECTRIC MOTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,âI thoroughly agree with your suggestion that to electrically propel may be aptly named to " telepher," or, say " telpher " as an...
THE IRISH LAND-PURCHASE BILL.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-It surely would not be very far wide of the mark to describe the Irish Land-Purchase Bill as a measure for further and permanently...
AUSTRIAN TAXATION.
The SpectatorFro THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,âIn your issue of April 5th, you mention that 5,400,000' of the 6,800,000 tons which passed through the Suez Canal last year were...
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ART.
The SpectatorVARIOUS EXHIBITIONS. VERY different kinds of art jostle one another in Bond Street at the present moment. Messrs. Dowdeswell once more earn the gratitude of lovers of painting...
PAUPERISM IN THE BRADFIELD UNION.
The Spectator(To ma EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,âPermit me to call your attention to an error in the figures of this Union, quoted in your review of "The English Poor-Law," by Mr....
POETRY.
The SpectatorA LOST PARA_DISE. GREEN fields and young faces, Sunshine and flowers- Ah, in far-off fairy places, Once they were ours ! Now, when cares and crow's-feet thicken, Brown locks...
A CORRECTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,âIn your article, in the Spectator of April 12th, on "Democracy and Justice," you refer to "the French noble who said that God thought...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorPRINCE RITPERT.* LORD RONALD GOWER has written this little book because' he thinks that his hero is "worthy of a niche in the temple of fame." Has he not got one Is not his...
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ANARCHY IN AMERICA.*
The SpectatorMR. MICHAEL J. SCHAACK, in the portrait prefixed to this volume, looks every inch of him a resolute Captain of Police; while his book not only shows him to be so, but shows him...
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OXFORD.* Mn. ANDREW LANG is precisely the person who ought
The Spectatorto write a small book of this kind on Oxford. His light touch and singular facility for seizing salient points, putting them in picturesque and easy prominence, and his...
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IRELAND AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN CHURCH.* IN this volume, made up
The Spectatorof lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Stokes takes up his investigation into the religious and social condition of Ireland at the point where he left off...
THE BOOKWORM.*
The Spectator"THERE is a deal of fine, confused eating on a sheep's head," said the Ettrick Shepherd, in Noctes Ambrosianz. And there is a deal of fine, confused reading in the book before...
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GERMAN SOCIALISM AND FERDINAND LASSALLE.*
The SpectatorTHIS book contains at least one cleverly turned sentence, which is worthy of quotation, and that chiefly as a varia- tion upon the popular rather than intelligible phrase, "We...
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Eleanor Lewknor. By 13. Pu.11en-Burry. 2 vols. (Remington and Co.)âOne
The Spectatoris not favourably impressed by the beginning of this novel. Why "auricular faculties" instead of ears ? Why is a Roman eagle said to have "waved" over an encampment ? The author...
History and Pathology of Vaccination. By Edgar M. Crookshank, M.B.
The Spectator2 vols. (H. K. Lewis.)âWith regard to these two volumes, we stand in a position quite different from that sometimes attri- buted to the reviewer. Instead of being prepared to...
My Mistress, the Empress Eugenie or, Court Life at the
The SpectatorTuileries. By Madame C,aretto. Authorised translation. (Dean and Bon.) âLong experience must have convinced the mass of readers that no very surprising disclosures, nor any...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorLondon of To - Day, 1890. An Illustrated Handbook of the Season. By Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Simpkin.)âThis is the sixth annual edition, "revised, and in part rewritten," of a...
The sixth volume of "The Carisbrooke Library," edited by Professor
The SpectatorMorley (Routledge and Sons), bears the title of Parodies and other Burlesque Pieces. These parodies, &c., are the work of Canning, Ellis, and Frere, and with them is included...
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Tales from the Paerie Queen. By Sophia H. Maelehose. (Maclehose
The Spectatorand Sons.)â" No attempt," says the author, "has been made in writing these tales to interpret their allegorical or explain their historic bearing." This is as it should be. It...
Andocide.s de Mysteriis et de Beditu. Edited by E. C.
The SpectatorMerchant, B.A. (Rivingtons.)âThe historical and linguistic interest of the speeches of Andocides amply justifies the labour spent upon them. It is only indirectly, perhaps,...
How to Catalogue a Library. By Henry B. Wheatley. (Elliot
The SpectatorStock.)âMr. Wheatley is an expert, and writes out of a fullness of knowledge in which he has few equals. It seems a simple matter to make a catalogue : the difficulties that...
The World's Explorers : Palestine. By Major C. R. Conder,
The SpectatorD.C.L. (G. Philip and Son.)âA critic need do nothing more than express what must be the universal opinion, that no one could tell the story of Palestine more fitly than Major...
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorAlexander (Mrs.), A Life Interest, or 8vo (White) 2/0 Bairstow (J. 0.), Sensational Religion in Past Times, or too (E. Stook) 2/0 Barrie (J. M.), My Lady Nicotine, or Etvo...
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LONDON: Printed by Jour; CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street,
The Spectatorin the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" 03Ioe, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...
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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The SpectatorTO prrtator FOR THE No. 3,225.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1890. [ RICGIBTERID /OR } GRATIS. TRADTBRUBBION ABROAD.
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorLIFE OF THE REV. J. G. WOOD.* THE g ⢠flint naturalist and popular writer whose life and work are described in the volume which is the sitbject of this review, was happy in...
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HYMNS AND THEIR TREATMENT.* IF the old familiar saying be
The Spectatortrue, that songs and ballads have greater influence upon the people than the laws by which they are governed, it is equally true that the religious belief of a nation is more...
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HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP.* THE still vigorous and versatile person who
The Spectatorlong filled the Greek chair in Edinburgh University maintains his fondness for poetising. Little short of sixty years have passed since he essayed a translation of Goethe's...
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WINCHESTER.*
The SpectatorDEAN KITCHIN has done a first-rate piece of work in this history of the first capital of England. He has shown a true appreciation of the main interest of Winchester in devoting...
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MR. BURY'S "HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE."* HAPPY, it
The Spectatorhas been said, is the nation whose annals are dull, and this saying implies that war is a livelier subject to write about than peace. Mr. Bury's History treats of a nation, or...
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THREE VOLUMES OF VERSE.*
The SpectatorMug. HAMILTON KING's little volume of Ballads of the North seems to show some of the same characteristic power that dis- tinguished The Disciples â so far as it is possible to...
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What I Remember. By Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Vol. III. (Bentley
The Spectatorand Son.)âThere is something especially attractive about these reminiscences. In the first place, there is a friendly, confidential tone about them. The writer, without ever...
Elizabethan England : from "A Description of England, by William
The SpectatorHarrison (in Holinshed's Chronicles)." Edited by Loth rop Withing- ton. With Introduction by F. J. Furnivall, LL.D. (Walter Scott.) âMr. Withington has compiled an interesting...
Famous Elizabethan Plays. By H. M. Fitzgibbon. (W. H. Allen
The Spectatorand Co.)âMr. Fitzgibbon has given us in this volume six plays of the Elizabethan period,âDekker's Shoemakers' Holiday, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Silent Woman, A...
Great Writers : Life of John Milton. By Richard Garnett,
The SpectatorLL.D. (Walter Scott.)âIt seems inevitable in our day that the lives of illustrious men should be written again and again in order that they may fit into their places in...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe Land of an African Sultan. By Walter B. Harris. (Sampson Low and Co.)âThe "land of an African Sultan" is Morocco, with which a long acquaintance has made Mr. Harris-...
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Charles Henry von Bogatsky. By the Rev. John Kelly. (Religious
The SpectatorTract Society.)âBogatzky was descended on the paternal side from a Hungarian Protestant refugee. Mr. Kelly tells the story of his life (1690-1774), for which, as he wrote an...
Cambridge : Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. By J. W.
The SpectatorClark, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)âThis volume should, we think, have been marked as a "new and revised edition," and not have been made to appear as though it were now published...
Rambles in Book - Land. By W. Davenport Adams. (Elliot Stock.)âMr. Adams
The Spectatorhas followed up his "By-Ways in Book- Land" with another agreeable volume of literary gossip. We cannot wholly agree with his maxims on the treatment of books. "Make your notes...
A Pew Hints to Travellers to India. By an Anglo - Indian.
The Spectator(W. H. Allen and Co.)âHere we have directions to the traveller how he is to make himself comfortable on board the steamer while he is going out, and how he may best manage...
Essays in Literature and Ethics. By the late Rev. W.
The SpectatorA. O'Connor, B.A. (J. C. Cornish, Manchester.)âHere we have eight essays, originally published in a Manchester periodical, and now repro- duced as a memorial to the gifted...
A Life's Remorse. By the Author of "Molly Bawn." (White
The Spectatorand Co.)âWe are almost inclined to prefer A Life's Remorse to "Molly Bawn." Some of the characters may not excite our sympathy as much, though they are equally true to life,...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer. Notes by William
The SpectatorMichael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)âMr. W. M. Rossetti con- tents himself with the useful task of describing what his brother did year by year in the way of painting and...
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are " memories " of the stage. Mr. Wallack came
The Spectatorof a theatrical family, his grandfather, if we understand the pedigree aright, having been an actor and vocalist at Astley's, and his father an actor and manager of considerable...
Woodland, Moor, and Stream. (Smith and Elder.)âThis is a book
The Spectatorfull of keen and loving appreciation of Nature. The writer is a "skilled workman," as the editor describes him, "who has made the study of wild creatures in their native haunts...
Text - Book of the Thirty - Nine Articles. By J. Lightfoot, D.Sc.
The Spectator(Swan Sonnenschein.)âThis is a plain, practical, liberal-minded exposition of the Articles. Dr. Lightfoot expresses himself very decidedly against the Calvinistic theory of...
The Federal Government of Switzerland. By Bernard Moses. (Pacific Press
The SpectatorPublishing Company, Oakland, California.)â English readers who compare Mr. Moses's little work with that on the Swiss Constitution which was recently published on this side of...
A Manua/ of Paleontology. By Professor H. A. Nicholson and
The SpectatorR. Lydekker. (Blackwood and Sons.)âThis is a third edition of what must now be a standard work on paheontology. The two large octavo volumes number some 1,600 pages, so that...
In Tennyson Land. By John Cuming Walters. (Redway.)â This is
The Spectatoran attempt "to identify the scenes and trace the in- fluences of Lincolnshire" in the poet's works. The identification is more than doubtful, and Mr. 1-1S3lam Tennyson has...
The Poor Sisters of Nazareth. Drawn by George Lambert. Written
The Spectatorby Alice Meynell. (Burns and Oates.)âPen and pencil have made a happy alliance to set forth the good work done by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, who have their home somewhere...
Christ or Confucius, Which? By the Rev. John Macgowan. (London
The SpectatorMissionary Society.)âThis book is best described by its sub-title, "The Story of the Amoy Mission," though it certainly supplies materials for the answering of the question...
Redeemed in Blood. By Lady Florence Dixie. (Henry and Co.)
The SpectatorâThe writer takes us again to Patagonia, which country seems to have struck her fancy, and describes to us ostrich-hunting and prairie-fires with much enthusiasm and vigorous...
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Edited by his âMr. Paton, who is already known to
The Spectatorall interested in missions both to Plato and to Aristotle. On the whole, this can be recom- by his admirable narrative of his labours, as given in the first P1 - ( of his...
and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)âAlthough not profound or specially The War - Scare
The Spectatorin Europe. (Sampson Low and Co.)âThe author erudite, this is an interesting, readable, impartial, and, on the has a strong bias towards France. Few, indeed, will be disposed...
both in fewer and in more pointed words. The judicial,
The Spectatorfinancial, (Blackwood.)âBoth the subject of this poem and the niailner in and legislative arrangements of Switzerland are, however, stated which it has been treated, remove it...
Wallace at the murderer of his bride in posse, â archaic
The Spectatorsplendour, of which- " Hislop, thou shalt away to hell tonight, " Across the sky spread Night a drapery dense, With such a crime on thy polluted soul
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Modern Cremation : its History and Practice. By Sir H.
The SpectatorThompson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)âSir Henry Thompson states the case for the practice of cremation with all the ability and all the fullness of knowledge which we should...
The Story of Boston. By Arthur Gilman. (G. P. Putnara's
The SpectatorSons.)âThis is the third of a series which is to deal with the "Great Cities of the Republic." New York and Washington have already been treated, and now Mr. Gilman gives us...
Porrav.âPoems. By Fanny Fisher. (T. Fisher Unwin.) âMrs. Fisher publishes
The Spectatorhere all the verses that she has written, or, at least, thinks fit to give to the world. Some of them have already appeared, and have met with that moderate approval which...
Reason, Revelation, and Faith. By Francis Peek. (W. Isbister.) âMr.
The SpectatorPeek seeks to deal frankly and liberally with various pro- blems that occur in the large controversy of Religion v. Science. If the friends of belief would have the courage, for...
The Prince Consort. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (W. H. Allen
The Spectatorand Co.)âMiss Yonge has a practised pen, good taste, and abundance of materials. By the help of these, she has made a pleasant and useful book on a familiar subject. Novelty...
The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. By Edward Caird, LL.D.
The Spectator2 vols. (James Maclehose, Glasgow.)âProfessor Caird, already known as the ablest expositor of the Kantian philosophy in this country, gives us here his final criticism on it...
Life of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. By T. W. Rolleston. (Walter
The SpectatorScott.)âThis is one of Professor Eric Robertson's series of "Great Writers." We can give the highest praise to it; it estimates Lessing's position, his work, and his genius,...