19 APRIL 1890

Page 1

Mr. Goschen's Budget on Thursday night was received with great

The Spectator

favour 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 Spectator

been 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 Spectator

little 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...

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

The Spectator

case.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Spectator

G 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...

NOTICB.—With this week's " SPECTATOR" is issued, gratis, a LrrituAny SUPPLEMENT.

The Spectator

Page 2

We regret to notice the death of the Marquis Tseng,

The Spectator

formerly 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 Spectator

The 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 Spectator

that 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 Spectator

intends 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 Spectator

replace 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 Spectator

week, 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...

Page 3

Professor Case has pointed out, in a letter to last

The Spectator

Saturday'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 Spectator

bakery, 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 Spectator

Civil 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 Spectator

East 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 Spectator

pupils 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 Spectator

the 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 Spectator

constituents 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...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent.

The Spectator

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 981- to 981.

Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Spectator

MR 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...

Page 5

MR. PARNELL AND THE LAND-PURCHASE BILL.

The Spectator

I 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...

Page 6

THE NEW CAUSE OF QUARREL IN EUROPE.

The Spectator

W 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...

Page 7

GENERAL CAPRrVI IN PARLIAMENT.

The Spectator

PriHAT 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...

Page 8

NOISY OPINION AND PUBLIC OPINION.

The Spectator

P 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...

Page 9

, MR. RAIKES AND 1.111, TELEGRAPH-CLERKS.

The Spectator

A 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...

Page 10

DR. MARTINEA17 ON SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY.

The Spectator

D 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...

Page 11

THE "MAN IN THE STREET" AS GRAMMARIAN. MHE Times is

The Spectator

quite right : it is the "man in the street" who makes, and sometimes unmakes, the English language,—who, that is, adopts a new word, or modifies a grammatical form, or...

Page 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

The Spectator

WHICH "OLD TESTAMENT" DID CHRIST QUOTE FROM P [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The most dramatic episode at the Manchester Church Congress was the reading of four...

Page 13

DR. LIDDON ON CHRIST'S HUMANITY.

The Spectator

[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—The 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,—Permit me to remark on Mr. Page's letter under the above title, that whether or no the charge of "unhesitating dogmatism" which he...

Page 14

DEFINITIONS OF CHRIST'S NATURE.

The Spectator

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With 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,—Might 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,—I 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 Spectator

Fro THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In 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...

Page 15

ART.

The Spectator

VARIOUS 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,—Permit 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 Spectator

A 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,—In your article, in the Spectator of April 12th, on "Democracy and Justice," you refer to "the French noble who said that God thought...

Page 16

BOOKS.

The Spectator

PRINCE 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...

Page 18

ANARCHY IN AMERICA.*

The Spectator

MR. 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...

Page 19

OXFORD.* Mn. ANDREW LANG is precisely the person who ought

The Spectator

to 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...

Page 20

IRELAND AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN CHURCH.* IN this volume, made up

The Spectator

of 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...

Page 21

GERMAN SOCIALISM AND FERDINAND LASSALLE.*

The Spectator

THIS 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...

Page 22

Eleanor Lewknor. By 13. Pu.11en-Burry. 2 vols. (Remington and Co.)—One

The Spectator

is 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 Spectator

2 vols. (H. K. Lewis.)—With 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 Spectator

Tuileries. By Madame C,aretto. Authorised translation. (Dean and Bon.) —Long experience must have convinced the mass of readers that no very surprising disclosures, nor any...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Spectator

London of To - Day, 1890. An Illustrated Handbook of the Season. By Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Simpkin.)—This is the sixth annual edition, "revised, and in part rewritten," of a...

The sixth volume of "The Carisbrooke Library," edited by Professor

The Spectator

Morley (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...

Page 23

Tales from the Paerie Queen. By Sophia H. Maelehose. (Maclehose

The Spectator

and Sons.)—" 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 Spectator

Merchant, B.A. (Rivingtons.)—The 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 Spectator

Stock.)—Mr. 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...

[For Publications of the Week, see page 552.]

The Spectator

The World's Explorers : Palestine. By Major C. R. Conder,

The Spectator

D.C.L. (G. Philip and Son.)—A 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...

Page 24

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

The Spectator

Alexander (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...

Page 32

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

The Spectator

in 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,...

Page 33

SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The Spectator

TO prrtator FOR THE No. 3,225.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1890. [ RICGIBTERID /OR } GRATIS. TRADTBRUBBION ABROAD.

Page 35

BOOKS.

The Spectator

LIFE 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...

Eittrarp Ouppirintnt.

The Spectator

LONDON: APRIL 19, 1890.

Page 36

HYMNS AND THEIR TREATMENT.* IF the old familiar saying be

The Spectator

true, 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...

Page 37

HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP.* THE still vigorous and versatile person who

The Spectator

long 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...

Page 38

WINCHESTER.*

The Spectator

DEAN 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...

Page 39

MR. BURY'S "HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE."* HAPPY, it

The Spectator

has 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...

Page 40

THREE VOLUMES OF VERSE.*

The Spectator

Mug. HAMILTON KING's little volume of Ballads of the North seems to show some of the same characteristic power that dis- tinguished The Disciples — so far as it is possible to...

Page 41

What I Remember. By Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Vol. III. (Bentley

The Spectator

and Son.)—There 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 Spectator

Harrison (in Holinshed's Chronicles)." Edited by Loth rop Withing- ton. With Introduction by F. J. Furnivall, LL.D. (Walter Scott.) —Mr. Withington has compiled an interesting...

Famous Elizabethan Plays. By H. M. Fitzgibbon. (W. H. Allen

The Spectator

and Co.)—Mr. Fitzgibbon has given us in this volume six plays of the Elizabethan period,—Dekker's Shoemakers' Holiday, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Silent Woman, A...

Great Writers : Life of John Milton. By Richard Garnett,

The Spectator

LL.D. (Walter Scott.)—It 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 Spectator

The Land of an African Sultan. By Walter B. Harris. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The "land of an African Sultan" is Morocco, with which a long acquaintance has made Mr. Harris-...

Page 42

Charles Henry von Bogatsky. By the Rev. John Kelly. (Religious

The Spectator

Tract Society.)—Bogatzky 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 Spectator

Clark, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—This 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.)—Mr. Adams

The Spectator

has 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.)—Here 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 Spectator

A. O'Connor, B.A. (J. C. Cornish, Manchester.)—Here 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 Spectator

and Co.)—We 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 Spectator

Michael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. 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...

Page 43

are " memories " of the stage. Mr. Wallack came

The Spectator

of 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.)—This is a book

The Spectator

full 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.)—This 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 Spectator

Publishing Company, Oakland, California.)— 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 Spectator

R. Lydekker. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This 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.)— This is

The Spectator

an 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 Spectator

by Alice Meynell. (Burns and Oates.)—Pen 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 Spectator

Missionary Society.)—This 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 Spectator

—The 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...

Page 44

Edited by his —Mr. Paton, who is already known to

The Spectator

all 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.)—Although not profound or specially The War - Scare

The Spectator

in Europe. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The author erudite, this is an interesting, readable, impartial, and, on the has a strong bias towards France. Few, indeed, will be disposed...

The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator

both in fewer and in more pointed words. The judicial,

The Spectator

financial, (Blackwood.)—Both 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, — archaic

The Spectator

splendour, 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

Page 45

Modern Cremation : its History and Practice. By Sir H.

The Spectator

Thompson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Sir 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 Spectator

Sons.)—This 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.—Poems. By Fanny Fisher. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —Mrs. Fisher publishes

The Spectator

here 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.) —Mr.

The Spectator

Peek 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 Spectator

and Co.)—Miss 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 Spectator

2 vols. (James Maclehose, Glasgow.)—Professor 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 Spectator

Scott.)—This 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,...