nday on the condition of the French Army. M. ITrbain ohier has published a book declaring that discipline is brutal ad barrack life demoralising, and the Government has rdered...

on Wednesday with a speech of much length and some interest. He deplored the recent disturbances, attributed them to the "exploitation of distress," and expressed a hope that he...

it is supposed that it will be ended by Decem- ber 1st. It is really all about money. The Americans offer four millions, but the Spaniards want ten, and there is inces- sant...

having passed under the control of the Court of Cas- eation, that high Court shall be allowed to give ite judg- ment in freedom. The Court has this week insisted that the...

T has been arranged that Major Marchand shall return to Fashoda viti the Nile, and then withdraw his force viei hyssinia and the dominions of llenelek. We cannot help egretting...

return, but none of them are fully authenticated. It is said that he intends to touch at Cadiz and Vigo, and it is also said that he has suddenly changed his mind, and will...

ease.

Chamberlain's speeches. The German editors accept his suggestion of an understanding between their country and Great Britain without dislike, but wait for more definite offers,...

in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, declared that Peelle& was only a symbol, and that the great issue was the control of the whole Valley of the Nile. Though the question of the...

Liberal Unionist luncheon. The chief point of this speech was the reminder that though Home-rule is now never mentioned, it is not dead. And here Mr. Chamberlain made a very...

of parts of Spain with the unity of the kingdom. Castile, as the dominant province, likes that unity, and the South accepts it because of its poverty, but the North, which is...

of China seems to be on the wane. He was recently ordered to report upon the floods of the Yellow River, which has been drowning a few thousand persons in its usual way, and...

made a second speech which was not only wise and states- manlike in spirit, but drew a most fascinating picture of our Colonial Empire. He believed, he said, in getting new...

which the race-feeling was prominently expressed. The first was a banquet given in honour of General Miles, at which half the notable men of America were present. General Miles,...

letter in our correspondence columns signed " Catholions," a letter which suggests a scheme for the formation of the new Irish University. Without tying ourselves down to all...

in Bankruptcy, made a further " revelation " of much public interest. He said he wished to buy a baronetcy, and was ready to give 235,000 for the honour. He consulted Sir...

recently founded Lothians Association, gave a truly humorous sketch of the difficulties which had stood in the way of its establishment from the accession of James VL to the...

in Sir John Wolfe Barry's inaugural address delivered before the Society of Arts on Wednesday evening. He estimated that sixty millions had been spent on the construction and...

of honours. Captain Kenna, Lieutenant de Montmorency, Private Byrne, all of the 21st Lancers, and 'Captain Smyth, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, get the Victoria Cross. Generals...

the Duke of Westminster because in a letter to the Grosvenor House Committee he says that he regrets and deplores deeply the German Emperor's acceptance "of the hospitality of a...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 1114

WHY NOT A BUFFER-STATE ON THE BAHR- EL-GHAZEL ? T "public are too much inclined to believe that the chief difficulties with regard to France are settled or shortly to be...

The first cause is the financial. With the Cuban Deb to provide for as well as its own, the Spanish Treasn will be heavily overweighted. Its managers cannot eve now provide for...

p ERHAPS the most curious incident in the whole Fashoda controversy was the feeling expressed in a great many quarters in France as to what should be the future trend of French...

the bed-rock of all methods of government on the Continent, and which many observers think will last for ever, is exposed to two certainly serious dangers, besides one which is...

I T is hard to conceive anything smaller either in itself or in its immediate consequences than the Lippe- Detmold incident. By itself, indeed, it hardly rises to the dignity of...

not very creditable story which Madame Adam and M. de Blowitz between them tell of M. Hanotaux's transaction with the Czar in the matter of the Turkish Debt. When Nicholas II....

T HE distribution of honours, as Mr. Gladstone once had to say with a certain roughness, belongs exclusively, like the distribution of bishoprics, to the head of her Majesty's...

T HE splendid gift of Mr. J. T. Middlemore to Birmingham suggests alike the way in which wealthy men can serve the highest interests of the community and the way in which the...

HE memoranda of the late Mr. A. D. Bartlett just published suggest a survey of the old Reports of the iety, and their annual lists of animals in the Gardens. here are some whose...

[To THE EDITOZ OF THE " SPECTATOR:] the very candid and suggestive article on Mr. Glad- stone in the Spectator of November 12th, you speak of his assigning to Goethe a place...

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon have always been so fair to Catholics in your views on the question of University education in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sts,—Rather more than a year ago the attention of your readers was, through your courtesy, drawn to one of the most beautiful and touching...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " 8PECTATOR."] Stn,—I send the enclosed on the chance that it may have escaped the notice of English readers. The chattering which is described...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.1 ir„—You have for several years advocated the adoption of his undertaking, and the letter of Mr. Arnold-Forster in the pectator of...

spzarAToR."3 Sta,—No doubt "discipline must be maintained," but I have lately been struck with what seems to me an unnecessary severity in the sentences on troublesome boys in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with great interest your article in the Spectator of November 12th on "The Health of our Boys," and I think you have...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " EFECTATOR.".1 SIR,—Lord Salisbury paid a high tribute to the conduct of Admiral Noel in Crete at the Mansion House, and, com- menting on this, several...

ETo THZ EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOH."] Sin,—It is possible that the observations of the Times and your own (Spectator, November 12th) on the health of boys may have reference to...

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. ALEXANDRIANISSI. Mac:, 4cti 7;:pfg'olToy ipL,thevom, oCr' cilsO xpiy4; Irlyer • orxxcetyrd irLiI , Tet hp4TIZ. CALLIMACHUS. THE NEW...

the new, Its blackened front commands a dismal view, And for itself its narrow garden lies Open to every passing lounger's eyes. They laid the sturdy old foundations here When...

Srn,—We have many of us, no doubt, been struck by the article in the Spectator of November 12th dealing with the doctor's statement in the Times as to the health of the boys...

THE LIFE OF PARNELL.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. BARRY O'BRIEN has produced a very interesting book on a remarkably interesting subject, though it is open to a few obvious criticisms....

THE sermons and papers in this volume are in every way characteristic of their author, from whom the religions world has long been accustomed to expect characteristic...

TO Vaal/3r FOR THE No. 3,673.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1898. ETEI:=7. 7 33T i oaD) GRATIS'

THE EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES.* AOAIN we have aliquid novi ex Africa, if, indeed, what is sometimes two thousand years old may be called new. And there is a good promise of more to...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 19th, 1898.

MR. DOUGLAS, who is known to readers as the author of The Life and Times of Madame du Barry, is to be congratulated on the translation of this lively and entertaining volume....

M. DE DA GOUBNEBIE'S Rome Chretienne has held a foremost place for more than thirty years among French and Catholic • Christian Rom a Historicat View of its Memories and...

THE publication of this volume of collected essays has been followed by the author's resignation of his post as Director of the Natural History Museum. Sir William Flower is not...

Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. By the Rev. A. J. Church. (Seeley and Co.)—Professor Church has conferred a greater benefit upon boys by this new volume than even by such of...

—This story of "English and Russian in Central Asia" begins quietly enough. A neck is within an ace of being broken, and a thigh would have certainly been ripped open but for...

Triple Alliance is the history at a private and alter- wards at a public school of three boys. The alliance of Biggorg Trevannock and Jack Vance with Mugford, popularly known as...

Kuppord has produced a very fascinating "treasure" romance. This treasure belonged to the Campadders, who received a grant of some abbey lands seized by Henry VIII., consisting...

Society's Depository.)—The story told by the bull- dog is pleasant reading, and does justice to the common-sense and affection shown by dogs, which so often go unnoticed and...

tries the unusual, but not altogether unprece- dented, course of carrying the letters. Her father had united this occupation with that of keeping of the village shop, and his...

(Blackie and Son.) — Certainly these "true hearts" needed courage, for they encountered many moving adventures by field and flood. Dr. Gordon Stables's readers know that he...

Nelson and Sons.)—This pleasant little book of adventure, founded on fact as the author assures his readers, takes the form of a diary of a Spaniard who was intimately...

Son.)—Frances Morland and Austin, her brother, find them- selves in enjoyment of some modern advantages,—co-education, for instance, or something like it. Frances has a...

: Stories for Little Children. By Mrs. Edwin Hohler. (Thomas Nelson and Sons.)—These are pretty stories, but they are marred by their lack of probability. We question if they...

silly story. We do not believe that any lady would have been quite so foolish or so ill-bred as Miss Ferran; and we sincerely hope that no girl of seventeen was ever such a prig...

John- ston. (W. and R. Chambers.)—Here we may recognise various old acquaintances. We begin with a revolution in a South American Republic. After this comes the hidden city,...

Son.)— A tale of the French in Egypt is not inappropriate to the present time. If Mr. Henty had foreseen the arrival of M. Marchand at Fashoda he could not have written...

and Son.)—" A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower" promises well, nor does the performance fall short. The politics of the time are highly interesting, and they have a setting of...

of some sixty years ago, days when there were bread-riots. Mrs. Meade always contrives to tell an interesting story, and Cave Perilous is not an exception. There is abundance of...

tale deals with the period at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Joscelyn Felton, who favoured the Stuarts, was forced to flee his country ; his wife followed him with...

Braine bespeaks the reader's favour by an admirable little preface. She tells us where she has found the facts that she has worked up in her story, and goes on : "What the...

Martin. (H. Sotheran and Co.)—Mr. Martin, having commenced the series of " Vectis ' Brochures" with an account of Lord Tennyson with special reference to his connection with...

By Edward S. Ellis. (Cassell and Co.)—This tale deals with the experiences of two young scouts, who enlist on the American side in the war of 1812. It is chiefly a story of...

Gwendolyn and Daniel, of their visit to their grandmother who lived in the country, and of their escapade when they returned to Wimbledon is pleasantly told. Dan, who has a...

is a smartly-written story, not unskilfully compounded of civil and military affairs. Captain Goddard is a soldier who is very keen after active service and distinction ;...

Cox). (Wells Gardner and Co.)—Mrs. Cox returns to the subject of ranch life and the prairies. She locates the scene of her story in the Western States. Her young heroes and...

Co )—Mr. Frith takes care to be abreast of the times. His story deals with an event so recent as the war between China and Japan. His hero is a lad who has been " plucked " at...

—When a single lady who is so little "up to date" as to write," I do not often come to London, but I suppose that I shall find a fly at the station," takes charge of a young...

people's stairs" are what a famous exile found so grievous. Morag Henderson goes through the same experience on a humble scale. Suddenly orphaned, she is thrown on the hands of...

Nic Revel is engaged in a battle-royal in defence of his father's salmon, which a band of inveterate poachers is in the habit of stealing. The band is surrounded by a frigate's...

Meetings," is of a pointedly didactic kind. It opens with the picture of a child of six pulling to pieces a bough of cherry-blossom with a wilfulness which her mother does not...

Co.)—The heroine of the tale is charged by her father on his deathbed to marry her guardian, whom she has never seen, and suspects to be an old man. There is a pleasant...

Co.)— This is an episode in the lives of two American lads, who are pur- sued by wolves while skating on a river. The account of their adventures and subsequent escape is...

stirring story of the eighteenth-century highway- men. The hero, who is driven to the " road " partly by the injustice of others, is well drawn, and his adventures, struggles,...

of treasure lost and found" is scarcely up to the high mark which we expect to find in Mr. Manville Penn's books. Things happen too much according to rule, not the rule of...

Fleet. By Charles W. Whistler. (Thomas Nelson and Sons.)—The author of this tale has gone back to a period of our history which is not so well known as it deserves to be, and...

Laurence Gomme. (A. Constable and Co.) — In this volume Mr. Gomme has put together eight-and-twenty extracts from authors, mostly of classic repute, illustrating English...

And was torn into bits at the seventeenth tee." This would be a good present for an elderly relative given to the game. But it would be well to choose a good time for offering it.

A. Forsyth Grant. (Thomas Nelson and Sons.)—An excellent story of schoolboy rivalry. The characters are thoroughly natural, and even the "good boy" is not by any means...

and C. Black), "The Talisman" has been followed up by Quentin Durward, edited by H. W. Ord, M.A. An introduction sketches European history up to the time of the story, and...

Greener.)—Mr. Nicholson, who has ventured to make this con- siderable addition to the already formidable total of literature dealing with South Africa, describes it as "some...

edited by Temple Scott (Downey and Co., 55. per vol.), is hand- some, with liberal margins, large print, and a general air of dignity. The first two volumes are occupied by Jane...

Original Poetry. By Victor and Cazire (Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley). Edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. (John Lane.)—We suppose that on the whole Dr....

(F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Escott-Inman has written some very charming fairy tales, which will be welcomed with delight by many children. All the stories are good, but we prefer...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—The auth3r of this volume, already favourably known by his book on "The Sphere of the State," holds the doctrine that "the chief need of our time in all...

Bright, D.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—These two volumes are to be read con- secutively. They form, indeed, one monograph. Maria Theresa came to the throne in 1740; Joseph died just...

Ford. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a curious story ; and if fiction is indeed a mirror of life, it gives a very strange representation of railway affairs in the...

Putnam's Sons.) — This is a curious and characteristically American book, suggestive of Machiavelli and of Maeterlinck, and full of the Grand Design and the National Design on...

net.)—Mr. Christie gives a useful summary of the laws which regu- late the licensing of ale-houses and beer-houses,—an "ale-house," it will be understood, being the legal...

Hirt, V.C. (W. Clowes and Son. 7s. 6d.)—Brigadier- General Hart's book was received with a well-deserved welcome when it first appeared. He has now considerably enlarged it,...

edition of Edward Hay's History of the Irish Insurrection of 1798, " giving an authentic account of the various battles fought between the insurgents and the King's army, and a...

and Bullen. 7s. 6d.)—To be a successful angler, and especially to kill fish by methods hitherto untried, where other men have failed, is apt to raise a murmur of "Poaching...

Bell and Sons), and The Cathedral Church of Lichfield, by A. B. Clifton (same publishers), are two volumes in "Bell's Cathe- dral Series" intended to give information, accurate,...

of whom Mr. Cowan writes are Grossetete, Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas a Kempis, Henry Suso, and Rays- brosek, Mystics of the fourteenth century, the first born at Con- stance, the...

and Bowes, Cambridge. 105. 6d. net.) —This is a book which we shall describe rather than criticise. C. C. Babington belonged to a family of great antiquity, traceable to...

(J. M. Dent and Co.) — Some of the sketches have been published before, but their reappearance together cannot fail to charm those who read this little book, which is so...

This is written, Mr. Melrose tells us on his title-page, "with the view of enabling beginners to become skilful players." It is a great aim, and if Mr. Melrose accomplishes it...

and Co. 85. 6d. net.)—Of course, nothing beyond bare facts could be given when fourteen centuries had to be compressed into the compass of less than four hundred pages. But...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—We get in Ebers's Barbara Blomberg a vivid picture of Charles V.'s Court at Ratisbon, and the somewhat peculiar morality of the period,...

tells us that the novel can never fail for want of subjects, as long as the novelist has two men and a maid, or a man and two maids to write about. Still, it is a fact that...

would seem that the author is more a lover of Nature than an ardent fisherman, and should the end of the day find his basket empty, he feels not unrewarded if his favourite...

D.C.L. Vol. I., Parts I. and II. (The Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)—Pro- fessor Ramsay is the type of the scholar who digs. He writes in the introduction, "Almost every village...

and now abridged and retranslated by Robert Steele. (George Allen. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Steele complains, or laments, that whereas the Arthur legend has caught hold of the popular...

Fisher 17nwin.)—Mr. Tremenheere has arranged in the order the poems addressed to Lesbia (in the texts they are wholly confused), and has rendered them into English, with much...

Paul, Trench, and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Russell has given us here a very interesting book. He is evidently the right man for the work. He knows what he is writing about, and loves...

Arrowsmith.)—A very curiously disjointed story this, distinctly clever, but lacking in cohesion in a quite unusual degree. Bertie Merian is in love with Sttncha De Saravia...

Roberts, of Boston, U.S., a handsome edition (price £25) of the "Works of Honors de Balza,c," translated by Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley. It is in forty volumes, well...

(C. Arthur Pearson.)—This is a curious tale of the extrava g anza species. It has beams of humour in it, chiefly consistin g of plays on words, or somethin g of the kind. When...

Mr. Creswick's story of Anthony Fairfax, the Devonshire lad who g ets mixed up with the wreckers and smu gg led tea, and finally becomes a member of the notorious " Franciscans...

Great Queen Street, W.O.; and Published by Join; BAKER for the " SPECTATOR" (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

STUDENTS of English Church history will remember the valuable collection of original documents which Mr. Gee, in collaboration with another writer, put forth some little time...

ETON has found many historians, and, as the author of this volume confesses, it is impossible to write a new history of the famous school without incurring a heavy debt of...

THE quota contributed to the great and ever-increasing ocean of modern fiction by Colonial writers has a freshness and vitality which more than compensates for its occasional...

W. Robertson Nicoll. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Among the more notable papers in this volume may be mentioned Professor W. M. Ramsay's contributions, "The Authorship of the Acts"...

several collotypes in this volume. The Cordwainers were not only shoemakers, they dealt in all sorts of preparations of leathers, and owed their name to the city of Cordova, a...

CosmopoZis (T. Fisher Unwin) came out too late this month to be reviewed among the other magazines. The belated number is hardly as interesting as usual. " Interim " and "...

Son, William Stokes, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Without rising to the eminence of the great Englishmen whose lives have preceded his in...

M.P. (Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, Dublin ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 20s.)—Even the most fervid Celtic oratory is rarely effective served up in cold type, and long after the...

and other Studies in Plant-Life and Evolution. A Popular Introduction to Botany. By Eleanor Hughes-Gibb. (Griffin and Co.)—The short essays comprised in this little volume are...

Vol. I. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 18s.)—When Professor Sedgwick commenced this work he had intended simply to make it a new edition of Claus's " Lehrbuch," revised and...

bridge University Press.)--The marginal references to the New Testament were put together by a Committee of the Revision Com- pany, and have been since revised and increased....

some power in this story, but a want of restraint and a distinct tendency to exaggerate. George's uncle is too prepos- terously villainous, too outrageously hypocritical, to ix:...