19 SEPTEMBER 1896

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For the present it does exist. The German Liberals are

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be- ginning to see that a huge crime is being committed, and to hold meetings in which the sentiment of England is being extolled. The Italians are entirely on that side, and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE feeling in England against the Sultan threatens to develop into a formidable agitation. A series of public meetings are to be held, ostensibly to strengthen Lord...

Universal nervousness is reported from Constantinople, the people flying and

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shutting their shops at the sound of a gun-shot, of glass breaking, or of hurrying feet. The deportations of Armenians continue, it being considered more convenient to read them...

The position of the Government appears to be this. Lord

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Salisbury entirely shares the popular indignation, and is willing to go any length in giving it executive expression provided he can carry Europe, or at all events some Great...

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

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case.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 10th, will be issued, .gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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An Irish-American, believed to be "No. 1," the organiser of

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the Invincibles who tried to murder Mr. Forster, and who did murder Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, has been arrested. He escaped when the Phoenix Park criminals were...

The decision of the War Office in regard to the

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officers concerned in the Jameson Raid has been made public. The five officers who were sentenced by the Court to various terms of imprisonment are to be allowed to retire from...

The advance upon Dongola has practically begun, an before many

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days we shall probably hear of an action with the Dervishes. On Tuesday a reconnaissance was made by seven squadrons of cavalry from Fereig, by the desert- route, to the Hannek...

Various explanations have been given as to the aim of

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the plot, but nothing is certain, the police rightly refusing to make any disclosures. We have discussed elsewhere the theory that the object was to blow up the Czar while in...

Mr. Brodrick, the Under-Secretary for War, made an in- teresting

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speech at Shere, near Guildford, on Wednesday last. Parliament, he complained, though it was willing to pay attention to the Navy, would take little or no interest in the Army....

On Tuesday Lord Charles Beresford, in a speech to the

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Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, continued his agitation for a larger supply of men for the Navy. Outside agitation had forced the Government to provide ships, it must now force...

The news from Rhod e sia is by no means too favourable.

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The guerilla war, which is so fatal to industrial peace, still continues, and the Matabeles are evidently hesitating, doubting whether, if they go on, they may not still drive...

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Mr. C. J. Cornish, in a letter to Friday's Times,

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gives a most curious and interesting account of " a migration night on Chiswick Eyot,"—the migrants being swallows and martins. Between 5 and 6 o'clock on Tuesday night he...

At the mechanical science section of the British Asso- ciation

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Sir Douglas Fox, in the course of his speech as President, dwelt in terms of optimistic prophecy on the future of the auto-car. He believes that it may solve a part of the...

The news from America is that the State of Maine

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has elected a McKinleyite Governor by a largely increased majority, and that Mr. Cleveland and the Administration, though Democrats, will throw their whole force against Mr....

'The British Association met at Liverpool on the 16th inst.,

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and the President of the year, Sir Joseph Lister, delivered a most interesting address on the interdependence of science and the healing arts. The great advances recently made,...

We are informed on good authority that the Treasury officials

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at Washington are seriously alarmed at one effect of the Bryan agitation. It has produced among the people a tendency to hoard gold, which makes it increasingly difficult to...

We wish Sir Joseph Lister had added his opinion as

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to the general result of these discoveries upon human welfare. So far as they secure health and diminish the sum-total of pain they must be purely beneficial, for health must...

Bank Rate, 22 per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Friday, 110. •

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE AGITATION AGAINST TURKEY. T HE thing is to make the agitation effective. We have no doubt that the agitation itself, which must now be taken to be fairly on its way, will be...

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IS WAR INEVITABLE ?

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L ET us reason together a little, as calmly as if the Armenians were cattle, and Abd-ul-Hamid not an enemy of the human race, but only a Sovereign who had given Great Britain...

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THE DYNAMITE PLOT.

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I T is not conducive to a quiet and free existence to be wanted by the English police. It often seems very easy to get out of the reach of Scotland Yard, and to snap your...

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THE DEPOSITION OF LORD ROSEBERY. T HERE are many disquieting features

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in the political situation, and not the least of these is the condition of the Liberal party. It is virtually without a leader. Lord Rosebery has been tacitly, but none the less...

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MR. BRYAN'S CHANCE.

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W NGLISHMEN rather mistake the meaning of recent political news from the United States. They sup- pose because the Republicans have carried Vermont and Xaine by increased...

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THE PANIC IN THE CITY. T HE nerves of the City

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were rudely upset last week by the Directors of the Bank of England, who exploded a veritable bomb-shell by suddenly raising the official minimum rate of discount. The advance...

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SIR EDWARD FRY ON COMMERCIAL MORALITY. TT is a fact

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of grave significance that a retired Judge of - 1 - such eminence as Sir Edward Fry should feel con- strained to seek the publicity of the columns of the Times for a protest and...

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BLOODTHIRST.

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W E have no word in English to express slaughter-thirst, which is a pity, for it would describe the passion so often found in Kings and conquerors much better than blood-...

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PRIVATE AVIARIES.

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D URING the winter months new aviaries are to be built for the storks and cranes at the Zoo. As these are all " outdoor birds " from the collector's point of view, there is...

CHILDREN'S MANNERS.

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T HE correspondents to whom the Daily Telegraph at this Season of the year opens its columns so freely are just stow holding a solemn paper conclave on children's manners....

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE ISLAND OF WHITHORN. [To THE EDMOR OF THE " Sracr►ros."] SOME of us like a quiet spot by the sea,—a place where one can bathe without the cabined confinement of a machine,...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

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MR. BALFOUR ON THE TRAINING OF PAUPER, CHILDREN. 110 TEM EDITOR 07 TER " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—May I be permitted to offer some remarks suggested by your interesting article in the...

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IRELAND FOR TRAVELLERS.

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[To TN! EDITOR 07 ins ' ErSCTATOR."] SIR,—Permit we to protest against a serious mistake in your review of Murray's Irish handbook in the Spectator of August 29th. It is there...

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ON SPIDERS.

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[To THE EDITOR or THZ "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With your leave I will continue the history of the- spider from the Spectator of September 12th. A wasp having left its appointed orbit...

A STUDY IN DOVES.

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[TO THZ EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOR:1 SIR,—Having read with great interest the article which appeared in the Spectator of September 5th, on the vindictive and quarrelsome nature...

A DOG-STORY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sra,—The reasoning power of the dog who lost his friends at Le Mans, as recorded in the Spectator of September 12th,. brings to mind a...

TACTICS FOR THE MASHONAS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TIER " SPZCTATOR:9 SIR,—General —, one of our distinguished Indian fighters-, told the following story in the train as we were going to San Francisco, to...

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THE PRAYER OF TIBULLITS.

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" Te spectem, suprema mibi quum venerit Nora, Te tone= moriens deficiente mane." SWEET Tibullus, I was reading Yester-eve this prayer of thine, Where the anguish of thy...

BOOKS.

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CHARLES LE V E R.* IT is a very great pity that Charles Lever was not a greater man. If he bad only been an Irish Walter Scott, and coula have done for his country what the...

THE ATROCITIES IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

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[70 TBZ EDITOR OF THZ " SPRCTATOR."] Sin,—Might not the present Lord Salisbury say to the Powers ! as Lord Salisbury in King John, Act 4 Sc. 3, said to his brother Lords?— "...

POETRY.

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A REPLY. TO A. H., WHO ASKED IF SHE SHOULD "BRING ME ANY BOOKS OR COMFORTS. "] BRING me the book whose pages teach The fortitude the stoics preach; Bring me the tome within...

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LAMAISM*

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Ix this important work on The Buddhism. of Tibet, Mr. L. A. Waddell has thrown together a mass of interesting material concerning the beliefs and religious practices of the...

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M. GASTON BOISSIER'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL RAMBLES.*

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READERS who have studied the works of Professor Middleton and Signor Lanciani will not find much that is new in what M. Boissier has to say about Rome, though they cannot fail...

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THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR BLA.CKWOOD.* THE biographers of Sir

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Arthur Blackwood, for many years Secretary of the Post Office, have produced a work which is addressed rather to the restricted circle of his surviving friends than to the world...

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TWO HANDBOOKS FOR HOLIDAY-SEEKERS.* MRS. T. A. TROLLOPE in her

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biography of her mother-in-law, the greater Mrs. Trollope, expressed herself surprised to find fiew much people moved about in the early part of the century. She had thought...

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TWO CAMPAIGNS: MADAGASCAR AND ASHANTEE.*

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THE author of this bulky volume was the war-correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, and the patience and courage with which he achieved his task are none the less admirable...

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Sailing Tours. By Frank Cowper, M.A. (L. Upcott Gill.)—To judge

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from his ingenuous and entertaining preface to this the fifth part of his Yachtsman's Guide to the Cruising Waters of the English and Adjacent Coasts, Mr. Cowper is a little...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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' The Touch of Sorrow. By Edith Hamlet. (J. M. Dent and Co.) —Few readers will lay this book down with dry eyes. The story is, at first sight, unambitious and simple, and its...

Story of an Irish Sept. By N. C. Maenamara. (Dent

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and Co.) —This is the story of an Irish clan, of a family that has lived upon its own land for upwards of fifteen hundred years, and constitutes a proof, if more were wanted,...

Outlines of Church Histcn y. By Rudolf Sohm. Translated by

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Miss Mary Sinclair. (Macmillan and Co.) —Professor Sohm's ideal is Luther. Of Luther's principles and work he cannot speak too highly. But of Lutheranism he must needs, if he is...

The Rochester Diocesan Directory. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is

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a volume on which the only possible criticism, of an adverse kind, is that it is too good at the price, which we may say is ls. 6d. net. We do not, indeed, see anything in it...

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Welsh Mountaineering, by Alexander W. Perry (L. TIpcott Gill), gives

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practical directions for climbing Welsh mountains (where it is as easy to kill oneself as it is in Switzerland).—Bennett's Handbook for Travellers in Norway (T. Bennett,...

The Hastings Chess Tournament, 1895. Edited by Horace F. Cheshire.

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(Chatto and Windus.)—Two hundred and thirty games were played in the Chess Tournament of last year. These are all given in this volume, and there are also added annotations by...

SCHOOL - BOOKS.

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Horace, Ode IV. and Epodes Edited by James H. Gow. (Cambridge University Press.)—These volumes complete Dr. Gow's useful edition of the lyric verse of Horace. A great amount of...

The New Kingdom. By F. Reginald Statham. (Swan Sonnen- schein

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and Co.)—Mr. Statham appears to be for making some- thing like a clean sweep. The " family as the unit of society " has not been a success. The possession of land is " the mcst...