1 APRIL 1893

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The extraordinary plan sketched at this meeting became concrete on

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Thursday night, when Mr. Gladstone moved that, after Easter, Government business should have precedence in all sittings except the evening sittings on those Fridays on which...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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M RIBOT has fallen like the rest, though happily not • through a scandal. He had become, it is said, disliked by both sides for his disposition to compromise ; and they took...

A meeting of the Gladstonian Party was held at the

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Foreign Office on Monday, the object of which was to im- press upon all fractions of the majority that, if their Bills were to be carried, and especially the Home-rule Bill,...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any case.

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The meeting was unanimous in approving this programme, though Sir

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J. Pease, speaking for the North of England, hinted that, after Home-rule, the Parish Councils Bill and the Employers' Liability Bill ought to have the first places, the object...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, April 29th, will be issued, 9ratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

The French Senate has elected M. Challemel-Lacour to its presidency

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by a majority, at the third ballot, of 100, to 65 given to M. Constans, kis only serious competitor. M. Chal- lemel-Lacour's address consisted mainly of a eulogium on Jules...

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On Friday week, the House of Commons devoted an all-

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night sitting to the Committee stage of the Army (Annual) Bill, the report not being agreed to till 5 o'clock on the Saturday morning. The small knot of Unionists who kept the...

The "Want of Ccnfidence " debate of Monday, which the

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'Government had almost challenged, though Mr. Gladstone seems to question that his words implied any challenge, was chiefly important for the remarkable conclusion of Mr. Glad-...

On the same day, Mr. Balfour received the deputation from

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Belfast which had previously waited on Mr. Gladstone, and,. apologising for Mr. Chamberlain's very reluctant absence on important business, assured it that he gave the heads of...

Immediately after the withdeawal of this deputation, Mr. Gladstone received

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another from the City of London, headed by Sir Reginald Hanson, M.P., and Sir John Lubbock, M.P. The latter pointed out how difficult it would be for Ireland to borrow, under...

Mr. Balfour also referred to the anxiety expressed by Sir

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William E wart, that the Ulstermen should not be goaded. into acts of violence, and added his entreaties to those of the Ulster leaders that no spark should be allowed to fall...

Mr. Gladstone received two commercial deputations on Tuesday, to protest

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against the Home-rule Bill, one from Belfast, and one from London. The Belfast Deputation represented the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, the Belfast Linen Merchants' Association,...

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The Lancashire cotton strike came to an end on Monday,

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after lasting for twenty weeks. The strike was against a reduction of 5 per cent. in. wages, and the terms now agreed on are a 2 . 91 per cent. reduction for six months certain,...

Serious attention is being paid in Germany to plans for

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per- fecting a light coat of mail impenetrable to rifle-bullets or to the bayonet. The one we mentioned last week, invented by Herr Dowe, a tailor of Mannheim, has, it is...

The Daily Chronicle of Tuesday described Mr. T. W. Russell

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as "a tireless mercenary of Unionism." Mr. Russell brought this sentence before the House of Commons on Wed- nesday as a breach of privilege, explaining what every one who knows...

The Irish Quakers have drawn up a memorable addrese in

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regard to Home-rule, and forwarded the same by post to over 8,000 of their fellow-members in Great Britain. The address is signed by 1,376 out of the 1,690 Irish Quakers who are...

The Khedive, who is striving bard to recover his autocracy

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—being, he says, a wealthy man, and careless if he has to resign—has employed Mr. Wilfred Blunt to state his case in an English Review. It is, substantially, that all...

Mr. Morley made a curious attempt on Wednesday to turn

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an Irish private Member's Evicted Tenants Bill into a Govern- ment Bill by accepting its second reading on behalf of the Government, though conditioning for grave alterations in...

Bank Rate, 2?-, per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Thursday 98-' x.d.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PARTY MEETING OF MONDAY. T HE essence of the situation we take to be this. A statesman exceedingly old and unequal to severe work, but retaining most of his powers and all...

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THE PREMIER'S INDICTMENT OF PROPERTY. T HERE has been no more

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remarkable change of judg- ment than that which has come over public opinion since the passing of the great Reform Bill, on the subject of the effect of property on political...

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AN OPPRESSIVE PEACE. T WO accounts have reached London this week

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as to military preparations on the Continent, which may prove to have even a historic importance. According to one, the Austrian Government and people have alike determined that...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S JUSTIFICATION OF THE IRISH ALARMISTS. T ""Want of Confidence"

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debate of Monday night, if it produced no other result of the first importance, elicited from Mr. Gladstone an avowal which appears . to us to justify to the fullest extent the...

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THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE COUNTY MAGISTRACY.

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TI 1HE Liberal Members who waited on the Lord Chan- cellor last week, seem to have forgotten that the Liberal Party may not be always in office. What they wanted Lord Herschell...

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OLD AGE IN THE VILLAGES.

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W E hear with great interest and satisfaction that a suggestion made last week in our review of Mr. Charles Booth's "Life and Labour in London," is already half carried out. We...

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THENONCONFORMISTS AND THEIR ANXIETIES.

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A GOOD many Nonconformists, for whose judgment we feel the heartiest respect, have taken considerable offence at the article which we published a fortnight ago, and which we...

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HEMPEN MAIL.

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T HE story about hempen armour, said to have been in- vented by a tailor of Mannheim named Dowe, to which we briefly alluded last week, seemed at first to overtax credulity ;...

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GREYHOUNDS AND FOXHOUNDS.

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T HE loss of a dog is not, as a rule, an event which con- cerns any one but his owner, however interesting the creature may have been as a pet, or valuable as a property. Bat...

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THE SNOB'S GUIDE.

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W E of this generation are wont to congratulate ourselves rather unduly upon the supposed disappearance of the "snob." Here and there, of course, we know that a solitary snob...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE HOME-RULE CRISIS. [TO TEM EDITOR OF THE SPECTITJR..9 Sin,—The danger of the situation for Great Britain an Ireland can hardly be exaggerated. This crisis has been...

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THE ALLEGED NONCONFORMIST DECLINE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I will not attempt to follow the points of Mr. Horton's clever retort : many of them—including Cicero, Home-rule, and Rev. G. S....

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The augurs of Nonconformity

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may well smile at the alleged waning of their influence. If the predictions of the last thirty years of the decay of Dissent contained one grain of truth, every Nonconformist...

DISPIRITED UNIONISTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " $PEOTATOR.1 Sin,—In the Spectator of March 11th, you speak of the anxious, dispirited, but furious Unionists of Ireland." Anxious, no doubt, we are....

TOTAL SEPARATION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With regard to the resolution passed on this subject at the recent special meeting of the General Synod of the . Church of Ireland,...

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" SUBJECT " IN ART.

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[To THE EDITOR OF nI " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—" D. S. M." gives a pleasing hint that some day he will talk to us about " Subject " in Art. In the Spectator of March 18th this...

MEDICAL WOMEN IN SCOTLAND.

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[To TIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sru,—The many who have taken a keen interest in the struggle for the medical education of women in Edinburgh, which began in 1869, and has...

MR. RICHMOND AND OUR ART CRITIC.

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[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 " DEAR SIR,—` D. S. M.' made the following statement in a recent number of the Spectator :—. 4 Every one outside of this natural...

THE CHANGE IN PRONUNCIATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0101 Sin,--4 think that a great deal of time is wasted in trying ta prove that words were pronounced similarly because they were made to rhyme....

THE PRICE OF BREAD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—I should like, with your permission, to point out that the so-called truths which are stated (I am sure in all good faith) by your...

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ART.

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NOTES ON A RECENT CONTROVERSY. 1,—THREE COMMONPLACES RESTATED. (1.) That Drawing is at bottom a kind of gesture, a method of dancing on paper. This is proved to have been a...

POETRY.

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IN A LONDON GARDEN. I KNOW of gardens far away Where thrushes in the laurels sing ; Where hyacinths stand stilt and gay, And daffodils in clusters swing. But in this dim...

HAVE SNAKES THE POWER OF SCENT ?

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LTO THE EDITOR OF THE 4 ' SPEOTATOR. 4 1 SIR,—In the Spectator of March 186, you head a snake incident by asking, "Have Snakes the Power of Scent ?" That some attractive...

ANOTHER BIRD-STORY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE 4 ' SPROTAT011."3 have read with pleasure the stories of bird-life which appear from time to time in your paper, and as it may in- terest some of your...

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BOOKS.

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PLATO AND PLATONISM.* Mn. PATER has written a very fine and delicate study of Plato and Platonism, the study of a scholar and an artist even more than the study of a...

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THE HOMERIC LEGEND.*

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MANY, indeed, are the years that have passed since Seneca declared that life is altogether too short to allow of further discussion of the authorship of the magnificent body of...

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MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER'S HISTORICAL READER.* TRE history of a nation is

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a storehouse of experiences, examples, warnings. We may copy the great models therein contained, we can also build on the ruins. To teach history clearly and simply to the...

AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK.*

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WE have already recognised the merit of this remarkable little book in a brief notice in our impression of March 4th, but the book is so admirable that we are unwilling to let...

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WOMEN WORKERS.*

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MRs. JELLABY would scarcely have been at ease in the 1892 Conference of Women Workers. Possibly there is no carica- ture of wild woman nor of impractical philanthropist which is...

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THE STATE TRIALS.* IN all probability, the majority of our

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readers will declare, with vehemence, that the State trials are a subject upon which they "very much prefer to remain ignorant." They will be wrong, however ; and more than...

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Time and the Woman.. By Richard Pryce. 2 vols. (Methuen

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and Co.)—Mr. Richard Pryce has written a rather clever and ex- ceedingly provoking story. It deals with the misfortunes of a very unsophisticated young lady whose ugly...

The Romance of a Schee/master. By Edmonclo de Amicis. The

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translation by Mary A. Craig. 3 vols. (Osgood, MeIlvaine, and Co.)—In writing The Romance of a Schoolmaster, that distinguished Italian author, Signor de Arateig, has...

Eton of OU, and Eighty Years Since. By an "Old

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Colleger." (Griffith and Farran.)—The "Old Colleger" has indeed a green old age, if, having entered Eton in 1811, he can write in this vigorous fashion about the men and boys...

The London ant Afildlcsew Nofe - book. Edited by W. P. W.

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Phillitnore. (Elliot S axik.)—Teis is a collection of antiquarian odds-and-ends on the history of Lcn'oa and its suburbs. Perhaps the most interestla g is the short sketch of...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Universe/ At/as. (Cassell and Co.)—An admirable atlas, probably the beet for its price yet published. It is based upon a German Hand-A.tlas," which has been popular both...

The Book of Record of Kirkby - Kendal. Edited by Richard S.

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Ferguson. (T. Wilson, Kendal.)—This is an interesting publica- tion. It is the Register of the borough of Kendal—or Kirkby-in- Kendal° as its proper name is—from the year...

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John Heywood's Railway Map of England (Heywood, Man- chester) is

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commendably plain and legible, and contains the latest additions to the railway-system. It would be a useful improvement if the distance in miles (practically equivalent to the...

The Land Smeller. By E. Downey. (Ward and Downey.)— The

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volume entitled The Land Smeller contains a dozen " yarns " that just suit this name, and are capitally adapted to vary the monotony of sea life, and the constant gazing at...

PODYDY.—Quo Musa Tenclis ? By J. K. Stephen. (Macmillan and

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Bowes, Cambridge.)—Mr. Stephen lived long enough to make his mark as a writer of vers de societe. We venture to think that his name will be associated hereafter with Pramd and...

The Fate of Fred Lavers. By A. Morrison. (Digby, Long,

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and Co.)—The Fate of Fred Lavers is the disjointed autobiography of a man who seems to have lived, and rushed about the world, very much at random ; to have had a " double'...

Statesman's Year-Book. Edited by J. Scott Keltie. (Macmillan.) —This manual,

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now in its thirtieth year of publication, shows increased usefulness and adaptation to the needs of those who use it as a book of reference. We observe that the increase of...