THE RISE OF NAPOLEON.* MR. SLOANE has added another to the many valuable works which America is now contributing to the clearing up of the history of Europe. In the past...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 21st, 1896.

WE wonder how many Masters of the hundred and ninety- five packs of foxhounds in the United Kingdom have begun their season this November equipped with the know- ledge of the...

a very eventful one, and Colonel Baden-Powell's narrative of his own share therein is somewhat lacking in stirring episodes, in spite of the fact that he was employed in what...

THE biography before us tells the story of a man, born to poverty and hardship, who, as soon as he had won his own way to comfortable circumstances, gave himself up to the work...

effectual and most interesting men of his time. He played an officious part in love and science, politics and war, but he neither made dis- coveries, nor changed the complexion...

of a subtle sense of humour, he must enjoy many a chuckle at the interest and enthusiasm which his position and cause have aroused since he became possessed of a vote. Our...

THE STORY OF THE SEA.* THIS volume satisfactorily completes a work commenced last year. " Completes " is, perhaps, hardly the word. The whole "Story of the Sea" would demand for...

in praise of Mr. Rudolf Lehmann's Reminiscences. He seemed to us not to have much of the art of painting in words. But if his volume bad been scattered with the salt which is...

is a dainty little volume, well printed and well illustrated, and gives a very pretty, if also sweetly commonplace, story of Venice and England. Three people meet in the city of...

Diggory Upton takes advantage of the minority of his nephew to exercise various oppressive rights or quasi-rights ; among other things he reclaims certain villeins who had...

in number—have been published before. Not a few are distinctly good, as, for instance, " Prissy's Curls." The tale of a marvellously good girl has been told, who " had golden...

(Ward and Downey.)—This is a very amusing and well- constructed story of a family of four children in Dublin, who get alarmed at hearing that their father, who is a learned...

Mrs. Strain is a delightful—and to all appearance at least delight- fully simple—writer, but her new book is too mystically " fairyish " to be quite understood by the...

and School" will be found both interesting and instructive. We observe that in the portion named " The Sunday Hour" we have a succession of "Sunday Lessons" given. These will be...

has here given a story of the terrible days in Ireland a hundred years ago, which, if not quite so well com- pacted as it might have been, is yet full of incident, brogue, and...

)— This is a very agreeable story of a Royal child of more than average intelligence, and with a gift of humour of the sort that appeals specially to children, because it is...

pictures and words, Nonsense for Somebody, Anybody, Every- body, particularly the Baby Body, by " A Nobody," and Some More Nonsense as Before. The first appeared last year, and...

is "A Tale of Adventure in Japan." Perhaps we might say that the tale has too little adventure and too much Japan in it. Miss Stredder is evidently well acquainted with Japan....

as well as the older are considered—keeps up to its standard, and even improves. Both the serious and the comic divisions are good. The serious is not heavy ; the comic is not...

of Sunday Reading for the Young. The volume is provided with alter- native bindings, which may be briefly described as specimens, re- spectively, of "high" and "popular" art....

by W. H. G. Kingston (Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.) This is one of the best of Mr. Kingston's stories, all of them in the front rank of this kind of literature. The "new...

edition of the Old and New Testaments according to the authorised version. The illustrations, which must number at least six hundred, are, on the whole, good, we may say really...

Son.)—Mr. Henty has had to use more than common ingenuity to work his materials into the form required. Lord Cochrane makes an admirable hero. He was a man of many adventures,...

and Co.)—Aaron, to quote what is said about him in the conclusion of this book, "was and remains a mystery." He was a slave, but not of negro or Indian blood. But whatever he...

print and easily understood reading, adapts itself well to the wants and tastes of younger children. The illustrations seem to us particularly good. The humorous pictures are...

Master Jack Vernon goes to sea at some time in the Fifties, getting his nomination through Sir Charles Napier, whose some- what eccentric personality helps to enliven the...

five of the best-known, and perhaps we may say the best, of Hans Andersen's stories. These are "The Wild Swans," "The Ugly Duckling," " The Little Mermaid,"" The Storks," and "...

Son.)—Mr. Collingwood's work naturally suggests a com- parison with that of Mr. Clark Russell, nor need such a com- parison be "odious." Each novelist has great merits. Mr....

is by Mrs. Marshall, which is sure to possess an attraction for many readers of the Sunday Magazine, and besides these two long stories there are nine short ones in single...

and Ferrier.)—The sub-title of the tale is "The Messiah as Seen from an Alexandrian Point of View." No small amount of pains has been expended, it is evident, in furnishing...

and Co.)—This " Selection of Poems and Ballads suit- able for Home and School" may be recommended without hesita- tion. There are some hundred and fifty of the poems and...

Ray- mond, F. F. Montresor, and P. de Nanteuil, have a well-sustained interest, and in subject are great contrasts. " Under the Tricolour," by P. de Nanteuil, introduces us to...

—Dr. Gordon Stables chats with his readers in a homely and pleasant fashion. They must not expect an elaborately con- structed tale. It runs in a fairly constant train of...

a purpose, a purpose to which the author devotes much energy, the setting forth of the wrongs of the Seminole Indians of Florida. But this characteristic does not interfere with...

—It is needless to say that this is well worth reading. It is scarcely in the best taste to describe Miss Nightingale as " the Heroine of the Crimea." It is not, we may be...

this, but not such as to give useless distress to a sensitive reader. It tells how a child was rescued from the degradation to which her father's weakness seemed to have doomed...

was born more than seventy years ago. lie remembers many curious things that he has seen or heard him- self ; he has recorded not a few remarkable reminiscences of others. Here...

story of Will and Madge's playing truant contains, as it should, a most excellent moral, which will not be lost on youthful readers. It is a pretty story, and the manner in...

who takes service with the Tsarevitch Paul at Gatchina, and does his best to defend his master against the plots of Catherine's Court, is sure to attract boys. Of course, the...

and Sons.)—Dr. Hawtrey was head-master of Eton for close upon twenty years, and was a reformer,—one might almost say, for those days, an energetic reformer. There was need...

is the best story of adventure that the author has yet produced. It is pure adventure, and we have no sketches or portraits of either Northern or Southern people, if we except...

and Co.)—A Thibetan story of adventure is somewhat of a novelty, and our author is certain to have readers among the juveniles. It is, however, a little disappointing, and Mr....

and Co.)—Tales of the Mutiny must always have a peculiar fascination for most readers, and a writer, by introducing one or other of the famous men who carved out such undying...

The Portuguese in South Africa. By G. M. Theal, LL.D. (T Fisher Unwin )---" A very few years ago," says Dr. Theal, " when I prepared my large History, the expression South...

is full of alarming reading. It tells us how Germany is beating us in various manufactures, in the working of iron and steel, in ship-building, in textile, chemical, and other...

and Co.) -Mrs. Armstrong includes in this volume " Letters to a D6bu- tante," so that she may be said to instruct her correspondents- the volume grew out of a column in a...

Co.) Among the contents are articles on "The Early English Writing-Masters," "Little Books," and "The Books of the Carthusians."

Great Queen Street, W.O.; and Published by Jona Jew's Mikan. of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the "!SPECTATOR"...

revelations came off on Monday, the Centre party, through Count Hompesch, demanding an explanation. This the Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, refused to give, alleging that the...

development which is quite terrible. Mr. Francis R. Thompson, a Member of the Cape Parliament, who was recently appointed Commissioner for the prevention of the plague, has been...

• T HE very remarkable speech which Lord George Hamilton delivered at Turnham Green on Tuesday will show to any careful reader precisely the strength and the weakness of our...

both believe that a plan is afoot for remedying the disorder in Turkey by appointing Earopean Ministers to work under the Sultan. The Finance Minister would be an Englishman,...

case.

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County Council into the administration of their Department shows that there has been a systematic falsifica- tion of the accounts by the subordinate officials. The Com- mittee...

former agreeing not to extend Erythrea and the latter to re- lease the Italian prisoners upon receiving the cost of their keep. The Emperor, moreover, is declared absolutely...

partiality in attacking Sir Edward Clarke last week for his strange appearance as the advocate of Venezuela, but this week at least he appears anxious to show that he is a very...

banquet of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, though to our mind he did pile it up, as the Yankees say, "a little too mountainous" when he declared it "not too much to say that...

the interestingness of his speeches, and far better for their political wisdom. He spoke at Rochdale on Tuesday at the National Union of Conservative Associations, both in the...

it down as the sine qud non of a good Educa- tion Bill that (1) "there must be reasonable equality in the treatment of Board-schools and voluntary schools ;" (2) "that any...

Lord Lansdowne complained of the neglect from which the Army suffered, his chief example being the failure of Parliament to pass a measure so vital to its interests as the...

privilege which has caused two days' debate in the German Parliament. Lieutenant von Briisewitz was sitting in a café, when an artisan named Siepmann pushed Tatber rudely past...

may prove of importance in the history of Continental education. It was the inauguration of the " University of Paris." The Republicans have resolved to break up the ex-...

Mr. H. J. Torr, none of them at present in the House of Commons, sent to Monday's Times a very terse, and in style a very imperious, letter, stating that after " a private...

attempt to retain the island of Cuba. They have at once subscribed an internal loan of sixteen millions sterling for the prosecution of the war, have despatched still further...

of Buffalo ordered a salvo of twenty-one guns to announce the fact that the electric power generated by the Niagara Falls had reached the city. Twenty-six miles away "a lead off...

New Consols (2: 7 ) were on Friday, 1101. •

MR. BALFOUR AT ROCHDALE. M R. BALFOUR'S speech at Rochdale on Tuesday to the National Union of Conservative Associations was a very happy literary performance, but it was much...

T HE great debate of Monday in the German Reichstag produced one speech of considerable importance, that of Baron von Marschall, the present Minister of Foreign Affairs. That...

TT is seldom that we record any pleasant news from 4_ Africa. Events on the Dark Continent are usually calamities, as if the strange destiny which for three thousand years has...

W E rather think that Mr. Chamberlain was trying the effect of a little exaggeration on the minds of a Chamber of Commerce when he told the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce...

from T•ondon to Brighton on Saturday, though it was partly spoiled, as everything in England is partly spoiled, by the enormous crowds drawn together to the show, seems to us...

A VERY grave scandal has come to light in connection with the London County Council. It has been discovered that the accounts of the Works Department have been "cooked" with an...

of the German Reichstag who brought forward the in. terpellation on duelling, made one very neat point. Military honour, he said in effect, divides the world into two...

A LMOST all men, perhaps all men with imaginations, are day-dreamers, and we suspect that a large section of them when they think about politics at all are political day-...

T HE publication of Mr. J. G. Romanes's poetical remains by Messrs. Longmans is hardly a great literary event, but it may be justly said that the President of Magdalen College,...

" U NIVERSAL live-stock providers" are advertising two expensive breeds of mice for members of the fancy. These are tortoiseshell mice, a variety of the tame mouse, and Japanese...

LORD NELSON'S ENGLISH. [To THR EDITOR or THE “Srsoraror:1 SIR,—In speaking of the first proposed wording of the famous Trafalgar signal, in the Spectator of November 14th,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — In a review in the Spectator of October 31st I saw quoted, from Mr. Augustus Hare's autobiography, a very incorrect version of a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—I think the following story is worthy of being recorded :—An illiterate person, after hearing her son preach for the first time,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THIN " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your notice of Mr. Baring-Gould's " Dartmoor Idylls," . in the Spectator of October 31st, you cite the intended epitaph- of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] SpR,—We have an old broken-haired white terrier, who can -do almost everything except speak. He took lately to killing the fantail...

LORD BL IsOFIFORD'S LETTERS.* LORD BLACHFORD, better known as Sir Frederic Rogers—he was made a Peer after his retirement in 1871—was for nearly thirty years an able public...

our last impression leaded " A Dog-Story," and signed " E. S. P. Haynos," dated from Balliol College, Oxford, was a forgery, and nut written by the Balliol undergraduate of that...

No one can say that Mr. Rudyard Kipling's ballads have too much of idealism in them. Indeed, the puzzle is to discover why any form of verse should be appropriate to some of...

IT is as a writer of stories that we are acquainted with Mr. W. D. Howells, particularly of delicate love-stories, abounding in that quaint humour, that "tossing about of...

TIM biography of a schoolmaster-Bishop published more than half a century after his death would seem to be somewhat belated. Few of his pupils, very few of the clergy with whom...

Mum has been written within the last few years about Manipur, and, as we write, that distressful neighbourhood and its distressful history are being made the topic of an Oxford...

Tax Jerninghams and the Bedingfelds and the Dillons, the three great houses which have produced these two volumes of correspondence through the sympathetic interest of their...