22 SEPTEMBER 1883

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We should not wonder if trouble were at hand in

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Spain. The Liberals do not like either the German alliance or the present Ministry, and the French Republicans, who have always been closely lifis with the Republicans of Spain,...

The French Republicans have, it seems, revived the practice of

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sending a civilian Commissary with their expeditions, who controls the Generals in command. This annoys the French Generals, who detest civilian supervision, and in Tonquin has...

The struggle in Bulgaria has ended for the time in

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the com- plete victory of the Liberals. As we have explained elsewhere. Prince Alexander has failed to keep the promises made after his coup d'etat, and in despair of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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M R. GLADSTONE, having visited the Orkneys, steamed across to Copenhagen, where he was received, on the 17th inst., with every honour by the family party there assembled,...

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

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case.

It is doubtful if there is more reality in the

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rumours about the King of Spain, but they look more true. After a splendid reception in Vienna, King Alfonso has gone to Homburg, there to meet the Emperor of Germany and the...

Hundreds of columns of news about the negotiations with China

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have been published in the French papers this week, but the few facts may be stated in a dozen lines. These are that the French have not advanced a step in Tonquin, but after...

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The Australian Colonies have agreed to hold an Annexation Conference

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in November, which will meet at Sydney, and be attended by representatives from the whole of Australia and New Zealand. The Conference will formulate the reasons for desiring...

Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, addressed his constitu- ents on

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Thursday, in a speech intended to be a grave exposition of his policy as regards the recent crisis. He is determined that all political and agrarian rioting shall be put down,...

The Agnostic party in Switzerland are as much inclined to

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persecute as the Illtramontanes ever were. They have not only stopped the processions of the Salvation Army by force—which was done also in Bombay, and may, if feeling runs...

Professor Ray Lankester, on Thursday, read a long and vehe-

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ment paper in favour of creating appointments for scientific . inquirers. He maintained that knowledge was declining and discovery languishing, because Englishmen, who scattered...

We omitted to notice last week the terrible blow which

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has: fallen on the leading Royalist personages in France. The Tribunal of Commerce has decided that the Directors of the- - Union G6n4rale are responsible to the shareholders...

The annual meeting of the British Association was opened at.

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Sciuthport on Wednesday, the 19th instant. The President of the year is Professor Cayley, who delivered an address which to the greater number even of scientific men must have...

A council of war never fights, and a caucus is,

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after all, only an unwieldy council of war. The party managers in Man- chester have finally determined not to contest the seat. The only Liberal candidate, therefore, will be...

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It is believed that the Parnell Fund will pass £25,000,

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and the largest mortgage on his estate, £13,000, has already been paid off We regret the success of the subscription, because we consider that Mr. Parnell's agitation has done...

A great opportunity is offered to London. The Duke of

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Bed- ford, in a letter to the Corporation of the City, offers to sell Covent Garden Market and the houses round it, the leases of which are about to fall in. He admits the...

The plan for employing female doctors in India, one of

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the few thoroughly sensible plans recently started by philanthro- pists, seems likely to be a success. A sum of £4,000 has been raised in Bombay, to guarantee salaries for two...

The Free Library system extends slowly. Mr. John Lovell, on

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Wednesday week, read a paper to the Library Association, in which he showed that the Act enabling ratepayers to establish such libraries passed in 1850, but in twenty-one years...

We have never been able to support the Permissive Bill,

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or to endorse what seem to us the exaggerated ideas of Teetotallers, but there is one strong law which we are surprised they do not attempt to carry. What is the argument...

A rumour was circulated early in the week that the

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Govern- ment of Natal had presented an ultimatum to Cetewayo. He was to surrender within ten days, or he would be arrested. Either, however, the rumour was incorrect, or orders...

The Lancet appears to believe that a case of unprecedented

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age capable of verification has at last been discovered. At present the highest age known capable of absolute proof is 106, at which Lady Smith died a few years since. It is...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. GLADSTONE'S HOLIDAY. W E are not much interested, we confess, in the romances which the journalists of the Continent are pouring out about Mr. Gladstone's rapid visit to...

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THE REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA.

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T HE very worst thing that could happen to Eastern Europe would be a cordial agreement between the Roman offs and the Hapsburgs. There could be but one basis for such an...

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GETTING UP THE STEAM.

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T HE Conservatives are getting up the steam for the work of the autumn, and Mr. James Lowther's shrill speech at Maryport on Wednesday may be regarded as a kind of pre- mobitory...

THE FILLING-UP OF THE WORLD.

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I T is a great pity we cannot have another world hooked on to this one, to be explored and settled. There is plenty of spare force and enterprise to do the work, it would be...

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THE TRADES' UNIONS AND THE LAND.

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T HE debate and division on the Land Question at the Trades' Union Congress is, in two respects, encouraging. It showed that the English workman prefers what seems to him a...

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RAILWAYS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS.

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T N his famous essay on "The Social Organism," Mr. life is sound or otherwise. In this view, among the most interesting documents of the year are the General Reports of the...

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PROFESSOR CAYLEY'S ADDRESS.

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T HE Address of Professor Cayley, President for the year of the British Association, will not be much discussed, either in print or in society. Not many can descant on landscape...

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IS GOULDSTONE SANE 1 3 T HE attempts which are being made

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to induce the Crown to commute the sentence of death passed on William Gouldstone, for the murder of his five children, into one of detention at Breadmoer during her Majesty's...

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THE SCOTCH PROFESSOR OF TO-DAY.

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A MONG the strenuous idlers of the season, there is always to be found a per-centage of intelligent, but sub-priggish persons, who haunt the sea-aide resorts, and follow the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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AN ITALIAN'S VERSION OF "HARK, MY SOUL." (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Anent the statement made by Mr. Gladstone in the pre- sent number of the Nineteenth Century,...

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THE HIGHER TRAINING OF WOMEN OF BUSINESS. [To THE EDITOR

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OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I ask your help, and that of your readers, in making known a small movement now being undertaken in London P Its object is to procure the...

THE LIBERAL PARTY IN MANCHESTER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] more miserable surrender than that which has just been made by the leaders of the Liberal party in Manchester to the Tory candidate has...

THE IMPROVEMENT OF EGYPT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your recent issue, you allude to the sufferings and delays caused by the present state of transition in Egypt,—of transition, we may...

THE NEW PATENT LAW. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.')

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&a,—In your article on the new Patent Law, I notice one or two slight inaccuracies. The present stamp duty on provisional protection is 25, not 225, as stated ; and the amount...

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THE WORD "CUSS."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a review of Skeet's "Etymological Dictionary," in the Spectator of August 11th, the reviewer ventures on a conjecture which is quite...

THE CLOSING OF THE HIGHLANDS.

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LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In reference to your well-timed article on "The Closing of the Scottish Highlands," will you kindly allow me to announce through your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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Sm,—The letter of "G. K. H." in your issue of the 8th inst- requires a somewhat longer reply than the editorial note affixed to it. As a Scotchman, and one of those professional...

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BOOKS.

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MR. SIDGWICK ON POLITICAL ECONOMY.* MR. SIDGWICICS name has become a full guarantee that the subject on which he undertakes to write will be one on which he has brought to bear...

POETRY.

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"GRASS OF PARNASSUS." 0 Harry singers, and happy song, That had never a pang of birth, When first in the human heart grew strong Earth, and the wonder of Earth ! Had I, too,...

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JOHN BULL ET SON ILE.* DESCRIPTION is the compliment paid

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to peculiarity. The more marked, too, the features are, the easier it is to represent them. The danger in such a case is of producing a caricature instead of a likeness, and...

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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL SHARPE.* MR. CLAYDEN'S work, viewed in

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its literary aspect, is well done. He has had an abundance of good material, but it was material which needed a skilful setting-forth and arranging. This it has received at his...

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AN AMERICAN COACHING PARTY.*

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THIS volume, which does not contain a single dull or unreadable page, is the record of a delightful coaching journey from Brighton to Inverness, undertaken by the writer and a...

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DANIEL WEBSTER.*

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Mn. LODGE'S biography of Daniel Webster deserves somewhat more attention than is the "natural due" of the excellent and useful series to which it belongs. For one thing, it is...

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FARRER'S TOUR IN GREECE.* EMERSON, in one of his, charming

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letters to Carlyle, gently twits Frederick's biographer with having made a covenant with his eyes, that they should not see anything he did not wish they • should see. Recent...

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The Heavenly Bodies. By William Miller. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Mr.

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Miller discusses at great length what we cannot bat think a somewhat unprofitable question,—the plurality of inhabited worlds. We call it "unprofitable," not in the sense in...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes. By W. S. Kennedy. (Cassino and Co., Boston, U.S.; Sampson Low and Co, London.)—One has a feeling that there is something illegitimate about these accounts...

A. Fair Country Maid. By E. Fairfax Byrrne. 3 vols.

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(Bentley and Son.)—The opening of this tale is•attractive. Derrick Devon- porte, squire of Hollyss Hall, meets the "fair country maid," Marjorie Morrison, and we recognise at...

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Glossary of Terms and Phrases. Edited by the Rev. H.

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Percy Smith. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Percy Smith has been assisted by some able contributors, among whom may be mentioned Sir George W. Cox and Mr. Fennell, the editor...

NEW EDITIONS.—The Captives. Translated from Plautus. By H. A. Strong,

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MA. (Robertson, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide.)— This second edition, "revised and enlarged," repeats, we perceive, some mistakes which we pointed out in the first. We will...

PAMPHLETS AND LECTURES.—COH English Law be Taught at the Universities?

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By A. V. Dicey, B.C.L. (Macmillan), an inaugural lecture, asking a question which the Vinerian Professor naturally answers in the affirmative. His contention is that the student...

Mariane/a. By Perez Caldds. From the Spanish by Clara Bell,

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(Gottsberger, New York ; Triibner, London.)—Books from Spain are not so common but that they excite a special interest. This is but a slight story, and the motive is not, we...

We would desire to welcome the appearance of the first

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number of The Collective Investigation Record, edited by Professor Humphry, M.D., and F. A. Mahomed, M.B. (British Medical Association, 161e Strand.)—Dr. Humphrey prefaces the...