22 SEPTEMBER 1888

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The great State Trial has commenced. The first sitting of

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the three Judges—the Right Hon. Sir J. Hannen, Mr. Justice Day, and Mr. Justice Smith—appointed to conduct the investigation into the charges brought by the Times against the...

On Tuesday, Mr. John Dillon was released unconditionally from Dundalk

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Gaol. The medical officer of the Prisons Board, Dr. Farrell, reported that Mr. Dillon, though not ill, had lost some weight and physical strength while in prison. In view of...

The articles which appeared recently in the Birmingham Daily Post

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under the title of " The Condition of Ireland," are about to be republished by the Radical Union, with a preface from the pen of Mr. Chamberlain. This preface has during t h e...

Letters were read at the Bradford meeting from Lord Hartington

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and Lord Derby. Lord Hartington summed up the present position thus In Ireland, the policy of our opponents has more and more shown itself to be based on the principles of...

NEWS OF THE W EEK.

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M R. CHAMBERLAIN has made two powerful speeches this week at Bradford, at the Conference of Liberal Unionists. We have said enough perhaps elsewhere about the speech of...

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

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ease.

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There are signs that the virulence of boycotting is declining.

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The Nationalists, of course, do everything they can to keep up the notion that the people are not tiring; still, even their own newspapers are beginning to show signs of the...

A meeting was held in the Phcenix Park on Saturday

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last to protest against the continued imprisonment of Thomas Moroney, the farmer who was sent to gaol more than a year ago by the Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, Judge Boyd, for...

Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Chancellor, has visited Prince Bismarck at

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Friedricharuh for three days, and diplomatists are in an agony of curiosity. No particulars of the interview have, however, transpired, and the official cue is to represent it...

All kinds of rumours continue to come in from Afghanistan,

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including one, which has its source in Taahkend, and is trans- mitted rid St. Petersburg, that the Ameer himself is dead. This is denied from Simla, and is improbable, though...

The protective duty on corn having been followed by a

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scarcity, the price of bread in France has risen almost by a third. As the operatives live on bread, they do not like that, and in two or three places they have rioted. The Act...

All rumours pointing to action on the part of the

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Porte or the Powers to make a final settlement in Bulgaria appear to be false ; but there are disquieting stories from Macedonia. That unhappy province ought to be autonomous...

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It appears to be understood that President Cleveland's Retaliation Bill

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forbidding the transit of Canadian exports through ports in the Union, will be rejected by the Senate, which is Republican. Senator Sherman, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign...

Major Barttelot's last report, dated Yambuya Camp, June, 1888, and

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addressed to the President of the Emin Pasha, Relief Expedition, published on Thursday, throws a con- siderable amount of light upon the circumstances which led up to his...

Nothing has been discovered about the Whitechapel murder, nor, unless

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the criminal betrays himself, or commits another murder and is caught red-handed, is it likely that the search will be successful. A witness or two claim to have seen him...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent. New Consols (21) were on

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Friday 97 1 ,_ to 9e.

There is hope that the biggest and worst scheme of

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mono- poly yet started in England will fail. A syndicate has been trying to get possession of all the salt-mines, and raise eating. salt from 2s. 6d. to 108. a cwt. Its members...

The most brilliant artificial light that has ever shone on

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the world,—that in the recently completed St. Catherine's Light- house, at the southernmost extremity of the Isle of Wight, which burns with an illuminating power of over...

It seems quite strange to read a letter with the

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signature of Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne. The aged philanthropist, now over eighty, writes to the Times (Tuesday, the. 18th inst.), tracing the Whitechapel murders and other...

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SENATOR SHERMAN ON CANADA.

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W E see no reason for attaching grave importance to Senator Sherman's proposal, made in the American Senate on Tuesday, that the Canadian Dominion should be asked to contract a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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GREAT STATE TRIAL. Judges selected to conduct the Parnell Inquiry have decided to form a Court rather than a Commis- sion. That is, we think, the main conclusion which the...

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MR CHAMBERLAIN AND 1.11E ENGLISH GIRONDISTS.

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I T was a good thought of Mr. Chamberlain to address , himself, in his speech of Wednesday at Bradford, first of all to the English Girondists. There are more of them all over...

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THE OPPRESSION OF APPEALS.

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" y Or will be very sorry you have won this case by the time you g et to the House of Lords." Such were the words addressed by the solicitor of the East London Waterworks...

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TRIPOLI.

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A T uncertain intervals, but always with a savour of alarm, the word " Tripoli " appears in telegrams and letters dealing with what is called the " balance of power " in the...

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COMMERCIAL HYDRAULICS.

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W HEN railways were first introduced, some bold men were found to declare, though to incredulous ears, that, as a matter of fact, the steam-engine would never kill the horse,...

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REWARDS FOR THE DETECTION OF CRIME. THE Whitechapel murders have

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once more raised the -L. question of the policy of offering rewards for the detec- tion of crime. At the inquest on the woman murdered in Whitechapel, the foreman of the jury...

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MAMMOTH SQUIRES. T HE sort of surprise with which the account

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of Prince John Schwarzenberg, his immense domain, his great fortune, twelve millions, and his life as an active landowner, has been read in this country, points to a curious...

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LITERARY ANODYNES.

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ArTITHOUT a doubt, mental sedatives are craved for by a very large and increasing number of men and women. There are moments in life when the one thing we want is a literary...

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WAR TO THE LANDLORDS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—At the end of an article entitled " War to the Land- lords," in the Spectator of September 8th, there are made certain statements on...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR,—The Spectator does not disdain anecdotes of dogs and their doings, and I think the following history, to which I...

[" a " There is an error in our account of "The

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Constable Family " on the 15th inst. Lionel Constable never married.]

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—Thank you for your

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fairness in inserting my letter. If replies to editorial notes are allowed, kindly permit a word more. I have carefully read the debate in a pretty full report (that of the...

THE TRADE-UNION CONGRESS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—With regard to your criticism of Mr. Shaftoe's presi- dential address, in the Spectator of the 8th inst., if the President, instead of...

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C OWPER.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—Did not your article refer to the monument erected. to. Cowper's memory in. East Dereham Church by Lady Hesketh,. Hayley supplying the...

MR. STEVENSON ON POETS AND PAINTERS.

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LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, Is it not possible to (Heat Mr. Stevenson on his own ground ? Granted that the end of a poet or painter's existence is to please, is...

TO CYNTHIA, FIVE YEARS OLD. Ix Cynthia's arbour all the

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day May Fancy mingle with the play; Around, like friends with sunny faces, May crowds of buttercups and daisies Tell her the tales of Wonderland ; How merry elfs, clasped...

POETRY.

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GLEANERS OF FAME SEPTEMBER SONNET. HEARKEN not, friend, for the resounding din That did the Poet's verses once acclaim : We are but gleaners in the field of fame, Whence the...

" SNEAP " OR " SNUB P"

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”] Sin,—The letter in your issue of June 9th, just to hand,. with regard to the use of the word " snap " for " snub " in some districts, puts...

THE CORRUPTION OF ROMAN ART.

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[TO THE EDITOR or TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your article on Mr. Stevenson's views as to the final cause of Art has recalled to my memory a Roman inscription which I saw some...

THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, I have only to-day seen the notice in the Spectator of September 8th of the article on " The Rights of Children " in - the Contemporary...

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BOOKS.

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A SCOTCH-AMERICAN ON _AMERICA.* No one who, undazzled by the glamour of big figures, surveys the -present condition and considers the recent history of the United States with a...

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MAY MOLLER ON THE HOME OF THE .AB,Y.AB.* PROFESSOR MAX

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/RIMER mentions that in the year 1849 he presented to the Acadimie des Inscriptions at Paris an essay on the early civilisation of the Aryas which received the Prix Volney, but...

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NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS.*

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WE have before us two collections of essays on the non- Christian religions of the world. The first consists of six Pre- sent-Day Tracts, already published separately by the...

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A STORY OF CANAL LIFE.*

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As a work of art, it is impossible to say anything pleasant of Life in the Cut. The story, where not unnatural, is repulsive; the talk, alike of ladies and gentlemen, servants...

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A FRENCHMAN ON THE TURKS.* THE Frenchman who calls himself

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Kesnin Bey, and who undertakes to enlighten the world on "the evil of the East" —meaning a small corner of the countries included under that name—has the bright literary faculty...

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THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.* Tau story of the discovery, loss of,

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and rediscovery of this. great group of islands, as told in these pages, is at once strange and attractive. A Spanish expedition, consisting of two ships, under Mendana, left...

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Cassell's Miniature Cyclopedia. Compiled by W. L. Cowles. (Cassell and

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Co.)—There are 764 pages crammed with information in this small octavo, and a dozen plates. The printing is very good, and though there are a few mistakes, their number is...

SCHOOL-BOOKS.

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The University Shakespeare : King John. Edited by Benjamin Dawson, B.A. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This is one of a series of the plays edited and annotated by members of the...

The Dogaressa. By W. G. Melmonti. Translated by Clare. Brune.

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(Remington and Co.)—Melmonti, besides giving us an interesting sketch of the Dogaressa (i.e., the Doge's wife), has also drawn with a powerful and spirited pen, a sad and...

Who is Vera ? By A. E. Schlotel. 3 vols.

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(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—Mr., or Miss, Schlotel describes his or her book as a "novel wherein English and Russian lives are interwoven ;" and if we were compelled to choose...

Bird's - Nesting and Bird - Skinning. By Edward Newman. Revised by Miller Christy.

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(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Newman's work has been enlarged, revised, and rendered more complete by the addi- tion of some hints on preserving and bird-skinning, and the text of the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The September number of the Universal Review contains some noteworthy papers. Professor Mahaffy's article on Germany in particular, though often trivial, is shot with keen...

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A First History of the English People. Vol. II. By

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Amy Baker. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A simple and interesting account of the period between Edward I. and Elizabeth. The book will be certain to interest children in the...

French Accidence and Essentials of Syntax. By Eugene Pellissier, M.A.

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(Rivingtons.)—In spite of the numerous French school- books which are continually issuing from the Press in this country, the number of grammars of first rank can still be...

Dates Made Easy. By J. H. Hawley. (Relfe Brothers.)—There is,

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in our opinion, nothing so unsatisfactory and unremunerative from an educational point of view, as the learning by rote strings of dates, which to some is an easy, to others an...