23 NOVEMBER 1895

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The Order in Council remodelling the War Office appeared on

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Thursday, and is in the main satisfactory, though there is on one point a certain ambiguity of language. The Com- mander-in-Chief is invested with general command over her...

There is little news from Turkey direct, and that little

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may be summed up in the sentence, that the Provinces are simmering and Constantinople boiling. The Sultan is trying to call out Reserves, but there is no money to move them, and...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 7th, will be issued, grass, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE quarrel between the Sultan and civilisation has been marked this week by a singular incident. Lord Salisbury, addressing the " National Union of Conservative and Cottsti-...

Uneasiness still lingers on the Continent, where they understand better

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than we do here that any "concert of Europe" to act against Turkey must be artificial. On Tuesday, indeed, there was almost a panic, for it was rumoured that Russia had "broken...

In the part of his Brighton speech referring to domestic

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affairs, Lord Salisbury, remarking that ten years ago Brighton was a Radical borough, like many other parts of the country which are now Conservative through and through,...

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

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case.

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Mr. Chamberlain is carrying his idea of spending some money

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in developing the Colonies into practice. The Government has agreed to allow E75,000 a year as a subsidy to assist in the establishment of a fast line of packets! between Great...

The Vienna correspondent of the Times sends an interesting account

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of the Kurds, derived from a Catholic mission among them. The Kurds are supposed to number from a million to three millions, scattered over the country called Kurdistan, part of...

As to the policy of the Government, Lord Salisbury said

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that he could not give any account of their intended Bills, for the same excellent reason for which Henry IV. could not get the mayor of some rather disaffected city to give up...

Much to our surprise—for we had thought that the French

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anxiety to save for children would have made the proposal unpopular—the French Chamber on Tuesday passed the Bill imposing progressive Death-duties by 343 to 176. This is a...

On the same day the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Walter

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Long, speaking at Brighton, declared that a large portion of next Session would be devoted to discussing measures for the relief of agricultural depression, As for Protection,...

The deputation on Wednesday to the Prime Minister and the

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Duke of Devonshire as President of the Council, on the subject of help to voluntary schools, was a very strong and very impressive one. The Archbishop of Canterbury put the case...

An odd incident has interrupted the Ashantee expedition. Four black

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persons were sent here some time since by the Chief of Coomassie to negotiate, but the Colonial Office refused to receive them. They were not Princes, it said, or Envoys either,...

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Mr. Cleveland has, it is said, nailed his colours to

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the mast upon the question of currency. Mr. Carlisle, his Secretary of the Treasury, on Tuesday delivered a speech to three hundred of the leading business-men of New York,...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (.2: 4 9 were on Friday, 1061.

Lord James took leave of his former constituents at Bury

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on Wednesday, and delivered a spirited defence of the career of the Liberal Unionists, pointing out how completely they had succeeded, in spite of their relatively small...

" Barchester Towers," to Bishop ; Prondie.- Proudie

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replies, we are told, that "translations are occasionally made, but not so frequently as in former days." In these days, we fear, they are coming into favour again. In the last...

We regret to note the death of Sir H. Ponsonby.

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Originally an officer, he held from 1870 to 1894 the important post of Private Secretary to the Queen, and though entirely tin s known to the public he was throughout all that...

Surely there is a little touch of violence in the

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attitude of High Churchmen towards the Bishop of Hereford. We cannot say that we at all agree with the Bishop of Hereford, and we do not think that either for the schools of the...

The Globe of last Monday had a very amusing account

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of the Irish fight between Mr. Dillon and Mr. Healy in Rut- land Square, Dublin, on Wednesday week, " by an Observer." After reading it very caref ally, we feel no doubt that...

Mr. Asquith made a good speech on Thursday at the

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so- called "Robert Browning Hall, Social Settlement, York Street" (why is such a clumsy name given to it ?), pointing out that these permanent settlements of the rich and...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD SALISBURY AT BRIGHTON. I F the Sultan of Turkey possesses any of the shrewd- ness with which he is credited, he will find the speech of Lord Salisbury at Brighton more...

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THE REVOLT IN YEMEN. T HE news from Arabia looks serious.

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It is impossible, considering the divisions among the tribes which hold that immense dominion—Arabia is rather larger than India—the close seclusion which they preserve, and...

LORD SALISBURY ON THE LIBERAL PARTY.

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T ORD SALISBURY certainly showed more than his usual sympathy with the movements of popular feeling when, in his speech at Brighton on Tuesday, he attributed the apparently...

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THE EMBARRASSMENTS OF THE OPPOSITION JOURNALISTS.

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I T is pleasant to observe the faint smiles, as it were, returning to the pallid and heavy countenances of the Radical journalists as they watch the cordial reception of the...

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THE GOVERNMENT AND VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS. T HE leading friends of voluntary

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schools have stood before the country during the last few days in a very favourable light. The Roman Catholic memorial to her Majesty's Government, signed by Cardinal Vaughan...

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EPISCOPAL TRANSLATIONS. T HE current which for some time past has

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set against rpiscopal translations seems now to be running decidedly the other way. Lord Rosebery translated one Bishop, Lord Salisbury has translated two, and offered to...

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CONTINENTAL DEATH-DITTIES. T HE acceptance by the French Chamber of M.

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Bour- geois' proposal of a progressive Death-duty is a very serious event. It is very easy to say that the new Premier was protected by his arrest of Arton, the great inter-...

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MATTHEW ARNOLD'S LETTERS.

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M R. RUSSELL, in his graceful and skilful preface to his perhaps too copious collection of Matthew Arnold's letters,* says with great truth that the charm of the poet's letters...

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THE PROFESSIONS versus TRADE. T HE will of Mr. Peter Robinson,

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the popular draper of Oxford Street, published this week, shows that he had accumulated a fortune, including of course a valuation of his extensive business, but excluding his...

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THE RARER FURS.

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I T seems as if not only seals, but many of the rarer fur- bearing animals, were decreasing so fast as to be already threatened with extinction for the purposes of commerce....

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"HILL-TOP NOVELS" AND THE MORALITY OF ART.

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W E are much indebted to Mr. Grant Allen. While we were casting about for a phrase by which to designate a class of novels which are becoming a momentous feature in the...

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" PLAIN " QUAKERISM.

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f To THE EDITOR OY TRH " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Your article on "' Plain ' Quakerism," in the Spectator of November 1Gth, shows so much combined appreciation and misapprehension of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELECTION. ITO TX! EDITOR OF TB! SPECTATOR:] StR,—The fact that many Dublin University electors are resident in England, must be my excuse for addressing...

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POETRY.

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GROWTH. BLOW, winds, your rage but shakes the tree And roots it surer in its place ! Scatter your rain, ye clouds, and free The buds that wait your frowning grace ! Roll...

ART.

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EXHIBITIONS OF THE SEASON. A NUMBER of picture exhibitions are now open in London. The Portrait Painters at the New Gallery and the New English Art Club may be named as the...

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BOOKS.

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JOAN THE MAID.* Mn. SHRINE has produced a very fine poem, which perhaps he was well advised in calling a dramatic romance rather than a pure drama. Yet it is full of striking...

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'PAGAN IRE L AND." *

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A CURIOUS side-light is thrown upon those facts of national temperament which, together with certain economic facts, go far to account for what politicians call the Irish...

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A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER.*

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WESTMINSTER has been celebrating this week the bicentenary of Richard Busby, a little out of time, for the great school- master died in April, 1695. This honour, which has been...

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MAYNOOTH.*

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Tao very handsome volume commemorates with adequate dignity the centenary of Maynooth College. No one will hesitate to pronounce it "creditable to Irish art and Irish...

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LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD TO FANNY KEM BLE.*

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IN a letter written to Lowell in 1877, Edward Fitzgerald said that he was credited with the aphorism, "Taste is the feminine of genius," and it is unquestionable that in the...

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THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF " PUNCH."*

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MANY are the aphorisms which occur to us at the suggestion of the book before us. " Wane ignotam pro magnifico " suggests the converse proposition. If vice loses half its evil...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. How Tack Mackenzie Won his Epaulets. By Gordon Stables. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—This is one of the best stories Dr. Gordon Stables has ever written. It is quite as...

Pinks and Cherries. By C. M. Ross. (James MacLehose and

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Sons.)—It is only on account of their delightful simplicity that we include this collection of Norwegian tales in Christmas litera- ture. There is not a little tragedy in...

His Choice—and Hers. By Evelyn Everett-Green and H. Louisa Bedford.

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(S.P.C.K.) —This book, which the joint authors describe as an "episode," is written in a now somewhat too familiar strain of melancholy. The hero is Cyril Benson, who is a very...

In Taunton Town. By E. Everett-Green. (T. Nelson and Sons.)

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—This is a well-compacted and on the whole well-written story, but the author, expert though she is in historical fiction of the kind that is suited to the juvenile mind, has...

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Paul Heriot's Pictures, By Alison McLean. (F. Warne and Co.)—Here

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we have seven stories, connected with as many pic- tures, which came, after the death of the painter, into the posses- sion of one who saw something of him during the last...

Stories for Ten - Years - Old. By Frances Wike Saunders. Series I. (Swan

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Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mrs. Saunders must have had experience of a different kind of ten-years-old from any that have come in our way, or she must have a different idea of the...

A Young Stowaway. By Mrs. George Corbett. (James Nisbet and

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Co.)—This story, as its name indicates, tells of running away to sea, and subsequent adventures on land as well as on water. William Blake and Ben Harrison leave their homes in...

Fifty-two Stories of Life and Adventure for Boys. Fifty-two Stories

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of Life and Adventure for Girls. By Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co.)—Mr A. H. Miles is putting together a quite considerable number of volumes in what he now calls his"...

so effective, the story of a child who is very

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unhappy at schooL She is of the temper of the cat that does not purr when it is stroked, the dog that does not cry out when it is beaten. Gertrude Le 3farchant is an excellent...

For Life and Liberty. By Gordon Stables. (Blackie and Son.)

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—We are sorry to say that our hero, fired by the glowing descrip- tions of some cousins who are fighting on the Confederate side, runs away on a blockade-runner, and undergoes...

Hunt!rs Three. By T. W. Knox. (Arnold.)—This is a very

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circumstantial and vivid account of the life and adventures of a hunting expedition in South Africa. So far, it is like other narra- tives of hunting trips ; but it is the...

Eric, Prince of Lorlonia. By the Countess of Jersey. (Macmillan.)

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—This is an exquisitely pretty and exquisitely illustrated story, written in a fine old-fashioned style, of which the following pas- sage may be taken as a specimen :—" Nearly...

Katherine's Keys By Sarah Doudney. (Nisbet and Co.)— Katherine Penn

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sets her heart on a young man whom she believes to be attached to her. She finds that this attachment is a fancy, for he announces to her, without any kind of misgiving, the...

Old Hungarian Fairy - Tales. Adapted and Illustrated by the Baroness Enmuska

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Orezy and Montagu Barstow. (Dean and Son.)—Students of folk-lore will be interested to see in these versions variants of well-known stories, all the more curious on account of...

A Knight of the White Cross. By G. A. Runty.

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(Blackie and Son.)—It has been a great pleasure to read this stirring story of the Knights Hospitallers, and their warfare with the Turks,— a story which fittingly concludes...

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spectuses of various money-lenders. These documents are well known to

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people who are probably poor, and not improbably foolish,.—or, shall we say, unfamiliar with business ? It must not be supposed, indeed, that the dishonesty is all on one side....

Master Magnus. By Mrs. E. M. Field. (E. Arnold.)—Magnus, a

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little boy under the charge of a somewhat stern old aunt, makes acquaintance with some children whose doings he observes from his nursery-window. His ambition to do good, and...

In the useful and entertaining series known as "Blackie's Home

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and School Library" (Blackie and Son), we have The Galley Slave, translated from the French by M. Betham- Edwards. The writer, who related his personal experiences, was one Jean...