24 FEBRUARY 1894

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Of course Mr. Gladstone's mildness, and the bitter dis- appointment

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of the Radicals, have given rise to many political rumours. We were told on Thursday that, according to the information received by the Unionist leaders, there would probably be...

Mr. Gladstone's proposal was simply to discharge the order for

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considering further the Employers' Liability Bill, as Lord Dudley's Contracting-out clause went to the very heart of the measure,—in other words, to drop it,—and he seemed to...

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

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case.

There was a very curious scene in the Commons on

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Tuesday. Mr. Gladstone had given notice that he would move that the Lords' reasons and Lords' amendments to the Commons' amendments to the Lords' amendments on the Employers' -...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Anarchists continue a feeble, but murderous, campaign in France. Six attempts to place bombs have been dis- covered this week, and of these two were certainly serious and...

We have said enough elsewhere of the projects brought forward

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on Wednesday by the Italian Chancellor of the .Exchequer, which briefly amount to this, that he has a deficit of £7,000,000 to meet, and that he meets it by economies to 'the...

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The Madrid correspondent of the Times states that the stories

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of an agreement between the Sultan of Morocco and the Spanish Government are fictions invented to soothe the pride of the Spanish people, who are morbidly excited over the...

Nothing of any importance has come out about Martial Bourdin—the

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man whose bomb exploded and killed him in Greenwich Park—beyond the fact that he was not carrying a bottle, but a well-made bomb, and must, at the moment of explosion, have been...

The Irish Queen's Bench on Monday dealt with the accounts

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of the Dublin Corporation on an application made by a ratepayer to oblige the auditor to enforce certain sur- charges. The Corporation, among other things, had spent £1,000 more...

On Monday the Times published a long letter from Mr.

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Sams, denouncing Mr. Labouchere for the charges he had made against the way in which the South Africa Company's forces had conducted the war. To this Mr. Labouchere replied on...

The ultra-Protectionists in France have sustained some- thing of a

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defeat. M. Maine, the head of the party and President of the Customs' Committee, proposed to raise the tax on imported wheat from 5 fr. to 8 fr. per quintal. The Russians,...

A large deputation from ithe London Trades Council and from

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Radical clubs met Mr. Chamberlain, on Wednesday, to protest against the Local Veto Bill, to which they objected not only in principle, but because it gives the ratepayers a...

Notes from Ireland, of last Saturday, reprints portions or a

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speech made by Mr. Dillon on January 17th of this year, which deserve more attention than they have yet received.. They show how erroneous is the notion that even the Anti-...

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Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (2D were on Friday 100.

Some statements published by Lieutenants Gwynne and Morley make it

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perfectly clear that the fight at Weeima, in Sierra Leone, in which the French Lieutenant Maritz was frilled, arose from a blunder on both sides. The British troops, 400 strong,...

We observe that the Queen has approved the appointment of

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Canon Purse to the Westminster Canonry vacated by the death of Canon Rowsell, and the appointment of the Rev. Basil Wilberforce (a most enthusiastic advocate of temper- ance) to...

At a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday

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evening, Lord George Hamilton read a paper on " Ocean Highways ; their Bearing on the Food and Wages of Great Britain." We have dealt elsewhere with its main line of thought—the...

The Times' correspondent in Berlin forwards some remark- able facts

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as to the number of military suicides. Life in an army seems to bore or worry men greatly, the suicides among soldiers, even in England, being more than double those in the...

Sir Henry Howorth (M.P. for South Salford) writes an interesting

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letter to the Times of Thursday, on the petulance shown by the majority in the Commons in rejecting the Employers' Liability Bill only because the Lords had inserted Lord...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. GLADSTONE AND THE RADICALS. T HE Radicals are turning against Mr. Gladstone. On Tuesday night they had a great disappointment. Mr. Gladstone, instead of commencing the...

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THE RELATION OF GREAT BRITAIN TO ANARCHY.

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I T is a most perplexing question ; but the Government is probably in the right to be slow and cautious in its action against foreign Anarchists. In the first place, they have...

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AFTER ME,—WHAT NEXT ?

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M R. GLADSTONE, as he watches the murmurings of " the sects and factions ambitious of ascendency and burning for revenge," as Macaulay has it, must, we think, often ask himself,...

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THE OPTIMIST VIEW OF WAR.

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W E cannot get really interested in the dispute between Mr. Labouchere and the great African hunter, Mr. Selous, on the question whether the invaders of Matabeleland did or did...

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LORD G. HAMILTON ON OUR FOOD-SUPPLIES.

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'E NGLAND is no longer a country. She is morally and politically in the position of a city which includes a large number of parks and gardens, but which cannot produce the food...

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THE FINANCES OF ITALY. T HE restoration of Italian finance interests

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all Europe, not only because of the magnitude of the Italian Debt—nearly five hundred millions—but because Italy bankrupt would cease to be a great Power, to the dislocation of...

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SOCIALISM IN CEREALS.

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I T is an agreeable variety when Socialism exchanges the professor's chair or the demagogue's platform for an arena in which it is forced to express itself in terms of practical...

THE MALEFICENT ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE.

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T HE recent progress of Anarchism must be a heavy blow to those who believe that knowledge is necessarily bene- ficent, that "to know all is to pardon all," knowledge by itself...

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MR. HARRISON ON VICTORIAN LITERATURE.

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M R. HARRISON'S brilliant paper in the Forum of this month on Victorian Literature misses one or two points, while it deals very powerfully and impressively with many others. In...

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JAMRACH'S.

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AMRACH'S," the ancient and original centre of the tJ wild-beast trade in London, lies in what is now called St. George Street, but was until late years known as Ratcliffe...

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THE ETHICS OF FLIRTATION.

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T HE game of " cross-questions and crooked answers" is one that newspapers generally reserve for the dull season, and it is difficult to guess at the motives of a daily...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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OXFORD : FIFTY YEARS SINCE. [To rim Barron or THR " SpEcramos."] SIR, —Whatever else may be said of Mr. Arnold's letter in your last issue, no one can deny it the merit of...

POLITICAL IGNORANCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPZCTATOR."] Sin,—It is generally admitted among Unionists that ignorance or indifference among voters is one of the chief difficulties and dangers in...

THE REFERENDUM.

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[To MR EDITOR OF TRI " SPROTILTOR."] Sin,—As one of the young Conservatives you are wont to sympathetically dissect, I should be glad to suggest one or two points as to the...

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TO M- TIT S.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Apropos of your most interesting article, "A Study of Titmice," in the Spectator of February 17th, I should like to put before your...

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

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[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — / have read with great interest your excellent article- on "The Christian Ethics of Forbearance," in the Spectator of February 10th....

ANARCHISM.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Bricornoz."] SIR, — Your reiterated statement as to man being " inherently bad" will surely tend to increase the pessimism which is one of the causes of...

POETRY.

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THE DIVINE IN THE COMMONPLACR AT the moment that Fate had set apart For their meeting, they met; and from heart to heart. A bond of sympathy straightway grew, And one they...

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT AND REGISTRATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The answer to your question, " How will the Welsh like Registration being the first charge on the next Session ? " is to be found in...

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BOOKS.

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CATKERINE II.* THE story of Catherine II., the Semiramis of the North, as her contemporaries delighted to call her, is not revolting merely because it is the story of a...

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RECENT NOVELS.* THE central character in the anonymous novel, A

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Superfluous Woman, is not the kind of person we expect. Whether any woman is superfluous may be more doubtful than some con- fident theorists suppose, but when we, rightly or...

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A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY.*

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SINCE the Philological Society's great dictionary (the Ox- ford) was begun in earnest some fifteen years ago, lexico- graphers have enjoyed a busy time. Of English dictionaries...

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MR. GOLDWIN SMITH'S " SPECIMENS OF GREEK TRAGEDY." * MR.

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GOLDWIN SMITH, though he won his first distinctions in the field of classical study, has devoted most of his time and powers to other subjects. Now he has come back to his first...

THE LYRICS AND BALLADS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.*

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Mn. ANDREW LANG should hardly have termed this little book " The " Lyrics and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott without making it complete, which he certainly has not done. Nor has he...

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LIFE AND MEMOIRS OF A. BRONSON ALCOTT.* IT is difficult

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for English minds to grasp the importance that America attaches to her latter-day philosophies. It has partly, no doubt, to do with the age of a nation and its his- tory....

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. Vol. VIII., Fourth Series. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The volume opens with a highly interesting letter from Professor...

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The Year's Art, 1894. Compiled by A. R. Carter. (J.

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S. Virtue and Co.)—This volume, the " fifteenth annual issue," continues the excellent tradition of its predecessors. It gives all the information that can be desired about art...

Birds in a Village. By W. H. Hudson. (Chapman and

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Hall.)— We miss in this collection of essays the brightness and wide view of Nature which distinguished Mr. Hudson's admirable works on the plains of La Plata and Patagonia. The...

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey. Edited by Alexander

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H. Japp, LL.D. Vol. II.—" Conversation and Cole- ridge, with other Essays." (Heinemann.)—It is satisfactory, no doubt, to have before one all the works of a great writer which...

Juliet's Lovers. By Mabel Collins. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey).

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—It is hardly necessary to say anything about this novel, save that it tells an exceedingly unpleasant, story in very indifferent English. The masculine characters, with one...

Thom's Official Directory, 1894. (Alexander Thom and Co., Dublin.)—This is

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an " official Directory " of the United King- dom in general, and of Ireland in particular. The information on Irish matters is full and interesting, and not to be found, we...

Prom Paddington to Penzance. By Charles G. Harper. (Chatto and

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Windus.)—This is the record of an excursion, made during the past summer by the author and a comrade, from London to the Land's End. Various means of locomotion were employed,...

The Royal Blue - Book. (Kelly and Co.)—This convenient directory has now,

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attained its seventy-second year. So old an inhabitant of London does not need any introduction. Its speciality (a guide to the knowledge of the official•world, of the " Upper...

What our Daughters can do for Themselves. By Mrs. H.

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Coleman Davidson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Yet another book on the vexed question of occupations for the daughters of Great Britain, the surplus female population that is more...

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Miss Devereux, Spinster. By Agues Giberne. (J. Clarke and Co,)—Miss

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Devereux, a lady rising forty, as the saying is, and a woman who has never known what it is to do a thing for herself, is appointed the guardian of an orphan nephew, Cyril. The...