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BOOKS.

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SWIFT.* THE best and most illuminating things said of Swift were said by himself. In one of his letters he tells us that "a person of great honour in Ireland. "—how...

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LONDON: JUNE 24, 189,9.

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FOUR NOVELS.*

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IN The Taming of the Shrew, we have often thought that the weak point of Petruchio's method (besides an offensive brutality that would scarcely answer with modern damsels,...

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MR. ADAMS'S LIFE OF JANE AUSTEN.* Is there room, it

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may not unreasonably be asked, for a new biography of a woman who led a life so uneventful as Jane Austen? Did not her nephew confess that he had com- paratively little to...

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THE EUROPEAN MILITARY ADVENTURERS IN INDIA.* THE last few years

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of the eighteenth century were so crowded with momentous events in Europe, that the student of history has scarcely realised the importance of contemporary Indian affairs. The...

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VENICE.* Mn. HORATIO Bnowsr is one of those specially favoured

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persons,—a man with a subject. There is no more precious gift in the present day ; the knowing something or other which nobody else knows—it does not matter much what it is...

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THE ANTIQUITY OF HUMAN CIVILISATION.* THE very earliest traces of

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man yet discovered reveal him as a social being far from unfamiliar with much more than the mere rudiments of civilisation. As modern research continually brings the so-called...

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TROPICAL AMERICA.* THE main idea of Republican government is that

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the execu- tive administer the law by authority delegated to them by the majority of the people. It may be doubted whether this lofty object is really attainable anywhere ; it...

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Shall Girls Propose ? By a " Speculative Bachelor." (Gay and

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Bird.) — This is a book which we could have very well done with- out. We can scarcely say that there is any harm in it, except that it has a tendency to vulgarise the subject....

Faith-Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena. By J. M. Buckley,

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LL.D. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a volume of much interest. Dr. Buckley inquires carefully into a number of facts and alleged facts, examines the conclusions which have been...

The Higher Criticism of the Heceateuch. By C. A. Briggs,

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D.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—This is a learned and ingenious defence of the historical character of the Six Books, Dr. Briggs reviews the criticism that has been applied to them, and...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Early History of Col e-Houses in England, with some Account of the first Use of Coffee, and a Bibliography of the Subject. By Edward Forbes Robinson, B.A. (Kegan Paul and...

"This Do :" Sire Essays in Practice. By R. F.

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Horton, M.A. (J. Clarke and Co.) — A distinguished minister of the communion which Mr. Horton adorns, once complained to the writer of this notice that his people "did not like...

The Other Man and Myself ; or, Scenes in the

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Sunny South. By Oliver Osborn. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—It is a pity that the author's description of how be and a friend left their clerk- ships in the City to try...

" Scraps :" Only a Lad. 13y E. M. Green.

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(Griffith, Farran, and Co.) — A. very touching story is this of self-sacrifice and heroism,— indeed, the end is almost too tragic, the agony, if we may use the expression, is...

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Life's Tapestry ; or, Homes and Hearths. By Caradoc Granhire.

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8 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—The three volumes published under the general title of Life's Tapestry comprise several stories which, whatever be their virtues—and they certainly...

Under the Evening Lamp. By Richard Henry Stoddard. (Gay and

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Bird.)—Mr. Stoddart writes on a number of poets of the minor order. James Hogg, Bloomfield, Clare, Ebenezer Elliott, T. L. Beddoes, Thomas Love Peacock, and R. Monckton Milnes...

By-gone Nottinghamshire. By William Stevenson. (Frank Murray, Nottingham ; Simpkin

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Marshall and Co., London.)—This is the kind of book that makes antiquarian writings a by-word for dullness and irrelevance. It has not even the merit of accuracy. "Alfred," we...

Venison's and Brand's Decisions in the House of Commons, 1857-84.

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By Edwin Gordon Blackman. (C. C. Bristow, Adelaide.)—Mr. Blackman, who is Clerk of the Parliament in South Australia, has collected in this volume the decisions of two English...

William Law's Defence of Church Principles. Edited by P. 0.

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Nash, M.A., and Charles Gore, M.A. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)— William Law, best known as the author of the "Serious Call," published, in 1717-19, three letters addressed to...

Old Shrines and Ivy. By William Winter. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—Mr.

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Winter is so complimentary to everything English, that the severest critic must be placated. When we come to "the lovely plain of classic Cambridge," we feel that the ne plus...

Old Rabbit the Voodoo, and other Sorcerers. By Mary Alicia

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Owen. With Introduction by C. G. Leland. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —Miss Owen, for whose knowledge of the subject Mr. Leland vouches in the most emphatic way, introduces a council of...

Elsie's Art-Life. By Mrs. A. M. Diehl. 3 vols. (Bentley

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and Son.)—It is not the" art-life" of Elsie or any one else that is the main subject of this story. Frank Clare is married to a certain Lady Georgina. Lady Georgina is in love...

The Register of Tonbridge School, 1820-93, edited by W. 0.

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Hughes-Hughes, M.A. (Bentley and Son), is a volume that speaks for itself. The editor prefixes a brief introduction, in which he sketches the history of the school since its...

Books in Chains. By the late William Blades. (Elliot Stock.)

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—In this volume, one of the "Book-Lovers' Library," Mr. H. Wheatley, editor of the series, prefixes a bibliographical introduc- tion on the work of Mr. Blades, one of the...

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T he Better Way of Assisting School .Children. (Swan Sonnenschein and

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Co.) — We have here a Report made to the Council of the Charity Organisation Society by a Special Committee. It gives a highly interesting view of some difficult questions....

Revelation and the Bible. By Robert F. Horton, M.A. (T.

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Fisher Ilnwin.)—Mr. Horton's courage and candour in making this "attempt at reconstruction," to use his own description of his work, are worthy of the highest praise. He...

• The Great Poets' Birthday Album. With Preface by Violet

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Hunt. (Eyre and Spoitiswoode )—We have to add "out of copyright," to make the selection of the twelve intelligible. Else why Mrs. Hemans and not Lord Tennyson P Even then, why...

The Reputation of George Saxon, and other Stories. By Morley

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Roberts. (Cassell and Co.)—There is some power in these eleven stories. In the first, which gives a name to the volume, a certain George Saxon makes a reputation by taking the...

The Vicar of ElLismond. By William Dancer. (Digby, Long, and

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Co.)—The world to which Mr. Dancer introduces us is not altogether like to the world which we know, but has distinct advantages over it. There are bad people in it, we regret to...

Home-Life and Letters of Mrs. Ellis. Compiled by her Nieces.

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(Nisbet and Co.) — Mrs. Ellis's books, "The Women of England," with others of similar titles and on branches of the same subject, were highly popular a generation ago. They are...

Pueris Reverentia. By the Author of "The Fight at Dame

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Europa's School." (Brown, Salisbury.)—Mr. Fiddlebags, an assist- ant-master at a great school which is here called " Switchamt sends up one Charlie Tremlett, for a flogging....

With Russian Pilgrims. By Alexander A. Boddy. (Wells Gardner, Darton,

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and Co.)—Mr. Boddy, who is a North-country clergyman, paid a visit to the Arctic Sea, to Archangel, and to the Monastery of Solovetsk, and other famous spots. He has some- thing...

Interviews. By Raymond Blathwayt. (A. W. Hall.)—Mr. Blathwayt carries the

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art of interviewing to a high pitch of per- fection. Apparently, he studies the special subject of every celebrity with whom he converses, just as an advocate gets up scientific...

Through Thick and Thin. By Margery Hollis. 3 vols. (Bentley

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and Son.)—This is a novel of no little merit. The heroine, with her resolute will and steadfast forgetfulness of self, is a fine study, and the minor character of the weak...

The Student's Guide to the University of Cambridge. (Deighton, Bell

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and Co., Cambridge ; Bell and Sons, London.)—This handbook has been, in a considerable degree, rewritten and generally brought up to date. It gives information about University...

The Book-Lover. By James Baldwin. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)— This

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"guide to the best reading" is drawn up with knowledge, care, and good-sense. Mr. Baldwin knows what he is talking about, and can give good advice as to what a student should...

The Handy-Book of Spelling. By F. W. Harding. (Biggs and

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Co.)—Mr. Harding has collected a number of special words. His lists will be found useful by those who want to test themselves or others. But how does he propose to spell "...

A Little Minx. By Ada Cambridge. (W. Heinemann.)—The heroine becomes

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twice, with unsatisfactory results, a bride, and apparently is about to find happiness with her third husband, when a lurch of the ship, of which he is the captain, hurls her...

An Heir to Millions. By Edgar Fawcett. (Sampson Low, Marston,

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and Co.)—The "Heir" is not a very interesting person, except so far as the owner of enormous wealth is bound to be interest- ing. The theorist, who starts with great schemes for...

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The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, and other New Stories. By 'Hark Twain.

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(Chatto and 1Vindus.)—There are some amusing things in this book, the interview between Noah and a German inspector of ships at Bremen being the most laughable, though there may...

Diogenes in London. By H. B. Marriott-Watson. (Methuen and Co.)—These

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"fantasies and sketches" seem to us but very poor stuff, only just within, if within at all, the limits of decency. But this is part of the newest conception of the literary art...

TRANSLATIONS.—The Oresteia of lEschy . tus Translated into English Prose. By Lewis

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Campbell. (Methuen and Co,)—Professor Camp- bell is as well qualified as any scholar in this country to translate .tEschylus,—as far, at least, as his knowledge of Greek and hie...

East Anglia. By S. Ewing Ritchie. (Jerrold and Sons.)—Mr. Ritchie

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tells a variety of stories, drawn from his own experience and from various other sources, personal and literary, about men, women, and plaCes in East Anglia. As usual, there are...

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LONDON: Printed by WYMAN and Sons (Limited) at 18 Exeter

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Street, Strand ; and Published by JOHN CAmpsuLL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Product of the On-soy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex at the !' BrneTeirou" Ogice No, 1...

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The more detailed figures received from Germany show some unexpected

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results of the elections. The old " Liberal " Party, headed by Herr Richter, has practically been anni- hilated, no member belonging to it having been returned at the first...

It was believed on Monday that a second and immense

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Panama scandal was about to burst on France. M. Deroalecle and M. Millevoye declared in the Chamber that they were in possession of documents, which they would produce, showing...

The result of the second ballots in Germany should be

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watched ; for many able men are anxious to introduce the practice into England. It has, no doubt, the merit that no man can be returned to Parliament unless returned by a true...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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I NTELLIGENCE was received in London on Friday afternoon of a great disaster to the Navy. The Vic- toria ' ironclad, of 10,400 tons, the flag-ship of the Mediter- ranean Fleet,...

The drought still continues, and its effects become worse. 'The

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hay-crop may be considered lost in France, England, 'Germany, and Hungary ; everywhere farmers are selling and killing beasts ; and everywhere the omnibus companies, tram...

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

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case.

The Russian Government, it seems pretty clear, is most anxious

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not to appear to be desiring war. It has just con- cluded a treaty of commerce with France, and is about to publish its details. It anticipates, however, that the Press will...

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FOE TME No. 3,391.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JUNE 24 1893. ( [RW;ISTERED AS A PRICE 63. NEWSPAPER. BY POST. OW.

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On Friday week, Mr. Cremer introduced his resolution in favour

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of negotiating a treaty of arbitration with the United States. Sir John Lubbock, who seconded the resolution in a remarkably able speech, gave some striking figures as to the...

It would seem that, while the authority of the United

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States Constitution is always treated by the Government as final in favour of any concession to the subordinate Legislature, it is quite ignored when its authority is against...

On Friday week, the discussion on the Fourth Clause of

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the Home-rule Bill, refusing to the Irish Legislature the right to make any law "whereby any person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law,"...

On Thursday, Mr. Gladstone made an announcement in re- gard

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to the Financial Clauses, the effect of which is to turn his Bill inside out. In the first place, the new financial arrange- ment is only to last six years, and no change will...

The principal discussion on Wednesday arose over Mr. D. Plunket's

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amendment prohibiting the Irish Legislature from making laws affecting Trinity College, Dublin, or the. University of Dublin. The action of the Roman Catholic Church in 1873...

On Monday, an amendment by Mr. T. H. Bolton securing

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compensation for property either taken or "injuriously affected" by the Irish Legislature, was negatived by a majority of 34 (284 to 250), and one by Mr. if. Hobhouse insisting...

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On Thursday, Mr. Cochrane moved an amendment intended to prevent the Irish Parliament from suppressing the Free- masons. Mr. Gladstone refused, however, to assent to the re-...

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Mr. Gladstone's announcement of his new policy was civilly received

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by the Unionist leaders, and was not denounced • at once by any party except the Parnellites ; but we can- not but think that it will be disastrous to the Govern- ment. In the...

We regret to note the death of the Rev. T.

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Mozley, probably the oldest leader-writer in the world. Though he was con- nected with the whole Tractarian movement, and was for a time Newman's right hand, his real business...

Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Leicester on Wednes- day, revived

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the history of the three conspicuous Irishmen who had broken their hearts over the repeal of the Union, or something equivalent to it,—O'Connell, Butt, and Parnell. Now, Mr....

It is stated that the Silver policy to be adopted

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by the Indian Government on the recommendation of the Herschell Commission will be made public next week, and rupee paper is rising fast. According to the belief on 'Change, the...

The Duke of Devonshire spoke at Henley on Monday, and

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treated the Linlithgowshire by-election as a clear sign of the turn of the tide in Scotland. He said that it was declared by their opponents to have been lost by the proposal to...

The extraordinary success of the purchase of the Suez Canal

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shares, viewed as a speculation, was brought out in a state- ment made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on Monday night, in answer to a question by Sir...

The papers are all publishing accounts of the pedigree of

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the Princess May, apparently intended to make out something very grand for her in that way. In this country, they are not in the least wanted. She is in the succession, and is a...

Bank Rate, 2' j per cent: New Consols (2D were on

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Friday 99.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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HOW TO MAKE A " SUBORDINATE " LEGISLA- TURE IMPRACTICABLE. I T appears to us that the Government are aiming at the very compromise which is most certain to excite every kind of...

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THE BILL FROM ITS FRIENDS' POINT OF VIEW. T HE most

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amazing thing about this Home-rule Bill is its ineptitude for its professed end, which is to restore to Ireland the national rights of which she has been deprived. It is like a...

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THE FRENCH PARNELL.

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M CLnMENCEAU has been suddenly and strangely • rehabilitated. He had suffered a disastrous, and we fear deserved, decline in general esteem, when an attack dictated by a kind of...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S MEDITATIONS.

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M R. GLADSTONE shows no sign of the hopelessness which the situation seems to justify. The Duke of Devonshire thinks his courage in circumstances so desperate deserving of the...

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THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. T HE German Elections, so far as their

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results are yet known, are an eminent example of the law that the misfortunes that happen are seldom those that you expect. No one can pretend that the composition of the new...

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ARBITRATION WITH AMERICA.

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I T is a pity that the discussion in the House on Friday week got labelled "International Arbitration," for in reality it had very little to do with that Utopian fad. What the...

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SHELLEY AS PROPHET.

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I T is probably not fair to the Master of University College, Oxford, to accept the report in the Times of Thursday week as adequately representing what he said of the...

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SHAKESPEARE'S BEER-JUG.

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W E all recognise differences of degree and kind in intel- lect much more easily than similar differences in imagination. Quite uneducated men perceive the former, and sometimes...

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ENNUI.

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S URELY mankind has sufficient faults and failings of its own to answer for, without being called upon to assume the responsibility of animal failings as well. An American...

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GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE.

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T HE present week marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Rev. Gilbert White, the author of "The Natural History of Selborne." He wrote but two books, and those of...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SIR WILFRID LAWSON ON THE VETO BILL. [To THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Your article on the Hyde Park Veto Demonstra- tion, in the Spectator of June 17th, charges the...

THE SUPPLY OF CURATES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I confess to have taken up your article in the Spectator of June 17th, thinking to find that the candidates for Orders at the Trinity...

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A NEW FOSTER-MOTHER FOR KITTENS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A somewhat similar incident to that recorded by Mr. Egerton in the Spectator of June 3rd took place some years back at Northrepps Hall, near Cromer, the seat...

THE LABOURER IN NEW ZEALAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR."] 'SIR, —In the Spectator of March 11th appears a letter on the condition of the labourer here, and the rate of wages paid. I think it is a crying shame that...

THE POVERTY OF THE CLERGY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Si,—This subject is evidently pressing heavily on the hearts of those who have the care and oversight of the churches, and that, too, from...

MR. FOWLER'S REMINISCENCES OF AYLESBURY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As the story Mr. Fowler tells (in his "Echoes of Old County Life ") of Lord Southampton and Mr. Mowbray Morris has found its way into many reviews besides...

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ART.

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PICTURE GALLERIES AND A PORTFOLIO. AT the Fine Art Society's Galleries a collection is on view of drawings by Mr. Linley Sambourne. There are drawings- contributed to Punch...

POETRY.

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A BALLAD OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS.. IN the coves of the Island of Treasure, On the tropical Beach of Falese, I have taken unlimited pleasure, Wafted there by a favouring breeze. I...

BIRD-NAMES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TR& "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The number of birds—" dicky-birds," shall we call them ?—which are familiarly known by Christian names is probably much larger than your...

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BOOKS.

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A LEAP IN THE DARK.* PROFESSOR DICEY is the Burke of our generation, and a Burke who never forgets to write and argue like a gentleman, —a Burke, too, whose pages are never...

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RECENT NOVELS.* IF any readers are on the look-out for

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a thoroughly good romance which will take them into a world far removed from the familiar trivialities of the modern novel of society, they cannot do better than betake...

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THE CAVALIER AND HIS LADY.* A Life of the Duke

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of Newcastle, written by his Duchess, has appeared in five different editions. Originally printed as a thin folio in 1667, it was translated the next year into Latin, then...

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A NEW BOOK ON ANCIENT FINLAND.*

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DR. BnowN informs us in his preface that the present work is intended to form one of a series of compilations on the Ethnography of Northern Europe, suited for popular study;...

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HERMAN MELVILLE.* Mu. STEVENSON would have deserved well of the

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republic of letters if he had done nothing but bring th6 South Seas into fashion again. Our fathers and grandfathers revelled in the stories of that wonderful region "to the...

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MR. COLLINGWOOD'S "LIFE OF RUSKIN." THE author considers that no

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apology is needed in this instance for writing a book on one who is yet among us ; and he adds that "Mr. Ruskin has been public property, so to say, for more than half a...

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Studies in Life and Literature. By Charles T. Lusted. (Digby,

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Long, and Co.)—Mr. Lusted's prose and verso are alike sadly com- monplace. Here is the beginning of an essay on " Knowledge " :— "The beauties and advantages of knowledge are...

Ploy in Provence. By Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

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(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. and Mrs. Pennell were very much pleased with the eople and the country of Provence, and express this pleasure in a way that makes their readers feel some...

One Virtue. By Charles T. C. James. (A. and C.

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Black.)—This is intended as a serious—indeed, a painfully serious—book. And yet it is hardly possible not to smile at the absurdities associated with the scoundrel-villain of...

Ships that Pass in the Night. By Beatrice Harraden. (Lawrence

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and Bullen.)—There is a great deal of cleverness, and a good deal of human nature as well, in this rather dismal story of discontent, dullness, and death. But largo capitals are...

The Inspector - 'General: a Russian Comedy. By Nikolai V. Gogol. Translated

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from the original by Arthur A. Sykes. (Walter Scott.)—The plot of Gogol's comedy is simple in the .extreme. The officials of a Russian town, a corrupt and oppressive set—this is...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Princeby Ohandos : a Memoir. By John Robert Robinson. .(Sampson Low and Co.)—The "Princely Chandos " would pro- bably have been forgotten by this time but for the savage...

The Mechanics of Daily Life. By V. Perronet Sells. (Methuen.)

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—Some of the more familiar illustrations of mechanics in our sur- roundings are taken by Mr. Sells and thoroughly explained, somewhat technically, be it said, and abstraDtedly;...

The New Eden, by C. J. Cutliffe Hyne (Longmans), is

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a very clever and startling experiment in fiction, although its readers may be reminded of certain old-fashioned stories of the "Paul and Virginia" kind. An Archduke, who is...

Some Lectures by Sir George Paget. With a Memoir by

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Charles E. Paget. (Macmillan and Bowes, Carobridge.)—Sir George Paget spent much of his time and power in teaching and adminis- trative work, and carried on at the same time a...

Town and Home Gardening. By Mrs. T. Chamberlain, F.B.H.S. (Virtue

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and Co.)—The preface to this little voluine states that it is "compiled chiefly from notes of lectures on 'Town Gardening,' given at the Portman Rooms in the spring of 1891, and...

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Culture in Early Scotland. By James Mackinnon. '(Williams and Norgate.s—This

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is a useful, informing, and interesting, rather than original, book,—based on careful reading, and free from viewiness. Mr. Mackinnon, like everybody else, has his own...

Master Don Gesualdo. By Giovanni Verge. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—This

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is evidently a very good piece of translation, but the wisdom of its publication may be questioned. It is un- mitigated. Italian Zolaism, an unrelieved picture of moral squalor....

Princess Heliotrope. By " Pynx Gryph." (Fisher Unwin.)—This is really

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a very clever and amusing book, although the writer is per. haps a trifle too anxious to manufacture fun of the kind favoured by audiences that gloat over opera-bouffe. Thus...