A NEW LIFE OF SWIFT.* PROBABLY no English writer, except Shakespeare, has been so much written about as Swift ; and certainly none has suffered more from the ravages of...

LONDON: APRIL 25, 1896.

THESE last gleanings of Mr. Lowell'a verse are of the scantiest. The slender volume owes half its bulk to blank pages; the poems are but ten in all, and number something leas...

Tall way from Innsbruck to Judenstein, in the commune of Rinn (unless you go thither by Hall), goes upward past Schloss Ambras, then winds along the slopes of dark-browed...

was born about 1532, in Galicia; this we learn from the archives of the Inquisition, with whom in after years Sarmiento had much to do. Entering the army at the age of eighteen,...

WE venture to assert, and we say it with a tolerably fall knowledge of what Mr. Saintsbury has accomplished as a literary critic, that this " History," which must have been the...

George Armand Purse, C.B. (William Clowes and Sons.) —There is no standard English work on the subject of informa- tion in war, and Colonel Parse has hardly filled the gap. His...

idea of the conversion to reputable courses of some chevalier d'industrie or other "bad lot" through the instru- mentality of an overmastering and unselfish passion is no new...

an introduction by Robert Bridges. 2 vole. "The Muses' Library." (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Of this beautiful edition of Keats, the poet of beauty, no words can be uttered that are...

Co.)—This reissue of the celebrated edition of The Fasten Letters prepared by Mr. Gairdner will, we hope, serve to make it more widely known. Apart from their historical...

Heinemann.)—The side from which the author of this bulky volume has inspected Africa—we mean the outside— doubtless has its attractions equally with the interior, of which in...

Marci Tullii Ciceronis de Natura Deorum. Translated by Francis Brooks, M.A. (Methuen and Co.)—This is an accurate and scholarly version of a treatise which presents...

(Melville, Mullen, and Slade, Melbourne.)—This is a reprint and second edition of the work which Mr. Rusden originally issued in London, and which involved him in such...

Co.)—The author of this pleasant, simple, unpretentious book —the appropriate second title of which is " Stray Leaves from Nature's Byways "—is not a Jefferies or a Burroughes,...

is a readable, easy-flowing story—unfor- tunately distended to three volumes—of folk more or leas "in society." What sort of folk these are may be gathered from the leading...

from the French by Mrs. B. M. Sherman. (Edward Arnold.) —This work is described by its author as an idyll of the time of Napoleon I. It is the story, more particularly, of the...

Annan and Sons, Glasgow.)—This unreasonably bulky book has one good feature—the illustrations. From them it is possible to form an estimate of the work of Chalmers, the...

George Herbert Bartlett. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is an enter- taining, and, in a way, fascinating story of a vacation of four students. The way in which they catch fish,...

is a story of social difficulties, overcome by tact and patience. Whether any one of Barbara's disposition would be quite as unreasonable as she shows herself may, perhaps, be...

eleven stories have already appeared in various periodicals. As every one knows what Mr. Besant's excellencies are, and as many have probably seen these particular tales, it is...

—Professor Menzies follows the historical method. Judaism and Christianity take their place, according to the order which this method imposes, among the religions of the world....

Bowden.)—This is a second series of " The Adventures of Martin Hewitt, Investigator." It is needless to criticise detective-stories. They are almost always readable, for they...

R. B. Cunningham° Graham (Adam and Charles Black.)—All of these essays are full of quaint knowledge, while such of them as are the work of the male member of the copartnery are...

and Co.)—This is an Ibaenitish tragedy of New Womanliness that ought to be very welcome to Mrs. Lynn Linton, and it contains much cleverness of a kind that is, however, rather...

story would seem to prove only too clearly that Miss Sergeant has yielded to the literary failing of the day, and is writing too much and too rapidly. The fundamental " idea "...

and Co.)—There is a good deal of cleverness and cynicism, and rather too much of London slang and very shady London journalism, in this story, the author of which is probably a...

—This can hardly be considered one of its author's best efforts. The plot interest, indeed, is very considerable, and is sustained from start to finish. Moreover, the question...

and Co.) —This volume belongs to the series of "Masters of Contemporary Music," in which English, French, and German have already bad their place. Between England and Italy...

a volume published in 1893, com- pletes the collection of Mr. Theodore Tilton's verse. All the pieces contained in it have, we understand, been published before. Mr. Tilton's...

of this little volume recommends it. Mr. Snell is an expert in ophthalmic science, and his experience and conclusions are of the greatest interest. It is unfortunate that in the...

Great Queen Street, W.G. ; and Published by JOHN Jsisze BAYER, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " BeROTATOR"...

to Mr. Chamberlain's invitation in a despatch which is "con- ciliatory in tone," bat which concedes nothing, and which means, it may be presumed, that unless certain concessions...

A ir BOURGEOIS has been defeated. On Tuesday the l• Senate, by a majority of nearly two to one, refused to vote the supplies required for the garrison of Madagascar until they...

we are. It appears to be certain that the negotiations with the Emperor Menelek, which seemed to be advancing favour. ably, have been broken off, the Italians making it a sine...

certainly intended to alarm us afresh, and to some extent perhaps has alarmed us afresh, as to the danger of war with the United States. He points out that we have come to no...

of much importance, unless, indeed, the cutting of the telegraph to the South, announced on Thursday, should indicate an immediate attack on Bulawayo. The whites in that town,...

case.

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half the rates on agricultural land by means of an Imperial grant-in-aid, gave some very striking quotations from the evidence laid before the Royal Commission to prove that the...

the public, have disappeared this week. The first is M. Mon Say, the French Senator, political economist, and statesman. M. Say was, as a clear thinker, a master of State...

was a sort of full-dress rehearsal, we suppose, of the speech he will deliver in the House of Commons in moving the rejection of the Education Bill. He declared that that Bill...

death of Herr von Schrader, have proved as sterile as debates in Germany often do. Dr. Bachem, speaking for the Centre on Monday, denounced the practice as contrary alike to...

country, made a most cordial speech at Birmingham on Wednesday after visiting the technical school and the Mason College, the Free Library and the Shakespeare Memorial Library,...

that his great object was to unite the Dutchmen and the' Englishmen in the administration of African affairs, and declared that but for the folly of the Jameson raid, there...

cussed the Irish Estimates, and the question of the Lord- Lieutenancy was raised, Mr. Davitt suggesting that the Lord- Lieutenant and his household should be abolished, and...

Windsor in regard to the experiment in public-house management made by him on bis estate at St. Fagan's, near Cardiff. After building a specially comfortable house, resembling a...

hand over .21.500.000 " to one section and one class of the community." The local taxation of real property was unfair, but it did not injure the land worse than other...

tutional Club on Wednesday, the Earl of Kintore in the chair. Lord Kintore, in proposing Mr. Chamberlain's health, struck the right key when he said that Mr. Chamberlain had won...

the Birmingham School Board, Mr. Chamberlain expresses his great preference for the new Education Authority as compared with School Boards elected by the cumulative vote; and...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, Mt

THE FALL OF M. BOURGEOIS. T HE three great forces opposed to M. Bourgeois have proved too strong for him, and for the moment be has fallen. The Conservatives of France were very...

the distressed agriculturists by paying half the rates now levied on the farms, and are going to pay them out of the fund raised by the Death-duties on personal property. This...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is one of the very best debaters in the House of Commons, but to our mind he never speaks so well as when he speaks on the practical matters with which he...

who died on Tuesday at the age of sixty-five, was in many ways the very flower and perfect type of modern millionaires, and must have been, if only half the stories about him...

W E cannot agree with the Times as to the cause of the great rise in the price of Console, and, there- fore, of all other first-class securities. That the purchases for the...

I T is a notable example of the ease with which we get accustomed to improvements that the persistence of duelling in Germany strikes us as something unintelligible. We forget...

I N one of the articles paradoxically headed " The Wares of Autolycus " which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette last week,—the number for April /5th,—there was an in- teresting...

I N the short biography of Mr. Pearson—Charles Henry Pearson—which we published immediately after his death in May, 1894, we omitted to call attention to one quality of his mind...

T HE lake of Virginia Water is, in a sense, the result of the battle of Culloden. George, Duke of Cumberland, was, like the Duke of Cambridge, not only Commander-in-Chief but...

THE LIFE OF D. G. ROSSETTI. [To TEN EDITOR or TIM • BPRCTAT0161 SIR, —In your review of Mr. W. M. Rossetti's memoirs of his brother, the following words occur :—" Mr. William...

spirit of the wood is stirred, And the spirit of the air is beautiful and fair, And so is the song of the bird. And there cometh a whisper of Spring, And its footfall is light...

[To TEM BEMs or TH2 "SPECTATOR.' - ] SIR, —The statements made in the Spectator a few weeks ago on the above subject were promptly brought under the notice of this Society....

INVENTION. I ENVY not the Lai k his song divine, Nor thee, 0 Maid, thy beauty's faultless mould. Perhaps the chief felicity is mine, Who hearken and behold. The joy of the...

SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES'S DRAWINGS.—THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE collection of Sir Edward Borne-Jones's drawings at the Fine - Art Society's Galleries forcibly demonstrates the...

MR. LECKY ON DEMOCRACY.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] LAST week we considered some of the more general aspects of Mr. Lecky's new work, and the views indicated by the author with...

the genuine outcome of that untamed longing for adventure and hatred of the restraints of civilisa- tion which, apart from the battle for a living, is leading so many farther...

A. GREAT deal of very effective local colour and folk-lore ; a beautiful and high-hearted heroine ; abundant dialogue that is at the same time extremely colloquial and...

THE recent death of Mrs. Rundle Charles, the well-known author of The Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, and of many tales of nearly equal popularity, will have been...

(Religious Tract Society.)—Miss Eleanor Winstanley makes a will in which she bequeaths her property of Moseley Dene to her grandniece, the heroine of the story. Having made her...

Muren is a Cornish lad, who, after many efforts, obtains his grandfather's consent to follow a sea life. The story tells what are the consequences of this change, how weakly...

THE appearance of a new volume from the author of Monarchs I have filet is an event of no everyday importance in the annals of biographical belles lettres. For not only does it...

School and University. By the Rev. H. C. Adams. (Routledge and Sons.)—This will be found an interesting story, in which the scenes of school and college life are drawn by a...

is the reprint of part of a treatise which appeared more than sixty years ago under the title of an "Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and the Sources of Taxation." It is one...

Hapgood devotes her first chapter to explaining what exaggerated notions people have about the severity of the police and passport systems in Russia. Doubtless the experiences...

we have ten essays, the work of a thoughtful, cultivated man, to which the circumstances of the writer, as we see them in the sub-title, "Thoughts from the Note-book of a...

A. Hinkson). (A.. and C. Black.)—The " isle " is an Irish island, with inhabitants of a marked character, which Mrs. Hinkson has studied with a keen and affectionate interest....

of Ernst Ahlgren's book is " Tru/s Jonasson," and not " Mils Jonasson," as printed last week.]

realised, with more or less success, may be mentioned together. These are After Sedgemoor, by Edgar Pickering (Hutchinson), and The Lord of Lowedale, by R. D. Chetwode (Jerrold...

(Blackie and Son.)—The two brothers, the plain practical Tom, who has no thought but of helping his gifted young brother, and the young brother, with the good qualities and...

Passe.—In Weymouth Street. London, on Sunday, April 19th, Marion. aged 39, th rd &waiter of the late A. Wylie, Esq, of Pi Wawa, Leslie, Fife, and widow of the late George Passy,...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Welling!on Street, Strand, W.C.

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W1111AM Museum, May, 1895, imp 8vo Conned IC.), Autobiographical Reminiscences, Sao Green (E. E The Chat erten My.tery , 12mo Hadjirs: a Turkish Love-Story, by " Adeie.,," or...