25 OCTOBER 1890

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An explanation of the reported German proclamation allowing the sale

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of slaves in East Africa has at length been published in Berlin. It appears to have been drawn up by Arabs under German authority, and transmitted by an influential Arab to the...

The New York correspondent of the Times confirms the report

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that the McKinley Tariff is creating great irritation throughout the States. The consumers had been told that prices would not be increased, business being only transferred from...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 1st, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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

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case.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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(AN Wednesday we suffered a disastrous defeat at Eccles, ‘..1 in Lancashire, where Mr. Roby, the Gladstonian, was re- turned, pledged not only to Home-rule it to an...

Mr. Gladstone was received in Scotland with the usual enthusiasm

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on Monday, and on Tuesday made his first speech in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange. We have dealt with the most important part of his speech, his declaration that the exceptional...

Mr. Howorth, M.P., who was on the spot, and amongst

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the most energetic of the workers, declares that in every district where there were no colliers the Unionists increased their poll, but that the colliers turned the scale. But...

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, one of the older Nationalists who

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were patriots before anything, and who were prepared to ." liberate " Ireland honourably by armed insurrection, has addressed a strong letter to the Archbishop of Cashel on the...

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Mr. Gladstone made on Thursday, at West Calder, a speech

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which seemed to promise real guidance on the labour question, but which, directly it came to its operative part, quavered off into uncertainty and hesitation. He began, of...

On the subject of the general condition of the labouring

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classes, Mr. Gladstone described with great force and eloquence what they had gained by Free-trade, and by Joseph Hume's success in repealing the laws against combination, and...

The mystery of the Boulangist money seems to be finally

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cleared up. Besides the £120,000 subscribed by the Duchesse d'ITzes, the Comte de Paris gave £100,000, making, with other smaller subscriptions, nearly £300,000 in all. An...

The Times of Tuesday startled the commercial world by an

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article which implied that the new Union of Shipowners intended to "lay up" all shipping in order to compel the sub- mission of the labourers' Unions connected with their...

On Saturday, Mr. Balfour dealt with the attack on the

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Tipperary proceedings of the Government. He denied posi- tively that Mr. Shannon, who is Bitting on the Bench at Tipperary, is engaged in the executive duties of controlling the...

Mr. Balfour met with a great reception at Newcastle-on- Tyne

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yesterday week from the Northern Union of Conserva- tive Associations, and made speeches which have given rise to various sharp collisions between himself and Mr. John Morley,...

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The Servian Government is devoting itself to the strength. ening

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and reorganising of its Army, and has now 160,000 men, Reserves included, all provided with the newest rifles. Every State in the Eastern Peninsula is doing the same thing,...

We perceive that Sarah Bernhardt, in her new representa- tion

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of Cleopatra, has departed from the traditional idea of the Queen's physique, and appears with auburn or reddish- brown hair. That is probably an innovation in the direction of...

M. Ronvier, the French Minister of Finance, has had fresh

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difficulties with his Budget. He is still £600,000 short, and proposed to raise this sum by sharp duties on patent medi- cines, cosmetics, and mineral waters. The Budget Com-...

Sir Richard Burton died at Trieste on Monday, at the

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age of sixty-nine. He was one of the earliest and greatest of modern African explorers—he discovered Lake Tanganyika —a profound Arabic scholar, who really understood Arab...

The Archbishop of Canterbury is to deliver judgment in the

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Bishop of Lincoln's case next Friday, too late, we fear, for our next issue. It is a judgment which must have great interest for the Church at large, and may have very weighty...

To this Mr. Morley replied on Monday in a speech

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at New- castle, and afterwards in letters to the Times, that whether or not Colonel Caddell were right in anticipating mis- chief, he yet, acting on Mr. Morley's own advice, did...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent.

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New Console (g) were on Friday 944 to 94-I.

A great controversy has been going on concerning what is

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called the " Reconciliation Service " held in St. Paul's as a sort of formal recognition of the desecration of the act of suicide committed there at the end of September, and by...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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■ 411.■ THE CATASTROPHE AT ECCLES. T HE catastrophe at Eccles is a serious one, though it should only make the Unionists fight the harder. What it shows, as almost all the...

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ricti, THREATENED " LOCK-OUT " OF COMMERCE. T HE statement made

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by the Times on Tuesday, that the federated shipowners of Great Britain had in principle approved a plan for resisting the oppression of the Unions by laying up their ships in...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S ANATHEMA ON IRISH LAW AND GOVERNMENT.

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M R. GLADSTONE certainly succeeds in inflicting great pain on his opponents by his speeches on the Irish Question. But we doubt whether the kind of pain which he inflicts is...

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THE HONOURS TO MARSHAL VON MOLTKE. T HERE is one trade

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left in the world, it appears, in which the " hands " are notjealous of the brain which guides them, and that is the soldier's. The German Emperor wishes that October 26th,...

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EUROPEAN THUGGEE. B UT for an accidental advantage, the citizens of

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New Orleans would find the suppression of the Sicilian Secret Society which has just murdered their Chief of Police, an exceedingly difficult task. The suspects, as it happens,...

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BULGARIAN POLITICS.

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" B ULGARIA wants nothing more from Russia, neither her honey, nor her sting," was not a grateful speech from the Premier of that country to the repre- sentative of the nation...

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THE EDUCATING POWER OF BOOKS.

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I N opening the new public library given by Mr. Livesey to the parish of Camberwell last Saturday, Sir E. Clarke took occasion to enlarge on the educating power of books, and...

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MR. H. S. MARKS'S BIRDS.

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W E remarked last year that Mr. Marks, while remaining a master of the quaint and sad aspects of bird-life, gave us in his brilliant pictures of macaws and parrots, promise of...

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NATURAL SELECTION AND SOCIALISM.

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-i-T was a pity that Mrs. Fawcett and Mr. Grant Allen should have chosen the same night at the end of last week for their addresses on the subject of Socialism ; other- - wise,...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND THE COMMANDMENTS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—You do me justice in supposing that I cannot have meant what my words at the...

THE BISHOP-DESIGNATE OF ROCHESTER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—Will you permit me, as a clergyman in the neighbour- hood where the Dean of Windsor must be best known, to observe, that the estimate...

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"THE MOMENT AFTER."

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go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT08."1 Ste,—While thanking you for your thoughtful review of my last story, " The Moment Alter," and thoroughly appreciating the earnestness of...

"BORN TEACHERS."

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the Spectator of October 18th, in a review of "Lectures on Language," by Professor Laurie, we read the following :— " He...

THE LATE MR. P. H. GOSSE AND GEOLOGY. [TO THE

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EDITOR 01 TRY "EPICTATO8." . 1 SIR,—My attention has only to-day, through Mr. W. K. Gill's kind letter to the Spectator, been drawn to the extraordinary statement which...

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BOOKS.

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MR. LECKY'S NEW VOLUMES.* [FIRST NOTICE.] MR. LECKY need not have apologised, as he implicitly does in his preface, for the size of these two volumes, which are devoted...

PARSONS AND GUIDE-POSTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your review of October 11th of Mr. Page's " Exmoor," you quote an anecdote given by him concerning " parsons " and " guide-posts...

MR. MONKHOUSE AND MRS. BARBAULD.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In your review of Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse's volume of poems, " Corn and Poppies," you quote three stanzas from a poem called " Any Soul...

THE SONG OF THE WILD CANARY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the Spectator of October 4th is an attiele on " Talking Birds," in which I was surprised to read the following statement :—"...

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MODERN CRITICISM AND THE FOURTH GOSPEL.* THERE are very few

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English scholars who have sufficient learning to follow the story of the criticism of the Fourth Gospel in Archdeacon Watkins's very learned and elaborate Bampton Lectures with...

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A SKETCH OF HAWTHORNE.* This sketch of Hawthorne by Mr.

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Moncure Conway is in many ways a pleasant and sympathetic one. He has managed to convey a very real impression of the charm of Hawthorne's unworldly and simple character, and...

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SUV6ROFF.*

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A Al.73101:01 has appeared in the papers during the last few weeks, that the military authorities are taking some steps to stop the entry into the officers' lists of our Army of...

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A SMALL BOOB ON A GREAT SUBJECT.•

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MANY years ago, there issued from the press a series bearing the title we have adopted for the heading of our article, and which may most fitly be applied to the little volume...

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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THERE are months of good and bad novels, just as there are months of good and bad weather; and the October of 1890 may be regarded with satisfaction by the meteorologist of...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. Mamma's Black Nurse Stories. By M. P. Milne - Home. (Black- wood and Sons.)—Negro folk-lore, when told with the gestures and in the indescribable jargon peculiar...

Prince Starbeam. By A. E. Waite. (Tames Burns.)—No doubt Mr.

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Waite, in Prince Starbeam, wishes us to understand an allegory of the sufferings and final purification of the Human Soul. As a fairy-story it is too long and diffuse, and...

Tales and Legends from the Land of the Tsar. Translated

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by Edith folk-tales. There is, indeed, a certain difficulty in identifying them sometimes ; the Russian tale-teller is not happy unless he can put plenty of meaningless padding...

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Halt ! By the Author of " Honour Bright." (Wells

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Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a bright and vigorous story, enforcing the moral of obedience in a very forcible way. The hero is a well-meaning lad who is in too great...

Phil : a Story of School - Life. By Alfred Harper. (Digby

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and Long.)—There is a fair amount of incident in Phil, though it is -scarcely up to the average of school-tales. The author does not seem to us to know much about schoolboys....

Lost in Samoa. By E. S. Ellis. (Cassell and Co.)—This

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is a tale of sunk treasure, always an attractive subject. In real life, very vague schemes for recovering it commonly succeed, at least in finding the money of the credulous ;...

The Vicar's Trio. By Esme Stuart. (National Society.)—The three children,

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the Vicar's "trio," are those delightfully original -children we sometimes meet with in stories and sometimes in life. quaint, grown-up, little Mattis, Bernard, with his head...

Dangerous Jewels. By M. Bramston. (National Society.)— Miss Bramston seems

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to have thrown her strength into the por- traiture of the Gypsy girl Mahala. The figure is drawn with power, and very carefully and skilfully shaded. Most of the personages in...

In Safe Hands. By M. H. Howell. (Warne and Co.)—Miss

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Howell's tale is penetrated throughout with a religious spirit. If all the expressions that it takes are not exactly to our taste, yet we gladly acknowledge the wise...

In the Universal Review for this month, Mr. Sydney Hall

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con- tinues his account of the difficulties of an artist in war-time, and his recollections of "Twenty Years Ago" are some of them gruesome and others highly entertaining ; but...

breadth escapes of " Dick " in the land of

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Dahomey, and feel - unpleasantly thrilled at the description of Dahomian customs. - The zest of Dick's adventures—they are nothing very original or exciting in...

many would have desired in a story of the period

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it treats of ; but it has other good points, the first of which is the old-fashioned style. It is readable all the way through, and if occasionally prolix, it is of that...

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Paper and Parchment. By Alex. Charles Ewald. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr.

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Ewald's new volume of " historical sketches " is interesting and readable,—that is a matter of course. But it un- doubtedly suggests book-making more than any previous volume...

Saved by a Looking - Glass. By E. H. Wells. (Digby and

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Long.) —There is a terrible murder in this short tale, and that no doubt will be a sufficient recommendation of it. But, indeed, it is fairly well told, without attempting to...

Masques and Entertainments. By Ben Jenson. Edited by Henry Morley,

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LL.D. (Routledge.)—Mr. Saintsbury, in his " History of Elizabethan Literature," doubts whether Ben Jonson has attained anything like his proper place in English literary...

A South - Sea Lover. By Alfred St. Johnston. (Macmillan and Co.)—This

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is a very vigorous, brightly coloured picture of life in one of the islands of the Pacific. Christian North, an English sailor, escapes with a Polynesian shipmate from his ship,...

National Health. By B. W. Richardson. (Longmans and Co.) —Dr.

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Richardson deserves thanks for this capital abridgment of Sir Edwin Chadwick's " The Health of Nations." It will serve to remind many of us of the pressing needs of our...

West - Nor' - West. By Jessie M. E. Saxby. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—

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Mrs. Saxby is disappointing in her attempt to interest us in her trip to the Far West. She tells us nothing that we have not heard before, nothing that is fresh, or put in a new...

American Men of Letters : William Cullen Bryant. By John

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Bige- low. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.) —Bryant, to use Hawthorn's words, was a man of excellent good sense, and a very pleasant man to associate with, but, he...

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Is the Church of England Protestant? By Homersham Cox, M.A.

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(Griffith, Farrau, and Co.)—If Mr. Homersham Cox would be con- tent with the assertion that "Protestant" is an inadequate description of the Church of England, we should have...

In the " Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

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of the Christian Church," edited by Henry Wace, D.D., and Philip Schaff, D.D. (Parker, Oxford ; and Christian Literature Company, New York), we have the first volume of a second...

The Story of the Memorial Fountain of Shakespeare at Stratford-

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upon - Avon, edited by L. Clarke Davis (Cambridge, U.S.A.), con- tains not only an account of the Fountain, but also a description of various other gifts, such as the " Herbert...

My Curates. By a Rector. (Skeffington and Son.)--We cannot think

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that books of this kind serve any good purpose. They are not amusing; they are not instructive; they are almost certain to give offence. If the writer could have given us...

Rescuer and Rescued. By the Rev. James Wells, M.A. (Hodder

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and Stoughton.)—Mr. Wells, whose ministerial work lies at Glasgow, tells some pathetic stories, interesting and encouraging, of his experience among the "criminal clialses."...

English. Lands, Letters, and Kings. By Donald G. Mitchell. (Sampson

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Low and Co.)—This is a second volume, and deals with a variety of topics "from Elizabeth to Anne," its predecessor having done the same for the period "from Celt to Saxon."...

Youma. By Lafcadio Hearn. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This " Story

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of a West Indian Slave" takes us to a new scene. It is a tale of Martinique in the days before slavery was abolished, and a very striking story it is. Youma, the heroine, is...

The Agamemnon, Ch,oepliorm, and Eumenides of £schylus. Rendered into English

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Verse by John Dunning Cooper. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—We cannot compliment Mr. Cooper on his work. Had he no candid and competent friend, that a reviewer has to tell him that...

Seven Summers : an Eton Medley. By the Editors of

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the Parachute and the Present Etonian. (R. Ingalton Drake, Eton.)— There are certainly some amusing things in this book. Perhaps the best of the papers is that which is headed...

The eighth and concluding volume of the Irving Shakespeare edited

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by Henry Irving and Frank Marshall (Blackie and Son) con- tains, besides Prolegomena to the whole, Hamlet, King Henry VIII., and Pericles of Tyre, together with the poems. The...

The Stronger Will. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Among

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the persona' of Mrs. Everett- Green's drama, there are five who may be described as being more or less firm, not to say obstinate. There is Mr. Cadwallader, who is bent on...

We may commend to our readers a Biblical Atlas and

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Scripture Gazetteer (Religious Tract Society). The maps, which are by Mr. Henry Courtier, F.R.G.S., are eighteen in number, and are accompanied by explanatory letterpress.

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William Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator. By W. E. Axon. (Partridge

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and Co.)—Mr. Axon tells, in the compass of some hundred and fifty pages, the story of one of the eminent men who worked for Negro freedom in the States. Those who can read Mr....

From Messrs. Cassell we have received reprints of foreign critical

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editions of two classics,—Homeri /liadis Carmina, edited by Professor Rzaeh, of Prague; and Q. Horati Flacci Opera, edited by 0. Keller and L. Hasussner. Professor Rzach's...

Messrs. Cassell and Co. send us a number of the

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useful volumes known as "Letts's Diaries," a property important enough, we see, to be managed by a limited company. A Rough Diary, in three sizes, with either a week or a day in...

Salt and Light, and other Sermons. By D. Jones Hamer.

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(Hodder and Stoughton.)—One's first feeling, after reading these sermons, is regret that there can be no more of them. They seem so very specially adapted to the state of...