25 SEPTEMBER 1886

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE week has not been a pleasant one to the political observer. The useless and wearisome Session has, indeed, practically ended ; but Mr. Parnell, aided by the excusable but...

The Russian Government is certainly acting in Bulgaria as if

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it had no opposition to fear. It has demanded the command of the Bulgarian troops, and has handed in to the Regency a Note insisting that the traitors who seized Prince...

It is believed in Bulgaria that the Russian candidate will

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be the Prince of Montenegro, and that his chance is not a bad one, the leaders in Sofia having an idea that any Prince they may elect will be unable to endure Russian dictation....

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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It is our intention. occasionally to issue gratis with the " SPECTATOR" SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENTS, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The...

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

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any case.

Prince Bismarck has published, through the North German Gazette, an

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explanation of his policy in Bulgaria. It is sub- stantially the one we ventured to suggest a fortnight since. A hostile attitude, says the writer, on the part of Germany to-...

Lord R. Churchill on Wednesday evening made a declaration on

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foreign policy, considered on the Continent to be of some import- ance. After floods of talk from the Parnellites about the Fahy case, which is a case for the tribunals, and not...

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Nothing teaches like responsibility. The Tories did not like the

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Closure while the Liberals were in power ; but six weeks of debate, with the Parnellites obstructing business, have made them hearty converts. Lord Salisbury, speaking at St....

The chief speakers on the other side were Mr. Gibson,

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Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Matthews, Lord Harlington, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Mr. Gibson pointed out that the Bill prejudged the ordered inquiry into rents, that no...

Mr. Parnell opened the debate on his Land Bill on

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Mon- day in a studiously moderate speech, gritty with statistics. He rested his case on figures showing that the Land Court had not anticipated any fall in prices, that the fall...

Mr. Morley's friends tell us we did not do him

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justice in our reference last week to his attitude towards obstruction. We spoke of "the absence of any spoken censure of his followers and allies." It is pointed out that Mr....

The numbers surprised the Liberals ; but every member of

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the Tory Party was either present or had paired ; and of 38 Unionists present, 35 voted with Sir M. Hicks-Beach. They had very little option, for the Government must be...

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh seems to be at

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once a Bishop, a Nationalist, and a Christian,—characters, unfortu- nately, not invariably united. In a recent address to his clergy, while speaking dolefully as to the peace of...

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The rumour about the King of Spain was doubtless invented

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for Stock Exchange purposes, but no one would have been surprised had it been true. The crime would be no worse than the kidnapping of Prince Alexander, which all Europe has...

The discovery of two large gold-fields, or rather systems of

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gold-fields, is announced this week. The first is in Tasmania, and is a little too brilliant for belief, the local editors writing of reefs which yield 164 ounces to the ton....

The Times' correspondent in Paris publishes and vouches for an

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account of the means by which M. de Freycinet compelled the Pope to give up his project of sending a Legate, and afterwards a Nuncio, to Pekin. The Legate, Mgr. Agliardi, was...

The Zorillists, as they call in' Spain the Republican section

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favourable to violence, have made another futile attempt at revo- lution. Late on Sunday night, three hundred men, infantry and cavalry belonging to the garrison of Madrid,...

The Prince of Wales has offered a suggestion for the

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celebra- tion of her Majesty's Jubilee year. He wishes an Institute to be founded, by subscription, of course, to be devoted to India and the Colonies, which shall be at once a...

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The Americans think they can improve greatly upon cremation, which,

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with all its recommendations, hurts the general feeling, and consequently does not spread so rapidly as it should. Their latest idea is that if the dead body were placed in a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DEBATE ON MR. PARNELL'S BILL. T HE debate has not convinced us that the Government was wise in refusing all concession to Mr. Parnell. Mr. Gladstone, it is true, was for...

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THE ANARCHY IN BELFAST.

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I T impossible that things in Belfast can be much longer i allowed to go on as they have been going for the past two months. Not mere disorder, but definite street-fighting has...

THE WAR CLOUDS.

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T HE outlook of Europe is on one side very bad. We are unable to accept either the ethics or the policy taught by the Peace Society, holding that war may sometimes be a duty,...

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GERMAN COLONIAL POLICY.

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N OW that there is no risk of any misunderstanding with Prince Bismarck in reference to the colonial pro- jects of our Teutonic neighbours, the proceedings of the General German...

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THE PRINCE OF WALES'S IDEA.

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rpHE vague and shadowy proposals for a fitting memorial of the Queen's Jubilee have this week taken definite shape. On Monday the papers published a letter addressed by the...

M. DE FREYCINET AND THE CHURCH OF FRANCE.

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W E ventured last week, when recording the Pope's sub- mission to France in the matter of the protectorate of Chinese Catholics, to suggest that the menace addressed to his...

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EPISCOPAL INCOMES.

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A PARAGRAPH has been going the round of the papers in which a list is given of the sums of money left by some forty Bishops whose wills were proved between 1856 and 1885. These...

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THE END OF THE ENGLISH SHAKERS. lifted by some passion

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out of ordinary humanity. The message she gave was one not inconsistent with their earlier faith ; and as to her discipline, the poverty, the vegetarianism, the constant labour,...

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THE LATEST INCIDENT IN BENGAL.

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What fools the Hindoos must be !' exclaim sensible Euro- peans, who would be furious, nevertheless, if deceived into eating human flesh, or if they knew that human milk was sold...

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SIR JOHN LUBBOCK'S SHOP BILL.

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S URELY Sir John Lubbock has gone too far in his "Bill to Regulate the Hours of Labour in Shops." We have always held, and still hold, that the long hours kept in the retail...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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RIPON MILLENARY. [To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow me to say a word or two in reply to Pro- fessor Freeman's comment upon the Ripon Millenary ? 1. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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cannot allow my friend Mr. MacColl to get out of any share that he may have had in the doings of Ripon quite so easily as he tries to do in your issue of September 18th. I have...

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"HOUSED BEGGARS."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 • Sin,—This heading is the title which the author of "Three Acres and a Cow" gives to the paper which he read at the late meeting of the...

ALLOTMENTS, PEASANT-PROPRIETORS, AND CO.OPERATIVE FARMING.

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LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 SIR,-1 have been for some years a constant reader of the Spectator, seldom agreeing with its political views, but highly appreciating...

IS THE SEA-GULL EDIBLE?

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LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—In your issue of September 18th, in the article on "Two Electric-Boats," you comment on one of the crew of the Volta' seizing a...

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POETRY.

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[" Der Mansell hat drittehalb Minuten, eine an liioheln, eine zu seufren, mid eine halt* rn lieben, dont mitten in dieser Minute stirht er."j Two minutes and a half has man to...

BOOKS.

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FOSSIL MAN.* THE latest chapter in the Great Stone Book, the genesis and development of man, seems to have concentrated on itself during some years past the popular interest in...

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MINOR POETS AND VERSEMAKERS.* POETRY, the highest and most difficult

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of the arts, is in one respect the easiest. To model in clay or work in marble, to paint, with even a faint appearance of skill, upon canvas, or to compose music, needs...

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MR. SIDGWICK ON ETHICAL HISTORY.*

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THE name of its author is a sufficient guarantee for the ability with which this little book has been written, and for the accuracy and fullness of knowledge which it displays....

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A FRENCH ANGLOPHOBIST ON IRELAND.* HOLDING French correspondence on Ireland

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to be either manu- factured at home or largely coloured by the views of the English Press, which has "never yet condescended to speak the truth pure and simple about Ireland,"...

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STUBBS'S LECTURES ON MEDDEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY,

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IF the historians of the future do not improve upon the methods of their predecessors, it will not be for lack of counsellors. A few weeks ago we reviewed in these columns Mr....

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AMERICAN HUMOUR AND ENGLISH SATIRE • THERE are far more

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points of dissimilarity than of resemblance between the American author of Rudder Grange and the English author of Thomas Wanless, Peasant. The one seems to have "a mind at...

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A Hero of Our Time. By M. U. Lermontoff. Translated

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from the Russian, with Life and Introduction, by R. I. Lipmann. (Ward and Downey.)—Lermontoff's most characteristic work, if not his chef d'ceuvre, first appeared in an English...

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Skipper Worse. By Alexander L. Kiella,nd. Translated from the Norwegian

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by Henry John, Earl of Dade. (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle,and Rivington.)—A Norwegian novel will have an attraction for many of us as taking us to a new field of fiction; if...

English Political History, 1880-1885. By W. M. Pimblett. (Elliot Stock.)—Contrasting

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the account given by Mr. Gladstone to the electors of Midlothian in September, 1885, of the principal measures that the Government had carried to a successful issue, with Lord...