26 SEPTEMBER 1891

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Vienna correspondent of the Standard vouches for a story which, if true, is the strongest testimony yet received to the genuineness of the German Emperor's desire for...

The news of the week from China is not reassuring.

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A plot has been discovered to seize the arsenal at Foochow, and it is believed that even Shanghai, the greatest of the ports open to foreigners, is threatened. The agitation is...

Mr. J. Morley has commenced the campaign of the Recess

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from the Liberal side, but the speech he delivered at Cam- bridge on Monday is not very satisfying. He satirised the Liberal Unionists, and prophesied their extinction, and...

The German Emperor, advised, it is said, by Prince Hohen-

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lohe and Count Munster, has decreed the relaxation of the passport rules in Alsace-Lorraine. Indeed, except as against soldiers, they may be said to be abolished. They were im-...

Ex-President Balmaceda has passed sentence on himself, and on Saturday

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last he executed himself with a revolver. It appears that after his defeat he fled from Santiago, hoping to reach one of his steamers at a point along the coast. The steamer,...

IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

On Monday it was announced that Sir James Fergusson had

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been appointed Postmaster General. The appointment is probably as good a one as could have been made at the moment, for there is no inspired administrator available, and Sir...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 10th, will be issued, -gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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The Times of Tuesday gives the text of the Bill

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for splitting . Queensland into three Home-rule Provinces, with a united Central Government., which Sir Samuel Griffith recently laid upon the table of the Assembly. It is...

Mr. H. 0. Arnold Forster has started on another crusade.

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He helped greatly to improve the condition of the Navy, and now he wants to improve that of the Army. He declares that :—" Our cavalry are without horses, our artillery without...

On Wednesday, at the Dockers' Congress now being held at

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Hull, Mr. Tom Mann delivered his presidential address. There has been an improvement in their condition, but many of the dockers, he declares, are still at times called on to...

On Monday the Roman papers _published the text of a

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A letter addressed by the Pope to the Archbishops and Bishops in the German Empire and in Austria-Hungary, condemning the practice of duelling. The Pope condemns duelling as not...

On Wednesday, Lord Knntsford addressed a meeting at Saxmundham, in

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Suffolk, held in furtherance of his son's candidature. After praising Lord Salisbury for the successful apportionment of unappropriated Africa which he had carried through, Lord...

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Our power of defending the Thames and Medway from the

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shore, and without the aid of ships, was tested on Monday night, when four hired steamers, representing a hostile fleet, attempted to raid the Port of London. At 9 o'clock, the...

The Standard of Thursday contains an amusing account of how

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Stoke,' the elephant sent by the Queen to the Sultan of Morocco, was presented to that Potentate. The Sultan was in camp, and the elephant was, therefore, marched into the...

The Times of Wednesday gives an account of an attempt

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to introduce a sort of bastard hull-fighting into Belgium. A rough wooden bull-ring has been erected at Spa, and here on Sunday last a wretched bull, who, as the Times'...

The powers of the Mahatmas are not to be put

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to the test in London. Colonel Desmond has Veen informed, on behalf of his spiritual superiors, that his acceptance of Mr. Stuart Cumberland's challenge cannot be allowed, and...

A murder has been committed at Liverpool which is almost,

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though by no means quite, unique in the annals of crime, and which will greatly perplex the Judges. A coroner's jury has affirmed that Samuel Crawford, nine years old, and...

The Government of India has acted with prudence and magnanimity

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in the Bangabasi case. The jury, it will be re- membered, disagreed, andthe defendant, who had been accused of seditious writing, was not convicted, but the conductors of the...

Unless there is some mistake in the figures:the wealth of

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the City during the last ten years has increased at a rate which is positively astounding. According to the City Press of Wednesday, the profits assessed to income-tax under...

Bank Rate, 31- per cent.

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New Consols (2k) were on Friday'941 to 941.

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UNIONISTS AND TORIES.

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W E cannot see what object the Times had in printing its Monday's article on " The Liberal Unionist Position by a Conservative M.P.," unless it was to show how foolishly the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. MORLEY AT CAMBRIDGE. M R. MORLEY has been the first Liberal of Cabinet rank to break the silence of the Recess, and his speech will have been read by thousands eager to...

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THE FIGHT FOR THE FREEMAN. N OTHING could better illustrate the

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essential differ- ences between things English and Irish than the fight over the Freeman Journal that has been raging during the past month—a fight which has ended in the dis-...

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THE FIDGETINESS OF ENGLISH OPINION.

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W E spoke last week of the nervousness of the Con- tinent ; but England also, at least England as represented in the journals, is in a fidgety mood. There is a readiness to...

THE VIVIFICATION OF VILLAGES.

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T HE Gladstoniansthink they can capture the counties 1 by the aid of the villagers' votes, and are diligently spreading the idea that the villagers have many grievances, and...

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EPISCOPAL FEES. T HE Return, in answer to the Address of

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the House of Lords, of all Charges, Fees, First-Fruits, and Tenths, and other payments made by Archbiihops and Bishops since January 1st, 1885, disposes of a popular delusion....

THE CHEAPNESS OF SCOTCH JUSTICE . - M R. ROBERTSON, Lord-Advocate for Scotland",,

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having accepted the office of Lord-Justice-General' —by his promotion the House of Commons loses a very- keen and agile, if also somewhat dapper and occasionally flippant...

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THE PASSION OF INCREDULITY.

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NV E find ourselves often a little perplexed to trace the cause of incredulity among the cultivated. Credhlity without reason always seems intelligible, for we set it down to...

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ACCIDENTAL CONVERSATION.

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M R. BESANT will probably find plenty of people to agree with him when he says, as he does in his " Voice of the Flying Day," that after some six weeks of country solitude there...

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THE QUEST FOR THE WILD HORSE.

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T HE sustaining hope of the discoverer of the unknown is seldom wholly vague or visionary. No man, as a rule, breaks into a new world by accident or hap-hazard. New - worlds, or...

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SWIFT AND BERKELEY ON IRELAND.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The landlords of Ireland, past and present, have of late been subjected to so much unjust censure, that I ask per- mission to suggest...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—Allow me to correct an error in your note in the Spectator of September 19th, giving the substance of...

DWARFS AND DWARF-WORSHIP.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The letter in the Spectator of September 19th on this fascinating topic, based on Mr. Haliburton's paper at the Oriental Congress,...

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MUNEEPORE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The experiment of converting the child Raja of an uncivilised people into " a brown Englishman," has already been at least once tried,...

COUNTY CONSTITUENTS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I have read with much interest your article on this sub- ject, in which you state that men of the physique and vigour of Sir Richard...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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Sra,—It seems to me that the theory, identified with Kant's name, of the subjectivity, or unreality, of time and space is rendered almost infinitely improbable by the doctrine...

OBSOLETE WORDS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You sometimes, I think, record local survivals of generally obsolete words. One such I chanced on here the other day. An old woman,...

TIME.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To your correspondent's quotations touching the nature and duration of Time, may be added the words of Harry Percy, the man of action,...

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BOOKS.

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FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.* IN these two remarkable volumes, we have a study of public and private life in France during the reigns of Louis XIV., • La France sous l'Ancien...

POETRY.

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ANXIETY. THOU infant sister of more dread Despair, Chill visitant of every troubled heart, Who, stealing on us from we know not where, Will all unwelcome play thy impish part...

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STORIES BY MR. RUDYARD KIPLING.*

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OF Mr. Kipling so very much is already expected, that several critics and friends have taken the wise precaution of dis- counting any disappointment that the public may...

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HISTORIC TFr A NET.*

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To understand the history of the Isle of Thanet is to under- stand bow completely man is at the mercy of the elements, and of water in particular. In the case of the ancient...

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WITH THE BEDUINS.*

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OPINIONS differ as to the beauty of Palestine, but none have returned from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and the Lake of Tiberias, without feeling the fascination of the plains, the...

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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As a matter of course, the now numerous novels of Mr. F. Marion Crawford vary somewhat in excellence ; but few novelists of' any distinction have preserved b. more constant...

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POETRY. —Poems. By John Francis O'Donnell. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Dowling,

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who writes an interesting introduction to this volume, tells us how it came into existence. A series of articles appeared in a Dublin newspaper on " Irish Graves in England,"...

Elsa. By E. McQueen Gray. (Methuen.)—Elsa von Hochwald is the

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daughter of an Austrian officer who has married a Venetian young lady, very much against the wishes of her family, who were all ardent patriots. Von Hochwald falls into disgrace...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations. Compiled by John Devoe Belton. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a really good book. The author has selected with judgment 'from the mass...

Lectures on Architecture and Painting. By John Ruskin, LL.D. New

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edition. (G. Allen, Orpington.)—This new edition of lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1853, has, we think, been printed without alteration. Mr. Ruskin sometimes modifies his...

Lewis Cass. By Andrew C. McLaughlin. (Houghton and Mifflin, Boston

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and New York.)—This is one of the series of American Statesmen," of which some twenty, including Wash- ington, J. Q. Adams, Monroe, Jefferson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay,...

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other students who wish for a thoroughly good and scholarly

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edition of a book of Herodotus cannot do better than use this volume. A wonderful amount of information, grammatical, philological, historical, and archteological, is given in...