26 SEPTEMBER 1896

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There has been only one fresh massacre of Armenians this

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week, at Eguin, in Kharput, sixty miles from Diarbeker, where, according to official Turkish accounts, six hundred people were put to death. Details of the massacres in Con-...

The speech was a fine one, and leaves on the

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careful reader the impression that Mr. Gladstone sees a method in which this country, even if it had to act alone, could apply coercion, but the actual method suggested is not...

NEWS OF THE WEEK • T HE great incident of the

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anti-Turkish agitation occurred on Thursday, when Mr. Gladstone spoke for an hour and a quarter in Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, to an audience of six thousand persona of both...

The porter who related this story was himself saved from

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death by the Greek Embassy, into which he fled for refuge, and which forwarded him to the Pirmus. This is the kind of scene which has been going on all over Turkey, and which...

The Czar and Czarina landed in Leith on Tuesday, under

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a salute from the Channel Squadron, and proceeded by rail to Ballater, whence they drove in open carriages to Balmoral, where they were warmly received by the Queen, who, it is...

And then Mr. Gladstone turned to the policy he would

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advise. He would not go to war with united Europe, though he held such war to be a "phantasm "of the nervous, nor would he even take such action as would precipitate war; but he...

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...

IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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The first object of the Nile expedition has been attained.

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Dongola was occupied by our forces on Wednesday about noon, and the gunboats at once started in pursuit of the flying enemy, as did the cavalry and Camel Corps, with the result...

The London cabmen have been on strike this week against

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the "privileged" system maintained by all the railways -except the South-Western. Under this system no cabman an use a railway station as a stand unless he is "privileged," that...

The French are finding out in Madagascar what we have

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so. often found out in India, and what we are experiencing just now in South Africa,—i.e, that it is not the first, but the second, conquest of a native race which causes the...

On Wednesday the Queen had reigned longer than any previous

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English Sovereign by two days. George III. reigned for fifty-nine years and ninety-six days, but when the leap-year days of the two reigns are counted the Queen will be seen to...

A picturesque incident in the fight is worth recording. When

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the action was over the men who had worked the Dervishes' guns came in. They stated that they had been- artillerymen in Hicks Pasha's army, and had been captured by the...

The march towards Dongola began last Saturday, the starting-point being

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a place near the Hannek Cataract. At Kernah, the first village passed, was found an unoccupied mud-fort, and after pushing on for a little, the Dervishes were discovered to have...

The Pope, by a Bull bearing date "the Ides of

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September," 1896, has given a final decision against the validity of Anglican Orders. They are "utterly void" from defect alike of form and intention. The form is bad because...

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On Tuesday, in the Parliament of the Canadian Dominion , Sir

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Charles Tupper, the late Premier, raised a very interesting debate by virtually impeaching the Governor-General, Lord Aberdeen, for unconstitutional conduct in withholding his...

The prisoner Bell was brought up at Bow Street on

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Thurs- day and charged with unlawfully conspiring to cause an , explosion. Mr. Gill, who prosecuted for the Treasury, pro. duced a considerable amount of evidence, including...

At the general meeting of the British Association on Saturday

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Dr. Elgar read a paper on "Safety in Ships." He showed that the safety of ships had been gradually increasing. They seldom failed in stability, and owing to the strength with...

Mr. Parminter's account of the atrocities committed in the Congo

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State for the sake of extorting india-rubber has evidently produced a sensation in Belgium. A decree signed by the King on September 18th establishes a Com- mission charged to...

The news of the week from Rhodesia is fairly satisfactory.

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Fighting still continues in places, but chief after chief is coming in, and even the great witch-doctor has sent an agent to Mr. Rhodes to treat. It remains to be seen how far...

We have in our hands a decision by Judge Russell,

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of the New York Supreme Court, which shows the extent to which the "'Trust" system, or system of using capital to create monopolies, is pushed in the United States. A National...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Friday, 109f.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE QUEEN. T "Queen has reigned longer than any previous Sovereign of these islands. She has seen rise and decline and die out men and interests and policies and movements, not...

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THE CZAR'S VISIT.

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I T is not good manners to criticise a guest, especially one whose presence is an honour, but this one is a public character as well as a guest, and there is something which...

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THE FATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

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W E do not like the way things are going. It is quite clear that a cue has been given to the Press, and that the cue is substantially this. Her Majesty's Govern- ment is deeply...

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THE OCCUPATION OF DONGOLA.

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O lTR troops have occupied Dongola, and with very little opposition from the Dervishes, who, though they show a good deal of strategic ability, are quite over- powered by the...

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THE POPE ON ANGLICAN ORDERS. T HE Pope has decided the

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question of Anglican Orders as most of those familiar with ecclesiastical history "believed he must decide it, though the frankness, clear- ness, and finality of the Bull will...

POVERTY AMONG THE ANGLICAN CLERGY. T HE only cheerful feature in

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the correspondence which has been running in the Times during the past three weeks on the subject of Clerical Poverty, has been the smart castigation administered by acertain "...

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THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLD.

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W E referred a fortnight ago to the news of the dis- covery of goldfields in Newfoundland, and its possible effects on the prospects of the colony. Since then similar finds have...

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PROF. PETRIE ON WRITING AND READING.

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M R. FLINDERS PETRIE has studied the early world, and especially the Egyptian early world, its arts, its acquirements, and its thoughts, so patiently and deeply that he has...

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BOOKS AS COMFORTERS OF THE SOUL.

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T N a charming little poem in the Spectator of September 19th Mrs. Fuller Maitland, in answer to a sympathetic friend who had asked her whether she should bring her any books or...

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LIFE IN A BIG WOOD.

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I N large, isolated woods, covering areas of upwards of a hundred acres, the wild life of the ordinary countryside exists under conditions somewhat differing from those found...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE ABSENCE OF POLITICAL RANCOUR IN ENGLAND. pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") think you have omitted one cause—perhaps the greatest proximate cause—of the above agreeable...

THE ETON SYSTEM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " spiecTAToan SIR,—I am obliged to your critic for a review of my novel, "Kate Grenville," in the Spectator of September 12th, in which he deals, I am...

THE RUSSIANS AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1878.. [TO TiM EDITOR OF

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THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I should like to back your plea for generous dealing with Russia. I was in Constantinople in the summer of 1878,. and saw the Russian soldiers with the...

MR. GLADSTONE ON BUTLER. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE "

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8PICTATOE:1 Sin,—As an old reader, I wish to express my gratitude for your two articles on Butler in the Spectator of September 5th and 12th, which are most valuable and...

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BLOODTHIRST.

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[To THE EDITOR OF SHE " SPECTATOR."1 , S1114■411 the article on "Bloodthirst " in the Spectator of -September 19th you remark that "the great felidm -never attack whole herds...

BOOKS.

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THE RISE OF THE UNITED STATES.* IF it is right that we should try to see ourselves as others see us, it is perhaps also a good thing to try to see others as -they see...

UNCONSCIOUS PERVERSIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Readers of the Spectator must have come in contact with many unconscious perversions, and with the ludicrous effect produced thereby....

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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M. FELIX GRAB, who occupies, in the estimation of competent critics, a place second only to Mistral as a master of Provençal poetry and romance, has chosen for the theme of his...

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THE UNIVERSITIES OF EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.*

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MR. RASHDALL is, indeed, to be congratulated. He has accomplished a task which few would have dared to under- take ; and we venture to think that in the twelve years during...

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AN INDIAN TALE.*

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The Bond of Blood, which makes the sixth volume in Mr.. Fisher Unwin's series of sixpenny novels, is a story of very different scope and colour from the other tales in the same...

A JOURNEY IN FRANCE.* Tins is not a chronicle of

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small beer, but of respectable champagne, a trifle flat. Madame Cradock spent some years in France with an elderly husband ; she kept the very best company; she rarely stirred...

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LIGHT RAILWAYS.* WE are so long accustomed in England to

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railways of standard gauge with heavy rails and ponderous rolling-stock, that we have come to look upon this sort of railway as part of the scheme of the universe, and to...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles. Edited by Martha Foote Crow. "Delia,' by Samuel Daniel ; "Diana," by Henry Constable. (Kagan Paul and Co.)—We cannot agree with Mrs. Crow that Daniel...

Nooks and Corners of Pembrokeshire. Drawn and described by H.

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Thornhill Timmins. (Elliot Stock.)-1 book for which the same hand furnishes both the literary and the artistic material has a great advantage, conspicuous, one may say, in this...

Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia. By Robert Munro, M.A. (Blackwood and

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Sons.)—Dr. Munro attended a congress of anthro- pologists and archeologists held at Sarajevo in 1894. In this volume he has given an account of its proceedings, and has also....

The Romance of the Woods. By E. J. Whishaw. (Longmans

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and Co.)—The " Woods " are Russian, and the experiences which Mr. Whishaw relates of them, and of various streams and lakes, with not a few sketches of Russian villages...

The Spaniel - Prince. From the French of M. Laboulaye. By Mary

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E. Robinson. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) — Prince- Jacinth, at his christening, is presented by the Fairy of Night with the gifts of intelligence, strength, and beauty. This...

The History of Rome, 133 - 78. By W. F. Mason, M.A.

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(W. B. Clive.)—" The Decline of the Oligarchy" is the subject of Mr. Mason's narrative, which begins with the agrarian proposals of Tiberius Gracchus, and ends with the death of...

The Squire. By Mrs. Parr. (Cassell and Co.)—The story doea

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not move on perhaps quite as quickly as it might, or as we have got into the habit of requiring in these days of hurry. But it is an interesting story, briskly written, with now...

Chronicon Henrici Knighton. Edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby, D.D. Vol.

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II. "Master of the Rolls Series."—After an in- terval of between five and six years, Dr. Lumby completes. his edition of Knighton's (alias Cuitlion's) Chronicle, giving in his...

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Little Rivers. By Henry Van Dyke. (David Nutt.)—Mr. Van Dyke

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has some pleasant reminiscences of wandering, fishing-rod in hand, by river and lake sides in his own country (the States), on the Continent, and in Scotland. When we say the "...

Dr. Soomadhi of Ashantee. By Frankfort Moore. (A. Con- stable.)—This

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is a story in which two familiar themes are corn- bined,—the irreclaimable savagery of the negro, and the magical powers that some of the race can exercise, powers called "Obi"...

Professor Blackie : his Sayings and Doings. A Biographical Sketch

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by his Nephew, Edward Angus Kennedy. (J. Clarke and Co.)—Mr. Kennedy describes both the seria and the jocose of Professor Blackie's life. It would be a mistake to suppose that...

Practical Wildfowling. By Henry Sharp. (L. 17pcott Gill.)— This is

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a technical book describing the implements of various kinds which the sportsman needs for what may be called generally "duck-shooting," wild ducks, including teal, widgeon, &c.,...

Her Own Polk. By Hector Malot. Translated from the French

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by Lady Mary Loyd. (W. Heinemann.) —This is a translation, and, as far as the style is concerned—the original we have not seen—a good translation, of M. Malot's "En Famine." We...

Froissart. By Mary Darniesteter. Translated from the French by E.

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Frances Poynter. (T. Fisherlinwin.) —Madame Darmesteter sketches with admirable precision and force the personal and literary characteristics of Froissart. She gives his...

With MM. Ninth Lancers during the Indian Mutiny. Letters of

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Brevet-Major 0. H. S. G. Anson. (W. H. Allen and Co.)— Major Anson's letters, addressed to his wife, stretch over a period of about ten months, from June 1st, 1857, to March...

The Worship of the Romans. By Frank Granger, D.Lit. (Methuen

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and Co.)—Dr. Granger adds the words, "Viewed in relation to the Roman Temperament," and so explains the stand- point which he occupies in his investigation of this subject....

Old Chester. Etched and described by H. Hoven Crickmorc. (J.

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M Dent and Co.)—We admire Mr. Criclunore's pencil, or graving-tool, more than his pen. He aims at a sprightly style, and tries—alas ! how common a failing it is !—to be funny,...

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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics. By R. T. Glazebrook,

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F.E.S. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Glazebrook borrows, with due acknowledgment, his biographical details from the Life written by Professor Lewis Campbell and Dr. Garnett. His account...