LONDON: JANUARY 27, 1894.

MR. ESPINASSE'S REMINISCENCES.* IN the course of a long and active life devoted almost en. tirely to literary journalism, it has been the good fortune of Mr. Espinasse to come...

which has many virtues and but few faults, but among these last is one of grave import. We may account it almost as blameless as Mr. W. S. Gilbert's hero, who— "Had one sorrow,...

IT is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that, as stated in this volume, " the higher we go in the social scale, the more we find of women and girls, even of Royal blood, who...

Royal Historical Society possesses many points of interest to the student of history. Not the least impressive among the several papers which the book contains is the...

Tam volume consists of a collection of letters concerning country sights and sounds round Wallingford, written by Mr. G. D. Leslie, the artist, to his friend and fellow-artist,...

French Academy, and the author of several important works dealing with the life of Paris, M. Maxima du Camp will still be best known to foreign readers by his con- tributions to...

THE admirable " Rulers of India " series of handbooks of Indian history follow in quick succession. That now before us is that of Wellesley's Governor-Generalship, and it leaves...

Green's Short History of the English People. Illustrated edition. By Mrs. J. B. Green and Miss Sate Norgate. Vol. III. (Mac- millan and Co.)—Mrs. Green's illustrations in this...

of illustrating the Public Schools is getting a bit overdone. What with the Quingentenary at Winchester, the Quinquagesimary or Jubilee of Cheltenham and Marlborough, and the...

infatuation told," is the author's explanation on the title-page. It is, as may be guessed, a novelette in the new fashion. A sensual scoundrel, a woman who does not know what...

Mrs. Barkley went out to join her husband, who had recently been appointed Resident Magistrate in Basutoland. She had not a few troubles before she reached her destination; ser-...

M.A. Vol. II. (Cassell and Co.)—Dr. Brown, who is assisted by various helpers—Dr. James Marie and Captain Cameron among them—tells the story of the Nile—the subject of "Seekers...

we have first, the " Kalendar of the English Church," and next, the " Kalendar according to the Use of Sarum," some- what ambiguously described as " in use at the Reformation."...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mrs. Gordon crossed the Atlantic to Quebec, and

is a good study of life in its way, firmly drawn, and without exaggeration. There are three characters,—Ronald Gordon, Susan Dormer, and Kit Drummond. Ronald loves Mrs. Dormer,...

is need- less to commend them particularly to the public. These are Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (Dean and Son), and Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage...

Co.)—Mr. Harrison makes his volume a guide of considerable practical use by dividing it into " Routes ;" of these there are nine, varying in length from three miles to six miles...

(C. Caswell, Birmingham.)—Mr. Hallowes, as may be supposed, answers his question with an absolute " No !" and argues his case with no little force. That the average morality of...

through, so that what she tells about Canadian things, though we have no criticism to offer on it, is for the most part second-hand. From Vancouver she sailed to Japan. Japan...

Longfellow's Complete Poetical Works. It is specially notified that, by agreement with the English publishers. the copyright poems are included, so that the epithet " complete"...

a translation into rhythmical sentences of The Imitation of Christ (Elliot Stock). It comes commended by a brief preface by Dr. Liddon, dated March, 1889. The translator claims,...

M.A. (E. Howell, Liverpool.)—These two volumes are scarcely subjects for criticism. Mr. Hornby, who died in 1890, WSW accustomed during his long ministerial life—he was vicar of...

(C. Griffin and Co.)—That " Consumption depends largely upon conditions which are preventible," is the postulate from which Dr. Squire starts. He begins with describing the...

by Alma Strettell. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a volume of the " Pseudonym Library ; " the rule of the series in giving a false signature is broken for once, the plea being that...

Press.)—It may be doubted whether at author who is admittedly inaccurate in matters of fact, and who also uses too frequently involved constructions and non-Attic words and...

a Translation, by F. G. Kenyon. (Bell and Sons.)— The MSS. of these two orations were discovered some six years ago. ThatagainstAthenogenes is of a very early date, probably the...

and 76 Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of th e Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex , at the...

A GRAVE incident has occurred in Egypt. The young Khedive, who allows his anti-English feeling to be - most plainly seen, has been travelling in Upper Egypt, and at Wady Haifa,...

them no good, and they are clamouring for an increase in the duties on foreign corn. M. Menne, now President of the Tariff Committee, therefore proposes to raise the duty on...

Servia. The Radical Ministry, after disorganising the provinces -by leaving the local authorities unchecked, and so empty- ing the Treasury that the Army for some months has...

the Treasury, and by no means the kind of man who says unwarrantable things. We cannot therefore but attach importance to his speech of Saturday at Oldham, in which he intimated...

permanently. Somehow, we suppose because children read early travels in Africa, that seems to be an important an- nouncement, but we do not know that it matters. Timbuctoo is...

case.

FOP THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1894. [ REGISTERED AS • PRICE fd. NEWSPAPER. By POST, Bid.

Thursday in the House of Lords without opposition. Lora Ripon, who had charge of the Bill, represented it as not changing anything in the Poor-law except the mode of electing...

to his constituents at Derby on Wednesday,—one of those speeches that give the impression of politically loaded dice, because they leave out so completely all the considerations...

Church Schoolroom on Tuesday, was chiefly devoted to a masterly handling of the question of compensation for injuries to workmen. We have dealt with this elsewhere, but must...

in East Manchester on Monday with a really great speech on National Defence, which he treated as a question entirely above party,—as even Sir William Harcourt recognised when...

chester, declared that the action of the Government in passing such a revolutionary Bill as the Home-rule Bill through the House of Commons, by the use of the guillotine, had...

Wednesday was, of course, the obstruction practised by the minority, and the claims made for the House of Lords. . He compared the majority in the House of Commons to a big boy,...

between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck. It seems that the Emperor, hearing of the Prince's illness, sent him a kind letter, and forwarded him a bottle of rare wine, invited...

M. Casimir Perier making a speech only intended to beat time. He admitted that the situation at Antananarivo was " unsatisfactory to patriotism," the Hova Government not...

23rd inst., in which he defended rather seriously his whole administration. He did not believe that the policy of raising the value of the rupee by closing the Indian mints had...

of the coal-mining and manufactured iron industries of the North of England, was held at Durham to consider the question of conciliation. The Bishop of Durham, who presided, put...

Albury parish churchyard on Monday last. Lady Sidmouth. who died in her hundredth year, was " a link with the past," in a specially interesting sense. As a girl, she had lived...

Laird Clowes read a paper on "The Ram in Action and in Accident," which contained some very curious facts. It is assumed that, " given a slight superiority of speed and good...

Friday 98i.

THE COMING DEMOCRATIC BUDGET. I T seems to be more than probable, almost certain, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will endeavour to balance his Budget and obtain a new and...

M R. BALFOUR, in his speech in Manchester on Monday, has hinted, though he has hardly more than hinted, his belief that a good deal of the embarrass- ment in which successive...

grown, not for the first time, decidedly unpleasant. It was expected that the young Khedive, after the failure of his attempt to appoint a Ministry of his own, would have...

S LR WILTJAM HARCOURT'S speech at Derby is one of the best examples we have ever seen of the art of disguising the true point in dispute, while pretending to discuss it with the...

W E hate writing on any part of the silver question—the article must be so dull for those who feel no dis- position to understand the matter; but the recent proceed- ings of the...

Every one who has a head to think and a heart to feel silver a nuisance," said a Mysore coffee-planter recently, must agree that the ideal arrangement would be that "why, I pay...

for the warning which Mr. Darling gave in the Times of Thursday. Un- doubtedly, Mr. Jabez Balfour does not at this moment stand well with the public. There is a disposition to...

T HE Pall Mall's challenge to beat its four illustrations of concentrated pathos was hardly very carefully conceived, and was certainly very carelessly taken up. It is no easy...

known any member of the family, he has never seen their house, and he has never lived in Warwickshire, yet it is with deep regret that he reads the announcement that the Lucys,...

M ORE than three millions of the skins of far-bearing animals were last week sold in four days by public auction from the stores of Sir Charles Lampson, at College Hill, in the...

H E must be a stony-hearted man indeed that at some- time or other has not loved a garden. The word itself conjures up vistas of delight, sunny walks in autumn and winter, the...

A. PROGRESSIVE INCOME-TAX. [To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR. "] your article in the Spectator of January 20th, on the Radicals' financial proposals, you ask, " Are they -...

[TO TH1 EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Permit me, as the only official representative in England of the Parliament of Religions, to correct some serious errors into which...

LAKELAND ONCE MORE.* REGION separate, sacred, of mere and torrent and mountain, Garrulous, petulant beck, sinister, glooming tarn ; Haunt of the vagabond feet of my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—May I be permitted to point out two slight inaccuracies which occur in your interesting and favourable review, in the Spectator of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As many women desire to study medicine with a view to missionary work, and are unable to do so in consequence of the expenses of...

LIFE OF DEAN STANLEY.* [FIRST NOTICE.] WE have had an unusually large supply of biographies of late years, and especially of biographies, or published correspondence, of the...

[" The Percy Turnbull Memorial Lectureship of Poetry was. established in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1889; by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, in memory of their...

of the series which he is -contributing to the Pall Mall Magazine on the later campaigns of Napoleon is not less interesting than that of last month, on which we commented when...

to give what is generally regarded as an impartial estimate of this little volume. His near relationship to the writer, and his personal knowledge of his character, necessarily...

THE art of Mr. Justin McCarthy is showing some unwelcome signs of deterioration, and they are more obvious in Red Diamonds than they were in The Dictator, for in the new book he...

whether to look upon the increasing appetite for newspaper-reading as an entire evil or not. He only knows that it has to be faced and accepted as a reality, to which he...

THE work before us forms one of the series of compact volumes of history issued under the title of " The Story of the Nations." Parthia is better suited for similar treatment...

the prose Edda, and has arranged them in a continuous narrative, in many places working in and developing the fragmentary allusions to imperfectly explained myths in the VOluspa...

Travels of Count Benyowsky. Edited by Captain Parfield . Oliver. (T. Fisher Unwin.) — This is a volume of the " Adventure Series," and worthy of a place in it, if the fact that...

Co.)—These twelve lectures, delivered at the College of State Medicine, are of course, too technical to be noticed at length in these columns. They deal with such subjects as "...

Horne. Clowes and Sons.)—" Since 1872," writes Mr. Hume in his preface, " a school register has been carefully kept." And the school began to be not later, we may say, than 772!...

of the House of Hatchard " have plenty of interest. Hatchard began business in 1797 with five pounds, and died fifty-two years afterwards worth nearly a hundred thousand pounds....

Haddon and Co.)—Sometime in the latter half of the seventeenth century, a Mr. Edward Lloyd had a coffee-house in Tower Street, frequented by seafaring men. We find...

Werner. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Werner's introduction is, beyond all doubt, well worth reading. He tells us about writers of whom we are glad to know something. There are two...

of Josef Popowski by Arthur Baring Brabant, and edited by Charles E. D. Black. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—The author reviews the present situation, as regards Russia and...

With illustrations by Herbert Railton and Others. (Isbister and Co.)—One of these papers—that on "Lincoln Cathedral," by Precentor Venables—has been already mentioned in our...

(S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Bishop begins his work with the sentence, " First of our illustrations we place a map." This map exhibits the gradual accretion of provinces to the central domain...

Hogg.)—There is some pleasant reading in this book. It Glimpses of Welsh Life and Character. By Marie Trevelyan. (John Hogg.)—There is some pleasant reading in this book. It...