27 JUNE 1891

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NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, July 18th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Emperor of Austria has been visiting Fiume, the Hungarian port, in Imperial state. Great part of his fleet was in the harbour, and the Hungarian Admirals, the Hun- garian...

We fear that the effort of this great speech delivered

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so soon after recovering from his attack of influenza, was too much for Mr. Gladstone, for he has since been obliged to keep absolutely quiet,—indeed, he has been sent to Mr....

The old rumour has revived that France contemplates the annexation

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of the whole of Siam, and the policy of Great Britain resisting such an aggression is openly discussed in Bangkok. That the French Colonial Office has thought of such a conquest...

Lord Ripon on Monday raised a serious debate in the

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Lords on the affairs of Muneepore, maintaining that while the Government of India was bound to interfere—an opinion, we are happy to see, repeated on all sides, and unanswerable...

Mr. Gladstone delivered a very interesting speech yesterday week, on

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occasion of the Jubilee of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, which was started in 1841 in his presence, and dwelt with great force on the wonderful resources which the Anglican...

The French Chamber on Thursday passed an outrageous vote. By

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439 to 104 it refused to ratify the Brussels Convention for the suppression of the slave-trade, which every other European Power has signed. The majority maintained that the...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any case.

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Lord Hartington also dwelt on the fact that the new

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Glad- stonian programme is not businesslike, because it embodies a great deal too much, even without reference to Home-rule. If Diseatablishment, and a new Reform Bill based on...

Mr. Russell's speech was full of hard facts, which show

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how brilliant has been the success of the present Government in restoring tranquillity and prosperity to Ireland. The "Plan of Campaign" had failed in Tipperary, where some-...

On Tuesday, the Liberal Union Club gave a dinner to

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Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., at the "Criterion," Mr. Chamberlain in the chair. The chairman made, as usual, both a very lively and a very vigorous speech. He remarked that even...

The Free Education Bill passed its second reading on Wed-

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nesday, after a three-days' debate, in which, for the most part, details rather than principles were debated. The second reading was carried by 318 to 10, the minute minority...

Mr. Gladstone, said Mr. Chamberlain, still declined to take the

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people into his confidence as to how he proposed to solve the difficulties he had admitted. The English people would never tolerate a Parliament in Dublin at once co-ordinate...

Sir Henry James and Lord Hartington made very striking speeches

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at St. James's Hall on Wednesday, Sir Henry James pointing out that there was no political subject on which the pioneers of reform had not been chosen from among the Liberal...

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Under circumstances described elsewhere, M. La,serre on Monday asked the

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French Government why it had been so slow to prosecute M. Turpin and Captain Tripoli& accused and sentenced for selling the secret of making melinite, the new explosive, to...

Mr. Henry Campbell, M.P., Mr. Parnell's private secretary, was accused

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by the Cork Herald of "hiring houses for the immoral purposes of his , master," and brought an action for libel. He utterly denied doing anything of the kind, asserted that some...

The Duke of Connaught laid the first stone of the

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Church House on Wednesday, on a site close to Westminster Abbey. The Church House is to be one of the many monu- ments of the completion by the Queen of the Jubilee of her...

The Lords intend to pass the Land-purchase Bill, but they

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think it due to themselves to have two days' debate on the second reading, and to threaten some amendments in Com- mittee. The debate opened on Tharsday with a detailed...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent.

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New Consols (2i) were on Friday 951 to 95i.

The Colonial Governments live a good deal on hope. Mr.

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Foster, the Canadian Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced his Budget on Wednesday, and announced a surplus, the re- venue for 1891-92 being calculated at 27,270,000, and the...

The " Felibres " of Paris, who are associated together

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to celebrate the glory of Provence, to revive its language (at least as a language of literature), and to keep fresh the fame of the Provençal poets, Florian, Aubanel, and the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MOMENTUM OF THE PARTY MACHINE. T ORD HARTINGTON and Mr. Chamberlain have J contributed two epigrams to the political discussion of the day, each of them having reference to...

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THE " MELINITE SCANDAL."

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T HE "melinite scandal," as it is called, indicates either a great deal of corruption in the French military and naval departments, or, which is much more probable, a most...

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MR. GLADSTONE ON THE COLONIAL CHURCH.

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M R. GLADSTONE, in the eloquent and interesting speech which he made yesterday week at St. James's Hall on the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, dilated with much earnestness on the...

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THE FUTURE OF MUNEEPORE.

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I T is hardly necessary, we fancy, to argue against the annexation of Muneepore. The small group of persons who really govern India—among whom the Secre- tary of State, the...

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THE REVOLT OF YEMEN. T HE Turkish Government has no friends,

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and two irreconcilable enemies, Russia and the Arab race. The hatred of Russia, which has lasted all through modern history, is well understood in England; but the hatred of the...

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CO-OPERATORS, OR CAPITALISTS WRIT LARGE P O NE touch of nature

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makes the whole world kin. It is commonly assumed that this touch must be a good touch. But no such necessity exists in fact. There is nothing to prevent the uniting link from...

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THE WOES OF HOUSE-BUILDING. N O one who has built a

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house, or indeed had anything to do with bricks and mortar, will fail to feel a certain sympathy for Colonel North. He may have been "lordly," as Lord Coleridge suggests, in his...

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M. RENAN'S IRONICAL CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY. T HE more M. Ronan

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is studied, the less he seems to be in any real sense a religious teacher at all, unless that spirit of airy caprice which is of the essence of the fairy-tale may be admitted as...

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THE NEW CHIEF RABBI.

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T HERE is something very captivating to the imagination in the accounts of the magnificent ceremony performed on Tuesday in the "Cathedral Synagogue" of London, and in the...

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TOO LATE—TOO SOON!

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OLD age is not accepted as a universal plea for exemption from criticism ; otherwise the nineteenth century, already in its last decade, might well ask for a little more mercy...

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LETTERS TO Tug :EDITOR.

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NORTH BUCKS. [To TIIII1 EDITOR Or THI 44 STICOTATOrt,..1 SIR,—Things come about. A parishioner of mine who has a brother in Cornwall, lent me a Cornish paper animadverting in a...

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BOOKS.

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ARCHBISHOP TAIT.* [SECOND NOTICE.] Tstonon Dr. Tait died in what we have come to consider only the beginning of old age (he had not completed his seventy- first year), he had...

FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION HIGHLY PROFITABLE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " srzonaoa."3 Sin,—Permit me to say that our experience of the results from the education of the British people in the past, seems to warrant the...

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MR. MUNBY'S POEMS.*

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Mn. MUNDY has already made himself known to the public by Dorothy and other volumes of striking verse, yet nothing which he has published will perhaps produce so much im-...

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THE PAST AND THE PRESENT IN EGYPT.* To have a

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thorough knowledge of the history of Egypt,—that is, to know as much as can be known of the history of her Ancient Empire, her Middle Empire, and her New Empire, - then to pass...

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RE CENT NO VE LS.* WITH the solitary exception of

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Mrs. Oliphant, we have no living novelist more conspicuously distinguished for variety of theme and range of imaginative outlook than Mr. F. Marion Crawford. At this stage of a...

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THE CONSTITUTION AND CREED OP THE SCOTCH CHURCH.* IT has

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been declared that the ranks of Scotch Presbyterianism cannot at the present moment boast of any profound theolo- gian, or—with the exception of the now venerable Principal *...

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SEVEN DREAMERS.* Mns. SLossox has written a singularly beautiful and

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fascinating volume ; and it is a volume, too, which possesses • SIMON Dreamers. By Annie T. Reason. Now York : Harper and Brothers. a peculiar interest, in virtue of the fact...

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POBTRY.—Verse-Tales, Lyrics, and Translations. By Emily H, Hickey. (Elkin Matthews.)—Miss

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Hickey's volume is full of - thought and feeling, expressed, for the most part, in melodious verse. "Creeping Jenny," where the bed-ridden child in a town garret talks to the...

To those who are now turning their thoughts towards Alpine

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summits may be commended The Climber's Guide to the Eastern Pennine Alps, by William Martin Conway (T. Fisher Unwin). With Mr. Conway's quarrel with the Alpine Club we are not...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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A Guide to Buxton. (John Heywood, Manchester and London.) —This is a convenient little book, and certainly cheap, for it costs 'only a penny. For this we get forty-eight pages,...

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NEW Enrrions.—Modern Cremation. By Sir H. Thompson. (Kogan Paul, Trench,

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and Co.)—Sir Henry Thompson publishes an enlarged and revised edition of his work on cremation. He sketches the history of the practice in modern times, states afresh tho...