28 JANUARY 1888

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Sir Michael Hicks-Beach spoke again yesterday week at Netheravon, his

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Wiltshire seat, and remarked that "some very wise individuals" had observed'in his Bristol speech "some extraordinary change" to which they had given different names. He could...

The" Florentine incident" has ended in a substantial triumph for

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Signor Crispi. The Florentine Praetor is, it is true, to be removed—not degraded—in order to avoid "personal complica- tions ;" but the Freneh Consul is not to stay, and the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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M R. GOSCHEN delivered a very spirited speech at Hastings on Monday, where he had also happened to speak on the very day in 1885 when Mr. Gladstone's manifesto to his consti-...

The Government has taken a farther step in its contest

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with Irish disorder. The Crimes Act applying to Ireland only, there has been an impression abroad that offenders against it could not be arrested in England, and consequently...

lt i ,* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

Mr. Goschen went on to show what hardly needed showing,

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that he had not shown Mr. Gladstone any personal ingratitude in deserting him when Mr. Gladstone adopted Home-rule; that he had never been disloyal to Free-trade; that he had...

NOTICZ.—With this week's " kinearreoz " is issued, gratis, a

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IIITERART SUPPLEMENT.

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A great confusion of political tongues arose on Wednesday, but

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a confusion of tongues which we have had so often before, that the difficulty is to attend duly to the various speakers. Mr. Justin McCarthy, at Leamington, explained to his...

New South Wales has selected January 26th as the day

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for her centenary, because on that day 1788 Captain Phillip took possession of the Colony, and, indeed, of the whole island- continent, in the name of King George. Thursday,...

The Home Secretary addressed his constituents at Birming- ham on

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Tuesday, reminding his hearers that Mr. Gladstone's Irish measures had not only been withdrawn by him and his friends without any explanation as to the form in which they would...

In a Liberal Unionist meeting at Worcester, Lord Northbrook gave

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evidence as to the liberty of the Press in Ireland by quoting the choice epithets applied to Mr. Balfour by United Ireland. "Bloody Balfour," "Bombe the little," "lily-livered...

We see with much amazement and regret that many of

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the teachers at the University of Cambridge are disposed to refuse women the degrees of that University, and, as we infer, even to regret as a mistake the course which has been...

Miss Emily Davies, in an able and thoughtful letter to

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Wed- nesday's Times, deals with the various objections to admitting women to ordinary degrees with very great force. She points out that for the most part these objections apply...

Sir George Trevelyan also delivered one of his panegyrics on

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Liberalism and invectives against Liberal Unionism at Pem- broke, in which he testified that the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists are now working side by side with...

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The Egyptian Government and its British advisers have pro- bably

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acted wisely in settling the immense " claims " of the ex-Khedive Ismail. That personage has never resigned the hope of being restored to Cairo, he was secretly favoured by at...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent.

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Consols were on Friday 102- to 1021.

The American telegrams report a significant incident. On Tuesday, Mr.

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Palmer introduced into the Senate a Bill for pre- venting the introduction of undesirable emigrants into the United States. He wishes to exclude all persons of anti-social...

There must be something of the true martyr-spirit in Louise

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Michel, the woman who in France preaches anarchy as the only cure for the evils of society, but who in England declared, after a careful examination of a London workhouse, that...

We have a second letter from Mr. Gerson, from Edinburgh,

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complaining of our remarks on the decisions by the Crofters' Commission that affect his client, Lady Gordon Cathcart, the proprietrix of South Uist. His point is, that there was...

There is no news from Eastern Europe, where all military

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movements have been arrested by an abnormal depth of snow, which has impeded necessary supplies to the Russian troops, and has, it is reported, stopped the march of 50,000 men...

The defect of the Italian preparations in Abyssinia is a

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certain want of boldness. The Government is so afraid of the effect of a reverse on Italian opinion, that it has fortified Massowah as if it were to be attacked by a civilised...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEXT CENTENARY OF AUSTRALIA. I T is a little absurd, perhaps even a little impudent, to talk of "the centenary of Australia," when the island- continent must have had a...

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MR. GOSCHEN AT HASTINGS.

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W HEN one of Mr. Goschen's few unruly auditors at Hastings cried out on Monday night, during that portion of his speech in which he was defending himself for not resigning on...

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LORD C. BERESFORD'S RESIGNATION. ORD CHARLES BERESFORD is right in

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his professional J view, but wrong in his constitutional one,—that is the only opinion we can form upon the most able and temperate account which he gave his constituents on...

WHY UNIONISTS SHOULD REMAIN LIBERAL. T rill Warden of Merton, in

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the striking speech which he delivered at the Unionist meeting at Oxford on Wednes- day, urged not only that Liberal Unionists should show strict fidelity to the Conservatives...

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M. DE l i ESSEPS' APPEAL TO FRANCE.

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W E could hardly imagine a worse omen for the future of the French Republic than the success of M. de Lesseps' appeal to the people, and yet we have an apprehension that it may...

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MR. CHAMPION'S PLEA FOR SOCIALISM.

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A BSOLUTELY averse as we are to the whole Socialistic theory, we have always held that Socialism is essentially a subject for discussion. Its object is the amelioration of the...

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"COMMON CORDUROYS."

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W HETHER the case of "Taylor v. Timson," decided by Mr. Justice Stephen on Monday week, will be a leading case for the guidance of churchwardens, we do not know. It is to be...

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THE SCOTTISH UNION AND HOME-RULE.

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A HOME-RULE movement is afoot in Scotland. As yet it has not attained great dimensions, and it commands comparatively little attention. Members of Parliament, when invited to...

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THE PREVENTION OF FIRE.

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T HE trial of L6on Sem& the Dutchman sentenced on January 21st for setting fire to his house in the Strand, interested the public mainly on account of the heinousness of the...

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LOST INSTINCTS AND RARE FACULTIES.

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T F the doctrine be true that man is really the heir of all the various species and genera of the animal kingdom, it seems a little hard upon us that, even by way of exception,...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slf6 - I am thankful to the Spectator for having noted the dangerous ring in Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's speech at...

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THE HOANG-HO INUNDATIONS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of January 14th on the disaster in China, you mention, what is well known, that when silt-bearing rivers are embanked,...

IRISH IMPECUNIOSITY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sur,—Can any other conclusion be reasonably drawn from the facts connected with Irish farms, but that there is a general conspiracy against...

CONVERSIONS TO ROME.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to assure "A Convert of Fifteen Years' Standing" that, without retracting a word of my former letter, I fully agree...

EDWARD THRING MEMORIAL FUND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Will you, of your kindness, give publicity to the fact that the committee appointed to consider the form of the above memorial, and to...

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PREPARATIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.

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[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTLTOR."i Sin,—In August, a few years ago, when so terrible a thunder- storm fell upon a Suffolk village that some people were sore afraid, thinking...

ART.

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MR. RUSKIN AND THE "EDINBURGH REVIEW." "We regret to have to shock Mr. Ruskin's faithful followers, many of whom, we have no doubt, are honestly convinced of the intellectual...

POETRY.

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THE FRESHER SPRING TIME. IT comes again, thrilling each sense in turn ! We strain the eye to see, the ear to hear ;— It sickens in each sense and dies of fear, Yet leaves the...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — Have you

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space for this, which has always seemed to me delicious ? My friend Mr. B— occupied a house in an exposed situation upon the island of Sark. A terrible storm one night...

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BOOKS.

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GOD WITHOUT RELIGION.t THIS book has been a considerable disappointment to us. But in saying so we have no intention of denying that it is a valuable contribution to the...

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SOME NOTABLE SERMONS.* PROFESSOR PAGET'S volume is one of the

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most original contribu- tions to Christian apologetics that an age especially fertile in this kind of literature has produced. Its somewhat cumbrous title is meant to express...

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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SOME months ago, in reviewing Bed Spider, we expressed a fear that the author of Mehalah was yielding to a tempta- tion to over-write himself, though we frankly admitted that...

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ELIZABETH GILBERT.* "LIVES of great men" are not the only

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lives from which we may learn to ennoble our own, if not to make them exactly" sublime." There are men and women whom no impartial biographer would tall great, the record of...

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TWO BOOKS OF EASTERN TRAVEL.* WHAT a pity it is

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that tourists who, in pursuit of business, or restful change, or pleasure, travel by the much-frequented sea- routes from the shores of England to Constantinople, or some other...

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Our New Zealand Cousins. By the Hon. James Inglis. (Sampson

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Low and Co.)—This compact little volume deserves a word of com- mendation, not because of any special originality in it, either in the way of research or of reflection, but...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The January number of the Scottish Review errs, perhaps, in being too national. It contains an article on "Scotland in Times Past," by the Lyon King-at-Arms, and which takes the...

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extended period which he has chosen for his subject. Indeed,

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ha could hardly do otherwise, considering his limitation of space. On. the whole, we think that the most interesting part of his volume is that which concerns social and...

In the Shires, by Sir Randal H. Roberts, Bart. (F.

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V. White and Co.), is described by its author as " a sporting novel," and is neither better nor worse than most stories by disciples of the late Mr. Whyte. Melville. There is in...

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Abington (Mrs.), Life of, or 8vo (Reader) 7/6 Baxendale (W.). Dictionary of Anecdote, frx., my 8v0 (Dickinson) 12/6 Borrowed Plumes, from the German Poets, or Boo (Trlibner) 4/6...

American Literature, 1607-1885. By Charles F. Richardson. (G. P. Patnam's

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Sons.)—" No critical task is more difficult and delicate than that of estimating the rank and analysing the achievements of American authors." So runs Mr. Richardson's first...

The Fables of Avianus. Edited by Robinson Ellis, M.A. (Clarendon

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Press.)—The public to which the latest work of Mr. Robinson Ellis's careful and ingenious scholarship appeals is small, but certainly appreciative. Almost alone among English...

Sussex Archwological Collections. Vol. XXXV. (If. Wolff, Lewes.) —This volume

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contains—as, indeed, all such volumes do—some interesting papers. Captain Altree writes a history of the parish of Wavelsfield ; and the Rev. R. F. Whistler contributes "The...

How to Write the History of a Family. By W.

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P. W. Phillimore. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Phillimore first discusses what a family history should be, and then points out the sources from which materials can be derived. There are...

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LONDON: Printed by Joins CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street.

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in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. at 18 Exeter Street, Straqd ; and Published by him at th, "Sprcreloa " Moe, Nr. 1 Wellington Street, Straad,...

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J VERY ONE THAT READS, every one that mingles in society,

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is constantly - F meeting with allusions to subjects on which lie needs and desires further in- formation. In conversation, in trade, in professional life, on the farm, in the...

SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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TO FOR TILE No. 3,109.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1888. REGISTERED FOR [TRANSMISSION ABROAD. ) GRATIS.

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BOOKS.

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VERNON LEE'S "JUVENILIA."* THERE 15 a peculiar quality, or combination of qualities, about the work of "M. Vernon Lee "—as a writer in the Revue de Deux Honda, with a fine...

litrrarp e:tuppirownt.

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LONDON: JANUARY 28, 1888.

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knew what good poetry ought to be, have always declared

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in favour of Crashaw. Pope, who was not quick to admire any poetry except his own, said of Crashaw that he was "none of the worst versificators," mentioned some of his best...

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THE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHY.* IT is nothing less than

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a shock to find, now that the fourth and concluding volume of the Dictionary of Christian Biography has appeared, that the first has been waiting on our shelves for notice for...

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A GERMAN STUDY OF THE GROWTH OF THE FEELING FOR

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NATURE.* Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais, is an axiom of French grammar, hence Parler franpais has passed into a proverb signifying a clear explanation of thought...

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MR. MOWBRAY MORRIS'S " CLAVERHOUSE."* Tins plain and simple account

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of a soldier whose merits and demerits have been unduly magnified by friends and foes, is an ex- cellent piece of work. Mr. Mowbray Morris writes, as a far greater historian...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Story of the Life of the Prince Consort. By the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, B.D. Revised by her Majesty the Queen. (James Nisbet and Co.)—It is difficult in the present time to...

The Life, Times, and Writings of Thomas Crannzer, D. D.,

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the First Reforming Archbishop of Canterbury. By Charles Hastings Collette. (Itedway.)—Mr. Collette's knowledge of the period he has under- taken to treat may be gauged by a...

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Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886. By Joseph Foster. (J. Foster.) —This handsome

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volume is described on the title-page as the "Matriculation Register of the University of Oxford, alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated." It is a continuation, with...

Tiger-Shooting in. the Doom and Ulwar. By Lieutenant-Colonel J. C.

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Fife.Cookson. (Chapman and Hall.)—The absolutely direct, simple, businesslike style of Colonel Fife-Cookson's narrative, will commend it to every reader who, whether he be...

Briar and Palm. By Annie S. Swan. (Oliphant and Co.,

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Edinburgh.) —This "Story of Circumstance and Influence," as the author calls it, is a well-conceived and interesting tale. Anne Holgate, the low-born widow of a man of family,...

My Life and Balloon Experiences. By Charles Coxwell. (W. H.

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Allen and Co.)—Mr. Coxwell was born, he tells us, in 1819; he witnessed a balloon ascent (by Mr. C. Green) in 1828, but it was not till 1845 that, after many disappointments, he...

Tuscan Sketches. By Leader Scott. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—From the preface

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we gather that "the sketches are from Nature, and are scenes we have come across in rambling here and there in this delightful land, whose past is a glorious record, whose...

A Burmese Maid. By the Author of "Reginald Vernon." (The

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llanthawaddy Press, Rangoon.)—A. Burmese heroine, and, indeed, Anglo-Burmese literature generally, are novelties. Mah Shway was a lovely and charming girl, but, it must be...

brothers were all Eton Fellows. The capital letter must not

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be sup- posed to mean that they were "Fellows of the College." They were simply Eton boys ; but this is itself so dignified a position, that a capital is required to do it...

persons, as of Brainerd and Henry Martyn. If others, as

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Samuel Pearce, Richard Knill, and Fidelia Fiske, are less generally known, yet there are probably many who are acquainted with their names, and know something of what they did....

From Pharaoh to Pellah. By C. F. Moberley Ball. (Wells

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Gardner, Barton, and Co.)—This volume has the ornamental aspect of the literature which appears and commonly disappears at this season. But it is not by any means a book...

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The Corsairs of France. By C. B. Norman. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—Mr. Norman, who was in the Army, not the Navy, has written this book with the patriotic object of inciting the country to a still vaster outlay on the Navy, by showing...

We have received the second part of The Congregational Church

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Hymn-Book. Edited by George S. Barrett.—This part contains "Litanies and Chants." 'Apart from its musical value, it is interesting to see the development of ritual in the...

Factors in Life. By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S. (S.P.C.K.)—This useful

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little book consists of three lectures which Professor H. G. Seeley delivered before the Working-Men's Institute of Sevenoaks in 1884, on health, food, and education. But why...

Around the World on a Bicycle. By Thomas Stevens. (Sampson

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Low and Co.)—A more exact name for this book would be " Half- Round the World with a Bicycle," as the author only went from San Francisco to Teheran, and even when be was not on...

Euthanasia. By William Munk, M.D. (Longmans.)—The subject of this essay

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must not be confounded with that of an article published (in the Fortnightly Review, if we remember right) some years ago, in which the arguments for hastening a manifestly...

The History of Painting. From the German of the late

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Dr. Alfred Woltmann and Dr. Karl Woermann. Vol. IL "The Painting of the Renascence." Translated by Clara Bell. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We can do little more than record...

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The Victoria Edition of the Pickwick Papers, 2 vols. (Chapman

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and Hall), will doubtless be the standard edition of the famous work. Everything connected with it in the way of history, both as concerns letterpress and illustration, is...

Mr. Barnes, of New York. By Archibald Clavering Gunter. (Rout.

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ledge and Sons.)—Mr. Barnes happens tube present at a quarrel that takes place between an English naval officer and a young Corsican, and also at the duel that follows. The...

Parish Law (Steer's). Edited by W. H. Maonamara. (Stevens and

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Sons ; Sweet and Sons ; Maxwell and Sons.)—This is a very useful book very well edited. Parochial politics are ceasing to carry the contemptuous meaning which they used, now...

Athletics and Football. By Montague Shearman. (Longmans.)— This is a

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book about which one might easily say much. It brings the whole subject down to date, and the subject is one in which a vast number of people are more or leas interested. From...

The Petition of Right. By Walter Clode. (Clowes and Son.)—

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This is meant in the first place for lawyers, but lay readers also will not fail to find interest in it. There are, for instance, the cases in which it seems that there has been...

Introductory Physical Geography. By the late David Page, LL.D. Revised

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and enlarged by Charles Lapworth, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This standard work has been brought up to time by additions and alterations in regions of knowledge, as, e.g.,...

Local Government Board : Medical Officer's Report for 1886. (Pre-

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sented to both Houses of Parliament.)—This is a very remarkable production, and by no means a comforting one. The main points to which the reader's attention is directed are the...

Life and Death of the Venerable Edmund Jennings. By his

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Brother, John Jennings. (Burns and Oates.)—This is a reprint, with some slight alterations, of a memoir published in 1614,—i.e., twenty- three years after the death of its...

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Expositions. By the Rev. Samuel Cox, D.D. Third Series. (T.

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Fisher trnwin.)—Dr. Cox devotes eight of his discourses to what he calls the "faithful sayings of the Primitive Church." The first deals with the general subject of the...

Victorian, Poets. Revised, and extended by a supplementary chapter to

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the fiftieth year of the period under review. By Edmund Clarence Stedman. Thirteenth edition. (Chatto and Windus.)—The first edition of this volume appeared in 1875, and was...

work on "Settlements," and in that interval the law has

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undergone such radical alterations that Mr. Vaizey's treatise will be gladly welcomed by the legal profession in general, and by conveyancers in particular. In his preface, the...

We have to call the attention of our readers to

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a work on art now in progress of publication, which promises when it is complete to be of very great interest and value. This is English Art in the Public Galleries of London,...

systems of religion. It is, though the last published of

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his series, "Christ and Christianity," the introduction to the whole, and con- tains his views of the relation which Christianity bears to the other religions systems of the...

Gordonhaven : Scenes and Sketches of Fisher-Life in the North.

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By "An Old Fisherman." (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.) —Here we have some pictures, manifestly drawn from the life, of the tragedy and comedy of a life which is...

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Anecdotes of Fish and Fishing. By Thomas Boosey. (Hamilton, Adams,

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and Co.)—Here we have printed a commonplace book, with a number of extracts of every kind relating to fish and fishing. We are curious about the date of the book. The editor...