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BOOKS.

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THE UNION OF ITALY.* TELE new " Cambridge Historical Series," which is under the editorship of Professor Prothero, makes a good beginning with Mr. Stillman's Union of Italy....

Littrarp isuppiturnt.

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LONDON: JANUARY 28th, 1899.

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MARIE ANTOINETTE AS QUEEN.*

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THE world will never lose its interest in the tragedy of which Queen Marie Antoinette is the central figure. The literature of the subject goes on increasing; also, with wider...

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series of books—London, Westminster, now followed by South London — has certainly

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earned his title as the modern historian of our mighty Metropolis. These ample, well- illustrated, clearly printed companion volumes are not mere glorified guide-books or...

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NANCE OLDFIELD.*

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THE figure of Nance Oldfield, daughter of Captain Oldfield of the Guards—gentlewoman and seamstress, beauty and actress, wit and wanderer, excellent in comedy and tragedy,...

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CURRENT LITERAT IJRE.

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The Royal Navy : a History. Vol. H. By William Laird Clowes, Captain Mahan, Sir T. Clements Markham, and others. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 25s. net.)—The third volume of...

tion of Mozart. Of the author of "Don Giovanni" he

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says excel- lently that "no music is more exclusively its own composer's, has less in it of other composers. Beethoven is Beethoven plus Mozart, Wagner is Wagner plus Weber and...

Twenty Years in the Near East, by Ardern G. Hulme-Beaman

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(Methuen and Co., 10s. Gd.), is a string of newspaper articles worked into the form of reminiscences. As the correspondent of the Standard for the last fifteen years, Mr. Beaman...

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Six Royal Ladies of the House of Hanover. By Sarah

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Tytler. With Portraits. (Hutchinson and Co. 12s.)—In telling the life-stories of six Royal ladies of the house of Hanover, Miss Sarah Tytler practically reviews the manners and...

Pan and the Young Shepherd : a Pastoral in Two

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Acts. By Maurice Hewlett. (John Lane. 3s. 6d.)—Everybody who read "The Forest Lovers" will be Pager to welcome Mr. Hewlett's pastoral of Pan and the Young Shepherd. It is a most...

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The World of Golf. By Garden Smith. (A. D. Innes

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and Co. 66.) —The literature of golf is perhaps already too large ; but if there must be an "Isthmian Library," it was inevitable that such a series of athletic manuals should...

Leibniz : The Monadology and other Philosophical Writings. Translated by

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Robert Latta. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 8s. ed.) —It is to be feared that in England, and even in philosophical circles, Leibniz is little better than a clarum ac venerabite...

Memoirs of a Rear-Admiral. By S. R. Franklin. (Harp2r and

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Brothers. 12s. Gd.)—It is always interesting to be able to look back upon fifty years of life in the Navy; it is exceptionally interesting for a United States sailor to be able...

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Side Lights on the Conflicts of Methodism during the Second

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Quarter of the Nineteenth Century, 1827-1862. By Benjamin Gregory, D.D., President of the Conference, 1879. (Cassell and Co.)—In this volume Dr. Gregory gives an historical...

The Paternal State in France and Germany. By Henry Gaullieur.

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(Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—Mr. Gaullieur is of opinion " that the relations existing between some of the meat important phenomena of French and German history, and their real,...

A Legend of Beading Abbey. By Charles Macfarlane. Edited by

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George Laurence Gomme. (Archibald Constable and Co. 3s. 61)—This book is a mixture of new and old matter. The story, which is by Charles Macfarlane, was first published in 1846....

Malaboch ; or, Notes from my Diary on the Boer

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Campaign of 1894. By the Rev. Colin Rae. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 143.)—We do not mean to be ill-mannered when we say that Mr. Rae's book will be read with more interest...

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The Alps and Pyrenees. By Victor Hugo. Translated by John

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Manson. (Sands and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The fact that Victor Hugo's Journal of the Alps and Pyrenees was written in 1839 ought to make a translation of it not less, but rather more,...

Memoirs of John A. Heraud. By his daughter, Edith Heraud.

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(G. Redway. 7s. ad.)—We were disappointed in this book. Mr. Heraud was rather an interesting man of letters, and a friend of Southey's. But the central character in the memoir...

Life and Progress in Australasia. By Michael Devitt. (Methuen and

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Co.)—As might be expected, Mr. Michael Davitt's book on his recent Australian experiences is much more political than the usual "globe-trotter's" diary of Antipodean travel. Mr....

The Light Side of Science. By Andrew Wilson. (James Bowden.

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2s. Cal.)—This is a very pleasant little volume of short, chatty essays on a variety of aspects and incidents of the world's life and structure, such as used to be discussed...

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(Euvres de Jean - Arthur Rimbaud. (Le Mercure de France, Paris.) —

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La Vie de Jean - Arthur Rimbaud. Par Pat-rue Berrichon. (Same publishers.)—Arthur Rimbaud, whose Life and works are now published in a final shape, was born no more than...

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, from the Earliest Christian Times

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to the Seventeenth Century. By David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross. Vol III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 42s. net.) —.A. very interesting and carefully written work. The authors have...

Village Life in Palestine. By the Rev. G. Robinson Leee.

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(Elliot Stock.)—After a general sketch, in which the differences between ancient and modern Palestine are described and accounted for, and chapters on the religion, &c., of the...

The Standard of Life, and other Studies. By Mrs. Bernard

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Bostuiquet. (Macmillan and Co.) —Mrs. Etosanquet is well known as a practical worker, and what she says is always clearly and at tra,ctively put, whether she aims, as in the...

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A Fair Impostor. By Alan St Aubyn. (F. V. White

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and Co.) —The Princess Bordone, as she called herself, was undoubtedly fair and undoubtedly an impostor, but the story is not really her story. Celia Carmichael, daughter of a...

Blessed are Ye: Talks on the Beatitudes. By F. B.

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Meyer. (S.S.U.)—Many are the books on the Beatitudes. We do wish that some one would and could publish an abbreviated edition, omitting the irrelevances of an exuberant mind and...

A Prisoner of Prance: the Memoirs, Diary, and Correspondence of

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Charles Boothby, Captain Royal Engineers, during his Last Cam- paign. (Adam and Charles Black. 6s.)—This memoir must delight every lover of genuine biography as well as every...

The Wrath of Achilles. By Lilian Goadby. (Edwin, Vaughan and

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Co.)—Miss Goadby takes for her subject what is doubtless the central story, some think the original story, of the Iliad. It is doubtful, of course, what strictly belongs to it....

The Later Medimval Doctrine of the Eucharistic Sacrifice. By the

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Rev. B. J Kidd. (Published for the Church Historical Society by the S.P.C.K.)—The episcopal referees of this Com- mittee are Dr. Westcott, Dr. Stubbs, and Dr. Browne ; its...

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Short Studies on Vita/ Subjects. By the Rev. P. W.

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de Quette- vile, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—These are best described in the words of their own preface : "It is the design of this volume to give a foremost place to those springs of...

Studies of the Soul. By J. Brierley, B.A. (James Clarke

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and Co.)—These are well-written essays of the type most popular with the average" serious reader." They were published as articles in the Christian World, and deal very...

Our Friend the Horse, by F. T. Barton, F.Z.S., M.R.C.V.S.,

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illustrated (Dean and Son, 3s. 6d.), is a useful manual, dealing mainly with the ailments of horses and their treatment, with a concise account of the size and appearance of...

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Lexooxi Printed by Love & Wvassw (Limited) at Nos. 74-76

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Great Queen Street, W,0.; and Published by .Tons. Basta for the" Smseraroa" (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy. Strand, in the...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE relations between England and France are much less strained. Both in Paris and London the Foreign Offices are in earnest conference with diplomatists, and it is rumoured...

The news from Macedonia is alarming. The Revolutionary Committee at

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Sofia have issued an Address to the Powers, in which they distinctly threaten that unless Macedonia is occupied by Christian troops they will, by rising in insurrec- tion, give...

The American Senate, which we take to be next to

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the Diet of Frankfort the slowest deliberative body that ever existed, intends, it is said, to ratify the Treaty with Spain on February 6th. It is time it should, for the...

Count Ifuravieff's official Circular of invitation to the Powers to

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hold a Conference in order to prevent the increase of armaments has now appeared. We gave its substance accurately last week, including the still unex- plained proposal to put a...

The new tone strongly marked the debate in the French

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Chamber on Monday and Tuesday. Though the subject was the Fashoda incident, no one attacked England or went beyond the language of regret. M. Ribot, formerly Premier, only...

• • * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any case.

L I b k- ithr *prim A riu

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No. 3,683.3 rusceitizaalla ) . WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1899. ip:= 8 =',. TOM TILL

NOTICE.—With this week's " SPISCTATOR n is issued, gratis, a

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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At Birmingham on Monday the Duke of Devonshire, who was

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the guest of the Chamber of Commerce, made a most able speech on the position of the Government. The Government had not, he declared, lost the confidence of the country, which...

The letter by Mr. Balfour on Protestantism and University Education

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in Ireland published on Thursday is in effect a most able and convincing plea for meeting the demand of the Roman Catholics that they should be given a University to which they...

Mr. Balfour's arguments in favour of his scheme are most

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convincing, and are specially attractive to us because he speaks so boldly as a Protestant, and declares that all Pro- testants ought to support his proposal. "We claim, and...

Mr. Chamberlain, who followed the Duke of Devonshire, declared that

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he agreed "most sincerely with every word he [the Duke], had uttered." That is most satisfactory, for it is an endorsement of one of the strongest panegyrics ever made on...

On Monday a meeting was held at the National Liberal

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Club in order to discuss the question of "Liberal Policy." The proceedings were opened by Sir Robert Reid in what we can only describe as an amazing speech. There were some...

Lord Kimberley delivered an admirable speech at the annual meeting

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of the Wymondham Liberal Association on Wednesday. After expressing his regret at the retirement of Sir William Harcourt and Mr. John Morley, and touching on the "Jingo"...

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A robbery of unusual magnitude was effected in the City

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on Monday, It has been the custom, it appears, in Parr's Bank, a most important establishment, to keep a considerable amount of notes of the Bank of England in a drawer behind...

A story is being told, for the accuracy of which

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we cannot vouch, but which is probably true, and which illustrates the implicit confidence of the Continent in British fairness. Some merchants of Havre recently satisfied...

Mr. Watts, in an interview in the London Argue of

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January 21st, expounds his scheme for instituting "some permanent memorial of the deeds of these heroic men, the sacrifice of whose lives is being constantly made and as quickly...

We are glad to note the appearance of the Puritan,

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a new sixpenny magazine, published by James Bowden, which begins with the issue for February. The Puritan very properly insists upon a view repeatedly upheld by the Spectator,...

The Daily Chronicle of Wednesday reports some astonishing examples of

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lese-majeste prosecutions in Germany. One of these victims of Imperial oppression "is an artisan's wife in Spandau, who made certain foolish remarks in connection with a picture...

The Americans are greatly excited by visions of coming prosperity.

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Their war with Spain is over, the crops of the past year have been very good, the volume of their trade, especially in metals, is enlarging, they think the "silver craze" is...

Bank Rate, 31, per c,ent.

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New Consols (2) were on Friday, 1111.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TEE CHANGE IN THE ATTITUDE OF FRANCE. W HO was it first said of the Irish, "Mine is EL very bad people to run away from "? It was a preg- nant epigram, and suggests a theory...

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THE EMPIRE AND FREE-TRADE.

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T HE Duke of Devonshire's speech at Birmingham deserves the warmest eulogy from all thinking Unionists. With its general defence of the present Government both at borne and...

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THE LIBERAL PARTY,—BEATING TIME.

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THE Liberal party is beating time. That, it seems to us, sums up the state of the case both as regards the leadership and the policy of the party. It does not know whom to...

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THE REPUBLICAN REVISIONISTS. T HERE is a party in France, little

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noticed here, but with considerable influence at home, especially, we are told, among the bureaucracy, which desires the revision of the Constitution without desiring the rule...

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THE ROBBERY AT PARR'S BANK.

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W E know hardly any evidence of the strength of the English system of government better than the im- munity of the London banks from direct robbery. Those banks ought a priori...

TELE VESTRIES AND THE GOVERNMENT.

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W E are indebted to the Daily Telegraph for an out- line of the plan by which the Government propose to complete that administrative reconstruction of London which was begun...

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THE LATEST "BOOM" IN NEW YORK. T HE accounts of a

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"boom" like the one now in progress at New York always suggest to sober Englishmen that the business community there has temporarily gone mad. The wild excitement, the immense...

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INDUSTRY AND SCENERY.

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I T is stated in the Pall Mall Gazette that the Highland Water-Power Company's Bill, which is to be promoted in the forthcoming Session of Parliament, is directed towards the...

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THE NEW FOREST AS A SANCTUARY.

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A CORRESPONDENCE in the Field, begun by a com- plaint from a holder of a license to kill game that there was not enough game to shoot, leaves the impression that there is a...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CHILDREN'S UPS AND DOWNS. [To me EDITOR Or TR. " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reference to the idea that is being discussed in your columns that children have little feeling for the...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THY "Sritmtait.'1 Tollemache's comparison of the

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child's mind to a fountain which intermittently sends forth sweet and bitter waters is surely both pretty and apt. Here is another example of this glycypicric quality. The scene...

" ENGLAND'S VOTX PON A Fans ELECT/ON AND A FREE

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Great God of Nations, and their Right, By whose high Auspice Brittaixt stands So long, though first 'twas built on sands, And oft had sunk but for Thy might In her own Mainland...

CATCHING COLD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPIGOT/MR.1 SIE,—/ see a letter in the Spectator of January 7th about the infliction of the season, colds, and whether they are due to microbes. I can...

[ici THE EDIT011 OP TILE "SPECTATOR."] SIEjAll I have told

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several unpleasant stories about children, I will take the unsavoury taste out of my mouth by ending with something agreeable to the moral palate. The following incident was...

THE "IN MEMORIAM" METRE. [To THE EDITOR OP TH2 "SPECTATOR.")

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Sin,—There is a fine example of the "In Memoriam" metre in an anonymous poem of the seventeenth century which I found among the "Luttrell Ballads" in the British Museum, and...

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THE PROBLEM OF OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I have read with interest the article on the above sukject which appeared in the Spectator of December 3-et, 1898. As this question...

A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I have read your article on "Modern City Life" with intense satisfaction, but I note that you do not refer to one very obvious way of...

THE LATE NUBAR PASHA.

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[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIB,—It is to be hoped that accounts of the late Nubar Pasha will do justice to his genuine interest in humanity, apart from his official...

THE IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR Of TAR " SPECTA:206:] Sin,—Your article on the recent Irish elections, though marking the anxiety of the situation, hardly does justice to that revolutionary...

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POETRY.

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I can do nothing but annoy; For little boys are all born bad, And I am born a little boy. it doesn't matter what's the game, Whether its Indians, trains, or ball; I always know...

BOOKS.

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Slit GEORGE TREVELYA.N'S "AMERICAN REVOLUTION."* Tr is always unsafe to predict classical rank for a book on its first appearance. We shall not therefore venture to affirm that...

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CHITRAL.*

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THIS story of what Sir George Robertson modestly calls a minor siege is marked by an epic simplicity which should give it a place not only in history but in literature. It has...

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THE EMPEROR HkDRIAN.* Jr we except the mighty Julius himself,

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Hadrian was unquestionably the most interesting of all the long line of the Roman Emperors, and is, indeed, one of the moat fascinating figures among the rulers of all time....

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*

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Wum the close of the Christmas holidays a welcome improvement is observable in the quality of the new novels. • (1.) The Two Standards. By William Barry. London: T. Fisher...

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The Master's Blesseds, by J. R, D,D, (Hodder and

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Stoughton, 2s. 6d.), is "a devotional study of the Beatitudes,'? Books of devotion are not fit subjects for criticism. Many of our readers will doubtless recognise Dr. Millet's...

Church Law. By Benjamin Whitehead, B.A.. (Stevens and Sons. Ws.

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6cL)—This is a second edition of a "Concise Dictionary of Statutes, Canons, Regulations, and Decided Cases affecting the Clergy and Laity." The arrangement is alphabetical; and...

Letters of Walter Savage Lawlor. Edited by Stephen Wheeler. (Duckworth

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and Co. 10s. 6d )—Mr. Wheeler has printed in this volume a number of letters, hitherto unpublished, which Landor addressed to Miss Rose Paynter (afterwards Lady Graves-Sawle)...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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MINOR BOOKS OF THE WEEK. (Under this Heading we intend to notice such Books of the week as has, not been relieved for Mina oiler formaj A Commentary on the First Epistle of St....

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Autumnal Leaves. By Francis George Heath. (Imperial Press. Is. 6d.)—Sixteen

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years ago we had the pleasure of giving a warm welcome to this book, and we are glad to see that the reading public has appreciated it. A fourth edition is a distinctly...

Sanatoria for Consumptives. By F. Rufenacht Walters, M.D. With an

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Introduction by Sir R. D. Powell, Bart., M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 10s. 6d.)—The two statement. that con- sumption is preventible and that it is curable indicate what is...

Can we Disarm ? By Joseph McCabe, written in collaboration

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with Georges Darien. (W. Heinemann. 2s. 6d.)—The specially interesting part of this volume is the chapter headed "A Possible Solution." Papal policy, which never forgets the...

Creation - Myths of Primitive America. By Jeremiah Curtin. (Williams and Norgate.

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10s. 6d.)—This is a specially valuable contribution to folk-lore. The American myths have a place of their own in the science, and the analogies and differences which we can...

Horne Life in Colonial Days. By Alice Morse Earle. (Macmillan

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and Co. 8a. 6d. net.)—Miss Earle in this volume pictures for us not so much the personalities of the Colonial pre-Revolution days as the material circumstances and surroundings...

Neglected Factors in the Study of the Early Progress of

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Christianity. By the Rev. James Orr, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. $s Gd.)—We cannot do more than indicate the line which Professor Orr takes. He argues that Christianity was a...

Outlines of Industrial Chemistry. By Frank Hall Thorp, Ph.D. (Macmillan

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and Co. 15s. net.)—Dr. Thorp divides his subject into two parts, "Inorganic" and "Organic Industries." In the first some of the more important are fuels, water, various...

Evolution of the Steam Locomotive. By G. A. Sekon. (Railway

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Publishing Company. 5s.)—Mr. Sekon begins with the familiar name of Trevitiaick, who made his first trip with a locomotive on Christmas Eve, 1801. From this beginning the...

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The January instalment of The Oxford English Dictionary, edited by

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Dr. James A. Murray (Clarendon Press, 5s.), takes in the words "Heel—Hod." These number very nearly four thousand, more than a quarter in excess of any previous dictionary. One...

Three articles in the Edinburgh Review for this quarter deal

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with America. One is on "Stonewall Jackson," that right- minded, wrong-headed soldier, a new Life of whom has lately been written ; one on "Sir George Trevelyan and the American...

The Hampstead Annual. Edited by Ernest C. Bhp. (Sidney the

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Mayle.)—We notice among the contributors to this volume names of Canon Ainger, Dr Horton, C. E. Maurice, and H. W. Nevinson. It is welcome for its intrinsic merits, and also for...

The current Quarterly has several articles of interest, the most

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notable being "The Ethics of Religious Conformity." The main idea of this most able and ingenious paper—which we strongly recommend to all those who are interested in Christian...

The Sportsman's Year - Book. Edited by C. S, Colman and A,

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H. Windsor. (Lawrence and Ballen. 2s. 6d.)—This volume is a new venture; it is to be "a Sportsman's Whitaker, in the shape of a collection of the rules of the chief English...