28 SEPTEMBER 1895

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The French Government, very wisely in their own interest, intend

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to allow no discussion in the Chamber until they know whether Antananarivo has been carried or not. They are afraid of speeches proving that the mismanagement was due to a " war...

The Paris correspondent of the Times denounces the French Government

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for cancelling certain great monopolies granted to individuals in the French Colonies ; and declares that the British Government grants such monopolies, and that this is one...

On September 20th, Signor Crispi, on the unveiling of a

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monument in Rome to Garibaldi, made a speech which we cannot but think injudicious against the Papacy. He made no allowance for its traditions or its position ; but denounced...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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S EVERAL telegrams have appeared this week which point to a renewal of Russian activity in the Far East. It is again stated that Russia, France, and Germany are hurry- ing Japan...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 12th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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

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case.

The news of the week from Madagascar is at once

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de- pressing and hopeful. As the invalids return home their stories reveal the truth as to the sickness which has im- perilled the expedition, and has, to put the result with...

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During the week there have been two important Colonial appointments,

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and rumours as to two peerages which will interest the public. Mr. Chamberlain, as Colonial Secre- tary, has selected Sir Herbert Murray, late Chairman of the Board of Customs,...

On Tuesday Dr. Kane, the Grand Master of the Orange

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Institution, speaking at Cork, declared that the Orangemen were not opposed to a Local Government scheme which would place Ireland exactly in the same position as England and...

The Shahzada's visit to Rome was marked by a very

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pic- turesque incident. He spent a whole morning in St. Peter's examining the monuments, and finally he and all his atten- dants read the Fatihah, the Mahommedan confession of...

the Chicago Convention of Irish Extremists held its first meeting

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on Wednesday, under the Presidency of Mr. J. F. Finerty. Among those present were O'Donovan Rossa, and Tynan, the notorious Number One of the Invincible organisation ; but...

The victory of the Anti-Semites in Vienna has been even

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more complete than was imagined. The final poll leaves them 91 seats in the Council out of 138, and places the Liberals in a position of total impotence. The correspondent of...

A correspondent, who is publishing in the Times the opinions

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formed during years of close observation of China, gives us on Friday some interesting details. He does not consider a ruling and active Emperor impossible, for such a one...

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On Wednesday Mr. Ritchie addressed a speech on British Commerce

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and Technical Education to the students of the Croydon Polytechnic. He was wise to insist strongly upon the need for more energy in our iron and steel industries, where Germany...

Sir Matthew White Ridley, the Home Secretary, made a speech

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at Newcastle on Wednesday which contained, what we should on such a subject have deemed hopeless, a new thought. He said, of coarse, the regular things about books being friends...

The Agricultural Returns for Great Britain during 1894 show some

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curious facts in opposition to the stories of increasing depression. For example, the area of cultivation is increasing, not decreasing. In 1869, probably the record year for...

Lord Armstrong's speech at the meeting of the Armstrong Company's

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shareholders contained some very interesting comments upon the Japanese war. The Japanese were not only abreast but ahead of the times in their use of armament and naval...

The robbery of silver ingots in Ossulton Street on Wednes-

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day is spoken of as extraordinary; but the wonder is that crimes of the kind do not occur more frequently. Every day quantities of treasure in gold, silver, banknotes, or...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1071.

The Times of Saturday last gives an interesting account of

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the way in which the Thames is being converted into a lamp- lighted street. The keen competition among the shipowners makes them eager to act on the maxim that time is money,...

The weather during the past week has been literally unpre-

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cedented. Never before has the end of September been marked by midsummer weather. Tuesday was in London one of the hottest days of the year, and though a little rain fell during...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ITALY AND THE PAPACY. T HE fetes in Rome, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the surrender of the city to Italy, the angry and injudicious speech of Signor Crispi, the dignified...

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THE FUTURE OF THE CONGO STATE. T HE Parisians are under

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the impression that the King of the Belgians is visiting their city to discuss a plan for selling the Congo State to the French Republic. They may be wrong, for although Leopold...

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THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.

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P OLITICALLY, the Chicago Convention of Irishmen is of no importance whatever. That is, it will be followed by no action of any kind that will be injurious to the interests of...

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THE WORLD'S GOLD-SUPPLY. T HE remarkable outburst of speculation in South

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African mining shares, to the effects of which we referred last week, naturally calls attention to the question of the gold-supply of the world at large, and the results that...

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THE RUMOURS FROM JAPAN.

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T HERE must be trouble brewing in the Far East, though the explosion may be still a considerable distance off, and though the Russian authorities have taken the trouble to deny...

MANUAL LABOUR AND ITS EARNINGS.

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Let us look a little closer at Sir Robert Giffen's figures. Though 24s. 7d. a week is the average wage per man, 24 per cent. of the labouring class have earnings below £1 a...

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THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S CENTENARY.

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I F the nineteenth century has been the age of the railway and the telegraph and of scientific discovery, it will rank in history, not less conspicuously, as the age of...

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AMERICAN HEIRESSES.

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T HE correspondent of the Times, who announces from New York the engagement of the young Duke of Marlborough to Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the mammoth millionaire,...

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HOUSE-BARGAINS FOR LONDONERS.

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O NE of the most singular features of the depression from which the landed interest in England is suffering is the refusal of people of small means to turn it to their benefit....

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IS ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION POSSIBLE P A VOYAGE to the Far

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South, recently made by an Australian whaling-vessel, has once more drawn attention to projects of Antarctic research. The ship fol- lowed the track of Sir James Rosa into the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE COLONIES AND THE NAVY. [To TEE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I do not expect that you will afford me space in which to reply to your extended criticism of the...

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AN IRISH STORY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR, " ] SIR,—In one of your articles in the Spectator of September 14th you say that the Irish are the most aristocratically minded people on the...

THE GENESIS OF UNIVERSITY MYTH.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As an old Harrovian and an eye-witness of the scene, I should like to correct the version of an old story which I read in the Spectator...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:9

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SIR,—Mr. Tollemache's letter in the Spectator of Sep- tember 21st, sent me to your issue of September 14th, which I had missed, and to your article on the "Genesis of University...

BURYING ALIVE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Every thoughtful reader will feel grateful for your directing his attention to this subject, in your able and in- structive article in...

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THE VERGER OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I can vouch for the truth of the story told by your correspondents, having been a victim of the verger myself ; and upon another...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The following notes

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relating to Crib,' a white bull- terrier, were dictated by his owner, William Essex, iron- warehouseman, who had charge of a horse.—I am, Sir, &c., Almswood, Evesham, September...

BUTTER-FACTORIES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is, no doubt, a great opening for co-operation among farmers; but the superiority of butter-factories over home-dairies is not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] SIR,—The story in the

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Spectator of September 21st reminds me that I once possessed a dog who had precisely the same trick of attacking fire as that mentioned by your corre- spondent. He was a red...

DOG-STORIES.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As your readers seem interested in stories of canine sagacity and cleverness, I gladly send you a short account of a small spaniel's...

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BOOKS.

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THREE VOLUMES OF SERMONS.* Mn. Inntscrwoarrn's volume contains the Bampton Lectures of 1894. They deal with the argument for the existence of God, an argument less commonly...

MOBILISATION.

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I ro TES EDITOR OP TES " SPXCTATOL . 9 SIR,—An attempt is about to be made to put the National Defences on a proper footing, and if this be done on business principles, the...

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MR. T. P. O'CONNOR'S LOVE-STORIES.*

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WHATETBR may be our opinions about Mr. T. P. O'Connor's position and aims as a politician, or of his especial uses of journalism, there can be no doubt of his capacity for...

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PROFESSOR RANSOME'S "HISTORY OF ENGLAND."*

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THIS is a really valuable book. In one volume of quite con- venient size, though containing rather over a thousand pages, we have the story of our national life and...

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RECENT NOVELS.* MB. NORRIS'S stories owe their attractiveness mainly to

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gifts and graces which have often been enumerated in these • (1.) Billy Bellew. By W. E. Norris. 2 vols. London : Chatto and windup. —(2.) Not Counting the Cost. By " Tasma." 3...

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THE ALPS, FROM END TO END.* IT is a platitude

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to point out that the love of mountains is not a feature of every age or every race. The hill-country folk who wrote the Psalms of Israel would have failed to realise Dr....

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LORENZO LOTTO.*

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Tars is the first book in English in which the methods of analysis and comparison associated with the name of Morelli have been applied on an elaborate scale. These methods are,...

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John Russell Colvin. By Sir Auckland Colvin. (Clarendon Press.)—The newspapers

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of October 27th, 1857, when announcing the good tidings of the fall of Delhi, contained this notice, " Mr. Colvin, the Lieutenant-Governor, died at Agra on September fith."...

A Fatal Reservation. By R. 0. Prowse. (Smith, Elder, and

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Co.)— This story is of so good, we may say of so excellent, a quality that it suggests with special force a reflection that has often been made. Critics used to tell novelists...

In the series of "The Great Educators" (W. Heinemann) we

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have two volumes which it must suffice to mention very briefly. These are Abelard, by Gabriel Compayr6, and Herbart and the Herbartians, by Charles De Garmo. With regard to the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Across Asia on a Bicycle. By T. G. Allen, jun., and W. L. Sachtleben. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, having graduated at the University of Washington, Mo., and...

Fairbrass : a Child's Story. By T. Edgar Pemberton. (Cornish

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Brothers, Birmingham.)—This is a good book of its kind, with no little humour as well as serious meaning in it. It can hardly be said that all the incidents in it are probable ;...

Memoirs of the Prince de Joinville. Translated from the French

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by Lady Mary Loyd. (W. Heinemann )—There are some things that are entertaining in this volume, even some things that are instructive, but there are more that are frivolous, or...

Corpus Poetarum Latinorutn. Edidit J. P. Postgate. (G. Bell et

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F.)—This second fasciculus, containing Propertius and Ovid, completes the first volume. The preface, which explained the separate appearance of Part I., is now superseded by...

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Psalm Mosaics. By the Rev. A. Saunders Dyer. (Elliot Stock.)

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—This book is very much on the same plan as Mr. Maraca's "Psalms at Work" reviewed in the Spectator some months ago. Of course, it had an independent crigin, such a work being...

The Early Oxford Press. By Falconer Madan, M.A. (The Clarendon

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Press.)—If there is a critic who is able to review Mr. Madan's book from the height of superior or even from the level of equal knowledge, we do not know where he is to be...

English Prose Selections. Edited by Henry Craik. VoL IV., Eighteenth

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Century. (Macmillan and Co.)—The present volume takes in a large range of writers from Conyers Middleton (1683- 1715) to Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). The authors included Lord...

Annals of a Quiet Valley in the Wordsworth Country. By

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" Country Parson." Edited by John Watson. (Dent and Co.)— The " Country Parson " whom Mr. Watson " edits " is presumably a myth. If he is not, he is the grandson of the "...

The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt. Attributed to Abfi Silet,

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the Armenian. Translated by B. T. A. Evetts, M.A., with Notes by Alfred J. Butler. (Clarendon Press.)—The MS. from which this translation has been made is unique. It is in the...