29 SEPTEMBER 1883

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The Irish have " heckled " Dr. Pankhurst with advantage

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to themselves. Could not some of the more sensible English Radicals try the same process ? Could they not ask him, late as it is, how he proposes to garrison India without an...

The Austrian Government has suffered another severe blow in the

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Balkan. The Servian Ministry, presided over by M. Pirotchanatz, which is pro-Austrian, was considered so safe that King Milano went holiday-making to Vienna, and sought an...

The French are getting themselves into a condition of irrita-

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bility in which nations, like men, are capable of almost any blunder. The King of Spain is to be the guest of the Republic for three days, but he has accepted the titular...

Dr. Pankhurst, who is substantially a French Red of the

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humane type, and not an English Radical at all, is now the sole Liberal candidate for Manchester, and has a fair chance of being seated. He has pledged himself to Home-rule and...

IV The Editors can:tot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

It is understood that the more fanatic Irishmen of Ulster

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are extremely irritated by Mr. Parnell's "invasion" of the Province, and on Friday morning Dublin and London were almost simultaneously disturbed by a rumour that the Home-role...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A N accident, which might have been most terrible, occurred at Woolwich on Monday. From some unexplained cause, a rocket which was being filled in the war-rocket store exploded,...

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Sir Richard Cross made a speech at Penritb, • on Thursday,.

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which even his own friends must have regarded as most foolish. Its drift was that the Government were sure to go wrong in all parts of the world, and, therefore, the country...

The Rev. G. A. Shaw, the Missionary arrested at Tamatave,

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related his case on Thursday to a vast crowd in Exeter Hall. We have said enough of his statement elsewhere, but we wish to notice a statement made by the Rev. G. Cousins, of...

The Emperor of Germany was on Friday to unveil the

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grand national monument of the War of 1870. It is erected on the edge of the Niederwald, overlooking the Rhine, and its main feature is a colossal bronze statue of Germania,...

There is some apprehension that the hand of the Chinese

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Government may be forced, but it is probably exaggerated. According to rumour, the mob of Pekin has shown excitement, and the War Party has, therefore, triumphed. The Marquis...

Mr. Biggar, who usually keeps himself well within the law,.

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and reserves all violence for Parliament, has this week run an unusual risk. In a speech at Tallow, County Carlow, he is reported to have said :—" Of course, they were bound to...

Nothing now has happened this week in the negotia- tions

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between France and China. It is reported and denied that the Chinese reply to the French proposals has been re- ceived, and reported and denied that the Chinese have forwarded...

Sir Evelyn Baring, tho new British Representative at Cairo, has

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been interviewed by the correspondent of the Standard, and has stated his impression of the position in Egypt. It is not optimist. Sir Evelyn repudiates all idea of permanent...

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The papers of North India cannot get over the idea

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that Russia and Great Britain are engaged in a duel of intrigue in Central Asia, and Reuter about once a fortnight solemnly informs us that a Russian has been seen in Herat, or...

The managers of the Panama Canal are raising money on

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debentures, and are circulating statements of the most hope- ful kind. They say they have no difficulty as to their supplies of labour, that their people are contented and in-...

The first number of Messrs. Macmillan's English. Illust)ated Magazine, at

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sixpence, has appeared this month, and deserves a word. The letterpress is neither better nor worse, that we see, than the letterpress of most magazines, but the illustrations,...

The Royalist party in France, as we expected, has yielded

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completely to the Comte de Paris. He has signified privately through his friends, and semi-publicly through the Francais, that he does not wish, for the present, to take the...

The Biological Section of the British Association is strongly of

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opinion that a marine laboratory, or rather observatory, should be established. upon the coast. The object is the close and continuous observation of the habits of fishes, and...

On Tuesday, amidst the rather trumpery papers which are often

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read in the Biological Section, Dr. Stone gave an account of a very curious modification of aphasia which is occasionally observed. The patient who cannot express his thought...

We confess we read with a certain dismay all articles,

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letters, and reports upon the Congo. They all come to this,—that the Congo, with its affluents, has a waterway of 4,500 miles ; that it drains a territory far larger than...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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DR. PANKHUIIST. I T may prove that the managers of the Liberal party in Manchester, in refusing to fight the seat, have done a greater injury to the cause than we suspected. It...

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THE GREAT SENTINEL.

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I T is very good of Germany, being, as she is, so much stronger than anybody else, not to use her strength in conquering everybody around. That is, we suppose, the true meaning...

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MR. SHAW'S STATEMENT.

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T HE tone of the Meeting at Exeter Hall which welcomed the returned Missionaries from Madagascar on Thursday night was all that could be desired, and Mr. Shaw's account of his...

THE INVASION OF ULSTER.

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S Ulster converted, or likely to be converted, to Nation- alism I The Parnellite invasion of Tyrone and the adjoining counties ought to supply the answer to this, the most...

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THE FUTURE SUEZ CANAL.

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THh RE are some aspects of the Suez-Canal Question which ave not been sufficiently studied. In the heated dis- cussion which followed the announcement of the Government scheme,...

CHILDREN AND THEIR DINNERS.

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W E wonder whether it is quite impossible to feed one generation properly. We are no seekers after Utopia, and have little faith that man, with all his efforts, will ever escape...

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SPACE FANCIES.

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I N the most brilliant of his poems, the late Professor Clerk Maxwell described Professor Cayley as one,— Whose soul, too large for vulgar space, In n dimensions flourished...

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THE GENEVAN CHURCH AND ITS APOLOGISTS.

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O UR remarks on the anti-Christian Church of Geneva seem to have attracted some attention in Switzerland, and have evoked there, as might be expected, several diverse judg-...

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THE MISLEADING CHARACTER OF LAW AS AN INDEX TO MORALS.

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T HE interesting treatise on Natural Religion to which we have recently adverted, in taking its start from the assump- tion that the most important subjects of human...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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PROFESSOR RAY LANKESTER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] £4114—Should you have the courtesy to insert this letter in your journal, your readers will perceive that your...

SCOTCH PROFESSORSHIPS AND ENDOWMENTS FOR RESEARCH.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "firEcreroa."] Sts,—Your article in last week's Spectator upon Scotch Pro- fessors ought to provide matter for reflection for those who, like Mr. Ray...

THE SITUATION IN ZULULAND.

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[To THE EDITOR or rug "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—Will you allow me to draw your attention to an import- ant consideration which is not adverted to in the remarks on the situation in...

"REVELATION AND MODERN THEOLOGY C ON TRASTE D."

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The review of my work in your number of the 15th inst. contains an error respecting a matter of fact, which I shall be much obliged by...

FRANCE, ITALY, AND SAVOY.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—As one intimately acquainted with Savoy, may I ask space for a few remarks on the very bitter and hostile article in your number for...

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LONGEVITY.

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[To THE EDITOR 01 . THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,-You are mistaken in supposing that " at present the highest age known capable of absolute proof is 106, at which Lady Smith died a...

THE IMPROVEMENT OF EGYPT. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "

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SPECTATOR. " ] Siu,-In your last issue, Mr. Hilary Skinner says "that the native fears the reformer almost as much as he hates the usurer." Very true, but why? Because what we...

POETRY.

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ME WSL ADE. STRANGE powers are they that work 'twixt sea and land; Where winds and waves, the rivals of the shore, In tempest or in calm, for evermore, Beat on the cliff, or...

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13 0 0 K S.

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A SAINT'S CORRESPONDENCE.* As excellent preface by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Menevia and Newport introduces this first volume of the translated works of St. Francis de Sales,...

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READING- FOR MRS. WITTITTERLY.*

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AMONG the minor humorous characters created by Dickens, there is one which, however its features may vary with the changing social aspects of the time, remains permanent as a...

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DR. BRENTANO ON THE ENGLISH CHRISTIAN- SOCIALIST MOVEMENT.* To his

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studies on the English Trade Unions, on the Chartist move- ment—both of them works which have no equivalents in our own language, and which would well have deserved...

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VOLCANOES.* Tins volume forms one of the International Scientific Series,

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and as such might be supposed to be written only for readers of a particular class, but it is really one that should claim the attention of a wider circle, and will well repay...

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THE COMPLETE MACLISE GALLERY.*

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MACLISE'S portraits, and what publishers now-a-days term "the accompanying descriptive letter-press " of Maginn, are so well • Ths Mortis. Portrait-Gallery of "IlIasfrMvs...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The contents of the fourth number of that new and energetic quarterly, the Scottish Review, are even more varied than those of its predecessors. Theology, for a wonder, has no...

A Daughter of the Philistines. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.) —The "Philistines"

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are a family of the name of Hampton, who, having made money in the Far West (of the United States), naturally come to spend it in the East. There is a father, who is a vulgar,...

The Colthorpe Cousins, and other Stories. By Annie Thomas. 3

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vole. (F. V. White and Co.)—It is always somewhat of an annoy- ance to find what one had expected to be a novel of the customary length disintegrated, so to speak, into some...

Ten Great Religions, Part II. A Comparison of All Religions.

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By James Freeman Clarke. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.) The plan and purpose of this book are thus described in the preface : —" Instead of describing and...

Lives of the Princesses of Wales. By Barbara Clay Finch.

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(Remington.)—We have here three closely-printed volumes, giving the lives of Joan of Kent, Anne of Warwick, Katharine of Amgen, Caroline of Anspach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and...

Scraps from My Sabrelasche. By George Carter Stent. (W. H.

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Allen.)—Mr. Stent, who is known as the author of a Chinese dictionary, here presents us with a book of a very different and much livelier kind. It consists of his personal...

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ing of visiting the two countries mentioned should add to

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their "Murray." It does not, of course, pretend to fulfil the function of a guide-book, but it takes some twenty or so interesting spots, and gives a lively description of them....

A Fallen Foe. By Katharine King. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We have

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always liked Miss King's novels, for their healthy and happy tone, the breezy, open-air life, and the ready sympathy and common-sense there are in them. They are perfectly...

Imperatoris Justiniani Institutionum Libri IV. With Introduc- tions, Commentary, Excursus,

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and Translation. By J. C. Moyle, B.C.L. (The Clarendon Press.)—Though Mr. Moyle's volumes are, of course, intended as a text-book for students of law, his general introduction...

Once More. By Lady Margaret Majendie. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—A

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pretty volume of pleasant tales, by a writer who possesses an excellent gift of humour, and an easy and refined style. "Uncle George's Will," originally published in Temple Bar,...

Politics and Life in Mars. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is

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a very dell satire, as unlike as possible to what should be the model of such attempts, Swift's "Brobdignag" and "Lilliput." Thousands have read these books without a suspicion...