THE TRADE POLICY OF IMPERIAL FEDERATION.* IT is difficult to read the book before us—the work of a Colonial man of letters—and not to conclude that its pages have been penned...

LONDON: JANUARY 30, 1892.

do not occupy much space in Sir Edwin Arnold's book. He gives fifteen pages to the passage from Liverpool to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sixteen to the voyage from San Francisco...

than Charles Dickens, and had he lived to read his grand-daughter's first novel, the veteran writer would have found pleasure in the • O.) Cross-Currents. By Mary Angela...

THERE is certainly no denying the aptness of the title Captain Powell has given his book ; put for the alternate scorching heat and intense cold of Siberia, the semi-tropical...

last of a series of most useful and attractive handbooks. The first was The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, of which the object was "to explain the meaning of words and...

IT is but rarely that on reading three novels one can pronounce that they are all good. But such is the fortunate fate of the reader of the three books under review, perhaps...

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emotions are described with tiresome elaboration and misplaced sympathy, is a young lady who, to say the and who would certainly be described by severe and plain- spoken matrons...

a pretty story, which it would not be easy, perhaps, to distinguish from an ordinary novel. One may have a suspicion that it would not have appeared under its present auspices...

Fuller Maitland. (Leadenhall Press.)—Students of music will read this volume with much interest, nor will those who regard it from the literary point of view find it without...

inherited very little indeed from the smaller foundations in which it had a part at least of its beginnings. Michaelhouse had a large library, but only two or three of its...

vols. (T. Wilson, Kendal.)—Mr. Bellasis has collected here the " heraldry, epitaphs, and other inscriptions in the thirty- two ancient parish churches and churchyards of...

prettily illustrated, of extracts, in prose and verse, from the works of Frances Ridley Havergal, bearing the general title of " Messages for Life's Journey." These are : Songs...

Low and Co.)—Mr. Peach has collected a number of interesting facts about the parish of Swainswick (near Bath), as, indeed, any com- petent person may do if he will take the...

W. Burnie. (John Murray.)—This is a remarkable biography, not so much for its execution, though this is just what could be wished, as for the remarkable interest of the subject....

Lys." (National Society.)—Here we have a social problem, as it may be called, neatly set forth. A girl, just growing into a woman, is claimed by her mother, who had left her as...

mans.)—This is a singularly well-written story. The plot is well contrived. There is poetical character about the justice which we find worked out in the denouement, and yet...

P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and Co.)—It would not be easy to find a writer equally The Present State of the Fine Arts in France. By P. G. Hamerton. (Seeley and Co.)—It would not be...

and Stoughton.)—This is a volume of "The Foreign Biblical Library" series, which is appearing under the editorship of Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll. Twenty-seven sermons of...

and Co.)—After paying a handsome tribute to the steamer (the ' Teutonic ') in which he crossed the Atlantic, Mr. Fitz-Patrick gives his opinion with much freedom about men and...

(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is a volume mainly devoted to setting forth the services performed by Mr. Cobden in his civic capacity. A chapter, for instance, is given to his...

and Oates.)—This is the seventh and completing volume of Mr. Allies's thoughtful and learned work on " The Formation of Christendom." It takes in the period from the death of...

Stock.)—Mr. Tuberville gives his six chapters to six different types, as he calls them. It cannot be denied that he is sufficiently wide in his sympithieF. Marcus Aurelius, St....

Pack of Cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation to generation, is the primitive book of initiation." " Papus " interprets it, and so supplies Initiates with "an...

publication of an article contributed by the author to "The Cyclopmedia of Card and Table Games." It contains a complete account of the game, gives and examines the various...

"The Authorship of the Odyssey" is certainly a powerful argu- ment on the side of the " Chorizontes," though we cannot assent to the view that the Odyssey view of the gods is...

Skeet and Charles S. Miall. (Alexander and Shepheard.)—Mr. Skeat wrote the History as far back as 1850. This work was published in 1868. N r. Miall now continues the work down...

Co.)— This is a story of the reigning American fashion, in which character is elaborately studied, and incident, so to speak, tabooed. Felicia Raymond marries a professional...

a spirited story. Daniel Kershaw, a millionaire from the American West, comes into relation with a young man who is coming from the same country eastward in the hopes of making...

D.D. (Nisbet and Co.)—We cannot pretend to criticise in the space at our command Dr. Gloag's learned work; but we do not hesitate to commend it to the consideration of...

Sons.)—This novel has decided merits. It is written through- out with force ; it has a carefully constructed plot, and ends with a denouement which the reader, even though...

a native of Yarmouth, of mingled Highland and Welsh parentage, spent some thirteen years as a medical missionary in China. At first he was stationed at Han- Kow, but afterwards...

Abraham, and in a spirit very different from the critical manner which we are accustomed to find in his countrymen, treats it with a view to edification. The plainness and...

Forster. (Ellis and Elvey.)—Mr. Forster gives an account of twelve Frenchmen, beginning with Marivaux, a comedian who flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century,...

White and Co.)—This is, in part, a sporting story, with its plot compli- cated by one of those curious confusions of identity which are, happily, more common in fiction than in...

is a love-story, which has, one might say, for its chief raison d'ttre a description of life in Rome, a scene where Miss Severne naturally finds herself at home. The story has...

Public Library was opened in 1883, and contains more than fourteen thousand volumes, a very respectable total to accumulate in so short a time. And the books, as far as a hasty...

Bats- ford.)—If any one must build—for to build without compulsion is surely an act of unwisdom which we should be sorry to attribute to our readers—let him look at Mr. Bri gg...

the second edition of Chaucer's Poetical Works, 6 vols., edited by Richard Morris, LL.D., with Memoir by Sir Harry Nicholas. The first edition was published twenty-five years a...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Pub li shed by him at the " SrEcrsroa " Office, No. 1 Wellington Street,...

T HE Queen has addressed a touching letter to her people, repeating her" deep sense " of the loyalty and affectionate sympathy they have expressed "on an occasion more tragical...

Parnellites are to unite again in one compact Nationalist Party. There are obviously negotiations going on, there is a lull in the discharge of verbal artillery, and the English...

submitted to the Supreme Court at Washington, to the end that that high tribunal, with its learning and impartiality," may determine without appeal whether there be any ground...

case.

message to Congress, in which he de- scribed the course of the negotiations with Chili. He had told Congress in his annual Message that he expected a satis- factory settlement...

Hartington's recent seat. Although the poll was extraordinarily heavy—not 10 per cent. abstaining— and the Conservative strength was increased by 613 above its figure in 1885,...

President informed Congress that a Note bad been received from the Chilian Minister dated January 23rd, " but not delivered at the State Department until after 12 o'clock noon...

No. 3,318.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1892. [REGISTZRZD AS • r PRICZ 4d NEWSPAPER. BY P osy, did.

Prussian Parliament, the Liberals opposing it as more clerical than the Clericals themselves. Herr E. Richter describes it as " an order to every child to believe in God," and...

in Paris, on account of domestic misfortunes, and M. de Blowitz seizes the occasion to reveal a bit of secret history. In 1867, it appears, Napoleon III., irritated by...

protest against the erection of a statue to Cardinal Newman, and a resolution was carried " strongly disapproving" of the erection of such statue "on any public site to be given...

It is evident from all letters received, that in the worst provinces, like Orenburg, Voronezh, and others, the bonds of society are loosening, the peasants, in despair, forming...

the appointment of Cardinal Ledochowski, a Pole,. as Prefect of the Propaganda. He is a close friend of the Pope, a bitter enemy of Prince Bismarck, and by no means a good...

expect the social explosion to come first; but more impossible phenomena have been witnessed. The peasantry of the Peninsula have neither acquired the land as the French have...

that there was no abatement, but rather an increase in the influenza, during the week ending last Saturday. For London the total death-rate per thousand was 46, an increase of 6...

resolved to retire from the London County Council. He has, he says, too much to do. Both the Conservatives and the Progressives, it is also stated, find the greatest difficulty...

Monday published a remarkably able letter, signed "S. S. C." The writer suggests that the pleadings in an action, and the delays allowed to a prosecutor, should be still further...

by the Court of Crown Cases Reserved. The Court, consisting of Mr. Justice Hawkins, who originally tried the case, and four other Judges, declared that the verdict of the jury...

England Society for Waifs and Strays at Leamington on Saturday, spoke of the appalling number of paupers in the country—namely, 728,043—and mentioned as specially dis- tressing...

the paper on " Hafiz " which appears in the Quarterly Review for January. We have not an idea who wrote it, unless, perhaps, Sir Alfred Lyall has excelled himself ; but the...

accession by lowering the price of salt by 40 per cent., and by abolishing altogether the professional licence duty. Sir Evelyn Baring knows his business ; but if it is true...

New Console (2k) were on Friday 951.

here to blame the Northern Republic for pressing her South American sister too hard. That the attitude of Washington has not been over-conciliatory, we do not doubt. Anglo-Saxon...

a severe blow hoped, that it would have been educated by that states- Some of the Gladstonians, we see, elated with their man, would have studied his speeches, have thought...

W E doubt very much whether Portugal will sell her Colonies, and still more whether, if she did sell them, the advantage, whether to this country or the world, would be nearly...

Mr. Chamberlain's scheme for old-age pensions, but that is a fatal one. It will not do the work it is intended to do, and will im- pose a burden on the State calculated to...

W HETHER from pressure exerted by the Pope, or from the steady drift of clerical opinion in France, the change in the attitude of the Church towards Republi- can institutions...

annoyance of many of its friends, has never been able to believe either that philanthropy would greatly diminish poverty, or that education, however widely extended, would...

I T is difficult for us now to realise the attitude of states- men in the past to the problems which were presented them for solution, or the spirit in which they dealt with...

I T is a curious thing that, living under a Monarchy, Englishmen should feel any doubt as to the descent of the Throne; but there can be no question that the genealogist who in...

-w - HAT influence does our London—this city of countless inhabitants and ceaseless turmoil—exert upon the world of letters, and what transformation is it likely to effect upon...

V ERY few ladies, perfect or the reverse, have gone through life without constantly encountering the phrase "a perfect lady." There are plenty of people among the lower- middle...

WAS IT HYDROPHOBIA ? [To THII EDITOR or TRY . 131.ECTATOR.'] Sin,—Allow me to relate to you an experience, unique, as far as I know, in the annals of railway adventures. I,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF Tag "SPECTATOR,."] SIR,—Those who knew Derwent Coleridge well will be justly indignant at Carlyle's criticism upon him recently published in the Contemporary...

pro TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—My attention has been called to the article entitled " Emigration in the Dark," which appeared in the Spectator of January 23rd, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your discussion of this subject in your review of Mr.. Julian's work (the extent of which is frightful to think of). will, I am sure,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,-Mr. Angus is rather hard on the " Episcopal Church in Scotland." It is true that the Roman conception of Church authority is unique...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR " ] SIR,—In the interest of dictionary-makers, may I be allowed to state that the apparently coarse word used by the heroine of " Tess of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " spzerATos:1 SIR,—In the Spectator of January 16th, you noted the advan- tage of eucalyptus oil as a preventative of influenza, and I see some letters in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, In the Spectator of January 9th, you say : " We are not quite sure, but we think the advertisements of the lottery have been made...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As an appropriate illustration of a passage in the article on " Lord Rosebery and the County Council," in the Spectator of January...

SIR,—For perfect accuracy, the letter of my friend, the Rev. J. H. Thom, in the Spectator of January 23rd, needs one small -correction. My collection of " Hymns for the...

read the article on " Hymnology " in the Spectator -of January 9th, and had hoped that some abler pen than mine would have called attention to a point raised by the writer of...

VIA CRUCIS VIA LUCIS. ,Suggested by a passage in Helps's "Brevia."] WHAT heavenward guide is this, with blessings fraught ? Not science, system chases system, vain Her...

DARLING Phillis, four years old, Whom for my delight I will picture as I knew— Head alight with sunny gold, Cheeks of roses red and white, Eyes so large and blue ! I will fill...

AT THE OLD MASTERS.—II. A Symbolist. An Impressionist. S.-0 Impressionist, do I find you among the Primitives ? I have long been anxious to meet you in a place like this. 1-0...

THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL.* IN his House of Cromwell, Mr. Waylen has given us a delightful book on a delightful subject. Let no potential reader expect from the title that there is...

So many books have been published about Greece from a historical, archaeological, or philological point of view ; scholars and students of folk-lore, discoverers and travellers,...

THIRTY years have elapsed since Lord Canning's death ; but the time for a good biography of him, especially a short bio- graphy, has scarcely yet arrived. His history during the...

of our greatest men, there is at least no other Englishman who has achieved all but the highest reputation in so many and so different directions. The splendour of his exploits...

republish a book upon such a subject as the Government of Dependencies, written fifty years ago, before the great development of emigration, before the grant of responsible...

is practically a guide to the telephone systems and exchanges now in use ; and as everything is clearly explained and illustrated, it is a most convenient little book, and we...

John King Van Rensselaer. (T. Fisher Unwin.)--This is a learned and interesting book. The author traces back cards to the East under their earliest form and name, the Tarot...

Co.)—This is a volume of sensible counsels addressed to women for the management of their own health and of those under their care, apart from the necessity of medical treatment...

Character - Sketches. By W. T. Stead. (J. Haddon and Co.)— Mr. Stead has republished in a volume twelve sketches that have appeared in the Review of Reviews. The subjects are...

the Rev. Robert Logan. (Macniven and Wallace.)—The first tables are the Anglo-Saxon line, traced up to Cerdic, King of Wessex (519-534), reputed as eighth or tenth in descent...

this handy little series,—" Light," by Sir H. Trueman Wood, and " The Plant-World," by G. Masses. Both of these seem to be carefully and plainly written ; and the work of Mr....