of Mr. Bright. He told the House of Lords that as long ago as 1853, he had asked Lord Aberdeen why he had not offered a place to Mr. Bright in " the Ministry of all the...

Wednesday, and was received at San Sebastian by Queen Christina, Regent of Spain, with whom her Majesty stayed a few hours, and then recrossed the frontier. The visit has no...

of Commons on Wednesday, referred with great emotion to the death of Mr. Bright, and asked the House to delay the expression of its feeling on the subject till yesterday, when...

British type of Radical, so' sturdy, so straightforward, so im- movable when he had once taken up his position, and further, so distinctive and full of the natural...

M R. BRIGHT died at half-past 8 on Wednesday morning, after a relapse which had lasted a fortnight all but a day, beginning on Thursday, March 14th. On Tuesday evening he became...

any case.

towards the Comptoir d'Escompte. The liquidators of the Bank have reported that the Directors, who last year declared an increased dividend, must even then have been aware of...

nesday, which contained nothing of importance beyond his declaration of war to the knife with the present Government, and his rather shameless avowal of his obstructive tactics....

• who calmly assumed that Sir Richard Webster, though he had not cross-examined him, had intimated fresh doubt as to the forged letters in stating that he went to the extreme...

Parnell Commission was led off by Sir William Harcourt on Friday week, in a speech which professed the profoundest respect for the character of Sir Richard Webster, while it...

phrases of friendship, intimated that he might have been in error in accepting such a brief as that of the Times in his position, though the Government had declared that they...

to prosecute General Boulanger or no. It is affirmed, on one hand, that they have evidence that the General sanctioned preparations for a march of the Patriotic League upon the...

most injudicious way. The Sanitary Committee recom- mended that a Medical Officer of Health should be appointed, with a salary of £1,250 a year. This officer will be the chief...

as Minister to London, a decision which is a relief to two countries. Mr. Lincoln was Secretary of War under two Presidents, and is said to be a grave man of con- siderable...

to trumpery little debates in Supply upon the expenditure on Royal parks, palaces, stables, and garden walls. Not a shilling was saved or intended to be saved ; but the speakers...

to Lord Derby for the part he had taken as Chairman of the Court of Annual General Sessions for twenty-nine years back. Lord Derby, in acknowledging the compliment, said that...

specula- tion, why Mr. Burns, on his principles, fixes on £500 a year as his maximum price for men. If they are to work for love of the human race, a subsistence allowance ought...

his Budget on Wednesday. It shows a deficit of Rx.2,028,000 for the year 1887-88, and of Rx.202,000 for 1888-89, but anticipates a surplus of Rx.160,000 for 1889-90. This is not...

posal of a new Press Law. The Government of Prussia wishes to abandon the special legislation against Socialists, and to pass a general law under which any journalist who...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 981 to 98k.

MR. BRIGHT. E NGLAND without Mr. Bright hardly seems the same England that it seemed while he was still with us, even though he had so long been on the confines between life...

T HE virulent attack made on the Attorney-General yesterday week, and renewed on Monday, was, on the whole, a, failure, for everybody who knew anything about Sir Richard Webster...

laid before the Federal Council of Germany by the Prussian Government, marks the commencement of what may prove a sad era alike for Germany and for Europe. It indicates a...

testifying their respect for Mr. W. H. Smith's able leadership of the House of Com- mons in various ways. They have sent him an address of cordial recognition, and men of...

O UR objection to the New Fourth Party, which is making itself such an unpleasant factor in Parlia- mentary life, is not that its politics are bad—though its creed is to that of...

T ill, London County Council has again given public proof that it intends to comport itself as a business body. At each new meeting the wild talk grows less and less, and the...

San Sebastian on Wednesday is a picturesque and pleasing incident in one of the most perplexing of histories, that of Spain since 1815. Hardly anything in modern politics is so...

I T is probable that nothing now existing in England will be in existence two thousand years hence. Louis Blanc's half-melancholy, half-cynical aphorism, "Edifices have only...

I T is hard to say whether the debate on the Slave-Trade gives more of pleasure or pain. Some pleasure it certainly gives. The suppression of the slave-trade is the one really...

new and illus- trated edition of a book which probably delights schoolboys as much as any book that was ever written, and makes other people as profoundly melancholy,—Baron...

W HAT a contrast between Edinburgh as I see it this morning, and Edinburgh in the throes of the Revolu- tion ! On my left hand stretches the New Town, with its shining terraces...

'111.h1 REVOLUTION IN THE LAND LAWS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As a solicitor accustomed for several years to the just law of the Cape Colony—based upon the...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the Spectator of March 23rd, you say:—" The strength of the feeling against Jews in Vienna is a little perplexing. The fact of the...

MR. LEA'S " HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION."* A HISTORY of the Inquisition from its foundation down to the Reformation, is what Mr. Lea has successfully attempted in the work...

SONNET. TO THE LIBERAL UNIONISTS OP 1897. YE, who, to Virtue and your Country vowed, Reject, denounce dishonoured party ties, And side by side with ancient enemies 'Confront...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In reading your very just article on the subject of a -compulsory limitation of the hours of labour, I was reminded of a passage in...

SEVERAL of the nine short stories included in Mrs. Oliphant's new book, Neighbours on. the Green, are, in our opinion, among the best things she has written ; and it is rather...

THE two books which for convenience we here notice together, may be said to be of the same class, inasmuch as each of them is composed of a number of sketches connected with...

THE life of a Yorkshire yeoman, addicted to science and ful- filling the small daily duties which linked him to his family and fellow-men—born in June, 1653, when Oliver...

WE have had occasion to notice this remarkable work, now complete in seven large, and fourteen divisional, volumes, as • The Encyelopredie Dictionary. A New and Original Work of...

and Windus.)—Mr. Dyer professes to give us what he calls a "brief systematic summary of the branches into which the subject naturally subdivides itself." His summary is, indeed,...

the above ambitious title, Mr. Parnell includes several short essays on miscellaneous subjects. Some of them are decidedly neat and pointed, and occasionally there is a...

Chambers's Encyclopo3dia. Vol. III. (W. and B. Chambers.) —The third volume of this most important work, the special features of which we had occasion recently to mention when...

says in his preface that he intends to speak the truth fearlessly ; but as the Germans have always found their bitterest critics amongst themselves, also a remark of his, we are...

J. Fergusson. (John Haddon and Co.) — Though these papers have appeared in print before, thanks are due to Mr. Fergusson for publishing them in a separate volume. The first item...

2 vols. (Spencer Blackett.)—This book exaggerates the charac- teristic faults of the novel with a purpose. Part of the preface is an apology for the unusual character of the...

nine stories which Mr. Pollock has collected under this title are of very various merit. We cannot profess any liking for the first, "Lilith." The woman who goes under this name...

" studies " show evidence of honest work and research, though Mr. Walters acknowledges help from Shakespearian literature. His estimate of Lady Macbeth's character is just ;...

sundry volumes in which a number of stories written by the late Miss Baker have been collected. They remind us somewhat of Miss Edgeworth. Besides the stories, there are in this...

Sons.)—Mr. Turner's'sketch of the Germanic Constitu- tion is between limits very far removed, and extends over some two thousand years. He begins with the Cimbri and Teutones,...

Bodley, in her introduction, gives a sketch of the life and work of Amandibai Joshee and Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati, and of the object of the publication of this sketch of the...

that gets broken is one used by a jockey in riding a race. The breaking leads to suspicion, and the suspicion falls on a young fellow who is no more in fault than that he has...

we need hardly say, is a little town in North Britain. Its inhabitants, male and female, are, so to speak, photographed here not only with fidelity, but with, what is less easy...

is a rambling and, we feel constrained to say, a some- what ill-contrived story. There is a very disagreeable and unprincipled millionaire ; the millionaire's wife, to whom he...

A. S. Wilkins, Litt.D. (Macmillan.)—There is always a demand for fresh books of this kind, books intended to exercise the student in the translation of unprepared passages. The...

Acworth (W. H.), Railways of England, 8vo (Murray) 14/0 Alexander (Mrs.), A Life Interest, or 8ro (F. V. White) 2/6 Alexander (W.), Treatment of Epilepsy, Svo (Pentland) 7/6...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Ex ter Street, Strand; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

TO athr *petttor No. 3,170.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1889. r REGISTERED FOR 1 GRATI S. TRANSMISSION AB R O A D.)

THE PHCENICIANS.* CANON RAWLINSON has contributed to the series which calls itself " The Story of the Nations," an excellent and vivacious account of the people who formed...

LONDON: MARCH 30, 1889.

THE fourth volume of Mr. Taunton's Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses brings to an end the work, which, as the author tells us in his preface, has taken him nearly twenty years...

l'esprit humain, comme celles de la nature vivante, ne s'expliquent que par leer milieu." So writes one of the most thoughtful and philosophical of French critics. At the first...

Tars book is a translation of La Vie Namade, and is certainly a mine of information regarding the roads, the travelling, and the travellers of the fourteenth century. After the...

IT was said of Lord Peterborough, a famous man in his time, that the trousers he wore, which were always of a like cut, irresistibly recalled the two towns of Toulon and...

work," as he calls it, has not produced a book that can be recommended to English readers who are unacquainted with German. And English readers with a good knowledge of German...

Bishop of Manchester. Edited by J. W. Diggle, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—When a man has made his mark and passed away from this world, his whole career has an interest attaching...

Drowley.)—Mr. Gore has collected here between thirty and forty papers on various astronomical topics. These, as some of the marvels of the stellar universe, as the binary stars,...

a Study. (S. K. Lahiri, Calcutta.)—Kristo das Pal was a pioneer in the movement of which we see a later outcome in the recent " Con- gress." He aspired to see an Indian Civil...

Allen and Co.)—This is a curious story of crime and of necromancy. The evocations practised by the Sheik are very grim scenes indeed. The Sheik, poor man, does not appear, for...

George Black. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The matter contained in this book, made up as it is of the results of personal observation, history, and old legends, ought to make it very...

Province of Canterbury. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We do not quite understand the reform here suggested. We are to have "personal and not local endowment." That is plain ;...

Doctors and Doctors. By Graham Everitt. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—These "curious chapters in medical history and quackery" contain some interesting and, we may add,...

on Benefits, translated by Aubrey Stewart, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)— "Seneca," the translator rightly says, "seems almost forgotten in modern times." Yet he is full of interest,...

has endeavoured to put before her readers what she conceives to be the troubles which would most likely happen to a young girl who undertakes housekeeping with an invalid...

Forbes. 2 vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—There is plenty of hunting and love-making in Her Last Run, and also some little dramatic power ; otherwise, the characters do not call for...

has been carefully abridged so as to retain only matter really necessary to the exact student, who will find in its somewhat technical language that thoroughness which belongs...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. M`Call's first volume, it will be remembered, related the history of the years 1486-1691; the period now under review ends with the occupation of the...

—The writer has undoubtedly gone about the subject in the right way,—that is to say, supplying elementary facts as to the most common laws of Nature, without overburdening the...

This is a touching story of a little boy rescued from drowning by an old Cornishman, and who is afterwards stolen by the gipsies and has to be rescued again. We have some...

and Shirley.)—Dr. Comba, of the Waldensian Theological College, Florence, would seem at first to be all that a historian of the brave people that defied the thunders of Rome...

is, indeed, not much about " Miss Elsie " in the tale before us ; it is principally devoted to the record of a domestic servant's career. Hannah, the individual in question,...

Boston, U.S.A.)—In this collection of stories, we select "That Ridiculous Child" as being perhaps the best, and having many pointed and wholesome truths in it. It relates the...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—This single-volume novel of two hundred and thirty-eight pages deserves special and favourable notice, not because of any great merits as regards style or...

Co.)—The man in question turns up three times, and his reappearance after having been once buried is indeed startling. How he contrived to simulate death, why he did so, and the...

Okeden, and Welsh.)—This is a very elaborate summary of the various expeditions which revealed the new world of Australia to its explorers and inhabitants. It is, in fact, more...

Vol. I. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—Mr. Lucas, whose " Intro- duction to a Historical Geography" we noticed over a year ago (Spectator, November 12th, 1887), has now issued the...

Walker has done good service to her fellow- countrymen, and still more to her fellow-countrywomen, who run up and down the earth, and are always seeking for fresh places to run...

of Three Years' Wanderings in the Antipodes. By E. W. Payton. (Chapman and Hall.)—Three things appear to be certain about New Zealand,—that the climate is one of the finest in...

This is a very compact little text-book, with introductory chapters on " The Earth as a Planet," and " Terrestrial Physics," and also some chapters on the distribution of...

and Co.)—Mr. Tayler is not fax wrong in assuming, as he does in his preface, that an inquiry into the course of Nature, if conducted with care and industry, is generally...

Yokohama." By Thomas Stevens. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is the second part of a very entertaining record of travel. As a matter of fact, Mr. Stevens's bicycling...

is on a similar plan to the general run of chemistry primers, except that the mathematical part is placed at the end instead of at the beginning, a rather better plan, we are...

reprint of some articles which appeared in an Edinburgh news- paper in the spring of last year. They are sketches of the history of the Scottish settlers in Ulster, written from...

a tale of gruesome horror, recommend us to Mr. Colmore. We have rarely, if ever, come across anything more utterly revolting than the story of Oliver Knox's revenge. There is no...

T. Herbert Warren. (Macmillan.)—The notable thing in this volume (one of Messrs. Macmillan's " Classical Series ") is the introduction, a particularly graphic and vigorously...

Appleton and Co., New York.)—The emancipation of the American States from British rule will, we should imagine, hardly ever form a very palatable subject for British reading....

(Whittaker and Co.)-We had occasion to notice Mr. Bottone's " Electrical Instruments for Amateurs " not long ago, and now we must class Electric Bells in the same category of...

Translation of the Rig - Veda Sanhitci, edited by W. F. Webster, M.A. (Triibner.) -It contains "a collection of ancient Hindu hymns," constituting part of the seventh and eighth...