LONDON: TANUABY 31, 1891.

MR. SAINTSBURY'S ESSAYS:* To the reader who is a lover of literature, good criticism is always welcome, and Mr. Saintsbury's claim to be a good critic.: is attested by the...

— * Scenes through the Battle' Smoke. By the Rev. Arthur Male, Army Chaplain t Lateknnw, and in the Afghan end Egyptian Campaigns. London : Dean and on. THE soldier is a...

various papers (which are almost all well written), are those on the buffalo, now nearly extinct in its wild state; and those on the Polar bear and the musk-ox, furnished by...

Mn. HENRY JAMES, in the preface to his clever translation of Port Taraseon, places this last p . art of M. Daudet's trilogy on a level with the two others, Tartarin de Taraseon...

IT might have been as well if Mr. Davidson could have contrived to compress into his two volumes—perhaps mado a little larger for the purpose—the whole of the Meanoires. We...

at something a little below his best, his work has a tender poetic grace which is always irresistibly winning. To compare Stand Fast, Craig .Royston ! with A Danghter of Heth or...

The Leading Pacts of American History. By D. H. Montgomery. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is one of the most important volumes of an excellent series, and, although it...

By the Author of "Three-Cornered Essays." (Spencer Blackett.) —This volume contains twenty essays, written with considerable ability and in a healthy tone. There is not one of...

Ransom° has shown by several of his works, such as his "Short History of England," how very well qualified he is to write a little work of this kind, which is expressly...

—This gives more than a thousand recipes, besides a great num- ber of useful hints and directions. We observe that Mr. Duret asserts emphatically that New Zealand mutton and...

Son.)—Mr. Gordon begins his volume with an account of " Arm- strong's," the great gun-factory at Newcastle-on-Tyne, a large establishment which gives employment to ten...

B. Saunders. (Swan Sonnonschein.)—There is no doubt eithsr is to the public interest taken in Schopenbauer or as to the services rendered to his memory by Mr. Saunders....

Ramsay. (John Murray.)—This is the fourth volume of the "Royal Geographical Society's Supplementary Papers." The author relates, in his "Prolegomena," a misfortune which will...

and Downey.)—This book is, in some respects, an excellent one ; certainly Mr. Everitt can treat a most gruesome subject lightly and almost pleasantly. But there is more than a...

decidedly ambitions story, belonging to the order of historical fiction, and, happily, it is as readable as it is ambitious. In it a fair Quakeress, who is, of course, "friend...

some other Great Matters. By the Rev. Harry Jones, M.A. (Nisbet and Co.) —This wise and. useful little volume may be commended as a gift- book. It consists of lectures given...

(Henry and Co.)—This is a sequel to "The Young Castaways." Our readers may remember that the South American Indians are re- presented in that tale as having outstripped the...

Dowden. (Macmillan.)—Professor Dowdon gives in his intro- duction a summary of what has been before published in his Life of the poet. We need not touch again on subjects...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This work may be described as com- bining the qualities of a chronicle and a history. The author gives us a record of events arranged under centuries...

ton, and Co.)—This story unites in a remarkable degree two excellences,—subtle delineation of character and the vivid picturing of Nature. We at once recognise as real human...

this volume, printed for the Oxford Historical Society, antiquarians, especially if they have any eon- nectioa with Oxford, will find not a little matter of varied interest. The...

First Book of the Hyinwrotoniachia of Francesco Colonna. A new edition, by Andrew Lang, M.A. (David Nutt.)—We can confidently recommend Mr. Lang's preface to any reader, but...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—" The following pages," writes Dr. Walters in his preface, "have been written with a twofold aim : to enable its readers to avoid many common...

Co.)—The two most important papers in Mr. Baring-Gould's volume (the . second series, our readers may be rerainded) are those entitled "The Patarines " and "The Ana- baptists...

(Lippincott, Philadelphia.)—Mr. Babcock is one of those American writers for whom the very early history of what they regard as their mother-country has a fascination, and he...

Allen, Nevscesstle-on-Tyne.)—Tlxis is a collected edition of the "songs and drolleries, readings and temperance songs," of Joe Wilson, a Newcastle lad in humble life, who,...

Co.)—The author of this bulky but not unwieldy or ill-arranged volume does not pretend to be a profound thinker, or an inves- tigator of sociological phenomena who has made...

Gow. By Daniel Defoe. (Sotheran and Co.)—This is a very curious and interesting reprint of a book, or brochure, tile only copy of which is one in the British MUE3011131. It...

and Inglis.)—This is the most complete book on the subject of popular astronomy that we remember to have seen. Whether we can accept Mr. Peek's theory as to the origin of the...

useful periodical does not yield in pathetic interest to those that have gone before it. It describes itself on the title-page as "A Record of the Work of the London Bible and...

Lock, and Co.)—Even those who look askance at graphology will find this " grammar" of the subject to be very readable, and even curiously fascinating. It seems, at least at...

of the Lyceum has here followed up his excellent "Under the Sunset" with a good Irish story, full of storms, love, humour, dialect, villainy, and treasure-hunting. Miirtagh...

Mr. Sims is one of the best, most popular, and most realistic— without being realistic in an offensive sense—of writers of short stories, in which "umble " and " 'igh" life...

Borris takes for his subject the old theme of a woman who marries for rank and money, but does not forget her old love. But her old love forgets her, and fixes his heart upon...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR' Ofliee, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

an order has evidently been issued by the Irish leaders of both parties to preserve silence as to their outcome. It is evident, however, that an agreement has been made to avoid...

R. GOSCHEN on Wednesday delivered a most important 1_VX, speech before the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, the . main drift and object of which we have described elsewhere. The...

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speech in which he dwelt on the heavy responsibility which Mr. Gladstone had expressly laid upon his shoulders in 1886 for refusing to accept the terms of peace with Ireland...

his Rossendale constituents in the Co-operative Assembly Room, Rawtenstall, this day week, on the three chief points of which we have said enough in another column. We may add...

case.

Inevitable after the men had suffered themselves to descend to outrage, in the surrender of the strikers. Those employed <> 1 1 the North British line, who had much the best...

6.30 ELM, His religious views were to us dangerous delusions, and some of his social views were morally detestable ; but he was a most useful Member of Parliament, and a man...

have dissolved the Cis-Leithan Parliament, and intend, if possible, to secure a majority from the Germans,. Conservatives, and Poles. It is said that agreements have- already...

against Home-rule, which, however, contained one very unjust statement. He thought it probable that Mr. Gladstone would accept Mr. Parnell's new demands, for "is there any price...

in type before Mr. Bradlaugh's death was announced,—or rather the quiet deliberation, of Tuesday night on the motion to expunge from the Journals of the House of Commons the...

proposing to give the Board of Trade power to compel railways to limit their servants' hours of work. He made an excellent speech, with some exaggerations, and it soon became...

shilly-shallying about the Convention, which involves,. besides the annoyance to diplomatists;' seme serious local dangers. Sir J. Fergusson on Monday, in reply to a question...

Commons to alter the Law of Conspiracy in such a way that nothing should be illegal when done by fifty or five hundred men which was not illegal when done by one. After a...

the death of Prince Baldwin, son of the King's brother, and. eventual heir to the throne. He died of pneumonia, compli- cated by kidney-disease, and his illness was so short and...

the Exchequer, who dropped dead from heart-disease at a Board of Trade dinner on Thursday, may have an important -effect on silver legislation. Mr. Windom had convinced him-...

sender circumstances described elsewhere. He was probably right. The parties in Paris are perfectly mad with bitterness for and against the Terrorists whom M. Sardon condemns,...

Friday 971. to 97i.

as I saw it," at the- , Prince's Hall, before the members of the Colonial Institute, the Prince of Wales pre. siding. After dismissing "Imperial Federation" as a dream which was...

, dynamite-gun, at this moment being tested by the British Government, which appears to have solved the problem of how to use explosives of high energy in driving projectiles....

Algiers, shows how very far juries carry the right to kill under provocation of infidelity which the Code allows to French husbands. A newspaper editor, named Omessa, had...

much pro- gress as was anticipated, was nearly passed. this week, and Monday is definitely fixed as the last day in Committee. The most important of the questions debated was...

the Royal Com- mission on Market Rights and Tolls, published on Wednesday, will not be pigeon-holed. It is true the majority of the re- commendations made are not unanimous, but...

THE NEW IRISH COMPROMISE. T HE Irish are very clever. The compromise or modus vivendi between the factions, which in spite of formal denials the popular Irish Members have...

Rawten- stall last Saturday contained more than the usual proportion of statesmanlike " mind-stuff " which gives so unique an interest and character to his public addresses. We...

in making a currency proposal, as Mr. G-oschen did on Wednesday, in a speech before a Chamber of Commerce. The speaker cannot be questioned at once, as he practically can in the...

not lie in the debating. The House of Commons can hardly be said to have debated the subject at all. With the exception of Mr, De Lisle, who did not press his protest to a...

several important changes on the Judicial Bench. On Thursday Lord Hannen took his seat as a Lord of Appeal, and on Thursday also Mr. Justice Jeune was sworn-in before the Lord...

whom • the daily papers combine to make the hero or the all history is against them,—and confident that the votes are personage of the hour. But the risk of a Judge being...

pro- hibition of Thermidor. Though the incident is in many ways a significant one, and typical of a characteristic of the French nature with which Englishmen are utterly out of...

O N Wednesday, an important meeting was held at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor was in the chair ; Mr. Diggle and Sir Richard Temple made speeches ; the Duke of Fife, the Lord...

M R. GLADSTONE is certainly one of the most astonish. ing of Englishmen of this or any other era. At the age of eighty-one, when most men who survive so long are simply waiting...

?THE Orthodox Hindoos, who represent, of course, a great • majority of Hindoos, are suffering in English opinion for their resistance to the new marriage law rather more than...

T HERE is something touching in the British faith in education ; perhaps, as it is a faith that came to the British public rather late in life, it has for that reason taken a...

literature for the blind First, the Braille type is excellent, and it is quite easy for any one of average brain to grasp the system. Second, though the supply of amusing books...

SIE, — During the time of a contested election in Meath some sixty-five years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge...

KITTY NEALE. FOUNDED ON AN OLD IRISH SONG IN THE PETRIE COLLECTION. ALL in the Golden Vale, I met with Kitty Neale, On her poll the milking-pail, a lamb nosing at her knee....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR, —" Lindum " deserves all credit for his loyal defence of the officials of the Lincoln post-office and their educational antecedents....

SIR,—About eighteen or twenty years ago, I received from an Italian friend in Italy, a request to me to do for him a com- mission that did not admit of delay. Being in the...

OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. HERE, for the twenty-second time, is a mixed company of the Immortals, and besides the familiar masters there is a collec- tion of English...

THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS.* THE sketch which is the subject of the present review con- tains the substance of Sir Frederick Pollock's lectures delivered at the Royal Institution...

been more talked about and more reviewed than most of our present writers, it may not be altogether useless to examine his last tale, which has been advertised as his " first...

between these two books, —the high quality of type and illustrations. There could not, indeed, be a greater contrast than that between the walk and conversation of the persons...

WE suppose that the really magnificent conception of honouring the genius of Shakespeare by an edition to which the "artistic talent of all nations should contribute," will....

THE comparison between the religions of Christ and of Buddha is fascinating to minds of various orders. We have before us two books which make this comparison from opposite...

behind the encroaching scientific spirit of the age as to feel an involuntary shudder on seeing the title of this book, will be reassured by Mr. Hartland's definition of the...

nam's Sons.)—This is a romance of Italy, passion, painting, and at least a suspicion of poisoning, notable mainly for the beauty of its typography and the excellent quality of...

and other Tales. By M. E. Wilkins. (David Douglas, Edinburgh,) , — In these stories we have a most novel class of heroes and heroines,. and the very clover author has struck...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.) — Mr. Britton served in the Federal Army during the whole of the operations which he describes, operations which took place in Kansas, Arkansas, and the...

THE QUARTERLIES.-A new quarterly has made its appearance in the Economic Review, which is published by Messrs. Percival and Co. for the Oxford University branch of the Christian...

tholomew. (Macmillan and Co.)—This atlas reproduces on a smaller scale, and in a way that makes it suitable for moderate moans, many of the most useful features in the...

author of this work is Professor of English Litera- ture in the Imperial University of Japan, and the materials for it were originally collated in that country to assist his...

same kind, has collected (" collated" is his term, a word not so used in common speech) a vast number of curious things. Never did Martial's description more truly apply. There...

condition of the Monasteries at the Dissolution. Their witness is absolutely unimpeachable, and what they record may be taken as true. The visitations here given were made by...

do Leon. 2 vols. (W ard and Downey.)—Mr. de Leon acted as agent for the -Confederate Government, and had informal interviews with Lord Palmerston and the Emperor Napoleon III....

Co.)—This book appears in a third edition, with some considerable additions. Browning, Kingsley, F. Denison Maurice, Lord Napier, Robert Stephenson, Talfourd, Talleyrand,...

who are frivolous if they are anything, a preternaturally silly mother, and a father who seems to have little raison d'etre, except the finding of funds for the family...