GLIMPSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.* Tins is not an attempt to deal with the French Revolution scientifically, or on heroic lines. Rather it is a collection of strange and...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 3, 1894.

the light radiated from the sun always seems to me to be one of the most astonishing facts in nature." This sentence, which is the first of that chapter devoted to the...

public a book undeniably strong in its abhorrence of social and political shams and make-believes, but as certainly weak in an unconscious pessimism which seems to us to obtrude...

WITHOUT question, one of the greatest medical discoveries of modern times has been the use of mountain air as a healing agent, and especially as a healing agent in the most...

such a book as this from a literary point of view. It is rather a mosaic of war corre- spondents' articles, and of biographical details and congratu- latory eulogies of all the...

singularly powerful and striking story, The Manxman, is a Manx custom for would-be Benedicts to employ the services of a friend as Dooiney Molla, or "man praiser,"—that is to...

sumptuous issue of the elder Dumas' romances. Everything about it is of the best. The covers indeed are of paper, leaving, we presume, the possessor to invest the volume with...

MR. ANDREW LANG'S NEW FAIRY-BOOK.* WHEN Mr. Andrew Lang published, some four years ago, if we remember right, his Blue Fairy Book, he probably did not think of giving to the...

Vol. (Cassell and Co.)—In this volume Dr. Brown carries on the interesting story of which we have spoken in previous notices with well-deserved praise. He takes it up with the...

here the story of eight famous women; their names are,—Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Florence Nightingale, Frances Ridley Havergal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sister Dora,...

By James Weston. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—These "tales and sketches" are slight, but sufficiently pleasing and well written. "Briggs Minor's Zoo" is a gcod specimen of...

D.D. (S.P.C.K.)—This "tale of the Roman-British Church" is a pleasantly written story of the end of the fourth century, when the Roman power was growing weak in Britain, and...

is a story full of hairbreadth escapes and the other adventures which go to make up an exciting narrative. It must be ranked high among its kind, because the author has a large...

General Leading" is kept to its high standard of merit. Fiction is fairly represented, but it is not predominant among the contents. These are judiciously varied. The interests...

eldest son of a country doctor in a small New England town, has dreams of heroic adventure which seem little likely to be translated into actual fact. Suddenly his chance seems...

heroine of this story, is a child left to the care of a Welsh farmer and his wife by a particularly weak and silly mother. She becomes discontented with her lot, and has...

—Mr. Ascott Hope has taken this time a grave subject for his pen ; he tells the story of the struggle in America for the abolition of slavery, not the struggle that was waged...

Vachon. Translated from the French by Clara 13011. (Cassell and Co.)—Here we have another sumptuous volume &all- eated to the cult of the cat. Madame Renner devotes her art with...

is a sensible, humorous production, all the more sensible on account of its humour,. Two lads, aided and abetted by a young fellow engaged with the boats of some seaside...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This is a story about which we find it difficult to speak quite candidly. The intention with which it is written is obviously good ; it is so plainly...

have a remembrance of "Number 1" of this quaint production. The humour of it is that the pictures may be looked at, indeed must be looked at, in both ways, to make out their...

there is a certain amusement to be got out of the telling how children get into and out of serapes. At the same time we must own to a certain weariness when these things are...

and you will be rewarded, if not by receiving £100 from his missin 4 father, as did Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cooling, just when their need was the sorest, yet somehow or at some...

—This will be found an excellent manual for those who want to study church architecture. It is written in a business-like way, without being too technical, and it is illustrated...

is now appearing in a "new and enlarged series." Not the least of the attractions of the volume are the well executed illustrations. The coloured pictures are particularly good,...

little story, suggesting its moral in about as tasteful and gentle a fashion as can be imagined. The "orderly officer" is a young girl, who takes a kindly interest in two old...

and Foster.)—This is a pretty story, always gracefully written, and sometimes touching in its pathos, of how a lad, Hercules Vining by name, sets out on his way to the...

a little reminded by this story of Miss Austen, and especially of "Pride and Prejudice." Olivia Rosalyn, daughter of a, country vicar, who, we hasten to say, is not at all of...

B. Watford. (S.P.C.K.)—A skilful little sketch, worthy of the writer's reputation. Bob Trueman makes a little ship which he means to give his sailor brother, but sells, that he...

to have seen before this "Illustrated Monthly Maga- zine for Home and School," nor does the title-page give us any information. Taking it then as a new venture, we may express...

is not difficult to compress a great amount of lively incident into the space of a single volume if you make your tale "a story of three revolutions." Henne, Mr. Herman's...

a young Italian who is just on the point of gratify- ing his strong artistic tastes by entering the studio of a sculptor, when his career is pitilessly stopped by the...

Co,)-- Ronald MacIvor and Jack Bangles resolve to find the "Peacock Throne" of Shah Jehan, which Nadir Shah is said to have carried off from Delhi. Their adventures begin with a...

is a volume of "North Country Tales and Ballads," four of each. The first tale, "A Highland Princess," is published for the first time. No one can complain of its being wanting...

Father Sangermano. With Introduction and Notes by John Jardine. (Archibald Constable.)—Vincentius Sangermano, an Italian priest, was sent by the Society de propaganda fide to...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a guide-book of a superior and literary kind. We do not mean that it gives details of distances, roads, conveyances, hotels, and the like, but...

which Mr. Bickerdyke gives us in his introductory chapter is attractive,—"a story of love and sport in the Outer Hebrides." We cannot say that it is not carried out. Love there...

—Miss Tuckwell begins her preface thus :—" Among the social questions with which the nation has to deal, there is none, it seems to me, so important as the question of the...

date." (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The writer of these speeches tells us that they have never been delivered, but that as he has spoken on the various subjects with which they...

Clarke and Co.)—The word "Cartoon" in the title of this volume is an expression, not very happy, we venture to think, of the picturesque character of St. Mark's Gospel,...

The Rajah,'s Second Wife. By Head= Hill. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—Thia is a distinctly powerful story. The Rajah is an educated Hindoo, who has come over to England to read for...

Inure and Co.)—This is a story of the realistic kind. The teller of it describes himself as having been the son of a brutal chainmaker in the Black Country. After various...

are glad to welcome a new and enlarged edition of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett's essays on social reform, full as they are of real sympathy for the poor, and of practical know- ledge of...

is much good counsel to be found in this "book for young women and girls." What is wanted is more definiteness, and more descent into detail. Miss Tee sometimes seems to lose...

Arbib by Sidney King. (Digby, Long, and Co,)—This is a picture full of detail, and evidently the work of a person well informed as to Italian life. The story, we venture to...

This is a second edition of a story which is, we venture to think, more curious than interesting. The heroine is the seventh child of parents, both of whom are themselves...

and Downey.)—This story is written with considerable cleverness. The dialogue not unfrequently sparkles, and there are now and then shrewd observations of nature. The plot is of...

Ferrier.)—This "Love St3ry of Press Life" contains much that is interesting. The author, it is clear, knows something of what goes on in the various offices of a daily...

These "eight studies" are of unequal merit. Far away the worst of them is "King Arthur," that is to say, if it is meant seriously ; possibly it is intended as a specimen of the...

By Andrew Lang. (Longma,ns,)—We' are always glad to see Mr. Lang's name on the title-page of a volume, at the foot of an article, or the head of a newspaper column. These "...

by a critical notice from the pen of M. Stepniak of that writer's charaeteristics. This may be read with great advantage. There is a certain sombreness about Russian fiction...

Ward has added a fourth volume to the series edited by him,—The English Poets : Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers. (Macmillan.)—The volume includes froin...

to Norway, we suppose ; accordingly she takes her heroine thither, and finds for her there a happiness with which England has not been able to provide her.

of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (Macmillan.)—The dramatic poems are Included up to "The Foresters." The volume numbers 894 pages. Multiply this by 60, and we may get a rough estimate...

is, we are told by its title.page, an "impres- sionist study." Impressionism in art means, we know, neglect of detail ; impressionism in literature would seem to mean neglect of...

say that Dr. Percival would never have written his "account of the extraordinary adventures and discoveries" which he under- went and made "in the wilds of Africa "—we might...

& 76 Groat Queen Street, W.0.; and Phblished by JOHN JAMES Balm, of No,1 Wellington Street, ih the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the SPECTATOR"...

-E UROPE has lost a bulwark of her peace. Alexander III. died peacefully in his chair at 2 o'clock on Thursday. The Emperor's giant strength resisted the disease to the last ;...

case.

beat the Foreign Office, the Russian Embassy, and all the morning papers. That is satisfactory; because the trans- mission of news is the first function of the English Press,...

With the " SPROTATOR " of Saturday, November 17th, will be issued, iratie, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Under circumstances described at length else- where, the German Emperor has decided that, as the Chan- cellor, Count Caprivi, and the Prussian Premier, Count Eulenberg, could...

from a new reign, even if they did not pity the Sovereign who has been in the most direct sense their victim. Ap- parently, however, the temptation to shock mankind by re-...

Imperial 'family, and by all Generals present, to the Cesarewitch as Nicholas II., and hosts of rumours about renunciations and -palace intrigues are thus brought to nought. The...

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the news about the Emperor of China would be exceedingly curious. His Majesty, who has will and a temper, is exceedingly displeased at the course events have taken in the war,...

bery's speech of Saturday at Bradford. Lord Salisbury agrees with Mr. John Redmond that the House of Lords question is a very big red-herring drawn across the scent of Irish...

the Lords at Bradford last Saturday. He intimated that the existence of the present Parliament would probably be short, in consequence of the veto placed by an "irresponsible...

agitation against the Lords will effectually divert public attention and public interest from the various social measures which are most likely to improve the condition of the...

East is approximately true, and if true, it is important. The Japanese have entered China at two points. One army, under Marshal Yamagata, has crossed the Yaloo, and has...

of Bristol, and unveiled a statue of Burke, presented to the town by Sir W. H. Wills. In accepting the freedom Lord Rosebery sang the praises of the Town Council as against the...

attacks levelled at them for not attacking the House of Lords sooner. They had, he said, received "no mandate" from the electorates to reform the House of Lords, nor had they...

Council considered the Report of the Licensing Committee. The chief struggle was over the Empire Theatre, where the Committee recommended the grant of a license subject to the...

An inter-Colonial steamer, the Wairarapa,' a ship of two thousand tons, was sailing from Sydney for Auckland, when, on the night of October 27th, she struck on Great Barrier...

made this week, though it is hoped that on Tuesday a good many withdrawals may be announced so as to attenuate the waste of competitive energy. The elections, when they come...

garded as an incident of some importance. He has gone there from Italy to reside ; and on October 28th was welcomed by large crowds of citizens and some twenty Members of...

Wednesday's Times to a speech on the Navy, made by Mr. Thomas Ellis, the chief Gladstonian Whip, at Atherton, on October 22nd, After accusing the Duke of Westminster and other...

feet? has been asked and answered by the French Academy of Sciences, after many experiments and much instantaneous photographing of cats in the air. M. Maurice Levy gave . a...

vote. It is a cardinal principle with Continental democracy that election by universal suffrage acts as bap- tism was once supposed to act,—wiping out all previous sins. A man...

Friday, 1O1i.

THE DEATH OF THE CZAR. T HE melancholy scene at Livadia, so instructive in the contrast it presented between earthly grandeur and earthly equality in the presence of disease,...

L ORD ROSEBERY was perfectly successful in at least one part of his speech at Bradiord,—that which in- sisted on the great difficulty of the task of "dealing with the House of...

his speech at Edinburgh on Tuesday, was in some respects absolutely perfect, but in one important aspect gravely defective. He insisted admirably that the very use and purpose...

English Press is a little too unfavourable to the German Emperor. Sovereigns watch men more closely than they watch measures, and as choosing men is their first business, their...

S CARCELY any one in this country, and. at this moment, doubts that Japan will conquer China, and it must be confessed that for once the majority have apparent reason on their...

MILE real danger of democracy is that a voice not its _IL own, but imitating its sound, will be mistaken for the authentic tones. Democracy is more liable to the curse of...

P OLITICIANS are always most interesting when they avoid politics. It is natural enough that a speaker who is generally employed in defending a partisan position through thick...

1895, in which they give us the answers of nine Rationalists to the question why men should lead a moral life. These are, as one might conjecture, very different answers ; for...

W E wish Prince Hohenlohe, Chancellor of the German Empire, and President of the Prussian Council of State, would deliver a popular lecture on the best means of getting...

T HE Pall Mall Budget of October 27th gives a full-page sketch of the passenger-car of the new aerial railway between the two peaks of the "Devil's Dyke" at Brighton. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIM SPECTATOR."' SIR, — As regards Mr. Drummond's letter in your last issue, oan only say that I am satisfied that not a single scholar in • England or...

MOLTKE'S TACTICAL PROBLEMS.* MOLTKE was not the cause, but the consequence, of the Prussian military system. He is not the founder of the school that he so brilliantly...

THE SNAKES AT THE ZOO. AN event has occurred at the Zoo, Very high among marvels we rank it, There's a reptile residing there, who Accidentally swallowed his blanket. But that...

THE WAGES OF ABILITY. [To TEE EDITOR Or THE " BrECTATOR."1 SIR, — Is it certain, as you seem to think, that the Socialist view of the "wages of ability" is "exceedingly silly "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BrI0TATOU.1 SIR,—Lord Rosebery has now for the second time distinctly announced that for him party interest is the one paramount consideration. AS...

of the Hakluyt Society consists of a volume of two hundred and eighty-seven pages, containing the Diary of Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600, and extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John...

Oun, public men—or rather their surviving relatives—seem determined that posterity shall not overlook their achieve- ments. For our part, we have no complaint to offer on this...

interesting little book. Mr. Podmore limits himself to establishing the fact of the occasionally more or less perfect transference of thoughts and perceptions from one mind to...

Mn. JOHN REDMOND'S article in the Nineteenth Century- " What has Become of Home-rule P "—should finally disabuse the minds of those who have been inclined to fancy that the...

The Justification of Andrew Lebrun. By Frank Barrett. (W. Heinemann.) —Mr. Barrett has either borrowed or happened upon by chance the motive of M. Edmond About's tale of...

Jules Lermina. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—M. Parent is an eminent amateur detective, somewhat resembling the ingenious person who figures in Edgar Poe's "Purloined Letter" and...