4 APRIL 1891

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Lord Granville, the dangerous character of whose illness bad hardly

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been made public, died on Tuesday, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, of the weakness caused by the opening of an abscess coming upon a constitution weakened by repeated...

As we expected, the Anti-Parnellite candidate, Alderman Collery, has been

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returned for North Sligo, but by a much smaller majority than had been generally expected. The majority was expected to have passed 1,000, and is really 768. It is said that...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

An assassin, probably a Macedonian devoted to the late Major

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Panitza, on March 27th resolved to avenge his late leader's execution by murdering M. Stambouloff, the Premier of Bulgaria. Meeting him and M. Beltcheff, Minister of Finance, as...

Lord Granville was not on the whole, perhaps, a successful

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Foreign Minister, for he fell upon extremely difficult times, when the United States were sore, sensitive, and yet imperious ; when Russia was enabled by the Franco-Prussian War...

Europe was surprised on Wednesday to hear that the Italian

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Minister at Washington, Baron di Fava, had been recalled, upon the ground that the American Government had been tardy in making reparation for the lynching of Italians in New...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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HE Indian Government has sustained a disaster, not indeed of the first class, but still serious. The Maharajah of Muneepore, the little State between Bengal and Upper...

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A telegram of April 2nd from Sydney, with the text

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of the Australian Federation Bill, was published in the Tinto of Friday. The Federation is not to be styled a Dominion, but "the Commonwealth of Australia," an older title...

Prince Jerome Napoleon in his will has disinherited his eldest

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son, and indicated Prince Louis as his proper successor in the headship of the Bonaparte family. This recom- mendation is, however, not binding, and on March 31st the family...

Sir Henry Jaines made a very eloquent speech at Belfast

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on Wednesday to the Liberal Unionists, the chief text of which was Mr. Gladstone's description of the modern op,. ponents of Home-rule in Ulster as " degenerate " descendants of...

Mr. Chamberlain attributed the reduction of pauperism by 20 per

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cent., and of committals for crime by nearly 30 per cent., chiefly to popular elementary education, and he earnestly advocated the abolition of fees in every elementary school...

Mr. Chamberlain made an excellent speech at Portsmouth on Thursday.

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He quoted Mr. Gladstone's determination not to allow Mr. Parnell under any circumstances to be the future ruler of Ireland, and praised it as a very noble deter- mination. But...

The Cork jury in the Tipperary case acquitted some of

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the accused and disagreed about others. Hence Mr. John Morley maintains that, in fact, they found the official charges false. They found no such thing. What they did find was,...

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In Lord Granville the University of London loses a dis-

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tinguished and very effective Chancellor, whose place it may not be easy to supply. Perhaps Lord Derby, who is already on the Senate of the University, who has always taken a...

Mr. H. H. Fowler addressed his constituents at Willenhall on

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Thursday, in a speech which on one point was a little con- tradictory. He declared that the time had arrived when the energy of Parliament should be concentrated on social...

The surplus on the financial year which is just finished

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will hardly be quite as large as was expected, a result partly due to the last week of March falling at Easter-time, when it is not easy to collect as much revenue as is usually...

The new Census of India reveals the fact that the

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popula- tion of the Empire is 285,000,000, or thirty millions more than in 1881. Of this increase, 3,000,000 is due to conquest, Upper Burmah coming for the first time into the...

A grand International Congress of Miners is being held in

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Paris, but does not get on very well... The debating is heavy, as every foreign speech has to be translated into French, and there are, moreover, serious international...

The National Union of Teachers held their annual confer- ence

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in Cardiff on March 30th, Mr. G-. Collins taking the President's chair. His address indicates that, in the general judgment, there should be a great increase in the number of...

The civil war in Chili still drags on, neither President

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nor Congress gaining serious advantages, though the former has " elected " a new Chamber from among his own friends, and the latter is in growing difficulties about the supply...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent.

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New Consols (2.1) were on Friday Hi to 961.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD GRANVILLE. TI ORD GRANVILLE'S death deprives the Opposition Cabinet of that smooth and lambent medium in which all its various elements were most effectually fused and...

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THE AIITNEEPORE OUTBREAK.

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B UT for the massacre of the G-oorkhas—which is a very serious matter, as the Goorkhas in our service will expect instant and full satisfaction at the bands of Government—the...

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AMERICA AND ITALY.

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HE Italian Government, indignant at the absence of .1_ any redress for the lynching of Italians in New Orleans, has withdrawn its Minister, Baron di Fava, from Washington,...

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OUR DUTY TO ULSTER, S IR HENRY JAMES'S speech at Belfast

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brings to the front one portion of the question between the Irish Home-rulers and the Unionists on which we hold that too little English attention is directed. Mr. Gladstone has...

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NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF COMPROMISE. T HE intimation made by

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France that as soon as her exact rights in Newfoundland have been determined fly arbitration, she will consider the question of giving up iher easement on the French shore in...

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THE CONDITION OF ITALY.

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it/FR. DERING, the Secretary of the British Embassy at Rome, has drawn up what Lord Dufferin justly calls "a very interesting and remarkable Report" on the economic progress of...

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MR. CHAMBERLAIN AT PORTSMOUTH.

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"Vr R. CHAMBERLAIN is the most effective and stirring of popular orators. At Portsmouth on Thursday, he had a very mixed audience, and it was obvious enough that a good many...

THE MODERN EASTER DIFFICULTY.

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D EAN BRADLEY, in his Easter Day sermon at West- minster Abbey, put his finger on the very centre of the contrast between ancient and modern feeling concerning Easter, when he...

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THE BLACKBURN 1 1 31EUTE. T HE scene now enacting at Blackburn confirms

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us in an opinion we have long entertained, that in allying them- selves with the democracy, the extreme advocates of women's rights committed a serious, it may even prove a...

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IRISH FORGIVENESS.

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T HE quality of forgiveness in Ireland is not strained. Or rather, we should say, the quantity of it, for its quality is a little doubtful. In the course of the glorious...

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MRS. AUGUSTUS CRAVEN.

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I T is impossible to estimate how far the benign influence of a beautiful life may extend, and one of the chief claims to our respect for the Christian Church is its emphatic...

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A REAL PANTOMIME.

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I F there be any lovers left of the ancient art of dumb-show as applied to dramatic representation, we should strongly recommend them to go and see the very curious "musical...

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THE SUN DANCING ON EASTER DAY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR, — Folk-lore dies out fast ; let us cherish what little remains. It is still firmly believed in Lincolnshire that the sun dances on...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE RECONSTITUTION OF LONDON UNIVERSITY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.] SIR,—The last scheme for the reconstitution of the University of London having now become a public...

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JOHN HOME, AUTHOR OF "DOUGLAS."

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in THE EDITOR ON THU " $PECTATOR." _I Sin,—It has become the fashion with certain writers of late years to decry the genius of John Home, of Douglas fame, and now, to add...

BOOKS.

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IT has been said that Dean Church's review of the attitude of the Heads of the Oxford Colleges towards the Oxford Movement is one-sided,—a review which would have been possible...

POETRY.

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SPRING. APR - IL has come, with her promise of flowers, Come with the budding of bare, leafless trees, Come with the sunlight and swift-passing showers, Whispers of summer to...

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MR: GOLDWIN SMITH ON CANADA.* THERE is so much in

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Mr. Goldwin Smith's book both of what we heartily approve and of what we consider wrong. headed, injudicious, unsatisfactory, and out of political per- spective, that we hardly...

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• A PUBLISHER AND HIS FRIENDS.* THE history of a

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great publishing house like that of Mr. Murray is in a large measure a record of English literature during the period of which it treats. The vanity as well as the glory of...

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RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES.* THIS collection of stories will probably be found

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more interesting by the student of folk-lore than by the general reader. They have many curious features, a few of which we shall try to point out ; but in this work, the...

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THE LATE MR. KAVANAGH.* THERE are certain lives, such as

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those of Sir Walter Scott, Lord Lawrence, and Henry Fawcett, to mention no others,. which, in virtue of the noble qualities of which they were the living examples, are amongst...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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"THE Savoy Dynasty, the Pope, and the Republic," by "A Continental Statesman," which is the first article in the Con- temporary Review, is one of those pretentious papers the...

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The Gordon Reader. (Got& and Gomme )—Perhaps too much has

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been made of the work of General Gordon ; and we are not quite certain that the compilers of this Reader would not have accomplished their task better had they not made that...

The Care of the Sick. By Dr. Th. Billroth. (Sampson

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Low.)— Mr. J. Bentell Emlean has published a translation of this work, which is well known on the Continent, and which has already gone through three editions. Dr. Billroth, as...

Genera Gordon, the Christian Hero. By Major Scion Churchill. (James

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Nisbet and Co.)—It may be doubted if another biography of the hero of Khartoum was needed or is desirable, even although the author of this volume seems to have been able to...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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THE Mngon MAGAZINEB.—The most noticeable, though not perhaps most notable, article in an admirable number of the Forum is "Do We Hate England ?" by Bishop A. Cleveland Coxe. It...

Messrs. Cassell and Co, have issued for the Atlas Publishing

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Company the first part of The Universal Atlas, which is to be com- pleted in twenty-eight parts. The first gives " general " maps of Europe and France, and smaller maps of Egypt...

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The Autobiography of the Earth. By the Rev. H. N.

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Hutchinson. (E. Stanford.)—" A brief sketch of historical geology" is what the author has aimed at giving us in this volume. The earth tells, as we know, its own story, at least...

The End of a Life. By Eden PhilpOits. (Arrowsmith.)—The author

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of this story has very nearly succeeded in accomplishing what is obviously his intention in writing it,—the creation of an altogether unique villain. Till Salem Gingold was...

City Boys in the Woods. By Henry P. Wells. (Chapman

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and Hall.)—What differentiates this book from most works of the class to which it belongs, is the reality of the adventures which are depicted in it. There have been published...

Love in a Cottage. By Agatha Hodgson. (Ward and Downey.)

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—Mrs. Hodgson gives, in an autobiographical form, hints for the guidance of young people who have to manage on £250 a year. The young couple furnish a house for £90, and have...

New Studies in Old Subjects. By J. A. She,wel-Bayley. (Elliot

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Stock.)—This is an interesting volume dealing with many sub- jects. The author seems to delight in taking his readers from one region of thought to another. After he has...

Bowrne's Handy Assurance Manual. By William Bourne. (Bourne.)—This manual appears

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with various in1tprovements. Sundry tables are given which enable a reader to compare at a glance the financial condition, working expenses, rates of assurance, Ike., of the...

The Comfortable Words. By Thomas Thomason Perowne. (Elliot Stock.)—The Archdeacon

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of Norwich here publishes certain meditations on the "Comfortable Words," which originally took the form of short addressee substituted for a sermon, prior to the administration...

Roughing it After Gold. By " Rux." (Sampson Low and

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Co.)— The hero of this sketch is a rolling-stone of an Irishman who, having sold out of the Army and ruined himself on the turf, tries his fortune in America, where, indeed, he...

Our Prayer-Book : its History, Literature, and Church Lore. By

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J. W. Hardman, LL.D. (Skeffington.)—This is a remarkably interesting book, which must not be confounded with the ordinary manual. It abounds with curious lore and learning. Any...

Porreston. By Newton Tempest. (Digby and Long.)—This is a harmless

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tale. We cannot see any particular reason why it should have been written, or, on the other hand, why it should not, except that the author should have improved her acquaintance...

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Dante. Illustrations and Notes by P. A. Tra,quair and J.

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S. Black. (T. and A. Constable.)—We have in this volume between forty and fifty illustrations, finely conceived and executed with delicate skill, of the Divina Commedia. Dante's...

Our Fields and Cities. By Scrivener C. Scrivener. (T. Fisher

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Unwin.)—Mr. Scrivener seeks, we suppose, to rival William Cobbett's " Rural Rides." He traverses various regions of England, and criticises various arrangements and...

Odes from the Greek Dramatists. Edited by Alfred W. Pollard.

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(David Stott.)—In this pretty little volume, Mr. Pollard has col- lected, for the most part with excellent judgment, a number of translations from the three Greek tragedians and...