4 JUNE 1898

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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M R. GLADSTONE'S funeral last Saturday was in the widest and best possible sense national. By one half the nation the dead statesman was mourned and honoured as the best and...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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OUR POLICY IN CHINA. T HE June Fortnightly publishes an article in defence of the policy of the Government in the Far East which has apparently been written or inspired by some...

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THE COST OF THIS WAR.

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I T would be of little use to discuss this week the events of this Spanish-American War. There have been no events, though there have been many prepara- tions to secure their...

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THE NEXT LIBERAL LEADER.

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I T is quite natural that Liberals should be fidgety just now over their leaderless condition. The results of the by-elections have given them new hopes, and as it is the nature...

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A POSSIBLE DANGER IN EASTERN EUROPE.

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I T is said that Alexander Obrenovitch, the young King of Servia, has fallen into a condition of health, which causes acute alarm in his family and among his subjects. Indeed,...

ITALY AND THE ROMAN CHURCH. T HE Marquis di Rudini has

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reformed his Ministry, and it is rumoured that its first business will be to punish the Church for its sympathy with, or at any rate neglect to help suppress, the recent...

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IS EVANGELICALISM DECLINING? T HE growth and decline of religious parties

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has an interest even for those who are outside them, and many who are not Evangelicals will turn with curiosity to the paper, "Is Evangelicalism Declining ?" which Dr. Guinness...

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ANOTHER SIDE OF MR.. GLADSTONE.

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M R. GLADSTONE had a side to his character upon. which no one dwells, but perception of which is essential to any thorough comprehension of his personality. With all his...

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AMERICAN SOCIAL FORCES.

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N OT the least interesting items in the war news from America have been those relating to the regiments formed by rich and influential young Americans for action in Cuba. Mr....

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A " ZOO " FOR NEW YORK.

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A CAPITAL city of a great nation without Zoological Gardena can scarcely be found in Europe. Perhaps it is because New York is only the commercial capital of the I .. .Inked...

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WHALES AT SOUTH KENSINGTON.

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W HALES are so closely allied to the awe-inspiring monsters of the world's youth that they possess a mysterious interest for the majority of mankind. In spite, however, of this,...

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LETTERS TO TIIE EDITOR.

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THE VATICAN IN THE ITALIAN TROUBLES. [To TISK EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—A grave question concerning the late troubles in Italy —i.e., the part the Catholic Church has...

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RUSSIA AND PORT ARTHUR.

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[To TEl EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR:] may fairly be claimed, I think, for persons living abroad, even in British dependencies, that political events soften appear to them in...

ENGLAND AND THE TRANSVAAL.

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[To TER EDITOR OP THR " SPECTAT0R:] Sin,—In your article in the Spectator of May 2Sth referring to the despatch from Pretoria on the suzerainty question, you say : "The British...

THE FLORIDA VELVET BEAN.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP TUE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin„—The "corn" whose growth your American correspon- dent claims as a voucher for that of velvet Florida beans is, of course, maize, which...

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A PLEA FOR THE SHIRK.

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[To THE EDITOR OF IRE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—No doubt can attach to Captain Marescanx's bona fides, but I beg leave to say that among South Sea whale- men, whose experience of sharks...

POETRY.

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HEART 0' BEAUTY. 0, WHERE are thy white hands, Heart o' Beauty ? Heart o' Beauty ! They are as white foam on the swept sands, Heart o' Beauty ! They are as white swans i'...

BOOKS.

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AN OPTIMIST VIEW OF FRANCE.* "THE Republic is stronger than ever," said President Faure the other day at St. Etienne, and such is the view taken in this very elaborate and...

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THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.*

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SIR COURTENAY 'LIMIT'S very complete Digest of the Statute Law relating to the Government of India describes, in an historical introduction, the successive stages in the growth...

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SIR CHARLES MURRAY—COURTIER, STUDENT, AND DIPLOMATIST.* ALTHOUGH the late Sir

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C. Murray's experiences as traveller, Court functionary, diplomat, student, sportsman, were worth recording, his attitude towards an eventual biographer seems to have been like...

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HAF1Z IN THE METRE OF THE ORIGINAL'

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Jr is no mean service that Mr. Walter Leaf has rendered to lovers of Persian poetry. In this translation not only hae the sense been rigidly adhered to, as may be judged by com-...

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RECENT NOVELS.*

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33v way of a pendant to the recent Scottish invasion of the United States by Mr. Barrie, "Ian Maclaren," and the St. Andrews golfing professionals, the delightful American...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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" The Truth about Dreyfus," by "Huguenot," the editor of the National Review has secured a paper of quite excep- tional interest Whether " Huguenot " can prove all his...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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THE MINOR MiGkEINES. The Hansel, Zasshi is an interesting magazine at any time; it ought to be exceptionally interesting during the present crisis in the Far East. It is...

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Reminiscences of the Old Navy. By Edgar Stanton Maday. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons.)—These are taken from the journals and private papers of Rear-Admiral Stephen Decatur Trenchard and of his father, Captain Edward Trenchard. The elder...

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The Epic of Rounds: an Elementary Interpretation of Wagner's Nibelungen

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Ring. By Freda Winworth. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Novell°, Ewer, and Co.)—Miss Winworth defines the aim of her admirable and timely little handbook as being intended to lend...

The Annual Register, 1897. (Longmans and Co.)—This "Review of Public

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Events at Home and Abroad" continues to fulfil its useful function in politics, literature, and art, as well as to give a chronicle of personal and non-personal facts. It main-...

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Arundel (W. B.), Ackworth Birds, Lime (Gurney) 4/6 Beaks (L.) and Another, The Mutineer, or 8vo Bible (The) for Home & School, edited by E. T. Bartlett & Anotheri(:(3 . n ar o...

Nzw Enrrioxs.—In the "Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co.)

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a recent volume is A Serious Call to a Devout and Moly Life, by William Law.—Lives of the Saints. By the Rev. S. Baring- Gould, M.A. (John C. Nimmo.)—The two volumes for October...

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NOTIC71.-In future t h e INDEX to the '° SPECTATOR" nal be

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published hely-yearly, instead of yearly from , January to June, and from July to December), on the third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for th• Half-yearly Volumes...