4 OCTOBER 1884

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* * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any case.

Lord Bramwell, though he voted on the Liberal side, pleads,

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in a letter to the Times, that Mr. Gladstone should offer a compromise to the Lords by producing his Redistribu- tion Bill. To this proposal, which is, in substance, that of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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-FI ORD SALISBURY has made his speech, and has nailed his colours to the mast. He will not surrender whatever happens. In words quoted textually elsewhere, he declared on...

The Duke of Argyll has forwarded to the Times a

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letter intended to be pacificatory. Though he himself voted for separating Franchise and Redistribution, much, he thinks, is to be said for connecting them ; and if ever the...

A "Conservative Peer," who presumably voted for the in- definite

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stopping of the Franchise Bill, sounds this week the first note of retreat. He hopes that "our brilliant Samson "- surely the oddest collocation of words, Samson having been...

Lord Salisbury only advanced one solid argument, and that one

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does not apply. He declared that a House of Commons which could without a Dissolution change its own electors would be irresponsible, and as exempt from punishment as directors...

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The Times correspondent at Tientsin telegraphs on October 2nd that

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Mr. Young, American Minister in China, arrived on the 1st inst. at Tientsin, with orders to mediate between Paris and Pekin, M. Ferry having requested this favour from Wash-...

The Times on Friday published a statement that Lord Wolseley

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had been recalled, and the command of the Nile Ex- pedition entrusted to General Stephenson, and based on it a long leader. There was no truth in the statement, which pro- bably...

In Hungary, the very home of aristocratic feeling, the Govern-

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meat has been compelled to propose a reform of the House of Lords. It appears that there, as here, the statesmen are baffled by the sudden descent of swarms of rural magnates,...

Mr. Power confirms the worst accounts of Egyptian cowardice. The

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soldiers in Khartoum did not mutiny, and must have done much work ; but on July 30th eight Arabs, armed only with spears, charged two hundred Egyptian soldiers armed with Rem-...

Eighty French Deputies have, it is stated, signed a protest

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addressed to the Budget Committee demanding explanations as to the method in which the deficit will be met, and implicitly censur- ing M. Ferry's Colonial policy. M. Jules...

The cloud has lifted from Khartoum. Mr. Power has found

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means to send a despatch to the Times, via' Massowah, and has related in brief the events of the siege up to July 30th. The narrative is one to make Englishmen thrill with...

The Foochow correspondent of the Times, writing on Sep- tember

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9th, forwards a statement from Pekin prepared by a Times' correspondent there, which is far less unintelligible than the accounts usually transmitted from the capital. It may be...

The protest of the Powers against the suspension of the

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Egyptian Sinking Fund appears to have been purely formal, and intended to guard their right of action in the event of any further attempt to set aside the Law of Liquidation....

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The cholera is reported to be everywhere declining. It has

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not made its appearance in Paris, as expected ; it has not struck Rome, where the Municipality is intelligent and has superseded wells by a good water supply; and in Naples the...

It is significant that the first debate in the Church

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Congress was on the housing of the poor ; but it was a good one only in one way. It showed that the Clergy, rural as well as urban, are thoroughly awake to the existence and...

Stepniak completed, in the Times of Tuesday, his remarkable account

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of the condition of the Russian Press. It is nearly dead. Since the commencement of this reign eight newspapers have been prohibited, including the (Jobs, and only two Liberal...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent. Consols were on Friday 101

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to 101f.

The Church Congress was opened at Carlisle on Tuesday with

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an eloquent speech from the Bishop, Dr. Harvey Goodwin, the main thesis of which was that the sterility which Cardinal Newman once described as having fallen on the Church had...

The Associated Chambers of Commerce met at Wolverhamp- ton on

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Tuesday, 200 delegates being present, and passed an unanimous resolution in favour of the adoption of a Code of Commercial Law. Considering the present condition of Parlia-...

Mr. W. H. Smith, at Newport on Wednesday, repeated in

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a grave way, and without any exhibition of party feeling, his caution about the Navy. He believed half our food and half our trade depended upon our free transit across the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE SEGREGATION OF THE LORDS. W E wonder if the existence of the House of Lords does increase the sum of the Conservative forces within the United Kingdom. It is almost always...

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LORD SALISBURY AT GLASGOW.

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T HE key-note to Lord Salisbury's policy in the present crisis is to be found in two sentences of his speech at Glasgow on Wednesday evening. He is for "No surrender," because a...

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THE DEFENCE 01' KHARTOUM.

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- WE are unable to understand the popular view of the defence of Khartoum. In what way does the narra- tive of General Gordon's operations there prove that the Government were...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUDDLE.

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TEE news from South Africa is as usual very dispiriting, and it is not to be wondered at that the cynical immorality which has distinguished the recent proceedings of the Boers...

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FRENCH RECIDIVISTES AND PENAL SETTLEMENTS.

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T HE wordy warfare, interminable discussions, and vexatious delays of our present Parliamentary system have at least one redeeming feature,—a subject gets well thrashed out, and...

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CONGRESS AND THE MORMONS.

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I T seems to be the fate of the people and institutions of the United States to form a corpus vile upon which all manner of strange political and social experiments are tried,...

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THE MUNICIPAL CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT.

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T HE Attorney-General may justly congratulate himself that if his efforts, second only to those of Mr. Gladstone, on behalf of the Franchise Bill, have proved for the present...

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THE IDEAL FARMER.

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W E should like to know why English ladies think it wrong of a French peasant to give up his life to minute saving and minute gains to the repression of every nobler thought and...

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A PLtBISCITE ABOUT PREACHERS.

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I T will be within the recollection of many a our readers that some time ago the Journal of Education proposed to its subscribers a vote which was to determine the choice of...

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THE POPULATION OF EUROPE IN A.D. 2000.

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II ERR KUMMER, chief of the Swiss Federal Bureau of Statistics, an admirable institution which is always doing something useful, has been reckoning how many people there are...

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- LORD D UEVERIN'S NATIONALITY.

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[To TER EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR." j not " Shamrock " rather hard on "E. M. B." for what is obviously a slip of the pen? And does not "E. M. B.," after all, really touch on a...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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"THE ANNUAL REGISTER" [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The enclosed remarks appeared in the Spectator (August 23rd) during my, and probably during your holidays also....

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POETRY.

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THE GREAT QUESTION. IrcxED spirit, fold thy wings: why ever pine In aspirations infinite as old, Whose loving discontent still seeks the shrine Paved with Faith's interwoven...

CASTE AND CHRISTIANITY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—As you could not afford space to discuss "Caste and Christianity" at great length, I trust you will allow me to refer Mr. Dyson, and...

" GERRYMANDERING."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0R."] Sia,—The simplicity of those Liberals who believe that Lord Salisbury would allow the Franchise Bill to pass the House of Lords on the mere...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sta,—The following is

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a copy of an epitaph on an old tomb- stone in the neighbourhood of Montrose :— " Here lies the Smith—to wit—Tam Gouk, His Father, and his Mither, Wi' Tam, and Jock, and Joan,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In the old

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church of Wrexham there was (in 1859) a tablet with the following inscription :— " Here lieth, underneath these stones, The Beard, the Flesh, and eke the Bones Of Wrexham's...

RARE EPITAPHS.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The following curious epitaph, taken from a brass in St. Michael's Church, Coventry, and not hitherto published in a collection of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:]

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Sts,—I saw the enclosed epitaph in Mylor Churchyard, near Flushing, Cornwall, on Tuesday, and can vouch for its accuracy in spelling and capital letters, &c. :— " In Memory of...

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BOOKS.

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DR. DAVIDSON ON THE BOOK OF JOB" AN immense literature has grown up around the Book of Job. It is not difficult to understand why it should be so, for the Book of Job takes a...

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THE DEWY 3110BN.* THE author of The Gamekeeper at Home

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and The Life of the Fields, knows nature with the intimate knowledge that springs from love. Like the heroine of this tale, he is familiar with the simplest objects of English...

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CANON COOK'S "ORIGINS OF RELIGION." * THERE is a touching

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pathos in the tone of this book. Canon Cook feels the burden of the years ; waning time and lessening strength hinder him from setting forth his beliefs and conclu- sions as be...

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THE NEW ARCADIA.*

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MISS ROBINSON, as she presents herself in this her latest volume of verse, may be classed as an (esthetic pessimist. Like most of the younger generation of versifiers, she has...

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THREE BOOKS ON AMERICAN POLITICS"

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THESE works, which we have arranged below, not in the order of their literary merit, but in accordance with the comparative importance of their subjects, furnish, apart from...

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DESERT WARFARE.*

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IN spite of his evident ability as a war correspondent, Mr. Bur- leigh has certainly not mastered the art of writing a book. There was good material for a vigorous account of...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Fortnightly is full of bright papers. We do not, indeed, understand the motive which induces Editors of Magazines to publish articles about the second Duke of Wellington, an...

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Voice, Song, and Speech. By Lennox Browne and Emil Behnke.

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(Sampson Low and Co.)—This work, which, although not published till the early part of the present year, has already reached a third edition, presents a happy combination of the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical, by Joseph Skipsey. (Walter Scott, London and Newcastle-on-Tyne.)—This is the first...

Ulrica. By Cecil Clarke. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We see no

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particular reason why this story should have been called a "romance," unless that title may be taken as a sufficient excuse for the characters not talking or acting as men and...

A History of Ancient Sculpture. By Lucy M. Mitchell. (Kegan

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Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This handsome volume, a large octavo of more than 700 pages, copiously illustrated, is a valuable contribution to the history of its subject, all the more...

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Vico. By Robert Flint. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The name of Vico

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will be strange to most students ; but Professor Flint's account of the man and his work is not the less interesting because it takes us into unfamiliar scenes. Vico was a...

Excursions of an Evolutionist. By John Fiske. (Macmillan).— The evolution

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which is the subject of Mr. Fiske's fourteen papers has a wider significance than that commonly possessed by the term. Sometimes the author ranges even beyond these wider...

Reminiscences of an Indian Official. By General Sir Odour Cavenagh,

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K.C.S.I. (Allen and Co.)—This record of an Indian career is as interesting in substance as it is unaffected in style. The Addiscombe cadet arrived at Calcutta in December, 1837,...

Alice's Wonderful Birthday-book, compiled by F. Stanley Loathes (Griffith and

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Ferran), is really a great compliment to "Lewis Carroll." It is the latest stamp of the true " classic " to be cut up into snippets for a birthday-book. The volume is dedicated...

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[Far Publications of the Week, see page 1310.3

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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LONDON Printed by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street,

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

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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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TO prrtator No. 2,936.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1884. [TaarstTsfrATI O R I OAD.} GRATIS'

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BOOKS.

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MR. PHILLIPS BROOKS' SERMONS.* THIS 18 a very striking volume of Sermons. The subjects with which M. Brooks deals are treated with great freshness and vigour, and with an almost...

Ivittrarp Oupplanritt.

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LONDON: OCTOBER 4, 1884.

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A NEW HIGHLAND STORY.* To produce surprise is the differentia

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of all true poetic genius, and those of our readers who are familiar with the previous works of Mr. Walter Smith will be prepared to learn that in Kildrostan this element is...

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FROM ENGLAND TO CEYLON BY LAND.*

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THE appearance of these volumes, which are composed of letters written more than forty years ago, evinces considerable courage in both author and publisher, for necessarily such...

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INCOGNITA.*

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THE work of the critic would be much pleasanter, and the life of the habitual novel-reader much less monotonous, if our minor novelists would, in one very important matter,...

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AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF PRUSSIA.*

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Is looking at the Kingdom of Prussia, it is sometimes difficult not to be dazzled into wonder and admiration by the extra- ordinary vigour in policy and war which raised the...

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TALES.—The Repentance of Nussooh. Translated from the original Hindustani. By

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M. Bempson. (W. H. Allen and Co.)--This is a very remarkable little volume. The author is an official in the ser- vice of the Nizam, and his book obtained the prize of 210)...