5 MAY 1888

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The Bonlangist fever in Prance is for the moment lower.

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In the Haute Savoie on Sunday, an Opportunist was returned by 22,000 votes, against 13,000 for a Radical ; and in the Isere, the Opportunist carried the seat by 38,000 votes,...

The improvement in the condition of the Emperor Frederick has

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not continued. The Empress Victoria has left him, to visit the sufferers by the floods on the Elbe ; but Sir Morell Mackenzie, who was to have returned to England for a week,...

There is no getting out of the clearness of this

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decree, though the Freeman's Journal attempts to drive what lawyers call " a coach-and-six " through its terms. The truth is, that Monsignor Persico has given the greater part...

The Circular of the Roman Congregation of the Propaganda on

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the subject of the " Plan of Campaign" and Boycotting, signed by Cardinal Monaco, and dated April 20th last, has been published in various translations, more or less differing...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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I N spite of the lull still observable in politics on the Continent, the feeling of uneasiness has distinctly increased this week. The feeling is for the most part vague; but...

Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to Mr. Walter Maclaren

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on the assertion made by Mr. Chatterton, the Tory candidate for the Crewe Division, that up to his fiftieth year Mr. Glad- stone was " in full sympathy with the Tory Party."...

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

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case.

NOTICE.—With this week's " SpacraTost " is issued, gratis, a

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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Dr. Clark on Tuesday moved the adjournment of the House

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in order to bring up again the question of the crofters' difficulties in the Highlands. Supported by Mr. Sutherland and Mr. Buchanan, he insisted that the Crofters Commission of...

The House of Commons on Wednesday crushed Sir J. Lubbock's

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plan for shortening the hours of labour in shops, throwing it out by a vote of 278 to 95. Every London Member except one voted in the majority. Sir J. Lubbock's Bill closes all...

Mr. Balfour on Monday carried the second reading of his

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Bill for creating an Under-Secretaryship for his own Depart- ment, by 226 to 177. The Parnellites furiously oppose this proposal,—first, because they hate Colonel King-Harman,...

At the same time, Mr. Gladstone warned students in one

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department of thought from suddenly plunging into another, especially Judges, or historians t .or clergymen from dashing. into politics, remarking that in sudden transitions of...

Mr. Bradlaugh on Tuesday made:a motion in the House of

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Commons that where land was left uncultivated, the local authorities should have a right to expropriate it at a price, and let it among the cultivatingclass. In a thorough-going...

At the National Liberal Club on Wednesday, Mr. Gladstone formally

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opened the " Gladstone Library," as it is to be called, a noble room, of which at present the wealth of shelves is, of course, very much more conspicuous than the wealth of...

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Professor Ray Lankester concluded his part of the con- troversy

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with Miss Cobbe in the Weekly Dispatch concerning M. Pasteur's proposal to kill off the Australian rabbits by chicken-cholera, by saying in the Weekly Dispatch of April 21st...

The Mid-Lanarkshire election resulted yesterday week in a Home-rule victory,

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without much gain on either side. Mr. Phillipps was returned with 3,847 votes, against 2,917 given for the Conservative, Mr. Bousfield, while 617 were given to a Labour...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (24) were on Friday 991 to 9N,

Sir George Trevelyan, having first given in his adhesion to

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the general principle of Disestablishment, and remarked that no men care so much about their own form of worship as those who find the means for its support out of their own...

The Times' correspondent in Paris states that - a new scheme

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for arming the frontier, from which much was hoped, has failed. A fort was constructed of an enormous block of con- crete with an iron turret in the centre, mounted with the...

Could not carrier pigeons be put to practical use in

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East Africa? One grand difficulty with which European enter- prise has to contend there is that of getting intelligence from the interior to the coast. The distance, seldom as...

The Dean of Westminster summoned a number of the late

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Mr. Matthew Arnold's friends to a meeting on Wednesday in the Jerusalem Chamber, at which it was decided that a bust or medallion of the poet should be placed in Westminster...

Both Mr. Asquith, M.P., and Sir George Trevelyan spoke at

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the meeting of " The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control " last Tuesday, Mr. Asquith remarking that the moment Dissent was admitted as a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PAPAL CIRCULAR AND THE LIBERALS. ments used by the Parnellite agitators ; and though the Liberal Party certainly had not the advantage of looking at the matter from the...

THE GROWING HEAT OF THE CONTEST.

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T HE political fight is waxing hotter. The striking scene of Monday night, during which Mr. Morley accused Mr. Balfour, a man " whose phylacteries were always so broad," of "...

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THE POSSIBLE DECADENCE OF FRANCE. T HE English, and for that

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matter the French, observers• who predict the decadence of France, always appear to us to omit some important factors in their calculation ; but they have many arguments to...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S POLITICAL HISTORY.

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TR. GLADSTONE has written a letter,—in which, —IL by-the-way, there is one bad misprint, the state- ment that in 1849-50 he assisted, to the best of his power, the Government of...

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SIR G. TREVELYAN ON DISESTABLISHMENT. T HE Society for the Liberation

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of Religion from State Patronage and Control—it is well never to lose sight of the full title, for it is a standing protest against the recent administration of the organisation...

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THE AFRICAN NEGOTIATIONS. T HE negotiations which the British Government are

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conducting for the purpose of acquiring Delagoa Bay from the Portuguese, deserve the closest attention on the part of Parliament and of the public at large. Un- doubtedly,...

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MR. GLADSTONE ON " ROBERT ELSMERE."

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M R. GLADSTONE, in his profoundly interesting paper on " Robert Elsmere," in the May number of the Nineteenth Century, makes a suggestion that will be looked upon with very...

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MILLIONAIRES IN POLITICS.

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S OMEBODY is " financing " General Boulanger ; for he is a poor man, and the expenses of his campaign—which must be considerable, addresses, placards, photographs, and...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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A BULL-FIGHT AT BARCELONA. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] THE following account of the national pastime of Spain is taken from private letters :—" A bull-fight is always a horrible...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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• IS A GREAT EUROPEAN WAR INEVITABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE P [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SiR,—Seventeen years ago, as one of the administrators of the War Victims' Fund, I...

MR. DILLON'S ARREST.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,-I have not argued against a law of treason. Even the gentle polity of the United States needs such a law. I dealt rather with the...

COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your issue of April 28th, you base an argument against the reform of county government in Ireland on the mismanagement of the...

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UTTER DESTITUTION OF HANNAH CONNELL, THE BOYCOTTED WOMAN OF CLARE.

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ire THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I beg to solicit your generous aid by the insertion of this letter in your columns. Hannah Connell, whose name is well known in the...

BOULANGISM IN FRANCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — After a careful study of the Boulangist movement in Paris and various parts of France, I am convinced that the English Press is...

FATHER M'FADDEN.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—So much is said of Father M‘Fadden of Gweedore, that your readers may not be aware that there is another priest in the next parish of...

THE WINE DUTIES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR.—In your issue of April 7th, your correspondent, "Parvo Bene," makes some remarks about French wines that are mis- leading, and as I...

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ART.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] THE Royal Academy will open its doors on Monday next to the public, nearly a week later than usual. The exhibition differs little in...

THE LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR, —In the Spectator of April 28th, in a letter on " The Language of A nimals," Mr. E. W. Phibbs suggests, " May not all kissing be the...

POETRY.

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THE WINTER SEA. THE gladness of sunshine and summer Has perished, and Nature's afret, For winter, a surly new-comer, Is ruling with hoar coronet ; The woodlands are weary and...

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BOOKS.

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ION KEITH-FALCONER.* THE subject of this memoir had a brief life, yet one that was full, true, winning, marked by considerable achievement, and rich in auspicious promise. He...

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AULD LICHT IDYLLS.*

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NOMINALLY an attempt to represent, by a series of " interiors " and cabinet photographs, a moribund ecclesiastical com- munity, this little volume by a new writer—at all events,...

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THE AUSTRALIAN RACE.*

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WHAT is the Australian race which, isolated on a huge con- tinent for many thousands of years, was never able to evolve a State of the smallest kind, which has no sentiment of...

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DORNER'S " CHRISTIAN ETHICS."* THIS is the last work we

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shall obtain from the able pen of the late Dr. Dorner, and it may be said that it fitly crowns the edifice of his manifold labours. Universally recognised to be one of the...

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HANNAH MORE.* ONE of the liveliest, and in some ways

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the most interesting, of the "Eminent Women Series," has been contributed by Miss Yonge, in her Life of Hannah More. Besides a clever and vivid sketch of an original character,...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Nineteenth Century is full of good papers, the most attractive being Mr. Gladstone's answer to Mrs. Ward, men- tioned elsewhere.—" The Defencelessness of London," though it...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Land Question : its Examination and Solution. By Thomas J. Elliot. (Cassell and Co.)—Professor Elliot's contribution to this -question is the analysis of the farm accounts...

The Chameleon. By Charles J. Dunphie. (Ward and Downey.) —These

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"fugitive fancies on many-coloured matters," as the author calls them, are as difficult to criticise, or even to describe, as such things commonly are. Perhaps the best way of...

By far the most conspicuous figure in Only a Governess,

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by Rosa N. Carey (Bentley), is the hero, Launcelot, who would, we think, have been more appropriately fitted with the name of another of the Knights of the Round Table. What he...

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PUBLICATIONS OP THE WEEK.

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Agassiz ( t..). Three 0 nines of the' Blake: 2 role 8 •ct (S. Low) 42/0 Alexander (W. L.). System of Biblical Theology. 2 vols. 8vo...(T. k T. Clark) 21/0 Balfour (J. B.),...

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LONDON: Prated by Joule CAMPB ELL , 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 " SPECTATOR" OMoe, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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1,, * T HE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1888. [ ON "a } GRATIS. TRANSMISSN ABROAD.

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BOOKS.

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DORAN'S ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.* EVERY one will be grateful to Mr. Lowe for this beautiful revision of Dr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. Confused, slipshod, iterative,...

ktterarp Atouppirmint.

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LONDON: MAY 5, 1888.

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RUSSIA, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.*

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THIS is the most complete book about Russia we have yet seen, and probably the most complete and " up to time" which exists in the English language. In making this state- ment,...

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CONGREVE'S PLAYS.*

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TRE complete plays of William Congreve, comprised in a single volume recently added to the excellent " Mermaid " series, will doubtless be warmly welcomed by all who have for...

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BULGARIA, PAST AND PRESENT.* IN a former volume, published some

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years ago under the title, _Roumania, Past and Present, Mr. Samuelson furnished us with what is perhaps the best English account of another newly admitted, or rather readmitted,...

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A YEAR IN THE GREAT REPUBLIC.*

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Or the making of books about America in general, and the United States in particular, there is no end. Each traveller who cannot resist the temptation of putting his or her im-...

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PROFESSOR KEY'S LATIN DICTIONARY.*

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EVERY one will join with the editor in regretting the long delay which has postponed the appearance of this work till the twelfth year from the author's death. But it is a delay...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Life and Labour. By Samuel Smiles, LL.D. (John Murray.)— Dr. Smiles has put together these " characteristics of men of industry, culture, and genius," in his usual fashion. He...

Works of John Kaye, Bisho2) of Lincoln. (Rivingtons.) — This, the second

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volume of a proposed reissue of Bishop Kaye's works, contains "The Writings and Opinions of Clement of Alexandria." It would have been better to furnish each volume with...

The Court of Session Garland. Edited by James Maidment. (Hamilton

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and Adams, London ; T. D. Morison, Glasgow.)—Mr. Maidment has brought together in this volume a number of humorous or would-be humorous pieces. Only a few are really worthy of...

What Books to Lend and What to Give. By Charlotte

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M. Yonge. (National Society.)—This is an excellent little manual, written by What Books to Lend and What to Give. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (National Society.)—This is an excellent...

Great Writers : Life of Sir Walter Scott. By Charles

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Duke Yonge. (Walter Scott.)—It is fitting that the series of biographies edited by Professor Robertson should include a life of Scott, whose claims as a great writer are not to...

The Historical Introduction to the Private Laws of Rome, by

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Professor Muirhead (Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh), through the fortunate chance of unanticipated expansion, has escaped the honourable fate of immurement in the "...

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The Commonhealth : a Series of Essays on Health and

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Felicity for Every - day Readers. By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D. (Longmans.)—Dr. Richardson expands in this volume a motto which he prefixed many years ago to the first...

Studies iiL the Poetry of Robert Browning. By James Fotheringham.

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(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" Browning Societies," or, in any case, the spirit which sets these societies to work, are having their natural literary outcome. A mass of essays,...

Through the West Indies. By Mrs. Granville Layard. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—Mrs. Layard visited Tobago, Trinidad, Demerara, Jamaica, Barbados, and other West Indian Colonies. On the whole, she preferred Barbados, putting, perhaps, Demerara...

Golden South Africa. By E. P. Mathers, F.R.G.S. (W. B.

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Wittingham and Co.)—Mr. Mathers evidently believes in a glowing future for golden Africa, firmly believing it to be the modern " Ophir," and being very much inclined to the view...

Quantitative Analysis. By W. N. Hartley. (Macmillan and Co.) —A

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short course on gravimetric and volumetric methods, and mineral and alloys analysis. A simple and clearly written guide to laboratory methods.

My Telescope. By a Quekett Club-Man. (Roper and Drowley.) —This

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little introduction to astronomy is by the author of " My Microscope," and is written in the same chatty and simple style He discourses pleasantly on the sun, the moon, and the...

The Fall of Maximilian's Empire. By Seaton Schroeder. (G. P.

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Putnam's Sons.)—Lieutenant Schroeder, U.S.N., was on service in the U.S. steamer Tacmy,' which was stationed at Vera Cruz during the period which witnessed the fall of...

The Decline of British Prestige in the East. By Selim

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Faris. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The style of the work before us bears unmistakable signs of the newspaper article about it, though this quality renders it decidedly readable, and...

Holiday Papers : Teetotalism. By James Maltman. (J. Gemmell, Edinburgh.)—Mr.

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Maltman collects in this volume a number of tracts or pamphlets, written, as he explains, in the intervals of ministerial work. Their object is to expose the unreason and in-...

Gospel Difficulties. By J. J. Holcombe, M.A. (Kegan Paul, Trench,

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and Co.)—Mr. Halcombe has found, he thinks, a key to unlock the difficulties which have puzzled the Harmonists ever since they began their labours. A section of St. Luke's...

Practical Biology. By Huxley and Martin. Extended by Howes and

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Scott. (Macmillan and Co.)—The plan of the original edition, published in 1876, has been altered in so much that instead of commencing at the lowest and microscopical forms of...

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publication, besides being revised to date, contains some useful new

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features, the chief of which seems to be that shipping returns are given in nearly all the Colonies for each of the ten years ending 1886 under two heads, " British Tonnage "...

The Parish Guide. Edited by the Rev. Theodore Johnson. (Wells

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Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This " handbook for the use of the Clergy and Lay-Helpers " is a most useful publication. Many writers and workers of deserved eminence have...

Hermes : Anah and Zitha. (Hay, Nisbet, and Co., Glasgow.)—

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This is described as a sequel to " Hafed, Prince of Persia." In the former volume were many extraordinary ideas, such as the fac-similes of the handwriting which was said to be...

Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria : Her Life and Jubilee.

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By Thomas Archer. Vol. I. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Archer is well known as a writer of contemporary history, a task for which the enormous mass of materials, on the one hand, and...

The History of the Second Queen's Royal Regiment. By Lieutenant-

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Colonel John Davis. Vol. I. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—The second title of this volume is "The English Occupation of Tangiers from 1661 to 1684." This regiment (now called the...

The Book of British Ballads. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New

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York.) —This is a selection of some fifty-five ballads, profusely and beau- tifully illustrated after designs by Creswick, Gilbert, and others. Such a small number of ballads...

Crasus Minor : his Education, and its Results. By Austin

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Pember, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There is much truth in what Mr. Pember urges against modern developments of upper- class education. Sometimes he overstates his case....

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A.

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Third Series, Vol. VI. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We need hardly commend this periodical, so often praised in the columns of the Spectator, to the notice of our readers. We do not...

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Profitable Dairy - Farming. By H. M. Upton. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr.

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Upton begins his "Introduction " thus :—" That Dairy-Farming, as a profitable industry, is at present very imperfectly understood, as a rule, in England, no one who has studied...