5 OCTOBER 1889

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T ORD HARTINGTON has had the courage to deliver a strongly Unionist speech in Aberdeen, which was unex- pectedly well received. Mr. Gladstone's recent utterances have awakened a...

The state of affairs in Servia is most confused. To

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begin with, the elections have ended in the return of 102 Radicals to 15 Liberals, which, as the Regency is Liberal, is not favourable to its authority. Then the distribution of...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 12th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

On Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain addressed a large gathering of Unionists

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at the Circus, Newcastle. The speech, which was one of the most brilliant pieces of oratorical fighting we ever remember to have read, taxed the Gladstonians with the " policy...

Mr. Labouchere on Thursday made at Bexhill a speech of

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some importance. He stated his intention of opposing any Land-Purchase scheme,—first, because British money would go to the landlords ; and secondly, because he was afraid of...

Lord Harlington was quite vehement in his description of the

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obstructive attitude of the Home-rule Party towards any reforms proposed for Ireland, an attitude which, he doubted not, would be maintained even towards the final Land Bill...

IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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The Congress of representatives from " the three Americas," summoned

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by Mr. Blaine, met on October 2nd at Washington, where they were addressed by the Secretary of State. He disclaimed any idea of conquest, or any selfish plan of alliance against...

The young Emperor of Germany intends to govern for himself,

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and certainly makes himself felt, especially in the Army, a department in which the Chancellor is powerless, and in which the Emperor is steadily superseding the worn-out men of...

As we pointed out last week, the assurance given to

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M. Stambouloff by the Turkish Commissioner at Sofia, that Bulgaria, if invaded by Russia, would be supported by Turkish troops, meant that the Sultan had received certain...

A good deal of discussion took place in the Church

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Congress as to the utility of the system of Brotherhoods recently advocated by Archdeacon Farrar, the general consensus being that a community of clergymen who postponed...

The twenty-ninth meeting of the Church Congress assembled on Tuesday,

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the Archbishop of Canterbury opening the pro- ceedings with a historic sketch of the Church in Wales, which ended with an exhortation to the clergy to bear their persecu- tion...

The entry of four new States into the American Union

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was completed on Tuesday, when North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington held their first elections for the purpose of adopting State Constitutions, and for choosing...

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It looks as if the unskilled labourers of Europe were

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going to get a general rise in wages,—a result which, if it does not paralyse trade, and so injure the poor, must be regarded as ex- tremely satisfactory. The whole of the...

At the first meeting of the annual Conference of the

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Con- gregational Union, held on Tuesday at Hull, Dr. Fading, the Chairman of the year, made a speech remarkable for the vehemence with which he protested against " the...

The New York correspondent of the Manchester Examiner gave last

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Saturday an interesting account of the centri- petal forces at work in the great American trades and industries. " Trusts " and " Combines," which are fast developing into...

The United States Government has appointed Mr. Frederic Douglas, the

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mulatto Abolitionist, its Minister to Hayti, and the appointment is quoted everywhere as proof that the dis- like between the races is dying out. It is undoubtedly proof that...

In a discussion in the Church Congress on Wednesday on

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public amusements, Mr. E. Terry, the comedian, was received with great applause. He maintained, as is usual with actors when defending their profession, that the influence of...

The London County Council met on Tuesday, and dis- cussed

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the appointment of a successor to Mr. Firth. As to the policy which ought to be pursued in regard to the Deputy-Chairmanship, there can be no question among reasonable men....

On Monday last, Mr. John Burns, at St. Peter's School-

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room, Pugh Road, addressed the electors of Battersea,—the constituency for which he intends to stand at the next General Election, and which he represents already on the London...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent.

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New Consols (2k) were on Friday 961 to 9611.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD HARTINGTON AND MR. GLADSTONE. T HAT possession with the subject of Ireland which Mr. Gladstone has recently betrayed, and which comes out even in his most thoughtful...

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THE WEIGHT OF THE MASS VOTE.

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defeat; and after all ' the other side forcing itself momentarily on their minds. We doubt if any one is quite unaffected in his mind by a plebiscitum, if General Boulanger, for...

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QUEEN NATALIE'S CHANCE.

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A PART altogether from the grave European interests involved—for the long-expected war may break out over Servia—the imbroglio there, as described by telegraph every morning, is...

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Tag POSITION OF ITALY.

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W HEN Joseph, King of Naples, wrote to his Im- perial brother that the people of his Kingdom hated the ex-Bourbon Queen, the great Napoleon im- patiently brushed aside the...

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MR. T. W. RUSSELL ON EXPROPRIATION.

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ordinary British elector does not at all relish a general scheme of Irish Land-Purchase. It is not that he is afraid of the risk, or grudges the money, or that he disbelieves in...

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GENERAL FAIDHERBE. principles, which not unnaturally kept him in the

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shade. At any rate, he was anxious to fight on the frontier in July ; but he was left in Algeria to witness, not to share, the disasters which so swiftly smote down the...

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THE LIMITS OF PASTURE.

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I N spite of glib assertions which we frequently hear to the effect that arable farming does not pay, and that if landlords and tenants knew their own interest they would...

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MR. LLEWELYN DAVIES ON STATE MORALITY. TT is with a

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sense of amused surprise that we find ourselves directly opposed to Mr. Llewelyn Davies upon a moral question, but certainly the opposition is there. In the letter which will be...

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THE CONGRESS MANIA.

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HAT is the use of these perpetual Congresses?" is a question which the public is beginning to ask. Nor can the interrogatory be regarded as an unnatural one, for day by day the...

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A RARE CHARACTER.

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I T is possible to distinguish three kinds of ignorant men. Two are unconsciously ignorant,—the ignoramus and the ordinary ignorant man ; the third is the man who knows he is...

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THE ESSEX ARCHIPELAGO.

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T TING between the rivers Crouch and Roach—alias the Broomhill Water—and the Maplin Sands, are the six Essex Islands, Wallasea, Potton, Rashley, New England, Havengore, and...

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THE DIVINING-ROD.

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[TO THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —I am unwilling to trouble you with my experience in tkis matter, because of the avowed antagonism of our re- spective opinions in...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE STATE AND THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Referring to what I said at Carlisle as to the dangers of which socialistic legislation has to...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."

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SIR,—Mr. W. H. S. McKnight's letter with reference to the above is but another instance of the way in which a smattering of science is made to do duty for profound know- ledge,...

" 0.IT.R. BOOKS."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE ". SPECTATOR. " ] thanking you very heartily for your appreciative notice of the opening volume of my little series—Mr. Alfred Fitzmaurice King's Irish...

[TO THS EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,— Whilst staying at

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a house in Gloucestershire in the early part of this year, I was present at some water-divining experiments. Most of the spectators, after watching the pro- fessional diviner,...

POETRY.

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AN INVOCATION. WHAT, cold and silent quite, Oh heart of mine, to-night ! Where is thine offering ? Poet, the hour is late ! Hast thou no song to sing, No joy to celebrate P...

SCHOOLBOYS' BLUNDERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Here is a translation sent up yesterday in my fifth form :—" Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Pcena claudo :" " Rarely did a...

CYPRUS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPZOTATOE:] Sin,—Allow me to correct some misapprehensions in your article on Cyprus of August 24th. The quotations you make are not from a despatch of...

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RUDOLPH VON ERLACH.

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IN his hall, the hero Rudolph Sits in peace, his battles done : O'er him hangs Burgundia's banner In the fight of Laupen won. All his vassals in the village Hold their revel...

[*,* Will " Vernon Blackburn" kindly send us his address,

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which has been inadvertently lost ?]

BOOKS.

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THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE.* Ma. STEVENSON has given conspicuous proof of the versatility of his genius by the character of the last two works that have proceeded from his pen....

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MR. GRETTON'S REMINISCENCES.*

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IF there is not very much sparkle in Mr. Gretton's discursive reminiscences, they are at least free from sting and untainted by egotism; and when an octogenarian's memory and...

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THE WINNING OF THE WEST.*

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MR. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, who for years "lived and worked like any other frontiersman" on the banks of the little Missouri and the foot-hills of the Bighorn, pioneer and hunter,...

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THE "PHILOBIBLON " OF RICHARD DE BURY.* THE experiences of

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a mediaeval book-collector would be very interesting, if we only could get them. Unfortunately, the Philobiblon of Bishop de Bury does not supply them,—at least, of the kind or...

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MRS. C.A.RLYLE'S EARLY LETTERS.*

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SEVERAL of these letters were addressed to Eliza Stodart, Mr. Ritchie's great-aunt, when she and Jane Welsh were unmarried ; others were written during Mrs. Carlyle's early...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE great multiplication of magazines begins to tell a little upon the quality of each one. At least, we fancy there is less concentration of ability, and greater readiness to...

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The second volume of Dr. Robert Brown's admirably and yet

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popularly written treatise, The Earth and its Story (Cassell and Co.), is published. It is, in its way, the historical romance of geology,—or perhaps, when one looks to the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Sudden Death; or, My Lady the Wolf. By Britiffe Skottowe. (Swan Sormenschein and Co.)—This is a telling sensation story by a skilful hand that is capable of something more than...

In the Spring-Time, by Alice Weber (Walter Smith and limes),

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is an advance even on that most delicate study, "Angela." It is a simple story of every-day life, and every-day people of the End that have houses both in town and country, and...

reader should begin by studying Mr. Christian's excellent post- script,

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" The Comedy of the Law " ("John Popplestone," " forty years town clerk of Stourmouth," is, as might be guessed, nominis umbra). In this he reviews similar productions m the...

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Colloquies on Preaching. By Henry Twells. (Longmans.)— Various people talk

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together in these pages about a subject which really interests people more than they are always willing to allow. In the first we have a clergyman telling us why he is going to...

—Mr. Stallybrass brings his laborious work to a- conclusion in

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this volume. It contains a supplement to the text, extending to about four hundred pages, and a brief addition to the original preface. These have been collected from the...

The Gospel According to St. Paul. By the Rev. J.

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Oswald Dykes. (Nisbet and Co.)—This volume, partly reprinted from the Homiletic Magazine, is a study of Romans i.-viii. The limitation • excludes the most difficult part of the...

Dialogues of Plato. Translated by Henry Carey, M.A. (G. Bell

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and Sons.)—This volume belongs to " Bohn's Select Library." It contains the "Apology" and three Dialogues,—viz., the " Crito," " Phsedo," and " Protagoras." Each is prefaced...

Glimpses of the Future. By David Goodman Croby. (G. P.

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Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Croby has, so to speak, set up in business as a prophet. But his prophesying is of the right kind. By this we mean, not that in our judgment his predictions...

Kaleidoscope. By E. Katharine Bates. (Ward and Downey.)— If Mr.

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Froude's name is in Australia " as the red rag to the Colonial bull," what will Miss Bates's be, always supposing that the said bull sees it? Australia is "a second or...

Mr. Glancey prefixes a biographical introduction, giving a list of

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Dr. Ullathorne's works. Among them are two publications levelled against the system of transportation which still prevailed when the writer commenced his ministerial work in...

The Ancient World and Christianity. Translated from the French of

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E. de Pressense,. D.D., by Annie Harwood Holman. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—In this volume, evidently the work of a man of great learning, M. de Pressenae traces what he conceives...

Selections from Lucian. With Notes by W. R Inge, M.A.,

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and H. Macnaghten, B.A. (Rivingtons.)—Messrs. Inge and Mae- naghten have made an excellent school-book out of these selec- tions from Lucian. The Greek is just of the kind to be...

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Income - Tax : a Brief Summary of the Law. By R.

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Denny Willis and Joseph A. Shearwood. (C. W. Deacon.)—Mr. Willis's portion "contains a general account, historical and statistical, of the Income-tax ;" that contributed by Mr....

Christian Progress in China. By Arnold Foster, B.A. (Religious Tract

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Society.)—Alter an interesting introduction (which gives, by-the-way, a lower estimate than is commonly received of the population of Chins) we have chapters on " The Bible in...

The History of Ancient Civilisation. Edited by the Rev. I.

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Verschoyle, M.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—This handbook, which the editor has " based upon M. Gustave Ducoudray's Histoire Sommaire de In Civilisation,"' obviously attempts too much....

Christianity made Science. By Rev. Thomas Prescott, M.A. (Williams and

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Norgate.)—This is a well-intended and courageous effort to solve one of the great questions of the day ; but we question whether it will prove acceptable either to the believer...

Daniel the Beloved. By the Rev. William M. Taylor. (C.

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Barnet and Co.)—This volume contains thirteen lectures on the Book of Daniel, planned with a special view to edification. We have no fault to find with the writer's carrying out...

Joseph Rogers, M.D. : Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer.

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Edited, with a Preface, by Professor Thorold Rogers. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Dr. Rogers spent his life in advocating various reforms, and specially in manful and, in the end,...

Christianity East and West. By Thomas Grieve Clark. (Redder and

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Stoughton.)—Mr. Clark describes his book as an " ecclesias- tical pilgrimage." We may begin by saying that the experiences therein related would have been better put in a...

A Treatise on Money and Essays on Present Monetary Problems.

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By J. Shield Nicholson, M.A. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The first third of this volume is occupied by a treatise on "Money," originally published for the Annual of the Wholesale Co...