5 SEPTEMBER 1896

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The Times of Thursday publishes an extraordinarily in- teresting narrative

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of the raid on the Ottoman Bank. The narrator, an employe of the bank, was an eye-witness of the whole transaction. Hearing the sound of firing he ran into a balcony which looks...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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F RESH details as to the massacres which followed on the attack on the Ottoman Bank leak out from day to day. Not less than five, probably seven, thousand people—men, women, and...

Mr. Herbert, the British Charge d'Affaires, seems to have behaved

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with great strength, promptitude, and courage, and deserves the gratitude of the nation. He landed marines from the 'Dryad' to protect the British post-office and Embassy...

The Times' narrator conveys a vivid impression of courage and

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devotion to the cause on the part of the insurgents, who, it is incidentally remarked, "all carried morphine." This is his account of their arrangements :—In the base- ment were...

On Monday Europe was startled by the news that Prince

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Lobanof, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the chief statesman in Russia, had died suddenly during the railway journey between Vienna and Kieff. The Prince, who was...

* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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Mr. Bryan has unbosomed himself to the special corre- spondent

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of the Daily Chronicle. He believes that America, by adopting a silver policy, may drive the rest of the world to bimetallism. England will never voluntarily use both metals,...

Vermont, which is always a Republican State, has of course

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not only returned a Republican majority, but has greatly increased that majority on the present occasion, probably as a protest against unsound money. The Re- publican majority...

The Democratic Sound Money Convention at Indianapolis resulted on Thursday

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in the selection of General Palmer, of Illinois, as the candidate of those Democrats who have, as it is called, "bolted" in consequence of the selection of Mr. Bryan as the...

We have dealt elsewhere with Prince Lobanof's position in Europe,

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and will only say here that he was a man of great ability as well as of great force of character. Full of charm, of great versatility of talent, and endowed with not a little...

The "Convention of the Irish Race at Home and Abroad,"

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as it is rather magniloquently termed, though, at home at least, there is a considerable portion of it quite unrepresented in the Convention, met on Tuesday in Dublin, when the...

The death of Prince Lobanof makes no difference in the

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arrangements for the Czar's tour. He will visit Breslau, as before arranged, and go thence to Copenhagen, Balmoral, and Paris. At Breslau the preparations are already complete,...

Mr. Balfour on Monday laid the foundation-stone of the new

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village which the Chorlton Board of Guardians are building for the children of the Chorlton Union, at Wilmslow,. in Cheshire. At present the plan is to build twelve large...

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Mr. Gladstone has been addressing pleasant speeches to the various

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bands which performed on his terrace daring the Hawarden fete, and on Wednesday especially assured his hearers that almost all men had the capacity for music in them, though...

Mr. Chamberlain seems to have spoken of Mr. Healy as

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the most weighty politician of the Irish people, to an in- terviewer in New York. And certainly if "the most weighty" means the most practical, he was quite warranted in so...

Sir George Baden-Powell writes to yesterday's Times to point out

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that two of Dr. Nansen's predictions were fulfilled with curious accuracy by Dr. Nansen's journey, and by tie adventures of the Pram,' after he and Lieutenant Johansen had left...

The Times' correspondent with the Egyptian Army gives in Friday's

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issue an interesting account, derived from Slatin Pasha, of Mohammed Wad Bishara, the Governor of Dongola, the young Dervish General on whom will fall the duty of opposing our...

The course of the advance on Dongola has been interrupted

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by rain-storms such as have been unknown in the memory of man. No rain has fallen in the neighbourhood of Sanas for nine or ten years, but this year the average is being made...

On Wednesday the chief speeches were those of Father Flynn,

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who endeavoured to build a golden bridge for the Parnellites' and the Healyites' return to the Irish Parlia- mentary party, which Mr. T. P. O'Connor succeeded in blowing to...

The remains of Spain's great Colonial Empire seem a source

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of infinite trouble to her. It appears that the revolt in the Philippines, reported last week, but then said to have proved abortive, is a reality. The insurgents number between...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (2,t) were on Friday, 1121.

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THE CONVENTION OF THE IRISH RACE. T HE Irish Convention is

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regarded in Dublin as a great success, and it is a great success, for it proves to - demonstration that what the Irish people love is a declara- tion in favour of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MASSACRES. F IVE thousand Armenians have been massacred in the streets of Constantinople. The Ambassadors of the Powers promptly showed their sense of the gravity of this...

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PRINCE LOBANOF'S DEATH.

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P RINCE LOBANOF had the essential quality of a- great man. He knew what he wanted and he knew how he wanted to attain his desire. In other words, both end and means were clear...

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MR BALFOUR ON THE TRAINING OF PAUPER CHILDREN.

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O NE of the most useful remarks that Carlyle was never weary of repeating was his comment on the helplessness of human beings in turning to some good account the industry of...

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SIR H. JOHNSTON AND CHARTERED COMPANIES.

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S IR HENRY JOHNSTON'S Report on the Trade and General Condition of the British Central Africa Pro- tectorate from April, 1895, to March, 1896, has appeared very opportunely at...

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THE SPEAKER—AMERICAN AND ENGLISH.

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O NE of the undisputed results of the late Session in the House of Commons has been the establishment of the reputation of Mr. Gully as an entirely worthy occupant of the...

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MISS WEDGWOOD ON THE LIST HALF- CENTURY.

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T N the profoundly interesting paper by Miss Wedg- wood in the September number of the Contemporary Review on the changed order which has marked the course of the last...

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THE TYRANNY OF ARRANGEMENTS.

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L I HUNG CHANG found many strange and unexpected things in Europe, but we suspect that what seemed to him the strangest of all was what may be termed the tyranny of...

SANDBANK FISHERIES.

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T HAT the long sole-backed sands, uncovered at low-water and during the greater part of the ebb, should be the site of a fishery seems at first somewhat surprising. The white,...

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A STUDY IN DOVES.

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O NE day in spring-time, in a quiet garden, the present writer saw a flight of little Egyptian doves fly down on to a turf-walk in the heather in answer to a soft whistle from...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. LECKY AND THE SABBATH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Leaky, in his "Democracy and Liberty" (Vol. IL, chap. 7), discussing legal limitations of natural...

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AMERICAN INVESTMENTS AND THE PRESI- DENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mindful of many courtesies I have received in both London and in the country during several visits to your side, I beg the favour of...

ON BEING A WOMAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Being a woman, and a woman who, from the very nature of her work in the world, is using direct power, it is with considerable interest...

THE NEXT LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I SIR,—In addition to the optional use of the Authorised or Revised Versions to which your correspondent refers, in the Spectator of August...

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THE INTERROGATIVE BORE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?') SIR,—The example given by you, in the Spectator of August 29th, of a cornered schoolmaster answering one question by another, reminds me of a...

AN EPISCOPAL DOG-STORY.

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[To Ins EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR."] • * SIR, - I was walking the other day on the shore of Lough Swilly at Buncrana, with our Diocesan the Bishop of Derry and Ra,phoe, when a...

THE TREATMENT OF THE APPARENTLY DEAD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIR,—A medical authority, who has devoted many years study to the subject of premature burial, writes :— "One is often filled with pride...

NATURE'S SCHOOL AT GLOUCESTER.

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[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—From the article under the above heading, in the Spectator of August 29th, there is an omission of some im- portance. You open the...

A MODERN "SPECTATOR."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The delightful extract you give in the Spectator of August 29th, from the " Saltonstall Gazette," re Mrs. Narrowmeans, would make a...

BOOKS.

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THE FASCINATION IN BUTLER.* [FIRST NOTICE ] THE present age will owe a great debt of gratitude to Mr. Gladstone if this vigorous and impressive, though not always equable,...

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artist. The physical needs for the fulfilment of his ideas

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are so great that, should no occasion arise, in all likelihood his full power as a builder may never be realised. Without a great occasion England might never have known that...

A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.* THERE is an important difference between

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the original in- tention of the author of this book and his ultimate achieve- ment. His original intention, he tells us, was to write an account of the economic condition of the...

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THE MIND OF THE CHILD.*

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THE world has undoubtedly moved a long way in the right direction since Mr. Herbert Spencer predicted that our pre- sent system of education would be stigmatised by the future...

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MARCH HARES: A TALE FOR THE ERRATIC.* NOTHING has been

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more peculiar of late than the many-sided -development of the style of book still impartially known as the novel. Since the sudden and startling success of Called Back, not so...

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REMINISCENCES OF THE MAILS.*

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THOUGH we have improved roads somewhat since the days when the Telegraph,' the Wonder,' and the Red Rover' achieved such remarkable performances, we have no longer the strong...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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SKILLED observers infortu us that t he recent hot weather as exceedingly favourable to the prawns. It certainly has not been favourable to the magazines. Taken as a whole they...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Portfolio (July): The Life of Velasquez. By Walter Arm- strong. (Seeley and Co.)—Mr. Armstrong gives us in this number of the Portfolio a biography of Velasquez, intending...

Short Life of Thomas Davis. By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.

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(T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a volume of the "New Irish Library," and is a really brilliant sketch of a very striking personality. Thomas Davis was by birth an Irish Protestant,....

Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by George Eyre-Todd.

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Vol I. (William Hodge and Co., Glasgow.)—We have here in a handy, well-printed, and not too large book, the first volume of what promises to be a very comprehensive an.- thology...

The Hare. By the Rev. H. A. Macpherson and Others.

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(Long- mans and Co.)—This is the first volume of the "Fur and Feather Series," appearing under the editorship of Mr. Alfred E. T. Watson, and designed, as the editor tells us in...

Mr. Gladstone in the Evening of his Days. (Westminster Gazette.)

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—This volume is a republication of papers which appeared in the journal from whose office it is now sent out. It is pleasant to read, for the subject is one in which all...

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Wild Life of Scotland. By J. H. Crawford, F.L.S. (John

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Macqueen.)—This is a very delightful as well as informing book which, in respect of style, recalls Thoreau rather than either Jefferies or Burroughes. "I am touched," says Mr....

SCHOOL-BOOKS.

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Essentials of New Testament Greek. By John H. Huddilston. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an attempt to find a royal road to the learning of Greek,—at least, of so much Greek as may...

Your Money or Your Life. By Edith Carpenter. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—This is a very amusing and unconventional book—very amusing and unconventional indeed to be written by a lady. It tells how a young man of business in New York is...

Eli's Daughter. By J. H. Pearce. (William Heinemann.)— This is

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a powerful, ably written, and, so far as character and dialect are concerned, eminently realistic story of Cornwall and Cornish mines. From the purely literary point of view it...

Isban-rerael. By George Cossins. (Gay and Bird.) — Mr. Cossins

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has set himself, perhaps too obviously, to" beat the record" in South African sensationalism. It is only fair to him, however, to say that he has succeeded in his enterprise....

A Home in Inveresk. By T. L. Paton. (Methuen.)—This is

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a rather slight story, and, although the scene of it is laid in Scot- Land, the characteristics of what has come to be known as the Scottish school of fiction are conspicuous by...

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MARRIAGE.

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Parsz—Roscos.—On August 29th, at the Parish Church, Erchfont, Wilts., by the Vicar, the Rev. S. Chart Mason, assisted by the Rev. C. M. Cocks, Rector of Folke, Dorset, &thee...

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Christ's Hospital Recollections of Lamb, Coleridge, and Leigh Hunt. Edited

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by R. Brimley Johnson. With 40 Illustrations. (George Allen.)—The illustrations in this volume, considering how soon the famous hospital in Newgate Street is likely to be shorn...

&ruts of Subscription,

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Barnett (A. T.), The Shadow of Heaven, or Svo (SkEtfiagton) 3/6 Bensly (Mrs. R. L.), Our Journey to Sinai, or 8vo (B.P.S.) 3/6 Burnet (J.), Greek Rudiments, cr 8vo (Longmans)...