A Good Copy, and other Stories. By J. Bayford Harrison. (S.P.C.K.) I -Here are three little stories of a simple kind, the second, " Their . Daughter," being the best. :

Muriel's Two Crosses. By Annette Lyster. (S.P.C.K.)-Muriel I marries a man whom she loves indeed, but of whose worth she has more than doubts, in order to get help for her...

Dorothea Kirke, by Annie S. Sevan (Oliphant, Anderson, and I Ferrier, Edinburgh), is a well-written little story, tinged with strongly pronounced religious feeling. The scene...

Cuthbuert Coningsby. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (S.P.C.K.)- I Cuthbert Coningsby is a little boy who, by patience and love, wins over an exceptionally unkind and unprincipled...

The French Prisoners. By Edward Bertz. (Macmillan and Co.)- I This "story for boys" has much merit. It looks like a faithful picture from life, and its characters have that...

The Cottage Next Door. By Helen Sbipton. (S.P.C.K.)-Tbis I little tale is one of the best of its kind. Tom Rennick is just one of those noisy, rcugh " hobbledehoys " who form...

The Pride of the Village. By A. Eubule-Evans. (S.P.C.K.)-Mr. I Eubule-Evans tells his story with a good deal of humour, a quality which, for the most part, is not conspicuous...

A Red Wallflower. By the Author of " The Wide, Wide World." (Nisbet and Co.)-We must own that we found this story somewhat disappointing when we tried to renew by its help the...

Bob CLrt7ann's Wife. By the author of "Clary's Confirmation." I (S.P.C.K.)-This is a story of a good young woman winning back to right ways the husband wbhom the evil...

It the Company's Service: a Reminiscence. (W. IE. Allen and Co.) -This book has, we see, somehow escaped notice, for it bears the date of last year. Let us make such amends as...

The Wreckcrs of Lavernoci:. By Annie Jenkins. (T. Fisher I tFnwin.)-This story is concerned with the doings of a most outrageous villain, to whom Miss Jenkins, in her...

Manual of Congregational Principles. By R. W. Dale. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-Mr. Dale, whose manual is described as having been " written at the request of the Congregational...

I The Top of the Ladder. By the Rev. Frederic Langbridge. (Cassell and Co.)-These " Sunday Talks with Boys and Girls," as Mr. Langbridge calls his essays in prose and verse,...

Shakespeare and Montaigne. By Jacob Feis. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)-We cannot discass Mr. Feis' thesis, but must content ourselves with stating it. Mr. Feis, then,...

W We have received some pretty little children's books, in which pictures and letter-press are excellently mated, from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Among...

DEANS. THE proposal to transmute Deans into Suffragan Bishops resembles in many respects the proposal to enclose commons, to plough up parks, to drain lakes, and otherwise turn...

I The Better Part. By Annie S. Swan. (Partridge and Co.)- Lettice and Magdalene Angel are two factory-girls, and, certainly, a very remarkable pair. Lettice is the one who...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOOKS. Bearibo the YI. By Helen Shipton. (S.P.C.]K.)-There is some- thing in this story better than the familiar moral of the good young man who...

N Co Beauty. By Harriet J. Childe Pemberton. (S.P.C.K.)-Cara Austin is a very clever woman, who makes the mistake of preferring the wrong lover to the right-a mistake which...

The Magic Flute. By M. Linskill. (S.P.C.K.)-This talc wou!d have been the better, we think, if the thread-bare surprise of a child, stolen in the first part and marvellously...

The One Army1. By Sidney Mary Sitwell. (S.P.C.K.)-The story is of the slightest. Walter, who intends to become a sailor, becomes a soldier instead, and wins the Victoria...

An Univilling WVitnes.,. By Annette Lyster. (Nisbet and Co.)- It is a somewhat perilous venture for a ladv to write a book about school-boys. Even men who have the benefit of...

I My Friends mid L Edited by Jalian Sturgis. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)-Mr. Julian Sturgis is a clever, and usually a conspicuously agreeable writer. This book, which by an...

The Ailtobiograpfy of Judas I.scaiiot. By the Rev. James W. T. I Hart, M.A. (Kegan Paul and Co.)-This is a book of the type I siggested by "Ecce Homo"and" Philochristus," but...

I The Bohemozians. By Frank Lee. (Alexander Gardner.)-Tbis is an amusing little book, admirably calculated to while away an hour's railway journey. It is easily read, printed...

Echoes of the Year ISS3. By George Augustus Sala. (Remington I and Co.)-These are a reprint of a selection arranged under various headings, of the charming " Echoes of the...

TTIE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. MBR. CLEVELAND has, we believe, been elected President 1N1 of the United States. The contest has been so close, and the millions of voters are spread...

Even then, the debate on the Address was not over, for Mr. Gorst insisted on moving an amendment to the Address, expressing regret that the Government had not properly...

A significant incident varied the proceedings. Out of 600 1 ; workmen employed in building the neighbouring Hotel M6tropole, the proprietors of which are Tory, over 500...

One of the many nights lost in debating the Address to the ] Throne was that of yesterday week, on an amendment of Mr. MlacIver's, the Member for Birkenhead, seconded by Mr....

The monstrous combination to drive Mr. Chamberlain off the Commission to inquire into the working of the present laws affecting the insurance of ships has collapsed. It was...

I Nevertheless, one or two other speeches of interest were delivered in the debate. Mr. Sidney Buxton, for example, made a very good point, by showing that of our imports by...

Rumours have been afloat all the week of British mediation in China, and on Friday they gathered strength; but they rest as yet on no very trustworthy basis. The Chinese insist...

The first stone of the National Liberal Clubhouse, to be erected on the Thames Embankment, was, on Tuesday, laid by Mr. Gladstone. Besides the Premier, Lord Granville, Lord...

I On Monday, Mr. Sexton and Mr. O'Brien moved and seconded a new amendment on the Address, praying the Queen to see the criminal law in Ireland more impartially administered,...

THE FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONISATION. DR. H. GEFFCKEN, whose name is unfamiliar to us, but 11) who is obviously a painstaking and conscientious observer, throws in this month's...

St. Paul, the Author of the Acts of the Apostles and the Third I Gospel. By Howard Heber Evans, B.A. (Wyman and Sons.)- This is a specimen of the curious speculations which...

In Fourteen Years wvith Adelina Patti, by Louisa Lanw, we get a very lively description of the pomp and circumstance which attend the progress of a successful prima donna...

The authoress of A Dream of the Adirondacks, and other Poems s (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York), has not been well-advised in courting " a larger and more critical hearing," to...

I Tennis Cuts and Quips. Edited by Julian Marshall. (Field and Tner.)-A neat little book, which contains an authoritative exposition of the laws of Lawn Tennis, by Mr....

Early Sources of English Unzitarian Claistianity. By Gaston Bonet-Maury, D.D. Translated by Edward Potter Hall. With a I Preface by James Martineau, LL.D., D.C.L. (British and...

The Autobiography of Tracy Tutrnerelli,-divided into three parts entitled, " Work Artistic," "W ork Pacificatory," and " Work Political," and embellished with a photograph of...

I The trial at Plymouth of the men accused of murder and can- nibalism on board the boat belonging to the 'Mlignonette,' has ended for the present in an unusual way. The Jury...

The election at Scarborough on Monday, for the filling-up of the vacancy caused by the raising of Mr. Dodson to the Peerage, was somewhat remarkable. The electors knew that...

The French Senate, by a vote of 126 to 112, has refused to I merge the seventy-five Life Senatorships in the general body of elected Senators. They agree to a reduction of the...

Mr. J. Morley made a speech in Westminster on Tuesday. in I the latter part of which he dealt with two of the most obstinate fallacies of the hour. One is, that the Prime...

I In the Star Theatre, at Glasgow, last Saturday evenina. there was another of those fatal panics which cause almost as much loss of life as the real dangers from which people...

Lord Dunraven brought forward his exjpected motion for a Joint Committee to inquire into the depression of trade on Thursday. His speech was unforgivably long, and dull, its...

THE CROKER PAPERS.* [FIRST NOTICE.] "OCfRIsTI.sAN- charity," the Duke of Wellington once told Mr. Croker, was as great a duty in politics as in morals. Had Mr. I The...

POETRY. "THE STREETS OF DUBLIN." I(Originally Eung at the Mansion House, Dublin, by Mr. College Green, M.P.. to I the tune of " Molly Carew."] LORD MAYOR and countrymen dear...

OLD AGE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sira,-I have read the thoughtful and suggestive paper on " The Dread of Old Age," in your last number, with special interest....

MR. TRAILL'S "COLERIDGE." fTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-In reference to Mr. Traill's "Life of Coleridge," lately reviewed in your paper, -will you allow me to ask,...

DOUBLE-BARRELLED CONSTITUEN-CIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sii,-You say that an injustice is done to the majority in a two-Membered seat if they return one candidate...

A R T. "QUIET WEATHER." ABOUT a year ago I tried to make a word-photograph of a day's doings in rough weather at an old-fashioned South-Coast fishing village: to-day I want to...

GIOVANNI DUPRf''S "THOUGHTS ON ART.'* THiERE is that peculiar interest attaching to this work which belongs to the writings of a man in his own special subject. Signor Giovanni...

AIR. BLACK'S " JUDITH SHkKESPEARE."* Mn. BLACK'S "romance " made its frst appearance in the pages of an American periodical. This fact emboldens us to conjecturethat it was...

Mr. Gladstone moved the second reading of the Franchise I Bill on Thursday in a very brief but very artistic speech, in which he said all in his power to prove to the...

In politics Mr. Fawcett filled a rather unique place. He was I a strong Liberal, with a fixed determination to speak against his party when he thought them wrong, as well as...

I The rumours of the fall of Khartoum, which have beeu floating about the bazaars of Cairo and Alexandria for the past three weeks, assumed this week shape and consistency....

| The election to the American Presidency began and ended ou I - . . . . November 4th, the vote polled being unusually heavy. It wasoon known that the result would turn on the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE week has been marked by a very melancholy event,-the Tdeath of Mr. Fawcett, the Postmaster-General, who was in perfect health a week ago, and, indeed, on...

I Lord Randolph Churchill wDas not ia the House to move his amendment, which was moved by M1r. Stanhope and opposed by Mr. Gorst in the name of the wider-minded Conservatives,...

ENGLAND AND CANADA.* I THIS must be pronounced an interesting and valuable book, although the interest is somewhat marred and the value de*England and Canada: a Snmmer Tour...

THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB. THE speeches at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the T National Liberal Club were not very fresh, or eloquent, or...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. AIR. GLADSTONE'S STATEMENT. THE Prime Minister's short statement on Thursday evening T was as good an example of his infinite Parliamentary taci as could be...

DISSOLUTION, OR CREATION OF PEERS? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOm"I SIR,-You did not overrate the gravity of the situation when you said last week, "The balance of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE WHIGS AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am one of those Moderate Liberals, or so-called Whigs, who stayed away last...

THE SUCCESS OF " CALLED BACK." WE suppose it is true, though we cannot vouch for the statement, that a quarter of a million copies of " Called Back," by " Hugh Conway," have...

THE SCARBOROUGH ELECTION. HE Scarborough election should not be passed by as one T of those misleading by-elections by which the judgments, of statesmen are disturbed and false...

THE SHIPOWNERS AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN. THE conflict between the Government and the Shipowners T has throughout been a remarkable illustration of the strength possessed by the...

THE MAGAZINES. THERE is no sensational article in the Magazines this month, but there are many good papers. Sir E. J. Reed's, for example, in the Contemtporary Review, upon the...

B OOK S. MISS AUSTEN'S LETTERS.* WE doubt much whether Lord Brabourne has judged wisely in publishing his aunt's Letters. We are surethathe has not judged wisely in prefixing...