9 APRIL 1892

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MODERN PAGANISM AND PIERRE LOTI.

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MODERN PAGANISM AND PIERRE LOTI. IT is but a short while since the well-known French writer and traveller, Pierre Loti, was made a member of the Acad-mie Franqaise. Most...

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[For once, the Leisure Hour is rather dull.]

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I For once, the Leisure Hour is rather dull. The liveliest article is Mr. Massingham's on the Standard newspaper, which gives a considerable amount of information that cannot...

[Of late, a good deal of liveliness has been imported into the...]

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CURRENT LITERATURE. Of late, a good deal of liveliness has been imported into the I Monthly Packet (A. D. Innes and Co.) Thus, in the April number there is the commencement,...

[The Newbery House Magazine is now recognised as one of the...]

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The Newbery House Magazine is now recognised as one of the organs of the Church of England. There are several articles in the April number dealing with questions of a more or...

[All that can well be said of a periodical which is so decidedly...]

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I All that can well be said of a periodical which is so decidedly professional as the Law Magazine and Review, is that it sustains its reputation by dealing with almost every...

[The new number of that very unpretentious little quarterly,...]

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I The new number of that very unpretentious little quarterly, the Foreign Church Chronicle and Review, contains a number of readable papers, but none that can be said to be of...

[The most notable of the April contents of the Century is a short...]

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The most notable of the April contents of the Century is a short paper by Mr. Edmund Gosse on that very promising American man of letters, Mr. Wolcott Balestier, who recently...

[A sketch of the new military Peer, Lord Roberts, by Mr. Archi-...]

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A sketch of the new military Peer, Lord Roberts, by Mr. Archi- bald Forbes, will probably be considered the most generally interesting paper in the new number of the English...

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[Lord Spencer, speaking at Worcester on Wednesday...]

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T~Arrl Snencer. speaking at Worcester on Wednesday I evening, accused the Tories of having no policy of their own, and especially of having borrowed their Foreign policy from...

[A most difficult question was discussed in the House of Com-...]

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I A most difficult question was discussed in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday,-namely, the rateability of moveable manufacturing machinery. Ought a manufactory to be...

[Mr. Balfour made a very animated and interesting speech...]

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Mr. Balfour made a very animated and interesting speech at the Conservative Club yesterday week, in which he began by describing himself as an " Old Tory," not, we think, as we...

[The House of Commons on Thursday spent the whole...]

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I The House of Commons on Thursday spent the whole evening in debating a breach of privilege case. In the inquiry into the overwork of railway servants, a stationmaster on the...

[The election to the Presidency of the Argentine Republic...]

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The election to the Presidency of the Argentine Republic takes place this month, and the two dominant factions, followers of Generals Mitre and Roca, have coalesced to support...

[Lord Ashbourne spoke in the Corn Exchange at Oxford on...]

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Lord Ashbourne spoke in the Corn Exchange at Oxford on Monday in favour of the Unionist candidate for that city, bir George Chesney, the brilliant author of " The Battle of...

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A BROWNING CYCLOPAEDIA.

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A BROWNING CYCLOPEDIA.4 IF the readers of Browning can be held to bear any proportion to the number of books that have appeared commenting upon and interpreting his poetry,...

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[THE cosmopolitan character of the Anarchist movement...]

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. -4--- THE cosmopolitan character of the Anarchist movement against society is becoming more clearly revealed. and a serious portion of the general scheme...

[The Coroner's jury at Melbourne on Thursday found...]

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The Coroner's jury at Melbourne on Thursday found Deeming guilty of the wilful murder of his wife, Emily Mather. The difficulty about identification proved to be imaginary, and...

[The story is, that the Anarchists have discovered a method...]

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The story is, that the Anarchists have discovered a methoI of greatly increasing the force of dynamite, and it is evident that one of the precautions taken throughout Europe...

[The Porte, probably instigated by some over-clever Euro-...]

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The Porte, probably instigated by some over-clever Euro. pean politician, is playing a curious trick on the Khedive. The Firman, or legal order of investiture, has been long...

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Two Doges of Venice. By Alethea Weil.

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Two Doges of Venice. By Alethea Weil. (The Chiswick Press.) I -The ' two Doges " are Tomaso Mocenigo and Francesco Foscari. Mocenigo, born in 1343, became Doge in 1413, and...

With my Friends. By Brander Matthews.

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With my Friends. By Brander Matthews. (Longmans.)-Here I we have six " tales told in partnership," prefaced by a dissertation on " The Art and Mystery of Collaboration." This...

Egyptian Science. By V. E. Johnson, B.A.

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I Egyptian Science. By V. E. Johnson. B.A. (Griffith. Farran. and Co.)-Air. Johnson has much that is curious and interesting to tell us on the subject of his book. The...

The Abbots of Tavistock. By the Rev. D. P. Alford.

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The AbbotsofTavistock. By the Rev. D. P. Alford. (Brendon and I Son, Plymouth.)-Mr. Alford has followed an example growing happily more and more common among our parochial...

The Story of the Hills. By the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson.

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The Story qf the Hills. By the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. (Seeley I and Co.)-Mr. Hutchinson divides his book into two parts, " The Mountains as They Are," and " How the Mountains...

Arum Field. By Mrs. Jerome Mercier.

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I Arun Field. By Mrs. Jerome Mercier. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)-Arum Field is a young lady of a romantic turn of mind who falls in love with a minor poet. The poet,...

[When it is said of The Heretic (Charlton Tucker, Leamington),...]

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When it is said of The Heretic (Charlton Tucker, Leamington), I that it is "opposed to Jesuitry and Ritualistic Mummery," it is hardly necessary to add that it is distinguished...

Women and their Work. By Veva Karsland.

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Wlomen and their Work. By Veva Karsland. (Sampson Low, I TMarston, and Co.)-Miss Karsland gives us, arranged in alphabetical order, between fifty and sixty chapters on various...

The Commerce of Nations. By C. F. Bastable, LL.D.

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The Commerce of Nations. By C. F. Bastable, LL.D. (Metlluen and Co.)-This volume, belonging to the series of "Social Questions of To-Day," is substantially an examination of...

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THE SPANISH ANARCHISTS.

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THE SPANISH ANARCHISTS. WIT E most sincerely trust that Europe is not about to VV lose its head over the Anarchist scare. A great many signs seem to indicate that this is...

MR. BALFOUR'S TORYISM.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. BALFOUR'S TORYISM. a IR. BALFOUR, in his speech to the Conservative A1 Club yesterday week, declared that he had been accurately described as an Old...

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THREE NOVELS.

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THREE NOVELS.* THE difficulty of judging what anybody would or would not do in circumstances which are practically as much out of the range of possibility as though actually...

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THE REPORTED APPROACH OF RUSSIA TO GERMANY.

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TILE REPORTED -APPROAVClI OF RUSSIA TO GERMAINY. aW~t' C.'n1 see no aT priori reason for doubting that Russia has suggested a commercial treaty to Germanv, or for regarding the...

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[Mr. J. A. Froude has been appointed to succeed the late...]

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I Mr. J. A. Froude has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Freeman as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, an appointment which reminds one of the view of some...

[The Times' correspondent at Berlin reports certain figures...]

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The Times' correspondent at Berlin reports certain fiyureR given by the Statistischle Correspiondcnz on the growth of the religious life and the religious indifferentism of...

[The Paris correspondent of the Times reaffirms in the...]

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The Paris correspondent of the Times reaffirms in the I ~strongest way what he has been hinting for weeks past, that Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Minister in Berlin, has...

[The Pall Mall has been drawing up a class-list of political...]

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The Pall Mall has been drawing up a class-list of political popularity, adopting as its test the length at which newspapers generally report various speakers. It gives a...

[One of the most gracious, accomplished, and fascinating of...]

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One of the most gracious, accomplished, and fascinating of the members of a great house died on Tuesday,-Lord Arthur Russell, the younger brother of the late Duke of Bedford,...

[A fiendish outrage is reported from Ireland.]

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A fiendish outrage is reported from Ireland. The tenant - ~of a farm on the Clanricarde estate, near Loughrea, has been evicted, and the farm let to a police pensioner named...

[We record with much regret the death of Mr. John Murray,...]

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We record with much regret the death of Mr. John Murray, I head of the great publishing house, when within a few days ,of eighty-four. Though not so surrounded by men of genius...

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MRS. MONTAGU'S SENTENCE.

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MRS. MONTAGU'S SENTENCE. CASES of abnormal wickedness are commonly subject C to a special difficulty of interpretation. In their simplest form, they are merely exaggerations of...

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HOW WOMEN PROPOSE.

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HOW WOMEN PROPOSE. W EARIED, perhaps, of discussing the question why '"T men do not propose in snfficient numbers, the other sex seems to have taken to criticising the methods...

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CARLYLE'S POSTHUMOUS BOOK.

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BO OK S. CARLYLE'S POSTHUMOUS BOOK.* [FIRST NOTICE.] WE find it very difficult to believe in the',addresses before-us as altogether genuine Carlyle. And, indeed, the account...

"NASCENTE LUNA."

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POETRY. " NASCENTE LUNi." I SEE a stretch of shining sky Like some fair ocean sunset-lit. Peaceful and wide its spaces lie, And purple shores encompass it. A little slender...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE MAGAZINES. SIR CHARLES TUPPER'S paper in the Ninieteenth Century, "How to Federate the Empire," is really only a plea for a differential duty on corn in favour of the free...

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THE ULSTER QUESTION.

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THE ULSTER QUESTION. THOUGH we are obliged to write without seeing the T reports of the meeting he'd at Belfast on Friday to settle the preliminaries of the Ulster Unionist...

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LORD SPENCER ON A NEGATIVE POLICY.

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LORD SPENCER ON A NEGATIVE POLICY. I L ORD SPENCER has taken up Mr. John Morley's L cue, and in his speech at Worcester on Wednesday, has declared that the Unionists have no "...

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"EXTRAORDINARY" EVENTS.

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"iEXTRAkORDINARY" EVENTS. A CORRESPONDENT of Tuesday's Times writes to A report an extraordinary deal at whist which occurred at the New Club, Brighton. "After the cards had...

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MR. PINERO'S "HOBBY-HORSE."

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MR. PINERO'S "HOBBY-HORSE."* MIR. PINERO might, we think, better have called The HobbyHorse a farce than a comedy. In a comedy, we expect the situations to he amusing, but to...

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THE FRIEND OF KEATS.

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THE FRIEND OF KEATS.* MucH has already been written about Keats, so that the fame of the young poet who passed away almost unknown, and whose bitter disappointment caused him...

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THE GENESIS OF DISCIPLINE.

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THE GENESIS OF DISCIPLINE. M TE should agree with Colonel Maurice, in the interesting -I lecture which he delivered last December in Ireland, and which has just been published...