The Village and the Doctor. By James Gordon. (Methuen and I Co.)-We are inevitably reminded of a vell-known book which has a not dissimilar title. But how different from the...

The Confessions of a Collector. By Williamn Carew ilazlitt. I (Ward and Downey.)-Mr. Hazlitt writes for the initiated; to readers who do not know the somewhat recondite...

The Supplanter. By B. Paul Neuman. (Metlhuen and Co.)- This is the story of Jacob and Esau writ large and adapted to the circumstances of modern life. An English squire,...

'The I/ L;h'c. By IElla MIacelahnrn. (HlutclLinson i and Co.)-Iv,)r Clay is told on leaving the University that he is the illegitiinate elder brother of the Earl of...

The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art. Translated by K. Jex-Blake. With Commentary and Historical Introduction by E. Sellers. (Macmillan and Co.)-There is no doubt...

A4ristotle onl Iotmth and Old Age, Life, Death, and Respiration. I Translated, with Introduction, by William Ogle, M.D. (Longmlans and Co.)-The treatises which l)r. Ogle has...

The Coachman's Club By Geo. R. Sims. (F. V. White and Co.) -This is a collection of stories, mixed of grave and gay, supposed to be told by a coachman. It is needless to say...

The Idol-Maker. By Adoline Sergeant. (Ilutchinson and Co.) I -We always believed that the story of how Birmingham manufacturers made and exported idols to the East was a joke...

Teffer ies Land. (Simpkin, Marshall. and Co.)-This volunte is a reprint of an early book by Richard Jefferies, " A History of Swindon and its Environs." A Miss Grace Topley,...

MIoniasltiism, An cient and Aolern. By the Rev. 1'. C. Woodhouse. (6Uarduer, Darton, and Co.)-AVe need not discuss :r. Woodhouse's theoretical views. Probably we should not be...

Granlt Allen's Historical Guides: Floreoce. (Grant Richards.) I -A visitor to Florence could hardly, we imagine, do better than provide himself with this volume. A great...

The Jucklins. By Opio Read. (A. and C. B3lack.)-This is a story of North Carolina, a stormy region socially, if it is trtilv described by Mr. Read. The hero, who is not...

The Land o' Cakes and BDither Scots. Bv T. B. Johnstone. I (Alex. Gardner.)- Ae have no intention of criticising in detail .Mr. Johnstone's book on " Scotland and Things...

I TALES. - Ghostly Tales. By tho Countess of Miuinst. (11 utitcins;on and Co.)-Some of these stories are vouchedl for a; true. Such are always interestin,, supposing, of...

TIHE WEST INDIAN CRISIS. ri 1H' Commissioners "appointed to consider the conI dition andl 1ros)ects of the West India Colonies in wlhich sugar is produced have issued a lengthy...

Origines Judaicw: an Inquiry into Heathen Faiths as 3tActing the Birth and Grcwth of Judaismn. By AV. F. Cobb. (A. D. Innes and C,,.)-'I'he author of this work is 3of e pinion...

Sweet Irish Eyes. By Edith E. Cuthell. (Skeflington and Son.) I -It is always a relief to get back to the simple love-story with which novel-readers of twenty years ago were...

Out of the Darkness. By P'ercy Fendall and Fox Iussell. I (Smith, Elder, and Co.)-One would not suppose that it required the combined abilities of two gentletnen to produce...

IA Book of Scottish Petlry. Selected and arrallnge by M. 13. Synge. (E. Arnold.)-The princip)le (4 slectiin (.tp): it fromi tfli rule that nothing that is not really go A...

I Thc Thirty-}(i~t Artirles of tip Chuircih ef Etqij' n'l. ,xp~laiml a, with an Introduction, 1.)by E]dar (. S. 0. I'.I). 2 v.,1. ('Iethiiwn aml Co )-D)r. (;i.- ,n' first...

Our Laddie. T. . I By Oliphant Sineaton. (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)- It is always tiresome to see one's wnole journey betore one. In this story we know what is going to happen to...

Among the Untrodden Ways. By 3r. E. Francis. (IV. Blaclwood and Sons.)-These are lively sketches of village life, eight in number. Whether all have appeared elsewhere we...

I| er Hereard, the Saxon tPatriot. by Lieutielnant-' nel-no Ilarward. (Elliot Stock.)-Geueral Harward has indtistriously collectedl all that is to he known about the English...

I T'rav etls in Tinkaoi t4 Austria. asy thle Prinui-s anIav f 'ITurn and Taxis. (Mameillan and Co.)-- UiikiuiNvn Auistria e" eins to bo the north-east coast of the Adriatic....

Two Prench Queens, and other Sketches. By Caroline Gearey. I (Digby and Long.)-The " French Queens " of whom Miss Gearey writes are Elizabeth of Valois, eldest daughter of...

A Introdrt oion to lTe,,loy : its PIcis, its 1:, H clis, its Re'sulits, anl its Literature. 1I3 Alfred Cave, D).P). S. n1dl elition. (T. an(d T. Clark, Edinhurgli.)-The idea of...

BO OK S. MANGAN'S POEMS.* " I WOULD frequently inquire, though I scarcely acknowledged the inquiry to myself, how or why it was that I should be called on to sacrifice the...

MODERN ENGLAND.* WITH this sixth volume of Sooial En)igland Mr. Traill brings the labours of himself and his staff of contributors to an end. The period which is reviewed in it...

The Country of the Pointed Firs. By Sarah Orne Jewitt. (T. Fisher Unwvin.)-Tbe New England fishing villages are a favourite "hunting ground" for tale-writers in A merica....

I The Book of the Dry Fly. Byur htrge A. I. )evwar. (L:aivronco and Biillen.)-The " dry fly," we may explain for til, bin'fit of the uninitiated, is It fly kept by the skill...

Juvenile Offenclers. By AV. DougLas MIorrison. (T. Fisher Unwin.)-This volume is the third of the " Criminology Series," of which Mr. Morrison is the general editor (we...

His1orical Records of Ith t Ala IIe se C-j.ps qi' Ih- ];,-) it A rmy. ( .z)1}1- piled by Major A. G. Chesney. aW. (1 Sons )-Wliat may be called the recent hlitory of Malta...

Leaves from the Note-Boolss of Fraaces M. Buss. Edited by Grace I Toplis. (Macmillan and Co.)-This volume contains the notes of some of the weekly addresses which Miss Buss...

A Brief History of the English Language. By Oliver Farrar Emerson. (Mlacmlillan and Co.)-This is an interesting and useful volumie. Professor Emerson discusses the origin, the...

"The Author of Morning and Night Watchcs." Edited by his I Daughter. (iHodder and Stoughton.)-Dr. John Ross Macduff, the author of various books of devotion (which have bad,...

THE BURMESE WAON-DERLAND.* WHATEVER we may think about the necessity of doing away with such irresponsible autocrats as " The Lords of the White Elephant "-the Alompra Dynasty,...

CAPTAIN JONES PARRY'S MEMORIES.* SOLDIEnL and author, Justice of the Peace and Doctor of Laws and traveller, Captain Jones Parry seems to combine in himself the seven ages of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. G RAVE financiers are, we are told, seriously concerned at vthe position of Indian finances. They might, and would, recover from the misfortunes of the year,...

INDUSTRIAL WAR TO THE KNIFE. A MID the first dank fogs of approaching winter, the A news of the decision taken by the Executive Committee of the Federated Engineering Employers...

I The Birds of Aristophanes: in English Rhyme for English Readers. Translated by G. S. Hodges, B.A. (Houlston and Son.) -Mr. Hodges translates with plenty of spirit and shows a...

I The Eai th for a Dollar. By Roof Roofer. (Gay and Bird.)- The author professes the laudable purpose of "causing some investors to hault before taking new shares of...

Chui-rch Services ant Serv ice-Books before the Reformat ion. By I Hlenry lBarclay Swete, I).D. (S.P.C.h.)-This volume contains a series of lectures delivered to candidates...

'11}ay Down East. By J. It iHutchinson. (W ard and Downev.) -Down East" is, as Mr. Hutchinson explains, a relative expression. The region of which he gives these interesting...

I Footprints of the Apostles as Traced by St. Luke ib the Acts. By Herbert Mortimer Luckock, D.D. 2 vols. (Longmans and Co.) -Dean Luckock describes his work as " Sixty...

The Fall and Resurrection of T' urkey. By WI. Antony Sallmlon6. (Methuen and Co.)-An estimnate of thle contents of this book is beyond the purpose of these columns. It is an...

I Mrs. Cliff's Yacht. By Frank Stockton. (Cassell and Co.)-Mr. Stockton always reminds us of the jester, most effective of his kind, who utters the most astonishing...

Canterbuliry (King's School) S'ermons. (Longinans and Co.)- The note of these sermons is moral simplicity associated with manliness, as, indeed, it ought to be, considering...

I Arnold of Rugby. By J. G. Findlay, M.A. (Cambridge Univer. sity Press.)-We have spent no little time in trying to discover why this book was compiled, and are obliged to...

MIight Have Been: some Life Notes. By the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D. (Chatto and Windus.)-This is a disappointing book. In the first place, there is less of the ideal in it than...

Political PLa1mphlets. Selctell and arranged by A. F. Pollard. (Kegan iPaul and Co )-WXe have no right and no wish to deny that this volume may serve a useful purpose in...

The Waterloo Ball. By Sir William Fraser. (F. IHarvey.)I . . .I.. Sir William Fraser, who is known as a delightful raconteur, has discovered, or thinks he has discovered, the...

LETTERtS TO THE EDITOR. MR. LLEAVELYN DAVIES ON THE BROAD CHURCH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The remarks in the Contemlporary Review on which you did me the...

SIR JIMES CRICHITON-BROWNE ON DOCTORS. N his very striking address delivered to the Faculty of I Medicine at the Mlason College, Birmingham, Sir James - criehton-Browne...

THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEW YORK. T HE attention of the whole Ameriean people is evidently being concentrated on the New York municipal election to a degree scarcely less intense and...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POONA CONFESSION. THE confession of Damodar Chapekar, the Brahmin who, according to his own confession, murdered Mr. Rand in revenge for his precautions...

B OK S. --.-T-A-LL-- S-MR. TRAILL'S ESSAYS.* MR. TRAILL has long since earned his reputation as an able and discerning man of letters,-au author who knows men as well as...

THE INDIAN FRONTIER POLICY. [To THF EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'3 Sin,-I am glad that in the Spectator of October 2nd yoti have expressed your disapproval of the principles of the...

THE SILENCE OF GOD. IT is a matter of old experience that no man ever quite understands his neighbour's religious belief, that the most worldly in appearance often conceal a...

THE LESSON OF MAIDSTONE. T HE calamity which has befallen Maidstone may well compel reflection on the supposed capacity of science to deal with the problem of disease. Here is...

THE MAGAZINES. THE place of honour in the Ninletetth Century for October is given to a most effective statement by Sir Lepel Griffin of the argument against the Forward policy...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I The new number of The 1Procecdiotgs of the Society of Psych ical Reseirch is eminently worth reading on account of the paperwhich is really a monograph...

THE VIVIFYING OF CONVOCATION. WE know of nothing in ecclesiastical affairs more W perplexing than the profound indifference of English Churchmen to what is called the...

| FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT SHAKESPEARE.* THERE is all the difference in the world between a book and a piece of bookmaking; and there is precisely that difference between Mr....

GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.* THOUGH the introduction to this learned and useful work is somewhat too abstruse and metaphysical to suit the taste of the majority of readers,...

WILD FRUITS OF AUTUMN. FOLLOWING the taste for wild flowers for decorating 1F London tables has come, in natural order, a taste for the wild fruits of the hedgerow and the...

A NEW VIEW OF RUSSIAN TRAVEL.* THIS book is one of the most attractive additions to the literature of travel which recent years have made. Mr. Logan, who, prefacing from...

UNKNOWN AFRICA.* FORTUTNE, nature, and circumstances combined to make Dr. Donaldson Smith an ideal traveller and adventurer, in the best sense of that occasionally misused word...

THE QUESTION OF THE NIGER. ( NL Monday a piece of news got into the papers which ki demands serious attention ; all the more because it did not proceed from any official...