naturally into two parts. In the first we have a story of adventure, particularly well told, indeed, but not different in character from the scores of such stories which every...

MR. HAMERTON'S " SIGNE." AST experienced reader will expect a pleasant book when be has Mr. Hamerton to tell the story of a boat-voyage on a French river, and two such skilful...

LONDON : DEOEM73.E.12 10, 1887.

PREBENDARY ROW ON FUTURE RETRIBUTION.* Tuts is a very valuable book,—though we cannot say that its main thesis seems to us established,--still, a book which will bring out in...

Saviour. It is stiff, and in the studio sense of the word, "mean ;" it is at least neither impressive nor characteristic. The figure is seated with his hands in his lap, clad in...

story of The Lover's Secret, we have nothing but praise. Mr. Collingwood's reputation for this kind of work is already high ; but it will be raised still higher by the wonderful...

To young readers who have begun to revolt from the profusion of gory literature in which they have recently been expected to take the deepest interest, a story by the author of...

and Sons.)—Commander Cameron has, in his new book for boys—an interesting and eminently useful one—attempted to accomplish a little too much. Its second title is "The...

will be mach obliged to " Cavendiah " for this little book. The chief differences between the game described here and that commonly played, are that four packs are used, that...

from Thaekeray. From Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard. These are six in number, and are "Colonel Newcome," "Major Pendennis," "Becky Sharp," "The Little Sister," "Major...

PIZ Tell Thee, Dick, Where I Have Been. By Arthur Paterson. Edited by Walter Besant. The Christmas Number of All the Year Round. (Dickens and Evans.)—This is an unusually...

is an attempt to inculcate a little morality upon children by means of essentially dramatic stories of birds, beasts, dm, who figure either as Helots, or flagrant examples of...

the artistic publications of Great Britain (the volume before us is the fiftieth), continues to hold an honourable place. No one will say that in point of merit awl interest,...

By laughing shallow and dreaming pool," has been illustrated here by fifteen drawings. Of these, Mr. J. D. Woodward contributes five, Mr. W. L. Taylor three, Mr. H. Winthrop...

is a pretty little story of a brother and sister who are always seeking adventures, and find, according to the old proverb, that "adventures are to the adventurous." They are...

author lays the scene of her story at Westminster towards the end of the twelfth century, when Richard I. was lying in an Austrian prison, and England was meditating the...

to write a story that will attract children, and those who live amidst children, because it shows intelligent sympathy with their mode of thought, their frank avowals, and their...

be necessary to do much more than record the appearance of the two volumes which contain its icons for the year (November, 1886—October, 1887). They are published by Mr. T....

Co.) —This powerful story is, if our memory serves, constructed on much the same lines as one from the same pen which was praised in the Spectator some time ago,—" Jan...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The editor of this volume, the contents of which have already appeared in the Leisure Hour, illustrates by it the general belief that "the East is...

By Gordon Stables, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Stables gives us a very lively book. The earlier chapters, with their short, incisive sentences, sometimes remind us of...

in Cape Town Dicky, by Theo Gift. (Hildesheimer and Faulkner).—It is the story of a little boy who comes from South Africa to live with his relatives in England, and of how...

be glad to renew their acquaintance with friends of their youth in some of Maria Edgeworth's tales. .And if the young people have not been spoilt by more stimulating food, they...

by Edwin J. Ellis. (Field and Taer.)—" Jack and Jill," with their adventure with the pail of water, is the rhyme to which "C. B." gives the shape of a little story. It is of...

of the Reign of her Majesty the Queen. Vol. I. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This first volume takes us down as far as the end of 1859. Punch appeared for the first time with the...

Estelle Davenport Adams. (George Redway.)—This volume is about equally divided between the "imperial seas" and "poor tributary rivers," as Shakespeare has it. The editor has...

children, the eldest of whom is supposed to tell the story, find vast delight in a house into which they find their way through a certain mysterious garden.door. It is not...

(Routledge and Sons.)—Gerald Massey (a name which, by-the-way, suggests quite different associations), captain of the Good Intent,' of New Bedford, is an English nobleman...

than once expressed, to the Boy's Own Annual and the Girl's Own Annual. (Boy's Own Paper Office, 56 Paternoster Row.)—These are the annual volumes of the Boy's Own Paper and...

B. L. Stevenson. (Cassell and Co.)—It too frequently happens that illustrations, so called, neither explain nor adorn the volumes in which they are found. They are hastily...

With Illustrations by H. I. A. Mills. (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)— The pictures are &cod, but we do not quite understand the purpose of the Bishop's ballad. Does it mean...

by the Rev. George Tyler Townsend, M.A. (F. Warne and Co.)—Mr. Townsend's notes are useful as far as they go. This is not very far,—indeed, anything elaborate would have...

Carlisle, Trelawny Hamilton, and his brother, Polwynth- or, rather, two boys and a child—form themselves into an association which has for its motto the rhyme,— " By Pol,...

by "Brenda" (J. R. Shaw), an excellent story. The illustrations with which this edition has been furnished are of various value. Some are fairly good ; but for others little can...

May- hew. (Nelson and Sons.)—Successive chapters describe the Emperor during the stages of his career as Prince William, Prince of Prussia, or Heir-Apparent to the Prussian...

Heron and Dan McAlister are friends, and they love the same woman, and the story tells how Heron gives up his love for duty's sake. The girl, in a fit of ill-humour, sends away...

all the earlier part of this story, Mrs. Marshall is equal, and more than equal, to herself. She gives, as she can give, plenty of humour,—and humour is very welcome when one...

lished by the Religious Tract Society, for Sunday and week-day reading respectively, the Sunday at Home and the Leisure Hour. The former contains two principal serial stories,...

is one of the ohoriaters, has certain adventures which she describes in her diary. Little girls, happily, do not write diaries,— at least, diaries that can fill up fair.sized...

Lionel Robinson (Art Journal Office), in the "Art Annual" for the year. The rare distinction of " H.R.A.," bestowed upon M. Meissonier by our Academy, and the favour whit* his...

Illustrated Magazine for Sunday•School and Parish Use. (8.P.0.B..)—Miss Helen Shipton contributes a tale, "A Second-Hand Prayer-Book ;" and Mr. E. L. Cutts, a "Popular...

idea of this volume is a happy one. Various competent observers describe portions of a route which, in its entirety, comprises a circuit of the world. This circuit is not the...

Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh.)—Mr. Bruce tells again some familiar stories, which yet we are never tired of hearing, of African travellers. Livingstone has, very rightly, a largo...

a multitude to appraise, or at least to mention. The "Old Corner" Annual, edited by Arthur Holme (Griffith, Farrar], and Co.), is described as a "collection of pictures, verses,...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a book intended in the first place for readers, especially young readers, on the other aide of the Atlantic. It follows op an earlier volume from...

By A. G. L'Estrange. (Elliot Stock.)—We do not know whether this can be said rightly to belong to the class to which we have assigned it. Still, a book which both boys and...

is one of school-life, bearing the title of "The Feud," which the boys will doubtless' find entertaining, the good and the bad coming at last by their own, and furnishing...

by Edith W. Robinson. Illustrated by George Hodson. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A, ballad somewhat in the "Ingoldsby " style, a style only made acceptable by transcendent...

correctly described by its author as "a story of wild adventure." Certainly, the experiences of its leading characters in the interior of Ceylon are almost on a par, as regards...

and Co.)—This is a most detailed study of English still-life, executed in the well-known conscientious style of its author. The leading characters in it—barring Maurice...

Co.)—The " Major " tells the story of his campaigning in a spirited and pleasant fashion. He joined the 66th in 1808, first smelt powder at the passage of the Douro, and...

by Howard Pyle. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Pyle tells various stories in prose and verse, and illustrates them with an abundance of clever, humorous drawings. The prose tales...

through this little book, not before we saw its merits, but before we recognised in the author the writer of that very charming story, "The Lion Battalion." It is sufficient to...

is a book of atones of adventure and heroism, several of which are at least based on fact, and may be said, therefore, to contain that truth which is stranger than fiction. The...

Rainey. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—Little Regis tumbles off, or rather with, a rotten bough, and breaks his leg. His playmates devise means of entertaining him, and light...

of stories, that have already appeared in the Leisure Hour. There are twenty-two of them in all, and they take us to varied scenes, Alpine climbing, Australian exploration,...

Low and Co.)—Mr. Baldwin ingeniously weaves into a continuous story some of the non-Homeric legends which make up "the tale of Troy Divine." He takes Odysseus for his hero....

Farran, and Co.)—This volume contains five fairy.stories. Little Margit comes unawares on the fairies, and is condemned to knit twelve- dozen comforters out of the best cloud...

Mead treats her readers here to a downright romance, and a real treat it is. Three girls are left orphans with a slender supply of money. They have friends and would not lack...

have here a series of descriptions of home life, diversified by travels by sea. These are joined together by a slender thread of story. For the most part, the author's...

—Mr. Ernest George's merits as an etcher are well known, and the mention of his name and of the subject on which he has employed his skill will be a sufficient recommendation...

Sons.)—This is an illustrated natural history. Having to be con- cluded in a single volume, it is necessarily on a small scale. Never- theless, it has as many as 735 woodcuts....

(Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—Mr. Mack has got together a pretty collection of pictures and poems. For the latter, he has sometimes had recourse to well-known...

pathetic without being harrowing, reminds us of Miss Florence Montgomery's "Misunderstood,"—reminds us, without sug- gesting the idea of an imitation. Indeed, the resemblance...

Co.)—Mr.Cornewall.Jones combines in this volume a great variety of practical information with stories of battle and adventure. The first chapter describes the various kinds of...

the story of a young French lady who goes to act the part of governess to a Scotch family, and it consists in the relation of what we suppose might very well take place under...

have one of the beat examples of an avowedly but not ostentatiously good book. There is rather a crowd of characters in it, owing to the fact that Sir Reginald Tempest, a...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This story is not altogether to our taste. The idea of the unnatural uncle is as old as " The Babes in the Wood," and we cannot see that the sufferers...

C. Adams, M.A. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This is as good a story of the South African kind as we have read, and that is saying not a little. The possibilities and the...

veteran in story- telling, and The Duke's Own (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.) is as clever a book as he has ever written. Bat he has committed one mistake in it; he has endeavoured...

(J. Nisbet and Co.) —Agnes Giberne is too well known to require praise from us. But we must say how glad we are to get hold of a book that will help girls to become noble...

open a book bearing the name of the author of " Oitoyenne Jacqueline," we may expect to find quiet, subtle delinea- tions of character developed in the course of the narrative,...

(Religious Tract Society.)—We quite understand why so many requests have been made to publish this story in a separate form. It appeared first in the Boy's Own Paper, where,...

of the story Uncle Ivan gets into difficulties with the police, and is allowed to depart from his native Russia on the con- dition of remaining an exile. It is on his nieces,...

and Co.)—The small boy who figures as the hero in the above romance certainly sees more of his enemy than is pleasant. His friend, we may say, hoe incurred the batted of...

and Co.)—" Little Miss Peggy" is a girl of five who, like Nansicsa, had the advantoge of having five brothers. Thanks to this, for it is doubtless an effective discipline, and...

Partridge and Co.)—The most remarkable part of this book is the preface, in which Mr. Hodgetts credits Robin Hood with having been greatly, if not principally, instrumental in...

Co.)— Miss Winchester's book has suffered aomewhat, in a literary point of view, from a division of interest. The principal figure in her story is one that is invested with...

we have enclosed in a box (the appearance is somewhat spoilt by the large label) six little volumes, these said volumes con- taining fairy-stories, children's talk, an ingenious...

Son.)— it was a pleasure to catch Miss Alcott's name as we looked on the bookshelf. For Miss Alcott never needs to search far afield for tragedy and comedy ; she finds, after...

Sarah Holt. (J. F. Shaw and Co.)—Miss Holt has given us here one of the careful historical studies which we are accustomed to receive from her. She takes, it is clear,...

those wonderfully amiable, pions, athletic, and handsome youths who are to be heard of mostly in novels or stories written by ladies for the purpose of advancing what they...

of their author, his thorough military training, previous knowledge of the country, and intimate acquaintance with most of the leading actors in the Balkan drama, Von Huhn's...

indeed, so far as any truth on the subject can be shown to be dis- tinctly revealed to us. Prebendary Row thinks that St. Paul's language in the 15th chapter of his First...

handsome Album for Photographs, got up with a patent screw, so auto enlarge gradually with the insertion of the various photographs it is intended to contain, and adorned by...

V i ie Samgy, %eV, in the County y et Miel , d , r e e r ag,t h, 18 Ex* . er Street,

to it a Message which "amazed and delighted both enemies and friends." In other words, instead of endeavouring to say what would" divide" American citizens "least," be said...

of making Ministries. M. Carnot at first asked M. Fallieres to form one, but he declined, alleging, with truth, that his health was unequal to the task ; and the President then...

and at 2 p.m. accordingly the Senators and Deputies met, to the number of 852; and after an attempt to movethe re. vision of the Constitution, overruled by the President, a...

case.

experienced a war scare. Early in the week, statements were made in Berlin, and, it appears, admitted in Warsaw, showing that the Russian Government had slowly raised its...

GREVY kept his promise this time. On Friday week, • the anniversary of the coup d'aat in 1852, he sent to both Houses a Message announcing his resignation. In this document he...

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to his constituents in Rossendale, contending that the last thing that a Liberal committed to "the authorised programme" of 1885 ought to do, would be to postpone the whole of...

—not the internal taxation, which is all raised from tobacco and spirits, the most legitimate subjects for taxation, but the Customs duties, especially those on necessaries....

a brilliant speech from Lord Derby. The only danger was, he said, the danger of granting Home-rule out of sheer impatience of the question, and the sickness of heart with which...

Unionists to sacrifice themselves altogether for the sake of the end they had in view. He did not think that any numerical loss of power in Parliament,—not even their...

present clumsy mode of registering the voters should be re- moved; that the Land Laws should be simplified so as to render the transfer of land as easy as possible, and so as to...

supports strongly the line of the President. He proposes that the revenue shall be so reduced, as for some years to come not to equal the expenditure, so that the accumulated...

a bril- liant speech of the Duke of Argyll's, who remarked on the wise determination of Italy, composed of separate &tellies as it was, to have nothing to do with Federalism ;...

was devoted to proving by a convergent train of indications that the lower middle class has been largely rein- forced during the recent years of depression to the richer...

Monday characterised by unusual plainness and determination. He asserted that in the last Session there had been deliberate obstruction, proving it by figures given elsewhere,...

Earl Compton, Cardinal Manning, and many influential persons, was held in Farringdon Street on Monday, to discuss remedies for the distress of the unemployed ; but it did not...

Fergusson, the Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office, and Sir G. 0. Trevelyan, on the subject of the accusation brought by the latter against the former of having in 1885...

the report of a trial decided in Dublin on Wednesday, that Mr. Joyce, agent to Lord Clanricarde, advised his employer to make a reduction in his rents. Lord Clanricarde refused,...

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 101bcd.

M. CARNOT. A S we expected, the dark horse has won. IL Gravy, after a bitter struggle with himself and his lingering hopes, resigned on Friday week, in a Message to the...

T HE two great events of the week, Lord Harlington'', remarkable address to his constituents in Rossendale this day week, and the Unionist Conference and Banquet of Thursday,...

P RESIDENT CLEVELAND has taken the little wind there was out of Mr. Howard Vincent's sails. His terse and telling Message has struck a blow at American Protection such as could...

Nv -E do not much believe either in the danger of imme- diate war, which so greatly affected Vienna in the beginning of the week, or in the pacifying assurances by which that...

I T is a misfortune for England that, during her transition period, journalists as well as politicians should be so penetrated with some of the feelings of a passed-away state...

tion has not blunted his perception of the ludicrous elements of the tragi-comedy. His great admiration for Prince Alexander does not prevent him from stigmatising his telegram...

M R. GOSCHEN'S inaugural address as President of the Royal Statistical Society is an excellent example of the judicious use of figures. There are no wide generalisations founded...

T HE latest attempt to deny the liability of journalists in actions for libel, unless where express malice can be shown, has, we are glad to say, met with no success. It is...

ONVENTIONAL as the subject is in the pulpit, Dr. Lidclon could hardly have chosen any for his eloquent sermon last Sunday at St. Paul's more completely out of keeping with the...

rilHE inarticulateness which is sometimes said to be the mark J- of Englishmen—it is not just now the reproach which editors would cast at them—is receiving a curious...

[To Y.. EDITOR 07 THE a. SPECTATOR:] Sta,—My article on "The Sweating System" in the Fortnightly Review of this month contains a sentence which, I am sorry to say, is very...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THERE is a difficulty in writing a criticism of this Society which would not be felt with regard to any other London picture-...

THE UNIONIST MEETING IN DUBLIN. [To rex Herron or ma .. Srscrsros."] Sat,—Bindly permit me, in justice to our recent great meeting, to point out that the estimate which...

CHARLES DARWIN.* [THIRD NOTICE.] THE critic of Charles Darwin's life, when he has paid his tribute to the genius, industry, and perseverance of the man of science, has performed...

[FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. KINGLANE has represented the Crimean War as the result of a personal contest between Lord Stratford de Radcliffe and the Czar Nicholas. He quotes at the...

deal in this book, but it is very pleasant to read. The note of Mr. Trollope's reminiscences is perfect cheeri- ness. Whether his life has been a happy one we do not know, but...

A BOOK without a preface, especially when it is one translated from a foreign language, is like a stranger who, without an in- troduction or a character, demands our confidence...

though by no means one of the most interesting Mrs. Oliphant has written. The circumstances implied in the plot are so peculiar as almost to be outside the range of art, and the...

Veltscheff, the Court Chaplain has not a word to say. The Bulgarians are a rude, uncivilised set of boors and barbarians who need to be ridden with the curb,—this is evidently...

Chemistry and Heat, Laws and Definitions. By R. G. Durant. (Rivingtons )—It is not with unmixed feelings of delight that we record another contribution to the already unwieldy...

New Testament, in a much cheaper form than the editions originally issued. One, "Nonpareil 32mo," a pocket volume, in limp cloth cover, with good paper, and perfectly legible...

later than noon an Friday.

LL.D. (W. B. Whittingham.)—Those who have been stirred by Canon Taylor's paper on "Islam," should by all means read Dr. Blyden's contribution to the controversy raised. Dr....

i—The Magazine of Art.—The English Illustrated Magazine.—The Classical Review.—Part 7 of Mr. Punch's Victorian Rra.—Part 14 of the History of Lancaster.— Part 2 of...

Armetrong (W.), Scottish Painters. 410 (Seeley) 21/0 Belleshelmer a.), History of Catholic Churah of Scotland, Vela. I and II., 8vo (W. Blaekwoodi 25/0 Bo) boy ( F. du), A...

there appeared an interesting work, entitled Life and Landscape in the Norfolk Broads, which attracted a good deal of attention for the artistic quality of the illustrations by...

many bad habits and good instincts ; but then, it is waste which makes her book, for all its exceptional plot, real and alive. We have not enjoyed it, we acknowledge, so much as...