12 AUGUST 1893

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On Monday, the House of Commons, after a protest from

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the Unionists in regard to the Schedule of Irish constituencies —under which Protestant Armugb, though it has twice the number of electors to be found in Catholic Meath, has...

On Saturday—or rather at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning— the

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jury engaged in the trial of Norton and Ducret for the Cocarde forgeries—i.e., the papers purporting to show that our Embassy in Paris was deluging the Chamber with British...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE French elections take place on Sunday week, and the electoral campaign is being conducted with unusual vehe- mence. Two public utterances have attracted special attention,...

On Friday week, Mr. Storey rose at 9 o'clock to

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move a resolution that it is desirable for any Bill which has twice passed the Commons, but failed to pass the Lords, and which shall, with the support of the Government, pass...

A considerable sensation was produced in Paris on Monday , by

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the publication of a series of alleged revelations, com- promising a number of Ministers and ex-Ministers. The writer, M. Dupas, professes to be an ex-secretary of the Detective...

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister, questioned by Mr. Jacks as

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to whether the Government had come to any decision upon the holding of an autumn Session, replied first to a question which Mr. Jacks had not asked, and then, with great...

On Sunday, the canal across the isthmus of Corinth—begun by

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Nero, and completed, nearly two thousand years later, by a Greek engineer, M. Matsas—was opened by the King of Greece, who steamed through the canal in his yacht, accom-...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any case.

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Mr. Parker Smith also proposed that a system of propor-

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tional representation should bo applied to the Irish con- stituencies. He argued that though in England and Scotland the single-Member system brought about a sufficiently fair...

On Monday, Congress assembled at Washington in " extra session,"

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and on Tuesday the President sent his expected Mes- sage on the Silver question. After dwelling on the " alarming and extraordinary business situation, involving the wealth and...

Mr. Logan comes out very badly from the correspondence concerning

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the nature of the agreement entered into behind the Speaker's chair. No one pretends that it was understood that Mr. Hayes Fisher was to apologise first. Every one but Mr....

On Tuesday, during the debate on Mr. Maeartney's new clause

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for excluding the Irish Members, Mr. Gladstone treated the House to an explanation of his conduct in regard to that question. We must quote his very words; no abstract will do...

On Thursday, Sir Henry James moved a clause which would

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take away from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland the power which he now possesses of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act by proclamation. The English Executive has no such power, why...

The debate was continued on Wednesday. Mr. Rathbone wept over

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a spoilt Bill, and Mr. J. Wilson blurted out that the Irish Members must be kept in order to force Radical legislation on Great Britain. Mr. Chamberlain's speech was an...

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We observe with very great regret that the National Society

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for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is not receiving at all the same pecuniary support this year that it received last. In June, 1892, it received £3,676 lls. lid.,...

The Secretary of the Charity Commission has published an answer

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on behalf of the Commission to the criticisms which have appeared in the Spectator and elsewhere on the proposal to divert Dean Colet's endowment from the support of St. Paul's...

On Tuesday, Mr. Chaplin moved. the adjournment of the House,

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to call attention to the recent changes in the Indian ourreney. His main point was that by a stroke of the pen the Government of India had injured the Indian peasant, drat by...

In the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Northbrook called

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attention to the hardship done by the closing of the Mints to those inhabitants of India who happened to own uncoined silver. On June 25th, any man in India who owed his...

Sir George Chesney, M.P. for Oxford, calls attention, in Monday's

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Times, to Mr. Gladstone's speech on July 11th, 1892 (just before the General Election), on " the awful story" of " what has been, and to a great extent still is, the military...

On Saturday last, Mr. Gladstone made a lively speech at

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the Agricultural Hall, Islington, after distributing the prizes to the winners at the National Workmen's Exhibition. We have commented on a part of his speech elsewhere, but may...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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New Cousois (21) wore' on Friday 9', —98.

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THE KHEDIVE. T H A T the Khedive has returned from Constantinople sidering

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the high hopes with which Abbas Pasha proceeded to do an act of ceremonial homage to the Sovereign who is at once the head of his faith and his temporal suzerain. It would be...

and statesmen with imperfect memories and eager minds every step

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their complete dissatisfaction with what is are very apt to make declarations which, on maturer offered to them, and their determination to take what they concerns, and at the...

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THE AUTUMN NIGHTMARE. T HE only remaining question of any real

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interest for the present Session is that of the next Session. Will Parliament, at its rising after a good eight months of hard work, adjourn to the middle of November, as Mr....

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THE SILVER CRISIS. T HE currency outlook of the world becomes

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daily more dark and doubtful. In the first place, it is evident that, though the Indian Government have obtained relief by closing the Mints to free coinage of silver—they can...

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THE GLADSTONIANS ON TORY CONVERSION TO HOME-RULE.

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W E observe that Mr. Herbert Gladstone, speaking last Saturday at Knighton, near Leicester, predicted for the hundredth time what the Gladstonians have always shown a very...

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THE LATEST FRENCH SCANDALS.

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P ARIS has been enjoying an aftermath of scandals. She has received them, indeed, with the indifference which comes of a jaded appetite. Probably, the politicians who have...

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THE NEW SCHOOL OF CONSERVATISM.

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W E Liberal-Unionists are in such close community of interest with our Conservative allies that we have the strongest possible motive for following with attention the evolution...

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COUNTY SONGS.

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TOR those to whom literature is a reality and not merely a certain amount of printed matter, the songs of country- people have a charm which nothing can surpass. Shakespeare has...

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DISTRACTION AND DIVERSION.

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A N English Bank-holiday generally gives the impression that the people of this country value leisure more for the purposes of distraction than for those of diversion. Cer-...

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GARDENS AND GARDEN FURNITURE.

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A GREAT authority, writing in his quaint way, says that a garden "ought to lie to the best parts of the house, or to those of the master's commonest use ; so as to be but like...

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THE LAST OF THE ARGONAUTS. T HE death of Dr. John

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Rae, at -the great age of eighty- three, wakes an echo from a region and a time which, after the lapse of forty years, are still crowded with the memories of great purposes and...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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AMATEUR PHILANTHROPY. Sin,—Some time ago there was an interesting essay in the Spectator, in which it was affirmed that the love of reading sermons was inherent in some...

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THE REV. J. A. REEVE AND HOME-RULE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "BrzoTATon."] Sin,—May I, as one resident in Ireland, make an attempt to answer the above letter, which appeared in the Spectator of August 5th ? It...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. .

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THE HOME-RULE BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " spitorvros."1 SIR,—The third reading of the Home-rule Bill will soon take; place, and I suppose that it will be carried like the...

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THE GLACIAL EPOCH.

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LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sun,—In your review of Sir H. H. Howorth's book on " The Glacial Nightmare," in the Spectator of July 29th, you say :— " Looking over...

ANOTHER WATCH-DOG.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sin,--I can give an instance as convincing as that of Miss Marsh-Caldwell of the way in which a true watch-dog will measure the extent of...

THE CUCKOO—THE BIRD OF THE COUNTRY OR THE TOWN F

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] BIR,—I was induced to put this question to myself lately by two incidents which have come under my notice here in Cheltenham. The cuckoo...

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE, — I venture to send you some remarks of the late Captain Si Richard Burton regarding Cardinal Newman, which appear in the strange "...

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CANINE GUARDIANS.

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[TO TUE EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATOR."] SIR., —I am reminded by the anecdote related in the Spectator of July 15th, "A Canine Guardian," of the sagacity of a favourite Scotch...

BOOKS.

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PROFESSOR RAMSAY'S " CHURCH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE."* AFTER telling us that for some time, with "much interest and zeal, but with little knowledge," he had followed the destructive...

[To my EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOlt,"] BIR,—Not long ago I

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was passing a barn-yard in this place, and stood to look over the gate at a pretty half-grown lamb standing alone outside the barn. But the sight of me so en- raged a fierce,...

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THE GERM-GROWERS.* CANON POTTER, of Melbourne, has written a book

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sufficiently full of weird adventure to be a treasure for children, and with a vein of mystical meaning in which elder people may find a good deal to ponder over. The idea of...

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RECENT STRIKES AND THE LEADERS THEREOF.* THIS is a work

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of somewhat over four hundred pages, with an appendix of a hundred and sixty pages. It is less a dis- cussion of "present-day Labour problems," as stated on the title-page, than...

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ENGLISH LAGOONS. * IN this daily record of a year spent

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on a house-boat, Mr. P. H. Emerson has given us another of his " impressionist " pic- ture-galleries of life on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads. He invites his readers to join...

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FIVE ONE-VOLUME NOVELS.* THE first idea suggested to ns by

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the title of 'Twist Two Eternities was that the words were to be understood in the same sense as those of Tennyson's " Crossing the Bar "—" That which drew from out the...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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History of Socialism. By Thomas Kirkup. (A. and C. Black.) —It is, of course, impossible to discuss the question of Socialism in these columns. It must suffice to say that Mr....

OLD ITALIAN MASTERS.*

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Mn. TIMOTHY COLE'S wood-engravings are among the wonders of modern reproduction. In faithfulness to the original pictures they go beyond photographs, in ways to be explained...

Astronomy for Every-Day Readers. By B. J. Hopkins. (Philip and

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Son.)—This little book is commended by a highly interesting notice of the writer, a self-educated man, who has acquired a large knowledge of the subject on which he writes. At...

Revolution and Reaction in Modern Prance. By G. Lewes Dickin-

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son, M.A. (G. Allen.) — Mr. Dickinson does not profess to be impartial, but he is certainly candid and just. These qualities• make themselves manifest to every reader,...

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The Attack on the Mill, and other Sketches of War.

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By Emile 'Zola. With Essay by E. Gosse. (Heinemann.)—These short stories are excellent specimens of M. Zola's power of description, without any of the drawbacks which have...

At Sundown. By John Greenleaf Whittier. (Longmans.)— This is a

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reprint, with some additions, of a volume which was privately printed in 1890. Whittier's place among poets has been settled, we fancy, by a fairly general consent. His view of...

q ue en Elisabeth. By Edward Spencer Beesly. (Macmillan.)— Mr. Beesly's volume

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is as good an appreciation of the great Queen —for great he believes her to have been, in spite of all that has been urged against her—as we have come across. We would...

Gun, Rod, and Saddle. By Parker Gillmore. (W. H. Allen

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and Co.)—Mr. Gillmore, better known, perhaps, under his nom de plume of " Ubique," gives us here another volume of his always spirited and welcome sketches of sport. What a...

The Gods of Olympus. Translated from the twentieth edition of

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A. H. Petisous by Katherine A. Raleigh. With preface by Jane E. Harrison. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mies Harrison's excellent pre- face states the value of this book with great...

More About the Mongols. By J. Gilmour, M.A. (Religious Tract

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Society.) —This volume contains extracts from the diaries and other remains of Mr. Gilmour. There are things which will make some readers start with something like horror....

Out of Doors in Tsarland. By Fred J. Wishaw. (Longmans.)—

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This is a moat readable book. The author is a keen sportsman. He tells us how he hunted bears and wolves, and how he shot foxes—not a crime, but a good action, it must be...

Queer Stories from Russia. By Capel Chernilo. (Clarke and Co.)—These

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stories have chiefly to do with the wrongs and sufferings of the Stundiets, dissenters from the rigid ecclesiasti- cism of the Russian Church. At the same time, we have hints,...

A Ride from Land's End to John O'Groat's. By Evelyn

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Burnaby, M.A. (Sampson Low, Marstoie, and Co.)—Mr. Burnaby thinks that a public which appreciated so highly his brother's " Ride to 'Chive," may possibly take a fancy to the...

Ourselves and Others. By Samuel B. James, D.D. (Home Words.) — Here

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we have twenty odd essays on a variety of sub- jects connected with manners and morals. The writer mingles reminiscences of his own, not always pertinent to the matter in hand,...

The Early Narratives of Genesis. By Herbert Edward Ryle, B.D.

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(Macmillan.)—The narratives which Professor Ryle examines aro the Creation, the Story of Paradise, the Story of Cain and Abel. the Genealogies, the Floods, the post-Diluvian...

A Chronicle of Small - Beer. By John Reid. (Isbister and Co.)

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—Mr. Reid tells in a series of effective sketches the story of boy- hood, of its sorrows, its joys, its sentiments, its hates, and its loves. We forget, and are happy to...

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For Mrs. Grundy's Sake. By M. Isidore Douglas. (Digby, Long,

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and Co.)—The plot of this story is somewhat commonplace, and there is rather too much ado about remarkably little. There is something very like a Scotch marriage in it, which,...

The Poems of Arthur Henry Ha/lam, together with his Essay

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on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Le Gallienne. (Mathews and Lane.)—The few grace- fully sympathetic poems written by Arthur...