12 JUNE 1897

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NEWS OF THE WEEK • T HE change which is passing

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over the combinations of Europe is curiously indicated by an article in the Times of Friday. That journal is seldom misinformed as to the tone, at all events, of the Foreign...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 26th, will be issued, .gratia, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE STRUGGLE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. T HE British public is still watching the protracted struggle in Constantinople, and still making a mistake which impairs its judgment as to the...

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WHAT DIVIDES THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THE LIBERALS?

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T HE greatest interest of the by-elections now is hardly so much the immediate result as the light which they throw,—so far as they throw any light,—on the questions which now...

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THE SECRET POLICE IN GERMANY.

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T O our minds the great interest of the trial of Herr von Tausch, which ended on Friday week in a verdict of acquittal, consists in the evidence it affords that the German...

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THE HAILEYBITRY SUICIDE.

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I N an interesting letter which we publish in another column on the suicide at Halley bury, the writer blames us for having taken for granted that it was, as a matter of course,...

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MOBILE ARMIES.

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A CORRESPONDENT of the Times, writing in Monday's paper, quotes a saying from one of General Maurice's books which is to the effect that "some day a second Alexander will arise...

TWO PICTURESQUE FIGURES IN THE JUBILEE.

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W E wonder how many of the millions who will gaze at the Jubilee Procession will appreciate the historic marvel of some of its separate incidents. Take, for instance, the...

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SHALL POOR BENEFICES OR POOR CLERGY BE FIRST HELPED?

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W HEN to put up with a second best is one of the most troublesome of practical problems. The case on each side is often so unanswerable. Why should we content ourselves with a...

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN POETRY.

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P ROFESSOR C017RTHOPE, in his Oxford lecture on "Poetical Decadence" on Friday week, insisted very earnestly on the recent "vast growth of individual self- consciousness" as one...

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WOMEN AS A RAUL A LL women have fathers as well

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as mothers. That is a fact of natural history which we do not suppose the most advanced of the crowds who are now writing about women and their progress are prepared definitely...

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FLOOD-TIDE ON BEAULIEU RIVER.

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F LOOD-TIDE on Beaulieu River is like nothing else in the South of England. The rising waters flow not over salt-marshes and mud-banks, or between level flats and marshes, but...

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CHURCHES WITHOUT DOGMAS.

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[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SrEcreTon."] Sin,—In year article under this heading in the Spectator of June 5th there are many statements which might be dis- puted by those who hold...

A BIRD-STORY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—" On a tree by a river a little tomtit" went through a, good many surprising and unexpected performances, all of which we know to be...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CALLOUSNESS AND SCHOOLBOY CRUELTY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—You say in your comments on the Haileybury suicide in the Spectator of June 5th, "It would be a...

CICERO AND HIS FRIENDS.

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[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At the end of the notice in the Spectator of Jane 5th of a translation of M. Gaston Boissier's work the reviewer - expresses his...

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DOES AMERICA HATE ENGLAND?

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In your article in the Spectator of June 5th on the question, "Does America Hate England ?" you say, "The undoubted wrongs perpetrated...

THE FAN-TAILED FLY-CATCHER.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srit,---It may be interesting to some of your readers to be made acquainted with the fact of the wonderful confidence and trust which the...

THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN PRINCES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIE,—Allow me to tell you a curious instance of the "public interest in Princes" which is spoken of in the Spectator of June 5th, and...

PROFESSOR SYLVESTER AND MRS. GAMP.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Si,—The recent death of Professor Sylvester recalls a curious conversation in which I took part during my under- graduate days at Oxford....

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POETRY.

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A SONG OF SHADOWS. THE city is weird with shadows, In the shine of a sunny day You may see them darken the pavements Furtive, and hushed, and grey, They crouch by the brooding...

BOOKS.

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FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF INDIA.* FEw men living now, we suppose, have had the varied ex- periences of Indian life such as befel Colonel Pollok, dating as they do from the...

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THE NICARAGUA CANAL.*

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THERE are few subjects more interesting than the history of the mountainous isthmus that joins North and South America, and lifts a precipitous, and so far impregnable,. barrier...

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CAMPING IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES.* FOR the landscape-lover and the

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devotee of camp-life the Rocky Mountains present a vast tract of mountainous country full of almost boundless possibilities. The early explorers like Mackenzie were too intent...

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RECENT EUROPEAN THOUGHT.*

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Mn. JOHN THEODORE MzEz has undertaken the task of chronicling the history of European thought in the nine- teenth century, and gives us an introduction to the subject and an...

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LORD CHESTERFIELD'S CREED.* IT is with a renewed interest that

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we take up the volume of Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences, and Maxims, which Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. have published in an excellent edition, also containing...

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AN OLD " SATURDAY " REVIEWER.* Taa author of this

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curious collection, whose Life of a Prig attracted in its day considerable attention, and who, by his choice of Sir ICenelm Digby for a subject, proved himself well- read and...

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THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FROM THE INSIDE.*

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Tins is a deeply interesting, and even noteworthy, work. It is-interesting as being the best account we have ever read of the inner life of the House, and it is noteworthy...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The shadow of the coming Jubilee is over the Windsor, as it is over most of the more popular magazines. It is responsible for several of the leading articles in the June....

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A Handbook of English Literature. Originally Compiled by Austin Dobson.

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New Edition. Revised, with New Chapters, and Extended to the Present Time. By W. Hall Griffin, B.A. (Crosby Lock- wood and Son.)—Twenty-three years have gone by since Mr. Dobson...

Bon - Hots of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Walter Jerrold. (Dent

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and Co.)—It has been said with great truth that specimens of wit and humour "afford under the happiest conditions but melancholy reading." The conditions in the present instance...

A Passing World. By Bessie Rayner Bollix. (Ward and Downey.)—Many

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years ago Miss Bessie Rayner Parkes published a small volume of poems which, if it did not give high promise of future excellence, showed at least an appreciation expressed in...

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The Wonderful Universe. By Agnes Giberne. (S.P.C.K.)—Miss Giberne has had

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no little experience in the very pleasing task of popularising astronomy. She tables the chief phenomena of the universe in the usual order, except, it may be, as to the place...

The Greek E. By the Princess Laura Bonaparte. (H. S.

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Nichols.) —This is a fairly well written novel, but the plot seems a little, or not a little, extravagant. Frances Harrold receives, shortly after losing her husband, a letter...

Prose Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by William Knight. 2

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vols. (Macmillan and Co.)—In the preface to Professor Knight's new edition of Wordsworth he stated that the prose works would follow the poems. They appear, however, before the...

The Principles of Ecclesiastical Unity. By Arthur James Mason, D.D.

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(Longma.ns and Co.)—Professor Mason states his principles with clearness and precision, and applies them with a practical liberality which meets all reasonable requirements. Of...

The Charm, and other Drawing room Plays.. By Sir Walter

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Besant and Walter Pollock. (Chatto and Windus.)—These eight plays (all republished from various magazines) are of a simple kind, suited in this and other respects for private...

British Moralists : being Selections from Writers, principally of the

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Eighhteenth Century. Edited, with an Introduction and Analytical Index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. M.A., formerly Fellow and Lecturer of University College, Oxford. 2 vols....

With the Yacht and Camera in Eastern Waters. By the

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Earl of Cavan. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Lord Cavan published a book which we do not remember to have seen," With the Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean." This...

Charles Vickery Hawkins. Memorials edited by Rev. W. E. Waddington

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and Rev. J. T. Inskip. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-- C. V. Hawkins died at the age of twenty-two, not long after his graduation at Cambridge. "The University," said one who was well...

A Hero of the Dark Continent. By W. Henry Rankine,

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B.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—W. Affieck Scott VMS a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in Central Africa. He passed through Edinburgh University in a specially laborious...

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Industries and Wealth of Nations. By Michael G. Iffulhall. (Longmans

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and Co )—Mr. Mulhall deserves hearty thanks for the laborious care with which he has collected and arranged a vast quantity of useful facts, and for the lucidity of the methods...

DEATH.

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BOLLANID.—June 5th, suddenly, in his 71st year, William Thomas Bolland, of Oak Lea, Harrogate, formerly of Scarborough and Leeds. Funeral at Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds,...

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Allen (G.), Historical Guides : Cities of Belgium, 1.8mo (Richards) 3/6 Allen (J. L.), The Choir Invisible, 12mo (Macmillan) 6/0 Amram (D. W.), The Jewish Law of Divorce, 8vo...

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