T HE second ballots taken in France on Sunday only con- firmed the first. The Department of the Seine returned 18 Boulangists out of 42 representatives, removing Radicals to...

interested in a sudden and secret journey which Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has just made to Munich, where he arrived on the 10th inst. He is to be absent from Sofia for a...

Emperor 'of Germany. He has been fourteen months considering it, but he arrived on Friday ; and as there are plenty of excuses for the delay, the demands of etiquette are...

is visible is Queen Natalie sitting there in her house listening to threats from the Regents, from the Ministry, and from the ex-King ; and replying to Here I am, and here I...

of Unionists in the Public Hall, Stirling, in a speech which for force and thoughtfulness has never been surpassed in the course of the Irish controversy. Sir William Harcourt's...

Emperor went down from Berlin to that port, a railway journey of ten hours, expressly that he might welcome its arrival. This he did by lunching on board Admiral Baird's ship,...

any case.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

of the Gladstonian candidate, Mr. A. C. Morton, an architect and surveyor by profession, and one of the few Radical members of the Court of Common Ceunail. The figures of...

popular audience in the City Hall, Lord Randolph considered, with great power of thought and expression, the fundamental and essential ideas that underlie the Union. No...

which he made at Perth on Saturday last would place him among the foremost champions of the Union. As it is, their force is sadly discounted by the distrust which it is...

The power of renewing or refusing their music and dancing licences—that is, of shutting or keeping them open—has been vested by Parliament in the County Council. The County...

improvement which will not only greatly facilitate the traffic of the Strand, but which is another step towards making London the stateliest as well as the most picturesque city...

of England in the small hours of Monday morning has strewn the coasts with wreckage. An old gunboat which was being towed from Plymouth to Liverpool had to be abandoned off...

Hartington showed by summarising the chief objections to Home-rule. To begin with, Home-rule is unnecessary, since " all the privileges of complete equality of government are...

his annual address on Thursday, from which it appears that the new management has decreased the ex- penditure from £1,045,365 to 21,028,883, though the number of children taught...

outburst of insanity—which took place at Brighton on Sunday, creates a vacancy in the Parliamentary repre- sentation of the borough. The death of the late Member seems...

in Paris to the Ethnological Council by a Chinese General named Tcheng-Ki-Tong. He spoke in excellent French, and his topic was the increase of intercommunication, which he...

Chamber must put a check on the torrent of libel which is now destroying all reputations in France. The Premier, Tirard, for instance, was allowed 210,750 for entertain- ments...

of the wildness of their Western life ; but a New York corre- spondent of the Liverpool Daily Post relates a story which could hardly be paralleled in Europe. Two families, or...

Friday 971 i to 97t,

taken place among the schoolchildren of several large towns in England and Scotland. At Dundee, Edinburgh, Darlington, Middlesbrough, West Hartlepool, Cardiff, Jarrow, Hackney,...

THE RETENTION OF THE IRISH MEMBERS. 1 - ORD HA RTINGTON, in his speech at Stirling- , in many ways the most remarkable he has ever made —appeals to the Press to discuss the...

W E do not clearly understand the extreme irritation caused by Mr. McDougall's action against the music-halls He is doing for them very zealously, and apparently with success,...

O UT of the two great obstacles which impeded the formation of a steady and strong Government in France, she has got herself rid of one. It was almost im- possible in a...

W E trust Lord Hartington will attend, attend himself, and attend quickly, to one feature in the politics of the day which, if neglected, may threaten the harmony between the...

the Rural Labourers' League— the body over which Mr. Jesse Collings presides— shows that the persistent attempts of the Gladstonian Party to discredit the Allotments Act of...

A MERICAN editors occasionally tickle the ears of the groundhogs among their readers by comparing the cost of a President with the cost of a Monarch. After giving a list of the...

MR. PUNCH," in the rhymed assault upon modern _LILL manners to which he has been treating his readers for the last five weeks, would have us understand that the woman of modern...

T HERE will be more sympathy in England with the American Bishop who has denounced the usual phrases of courtesy as insincere, than the Daily News appears to believe. According...

p 0ACHING is one of the fine arts,—how "fine," only the initiated know; and the successful poacher is always a specialist. He selects one kind of game, and his whole know- ledge...

O NE night on the steamer, and rather more than half-a_ day's journey in the slowest of trains, have brought us to a region unmentioned in Baedeker, and at present little mown...

THE STATE AND THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. [To TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."1 Siu,—Allow me to explain that, in the letter on which you have commented, I had no thought of...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR." I SIR,—The breadth and acumen of your critiques command a wide acceptance ; yet I am sure you will admit occasional error as possible. I...

A PESSIMIST'S REPROACH TO NA.CURE. Ir but the solemn murmurs of the night Might breathe some knowledge of our destiny ! If but th' illumination of noon's light Might gild the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOIt."1 SIR,—May I enter a protest against a statement in your notice of Mr. Gladstone's article on "The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff,"—the...

GENERAL MONK.* GENERAL MONK has probably obtained as much fame as he deserves when he figures in the popular mind all over the world as the Restorer of the Stuarts. He lives in...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A memorial to Wilkie Collins is on foot, and George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, E. Lynn Linton, Walter Besant, Baring Gould, Miss...

GESENIIIB, in the introduction to his Commentary on Isaiah,. published in 1821, gives eighty-six closely printed octavo pages. of catalogue—analytical and critical—of the...

IN a small volume of about two hundred pages, Mr. Patmore has condensed the result of much thought upon subjects con- nected more or less closely with the art of which he is a...

the pansy shares the glory of the rose and other dignified flowers, and has a book written all about itself. And an interesting little book, too ; for the writer does not...

as "sick at heart among the miserable hovels and poverty" of his parish in Mid-Cheshire, and delighted to find himself (on the occasion of a visit to the Channel Islands) among...

Co. have published the second volume of their interest- ing work, which gives in a convenient and condensed form the evidence, particularly the provincial evidence, that has...

Lynch. Second Series. (3 - . Clarke and Co.)—Mr. Lynch, who had the ill, or good, fortune to be pronounced unorthodox by some pious "old women of both sexes," was a man too...

Tuer.)—This is an account of the mythical experiences of a girl named Kitten, a funny little child, with small, sad face and large eyes, who is in the habit of wandering about...

Mrs. Molesworth's new story is its title, which, curiously enough, on account of its very accuracy, suggests a fairy-tale with an owl for hero or good genius. The great-uncle...

Translated by Madame Paul Blouet. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—" Max O'Rell " is a witty and wideawake Frenchman, very much alive to his own interests. His book, presumably...

The West Indies. By C. Washington Eves. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is rather an amplified guide-book to the West Indies than a full description of those isles of beauty which...

Life of a Prig." (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—One is almost glad to learn that this new work by the author of that curious book, "The Life of a Prig," is neither original nor...

the name "R. Denny Willis" should have been "K. Denny Urlin."]

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of the Oz. By George Gresswell. (W. H. Allen and Co.) —The Bacteria in Asiatic Cholera, by E. Klein, M.D. (Macmillan), a reprint of articles published in the Practitioner,...

(Gardner.)—Mr.M'Cormick is a lecturer to ladies in Queen Margaret's College, Glasgow, and the three lectures printed in this volume are on "English Literature and University...

Art Journal, the Magazine of Art, Our Celebrities (containing the portraits of the Right Hon. James Whitehead and Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft), the English Illustrated Magazine, No. 4...

half-yearly, instead of yearly (from January to June, and from July to December), on the third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for the Half-yearly Volumes may be...

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PINKERTON'S " LI V ES OF THE SCOTTISH SAINTS."* THE first edition of this amusing and instructive work was published just a century ago. Only eighty copies of it were issued to...

Such. is Life is a very clever, fresh, and pleasant story, whose title, though borne out by the incidents, which are possible, probable, and as a rule, of an every-day nature,...

Mn. ACWORTH has chosen well in isolating the year 1843, and comparing it with the present time. It was a period when the ideas of the early engineers were beginning to assume...

contributions to history peculiar to the French genius. It interests us in the obscure bat pregnant period of European history which lies between the revolt of Luther and the...

GIFT-BOOKS. Fifty-two Stories for Boys and Fifty-two Stories for Girls are two volumes which appear under the editorial care of Mr. Alfred H. Miles, and are published by...

welcome another annual volume of this very interesting magazine. Mr. Heath has several depart- ments. These are—to enumerate them in the order of the index— Amusement, Art,...

of the Quiver that we have not said more than once before. It is a very carefully conducted magazine, up to the average of its con- temporaries in literary merit—and there is a...

M.A. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The subject here discussed is not one that can be treated in passing, or within the space we can give to it on the present occasion. We may...

M.D. (Religious Tract Society.)—Dr. Green's book will be interesting to all lovers of birds; but it will be especially appreciated by all who, like him- self, are dwellers in...

magazine supplies, on the whole with commendable success, that which it professes to give. The stories have to be cut up into small snippets, too small, we should think, for the...

Nursery Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Nursery Songs" constitute the contents of this volume. "Chevy Chase" is the highest flight attempted ; and there is the story in prose of...

son and Co.)—Mr. Davenport Adams tells the story of the famous Maid with sufficient clearness and force. After giving a sketch of her early village life, he goes on to describe...

Discussions. By Frances Power Cobbe. (Smith, Elder and Co.)—The first of these "Pleas," as the writer calls them, was published in the Contemporary Review, and excited, as it...

scenes and moving accidents" is an excellent exposition of an idea which is not the less valuable because it is not new. Some of our more elderly readers will possibly remember...

from Genesis." (Religious Tract Society.)—It strikes us that these stories are too elaborately simple in style. Children so young that they cannot understand anything more...

volume is a useful addition to the series of "The Fathers for English Readers." There is a certain mystery about Athanasius which Mr. Bush does not solve, and which, indeed, it...

but there is an amazing list of gold-mining companies. One passage ought to be quoted:—" It must be borne in mind the Gold Fields are in no sense a poor man's diggings. I would...

tion and Notes, by John Gilmore, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— " Scarcely a sentence of Ktesias' text has come down to us ver- batim," says the editor in his general introduction....

(Re- ligious Tract Society.)—This is a volume of the series entitled "By-Paths of Religious Knowledge." The greater part of it is naturally occupied by the subject of leprosy....

A. Clouston. (Elliot Stock.)—" My aim," says Mr. Clouston, "has been not only to compile an amusing story book, but to illustrate to some extent the migrations of popular...

Eric S. Robertson, M.A. (Walter Scott), are Life of Heinrich Heine, by William Sharp, and Life of John Stuart Hill, by W. L. Courtney. What could be done for Heine by a...

Monro, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—It is not necessary, in view of the reputation which Mr. Monro has made for himself as an Homeric scholar, to do more than mention that in this...

(Triibner and Co.)—We are glad to read what a careful and intelligent student of Count Tolstors works has to say about them, though we cannot allow that he has convinced or even...

vols. (Remington and Co.).—These volumes belong to the class of manufactured books. Mr. Dyer brings together without much discrimination anecdotes of famous men gathered from...

we should imagine they are hardly altered from the original jottings in the writer's journal. They make a formless, gossipy, but not un- interesting book, though too largely...

and Blackett.)—This is in many ways an admirable novel. It has about half-a-dozen really lifelike and interesting characters ; the story does not drag, but moves along briskly...

P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.)—Dr. Chapin is a Professor of Geology, but his favourite subject, when he enjoys a holiday, appears to be Architecture. Temples,...

Mrs., or Miss French-Sheldon, has given to the world a very absurd and worthless story, which would be also a very tire- some story were it not rendered amusing by its...

Stoughton.)—These chapters are reprinted from the Contemporary Review, and deserve to be published in book form. Dr. Dale writes modestly of a country which he saw as a...

volume Mrs. Bryant brings together a great deal of information about the early condition of the sister-isle that may be found at large in the works of O'Curry, Sullivan, Stokes,...

and Co.)—This is an allegory, and a very good one too. The " Buccaneer " is, of course, John Bull, and Mr. Clynton some- times hits very hard, too hard, perhaps. Occasionally he...

—The scientific poems of May Kendall have appeared in Punch: there is, therefore, no need to discuss the excellence of "The Lay of the Trilobite," or "The Ballad of the...

Fisher lJnwin.)—" Disillusion" and the other poems in this volume are of a strongly sentimental character. The writer ex- presses with considerable ease the ordinary feelings of...

Hall Library of Belfast was celebrated last year ; and, as a sequel to the celebration, Mr. John Anderson, its honorary secretary, has pub- lished (McCaw, Stevenson, and Orr,...

Black- wood and Sons.)—These poems display a certain command of language, and the lines run smoothly, if somewhat monotonously. Nor is there wanting elevation of thought and...

Co.)—The group composed of Ina Strong, the pretty, loveable daughter of the Canon of Carswell, and her three lovers, provides an interesting centre for a very simply and...

Gemmell, Edinburgh.) Mr. McPherson, a Scotch clergyman with a turn for science, has published in volume form a number of papers on subjects that specially interest him, which he...

a decided mistake to begin a volume of poems with a poem like "Arran ;" " Arran " is—well, mere doggerel. This is rude, perhaps, but we cannot help it. The "Jubilee Ode" is fair...

Corning's style is very vigorous and lively, and he travels at a great pace, both in language and in actual sight-seeing. He makes no long stay anywhere, but hurries on as if he...

(Long-mans and Co.)—This new volume of the Badminton Library is second to none of the series, either in general interest or general lucidity. His Grace's introduction is...

Codman is a septuagenarian equestrian who writes some very delightful sketches of his wanderings in Westchester County, New York. A cultivated and intelligent observer, he knows...

story of Queen Anne's day, and is written expressly for the purpose of making a hero of her son, William, Duke of Gloucester, who, had he lived, would have ascended the English...

Thomas J. Dymes. (Elliot Stock).—This little volume of not much more than one hundred pages is one of those politico-economic ready-reckoners which ought to be on the table of...

idea of this brochure, which is not inade- quately expressed by its title, is a decidedly fascinating one, and there is a good deal of what can only be described as very clever...

Co.)—Mr. Roe's undoubted passion for Nature assumes a different form from Mr. Burroughs's. He takes his readers to a country- house—of the American, not of the English type—and...

his Sister. (David Douglas.)—Mrs. Trevanion has set herself a bold task,—that is, presuming her narrative is a true one, and that she has told everything. This granted, she has...

Experts. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—It is perhaps as well that the names of all the well-known experts are withheld, for there is a striking want of variety of treatment of an...

a visit to Gibraltar, and fell in love with the place at once. One fault only could he find,—it was too noisy ; but, as he explains, he did not stay till the noisiest time, the...

of this treatise that discuss " Colour-Blindness " and " Colour-Perception " possess much new and valuable matter, and point to much that can be done in the way of verifying...

Co.)—The theme which the writer has taken is certainly one to attract both writer and reader. It is the storming of Jericho, and a young Israelite of the tribe of Judah falls in...

Allen, Orpington, Kent.)—Mr. Edwards shows in these songs, or rather hymns, a truly devotional spirit and fervour. He possesses, indeed, the qualities which a hymn-writer...

be allowed to pass, it must be natural. If artificial, it must be a very skilful one ; we commend this homely piece of advice to Mr. Hall. Occasionally we find some difficulty...

does not seem to us a happy lyrical rendering of Solomon's Song. This is, however, in Canto vi. a graceful and flowing chorus, a very happy effort. Mr. Moore's sonnets are much...

Hargreaves has really given us a very delightful book ; one of those books which can be read straight through, or dipped into, at the reader's pleasure. It is a series of...

have not much to say about Heathcote; it is very uninteresting, and preserves a dull commonplace level all through. The troubles of the young lady who breaks off her engagement...

Captain A. Spoot. (Gale and Polden.)—The history of the regi- ment from 1685 to 1839 having appeared in the latter year, Captain Spoot gives only a summary of it, and continues...

and Downey.) —Mr. Peak has observant eyes and a certain command of lan- guage wherewith to express himself, and makes many a shrewd remark. The title of his volume, indeed, is...

—The poem which gives its name to the book, a lover's story, is a vigorous and very real one, and well expresses that sort of hostility to anything and everything common to the...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Coxwell's experiences are possessed of an interest of which even a bare recital is unable to deprive them. It cannot, indeed, be said that he in any...

look, we confess, somewhat askance on a writer who gives us in a lump fifty sonnets. They are few who can write sonnets, a truth which is sometimes painfully apparent in Mr....

Princess Annie de Lusignan. (S. Low and Co.)—It seems to us that the writer has been somewhat too close an onlooker to see much of the fun, or at least to appraise it at its...

of Anstruther's Wife is a well-worn one, and is be- coming too familiar. Hence, as no exceptional power is shown in treating it, we cannot describe the story as a success....

(Chatto and Windus.)—The opening chapters of this story point to a mystery that promises to fascinate every one. The death of the Englishman of the Rue Cain seems one of those...

romance is not at all in Mrs. Cashel Hoey's usual manner, and is, moreover, a story of Queen Elizabeth's time, the plot of which is the history of a treasure kept in trust for...