13 JULY 1895

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At the final sitting of the House of Lords this

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day week, Lord Salisbury commented at some length on Lord Rose- bery's account of the House of Lords as having a "legis- lative preponderance over the House of Commons." Since...

Lord Rosebery replied not only to Lord Salisbury, but to

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the Duke of Argyll, who had on the previous evening made a rather severe attack upon him, with a good deal of spirit. To Lord Salisbury he said that what he meant by the...

Mr. Gladstone has issued a general order to the electors

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: "Above all other present purposes, vindicate the rights of the House of Commons as the organ of the nation ; and es- tablish the honour of England as well as consolidate the...

The Daily News of Thursday prints a very ominous letter

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from its Japanese correspondent, dated Yokohama. June 7th. Every one feels, it says, that the peace is only a lull in a storm which will presently rage all the more furicasly....

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Russian diplomatists have triumphed at last. On July 6th the representatives of six French and four Russian banks, and the plenipotentiaries of the Chinese Government,...

** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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Of Mr. Balfour's great speech (on Monday) to his con-

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stituency in East Manchester, we have said almost enough in another column. On Tuesday he spoke again, mostly on the Veto Bill, and quizzed some of the Ministerial speakers on...

On Friday, July 5th, Lord Rosebery made a speech to

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a great gathering of Home-rulers at the Albert Hall. There was nothing, he said, in the late Government to defend,— "nothing in its life, nothing in its death, nothing in its...

On Monday a very remarkable scene is said to have

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take n place at a meeting, held in Omagh, to choose Anti-Parnellite- candidates for North and Mid Tyrone. The Irish Times, the only paper which has printed an account of what...

In Mr. Balfour's speech on Wednesday, a sentence— omitted in

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the report of the Times—appears to this effect:— "He was not going to argue as to the propriety or impropriety of attempting to modify the ancient Constitution of the country so...

It seems to be almost certain that Sir William Harcourt

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has really become an enthusiastic philanthropist at this late stage of his political life. It is almost as bewildering as it was to the visitor at one of the provincial...

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As we predicted last week, the country is interpreting Lord

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Rosebery's cumbrous phrase, "the annihilation of the House of Lords as regards its legislative preponderance," as abolition pure and simple. The Daily Chronicle of Monday...

On Saturday Mr. Chamberlain spoke in North Lambeth on behalf

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of Mr. H. M. Stanley, and made a speech full of hard hits. Excellent was his capping of Lord Rosebery's remark that the late Government had lived a noble life and died a noble...

Mr. Morley made a long and vehement speech at Newcastle

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on Monday night, but there was little of real interest in it. The fact is, that a man with so much width of philosophic vision as the late Irish Secretary, finds it very hard to...

During the past week the Lords of the Admiralty, with

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Mr. Goschen at their head, have been busy entertaining the Italian Fleet at Spithead. The Duke of Genoa, who is in command, has under him a very fine squadron, and all the...

In the wilderness of speeches, we must not forget the

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im- portant announcement made by the new Irish Secretary, Mr. 'Gerald Balfour. Speaking at Leeds on Friday, July 5th, he explained the policy of the Irish Government in regard...

On Wednesday, Captain F. E. Yonnghuaband (late political agent at

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Chitral) delivered a lecture on the recent Chitral expedition before the United Service Institute. The lecturer declared that the gallant defence of the fort, and the advance of...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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New Consols (24) were on Friday, 1078-107.1

Mr. Asquith, speaking at Leven on Tuesday night, dealt with

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the House of Lords. Was it the last word of political wisdom, at the end of the nineteenth century, that the deci- sions of the representatives of the people should be subject...

At Birmingham on Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain, address- ing his own

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constituents, dealt with the absurd and contra- dictory allegations,—first, that the Liberal Unionists have swamped Lord Salisbury, and made a Birmingham Ministry, and next that...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. BALFOUR'S BENIGNITY. W HAT we admire more and more every day is the unruffled benignity which Mr. Balfour maintains amidst all this welter of angry and sometimes even...

RUSSIA'S POLICY IN THE FAR EAST. most intimate relations which

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it is possible to establish with another nation. When one nation guarantees the debt of another it means in reality that the guaranteeing nation lends the borrowing nation the...

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l'tte, LORDS ON IlibMSELVES.

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T HE Opposition have tried to make capital out of the large number of Peers in the new Cabinet. Of the nineteen Ministers of whom it is composed, nine will be Peers when Sir...

A STRANGE STORY. T HE sensation of the week has been

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the strange story• from Ireland which has filled the newspapers with allegations that the Gladstonians have been hiring Irish seats from the Nationalists at £200 a year. This...

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THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY AND THE ELECTORS. A PART from, and

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yet intermingled with, the main electoral battle of the day, there is proceeding a battle which, for more reasons than one, is deserving of closer attention than is likely to be...

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THE DUTY OF CHURCHMEN IN THE ELECTIONS. T HE unlooked-for deliverance

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from the Welsh Dis- establishment Bill has apparently turned the heads of some Churchmen. They seem to think that they can not do enough to turn the respite to good account. One...

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IN A.D. 802,701.

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M R. H. G. WELLS has written a very clever story as to the condition of this planet in the year 802,701 A.D., though the two letters A.D. appear to have lost their meaning in...

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THE TYRANNY OF COINCIDENCE.

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N OTHING is more despotic, more arbitrary, more re- sistless, than the tyranny exercised by coincidence. Fate gives no more smashing blow than that which she delivers by means...

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A QUEST FOR AN UNKNOWN LAND.

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E NGLISH explorers are seldom reticent as to the motives which impel them to adventure, or as to the objects which they have in view. From the days of Hakluyt they have been a...

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RETICENCE IN LITERATURE.

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T HE passion for detailed information about every con- spicuous person must be energetic in mankind to con- sume the piles of biography which are annually heaped up for...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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DUBLIN CASTLE AND COURT. [To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTATORri SIII,—One thing is pretty certain,—namely, that if a Crom- well were the arbiter of the destinies of the United...

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RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN INDIA.

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[TO TR& EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srs,—All speculations regarding religious movements in India must continue to be vague and inconclusive until we are in a position to...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR..

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THE MEMORIES OF IRISHMEN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BrECTATOR."] SIR,—I have only just seen the interesting paper on " The Memories of Irishmen" in the Spectator of June 22nd. I...

CROMWELL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY..

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SpzerAToz."] Sin,—The Spectator of July 6th contains a letter on " Crom- well and Religious Liberty." At present, when the principle- of Local Veto is so...

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ART.

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THE GRAFTON GALLERY AND OTHER . EXHIBITIONS. CHILDREN are deadly judges of the affected and insincere. Among the grown-up, there is a tacit allowance made for all those social...

VOLUNTARY EDUCATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Why do people never suggest that parents will be willing to pay towards the support of voluntary schools ? There are large numbers, I...

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND VIVISECTION. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR. " ] SIB,—Catholice do not expect their Church to teach authori- tatively all their pet principles. It is quite open to a Catholic to condemn vivisection ; many do....

THE RADICALS AND HOME-RULE.

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LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—I think the following incident may be worth re- cording in connection with the present attitude of the Radical party towards Home-rule....

THE LATE PROFESSOR HUXLEY.

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[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your paper will no doubt be presently full of memories of Professor Huxley. I should like, with your permission, to add one while his...

POETRY.

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IRONY. WHAT would the world be if the good ceased striving ; Did no one stand for justice, no one say I am for virtue ; but the truth betray, Raising no protest, silently...

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BOOKS •

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MR. STANLEY'S EARLY TRAVELS.* WE are so accustomed to think of Mr. Stanley as an African explorer that it is almost with a start of incredulity that one learns from these new...

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THE GAME OF WHIST.*

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SINCE the fulmination of Mr. Gladstone's latest bull against the impiety of gambling in all shapes, we presume that Lord Rosebery's dealing with ' Ladas ' and Sir Visto ' on the...

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THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD.*

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MANY truths have been lighted up and shown to the world by the torch-light of allegory. Macaulay says that the Pilgrim's Progress is the only work of its kind which possesses a...

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THE BIRDS' CALENDAR.*

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EVERY link in the chain which binds the Old World to the New—whether the link be science, theology, fiction, or fable —is in a large-hearted way welcomed on both sides of the...

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TWO GOOD NOVELS.* To say of a book that it

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deserves to be read twice, is, as a rule, only a more definite and emphatic way of declaring it excellent. When, however, we say that Mr. Zangwill's new novel, The Master,...

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ENGLISH GAMES THROUGH AMERICAN GLASSES.* A NOVEL was written—some twenty-five

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years ago—by a distinguished English writer, to show that the grossness and brutality which he considered to be spreading amongst his fellow-countrymen was mainly due to the...

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Analytical Concordance of the Bible. By Robert Young, LL.D.. (G.

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A. Young and Co., Edinburgh.) —This is the sixth edition, " revised throughout," of a very elaborate work. Every word, the proper names being conveniently arranged in their...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Veiled Figure. (Williams and Norgate.)—The author of this little volume, presumably a first venture, has naturally much to learn. The principal poem fails to interest ; the...

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A Modern Priestess of Isis. Abridged and Translated from the

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Russian of Usevolod Sergyeevich Solovyoff by Walter Leaf, Litt.D. (Longmans.)—Dr. Leaf has performed this task, useful probably, but certainly, we should say, not attractive, at...

European History, 976 - 918. By Charles Oman, M.A. (Rivington, Percival, and

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Co.)—Mr. Oman takes these four centuries and a half (roughly speaking) as his " First Period of European His- tory." In 476 Romulus Augustulus was deposed ; in the following...

The Liberation of Bulgaria. By Wentworth Huysshe. (Bliss, Sands, and

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Foster.)—It is certainly late for notes of a campaign fought eighteen years ago to appear, but it is not too late. Mr. Huysshe, who was war correspondent of the New York Herald,...

Round about Helvellyn. Twenty-four Plates by Thomas Hawn. With Notes

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by the Author. (Seeley and Co.)—These plates "have," we are told, "been produced entirely by the artist, and are from his own paintings." The lakes which the region taken in by...

Phillips Brooks' Year - Book : Selections from the Writings of the

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Right Rev. Phillips Brooks. By " H. L. S." and " L. H. S." (Dickin- son.)—This book needs no criticism. Bishop Brooke was a thinker who had a great power of giving to his...

Venezia. By Henry Perl. Adapted from the German by Mrs.

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Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers). With Introduction by H. D. Traill, D.C.L. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a chatty, pleasant book about Venice and things and persons...

If any one is interested in "book-plates," let hint read

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On the Processes for the Production of "Ex Libris," by John Vinycomb (A. and C. Black). He tells us how they can be made, the alterna- tives being now varions,—wood, copper, or...

Summer Studies of Books and Birds. By W. Warde Fowler.

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(Macmillan.)—Not a few readers have learnt to look for one of Mr. Warde Fowler's rare papers, and still rarer books, as a great treat. In this volume we have eleven essays,...

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The Annual Register, 1894. (Longmans.)—This "review of public events at

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home and abroad" maintains its character. It is readable, and no quality is so difficult to attain in summaries of this kind. Readers of the Spectator will not find an objection...

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature. By William Swan Sonnenschein.

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(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This volume is described as the "First Supplement to the Best Books," and fur- ther as a " Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books...

The Mystery of Wardale Court, and other Stories. By Andre

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Hope. (Wilsons and Milne.)—The first and longest story in this volume shows considerable power. The same praise may, indeed, be given to all, but the " Mystery" is the best; " A...

Three new editions of successful and popular " Guide-Books "

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may be mentioned together. These are : — Black's Guide to Ireland, Black's Guide to Devonshire, edited by A. R. Hope Moncrieff ; Black's Guide to the Isle of Wight (same...