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called the " Darwinian Theory," bears an honoured name in the field of natural science ; but Dr. Wallace will pardon us if we point out that this somewhat bulky book on...

passed away since Mr. F. Seebohm, in a pregnant article in the Fortnightly Review, touched with surprise and censure on the neglect which history has shown towards the Great...

thing to lay before the world without an apology, as the literature of the game has spread to a moat alarming extent of late years. But this is no reason why we should not...

can be easily overdone. To speak of the Continent as if it were a mushroom, and as if Broadway and Pennsylvania Avenue were the oldest things it had to show in the matter of...

Hunting Trail has the gift which few great hunters possess,—the art of describing the hunter's life on the great plains, in the giant timber of the western mountain ranges, and...

repelled by a collection of essays on such serious and well-worn topics as the Social and Industrial Revolution, the Irish question, Disestablishment, the Empire, and so on,...

The Girl's Own Annual. (56 Paternoster Row.)—The editors of the Girl's Own Annual have contrived to get a large list of con- tributors, and to make a more than usually varied...

Row.)—The serial stories in this volume are Mrs. Oliphant's " Sir Robert's Fortune," of which we shall doubtless have occa- sion to speak elsewhere, Mrs. Molesworth's " White...

(F. Warne.)—The " half-crown " is a remarkable coin of which the young hero of the story becomes possessed. He is not sure whether he ought to keep it,—inclination says "Yes ; "...

The At of Illustration. By Henry Blackburn. (Allen and Co.) —Mr. Blackburn, by means of nearly a hundred illustrations, attempts to explain the necessary qualities of drawings,...

complete without a story from Jules Verne in it. "Claudius Bombarnac" is indeed as good, if not better, than the later tales of the French writer, and touches new ground— such...

Langton and Henry Rylands. (Raphael Tuck and Sons.)—The illustrations are of what we may call the "romantic" as opposed to the realistic style. The figures are well drawn and...

Baker. (Religious Tract Society.)—We hear much of Bohemia nowadays, of Old Czechs and Young Czechs (Mr. Baker, we observe, spells the word " Cech "), and of its politics...

has been taken, it is evident, to provide its clientdle with such reading as they may be supposed to like. There are tales one quality of which we may perceive from the...

to the "Story of the Nations " series. Interesting as it is throughout, the final chapter, dealing with "The Restored Empire," will naturally at the present moment attract...

and Co.)—This is an agreeable and ingenious story, and if it is not so ambitious as some previous stories from the same pen, so much the better. The hero of it is George...

and Bowden.)—Mr. Dennison has, in this volume, achieved what may fairly be assumed to be his chief object, that of depicting country life in Australia—an Australia that can...

pastime certainly not within the reach of the many, yet it is in the national blood, and vast sums of money, and months of time in the summer, are spent in its pursuit. Those...

amount of cleverness is exhibited in the con- struction of this story, but it is marred by straining after effect, and the linked misery in it is most uncoascionably long drawn...

so small that, though bound in cloth, we can hardly call it a book, deals with the Darwinian theory. The author denies some of the conclusions that Darwin arrived at and would...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Ants, wasps, and bees constitute the principal part of this interesting little natural history, and more fascinating in- sects it would be hard to find. Mr....

Long, and Co.)—This book is painfully amateurish. The author obviously has the idea that a story, to be popular nowadays, must contain at least one crime, and, in the matter of...

and Co.)—These social sketches are readable, some more than others ; perhaps the best is that entitled " Here, or Nowhere," a protest against the restlessness and dislike of...

collection of papers contributed by members of the Manchester Anglers' Association. They will be interesting, one and all, to those who love the gentle craft. The experiences...

Professor V. E. Mourek and Jane Mourek. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—This " Behemian Novel" is a simple story of a girl who is deserted by a well-meaning but weak young noble,...

Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Altogether, this is one of the cleverest and most successful stories written entirely, or almost entirely, in the Scottish dialect (Emeritus Professor...

Gordon" is one of the cleverest of the modern analytic school of Americans, but also one of the most affected, as may indeed be inferred from the proneness exhibited in her new...

and Co.)—This is unquestionably a clever, but it may be hoped not altogether sincere, study or exercise in the fashion- able fatalism of the day. There is certainly no good...

is a distinctly effective story, though there is not a little, both in the construction of the plot and in the drawing of the characters, that lays itself open to criticism. The...

Phrenology in which Mr. Matthiou Williams believed does not require much vindication. The most interesting part of this volume is the defence of the claims of Gall to the...

Elvey. (Sampson Low.)—This is the record of a good man's life, and of a musician who won high honours in his profession, and deserved all the reputation he received. For...

& 76 Great Queen Street, W.O, ; and Published by Jona JAMES BAKED, of No.1 Wellington Street, in the Preumet of the Savoy, Strand, in the Oounty of Middlesex, at the "...

leading papers of Europe are inclining towards intervention. The Governments hesitate ; but we see signs that they are getting alarmed, that combinations are being formed, and...

T HE state of public information as to the war in the Far East is a little curious. The Japanese are inclined to shoot anybody who sends intelligence to Europe, and the Chinese...

and is to go to Corfu, and an attempt is made to circulate hopes of his recovery. They are believed, however, by experts to be vain, all reports mentioning the worst symptom of...

which may be of grave importance, is still extreme. The great chief of the interior, Gungunhama, has called off tl:e tribe upon which the Portuguese relied, and the garrison. is...

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except Li Hung Chang ; there are practically 310 military stores ; and the unfed divisions, marching up from the interior, lay waste the country as they go. It must be...

case.

definite idea of the character of the Cesarewitch. He has been kept aloof from politics, like most Heirs-Apparent, and is not well known oven to politicians within the inner...

of Parnellites, held in the Rotunda, Dublin, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Henry Parnell, several provincial Mayors, and nearly all the Parnellite Members, being on the platform. When Mr....

Battersea Labour League in the Washington Music-Hall, Battersea, on the Norwich Trade-Union Congress. We have noticed the speech in detail elsewhere, but will only point out...

at a mass meeting held at the Drill Hall, Woolwich, under the auspices of the Independent Labour party. Mr. Mann's speech, which is noticed by us elsewhere, did not retort in...

ham on constructive policy, on which we cannot as yet comment at length. He is practically in favour of an Eight-hours Bill when possible, of the restriction of alien...

was a very remarkable display. The crowds were• enormous, and the ceremony took the form of a mock funeral and a procession of ten thousand people, which included the Lord Mayor...

Wednesday, Mr. Courtney explained his action on the Evicted Tenants Bill. It was as a Unionist that he most strongly defended the Evicted Tenants Bill, and it was as a Unionist...

politics, but for the last thirty years a striking survival of an " older, austerer" generation, died at Howick on Tuesday, after about a week's illness. Though ninety-two—he...

did not think that another General Election could be very long postponed. The present Parliament had lasted through three Sessions, and for rather more than two years. Looking...

most vivi- fying of those yet read. He drove home a point often forgetter, that village agitators, in pressing so strongly the demand for more material comfort, are injuring the...

Railway at Chartham, a place near Canter- bury. A waggon full of hop-pickers—there are said to have been twenty, including the babies — proceeding down a country road, was...

meeting of the Standard Bank of South Africa, gave 'some astonishing statistics of the prosperity of that group of Colonies. Their external trade has risen from £13,250,000 in...

"which, though he was eighty-five, occurred on October 7th .suddenly and unexpectedly. He was not even ill, though troubled with asthma, when while talking to his son in his...

to the camel in Australia. The white men have taken over the beast, which is the East incarnate, and which the East has used for thousands of years without having dreamed of...

with an address from the Bishop, which is excellent in tone, but does not contain much except a veiled statement .of the opinion of his school that Roman Catholicism is not much...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday, 1011.

THE PROPOSED INTERVENTION IN THE FAR EAST. W E cannot believe that intervention in this war in the Far East, whether the intervention be either that of Europe, or of Great...

apt to think that all the " Labour leaders," as they have come to be called, hold much the same opinions and advocate much the same schemes. Mr. John Burns and Mr. Tom Mann...

the hurried summons of a Cabinet Council, the more does one perceive either that the Premier is afraid of responsibility, or that our Executive system still lacks something to...

I S Ireland at last going to throw the handkerchief to Mr. Redmond, and acknowledge in him the necessary man, the leader, and dictator for whom she always craves, and for whom...

E VERYBODY is assuming that with wheat at 16s. a quarter the bottom price has been touched ; and we should like to know why. It is a pleasing theory, and we heartily hope it may...

W E shall await the autobiography of Dr. Holmes with lively curiosity, for we want to know if he ever was unhappy. The note of his books, of his humour, his poetry, even his...

started by Cardinal Vaughan, and continued in the Times by a variety of writers, is a remarkable instance of the con- viction which many people entertain that there is no such...

T HE clever, if somewhat vulgar, Frenchman who calls himself Max O'Rell, has been complaining that when his English reviewers want to say something disagreeable about him or in...

P ERHAPS the Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, who last week found that a steeplejack's claim to be paid at the rate of 7s. 6d. an hour was not excessive, remembered the...

"POOR PADDY-LAND!"—IL [To TIER EDITOE OF THE " $PHOTATOlt."] suppose every one expects to find Ireland the land of the unlooked-for. I did, at any rate, but was by no means...

MR. COURTNEY ON BIMETALLISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE ' SrEcrizon..1 SIR,—In the Spectator of October 6th, you refer to this subject and t) Mr. Courtney's change of opinion. You...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " $PEOTATOlt."] SIR,—Both in your note and in your comments in the- Spectator of October 6th you seem to assert that Mr. Balfour has become a bimetallist...

[TO THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The question of priority in the discovery or the empha- sising of such truths as those of "Economics," which is raised' by the Duke...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sin,—After perusing the curious letter under the above heading, which occupies two columns of the Spectator of October Gth, one can hardly...

THE "spool...Too:1 see a letter in the Spectator of October 6th, stating that in your review of " The Confessions of a Carrency Girl" on July 14th, a wrong definition is given...

[To TED ED/TOR or THE " sponkroa."] SIR, — It may interest some of your correspondents to know that during my father's residence in the neighbourhood of Romford, between 1866...

[TO THE EDITOR OH THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, —While thanking you for your polite notice of the maga- zine-article, " Cabinet Counsels and Candid Friends," in the Contemporary...

MERRY AUTUMN. GOLDEN woodland, sea-blue sky, Crests of cloud-waves tossed on high ; Bouncing breezes, lustrous showers, Leaves and berries gay as flowers Purple storms in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SWEOTATOE."I SIR,—I have been wondering whether any one would venture to sound a discordant note in the chorus of praise that surrounds "Struwwelpeter."...

appeared in the Spectator of October .8th, his Grace the Dnke of Argyll points out that the reviewer of Mr. Mallock's recently published work on " Labour " is in error when he...

You are life's true philosopher, An epicure of air and sun, An egoist in sable fur, To whom all moralists are one. You hold your race-traditions fast,— While others toil, you...

A HISTORY OF THE PAPACY DURING THE REFORMATION.* As the Bishop of Peterborough advances, the scale of his work alters wonderfully little. The first volume, it is true, covered...

most rising among the younger French novelists, and Ma Grande is a very attractive specimen of his work. The number of editions that it has already gone through in France gives...

THE United States of America form the great political work- shop of the world. On the four-and-forty anvils presented by the States of the Union have been and are being hammered...

THB history of the conquest of India by the English is per- haps the most complete and the most interesting record of the transference of the sovereignty of a nation from one...

emulated Alexander more than the mountaineers. "New peaks to conquer" has been their motto since they first made the Alps their own ; and the ambitious cyclist only follows in...

Among the Tibetans. By Isabella L. Bishop, F'.R.G.S. (The Religious Tract Society.) — This is one of the slightest, but also one of the brightest, most lifelike, and most...

Tins very important work would be much more useful had the able author confined himself to narrower limits, as a book of half the size would have been better suited to the...

by Julia Raymond Ginger. (Chapman and Hall.)—It does not need to accept Mr. Herbert Spencer's philosophy to acknowledge the force and variety which he gives to the expres- sion...

(Digby and Long.)—That part of the British public which is occu- pied with the everlasting problem, " What shall we do with our sons ?" ought to be greatly obliged to Mr....

at home in Sussex ; he is a resident in the county, and comes of a family which was for some time connected with one of its most interesting and picturesque sights,—Hurstmonceux...

Memoir of the Author. 2 vols. (Art and Book Company.)—Personally, we think that the moat interesting portion of these volumes is the anonymous memoir of the writer. Mr, Edward...

Father Didon (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This volume contains a series of eight " conferences " given during Lent. Father Didon addresses himself to the unbeliever, rather...

; but he is married and does not forget the fact. Such, in short, is the plot of In Due Season. But it is a good study of two naturally noble, well- balanced characters, and...

Pestalozzi by Lucy E. Holland and Frances C. Turner. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Ebenezer Cooke. (Swan Sonnensehein and Co.)—Pestalozzi's book was published in...

Cooke. Taylor. (Methuen,)—Mr. Cooke-Taylor, who speaks with the high authority of an Inspector of Factories, gives, by way of in- troduction, an account of various cognate...

and Bowes, Cambridge.)—Mr. Clark begins with the Roman libraries, as the models after which medieval and even modern libraries were more or less shaped. These consisted either...

his daughter, Marjory Boner. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The fact of a diary kept without interruption for more than sixty years is in itself sufficiently remarkable. The first...

question at all ? " asks the unknown author of this book. "I maintain there is not," he goes on to answer, "in the sense in which we speak of a Labour question, or the Eastern...

candidly tells us in his preface that the two comedies contained in this volume were " conceived and constructed wholly in the light of possible representation," but that " they...

Co.)—This " Free Lance " has no little of the Don Quixote. Doubtless he means well, as indeed did " the friendless people's friend," but he is a little, or even not a little,...

an excellent volume of the " Popular County Histories" Series. No one could know his subject better than the learned Chancellor of Carlisle, who has already made more than one...

Straus. (Fisher Unwin.)—Allowing for the lapses of American spelling, this little book is of its kind a model. Unlike the great mass of historical biographies—and particularly...