A SECRET AGENT UNDER THE EMPIRE.* HISTORIANS, for the most part, confine their attention to personages who have taken a prominent part in the doings which they describe,...

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suggested this work to him more than thirty years ago, considered Selden to be a " typical Englishman." This we are hardly prepared to concede,—at least, if we are to look upon...

not be able to read this collection of papers without emotion. The more they comprehensively know of the inevitable Iiraman'c Miesion : e Series of Co, gram Armenian the...

VII., VIII., and IX., Mr. Henry Adams brings to a close his very remarkable history of the United States during the first fifteen years of the present century. Mr. Adams's...

although written from different stand- points, are complementary to each other, come as very useful supplements to the recent official celebrations of the Jubilee of the Free...

this important work marks an era in the history of hospital literature. Mr. Burdett has had more than a quarter-of-a-century's practical experience of the administration of...

an interesting book, some- what gossipy and digressive, it is true, and occasionally more likely to be appreciated by neighbours than by the general public. lie tells a story...

is a somewhat complicated story of love-making, which it will require a more than usual interest in that subject to follow with undisturbed patience. It is well-written,...

Selkirk.)--This is a narrative, touched with poetical emotion, of a walk that the author took in the autumn of 1586 with an artist friend, eastward from Moffat, through some of...

With Captain Stairs to Katanga. By J. A. Moloney. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Dr. Moloney accompanied Captain Stairs as medical officer in the expedition of the Katanga, Company to...

so full an account of Professor Kiirschner's admirable Literary Calendar, which con- tains every desirable information respecting living German authors and literary institutions...

Champneys, and J. W. Baines. (John Murray.) — A book of three hundred and twenty-three pages devoted to the history of a school only fifty years old must needs be of the nature...

Phila- delphia.)—" Agrippa," it must be understood, is not the Jewish King, first or second of the name, but Cornelius, the magician. One of the heroines has a magic...

By Professor Roberts, D.D. (Alexander Gardner.)—The "short proof" is substantially this, that Christ in his discourses commonly appeals to the Scriptures as writings with which...

Jolley's theory is something of this kind. There was a Primitive Gospel written about the beginning of the last Jewish war. This he reconstructs out of the Synoptic Gospels. It...

G. Barilli, by his honour Judge Stephen. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Lucio Gualandi, a native of Pisa, well-born but very poor, takes the office of private secretary to a Princess, a...

Duthie- Lisle. 3 vols. (Gay and Bird.)—There is plenty of bad and in- different work in literature, especially in fiction, but there are few books in which a recklessly amiable...

Brierley, B.A. (Clarke and Co.)—Thoso essays will be found well worth reading. The first gives as well-balanced an estimate of Rabelais as is to be found in literature ; the...

miles an hour, though we are promised " torpedo-destroyers " capable of steaming 31 statute miles an hour. Mr. Norman is building a torpedo-boat that is to do 34} miles an hour...

as carpets, curtains (muslin, lace, and tapestry), damask, and woven fabrics generally ; pottery, tiles, metal-work, cretonnes and printed fabrics, floor-cloths, stained-glass,...

Xavier Marmier. Edited, with Grammatical and Explanatory Notes, and a French and English Vocabulary, by J. Belfond. (Hachette.)—This volume must take a high place among books...

Miss Brooks had not read " Little Lord Fauntleroy " before she wrote Lord Lynton's Ward, we have here a very extraordinary literary coincidence. We cannot, say much in favour of...

Snod- grass. (John Murray.)—This is a capital example of a scientific study made as interesting as it really deserves. The many curious and remarkable evidences of the subtlety...

strength of its own. One week ago, the man who pre- dicted that the House of Hapsburg would of its own volition proclaim universal suffrage, would have been justly declared an...

case.

of Europe. It is an elected body, and it is defying the Repre- sentatives and the President, both of whom are selected by universal suffrage. Its method, too, is rather cynical....

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

T HE Government has found a Viceroy for India at last. Their choice was hampered by the small number of com- petent men who even profess to be Gladstonians, and by some...

indefinite. There is war between Queen Victoria and King Lobengula. That ferocious barbarian, who, Mr. Rider Haggard declares, murdered Captain Paterson merely for mentioning a...

wants a solid majority, and cannot get one with the existing suffrage; but the Emperor's is more obscure. He must have assented, and he would not have assented for Count...

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of Unionists in a speech of great breadth and vigour. We have spoken elsewhere as to his insistence upon the policy of mystification pursued by the Government, and its dangers,...

Tuesday, an interesting letter was read, addressed by the late Master of Balliol to Professor Jebb, "I think," said he, "that I should be disposed to speak :—(1.) Against...

Ellis on Friday week was, in fact, an attempt to state the case for abolition of freedom of contract in Wales, and with this we hope to be able to deal in detail next week....

held a conference at Sheffield, and drew up a series of propositions, under which they believed that a compro- mise might be arranged between the coal-owners and the men. These...

crowded meeting in the Town-hall, put the point that the men who voted for Home-rule candidates in 1892 did not in the least mean to support the Bill of 1893, very happily. Did...

Street, Shoreditch, attempted to show his Socialistic leanings to a not very sympathetic audience. "Laissez faire" would not solve the social problem, and if society was to...

compiler of innumerable dictionaries and class-books, died last Saturday at the age of eighty-one, from failure of the heart's action. Though not a great scholar in the sense of...

College, Birmingham, Professor Jebb delivered an address, in which he declared, and we think rightly, that " the spirit which the classics embodied now animated the higher...

other of the lost books of antiquity has been discovered in a bundle of Egyptian papyri. On Tuesday, the Times announced that a col- lection of papyri has just been bought by...

pounds and given up columns of space to the "America Cup,"—the yacht-race in which Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie ' has been trying to beat the American Vigilant,' to which the...

the Russian Fleet at Toulon, which began yesterday. The details of the ceremony prepared read exactly like the accounts of the arrangements for a grand opera, with all the...

a remarkable letter from the Dean of Durham on the growth of the Newcastle College of Science, of which Dr. Lake is the Warden. That letter showed how rapid has been the growth...

on Friday 98k.

towns, the most thoroughly civilised, that its finances are in excellent order, that the security of life and property is com- plete, and that its police, though governed by a...

which, if it is correctly reported, goes a long way towards clearing up one of the problems of modern history. A letter to Louvois by Louis XIV., written in cipher, has been...

THE AUSTRIAN SURPRISE. T T really does look as if the White peoples of the world were fated to yield to democracy, as if universal suffrage were inflicted on them—perhaps as a...

N OTHING better can be imagined than the speech made by Mr. Goschen at West Hartlepool on Wednes- day last. He said exactly what it was necessary that one of the leaders of...

W E do trust that all English Radicals are attending to the telegrams from America about the action of the Senate on the silver question. It is an object-lesson for them of the...

UNDAY last was the political saint-day of the Par- nellites in Ireland, and, drawing their inspiration from the occasion, they have begun one last desperate effort to win back...

It would be easy, however, to make too little of this a Russian alliance can be of no real service to her. But in singular demonstration. It is well to remember that wars...

vagrancy, which has been going on in the Times during the past ten days, has brought out not a few help- ful suggestions on a matter which is of interest to all people who live...

W E repeat, the grand evil of the present method of settling disputes like that which has arisen in the coal-trade is that nothing is settled by it. The present condition of the...

human experience. Every one knows, and every one acts upon the fact that there is such a thing as Genius, i.e., the possession of mental powers superior not only in degree but...

I N entertaining the Court of the Fruiterers' Company at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor uttered a pious wish that Englishmen would be contented with English-grown fruits. In...

-H AST thou well considered all that lies in this immeasurable froth-ocean we name Literature P " asks Tertfelsdrockh of the man who would deny the existence of religion. " A...

A LEADER-WRITER in the Daily Telegraph, a paper usually friendly to national education, made an attack upon it on Tuesday, which, if it were only true, would lead men to doubt...

COAL-OWNERS AND COLLIERS. IN the year 1858 I was, together 'With the late Messrs. E. Akroyd, Charles Buxton, H. Fawcett, W. E. Forster, Rev. F. D. Maurice, the present Judge...

MIRACLES. [To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,--Dr. Abbott's argument, in the Spectator of October 7th, would prove too much. If we are to reject the healing of the man's...

have to thank Dr. Abbott for his correction, in the Spectator of October 7th, of my very serious mistake, in saying that Christ's miracle of restoring the man's ear which Peter...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — In your very interesting article on " The Instinct of Industry in Animals," in the Spectator of September 30th, you appear to adopt...

SOME MEMORIES. A LUCENT clarity of young bright air; Soft, cool, sweet breeze ; The sheen of palms, too delicate for glare; Just stirring trees ; A witching freshness. Sweet...

SPEOTATOR."] SIR, —In your interesting article on the late Professor jowett, in the Spectator of October 7th, you give a most striking ex- tract from the sermon he preached in...

WE met, and swift our friendship grew Mid pine-woods fragrant, full of bees. With glimpses of clear water through And murmuring voices in the trees. The blue lake shone, the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your correspondent " R, S.," in the Spectator of September 9th, and the writer in the Daily News who thought my daughter's "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR, — I should be much obliged to you, and to your readers, if they can throw any light upon a subject which has much engaged my attention...

MR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON THE UNITED STATES.* THERE are many people in this country who take up a new work by Mr. Goldwin Smith with a certain prejudice. His pessimism about...

description of one of the wonders of the world, the Great Coral-Reef of Australia, will doubtless once more animate the discussion on the structure of coral- reefs, begun by...

modern French literature are likely to be readers of the Fortnightly Review. There, in the last two or three years, they have occasionally met with articles by Mr. Edward...

of Lady Mar- garet Hall, Oxford. The connection of her family with the high thinking" of England, as well as her own gifts, would doubtless obtain consideration for her words;...

the front more than one military commander in the United States who deserved to rank with the great Generals of their time, and though the naval operations of the war were...

a series of nine papers on philosophical subjects, reprinted from Mittel and other periodicals. They deal with a variety of topics, among which political economy (evidently a...

G IFT-BOOKS. Icelandic Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By Frederic W. W. Howell. (Religious Tract Soeiety.)—This is a capital volume in a series which has never failed to...

is a story of a bride who comes from an elegant home to an old place where everything seems to be antiquated and dull, But the elegant home has been kept up on false pretences,...

W. J. Hardy. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is a volume of curious and varied interest, of which, however, it is difficult to give our readers any adequate idea with the means...

a tale of the Indian Mutiny, told with no little force, but certainly not intended virginibus puerisgue. The writer has some- thing to say for Nana Sahib, whom he thinks to have...

is an ambling sort of story, with the boy-hero of the familiar type, a shocking example in the shape of a tutor who drinks, an extraordinary recovery of long-lost parents, and...

Downey. (Cassell and Co.)—There is little to say about this volume, which carries on, without any diminution of merit or change of manner, an evidently successful series. The...

has put together in this little volume, of little more than two hundred pages, a great amount of valuable matter. It contains the substance of many a stout folio ; compressed...

Story of the Far North-West is a very interesting thing of its kind, written, it is evident, by one who knows something of the North-West (of Canada, it must be understood), in...

(Gay and Bird.)—The story of the Atlantic cable has been told before, and there is nothing fresh in Mr. Field's account of the various cable- laying expeditions. It is well,...

(Longmans.)—It is needless to praise these reprints from Punch. Everybody recognises, and is glad to recognise, Mr. Anstey's hand. The " Man from Blankley's" is not by any means...

a story of literary life, of a minor poet who is raised to eminence by a flattering critic, and degraded therefrom when the critic has other -views ; and of his successor, who,...

Thorpe. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Among the important materials in Professor Thorpe's third volume are oils, paints, petroleum, paraffin, pitch, potassium, pottery and...

" secret " is, to put the matter briefly, the art of painting good pictures. It has been preserved in a mysterious manuscript. The artist into whose possession this manuscript...

of Adelia Gates. By Adela E. Orpen. (Religious Tract Society.)—The " Skl " is a lady of very remarkable powers and gifts; the " chronicles" of her life in the States, which have...