17 JUNE 1893

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It is feared that M. Carnot is seriously unwell. He

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has been suffering from general weakness for some months, and has been treated for liver complaint ; but the doctors, with Dr. Brouardel at their head, now repudiate that idea....

Lord Salisbury delivered a very powerful speech in the South

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of London, at the Surrey Theatre, on Monday. On one portion of it,—his comparison of the Irish representation to be left in the Imperial Parliament to the "pocket-boroughs" of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE German Elections came off on Thursday, but the results will not be known for another ten days, a great majority of the returns involving the necessity for a second ballot....

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

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case.

Linlithgowshire has returned a Unionist by a majority of 169,

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and that, too, against a very popular Gladstonian candi- date, Mr. Ure. In other words, the 'Unionist majority of 1893 is a trifle larger than the Gladstonian majority of 1892....

President Cleveland has summoned Congress for the middle of September,

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and will, it is believed, then submit to the Houses a project for the total repeal of the Sherman Act, under which 4,500,000 oz. of silver must be purchased every month. It is...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, Tune 24 1 h, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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On Friday week, the attempt to refuse the Irish Legislature

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leave to deal with the regulation of factories, workshops, and mines, so as to keep uniform the conditions of labour in the United Kingdom, was negatived by a majority of 30...

On Tuesday, the Government succeeded in carrying Clause 3, after

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Lord Wolmer's motion in favour of preventing the Irish Parliament from " granting protection or indemnity in respect of anything done contrary to the provisions of this...

On Thursday occurred what was perhaps the most impor- tant

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debate which has yet taken place in Committee. It was, proposed by Mr. Wyndham to explain " due process of law," by adding the words " giving not less security than is given by...

On Wednesday there was an animated discussion on a pro-

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posal intended to prevent the Irish Parliament from conferring special educational privileges on any one religious denomina- tion. Mr. Gladstone declared that the Government "...

The Home-rule Bill still marches slowly, and at the present

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rate cannot possibly be sent up to the Lords this Session. Besides the Ninth Clause, upon which discussion ought to be endless, there are the financial clauses, which have been...

On Tuesday was issued a Parliamentary paper, in the form

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of a letter to the Treasury from the Inland Revenue Board, explaining an error which had been made in computing Ire- land's contribution to the spirit duty. The result is that...

On Monday, Sir John Lubbock prosecuted his endeavour to prevent

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a different system of banking from springing up in Ireland under Home-rule, by proposing that the Irish Legis- lature should have no power to legislate on banking and bills of...

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A curious inquest took place at Chartham, near Canterbury, on

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Monday on the bodies of Hermann Stoer, aged about twenty-eight, and his wife or fiancee,—though no marriage- certificate was found, the lady wore a wedding-ring, and was...

The result of the Pontefract election petition was the un-

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seating of Mr. Reckitt, for an act of one of his agents, done, however, without Mr. Reckitt's knowledge. Mr. Justice Hawkins commented with great severity on the number of...

The London County Council is rather in a fix. The

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"Pro- gressives" role that body, and the Progressives, like all muni- cipal Reds, are governed by two conflicting ideas. They wish to make their city magnificent, and they wish...

Lord Lamington, who has travelled in Siam, on Thursday brought

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up the question of French aggressions there, and asked Lord Rosebery what he meant to do. He himself believed that the French meant to extend their dominion over the whole of...

The projects for Argentine liquidation, which involve the fate of

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the Barings and the risk of their guarantors, have at last come to a head. The Republican Government offers £1,565,000 a year for five years, leaving the bondholders to divide...

Lord Salisbury on Tuesday made a most able speech in

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the Lords against an abuse which is gradually creeping into the working of the Constitution. Taking as his text the snap- vote which Mr. Paull recently obtained in favour of...

Bank Rate, 2: 1 . per cent. New Consols (24) wolf) on

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Friday 9Pi.

The smouldering quarrel between Mr. Sexton and Mr. Healy broke

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out at the end of last week in a sharp collision. Mr. Healy and his friends refusing to give up their control of the Freeman's Journal, the Irish Parliamentary Committee, which...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE SEXTON AFFAIR. W E pointed out last week that Irish politics would never be humdrum, if only from the peculiarities of the national character. An Irishman cannot bear to...

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THE NEW POCKET-BOROUGHS. L ORD SALISBURY, in the admirable speech on

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Monday at the Surrey Theatre, put the proposal concerning the Irish representation at Westminster which is now understood to find the most favour with the greater number of the...

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MR. GOSCHEN ON ECONOMY AND ETHICS.

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M R. GOSCHEN'S address to the British Economic Association on Wednesday, certainly did not go too far in the direction of exposing the weakness of emotional ethics. Perhaps,...

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THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.

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O NE of the most dangerous features in the present Con- stitution of the United Kingdom is this. With the partial exception of the Army, the House of Commons, as the...

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A PALACE FOR THE COUNTY COUNCIL.

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S HALL London have a County Hall ? That is a question which at first sight seems emphatically one of those which the Latin Grammar used to describe as questions which expect the...

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THE SUPPLY OF CURATES. N OTHING is more puzzling than the

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imperfection of the link which unites the mind and the purse. A great deal has been said of late about the poverty of the beneficed clergy. Perhaps, if there had been a fund...

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WERTHERISM IN ENGLAND.

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W HIT the newspapers call " The New Canterbury Tale," though it is as alien to the spirit of Chaucer as any story could well be, is rather an old German tale,— Goethe's...

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THE MORAL BASIS OF TEETOTALISM.

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T HE teetotal demonstration of Saturday in Hyde Park was, in many respects, a creditable performance. The numbers attending, to begin with, were very large, probably 2 per cent....

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WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS.

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I T was inevitable that women should take to journalism as a profession, and therefore it was inevitable that some of the heaviest and most grievous burdens of that profession...

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THE HERONRY IN RICHMOND PARK.

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V ISITORS to the Home Park at Hampton Court, which was last month opened to the public, will miss the heronry which for two centuries adorned the precincts of Cardinal Wolsey's...

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PREHISTORIC AMERICA.

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W E are so accustomed to think of America as the New - World, that the assertion of a recent writer that "America is also an old world, and compares well with other countries in...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SIR C. GAVAN DUFFY AND THE IRISH CIVIL SERVICE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Surely there is an easy answer to Sir C. G. Duffy, in regard to his statement in...

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BIRD-NAMES.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " SIR, —Your correspondent who questions the correctness of calling a titmouse a "tomtit," is not, probably, aware of the number of birds...

POETRY.

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A VILLAGE WIFE OF MODERN DAYS. A PARISH priest was visiting a grey haired village wife, Of gentle face and gentle voice, and pure and blameless life,. And after sundry...

BOOKS.

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MR. DYKES CAMPBELL'S " COLE RID GE." * THIS is very much more than one of those new editions with a preliminary essay, which appear to suit the taste of this rather...

A TIT'S NEST AT A RAILWAY-CROSSING.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " 13TICTATOR.1 SIC. —At Hatterworth crossing, on the South-Western Railway in Hampshire, tits have built in the metal cup under the lamp for years. Three...

THE UNION JACK.

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[To TEE EDITOR Or Tint " SPECSLTOR."] SIR,—As I observe much has been said of late about the British flag, and various attempts made to cast discredit on the Union Jack, I...

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OLD COUNTY LIFE.*

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THIS cheery book deserves a place among the many volumes of" Memories " and "Personal Recollections" which have lately appeared. Sixty years ago Mr. Fowler's father was the...

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THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS.* Ma. MONTEFIORE regards it

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as certain that "we possess no unquestionably authentic and homogeneous contemporary writings older than the second half of the eighth century B.C." In history, as distinct from...

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THE STORY OF A CATHOLIC SCHOOL.*

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THE history of a college or school is primarily of interest to those who have been educated within its walls, or who are otherwise connected with it. Incidentally, however,...

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DODO.

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Dodo is a delightfully witty sketch of the " smart " people of society as it is in the Row and the house-party " of the day. We know no cleverer "impression" of the jumble of...

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THREE ROMANCES.*

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DR. CONAN DOYLE has won such rapid and wide-spread fame as the constructor of the most skilful series of detec- tive stories in the English language, that some people, whose...

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Dark : a Tale of the Down, Country. 2 vols.

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(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Dark is one of the most true and living descriptions we have ever seen of life on the Berkshire Downs,—the life of the labourer and the round of...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Poetical Works of William Basso (1602-1653). Edited by R. Warwick Bond, M.A. (Ellis and Elvey.)--It is a not unnatural thought that, with scores of minor poets who have...

Nutcracker and Mouse - King. By E. T. A. Hoffm in. Translated

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by Ascott Hope. "The Children's Library." (T. Fisher Unwin,)• —The quaint conceits and fanciful imagination of the German story-teller are evident, as usual, in the story of...

Men of Kent and Kentish Men : a Manual of

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Kentish Biography. By John Hutchinson. (Cross and Jackman, Canterbury.)—Mr_ Hutchinson seems to use the terms, " Men of Kent " and " Ken- tish Mon," indifferently ; perhaps he...

The Emancipation of Woman. By Adele Crepaz, (Swan Son- nenechein

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and Co.)—The author argues strongly in favour of what we may call the old-fashioned view of a woman's vocation. Woman's work is to be wife and mother, and if she seeks to...

The Making of a Man. By the Rev. J. W.

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Lee. (Hutchinson and Co.)—Mr. Lee has treated hie subject, that of Man and his relation to his surroundings, with considerable force and a wide grasp of facts and arguments....

Playthings and Parodies. By Barry Pain. (Cassell and Co.)— Many

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of these articles have already seen the light, so that we only indicate the nature of the collection. Mr. Pain's parodies are, of course, excellent; and of the five with which...

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The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great. By J.

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W. McCrindle. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—Mr. MoCrindle gives in his introduction a list of the writers who, either directly or indirectly, contribute to our knowledge of...

In the Vine-Country. By E. (E. Somerville and Martin Ross.

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(W. H. Allen and Co.)—The authoresses of " Through Connemara in a Governess-Cart" cross the Channel in the volume before us, and describe their impressions of Mddoc and the...

Rambles in the Lake Country, and other Travel Sketches. By

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Edwin Waugh. Edited by George Milner. (Heywood.)—The late " Manchester Poet" wrote much also in prose, and the present volume, a selection from various articles, " may be...

The Battles of Frederick the Great. Edited by Cyril Ransome.

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(Edward Arnold.)—Mr. Ransome has certainly succeeded in making the campaigns of Frederick clearer in his abridgment of Carlyle's larger work. Carlyle's method, when applied to...

My Childhood in Australia, By Mrs. F. Hughes. (Digby and

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Long.)—Mrs. Hughes calls this little book "a story for my chil- dren," and tells of many things which cannot fail to interest many readers. The strange surroundings of...

The Children of the Poor. By Jacob A. Riis. (Sampson

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Low, Marston, and Co.)—That this book is highly interesting need hardly be said. This interest is, indeed, not immediate, for Mr. Rite writes of the children of American...

Cicero Pro Maine. Edited by A. B. Poynton, M.A. (Clarendon

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Press.)—An excellent edition of a speech which is as good for scholastic purposes as any one of Cicero's. Indeed, it would be difficult to find one so good, so clear is it in...

A Handy Book of Household Law, by S. Wright (Biggs

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and Co.), gives a convenient summary of the law as regards " Hue- band and Wife," Master and Servant," "Parent and Child," and " Landlord and Tenant."