motion by Mr. Bradlaugh to reduce the Police vote by the amount of the Commissioner's salary; and Mr. Onnn inghaine Graham gave vent to his savage bitterness against Mr....

France. The Royalists have, through the Marquis de Breteuil, who made a speech at Marseilles on Saturday in that sense, openly recognised the necessity of supporting General...

out true. The terrible miscreant known as "the Whitechapel murderer," who, if insane, differs from all other insane persons in persistence, reticence, and fear of the police,...

case.

resigned his post as Commissioner of Police, and on Monday night the Home Secretary confirmed the statement in the House of Commons. He read a correspondence, from which it...

MHE new Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Whitehead, was in- stalled, as usual, on November 9th; but the dinner at the Guildhall was not this year an event. Lord Salisbury betrayed a...

infringing Mr. Gladstone's patent or copyright in addresses on Irish subjects, and that Mr. Gladstone had evidently been aggrieved by the infringement, for whereas when the...

more money for extending the operations of Lord Ash- bourne's Irish Land Act,—the Act enabling tenants to pur- chase their holdings at an easy rate. Mr. Balfour is to move the...

Salisbury and Lord Hartington at the Hotel Ifetropole, Sir G. Hayter Chubb, the Vice-President of the Association, taking the chair. The great object of the banquet was that...

on Wednesday, in which he followed Mr. Gladstone's great speech at Birmingham, and showed some of his omissions and errors. Those of Mr. Goschen's recent queries which Mr....

of for Ireland, is a mere metaphor, since there is certainly no self to govern. Ireland, as it is proposed to govern it, would be in effect like a group of five people, three of...

R. J. Lynd, made the chief speech on behalf of the deputation, and an admirable one it was, disowning altogether anti-Catholic feeling, contending only for the guarantee which...

Lord Ashbourne's Act is to be renewed before the end of the present Session, there was a fierce and most discreditable attempt to strike off from the English Prisons vote a sum...

all her coasts there is movement; somebody called by the natives the "White Pasha" is advancing from the Lakes up the Nile, -with, according to report, "a naked army;" and...

on Monday, amidst a scene of enthusiasm the more remarkable because his speech was of the most uncompromi Fling kind. "It is vain," he said, "to hope for any reduction in the...

in agreeing to assist the Germans in blockading the East African coast. Had he refused, the German Government might have been goaded into taking extreme steps to recover its...

London that has the chemical and physical laboratories required for the proper teaching of students who intend to take the science degrees of the University of London, is making...

Attorney-General's salary, really on the question whether the Law Officers of the Crown should do other work or not. Sir Henry James thought they should not, on the ground that...

in some parts of the country to tun the County Councils into political bear-gardens, is likely to fall, and fail completely. Of course, the proper business of these Councils is...

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THE IRISH NONCONFORMISTS. T HE English Nonconformists,—who at least exist, and may, indeed, boast of a very conspicuous form of existence in relation to British politics,—will...

S IR CHARLES WARREN'S resignation, though perhaps unavoidable, is a most unfortunate occur- rence. We cannot agree with the leading thought of his injudicious essay in Murray's...

W E suppose that we are all agreed that to keep the Colonies in hearty alliance with England is one of the highest aims of our Imperial policy ; but we are cer- tainly not all...

L ORD SALISBURY'S speech at the Mansion House on Friday week has helped, with many other circum- stances, to revive uneasiness on the Continent. The speech, say critics in...

W E trust that the Government will be firm as to the extension of the Ashbourne Act. They have every argument on their side, and. for once they will have also the secret...

Til debate on the vote for the Supreme Court of udicature last Tuesday was more interesting than satisfactory. Mr. Jennings made out a very strong case, Lord Randolph Churchill...

W E should like to know precisely what people mean when they talk about" invisibility." Journalists and reporters are all using the word just now about the Whitechapel mur-...

1) 0 we not in modern times pride ourselves a great deal too much on our sensitiveness ? The story told in these columns last week by Mrs. Bracey, of the Maori youth who,...

MHERE is so much to think about in Miss Wedgwood's striking essays on "The Moral Ideal " 10 by which large sections of the human race have been profoundly influenced, that a...

space, to defer all our correspondents' letters till next week.]

should be substituted for Lord Cranbrook's. The error was our own, and not our correspondent's. Connecting Lord Cross's name with the India Office over which he presides, and...

RICHARD JEFFERIES.* To all who have embraced, or intend to embrace, the calling of literature, this touching memoir will appeal with painful interest. To find a parallel for the...

years ago, tribes existed within four hundred miles south of Berbera and two hundred miles west of the Indian Ocean, to whom not only the uses but the existence of firearms were...

though not very subtle critic; as a writer of poems that are full of the Wordsworthia,n spirit, but fuller still of the mountain air and piety of his country; as an enthusiastic...

THE surpassing merits of this edition of the Timaeus are un- mistakable, and we make little doubt that it will soon be translated into more than one Continental language. We...

The principal article in the Universal Review for November (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) is an attempt to answer the Protest against competitive examinations by the statistical...

Co.)—In determining Franklin's place among Ameri- can men of letters, the writer has set himself a peculiar, if not difficult task. The Franklin literature is extensive—all has...

(Rivingtons.) —We noticed on a previous occasion the appearance of the first volumes of this edition ; we have now to record its completion, at the same time expressing our...

Abbott, M.A., LL.D., and P. E. Matheson, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—A very useful edition of the first Philippic and the three first Olynthiacs. The introductions are interesting...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—Those who are unable to read the works of Leopardi in his own language will welcome this book. His poems are many of them very beautiful, and in spite of the...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Miss Yonge's "Cameos" are taken from the forty years which connected the arrival of the Scottish King James I., and the important questions of privilege in...

memoir, written throughout with studied moderation and with a complete effacement of the author in her subject. (It is only from the preface that the reader would know it to be...

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Bryers, and Walker, Dublin.)—Mr. Magennis tells us in his preface that he feels some diffidence in sending forth these poems to the public. We could wish, as will probably such...

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and Sons.)—Mr. Lockhart has given us a very readable rendering of Schiller's great drama. His transla- tion is probably both truer and more literal than that of Coleridge. He...

(Triibner and Co.)—Of the merits of this work as a translation we are not competent to judge. The poem itself is of a philosophical nature, and would be exceedingly...

later than noon on Friday.

edition. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) — Corner's History of Ireland. New edition, revised and extended. (Dean and Son.)—Experimental Mechanics. By Sir R. S. Ball, LL.D., F.R.S....

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V.ANDERDECKEN IN A NEW LIGHT.* THERE is no better-known legend, nor any that excites the imagination more strongly, than that of the blaspheming Dutchman who is doomed for all...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 17, 1888.

MISS COLERIDGE takes us back to that time of ferment, '48. Little indeed of the stir that was agitating Europe had reached the peaceful little village of Ripplehurst. Yet there...

Jr we are to have a fairy-tale—and it is quite possible to have many things far less readable—it is well to have the real thing; and this Mr. Andrew Lang has given us in The...

Tan authoress of the first book before us is well known for the refinement and artistic finish of her work. This, her last story, will in no way detract from the high reputation...

MR. GEOFFREY BACON, a gentleman who does a little doctoring and a good deal of hunting, with now and then a turn at horse-dealing, is thrown by an unmanageable beast which his...

of a catalogue of places and persons to be particularly entertaining to the general reader. Its chief merit is that it shows the real reason why so many of the Colonial...

GIFT-BOOKS. The White Man's Post. By Grant Allen. (Hatchards.)—Mr. Allen's new story, he tells us, was written in deference to the wishes of his son, who requested him to write...

story of a young man who goes to the bad, and is brought back to better ways by the combined influences of a good parson who carries into his new profession the military habit...

Society.)—This will not be a very popular story with boys. There is not sufficient incident of a striking or original character. Still, there is something to praise in it. The...

strong conviction that the eccentric will of Ralph Hard- castle, on which Miss Giberne builds her story, would have been upset long before the hundred years during which it was...

old antiquarian takes a liking to Jack Warren, the hero of the story. He induces him, with some difficulty, to assist him in his search for coins and remains on Salisbury Plain....

and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne's boy-friends, who must be pretty numerous by this time, will have a good idea of what sort of entertainment he will provide for them when they hear of...

quite understand, possibly because we are not so well acquainted with business matters as "C. E. M.," the family of a country squire, Mr. Stanniforth. The poor squire dies ; but...

and he is tempted to prop his failing fortunes with the trust-money; of course, he is ruined or nearly so, his domestic affairs being complicated by his jealous daughter, who,...

is a somewhat foolish and unpleasant tale. A sensational story cannot depend on its plot alone for interest, unless that plot be remarkably good. Unfortunately, Miss Heraud's...

R. M. Ballantyne. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—The nearer he approaches to the realms of actual fact, the less imaginative, and therefore the less charming, does Mr. Ballantyne become....

—Perhaps the most interesting part of Miss Peard's new story consists in some of the adventures which Charles II. meets with during his flight after the Battle of Worcester. The...

Deb " is a quick-tempered, dreamy child, who, by some freak of Nature, finds herself in the midst of a family of placid, matter-of-fact brothers and sisters. She is, as one may...

of adventure and peril. The scene is laid in the West Indies. The great buccaneer, Henry Morgan, makes an attack on the Spanish settlement there, beginning with the Island of...

his desire. He is swept out to sea in trying to rescue a bather, saved by a boatman, driven on to a lightship, and swept out of the lightship in the rigging of a vessel which...

another—by the abomination of St. Giles's Fair at Oxford. Every September the learned Society of St. John lets out standing-room to all kinds of shows, and Oxford becomes for...

preface, the authoress tells us that she has "no ambition to imitate the inimitable," meaning, we suppose, "The Vicar of Wakefield." If this be the case, it is not easy to...

appear till rather late in the story,—till, indeed, the probable result on the two brothers, one a lazy scamp, the other a hard-working, thrifty man, can be pretty well...

(Nisbet and Co.)—These "Chapters of Village Life," drawn simply and faithfully from Nature, are distinctly effective. Ash- leigh is a country village, and we hear of the sins...

"Sunday Talks with the Children" consist of twenty-four chapters. In each there is a paper in which some subject is dealt with as Mr. Langbridge knows how to deal with subjects,...

"story of the Waldenses seven hundred years ago" is written with no common amount of taste and skill. The plot is made to centre in a single incident. Felicie Waldo, daughter of...

a pretty though perhaps somewhat improbable story. It is not likely that any child would be brought up as is Miss Weber's heroine. Again, if this were possible, we do not think...

is a romantic story which will specially appeal to the romance-loving age, an age that may perhaps be put at between twelve and sixteen. Lady Clare is the only daughter of the...

is a story of Jacobite times. The heroine's father is an English adherent of the Young Pretender, and has to fly for his life. She lives for some years in an out-of-the-way...

Tract Society.)—In this volume Mr. Heath relates the history of the Reform movement from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) down to the incorporation of the Protestant...

This time Miss Giberne has given us a plot of the very slightest description, a decided mistake. The characters to conceal such a defect must, to say the least, have a certain...

are in this book some very charming touches of Scotch character and manners among the middle class which form such a striking element in an old country town. Adam Dickson's...

Lee. (Blackie and Son.)—There are certain of the Christmas gift-books which, though written for young people, are perhaps of even greater interest to their elders. Mr. Lee's...

this little story is,—If you have a healthy and congenial employment, do not forsake it for one more remunerative but less sure. The moral in point is conveyed by the adventures...

a pretty though somewhat commonplace little story. An unfortunate lady, who has married against the wishes of a brother and sister, is left destitute by the untimely death of...

a pathetic tale, the story of what a good woman may do in a very brief span of life. Not the least part of what Phyllis Hope effects is the turning to righteousness of Raymond...

Kelly. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Kelly his devoted his volume to sketches of ladies connected with the Hohenzollern family. Only one of them, the Princess Charles of Hesse...

new tale is not of a very original kind. The hard-hearted half-brothers who fraudulently deprive their sister of her property, and thus throw her and her family into unexpected...

tells this "story of herself" makes a large, we might even say a too large, demand upon our faith. It is not only that twice she turns out to be something different from what we...

Stables, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Gordon Stables has added another to the list of books so dear to a boy's heart. His power to amuse and interest seems to be as fresh...

In spite of the number of stories which Mr. Henty produces yearly, his work, as a rule, shows no signs of deterioration. We say as a rule, because the book before us is hardly...

Shaw and Co.)— There are few authors who depict with such care and faithfulness as Miss Holt the social life of the period about which they may happen to be writing. This is...

Shaw.) —If we have a fault to find with this book, it is that it takes us too long to get to the squatter. Archie Broadbent is the son of a North-Country squire who tries high...

Stewart's book is a somewhat indifferent per- formance. On the whole, the plot is moderately well contrived. It is not by any means original ; but still, it is worked out with a...

by Lady Broome. (George Rontledge and Sons.)—A young man unexpectedly finds himself stranded, without any money, on the Western coast of Australia. His adventures while...

a most delightful fairy-story. It relates the adventures of the heroine, little Joan, on a voyage to the North Pole. It occurs in a dream, and this, with the charming style and...

Trench, and Co.)—Former travels of the writer, both in Mexico and Cape Colony, have already appeared in print. He has thus acquired a certain art in describing them. He is...

Co.)—Dr. Matthews began his twenty years' personal experience in 1865, having arrived from England in an emigrant-ship, the medical superintendence of which he had accepted, and...

R.N. (Hatchards.)—Mr. Knight's last work is a good specimen of that kind of literature in the production of which he par- ticularly excels. A life on the sea, with a certain...

liod,ern Ships of War. By Sir Edward Reed, Rear-Admiral Simpson (U.S.N.), and Jerrold Kelly (Lieutenant, U.S.N.) (Sampson Low and Co.)—To this interesting volume Sir E. Reed...

is a well-meant attempt to solve the problem of agricultural and commercial depression. Mr. Moffat has evidently studied and understands his subject, but his book lacks the...

the Rev. W. Kerr-Smith. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)— The sub-title is, "Thoughts for Busy People on the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels for the Forty Days of Lent," and the...

edition, revised. (Longmans.)—Mr. Ruth's researches are directed towards ascertaining to what extent, if at all, kinship, or nearness of common ancestry, tends to injure the...

by Graham R. Tomson. (Walter Scott.)—Uniform with Mr. Macquoid's "Jacobite Songs," and forming an additional volume to a handy and well got-up series of "Poetical Antho- logies"...

(Alexander Gardner.)—This is really a very pretty little story. An old Professor of Philosophy relates the history of a quarrel with his daughter, who has married against his...

Allen and Co.)—This story is redeemed from being commonplace by the descriptions of scenery which it contains. The scene is laid in Brazil. There is a certain amount of fighting...

Carver, Hereford.)—Here we have a collection of notes by the members of a naturalists' club, edited and arranged by the late Dr. Bull. This is, in fact, a very complete history...

Stuart begins by telling his readers that his object is to eliminate—(why use this technical term P)—the "theory or doctrine of imputation" from Christian theology. It is...

Sydney. (Hatchards.)—This book, which is otherwise described as " A Memoir, edited by William M. Cowper, M.A.," is an unpre- tentious and painstaking account of the career in...

A great boon to speculators, who will find particulars relating to 900 companies, exclusive of South African, which number 346, and are included in a special section. "...

Stoughton.)—We recognise both the good intentions of Dr. Thain Davidson, who has done his best, by addressing meetings of young men, to warn them against the " temptations " of...

(Printed for private circulation.)—Mr. Calmour dedicates this volume to Miss Ellen Terry, whose impersonation of Ellaline in that pathetic "fancy," The Amber Heart, is regarded...

Stoughton.)—In point of humour, this novel, by the author of "Auld Licht Idylls," is very much above the average of fiction ; but as a work of art and heart, it does not reach...

Co.)—Mr. Sharpe's knowledge of the form and colour of birds is well shown in this beautiful work. The thirty-nine coloured plates are contributed by Mr. Roberts, the letterpress...

(G. Bell and Co.)—This may be regarded as a conclusion to the writer's "Historical Geology." There, geological changes were analysed and examined in detail ; here, they are...

will find instructions for the making of models in this little volume, from the simple single-action, oscillating cylinder engine, to a fairly representative type of oscillating...

pany), belongs to that species of the " reminiscences " order of literature of which we have had far too much lately. Mr. Howe deserves, however, the title he has given himself,...

Fronde speaks very highly of the author of this volume, in a pre- face which is prefixed to it, as one of the oldest and most distin- guished of New Zealand colonists, a large...

(Lon g mans and Co.)—This introduction to astronomy, the first of a series of monthly numbers, is written in the late Mr. Proctor's usual pleasant and instructive style. His...

volume we have under eleven heads a number of Cardinal Wiseman's articles, essays, and reviews. Amon g the most notable of them are two letters which contain an elaborate...

(J. Nisbet and Co.)—This tale is very much in the'milk-and-water style,—in other words, feeble. The plot is a mere nothin g , the moral obscure, and the characters of a very...