EXPLORATION IN PALESTINE.* Tnz first of these sumptuous volumes was printed eleven years ago : the last some months ago. It is no exaggeration to describe them as the most...

name of Oswell with the earlier travels of Livingstone and the big game south of the Zambesi. Yet the friendship of the two men ought to be famous, for we do not believe the...

prefers to be known as the biographer of Charles Lowder, is not an abridg- ment of the standard Life by Dr. Liddon, but an independent work, based to some extent upon fresh...

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.* IT may seem somewhat late in the day to attempt an apprecia- tion of Hans Christian Andersen, and, indeed, we are not thinking of attempting it. But...

Son. 6s.)—The war in South Africa has certainly done a good turn to the writers of gift-book stories. We have had a long and pleasant acquaintance with Mr. Henty in this...

Gould tell us that they have collected some of these tales from various sources of folk-lore, and that they have invented some for themselves. "It matters nothing," so they say,...

and Co. 6s.)—A " goop," it seems, is an embodiment of all that a child should not be. The pen and pencil of the author of this volume are therefore employed to teach politeness...

This book, to describe it briefly, is a child's Life of Christ. Few tasks are more difficult than to tell the story with anything like completeness, or to express the deeper...

" is a very good periodical of its kind. The variety of its contents and the skill and good taste with which they are chosen are worthy of much praise. Of course South Africa...

(R.T.S. 2s.)—Joan Harding, a lady by birth, makes up her mind to take charge of a village school. This is a thing often talked about, and sometimes done. What it really means...

2s. 6d.)—An " adventurer" indeed ! Incidents of the most startling kind follow, one after another, with a rapidity that takes away our breath. The old times and the new are...

3s. 6d.)—There are three hundred and fifty-nine pages in this book. At p. 181 we get to Malta ; and when we have got as far as p. 195 we reach the " brave foe," but our hero...

Born There." (R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—This is not a book of the usual pattern. We are familiar with stories of life in the Pacific islands from the point of view of the adventurer, and...

and Co. 6s.)—This is "A Tale of the Inquisition in the Nether- lands." We have more than once expressed a doubt whether such subjects are well suited to books of this kind. We...

to mention, as suited for elder readers, Friendly Greetings, Illustrated Readings for the People ; Light in the Home has papers also suited for the young ; while The Child's...

Ss. 6c1.)—Cyril Deane and his young Chinese friend Tsu-foo, son of a Mandarin who lived next door, went up by accident on a gigantic kite, and reaching the Zodiac, saw many...

Edinburgh. 2s. Cd.)—Colin McVean is the oppressive and miserly owner of a Highland estate. He leaves this away from the expectant nephew, giving it to "Colina." But the dis-...

IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH BULLER. In South Africa with Buller. By G. C. Musgrave. (Gay and Bird. 7s. CxI.)—Mr. Musgrave adopts an unadorned style in relating the Natal Campaign,...

Pugh. (R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—This is an unusually successful school-story. For the most part these tales have something unreal about them. Here we have what seems to us a really good...

Mansergh has made a success of the central character of her story, the "Peggy Savile " about whom she tells us. She is a clever, somewhat strange young person, and it is good to...

Gd.) —A child is supposed to come to London and to describe what he sees. He visits the lions in Trafalgar Square, the "Zoo "(where he expresses a preference for the elephant...

Hesba Stretton has a strong conviction that it is a serious offence to give to a beggar, and she enforces it on her readers in this story. A very painful story it is, not indeed...

—A writer who tells "a tale of the Pilgrimage of Grace" ven- tures into deep waters, too deep, we cannot but think, for safety. There are periods of history which are best...

South African Studies. By A. P. Hillier, M.D. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.) —Dr. Hillier has put together in book-form a series of very miscellaneous lectures, articles, and letters...

The Paris Exhibition, 1900. Section I. (Virtue and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This " illustrated record of the art, architecture, and industries" of the Exhibition is a collection of...

Sport in War. By Major - General R. S. S. Baden - Powell F.R.G.S. (W. Heinemann. 5s.)—Mr. A. E. T. Watson, the editor of the Badminton Magazine, writes the preface to these five...

The Romance of Spain. By C. W. Wood, F.R.G.S. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—There is a traditional fatality which besets travels and travellers in Spain. Theophile Gautier employed...

A We of Francis Parkman. By C. H. Farnham. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d.)—Francis Parkman, a painter of heroes, was himself a hero. Such is the burden of Mr. Farnham's biography,...

The Relief of Mafeking. By Filson Young. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—We do not hold a brief for war correspondents, whose necessity is less obvious than their eloquence, and we cannot...

Life of Father Goreh. By the Rev. C. E. Gardner. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—Nilakantha Goreh was a Brahman of high station, belonging to a family in which service at Court was...

Savonarola : Meditations on Psalm li. and part of Psalm xx.ri. in Latin, with an English Translation. By E. H. Perowne, D.D., Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge....

History of Rhodesia. By Howard Hensman. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—Most of us would be surprised to think that the history of so recent an acquisition as Rhodesia would fill...

A New Study of the SOWiS of Shakespeare. By Parke Godwin. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. Gs. net.)—It is difficult to know what acertain type of writer would do without the perennial...

The Antarctic Regions. By Dr. Karl Frisker. (Swan Sonnen- schein and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The Antarctic never can have the interest that attaches to the Arctic ; there are no Eskimo,...

Life in London ; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. By Pierce...

In the Ice World of Himalaya. By F. B. Workman and Dr. W. H. Workman. With Maps and Illustrations. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—Dr. and Mrs. Workman spent the two summers of '98 and...

Commerce and Christianity. By the Author of "The Social Horizon." (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Christianity versus the competitive principle in business, such is our...

very different schools of Christian thought. These are the Feet of Jesus. By Madame Cecilia. (Burns and Oates. 3s. 6d.)—There is, of course, something that is character- istic...

Stiles. 18s. net.)—Mr. Winship has prefixed to his bibliography an essay on the lives and doings of the two Cabots. John Cabot, a Genoese by birth, but by adoption an...

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of the Allied Powers have agreed upon terms, which will be presented to the Empress-Regent in a conjoint Note. They are substantially the terms proposed by M. Delcasse, and the...

guilty Mandarins. If that is granted, there may be peace with China for years, every great official dreading the consequences of outrage; if it is not granted, every Chinaman...

Agriculture, the reconstructed Cabinet is now oomplete as follows :— Lord Chancellor... ... Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal... Lord Salisbury. Lord Halsbury. Lord...

surprise even of officials, it was announced on Tuesday that Parliament would assemble on December 3rd for the despatch of business. The motive is understood to be the necessity...

A TUCH alarm was spread through Europe on Thursday by ji. the receipt of an official notice that the Czar, who is at Livadia, has been attacked by typhoid. The symptoms up to...

case.

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failed woefully as regards China. We wonder if any of them are repairing that fault by obtaining information as to what is really going on in Sian in the Imperial circle. Such...

successful but severe engagement near Bothaville, briefly mentioned in our last issue, was chiefly due to that " gallant and capable cavalry leader," Colonel Le Gallais, who un-...

made an important speech to the Dolphin Society at Bristol. After mentioning that he had wished to resign, but wan not permitted to do so, he proceeded to declare that "the...

in a speech by the Emperor, the object of which is to defend his conduct in sending an expedition to China with- out waiting for the consent of the representatives. His pleas...

behind it in France a certain feeling of disappointment. Though the crowds which flocked to it were enormous, it has not been a financial success, and it has not been to the...

too much, and is most anxious to dissuade the country from any large increase in the Army. The numbers, he says, are suffi- cient; what is wanted are better training, and more...

as one of the speakers described them—mustered in force at a banquet on Monday under the presidency of Lord Brassey. The chairman, who claimed that there was nothing new or...

recently published in Scribner's Magazine' an article accusing the British officers imprisoned in the Model School at Pretoria of wantonimischief and ungentle-, manly and...

Lord Kitchener as his immediate successor in South Africa, afford matter for some interesting comment in a recent issue of Die Information, the very ably conducted and...

of the nature of a rejoinder to the Imperialist Liberals. After adhering to his condemnation of their action in forming a separate organisation, he challenged Lord Brassey's...

year 1899 is full of instructive facts and figures. The Metropolitan area covers 688 square miles, with a mean rateable value, for police purposes, of £42,557,150, and the total...

Lincoln before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution on Tuesday. Not the least interesting part of the address was that in which Mr. Choate described the in- effaceable...

believes to be authentic, of the first of the coming military reforms. Every private is to have ten months' thorough training in campaigning work, including shooting, scouting,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 98k.

LORD SALISBURY AT THE GUILDHALL. C LEARLY Lord Salisbury has not lost the mordant wit which first attracted public attention to his great powers. His definition of the Concert...

debating in this South African Session. It is all very well to say that it is summoned to vote some money on account, and that when the money is voted Members will disperse ;...

Council has celebrated its suc- cesses at the General Election by a banquet. The eminent politicians who furnished the after-dinner speeches had a difficult part to play. They...

are on the eve of another dreary period of Church controversy, in which Ritualism and the civil law, the authority of the Bishops and the liberty of the individual conscience,...

I N regard to the elections for the London School Board, which are to take place on the 29th inst., it is not possible for us to advocate the undiscriminating support by the...

T HAT men who can see well will learn to shoot better than men who do not see well is a fact so patent that we do not wonder Sir Redvers Buller's remark about the superior...

T HE classic age of letter-writing, like that of chivalry, is gone, although no Burke has been found yet to utter its splendid funeral oration. It is of course true that more...

This imperfect understanding of the results of what they are doing, and ignorance of the proportion which different acts of wrong bear in the eyes of other people, account every...

THE COUNTRY OF DREAMS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-^] StE,—Is there a country of Dreamland somewhere in exist- ence in the four dimensions, or in a planet resembling...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Is the apparently slow increase of the Jewish population of the world really so remarkable as your article in the Spectator of November...

Sir,—In the review of " The Life and Letters of T. H. Huxley" in the Spectator of November 10th occurs this startling passage :—" He passes from the vertebra:, to the School...

PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S LIFE. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reading your interesting review of Professor Huxley's life in the Spectator of November 10th, the quota....

d'Houdetot] in his praise. He has thrown a doubt,' said he, on all past glory; he has made all future renown im- possible.' " I am the possessor cf a sheet of paper upon which "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The statistics suggested by Dean Gregory would, if they could be obtained, be of great interest, although it is quite possible that, if...

Sin,—By all means let the inquiry as to the educational ante- cedents of the " Hooligan " which the Dean of St. Paul's sug- gests be made. I shall, however, be very surprised if...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondent in the Spectator of November 10th says : " A man may feel grave doubts about creeds and dogmas, and yet may lead a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the interesting article on Mr. Stephen Phillips's splen did drama of Herod in the Spectator of November 3rd your writer says: "It is...

whether any correspondence is permitted on the above, but in justice to the memory of Sir Hudson Lowe, who is described as " a martinet with an amazingly narrow mind," I should...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sur,—I wish to protest against your writer's argument in favour of " expertising " (Spectator, October 20th). The present world is carried...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Being away from home, I have only just received my Spectator of November 3rd, and seen the letter from "A Tradesman," following up your...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your review of the Life of Huxley in the Spectator of November 10th you quote from a letter to Mr. John Morley : —" It is a curious...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In continuation of the interesting facts you have pub- lished concerning our poets' treatment of the songs of birds, I would draw...

[To THE EDITOR tOF THE "SPECTATOR."] have not seen Mr. Abbott's " Songs of Modern Greece," reviewed in the Spectator of November 3rd, but it may be worth while to recall the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—An instance of the "sweet uses " of prosperity had just come under my notice when I read the article on that subject in the Spectator of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sta,—It is rather surprising that none of your readers should have animadverted on Mr. J. M. Ludlow's letter in the Spectator of November...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your generous review of Mr. Zangwill's " Mantle of Elijah" in the Spectator of November 10th you find two faults. (1) You find fault...

PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. NOT in the battle he fell, making story, Dying as asketh the soldier to die, Pain lightly felt in the hour of glory, Joy of the...

A STUDY OF DR. MARTINEAU.t IT is understood that what may be termed the official biography of Dr. Martineau has been entrusted to his colleagues, Professors Drummond and Upton....

FRIEND, talk no more of whether death is so Or otherwise : Nor reason if the body lives or no After it dies. See, from this plane the dying leaf I tear— Not nothing, friend,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—Your issue of July 14th arrived here last week, in which you relate the picturesque incident of the trooper and his horse at Germiston....

Adams's striking, though in some respects sensational, argument to cause thought in an Englishman, but it is primarily intended to arouse his fellow- countrymen in America to a...

Mahan to risk premature judgment by hasty publication. We are accustomed to expect from him much deliberate weighing of evidence, and finish if not finality in the sentence. In...

MR. GATHORNE-HARDY has written a book which will be cherished by all lovers of- Highland sport, and many who have never held a rod or rifle in their hand. For it is no mere...

THE scene of Mrs. Steel's new novel is laid in an Indian city, the centre of a dispossessed native dynasty, and is concerned ° (1.) The Hosts of the Lord. By Flora Annie Steel....

MR. TREVES'S EXPERIENCES. The Tale of a Field Hospital. By Frederick Troves. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—The hospital in which Mr. Treves worked was called " stationary," not because...

Co. 2s. net. )—Doubtless Mr. Wilson is right in putting Duncan in the second rank. He was a great commander, but not of the greatest. It is true that he fell upon evil times....

net.)—We may divide Mr. Heathcote's account of St. Kilda by the familiar division of past, present, and future. The most notable event in the past is the imprisonment on the...

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s. net.)—This is a pleasing adapta- tion of the Roman romance, though told without any special distinction of style. The writer in his preface expresses...

3s. 6d.)—Professor Dowden's knowledge and tact as an editor are too well known to need our commendation. He thinks the play an early one, on account of the character of the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) Random Recollections of an Old Publisher. By William Tinsley. 2 vols....

the most interesting thing in this volume is the memoir of Bernard Barton. He was one of the happy men who get their bread from business and their butter from litera- ture. At...

and Co. 5s. net.)—Dr. Vincent, after tracing the political history of Switzerland, discusses the details of the cantonal and federal government. The judicial system, the...

Press. ls.) — It would not be easy for the most docile statesman to please Count Tolstoy. His leading principle may be described as a combination of non - resistance and...

well furnished with introduction, notes, illustrative passage s from other authors, and having that useful item a full index of Greek names. — Model and Black - board Drawing....