T HE crisis in Paris has advanced a stage nearer to the end. The Public Prosecutor has examined M. Wilson and M. Gragnon, the Prefect of Police, and has reported to the...

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physicians summoned to San Remo to advise the Crown Prince of Germany, is of the most melancholy kind. They were unanimously of opinion that the disorder of the throat was...

case.

made. Although processions had been strictly forbidden, and were, after severe fighting, broken up by the police, a little before 4 o'clock vast crowds arrived at the Square,...

demonstration for to-morrow, proposing, apparently, to carry the Square against troops who have faced all the best armies of Europe with success ; but on Monday, Mr. Gladstone,...

considerable danger to order on Sunday after- noon. There appears to be, in particular, an idea that attacks may be made upon the suburbs, which are fall of rich houses, and as...

on account of the ice, and dreaded the long land journey round the Gulf of Bothnia on account of his children, at last made up his mind to travel through Germany. It is...

Manchester, on Tuesday. He reminded his hearers that when, twenty-five years ago, Lancashire was suffering terribly from the cotton-famine caused by the war between the Northern...

could not be proceeded with while " Ireland blocks the way," and said that it must be boldly grappled with. Ireland would block the way a great deal more, if you established her...

answer to an address from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He playfully reminded the Chamber,—who had intimated their hope that the national burdens might be lightened...

the defects of the currency by restoring the full weight of the gold coinage, and perhaps by "some improvement of the note circulation of the country," which points possibly to...

notwith. standing, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is not able to accept any substantive office. He made a long and strong speech at Bristol on Monday, during which he incidentally...

at Ashton-under-Lyne. In Manchester, in replying to am address from the bimetallists, he was very cautious, admitting the great injury done by the depreciation of silver, but...

letter wbi ch M. de Lesseps has addressed to M. Bouvier, demanding that the Assembly shall authorise the Panama Canal Company to raise a lottery loan of £22,000,000. This will...

in Edinburgh, on the subject of "Aphorisms," showing. as all his literary addresses do, the wide range over which his acute mind has passed. We have made remarks on his...

change from generation to generation, and in proof quotes the rather odd approval given by Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds's remark, that in the death of a benefactor you...

the general opinion of Mgr. Persico upon the Irish move- ment is that the revolutionary party exercise far too great an influence upon it, for it to be a safe one. He also...

Consols were on Friday 103k to 1031.

On Saturday last, the election for Rector took place there, when Mr. Goechen was elected by 455 votes, against 314 given for Mr. John Morley. As far as mere literary work goes,...

abolition of the Professorship of Poetry, and the establishment of a new chair of English Literature and Poetry, to which Merton College undertook to contribute, was rejected by...

Fisheries dispute if he can, has, in spite of Irish opposition, received the warmest welcome in New York. At a great banquet given him by the Chamber of Commerce, and attended...

T HE sudden renewal of hatred between France and Germany, though not difficult to explain, is one of the most remarkable phenomena in modern history. Judging a priori, one would...

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE AMERICANS. A MONGST the many qualities which we really believe endear Mr. Gladstone to his countrymen, there is one which will account for a good many of...

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE RIOTS. M B. GLADSTONE'S letter to the Bermondsey Club on the riot of Sunday is the most satisfactory incident which has occurred since he first sprung his...

M R. OOSCHEN'S most impressive, and we might even say magnificent speech, delivered on Tuesday in the Free- trade Hall at Manchester, was a great lesson to a young democracy in...

E NGLISHMEN, preoccupied though they are with other matters, should attend to what is passing in Paris, for the situation there may become even more grave than is antici-•...

M R. GOSCHEN on Thursday made an interesting appeal to " Non-Combatants" to support the Government, a propos of a speech by Mr. Oliver Heywood, in which he had so described...

W E regret Mr. Bright's letter on Irish Land-purchase all the more because it is so sensible and just. Its unexpressed data being granted, it is very nearly unanswerable. It is...

W E should like to know more of the Gaelic Athletic Association, and of the currents in it which suddenly came into open conflict on Wednesday week. Probably Archbishop Croke...

M R. JOHN MORLEY'S delightful lecture on "Aphorisms" should, we think, have been accompanied by some warning how easy it is to understand even the wisest aphorisms too...

W E are a little tired of hearing it stated, in a kind of apologetic tone, that Englishmen are grieved at the sad fate which has fallen upon the Crown Prince of Germany because...

T HE collection of pictures now exhibiting at the Grosvenor Gallery have brought home afresh to the mind of one of their spectators a fact which is enforced on our attention at...

THE "NEW SPIRIT IN POLITICS." [TO TEE EDITOR Or Tea BracriToTel Sta,—Yon ask,—" What provision is there in the Crimes Act which could molest a single Irishman who wishes to...

[TO THY Stores or rex srscumc. - j Sm.,—I agree so thoroughly with your article on this subject, minus your fling at Home-rale, that I should like to say a few words in support...

[To THE EDITOR or tax " SPECTATOZ.") Sin, — As Mr. O ' Doherty has written a letter (which I did not see till yesterday) criticising mine that you were good enough to print in...

I T is painful work criticising men whom we have been accustomed both to admire and to follow, but it is painful work which no journalist can escape. Sir George Trevelyan has...

reason have deepened the stinging sense of defeat,for France has been left free, and even encouraged in a career of foreign enter- prise. She has repaired her misfortunes, has...

[To MI &HMI OP RBA H S ROTATOR."] Srn,—I have read your article on "The Demand Made on the Pulpit" with considerable interest, and I thank you for your admirable and timely...

[To FHB BDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Ste, —I read in your issue of November 12th with deep pain and' astonishment, the passage in the writer's criticism of The Cup of Water...

70 Tiff Burros Of THE 4. 8PECTATOlt..] Sr ,—The enclosed report of Mrs. Besant's speech on Wednesday night to the Radical Federation, is so neat a statement both of the...

fTe Tax Erma or vs: "Sesevavon,"J Sns,—As I seem to be included in those whom Mr. Elgood is attacking in his letter, I should like to say that I think he is mixing up two...

[To roe Boma or THE SPE1.1'A1 , 08."1 Sat,—Is there not, in your interesting article on " Elephants," in your issue of the 12th inst., an oversight as to the state- irent that...

ME MANCHESTER EXHIBITION, AND WHAT ITS ART COLLECTION SHOWS.—II. Vs mentioned in our last week's article upon the lessons to be harnt from the Manchester picture-galleries,...

VICTOR HUGO'S " CHOSES VUES." 1 THESE slight sketches of men whom Victor Hugo knew, and tf affairs in which he acted a part, are eminently characteristic ck the writer. A love...

Ma. LAI:campus has both humour in plenty, and not a little of genuine poetic feeling. Of these qualities we have shown our appreciation by publishing in these columns four of...

THE appearance of a well-defined and original figure in fiction is an event of too rare occurrence to be passed over in silence ; therefore we wish to make known that such a...

THE second volume of this work is even bigger and bulkier than its predecessor, and, like it, is a monument of industry and research. It is in some respects even more...

regret to the unregenerate reviewer to think that the progress of education must inevitably tend to correct, and eventually eliminate, that element of vivacious absurdity which...

to congratulate the venerable author of The History of St. Cuthbert on being able to give to the public a new edition of a work first published nearly forty years ago. It is...

Philocereus Senitia, and other Papers. By Walter Moxon, MD. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a collection of various lectures and papers by the late Dr. Walter Moron,...

learnt that the "increase of American railways was fabulous," but did not apparently consider their solvency. "The railway," he says grandly, "is the friend of all," except, he...

Carr. (Long- mans.)—This volume belongs to the series of "Epochs of Church History," which is appearing under the general editorship of the Rev. Mandell Creighton. Mr. Carr...

Gardner, Barton, and Co.)—A very interesting book this, dealing with the native customs, the prospects of Christianity, the question of the labour traffic, and other matters...

Times. (W. II. Allen and Co.)—These letters were written last autumn. If they contain nothing that is strange to in, they cer- tainly present in a small compass an interesting...

(J. and A. Churchill.)—Dr. Cormack describes the various uses of the Vichy waters, whether taken internally or applied externally. There seem to be many troubles which may he...

(Ward and Downey.)—The two principal char- acters in Scheherazade are so good that they far more than counter- balance any faults of conception and execution that may be found...

Recreations of a Country Parson." (Longmane.)—Here are some thirty or forty years' " idylls," essays, reminiscences of the dead, and —less to be admired—encomiums of the living....

Skottewe. (Swan Sonneueschein and Co.)—As one might guess from the title, this is a story of many murders. The doer of them goes about, now in her natural character of woman,...

C.M.G. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Moloney is an official of the Colony of Lagos, and tells us, in language more expressive than correct, that "both temperature and other demands...

Son.)—This is a romance, and, on the whole, a fair specimen of that kind of writing. Francis Neville finds the ring of Gygee, which had the wonderful property, as Horodotus...

in this story is " Paul Potter Goddard," a capital specimen of the Bohemian artist,—of the sham sort, that is to say, for he has not much more art about him than hie velvet...

T HE profound quiet which reigned in Paris on the Bastille fete day must not blind us to the unrest which exists in the great city. That quiet was produced by determined mili-...

If Lord Hartington were to retaliate,—which he certainly will not,—that the conduct of Sir George Trevelyan proves that he aims not at the settlement of the Irish Question on...

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T T would be very unwise not to draw a lesson of warning against anything like carelessness in organisation from the hy-elections which have just gone against the Unionists ;...

of the Right. As yet we see no reason whatever to distrust the Army. The soldiers no doubt are grateful to General Boulanger, but they are as much divided about politics as the...

THROUGH THE WORDSWORTH COUNTRY.* PROFESSOR KNIGIIT modestly assigns to his associate the chief share and credit of this work. The letterpress which he has contributed is...

REALITY and fancy are combined in this most delightful book with an almost ideal felicity. "Master Lepage" is a genuine French peasant of the "emancipated " kind. He is superior...

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Mn. HENTY continues to produce his four or five stories year by year with unfailing regularity. The evenness of quality which he contrives to maintain in this great quantity of...

IT is not often that we find the most skilful practical exponent of an art taking up his pen to describe it. Cicero, indeed, wrote a treatise—indeed, several treatises — on...

similarities of subject- matter and style, and that external resemblance which can be given by the printer and the bookbinder, make the public rank " Q." with Mr. Stevenson or...

central subject of this story. Hugh has his choice between arms and art- Shall he be a carver of stone, or n soldier 1 The former is his father's choice, and he makes it,...

o' the Fens Mr. Manville Fenn has very nearly attained perfection in the difficult art to which he has applied himself with such assiduity and success for some years,—of writing...

Society.)—It is easy to know what to expect from "a story of France at the period of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes." An old Huguenot noble is the chief character of the...

this story among the popular tales of French Flanders, as related by N. Dentin, and has rendered it into English "a little freely." M. Devlin, it is to be presumed, did not...

is a certain most commendable quality of solid worth in this magazine, the second collected volume of which we gladly welcome. Mr. Heath does not disdain fiction; indeed, he...

Butterworth. (Doan and Son.)—The " Zig-`Lag Club" at Yale School . bears a vast amount of information about the Western States. The Homestead Act is quoted and explained, and...

is a sea-story of the early years of the century, the days when, what with smugglers and Frenchmen, naval officers had a bony time of it. Smugglers and Frenchmen both play an...

palm for the balk of reading which it gives for the price, most at least come very near to doing so. We have more than eight hundred triple. columned pages, closely printed and...

is a handsome volume, with a great variety of reading, subordinated to the end which the title indicates, and really excellent illustrations. Nothing, indeed, is more remarkable...

Rabbeth. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Rabbeth has put into simple, pleasant prose the story of Spencer's great poem. The course which is sometimes possible in adapting such a work to...

to maintain its reputation. It shows an imposing list of contributors—every one now seems to write for the magazines, and the professional litterateurs scarcely show among the...

edition contains the original preface, a pleasant thing to read, with its tribute of gratitude to Sir Walter Scott, in whom Irving found a kind and helpful friend. The "...

this title we have the collected issue of Every Girl's Magazine for the current year. This periodical is now continued in the new magazine, Atalanta, of which we have had...

by the Anther of " Every Man His Own Mechanic" (Ward, Lock, and Co.), a periodical of which we have had occasion to speak more than once before_ One has only to dip at random...

by Andrew Lang. (Field and Taer.)—Though the name of Charles Lamb appears on the title.page of this pretty little reprint, it is by no means certain, as Mr. Lang remarks, that...

—This is as successful a story as Miss Dondney has ever written, and perhaps its success is due to the fact that she has been compelled by the limited apace allowed to her, to...

easy to say to which we should give the precedence. On the principle, how- ever, of place aux dames, we may mention first Fairy•Talea, by the Countess d'Anlnoy. Translated by...

Tract Society.)—Mr. Millington has now acquired a considerable reputation as a writer about and for public-school boys. His new book will add to that reputation, if only on...

us one of the most effective and quietly humorous of her stories. There is no plot to speak of, although the story contains an accident, an attack of fever, and a slight...

and Introduction by Austin Dobson. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We may hope that this sumptuous volume is a sign of better days for the pub. fishing trade. Some few years ago these...

may be commended as a good book for boys, not because it would appear to have been specially written to suit their intelligence and interests, but because it is a well-told...

an Italian child whom some strange chance has brought to the cottage of a New England fishermen. There a hereditary taste for art develops itself, somewhat to the disturbance of...

Pictures of Randolph Caldecott (Rontledge and Sons). Every one remembers those little love-stories or comedies told by the pencil, slightly aided by the pen. Here we have, after...

of the Magazine of Art (Cassell and Co.), that it is at least equal to the average of its predecessors. The frontispiece is an etching by M. Remus, after C. Van Haener's "...

Bacon, by Somerville Gibney (Ward and Downey), is one of the most readable, most carefully written, most compactly put together, and most life. like historical fictions we have...

able to tell a story well, has a pretty gift of humour, a gift much appreciated by the unhappy men who have to struggle with Christmas literature. These books have many good...

(National Society's Depository) is in all respects worthy of the reputation of the author of " The Heir of Radcliffe." It is a historical romance—powerful, but also painfully...

—A pretty little story, this, of how a young girl takes pity on a poor lad who has the love of music in his soul, but cannot find expression for it, brings him into her...

Co.), Dr. Gordon Stables seems to us to imitate Captain Marryat, especially as a humourist, in a more marked manner than he has hitherto done. A young Scotch Highlander, Willie...

B. Scott. (Nelson and Sons.)—The late Mr. David Scott illustrated the first part of the allegory ; and his work has been com- pleted, so as to include the second, by his...

(P. F. Shaw and Co.)—Mrs. Stanley Mather tells, with digressions some of which might be spared, the story of how little " Lion," a five-year-old boy, runs away, how he falls...

becomes a positive fanaticism in A Promise Kept, by M. E. Palgrav , (National Society's Depository). Stephen Searle is very angry, petty near the end of the story, with the...

Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh), does not err on the side of pro- lixity, although her story of Scotch farmers, Scotch gipsies, Scotch lovers, and Scotch ministers is somewhat...

Bays, by E. S. Brooke (Mackie and Son), may be bracketed together, on account both of a certain similarity of subject and of excellence in literary execution. The differences...

and well-written story of a self.saorificing girl with a self-indulgent brother, who, after a temporarily brilliant and suc- cessful career as a barrister, commits forgery, and,...

Co.), is a fairly good story of the "good" kind. There is a " haughty " squire in it who bears a slight resemblance to Lord Dorineourt in Mrs. Barnett's " Little Lord...

rather an incident in the life of a school-boy than an ordinary story of adventure. A boy runs away from school—for, it must bo allowed, better reasons than those usually...

Son), is a sufficiently lively but rather loosely constructed story of adventures in South Africa at the time of the Kaffir War. There is a delightful number of improbabilities,...

Ferrier, Edinburgh.) —This is an excellent example of Mr. Garrett's style and ethiccereligions purpose. ()Missy Miller, the daughter of a good man who has been led by an...

many respects, "Equal to the Occasion," although it contains a greater number and variety of characters. Miler Gaunt is just such another as Chrissy Miller, and after a period...

of Adam Gorlake's Will, by " C. E. /11." (S.P.C.K.),—it is unconscionably long. Arthur Gorlake, who, under Adam's will, becomes heir to that eccentric gentleman's property, is...

Hornibrook. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—Spanish eyes, Brazilian landscapes, and a romantic courtship give an almost worldly piquancy to this book. But it is a religious story all...

and Co.), we have a favourable example of this author's well-known style. She contrasts very skilfully George Rutherford, the strong, calmly Christian man, and his weak,...

Son, Dublin) is very unlike ordinary romances for English boys ; it belongs, indeed, to that class solely in virtue of its resemblance to books of adventure in America of the...

Sons.) —Dr. Archibald Didaskalos has a select academy, where he teaches seven very select young gentlemen. The seven, when reassembled after the Christmas holidays, are invited...

Isbister), is a collection of short biographical sketches, some of which have already appeared in one or other of the magazines published by Messrs. Ishister. There are eleven...

Stanford.)—Miss Buckley (to use the name which is so favourably known from successful popularising of science) has here reproduced a work by Professor Leatemann. The sketches...

F. Cowper, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—A tale of the seventh century. The country is represented as having lapsed into barbarism. Casiwalla, a descendant of one of the original Saxon...

Son.) —The heroine, a young lady who comes to take care of her father, sisters, and brothers, has au exalted idea of what an elder sister should be, and of the control she must...

good boy who works and who never goes wrong here meets no again. This time he has a mother who is unable to work and goes to the infirmary, while the boy comes up to London to...

Society.) —Miss Crabbe, who is rightly described as an "eccentric lady," leaves her collection of shells to her god-daughter, with an instruction that her whole fortune is to go...

and WincIns.)—Here we have a collection of twenty-two essays and papers contributed by the author at various times to newspapers and periodicals. Mr. Clark Russell's fact is as...

T HE essence of the debate on the new Irish Land Bill is contained in four speeches,—Mr. Balfour's, which is a most able exposition of the Bill ; Mr. Campbell-Bannerman s, which...

in- difference, as one of the sudden turns in a vane which has always been exceedingly variable. On the whole, the by-elec- tions ought to make us strain every nerve to impress...

Kroeker. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The success of the publication in English of a first series of fairy-tales from Brentano, has naturally led to the issue of a second series. The new...

Crake. (Mowbray, Oxford and London.)—Mr. Crake tells twelve stories of England before the Conquest, beginning with the fall of Anderids, at the close of the fifth century, and...

Burnside gives us sketches in prose and verse of various scenes connected with the four seasons of the year, and Mr. A. W. Cooper has illustrated them with various coloured...

and Stoughton), Dr. Macaulay repeats an experiment which be has already made several times with distinguished success. He tells a number of true tales. There are between thirty...

William Everard. (Blackie and Son.)—" Sir Walter" is the famous Minne- singer, Herr Walther von der Vogel weide, and makes, in Mr. Everard's band, a picturesque and interesting...

—Here we are told in verse which we cannot but think might have been conveniently exchanged for prose, how the Brownies imitate the occupations of human life. They ride on...

Nisbet and Co.) —A thoroughly interesting book, full of adventure and true daring. The touches describing the scenery and life in the Shetland Isles are fall of vigour. The "...

companion volnmee,—Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D.; and the Sunday Magazine, edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Iabialer and Co.) — One of the serial stories which...

Society.)—This is an interesting book for more than one reason. Mr. Standing is actually the Head-Master of the Boys' High-School belonging to the Friends' Mission at...

and Mitchell.)—A collection of school-tales, all of which are well told and furnished with an excellent moral. The first is perhaps the beat; it seem, indeed, to be familiar to...

not told where these stories come from, nor is there any hint of their authorship. But there is something in them that suggests a foreign origin. Gustavus Wasa, "the deliverer...

Partridge and Co.)—The main facts in the later life of the energetic Scotch missionary who, fighting his battles with no deadlier weapon than Gordon's cane, has lately morally...

Co.), —In this little story, a mother-cat sends forth her kittens, ' Flimsy and ' Dick,' into the world, in the company of her friend, the dog Trusty f and fall particulars are...

a box of very beautiful Christmas Cards of all kinds. The landscape ones seem to us some of the most graceful and attractive we have ever seen. Extremely pretty designs of...

the highest, must be reserved for St. Nicholas, con- ducted by Mary Mapes Dodge (T. Fisher Unwin). The jeans for the past year (ending in October) is, as usual, conveniently...

Taer and Charles E. Fagan. (Field and Tuer.)—This handsome volume, with its interesting illustrations and sumptuous paper and print, has obvious claims for a high place in...

Selected Essays from the Spectator, to which is prefixed an introductory essay by Mr. Alexander C. Ewart (Warne and Co.), giving the literary history of the Spectator, and...

Waithman. (Walter Scott.)—Mesers. Pearson and Waithman commend their volume to the reader by the terrible example of the forty-two thousand Ephraimites who perished because they...

By Como Monkhonse. (Cowell and Co.)—Mr. Coemo Monkhouse, always a sane art critic, was once, he tells us, asked by a stranger in the Early Italian Room at the National Gallery,...