21 OCTOBER 1893

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HERE is some news this week from Mashonaland. The Chartered Company's forces having defeated the enemy in two small battles, have effected their junction, and are mov- ing on...

* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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-4-- With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 4th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

The news from Austria is very strange. It is believed

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on all hands that Count Taaffe and his Emperor intend to recede from their determination to introduce a nearly universal suffrage. The nationalities, it appears, have caught our...

The New York correspondent of the Daily News, who is

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usually right, announces (October MI) that President Cleve- land has come to a most important resolution. He has resolved to set the Senate, and possibly the law, aside alto-...

France lost Marshal MaoMahon on Tuesday, the ex-President dying mainly

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of old age at eighty-five, one year older than Mr. Gladstone. He was a good but not great soldier, and an honest but vacillating politician, who owed his hold upon France,...

The event of the week on the Continent has been

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the reception of. the Russian Admiral and his officers in Paris. It was almost Royal. The Admiral was received on Tues- day at the railway station by representatives of all the...

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Though during the week a good many more miners have

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gone back to work at the old rates, the vast majority are still out—the men kicking to their old demand, and the masters requiring a 15 per cent. reduction as their irreducible...

Lord Waterford, in a speech in Berwickshire, on Thursday, pressed

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home one danger from Home-rule which has been very little discussed. . He thought any Home-rule Governs ment would stop recruiting in Ireland, and thus deprive the Empire of one...

The Crown Princess of Roumania has given birth to a

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son, an event of much interest to the Kingdom, where the perman- ence of the dynasty is of importance, and of some interest to Englishmen. The heirs to the Crowns of Germany,...

Mr. Asquith, on Tuesday, made a good speech at Glasgow,

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of which we have said almost enough elsewhere. The peroration is curiously fine, quite beyond Mr. Asquith's usual style, but public interest has fastened on a statement that Mr....

On Wednesday, at Dronero, in Piedmont, Signor Giolitti, the Italian

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Premier, made at a political banquet, attended by the whole of the Government and a great number of Deputies and Senators, an important statement as to Italy's policy. Italy's...

On Wednesday, Lord Salisbury made another speech, to the Ormskirk

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Habitation of the Primrose League. The passage of chief importance was that in which he drew attention to the necessity for maintaining the strength of the Navy. We must be...

On Tuesday, Lord Salisbury addressed a great public meet- ing

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at Preston. After noting that the country had suffered from a famine of discussion, rather than, as Mr. Gladstone complained, from a famine of legislation, he welcomed the...

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The London School Board, with its vast experience, finds it

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necessary to modify its ideas on the subject of corporal punishment. It hoped, we believe, once to do without it altogether, and that hope proving illusory, it entrusted the...

A letter in Monday's Times, signed by William Frazer, T.

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Lauder Brunton, and Malcolm M. McHardy, the th.•ee doctors attending Dr. Herz, draws attention to the position in which their patient is placed by the operation of the...

The unemployed and the Socialists are beginning, much to the

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scandal of the Gladstonians, to demand that some of the magnificent abstractions floated by them shall be reduced to cash down. On Monday, Sir Charles Russell met in Hackney...

On Saturday last, Lord Penhryn, as chairman of the North

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Wales Property Defence Association, gave evidence before the Welsh Land Commission. He denied most emphatically the suggestion, " made in a question in the syllabus of the...

On Wednesday, Lord Randolph Churchill addressed a Unionist meeting at

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Bedford, presided over by the Duke of Bedford. After hurling at the head of Mr. Whitbread, the sitting Member for the town, a series of extracts from the Spectator, Lord...

Bank Bate, 3 per cent.

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New Consols (21 1 ) were on Friday 98i.

The Times of Monday gives an interesting account of the

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revised Belgian Constitution, under which power will pass from 140,000 privileged electors to 1,200,000 citizens, and in which has been inserted a check never before attempted...

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TOPICS OF THE D.Y.

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THE SERIOUS SIDE OF THE FRENCH FJiTES. W E cannot help thinking that Punch, often as sharp- sighted as most humorists are, is this week gravely in error, and that the reception...

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MR. ASQUITH IN GLASGOW. T HE chief interest of Mr. Asquith's

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speech of Tuesday in Glasgow consists in the light it throws on his own character and views. He is supposed, it is true, to have made an important statement about next Session ;...

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ENGLAND AND MR. GLADSTONE. T HE letter from Mr. Gladstone which

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was read by Mr. Blake at the Irish-Day Celebration at the World's Fair, and which has only this week found its way into the English papers, is interesting, if for no other...

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THE WELSH LAND QUESTION.

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W E have no parti pris on the Welsh Land Question,— unless a general belief that two and two make four and not any more, and that the best way to prevent men making improvident...

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ITALY AND HER FINANCES.

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WHY is Italy so poor ? Her land is among the most productive in the world, and her climate on the whole is healthy and temperate. In other words, it is never too hot or too cold...

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A FACT. FROM BENGAL. T HE Indian Census for 1891, just

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completed by the revisers but not yet circulated, reveals, we are told, a fact which may prove of the highest political—and is certainly of the highest intellectual—interest....

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THE CHURCH AND THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL, In regard to

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parish schools and parish rooms there can, we think, be no doubt whatever as to the intention of the Government. They have invariably treated the Parish Councils Bill as in...

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should be cleared up beyond the possibility of mistake. to

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treat the accusation of cruelty in their way of It is not always easy to get an amending Bill passed, and killing animals for food as a new mode of persecution. It is in the...

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THE LUXURY OF DANGER. T HE rush of applications for employment

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as volunteers which is among the minor embarrassments of the Colonial Department whenever there is the slightest prospect of active service, has been diverted to the offices of...

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VERBAL POULTICES. T HERE is a certain class of mind which

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is as fond of abstract resolutions as old women are of poultices. They have an unshakable belief in the soothing effect of the outward application to the body politic of a...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MIRACLES. [To Tea EDITOR. OF TICE SPECTATOIL"] Sria,—As your correspondents have failed to apprehend my explanation of the origin of the miraculous story about Mal- ohus's ear,...

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DREAMS AND SMELLING.

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[To THE EDITOR Or TIII0 SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I must question the accuracy of " G. P. W.'s " state- ment, in the Spectator of October 14th, on the subject of "Dreams and Smelling." I...

SPARROWS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR," J STE, — Your correspondent, " F. C.," in the Spectator of August 26th, refers to the singular fancy which sparrows occasionally betray for...

THE GREEK SPIRIT AND MUSIC.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SpEcTsmon. " 3 SIR, — It seems to me that the statement in one of your notes in the Spectator of October 14th, in which you assert that all the arts are...

THE COAL CRISIS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sia,—In the interesting article on the coal crisis in the Spectator of October 14th, it is implied that a small rise in the price of coal...

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BOOKS.

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LIFE OF DR. PUSEY.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THIS first instalment of the long-expected Life of Dr. Pusey will have for the student of the great religious revival known as the Oxford...

POETRY.

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RAPPROCHEMENT. SA.Y the followers of the Rights of Man, " One man, one vote" is the only plan ; Says the Czar of Russia, I quite agree, " Ore man, one vote " is the plan for me.

A CORRECTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE ",.SPECTATOR." Sin,—In the Spectator of October 14th you mention that the new volume of the " Cabinet Portrait Gallery " contains a portrait of Mr. W....

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MR. SELOUS ON SOUTH-EAST AFRICA.*

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MR. SELOUS could hardly have better served the cause which he has so much at heart, and for which he has done and is now doing so much active work in the field, than by the pub-...

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THE LIFE OF MARY SMITH.* THIS curious and sententious little

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work must be regarded as another addition to the collection of literature which has risen from the ashes of Carlyle, and been, generally speaking, brought to the surface by the...

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A BLIND MAN ON BLINDNESS.*

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M. DE LA SIEERANNE'S touching book is not merely written to interest those who care for the blind philanthropically ; it is full of general and curious information, is even, in...

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LORD CLIVE.* PRospEno's instruction to Ariel, "Bring a corollary, rather

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than want a spirit," might have supplied a maxim for the decision to include Clive among the Rulers of India, in this series of Indian Historical Retrospects, of which Sir...

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CHALMERS.* THOMAS CHALMERS had a stormy youth, not in the

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ordinary sense of the word, for he was among the most blameless of men, but from what Mrs. Oliphant calls the " whirlwinds and tempest of thought" which swept over his soul....

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Women's Enterprise and Genius. By Annie M. Hone. (Hutchin- son

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and Co.)—Miss Hone tells us a number of stories, more or less familiar, about the way in which women have made them- selves useful or famous, and sometimes both, in literature,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. The Orchid-Seekers in Borneo. By Ashmore Russan and Frederic Boyle. (Chapman and Hall.)—It is rarely we find botany and adventure combined in so interesting a...

The Cruise of the Cormorant.' By A. Lee Knight. (Ward

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and Downey.)—This tale of adventure continues the story of some characters who have appeared in " The Rajah of Monkey Island." This fact the author takes care to remind us of...

The Little Mermaid, and other Tales. By Hans Christian Andersen.

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Translated by B. Nisbet Bain, Illustrated by R. Weguelin. (Lawrence and Sullen.) — Mr. Bain gives a short biography of Andersen, quite free, it must be allowed, from any...

Nicola; or, a Girl Musician. By M. Corbet-Seymour. (Blaokie and

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Son.)—This a pretty story of a musical foundling who becomes one of the family who adopt her, and tries to forget her birth and ignore the presence of a devoted half-brother....

For the Sake of the Siller, By Maggie Swan. (Oliphant,

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Anderson, and Ferrier.)—If this is a beginning—and we do not remember to have seen the name of " Maggie Swan " before—it is distinctly a promising one. The heroine, Effie, is...

Thirteen Black Pigs, and other Stories. By Mrs. Molosworth. (S.P.0

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K.)—Mrs. Molesworth is writing bore for very young readers, and is at her best. The eight stories are as good of their kind as they well can be. What are we to say of the young...

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Messrs. Mowbray, of Oxford and London, send us a collection

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of Word Christmas Cards, varying in price from sixpence to a penny. All seem to be well worth the money, the cheapest being, perhaps, the most conspicuously so. It would not be...