SWIFT.* THE best and most illuminating things said of Swift were said by himself. In one of his letters he tells us that "a person of great honour in Ireland. "—how...

LONDON: JUNE 24, 189,9.

IN The Taming of the Shrew, we have often thought that the weak point of Petruchio's method (besides an offensive brutality that would scarcely answer with modern damsels,...

may not unreasonably be asked, for a new biography of a woman who led a life so uneventful as Jane Austen? Did not her nephew confess that he had com- paratively little to...

of the eighteenth century were so crowded with momentous events in Europe, that the student of history has scarcely realised the importance of contemporary Indian affairs. The...

persons,—a man with a subject. There is no more precious gift in the present day ; the knowing something or other which nobody else knows—it does not matter much what it is...

man yet discovered reveal him as a social being far from unfamiliar with much more than the mere rudiments of civilisation. As modern research continually brings the so-called...

the execu- tive administer the law by authority delegated to them by the majority of the people. It may be doubted whether this lofty object is really attainable anywhere ; it...

Bird.) — This is a book which we could have very well done with- out. We can scarcely say that there is any harm in it, except that it has a tendency to vulgarise the subject....

LL.D. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This is a volume of much interest. Dr. Buckley inquires carefully into a number of facts and alleged facts, examines the conclusions which have been...

D.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—This is a learned and ingenious defence of the historical character of the Six Books, Dr. Briggs reviews the criticism that has been applied to them, and...

The Early History of Col e-Houses in England, with some Account of the first Use of Coffee, and a Bibliography of the Subject. By Edward Forbes Robinson, B.A. (Kegan Paul and...

Horton, M.A. (J. Clarke and Co.) — A distinguished minister of the communion which Mr. Horton adorns, once complained to the writer of this notice that his people "did not like...

Sunny South. By Oliver Osborn. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—It is a pity that the author's description of how be and a friend left their clerk- ships in the City to try...

(Griffith, Farran, and Co.) — A. very touching story is this of self-sacrifice and heroism,— indeed, the end is almost too tragic, the agony, if we may use the expression, is...

8 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—The three volumes published under the general title of Life's Tapestry comprise several stories which, whatever be their virtues—and they certainly...

Bird.)—Mr. Stoddart writes on a number of poets of the minor order. James Hogg, Bloomfield, Clare, Ebenezer Elliott, T. L. Beddoes, Thomas Love Peacock, and R. Monckton Milnes...

Marshall and Co., London.)—This is the kind of book that makes antiquarian writings a by-word for dullness and irrelevance. It has not even the merit of accuracy. "Alfred," we...

By Edwin Gordon Blackman. (C. C. Bristow, Adelaide.)—Mr. Blackman, who is Clerk of the Parliament in South Australia, has collected in this volume the decisions of two English...

Nash, M.A., and Charles Gore, M.A. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)— William Law, best known as the author of the "Serious Call," published, in 1717-19, three letters addressed to...

Winter is so complimentary to everything English, that the severest critic must be placated. When we come to "the lovely plain of classic Cambridge," we feel that the ne plus...

Owen. With Introduction by C. G. Leland. (T. Fisher Unwin.) —Miss Owen, for whose knowledge of the subject Mr. Leland vouches in the most emphatic way, introduces a council of...

and Son.)—It is not the" art-life" of Elsie or any one else that is the main subject of this story. Frank Clare is married to a certain Lady Georgina. Lady Georgina is in love...

Hughes-Hughes, M.A. (Bentley and Son), is a volume that speaks for itself. The editor prefixes a brief introduction, in which he sketches the history of the school since its...

—In this volume, one of the "Book-Lovers' Library," Mr. H. Wheatley, editor of the series, prefixes a bibliographical introduc- tion on the work of Mr. Blades, one of the...

Co.) — We have here a Report made to the Council of the Charity Organisation Society by a Special Committee. It gives a highly interesting view of some difficult questions....

Fisher Ilnwin.)—Mr. Horton's courage and candour in making this "attempt at reconstruction," to use his own description of his work, are worthy of the highest praise. He...

Hunt. (Eyre and Spoitiswoode )—We have to add "out of copyright," to make the selection of the twelve intelligible. Else why Mrs. Hemans and not Lord Tennyson P Even then, why...

Roberts. (Cassell and Co.)—There is some power in these eleven stories. In the first, which gives a name to the volume, a certain George Saxon makes a reputation by taking the...

Co.)—The world to which Mr. Dancer introduces us is not altogether like to the world which we know, but has distinct advantages over it. There are bad people in it, we regret to...

(Nisbet and Co.) — Mrs. Ellis's books, "The Women of England," with others of similar titles and on branches of the same subject, were highly popular a generation ago. They are...

Europa's School." (Brown, Salisbury.)—Mr. Fiddlebags, an assist- ant-master at a great school which is here called " Switchamt sends up one Charlie Tremlett, for a flogging....

and Co.)—Mr. Boddy, who is a North-country clergyman, paid a visit to the Arctic Sea, to Archangel, and to the Monastery of Solovetsk, and other famous spots. He has some- thing...

art of interviewing to a high pitch of per- fection. Apparently, he studies the special subject of every celebrity with whom he converses, just as an advocate gets up scientific...

and Son.)—This is a novel of no little merit. The heroine, with her resolute will and steadfast forgetfulness of self, is a fine study, and the minor character of the weak...

and Co., Cambridge ; Bell and Sons, London.)—This handbook has been, in a considerable degree, rewritten and generally brought up to date. It gives information about University...

"guide to the best reading" is drawn up with knowledge, care, and good-sense. Mr. Baldwin knows what he is talking about, and can give good advice as to what a student should...

Co.)—Mr. Harding has collected a number of special words. His lists will be found useful by those who want to test themselves or others. But how does he propose to spell "...

twice, with unsatisfactory results, a bride, and apparently is about to find happiness with her third husband, when a lurch of the ship, of which he is the captain, hurls her...

and Co.)—The "Heir" is not a very interesting person, except so far as the owner of enormous wealth is bound to be interest- ing. The theorist, who starts with great schemes for...

(Chatto and 1Vindus.)—There are some amusing things in this book, the interview between Noah and a German inspector of ships at Bremen being the most laughable, though there may...

"fantasies and sketches" seem to us but very poor stuff, only just within, if within at all, the limits of decency. But this is part of the newest conception of the literary art...

Campbell. (Methuen and Co,)—Professor Camp- bell is as well qualified as any scholar in this country to translate .tEschylus,—as far, at least, as his knowledge of Greek and hie...

tells a variety of stories, drawn from his own experience and from various other sources, personal and literary, about men, women, and plaCes in East Anglia. As usual, there are...

Street, Strand ; and Published by JOHN CAmpsuLL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Product of the On-soy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex at the !' BrneTeirou" Ogice No, 1...

results of the elections. The old " Liberal " Party, headed by Herr Richter, has practically been anni- hilated, no member belonging to it having been returned at the first...

Panama scandal was about to burst on France. M. Deroalecle and M. Millevoye declared in the Chamber that they were in possession of documents, which they would produce, showing...

watched ; for many able men are anxious to introduce the practice into England. It has, no doubt, the merit that no man can be returned to Parliament unless returned by a true...

I NTELLIGENCE was received in London on Friday afternoon of a great disaster to the Navy. The Vic- toria ' ironclad, of 10,400 tons, the flag-ship of the Mediter- ranean Fleet,...

hay-crop may be considered lost in France, England, 'Germany, and Hungary ; everywhere farmers are selling and killing beasts ; and everywhere the omnibus companies, tram...

case.

not to appear to be desiring war. It has just con- cluded a treaty of commerce with France, and is about to publish its details. It anticipates, however, that the Press will...

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of negotiating a treaty of arbitration with the United States. Sir John Lubbock, who seconded the resolution in a remarkably able speech, gave some striking figures as to the...

States Constitution is always treated by the Government as final in favour of any concession to the subordinate Legislature, it is quite ignored when its authority is against...

the Home-rule Bill, refusing to the Irish Legislature the right to make any law "whereby any person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law,"...

to the Financial Clauses, the effect of which is to turn his Bill inside out. In the first place, the new financial arrange- ment is only to last six years, and no change will...

amendment prohibiting the Irish Legislature from making laws affecting Trinity College, Dublin, or the. University of Dublin. The action of the Roman Catholic Church in 1873...

compensation for property either taken or "injuriously affected" by the Irish Legislature, was negatived by a majority of 34 (284 to 250), and one by Mr. if. Hobhouse insisting...

On Thursday, Mr. Cochrane moved an amendment intended to prevent the Irish Parliament from suppressing the Free- masons. Mr. Gladstone refused, however, to assent to the re-...

by the Unionist leaders, and was not denounced • at once by any party except the Parnellites ; but we can- not but think that it will be disastrous to the Govern- ment. In the...

Mozley, probably the oldest leader-writer in the world. Though he was con- nected with the whole Tractarian movement, and was for a time Newman's right hand, his real business...

the history of the three conspicuous Irishmen who had broken their hearts over the repeal of the Union, or something equivalent to it,—O'Connell, Butt, and Parnell. Now, Mr....

by the Indian Government on the recommendation of the Herschell Commission will be made public next week, and rupee paper is rising fast. According to the belief on 'Change, the...

treated the Linlithgowshire by-election as a clear sign of the turn of the tide in Scotland. He said that it was declared by their opponents to have been lost by the proposal to...

shares, viewed as a speculation, was brought out in a state- ment made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on Monday night, in answer to a question by Sir...

the Princess May, apparently intended to make out something very grand for her in that way. In this country, they are not in the least wanted. She is in the succession, and is a...

Friday 99.

HOW TO MAKE A " SUBORDINATE " LEGISLA- TURE IMPRACTICABLE. I T appears to us that the Government are aiming at the very compromise which is most certain to excite every kind of...

amazing thing about this Home-rule Bill is its ineptitude for its professed end, which is to restore to Ireland the national rights of which she has been deprived. It is like a...

M CLnMENCEAU has been suddenly and strangely • rehabilitated. He had suffered a disastrous, and we fear deserved, decline in general esteem, when an attack dictated by a kind of...

M R. GLADSTONE shows no sign of the hopelessness which the situation seems to justify. The Duke of Devonshire thinks his courage in circumstances so desperate deserving of the...

results are yet known, are an eminent example of the law that the misfortunes that happen are seldom those that you expect. No one can pretend that the composition of the new...

I T is a pity that the discussion in the House on Friday week got labelled "International Arbitration," for in reality it had very little to do with that Utopian fad. What the...

I T is probably not fair to the Master of University College, Oxford, to accept the report in the Times of Thursday week as adequately representing what he said of the...

W E all recognise differences of degree and kind in intel- lect much more easily than similar differences in imagination. Quite uneducated men perceive the former, and sometimes...

S URELY mankind has sufficient faults and failings of its own to answer for, without being called upon to assume the responsibility of animal failings as well. An American...

T HE present week marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Rev. Gilbert White, the author of "The Natural History of Selborne." He wrote but two books, and those of...

SIR WILFRID LAWSON ON THE VETO BILL. [To THE EDITOR 01 , THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Your article on the Hyde Park Veto Demonstra- tion, in the Spectator of June 17th, charges the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I confess to have taken up your article in the Spectator of June 17th, thinking to find that the candidates for Orders at the Trinity...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A somewhat similar incident to that recorded by Mr. Egerton in the Spectator of June 3rd took place some years back at Northrepps Hall, near Cromer, the seat...

"SPECTATOR."] 'SIR, —In the Spectator of March 11th appears a letter on the condition of the labourer here, and the rate of wages paid. I think it is a crying shame that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Si,—This subject is evidently pressing heavily on the hearts of those who have the care and oversight of the churches, and that, too, from...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As the story Mr. Fowler tells (in his "Echoes of Old County Life ") of Lord Southampton and Mr. Mowbray Morris has found its way into many reviews besides...

PICTURE GALLERIES AND A PORTFOLIO. AT the Fine Art Society's Galleries a collection is on view of drawings by Mr. Linley Sambourne. There are drawings- contributed to Punch...

A BALLAD OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS.. IN the coves of the Island of Treasure, On the tropical Beach of Falese, I have taken unlimited pleasure, Wafted there by a favouring breeze. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF TR& "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The number of birds—" dicky-birds," shall we call them ?—which are familiarly known by Christian names is probably much larger than your...

A LEAP IN THE DARK.* PROFESSOR DICEY is the Burke of our generation, and a Burke who never forgets to write and argue like a gentleman, —a Burke, too, whose pages are never...

a thoroughly good romance which will take them into a world far removed from the familiar trivialities of the modern novel of society, they cannot do better than betake...

of Newcastle, written by his Duchess, has appeared in five different editions. Originally printed as a thin folio in 1667, it was translated the next year into Latin, then...

DR. BnowN informs us in his preface that the present work is intended to form one of a series of compilations on the Ethnography of Northern Europe, suited for popular study;...

republic of letters if he had done nothing but bring th6 South Seas into fashion again. Our fathers and grandfathers revelled in the stories of that wonderful region "to the...

apology is needed in this instance for writing a book on one who is yet among us ; and he adds that "Mr. Ruskin has been public property, so to say, for more than half a...

Long, and Co.)—Mr. Lusted's prose and verso are alike sadly com- monplace. Here is the beginning of an essay on " Knowledge " :— "The beauties and advantages of knowledge are...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. and Mrs. Pennell were very much pleased with the eople and the country of Provence, and express this pleasure in a way that makes their readers feel some...

Black.)—This is intended as a serious—indeed, a painfully serious—book. And yet it is hardly possible not to smile at the absurdities associated with the scoundrel-villain of...

and Bullen.)—There is a great deal of cleverness, and a good deal of human nature as well, in this rather dismal story of discontent, dullness, and death. But largo capitals are...

from the original by Arthur A. Sykes. (Walter Scott.)—The plot of Gogol's comedy is simple in the .extreme. The officials of a Russian town, a corrupt and oppressive set—this is...

The Princeby Ohandos : a Memoir. By John Robert Robinson. .(Sampson Low and Co.)—The "Princely Chandos " would pro- bably have been forgotten by this time but for the savage...

—Some of the more familiar illustrations of mechanics in our sur- roundings are taken by Mr. Sells and thoroughly explained, somewhat technically, be it said, and abstraDtedly;...

a very clever and startling experiment in fiction, although its readers may be reminded of certain old-fashioned stories of the "Paul and Virginia" kind. An Archduke, who is...

Charles E. Paget. (Macmillan and Bowes, Carobridge.)—Sir George Paget spent much of his time and power in teaching and adminis- trative work, and carried on at the same time a...

and Co.)—The preface to this little voluine states that it is "compiled chiefly from notes of lectures on 'Town Gardening,' given at the Portman Rooms in the spring of 1891, and...

is a useful, informing, and interesting, rather than original, book,—based on careful reading, and free from viewiness. Mr. Mackinnon, like everybody else, has his own...

is evidently a very good piece of translation, but the wisdom of its publication may be questioned. It is un- mitigated. Italian Zolaism, an unrelieved picture of moral squalor....

a very clever and amusing book, although the writer is per. haps a trifle too anxious to manufacture fun of the kind favoured by audiences that gloat over opera-bouffe. Thus...