MR. JUSTIN McCARTHY'S REMINISCENCES.* TICE contrast between Mr. Justin McCarthy's character and his fortunes is one of the oddest things imaginable. He has spent the greater...

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the religious and ecclesias- tical history of the United States is precisely that which tends, at the first blush, to repel the interest of the ordinary Englishman, perhaps of...

addresses by Dr. Dale, issued under the editorship of his son, reflects the characteristic opinions of the author with an accuracy not always found in collections of...

the world pre- sents nowadays to the student of those larger causes which must give a tendency and direction to the stream of progress, is what is likely to be the distinctive...

A Selection from the Poetry of Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton. With an Introduction by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M.A. (J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d.)—By way of apology for a...

Unwin. 2s.)—We do not quite see why these sketches should be included in the " Overseas Library," whose aim, as the editor informs us, " is to print literature from any quarter...

in tjganda, Sporting Adventures, and other Experiences. By W. J. Ansorge, Medical Officer to her Majesty's Government in Uganda. With Illustrations from Photographs by the...

Illustrations. (Hutchinson and Co. 28s.)—This book professes to be a record of Nelson's friendships, which were many and honour. able ; it is really an account of his relations...

trations. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A book full of interest and worthy of high praise is Mr. Meldrum's Holland. It deals with a famous country and a valiant people, for...

Siebert, Associate Professor of European History in Ohio State University. (Macmillan and Co. 17s.)—Professor Siebert writes of a fascinating subject, but we cannot praise...

ls.)— We cordially recommend this very pretty little paper-covered volume to all those who are interested in the work of a man whose poetry is always accomplished and finely...

Perceiving. By E. H. Aitken. (J. Murray. 6s.)—We are sorry that, through in- advertence, we have left this very charming and instructive book so long unnoticed. It consists of a...

Bour- gogne, Blanche de Navarre, Jeanne d' Auvergne et de Boulogne. ' By Catherine Bearne. Illustrated by Edward H. Bearne. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—Only those who have done...

By Constance Hill. With 12 Portraits and a Frontispiece. (W. Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—This is an interesting book on an interesting subject. The latter part of the seventeenth and...

6s.)—The first point which strikes home in this book from the other side of the world is that its illustrations are more taking than any illustrations we know of such books in...

Stubbs, D.D., Dean of Ely. (Blackie and Son. 2s. 6d.)— This volume appears in the Victorian Era Series" ; and its contents are better described by its second title, " The...

Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—The story of how the Americans sunk their own coaling ship with the intention of blocking the harbour of Santiago is told it this volume by the man who...

Bird. 5s.)—The " corner " of Spain is Gibraltar, Malaga, and Seville ; the bulk of the book is devoted to Malaga, only the earlier and closing chapters to the other towns. We...

British officer has, in the ordinary course of service, a fair opportunity of testing extremes of climate and seeing men and cities under the most varied conditions of both ;...

Review. (Elliot Stock. 6s.)—This is a vehement protest against the practice, which is so common, of using arms to which the bearer has no right. It is rather the custom nowadays...

German of Georg Schweitzer. 2 vols. (Constable and Co. 32s.)—So much that was contradictory had been written as to the history and character of the German savant, best known as...

Co. 10s.)—The chief fault to be found with this pleasing and interesting volume of studies with pen and pencil in the Vaudois Valleys of Piedmont is the form into which it has...

University Press. 5s.)—This new work by the author of the well- known biographies of Knox and Buchanan promises when com- pleted, unless indeed in turn it is to be superseded by...

French by Lady Mary Loyd. (William Heinemann. 12s.) —It may be questioned whether Lady Mary Loyd's undoubted powers as a translator have been put to good purpose in reproducing...

6s.)—We doubt if it was wise to preface this "pedestrian" narrative by Dr. Johnson's matchless poetical epitome of the Life of " Swedish Charles," whereby the reader's mind is...

Blackwood and Sons. Gs.)—There is a distinct need of such a book as this might have been—a plain record of a seaman's life on board a cargo-steamer of to-day—but we cannot...

16s.)— This lively book, which is yet serious even to the verge of dogmatism, is not written, the author is careful to explain, for "the expert," but for readers who, knowing a...

F.R.G.S. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—A nice-looking book with rough edges, artistically bound, and effectively illustrated, but rather a budget of odds and ends, a mosaic of...

B. Annan and Co., Glasgow. £3 3s.)—This singularly well-got- tip, beautifully printed, and admirably illustrated volume is a memorial of the very successful Burns Exhibition...

Robert Means Lawrence, M.D. (Gay and Bird. 7s. 6d.)—It is well known to all of us that superstitions connected with the horse-shoe exist in most parts of the world, and have...

and Ferrier. 4s.)—Under this perhaps too rhetorical title an enthusiastic and well-read Scotch antiquary gives an account of the curious little islands in the Firth of Forth,...

Sources. By Sir William Muir, K.C.S.I. Third edition. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 16s.)—The third edition of Sir William Muir's history of the Caliphate is simply a reproduction of...

Several volumes of the " Cambridge Natural History " have already appeared, and they have been welcomed as valuable contributions to the modern literature of zoology. Mr....

(W. Blackwood and Sons. 12s. 6d.)—This is one of the best-written books that has been published about West Africa, and Mr. Bindloss tells several interesting stories very well....

F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock, M.A. (S.P.C.K. 3a.)— Mr. Hitchcock very properly begins with a succinct account of Alexandria ; he discusses the philosophical speculations of Philo,...

Lomas. Eleventh Edition. (A. and C. Black. 15s.)—The eleventh edition of this favourite guide-book has been corrected and brought up to date by the personal travel and...

and Co. 6s.)—These sermons are all marked by the great earnest- ness that distinguished Dr. Hort as a preacher, and by the careful scholarship that has made his name famous...

Barbe. Illustrated by A. J. Wall. (Elliot Stock. 3s.6d.)—It is almost a misnomer to call Ws pretty little volume In Modern Spain. Of the seven illustrations, one represents...

Co. 6s.)—An American clergyman, despatched by an American newspaper proprietor and the Sultan, of Turkey himself to inquire into the Armenian question, hardly offers a guarantee...

Illus- trations. (Debenhain and Freebody. 32s.)—Mr. Cole begins by giving a short account of the history of silk. It was unknown to the Greeks and early Romans, and "it is said...

Wright. (Cornbridge, Birmingham. 7s. 6d. net.)—This volume be- longs to a series that well deserves its name of " Dainty." It is well printed on good paper, and is of a...

Illustra- tions by Paul Woodroffe. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 610—The dainty " Temple Classics " edition of the " Fioretti," which ap- peared only last year, seems to leave...

J. Wyatt. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Tales of the Heroic Ages: Siegfried and Beowulf. By Zenaide A. Ragozin. (Putnam's Sons.) —It is interesting to compare these two books and to...

(John Murray. 3s. 6d.)—This book of sermons is mure remarkable from its promise than for its actual performance. Almost every sermon contains some illuminating tam* or happy...

Co. 5s.)-Miss Crawford introduces En g lish readers to a variety of authors, some of whom will certainly be stran g e to many. Most of us have heard of Maeterlinck and admired...

will have serious political consequences in America. Those who oppose the annexation of the islands are now joined by those who believe the war to be mismanaged, and the...

uneasiness during the past week owing to the immense difficulties en- countered in the formation of a Ministry. After, however, many failures, an outbreak of furious...

interest, for it is the nearest approach to what we should call a Coalition Ministry that has yet been formed in France. It is a body of men of different, or rather...

T HERE is little fresh news from South Africa, though there has been a good deal of " heady " talk both here and in the Transvaal about preparations for war and plans of...

Budget. He accepts the Cuban and Philip- pine Debt, thus raising the total National Debt to three hundred and eighty millions sterling, but reduces the interest on the Cuban...

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as is usual at this period of the Session, for the whole time of the House for Government measures, and made a statement as to public business. Besides Departmental and more or...

a division was taken on the use of the dum-dum bullet. In spite of the explanation of Sir John Ardagh, who showed that the effect of the bullet was not as represented, and that...

a ten minutes' speech. The Bill makes a clerical tithe owner liable, in future, to pay rates only on half the tithe- rent charge, or its equivalent. The other half will be...

produced this week a heavy fall on the Bourse of Vienna, and agita- tion in most of the cities of the Empire. Francis Joseph, who it must be remembered will be sixty-nine in...

Grbst , enoi Hobse on Thursday, the Duke of Westminster in the chair, a movement was started for the purchase of the Lakes of Killarney as a national park. We most sincerely...

Bill into the House of Lords. It was welcomed by Lord Tweed mouth as in no sense a party measure. Lord Onslow gladly accepted the proposal to treat the Bill in a non-party...

somewhat confused, seem to show that mediation is given up, and that nothing will be done towards reduction of armaments, but that the idea of arbitration in minor cases makes...

of the Home-rule candidate, Mr. Dewar, and the gain of a seat by the Opposition. Mr. Dewar polled 5,820 votes and General Wauchope 4,989,—majority, 831. In 1895 Mr. Cox, a...

lake asserts that "the States of the world will learn with astonishment, if the Spectator should be read in their Foreign Offices, that the right of entry and residence secured...

the Transvaal crisis at a garden party given by the Liberal and Radical Council at Ilford. There was nothing, he declared, which had occurred to justify either warlike action or...

cause of a good deal of discussion. In 1892 Mr. Rhodes was offered a D.C.L. He accepted, but asked leave to defer the ceremony of taking the degree. He never found time during...

speech on education, the occasion being the " speech day " at Leys School, which has now become the Wesleyan public school. After some remarks on the value of public schools,...

or against Federation has resulted in a very large majority in favour of the creation of the Commonwealth. It is expected that the Victorian referendum, which will be taken next...

Friday 108.

TREASON AND LOYALTY IN SOUTH AFRICA. I F things are no better in South Africa they are certainly no worse, and we can still say that the Transvaal has not definitely refused to...

a hurry over their great task in the Philippines. They imagined, we fancy, that Spanish government having been so bad, the Tagals, the dominant race in Luzon, would welcome them...

M R. BALFOUR'S announcement that the Govern- ment intend to bring in this Session a Clerical Tithe Bill, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's ominous reception of the...

Ministerial crisis in France are very useful reading for Englishmen. They show us what we have to expect unless we are wise enough to take t - oem as indications of what to...

T HEproblem of the Transvaal is not the only one which the English have to solve in South Africa. There is a much bigger one immediately behind it, hidden for the moment by the...

A LMOST all men who speak in public on the training of the young, even when they are as able as Mr. Balfour, or as earnest as the Bishop of Hereford, who have been talking on...

L ORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY contrived, as Lord Salisbury said in his humorous speech on Monday, to surround the question of the Royal Academy "with a graceful haze of irrelevant...

T HE revival of gardening is among the most interesting movements in the outdoor life of modern England. It is more than a revival, for the flower-garden of to-day is more...

A PORPOISE MYTH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Far away to the horizon on three sides of us stretched the sea, its wavelets all sparkling in the sun-glade, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Now that there appears to be a prospect of some breathing space being given before the possible employment of what the Times...

THE MARDI'S TOMB. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—They are not the best guardians of Gordon's good name who insist on his impeccability; and my censor's letter comes...

me to say that I cannot but think that your thoughtful correspondent of last week on this subject makes a—not unnatural—mistake. May I ven- ture to ask him and your readers...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. C. H. Fox's letter in the Spectator of June 17th in- volves a fallacy which is for ever cropping up like the heads of the hydra. It...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —There is an aspect of " the case for the Transvaal" which I think, with great deference, did not find sufficient space in your leading article of last...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR.,—May I be permitted to draw a parallel in your paper between the Peace Conference now being held at the Hague and the Holy Alliance of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The statement by Mr. Charles W. Fox in the Spectator of June 17th, that an honourable nation, like an honourable individual, would be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of June 10th a correspondent, " X.," has seen fit to give expression to his views concerning certain portions of the...

SIR. —In reading your article on " The Ladder of Learning" in the Spectator of June 17th, I notice no reference is made to the system in vogue in Wales, which is admitted to be...

your interesting article on "The Ladder of Learn- ing" in the Spectator of June 17th, you imply that it is somewhat exceptional, if not unique, for a boy who has spent his early...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to your article, "The Ladder of Learning," in the Spectator of Jane 17th, it may be of interest to note the first-fruits of...

SIR,—In an interesting article in the Spectator of June 17th reference is made to Mr. Birtwistle's triumphal progress from a Wesleyan day-school to the honour of Senior Wrangler...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a specimen of the lapidary style the following epitaph, composed by the late Bishop Wordsworth, of St. Andrews, for his wife's grave...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the testimony given by the late most eminent surgeon, Mr. Lawson Tait, to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am as well aware as " Ligurinus Chloris " is, that the greenfinch winters in England, but I know too that a pair which used to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The only obstacle in the way of your scheme of old-age pensions is that under the present regime many societies would find a difficulty...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—May I be allowed to suggest that the best instances of the lapidary style in English are to be found, not in epitaphs, but on the...

"GRACE FOR LIGHT." WHEN we were little childer we had a gnat* wee house, Away up in the heather by the bead o' Brabla' burn; The hares we'd see them scootin', an' we'd hear the...

JOWETT'S CORRESPONDENCE.* THE more one learns about Jowett, the more one grows to respect and love his character. To the outer world he was always more or less the learned...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of June 3rd Mr. P. de Jersey Grut supplies a revised version of the above quotation. As this rectification would make...

of Mr. Gladstone cannot be expected for some time, the present volume will find a hearty welcome from many readers. It labours under the disadvan- tage of being the work of...

puzzles; lauded by hie own side, vilified most strenuously by his enemies, he has hidden his true character from ne in a mist of exaggeration. To believe all that is told of him...

WE have no hesitation in saying that all novel-readers who love the sea, and do not object to a certain amount of coarse- ness in language and brutality in treatment—a...

Co. 6s.) —Professor Mahaffy has had a somewhat thankless task in telling the story of the Ptolemies. There was a certain mediocrity about the dynasty even when it was at its...

With a Memoir by his Son, H. R. Reichel. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Dr. Reichel held the See of Meath but for a short time, being appointed in 1885, and dying in 1894. Of his work...

H. D. Rawnsley. (Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow. 58.)—Canon Rawnsley describes various natural scenes, landscapes, and the life which haunts them, as in the paper, " After the...

Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—M. Thomas is quite right in thinking that such books as " Gallus " have had their day. They had "a monstrous quantity of sack to a ha'porth of bread." The tale...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Reminiscences of a Professional Politician....

16s.)—Mr. Ransoms gives many useful hints to the traveller in Japan,—how he should manage affairs at an hotel, where the manners and customs are decidedly embarrassing ; what...

Hulme- Beaman. (Methuen and Co. ls.)—The author hopes that his treatise will "spread the taste for Bridge." We do not wish him ill, but we hope that this object will not be...

of the most astonishing among recent discoveries in science may be found in Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases, by T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)

bridge. 3s. 6d.)—A volume of clever sketches. Indeed, there is more than cleverness in them. There is feeling, often expressed with no little subtlety and skill, and plenty of...

University Press. 5s. net.)— The editor gives an interesting account of the various fragments of the MS.,—that marked in the Catalogue of Codices as "N." Of this fourty-five...

(H. Young and Sons, Liverpool.)—Mr. Farrie's verse is above the average, especially in " The Happiest Lover," and some of his translations are ingenious. Here are the last two...

Robinson, K.C.M.G. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. net.)—This is an enlarged reprint of a paper read before the Royal Colonial Institute. The writer discusses various questions that...

" Florizel," we may explain, is meant the Prince who afterwards became George IV., and by " Florizel's Folly" the Pavilion of Brighton. " Florizel" was not the first of his...

Low, Marston, and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Brown is a citizen of the United States, who went out as naturalist to an expedi- tion sent by the American Government to West Africa, and...

by William J. Tate (Jerrold and Sons, 3s. 6d.) Mr. Tate tells us how we may find nuts, blackberries, and mush- rooms, and informs us what sport we may have in the way of sea-...