26 JANUARY 1889

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On the strengthening of the Navy Mr. Morley gave forth

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a very uncertain sound. It looks as if he meant to throw all possible difficulties in the way, while protesting that he is as anxious for a strong Navy as the Government. But...

Mr. John Morley made a great speech at Sheffield on

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Tuesday, in which he sang a song of triumph over the Govan election. We ourselves told Lord Salisbury, when he spoke of Scotland's having come round to Unionist views, that we...

Lord Derby made an admirable speech on Wednesday at a

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Unionist demonstration in the skating rink at Ashton-under- Lyne. He maintained that the objection of the Liberal Unionists to give up the name of Liberals was most natural,...

Although the negotiations between the Indian Government and Tibet have

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been broken off, there is still hope that an arrangement may be made. The Chinese Government is evidently dissatisfied with the management of its Envoy at Darjeeling, who has...

Mr. Chamberlain made a most successful speech at Birmingham on

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Wednesday, in which his first point was that he found the prominence of the Irish Question dis- tinctly declining. Mr. Morley and his leader were both putting forward other...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE contest between General Boulanger and M. Jacques for the vacant seat in Paris will be decided to-morrow ; but, owing to the enormous number of the electorate, which...

• , a # The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any case.

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Lord Rosebery made a poor and rather tedious speech at

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Scarborough on Wednesday, on the Irish Question. He said that he did not attach much importance to by-elections, but talked• about the victory at Govan for at least a quarter of...

A step has been taken in Washington which, as we

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explain elsewhere, probably marks an important change in the drift of American opinion. The House of Representatives recently appointed' a Committee to inquire into immigration,...

Mr. Chamberlain made a very strong appeal to the Govern-

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ment to establish free schools, which he proposes to do without interfering with the denominational schools, by adding the usual fees for attendance to the Government grant....

The first duty of the Chairman of the new London

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Council will be to restrict discussion to the business the Council is in- tended to do, and so preventit from degenerating into a debating society. There is an idea abroad that,...

The most interesting evidence taken before the Parnell Commission this

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week has been that of Patrick J. Farragher, from County Mayo, who, after having refused to pay his rent, and consequently having, been evicted from his farm, was pro- mised, and...

A great controversy has been raging this week as to

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how the County Aldermen should be chosen,—from amongst the members popularly elected, or from outside. Our own view is very clear that the object should be to find upright men...

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It is not very easy to say what the drift

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of the discussion on free dinners at Thursday's meeting of the London School Board, really was. Some of those who supported the resolution, —especially Mrs. Besant, who herself...

The newspapers have been making much of the Samoan affair,

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but its actual importance does not, we think, increase. The United States Senate is supporting the President, and there is a good deal of talk about secret agreements between...

It is stated in the New York Evening Post, a

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most moderate journal not given to sensationalism, that Prince Bismarck undoubtedly did recently desire to annex Samoa. Three years ago, he requested a German of great rank, and...

The Lord Mayor gave a great banquet on Thursday to

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Mr. Phelps, the departing American Minister, a diplomatist who, although he had, as Mr. Lecky said, the misfortune to succeed Mr. Lowell, has attracted to himself a strong...

A Mansion House Fund has been opened for the relief

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of the districts stricken with famine in China, and every one who wishes can subscribe. The Lord Mayor was obviously reluctant to give his consent, but was overborne by local...

Mr. Chamberlain has had a little controversy with Mr. Alfred

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C. Osier, the President of the Birmingham Liberal Association, on the rather bitter controversial style of the discussions between the Birmingham Unionists and the Birmingham...

Bank Bate, 31 per cent.

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New Consols (2k) were on Friday 991 to 99t.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. MORLEY AT SHEFFIELD. A VERY few months ago, if any well-informed reader's eye chanced to light on a speech of Mr. Morley's on the Irish Question without knowing who the...

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UNIONISM AND THE EMPIRE.

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I T has always been to us a subject of some surprise that the English people, with its long history of victory and its amazing present Empire, has been so little struck with the...

THE COMING MASS-VOTE IN PARIS.

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T HERE is a real interest for the historian as well as the politician in the election which will be decided to-morrow by the four hundred thousand voters of the Department of...

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THE DECAY OF POLITICAL CARICATURE.

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THE death of Carlo Pellegrini, one of our ablest _L, caricaturists, who twenty years ago was at the head of the caricaturists of this country, and who probably made the fortune...

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IRE RESTRICTION OF EMIGRATION. T HE Bill just submitted to Congress

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by the Immi- gration Committee of the House of Representatives is, we believe, the first of a series of enactments which will ultimately prohibit or seriously restrict...

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THE FOUNDING OF A COLONY.

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S IR WALTER SCOTT'S old laird tells his son to plant trees, because " while we're sleeping they're growing." The British elector may look with somewhat similar feelings upon his...

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THE POETRY OF MELANCHOLY.

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TT is perhaps curious, but it is, we think, almost certainly true, at least in England, that the lyrical poetry which gives most pleasure in any age is the poetry which...

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TRIVIAL INCIDENTS.

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H AT may be deemed a trivial incident? What is an occurrence of serious importance P Those who have observed life most closely will probably be the least able to furnish to...

CONVENTIONAL COUNSEL.

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A MIDST the deluge of discourses now poured forth every day almost to the drowning of thought, there is one class of speech which we seem to miss,—the speech in which the old...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE REV. CHURCHILL BABINGTON, D.D. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Others have spoken of the services which Dr. Babington rendered to archaeology and to natural...

THE " EVIL EYE."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue (just received) of December 22nd, 1888, the writer of the article on "The Evil Eye" refers to the un- willingness of...

" SMILES " OR " LAUGHTER P" [To THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the interesting article on "Laughter," in the Spectator of January 19th, I observe that your contributor translates. both yiAcariza and 7eXciaceact...

" GRIN LIKE A DOG."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—May I point out that the Psalmist did not say, " grin like a dog," nor even the Authorised Version, but only the- Prayer-Book version ?...

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BOOKS.

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SOUTHWARK AS IT WAS.* How pleasant is the sustaining enthusiasm of a genuine antiquary, who collects an infinite variety of details by diligent search in the lumber-rooms of...

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RECENT NOVELS.* The Legacy of Cain is by no means

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one of Mr. Wilkie Collins's beP+ novels ; but it remind us of one of his best novels, for in one respect its intellectual scheme is very similar to the intel- lectual scheme of...

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RENDALL ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.* ." IT appears,"

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says Dr. Salmon, " with certainty, on com- parison of the substance and the language, that the doctrine of the Epistle to the Hebrews is altogether Pauline." We confess to...

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SIR P. MAGNUS ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.* Taouna this book only

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professes to contain the subject- matter of articles and addresses written and delivered on different occasions, ib still possesses a high value, giving as it does, within a...

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MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION.*

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MORE than a hundred years ago, long before the science of anthropology was ushered into existence, Fontenelle, the nephew of Corneille, applied the anthropological method to the...

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Hasell's Annual for 1889. Edited by E. D. Pine. (Hazen,

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Watson, and Viney.)—The editor explains that he has altered the title of this annual, which now appears for the fourth time, to "A Cyclopedic Record of Men and Topics of the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Church Quarterly Review. January. (Spottiswoode and Co.)— The best articles in this number, we are inclined to think, aro those on " The Religious Opinions of S. T. Coleridge,"...

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Expositions. By the Rev. Samuel Cox, D.D. Vol. IV. (T.

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Fisher Unwin.)—This is the fourth, and, we are sorry to say, the last, of Mr. Cox's admirable Expositions. They have certainly had a succds d'estime, and that of no common kind....

The Year's Art, 1889. Compiled by Marcus B. Huish. (J.

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S. Virtue.)—The contents of this volume are large in bulk and varied in kind. The " National Museums " occupy the first place. We have under this head a record of what has been...

Vanity Fair Album. Vol. XX. (Vanity Fair Office.) — This twentieth "Show

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of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day," is naturally very muoh like those that have been exhibited before. The demand for celebrities to fill up fifty-two pages,...

The San: a Family. Magazine for General Reading. (Nisbet and

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Co.)—This is the first volume (including the eight months, May to December) of a new venture. We wish it all prosperity. It gives an abundance of good matter, contributed by...

Greater London and its Government, by George Whale (T. Fisher

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Unwin), is described in its title as " A Manual and Year-Book for Electors, Citizens, and Ratepayers, and for Members of the County Council of London, City Corporation, School...

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The Tariff and its Evils. By John H. Allen. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons.)—This volume, the fifty-third of the series entitled " Questions of the Day," is a formidable indictment of the Protectionist system of the United States...

An Imperfect Gentleman. By Katharine Lee. 3 vols. (Long- mans.)—We

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suppose that comparatively few readers belonging to this generation know Mr. Samuel Warren's " Ten Thousand a Year." Those who do will have a fairly good idea of the story of An...

Books and Men. By Agnes Replier. (Houghton and Co., Boston,

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U.S.A., and New York.)—Miss Replier has certainly no little skill in the art of essay-writing, an art which, indeed, is cultivated, we fancy, with more success on the other side...

Gilds : their Origin, Constitution, Objects, and Later History. By

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the late Cornelius Walford. (G. Redway.)—In this "new and en- larged edition," we have brought together a vast amount of curious information collected by the author, one of the...

Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland

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for 1889. (Whittaker and Co.)—This well-known perio- dical has now reached its forty-ninth year. It reaches to nearly a thousand pages, and gives copious information on all the...

[For Publications of the Week see page 128.]

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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TO the prrtator FOR THE No. 3,161.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1889. [ REGISTERED FOR }GRATIS- TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

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BOOKS.

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LA MAR TINE .* IT is time that an impartial estimate should be made of Lamartine, and this volume sketches agreeably the life of a man whose political failure may well be...

Litrrarp Oupplantitt.

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LONDON: JANUARY 26, 1889.

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HAMPTON COURT PALACE IN STUART TIMES.* Mn. LAW'S original intention

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was to complete his work on Hampton Court Palace in two volumes, but finding he could not do this without sacrificing important matter, he stopped the new volume at the death of...

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HOLLAND.*

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HOLLAND, the " Holl " or " Low " Land, is the creation of the Rhine. " Its uplands," said Napoleon, " are mine by right of conquest ; its lowlands, which owe their existence to...

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GORE'S "CHURCH AND MINISTRY."*

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IT is not too much to say that this book lays the whole of the English public which is interested in theological—nay, in religious matters, under deep obligation. The great...

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THE TSHI-SPEASING- PEOPLES.* IN reviewing Major Ellis's West African Islands,

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we remarked (Spectator, June 20th,1885), "This volume is pleasanter reading, because the style is maturer, and the manner more sober, than its two predecessors, West African...

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The Riverside Natural History. Edited by John Sterling Kingsley. Illustrated

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by more than 2,200 Woodcuts in the Text, 168 Full- Page Engravings, and 12 Plates in Colour. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—It may be doubted if there has ever been published a...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Random Recollections of Courts and Society. By " Cosmopolitan." (Ward and Downey.)—" Cosmopolitan" has nothing to say about our own Court, but he has a good many stories to...

The "Bedford Edition" of The Works of William Shakepeare is

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published by Messrs. F. Warne and Co. It consists of twelve volumes, very neatly and clearly printed on excellent paper. The so-called illustrations with which these editions...

The Morland.s : a Tale of Anglo - Indian Life. By the

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Author of " Sleepy Sketches." (Sampson Low and Co.)—The Anglo-Indian character in this book is very strongly developed, so strongly that it is difficult for one who has not had...

We may mention together three volumes of biography, each highly

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instructive in its way. Truth for its Own Sake : the Story of Charles Darwin. By W. Mawer, F.G.S. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—It strikes us that Mr. Mawer is not quits fair to...

The School Pronouncer. By W. H. P. Phyfe. (G. P.

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Putnam's Sons.)—This is described as being "based on Webster's Un- abridged Dictionary" as "a guide to correct pronunciation by means of exercises in the elementary sounds and...

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Life of George Maxwell Gordon. By Arthur Lewis. (Seeley and

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Co.)—This is a plain history of a manly, simple-minded missionary, who laboured at his own charges for the Church Missionary Society a short time in South India, and for about...

An Edinburgh Eleven. By Gavin Ogilvy. (British Weekly Office.)—Mr. J.

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M. Barrie—for we gather from the second page of this booklet that " Gavin Ogilvy " is the nom do plume of the author of " Auld Licht Idylls "—is in danger, like so many young...

We are very glad to recognise the moral, religious, and

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even political earnestness of Mr. Samuel Fothergill, as shown in his Essays on Popular Subjects (Digby and Long), which include " Gladstone, Ritualism, and Ritual," " The...

Put to the Test. By Jeanie Hering. (George Routledge and

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Sons.)—Although this volume contains the sayings and doings less of adults than of boys and girls, the moral which it teaches subtly pervades it instead of being directly...

Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen

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Anne. Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner. With Notes and Illustrations by Robert C. Leslie. (Chapman and Hall.)—In the course of Captain Rogers's famous...

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Sir Anthony Shirley the Author of Shakespeare's Plays. By Scott

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Surtees. (H. Gray.)—Mr. Scott Surtees does not think that Mr. Ignatius Donnelly has proved his case, and doubtless is right in so thinking. Yet one of his reasons is a curious...

Two volumes of a .practical kind may be mentioned together.

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These are, Practical Surveying, by George W. Usill (Crosby Lock- wood and Son), described as " a text-book for students preparing for examination, or for survey-work in the...

A Winter on the Nile. By the Rev. Charles D.

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Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Canon Bell tells pleasantly enough a story that has been told many times before. He spent a winter in Egypt, going up the Nile in a steamer as...

A Handbook of Foreign Missions. (Religious Tract Society.) — We have in

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this volume a compendious account of the work of all the missionary societies of Christendom. The list begins with the "New England Company," an institution of which, we venture...

In the series entitled "By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge," we have

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The Hittites : the Story of a Forgotten Empire, by A. H. Sayee, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Professor Sayce popularises, with the skill which we are accustomed to associate...

A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N. Compiled

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by his Daughter, Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The subject of this charmingly written memoir was born in 1806, entered the United States Navy as a...

Church Echoes. By Mrs. Carey Brock. (Seeley and Co.)—We have

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more than once had occasion to say that tales constructed on an elaborately didactic plan such as we find in the volume now before us, are seldom successful. "A Tale...

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King James the First : a Historical Tragedy. By David

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Graham. (Macmillan and Co.)—No one who reads Mr. Graham's book can fail to see that he possesses a more than ordinary share of dramatic talent. His situations are, for the most...

POETRY.

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Streamlets of Song. By F. R. Havergal. (James Nisbet and Co.)—This volume contains certain of Miss Havergal's poems which froni their simplicity have been chosen as suitable for...

Poems. By Edward Rowland Sill. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.)—These poems

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are noticeable for the deep feeling which they show, and for a quiet beauty of expression. In the first of the volume, " The Venus of Milo," Mr. Sill has skilfully drawn a...

The Soul's Comedy. By Arthur Edward Waite. (George Redway .)

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—In this work Mr. Waite has produced a poem very much above the average of poetic merit. Though The Soul's Comedy is never likely to become a popular book, yet it will be read...

New Canterbury Tales. By J. P. Emslie. (Griffith, Farran, and

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Co.)—Those who take up Mr. Emslie's book for the first time will probably be surprised at his boldness in choosing such a title. When they have finished perusing his pages, it...

Speech Studies. By Edwin Drew. (Dean and Son.)—Mr. Drew makes

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up his volume of four lessons in recitation, some new extracts for reading, sketches of readers, and various miscel- laneous articles bearing on the topic of elocution. Of the...

Eva : an Original Play. By Henry Cook. (Kogan Paul,

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Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Cook possesses a certain amount of dramatic power. So much we can judge from the play before us. But whether he is likely to write one which will succeed on...

Familiar Trees. By G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. With Coloured Plates

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by W. H. G. Boot. (Cassell and Co.)—This is the second and completing volume of this work. Twenty trees, natives of this island, and strangers that have been, so to speak,...