CURIOUS CHURCH CUSTOMS.* Tins is, in some respects, a rather disappointing book. There is a fascination, not of curiosity only, but of sentiment about all old customs, and...

LONDON: APRIL 27, 1895.

Is A Parson at Bay designed to show that no moral restraints, if unsupported by religion, are efficacious against temptation ? Or should it be regarded as demonstrating the...

MORE than seventy years have passed since the 'Savannah,' a paddle-wheel steamship of 380 tons, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in twenty-five days. Her fuel was pitch-pine, and...

WE must apologise to the author of this book for an inordinate delay in writing our notice of it. But a philosophical work will, perhaps, " keep " better than other books ; and...

everything from the pen of "A. K. H. B." But it comes rather hard upon the heels of his two volumes of St. Andrews reminis- cences. With that curious, pretty pathos—or pathetic...

THE British Islands and the Empire cannot be safe unless we have a powerful and efficient Navy. We cannot have a powerful and efficient Navy unless the public at large will give...

The Natural History of Plants. From the German of Anton Kerner von Marilaun. By F. W. Oliver, D.Sc. With the assistance of Marian Busk, B.Sc., and Mary F. Ewart, B.Sc. Half-Vol....

of Mediceval Italy, from 1250-1400," gives, in a compressed, but not too much compressed, form, the incidents and personalities of a profoundly interesting time. Chapter I. is...

A. M'Clymont. (A. and C. Black.)—This is a republication of a work which first appeared in a series of "Guild and Bible-Class Text-Books," issued by a Committee of the General...

is a book which happily needs no criticism. It is sufficient to mention it. Two volumes, it will be seen, are bound in one, the first being headed with a portrait of the present...

"Elementary Text-Book of Modern Physical Astronomy" is one of the "University Extension Series." The larger part of the volume is naturally devoted to a description of the Solar...

the Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics (Cassell and Co.) It contains the usual variety, quite beyond any power of description or enumeration, of instructions for all kinds...

five essays by different authors on "five perplexing phases of the boy question." Mr. R. J. Bardette considers the question of parental management and discipline ; Mrs. F. Hodg-...

we are informed, a composite work. The late editor contributed the greater portion of the account of Bedfordshire. The present editor has compiled the account of Hertfordshire...

The Seine and the Loire, illustrated after Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., with Introductions and Descriptions by M. B. Huish, Ph.B. (J. S. Virtue and Co.) The drawings are...

and Windus.)—These eleven stories are, for the most part, of a some- what grim kind. The scimitar, the bow-string, the poisoned sherbet, and other familiar properties of Eastern...

interesting volume of a periodical which always contains much that is curious and valuable. We may mention "Further Particulars from the Tissington Manuscripts," contributed by...

the work of a specialist. "The History, Manufactures, and Religious Symbolism of the Scarabaeus in Ancient Egypt, Phcenicia, Sardinia, 8:c.," is the sub-title. Mr. Myer has...

may remind our readers, is the author of "John Ward, Preacher." Knowing this, they will know what to expect. The author feels herself called upon to deal with certain social and...

Black.)—This is a story of the French Revolution. But the writer regards that event from a point of view not often taken by the novelist. The Terror is, so to speak, kept out of...

Wyatt Gill, LL.D. (Religious Tract Society.)—Dr. Gill spent the thirty-three years of his missionary life in Rangaia and Rardanga island, of the Hervey group (under the...

Reigner Conder, D.C.L. (A. P. Watt and Son.)—This is the second edition of a work originally published more than fifteen years ago. "I find," says Major Condor in his new pre-...

(W. II. Allen and Co.)—This is a useful and well-edited series of works, written mainly with a view to reference and concise information, on the lines of Sir W. Jardine's...

Holmes. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This little volume comes to the public commended by a preface from the pen of Bishop Stubbs. The writer, who takes the moderate view of...

; " and Mr. W. J. Loftie has collected a mass of interesting facts and historical details about the Palace, or rather Palaces, of Whitehall. It is difficult indeed to preserve...

by "Carmen Sylva " and Alma Strettell. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—The first series of these" Roumanian Folk-Songs" made a great impression, and this will strengthen it. The...

Edition, revised. 2 vols. (George Allen.)—The title of "Walks in London" is so modest, and makes so small a preten- sion, that it is impossible to blame Mr. Hare for anything...

Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN JAMES BAKER, of NO. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " SPECTATOR"...

Panjkora. According to a native officer of the clan which attacked them, the clansmen craved for their rifles, and two thousand of them organised a night attack. They crept up...

-siege was a most heroic affair. The enemy, commanded by Shere Afzul and other Pathan chiefs, attacked the fort with determined courage; they knew how to sink mines, which would...

Cabinet waiting for the detailed proposals of the Indian Government. We fancy, however, that a compromise has, in principle, been arrived at. We are to keep an Agent at Chitral...

Kimberley insists on an apology for the outrage on the British Consul, and the payment of £15,000; and has informed the State Government that unless it yields he will occupy...

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C HITRAL has been relieved. Shere Afzul's men, it appears, besieged the fort with great persistence and some skill, running a mine within a few feet of the tower, and shooting...

case.

explained elsewhere, has reason to be alarmed at the rise of Japan, and has asked Europe to help her in coercing the new Power to give up the Liau-tung Peninsula. France has of...

that anything will happen for the present. The Mikado's Govern- ment have the greatest difficulty in resisting the Jingoism of their people, and declare, in answer to the three...

to the English people, the official translation of which is published in last Monday's Times, of which we have given our general view in another column. But we may add here that...

and Leamington, in a letter which does the greatest possible credit both to his temper and his tact. He felt it necessary, he said, to persevere in his candidature until the...

the greatly increased Conservative majority at Oxford gained for Lord Valentia during the Easter Vacation, when a great many Unionist voters must have been away from the...

Monday on the Bill for regulating workshops and factories, Bin Asquith made a speech which revealed in a curious way the good and bad tendencies of the interfering spirit which...

than his previous speech at Devonport He undertook to show that the Conservative party no longer - regard privilege as under their protection, but that what they undertake to...

House of Commons on Wednesday last. Mr. T. W. Russell moved the second reading of a Bill dealing with the sale of in- toxicants in Ireland. The present measure, said Mr....

ference of the Miners' National Union, held at Newcastle- on-Tyne, gave some very interesting facts as to the coal industry. Last year the coal produced was over 188,000,000...

one of his characteristically sledge-hammer letters in regard to the statue of Cromwell which the Government, in spite of its Irish allies, proposes to erect at Westminster....

year on Sunday) received a deputation from Manchester College, Oxford, to congratulate him on the event, and to express the gratitude with which they regarded his services to...

that the crisis in Newfoundland will end in the island Colony entering the Canadian Dominion. The delegates sent to Ottawa profess themselves satisfied with the financial...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday, 105k.

when a compromise was agreed upon at a conference of the masters and men, presided over by the permanent head of the Board of Trade. This compromise was, however, made subject...

RUSSIA AND JAPAN. T HE secret of the disturbance caused by the rise of Japanese power, is clearly its effect upon Russia, which must be very great. Neither Germany nor France...

T HE omens come thick for a General Election that shall much more than reverse the defeat of 1892. We are not usually inclined to attach very much importance to by-elections. We...

T "OpiumCommission has earned its cost. We do not suppose that the fanatical opponents of the drug, those who at heart believe that the use of any stimulant or any sedative must...

English people is a singularly touching and genial, we had almost said a singularly innocent, one. Leo XIII. writes like the most venerable and the most affectionate of fathers...

T HE articles published by the Daily Chronicle and by ourselves on the subject of the Commander-in-Chief, have not been without result. The answer made by Mr. Campbell -...

on the Charity Commission would be the fate of all similar motions this Session if there were any chance of their being brought forward. Even Members of Parliament like to...

D R. MARTINEATJ entered his ninety-first year on Sunday last, and some of our contemporaries, who have had the discrimination to discern the greatness of his influence on the...

W E wish all Parliamentary people, and indeed all politieians who talk, would obey their instincts, and go "on the burst" intellectually once a year. It would be so very...

T HE reclamation of Brading Haven, in the Isle of Wight, has changed what was once an inland lake into a nesting- ground for the birds which formerly swam upon its surface. The...

ROME.—EASTER-DAY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTRTOR."] '&n, —We get our London papers here as regularly as you do, only forty-eight hours later, and I see that readers at home...

THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY AND OTHER. EXHIBITIONS. THERE is an influence in the word "Old" that must have a good deal to do with the repute of this Society among the...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] am much amused by the letter of Mr. Bear on the Irish Land Bill, published in the Spectator of April 20th. Mr. Bear is...

SIR SAMUEL BAKER AND THE UPPER NILE.* VICTOR HUGO, when 1 c wrote his Histoire d'un Crime, declared that it was more than urgent, it was actual. The same thing might be said of...

IT was a hard thing for Armand Louis de Gontaut, Comte de Biron, and afterwards Duc de Lauzun, to be the handsomest and most popular man of the day of gallantry and license,— a...

WHEN Mr. Hadow published his first volume of Studies ia Modern Music a couple of years ago, it was remarked of him by a leading contemporary that "he is a Fellow of Worcester...

Mn. BENJAMIN JONES has been, and is probably still, a can- didate for Parliamentary honours. A Cabinet Minister ushers his work into the world. The Clarendon Press prints and...

attack upon the New Woman, is, to say the least, in danger of over- shooting the mark and seriously injuring the cause which she professes to have at heart. It may, we suppose,...

book is intended to picture the changes of fortune, the fluctuations of hope and fear, which an observer would have seen in the General Election of 1892. These are given well...

Gonner arranges his volume in an instructive and effective way. After an introductory chapter defining his subject, and another in which he deals with "Leading Physical and...

The History of Canada. By William Kingsford, LL.D. VoL VII. (1779-1807.) (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Dr. Kingsford continues to carry on his monumental work on the history of...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is the first volume of the " Colum- bian Knowledge Series," appearing under the editorship of Professor Todd. Mrs. Todd disclaims the idea of writing...

Thompson, Liverpool.)—Canon Burbidge has studied the great allegory with much care, and builds upon it discourses which may be read with interest and profit. We cannot say that...

described as a "new edition" on the title-page; but the explana- tion offered by the author, who combines with this office that of publisher, shows that it is substantially a...