SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS.* THIs book is rather of the nature of a quarry than of a finished piece of building ; but this is both natural and useful. When a son writes the Life...

LONDON : JANUARY 2 7 th, 1900.

IF we except the origin of Christianity itself, there is no sub- ject in the range of human experience on which it is so impossible to focus what Bacon called "dry light" as the...

POSTERITY, besides being commanded to restore impossible reputations, read unreadable books, and solve insoluble problems, is being threatened with starvation, the starvation...

IN a note prefixed to this volume Dr. Alexander Whyte, one of the most popular of Free Church, and indeed of all Scottish, preachers of the present day, describes Boston's...

IN this book we can follow the various developments of needlework from the Egyptian mummy cloths and the embroidered robes of the Assyrian Kings down to the so- called ' art...

SIDELIGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICA. Sidelights on Routh . Africa. By Roy Devereux. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Devereux is what, incurrent slang, is termed an "...

The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic. By W. Warde Fowler, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)--This work is intended as an introduction to the study of the religion of the...

Beethoven. By F. J. Crowest. (Dent and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Crowest'a new book on Beethoven is well printed, well illustrated, and withal inexpensive. Here, however, praise must...

Frames of Mind. By A. B. Walkley. (Grant Richards. 5s.)— When we take up a collection of reprinted newspaper articles, we feel nervous on two points. Journalistic criticism...

A Memoir of Richard Durnford,D.D.,sometime Bishop of Chichester: with _Selections from his Correspondence. Edited by W. R. W. Stephens, B.D., F.S.A., Dean of Winchester. With...

In Memoriam : Poimes de Lord Alfred Tennyson. Traduits en Vers franeais par Leon Morel. (Hachette et Cie., Paris.) — Poemes Divers d'Alfred Tennyson. Traduits en Vera francais...

The Church of England: its Catholicity and Continu.,y. By the Rev. Herbert Pole. (Skeffington and Son. 5s.)—Among many excellent handbooks of Church history called into exist-...

Anglo - French Reminiscences, 1875 -1899. By M. Betbam- Edwards. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—Miss Betham-Edwards has studied France long and sympathetically, and writes well...

Outside the Garden. By Helen Milman (Mrs. Caldwell Crofton). With Illustrations by Edmund H. New. (John Lane. 5s.)— This dainty volume is a sequel to the not less dainty...

Dictionary of the Hausa Language. Vol. I., Hausa—English. By Canon Charles H. Robinson, assisted by W. H. Brooks. (Cam- bridge University Press. 12s net.)—The Hausa language...

Reminiscences. By Mrs. Lynn Linton. Prefaced by Miss Beatrice Harraden. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—These are prints from untouched negatives,—often good likenesses,...

The Drama of Yesterday and To-day, By Clement Scott. (Macmillan and Co. 86s.)—Mr. Scott has not exactly lost, but he has somewhat spoiled, a valuable opportunity of producing...

10s. 6d.)—Mr. Butler's versatility is a little discon- certing. He seems to have established a public office in his own person for the speedy and final settlement of all vexed...

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s.)—This is a novel somewhat in the manner of Miss MarieCorelli, but written in verse. It would perhaps be more accurate to say, printed as verse, since...

Family Use. By W. E. Gladstone. (John Murray.)—This manual of prayers was arranged by Mr. Gladstone and regularly used by himself in family worship, and it is now given to the...

Stirling.)—Here we have a stout volume of about three hundred and fifty pages devoted to the topography, history, and other interesting features of a single extensive and...

von Bothmer. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s.)—Possibly only those who have accomplished similar work can appreciate the tact with which it is needful to proceed when drawing for...

M.A. (Isbister and Co. 10s. 6d.)—We have noticed from time to time the successive voltimes of Professor Moulton'a " Modern Reader's Bible." This volume, which is a revised and...

Fell in West Yorkshire, by Halliwell Sutcliffe, with Pictures by George Hering (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s.) ; and Highways and Byways in Yorkshire, by Arthur H. Norway, with...

Lindsay, who has already given to the world "Methodist Idylls" and "More Methodist Idylls," wishes to do for the Wesleyans what Fenimore Cooper did for the Red Indians. The " Up...

Bindloss's experiences give a much truer impression of the hardships of the Canadian settler than will be found in most descriptions of Canada. The grim reality of farming in...

k Beckett. (Hurst and Blackett. 3s. 6d.) –This is the merest collection of journal- istic odds and ends, so utterly ephemeral in character that one wonders why Mr. k Beckett...

a book which will doubtless find abundant justifica- tion in the interest of a considerable public. Mr. Mills, a successful banker by occupation, a Radical in politics, a Non-...

Wilmot, R.N. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—The author begins with King Alfred, and goes on through the Cinque Ports, the battle of Sluys, the Elizabethan seamen, the...

6d.), has already passed through ten editions since it was first issued in 1889. The author has now thoroughly revised this record of the lectures which he delivered to juvenile...

6s.)—Mr. Hulton guides us through a somewhat intricate by-way of English ecclesiastical history,—the relations of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Archbishop of York. The...

M.A. (D. Douglas. 5s.)—Mr. Mitchell went out to Bombay in 1838. His story refers to the missionary experiences of the next quarter of a century. In 1862 he returned to...

and Philip A. Robson. (Innes and Co. 584— This volume (No. 9) of " The Isthmian Library " will be welcomed by hockey-players. The origin of the game is traced to the first...

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T HE week has been one of suspense and anxiety. On Wednesday morning the newspapers published an official despatch from General Buller, dated Tuesday evening at 6.20 p.m.,...

France, are dealing in drastic fashion with the officers and officials implicated in the bribery scandals in the Odessa district. The chief of the Recruiting Department in that...

his examination of the dossier of his father at the War Office. The results of his efforts to vindicate the memory of his father, cruelly aspersed as a cashiered adventurer by...

not changed during the past week, but there are indications that this period of unstable equilibrium will not last long. Both on the !dodder and round Coleeberg there are signs...

tation which went to him to protest against the opinion of the two Primates in regard to the use of incense and cere- monial lights was in many ways very striking. If we under-...

disasters in front of us. On the other hand, it is quite possible the abandonment of Spion Kop may prove, not the prelude to disaster, but to victory. But even if our troops...

has issued an edict which amounts to abdication. He names the son of the Prince of Tuan (a boy of nine) as his successor to the Throne, and states that his health prevents his...

case.

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and influence of Mr. Ruskin, who passed away on Saturday last in his eighty-first year. The son of a wealthy Edinburgh wine merchant and art connoisseur, well equipped by...

its lessons at the opening of a new Town Hall at Chatham on Tuesday. In a review of the losses which we had sustained —losses which were painful but transient incidents in the...

the famous missionary and explorer, who has himself in a long residence in South Africa earned an honourable reputation as the friend of the natives, is published in Thursday's...

in the Austrian Army at Solferino in 1859, and went through the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 on the Staff of Sir Garnet Wolssley. His three sons, it may be added, are at the moment...

D. Blackmore, at the age of seventy-five, and of Mr. G. W. Steevens, who had only recently completed his thirtieth year. Mr. Blackmore, who early abandoned law for letters, and...

the attitude of Americans towards Great Britain in con- nection with the war. After discussing the naturalisation laws of the Transvaal, and pointing out their unfairness, he...

from Dr. Martineau on the subject of Christianity and war. In a review on "The Ethics of Christendom," Dr. Martineau strove to rescue Christianity "from the degrada- tion of...

our opinion, singularly devoid of argument and dealing with a purely ideal conception of the Transvaal State, showed courage and independence. He appears to think that the Boers...

the newspapers which support the Government have taken no notice whatever of the Hawksley letters,—i.e., the letters published in the Independance Beige. We cannot, of course,...

question be showed a curious want of grasp of the real problem. He thus describes the Outlanders' grievances "Men did not get their votes soon enough ; they did not get their...

a great extent in agreement,—we mean that dealing with Mr. Rhodes and the way in which be has again and again demoralised and misled public opinion here. But Mr. Morley must...

dealing with generalities such as Im- perialism and the need for the two races living side by side on terms of equality spoke with great good sense. For example, nothing could...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 101.

PARLIAMENT AND THE WAR. P ARLIAMENT meets on Tuesday next, and the House of Commons will then have to consider how best to carry on the war at its present stage, and how best...

S OME eighteen months ago we ventured to draw the attention of the British public to the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, and to the absurdity of keeping up that Treaty in face of...

ri•HE French Government are to some extent mending their ways. They have prosecuted the Assumptionist Fathers in the Paris Police-court instead of proceeding against them by...

the London Water- Supply suggests to Londoners once more the urgency of this important question. London is a huge problem from every point of view, but there is no aspect of the...

most, of the Trade- Unions of the country is one which may well strike the imagination of many persons concerned for the ad- vancement of the condition of the working classes....

I T is natural and inevitable that the body of ideas, artistic, ethical, economic, and social, which we owe to John Ruskin should now be considered and appraised by the great...

T HE lack at the present juncture of a native satirist may or may not be a matter for regret, but it probably accounts, to some considerable extent. for the cordiality of the...

A CORRESPONDENT of the Daily News states that a lady residing in the hotel at Amalfi, the day before the landslip, refused to stay there for another night because she was...

Sts.—When the present Government, five years ago, curtailed the powers of the Commander-in-Chief, it at the same time empowered the Secretary of State for War and the civil...

LORD LANSDOWNE AND THE GOVERNMENT. [To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR. ") Sra, — Will you allow one who is a constant reader of your paper, and who recognises your desire to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may interest you to learn what is the public senti- ment in Boston and vicinity on your war with the Boers. Nearly every one I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] am glad to see the Spectator return to this question. I hope it is true, as you say, that "Churchmen are increas- ingly ready to accept, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Without entering into the theological aspects of the question, may one not be allowed to protest against the lopsided rhetoric on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —The papers have lately been urging the expediency of enforcing the extreme penalty of the law on the Queen's Dutch subjects taken...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—With reference to your reply to Mr. Pratt in the Spectator of January 20th, it seems proper to point out that Luke xxii. 35, 36,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] note in your number for January 20th that a corre- spondent signing himself " A Student of History " makes a personal appeal to me to tell...

[To THE EDITOR OF IRE " SFECTATOR.1 SIR, —So far as it has gone, this war has repeated the lesson of all former wars as to unpreparedness, and we must only hope again that the...

SIE,—Allow me to thank you for your instructive article. To a Wesleyan minister the subject is of peculiar interest; it is of painful interest because no loyal son of Wesley...

[To VIZ EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Attendance for some fifteen years at the annual meetings of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon and Bisley, and familiar...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —It is, I think, absolutely certain that the present war will entail far-reaching changes in many directions. Let us hope that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "srlicraToa.1 Stn,—Though I have failed to obtain from you a recognition of the possibility of there being two opinions upon the matter at issue between...

JOHN RUSKIN. QUENCHED is the lamp, ev'n in its flickering dear ; We miss the light: we would not have him here ; No carping littlenesses lift their head Where he is, 'mid the...

A CENTURY OF SPANISH HISTORY.* Tins is an excellent manual and one that was much needed. The ordinary idea of romantic Spain, the land of the bull- fight and of the mantilla, of...

is he who trod the darkening ways, And plucked the flowers upon the edge of doom— The bright, sweet-scented flowers that star the road To Death's dim dwelling. Others heed...

DURING the last year a curious struggle has been going on in North-Eastern Europe of which England seems to know less than her neighbours. A little country, which has enjoyed...

symptom and a stimulus. It gives evidence not only of the active existence of a keen and vivid civic conscience among persons of diverse connec- tions, tempers, and trainings,...

WHERE misalliances are concerned, male, as opposed to female, condescension has always been more popular amongst novelists. The lot of a heroine who marries beneath her does not...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Church Questions. By Gilbert Kearney. (Elliot Stock. Ss. 6d.) —We...

The Quarterly Review for January is even unusually readable. It contains, among other matter, three articles of great interest at this moment, all of the best kind as regards...

TEE EDINBURGH REVIEW. Perhaps the most attractive article in the new Edinburgh Review is " A Side Scene of Thought." The writer deals with the lives of three professors of...

of Minnesota. (Macmillan and Co. 17s. net.)—Bishop Whipple began life as a politician and soon blossomed into a Colonel. He -does not tell us exactly in what arm of the...

Archaeological Society.)—This volume, edited by Mr. Leach for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, gives us some light on a dark subject,—education in pre-Reformation days....

Miller, and 3. Beckwith. (G. Allen. 30s. net.)—This is a very handsome volume, worthy of the beautiful district of which it tells the story. The name means "The Wood on the...

C. Nimmo. 5s. net.)—Here we have the first volume of yet another series, which is to be called "The Semitic Series." " The Baby- lonian," says Professor Sayce, "was a compound...

much, has given us a neat little volume in Intellectual Whist (Routledge and Sons, 3s_ 6d.) General Drayson, who, by the way, would prefer whist to be played without money...

Russell Marble, A.M. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)—Miss Marble has laid under contribution about forty-five poets, from W. C. Bryant (1794-1878) down to Mr. P. H. Savage, who died...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. Biddle relates the history of Madeira and describes the island, giving also an account of the manners and customs of the natives, and of the...

Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis," which is, according to the prospectus, to contain twenty-seven volumes. They are to be accompanied by foot-notes, critical only. Three...

of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters" (Smith, Elder and Co.), we have received the Fourth Volume, containing The Pro- fessor, Emma, and the Poems of the three sisters, with the...

Official Directory (Thom and Co., Dublin, 21s.) It is a Directory of the United Kingdom, but, as our readers are probably aware, gives specially detailed information about...