Wiltshire seat, and remarked that "some very wise individuals" had observed'in his Bristol speech "some extraordinary change" to which they had given different names. He could...

Signor Crispi. The Florentine Praetor is, it is true, to be removed—not degraded—in order to avoid "personal complica- tions ;" but the Freneh Consul is not to stay, and the...

M R. GOSCHEN delivered a very spirited speech at Hastings on Monday, where he had also happened to speak on the very day in 1885 when Mr. Gladstone's manifesto to his consti-...

with Irish disorder. The Crimes Act applying to Ireland only, there has been an impression abroad that offenders against it could not be arrested in England, and consequently...

case.

that he had not shown Mr. Gladstone any personal ingratitude in deserting him when Mr. Gladstone adopted Home-rule; that he had never been disloyal to Free-trade; that he had...

IIITERART SUPPLEMENT.

a confusion of tongues which we have had so often before, that the difficulty is to attend duly to the various speakers. Mr. Justin McCarthy, at Leamington, explained to his...

for her centenary, because on that day 1788 Captain Phillip took possession of the Colony, and, indeed, of the whole island- continent, in the name of King George. Thursday,...

Tuesday, reminding his hearers that Mr. Gladstone's Irish measures had not only been withdrawn by him and his friends without any explanation as to the form in which they would...

evidence as to the liberty of the Press in Ireland by quoting the choice epithets applied to Mr. Balfour by United Ireland. "Bloody Balfour," "Bombe the little," "lily-livered...

the teachers at the University of Cambridge are disposed to refuse women the degrees of that University, and, as we infer, even to regret as a mistake the course which has been...

Wed- nesday's Times, deals with the various objections to admitting women to ordinary degrees with very great force. She points out that for the most part these objections apply...

Liberalism and invectives against Liberal Unionism at Pem- broke, in which he testified that the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists are now working side by side with...

acted wisely in settling the immense " claims " of the ex-Khedive Ismail. That personage has never resigned the hope of being restored to Cairo, he was secretly favoured by at...

Consols were on Friday 102- to 1021.

Palmer introduced into the Senate a Bill for pre- venting the introduction of undesirable emigrants into the United States. He wishes to exclude all persons of anti-social...

Michel, the woman who in France preaches anarchy as the only cure for the evils of society, but who in England declared, after a careful examination of a London workhouse, that...

complaining of our remarks on the decisions by the Crofters' Commission that affect his client, Lady Gordon Cathcart, the proprietrix of South Uist. His point is, that there was...

movements have been arrested by an abnormal depth of snow, which has impeded necessary supplies to the Russian troops, and has, it is reported, stopped the march of 50,000 men...

certain want of boldness. The Government is so afraid of the effect of a reverse on Italian opinion, that it has fortified Massowah as if it were to be attacked by a civilised...

THE NEXT CENTENARY OF AUSTRALIA. I T is a little absurd, perhaps even a little impudent, to talk of "the centenary of Australia," when the island- continent must have had a...

W HEN one of Mr. Goschen's few unruly auditors at Hastings cried out on Monday night, during that portion of his speech in which he was defending himself for not resigning on...

his professional J view, but wrong in his constitutional one,—that is the only opinion we can form upon the most able and temperate account which he gave his constituents on...

the striking speech which he delivered at the Unionist meeting at Oxford on Wednes- day, urged not only that Liberal Unionists should show strict fidelity to the Conservatives...

W E could hardly imagine a worse omen for the future of the French Republic than the success of M. de Lesseps' appeal to the people, and yet we have an apprehension that it may...

A BSOLUTELY averse as we are to the whole Socialistic theory, we have always held that Socialism is essentially a subject for discussion. Its object is the amelioration of the...

W HETHER the case of "Taylor v. Timson," decided by Mr. Justice Stephen on Monday week, will be a leading case for the guidance of churchwardens, we do not know. It is to be...

A HOME-RULE movement is afoot in Scotland. As yet it has not attained great dimensions, and it commands comparatively little attention. Members of Parliament, when invited to...

T HE trial of L6on Sem& the Dutchman sentenced on January 21st for setting fire to his house in the Strand, interested the public mainly on account of the heinousness of the...

T F the doctrine be true that man is really the heir of all the various species and genera of the animal kingdom, it seems a little hard upon us that, even by way of exception,...

SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slf6 - I am thankful to the Spectator for having noted the dangerous ring in Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's speech at...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of January 14th on the disaster in China, you mention, what is well known, that when silt-bearing rivers are embanked,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sur,—Can any other conclusion be reasonably drawn from the facts connected with Irish farms, but that there is a general conspiracy against...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to assure "A Convert of Fifteen Years' Standing" that, without retracting a word of my former letter, I fully agree...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Will you, of your kindness, give publicity to the fact that the committee appointed to consider the form of the above memorial, and to...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTLTOR."i Sin,—In August, a few years ago, when so terrible a thunder- storm fell upon a Suffolk village that some people were sore afraid, thinking...

MR. RUSKIN AND THE "EDINBURGH REVIEW." "We regret to have to shock Mr. Ruskin's faithful followers, many of whom, we have no doubt, are honestly convinced of the intellectual...

THE FRESHER SPRING TIME. IT comes again, thrilling each sense in turn ! We strain the eye to see, the ear to hear ;— It sickens in each sense and dies of fear, Yet leaves the...

space for this, which has always seemed to me delicious ? My friend Mr. B— occupied a house in an exposed situation upon the island of Sark. A terrible storm one night...

GOD WITHOUT RELIGION.t THIS book has been a considerable disappointment to us. But in saying so we have no intention of denying that it is a valuable contribution to the...

most original contribu- tions to Christian apologetics that an age especially fertile in this kind of literature has produced. Its somewhat cumbrous title is meant to express...

SOME months ago, in reviewing Bed Spider, we expressed a fear that the author of Mehalah was yielding to a tempta- tion to over-write himself, though we frankly admitted that...

lives from which we may learn to ennoble our own, if not to make them exactly" sublime." There are men and women whom no impartial biographer would tall great, the record of...

that tourists who, in pursuit of business, or restful change, or pleasure, travel by the much-frequented sea- routes from the shores of England to Constantinople, or some other...

Low and Co.)—This compact little volume deserves a word of com- mendation, not because of any special originality in it, either in the way of research or of reflection, but...

The January number of the Scottish Review errs, perhaps, in being too national. It contains an article on "Scotland in Times Past," by the Lyon King-at-Arms, and which takes the...

ha could hardly do otherwise, considering his limitation of space. On. the whole, we think that the most interesting part of his volume is that which concerns social and...

V. White and Co.), is described by its author as " a sporting novel," and is neither better nor worse than most stories by disciples of the late Mr. Whyte. Melville. There is in...

Abington (Mrs.), Life of, or 8vo (Reader) 7/6 Baxendale (W.). Dictionary of Anecdote, frx., my 8v0 (Dickinson) 12/6 Borrowed Plumes, from the German Poets, or Boo (Trlibner) 4/6...

Sons.)—" No critical task is more difficult and delicate than that of estimating the rank and analysing the achievements of American authors." So runs Mr. Richardson's first...

Press.)—The public to which the latest work of Mr. Robinson Ellis's careful and ingenious scholarship appeals is small, but certainly appreciative. Almost alone among English...

contains—as, indeed, all such volumes do—some interesting papers. Captain Altree writes a history of the parish of Wavelsfield ; and the Rev. R. F. Whistler contributes "The...

P. W. Phillimore. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Phillimore first discusses what a family history should be, and then points out the sources from which materials can be derived. There are...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. at 18 Exeter Street, Straqd ; and Published by him at th, "Sprcreloa " Moe, Nr. 1 Wellington Street, Straad,...

is constantly - F meeting with allusions to subjects on which lie needs and desires further in- formation. In conversation, in trade, in professional life, on the farm, in the...

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VERNON LEE'S "JUVENILIA."* THERE 15 a peculiar quality, or combination of qualities, about the work of "M. Vernon Lee "—as a writer in the Revue de Deux Honda, with a fine...

LONDON: JANUARY 28, 1888.

in favour of Crashaw. Pope, who was not quick to admire any poetry except his own, said of Crashaw that he was "none of the worst versificators," mentioned some of his best...

a shock to find, now that the fourth and concluding volume of the Dictionary of Christian Biography has appeared, that the first has been waiting on our shelves for notice for...

NATURE.* Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais, is an axiom of French grammar, hence Parler franpais has passed into a proverb signifying a clear explanation of thought...

of a soldier whose merits and demerits have been unduly magnified by friends and foes, is an ex- cellent piece of work. Mr. Mowbray Morris writes, as a far greater historian...

The Story of the Life of the Prince Consort. By the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, B.D. Revised by her Majesty the Queen. (James Nisbet and Co.)—It is difficult in the present time to...

the First Reforming Archbishop of Canterbury. By Charles Hastings Collette. (Itedway.)—Mr. Collette's knowledge of the period he has under- taken to treat may be gauged by a...

volume is described on the title-page as the "Matriculation Register of the University of Oxford, alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated." It is a continuation, with...

Fife.Cookson. (Chapman and Hall.)—The absolutely direct, simple, businesslike style of Colonel Fife-Cookson's narrative, will commend it to every reader who, whether he be...

Edinburgh.) —This "Story of Circumstance and Influence," as the author calls it, is a well-conceived and interesting tale. Anne Holgate, the low-born widow of a man of family,...

Allen and Co.)—Mr. Coxwell was born, he tells us, in 1819; he witnessed a balloon ascent (by Mr. C. Green) in 1828, but it was not till 1845 that, after many disappointments, he...

we gather that "the sketches are from Nature, and are scenes we have come across in rambling here and there in this delightful land, whose past is a glorious record, whose...

llanthawaddy Press, Rangoon.)—A. Burmese heroine, and, indeed, Anglo-Burmese literature generally, are novelties. Mah Shway was a lovely and charming girl, but, it must be...

be sup- posed to mean that they were "Fellows of the College." They were simply Eton boys ; but this is itself so dignified a position, that a capital is required to do it...

Samuel Pearce, Richard Knill, and Fidelia Fiske, are less generally known, yet there are probably many who are acquainted with their names, and know something of what they did....

Gardner, Barton, and Co.)—This volume has the ornamental aspect of the literature which appears and commonly disappears at this season. But it is not by any means a book...

and Co.)—Mr. Norman, who was in the Army, not the Navy, has written this book with the patriotic object of inciting the country to a still vaster outlay on the Navy, by showing...

Hymn-Book. Edited by George S. Barrett.—This part contains "Litanies and Chants." 'Apart from its musical value, it is interesting to see the development of ritual in the...

little book consists of three lectures which Professor H. G. Seeley delivered before the Working-Men's Institute of Sevenoaks in 1884, on health, food, and education. But why...

Low and Co.)—A more exact name for this book would be " Half- Round the World with a Bicycle," as the author only went from San Francisco to Teheran, and even when be was not on...

must not be confounded with that of an article published (in the Fortnightly Review, if we remember right) some years ago, in which the arguments for hastening a manifestly...

Dr. Alfred Woltmann and Dr. Karl Woermann. Vol. IL "The Painting of the Renascence." Translated by Clara Bell. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We can do little more than record...

and Hall), will doubtless be the standard edition of the famous work. Everything connected with it in the way of history, both as concerns letterpress and illustration, is...

ledge and Sons.)—Mr. Barnes happens tube present at a quarrel that takes place between an English naval officer and a young Corsican, and also at the duel that follows. The...

Sons ; Sweet and Sons ; Maxwell and Sons.)—This is a very useful book very well edited. Parochial politics are ceasing to carry the contemptuous meaning which they used, now...

book about which one might easily say much. It brings the whole subject down to date, and the subject is one in which a vast number of people are more or leas interested. From...

This is meant in the first place for lawyers, but lay readers also will not fail to find interest in it. There are, for instance, the cases in which it seems that there has been...

and enlarged by Charles Lapworth, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This standard work has been brought up to time by additions and alterations in regions of knowledge, as, e.g.,...

sented to both Houses of Parliament.)—This is a very remarkable production, and by no means a comforting one. The main points to which the reader's attention is directed are the...

Brother, John Jennings. (Burns and Oates.)—This is a reprint, with some slight alterations, of a memoir published in 1614,—i.e., twenty- three years after the death of its...

Fisher trnwin.)—Dr. Cox devotes eight of his discourses to what he calls the "faithful sayings of the Primitive Church." The first deals with the general subject of the...

the fiftieth year of the period under review. By Edmund Clarence Stedman. Thirteenth edition. (Chatto and Windus.)—The first edition of this volume appeared in 1875, and was...

undergone such radical alterations that Mr. Vaizey's treatise will be gladly welcomed by the legal profession in general, and by conveyancers in particular. In his preface, the...

a work on art now in progress of publication, which promises when it is complete to be of very great interest and value. This is English Art in the Public Galleries of London,...

his series, "Christ and Christianity," the introduction to the whole, and con- tains his views of the relation which Christianity bears to the other religions systems of the...

By "An Old Fisherman." (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.) —Here we have some pictures, manifestly drawn from the life, of the tragedy and comedy of a life which is...

and Co.)—Here we have printed a commonplace book, with a number of extracts of every kind relating to fish and fishing. We are curious about the date of the book. The editor...