28 JULY 1894

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The debate on the Evicted Tenants Bill was continued yesterday

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week in the House of Commons. The most signifi- cant speeches being those of Mr. Harrington and Mr. W. Redmond, Parnellitee, and that of Mr. W. O'Brien, Anti-Par- nellite, from...

Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in the course of an interview

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'with a member of the staff of the Nem Freie .Presse, declared that he did his best to keep M. Stambouloff in office, but that when the Minister approached him with demands...

The Anti-Anarchist Bill has, during the week, been steadily forcing

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itswaythrough the French Chamber,—the Government adopting the policy of standing mute while the Radicals ran through the whole gamut of rhetorical invective in their attacks....

Mr. Healy made the ablest of the Anti-Parnellite speeches, and,

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if hie facts can be trusted, undoubtedly produced some very conspicuous cases of hardship in which, through mishap or mismanagement, tenants have been deprived of the advantages...

c", * * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE news from Corea is still vague and unsatisfactory. During the week there have been rumours of a fight between the Core= Palace Guards and the Japanese, and of the landing...

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On Wednesday, the Equalisation of Rates Bill was read a

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second time. Mr. Goschen, though in favour of the- abstract principle of equalisation, opposed it, among other reasons, on the ground that any equalisation scheme should be...

Thursday's Times contains an account of a remarkable agreement entered

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into by the Northern Shipbuilders' and the Boilermakers' and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Union,— perhaps the strongest and best organised trade society in the Kingdom. Under...

On Tuesday, Mr. Shaw-Lefevre introduced the Government Bill for the

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Equalisation of Rates in London,—a measure which would more correctly be described as a Bill for making the rich parishes subsidise their poorer neighbours. The• present...

The Duke of Devonshire, in addressing the Council of the

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Liberal Unionist Association on Wednesday, very wisely impressed upon its members that it would be quite a mistake to relax their vigilance in relation to Home-rule only because...

At the usual weekly meeting of the London County Council,.

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held at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, the chairman, Sir- John Hutton, delivered the annual address, reviewing the - five years' work of the Council. In that time the Council...

On Thursday, the House of Lords passed the second reading

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of the Budget Bill without a division. In the discussion, the Duke of Devonshire again urged his point that we are going to tax the great landlords, the owners of the show...

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Mr. Arch (M.P. for North-West Norfolk) is very angry with

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his constituents for not paying him his salary as their Parliamentary representative. He declares that they wish to starve him after returning him to Parliament, and that for...

A French newspaper has put together the deaths directly and

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indirectly caused by President Carnot's assassination. The chief piqueur of M. Carnot's stables died of a stroke brought on by grief and excitement. A boy was accidentally...

On July 19th, Mr. A. Milner, Chairman of the Board

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of Inland Revenue, was examined before the Royal Commission on the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland, and gave some interesting evidence as to the taxes...

We are glad to see that the Board of Governors

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of St. Paul's School, and its very able high master, Mr. Walker, are firm in their resistance to the policy of the Charity Com- missioners in impounding so much of Dean Colet's...

On Monday, Sir John Hutton, Chairman of the London ^County

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Council, formally dedicated Hackney Marsh to the public. The Marsh, which is practically in London (only three-and-a-half miles from the Royal Exchange), and contains about...

It is not only amusing, but gratifying, to learn that

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one of those adventurers who run great risks for no useful end has succeeded in making his rashness simply ridiculous. Mr. George Pinkert, who made a second and fruitless...

In the House of Lords on Friday, July 20th, Lord

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Lans- downe rose to ask whether it was still the intention of the Government to prohibit the Government of India from .extending the import duties levied under the Tariff Act of...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent. New Consols (2f) were on

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Friday,. 1018-4.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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BELITTLING THE HOUSE OF LORDS. W E are no magnifiers of the House of Lords. We recognise fully that it is an Assembly which cannot be given co-ordinate rights with the...

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" LEGALISED BRIGANDS." T HE enormous difficulty of the conditions under

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which Mr. Morley proposes to get rid of the standing menace to peace and order in Ireland caused by the existence of a few thousand persons who are hanging about the...

AN ASIATIC WAR.

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I F happily war has not yet broken out between China and Japan, yet that event is quite near enough to make it not out of place to consider what would be the results of the...

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THE OBSTACLES TO FREE TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES. DURING

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the past six weeks, the Tariff Reform Bill jJ has been making slow and intermittent advance in Congress. When sent up from the House of Repre- sentatives, it was admitted on all...

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LONDON RICH AND LONDON POOR. T HE world would be a

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comparatively easy place to live in if, after one had found a true principle of action, one could go straight off and apply it. Unfortunately, however, things in the regions of...

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A MINIMUM WAGE, T HE meeting of the Coal Conciliation Board

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last week determined two points of interest. First, it marked a departure on the side of the miners from the extreme posi- tion that they will never consent to a reduction of...

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DESTRUCTIVE VANITY.

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A TAILLANT'S diary, posted to M. Paul ROclus on his way to the Assembly, where he threw his very ineffectual bomb, is a very remarkable illustration of the murderous force with...

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BULLS AND BULL-FIGHTS.

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A YOUNG French millionaire and owner of race-horses, whose exploits at Longchamps, La Marche, and Vincennes have for some time dazzled the imagination of Parisian flaneurc, has...

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NOVELS AS SEDATIVES. T HE world of letters, or at any

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rate, of fiction, is just now exciting itself greatly on the subject of the three- volumed novel. Gentlemen who have hitherto hardly emerged beyond the decent obscurity of the...

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IS NOT THE PRINCIPLE OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION RATIONAL P M R.

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KIDD argues, and argues very justly, in his remarkable book on Social Evolution, that the classes who take the side of privilege have been really defeated much less because the...

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THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND BY GOLF.

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T HE "pure Scot" that is in Mr. Balfour has good reason to glory in what he terms the gradual Scotification. of England by means of golf, for never before has any fashion or...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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LYNCHING IN GEORGIA A CORRECTION. [To THE EDITO R OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of June 16th you use very strong words in denunciation of a brutal lynching and...

"LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES MACPHERSON."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE BPECTATOP..",1 Srn,—In the course of the generous notice which you were pleased to take of my "Life and Letters of Ja mes Mac- pherson," in the Spectator...

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A LINK WITH THE PAST.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—While visiting at Norwich, Connecticut, not long ago, I called at the offices of an eminent lawyer (Hon. John Turner Wait), for many...

AN ODD FRIENDSHIP.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR, "] SIR,—For very many years, successive generations of a family of robins in our garden have been in the habit of coming to the pantry...

THE ART OF NAMING.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR, "] , Ssn,—I have read with much interest your article, in the Spectator of July 21st, on "The Art of Naming," in which the writer remarks...

IS PURE SELFISHNESS NATURAL ?

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE 4' SPEOTATOA."] SIR,—The very interesting article on the alcove subject in the Spectator of July 21st, seems to me (though I am open to con- viction)...

POETRY.

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THE SOVEREIGN POET. HE sits above the clang and dust of Time, With the world's secret trembling on his lips. He asks not converse nor companionship In the cold starlight where...

SHELLEY AND "THE PAINTED VEIL."

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTAMOR.1 Sin,—May I correct a quotation from Shelley made in the article on Keats in the Spectator of July 21st P In !" Prometheus Unbound " it...

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BOOKS.

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MR. LEWIS MORRIS'S SONGS.* Tars volume, as the title implies, and as the author states in his preface, consists mainly of lyrics. It will not be unjust, therefore, to endeavour...

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LADY DUFFERIN.* LOED DUFFERIN has, on many previous occasions, deserved

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well of the republic of letters, but we doubt whether he has ever written anything by which he is more likely to be re- membered than the admirable memoir prefixed to " these...

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THE POPULAR RELIGION OF INDIA.* Tins is a book of

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exceeding interest to many besides the mere students of mythology or folk-lore. It is a picture, for at least a large portion of its field, of what may be called the last living...

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THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A JOURNALIST.* IN the preface to these

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two volumes, Mr. Sala expressly sets forth that they are to be regarded merely as a collection of personal reminiscences, and not in any sense as an Autobiography. At the same...

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MR. LE GALLIENNE'S " PROSE-FANCIES."* IT is the advantage of

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a practised poet that he can often write rhythmical prose, and so please the ear of those who still read with a view to the satisfaction thereof. Touch that gift with a flavour...

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RECENT NOVELS.* Ix Thou Art the Man, Miss Braddon is

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far below her best, and we are not sure that she has not touched her feeblest. There is none of the character interest by which her melodrama is often agreeably supplemented;...

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" I took the 12-bore with the only four cartridges

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I had left, and a package for the Martini Selecting the bull (elephant) with the largest tusks, I dropped him by a shot over the eye, the others ran down stream, but came back...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Clove Pink : a Study from Memory. By Anna C. Steele (Chapman and Hall.)—The plot of this pathetic story is not remarkable, but in her treatment of the materials Mrs. Steele...

Travel and Adventure in the Congo Free State, and its

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Big-Game Shooting. By Bula N' mu. (Chapman and Hall.) —Even the modern Nimrod must, we think, grow weary of the profusion of books on game-shooting which continue week by week...

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The reader who can get up an enthusiasm for this

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class of thing we should not define as a sportsman. The fatality of "the single shot in forehead "—" four inches above the centre of an imaginary line connecting the eyes...

The Thing that Hath Been; or, A Young Man's Mistakes,

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by A. H. Gilkes (Longman), is a very remarkable story of a most uncom- mon kind. The author, who does not require to describe himself as " Master of Dulwich College " to show...

The White Islander. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. (Fisher 411nwin.)—A slight

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but not uninteresting story of the adven- tures of a young English fur-trader, the sole survivor of the attack on a trading-port on Lake Michigan by the Chippewa Indians in the...