LONDON : APRIL 0, 1893.

STORIES, OLD AND NEW.* THERE is unquestionably much virtue in a good title. Mr. Caxton demonstrated this fact in a masterly and convincing manner nearly half-a-century ago, and...

of farming and its details might learn from the pages of Pehr Kalm, the Swede, a great deal more than from many of his own countrymen. Kalm noted a multitude of small facts...

characteristic product of the present era, not, perhaps, of blazing light, but certainly of burnin g curiosity. Its sins of omission will at the very first strike even the hasty...

art of equitation to be learned from written directions, every lady reader of Mrs. Hayes's " Prac- tical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding" might acquire a firm, graceful seat, and...

in monotony than in. variety of theme, and Mrs. Oliphant has of late been exhibiting her own wonderful versatility in this very effective way. In her two recent novels, The...

practically unaltered, of two series of lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in 1888 and 1889 by the late Professor Rogers, who died before he could revise them for...

is as good a story of its kind as we have seen for some time. The colouring is brilliant—it is a " romance of Oceania "—the action vigorous, the plot well contrived, and the...

• (Tower Publishing Co.)—This is a " tale of to-morrow,"—i.e., of the next naval war. We find ourselves suddenly at war with France. Our neighbours, better prepared for...

The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton. (Macmillan and Co.) — The Vita Nuova is the most fitting introduction to the study of Dante, and Mr. Norton,...

Cun- liffe, D.Lit. (Macmillan.)—This is the reprint of an essay written as a credential for the Doctor of Literature degree in the Univer- sity of London, and is a distinction...

Theobald, B.A., F.E.S. Vol. I. (Elliot Stock.)—It is not many years since British entomologists spoke of five out of the seven great orders of insects as "the neglected orders,"...

Son.)—" The object of the following pages," writes Mr. Gore in his preface, " is not to propound any new hypothesis, but simply to explain and discuss theories which have been...

By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. (Hutchinson and Co.)—Marie de Bourbon, afterwards Duchess of Berry, was the grand-daughter of the King of the...

and edited by W. Ruthven Pym, M.A. (Longmans.)—Here we have a number of useful facts connected with diet, water, clothing, &c., and a statement of their bearing on health and...

and Co.)—Mr. Bigelow went down the Danube from its source to its mouth. He saw many cities and many men, though how far he, learnt their thoughts must be doubtful. The Magyar...

Windus.)—There is plenty of brisk dialogue in this story, and, here and there, bits of good description. The scene, for instance, in the Examination Schools at Oxford is...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" It is not the object of these pages to enter into the discussion of the higher criticism." But the author assumes a number of propositions which the...

—Here we have well-worn properties of fiction which might, we think, be allowed to rest undisturbed. There is a hero who thinks that his lady is false, and afterwards, with...

have in this little book a general criticism of Tennyson, and a special study, which is peculiarly careful and minute, of the " In Memoriam." The second part is more valuable...

Ferran.) —The reader who may fancy that " Rita " is competing with Dr. Georg Ebers, will find himself mistaken. Asenath is not an Egyptian ; she is a modern young lady who tells...

Carpenter, D.D., Bishop of Ripon. (Nisbet and Co.) This useful book of devotion gives morning and evening prayers for four weeks, each containing psalms, lessons, and special...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—Miss Evans takes the view that Kaspar Hause was the abducted Prince of Baden, and she brings forward many proofs to establish her case. Probably the...

Clare. (Mac- millan and Co.)—This volume contains the substance of a course of lectures delivered before the Institute of Bankers in the early Part of the preceding year. For...

the third edition of a useful book which has been expanded and improved by successive additions into as good a manual for its purpose as could be found. "The introduction," we...

anything more of these biographies than to quote the description on the title-page,—" Reprinted from the Times." They are twenty in number, and cover a period of five years...

Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Ropes, who has had some experience as a writer of military history, thinks that there is room for an im- partial account of the Waterloo Campaign. We cannot...

Marston, and Co.)—" Wonderland" is the Yellowstone Park which Mrs. Synge visited in her husband's company. The two met with some adventures, saw some marvellous sights, and...

ham Wilson.)—This is a book which it would be rash in a non- expert reviewer to recommend further than for consideration. Mr. Van Oss generally contends that this class of...

2 vols. (Skeffington and Son.)—The " two churchwardens " are father and son, and the story therefore carries us over a con- siderable portion of time. The elder Ross was roused...

—Mr. Gibbins describes in vigorous language the social condition during the fourteenth century,—a period of trouble and discon- tent, culminating in the rebellion of Wat Tyler....

hardly say that we go a long way with Mr. Salt ; when he comes to vegetarianism, we must part company, regretting that he spoils, as it seems to us, a good case. Surely, there...

Ferran, and Co.)—Mr. Morris has put into prose twenty-one plays, tragedies as well as comedies, beginning with Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, and ending with Talfourd's...

and Co.)—Miss Mann certainly gives us here an effective tale. Mary's self-devotion on her sister's behalf makes a powerful incident, and leads up to a denouement of much...

from the Spanish by Joseph Jacobs. (Macmillan and Co.)— Balthasar Grecian was a learned Jesuit, who died rector of the Jesuit College at Tarragona, in 1658, after giving to the...

Dunton, a charge for which he gave up the certainty of a lucrative position. The story of his life sets forth a singularly pure and steadfast character, As a colleger at Eton in...

Ferran,) —This "romance of a business-man" can hardly be found fault with because it is romantic. Still it passes the limits, as it seems to us, of what is permitted. The arson...

--Mr. Sykes begins at the beginning, for he discusses in some detail the subject of "heredity." " Can the birth of the unfit be prevented ? " is a problem which suggests itself...

quite admirable in tone and style, introduces the reader to three very effective stories, all the more effective for the moderation with which they are written. The motive of...

B.D. (Macmillan.)—Though Professor Ryle's book will not please either extreme, it will be welcomed, we venture to think, by moderate people. His views on the Mosaic Law, for...

Perkins. (Gravel and Co.)—During the last twenty years, the excavator's spade has made additions of quite incalculable value to our knowledge of classical antiquity. The results...

tale of a by-gone time, a time when the Red Indian was a dreaded power in regions where now he is scarcely so much as seen. The New Ohio" is a pioneer settlement, where the...

Westerton, going down to refresh his soul after certain weeks spent in chambers, by fishing in Devonshire, falls in with Doris Trepinnock, to whom he introduces himself by...

the simplest. Matthew Hare, an inmate of the family of the Rev. Mr. Unwin, Independent Minister at Aldbourne, is being brought up for the ministry, but has a passion for the...

face, Notes, and Glossary, by John R. Ingram. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co, for the Early English Text Society.)—Dr. Ingram edits here two versions of the De Imitations. The...

is " a story of the Caucasus,—Russo-Turkish War," which wo found very confused and tiresome. Mr. Savage has written other tales which, if we are to trust the Press notices from...

C. H. J. Anderson, Bart. (E. Stanford.)—A "Third Edition." It is it pity that it is not enlarged, for many interesting places are passed over with but a very slight notice.—The...

mans.)—This is a very long-drawn-out love-story, well-written indeed, but still, to speak from our own experience, a little tedious. It ought, according to all reason, to have...

is a very sensational tale indeed. A scoundrel who steals a clerical fellow-passenger's letters of order, plays the part of a fashionable preacher in New York, murders two women...

an exciting story, of the kind which we are accustomed to associate with the names of Mr. Rider Haggard and Mr. Quiller Couch. The scone is laid in a place which we may describe...

Street, Strand ; and Published by Joint CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Preoinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the °gm:ay of Middlesex, at the o'BrECITATOE.. Office,...

and the Berlin correspondent of the Times are making such a fuss about the anti-Semitic orator Ahlwardt. He keeps on threatening to produce documents showing the corruption of...

was manifested again as Mr. Atkinson, in an argument from which we have quoted elsewhere, maintained the thesis that the Bill was far worse than Separation, because under the...

case.

the Home-rule Bill. Twelve hundred representative Irishmen—six hundred from Ulster, and as many from the Southern Counties—men of all creeds and of every variety of grade and...

No. 3,383.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1893. [ REGISTERED AS A INCISE ed. NEWSPAPER. BY POST, Std.

at St. James's Hall at a dinner given to two hundred of the Irish delegates, and made a speech in which be said that the carrying of the second reading of the Bill certainly...

T HE German Emperor and Empress, accompanied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and attended by a large suite, have paid a visit of state to the King of Italy, who is cele-...

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

were Sir Henry James's and Mr. Balfour's, for Mr. Gladstone, who replied, though his manner was as impressive as ever, was probably too much exhausted by the lateness of the...

in order to call attention to the action of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in taking the appointment of Magistrates oat of the bands of the Lord-Lieutenant, and...

closed on Friday week, when the second reading was carried by a majority of 43, Mr. W. Saunders, after all, voting with his party,—Ayes, 347 ; Noes, 304. Including the Speaker...

Salisbury, in a short but pregnant speech, assured them that Englishmen would not forget that they were bound by ties of gratitude, affection, and good faith to the fellow-...

to present an address, and Sir William Ewart made a remark- able speech on the business aspect of Home-rule. Scotland, he said, followed Mr. Gladstone ; but since Mr. Gladstone...

was carried without a division. In the course of the debate Mr. Forwood declared that the Bill, as it stood, would promote perjury. The result on the shipping trade would be...

was £90,253,000; the actual expenditure, £90,375,000; excess, £122,000. The estimated revenue for 1892-93 was £90,453,000 ; the actual revenue was 290,395,000; deficit, £58,000....

the Home-rule Bill produced a considerable amount of rioting, —sufficient to make it necessary to employ the soldiers. From the accounts sent by Mr. Morley, who is in Ireland,...

Addington Symonds, the brilliant litt6rateur, who, forced by health to live among the snows and glaciers of the Engadine, devoted himself to elucidate the history of the...

yet. Another bank, "the London Chartered Bank of Aus- tralia," suspended on the 25th inst., with total liabilities esti- mated at £9,000,000, of which £3,000,000 are owing to...

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of great interest. It showed a declining revenue, a minute deficit for the last financial year, and the prospect of a much greater one for this year without increased taxation....

to the new Census of Bengal, the popular idea that village society in that province is immovable, is quite unfounded. There is a steady stream of people pouring from the densely...

THE GREAT DELEGATION. E VEN Londoners scarcely yet recognise the full signifi- cance of the vast gathering at the Albert Hall on Saturday. They understand that a meeting was...

W E have lost a great intelligence in Lord Derby,—a great intelligence, perhaps, rather than a great intellect. For we fancy there is a slight difference of significance between...

are many thoughtful men among them—ought to study carefully the lessons now offered them by the occurrences in Hull and Belfast. The motor which ulti- mately gives force to...

I T is easy to deny the importance of the vote by which the second reading of the Home-rule Bill was passed on Saturday morning ; but no competent historian who has studied the...

AT DE WIN is a very important person among III. • French Catholics. He is their most eminent layman, he is greatly in the Pope's confidence, he is the most distinguished and the...

W E do not think that Mr. Bryce was quite fairly treated by his opponents on Tuesday. We go further, indeed, and think that in the abstract his main contention is sound enough....

M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the Literary Fund dinner shows considerably more confidence in the very con- jectural forecasts which men of literature, art, and science draw from the...

I N the very interesting but also very amazing volume which Sir M. E. Grant-Duff has just published on M. Renan, whom he declares, even when "judged by the teachings of the...

H OW many books, not being Blue-Books or diplomatic memoirs, had Lord Palmerston ever read in his life ? We ask that apparently unprovoked question because we fancy we see in...

A MODERN Aristophanes would find congenial material for poking fun at international tribunals in the judicial assembly now gathered at Paris to decide on the great Seal case...

MR. GLADSTONE AND MR. PARNELL. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPROTATOR."] Sin,—Knowing, as I do, your old affection for Mr. Gladstone,. and your scrupulous fairness as to his aims...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] .SIE,—The amusingly simple-minded letter from my friend, Mr. J. Andrewes Reeve, which you published on April 22nd, is an opportune...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The writer of the article in the Spectator of April 22nd, on "The Experiment in Belgium," seems to think that the credit of devising...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:J.1 Sin,—The following quotation from Oliver Cromwell's letter to the Scotch clergy, September, 1650, seems so apposite (and opposite) to the...

SIR,-If the letter of your correspondent, " Elcon," published in the Spectator of April 22nd, details an actual experience, and is not (as from its cleverness it might well be),...

" Sanguine Gladstonian," the Rev. J. Andrewes Reeve, is to me, a brother-clergyman who has lived in Ireland fifty-two years since I was born, a startling revela- tion. The...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE line taken in these columns about the exhibitions of the Academy must now be familiar to most readers of the Spectator, but to prevent misconception, it...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the Spectator of April 22nd, when noticing Lord George Hamilton's speech, you repeat what seemed to me on reading it, a slip of the...

THE WANDERERS' RETURN ON a day a while ago, When the corn was newly carried, And the late-come summer tarried For a glimpse of winter snow, Verse of mine, in fashion slight,...

WILD LIFE IN SURREY HILLS.* THE latest collection of essays on outdoor life by the writer who chooses to be known as " A. Son of the Marshes," appears at a time when weeks of...

the writer to the end. It must be a good many years now since one Horatius Flaccus indited in good round verse a treatise about the "art of poetry," and that there is yet more...

hear a great deal more about Morocco. Even if Sir West Ridgeway's mission produces no crisis, the Morocco question is certain sooner or later to trouble Europe. A whiff of...

THERE can be few subjects, one would think, of more universal interest than our daily food, and yet it is one which, apart from its treatment in cookery-books, can hardly be...

Anson, but yet he somehow recalls Anson's story by what he truly describes as "a plain, un- varnished account of a voyage undertaken by myself in my yacht the Nyanza."...

Co.)—This is the ninth annual edition, and has, we are told, been" revised and in large part rewritten." The preface is certainly new, and as certainly entertaining. The book,...

Ernest Rive' edition of Sir Thomas Malony's "Morte d'Arthur." This is now completed by the latest addition to the Library, under the care of the same editor, The Book of...

—Apart from the' title, which is misleading, Mr. Archer's work rests on the same plan, both as to the letterpress and the illustra- tions, as Leigh Hunt's " The Town," a book of...

The Critical Review. Edited by Professor S. D. F. Salmond, D.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—We have no intention of reviewing this review. It must suffice to say that the...

Reginald Baliol Brett. (Macmillan and Co.)—In this interesting and suggestive little book the author briefly reviews the political history of the eighteenth century in order to...