LONDON : JUNE 29, 1895.

THE MARCH ON INDIA.* IT is a far cry to the year 1499 of our era, yet from that year dates the Russian advance across Asia. Two frontier Governors crossed the Ural Mountains in...

WE hear so much now-a-days of the false and exotic America —the America of " boodling and bull-dozing," of tyrannical millionaires, and a frenzied proletariat, in a word of the...

• Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Manny. By Noah Moults. London s G. P. Putnam's Bone. THERE is much that is excellent in the book before us, but we regret we...

treatment, have one common merit. They are written by two masters of style, and of each it may be said, as Johnson said of Goldsmith, that "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit."...

THIRTY years ago, when Professor (now Sir) Monier Williams published his very useful little book, Indian Epic Poetry (now quite out of print), the Ramayana had already been...

THERE appeared not long ago, in an authoritative quarter, an article on modern German historians, classing and appre- ciating them according to their " methods " and " Weltan-...

Brothers, New York.)—Thirty odd years ago Mr. Hutton bought a collection of half-a-dozen casts made from the faces of the dead. He has gone on adding to his collection, and now...

Voice, Speech, and Gesture. (Charles Deacon and Co.)—The right book on the elocutionary art has at length appeared. In producing the work as many as six writers have been...

of "Lecture Sermons on the Universal Empire of Christianity" is, naturally, one of very varied merit. Some of them put the case as effectively as could be desired. Nothing could...

great Englishman" is Peter Payne, a follower of Wyclif. He was Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, early in the fifteenth century. In the year 1417 " he was re- ceived,"...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Wilmot, who is a member of the Legislative Council of the Cape Colony, traces the history of the colony from the early days of Portuguese discovery...

(Heywood, Manchester and London.) —We have had, on various occasions, the pleasure of welcoming this interesting series of volumes, also calling itself, whether for the first...

Sherard. (Marsden.)—In this volume, a sequel to others by the same author, we have an account of the "private amuse- ments and small public fates " of the Chinese people. The...

Manery Stuart. (Osgood, McIlviane, and Co.)—This is one of the most delightful tales that it has ever been our good fortune to read. Babette, one of the daughters of Colonel le...

Vincent. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mrs. Howard Vincent writes agreeably about the humours, perils, and pleasures of travel. She happened to reach Brazil just when the Army...

us in this volume a quite delightful variety of subjects, most of them of a kind which it is very good to read about. The first paper bears the title of " An Earthly Paradise,"...

Introduction by the Dean of St. Paul's. (Elliot Stock.)— There is much good sense in what Mr. Worley writes, and not a little humour ; of course there is some exaggeration. It...

Shadows from a Doctor's Reading-Lamp " are concerned, as might be supposed, with shadow rather than light. They show the seamy side of the medical profession. We see the doctor...

of the New Testament" is of too technical a kind to be dealt with in detail. The writer starts the theory that the Oracles (iaeria), which Papiaa of Hierapolis attributes to St....

by Clara Bell. (Heinemann.)—Mr. Andrew Lang has furnished this volume with an introductory essay in which he distinguishes, not for the first time, between various kinds of...

" study on the structure and characters of clouds" will be found full of interest. The subject is comparatively new ; at least, we do not remember to have seen it treated in...

Essays and Addresses, by the Yen. James M. Wilson. This attempt to treat some religious questions in a "scientific spirit" was recognised at once on its appearance as an honest...

in English has reached a third edition. This is This World of Ours, by H. 0. Arnold-Forster (Cassell and Co.) " The study of geography," writes the author in his preface, " is...

Bennett. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—The Dialogus has had much attention directed to it of late. Professor Peterson, in this country, has published a full edition of it, and...

Newnes.) —This little book is written in a conversational style and in a way that makes the information given easily intelligible. Among the chapters is one on " The Brilliancy...

Putman's Sons.)—Newton Booth, sometime Governor of California and United States Senator for California, seems to have been a true orator, with the gift of real and spontaneous...

by Mr. T. A. Buckley, was the Virgil crib with which many people were familiar forty years ago. It was a very indifferent perform- ance, grotesque in parts, and wanting both in...

Blackett.)—Very dull and uninteresting is In a New World, with no character that bears even a remote likeness to life, and no incident to disturb the laboured and tedious style....

Ketchum, D.D. (Elliot Stock.)—John Medley was one of the good men who owe much to their mothers, who trained him for his work with a diligence which might have wearied weaker...

for the Spenser Society.)—In this modest Introduc- tion Mr. Elton has compressed all that is known or conjectured about one of the most voluminous of English poets. The con-...

prosperity of Hong-Kong and Burmah, particularly as M. Chailley , Bert reviews everything from an independent standpoint, and the style and a few mental peculiarities only...

Co.)—There is but little pretence of literary style or proportion in these notes and jottings on Australian life and its peculiar features. We are reminded of a certain...

S. Palmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—It must have been a somewhat arduous task to translate the technical and often involved sentences of Professor Nernst, and we owe thanks to the...

and Co.)—The exact plan of Mr. Canney's book is somewhat obscure, and the style generally lacks definiteness; but from what we can gather, he has spent some time in Australia...

Sons.) —In this volume we have a curious and successful mixture of fiction and fact. A young English lady goes out to join her father in Persia. The father has married a lady of...

practically a text-book for the Elementary Biology Examinations of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England. It seems to us clearly written, interesting in...

lemmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—This most important work was first published in 1479, but has been out of print, we are told, since. It has been •-xtensively revised as to style,...

Doveton's " fancies " are not connected with fishing. We must own to liking him best when he is describing his angling experiences or giving his impressions of nature,—a...

(Stanford.)—There is nothing that calls for much notice in the " Round Trip." Our authoress tries to give us an idea of the scenery, the flowers, and something of the life. She...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The author of this book went the common round, as far as Phila3 and the First Cataract, and then, on another occasion, to Jerusalem. She has not...

—It is astonishing how complicated politics can become, even in the heart of Africa, and one reads with a growing bewilder- ment the wheels within wheels which finally led to...

by George Saintebury (Gibbings and Co.), we have Roderick Random, 3 vols.-In "Blackie's School and Home Library" (Blackie and Son), we have Irving's Conquest of Granada, 2 vols.

who tells us that all his materials have been carefully studied and selected "from the best products of the present day and generation in the way of actual authentic chess." He...

(Pentland.) -This is intended as a guide for ambulance service, and gives directions for the treatment of both injuries suffered in warfare and sickness. The method of dealing...

William White, Ph.D. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.) -This is a "revised edition," its notes having been "adapted" to the latest edition of Goodwin's Greek Grammar and to Hadley's...

Great Queen Street, W.O.; and Published by dome JAMES BAEHR, of No. 1 Wellin g ton Street. in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex , at the " Serctszoa"...

have issued their addressee. In all the main drift is the same, that the Ministry exists only to carry through a Dissolution, after which it will form a Government and announce...

a consequence of the vote of Friday evening, the Secretary of State for War, with whom the whole Government absolutely identified themselves, had been incapacitated from...

accepted the task of forming a Ministry charged with the duty of dissolving Parliament. A delay of a few hours occurred, apparently caused by some accident ; but on Tuesday a...

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has been a singularly unsuccessful one in legislation. But it has contained some good administrators, especially Sir William Harcourt, Mr. John Morley, and Mr. Asquith. It has...

M R. BALFOUR suggested a week or two ago that the Government would be upset by a brewer's dray. It has really been upset over a tumbril. Mr. St. John Brodrick, who was the...

There has been for some time a strong opposition to further expense - upon Colonial expansion, especially in the French Soudan ; and M. Bozerian gave ex- pression to this in a...

Lime, be serious news from Macedonia. The Macedonian peasantry are tired of oppression ; and in district after district make violent riots, usually directed against local...

Emperor had visited the British squadron in his uniform as a British Admiral of the Fleet, and had made a speech expressing the admiration of the German Navy for the British and...

of the condition of the island. The sugar trade, by which the planters used to make fortunes, is now so unprofit- able that estates are being abandoned to the wilderness, and...

has repaid the French Government for its recent help in in- ducing the Japanese to surrender their claim to the Liau- tung Peninsula by signing a treaty which allows France to...

; and some astounding allegations were made. It is the custom, it seems, in the French African Colonies to " concede " vast tracts to private persons, who monopolise the forests...

of Commons that the Duke of Cambridge had resigned the post of Commander-in-Chief, and that the resignation would take effect on October 1st. That is good news. The Duke's...

manifesto issued by the National Liberal Federa- tion—the body authorised to speak for the party as a whole— talks of " Home-rule first and foremost " when enumerating the...

and disagreeable question which has arisen over the treatment of British Indian subjects by the Transvaal. Certain natives of India—many of them connected with important...

of an experiment in peasant proprietary recently tried in Dorsetshire by Sir Robert Edgcumbe. About seven years ago he bought a farm of three hundred and forty-three acres for...

political crisis which seems to us at once weak and wheedling. "For nine years," he says, "the Irish party has stood firmly and honourably by that alliance with the Liberal...

note of Mr. Gladstone's to Mr. Douglas Mackenzie, the author of a little book on "The Ethics of Gambling," which he had sent to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone replies :—" June...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 107i.

THE CRASH. I T has been said that Sir William Harcourt on Friday week expressed his thankfulness that there was one night in the week on which the Government might feel secure...

is probably more complete than they are yet aware, has been_ due to many causes; but among them the first has been the failure of their chosen chief. That failure has been to...

though all the names are not yet announced, will be a very strong one,—perhaps even a trifle too strong. The men who seceded in 1886 were, with the exception of Mr. Gladstone,...

Q IR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S sun does pot sink 1.7 without a little glory. Be succeeded the most famous orator of the dge. He inherited his legacy of well-nigh impossible tasks ; and...

a very wise as well as a very striking thing. They have made the Duke of Devonshire in effect Lord High Constable of England. That is, they have created an office for him which...

M OST of us recognise the extent of the impact which the fall of a Ministry makes .upon home affairs. It is not only the political organisations which are affected ; there is...

T HE change of Government brings the subject of voluntary schools into a position of more immediate prominence than it held when we wrote last week. In the long-run, we believe,...

M R. FRAZER, one of the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, has made a selection of passages from our Bible with the intention of showing the literary beauty and interest of...

M R. G. F. WATTS, the Royal Academician, has given £1,000 to the Home Industries and Arts Association, in order to assist the work of helping artisans to cultivate hobbies. At...

W E have been hearing lately of the "Corse of Intellect," but we might with equal truth enlarge on the curse of stupidity,—or, not to use so strong a word, we will say the...

TRAMPS. [TO TICE EDITOR Of TRY " SPECTATOR." J SIR, -With reference to your recent article on "Tramps,"" will you permit me to supplement my letter which appeared in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] an article in the Spectator of Jane 22nd, Cromwell is depicted as a champion of "religious liberty." It is difficult, however, to see how...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—There is an interesting paper in Blackwood of March, 1895, entitled "Did Junius Commit Suicide?" meaning, of course, the author of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] `SIR,—You advocate this scheme, although you admit that it would make a great demand upon the taxpayers,—two million sterling you suggest. Let...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The Spectator of June 22nd contains a material error in "The News of the Week" from Rome. The President of the Italian Chamber is not,...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE " BrEmiroa."] Sin, — In an article in the Spectator of Jane 8th, it is stated that "it is next to impossible to cite an instance in which a dog exhibits...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The dog-story told by a correspondent in the Spectator of June 22nd, illustrative of "the emotion of grief in animals," recalls to my...

paper, in the Spectator of June 15th, on " The Emotion of Grief in Animals," leads me to write to you upon what appears to be a very strong appearance of it in a pug-dog, who in...

THEOCRITITS IN FLEET STREET. WHAT matter though my room be small, Though this red lamp-light looks On nothing but a papered wall And some few rows of books P For in my hand I...

[TO THE EDTTOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It seems to me that the great independence of mind shown by even the most domesticated of cats is evidence of a strength of character...

THESE very remarkable letters of Coleridge,—the first volume is much the more remarkable ; in the second, his digressiveness and long-windedness oftener seem to drown his...

CF all Time's revenges in the sphere of music, none is more amazing than.the growth of Bach's posthumous fame. His life was singularly uneventful, the only incident which...

easy to exaggerate the charm of Professor Tyrrell's volume. He delights us whether we agree or disagree. If his originality sometimes, as it seems to us, verges upon paradox,...

situation, and from considerations of Imperial policy, the island of Newfoundland must evidently be destined to remain an appanage of the British Crown, of which it originally...

How far Darwin was aided in his formation of the theory of evolution by investigations of tropical nature in the course of his voyage in the 'Beagle ' is rather a moot question...

THERE is really something wonderful about Mr. Clark Russell, —at least there is something which must always seem wonderful to the ordinary landsman. To such a person the...

Oates groups the poems together and draws out the moral and theological meaning which is to be found in them with much sympathy and insight. Where they are already grouped by...

by C. C. Flower. 8 vols. (Midland Educational Company. Birmingham and elsewhere.) — This edition is intended for theatrical purposes, and for Shakespeare reading-clubs. The...

over modern life, on its restlessness, its keener interests, its more extended knowledge. The first essay is entitled " A Highland Seer and Scotch Superstitions," interesting...

Coridon's Song, and other Verses. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. (Macmillan and Co.)—We have ten pieces, beginning with " Coridon's...

Sons.)—This is an elaborate statement of the present position of the English law as regards the possession of land. It is discussed theoretically, historically, and practically,...

Eugene Richtenberger. Translated by Professor H. B. Ganseron. (Dean and Son.)—This is a volume of a series which should be highly useful, for it aims at doing nothing less than...

is a book full of curious learning which no critic of ordinary attainments can pretend to estimate. The information given about the places of amusement which existed before the...

East, and Blades.)—This volume, descriptive of " Medals Struck by the Corporation of London to Commemorate Important Municipal Events, 1831-1893," has been prepared by the...