MR. LE FANU'S REMINISCENCES. 0 lv has been said that the Nationalist agitation has been the death of Irish humour; and certainly credence is indirectly lent to the assertion by...

LONDON: DECEMBER 2, 1893.

material for entertainment as the one depicted in Mr. Hope's clever and enjoyable novel, Ha?! a Hero, nobody will hesitate about endorsing the opinion of one of its personages...

few pleasanter than the planning of a next summer's tour with maps and guide-books ; and the charm is doubled if one can hit on some fresh place to visit, something out of the...

late Sir Andrew Agnew's Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway is at once the most interesting and most exhaustive work which has yet been published on what is, from the ethnological,...

fact that the story of the greatness and de- cline of the Greek peoples has never been simply and straight- forwardly told by a modern historian. Generally it has been political...

his fellow in Asia, and while all Europe is concerned in the keeping alive of the one, it rests between two Powers whether the illness of the other is to end in convalescence,...

AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS.* NEW YORK, as Mr. Hopkinson Smith describes it, seems a veritable Happy Valley for American artists. We are intro- timed to the Century Club, and to other...

lation by II. Oskar Sommer, Ph.D. Illustrated by Arthur J, Peskin. 2 vols. (George Allen.)—We are not qualified to speak of the translation as regards its fidelity to the...

and Co.)—In some of these tales we have birds and beasts confabulating,—geese, for instance, and butterflies, and starfish, if, indeed, these can be so called. Then we have in...

oldest of our art publications, continues to provide abundant, and on the whole satisfactory, matter for its readers. We cannot rank its full-plate illustrations exactly on a...

Arnold.) —We have no fault to find with Dr. Yates, except that he tries to crowd too much into his scanty space. The two Testaments are put into the compass of one of the larger...

historico-religious romance, by one of the most skilled pens of the day, has only one fault. Dealing with a special period of the eighteenth century, it is a trifle too long and...

—This "collection of abort original stories for children" contains eighteen contributions. Among the names of authors we find those of Mrs. Molesworth, Mr. Ascott Hope, Mrs. L....

is a story of the latter years of the eighteenth century, in which smugglers and the pressgang play a prominent part. The incident is plentiful and exciting; the characters are...

of this book is "A story of high-school life," and without doubt it is an accurate one. But the main feature of the story is the trouble caused by the introduction of a spirited...

a distinctly strong one. A series of articles continues the " Sovereigns " and " Statesmen of Europe,"—this time it is the "Peoples of Europe." Then we have an immense number of...

Farrar and Mrs. Meynell. (Art Journal Office.)—This is a republication from the Art Journal (not the volume of this year). Mrs. Moynell tells the story of the artist's life as...

adventures in the Wild West present a very truthful picture of cowboy life in the least settled parts of the prairie country. There is plenty of fighting, and Tom has to use...

serials in the Sunday at Home, " When the Bony-Tree Blooms," by Leslie Keith, and" The Family : some Reminiscences of a Housekeeper," by Evelyn Everett-Green, and the usual col-...

(Seeley and Co.)—We must own to having felt a certain disappointment in reading this book. It begins very well. The writer of these "notes of a little philosophic journey in...

(Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Collier, who ihi well known as the author of some excellent school-histories, has here given us, under the title of "Pictures of the...

the story of a spiritual struggle in a young Simon the Simple was laughed to scorn, heart,—rather more sad than we should altogether like to try a Speeding away through !lel& of...

and Co.)—This is the yearly volume of the Girl's Friendly Journal, and we welcome it as a record of a very good work. The list of contributors is an encouraging proof of the...

1858, is now reissued with certain corrections, suggested, the author tells us, by a subsequent visit to Iceland. When We Two were Parted, by Sarah Doudney (Griffith, Ferran,...

of Quaker Persecution" is well conceived and well written. There is a good contrast between the temperate Mistress Drayton and the fierce partisan who is the heroine of the...

—The pirates of this tale are the Tunisian corsairs ; and our hero and his friends are captured by the Bey in the days of the Com- monwealth. The narrative of the voyages and...

it will please, we My Rook of History-Tales. (Edward Arnold.)—Some forty odd fancy. The chief fault that we find in it is an eccasional touch incidents in English history are...

first prickly, repellent form, does not suggest the dainty creatures part of the book ; and we can quite imagine ourselves going to which Miss Burnside's imagination, aided by...

"A," for instance, is exemplified by Amor (a boy Cupid), Ape (studying an album), Adam (eating an apple)—bring- ing in an emphatic contrast between man and his reputed pro-...

much addicted to smuggling. (So at least sayeth my ancient Gran), The date is the beginning of the century. Slight and short, it Little Boy Blue was blowing his horn, hardly...

Black, White, and Grey. By Amy Walton. (W. and R. merit. That on p. 0 is really too grotesque ; it might have been Chambers.)—The history of three kittens—black, white and meant...

is given us by A Day with the Sea-Urchins. By Helen M. Burnside. With

good- " THE SWALLOW AND THE ROHM looking ; in his old age, he becomes decidedly prolix. Half the ' Come follow, come follow,' number of pages would have sufficed, even for his...

that was a little hard. eellent periodical for the public for which it is intended.

P. Putnam's Sons.)—Here we have, the title-page informs us, "ex- periences of certain representative American journalists, related by themselves." Very entertaining, for the...

I f lomance of Low Life among Plants. By M. C. Cooke. (S.P.C.K.)— The life-history of Ferns, Alga), and Fungi is made very interesting to the student by Mr. Cooke, without any...

sketches of Mr. Morgan Lloyd are instinct with life and observation ; and the bony skeleton is only revealed to us when it becomes necessary to elucidate some particular...

and Co.)—Mr. Sing has made an excellent little school-book out of the narrative of the surprise of Platosa, its siege, the escape of part of the garrison, and the doom of the...

Philip Sidney. (Sampson, Low, and Coo -- Sterne's Sentimental Journey. (Routledge and Sons.)—An elegant miniature edition.—Sermons on the Prayer-Book and the Lord's Prayer. By...

Street, Strand and Published by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Preaiet n Of the Savoy, Strand , in the County of Middlesex, at the " SPBCTATOR" Moe, No. 1...

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Dupuy Ministry has fallen unexpectedly, and in a rather odd way. The true reason is the want of agree- ment among its members, especially as regards...

the German Emperor and his Chancellor. A box was received on Sunday by the latter, apparently sent from Orleans, and said to contain radish-seed of a new kind. His aide-de-camp,...

case.

week. The first was at Cardiff on Tuesday, when he remarked on the absolute necessity of reinforcing our Navy at a time when other nations are so greatly increasing theirs, and...

dissatisfaction with the Report on the affairs of the Ba.ncit Romans_ It is not alleged that the Ministers took money, but some of them used their official influence with the...

of the betrothal of the Cesarewitch to the Princess Henne of Orleans ; but it was denied next day by the Comte de Paris himself. The story was primei facie most improbable, as a...

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women's vote has not trimmed the balance in favour of the Conservatives, as Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour fondly, and we believe vainly, hope that it would do in England....

explosion of national feeling. There was not the least neces- sity for treating the rising of the Riff tribes as more than a barbarian insurrection, and this was, it was...

the secret societies are renewing their nativity. There have of late been one or two attempts to employ explosives in blowing-up barracks ; and on Monday a man street of Dublin....

lunch in the Cardiff Mill-Hall, given him by the Cardiff Con- servative Association. On this occasion he devoted himself chiefly to the subject of the division of classes,...

Mr. Justin ilirCarthy's and Mr. John Morley's anticipations of the prospect of bringing force to boar on the House of Lords. Mr. Justin KCarthy had informed us last January that...

on another theme, the survival of the irritable temper which former grievances have excited, long after those grievances have been removed. "Bear in mind that if you find great...

a remarkable lecture on South Africa at the Royal Colonial Institute. He stated that the Protectorate of the British South Africa Company extended over 750,000 square miles, and...

the fires of our manufactories yield, has been invented at Birmingham by Mr. Elliott, and used successfully for some months in the Mint there. The correspondent of the Pall Mall...

New Console (2i) were on Friday 974j - 98114.

draws distinctions. He informed the House of Commons on Tuesday that he had been asked to allow the Commonweal Society to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square, but had found on...

Parish Councils) Bill has advanced during the week from Clause 2 to Meuse 9, and will probably go on a little faster, rather than slower, in future ; but still there is enough...

author of the Biglow Papers, of various beautiful poems in a much more ideal and pathetic vein, and of a great number of remarkable criticisms, was unveiled in the Chapter House...

the House of Lords on Thursday without a division, the rather languid debate turning chiefly upon the subject of the clause forbidding all " contracting-out " of the pro-...

some of our people. The master of a small vessel was sentenced to death on Wednesday, at Grimsby, for the deliberate murder of his sweetheart. When asked if he had anything to...

THE FALL OF M. DUPUY. 0 "prediction of last week about the French Ministry has been fulfilled with a rapidity we did not expect. We ventured then to doubt whether M. Dupuy,...

the late Mr. W. H. Smith was his remarkable, his almost distinguished, equanimity. The evenness of his mind amounted to more than a talent,—a kind of moral genius. In him,...

better illustration of the remark- '. able change which has passed over the face of English politics than was aftorded by the deputation of working men which, at the end of last...

W E are by no means sure, if the world has to declare war on Anarchists, Nihilists, Itivincibles, and the other varieties of the genus dynamitard, that the best way, as well as...

ORD SALISBURY could hardly have better defined true Conservatism than in the second of his two principal speeches at Cardiff, when he said "If you would ask me the difference...

elect, It seems to us that a great many people, Tories as well and they have a much more important vote already—the as Radicals, sensible folks as well as faddists, are wander-...

J N an interesting little volume, carefully illustrated as a gift-book, which Messrs. Isbister and Co. have published, called " In the Footsteps of the Poets,"—of which some...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday—a journul and a number chosen by pure accident, because this article was written on that day—offers a perfect example of a new evil which, in...

J UDGED by results, the whole body of popular wisdom on the subject of weather would not have availed to predic the gale which recently filled a closely printed column of the...

A LETTER FROM GIBRALTAR. November 15th. " Gin,"—what is the general idea suggested by that mono- syllable to the home-keeping Englishman ? Something, perhaps, of this sort,—an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin, — On my return to this country after a long absence, I am a good deal struck by the bitterness of political controversy, and the...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you kindly allow me the space to apologise to " Scrutator " and also to yourself for having rashly and with. out reference to tiles of...

" SCRUTATOR " AND THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not at all doubt that your correspondent" Sorutator" wrote what he bond fide believed about...

[To TRIO EDITOR OF THE " BPROTATOR."] gather from a letter, signed "Rector," in the Spectator of November 25th, that the writer is under the impression the Parish Councils Bill...

of the late Mr. W. Bell Scott (Vol. U. p. 276-77) there is an interesting reference to this phrase. Mr. Scott believed that he had discovered its Hebrew orIgin. At the funeral...

[To TIM EDITOR OF THE " SFICITATOR.1 Sin,—" J. E. K." seems to me to have failed completely in his attempt to refute the reasoning of your thoughtful article on prayers for the...

SPECTATOR:1 .81E,—Please kindly permit me to exculpate myself from the imputation that the little essay, "What is Unwomanly P" which I recently sent to W oman," was written for...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE EIPECTATO11."] Sin,--With reference to the supposed suicide in Dublin, I wish to say that your correspondent, who writes from the University Club here, is...

A FRIEND OF MARIE ANTOINETTE,* A Friend of the Queen. Translated by Mrs. Cashel Ilooy from the Franca of Paul Gaulot. Lonoon : W. Heinemann. 1894. To say that a book is...

Within his beams heaven's lesser beauties fade ; And many of the marvels God has made Would be for ever shrouded from our sight If the sun never set. But with the night New...

delightful book of travels, and something more. In the course of his journey in the East he met with some exceptional opportunities, and;knew how to make use of them, with the...

Hazlitt in which he and Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt and others of that familiar coterie took part, the subject being "Persons one would wish to have seen." Lamb seems to have...

"WHILE this collection was being made," writes Mr. Leonard in his introduction, "a well-known author and critic took occasion to gently ridicule anthologies and anthologists. He...

THILIVA can be few people better qualified than Miss Louisa Twining to pass in review the losses and gains of civilisation during the last half-century. On the one hand she...

The History of South Australia. By Edwin Hodder. 2 vols. (Sampson, Low, and Co.)—This seems to be very impartially written, and though there is little in the way of humour or...

volumes of devotional poetry which Miss Rossetti has published, viz.," Called to be Saints," "Time Flies," and "The Face of the Deep." They are arranged under various heads. The...

—The plot of this story is about as bizarre, and, we may add, as repulsive, as anything that has ever come within our experience. Mona Aveling is an artist, and his sister...

(Fisher Unwin.)—These short articles are reprinted from the Scottish Leader, and include a variety of topics, from a "Defence of the Dog" to the Ober-Ammergau Passion-Play. Much...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—M Riviere's autobiography is not the least entertaining of the many volumes of reminiscences with which the public has of late been favoured. He was in...

and Co., London.)—In this little story the loves and misfortunes of succeeding generations are skilfully blended. Miss Mabel Fowler has made use of familiar themes ; we...

ten spirited illustrations drawn by W. H. Overend and engraved on wood by J. D. Cooper. In two or three cases, where the same subjects are selected in both editions, the...

(Blackwood and Sons.)—Dr. Pryde's "memories" are of Scottish things and persons, collected chiefly in Edinburgh. He was born in Kinghorn, in Fife, made his way more Scotia),...

diminished of late years that it is, we think, doubtful whether the republication of a Journal which has no raison d'aire save as a record of the poet's egotism, will attract...

Son, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Walker has adopted Dean Burgon's ad- mirable plan of putting sundry short biographies into one volume. There are many men whose lives are worth telling,...