2 JULY 1887

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The importance of this struggle, as we have explained else-

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where, consists in its bearing on the English political position. Lord Salisbury could carry the Convention at once by promising armed support to the Sultan ; but will...

The Pope has appointed Monsignor Persia., formerly Vicar- Apostolic of

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Hindoatan, a man of rare ability, and one of the most trusted agents of the Holy See in difficult affairs, his Apos- tolic Delegate to Ireland. He is sent there to inquire and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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HE Crimes Bill has advanced far this week. The most im- portant amendment in the Report stage was one moved by Mr. Morley on Monday, limiting the duration of the Act to three...

• ,,* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in

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any ease.

It is possible that, in spite of the apparent quiet

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and the high price of all securities, the Continent is upon the eve of important events. Eastern Europe is disquieted by two incidents either of which may lead to grave...

King Milan's journey to Vienna excites great interest. He has

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been received with Royal honours, he has been twice closeted with the Emperor, and it is evident to those on the spot that he hesitates about something. It is believed that this...

There is also unquiet over the Anglo-Turkish Convention. It was

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supposed that this was arranged ; but at the last moment the French and Russian Governments determined to apply pressure to the Sultan. It was reported at first that this had...

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Mr. Chamberlain replies in Thursday's Times to Sir George Trevelyan's

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attack, that although Mr. Gladstone has given up his Bills, he has never declared in what respect they will be amended in his future proposals, nor how far he accepts the...

Mr. Alfred Henriques, who stood as a Liberal candidate for-

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Walworth in 1885, and has since become a Home-ruler, writes to Mr. Chamberlain, in a letter published on Tuesday, that he is compelled to abandon Mr. Gladstone's party and ally...

At Blackburn, on Saturday, Lord Harlington pointed out that, so

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far from clearing the way for English and Scotch legis- lation by granting the Parnellite demands, Parliament would really be surrendering without terms to any unscrupulous...

Sir George Trevelyan has written a strong letter to Mr.

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Halley Stewart in favour of his return for the Spalding Division of Lincolnshire, which he, as a Gladatonian, contests with Admiral Tryon, who stands as a Unionist. Sir George...

A very remarkable address from the resident graduates of Oxford

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and Cambridge Universities has been presented to Lord Hartington, expressing their strong admiration of his attitude in relation both to his resistance to Irish Home-rule and...

Lord Harlington made an admirable speech in the Free-trade Hall,

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Manchester, yesterday week,—Mr. Oliver Heywood in the chair,—which turned chiefly on Mr. Gladstone's remark that if Lord Harlington wished to discuss with him the conditions...

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As to the method of M. Pasteur for caring those

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who have been bitten, the evidence is, as we have said, extremely un- oertain, and there seems very little doubt that in the case of one or two patients on whom M. Pasteur...

The Czar has, it is declared, sanctioned the construction of

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a railway through Siberia, which will, when completed, enable a traveller to journey from the Baltic to the Sea of Ochotak in thirteen days. The railway is to be constructed...

We may frankly say that we fear very much that

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M. Pasteur's oyster° of inoculating by way of protection against attacks of rabies, has been shown by the Royal Commission appointed in 1886, to have a considerable...

We should add to our mention of the brilliant success

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of Miss Ramsay, of Girton College, and Min Hervey, of Newnbam, last week, the remarkable place gained- in the Historical Tripos by Mies Mary Bateson, who was second in the first...

The Postmaster-General's proposal to continue the State contract with the

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P. and 0. Company for the conveyance of the mails to India, China, and Australia for ten years more, excites a strong resistance. The great Steamship Company offer, from their...

The calculation as to the time occupied in sending the

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message of fire from Malvern to the North, which we last week ex- pressed a hope would not be overlooked, has been made. If we understand rightly the letter to the Times written...

The country is greatly discontented with the new coinage. The

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image of the Queen, though like, is wanting in dignity the veil behind the head makes an ugly line, and the Imperial crown is falling off in a most ominous way. Mr. Goaehen,...

Bank Rate, 2 per cent.

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Consols were on Friday 1011 to 101ixd.

The long controversy in France as to the exemption from

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the conscription of students who intend to be priests, ended on June 25th. The House then sent the seminarists into barracks by a vote of 373 to 173, both fractions of the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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A NATIONAL PARTY. T HE letter of "A Liberal Member" in the Birmingham Daily Post of Wednesday, on the possible coalition between the Tories and the Liberal Unionists under Lord...

THE ANSWER TO SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN'S LETTER.

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S IR GEORGE TREVELYAN appears to think, what some of our readers also appear to think, that there is a depraved disposition in the heart of some Liberals to desert to the Tory...

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THE FRENCH CHAMBER AND THE SEMINARISTS.

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N OTHI N OTHING could be more significant of the attitude of the NG Party in France towards the Church, and, in- deed, towards religion in general, than the vote of Saturday,...

THE PROBABLE FAILURE OF' ink, ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION.

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I T would almost seem as if Providence intended the English to continue occupying Egypt. From the moment we entered the country in 1882, we have been making sincere efforts to...

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DISPENSING WITH DEBATE.

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T HE action of the Parnellites and their Radical allies in the debate upon the Report of the Crimes Bill has been marked by great want of tact. They produced only one great...

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CARDINAL MANNING AND MONSIGNOR PERSICO.

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WHA TEVER else Monsignor Persico's mission to Ireland may do, it has greatly excited the Archhiehops of Dublin and Westminster. Archbishop Walsh is particularly displeased at...

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THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE.

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W E ventured to remark last week, in noticing a speech made at the Mansion House by the editor of the Quarterly Review, that we should not expect our own Victorian age to hold...

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THE EFFECT OF TRAVEL ON INDIAN PRINCES.

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I T is believed among Anglo-Indians that one effect of the Jubilee ceremonials will be to increase greatly the influx of Indian. Princes into London. They have began to visit...

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THE CHARM OF POMP.

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W HEN, on her day of Jubilee, the Queen's procession was passing through the streets of London, it must surely have struck hundreds of those who were excited and stimulated to...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS. [To TUX EDITOR OP "aescrrarea."] Sra,—In your admirable article on " Solicitors," in the Spectator of June 11th, you allude to the necessity under...

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THE WOMEN AND THE UNIVERSITIES. [To rim EDITOR OP THE

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.. Srscravoa."1 SIR,—May I say that women's privileges at Cambridge seem to me minimised in the Spectator for June 25th ? The following are facts :— 1. Women can get...

LOYALTY IN IRELAND.

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[To THI1 EDITOR OF THE Elescreme.1 Sut,—There is more loyalty in Ireland out of Ulster than you seem to suppose. A clergyman in County Wexford writes to me that he saw a...

INFECTION FROM MILK.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THR SPROTATOR."J Sia,—At the foot of my letter which you have done me the honour to print in the Spectator for June 25th, you pat the very pertinent...

JUBILEE BONFIRES.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE firsoraron."] Sia,—In your article on the " Jubilee Bonfires," you say that there is no record whether Lincoln responded to the signal rocket sent up on...

RELATIONS WITH THE PAPACY.

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[To TER EDITOR OP TIER ..13e8cx,roa."] Sin,—The advantages of receiving Papal Envoys and resuming diplomatic negotiations are obvious; but are not the objections enormously...

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THE CATHOLIC PEERS.

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[To on Maros or THE SPECTET01."J Sth.,—In your excellent article on "The Catholic Peers," you say that "the old rule which forbids communion in semis with heretics has...

THE CO.OPERITIVE FACTORY CONTROVERSY. [To THE Horror or THE .3PICTATOlel

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SIB, —Were you inclined to find space, I would not carry on the discussion with the manager of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Boot and Shoe Factory as to the facts of...

[To on Bunco or Ts. SPECTATOBn Sie,—Permit me to express

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a hope that the discussion of the question of the " niceness" of cooked or uncooked milk will not be allowed to obscure the vast importance of the point insisted on by Dr....

THE LIFE OF CHARLES RRADE. [To THE 1111)1T011 or TM

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"113171CTAT08."] Snt—In common with every critic - who has reviewed - my memoir of Charles Reade, you give me credit for an asseveration that the relations between him and...

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ART.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FOURTH NOTICE.] The portraiture of this year's Academy is remarkable for its unexpectedness, by which we mean that, with perhaps the exception of the works...

THE FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS.

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ITO THE EDITOR Or ins ERECTAT0101 Sra,—Another argument occurs to me, which I state for what it may be worth. A traveller, whose name I cannot give without reference to a book...

INDECISION.

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INvistsLE, unspeakable, whose voice In the soft murmur of this neighbouring sea, From the beginning everlastingly Is thy own witness, energise my choice Even now, by more than...

A SMART DOG.

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[To THE EDITOR OR TRH “EIRECTATOR.“] Sut,—For a good many years I have been a constant reader of your valued journal. I have enjoyed your frequent anecdotes of the...

POETRY.

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&IMOD& CORDA.. OR, once to soar, a lark—or sail, a cloud, In the eternal azure overspread ! Could ever the world's voices, vain and loud, Allure again the soul that once had...

GNOSTIC AGNOSTICISM.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " &smarm"] am very much flattered by the notice which the Spectator has taken of my little book, "Naturoi Veritas," and I fully respect the criticism to...

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BOOKS.

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WILHELI/INA OF BAIREIITH.• _ AN English version of the famous Memoires de Priderique Sophie WiZheitnine de Prime, Margrave de Baireugh — so she is styled on the title-page...

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ENGLAND'S HELICON.* Ex was said by Leigh Hunt, about the

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year 1817, speaking of the would-be critics and " people of taste" of his day You will ever find them talking, with an air of patronage, of having found something good now and...

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PRINCIPLES OF ART!

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IF the object of a book on a given subject be to stimulate thought on that subject, and make conceptions clearer which have been vaguely formed or but half-expressed, then to...

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THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CATARACTS.*

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WE think we may predict for this book a wide popularity. No one understands better than Sir W. Butler the attractiveness of a bold egotism. Deeply interesting as were the...

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A COUPLE OF NOVELS.*

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A NEW novel by Trollope ! How much that used to mean twenty years ago! What happy anticipations were excited by such an announcement in the advertisement columns, and how gladly...

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A SCHOOL BEADING-BOOK.*

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ALT, managers of our elementary.schools will welcome the un- pretending little volume now before us, which supplies a want which - must have been often felt by those who have to...

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NATURE. IN SCOTTISH POETRY.•

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Now that Thomas Aird and John Campbell Shairp are gone, Professor Veitch, of Glasgow, is, with the possible exception of Professor Knight, of St. Andrews, the leading Scotch...

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The Girl in the Brown Habit. By Mrs. Edward Kennard.

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3 vole. (F. V. White.)—Mrs. E. Kennard gives us one of her customary mixtures of sport and love. The sport seems to be of much the same quality as usual ; the love-story is...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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We have three volumes of the " Classical Series" (Macmillan and Co.) to notice, and we are glad to be able to speak in prairie of all. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, 3111.-XIV.,...

The "Salve Regina." By Father Antony Denis, S.J. (IL H.

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Gill and Co.)—It is commonly our practice not to criticise books of devotion ; but there is a theological importance about the one now before us which makes us say a few words...

Cycling. By Viscount Bury and G. Lacy Hillier. (Longmana.)— This

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is the new volume of "The Badminton Library," to which it should be a welcome addition. " Cycling " is, as Professor Huxley remarked, the most important addition to the...

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The Encyclopcedic Dictionary (Cassell and Co.) has been mentioned so

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often with well.deserved commendation in these columns, that we need not do more than record the appearance of a new volume, the first part of the sixth, containing items from "...