With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, October 9th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

T HE accounts from the Indian frontier are encouraging both in general and in detail. The general result is that with the new big guns, the fire of shrapnel and the Maxims, and...

THE SETTLEMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE. M R. MORLEY is too hard on Lord Salisbury. It may be quite true that Prince Bismarck would have done better in his place ; but the Premier is...

T HE trouble of the graver Anglo-Indians about this frontier war differs a good deal from the anxiety of the purely English politicians. The former have no real distrust as to...

W E should not have ventured to weary our readers with any further discussion of the condition of that confirmed invalid, the Liberal party, had not Mr. Morley himself in his...

W ITH Mr. Morley's speech on the South African question we find ourselves, on the whole, in accord. His condemnation of Mr. Rhodes and his defence of the action of the Committee...

ostensibly because one of their number has been excommunicated by a Bishop. Senor Sagasta, the Liberal leader, has been sent for, and it is presumed that he will accept the task...

T HIRTY-SEVEN Church Congresses are a striking tribute to the permanent interest that religion has for mankind. There are similar gatherings asso- ciated with other departments...

" AN THATEVER," writes Miss Wedgwood in the Con- temporary Review for October, " the Broad Church may have accomplished in Christian work, in literature, in ecclesiastical...

T HE papers are very full just now of cycling accidents. Every morning and evening there is a new list of casualties, and if we may believe the St. James's Gazelle, the doctors...

A CORRESPONDENT of the Times, in an interesting article published on Monday last, draws attention to the invasion by hunters of the last stronghold of the giraffe in South...

THE STORY OF A SMALL AGRICULTURAL BENEFICE. [To VIZ EDITOR OP TRZ " EPICTRTOR.") Srn,—The Duke of Bedford has given to the world, under the title of " The History of a Great...

OUR TROUBLES IN INDIA. [To Till EDITOR OF VTR "SPxCTaTOS."] SIR,—Last time I addressed you, defending my countrymen against aspersions cast upon their political loyalty. you...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The sympathy of Great Britain for her Colonies has lately been so strongly marked that I trust you may deem the present a favourable...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —To your interesting suggestions on this theme I would add one more ; perhaps sufficiently obvious. Suppose a nobler, wiser race from...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article on the above subject in the Spectator of September 25th you give a suggestion which will, I believe, be found to...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR: ] Sin,—The sheep-farmers of the South Downs will be Mt advised if they break their pastures and plant vines. Lord, Bate's vineyards are the...

NAPOLEON'S LETTERS.* THE pious biographer who in loyalty to his subject suppresses whatever incidents or pronouncements he deems discreditable is not always justified cf his...

STINT LACRECE RERIIM. WHEN first Death laid his soothing hand On that wan, weary head, We smiled—a watching, weeping band- " The pain has ceased," we said. And when the...

books on the relation of Christ's teaching to social life, just as we dread taking up books on the relation of science to religion (written, as a brilliant Oxford Professor once...

CANON JOSEPH HAMMOND has produced an almost ideal parish history. He has carefully read and digested what his predecessors have written, and during his fifteen years' vicariate...

object in writing this book has been to give a view of the "human side of Parliament." This might seem to take him over the ground covered by Mr. White, whose recollections of...

IT is more than a little disappointing, when one opens this book, to find that Rooke's Journal has nothing to say about the capture of Gibraltar. To tell the truth, it is not a...

SPITSBERGEN has been discovered for three hundred years, yet the surveying expedition of Sir Martin Conway revealed the fact that every one was ignorant of the nature of the...

Ransome, M.A. (E. Arnold.)—Professor Ransome has given us here, with some abbreviations (for which he is careful to apologise), Carlyle's brilliant battle-pictures in his "...

Animal Land. By Sybil and Katherine Corbet. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is a delightful series of drawings of nonsense- animals. The animals are drawn by Mrs. Corbet from the...

There is no need to discuss the nature of Mr. Philpotte's plot. It turns, of course, on illicit love. The tale-writer of the day seems unable, for the most part, to get on...

M.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—All who love the most solemn and majestic of English trees, the tree which suggests at once primitive man, the quiet of country churchyards, and the...

Rose E. Selfe. (Constable and Co.)—Mr. Philip H. Wicksteed, who edits this selection, explains that it "is not intended as a contribution to the study of Villani, but as an aid...

" Short, merry, and farcical," says Webster. That is not by any means the article which Miss Maud Oxenden exhibits. It is the old dreary story,—men and women loving as they...

Rev. John Hunt, D.D. (Gibbings and Co.)—Dr. Hunt quotes a saying of Goethe (referring to a question of natural history that was being hotly debated), " I do not judge ; I only...

C.M.G. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Not the least interesting chapter of an interest ing volume is tkat which concludes the work, and is devoted to " French Canada." Dr. Bourinot's name...

Sir Bhagnat Sinh See. (Macmillan and Co.)—By " Aryan " is meant the Hindoo branch of the Aryan race. This book is not intended for the general public, but will be found to...

M`Kern and Son, Limerick.)—Those who accompany Mr. Dowd in his tour " round about the County of Limerick " will find much to interest them. He starts from Kilmallock, a place...

St. Clair Tisdall, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Tisdall, who dates his preface from " Jun Isfahan," must have been some- what affected by the uncritical atmosphere of the...

by D. Havelock Fisher. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Monsieur Boissier has little that is new to tell us in that part of his volume which refers to Horace's Sabine farm. He agrees...

six short stories and two " Indian Sketches " in this volume. The most effective of all by a long way is the tale from which the book gets its title. It furnishes a companion...

Sons.)—This story of the Civil Wars is well written. The level of literary merit, as far as style is concerned, is indeed unusually high. On the other hand, as a tale it is...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—Here we have some vivid sketches of Nature and sport. " The Autocrat of the Eddy " is a good specimen. There is a touch of Nature in it that makes the English...

Read. 2 vols. (Ghetto and Windus.) — General Meredith Read was Consul-General of the United States for France and Algeria from 1869 to 1873, and Minister to Greece from 1873 to...

Co.)—Philosophy of Knowledge : an Inquiry into the Nature, Limits, and Validity of Human Cognitive Faculty. By George Trumbull Ladd. (Longmans and Co.) — The Boston Browning...

—Miss Hunt pictures various situations of difficulty which people make for themselves or which are made for them. A girl finds out on the eve of her marriage that her bridegroom...

Comments by Joseph B. Mayor, Litt.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—This second edition of a work which was reviewed at length in the Spectator on its first appearance has received con-...

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