THE TURN OF THE TIDE.* IF the time has not yet come when we may affirm with regard to so-called Realistic literature in France, " Le Roi est mort," it is certainly at hand ; but...

LONDON: APRIL 30, 1892.

MR. CREIGHTON has produced a most interesting and striking historical work in his History of Epidemics in Britain.' He has carried the historical method and original research...

OF all "men of action," whether English or Scotch, Mont- rose must always be the most romantic figure. He probably had not even the natural capacity of most great Englishmen who...

compiling a Dictionary comes undoubtedly that of reviewing it ; and we are not sure whether the latter task is not the more laborious and less interesting of the two. The...

third Chinese War, had so much depending on its satisfactory conclusion, that people were, and are, apt to overlook the magnitude of the Taeping Rebellion, a rebellion began in...

meet with a new work by Miss Gordon-Cumming. She is a writer of established reputation, and her pages are no less valuable for the information they embody, than they are...

Robert Needham Cust, LL.D. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— This volume, one of " Triibner's Oriental Series," completes, if we are so to understand the motto, Vocat labor...

thirty excellent maps. It is convenient in form, being scarcely larger than a large octavo, but giving space for fair-sized maps by allowing to each a double page. — Th,acker's...

1889. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This volume contains a list of " works published in the United Kingdom, and of the principal works published in America," during a period,...

Co., Salisbury.)—Some time ago Mr. Nightingale published an account of the Church Plate in the County of Dorset, the work having been suggested by the Bishop of Salisbury, who...

On Lonely Shores, and other Rhymes. By James Leigh Joynes. (Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press.)—This small and beautifully printed volume contains several poems...

blue pavilions " from which the story takes its title, are the neighbouring dwellings of two sea-captains. They are rivals for the hand of a certain lady, and then, she dying...

ft-ail:Ms and Open Scholarships, 1892. With a Preface by F. Storr. (Whittaker and Co.)—Mr. Storr is, we take it, adverse to compulsory Greek, but very properly hopes that "the...

and Long.) —There are some good points in this story, notably a sense of humour ; but it is lamentably foolish, badly written, even vulgar in parts, and much confused as to...

seldom read of a more improbable crime than that of the first villain in Darrell's Dream, or a more clumsy villain than his tool. Indeed, William Welby is the moat pitifully...

the author, is a " village chronicle, showing how certain folk set out for El Dorado," &c. The "El Dorado" was nothing more than such happiness as most people who live decent...

the Rev. George Henslow. (S.P.C.K.)—Professor Henslow devotes this volume to explaining and deducing facts from the origin and variety of floral shapes ; and surely nothing can...

opening chapter of Mr. Stacpoole's story shows his knowledge of Stock Exchange life and its fascinations ; and it appropriately ends with a stockbroker's suicide. All this is...

—This is the first Australian story we remember in which the existence of an unknown State in the middle of a savage desolate country forms the chief feature of the narrative....

slight though well-done sketch of an easy-going and indolent but good-hearted officer's wooing. It is hardly a novel or a story, but it is readable and light, written in pencil...

Balguy says in his preface that he could not write about Sheffield without bringing some dialect in, and, indeed, we are pleased to see it, as well as the Irish which is also...

Captain Abney. (S.P.C.K.)—Scientific text-books founded on lectures generally have the advantage of lucidity, and we are reminded of this in perusing Captain Abney's Colour...

Science Series." (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Sims Wood- head has really made a most readable volume out of a subject which, if interesting, is perhaps somewhat repulsive to the majority...

much that is bad, there is much that is promising in Lady Rosalind. But " Louis H. Victory" has an imagination that it would be only just to call unbridled, and by calling in...

the study, a cheap edition of The Resultant Greek Testament, by Richard Francis Weymouth, D.Lit. (Elliot Stock). It is a most con- venient statement and exhibition of what has...

and Co.)—Mr. Pimblett undertakes to tell us various interesting things about Africa, "from the first Egyptian dynasty to the present day." The " correct date" of the first...

First Six Cen- turies. By the late David Duff, D.D. Edited by his Son, David Duff, M.A. (T. and T. Clark.)—The late Dr. Duff was Professor of Church History in the United...

Bristol.)—The ingenious gentleman who calls himself by this nom de plume has paid two visits to America, and worked the lecture gold-mine, veins of which some people are lucky...

Son.)—Miss Peard in this "Dutch story" works out two plots side by side, and contrives to make a very agreeable tale out of the two. The Baron von Cortland has married a young...

Wilkinson. (Macmillan and Co.)—This work is a popular exposi- tion of the art of war, as applied to the needs of the British Empire at the present day. The writers not only hold...

Money tells of a rich old lady's fancy for a girl with a needy father and two lovers, of whom one is mer- cenary, and the other is not. A young gentleman courageous— shall we...

Alexander Neale, D.C.L. (Cloves and Sons.)—This volume gives in alphabetical arrangement a number of subjects on which the law has been laid down within the last few years...

M.A. (Percival and Co.)—The contents of this volume are five addresses to candidates for ordination in the diocese of Oxford, and six sermons preached in the University Church....

Farran, and Co.)—In this novel, Mr. Wills makes his readers the victims of what seems to us an extremely stupid practical joke, a kind of freak which seldom misses a certain...

Street. in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand. in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by him at tlu; " SPECTAT011." °nice, No. 1 Wellington...

O N Monday, the restaurant of M. Very, where Ravachol was so cleverly detected and arrested, was utterly wrecked by the explosion of a bomb. M. Very had been repeatedly...

a great Unionist meeting in the Drill Hall at Derby, last Monday, in answer to an address from the Derby Liberal Unionist Association. Of the most important of the argu- ments...

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at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning—the Court having sat continuously, except for two short adjournments—in a verdict of " Not guilty " in the case of the prisoners Beala, Chan-...

Bow Street by Mr. Vaughan on the charge of " soliciting and inciting," in the Commonweal, certain persons unknown to murder Mr. Matthews, Sir Henry Hawkins, and Inspector...

case.

and Tigrane Pasha, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, relative to the Firman of investiture. Sir Evelyn begins by asking Tigrane Pasha whether he is aware that the new...

James, all made vigorous speeches against the Bill ; while Mr. Courtney, the Chairman of Committees, spoke strongly for it, though he was quoted by Sir Henry James as having...

ment that he wished for a kind of Home-rule in Ireland which would secure to her the administration of her domestic affairs without endangering the best interests of the rest of...

his Bill for giving the Parliamentary suffrage to all women who • now possess the right of voting at municipal elections. It did not give women either the lodger franchise, or...

declaring that as soon as Great Britain favours Canadian goods, Canada will give a preference to those of Great Britain. Great Britain, said its supporters, was the natural...

consideration in Committee of the Indian Councils Bill. Mr. Schwan was anxious to force a hard-and-fast form of election into the Bill ; but to this the Government would not...

in which he disclaimed any sort of connection between giving women the Parliamentary franchise and admitting them to seats in Parliament, and replied to the argument that women...

resolution moved by Sir E. Birkbeck, announced that it was the intention of the Government to connect telephonically all the Coastguard stations in the South of England,—namely,...

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of all grades was held at the Reformers' Tree, by the Clerks' Unions. The speakers asked for higher wages, less hours, and better sanitary conditions. They did not wish to...

has been asserting, in a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on March 31st, that we do not, in the medical meaning of the phrase, live faster than our fathers;...

the annoyance of being consulted on all sorts of subjects by all sorts of correspondents with whom he has no acquaintance at all. A stranger writes to him for noteq to guide him...

sixty-seven, terminates the career of one of the many Indian soldiers who have distinguished themselves as political agents, and to some extent as interpreters of Eastern...

wing. It was pathetic on Thursday night to watch him trying to per- suade Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Lloyd Morgan, and the rest of the Welsh irreconcilables on Church questions,...

the Board of Agriculture, if we may judge by his own account of his achievements in suppressing foot-and-mouth disease. He said yesterday week, at Donington, to his constituents...

THE ANARCHIST TRIAL IN PARIS. I T is clear that the jury which tried Ravachol was in- timidated. The reminder delicately conveyed to them by the counsel for the defence, that...

of. Devonshire, in the powerful speech which he delivered at Derby on Monday, dealt with the Ulster question in the fashion which we expected from a statesman of his robust...

Women's Suffrage in the House of Commons is justly described as an able debate ; but we do not feel, in reading it, that the speakers on either side fully met the assumptions as...

raging in France is largely a war of cross-purposes. The nominal com- batants are the Government and the Episcopate ; but when we look at some aspects of the quarrel, we are...

T AST week we wrote of the knightly daring of a young English officer who led a handful of Goorkhas through the jungle, opposed at every step by fierce and persistent foes. His...

short paragraphs which some of the daily papers of Monday gave to a meeting of the "National Union of Clerks," held last Sunday in Hyde Park. Their case is so hard, and they are...

C URIOSITY is our name for two most widely separated states of mind. We call the passion which compels the greater intellects of the world to discover,—as, for example, the...

W HETHER judged by the strangeness and beauty of its surroundings, or the number and variety of the wild birds that make it their home, there is no more fasci- nating spot for...

N OTHING is more remarkable than the absence of any- thing like go and vigour about the modern attempts to write songs for the people. The Socialists tell us a great deal about...

ADZES of strong political feelings, who are wont to give their feelings an equally strong expression, seem to be -exceedingly indignant with Mr. Gladstone's exposition of his...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF TER " SPECTATOR."1 Sur,—You say in your short notice that Sir James Fergusson's censure of the female employees of the Post Office is just.. Allow me to...

THE NEGRO QUESTION IN AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—According to a paragraph in the Times of April 25th, the Negroes of America are said to be organising...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It is manifest that any one who can make the suggestion "that we should turn the aged wards of the Unions into pleasant asylums for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have not had an opportunity of seeing Mr. Hugh Fraser Stewart's essay on Boethius, of which I have just read the review in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In your review, in the Spectator of April 23rd, of Dr. Weatherly's book, "The Supernatural," there is the following passage :—" On...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of April 16th, there is an article on Mr. R. Kipling's " Village Life in America," which I read with pleasure,...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In a recent Spectator there is a quotation from Pierre Loti to the effect that " animals not only fear death, but fear it the more because they are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As a subscriber to and constant reader of the Spectator, I have derived much pleasure from the anecdotes of animal instinct, sagacity,...

THE NEW GALLERY. IN a year when the dearth of good pictures makes the re- viewing of Galleries a heavy task, it is doubly a pleasure to applaud the achievement of a veteran...

DOWN DRURY LANE. THE dingy street is all aflare with light That blazes from the garish drinking-bars Athwart the solemn purple of the night, Athwart the steadfast shining of...

PROFESSOR SELLAR'S "POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE."* PROFESSOR SELLAR published his first volume, The Roman Poets of the Republic, in 1863, bringing out an enlarged edition ten...

M. PAUL BOURGET has the true spirit of a traveller. No one better knows the feeling of travel,—that mysterious, delight- ful sensation which comes to some of us merely in...

THESE are genuinely fresh and tender poems, not, indeed, of the higher kind of originality, not often marked by that force and depth of imaginative power which make the reading...

THE work of Mrs. Alfred Marks is never commonplace, never deficient in a certain arresting quality; but her latest book is exceptionally striking and impressive. It is a long...

the im- pression he contrives to leave upon his reader. We have read many unfavourable views of the Spanish South Americans, but never anything half so hopeless and depressing...

LADY Ixoms's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow is a noble record of one of the most heroic deeds of history. We say "noble," not as a word of vague compliment, but ad- visedly, and...

Co.)— The heroine of Maisie Derrick being on the point of engagement to the young man of her heart, hard fate brings suddenly into her life a lovely young witch, whose powers of...

describes himself as "Comedian," and whose name will be well known to English playgoers of a certain standing (he now resides in Australia), has put together in a pleasant...

Eunice Anscombe. By Mrs. J. E. H. Gordon. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—The ability shown in this tale is chiefly in the delineation of the children's characters. Bimbi and...

(Dean and Son.)—" Mon Oncle et mon Cure" is a pleasing prose idyll, to which Mr. Berwick's translation does substantial justice. There is in the best French fiction a certain...