31 DECEMBER 1892

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Dr. Max Falk, who reports to the Austro-Hungarian Delegations on

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the Budget, has published an interesting con- tribution to secret history. It consists of two despatches, written in 1877 by Count Julius Andrassy, then Foreign Secretary in...

The release of these prisoners had not been generally known

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for twenty-four hours, when a great crime was committed in Dublin, the motive for which is usually supposed to be anger at the non-release of the Irish dynamitards who were...

Late on the evening of yesterday week, the four prisoners

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sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for being con- cerned in causing the death of Inspector Martin at Gweedore, were released from prison. W. Coll, who had been sentenced...

The Austrian Fozeign Minister also pointed out that for England

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to fight Russia and for Austria to fight Russia were different things. England was to Russia like a wolf to a shark, which could not hurt much, or be hurt much; but Austria and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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V ER Y little has been added this week to what is already known of the Panama scandals. The Committee of Inquiry and M. Franqueville, who is charged with the criminal...

IV The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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The Times of Thursday publishes a letter upon the condi-

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tion of the unemployed in London signed by seventeen of the most prominent "friends of the poor," the names including the Rev. S. A. Barnett, the Rev. Marmaduke Hare, the Rev....

The French have a genius for organising celebrations. M. Pasteur,

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the biologist, is a great favourite of Paris, where men dread disease and are indifferent to vivisection; and on Tuesday, his seventieth birthday, he was accorded a State re-...

The omission of Dr. Walsh from the new list of

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Cardinals has excited some comment, and the Times' correspondent in Rome attributes it to his neglect to promulgate an im- portant decision of the Holy See, meaning, we presume,...

The Jewish Colonisation Association, formed to find settle- ments for

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the Russian Jews, has issued its first annual report. It is not very encouraging. The Association has acquired, through Baron Hirsch's liberality, five or six considerable...

Mr. Gladstone completed his eighty-third year on Thursday,. and is

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now, we believe, much the oldest of our English Prime Ministers. In his case, though "by reason of strength" his years exceed considerably the fourscore years to which the...

As we anticipated last week, the North Meath Election petition

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ended in the unseating of Mr. Davitt, on the ground of the widespread spiritual intimidation exercised by the Catholic clergy at the instance of Bishop Nulty. Mr. Justice...

The Governments of Brazil and Chili have, it is said,

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signed a treaty binding them to maintain a close alliance, offensive and defensive, against all corners. This step is of some im- portance, because it is directed against the...

The Head-masters' Conference terminated yesterday week and wisely determined to

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hold its next meeting in 1894, on the ground that the meeting, if held every year, does not result in such effective discussions as meetings held at longer intervals. The most...

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We regret to observe the death of Mr. Montagu Williams,

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Q.C., which took place at Ramsgate yesterday week, after more than a year's illness, broken by an unfortunate attempt to return to work after a partial recovery. For the last...

The new Poor-Law Commission is to consider "whether any alterations

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in the system of Poor-Law relief are desirable in the case of persons whose destitution is occasioned by in- capacity resulting from old age, or whether assistance could...

The people of the - United Kingdom have been so often

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told to remember Mitchelstown, that whether they do or not, it is clear that Mitchelstown will not easily forget itself. It seems that the place has acquired an almost morbid...

It appears that the Colonial and Continental Church Society is

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not always very wise, or very scrupulous either, in the use of its patronage. In the case of a recent vacancy in the chap- laincy to the English church at Rouen, the British...

Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot declares, in the United Service Magazine, that

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the Navy of Turkey may almost be considered non-existent. The Empire still possesses some ironclads, but they are antiquated, and lie idle at their moorings, the Sultan relying...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent. New Consols (2t) were on

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Friday 98.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. MORLEY'S TROUBLES. " M Y People have a genius for worry," said a distin- guished Irishman who understood them singularly well, a few years ago. And Mr. Morley must be...

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M. CARNOT'S POSITION. N OTHING is more noteworthy in the recent

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outburst of partly justified malignity in France than the efforts of those who rejoice in the exposures to include the President of the Republic among the guilty. It was first...

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THE IMPROVEMENT IN LABOUR LEADERS.

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W E are rejoiced to perceive that Mr. Burt, the Member for Morpeth, whose popularity with his real constituents, the miners of Northumberland, has not been quite unbroken,...

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THE GROWTH OF POPERY.

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" T WANT,"said the Fat Boy, "to make your flesh creep ; " and we feel a similar pleasure in thinking of the hundreds of old women, male and female, chiefly spinsters and retired...

THE HEAD-MASTERS ON LITERATURE IN SCHOOLS.

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W HAT Mr. Welldon and the other head-masters said on the subject of drilling boys early in English grammar, seems to us unquestionably wise. Grammar is a necessary key both to...

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CHEAP LABOUR AND THE COST OF PRODUCTION. -u - NDER the heading

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"The Dearness of Cheap Labour," Mr. David F. Schloss contributes a very interesting paper to the January Fortnightly. Mr. Schloss in his article takes no side in regard to such...

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HOW LONG WILL DICKENS HOLD HIS PLACE IN THE FUTURE?

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A SIXPENNY edition of Dickens's larger stories is being brought out by Mr. Dicks, of 313 Strand,—though "Martin Chuzzlewitt," as a complete work, costs Is., each of the two...

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PRESENT-GIVING.

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I F we may judge by the advertisements now being distri- buted everywhere, there has been a sudden and marked revival of the practice of making presents at Christmas, which,...

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THE COURAGE OF ANIMALS.

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of discipline, and even of duty,—something similar in kind to that which marks and distinguishes the highest forms of courage in man. If we are to form an estimate of the...

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THE NATIONAL PASTIME.

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A READER of the Times last Tuesday could hardly fail to be struck by the amount of space that is devoted to a summary of "Winners and Losers on the Turf" during the past year....

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CONVENTIONAL AND ORIGINAL MINDS.

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NT OST people would agree that there is no quality so attractive in a companion as originality. It is not merely the novelty, the unexpectedness, the humour, the insight shown...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE GOTHENBURG LICENSING SYSTEM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrEcreTon."1 SIR,—With reference to the figures given in your article on the "Gothenburg system," noticing Mr....

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WOMEN'S HELP SOCIETY.—TABARD STREET HOME.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Will you allow me to appeal to the public in a time of need? Through the dishonesty of a matron this Factory Women's Club is 2100 to...

THE CENTURY OF ACT OF UNION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." I SIR,—Colonel Saunderson, of course, did not except the Session in which the Act of Union was passed, for the Act of Union was not passed in...

MADNESS AND WILL-MAKING.

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[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—"Cartright v. Cartright," a case decided in the old - Ecclesiastical Courts, may perhaps be quoted with regard to the question of...

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR RICH AND POOR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If no one else is writing to you on the subject, I hope that. I may be allowed to enter a protest against the interpretation which you...

YOUTH AND AGE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—One on whom his eighty-first winter has come, can hardly think of a " Sexagenarian " as qualified by age to judge by full experience of...

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BILLIONAIRES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — III the "News of the Week," in the Spectator of December 24th, you say "Let the billionaires contribute another £50,000 a year ; "...

IS THE CORNCR1KE MIGRATORY P

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In the Spectator of December 10th, a correspondent questions the migration of the corncrake. I have always understood that naturalists...

PALEY ON HAPPINESS IN HELL. [To THE EDITOR OP THE

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" SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The enclosed from Paley's "Moral and Political Philosophy," chap. vii., "Virtue," may be of interest to the readers of your valuable paper. I believe it to...

THE CUCKOO'S CHARACTER.

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Lro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn, — The letter of Mr. Japp, in the Spectator of September 17th, entitled "The Honest Cuckoo," concludes with an ex- pressed desire to...

ANIMAL REASON.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As a subscriber to your paper, I occasionally see in- teresting anecdotes of the sagacity of animals. May I be allowed to add my quota...

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POETRY.

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LIGHT. LORD, send Thy light. Not only in the darkest night, But in the shadowy, dim twilight, Wherein my strained and aching sight Can scarce distinguish wrong from right,—...

BOOKS.

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VICTORIAN LITERATURE.* TEN years ago Mrs. Oliphant published a literary history of England in the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century,—a lively work,...

AN EAGLE AND ITS FOSTER-CHILDREN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Yon take an interest in stories of animal and bird life ; perhaps you may like to hear the following :—Achill Island, on the West Coast...

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general level is not so high as that of the

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first series. Either Mr. Gale has now included poems which his better judgment before excluded, or, if they are all new, he has satisfied him- self more easily, and written...

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SYMONDS'S " MICHELANGELO BUONA.ROTTI." * " Mv purpose," says Mr.

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Symonds, in the preface to this work, "has been to give a fairly complete account of the hero's life and works, and to concentrate attention on his personality." By the tastes...

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THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE.* THERE are, as Major Conder points

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out, two ways of looking at the future of Palestine. The most popular course is to strike out by conjecture the possible effect upon Palestine of some great disturbance of...

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ADA NEGRI'S " FATALITI."*

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THE world is not rich in poetesses, as Mr. Miles's selection of the Poetesses of the Century shows. Therefore we welcome the advent of a new one, in Ada Negri, whose little book...

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EGYPT TODAY.*

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FOR the last half-century there has been no lack of travellers to record their impressions of Egypt and the Egyptians, and yet, on reading Mr. Fraser Rae's book, we willingly...

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Side - Lights upon Bible History. By Mrs. Sydney Buxton. (Macmillan.)—Mrs. Buxton,

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of whose premature death all who knew her and her work must have read with deep regret, went to the cuneiform inscriptions, to the Egyptian hiero- glyphics, and to various...

Vanity Fair Album. Twenty - fourth Series. (Vanity Fair Office.) —This "Show

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of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day" is entertaining, as usual, though, of course, there is a gradually increasing diminution in the importance of the sub-...

The Victorian Magazine, edited by Alex. Balfour Symington, M.A. (Marshall

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Brothers), and Atalanta, edited by L. T. Meade (Atalanta Office), may be mentioned together, as they are now amalgamated. " Egregium temperamentum !" we may say. The Victorian...

Dod's Peerage, Baronstage, and Knightage, 1893 (Whittaker and Co.), is

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a well-known volume, convenient in every respect, espe- cially for size and arrangement. This issue is the fifty-third.— The Catholic Directory (Burns and Oates) records on its...

CURRENT LITERATIJRE.

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Lord Wastwater. By Sidney Bolton. 2 vols. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This is a somewhat strange story. The hero seems to us very much like a monstrosity. He has exhausted life, and...

Studies in Secondary Education. Edited by Arthur H. D. Acland,

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M.P., and H. Llewellyn Smith, M.A. With an Introduction by James Bryce, M.P. (Percival and Co.)—The intrinsic interest of this book—and it contains a review of many important...

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The Interpreter's House. By B. Paul Neuman. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—"

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The Pilgrim's Progress" is so usually associated with the days of youth that it may be well to say at once that this " Book of Parables," as its author calls it, is neither...

The Story of Chris. By Rowland Grey. (Methuen and Co.)—

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This well-written tale is only the record of one episode in the life of a really interesting woman—the only interesting member of a common-place family in a provincial town—but...