The Army chiefs, with General Zurlinden, now Governor of Paris, at their head, are evidently determined to -crush him, nominally for forgery, really for, as they think,...

T HE revolt of the Mad Moollah, and his incursion upon the route to Chitral, reported this week from India, may prove of no more importance than a riot, and may also prove a...

tween the military and civil powers is reaching an acute stage. General Zurlinden showed that he thought so when he snatched Colonel Picquart away from the civil Court which...

prove a very serious wound. The large emigration into Silesia and Saxony of Austrian Slays in search of labour has alarmed the German authorities, who fear a workmen's movement...

military powers have arrived at a modus vivendi, or that General Zurlinden proposes to resign, or that the Court-Martial will hesitate to bring in a verdict of " Guilty "...

case.

site for a coaling - station on the Chiriqui Lagoon—a great inlet from the Caribbean Sea close to the projected entrance to the Nicaragua Canal—appears to be without foundation,...

plea for free speech in regard to foreign affairs, and asked : " Why were foreigners to say what they liked of us, as they did very freely, without provoking us, and why was a...

the Admirals have been showing it in Crete. The Sultan has begged that his flag should fly somewhere in his lost dominion, and the Czar has granted his request; but the...

the last day of November, and is marked. throughout his dominions, among Slays as well as Germans, by a tone of heartiness rarely found in such " august " ceremonials. Even...

Bible and statesmanlike speech in regard to the West Indies, in which he pointed out how the islands could produce articles of which the world was always demanding more,—chief...

singular force and interest. He took credit for the way in which the Cretan problem had at last been solved owing to akenthited)sction of France, Russia, Italy, and Great...

as President of the Edinburgh Philo- sophical Society, his subject being " Literary Statesmen." He began by an amusing account of how Lord Brougham or Mr. Gladstone, if they had...

are to pay Spain £4,000,000, and the whole of the Philippine Archipelago is to be abandoned by Spain and unconditionally banded over to the United States. The exact future of...

at Omdurman, and this week, in a correspondence with Lord Salisbury and a speech at Edinburgh, he brings forward a proposal to found a Gordon College at Khartoum. He asks the...

to the crisis in the Church which so exactly represents our feeling on the subject that we shall make no apology for quoting it in full. The Bishops, he declared, would know how...

is no believer in huge ships, but lays down the principle that in the battleship great speed is distinctly secondary to offensive power and coal endurance. Mobile power, says...

last, made an attempt to sketch the policy of the Liberal party. Popular control of a real kind must be carried out from the top to the bottom of our educational system. The...

tion, the strange experience that befell H.M.S. Arrogant' while proceeding from Vigo to Gibraltar. " She was going ahead at full-speed in a calm sea about fifteen miles south of...

New Consols (24) were on Friday, 110f.

IS REVOLUTION COMING IN FRANCE ? W E must just say what we have to say, and if any one accuses us of sensation-mongering, must put up with it until the event proves or...

S PAIN has at last yielded to the demands of the United States, and that great tropical Dominion, the Philippine Archipelago, has, in addition to Porto Rico and Hawaii, and...

E are extremely glad to see that the Conference of Conservative Associations at Bristol in effect refused to vote a resolution condemning the establish- ment of a University in...

substance of which appeared in the Times of the same day, gives a remarkably vivid and interesting picture of Nicholas II. To those Englishmen who thought, when the idea of a,...

T HERE is something in Lord Kitchener's proposal to found a great College in Khartoum by subscriptio n in Great Britain which will, we think, deeply touch the national...

W E do not believe that the problem which the Times debates on Tuesday, and which has in truth been discussed for centuries, that of the apparent conflict between morality in...

GRANT RICHARDS has just published a book called " London in Song," the first feature of which is that there is very little about London in it. It is rather a thick book,...

L ORD ROSEBERY as a speaker is generally interesting, and, in our opinion, he is apt to be more interesting on literary than on political subjects. In the latter case he has to...

was painted by Landseer. The Prince Consort's taste did not noted that the old English kinds, especially the highly make the greyhound fashionable as a house dog, though...

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. [To TIER EDITOR OF THIN " SPICTATOR."] SIR, — The letter of " Catholicus " on this subject, which appeared in the Spectator of November 19th,...

the letter signed " Catholicus " in the Spectator of November 19th, and my emphatic comment upon it is that which you yourself make in a few pregnant remarks. "Our only fear,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Wandering many years ago in the then Lord Skelmers- dale's park near Ormskirk, my attention was drawn to the eccentric movements of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—A friend of mine told , me some years ago that he had had some Scotch cattle conveyed direct by rail from Scotland to the south of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Some years since I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Gladstone at dinner. One of the other guests asked him whether it was true...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Here is a complication of " bulls."—A witness in the Courts here the other day was asked : " Was Michael Flaherty your grandfather F"...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I quote below a passage from Saint-Evremond in which he describes a state of feeling parallel to that to which expres- sion is given in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In a letter to the Spectator of November 26th, Canon MacColl has impugned my statement that Mr. Gladstone applied the words, "I call...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In reference to your interesting article on "Benevo- lence in Animals " in the Spectator of October 15th, the following incident may...

THE FRENCH ARMY.* M. ITRBAIN GORIER'S attack upon the Army of his father- land is remarkable, not only for itself, but for its effect. Alone of all the defamatory pamphlets...

WHEN I come back from Cuba They laid me up a spell, A convalescing from a piece Of a busted Spanish shell; And while I laid in hospital, Requiring all my grit, Some ladies come...

[To TIM EDITOR. OP as " Brisorarea.."] SIR,—It may interest your readers to learn that our popular Governor, with a view, doubtless, of acclimatising the Irish "bull" at the...

" 0 where may your Willie be ? " ." And where is your jolly lover gone That flaunted o'er the sea ? " An old crone said it to herself, Slow-chuckling at the door ; A young...

WHEN Milton in one of his inspired parentheses said that poetry was "simple, sensuous, and passionate," he gave us in three words an admirable summary of its essential...

SOME time since a loyal Prussian published an encyclopaedic analysis of the intimate aspects of Kaiser Wilhelm's daily life amidst his domestic, palatial, military, and...

TO Tht *potriator FOR THE No. 3,675.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1898. [ i .,1= 7 ,Z, D1 GRATis.

SOME CLERICAL REMINISCENCES.* WHEN Dean Pigou conceived the purpose of writing this book he had it in his mind, we do not doubt, firstly, to give a wider usefulness to various...

LONDON : DECEMBER 3rd, 1398.

MINUTE students of Parliamentary history will be grateful to Miss Foxcroft for her laborious work. The book is largely based upon documents hitherto unpublished, which are cited...

THE book before us must take rank not only as an excellent biography of Stonewall Jackson, but as a standard history of that portion of the American Civil War in which Jackson...

THE subject of this book is one on which an attractive work ought certainly to be made. Mr. Ashton is quite right in reminding us that man is a gambling animal, and that the...

FACT AND FICTION BY MR. FRANK STOCKTON.* Ox the whole, we prefer Mr. Stockton's fiction to his fact. It is true that the best characteristics of his style, its directness,...

THE seven stories contained in this volume are not now pub- lished for the first time, but they are welcome in this form. The generations of readers for whom they are intended...

(Isbister and Co.)—The serial that runs through the issue of the year is Mr. Gilbert Parker's "Battle of the Strong." This has been noticed elsewhere. A short tale, " The...

fulfils its promise better than most. This is a real compliment, for, as we have often said, good nonsense is very good. Miss Kernahan's rhymes jingle musically, and Mr. Tony...

(W. and F. Chambers.)—Mrs. Meade shows her readers, most of them, it is to be presumed, likely to be girls, one aspect of the new order of things, the career open to women. The...

little more than the welcome which we are always glad to accord to it. All tastes are consulted, some among them being probably uncommon, as that which Mr. C. E. Bateman...

Partridge and Co.)—It would not be easy to find a more fruitful subject than the habits of ants. The catalogue of their achievements sounds almost like a joke. They build...

Sons.) —This " Tale of Algeria " comes, we may say, opportunely. It is as well sometimes, and particularly now, to hear about the gallant deeds of other nations than our own....

This is a story, true in its main facts, as the writer assures us, of the days of the Covenant in Scotland. The heroine, rightly so called, is a real person, and the tale of her...

and his two young companions certainly fared better than the majority of gold-seekers who have made their way to that dreary region to make their fortunes. Jeff, a " forty-niner...

a fairly good story of life at Rome during the days of Nero, with a special reference to the sufferings of the Christians at that time. There are, perhaps, too many figures on...

Shore. By the Rev. T. Stanley Treanor. (R.T.S.)—We have no wish to depre- ciate the merit of imaginative pictures of heroism and self- sacrifice. Still, if any one desires to...

and Co.)—Mrs. Marshall has made a distinct success with this " Story of Sir Christopher Wren's Days." Sir Christopher is a very interesting, and even noble, figure, and Mrs....

Dent and Co.)—These poems are, perhaps, better known by reputation than in fact. How many of our readers, we wonder, could tell the purport of " The Boy and the Skylark " ?...

Son.)—Mr. Smeaton certainly gives his readers a novelty. The captain of a Queensland " Labour Schooner " finds in a seaman's chest—the man has been killed in a mutiny—a paper...

Clutterbuck is left an orphan by his father's early death, and has to go out into the world from the pleasant home where, as it is well put, "there was never lack of anything,...

left a large amount of money --£100,000—to become the property of any one of the five heirs he named in his will. One of these, Godfrey Hewetson, who had saved him from being...

Nisbet and Co.)—This is a really excellent story, well furnished both with well-drawn characters and striking incident. Such, indeed, is the abundance of material that the...

Co.)— Mr. Gilliat makes good use of certain traditions about the "greatest of the Plantagenets." There is a ballad of "John the Reeve " in Bishop Percy's collection. The...

boys and girls who delight in tales of adventure will indeed be hard to please if they do not enjoy this story, which relates the experiences of three English children during a...

is an importation from the other side of the Atlantic. The draughtsman makes fun, of a somewhat extravagant kind, out of his subjects, which are, for the most part, humours of...

something farcical about this story. A gentle- man who telegraphs to a relative the question whether she will receive his children, and is satisfied with the answer that she...

and Co.)—The "boys " are Jack Trustwood, the son of the ferryman, and Arthur Thistleton, son of the Squire. The " Little Squire," as he was commonly called, was rescued from...

Chambers.) —This, the story of an officer in the Horse Artillery during the rule of " John Company " in India, is as good as any of the tales which have earned for Mr. Manville...

Sons.)—" Stories for girls" are, as a rule, the one kind of books which girls refuse to read ; but we think this will prove an excep- tion, for it is decidedly superior to most...

edition of this interesting tale of Australian life has been published. In spite of its length, sixty-seven chapters, and small print, this book will be read with interest by...

(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—There is no lack of the mar- vellous here ; to the familiar properties of the treasure-story, the party of seekers who ought to have it, and...

stories told by Messrs. Henty, G. Manville Fenn, and others. They are not new, we suppose ; at least we see Mr. W. H. G. Kingston's name among the authors. We wish that...

P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell.) —A tale of gold-hunting among the South American volcanoes. There is plenty of incident and adventure enough to satisfy the most exacting of...

Son.)—This story has two parts, entitled respectively " England " and "The Spanish Main." The first reminds us that the history of Drake is connected with the religious troubles...

M.A. (Blackie and Son.)—This is somewhat too doleful a story for us. The Princess Naska rules Tsarkovia, and is, bylthe law of the principality, actual Sovereign, though of...

we have the old subject, troublesome boys or girls suddenly imported into a quiet family, and more than justifying all the apprehensions that have been felt for the future. It...

a series of seven pictures, well drawn and brilliantly coloured, with appropriate letterpress. Few of the picture-books of the season are more gay and effective.

and Co.)—These "true stories of military life and adventure" are, for the most part, well told, and recall some of the most stirring passages in our annals. They gain an...

LLD!. (A. Constable.)—Here we have some twenty stories trans- lated from the " Legenda Aurea." The familiar tales of St. Chris- topher, St. Brandon, St. Margaret of Antioch and...

pretty children's book, some of the stories being of the fairy-tale kind, some parables, some true. Now and then we meet an old friend, as that of the miller and his son with...

the wars of Frederick the Great. The adventures of George Brann, who rises from the post of drummer-boy to that of General, are told with great spirit. Boys will appreciate the...

Sons.) —The moral of this tale of school life may be summed up in the old proverb concerning evil communications, since all the troubles of the hero are owing to bad...

Co.)—The "Charlton Family" was a very fortunate one, not so much in worldly matters as in the moral development of its members. A vain and foolish daughter becomes quite...

In a volume entitled Problems of Modern Industry (Long-mans and Co., is. 6d.), Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb have brought together a number of essays and studies which were, so to...

the dialect in which ho meant to tell it. When, on one page, we find the hero ejaculating, "haze me for a malindgering sodger," while on another he talks of " an acoustic...

Miss Douglas has taken much pains in acquainting herself with Arctic travel and exploration. She now brings her subject up to date (Peary's last book, of course, is more recent)...

Arnold), Mr. Lionel Holland, M.P., has brought out in a conveni- ent form the proposals which he submitted for the consideration of the Departmental Committee whom the...

his Daughter, Mrs. Gerald Porter. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 21s.)—There is a strong contrast between the early, turbulent days of " Maga," under Wilson and Lockhait, and the...

(John Lane.)—This seems to us a piece of work quite unworthy of Mr. Davidson's talent. It is written for the stage, and it seems to us of the stage stagey. Not a single person...

Councillor Frederick Brocklehurst, of Manchester, who writes this volume containing his experiences as a short-time prisoner, regards himself as a " martyr." Having been...

Redway. 15s.)—The author of " The Gentle Life " was not a great thinker, a great novelist, or a great critic. But he was most industrious ; his life—he was born in 1825 and died...

while it was running through one of the magazines bore the name of " Trevanion," from its adventurer-hero, recalls, perhaps rather too readily, Mr. Black- more's romance of...

Mundy would, if he could, be a latter-day Juvenal, but he contrives, with his best endeavours, to be only a prolix laudator temporis acti. He has, of course, something to say,...

and Co.)—This is really a valuable little book, which sum- marises lucidly and in a readable style the action of European Powers in Africa since our first invasion of Egypt and...

is one of the many people who write verse smoothly and prettily, with a pleasant feeling for the beauty of sea and sky; Lbut occasionally she rises above this level of...

author of this book, who describes himself as a private soldier, devotes a considerable amount more of his book to grumbling at the treatment the soldiers received in the last...

has attained to the technical finish of verse which is nowadays so common. At every pa g e of her book one finds g raceful combina- tions of words, and even attractive rhythm on...

evidence, if not of the fact that Stevenson is already a classic, of the very stron g belief on the part of a g reat number of his admirers that he has attained this position....

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WE think it very likely that the majority of readers who know anything of Bishop Wilson have been introduced to Wm through Matthew Arnold, whose constant references to Wilson...

WE have had to wait some years for a successor to The Lost Stradivarius—that excellent ghost-story, finely imagined and told with rare distinction of style—but Moonjleet is such...

Ths /Zeros, par M. F. de Pressense (Stock, Paris), will be read with intense interest by all who have followed the Dreyfus case pretty closely. Colonel Picquart is the hero of...

63s.)—Mr. Bright has a good right to deal with this subject. The business of submarine telegraphy is hereditary in his family. His father, Sir Charles Bright, was engineer to...

all question, Haydn's Dic tionary of Dates, edited by Benjamin Vincent (Ward, Lock, and Co.), appears in a twenty-second edition. This book dates from 1841; since 1857 it has...

by Patten Wilson. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Lang prefaces the poems by a sketch of Coleridge's life, based " mainly on the patient researches of Mr. James Dykes Campbell." Possibly...

rather from readers who love the country. And, indeed, country: delights Sad their most ardent devotees among the dwellers in towns. Some of the subjects here discussed are for...

Press.)—The first number of the new series of this little maga- zine keeps up its readable character. The short paper on the Japanese painter Utamaro is interesting, and the two...

van Acker. (Elkin Mathews.)—This is a poetical version of St. Dunstan's dream, while waiting for King Edgar's appearance to say Mass. The book is well got up, and the illus-...

Arthurian Romance retold in Modern Prose. By Jessie L. Weston. With Designs by M. M. Crawford. (David Nutt.)—The original Sir Gawain was a very different person from the one...

October, 189S. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This is another magazine of what we may call the " attenuated Yellow Book" species. The design on the cover is fairly good, but even...

facsimile of a text-book published in 1615, which is described in the title-page as " principally serving for glasiers ; and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners,...

and Co.)—It was intended in this edition to decorate Volpone with twenty-four illustrations by Mr. Aubrey Beardsley, but the artist died without completing more than designs for...