3 JANUARY 1891

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SPECTATOR,] July 11, 1891.

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INDEX. FROM JANUARY 3rd TO JUNE 27th, 1891, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A BBOTT'S, Dr., Attack on Cardinal New- ...2C man . 5313-587 Adler, Dr., appointed Chief Rabbi......

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New Year's Day has produced its usual crop of honours,—

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and disappointments. Sir Francis Sandford, the permanent head of the Education Department receives a Peerage, in order that he may pilot the Free Education Bill through the...

The Times Paris correspondent, writing on New Year's Day, describes

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a most dramatic incident which accompanied the fall of Prince Bismarck. The great Chancellor, aghast at finding the young Emperor determined to accept his resigna- tion, hurried...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Indian rising in America is producing the usual horrible scenes. A body of one hundred and twenty -warriors, marching from the Cheyenne River, with their wives and...

This massaere, although provoked by treachery, has pro- duced the

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worst effect upon the Indians, who still hold such schemes to be ruses allowable in war. The telegrams published on Friday are full of fresh local risings to avenge the slain,...

Mr. Chamberlain made an admirable speech on Wednesday, though he

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was again, in our opinion, much too sanguine. He took credit especially for Birmingham that it had exhibited the courage needful to prove to the country at large that...

Prince Bismarck, when addressing a deputation from Strasburg, made last

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week a rather remarkable speech. He denied absolutely that he had ever entertained any idea of annexing Holland. He would not advise his countrymen even to accept Holland if she...

** The Editors cannot . undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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The meeting between Mr. Parnell and Mr. O'Brien at Boulogne

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has been a curious piece of melodramatic posing. Mr. Parnell had stormed the office of Mr. O'Brien's deputy- editor of United Ireland, and forcibly seized the paper, which...

Mr. Henry Howorth, M.P., writes an impressive letter to- Thursday's

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Times, in which, however, he seems to us, like Mr. Chamberlain, to take too sanguine a view of the situation... He says that everywhere,—in the railway, in the omnibus, and. in...

A sharp controversy has been going on all the week

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between the Nonconformist Home-rulers, as represented by Mr. Hugh Price Hughes, and the Unionists, represented chiefly by Mr. T. W. Russell, which has led to a very im- portant...

Mr. Chamberlain then went on to appeal to Mr. Morley

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to declare in his approaching speech at Newcastle, whether or not the English Home-rulers had accepted the measure of 1886 as intended to be, in relation to all the guarantees...

The Indian Congress for the year has held its Session,

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and has been rather unexpectedly moderate, interfering with tho Mxecutive only by a protest against the weight of the salt duty, which it considers excessive. The main object of...

The Stock Exchange have voted a remarkable address to- Mr.

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Lidderdale, the Governor of the Bank of England, for the- " firm and decisive" action with which he had used his influence as Governor of the Bank of England to avert the...

A very C111'101113 division of the Irish Party exists at

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Cork. The present Mayor, who was unanimously re-elected for a second year of office on December 1st, 1890, is a Parnellite, as all the Common Council were at the time of his...

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The Revenue returns to the end of the year 1890

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show that in the three expired quarters of the financial year which ends with the end of next March, the receipts have been nearly two mil- lions sterling more than those of the...

The editor of the "Classified Directory to the Metropolitan 'Charities"

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has published a kind of Budget of the income ex- pected for 1891. It is 24,918,000,—of which only £962,000, being destined for the support of foreign missions, may fairly be...

In relation to the recent disgraceful proceedings at Queen's College,

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Oxford, it seems to us that very inadequate penalties were awarded to the offenders, even without taking any account of the shocking blasphemy with which the University rowdies...

The pacification of Burmah may now be said to be

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complete. New Consols (2!) were on Friday 952 to 96. The Shan States on the border have accepted our suzerainty and are at peace with us and with each other. The guerilla,...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent,

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Mr. Minden-Maple intends to introduce a Bill compelling 'the Railway

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Companies with termini in London to run work- meen's trains up to a distance, say, of eight miles, before 8 in the morning, and after a fixed time in the evening, for "a half-...

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TOPICS OF,11THE DAY.

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policy in any General Election that should take place under the influence of the prevailing discouragement. It is certain Again, Mr. Gladstone will doubtless dwell with satis-...

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TWO FORGOTTEN FACTS ABOUT IRELAND.

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I T is now more than twenty years since an acute Irish- man wrote words which made on the present writer, at the time, a deep impression, and the substance of which still...

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THE NONCONFORMIST CONSCIENCE. D R. ALLON'S admirable letter to Wednesday's Times

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puts the question of Unionism or Home-rule in its true light in relation to "the Nonconformist Conscience." "What," he asks, "has my Nonconformity, or my Episco- pacy, or my...

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BIRMINGHAM.

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T HOUGH the English have built the greatest towns that the world has ever seen, they have always exhibited a singular inability to organise, or even to understand, the true...

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THE SCOTTISH RAILWAY STRIKE.

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'T HE Railway Strike in Scotland raises more than one question of wider importance than the actual dis- pute. Speaking; generally, public sympathy and public censure are alike...

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THE NEGRO DANGER IN THE UNITED STATES.

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W E cannot believe that the Negro Question in the United States, immense as are the difficulties it involves, constitutes a political danger in the European sense. That is to...

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A WORD FOR THE ANTIQUARIANS.

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W E do not quite understand why Dr. Schliemann's career is considered so remarkable. Our wonder is rather that there are so few Dr, Schliemanns. It is true that he was at...

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SUBLIMITY.

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A T HOUGHTFUL writer in Macmillan's Magazine for January brings us back to a subject which seems almost obsolete in this wilfully realistic age,—the meaning of the "sublime."...

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FROST AND FOG.

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THE winter is here, and once again we are sitting in cold and darkness. It is not every city in the world that, having usurped some hundred square miles of the earth's surface...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE CYNICISM OP THE UNIONISTS. [To PUN EDITOR OF THN "BrzoTATos.".1 Stn,—Allow me a few words of defence against the charge implied in your editorial note. The heading, "The...

[TO TH1 EDITOR OP THN " SPROTATOR

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SIR,—All who take an interest in politics are indebted to Mr. Maurice for his last letter to you. He says : "When a Judge actually declares a man guilty of adultery in the...

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SOMERVILLE HALL. um THE EDITOR Or THE! " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—MisO

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Cobbe has vigorously attacked the Council of Somerville Hall in your columns. Our reply to that attack she has consigned to the columns of a future number of the Zoophilist. I...

THE LATE DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.

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To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—In your article on the late Dean of St. Paul's, you draw a most interesting comparison of the distinctive features of' three great...

THE LAND-PURCHASE BILL.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR." J SIRT—YOu seem to mistake my meaning. In my last letter, I tried to point out that Mr. Balfour's land policy might in the end aggravate the...

GENERAL BOOTH'S ALLEGED ANTINOMIANISM. - [To TIM EDITOR or THE "

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SPEOTATOR.'1 SIR,—An overwhelming majority of your readers will' share your estimate of the gravity of the charge brought against General Booth by Professor Huxley, on the...

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BOOKS.

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EDWARD VI. AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.* FATHER GASQUET is already well known to students of history by his learned and conscientious work on Henry VIII. and the English...

MARY FIOWITT.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " BrnoTATOR."] SIR,—I am glad to see the poems of William and Mary Howitt described in this week's Spectator as "an inheritance of which the children of...

"A DAUGHTER OF THE PYRAMIDS." [To THE EDITOR OP TEE

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"SPECTATOR."] - Szn,—The notice of my novel, "A Daughter of the Pyramids," in the Spectator of December 27th, while paying a very generous , tribute to the merits the writer...

POETRY.

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TO 1890. DEATH and disease, Old Year, thou earnest bearing : Sorrow and want attend upon thee yet : Into the gathering shadows disappearing, Vanish ! without one tribute of...

MR. RUSKIN AS A LECTURER.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your notice (in the Spectator of December 20th), of Mr. Cook's "Studies in Ruskin," you quote a passage from the book in illustration...

THE NEED FOR A CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT ROME.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TICE " SmmitTOn."] 8111,-51 7 11.1 you allow me, through your columns, to make a !request, in the hope that some reader may feel inclined to =supply what is...

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MR. STEVENSON'S BALLADS.* THERE is something wanting in Mr. Stevenson's

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work as a poet, and we believe it to be that idealising gleam of insight which gives wholeness of effect, and especially satisfying finish of effect, to the subjects treated....

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MRS. SHELLEY'S SHORTER TALES.* "Is' you call a dog Hervey,"

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said Dr. Johnson, "I shall love him," and there seem to be people whose interest and admira- tion can always be evoked by the mere name of Shelley. On a title-page, it secures...

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RECENT VOLUMES OF SERMONS.* BISHOP LIGHTFOOT'S reputation was of the

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scholar and divine rather than of the preacher. Certain oratorical gifts which it is easier to recognise than to define were wanting to him. Yet there are sermons in this volume...

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THE MULTIPLICATION OF GIFT-BOOKS.*

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THAT what Miss Ingelow writes will be worth reading, it is safe to predict; nor will her new volume disappoint expecta- tions. Still, it is not exactly what we looked for from...

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THE M AG A ZINES.

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THE magazines, like the newspapers, have suffered in general interest from the Parnellite crisis. The Nineteenth Century is distinctly below the average, and, except for a...

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In the Days of Luther. By Mime Stuart. (Swan Sonnenschein

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and Co.)—Luther is the protagonist of the story. The "Good Elector" also figures in it, for the time chosen for the tale is that when the Reformer was kept in safe custody in...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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GIFT-BOOKS. Leal Souvenir. By Alice Weber. (Walter Smith and Innes.)— Miss Weber may fairly be proud of her twin pictures, Clare and Maude,—Clare the enthusiast, Maud the...

Tl - t Adventures of Allan. By the late John Holme Burrow,

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B.A. (Roper and Drowley.)—Alfan becomes possessed of a magic amulet, but does not get much benefit from it. It gives him excellent advice, it is true, but that is a cheap...

A Family Without a Name. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low,

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Marston, and Co.)—M. Jules Verne has this time taken for his subject the efforts of the French Canadians to obtain their in- dependence. Jean-sans-nom---a sobriquet he has...

New York to Brest in Seven Hours, By Andro Laurie.

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(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is one of the semi-scientific extravaganzas for which our neighbours on the other side of the Channel have a patent. This marvellous...

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By Sea and Land. By Gordon Stables, M.D. (Warne and

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Co.). —There is plenty of " rollicking " fun in this book, at least from the point whore Lord Kildoon comes on board the Wiroworm.' His lordship is a Lieutenant in the Royal...

The Prisoner of Chilouane ; or, With the Portuguese in

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South - East Africa. By Wallis Mackay. (Trischler and Co.)—This is not fiction, but sober truth. The author went out to Learenso Marques, the town of Dolagoa Bay, and mot there...

Prom Middie to Admiral of the Fleet. By Dr. Macaulay.

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(Hutchin- son and Co.)—This is a true tale, nothing less than "the story of Commodore Anson retold to boys." Not having the "Voyage Round the World" before us, we do not find it...

Wanted, a King ? By Maggie Browne. (Cassell and Co.)—This

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is the fifth thousand of a quaint story of the "Alice in Wonder- land " kind, to which Mr. Harry Furniss has given the attraction of various designs.—Fairy Tales and True, by...

In the Enemy's Country. By Anna H. Drury. (Griffith, Ferran,

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and Co.)—Wo need not say much more in praise of this volume. than that it takes for its subject much the same theme as that treated by MM. Erokmann and Chatrian in their...

'Animal Painting for Beginner s. Drawn from Nature by Stephens

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'T. Dadd and Stanley E. B. Montefiore. (Cassell and Co,)—Here we have twelve studies in colour by the two artists named, and .a number of pencil sketches by Messrs. Harrison...

Her One Ambition, By Rowland Grey. (Raphael Tuck and Sons.)—The

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author of "Lindenblumon " has given us a really excellent little story. Barbara Meyrick's one ambition is the success of her brother. She surpasses him in ability ; but her only...

The Cruise of the Alerte By E. P. Knight. (Longmans.) —

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Though we include this among the "gift.books " of the seasons our readers must not suppose that it is one of the naval fictions' which the young of the present generation take...

The Church Catechism. With Notes by "E. M." Illustrated. (S.P.C.K.)—A

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very pretty and convenient little edition, with good pictures, though we should have preferred that those, as of' "Baptism" and "The Lord's Supper," which are connected with the...

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Aubert. By Jennie Chappell. (W. R. Nimmo, Edinburgh.)— 'This is

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a love-story,—ionocent, indeed, but a love-story pure and simple. Mr. Aubert, alias Mr. Verney, Lestrange is loved by one young lady and loves another, who behaves badly to him...

The Cyclopmdia of Card and Table Games. Edited by Professor

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Hoffmann. (Rontledge and Sons.)—It is quite surprising to be told that practically the newest book on this subject is forty years old. Words are inadequate to express our...

The Thames : from Oxford to the Tower. By William

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Senior. With etchings by F. S. Walker. (Nimmo.)—The lover of the Thames could not visit it in better company than that of the two authors of this book. Mr. Senior has composed a...

Glimpses of Old English Homes. By Elizabeth Balch. (Mac- millan

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and Co.)—These descriptions, eight in number, have already, we think, been published in the English Illustrated Magazine. But it is certainly well to have them put together in a...

A Bride from the Bush. By Ernest William Hornung. (Smith,

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Elder, and Co.)—Alfred Bligh, elder son of an English Judge, marries an Australian girl. It is carefully explained, indeed the girl says herself, that she is not a typical...

Chivalry. Translated from the French of Lion Gautier by Henry

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Frith. (Routledge and Sons.)—M. Gautier devotes his first four chapters to a discussion of the "Origin of Chivalry," and its "Code," which, for plainness' sake, he reduces to...

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Letters to Living Authors. By J. A. Steuart. (Sampson Low

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and Co.)—Mr. Steuart has written a number of letters to authors of the day with considerable vivacity and frank criticism. This criticism is fairly good of its kind ; it misses...

A Treatise on the Common Sole. By J. T. Cunningham.

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(The Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.)—The common sole, as one of the most delicious of British fish, has had the honour—the well-deserved honour, we might say—of an...

Creation's Hope. By Marcus S. C. Rickards, M.A. (J. Baker

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and Son.)—This is an elaborate argument in verse between a sceptic and a believer. It is unequal; arguing in verse tasks powers of expression to the utmost; but there are fine...

Historical Sketch of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of

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Chancery. By D. M. Kerly, M.A.., LL.B. (Cambridge University Press.)—The history of English Equity is rather too large a subject for a York Prize Essay; but Mr. Kerly, the...

Field and General Ornithology. By Elliott COUOB. (Macmillan and Co.)—This

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is abridged from Professor Coues's "Key to North American Birds," and adapted to suit British naturalists, anti treats in two parts of " field" ornithology and general...

Giovanni Pico della Mirando/a : his We. By his Nephew.

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Translated by Sir Thomas More, and edited by J. M. Rigg. (David Nutt.)—Except as a peg to hang Mr. Rigg's learned intro- duction on, this sumptuous reprint was scarcely worth...

Manua/ Training. By C. M. Woodward. (Walter Scott.)—The proper proportion

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between manual and mental training has been, and will always be, a difficult and doubtful question. To combine the two smoothly would indeed be a triumph. The writer thinks that...

The Catholic Man. By Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull. (D. Lathrop, Boston,

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U.S.)—This is a novel with a purpose ; in it we are intro- duced to three people who are striving to reach an ideal more or loss. The doctor, all intellect, keeps in view the...