an answer to Mr. Morley's charges against the Unionists. After explaining that, in spite of Mr. O'Brien's pro- fessions of love for the English minority, the English majority...

6th, and as numbers will run close, the Irish vote is all-important. The party leaders are, therefore, trying to attract it by " twisting the tail of the British lion." The...

T HE oratorical burden has this week been borne by Mr. Goschen, who has delivered a series of speeches in Aberdeen, that stronghold of the Gladatonian Party. The first of them,...

his opening speech on behalf of the Times ; and on Tuesday the examination of witnesses began. The sensation of the past week, however, has been the examination and...

should not be forgotten. Gladstonians are never tired of asserting that the Government is a landlord Government. The answer is, that it could not live an hour without the sup-...

of American politicians to the Irish vote ; but it is an incident of municipal, not of international history. Lord Sackville was undoubtedly indiscreet, and much must be...

case.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

constituents in Dalkeith, which was read at a meeting held at Dalkeith on Thursday, in which he recognises afresh the general desire expressed in the Liberal Party that the...

South Russia to Moscow on the 29th inst., ran off the rails in a deep gorge near Taranovka, and most of the carriages were thrown over. A number of the passengers, variously...

on Monday, in which he pressed home the argument that when household suffrage was given to Ireland in a shape which greatly over-represented the numerical majority of Irishmen,...

irritation caused by his repudiation of his wife, he has issued a proclamation calling together the Great Skuptschina, which has constituent powers, in order to make a new...

which Mr. Gladstone put forth on the dissolu- tion of Parliament in 1885. " The grievances of Ireland," wrote Mr. Gladstone then, " such as we have known them in former years,...

assumed a protectorate over Sarawak, the Brunei Sultanate, and the territories of the North Borneo Company —that is, over the whole Northern half of Borneo, from the sea down to...

vatitires,—and more gain in the magnitude of the majorities than -in the number of. seats; but we cannot say that we attach very much importance to this symptom, though, con-...

can- not be reticent. He is greatly offended, it appears, with the discussions in Berlin on his family affairs, and especially with the way in which, for praise or blame, he is...

which he threw doubts , on Lord Londonderry's statis- tics of agrarian improvement in Ireland, suggesting that the 160 farms from which former tenants had been evicted, and...

remarks at Leamington on Monday, on the subject of prizes and examinations, urging that these humble but useful instru- ments should be means and not ends, and that they ought...

a very serious accident, and is suffering not only from the consequences of a fainting-fit, but of the heavy fall which his fainting-fit caused. The latest account of his...

letter to Tuesday's Times in favour of what she calls " an inebriate home for women," which is just what she does not mean; the home is to be a home for inebriate women, but it...

letter which imputes the horrible cruelty to animals- by which the agrarian campaign in Ireland is so often carried on, almost as much to those who are responsible for the...

Globe, states strongly his opinion that General Boulanger will succeed; He considers that the situation of 1848 is repeating itself, all malcontents concentrating their support...

gravely considering its position in East Africa, has decided that the rising against the German Company is due to the hostility of the. Arab slave-stealers to European settle-...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 971 to 971.

able speech at York. He exposed Sir William Harcourt's shameless asser- tion that the only Decalogue of the Unionists consists of a ten- fold repetition of the commandment, "...

THE SACKVILLE INCIDENT. TET great difference between an angry King and a exed democracy seems to be that the King whispers, while the democracy bellows. The Sackville incident,...

L ORD HARTINGTON'S remarkable speech at Hud- dersfield on the mode in which, if Ireland were to have Home-rule granted at all, it would have been most right and reasonable that...

T HE distinguished men who have signed the protest in the Nineteenth Century against over-examination have to some extent overstated their case, as well as to a considerable...

M R. GOSCHEN has occasionally failed as a speaker, and we believe the reason to be this. It takes a big thing to interest him fully, and rouse him to exhibit the true measure of...

German Gazette, has been discussing, apparently under official inspiration, the question of the African slave-trade. A little more than a week ago, it published an article on...

T HOSE who take the deepest interest in the greatest ques- tion which agitates every part of English society at the present day, should turn from the Parnell Commission to a...

for insuring seamen against accidents which Mr. very interesting account of the new German law Rennell Rodd has drawn up for Sir Edward Malet, will remove some misconceptions as...

W E wish our contemporary, the Lancet, would tell us whether, in the general judgment of the profession, cases of " breakdown "—that is, of sudden and lasting in- capacity for...

T HE author of a suggestive and interesting paper in the current number of the Quarterly .Review, entitled. " Nonsense as a Fine Art," discourses with considerable plausibility...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] you allow me to say a few words in answer to the letter of my friend Mr. Acland, in the Spectator of October 27th ? I quite agree with him...

THE STUDY OF HISTORY. (.To THE EDITOR OF THE "ApEcrAroa."] 'Sin,—The article with this heading which you published in your number of October 20th was obviously based on an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR.; —As the subject of competitive examination is now attracting considerable attention, perhaps you will allow me, as one who has had...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,— World you kindly allow me to correct a misstate- ment of fact in your last week's notice of my edition of " Phormio "? Your reviewer...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "45mccrems."] SIR,— In the Spectator of October 27th, among many sensible• remarks concerning women and their critics, 'I regret to find that you afford...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your reference in the article on "Lord 'Westbury's Wit," to the " speak up" incident, reminds me of an occasion in which the late...

MO THE EDITOR OP THE " EPECTATOR."3 SiE.,—We think it right to say that, having discovered in Professor Roemer's book many other instances of the same kind of quotation as that...

THORWALDSEN'S LAST WORK. [It is said that Thorwaldsen, on finishing his Last work, wept -because he could see no fault in it.] IN flawless, faultless perfection the statue...

PASTELS AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [FIRST NOTICE.] 'THE pastel exhibition which opened last week at the Gros- venor Gallery is practically the first of its kind which has taken...

PRINCIPAL TULLOCH'S LIFE.* Mas. OLIPHANT has given us a very interesting book, though we wish that she had given us one half the size. For Prin- cipal Tulloch's intimate friends...

THERE can be no doubt that this book of Dr. Macmillan's is. appropriately named. It is made, as he says, of " old facts gathered from many sources," and put together...

IN Orthodox we have a strong and dramatic story, characters drawn with nnflinehing power, no scenery, no setting, except - what is absolutely necessary ; no softness, no beauty,...

IN these two portly.volumes, furnished forth with the hand- somest liberality of the Clarendon Press, Professor Skeat has collected the mature results of a good quarter of a...

WE have noticed elsewhere the first article in the Nineteenth Century, the " Protest " against competitive examinations. Lord Armstrong's protest against the " Cry for useless...

Co.)—The writer of this book has a certain amount of knowledge of University life ; beyond this his work has little to recommend it. The book is marred throughout by a striving...

The Primary Charge of George Bidding, D.D., First Bishop of Bouthwell. (Sands, Nottingham.)—We gladly say a word of appreciation of the masculine good sense displayed in this...

not think much of the courting, and still less of the sporting. Mr. Hudson- should have obtained a little more knowledge on this subject before he made it the chief part of a...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The editor has collected in this volume about one hundred and thirty original and about thirty translated hymns, which have been published during the...

(Macniven and Wallace, Edinburgh.)—Mr. Dodds had the opportunity of seeing some interesting men, and gives us some pleasant sketches of them. He attended Dr. Chalmers's lectures...

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Samuel G. Green, D.D. New and revised edition, with maps. Vol. I., " The Old Testament." (Religious Tract Society.)—Cetywayo and his White Neighbours. By H. Rider Haggard....

B.A. (Trilbner and Co.)—The author defends his co-religionists in past ages from the charge of practising marriage between closely related members of a family. He contends that...

Prinkipo. By Samuel S. Cox. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Cox, who was formerly United States Minister at Constantinople, spent part of his time in the Prinkipo Islands, - which...

Abbott (T. K.), Elementary Theory of Tides, cr 8ve (Longman) 2/0 Ainger (A.), Charles Lamb, or 8vo (Macmillan) 5/0 Anti-Darwin, by Author of " Ceylon : Ancient and Mod." (Ward &...

Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" Office, No, 1 Wellington Street,...

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THE PRIMA DONNA.* AMONGST the many propositions in Mr. Sutherland Edwards's genially written but disappointing volumes with which we join issue, is that contained in the very...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 3, 1888.

OF the making of books of travel by those whom the Americans call " globe-trotters," there is no end. It might, then, be sup- posed that Mr. Caine's latest addition to the hosts...

statesman whose work has been so often undervalued, and whose character has found so many detractors. Judging by actual achievements, Dr. Creighton regards Cardinal Wolsey as...

have to make against the editor is that his preface is scarcely long enough. If he did not think fit to take more of the good things out of his text, we should have been glad of...

THE question which suggests itself after reading even this effort of Mr. Church's to interest children of a younger age than those for whom he has usually written, is whether...

MR. HENTY, who, if he goes on at his present rate, will soon use up all human history, goes to Egypt as it was before the Exodus for the subject of the first of these two...

A CRITIC would lay himself open to an obvious rebuff, were he to boast that it was his remonstrances or advice that bad caused the marked difference of character that...

eighty engravings, each accompanied with explanatory letterpress, of cathedrals and churches in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Midland Counties. The engravings do not pretend to...

first volume of a new venture, for which we cannot but think a more attractive title might have been invented. The magazine seems to promise, indeed to perform, well. Each...

Saturday Journal, and there is little more to add now that we have the collected issue of the whole year. It would not be easy to find a better collection of its kind. It does...

Edmund Routledge. This, our readers will remember, is the annual volume of Every Boy's Magazine, now to be incorporated with the Boy's Own Paper. Mr. Ascott Hope contributes to...

Boy's Own Bookshelf," we have Indoor Games and Recreations : a Popular Encyclopedia for Boys. Edited by G. A. Hutchinson. (Religious Tract Society.)— Mr. Hutchinson has enlisted...

is another welcome visitor at this time of year. " When I was a Little Boy" has a little French lad for its hero, and will interest young English readers in manners and customs...

Co.), takes us back exactly four hundred, years, to the time when Sir Edward Woodville was " Lord and Captain of the Isle of Wight' , under Henry VII., and was able to induce...

volume, in which the purchaser will certainly get full value for his money. Most of the contents are, we suppose, of American origin. We see that money is reckoned in dollars,...

GIFT.BOOKS. John Standish ; or, the Harrowing of London, by the Rev. E. Gilliatt (Seeley and Co.), is one of those carefully written and admirably printed historical romances...

in volume form the yearly contents of two magazines for young folks which are now, and in the most literal of senses, familiar as household words, are once more before us. They...

and Walpole's book than that it is as complete as care and experience can make it. Faults that occur in the larger volume have been omitted. We should be inclined to say that...

woode), is a. pretty book, inside and out. The children are charmingly pictured, and the verses very nice jingles indeed, as, e.g. :— " Out we are sallying, jolly as...

Livy, Book xxi. Edited by Marcus S. Dimsdale, M.A. (Pitt Press.)—In view of the fact, with which Mr. Dimsdale makes us acquainted in his preface, that there is little in his...

and pirates and savages figure in these pages ; and, what with the yarns which various seamen spin, and an ingenious introduction of a " brain-wave " anecdote, where a dream...

the Rev. Launcelot Downing Dowdall, M.A. (Deighton, Bell, and Co.)—Mr. Dowdall has produced a very useful book. Any one editing this portion of Livy is somewhat at a...

and Sons.)—It would be unreasonable to expect the same quality in gleanings as in the harvest. The best are naturally gathered first. Still, this volume, gathered from the...

Tract Society.)—In this volume we have a collection of various papers published during nine years in the Girl's Own Paper. It is meant to give " practical help to girls on all...

(Hatchards.)—As a new venture which has achieved a very creditable success, Atalanta deserves a special word of welcome among the yearly volumes of magazines which call for...

Miss Levy has already earned a place in the world of letters by the freshness and charm of her verses, and she has written, we believe, short tales for the magazines ; but as a...

by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A. (Pitt Press.)—"An editor of any part of Horace," says Mr. Shuckburgh, "takes his life in his hand." He will not, therefore, we imagine, be surprised to...

Wakefield. (Blackie and Son.)—The subject-matter of this text- book is mainly astronomical, with the necessary notes on spectrum analysis, light, magnetism, and the tides. The...

"Fabuln Faciles," will no doubt find this book very useful. It consists of a collection of exercises based on the former work, to which reference is made by means of an index in...

and Co.)—For any one who is reading an extensive course of ancient history, this book will be of the greatest value, either for reference or revision. At a single glance the...

Lib. iii. With Introduction, Analysis, and Commentary by the Rev. Hubert Ashton Holden, M.A., LL.D. (Cambridge University Press.) — Ovid's Pasti, Books i. - ii. and iii. - iv....

H. C. Smith. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Smith has collected here some of the more famous passages in classical poetry for repetition. As a whole, they are well chosen. But we are of...

Co.)—Mr. Wheeler has attempted a great deal in this small volume, nothing less than a History reaching from the Hindoo Epics to the Burmese War, and this in a little over two...

in Latin Verse Composition, by H. Wilkinson, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an excellent little book. The selections have been carefully chosen, and will prove interesting as...

easy Latin exercises, arranged in three parts, to suit the pupil's gradual progression. Opposite to each sentence are the Latin words which will be required for its translation....

a good deal and a considerable variety, of literary power in this book. Mr. Raymond, who is evidently a beginner in fiction, can describe both scenery and character— especially...

(Jarrold and Sons.)—This is a very readable story. The scene is chiefly laid in Ireland, and the descriptions of the life there are both interesting and amusing. John Sebright,...

brilliant description of the great French philosopher,—of the manner and matter of his teaching. In fact, it is only too brilliant Allusive and epigrammatic, it sometimes leaves...

has made the not uncommon mistake of putting into three volumes what might have been easily contained in two, or even one. In its present form, Dearly Bought is rather heavy...

Wagner. (Warne and Co.)—This is a " third series," so that the compiler comes before the public with the prestige of previous success. The extracts number some forty in all, and...

is one of the best and most readable volumes of the excellent " Historic Towns " series, to which it belongs. Each of the members of the once formidable Cinque Ports Federation,...

Francis has written a rather foolish story. The plot is weak, and the characters are unnatural. The Squire of Calder is in reality a young woman who disguises herself as a man,...

is evidently one of the last stories the late popular American novelist produced, and it is one of his best. Mr. Roe was altogether at home in the American Civil War and in the...

(Burnet and Co.)—The compiler has gone over a wide range of reading in her selection of these devotional extracts. Each day of the year has had a poem and a prose extract chosen...

C. L. East- lake. (W. H. Allen.)—Mr. Eastlake gives a description and criti- cism on some two hundred of the pictures contained in the Gallery at Venice. He has put these notes...

Act, 1888. It is published by Messrs. Routledge, and has been furnished with Introduction and Notes by Mr. W. A. Holdsworth. The introduction, reaching as it does to a length of...