I i t T LATE DUKE OF SOMERSET. * How is it that in reading almost all aristocratic memoirs there is a feeling that we are, for the time being, in the " hollow lotos-land, "...

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in the number of book-lovers and book-collectors of late years, may be judged from the fact that quite an extensive literature has sprung up entirely devoted to the study of...

some of us as a sportsman, but he may now fairly claim to rank as a writer of knowledge and skill, for be has given us in his descrip- tion of life in the Cariboo Gold-Rush of...

of Professor Caird's, a deeply interesting and thoughtful study of the philosophic aspect of religion. The form of lectures in which they are east, and the intrinsic fascination...

addresses delivered by Mr. Henry Irving since 1881. Two of them were given at the sessional opening of the Philosophical Institution at Edinburgh, one at the Oxford University,...

Tim interest felt in England respecting Finland and Finnish literature seems to be increasing, though there are but few students at present who concern themselves with the...

Lady de Ros, who was born in 1795 and died in 1891, lived through that long period in more or less intimate association with some of the most distinguished men who have made the...

TWO HISTORICAL TALES.* Mn. HENTY does not think it necessary to expend much subtlety in drawing his heroes. They are amazingly like each other,—Virgil's fortisque Oyas...

magazine well adapted for its purpose, with illustrations of no small merit. The " Little Eskimos at School " are capital. We observe that the magazine has a writing...

A Daughter of Rome. From the German cf Louisa Pichler. (Digby and Long.)—This " Romance of the Fatherland" tolls the story of the Emperor, mingled with various romantic...

Met- calfe. (Nisbet and Co.)—T his is a sea story with a very curious plot. The " decoyed" are a party from the ship Albatross,' who are induced by signals of distress to...

Co.)—This "story of girls," though it has nothing remarkable about it, is told in the tasteful, sensible way which we are accus- tomed to look for in Mrs. Marshall's work....

School Union.)—We always expect a thorough knowledge of the class life of the people she writes about from Mis. Banks, and in The Bridge of Beauty we are not disappointed. The...

Adeney. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Professor Adeney brings much breadth of mind, as well as depth of knowledge, to the treatment of his subject. He is evidently not bound by...

The picture which Dr. Gordon Stables gives us of the early life and boyhood of Columbus in Genoa is very real and interesting, and the hero is a most effective figure from the...

of good stories and instruction—moral, scientific, and technical—as over. Such names as Ballantyne, Blake, Hope, Ker, Malan, Reed, Stables, Jules Verne, and others as good,...

Son.)— The two young heroes, Trevellon and Arwen, go through some very stirring adventures on board the Ocean Witch,' a privateer in the days of Nelson. Indeed, the' Ocean...

—This is a story, if it may be called a story, told by a child. She describes the sayings and doings of her brothers and sisters, and how they make acquaintance, and finally...

plenty of characters in Namesakes, two or three very slight love stories, and a rather unpleasant secret, which concerns the right of two cousins to a property, the question...

Gordon Stables herein relates with much vivacity the adven- tures of a harum-scarum Scotch boy and his inseparable companion, a faithful Skye terrier. Jack plays all sorts of...

Union.)—The heir is a proud, penniless, foolish person, who, after embarking in a wild building speculation at the instigation of a swindling contractor, goes through...

Wilson. (D. Douglas.)—These eight essays, the post- humous work of a highly distinguished student of anthropology, cover a wide extent of ground,—so wide that it is...

Map and Illustrations. (Seeley and Co.)—Mr. Page is a most delightful companion to take along the rivers of Devon, for he makes the most of the historical associations of...

Barrett. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—" The Trinity House is believed to have taken its rise, early in the fifteenth century, from a guild or fra- ternity of pilots, seamen, and...

stories have the same dismal tone which characterises all descriptions of agricultural life in the States. Whatever depres- sion there may be in this country, the average farmer...

—This is a good story, the scene being laid, in the time of the Napoleonic wars, and near the coast of the Channel. The incidents are often somewhat romantic, not to say...

just published " Esmond," started for a lecturing tour in the States with Mr. Crowe as his companion. Throughout the larger portion of his life, Mr. Crowe has been s ilent...

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by H. B. Swete, D.D. (Macmillan.)—This fragment was found at Akhmtm (Chommis in Herodotus, Panopolis in Greek time) in the winter of...

Stewart. 2 vols. (The Clarendon Press.)—There is something eminently businesslike about this work. Mr. Stewart does not spend any time or space on introductory essays, which...

. 2 vols. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The author of this book tells us pretty clearly in his preface what he thinks of its value. "If this history has in any degree realised the...

book. It is a volume that may be read with interest anywhere, while it fulfils its special purpose with admirable completeness. in Ease it is convenient, for it would not make...

M.R.A.S. With maps and illustrations. (William Blackwood and Sons.)--This is a prettily-got-up, but otherwise very disappointing, bcok. More than the first half is taken up with...

(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—The writing of Latin verse, if not exactly a lost art, is passing out of use. The more the pity. However, there is still left a fairly good...

Richard Graf von Pfeil. Translated by Colonel C. W. Bowdler from the fourth edition. (Stanford.)—We need not wonder that Graf von Pfeil's " experiences " created a great...

and points out without partiality. The most serious, artistically speaking, is the interpolation of the love supposed to be felt by the heroine for the Girondist Deputy...

hatred of imperialism." That his ideal was a republic may be conceded ; but he knew it to be impossible. " Omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit," ho says without...

the Rev. R. T. Talbot. (Isbister and Co.)—Canon Talbot begins with some account of the MSS., Hebrew and Greek, of the Bible, which he illustrates by some apposite instances...

but agree with almost every rule and warning that she lays down, the conviction is borne in upon us that gardeners, whether professional, amateur, artistic, naturalistic,...

Barnes gives us here a very useful summary of the arguments about the early date and genuine character of the four canonical Gospels. He shows briefly what testimonies are...

made a readable and pleasant little book out of his subject. We are a little surprised when we read that "Adam gave the birds their old Hebrew names." But simplicities of this...

Unwin.)—Mr. Phil Robinson's humour is scarcely as fresh and pleasing as it used to be in days of old. The essays in this volume have, in part at least, seen the light before....

(Seeley and Co.)—This is a valuable comment on the closing chapters of the Gospel of St. John, those which narrate the Resurrection appearances. The reader will find in it...

Co.)—Mr. Stubbs preaches, as is his wont, some excellent doctrine. Sometimes he deals with very difficult sub. jects ; as, for instance, in his discourse on " The Sin of...

Street, Strand ; and Published by JOHN CAmrpeLL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of th e savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " SPHOTATOU" 051cr , No. 1...

and the Emperor appears disposed to create a Ministry of Affairs with the Conservative leader as Premier, and the heads of each group opposed to the Count as members of the...

very anxious that Mr. Rhodes should be allowed a "free band" to settle Mashonaland, and the Cape Govern- ment has addressed the Colonial Office with that view. There can be no...

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second reading of the Bill establishing District Councils and Parish Councils in a most conciliatory speech. The Government evidently intend to avoid conflict with the Church,...

has been repealed. The Silver men of the Democrat side saw they would be ruled out of the party if they resisted the President any longer, and on October 30th the vote was...

men are "conferring" on a plan of conciliation. The general idea seems to be that the men shall go back at a nominal reduction, and that in future, before a strike, reference...

M R. RHODES has won. He has an admirable sub- ordinate in Dr. Jameson, he is evidently obeyed with delight or fear by all colonists in South Africa, and his arrangements for the...

any case.

nothing of any consequence except on a single point. He confirmed Mr. Asquith's view that Home-rule for Ireland is only a first step towards Home-rule all round, in other words,...

which was probably more severe than their journals allow. On Friday week, General Margallo, commanding there, made a desperate attempt to relieve the exterior forts, which had...

Carnot a telegram expressing his gratitude for " the splendid reception which his sailors have everywhere found on French soil. The testimonies of warm sympathy which have been...

portant speech at Leeds on Monday, in which, after reiterating a good deal of what he said in Scotland, he panegyrised what Mr. Acland had done in the Education Department, on...

suggestion that Home-rule for Ireland ought ulti- mately to be the subject of negotiation between the two parties ; and Mr. Bompas, Q.C., one of the ablest represen- tatives of...

his constituents at Wolverhampton last Saturday, and took Home-rule for his chief subject. He was courageous enough to maintain that the Home-rule Bill of the Government was...

of papers on the sinking of the Victoria' by the ' Camper- down,' of which one is a Minute by my Lords on the proceed- ings of the court-martial, another is a Minute on the...

he had taken none of his colleagues into his con- fidence in relation to Home-rule, but that he had opened " secret communications" with Mr. Parnell. We rather think that the...

speech in the City Hall, Glasgow, on Wednesday, which he devoted to the criticism of Mr. Gladstone. He began by relating a day-dream, in which be presented the House of Lords as...

a study of Mr. Parnell, which represents him as full of superstitions derived from an old nurse, Mrs. Tup- penny, at whom he had, as a child, thrown a candlestick, though be...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 97g.

Socialism in Germany, that the leaders of the party are opposed to Trades-Unions, as they are to old-age pensions, State insurance, and Employers' Liability Bills. They hold all...

and two or three officers have been tried in Hanover and condemned on a charge of conspiring to induce officers to gamble, and then extorting usurious interest on loans they...

his subjects. It appears from the official returns that, although he had a small majority in the Reichsrath for his Military Bill, the mass-vote went against him, 4,323,000...

a very important speech on the absolute necessity of keeping up the naval preponderance of England, and declared that immediate steps would be taken to fill up the gap in our...

V ERILY, the ways of Providence are strange ! It is more than eighty years since a body of Zulus, calling themselves the Matabele, entered Mashonaland and assumed its government...

MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN'S CONFESSION. W E cannot understand the Home-rulers. They ap- pear to us, even the shrewdest and soberest of them, to think it quite natural and right to...

T HE Duke of Argyll, in his magnificent speech in Glasgow last Wednesday, represented Mr. Glad- stone as the only enemy the Unionists have in the world, —at least, the only...

P RESIDENT CLEVELAND has gauged his people accurately upon one point. Unlike the present Government of Great Britain, he sees that they like, instead of disliking,...

bottle flies—but it is an obstacle, and might be a consider- if it were not for the locality of Melilla, but unfortu- able one. On the other hand, England, anxious for nately,...

I N his speech at the opening of the new Hy mers' College at Hull, Lord Herschel] was perhaps a little too sanguine as to the good results that may be expected to follow from...

at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion," is the one saying of Shake- speare which is too little remembered. We are in danger of remembering and recording a great deal...

W E do not quite see our way to agreeing with those who regret the acquittal on Monday of the Indian oculists accused of obtaining money by false,pretences. They certainly used...

wild beasts, should be honoured with a statue at the Zoo ; for the cages are this year peopled by the graceful young of wild creatures native to every quarter of the globe. The...

a great man are interesting to us. They are most so when we can say that there was- " Nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble ;" but even when we...

THE COAL CRISIS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TIIR EFECTATOR.j Sin,-In the Spectator of October 21st, you remark :-" What the public wants to know is not elaborate scales of pay per day,...

THE GARDENER'S BURIAL. THIS is the grave prepared ; set down the bier : Mother, a faithful son we bring thee here In loving ease to lie beneath thy breast, Which many a year...

[To THE EDITOR OS THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—In your article on the " Edinburgh Review and the Lords," in the Spectator of October 28th, you speak of the " Continental plan " of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " spEareTon."1 SIR,—Your view of the Poltergeist, in the Spectator of October 28th, seems the most reasonable way of accounting for phenomena that cannot...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—Unless my memory plays me utterly false, the remark of the late Master of Balliol concerning Dean Stanley, that " if it had rained...

LADY BURGHERSH'S LETTERS.* THERE is nothing more curious than the variety, the multi- plicity of life, with which the reader of biographies and cor- respondences comes into a...

publisher• of a book commands pre- cedence of the author in the attention of a critic,—almost never, when that author has a style so exquisite as Mr. Skelton's, and is...

very inappropriate title. Dr. Mirabel's theory is merely the old theory that there are such things as ghosts, and that ghosts are the inner and living forms which give their...

be done with our girls P" is becoming a serious one. Not . only the anxious parents but the girls themselves are beginning to realise that a life spent in useless frivolity, or...

very specialised depart- ment of history, and evidently has spared no pains as far as The Puritan in ZioUand, EngIan d, and America : an Introduction to American ritetorii., By...

merit of this volume might miss due.recognition. Books arranged in alphabetical order are prima facie of the non-literary sort, compilations, possibly useful, but of a more or...

Black.)—We cannot pretend properly to estimate, in the space at our command, this important book. The introduction is espe- cially noticeable for its assertion of the real...

The Bishop's Wife. By Dayrell Trelawney. (Bentley and Son.) — The motive of this story seems to us a little far-fetched. That a woman should feel in a false position when her...

(Smith and Elder.)—This is a story of a mysterious manuscript in which a certain Abibal relates his unhappy experiences. There is a flavour of archaism about the style which...

Grant Allen republishes here a number of short stories which have already appeared in various periodicals. Most of them have been written " more or less to please himself," he...

This is a charming little book, especially interesting to sym- pathetic readers of the Spectator, because it gives first-hand evidence of " dog-stories " quite as remarkable as...

without any bitterness against those whom he believes to be in error. This is not a proper occasion for discussing the subject; but we may suggest that the theory scarcely...

John Timbs and Alexander Gunn. 3 vole. (Frederick Warne and Co.) —This is a reissue in three volumes of a very good book of its kind. Some of the articles have been rewritten,...