A COMMENTARY UPON HOOKER.* IT has sometimes seemed to us when a too rare chance has brought in our way some writing of the present Dean of Christ Church, that he, perhaps more...

LONDON : NO 4th, 1899.

the name " Vladimir" published two or three years ago an interesting volume on the China-Japan War. His work seemed to show an intimate knowledge of the Japanese, and a...

THE opening pages of Mr. How's memoir of Bishop John Selwyn carry us back to an incident in the life of John Selwyn's father, the first Bishop of New Zealand. At mid- night on...

TALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.* Mn. HENTY, who must soon, we should think, have to sigh for new worlds to write about, gives us his usual, or even more than his usual, allowance of...

Prince. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s.)—This book, we are told, is designed " to afford parents, and more especially mothers, an opportunity of keeping a continuous record of...

Chambers. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the stories which would hardly have existed but for " Alice in Wonderland." Mabel makes " a trip to Storyland," and sees a number of figures...

D.D. (R.T.S. 30s. net.)—Dr. Mackennal makes us understand why the subject which he treats has come into prominence within quite recent times. It is, we must explain, the...

6d.) —There is something worth reading in this " story of a mer- cantile marine officer." Mr. Clark Russell has set the fashion in nautical romance of going to the Merchant...

honestly call it more than passable. When the shepherd boy and the fisherman, each discontented with his lot in life, pass each other, why did they do it "with a nod...

A. D. With a Preface by the Right Rev. A. F. Winnington-Ingram, D.D., Bishop of Stepney. (A. R. Mowbray and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—T his is 'a collection of pleasant stories and...

—Mrs. Molesworth is always fond of a little mystery. Ghosts are very much to her taste, and if a ghost does not suit the occasion—and it hardly does when one writes for. the...

and Sons.)—This "tale of mystery, fun, and frolic," with its comic sailor, Chinee, French-master, and other familiar characters of farce, is fairly entertaining. There is a...

Parnell. (Grant Richards. 6s )—Miss Farmiloe evidently believes in the effectiveness of simple lines and dots. Sometimes she succeeds with them, but not, we are bound to say,...

Rivett-Carnac. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This book is intended for very young children. Like hundreds of others published at this season, it is attractively - got up, rather...

6s.)—Here are ten stories by well-known writers, Messrs. H. Collingwood, J. Bloundelle-Burton, D. Ker, and F. Whishaw being among them. The first, entitled " Chateau and Ship,"...

Woolf. (J. MaeQueen.)—These fairy tales are described as coming from China, Arabia, Greece, Rome, and we know not what other places. Miss Woolf introduces them without any...

is a pretty little story. " Dimple," who comes to disturb the peace of Mrs. Fitzherbert, as every one in the house is sure, turns out to be a quite delightful child, not too...

Gomme. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—This is the sequel to two volumes of a similar kind, respectively entitled " The King's " and " The Queen's Story Book." There are between...

3s. 6d.) is as good as usual both in letterpress and illustration. —This firm's New Penny Magazine (2s. 6d.) is certainly a triumph of cheapness. The frontispiece alone, a quite...

of Edinburgh in 1894-96. By Alexander Campbell Fraser, LL.D. Second Edition, Amended. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Gs. 6d.)—Professor Fraser has published a second edition of his...

and Co.) —Mr. Caine works the Napoleon vein to good purpose. This story of 1815, with its scenes at Elba, and during the progress of Napoleon from the place of landing to Paris....

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo. With a Preface by Paul Meurice. Translated by John W. Harding. (W. Heinemann. 10s.)—This is a book which every thoroughgoing admirer of Victor Hugo...

bald Constable and Co. 6s.)—We gather that the lively sketches of modern French writers which make up this volume have appeared at different times in various American magazines....

mann. 6s.)—In the autumn of 1897 Mr. Kirk went from San Francisco to Klondike, and there remained a year,—whether out of a love of adventure, to seek gold, or to gather...

Nicolaldes reminds us forcibly in this work of the chief political question, apart from Constantinople itself, remaining in the Balkans,—that of Macedonia. He writes from a...

6s.)—Dr. Parker speaks kindly of those whom he has occasion to mention, whether they were friends or opponents, and we have no wish to say anything but what is kind of him....

Brothers. 5s.)—The larger part of this book consists of a series of brilliant sketches of the trial at Rennes by the correspondent of the Daily Mail. It is not, however, a mere...

—This somewhat too materialistic " inquiry into the diversity of human faculty," by that able and remarkable journalist, the late Mr. J. F. Nisbet, is, however much we may...

Richard A. Armstrong, B.A. (Philip Green. ls.)—There is undoubtedly a marked tendency to-day to get back to the living personality of Jesus Christ as a source of present...

of Redemption in the Light of the Theory of Evolution. By E. Griffith - Jones, B.A. (James Bowden. 7s. 6d.)—In reading this remarkable book we are constantly tempted to repeat...

By E. B. Bright (Brother) and C. Bright (Son). (Constable and Co. 63s. net.)—These two volumes are the story writ large, but not too large, for those who are specially...

and other Members of the Bar. With American Notes by Irving Browne. Vols. XVII. and XVIII. (Stevens and Sons. 25s. each net.)—The series of Ruling Cases is making steady, and...

Paulson Townsend. Assisted by Louisa F. Pesel and others. (Truslove, Hanson, and Combs. 35. 6d.)—It is difficult to write anything to the point on this subject, and the author...

H. Stockwell and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Beaven here dilates at considerable length on a subject which, as has been demonstrated by the recent Report of the Society for Psychical Research,...

Adnah D. Jones. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 10s. 6d.)—If it was worth while to publish this book, it was worth while to complete it. The history is not carried beyond 1876, and...

" Newman et le Mouvement d'Oxford." Par Paul Thureau-Dangin. (E. Plon, Nourrit, et Cie., Paris.)— M. Thureau-Dangin gives us in his sketch of the history of the Oxford Movement...

have here what appears to be an excellent translation, by "Clara Bell," of an interestin g volume on India by Prince Bojidar Kara g eor g evitch. It was ori g inally written in...

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day, for the guns seem to have been splendidly handled. Especially fine was the shooting of the guns manned by blue- jackets from the Powerful,' which had been brought up from...

to deny that during the next week there must be a great deal of anxiety as to the position in Natal. We trust and believe, however, that General White, who certainly was quite...

Nek on Monday morning Sir George White was using his whole force, except an obligatory garrison for the camp, in what may best be described as an attempt to push back the slow...

the artillery duel seems to have been continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, our heavy naval guns keeping down the enemy's fire. On Thursday news was received that the telegraphic...

O N Monday the most important action of the war up till now took place at Ladysmith,—an action which, unhappily, included the isolation and surrender of a British column. We...

the report of the correspondent of the Star, who visited the field, te.ems to show that about twenty officers and men were killed outright, about one hundred wounded, and...

case.

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pieces on its way to Lake Tchad, or, more precisely, at or near Togbau, 9° 42' North latitude. Lieutenant Bretonnet had only two subordinate officers with him and thirty...

and especially the Reservists, whose lot is often exceedingly hard, more than the certainty that their wives and families will be provided for. We welcome, therefore, the appeal...

now so prosperous that the British Ambassador, Lord Currie, is astonished at the advance he finds both in agri- culture and industry. The revenue comes in regularly and keeps an...

proposal, not yet absolutely official, but undoubtedly entertained in high quarters, to depart from the programme of naval construction which in 1898 was settled for six years....

there is steadily on the British side. A crowd in New York cheered loudly when it was known that the naval guns bad silenced the Boer forty-pounder, and the Press almost without...

than inflamed by the reverse at Ladysmith. Almost every- where sympathy for the Boers is slightly cooled by their assumed successes. They have ceased to be " a peaceful little...

organs of the Centre are most hostile, and they are putting forward a new and powerful argument. They say that a conflict with the Imperial Government is not an unmixed loss,...

Rosebery's speech must be given textually. It is as follows —"I, at any rate, had another motive for laying a wreath to- day on the tomb of Mr. Pitt. I regard Mr. Pitt as the...

interesting speech, or, rather, series of speeches, on the two Pitts ; but more important was his able and patriotic declara- tion in regard to the present war. His chief points...

Monday. After a formal inspection the Viceroy, Lord Minto, bade farewell to the regiment in a short speech in which he emphasised the epoch - making character of the occasion....

sitting of the House of Lords, Lord Hardwicke did his best to make the Assembly to which he belongs ridiculous by inducing the few Peers present to condemn the erection of a...

on Monday evening, Lord Spencer, while support- ing the vigorous prosecution of the war and condemning President Kruger's ultimatum as an insane and reckless document, found...

in the return of Mr. Guthrie, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 2,115 ; the figures being, Guthrie, 4,238, and Spender, 2,123. At the last election—i.e., that of 1895 —...

very able lecture on the war. It was a war between two ideals rather than a war between races. The English was that of "a fair field and no favour." It welcomed all corners who...

New Consols (2:1) were on Friday 1034.

THE DISASTER AT NICHOLSON'S NEK. T HE disaster at Nicholson's Nek, where six companies of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, four and a half com- panies of the Gloucesters, and the 10th...

I T is Lord Rosebery's belief that in ten years' time we shall see the destinies of the nation controlled by the party of Liberal Imperialism. Lord Rosebery is himself a Liberal...

magnificent object-lesson on the value of Volunteers in defensive warfare. They are strictly Volunteers. That is to say, they are not trained at all in barracks ; and though...

be credited with considerable insight into the internal situation. Its policy in permitting a second trial of Dreyfus, which it probably knew would end in his second...

A VERY interesting article on the rural aspect of the housing question appeared in the Daily News of Monday. It dealt, not with the mischiefs that come of insanitary or...

so persistent as the belief that certain uninspired men may possess the power of predicting events outside the range of calcula- tion; that is, in other words, of uttering what...

T HE Daily Mail on Thursday published a graphic map of the progress of our fleets now on the high seas on their way to the Cape. Of these some fifty vessels are conveying men...

T HE power of epigram in literature has been great. We are largely ruled by phrases, and some of the most pregnant sentences of the antique world have an influence over our mind...

THE BOER WAR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Many of those who sympathise with the Boers have sought, in their speeches and their writings, to draw a parailri between...

rejoice to see that the American papers notice that the anti-British clamour of the Continental Press is f ally as violent and minatory now as it was anti-American in the case...

Mr. Bernard Holland, in the Spectator of October 28th, misstate the cause of variance between us and President Kruger when he says : "The real issue is whether the Transvaal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May not the present attitude of the Kaiser towards us in South Africa be very simply explained ? Three years ago, the Jameson Raid,...

passage out of Tolstoi's "Peace and War," Vol. III., p. 265, which seems applicable to the present situation in the Transvaal ?- " One of the most remarkable exceptions to the...

Sin,—Mr. Bernard Holland, in the Spectator of October 28th, states very concisely the Doer alternative, between an ultimate Outlander supremacy in the Transvaal and war. I would...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Yon state in your excellent description of the attack on Talana Hill (Spectator, October 28th) that "the Dublin Fusiliers and the 60th...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Ward seems partly to misconceive and partly to misstate the point at issue. " We must see," he tells us, in the attitude of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Abbe Pichot, the founder of the Dreyftisard Comite Catholique pour la Defense du Droit, is desirous that his two brochures,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have little doubt that what your correspondents saw on Wednesday, October lltb, was a fragmentary phase of the well-known, though...

OCTOBER 20TH; DIED OCTOBER 23RD, 1899.) TILL England's praise had reached thee, and our sore And grateful hearts were to thy sight reveal'd, Merciful death a little while...

THE HISTORIAN OF BATTLES.f KINGLAKE'S masterpiece, edited for military students, must perforce lose something of its strength and character. For Kinglake was not merely the...

KING'S ROYAL RIFLES. ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS. OCTOBER 20TH. PEACE to the empty rhetorical prater, Peace to your " patriot " chatter and brag ! What ! did you deem that the Celt...

a task as to write a history of the snakes of Ireland. Unfortunately for the biographer, though perhaps fortunately for the artist, Vaaari remains silent as to Luini excepting...

IT can scarcely be doubted that the two fundamental ideas which Mr. Lilly in this work (dedicated to Mr. Lecky) treats are of vital importance at the present hour. In the first...

fiction has been at- tended with diversified and disputable results ; but as illus- trated in the works of Mr. Quiller-Couch, whose local patriotism is free from the taint of...

WE note with pleasure the appearance of the second number of Lady Randolph Churchill's quarterly, the Anglo - Saxon Review. The binding of the second number is, considering the...

7s. Ed.)—We cannot find fault with Dr. G. Smith's selection. All the twelve are representative; all are noble figures, worthy of being included in a roll of honour. The list...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) The Way They Have in the Navy. By F. T....

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Colonel Thomsett begins with an interesting account of the state of feeling which immediately preceded the Pathan outbreak of 1897. He attributes no little...

Adair. (W. Thacker and Co. 125. 6d. net.)--Captain Adair's hunting-ground was a region of Kashmir, Leh being its most important place. (A map of the country with the route...

16a.)—This is the fifth volume that Mr. Harper has con- tributed to the literature of the road and the coaching days. Necessarily these volumes have a cdrtain sameness about...

and H. S. Theobald. Third Edition, by J. H. Balfour Browne and Frank Balfour Browne. (Stevens and Sons. £2 2s.)—This monumental work has been brought down to the present time by...

6d.)—" Make a good beginning" sums up much of the excellent advice which Mrs. Frage gives to young housekeepers. One of the things is, press for a regular house allowance, and...