6 JANUARY 1877

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INDE X.-1877.

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SPECTATOR,] Jan. 19, 1878. TOPICS OF THE DAY; A DAM, Mr., in Scotland 1466 Africa, the Danger in South ... 109 Africa, South, in the House of Commons... ......

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On Thursday, however, something happened which is not yet clear.

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The Turkish Delegates, who had refused to discuss the propositions about the gendarmerie and the International Com- mission, did discuss them, though still refusing them, and...

In illustrating the social advantages gained by the working- men

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of this generation, Mr. Bright told an amusing story. He referred to there being third-class carriages now, even in ex- press trains, on almost all the lines, and remarked, "You...

A strange incident has occurred in connection with the new

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Turkish Constitution. Two clauses of that Constitution affirm that the Empire is indivisible, and that the Sultan has the right of in- vestiture over all the chiefs of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE world is still waiting for the Turkish answer. On Tuesday it was understood, through a telegram from Constantinople published in the Telegraph, and obviously inspired, that...

That the Turks intend to refuse, we do not doubt.

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They are tired of European tutelage, and mean to have done with it, and think war rather leas troublesome than peace. There is more doubt about the attitude of Russia. It is...

Our readers will be interested in learping 'fioni a paper

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in another column that a sun, constituted apparently of very much the same chemical substances as our own, has suddenly assumed a brilliance which implies an enormous addition...

Mr. Bright made a great speech to the Rochdale Workman's

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Club on Tuesday, in which he first panegyrised the principle of these clubs, which provide amusement and refreshment without affording any dangerous temptation to drink, and...

41 , 101 The Editors cannot Undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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The worst railway accident even of 1876 occurred at Ashtabula,

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Northern Ohio, on the 20th December, at 8 o'clock. The Pacific mail train was passing Ashtabula Creek by an iren bridge seventy- five feet high, when the bridge—possibly from...

Mr. Chamberlain carried, by 46 to 10, on Wednesday, his

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motion in the Birmingham Town Council that it is desirable for the local representative authorities of the municipality to get a power "to acquire, on payment of a fair...

The discontent among Turkish Armenians is said to be very

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strong. The editor of one of their journals, summoned to a conference with the late Grand Vizier, was set upon by the police, and so severely beaten that he has since died. Van...

Sir John Lubbock, writing again to Tuesday's Times, in rela-

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tion to the inadequate time given to science and modern languages in our public schools, explains the principal drift of his previous letters, by saying that if thirty-six hours...

Mr. Hall, the Conservative Member for Oxford, addressed the Oxford

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"Druids" on Monday on the Eastern Question, attacking the Liberals bitterly for not supporting the Government, but yet throwing the whole of his own influence into the scale of...

Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P. for Denbighshire, delivered his annual address

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to his constituents last week, and told them that England had for some months back been exhibiting the strange spectacle of a nation positively dragging a most unwilling Govern-...

The excitement in the Union about the Presidential election flags,

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while the parties are waiting for the joint report of the Com- mittees of both Houses, and the President has therefore been interviewed. His deliverance is very clear and...

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The great German geographer, Herr Petermann,—probably the

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i most accomplished of living geographers,—has been paying a second visit to London, after a lapse of many years, and in writing his view of London to the Holnische Zeitung, has...

Commodore Vanderbilt, after wearing out the reporters with his obstinate

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vitality, is dead at last. He is believed to have been the wealthiest man in America, and was certainly one of its most succesaful money-makers, dying, we believe, owner of at...

Dr. Schliemann seems to have at last verified his conjecture

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that the golden masks which he finds on the faces of those buried in the tomb called "the tomb of Agamemnon," at Mycenee, are intended as copies of the faces which lie beneath...

The Christians of the East seem positively crazy with antipathy

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to the Jews. Just at this very moment, when one of the heaviest weights in the scale against them is the resentment of the cosmo- politan race, the Mayor of Baslui, in Moldavia,...

Consols were on Friday 941 to 94g.

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The Times, which, after a certain amount of hesitation, adopted

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finally, with a certain enthusiasm, the cause of Vivisection and all that is contained under that name, made a proposal in its outside sheet of Wednesday to set on foot a...

The Coronation at Delhi, on Monday, went off without accident,

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and the Queen was proclaimed " Kaiser-i-Hind," amidst endless salvoes of artillery. No important announcement was made, the Viceroy only describing the ceremonial as a new claim...

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LORD DERBY'S INFLUENCE ON TURKEY.

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L ORD DERBY can have few satisfactions in these dark days; The history of his dealings with the Eastern Question is one long history of almost unmitigated and assuredly of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE. T HE crisis is still delayed, and a final decision cannot now be expected before Monday. All through the week an impression has prevailed...

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THE ALLEGED WEAKNESS OF RUSSIA.

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S O many English journals are publishing accounts of Russian. military weakness, that it is well to warn our readers that though many of the isolated facts stated may be true,...

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THE GERMAN ARMY AND GERMAN CUL! UttE.

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T HE address of the Crown Prince of Germany to the Emperor on New-Year's Day does not do more than justice to the Army in whose name it was presented. As the Emperor said in his...

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THE MODERATE HIGH CHURCHMEN AND THE PUBLIC WORSHIP ACT.

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I T will be seen by our own correspondence columns, as well as those of the Times, that there are not wanting men, usually esteemed among the more moderate and sensible of the...

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PROFESSOR CLIFFORD ON THE SIN OF CREDULITY.

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P ROFESSOR CLIFFORD, continuing his ethical disquisitions in the Contemporary Review for January, dilates with much unction and more eloquence on the sin of credulity. "If I let...

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THE LIMITS OF SYMPATHY.

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propo un ds in d a s v th e e ry th n e o s te ry wo t r h t s h t y there ag ar e e o m f C w o h n c,, though without sympathy for the individual—indeed, without heart, if not...

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A SUN IN FLAMES.

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S TRANGE news has recently reached us from the star-depths. We say news, but in reality the event of which we have just heard must have occurred many years, possibly many...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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wish to make my meaning more clear, if possible, than I appear to have done last week, and I hope you will give me a little space for that purpose. Two questions are involved in...

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THE RITUALISTS AND THE LAW.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Kindly allow me one brief reply to your argument that even granting the Purchas Judgment to be such that it ought to be, and probably...

MORTMAIN.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrscrATOR.") SIR,—I am sure you will excuse my calling attention to a serious error in the article of your last number headed, "The Hall Will Case." The...

" CHAUCER FOR CHILDREN."

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &a,—Will you allow me to answer your correspondent "0.," who last week recommended the reprint of the old modernisation of Chaucer's...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—With reference to the

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letter of your correspondent "C." upon the above subject, will you permit us to inform him, and your readers generally, that Mr. Cowden Clarke's "Tales from Chaucer" was...

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MR. RAWSON'S HYMNS.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you or some of your readers kindly inform me whether Mr. Rawson, whose Evening Hymn you quote in last week's Spectator, is the author of the...

CATHOLIC "CHARMS."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sra,—There is no doubt that "diligence and faculty" should "command success ;" bat, as a matter of fact, they are far from doing so with any...

SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Mr. Russell Martineau seems to be of opinion that it is the pronunciation, not the spelling, that makes a word. That strikes me as...

VIVISECTION AND CRUELTY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Those who sympathise with the sufferings of animals must have felt great satisfaction at the warm interest which has lately been excited...

MR. HAWEIS ON HEALTH.

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rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—May I point out the extent to which you have been misinformed about my sermon on " Health ?" The title, as originally given out, was,...

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BOOKS.

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RAHEL.* MRS. JENNINGS has undertaken a difficult task. To produce a vivid and accurate representation of Rahel Levin is to present a picture of intellectual life in Germany at...

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.*

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WE never read any critical essay, much less any volume of criti- cism, which did not contain remarks and opinions in which we could not perfectly acquiesce ; and we have several...

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THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.*

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Tins is the second edition of a book which on its first appearance -was recognised as possessing sterling merits. Indeed, it is full of sound and recent information on the...

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A SCOTCH BROAD CHIJRCHMAN.*

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WE have enjoyed to-day a rare pleasure, having just closed a volume of sermons which rings true mettle from title-page to finis, and proves that another and very powerful...

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NOTES ON MAGAZINES.

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THE editor of the Fortnightly makes, we think, only one mistake in his management. The magazine appears too often without a " light " article, that is, an essay which, for some...

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We have to mention the half-yearly volume of the Argonaut,

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edited by Mr. George Gladstone (Hodder and Stoughton), a magazine of merit, the most notable feature of which is the "Reports on the Progress of Science." Among the papers, we...

CU RRENT LITERATURE.

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• The Vanity Fair Album. Volume VIII. (Vanity Fair Office)— " Jehu Junior" claims as the great merit of the portraits which he introduces to the world that "they present the...

We have great pleasure in calling attention to the fourth

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annual volume of the Expositor, editod by the Rev. S. Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton, and Strahan and Co.)—First we have a series of excellent articles by the editor on the Book of...

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Overmatched. By the Author of "Six Months Hence." 3 vols.

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(F. W..7. Baker.)—This is a clever, well-written story. An elder son is disinherited and robbed of the property which the late repentance of his father would have given to him,...

The Turkish Empire. By the Rev. T. Milner. (Religions Tract

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Society.)—This is "a new and revised edition," its last chapter carrying us down to the deposition of Murad V. It is a careful and well-written book, and may, we think, be...

The Professional Pocket-Book and Daily and Hourly Engagement Diary for

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1877, specially adapted for professional engagements, and published under the immediate direction of Sir Julius Benedict. (Rudall, Carte, and Co.)—A very convenient form of...

'Through Fire and Water. By Lady Wood. 2 vols. (Chapman

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and Hall.)—This is a romantic story of two girls, one of whom is carried off by gipsies, the other brought up by the Lady of the Manor. It does not differ, except in the general...

Memorials of the South-Saxon See and Cathedral Church of Chichester.

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By the Rev. W. R. W. Stephens. (Bentley.)—Chichester has not given many great prelates to the English Church, though one of them, Richard of Wych, who was bishop from 1245 to...

Thomas Wingfold, Curate. By George MacDonald, LL.D. 3 vols. (Hurst

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and Blackett.)—We are always glad to hear what Mr. Mac- Donald has to say, but we do not think that he does himself justice by his manner of saying it. He can write a good...

The Three Brides. By Charlotte M. Yonge. 2 vols. (Macmillan.)

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—It is somewhat amusing to observe the amount of material with which Miss Yonge always takes care to provide herself. If she sets herself to relate the history of a family, it...

Betsy Harold's Story. By J. C. (R. A. Elliott, Liverpool.)—This

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is a little story of a woman's life, which, though slight in texture, gives- promise of something better in the future. The characters are marked with more distinctness than is...

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Petit Album de L'Age du Bronze de la Grande Bretagne.

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By John Evans. (Lengmans and Co.)-A book of well-executed plates, repre- senting the different objects of the Bronze Age which have been found in Great Britain, and drawn...

Power's Partner. By May Byrne. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blazkett.)-

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" Power" is a genial, broad-shouldered giant, for whom Miss Byrne feels, it is evident, a truly feminine liking ; his " partner " is an unhappy man, who, after a life of...

1 value is much enhanced by the addition to the

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description of the name of the locality where the object was found. It is intended as the precursor to a great work on the subject, and is published in French, in order to put...