SHAKESPEARE'S KNOWLEDGE OF SPORT.* THIS is a very pleasant book to spend an evening over, and a book useful to be put aside for reference. Judge Madden has a knowledge of...

" PE91BROEE College, anciently Broadgates Hall," says Mr. Macleane on his title-page; for Pembroke, like other Colleges, is built, we will not say on the ruins, but on the...

THIS book is short, comprehensive, suggestive, and practical. The author asks in his preface, "How is it that an English boy leaves school knowing but a very moderate amount of...

MR. J. G. Airmais's fine book on British deer is one of the best monographs of its kind yet written ; and for comprehen- sive interest, other than that attaching to these...

complete biography of the late Sir Henry Parkes, deals almost exclusively with his public career. The author, Mr. Charles Lyne, with the wise reticence of true friendship,...

THE hero of Clovis Dardentor is a native of Southern France, and M. Jules Verne does full justice to the exuberant and vivacious temperament of the "man from Perpignan." We are...

AN ILLUSTRATED NEW TESTAMENT.* THERE are several ways of illustrating the Bible, and we should not like to lay down any rule which would enforce one to the exclusion of all...

Alice B. Woodward. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Hendry's "verses for children of all ages" are fairly good, but not quite up to the mark of the best article of the kind. The...

we have some old favourites, as "Old King Cole," with some that are new to us, as " The Whale" (not modern, we presume, or it would not be called a " fish "). The art is of the...

Lang has exhausted the primary colours without coming to an end of his store of fairy-tales. This time he has gone farther afield, though without finding much that is new. Japan...

general reading" keeps up to its standard very well. Besides the usual element of fiction of the more serious kind there is a series of papers on Sundays with various Royalties....

Son.) .—This is a very spirited story, well worthy to be ranked with the best of Mr. Henty's work. Terence O'Connor is the son of an officer in the "Mayo Fusiliers," who up to...

Co.)—This "story of adventure among the Indiana of Arizona" is of the usual typo. It has the merit of going to the point at once. Blake Middleton goes out to see his brother...

Co.)—" Miss Mouse," really named Rosamond, is the child of parents who are living in India, and comes to stay with the five Harvey boys. Our readers know bow Mrs. Molesworth...

is, both as regards letterpress and illustrations, as good a magazine of the kind, and for the end at which it aims, as there is to be found. We can speak from experience of the...

Son.)—It is, perhaps, a fault in this story that it wants unity. The "March on London" is concerned with the insurrection of Wat Tyler, but this part of the tale is...

it among our notices of these publications, but with a most emphatic warning to our readers not on any account to give it. It will be quite sufficient to quote from the...

is one of the "Splendid Lives Series." Of course it is difficult to give anything like a fair or adequate account of such a life as Luther's in so small a compass. The real...

Co.)— This is a good story of the romantic kind. A child is stolen by gipsies out of revenge, a revenge which is to be satisfied fully by a very elaborate plot. Then there is...

would be interesting to know whence these " half-hours " are taken. Who is it that tells us, for instance, that "we see in the Phcenicians the phenomena of dominion without...

and Co.)—The spoilt child from India who brings dis- comfort into a peaceable English home is a common experience in fiction, where the disagreeables of the situation are...

is a pretty story of a love that ends in happy marriage, told, and that very simply and unaffectedly, by the bride that was to be. Mrs. Molesworth has developed of late years a...

of Verses." Set to Music by Katharine M. Ramsay. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. S. R. Crockett writes a pleasant little in- troduction to the sixteen songs from Mr....

takes Miss A for Miss B, whereas Miss B, whose existence would have disturbed some family arrangements of property, has died long before. Of course the high-toned lover of...

(J. Nisbet and Co.)—Ralph Newton having taken to the sea when his mother's death had removed the obstacle of her resistance, takes service in a South-Sea whaling ship. His...

Press.)—Each page contains two subjects or groups. First we have them without the alphabet letters, and then they are repeated with them. This is a happy thought. The drawings...

Lock, and Co.)—" Princess Sarah" is a story of the Cinderella kind. Sarah is an orphan whom some well-to-do relatives befriend in a patronising kind of way. In the end the...

vivid portraits and touches of a Breton fisherman and the little bourgeois girl he marries, and the great contrast between the strong, savage Breton temperament of Laurence le...

returns home, her education, which had been given her by an aunt, being finished. She is full of schemes for doing good, but is contemptuous of the duties close at hand. How she...

this story are literary and professional, and we are introduced behind the scenes. We can appreciate the description of some of the literary man's troubles and vexations. The...

Tea. By D. Crole. Illustrated. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.) —Mr. Crole's book treats the subject of tea and tea-planting com- prehensively and practically. The history of Indian...

Co.)—Our author has most certainly caught something of the fiery passions of sunny Italy in delineating the gifted and emotional young painter, and a daughter of St. Mark....

secret is a certain power over women, which has been handed down for generations, but is known at the outside to but three people. It is mixed up with occultism and the ancient...

Co.)—John MacGregor is a fine study of a strong man ; we could all wish to have such a friend, whose character and whose refinement of feeling would make the trials of life...

Harris. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—Very interesting are the accounts of the great Armenian civilisation and of some of the cities, notably Edessa, visited by Mr. and Mrs. Harris. A...

Sparkes and Walter Gandy. (S. W. Partridge.)—These two writers have attempted nothing more nor less than a history of pottery ; consequently the string of names becomes almost...

Scientific Series." (Kegan Paul and Co.)—Professor Trowbridge, of Harvard, is to be congratulated on his lucid and careful exposi- tion of electrical theories. Any one with a...

)—Dorothy is one of two orphans, and is adopted into her mother's family, who are quite unaware of the relationship. The orphans, separated for a time, are finally united when...

the proceedings of the Congress held this year in London on June 15th-18th,—i.e., the introduc- tory addresses, the papers read, and the discussions that followed the reading....

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—We quite agree with the historian of Bohemia that no country has been more misunderstood by the English. Though this is partly due to the mischievous idea...

Murray.)—Mr. Macnaghten, after taking his degree at Cambridge, went out in 1870 as the first Chief of the Rajkumar College at Rajkot, in Kathiaw§r. The College was founded to...

and Bullen.)—Children will hear a great deal about elves in the story of " Nipkin," who is himself a wood elf. "Nipkin," in company with a boy, makes a journey to the Land of...

Sands, and Co.)—The rebellion of Monmouth is worked into this romance of the Quantock Hills, and we have some pleasing descriptions of country life and scenery. The story...

in the course of his studies during the past forty years. It is a very curious mixture, of which no better description can be given than that which Martial gives of his own...

by Osmund Airy, M.A. Vol. I. (The Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College, brought out an edition of this work for the Clarendon Press in 1823. He had...

Tuck and Sons.)—The best part of this book is the outside. The cover presents us with the likeness of an undoubtedly handsome young woman. But when we go on to make her...

—We have remarked more than once that the conflict of passion and duty, love contending with the obligations of law and honour, is a subject of which it is easy to have too...

Ferrier.)—This story is characteristically Scottish, but it appeals to larger interests than are to be found in some of the popular " Kailyard" literature. John Armiger is...

T. Clark.)—We welcome the appearance of the annual volume of this admirable periodical. It contains a record of the most important movements of the day in theology and...

Trench, and Co.)—This little volume is chiefly occupied with the Indian reminiscences of General Alexander. He was in action for the first time at Goojerat. His regiment was...

"The Sportsman's Library," edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. (E. Arnold). The plan is to republish, with such changes as the editor may think fit, specimens of the sporting...

Ferrier.)—This volume of the "Famous Scots Series" g ives us sketches of Christopher North, John Galt, D. M. Moir or "Delta," Miss Ferrier, Michael Scott, the author of" Tom...

By Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D. (Hodder and Stou g hton.)—The Bishop of Durham does g ood service by puttin g to g ether in this volume a number of revised renderin g s, with...

farce, which mi g ht be acted with effect. Woman's march to triumph can only be arrested, it is said, by a mouse crossin g her path. Yet, it would seem, she knows—such is the...

T HE New York election for Mayor ended on Tuesday as all experienced Americans expected,—that is, in the victory of the corrupt party. Mr. Low, who defied both the political...

SUPPLEMENT.

THE SUCCESS ON THE INDIAN FRONTIER. T T is never wise to be pessimistic about a British military enterprise ; the difficulties which look so formidable are so apt to melt away....

T AMMANY has won, and for four years Greater New York will be practically governed by the little knot of men under the guidance of Mr. Croker who, not holding office themselves,...

W E know nothing as to what the Government intend in the matter of proposals for strengthening the Army, but it is evident that their scheme, whatever it is, will have to be...

W E can hardly imagine a speech which, as an oratorical effort, should be better than the one which Lord Rosebery delivered on Monday in the Free Trade Hall of Manchester. It...

it/ER. CHAMBERLAIN chose for his Rectorial Address the greatest and most animating of themes, and his treatment of it did not fall below his subject. His speech was as full of...

T HE first shot fired in anger among the civilised States will be between America and Spain. That is our reasoned conviction, and so believing, we venture, at some risk of...

I T is a fact to be remembered by those who study social phenomena and their meaning that in a corrupt city like New York upwards of a hundred thousand workmen of many...

T HE Inaugural Address delivered by Dr. Goodhart at the opening session of the York Medical Society a fortnight ago, and reported in last week's Lancet, contains a very...

T HE chapter devoted to the puma in "The Royal Natural History," one of the most recent and best edited of popular works on zoology, presents the " lion " of the New World in a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sezcrkroa."] SIR,—Will you allow me to protest against the very commoi error from which your reviewer of Professor Dowden's "History of French...

article on "The Church Reform League" in the Spectator of October 30th seems to have overlooked the fact that the scheme of the League for "the better government of the Church...

[To THE EDITOR OF TI1E " SrECTATOR."1 Sue,—I ask for a small space to supplement Lord Aldenlia m's letter in the Spectator of October 30th, with v, ;lich, in the main, I quite...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I point out that your inference that in Barnsley "there has been no accession of strength to the Home-rulers" is entirely false,...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I read in the Spectator of October 30th that your correspondent from the Isle of Wight has failed to grow the American blackberry with...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] " There will come a witness soon Hard to be confuted."—Tennyson. SIR,—It would be difficult to accept Mr. Malleson's theory (Spectator,...

CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.* THOSE who expect a story from Mr. Kipling, and want chiefly in a work of fiction, narrative, plot, and incident, will un- questionably be disappointed by...

TO LALAGg DEPARTING. Dulce ridentenz Lalagen amabo Duke loquentenz. So, Lalage, you're really starting ; You've sprinkled with the tears of parting Your mother's breast. And...

OUR country was accused by Voltaire of having produced a hundred religions and only one way of cooking a potato, and there is some reason to believe that the charge still holds...

popular reading, and more than one great author has found his happiest effort in such a subject ; but none has related a more thrilling and extraordinary tale than that which...

THE Wilberforces have not been very successful editors of the family papers which they have been the means of intro- ducing to the reading world. It was so in the case of the...

THERE are good papers in the Nineteenth Century for November, but we cannot count Signor Crispi's essay on "The Dual and the Triple Alliance" among them. It is practically a...

Twelve Indian Statesmen. By George Smith, C.I.E. (John Murray.)—There is not one of these Lives to which ten times or twenty times the space which Dr. George Smith has been...

short stories, of whose genesis the author gives an interesting account, are hardly up to Mr. Stockton's high-water mark,—to that reached, say, in "Rudder Grange" and "The...

all extraordinary villains to be met with in or out of fiction Monsieur Diaz de Sorrente is the most extraordinary. So thorough a scoundrel, and withal so chivalrous, could...

and Co.)—This book reminds us not a little of Sir Arthur Helps. It is chiefly made up of dialogue on the serious topics of morals, religion, and life; dialogue which is always...

B. Malleson. (Chapman and Hall.)—Colonel Malleson gives a most attractive account of fishing in various regions of which he has had personal experience. His directions are...

and Co.)—Mr. Holmes begins by telling the story of "Iron and Steel," describing the various processes through which the manu- facture has advanced to its present remarkable...

these studies of life, as there must be in all such studies, if they are to be true to nature. But the tragedy is mingled with comedy, and so it should be. Mrs. Comyns Carr...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—We do not think that the memory of Mr Byron Caldwell Smith, whose letters written from Europe to his mother in America form the substance of this volume,...

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