DRYDEN'S POEMS.* THOUGH it is impossible that Dryden should be to us all that he was to his own generation, or that any one should now subscribe to his latest disciple...

LONDON : NOVEMBER 7, 1891.

THE third volume of the Oak's reminiscences commences with the Reformation under Henry VIII., and it strikes a mourn- ful note quite in sympathy with what must have been the...

THE very term "the right hand" is in itself but an arbitrary expression, for it has not been proved that the right hand, per se, is the better of the two, though it has since...

There are many anthologies of German verse, but they usually include the vast quantities of lyrical poetry with which the literature of that nation abounds, and are of necessity...

a completed system, was not the outcome of a single originative mind, but of three. The sect or school of the " Porch " was founded by Zeno of Citium, and its leadership passed...

THIS trio of novels is a curious illustration of the fact that freshness and liveliness in interest and character in novels do not depend on going far afield, or to the violent...

Tim is undoubtedly a masterpiece in its way. The story reminds us, by way of contrast, it is true, rather than of resemblance, of a book which readers learned in this class of...

given to his book the second title of "Romance and Adventure on the Plains," but his " romance " is not fiction, but simple truth, often equalling, indeed, the inventions of the...

—This is " a story of the Orkney Islands," Pomona being another name for " Mainland," the largest of the group. It is supposed to be told by one of the actors in the little...

Africa still possesses a charm for writers, and, we may add, readers too. It is the sportsman's paradise, this ; while the fact of a great area over which an intrepid man may...

and Co.)—No one who has read " Rudder Grange" but will be glad to hear of its inmates again. Three of the stories in this volume tell of their doings. In the first, husband and...

GIFT-BOOKS. Oignipos. By Talfourd Ely, M.A. (H. Grovel and Co.)—Mr. Talfourd Ely gives as a second title to his book, " Tales of the Gods of Greece and Rome." This scarcely...

James D. Cooper. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume contains twenty-four illustrations of various passages from Shelley, " a suitable accompaniment," the designer hopes, " to his...

Society.)—The founder of the Monthyon "Prizes for Virtue" was a French nobleman, the Baron de Monthyon, who, after serving under Louis XV. and XVI., emigrated at the time of the...

we have : — Uncle Tom's Cabin. By H. Beecher-Stowe. (John Hogg.)—Dr. A. H. Japp has prefixed a memoir, and the original illustrations, one hundred in number, by the late George...

Tregellas is supposed to write in the first person " a memoir of his adventures in the West Indies in the year of grace 1781." Here, again, the motive is one that writers, and,...

Own Gazette. Edited by Mrs. Stephen Menzies. (S. W. Partridge and Co.) —This periodical is the organ of the Young Women's Christian Association. It contains fiction in...

(Cassell and Co.)—The editor, who has already brought out poetry- books for boys and for girls, now tries his hand (or is it her ?) on a more comprehensive selection. This he...

—Mr. Adams tells again various stories which will be more or less familiar to readers of history. He classes bis heroines in groups,—" Woman as Patriot," " Woman as the...

(Nisbet.)—The first and longest of the three stories which com- pose this volume shows Mr. Ballantyne at his best. Robert Massey, the coxswain of the Greyton lifeboat, who is...

good story of an old-fashioned kind. A bad man tries to get rid of the heir to a property, and, to accomplish this end, utilises various people, including a good man who is a...

Trench, and Co.) — Mother Mary Xaveria Fallon, whose story is told in this volume, held high office among the Nuns of Loretto, an Order which devotes itself to education. The...

chief object of the author of this book in writing it appears to have been to show that pioneer work in American civilisation was undertaken under the inspiration of Whittier,...

inten- tion of this curiously antique piece of writing and story-telling is no doubt good, being to encourage right-doing and moral courage, and to discourage the reverse. There...

(Blackie.)—Two of these stories by the eminently popular Scotch author, Miss Annie Swan—" A Year at Coverley " and " Holidays at Sunnycroft "—are not in her usual style, and...

is one of the stories which M. Jules Verne con- structs at once so simply and so ingeniously, and which he tells with such unfailing spirit. CC:sar Cascabel is a French showman...

Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. III. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This volume concludes the story of Talleyrand's connection with the First Restoration of 1814 and the Second...

of piquancy and pathos in this rather badly compacted but original and not unattractive story. The most likeable and improbable portion of it is the first, in whioh Elinor...

(Burns and Oates.)—This is a very handsome volume, full of in- teresting matter, and admirably illustrated. We cannot say that Mr. Stewart Rose is a critical historian. He would...

burgh.)—This little volume, intended as a companion to the author's " Shakespeare's England," is very pleasant reading; to an Englishman it is positively flattering. Mr. Winter...

—Rockingham Castle was built by the Conqueror, and it con- tinued to be a place of occasional residence for the English Kings for many years. William Rufus held here a council...

(Hutchin- son and Co.)—A heroine who three times just fails to bring her engagement to a successful conclusion, is a difficult subject to manage in a novel, as she would...

and Co.)—The plot of this story is not quite so unpleasant as its forbidding and pitiably grotesque title would indicate, but it is not one to be chosen by a writer of sense or...

Philadelphia, U.S.A. ; Brentano's, London.)—Mr. Reading de- scribes himself on his title-page as late " Secretary and Treasurer " to a West African mission, and Commercial Agent...

Moore. 2 vols. (United States Book Company, Stevens and Sons, Boston.) —This is an exhaustive treatise on an im- portant and difficult subject. In his first volume, Mr. Moore...

of Bombay. (Burns and Oates.)-The editors of this volume are right in saying that letters may be " a more satisfactory record than a biography." Still, a few lines telling in...

Unwin.)-Lieutenant Bigelow has put together in this volume a number of observations and conclusions which will be greatly useful to students of military science. Tactics,...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the `• firsrvaroz" Oates, No. 1 Wellington Street,...

B RAZIL has gone through another revolution. The Con- gress elected after the expulsion of the Emperor Pedro legalised the acts of the Provisional Government, and appointed...

ease.

whole, against the Republican Executive. Mr. McKinley, the author of the new tariff, has, it is true, been elected G-overnor of Ohio by a majority of 20,000, and he has been...

political grounds. He has indulged since Mr. Parnell's death in abuse of Mrs. Parnell which that lady, however deeply erring in her relation to the Irish leader, has not...

this week of the Boulogne negotiations, and while there is the most positively contradictory testimony from the two as to the temporary or final character of Mr. ParnelPs...

polling- day draws near. The mobs now turn out regularly armed with blackthorns, the wounded men on each aide perceptibly increase the numbers in hospital, and but for the...

WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1891. rILMOISTBRILD AS • PRIME M. I NEWSPAPER. .Br Poir, 61d.

Hirschfeld and Wolff, a Jewish firm of bankers and Army agents. The amount of their deficit, £250,000, is not very great ; but assets are always over-calculated in failures, and...

statement on Tuesday, and Mr. Redmond's reply on Wednesday, consisted in Mr. O'Brien's ignoring, and since denying, and Mr. Redmond's asserting, that Mr. O'Brien had offered Mr....

On Saturday last, Mons. E. Roche asked the Minister of Justice to release M. Lafargue, who is candidate for Lille, but is under sentence of twelve months' imprisonment for...

considered a great honour, has been given to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Besides his previous services as Commissioner in Syria, in Egypt, and as Viceroy of India, he has...

continues to fire at the Chancellor of the Exchequer through " my dear Fuller") has gone on during the week, without being brought to any definite issue, except as to the...

best of Lord Salisbury's ecclesiastical appointments, though all of them give us the impression of having been very carefully and conscientiously considered, in this respect...

Commission of Inquiry into the conditions of labour, made a long speech upon them at Wolverhampton on Friday week. He was not cynical at all, and less inclined to commit himself...

bust of Matthew Arnold, of which Mr. Bruce Joy is the sculptor. It is placed in the Baptistery, and is near the statue of Wordsworth and the busts of Keble, Kingsley, and...

singular place of residence, if there be any possibility of residents at all resembling human beings. In the first place, though it is bigger than our own moon, the substance of...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 941.

Horace and Arnold,—an affinity which the present writer finds it hard to recognise,—but he dwelt truly enough on the singular combination of great qualities in Matthew Arnold's...

contained in the admirable speech at Oldham on Thursday. In that speech Mr. Goschen reminded his naulienc.e of the judgment of the civilised world to which Mr. Gladstone had...

the -strength of our Navy and the efficiency of our Army, on the simple ground that though it costs something immediately, it saves largely in the end,—saves not only money, but...

Times on meteorology, denies that the rainfall of the year has been at all exceptional, February having been so unusually dry as to correct the averages. Nor has October been...

THE NOBLER LIBER A T,TSM. A N anonymous pamphlet has been sent us, written by a member of the Reform Club, and printed by Mayo, Dean Street, Fetter Lane, though without any...

the French Chamber on Saturday may easily prove to be of grave European importance. The true source of the great recent improve- went in the position of France, of which her...

attacks on the Anti- Parnellites, and the Anti-Parnellites' replies, and the Parnellites' rejoinder, and observing all the charac- teristically violent incidents of the contest,...

W E note in all the political speeches of the Recess, and most of the political journals of the day, one fact which may greatly affect the future of English politics, There is...

T HEpeople with settled incomes rarely complain, and therefore are never pitied ; but they have been hit very heavily in recent years. They are not ruined, and a, section among...

by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to inquire into the refusal of a part of a lifeboat's crew at Sennen Cove, in Cornwall, to man the boat for the assistance of a vessel...

W E should hardly have thought Lord Coleridge's com- parison between Matthew Arnold and Horace, in the interesting speech which he delivered on Saturday last, when the new bust...

M R. EDWARD WAKEFIELD'S paper in the Contem- porary Review for November, headed "The Brand of Cain," will, we imagine, surprise a majority of its readers. The charge it brings...

W E have beard a good deal of argument of late as to the best means of providing some form of amusement for the populace of a big town which will serve as a counter- attraction...

WANTED—A NEW MEAT. [To THIE EDITOR Or rag "SpzcrAToR."1 Sxn,—My attention has been drawn to a recent article in the Spectator, headed " Wanted—A New Me it," in which reference...

THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — John Wesley once tried the effect of music upon animals, and records the result of his experiment in his " Journals, " under date Monday, December...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The tom-tits (both larger and smaller) are by no means unfamiliar in London, but take kindly to any fairly quiet garden where they...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Hans Cant, grandfather of Kant, the philosopher, left Scotland in or before 1678, and was living, as a strap-maker, at Memel, in East...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—When Shakespeare says that the end of playing is " to show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure, ' does he not seem...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 your notice of Messrs. Macmillan ' s " Catalogue, ' you express surprise that Charles Kingsley ' s novels should have been reprinted more...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—While entirely agreeing in your very able and interesting criticism on Ruskin as a poet, I venture to think that you have been rather hard on him in...

VAUVENARG1YES.* A TOUCHING figure in the eighteenth century is that of the young soldier and philosopher, Luc de Vauvenargues. Neither himself nor his work has ever made much...

OFT raled by woman, though themselves are kings, Grandly heroic, vain in smaller things. They do great deeds—and great rewards they claim; They live for money, if they die for...

A REMINISCENCE OF BEN LOMOND. FROM Rowardennan up the Ben We climbed with flying pennon, And then we started down again, But not for Rowardennan,- 'Through sun and shade to...

I WROTE for men of mind,—not merely those Whose ears want soothing with the sweets of rhyme Or well-turned phrases. For my verse, they say, Runs roughly, as torrents do, that...

MR. PINERO treats his clever comedy as a mere comedy, one which only raises " the old, often-asked question,—' Can the depths be sounded of ignorance, of vulgarity of mind, of...

it is called, aims at organising the great masses of unskilled labourers, and so placing them in a position to make better terms with their employers, and improve the condition...

first part of a pro- jected work, has quite enough interest and completeness to make it worth reading for itself. It is a minute account of the situation in Europe which led to...

THE Nineteenth Century has a great variety of articles, most of which are sufficiently attractive to be read, though none of them are of unusual interest. Mr. H. B. Wheatley...

Bogatsky's Golden Treasury. Edited by Charles P. Phinn, B.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is an interesting edition of a book of devo- tion which was at one time a great favourite, and...

in Comte d'Haussonville, de l'Academie Francaise. (Hachette et Cie., Paris.)It is difficult to understand the title of the authoress of the " Princesse . de Cleves " to be...

Marshall, and Co.)—This is a handsome and well-illustrated volume, which persons fortunate—or it may be gunfortunate—enough to have house-building on their hands may study with...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a translation into English of a work which was reviewed in the Spectator a short time ago (June 13th of the present year). It is sufficient to say...

Trench, and Co.)—These letters were written for the most part by the editor's father, afterwards second Duke of Sutherland, to his (the Duke's) mother, a well-known lady,...

et Cie., Paris.)—This is another of those modern French quarto volumes which seem to have been published in anticipation of the advent of a race of giants, disposing of pockets...

and Co.) It contains instruction, adapted for the use of private students, in physical science of various kinds, mathe- matics, English literature, &c., French, German and...