ARCHBISHOP MAGEE.* THE most striking thing about this biography is the picture that it gives, more vivid than any other that we have, not excepting even Davidson and Benham's...

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her father which is now before us, Mrs. Fred Egerton has made every one who did not know the late Sir Geoffrey Hornby the richer by a real acqui- sition. The portraits given of...

MRs. OLIPHANT'S study has two sides of interest ; that of a romance of real existence and that of a psychological portrait by the author of The Beleaguered City and of The...

THE members of the New Zealand Alpine Club must really look to their laurels. More than a dozen years ago one of the British Alpine Club—the Rev. W. S. Green—scored over them by...

WE have here before us, in a neat, handy little book, the remarkable political address delivered by Mr. Cronwright- Schreiner in the Town Hall, Kimberley, on August 20th, 1895....

THE PALADINS OF KING EDWIN.* SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM has hit upon an excellent idea. Every one has heard of the fair-haired English boys who so touched the heart of Gregory the...

Black.)—This is a clever but rather disappointing story. Mr. Hope, who is a past master in the art of telling boys' stories, and who, from certain passages in this book, shows...

WE are inclined to prefer this volume to all Mr. Lang's many- coloured "Fairy Books" or "True Story-Books." Dogs and eats and elephants and monkeys, to speak only of the aris-...

A." (Hodder and Stoughton.) —We have hero a popular edition of a thoroughly healthy and well-intentioned, but almost painfully good and pathetic, story for children. It tells in...

This is a very cleverly written and even realistic story of school- life, which, as the author indeed expressly says, is intended quite as much for parents as for boys. The...

Chambers.)— This is one of the best stories Mr. Ker has ever produced, and one of the best volumes of the present gift-book season. It is full of incidents in the shape of...

of Atalanta, from October, 1895, to September, 1896, makes an admirable presentation volume. It is, further, a mis- cellany of "promiscuous" articles and fiction, all of which...

usual, a volume of abundant and excellent reading. There are serial tales, as "The Finding of the White Elephant," by Mr. David Ker ; Dr. Gordon Stables's, "Cruise of the Good...

say much about the annual volume of the well-known Girl's Own Paper. There is the usual imposing list of writers and artists, and the usual variety of reading suited to...

is a story that may be told again and again and never fail to gain readers. William Tyndale was a singularly blameless character. Apart from his great work as a translator,...

"pictures" are very cleverly drawn as regards the work both of pen and pencil. The pen, perhaps, is the more realistic, the pencil the more attractive, of the two elements which...

Ellerby is overpowered by grave doubts as to the truth of the theology which he is studying. The temptation is whether, in view of the great advantages which are within his...

a volume of Miscellanea (S.P.C.K.) "The fact," writes the editor, "that she did not republish the papers during her life shows that she did not estimate them very highly...

Weed Ward. (Dawbarn and Ward.)—Without depreciating the letterpress of this volume we may say that its characteristic merit is to be found in the admirable photo- graphs. All...

Introduction by Andrew Lang. (D. Nutt.)— These legends, which Mrs. Langloh has here collected, belong to one tribe, the Noongahburrahs, which, as we gather from the date of the...

Ander- son, and Ferrier.)—Effie Staunton wishes to go out as a nurse, though she has plenty to do at home, where she is the stay of a somewhat feeble mother. We cannot quite...

Thynne. (J. Hogg.)—Mr. Thynne has followed with praiseworthy care the story of Captain Flinders's "Explorations and Adven- tures." But he has not produced, we feel bound to say,...

.—An Indian doctor, and a lawyer who is his patient, go for a bit of hunting somewhere on the Afghan frontier. There they meet another Englishman, who is on a similar errand....

—This "tale of this Seminole War" reminds us of Fenimore Cooper. Coacoochee is not wholly unlike Uncas, though fate is kinder to him. The Seminoles were tho native inhabitants...

up to the usual mark of Mrs. Marshall's stories. Possibly the form in which it is put has something to do with this. "Only Susan" tells her own story. She is a sort of...

and Co.)— This is a story of the Jacobite times, the hero being mixed up with the rising of 1715. There is fighting on land and fighting on sea. Sir Hugh Driscoll, the hero's...

(A. Melrose.) —Reginald Wyke, falsely accused of the crime of forgery, takes refuge in an island of the Pacific, where he acquires a very con- siderable influence. It is the...

This is a book of verses after the fashion so well set by Mr. Lear and so seldom followed with success by his imitators. The draw- ings are, sometimes at least, good, but the...

attractive features in this volume is Mr. Frederick Lang. bridge's story, " Dania's Dreams." It is an Irish tale, and bubbles over, so to speak, with the freshest humour. It is...

Black.)— The school part of this tale is fairly good, the actions and the con- versations of the boy being not unlike what they may be supposed really to be. The adventures...

excellent and appropriate reading in the yearly volume of this magazine. "Appropriate," we say, because it seems to us to give as practically useful an answer as any publication...

is a tale of the Franco-German War, in which the not unfamiliar complications of true love triumphing over diffi- culties are once more introduced. The heroine is deceived by...

alias Uncle Abe, is the teller of Mr. Glanville's "yarns." "He called them facts," we read, "but of the truth of this the reader may judge." They are stories mainly about...

D.D. (S. W. Partridge.)—It would be as well in tales intended for young people not to introduce the vexed questions of Anglicanism and Nonconformity, and of the varieties of...

a story of school-life, which has not, we think, attained more than a moderate amount of success. These deep. laid plots and terrible misunderstandings, ending, or seeming to...

Downey.)—This is a highly interesting book, well written, but somewhat sparingly illustrated. Fifty-eight pages, more than a fourth part of the whole work, are given to Notre...

"Far West" Mr. Mundell does not mean exactly what we com- monly understand by the term,—i.e., the remoter Western States of America, though these regions too come in when he...

undertakes to deliver to the owner of a Brittany chdteau a certain document which it is important that he should have. (The time, we should say, is in the early part of this...

General Epistle of St. .Tames. Edited, with Notes and Introduc- tion, by the Rev. Arthur Carr. (Cambridge University Press.)— Mr. Carr, favourably known to Biblical scholars by...

an excellent story. The main subject is the reformation of a young man whom heredity and bad example and the bad opinion of his neighbours seem to doom to ruin. Miss Chilcote...

"Examination of the Teaching of our Article 31" is intended to show that the doctrine aimed at in the Article is the doctrine of the Roman Mass. Efforts have been, and are...

Fletcher. (B. T. Batsford.)—The authors add to their title the words, "On the Comparative Method." They take into account, that is, the influences, physical, mental, or moral,...

dying man who gives some half-understood directions as to an unknown will is a familiar figure in fiction. To speak candidly it is just a little hackneyed, and Miss Armstrong...

Sons, New York.)—Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of the Elector Palatine, became in 1071 the second wife of Monsieur, younger brother of Louis XIV. Her eldest child died at the...

Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Putnam gives us in this volume a second edition, revised and enlarged, of his work, published originally, as he tells us in his preface, in some haste,...

Macpherson gives us a very vigorous and brightly written account of Carlyle's "Latter-Day Sage." The story of his outward life is given with a dis- criminating appreciation, and...

volume, of course, is readable, but it does not contain so many good stories as we expected ; perhaps it is that the stories are not of a kind which it is easy to appropriate....

Trench, and Co.)— Miss Hawtrey gives a decided opinion against co-education, and sustains it by argument and by the results of observation. It is a subject of profound...

may be briefly commended to our readers. Whittier lends himself to selection, for he wrote much that was addressed to temporary wants, and that, the occasion past, is of but...

Marston, and Co.)—General Greely has taken, it is evident, a vast amount of trouble in "boiling down" the literature of Arctic travel,—" fifty thousand" pages, he says himself,...

burgh° Pre. ss.)—These stories, seven in number, are good specimens of their kind, readable, clever, varied, and wholesome. The most sombre in character naturally comes from the...

together. All of them have a commendation in the names under which they appear :—Prayers and Promises. By H. C. G. Moule, D.D. (Seeley and Co.) — God's Garden : Sunday Talks...

Marston, and Co.)—In one of the four stories included in this volume Mr. Blackmore goes back to the familiar subject of the Doones, and this is, perhaps, the beat of the four. "...

What will happen to a King who becomes a convinced Republican or, we might say, Socialist ? That is the interesting question which the author of this very clever novel puts and...

O'Grady has in this historical romance presented a most admirable and vivid picture of Elizabethan Ireland. It is difficult for the most skilful writer to give a clear idea of...

and Windus.)—It would not be difficult to expurgate this volume. The idea probably seems a profanity to the translator. Anyhow it has not been done ; in default, we would...

Modern Opera - Houses and Theatres, by Edwin 0. Sachs and Ernest A. E. Woodrow, Vol. I. (B. T. Batsford). The work is to be completed in three volumes, which will contain...

is little to be said about this tale, except that it fairly answers to its title. But the author scarcely observes Horace's precept, "quells ab incepto processerit." The Marion...

(Chat() and Windus.)-Mr. Haweis in his study, Mr. Haweis accoutred for the pulpit, furnish the frontispieces of these two volumes, and at the same time the subject-matter of a...

Great Queen Street „ W.0 d Published by JOHN JAMES BAKER, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the P reciact of tho Savoy. Strand, In the County of a Middleeex, at the" Br ee ncrarol"...

party had not as an organised party accepted Mr. Bryan, his special ideas would not have secured him more than two millions of voters. It was the party, not the platform, which...

succeed Sir Frederick Leighton and Sir John Millais as President of the Royal Academy. Mr. Poynter is an accomplished man and has painted many pictures which have greatly...

will go to the poll on Tuesday, were Captain Greville (Unionist), Mr. Billson (Gladstonian), and Mr. Keir Hardie (Labour party). At the last eleetion there was no Labour...

credit him with personal honesty, serene temper, and, when roused, considerable force of will. He listens to advice, but does not take it readily. He is, moreover, credited with...

be the new Bishop of London. So far as the London bishopric goes, it is an excellent appointment. Dr. Creighton is only fifty-one, a man of considerable power and humour, and...

T HE Presidential election in the United States has ended in a victory for the Republican candidate, Mr. William McKinley, and therefore for a gold standard and the interests of...

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of France, was married on Thursday at Vienna to the Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria. The marriage has no political importance, and is only interesting because it shows how...

speech was intended to convey to Europe, with all the delicacy possible, the idea that while Russia and France considered the integrity of Turkey essential, they did not regard...

to per- ceive wherein the use of treaties consists. Every Sovereign is prepared to break them if he conceives such a breach to be in the interest of his country or his dynasty....

betraying State secrets he is making himself amenable to the law, but he declares that the secrets he reveals are matters of history, and reveals one more, this time through the...

on Tuesday in the French Chamber on Armenian affairs, which drew from M. Hanotaux a long and carefully guarded statement as to the policy of France. France, said the Foreign...

shows that in the opinion of the Viceroy distress for food is imminent over very large districts in the North- West, Bombay, and Madras, and in no less than twelve native...

declaring almost openly that the true use of colonies is to furnish appointments for deserving persons and concessions for friendly capitalists. One reason for the removal of...

and the Cambridge University Liberal Club at Cambridge on Thursday, and said the usual things which the chiefs of the Liberal party are accustomed to say on these occasions, but...

his constituents at Stirling, in which he pointed out that an Opposition does not need a recog- nised leader of the whole party, but only a recognised leader of the Opposition...

their elders oppress and torment. At the annual congress of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, held on Thursday at the Colston Hall, Bristol, it was...

Schools held yesterday week at the National Society's rooms, with the Archbishop designate of Canterbury in the chair, it was agreed to ask for a Government grant of 6s. a head...

resignation of Lord Rosebery, and encouraging them not to be "afraid with any amazement ; " but they evidently do not care to conceal their low spirits. Mr. S. Whitbread at...

culture, spoke at Wantage on Wednesday on what the Government had done for agriculture. He pointed out that they had done something to render the carriage of agricultural...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 109i.

THE AMERICAN ELECTION. W E underrated the strength of the conservative forces in the Union. We never doubted that Mr. McKinley would prevail in the electoral contest, but we...

T HE long speech on Armenia which M. Ha.notaux read to the French Chamber on Tuesday is very depressing to all who care either for humanity or for the future of Eastern Europe;...

over the Gladstonian party. No doubt, as we have formerly maintained, this is in great part due to Mr. Gladstone having forced the pace too much by insisting on applying the...

I T must be terrible work sometimes to be responsible for an Empire , the pleasant events, which are not unfrequent, do the Government so little 'good, while the calamities tax...

T HE National Review, in an article signed "Layman," makes an indignant attack on the Government for its neglect of the Church during the last Session. Churches, whether...

death of Arch- bishop Benson have been made with praiseworthy speed. The accumulation of business in the dioceses in which the vacancies have occurred will go on, we suppose,...

T HIS is by no means a document to be lightly put aside. We may agree with or differ from the con- clusions of the majority of the Commissioners, but at least we must recognise...

T HERE is a saying amongst us that a certain class of persons 'swill believe anything except the Bible," and nothing astonishes us more than the ease with which people far too...

T HE series of papers which the Times recently began to publish upon the characteristics that distinguish the North and South of England, is so interesting as well as amusing...

A WRITER in the Reading Mercury, describing the games played by lambs, says,—" From one point of view animal life is very serious, and if they are to survive in the struggle...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sre,—The race of vergers, sextons, and like officials has ever loved words which, though not necessarily sesquipedalian, come under the...

in her authoritative "Hand- book" to Browning's works, gives duly the Aristotle reference, and comments on its expansion in "Halbert and Hob." This work, overlooked by your...

BROWNING AND ARISTOTLE ['re TIE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.") S1R,—The recurrence in Browning's poem of a story originat- ing in Aristotle has its exact parallel in American...

MR. JOHN DAVIDSON'S NEW BALLADS.* WE are not sure that the new habit of publishing a poet's work in minute driblets, though it may be pleasant for the world of readers, does not...

MADRIGAL. THE SOWER. 'NEATn leaden skies, o'er sodden gras3 I saw a Sower pass. 4 ' What seed," said I, "go you to sow 'While rain falls fast, while chill winds blow ? "...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —A correspondent in the Spectator of October 31st states that platelayers tell him birds are frequently killed by railway - engines. I...

"SPECTATOR."] referred to " Valerius" (Spectator, October 24th) because it is more remembered than "Adam Blair," though neither can be said to have lived ; and I believe, with...

Jr will surprise most people to read that Mr. Shorter was assisted in the preparation of this book by Charlotte Bronte's husband, Mr. Nicholls, who is still living. One cannot...

THE hero and chronicler of this curious book might certainly have parodied for his motto the saying of the Irishman on his arrival in America, If there is any Government I am...

on The Old Testament and Modern Life, besides possessing much literary attraction of their own, illustrate in a very interesting manner the possession by the same mind of two...

THE serious magazines for November are scarcely so interest- ing as usual. There is no paper among them all of the first class, and none that is specially attractive. The...

Boswell's Life of Johnson. Edited by Augustine Birrell. Vols. I. and II. (Constable and Co.)—Both iu his introduction and in his notes Mr. Birrell has followed, only too...

of the stories that encourage us not to despair of modern fiction, a well-written, thoughtful, wholesome tale. Miss Sergeant's idea is that all souls that have any work in the...

Plates I.-XX. (Egypt Exploration Fund )—The decora- tions of the Temple are of the time of the Thot hoses and Queen llatshepsu. Some have been defaced and restored, and to...

Pocket-books, and the like, known as Letts's Diaries, 4c. (Cassell and Co.) One of the most convenient is Letts's Office Diary and Almanac, with the usual apparatus of...