Text-Book of Forensic Medicine and Tozicology. By Arthur P. Luff, M.D. 2 vols. I ,Longmans and Co )-These volumes arej _ , _ - s . . . .. A . I of course intended for...

A Companion to Plato's Republic. By Bernard Bosanquet. I (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-This volume is intended for the use of English readers, and the method of its...

I Hazell's Annualfor 1896. Edited by W. Palmer, B3.A. (Ilawall, Watson, and Viney.)-This "Cycloptedic Record of Men and Topics of the Day," now in its eleventh year of issue,...

We have received the tenth volume of the New iariorum I Shakespeare, edited by Horace Howard Furness (Lippincott, l Philadelphia). It contains the Midsummer Night's Dream....

Health and Condition in the Active and the Sedentarv. Bv N. E. Yorke-Davies. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)-Dr. Yorko- Davies recognises, and founds his treatise upon, the...

Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Iistitute. Edited by the ISecretary. Vol. XXVI. (Royal Colonial Instituto, Northutu- berland Avenue.)-The first piper in the volume is one...

I Lady Lotan. By Agnes Farrell. (Huitchinson.)-There is con- siderable power and grasp of her subject shown by Agnes Farrell in Lady Lovan. The corruption of society is not a...

| The Repose of Faith. By the Rev. A. J. Harrison. (Longmans and Co.)-We must be content with a general recommendation of this book, a reprint of lectures which the author has...

A Directory of Science, A:t, and Technical Schools, by Ray S. I .- , .__ .. . I Fincham (Chapman and Hall), gives a careful account of the present condition of the side of...

I Clarence. By Bret Harte. (Chatto and Windus.)-This is a spirited story of the American Civil War, introducing some fine studies of battles and battlefields, of Courts-if the...

Literary Types. By E. Beresford Chancellor. (Swan Sonnen- I schein and Co.)-By "Literary Types" Mr. Chancellor means typical writers. He deals with six,-De Quincey, Lamb,...

Syriac Literature. By the late William Wright, LL.D. (A. and C. Black.)-This volume contains a reprint of the article contributed by Professor Wright to the " Encyclopaedia...

Among the Gods. By Augusta Klein. (Blackwood and Sons.) -Miss Klein relates in pleasant and intelligent fashion the experiences of Indian travel which she and her sisters not...

The Berlin correspondent of the Times declares (Tuesday, February 4th) that the German Emperor's telegram to President Kruger is but the formal expression of a policy which has...

Mr. Balfour has the great art of speaking attractively, even I on the dullest subjects. In the speech which he delivered at Bristol on Monday, after observing that he had no...

In another speech of Mr. Morley's, the speech at Montrose on Tuesday, be gave his sanction to the view that the two English parties are divided by those lines which divide the...

I The week has been marked by two stately funerals. On Monday Lord Leighton's body was carried from Bur. lington House to St. Paul's, in a procession made up of representatives...

Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has made up his mind at last. His wife has quitted him for a time at least, rather than endure what she justly thinks a gross breach of faith...

On the Armenian question Mr. Balfour frankly con- I fessed that the Government had failed grievously in keeping the promise to protect the Armenians from their cruel...

ART. THE OLD MASTERS.-Il. OLD MASTERS AND NEw. IT would be ingratitude to that most praiseworthy of Academical institutions, the annual exhibition of Old Masters, to complain...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. L ORD SALISBURY was entertained, on Friday week, by J the Nonconformist Unionist Association, and delivered a most important speech, chiefly upon two...

Upon Armenia Lord Salisbury was distressingly weak and pessimist. He, in fact, gave up the whole case. He declared that the Treaty of Berlin only bound its signatories to each...

I Mr. Cecil Rhodes arrived in London on Wednesday, and was, according to a report in the Tines, received by a deputation of Trade-Unione, and made them a speech in reply. The...

As regards America Lord Salisbury declared that he bad "supported the Monroe doctrine in the strongest and most distinct terms," and that if the Monroe doctrine means President...

I At a meeting of the Anti-Parnellite Parliamentary party, summoned for to-day in Dublin, Mr. McCarthy will resign his office, and decline to be re-elected. He gives as his...

| Mr. Morley has delivered this week several speeches in the Montrose Boroughs, wbich seem to us captious ana even fretful. On Monday, at Arbroatb, he cavilled at Lord...

MR. BALFOUR AND EDUCATION. M R. BALFOUR'S handling of the Education question M in his speech at Bristol, was important in two ways. In the first place, he announced that "...

MR. MORLEY AS POLITICAL CRITIC. THE critic lies deep in Mr. Morley. His series of T speeches to the Montrose Boroughs do not represent him in a very practical light. He takes...

A Canadian statesman touched all hearts by his reference to the "splendid isolation " of England. The following verses by a Canadian poet, Mr. Clive Phillips-Wolley, lately...

On Friday, January 31st, the Duke of Devonshire, speaking at the distribution of prizes to scholars of the County Council Technical Education Board, described the ladder of...

The -"1 nion of Hearts" is one of those fictions which I require to be repainted every season. If not, the "compo " below is sure to show through. It shows through in a most...

Mr. Davitt is entirely in error when he denies, as he does in his letter, that the bulk of the population of the States is, Anglo-Saxon. The figures of the last census are as...

Mr. Clements Markham, the President of the Royal I Geographical Society, publishes in the Times of Monday the result of his investigations into the boundaries of British...

THE FREN'CH ARMY. XV E have always held that a war with England would W 8 Dnut lbe really popular in France becatuse it would be a mnaritimne war,-that is, one in which the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Edinburgh Reiew. January. (Longmans and Co.)-The place I of honour in this number is accorded to an article of jubilation on the progress which the Empire...

I Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul. By the late J. B. Lightfoot, I Bishop of Durham. (Macumillan and Co.)-This volume, taken from hitherto unpublished commentaries,...

Christianity and Agnosticism. By Henry Wace, D.D. (Black- wood and Sons.)-Dr. Wace reprints in this volume sundry contributions which he has made to Christian apologetics....

We have received the third edition of the Principles of Economics, Vol. I., by Alfred Marshall (Macmillan and Co.)- It is not necessary to do more than indicate the changes...

Casa Braccio. By F. Marion Crawford. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co.)-We might be reading a Greek tragedy, but of the type of that which was worked out in the house of Pelops...

I Political Institutions of the Andcent Greeks. By B. HIammond (Cambridge University Press.)-There is not, and indeed could not be, much that is new in Mr. Hammond's volume....

THE VALUE OF MYSTERY. W E said something last week on the unscientific dislike NV' of scientific men to dwell on that idea of the mystery in which all science originates, and...

WREN-BAITING IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SiR,-Wren-baiting (for it deserves no other name) still goes on in Ireland on St. Stephen's Day, the day after...

'THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER AND MR. DOLLING. [TO THM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] -IR,-As the unpleasant question of the Bishop of Winchester's conduct to Mr. Dolling still...

POETRY. MORE HAWARDEN HORACE. TO THIE SHIP OF STATE.-(Od. I. 14.) 0 NAVis, referent in mare te novi Fluctus! 0 quid agis ? Fortiter occupa Portum! Nonne vides, ut Nudum...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE ARMENIAN QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR O1 TH " SPZCTATOR."] SIB,-I observe with satisfaction your strictures on the miserable baseness of alleging moral...

THE MAGAZINES. I THE Nineteenth Century for February is full of nutritive papers. The first one, for example, by Mr. J. Bolton, F.R.G.S., shows, as the result of careful...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE COMING SESSION. THE Session which commences on Tuesday can hardly T realise the anticipations of the autumn. The unexpected has happened, as it so often...

BISMARCK'S TABLE-TALK.* I PRINCE BISMARCK'S familiar sayings are among the best in the world, because they have to perfection the three qualities essential to good...

BO OK S. CARDINAL MANNING.* I . .. . .. . . WE have never been among the enthusiastic admirers of the late Cardinal Manning. But we think that no one who followed his career...

THE BIOGRAPHIES OF SMALL MEN. WE entirely agree, from one point of view, with Mr. W Sidney Lee, who on Friday week delivered a lecture on biography at the Royal Institution,...

ENGLAND'S DARLING.* IN one thing at least the new Poet-Laureate resembles his great predecessor. His songs are the best things in his dramas, and the dramas themselves are not...

THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA. W E confess ourselves unable to understand the line W the Times is taking about South African affairs, which to our thinking is unduly favourable to...

LORD SALISBURY AND ARMENIA. THE powerful speech which Lord Salisbury, on Friday T week, addressed to the Nonconformist Unionist Association, was full of brilliant passages and...

MR. JUSTIN McCARTHTY'S RESIGNATION. T O-DAY Mr. Justin McCarthy resigns the post which 1 he has so long held,-against the grain, as we 'believe, both of his taste and of his...

b I THE CONDITIONS OF ANIMAL DOMESTICATION. /R.SHALER, Dean of the Laurence Scientific School Al1 at Harvard University, has recently published a series of papers on...

CORRESPONDENCE. FATHER HEALY. [To RA EDITOR OF TER " SPZCT.TORL"] SiR,-Father Healy seems to have been nearly as well known in London as on this side of the water, and his...

IRONCLADS IN ACTION.* IT would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and importance of these voinmes. We do not profess to be naval experts, and *IoncoLds l Afction : a...

Le Tour du Mtonde: Journal des Voyages et des Voyageurs. I (Hachette and Co.)-This is the first volume of a new series, and, as the periodical was founded in 1860, marks the...

EARLY VICTORIAN ESSAYS.* A FRIEND once said of Thoreau, " I love Henry, but I cannot like him." Probably respect was nearer than love to the speaker's meaning; at least, the...