Landmarks of Homeric Study. By the Right Hon. W. E. Glad- I stone. (Macmillan and Co.)-However Mr. Gladstone may have changed in some respects, he maintains his position of...

Santa Claus on a Lark. By Washington Gladden. (Unwin.)-I This is a very good specimen of the American gift-book, full of fun and good-will, although both the fun and the...

Unlucky. By Caroline Austin. (Blackie.)-This is a carefully I planned, well-intentioned, and well-written story; but it seems essentially too doleful to make a good gift-book....

Charlie to the Rescue. By R. M. Ballantyne. (Nisbet.)-In this I book Mr. Ballantyne gives his boy-readers, in Charlie Brooke, one of his favourite impersonations of physical...

A Rash Promise. By Cecilia Selby Low-ndes. (Blackie.)-Mrs. I Lowndes teaches here, and at almost too great length, the superiority of truth to falsehood. Two lads in their...

Mademoiselle. By F. M. Peard. (Walter Smith and Innes.)- This is one of the pleasantest studies of family life that even this agreeable writer has published. The scene is laid...

The Story of Early Man. By N. D'Anvers. (Philip.)-This is a capital book to put into the hands of a boy with a scientific turn. It is an easy-flowing and simple, yet judicious...

The Secret of the Old House. By Evelyn Everett Green. I (Blackie.)-Mrs. Green has acquired a high reputation as a writer of children's books of the more refined sort, and this...

I The Parish Church of St. Mary, Whaplode. By W. E. Foster. (Elliot Stock).-Whaplode is one of the famous Fen Churches, an old dependency of Croyland Abbey, which was...

TORYISM. | TO IHE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,-The discussion you have raised in your columns on Toryism is interesting. "There is something in Toryism which appeals to the...

LITERARY PROPERTY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THIE "SPECTATOR.", SIR,-Though I fully recognise the desire for justice shown by your article in the Spectato)r for October 18tb, on the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MIR. GLADSTONE AND CHURCH DEFENCE SOCIETIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR."j SIR,-Are you quite fair in quoting Mr. Gladstone as baving spoken of "...

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? rTO THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR.' SIR,-In the Spectator of October 25th, you speak of the " supineness" of the Liberal Unionists, and that the...

THE TRIFLES ON WHICH ELECTIONS TURN. rTo THrE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SiR,-In your article upon " The Catastrophe at Eccles," you say that " it is a relatively minute...

LORD HARTINGTON AND MR. GLADSTONE. THERE was no doubt a dash of irony in Mr. GladT stone's very elaborate effort to cover his action in relation to the Disestablishment of the...

I Hussein the Hostage. By G. Norway. (Blackic.)-fir. Norway's power obviously lies in description rather than narrative; and although this little volume bears the alternative...

Maggie in Mythica. By F. B. Doveton. (Swan Sonnenschein I and Co.)-" I have kept out of the beaten track as much as possible," says the writer, "but a certain family...

Hal Hungerford. By J. R. Hutchinson. (Blaekie.)-Mr. Hutchinson has acquired a high reputation as one of the best of the younger school of writers for boys, and Hal Hun gcr...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOOKS. Dr. John Brown and his Sister Isabella. Outlines by E. T. I MacLaren. Fourth edition, with Portraits. (David Douglas, I Edinburgh.)-This is...

I Noah's Ark. By Darley Dale. (Warne.)-This writer's style is now well known, and evidently well liked; and the new 'I Tale of the Norfolk Broads " is a good specimen of it....

Nut-Brown Roger and I. By J. H. Yoxall. (lilacktie.)-This is a very good story, although of a kind which it has not been the fashion to offer to boys since "heroes of hemp,"...

AN INDICTMENT OF PUBLISHERS.* THE title that we have given to our notice of this book is not inappropriate. Mr. Sprigge comes very near to saying of publishers what the...

THE MAGAZINES. THE heavier magazines are not specially interesting this month, though they contain some readable papers. In the Fortnight7y, Mr. F. Greenwood talks of "...

CORRESPONDENCE. A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: THE BOND OF LOVE BETWEEN AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN-ECCENTRIC MODES OF SHOWING IT-THE BAIL-MONEY THE Americans are very fond of...

MR. GLADSTONE ON GIVING. MR. GLADSTONE, in the interesting paper which opens ?d the November number of the Nineteenth Century with a criticism on Mr. Andrew Carnegie's " Gospel...

POETRY. TO AUTUMN. BY AN IESTHETE. -The musical rights reserved.] I PRAY yOU prate no more of your Spring, With her crashes of colour and song, And her odours keen as the...

BO OK S. THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.* THIS is such a book as the world has not often seen. No doubt the most impressive portions of it are not new, for Mr. Lockhart...

THE DECAY OF INTERNATIONAL ALTRUISM. I THE belief in altruism as a working creed destined to T supersede Christianity increases, it is said, in all countries; but there is...

A telegram in the Times published on Thursday, announces I I that the Sydney " Strike Executive " have advised the men to return to work unconditionally, and that the miners of...

The new German Chancellor has left Berlin on a visit to the Italian Premier at Milan, and King Hlumbert at Monza. The visit is, of course, officially intended only to enable...

I Professor Koch, the famous bacteriologist of Berlin, believes, as the result of long-continued experiments, that he has discovered a cure for tuberculosis, the nature of...

Nothing fresh has been revealed about the Kentish Town | murder, and the accused, Mrs. Pearcey, was on Monday again remanded, a system which the police approve, and which...

The Prince of Wales on Tuesday opened the " City and I South London Railway," a new and most important experiment in the locomotion of great cities. The line is three miles...

The recent pastoral of the Irish Bishops condemning " Boy. cotting" and the "Plan of Campaign" in a somewhat ambiguous fashion, is said to have been issued under strong...

| The London County Council on Tuesday continued their I . . .. debate on the best method of improving London slums, and the division was taken. It showed a majority of 72 to...

Nunnery Life in the Church of England. By Sister Mary Agnes, O.S.B. Edited, with Preface, by the Rev. W. Lancelot Holland. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-Miss J. M. Povey entered the...

' I The Book of Dignities. Continued to the Present Time by I Horace Ockerby. (W. HI. Allen and Co.)-The original of this book was - Beatson's Political Index," published for...

A Child of Faith in an Age of Doubt. By his Brother. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-Andrew Kennedy Bremner was the son

I An Elementary Text-Book of Geology. By W. Jerome Harrison, I F.G.S. (Blackie and Son.)-This is one of Blackic's " Science Text-Books," and one of the most excellent...

GaIhe ings. By "C. E. W." (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) -This book, we grieve to say, is sad rubbish. The human animal possesses above other animals a faculty called reason,...

The Language of the New Testament. By the late W. H. Simcox, MLA. (Hodder and Stoughton.)-' What is attempted here," writes Mr. Simcox in his preface, " is to indicate, not...

Life and VWork of Mary Louisa Whately. By E. J. Whately. (Religious Tract Society.)-Mary Louisa Whately was the second daughter of Archbishop Whately. In her twenty-sixth year...

I The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly, and of her Stories. By Rosa I Mulholland. (Hutchinson and Co.) -Miss Rosa Mulholland never fails to give us careful, conscientious, and...

The Ministry of Preaching. By Monsignor F6lix Dupanloup. Translated by Samuel J. Eales, M.A. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.) -Bishop Dupanloup's fame as an orator, and especially...

DIOCESAN CONFERENCES. AMONG the changes which have of late come over the A clergy of the Church of England, there is one which becomes more noticeable every year. It is the...

Lord Hartington made two speeches at Edinburgh yesterday week, in answer to Mr. Gladstone. He began by referring to the defeat at Eccles, and said, with his usual frankness, in...

M. Delyannis has, as was expected, been made Premier of Greece, with M. Deligeorgis, said to be an able man, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. M. Delyannis has declared to...

In the evening, Lord Hartington addressed a crowded audience at the Corn Exchange, when, with his usual modesty, he declared that the very cordial reception he had met with...

NEWS OF THE WHEEK. THE Americans have risen in a kind of insurrection against the McKinley Tariff. To the amazement of the party leaders on both sides, the elections, which...

The Government and the whole Republican Party are said I ,to be bewildered. Under the Constitution, the new Members do not take their seats until December, 1891; and as the...

Mr. Balfour has been even better received in Donegal this week than he was last week in Connemara. At Killybegs, his reception was quite enthusiastic, and instead of being...

Mr. Balfour made a speech at Glenties, in Donegal, on Wednesday evening, in the Court-House, which was crowded by seven hundred persons, dwelling first on the necessity of...

Mr. Gladstone spoke at Carlisle on Thursday, and attacked the Government for not dissolving, which he thought they ought to do when they saw by the by-elections that they were...

On the impossible federal solution of the Home-rule I problem, Lord Hartington descanted very powerfully. It would perhaps issue, he said, in an Imperial Parliament with Mr....

Mr. Goschen made a fine speech at Halifax on Thursday, in which he declared that the Government believes the Irish Land-Purchase Bill " to be in the interest of peace, to be in...

At Greenock, on Tuesday, Lord Hartington, in addressing a crowded meeting in the Town Hall, repudiated positively having ever either entertained or suggested the idea of...

Lord Hartington's frankness in relation to the defeat at Eccles gave M1r. Gladstone great satisfaction, which he expressed on Monday in a speech at the railway-station at...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE REVOLT AGAINST THE McKINLEY TARIFF. IT is not just to say the Americans as a people are impatient of taxation. They maintain without a murmur one of the...

THE BAMPTON' LECTURES FOR 1890. FTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Those who have read this instructive volume, and desire that others should do so also, and still more...

WOOLNER'S BUST OF CARDINAL NEWMAN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-It may interest some of the readers of a paper which has shown so special an interest in and...

CARDINAL NEWM AN AND WORDSWORTH. LTO THE EDITOR OF THIE " SPECTATOR."] Sir,-In Mr. R. H. Hutton's estimate of the late Cardinal Newman. he remarks that Wordsworth's " poetry,...

THE LATE MRS. BOOTH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 I SiP,-In your interesting and suggestive article in the Spectator of October 18th, on " The Influence of Democracy on...

THE SOARING OF BIRDS. T HE finest exhibition of flight we ever saw was that of a pair of kites. The present writer was standing on the bridge of boats across the Rhine at...

THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED QUALITIES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPrCTATORt."1 SIR,-In your article of October 25th, on ` Natural Selection and Socialism," you say, referring to...

THE STATURE OF GREAT GENERALS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-To the list at the conclusion of your article on Suv6roff may I add the names of William III. and...

THE GUINEA-PIG. rTD THE EDITOR OF THFF: 'SrECTATOR."j SiR,-I have read with some surprise, in the number of the Sp)ec/u or dated October 18th, the statement that a guinea-pig...

THE SONG OF THE CANAR.Y. Tlu THE EDITOR OF THE "SPiECTATOR." I Smlx,-I am obliged to your correspondent, " 31. H. T.," for the remarks on the song of the wild canary in the...

PARSONS AND SIG-N-POSTS. 'To THF EDl)ITOR OF TIIE " SV'ECTATOr.."j Sir,,-Mry attention has been directed to Mr. T. Fisher's letter in tho >],)cfat(l,I of Octolcer 25th, in...

THE NEW UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. ONE of the most pressing problems of modern city life is, how to pass the greatest number of human beings each day backwards and forwards between...

"BEAU AUSTIN" AT THE HAYMARKET. A NY serious effort to put an end to the divorce between A literature and the drama-a divorce which has exerted so disastrous an effect upon the...

TWO NEW NCOJVELS.@ GEORGE ELIOT, having an artistic manner as free from trick or mannerism as that of Fielding or Goldsmith, is not an easily imitable writer, and Mrs., or...

AN IRISH ORIGINAL. ",-TELL, Pat, how are your potatoes turning out this V year?" "Well, your Reverence, about as bad as bad could be. If you put a Hieland piper playing his...

THE IRISH PEOPLE AND MR. BALFOUR. M R. BALFOUR'S visit this week to Donegal more than confirms the view which we tried to impress upon our readers last week,-that it is a great...

Snap: a Legend of the Lone Mountain. By C. Phillipps-Wolley. I (Longmans, Green, and Co.)-The mere sight of the blood-curdling illustration which serves as a frontispiece to...

All for Naught. By Wilfred Woollam, M.A. 3 vols. (Hurst I and Blackett.)-This is apparently a first work, and there is quite sufficient cleverness in it to encourage hopes for...

THE GROWTH OF IDLENESS. THE Spectator has never been able to accept unconditionally the modern Gospel of Work. We have always suspected that the old Hebrew moralist who, like a...

TAXATION OF TITLES. WIT E learn from Paris that much amusement has been NV created by a Bill, introduced by M. Emile Moreau, a Radical Deputy, for taxing titles; the tax to be...

BQRGER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE GERMAN BALLAD.* THE spirit in which M. Bonet Maury has undertaken this interesting essay on Birger and the English origines of German ballad...

LIFE OF THE EARL OF IDDESLEIGH.* IF, as we confess that we did, we laid down Mr. Lang's book with a slight feeling of disappointment, we could only blame ourselves for having...