I Our Street. By Leslie Keith. (Religious Tract Society.)-This is a capital sketch of life in a quiet street, a street where those who have known better times meet and mingle...

CURRENT LITERATURE. GIFT-BOOKS. New Relations. By Emma Marshall. (:N'isbet.)-The characters in this story are General Barrington and his wife, a somewhat heartless person;...

Black and White. By Geraldine Butt. (John Ho-g.)-This "Anglo-Indian Story for Young Readers " is nothing less than delightful, full of a gentle humour as well as of good...

The Little Doctor; or, the Magic of Nature. By Darley Dale. I (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)-A slightly improbable story is The Little Doctor, but many children will be interested...

Sunwood Glory; or, Through the Refiner's Fire. By Margaret I Haycraft. (Nisbet and Co.)-Tbe toppling down of an ancestral family has always a certain interest, and Mrs....

The Steady Aim. By IV. H. Davenport Adams. (J. Hogg.)- This is a new edition of a book described as containing - examples and encouragements from modern biographies." Such...

Gilbert's First Voyage, and other Stories. By TM. C. Halifax, and I others. (John Hogg.)-This volume contains three tales, a narra- I tive of the Duke of Wellington's life,...

Elocution: Selections from Leading Authors and Dramatists. By I (Geo. W. Barham. (Blackie and Son.)-Intended in the first in-| stance for a school-hook, this volume, a "...

Nigel Bartrain's Ideal. By Florence Wilford. (Gardner and Co.)-Nigel Bartram marries a woman who has charmed him by answering to his ideal, one defined chiefly by negatives,...

- Falconer of Falconhurst. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)-This is a story of the romantic sort, in which things are ordered by poetical justice,...

THE WITNESS OF HERMAS TO THE FOUR GOSPELS.* THE Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, claims to have made a discovery which, if genuine, is an undoubted gain for the...

A Bighton Bairnic. By Margaret Haycraft. (Religious Tract Society.) -The " Brighton Bairnie " is a little girl who overcomes by her love and patience the selfishness and...

I Twelve Tintes Round the World. By "A Globe Trotter" (G. C. Sayce). (J. IV. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)-Mr. Sayce puts his travelling experiences in the briefest possible form, nor...

I The Fig antl the Idler. By Alplhonoe Daudet. ('1'. Fisher Unwvin.)-These four stories are of the very slightest material possible. Any one who wsants to see the art of...

TWortliy of his Name. By Eglanton Thorne. (Religious Tract Society.)-" Gus Reid " is really " Augustus Devereux Carruthers." This is the name of which he has to make himself...

I Little Sisters of Pity, and other Stories. By Mary ThIo)rne. (Avells 6ardner, Darton, and Co.)--Tlhe two chief stories out of the five which make up this volume, are "...

English Illustratecl Magazine, 1S91-1,S92. (3Lacmillan.)-This I volume shows the set against 1hlg serial stories that is now beginning to prevail. Mr. Clark Russell has one of...

Gallant Sepoys and Sowars. By Major W. J. Elliott and Lieu- I tenant- --Cln- - aI ls tenant-Colonel Knollys. (Dean and Son.)-This is a new edition of| . .. . ~. =, .1 . I a...

I A Scamvper Through Spain and Tanlgier. By Margaret Thomas. (Hutchinson and Co.)-A very lively and pleasant book of travel this. Mrs. Thomas has a judicious taste in...

Stories~from Ancient llisbty. By Elizabotlh Stow. (David Stott.) -Mlrs. Stow relates simply and agreeably enough the familiar stories of Lycurgus, Solon, the Messe-nian...

I Harvard Studiei .rn Classical Philology. Vol. III. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)-" Philology " is used, it must be understood, in a wide sense, including history,...

Old Miss Audrey. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Religious Tract - - - . - - I Society.)-This 'I Chronicle of a Quiet Village " is related by a young lady who describes very...

A Hero il the Strife. By Louisa C. Silke. (Religious Tract Society.)-Miss Silke lays the scene of the story in Restoration Days. Her " hero " is a minister who gives up his...

I fount Desolation a: l a Ausltralian Romance. By IV. Carlton I Dawe. (Cassell and Co.)-Mr. Dawe's Australian romance opens with a chapter of exceptionally fine description,...

Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimns. Epitomised by William Calder. I (Blackwood and Sons.)-To read Chaucer in his original form is a task which overpasses the skill of many who...

I The Flight to TVarennes, and other Historical Essays. By Oscar I Browning. (Swan Sonnenschein.)-Soine of these essays, the first notably, attracted some attention when they...

Devonshire Idyls. By H. C. O'Neill. (Stott.)-No one can take I up this little volume-the main fault of which, perhaps, is its brevity-without seeing that it represents the...

I HisLife's Magnet. By Theodora C. Elmslie. (Frederick Warne and Co.)-This is a rather readable and anmbitious, but far too lengthy, story running on somewhat conventional...

Literary Landmarks qf Edinburgh. By Laurence Hutton. Illus- I trated. (Osgood and Co.)-Visitors who carry with them to Scott's "own romantic town " more curiosity than...

I Jockey Jock. By Nat Gould. (Routledge) -There is in Aus* at r 1l I -- I 11 I tralia plenty of human nature (more especially of the kind that delights admirers of melodrama)...

English Writers. By Henry Morley. Vol. VII. (Cassell and I Co.)-Professor Morley carries on his subject as far as the translation of the Bible in the first half of the...

M Mr. Goldwin Smith writes an excellent letter to Tuesday's Times in regard to the reception given at Toronto to Mr. Blake, the Canadian Home-ruler. He points out that the talk...

The London County Council, at its weekly meeting held on Tuesday, decided to purchase the North Metropolitan Tramways Company's undertaking by a majority of 92 to 24. The...

The cholera lingers in Hambarg, Paris, and St. Petersburg,, I and has broken out in a severe form in Buda-Pesth; but it is, on the whole, declining fast with the increasing...

I The Germans and Austrians are greatly interested in a riding contest between the cavalry officers of their respective armies. Some 141 German officers, and about half that...

On Monday Lord Houghton made his public entry into| Dublin as Lord-Lieutenant. The ceremony, as usual, was imposing as a military pageant, and owing to the fact that Lord...

The President of the Incorporated Law Society, Mr. Richard I Pennington, delivered the annual address at Norwich on Tuesday. After announcing that the Society intended in...

The Times of Tuesday gives an interesting account of the Bulgarian Exhibition at Philippopolis, which was lately opened by Prince Ferdinand. An old Turkish cemetery has been...

Essays on Literature and Philosophy. By Edward Caird. 2 vols (James Maclehose.)-Professor Caird is philosophical, even when he is dealing with literary subjects. His "...

I The Modern State. By Paul Leroy Beaulieu. (Swan Sonnen- schein).-This volume, belonging to the "Social Science Series," is an able exposition of views which may be described...

Six Months in the Apennines. By Margaret Stokes. (Bell and Sons.)-This is a volume in which varied interests are skilfully combined. Miss Stokes went to Italy in search of...

Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical ani Medinval Times. By J. | H. Middleton, M.A. (Cambridge University Press).-This is a book full of curious and interesting learning;...

IS SEA-SERVICE STILL POPULAR? IT is said that the ' Foudroyant,' if ransomed from the German ship-breaker, can pass beneath the bridges, and be anchored off the Thames...

YORKSHIRE FOLK-TALK.* rHIS is a bright, taking book, and all the brighter because it has not been put together on any special plan, or in order to satisfy the needs or...

THE MAGAZINES. THE Magazines for October are magazines of the autumn,that is, they are readable, but do not contain anything distinctly of the first interest. In the Ninetcenth...

THE EXPULSION OF THE MONEY-CHANYGERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." ] SIR,-" M." thinks it difficult to say what it is that I seek to prove. I seek to prove nothing...

EXPLORATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS. i-TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In the interesting article, in the Spectator of October 1st, on "Explorations and Explorations," the...

POETRY. GARDENING. HOPE, go get your garden dress on, Warm are here the winter hours; I will teach you, sweet, a lesson Put among the flowers. You shall hold the spade with...

CHINESE MISSIONS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-My attention has been drawn to a notice of Mr. Ml orris's book, "A Winter in North China," and to some criticisms you...

The Old Maid's Sweetheart. By Alan St. Aubyn. (Chatto and I ANindus.)-There is not much depth or " subtlety "-of the kind, at all events, that is claimed for French writers of...

The Sea and the Rod. By Deputy Surgeon-General C. T. Parke and Frederick G. Aflalo. (Chapman and Hall.)-These two collaborateurs have produced a pleasant and useful book. It...

I Butterflies of the Ritviera. By Frank Bromilon. (P. Conso, Nice.) -Ir. Bromilon enumerates and describes more than two hundred and fifty species and varieties of butterflies...

I Guide to Durhamn. By J. R. Boyle, F.S.A. (Walter Scott.)- We may commend this volume to any one who may be thinking of visiting what is, both as concerns its past and its...

Zillah: a Romance. By Joseph Hocking. (Ward, Lock, and Co.) I -This story is spoiled as a story by what, for want of a better -word, may be styled the spiritualistic element...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Throitgh Deep Waters. By B. Walsh. (Trischler.)-This story is I written mainly and obviously for the too large section of the novelreading public...

THE PROGRESS OF THE IRISH SPLIT. THE split among the Nationalists shows no signs of T being bridged. It grows, indeed, in appearance deeper and wider every day, and every fresh...

The Chnurch Congress met this year on Tuesday, at Folke- stone, evidently with two ideas on its conscience,-to express, so far as possible, the unity of all who believe in...

On Monday, the Emperor of Austria delivered his usual| address to the Delegations. Its tone was hopeful and pacific to a degree, which is said to have agreeably surprised the...

I Mr. Courtney, speaking at an agricultural dinner at Liskeard on Tuesday, dealt with agricultural depression. Sir Stafford Northeote used to say that he was not sure that the...

Count Kalnoky's speech in the Budget Committee of the I Austrian Delegation, produced by the hostile questions of the young Czech delegate, Dr. Eym, was a sort of commentary on...

I We do wish that those who attend this Congress next year with a view to the industrial discussion, would help to make up the general mind upon this question of " promoting...

The Irish landlords, through the " Landowners' Convention,"' indignantly deny that they are enforcing ejectments in order to embarrass the Government, a "malicious and untrue"...

ALLEGED "LITERARY FRAUDS." [TO THEi EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. ] SIR,-In reference to an article on the above subject, in the Spectator of October 1st, will you permit me to...

A GOOD VIEW. "To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiP,-In your interesting article, " Where to Build a House," I observe you say:-' In spite of some instances to the contrary,...

A CORRECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-What can a living man do with a paragraph in an authoritative publication which sweeps away his own existence ? I refer...

THE ANIMAL SENSE OF HUMOUR. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-If you care to have your good stories of the humour of animals capped, here are two or three more. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,--- propos of your interesting article on the ` Animal Sense of Humour," in the Spectator of October 1st, allow meto send you a case of...

" But Men Must Work." By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (Bentley.) -The title of this novel is rather stupid, for it is much more notable for the weeping of women than for the working...

Mr. Charles Lawe has republished his Prince Bismarck (W

AUTUMN. THE rhythm of the changing year must sometimes bring T to those for whom the recurrent seasons offer a long vista in the past, and a short one in the future, the...

M. Renan, the Voltaire sucri of modern France, died on I Sunday. Possessed of a kindly heart, a clear, though thin, intellect, and an exquisite style, he did throughout life...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. E NGLAND has sustained a great loss this week, Tennyson (in law, Lord Tennyson) having passed away at 1.30 on the morning of Thursday. He bad been ailing for...

The Cabinet has decided to continue the subsidy allowed I to the British East Africa Company until March 31st, 1893, and implicitly, therefore, to take the opinion of...

We do not like the news from the Black Mountain. Sir W. Lockhart's force reached Baio, the centre stronghold of the turbulent tribes, on Thursday, but found no one there. The...

The French Mission to Fez is meeting with treatment very similar to that encountered by the English. A Reuter's telegram from Tangier, dated Tuesday, states that the French...

| The weak point of the French Republic is again becoming apparent. The Timnes correspondent warns Europe that £3,240,000 of supplementary credits in excess of the Budget have...

LONG-DISTA NCE RIDES. W HAT is the outcome of the great military ride that has W just taken place between Berlin and Vienna ? Has the result of it any lesson to teach to the...

M. RENAN. M IRENAN'S death removes one of the most distin. guished of the French Academicians, and one who had probably acquired for himself a wider European reputation than...

ROUNDABOUT RECOLLECT1ONS.* " ROUNDABOUT Bohemian babblement in ink." Such is Captain O'Shea's description of the matter contained in his two latest volumes, and we do not think...

MR. WARDE FOWLER'S "CESAR."* A WRITER who describes his subject, or has his subject described for him, as a " hero," has his line marked out for him. Mr. Fowler, however, is...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE DEATH OF TENNYSON. OMETHING is wanting in the sound of the world, for J Tennyson is gone. He was part of the music of life throughout our period,...

THE MAKING OF THE LOMBARD COMMUNE.0 WHATEVER be the virtues of the American people, their greatest admirers can scarcely credit them with a superabundance of the desirable...

THE EVACUATION OF UGANDA. AS we understand the matter, the Government has not A yet decided to evacuate Uganda. What it has done, is to warn the Imperial British East Africa...

DR. JOHNSON'S LETTERS.* DR. HILL'S devotion to the " great Chamn of letters " is Untiring. He is covering the whole field, and will apparently leave no ground for any future...

BO OK S. THE TALK OF THE PEOPLE.* REPRINTS from Punch-even more, perhaps, than those from other periodicals-are always a little hard work for conseeutive reading. We delight...

ALFRED DE VIGNY.* THERE is some slight likeness between the early circumstances of the poet Alfred de Vigny and the philosopher Luc de Vauvenargues, whose life was written by...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. AIR. MORLEY'S COMMISSION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It is impossible not to be struck by the difference between your tone in speaking of...

THE BLACK POPE. W E know of few incidents in immediate history more striking than the interest, in some instances the acute interest, which has been felt throughout Europe in...

A COUNTER-BLAST TO EXERCISE. R. CHAMBERLAIN made an amusing speech at BDirin ngham last Saturday. He was presenting the prizes after an athletic competition between the members...

BOOKS. I HEINE'S " GERMANY." * THE composition of the first part of Heine's celebrated work, Ueber Deltschla)zd, has a history of its own. The idea of writing an account of...

THE SOFT PORCELAIN OF SEVRES.* ONLY an enthusiast in p4te tendre could have composed such a book as this; only connoisseurs in the subject of it are likely to appreciate its...

THE AUSTRI.AN PREMIER ON THE PEACE OF EUROPE. THE speech made by Count Kalnoky on MIonday to the T Budget Committee of the Austrian Delegations, was one of unusual interest,...

ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN ON THE TEMPORAL POWER. A RCHBISIIOP VAUGHAN delivered on Sunday a temperate and dignified address onthepresentposition of the Roman Question. As regards the...