LIBERTY AND LAW IN CANADA. GREATER Britain is conducting some very inG teresting and instructive experiments in democratic government. In New Zealand the State has said that...

I Bird Neighbors. By Nelt-je Blanchan. (Sampson Low and Co. lOs. 6d.)-This book is described as -an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found...

I Ideals of the East. By Herbprt Baynes, M.R.A.S. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)-Mr. Baynes gives in this little book slight sketches of the principal philosophical ideals of the...

I Hernani: a Drama. By Victor Hugo. Translated into English Verse by R. Farquharson Sharp. (Grant Richards.) -Mir. Sharp prefaces his translation of Hernani by telling us that...

Birds in London. By W. H. Hudson. (Longmans and Co. I 12s.)-We must confess that Mr. Hudson has written a rather disappointing book on a subject about which a very interesting...

As we have assumed throughont our comments on the I Palace Revolution in China, the Emperor is still alive. According to the Pekin correspondent of the Times, he sits every day...

The visitor of the week has been Professor Virchow, the great German pathologist and Liberal politician. He was invited to take a leading part at the annual Medical Session,...

The Americans are finding ent what "expansion" involves I very rapidly. They have already voted a great increase to their fighting fleet, and it is said that President McKinley...

Sir William Harcourt in a prodigiously long letter, full of repetitions, reviews in Thursday's Times the progress made al the Church Congress towards a restraint of lawlessness...

Conservative Germans are troubled by the Emperor's I visit to Palestine. They hint that something may happen in his absence requiring his personal intervention, that he may be...

A correspondent of the Daily Mail relates a story to which we I attach some importance. He states that Louis Bonaparte, the Colonel of Russian artillery, has quite recently...

The annual Congress of German Socialists has been marked this year by important features, on which we have dwelt elsewhere. We may, however, say here very briefly that the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. SIR JAMES WESTLAND resigns the Indian Chancellorship of the Exchequer in March next, and Mr. C. E. Dawkins has been appointed to succeed him. The selection...

M. Manau, the Public Prosecutor of the French Republic, has decided that the forgery committed by Colonel Henry constitutes a " new fact " in the Dreyfus case, and that the...

Nothing new has occurred in regard to the Fashoda I E incident, concerning which both Governments keep the veil most carefully down. The newspapers of Paris are growing bitter...

We wonder, when Mr. Dawkins tackles the currency I problem, whether he will think of the one plan which everybody passes by. Suppose, as every other scheme seems to fail, that...

The mills of diplomacy grind slowly, but they do grind. On September 6th British soldiers were massacred in Crete by the Turkish garrison. On October 5th a collective Note from...

I Our Heritage in the Church. By the Bishop of South Tokyo. (Sampson Low and Co.)-These theological papers were written in the first place by Bishop Bickersteth of South Tokyo,...

I Peueloo. By Richard H. Thomas. (Headley Brothers.)-Since Phineas Fletcher met the assault of Tom Loker in " Uncle Tom's Cabin " with the eminently Friendly, but also...

I Idylls of Spain. By Rowland Thirlmere. (Elk-in Mathews.)-| These are very brilliant pictures of men and things in Spain. Mr. Thirlmere is a shrewd observer, and though he...

I On Plain and Peak. By Randolph Li. Hodgson. (Archibald I Constable and Co. 7s. 6d.)-This little book consists of a series of pleasantly written sketches of sport in Bohemia...

In Answer to Prayer. (Isbister and Co.)-In this little volume I ten writers have agreed to give from their own inward conviction and their own experience, their views on the...

Dr. J. Walter Carr, senior physician to the Royal Free I Hospital, who delivered the introductory address to the students of the School of Medicine for Women on Tuesday...

I Dr. Goodfellow, who lectured on the fascinating subject of "Tea and Tea-drinking " at the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday, may be commended for his abstinence from that...

Mr. Balfour in a letter to Mr. Evelyn Cecil, published in I the Herts Guardian, makes his own position in regard to the anti-ritualistic panic perfectly clear. He would, he...

Mr. A. Braxton Hicks, at an inquest opened on Thursday at Kingston, where the circumstances of the case pointed to strychnine poisoning, took occasion to condemn some remarks...

I The response to the Lord Mayor's request to Enalishmen I to relieve the distress caused by the West Indian hurricane has not been very liberal. Twenty - five thousand pounds...

I Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director-General of the Geological I lurvey of the United Kingdom, delivered an admirable Lddress at Birmingham on Tuesday on "Science in Educaion,"...

Pagan Papers. By Kenneth Grahame. (John Lane.)-There is I a certain freshness and sense of humour about all Mr. Kenneth Grahame's work, and a flavour that betokens...

Scottish Life and Humour. By William Sinclair. (Sinclair and I Co., Haddington.)-Since the success, now about forty years ago, of Dean Ramsay's "Reminiscences" there has been...

I -The Vicar. By Joseph Hatton. (Hutchinson and Co.)-Mr.| Hatton goes back, much, we fancy, to the satisfaction of a considerable public, to an old-fashioned type of tale....

Library Construction. By F. J. Burgoyne. (G. Allen.)-This is the second volume of "The Library Series," which is appearing under the editorship of Dr. Richard (iarnett. "...

A Memoir of William Pengefly, F.R.S. Edited by his Daughter, I Hester Pengelly. (John Murray. 18s.)-William Pengelly (1812-94) was a fellow-worker with the great geologists...

I An Egyptian Coquette. By Clive Holland. (C. A. Pearson.) -There are some good things here, scenes which are vividly pictured, and interesting personages, but the story seems...

The Story of Perugia. By Margaret Symonds and Lina Duff I Gordon. (J. M. Dent and Co.)-Though Miss Symonds and Miss Duff Gordon only claim for their volume the modest title...

TRAVELS AND LIFE IN ASHANTI AND JAMAN.* I MR. FREEMAN was one of three Europeans who went up, in 1888, from Cape Coast on a mission sent to take the kingdom of Jaman under...

I THE JACOBITE INFORMER'S "APOLOGIA."* THE tendency of almost all recent literature dealing with the Jacobite rising of 1745-notably of Mr. Andrew Lang's Pickle the Spy-has...

THE VELVET BEAN OF FLORIDA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiiB,-The " velvet bean," as might have been expected, has done no good here. Half of the shilling bag which...

HERON AND ROOKS. [To To EDITOR O TH " SPECTATOR."] Srn,-Last week while pike-fishing on a Wiltshire lake I was witness of a curious scene in bird life. A heron from a...

RING-STORIES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATO1."] SiR,-Perhaps this true "ring - story" may interest your readers. Many years ago my brother-in-law, a clergyman, was...

- THE SPEED OF BIRDS. [To SEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIX,-I somet;years since had an opportunity of testing accurately the pace at which the kingfisher flies, which can...

BiOO K S. SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD.* MN. BrBRELL has accomplished what seems to us very little short of a masterpiece in a very difficult kind. It is not given to many to write a...

POEITRY. THE X A.DONNETTA. FRoE the rocks where the pine-trees stand At the meeting of sea and land She looks out o'er the sea, And the Child-God on her arm Keeps the Fisher...

[To TrE EDrTOR oP TEE "P SPCTATOL"I I SIX,-Mr. Jupp asks why the stronghold of the otter is called its holt. In " Webster's Complete Dictionary of the English Language "...

It was Marlowe. By Wilbur Gleason Zeigler. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Zeigler shows considera.ble ingenuity in here setting forth in the guise of fiction the...

In Russia without Russian: being the Wanderings qf an Englishman in Central Russia, by Land and Water. By John Lloyd Warden Page. (Routledge and Sons.)-This is a very slight...

I Studies in Scotch EcclesiasticaZ History. By M. G. J. Iinloch. (Simpkin and Marshall.)-Half a century ago the publication of such a volume as this would, in spite (or perhaps...

The Hittites and their Language. By C. R~ Conder. (W.I Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d.)-Colonel Conder, whose published works-more particularly "The Bible and the East" and "The...

I James Walker, D.D., of Carnwath Free Church. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)-We have here a perhaps too formidable selection from the " essays, papers, and sermons " of the...

WVireless Telegraphy. By Richard Kerr, F.G.S. (Seeley and I Co.)-Probably many have wondered at the accounts of Signor Marconi's experiments in wireless telegraphy which have...

THlE GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. W E said, in a review of the politics of the Socialist party in Germany a few weeks ago, that, in our judgment, the character of the party was...

Representative Indians. By G. Paramaswaran Pillai, B.A. I (Routledge and Sons. lOs. 6d.)-Sir Richard Temple writes an introduction to these brief biographies of between thirty...

I Valentine: a Story of Ideals. By Curtis Yorke. (Jarrold and I Sons.)-This tale traces the history of a girl from childhood to womanhood. It is well conceived and cleverly...

A Book Without a Man! By Agnes Grozier Herbertson. (Elliot Stock.)-We must own to not clearly understanding what this book is about. That there is no man in it is evident; we...

A Knight of the Nets. By Amelia E. Barr. (Hutchinson and Co.) - Miss Barr occupies her pen, as she is evidently well pleased to do, with fisher-folk. The " Knight " himself is...

Handbook of Housekeeping for Small Incomes. By Florence I I I Stacpoole. (Walter Scott.)-Miss Stampoole's tables are cer- I j tainly interesting, and probably useful. Here is...

I Cassefl's Family Lauwyer. By a Barrister-at-Law. (Cassell and Co. lOs. 6d.)-With certain qualifications, we do not hesitate to describe this book as an admirable work. It is...

The Making of Mathias. By J. S. Fletcher. (John Lane.)- This is a prettily written book, well illustrated by Miss Lucy Welch. The hero is a country lad, who is a devoted lover...

Peace with Honour. By Sydney C. Grier. (W. Blackwood and I Sons.)-" In Furthest Ind," the book which we most closely associate with Mr. Grier's name, was a piece of good work,...

Barbara, Lady's Maid and Peeress. By Mrs. Alexander. (F. V. White and Co.)-This is a story of the romantic kind. There is sufficient foundation in real vicissitudes of noble...

-Since First I Saw tour Face." By Mrs. Ker Seymer. I (Routledge and Sons.)- -Is the stock of incidents and plots available for fiction running short P Anyhow, some curious...

I Wolfville. By Alfred Henry Lewis. (Lawrence and Bullen.)- This is a most amusing book. Let any one read it aloud with a proper amount of American twang and drawl, and he can...

Svort and Travel in India and Central America. By A. J. Bagot. (Chapman and Hall.)-Mr. Bagot has much to tell of exploits with rifle, cricket bat, polo club, accomplished by...

Signs and Inscriptions of Historic London. By Philip Norman. I (Elliot Stock.) -Where Modern London has numbers, Old London had signs. Only inns and taverns now retain them,...

The Cults of the Greek States. By Lewis Richard Farnell, M.A. I (The Clarendon Press. 32s. net.)-This work, in its conception and purpose, is significant of the change which...

Practical Grammar of the Somali Language; with a Manual of Sentences. By Rev. Fr. Evangeliste de Larajasse and Ven. Fr. Cyprien de Sampont. - Somali-English and English-Somali...

I Norfolk Songs, Stories, and Sayings. By Walter Rye. (Agas H. Goose, Norwich.)-Mr. Rye claims for Norfolk " The Babes in the Wood" (the "' wood" being Wayland, near Watton),...

I Adventures of Saint Kevin, and other Irish Tales. By R. D. I Rogers. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)-Mr. Rogers seems resolved to do away with the reproach often levelled...

NATIONAL DEBTS.* IN his famous pwan on the National Debt, "the greatest prodigy that ever perplexed the sagacity and confounded the pride of statesmen and philosophers,"...

THE SENSE OF DIRECTION IN ANIMALS. [To Tso EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiRi,_I am an old reader of the Spectator, and should like to be allowed to add one to the many...

SIR HERBERT KITCHENER'S PEERAGE. [To 1u EnDO OF TE mu SPZOTAT0"] Sip,-When reading your remarks on hero-worship as affected by democracy in your article on " Sir Herbert...

COMPREHENSION WITHOUT COMPROMISE. [To TEX EDITORi 0 THE "SPECTATou.'j Six,-Hitherto comprehension without compromise has been the glory and distinguishing characteristic of our...

TIE AFRICAN RACES AS SOLDIERS. [TO THU EDITOI F THor SPIcmTAoL"1 SIR,-In your "News of the Weekl" in the Spectator of October 1st you say, writing of the bravery of the...

Tho Gadfly. By E. L. Voynich. (W. Heinemann.)-This is a I tragical story of " Young Italy," which has for its central interest the relationship of Arthur Burton and...

Mrs. Wylde. By Linda Gardiner. (Jarroldand Sons.)-Lalage I Neville, daughter of a country rector, goes as companion to a very brilliant-looking lady who calls herself Mrs....

An Indez to "Pickwick," by C. M. Neale (J. Hitchcock), I should supply a want as truly as an index to Shakespeare, . for it is nearly as much quoted, allowing for the greater...

Where the Reeds Wave. By Anne Elliot. 2 vols. (R. Bentley I and Son. 12s.)-There is some dramatic force in this story. It is a really tragical situation, where the man who has...

Bell's Reader's Shakespeare: The Comedies (Hodder & Stoughton), I is Shakespeare " Condensed, Corrected, and Emphasized for School, College, Parlour, and Platform." The...

NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* MR. CLARK RUSSELL'S story takes a long time to justify itst title-it is not until p. 154 that we set sail in earnest-but we like it none the worse on that...

THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S FIXED IDEA. T HE Germans evidently believe that their Emperor is T visiting Constantinople for reasons of State as well as from enlightened curiosity, and...

HEALTH AND DISEASE. LONDON has been honoured during the past week by L the visit of the greatest living physiologist, one of the few-very few-living men whose fame, it is safe...

Life and Letters of Thomas Kibby Smith, Brevet Major-General, United States Volunteers, 1820-87. By his Son, Walter George Smith. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s.)-This book is so...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Elizabeth and her German Garden (Macmillan and Co.) is a I volume of over a hundred and seventy pages. It contains about enough pretty and amusing matter...

I St. Botolph, Aldgale: the Story of a City Parish. By A. C. B. I Atkinson, M.A., Curate of the same. (Grant Richards.)-The parish of St. Botolph, Aildgate, has a story of...

MR. FINCH'S UTOPiA. T HERE is no illusion more persistent than the illusion T 1 which refuses to the intellect its proper share in the determination of religious differences....

I SIX CENTURIES OF GEOGRAPHY.* MR. BEAZLEY takes up his story at the Conversion of the Roman Empire, and carries it on to the close of the ninth century of our era. The latter...

BO OK S. I LORD MACAULAY'S " HISTORY OF ENGLAND."* I IN July, 1838, Macaulay, writing to Macvey Napier, then editor of the Edinburgh Review, mentions for the first time his...

RELIGION AND SANITY. THE Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Talbot) in a fine speech delivered on Monday to the medical students of St. Thomas, strongly controverted the popular idea...

YOUTH AND AGE IN JOURNALISM. A WRITER in the October National Review, who disA cusses the question of journalism as a profession from the standpoint of a veteran journalist,...

THE MAGAZINES. BY far the most valuable paper in this month's magazines is Captain F. Younghusband's upon China in the Contemporary Review, which contains a really fine...

BLOODHOUNDS. T HE bloodhound trials held on the moors near Scarboroughf are interesting rather as drawing attention to aneglected and possibly valuable form of animal talent...

A NEW TEXT OF "DON QUIXOTE."* THIS new and superb edition of Don Quixote in Spanish is not, as a careless reader might infer from the above title and from parts of the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEW JINGOISM. THE new Jingoes are probably less dangerous than the old, for they have little hold on Parliament and none on the Administration; but they...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. NATIONAL SUCCESS AND CHRISTIANITY. [TO THX EDITOR o0 THU " SPzCTATOeL] SIR,-In his speech at the Church Congress, Dr. Welldon, the Bishop-designate of...