CORRESPONDENCE. HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE.-I. "And one, an English homo. Groy twiliglt poured - On dewy pastures, dewy trees, Softer than sleep; all things in order stored, A...

There are rumours that the fires were caused by incendiaries I wVho wanted the work of cutting the stumps or wished to raise 'the price of wood. We do not believe the reports....

The Dutch are a slow people, but in the words of the American poet, " they get there just the same." They have been considering the subject of draining the Zuyder Zee for a...

The Datch, who are at home an efficient people. make a I torrid mess of their foreign possessions. The natives in South Africa regard them with horror, and in the Eastern...

Lord Dnufferin made a very pleasant little speech on Tues- day at Belfast, at the seventeenth annual meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, on Libraries and...

The Indian Government has now finally refused to allow Eurasians to enter the British regiments, or to raise, a regiment composed of Eurasians exclusively. There are objections...

The Government of M. Casimir-P6rier appears determined 'to rally all classes to the Republic. La Vend6e, true to its traditions, still sends up many Monarchists; but on Sunday...

THE AMERICAN FOREST-FIRES. IT is difficult for Englishmen quite to realise a forest-fire, for they never witness anything of the kind, the nearest approach to one in this...

CHINESE CENTRAL ASIA.* IN 1888 Dr. Henry Lansdell started on what may best be described as a tour of religious exploration in Chinese Central Asia and the lands adjacent. He...

THE IRISH STORM IN A TEACUP. HE Irish party are never able to take good fortune and enjoy it. Indeed, if they find things going better in Ireland than they expect, they are not...

I A fire on the gigantic scale broke out in the pine.forest. region of Minnesota and Wisconsin on the last day of August. No rain had fallen for nine weeks, the great trees...

On Thursday Mr. Ohamberlain spoke again at a banquet I given to him by the Liberal Unionist Association, and made another brilliant speech, in which he remarked on the...

Mr. Chamberlain delivered a powerful speech on Wednesday I in Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, to a crowded assembly of the Liverpool Working Men's Conservative Association,-Mr. T....

The bulletins of the health of the comte de Paris have | grown worse and worse through the week, and on Friday afternoon it was doubted whether he would live many hours. His...

I At the Trade-Union Congress, wbich met at Norwich on Monday, Mr. Fenwick, M.P., the Secretary, read the annual Report of the Parliamentary Committee. The report strongly...

I On Tuesday, Mr. Frank J. Delves, the President of the, Congress, gave a very able address,-the chief feature of which was its Collectivist complexion. " The only direction in...

On the other band, Mr. Chamberlain pointed out that this appeal to the people is just what the Government are determined to avoid. They want to delay it till they can confuse...

I Every class has its own way of blowing off steam, The, Trade-Unionists do it by means of abstract resolutions. On Thursday, the Congress indulged in a perfect Saturnalia of:...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. LYNOclLAW IN THE UNITED STATES. [To THl EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR,"] bIRU,-Xour correspondent in Georgia, who adopted so indignant a tone in denying the...

WORD-GOINlNG. [TO THEl EDITOR 0F TIM C SPECTATOR.''] SIR,-Mr. Housden, in whom I think I recognise an old friend, has raised an interesting question in the Spectator of...

CURRENCY IN FRANCE. [To THE EDITOfl OF THE A SPECTATIt.".] SiR,-France is quietly passing through a small financial crisis, and the minor troubles of Englishl tourists-always...

THE LIFE OF JOSIAH MASON. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8PECTATORa.] SIu,-In an interesting article, entitled "Some Great Work. men," in the Spectator of September 1st, a reference...

SEA-CLIFFS AT SUNRISE. S EEN from the verge of the eastern cliff s, the rise of the 1 summer sun presents a picture in curious contrast to the low and angry dawns of winter...

MR. GLADSTONE ON THE ATONEMENT. 'r seems to us a great pity that Mr. Gladstone's interesting and thoughtful article on the meaning of vicarious redemption should have been...

I Tacitus: Agricola auil Germania. Edited by H. Al. Stephenson, M.A. I - I. (Cambridge University Press.)-This is a very careful edition, Mr. Stephenson takes pains to do...

Euripides: Bacchm. Edited by A. H. Cruickshank, M.A. I (Clarendon Press-)-The Bacchw is, for many reasons, a most interesting play. Not one of the dramas of Euripides is better...

Homer's MIadc, xrIV. By Walter Leaf, Litt.D., and M. Bayfield, I M.A. (Macmillan.)-It is sufficient to say of this volume of the series of "elementary classics " that the...

The Asinaria of Plautus. By C. J. Gray, M.A. SnZ -I- -_2 la-,A A_ -s_. (C. J. Clay and "Sons.)-A learned and carefully prepared edition, though tho notes are frequently too...

Cicero Pro Milone. By F. H. Colson, M.A. (Macimillan.)-The introduction gives tho clearest view we have as yet seen of the facts of the case and of the line of defence adopted...

The Fall of Platxa and the Plague at Athens, from Thucydides 11.-III. 13y W. T. Sutthery, M.A., and A. S. Graves, B.A. .. I It . I (Macmillan.)-Though we consider Thucydides...

Cicero Pro Murena,. Edited by J. HI. Freer, M.A. A - - - --4-:4 L ___ - q I . . . (Macmillan.) -A correct text with useful and judicious notes. We are not sure that the...

I From Messrs. Blackie we have received The Lay of the Last Minstrel, with Introduction and Notes; and in the series of the " Warwick Shakespeare " Julius Oisuar, edited by...

I Seledions from Quintus Curtius. By F. Coverley Smith. (Mac- millan.)-The inflated style of Curtius and the late period at r which he wrote, render him not the most proper...

The Wasps of Aridsophanes. By C. E. Graves. (Blackie.)- 'This is an excellent edition of a very difficult comedy, the text being correct, and the notes learned without...

I There is no end of the novelties in school-books, and so we are not surprised by having to notice Mlores Historitxrow, edited with notes and vocabulary by William Marsh,...

I Among editions of English classics, wo have TWe Satires of Dryden, edited, with Memoir, &c., by John Churton Collins (Macmillan).-We are always glad to have Mr. Churton...

Xenophon's Anabasis, Book I. Edited by C. E. Brownrigg, Mff.A. I (Blackie.) -The Anabasis has not by any means been neglected by scholars. Still there is room for a new...

I The Xneia of Virgil. Book I. By A. J. Church, M.A. (Blackie.) -We regret the brevity of the notes, which are correct and perspicuous, and trust the editor will give us his...

I Tales of the Civil War frowm Caesar. By C. H. Keene, M.A. (Maemillan.)-is the Belurn Civice is generally considered more difficult than that in Gaul, we are pleased that Mr....

MR. DELVES'S ADDRESS. "YTOU'LL find me, Sir, one of the last of the real old L Tories, none of your newfangled Conservatives, but one of the old school." So said a worthy...

I THE EFFECTS OF ANARCHY ON POLITICS. THOSE who believe, and they are many, that we are on the eve, alike on the Continent and in this country, of a Reaction, both serious and...

Of course Mr. John Redmond seized upon the occasion of a meeting of the National League on Tuesday, to descant on the wickedness of the Government, on the futility of supposing...

The Governments of Great Britain and China ratified on A Rtf, °,.PA , - August 23rd a conve -- f and Uhina ratified on vention settling the Eastern frontiers of Burmab, and...

It is not pleasant to fall, especially in Eastern Earonez--.A few weeks ago M. Stambouloff was dictator of Bulgaria, but on Wednesday he was summoned before a Magistrate to...

A new quarrel has broken out amongst the Irish party, and more particularly between two different sections of the AntiParnellite party, the representatives of ostentatious...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. P RACTICALLY, we have this week no news from Oorea. There have been reports of action of different kinds- for instance, a Japanese attack on Port Arthur-but...

MASTERS OF GERMAN MUSIC.* THIS series of biographical and critical sketches of contemporary composers bids fair to redeem its unsatisfactory start by the merit of the...

A NOVEL PROM CHINESE HISTORY.* IT is rare for the talent of the novelist to reveal itself in two successive generations. Mdlle. Judith Gautier represents one of these...

In the Dwellings of Silence. By Walker Kennedy. (Heinemann.) I -In this volume, the almost too familiar problems of life in modern Russia-its bureaucratic tyranny, its misery,...

The Two Dianas. By Alexandre Dumas. 3 vols. (Dent and Co.)-There is no need to criticise this or any other of the romances of Alexandre Dumas the elder. The Two Diancas does...

The Variorum Teachers' Bible. (Eyre and Spottiewoode.)-This is a book which has received in successive editions various enlargements and improvements, keeping it up...

Greater Love, and other Stories. By Alexander Gordon, and I others. (Isbister.)-This is a pleasant collection of stories by I suoh well-known writers as Mr. Alexander Gordon,...

The Invaders of Britain. By Preston Weir, B.A. (Baker and Son, Clifton.)-Mr. Weir does not begin exactly with protoplasm, but he starts with the " First Stage," in which the...

England in Egypt. By Alfred Milner. (Edward Arnold.)-Mr. I| Milner's book was first published in December, 18'92. This is the fifth edition, reprinted, Mr. Milner tells us,...

SCHOOL BOOKS. The Hecuba of Euripides. By W. S. Hadley, M.A. (C. J. Clay and Sons.)-This book exhibits a correct text and a usefultlougn rather too brief body of notes. Some...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Rambles in Books. By Charles F. Blackburne. (Sampson Low,,I Xarston, and Co.)-Ar. Blackburne has catalogued his books, and added some bits of information...

The Exiles, and other Stories. By Richard Harding Davis. (Osgood, Mellvaine, and Co.)-Mr. Davis is one of the best and least affected of modern American story-tellers, and his...

Halves Griseldis. Editod by C. P. Buchheim. (Henry Frowde.) I -The reputation of the editor as a G0erman scholar warrants us in recommending this drama. The notes are good,...

Koblburg, by Paul Heyse. Edited by R. H. Allpress, M.A. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-Heyse has won for himself a European reputation as dramatist and novelist, and in this...

Gfriechische Heroengeschichten, by B. G. Niebuhr. Edited by I H. S. Beresford-Webb. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-Four of I the most important and attractive Hellenic myths,...

Discours sur la Revolution d'Angleterrc, by Guizot. Edited by I H. W. Eve, M.A. (C. J. Clay and Sons.)-Every one recognies I the eminence of M. Guizot as a philosophical...

Fritz auf dem Lande, by Hans Arnold. Edited by R. J. I Morich. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-A rather childish story, I but with a good vocabulary and well arranged notes. I

Die Erhebung Preussens, by Gustav Preytag. Edited by Otto I Siepman. BAD At --_ (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-Anything from the Rev_ -_ _ __ _ I l! *1 . . . .I . . e_ x pun...

Primary German Exercises. By A. A. Sumerville, M.A., and I L. S. R. Byrne, M.A. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-The plan of I this book is good, and the exercises easy to...

JZaich's German Prose. Revised by John Gibson, M.A. (Wil- I liams and Norgate.)-These specimens, many of which have i already been set at various examinations, are of a rather...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. CHAMBERLAIN AS A CONSERVATIVE. MR. CHAMBERLAIN said truly enough at LiverM pool, on Wednesday, that he had never expected to be the chosen...

A TRUE STORY OF A DOG. [To TaX EDItOR OF THE " SrRCTATOR."] SIR,-May I be allowed to offer to your readers yet another instance of the faithfulness and sagacity of our friend...

POETRY. THE HAWARDEN HORACE. AD OAECILIUM AFRICANUM. I TII. 16. INCLUSAm Danaen turris a~nea GIRT round by scrub and stream, and closely guarded RObustErquO fores et vigilum...

HOUSE-MA.RTINS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,-A few days before reading the letter of your Worcestershire correspondent, in the Spectator of August 25th, a lady who...

BO OK S. "HELEN'S ORDEAL." * MhRS. RUSSELL BARRINGTON certainly has the art of con,ceiving new and distinct subjects for her stories,-subjects which depend neither principally...

THE REVEREND J. HAMILTON THOM. T1HERE died near Liverpool on Sunday, at the age of eighty-six, a man little known to the world in general, though he edited and gave its final...

ELIZABETH'S PRIVY COUNCIL.* I THE Acts of the Privy Council during the first decade of Elizabeth's reign are somewhat tantalizing from the wide gaps they present at the most...

THE MAGAZINES. IT is best, perhaps, that everything free from direct incite. ment to crime or vibe should be published; but on the Continent M. Charles Malato would hardly be...

THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. T HE parts of the Report of the Labour Commission which deal with the condition of the agricultural labourer, would of themselves rebut the charges...

WHAT A JAPANESE TRIUMPH WOULD MEA. IT is useless for the present to discuss the chances of the war for Corea. Nobody really understands what is doing, either on the Peninsula...