COUNT CAMPELLO.* IT is a singular result of the spirit of universal tolerance, that, outside distinctly sectarian circles, there is a general tendency to regard with suspicion...

volume will be as acceptable to the ordinary public as to the biological world. While presenting the latest results of scientific investigation in an accurate and lucid manner,...

three contests, which have influenced for all time the fortunes of nations and the destiny of our race. The first was the struggle whose splendid achievements were crowned by...

THE Trustees of the British Museum have deserved well of the republic of letters by giving to the world all the re- maining papyrus texts in their possession. The contents of...

have lately appeared, and that complete the new edition of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell's works, are The Cloister-Life of the Emperor Charles E, and a volume of Miscellaneous...

IF it could be possible for the souls of poets dead and gone to keep themselves posted with regard to current publications, we are not quite sure that Messrs. Bell's excellent "...

short story in which the moral of the harmfulness of idleness is pointedly enforced. A middle-class family and an artisan's come to trouble because the young people think only...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Red Grange. By Mrs. Mogsworth. (Methuen and Co.)— We have had the pleasure of noticing the stories which Mrs. Molesworth is accustomed to give us at this season...

not one of Mrs. Marshall's best stories—these, we take it, are her reproductions of bygone periods of life—but it is good of its kind. If it has a moral—and saying so much...

has really put together in this volume a short history of Cromwell's career, illustrating it, as occasion occurs, with such anecdotes as history or tradition has preserved. He...

story to George Smith, of Coalville. Nothing could be more appropriate. It is effectively written, and should help to awaken an interest in the wanderers in whose welfare Mr....

(Religious Tract Society.)—The "Silver West" is not, as one might possibly suppose, the West of the "Silver Kings." It is the Argentine Republic, and the story belongs to a time...

Downey. Second Series. (Cassell and Co.)—Here are thitty-six photographs, all more or less good, of personages more or less eminent. The notices are from a pen or pens unnamed....

Wills dedicates his story to Henrik Ibsen, "the great Scandi- navian moralist," on whose "preserves "—a curious expression, by-the-way, when the province of a moralist is...

display a really extraordinary wealth of good matter. It opens with a poem by Mr. Swinburne, written in verse which, whatever its other merits, comes as near to the roll of the...

is a book of the " shocker " kind, though, we presume, not priced at the modest shilling. The horrors ate of a conventional kind. Squire Thelluson, a violent and lawless sort of...

Plains. By R. M. Ballantyne. (Nisbet and Co.)—Mr. Ballantyne lays the scene of his story in a region which is now one of the great wheat-countries of the world,—that which has...

useful and judiciously conducted "Magazine for Sunday and General Reading." Among the tales are, "On Stronger Wings," by Miss Edith Lyster ; "Waiting to be Claimed," by Miss...

issues of three periodicals. The Cottager and Artisan, interesting and useful in its way, but scarcely suited for the labourer, whether of town or country, as he is now...

imposing list of contributors, and is not un- worthy of it. Tales, miscellaneous papers, devotional articles, music (a hymn, with tune, being published in each number), and many...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—The eight lives which Mr. Aseott Hope has chosen for telling in this volume, are those of Conradin, "the last of the Hohenstaufens," Don Carlos (the son of...

Unwin.)—The author has not succeeded in that most difficult of tasks, the writing of a new fairy-tale. It is almost impossible to preserve what may be called the absolute...

Paternoster Row) are, as our young readers are probably aware, the annual issues of The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's Own Paper. Each consists of more than eight hundred pages,...

Indoor Games and _Recreations : a Popular Encyclopedia for Boys, edited by G. A. Hutchinson. (Religious Tract Society.)

and Co.)—Dr. Whitelegge, who occupies the important post of Medical Officer of Health to the County Council of the West Riding, has put together in this volume a very complete...

Murphy. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—Dr. Murphy sends forth this hymnal as a candidate for favour. It has been his aim, he says, "to confine himself to the choice of hymns which were...

as "idyls." An idyl is a little picture ; and these are little pictures. But the usage of the term is commonly limited to descriptions of the pleasant kind. Idyls are "sweet,"...

Layman. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—The " Layman " who, we gather from what he says, has himself left the Wes- leyan body to rejoin the Anglican Church, has set forth in these...

Bishop of Durham. Edited and compiled by J. R. Harmer, M.A. (Mac- millan and Co.)—This volume contains the Epistles of Clement of Rome (the first, which is genuine ; and the...

like the first and the last. Zadok Pine, a stalwart young fellow from the Adondirac Hills, who has made his way eastward in search of employment, finds himself in a New Jersey...

and Hall.)—This story is chiefly concerned with the love- affairs of Elizabeth Woodville, wife firstly of Sir John Grey, and secondly of King Edward IV. Plenty of matter is, of...

by E. A. Sonnenschein (Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co.), may be recom- mended to readers. The first deals with the difficult subject of "The Relation between Culture and Science."...

L. Scott. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Scott has made the best of an indifferent poet, who imitated, with no great success, Virgirs least successful style. Mr. Scott's verse is more...

(Longmans.)—Professor Sanday treats in this volume a subject of pressing interest,—the apportionment of Scripture between the divine and the human element. All the discourses...

and Co.)—The "four counties" are Brecknock, Cmrnar- von, Merioneth, and Pembroke. Mr. %liner sketches their history, archaeological remains, scenery, and objects of modern...

of Cardinal Cajetan. By Robert C. Jenkins. (D. Nutt.)—Cardinal Cajetan was one of the minority, along with Pole and others, who might have rescued the Roman Church from the...

(Macmillan.)—Foods for the Fat. By N. E. Yorke-Davies. Third edition, tenth thousand. (Chatto and Windus.)—The Greek Gulliver. By A. J. Church, M.A. New edition. (Seeley.)

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter stmt. Strand; and Published by him at the " BrecTsroa" Otitce, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

for the memory of Mr. Parnell, makes, according to the Daily Tele- graph, a singular charge against him of habitual personal dis- simulation. "It is a curious circumstance,'...

D EATH has been harvesting this week. Mr. W. H. Smith, the First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons, died at Walmer Castle on Tuesday, the , 6th inst., at...

may say here that, while we doubt as to his governing motive, which was probably antipathy to England, and condemn both his indifference to cruelty and his carelessness as to...

kenny and won the seat against Mr. Scully, died the day after the Irish leader. He was a Catholic Home-ruler, or even Fenian in opinion, who happened also to be a Tory, and...

case.

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.a shock upon politicians, a majority of whom were not aware that he had been in danger. He had, however, been ill for months, had grown thin and haggard, and complained much of...

seat for South-East Manchester, vacated by Sir James Fergusson's promotion to the Post Office, failed. They had a perfect candidate in Mr. Scott, the editor of the Manchester...

interesting paper (p. 494) headed "The Levant of To- Day." It gives, and is intended to give, an account only of the superficial changes which have occurred in the Levant ; but...

second-time, and with increasing energy, that the French Government is preparing a secret treaty of alliance and friend- ship with Russia. Under Article 8 of the Constitution,...

Professor Jebb was chosen as a candidate for the seat vacated by Mr. Raikes's death. The selection is in every way a good one, for Professor Jebb is not only a scholar of...

Gladstone, at Newcastle on Friday week, in a speech of which we have given the substance elsewhere, a speech only vigorous upon Ireland, just patronised and then avoided - most...

pub- lished in regard to the Bute election, in which he deals with Mr. Gladstone's encouragement of Separatist schemes in Scotland. He points out that "Mr. Gladstone's attempt...

Tuesday. We have discussed at length elsewhere the facts set forth by the Bishop of St. Asaph as to the comparative numbers of Church-people and Nonconformists in Wales, but...

preached by the American economist, Mr. Wells, that the cost and the facility of transport have become even more important than the extent of production. We shall have all...

Church Congress on the necessity of personality in the ulti- mate source of existence,—that is, God. "The fact of intelli- gent consciousness in man led on by necessary steps to...

Mr. Haggis, the Deputy-Chairman—the paid official who answers to the Town Clerk of the regular Municipalities— added his resignation to those of the Chairman and Vice- Chairman,...

some interesting figures as to the increase of German trade and prosperity since the war,—figures drawn from the annual reports of the Chambers of Commerce. In 1871, the number...

Pensions at Washington, summarised in Tuesday's Times, there are now 676,160 pensioners on the rolls, or 138,000 more than at the close of the previous fiscal year. The amount...

rain-making experiments lately tried in Texas, near the town of Midland. The experiments, which were conducted by a Commissioner appointed by the United States Government...

University College, Liverpool, made one of his admirably lucid and thoughtful addresses. Alluding to the fact that Mr. Brunner had recently founded a professorship intended to...

Friday 948- to 94f.

THE DEATH OF MR. PARNELL. 'E NGLAND survives all foes, even when they are of her own blood, and gifted with her own qualities of energy and stubborn will ; and she has survived...

question as the leaders of the National Liberal Federation would have us believe, is shown by the speeches of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of St. Asaph, delivered...

M R. GLADSTONE is never quite at his best when he is only electioneering, and at Newcastle he was obviously in the hands of the wirepullers. They are • shrewd men, many of them,...

Smith is a considerable blow to the Unionist Party. It is constantly the mis- fortune, though occasionally the merit, of English Cabinets, that they do not precisely represent,...

W E have always held that Imperial Federation, when it means anything, means Protection. That we Vave good ground for that belief is proved by Sir Charles Tapper's article in...

Carron Wharf should not be allowed to divert attention from the very remarkable effort of the Shipping Federation, sup- ported by what appears so far to be the combined action...

I T is a quarter of a century ago since the present writer ob- served in the Spectator, when commenting on some fresh triumph of the mail service, that the increase of...

T HE result of experiments made upon animals with musical sounds, of which an account appeared last week in the Spectator, was such as to invite a second visit by the violin-...

T HE other day, at the end of last week, an unpleasant sensation was caused by a paragraph in one of the papers, in which it was announced that some very serious cases of...

I T is difficult to believe that there is any serious meaning in a scheme which Mr. H. W. Massingham published in a late number of the Contemporary Review, for what he is...

THE LEVANT OF TO-DAY. TN the East there are, thank God, things which never change.. The fullness of light, the perpetual, dramatic contrast of life and death, the sweep of the...

THE REIGN OF MARY TUDOR. LTO THY EDITOR 01 TRZ BracuToz.") have for thirty years and more been a regular buyer and reader of the Spectator, and have admired its general...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPTCTATOR."] SIR, — The extraordinary scarcity of railway bookstalls in Ireland has not, as far as I know, provoked any comment from tourists. I tried in...

SIR, — I cannot resist sending you an illustration of the truth of your remarks upon courtesy towards soldiers. In 1855, when we were working under difficulties to get up our...

go THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I believe the realistic description of a hanging, heard in an "accidental conversation" by your writer, to be quite true. In the West of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcTAToa."1 SIR,—The last sentence of your notice of M. Renan's "Israel," with its comment on the use of the word "dupli- city," as applied to the double...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I beg to call your attention to the review in the Spectator of September 26th on "Idylls, Legends, and Lyrics," and to point out that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Your article on "Courtesy," in the Spectator of October 3rd, does not, I venture to think, leave quite a fair impres- sion on the mind...

MR. FITZGERALD'S LIFE OF BOSWELL.* "ANY fool," said the poet Gray, after reading Boa well's account of Corsica, "may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell...

PAINT AND INK. To C. W. F. You take a brush, and I take a pen : You mix bright colours, I use black ink : You cover a canvas, you first of men; I write on a sheet for a...

THE author of this fragmentary and digressive autobiography has written some very respectable and highly polished verses ; but in Scotland at least he is best known for a reason...

THE author tells us that he has written this novel with the double object of improving the literature of his countrymen • Indul.ka : a Malayalam Novel. By D. Chandn Menon....

which is the first instalment of the second edition of his treatise of the same title, published eight years ago, Dr. Cunningham has given us a mostuseful and interesting work...

THE Magazines are not very striking this month, the most attractive article perhaps being Mr. Goldwin Smith's " Ques- tion of Disestablishment," upon which we commented last...

At an Old Ch4teau. By Katharine S. Macquoid. (Ward and Downey.)—Mrs. Macquoid introduces her customary dramatis personm, a French demoiselle and an English lover, but she does...

Alfred Gotgrave. Assisted by Henri Bolland. (H. Sotheran and Co.)—The Guille-Alles Library and Museum is an institution of which Guernsey ought to be and doubtless is...

Sons.)—This is a thoughtful and carefully elaborated work on British rule in India, on what it has done, ought to do, and can do. Defects of the present system are criticised in...

E. A. Lyster. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Thomas Lyster, a lad of Irish birth, obtained his commission in the Royal Engineers in 1857. He served at the Curragh for nearly three years,...

Introduction, by F. . C. Montague, M.A. (Oxford.)—The Fragment on Government was published anonymously (with this title) in 1776, when Bentham was in his 29th year. It was a...

—Professor Morley's sixth volume takes in a variety of English writers (a term which includes authors born north of the Tweed) from "Chaucer to Caxton." The first name is John...

Marston, and Co.)—Dr. Nelson has much that is interesting to tell us about men and manners in Panama. He describes the churches, the priests, and population generally; and he...

and Turner.)—Mr. Chapman, of course, believes, and is probably right in believing, that Deal was the point at which CEesar made his first landing. With this incident, therefore,...