a great public gathering in the Coliseum, the other on Wednesday, to the members of the Junior Liberal Associa- tion in the Philosophical Hall—though they exhibited his usual...

much alarmed that he has agreed, in a speech at Toulon, to accept M. Floquet's Revision scheme, restrictive clauses and all. That decision is greatly at variance with his...

tropical colonies. They seem to have fancied that they could settle the territory ceded to them in East Africa as easily as an uninhabited island, and are dismayed at the...

Royal persons, and the bulletin-makers evi- dently think it most impertinent of the sky to rain, and so prevent the Prince of Wales and the Heir-Apparent of Austria from...

I T is announced that a banquet is to be given in London, at the Hotel Metropole, on November 14th to Lord Salisbury and Lord Hartington by the Nonconformist Unionist Associa-...

case.

Quarterly, makes some remarks which, his position being con- sidered, may be of importance. He gives a list of the questions "which may well form the subject of negotiation"...

with the centenary of the Sunday-schools of the Unitarian Church of the Messiah at Birmingham,—the schools in which, he reminded his audience, he himself taught twenty years...

Commerce a speech on general politics. It was, in the main, a plea for the Federation of the Empire. He held that the cause of the existence of that Empire was commerce, without...

a proposal having very large bearings. He apparently—fee; there is some obscurity in his plan—desired that the whole property of the Church in each diocese, including the tithe,...

of which was devoted to the Parnell Commission. The speaker intimated the unusual opinion that if the letters attributed to Mr. Parnell had been acknowledged by him, they would...

Liberals at Blaenau Festiniog. Commenting on Mr. Balfour's speech, he asked whether the Chief Secretary had told his audience of the population decreasing by sixty thousand a...

for 1887, shows conclusively that the Force is now under- manned. In 1840, nearly forty years ago, when the population was 2,473,000, the authorised strength of the Police was...

even the grandiose scale of American accidents. The teetotalers of the Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys, in Pennsyl- vania, arranged on Wednesday for a " parade " in honour of Father...

light upon the Whitechapel murders. The police enter- tain the belief, as we gather from the remarks of Mr. Craw- ford, the City Coroner, who is inquiring into the murder in...

far. We do not feel sure that it has not been carried too far already in the case of Portugal, when we consider the account given in Thursday's Times of the obstacles she is...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 971 to 971.

the Vienna journals warn the Bulgarians not to be premature, and not to claim a majority in Macedonia which they do not possess. They say they are three to one of the Greeks,...

address on the condition of the Navy to the Chamber of Commerce. In answer to the question, Is the strength of the Fleet sufficient ? he pointed out that in reality the...

M R. MORLEY'S logic has gone all to pieces. The Welsh, seeing the success of the Irish in obtaining their farms cheap, under cover of a demand for Home-rule, are beginning to...

'111..E GERMAN EMPEROR IN THE VATICAN. I T is not altogether without pleasure that thoughtful Protestants read of the visit to be paid by the German Emperor to the Vatican. The...

I T has been publicly announced that the Goldsmiths' Company have arranged with the Charity Commis- sioners to found a technical and recreative Institute in South London, to be...

M R. SMITH does not often make a big platform speech dealing with general questions of policy. When he does, however, there is no difficulty in under- standing what are the...

A S all the tribes except one refused to comply with the demands of the Indian Government, General M'Queen, who apparently has full powers, opened his highland campaign at the...

TT is one of the many evils arising from the want of a 1_ great Municipality for London, that the Government is always timid and slow in providing for the needs of the...

A CORRESPONDENT, who should know his subject if anybody alive knows it, endorses all we said a fortnight ago about the wild whims of the great singers, and the pardon extended...

T HE Church Congress, during the session which has just closed, had the moral and social questions involved in the growth of gambling brought before it in a discussion in Which...

W HEN the Grosvenor Gallery opened years ago, there were many who were surprised and disappointed that the decorative art corresponding in feeling to the pictorial art which...

" SINGING-MATCHES " IN WESSEX. September 28th. I REMEMBER, Sir, that some quarter of a century ago, you were interested in the popular songs of our English country- folk, and...

THE OLD AND THE NEW THEORY OF INSPIRATION. [To THE EDITOR 07 TIER " EPICTATOR." SIR,—The meeting of the Church Congress in Manchester has been remarkable for the boldness with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sriz,—In Mr. Wemyss Reid's excellent and most interesting Life of Mr. Forster, there is an important extract from a. letter (Vol. I., p....

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " BYRCTATOR."1 SIR,—The following, received from a correspondent writing from Dieppe, is interesting in its way, and bears upon the subject of your recent...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Lord Salisbury once said that amongst the things necessary to the successful cultivation of the- soil in these times are "more brains,"...

LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.* THE Life of Stratford Canning, based on piles of authentic' materials, and well composed in nervous English by Mr Stanley Lane-Poole, will be...

HYMN FROM THE PROLOGUE TO "FAUST." SONOROUS speeds the Sun through heaven, 'Mid music of his sister-spheres, And following still the mandate given, With march of thunder leads...

[To THE EDITOR or amyl " SPUTATOR."1 SIE,—I fail to make out what particular class of Indian vegetarians you mean, when you say, in the Spectator of October 6th :—" The...

pinks smell sweet In the boxes over the way. The night is a night of June, When the summer flowers are born, And, above, a sickle moon Hangs over the coming corn. No sigh of...

IT is a pleasure to read a pamphlet written in English by a Hindoo which expresses Hindoo sentiments, and is not a mere reflex of European Radical ideas. Rajah Oday Pertap...

Mr. Swinburne, "may be Goldsmith or may be Scott; the best beloved will always be Charles Lamb." Any kind of comparison between three such literary favourites must, it seems to...

by the late Dr. Lindsay Alexander to the students in the Theological Hall of the Congregational Churches in Scotland. They represent the latest and best thoughts of the author....

THE actor is bat an ephemeral artist ; he becomes legendary so soon as he is seen and heard no more ; he creates nothing, he enriches no Art treasury; he is an imitator, an...

That enterprising monthly, the North American Review, threatens to become a receptacle for letters, instead of being a collection of articles,—certainly several of the papers in...

a Critical Introduction and Notes, by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Fitzgibbon gives some in- teresting information in his introduction, which furnishes a good...

author of "St. Bernard's "gives in this book what he calls a " key " to his former book,—that is, he gives from medical journals proofs, as supplied by cases there recorded, of...

Hernias. By S. P. Lambros, Ph.D. Translated and edited by J. Armitage Robinson, MA. (Cambridge University Press.)—The history of the teat of the Shepherd is curious. The book...

—Mr. Cox went to Rome as correspondent of the Tablet, at the jubilee of the Pope's priesthood (we hope that this is not too secular a way of expressing the object of his...

vols. (.Ward and Downey.)—This is a distinctly clever and certainly most entertaining novel. The " leal lass" is May Beresford, daughter of a country Vicar, who ekes out his...

(Nisbet and Co.)—In this little volume Mr. Mitchell gives a sketch of what has been done in the field of missions, and what remains to do. On the whole, he is hopeful. He has...

This magazine keeps well up to its standard of excellence. In respect of the illustrations, the most important series of articles is Mr. W. Outram Tristram's "Coaching Days and...

defended pure theism, as he conceived it, as against polytheistic Hindooism and Christianity. His works have been suffered to fall into oblivion, from which it is now desired to...

usual, more than half of the first part of this volume, and more than a third of the whole. On the Irish Question the writer is certainly not unfair to the Nationalists. But is...

German. (George Bell and Sons.)—Calendar of the University College of Wales, Aberystwith,1888 - 89. (J. E. Cornish, Manchester.)—A History of Scotland. By M. G. J. Kinloch....

Allies (I'. W.) Holy See and the Wanderings of the Nations (Burns lc Oates) 10/6 Arnold (E.), With Sedi in the Garden, or Sao (Trilbner) 7/6 Atherton (0. J.), The Garden of God,...

Lowe. (John C. Nimmo.)—This is a dictionary of all books and pamphlets that have appeared "from the earliest times to the present day" in England, bearing on theatres, plays,...

by Briton Riviere, R.A.—No. 4 of Our Celebrities, containing portraits of Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, Sir Charles Russell, and Mr. Edmund Yates.—The Magazine of Art, the...

Yea ely. Half. Quarterly. Including postage to any part of the United yearly. 0 14 3 0 7 2 Including postage to any of the Australasian Colonies, America, France, Germany ......

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the "SPECTATOR" Oftloe, No. 1 Wellin g ton Street,...

FOR THE No. 3,146.] WEEK ENDD I; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1888. [7.,==.) GRATIS.

Tam learned and able work will be a great boon to students of history, philosophy, and theology. There is nothing to be compared to it in English, and it is worthy to take its...

FRANCE AS IT IS.* AN account of France written specially for English readers might naturally be suspected of that kind of impartiality which is the fruit of omission rather than...

LONDON: OCTOBER 13, 1888.

we have to find with which is that they are too stout—in the department of Corre- spondence, not of Biography, which is in all respects admirable —give us a full-length portrait...

well-known but rather oddly named series of scientific handbooks, we have a clear and ample statement of the present condition of that branch of psycho- logical inquiry which...

Jr is fortunate for students of Irish arekeology that for Christian art in any case a greater antiquity cannot be claimed than 1888 years, and that the probable date of the...

of a novelty in the way of lexicons, and a commendable one. Its object is to afford to those who have little or no know- ledge of Latin and Greek, " an easy, interesting, and...

take too much space to reveal the "secret," simple though that is, of the diagrams by which Mr. McDowell shows at a glance hcw we stand now, and how we have stood before, in...

The New British Constitution and its Master-Builders, by the Duke of Argyll (Douglas, Edinburgh), is in the form of a thin little volume of 140 pages, a clever, well-planned,...

second volume includes the sixteen years 1860-1875. Mr. Tenniel, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, is the leading artist of this admirable series of drawings. One of the...

Co.), is a short account, by Mr. A. J. Copeland, Treasurer of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem, of the palace, hospital, gaol, and school, which in the popular...

Edinburgh.)—A vigorous and loving description of the gradual advance and decay of insect and vegetable life, with the annual movements of birds. Birds, indeed, the writer...

little volume will help to give those wives whose desti- nation is India, a fair idea of what their lot is likely to be, and how household duties are arranged there. The writer...

Fraser Rae. (Chapman and Hall.)—This book, on Carlsbad, Marienbad, Gastein, Franzenbad, Meran, Konigswart, IschL Arco, and other favourite resorts of the elite — a tolerably...

and Windus.)—A jealous and needy adventurer wishing to rid himself of his rival, lends him a fiery horse. This is the plot, and it is foiled by the devotion of a young lady,...

Scriptural animals, the writer has set him- self a difficult task. Many animals are only casually mentioned to serve some purpose, allegorical or metaphorical ; hence, in the...

is a volume which we regret, for the sake both of its contents and of its author as an authority on all things Scotch, not to be able to notice at some length. It has grown out...

(Walter Scott.)—The characteristics of Professor Blackie's style as a poet are probably well known to most readers of verse. His geniality, his pleasant egotism, his love of...

—A sketch of the advance of the electric-light, and the subsequent and still-continuing struggle between it and gas and oil. The dangers and defects of the two latter are plain...

Without Cripple- and more frequent. Every parish has a history that is worth recording, and all might find, sooner or later, a competent historian. About St. Giles's,...

physicians, which, accompanied by likenesses, have appeared in the Medical Midland Miscellany, now known as the Provincial Medical Journal. Each paper contains details of the...

Tullock. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—Mr. Tullock introduces us first to the early history of the Hohenzollerns, and treats also of the origin of Guelfs and Ghibellines. The way is thus...

in any way wishing to detract from Mr. Stopes's work, we honour Shakespearian scholars for their silence. Shakespeare can defend himself against the Baconian arguments, which...

Fisher Unwin.)—Mrs. Brookfield found that "even the simplest editions which are published" were too difficult for her own little children to understand, and has accordingly put...

Karl Friedrich KeiL chiefly by the Rev. Peter Christie. Edited by the Rev. F. Crombie, D.D. Vol. I. (T. and T. Clark.)—"Biblical Archceology is the scientific representation of...

D.D. Edited, with Introduction, by the Rev. A. L. Simpson, Derby. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Simpson, after paying a well- deserved tribute to the character and genius of Dr....

Ilnwin.)—A collection of a few fables, texts, and stories, the morals of which are carefully expounded and applied to every-day life in such a way that children will be likely...

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Flinn discusses the climate of Ireland generally, the mineral springs that are found in the country, and the health-resorts, both sea-side and...

By the Rev. D. Douglas Bannerman. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—This elaborate treatise, one of the series of "Cunningham Lectures," treats the growth of what may be called the...

and Son.) —Miss Hullah tells an interesting tale here. The scene is laid in Germany ; the heroine is the granddaughter of an impoverished Baron. There is, perhaps, a little...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Fisher has performed with creditable success the difficult task of bringing within the compass of a single volume, "in a not unreadable form, the...

Putnam's Sons.)—The second title of this book is more descriptive of its contents than the first. "The Most Important Military Events from 1815-1887" may pass ; but twenty-five...

R. Driver, D.D. (Nisbet and (Jo.)—Professor Driver adds to the title which we have quoted above, "And the Writings which Bear his Name." Ile is, indeed, quite clear that the...

are, Mr. Bacon says, two theories of the origin of religion. According to one, men began to be religious from their own reflec- tions, discoveries, and inventions ; according to...

and Co.)—M. Marion begins with relating various attempts to traverse the air, as that of the Marquis de Racqueville, who tried to fly with wings, and fell into a washerwoman's...

and Downey.)—Miss Linskill always puts very good matter into her stories; so good it is, so full of reflection and feeling, that we rather grudge it to what can scarcely but be...

B. Hill, Madras.)—Coimbatore is a district considerably larger than Yorkshire, which may be roughly described as lying between Mysore and Trichinopoly. Mr. Nicholson, who is...

Allen.)—It fell to us some time ago to speak very cordially of Mr. Burnley's "Romance of Invention." It is an equally pleasing duty to refer not less eulogistically, although...

and Sons.)—When in the first chapter of a novel we find a young gentleman of rank mentioned alternately as Lord Stutton and Lord Maurice Stutton, we know we have to deal with a...

and Blackett.)—This seems to be a first book, and there is clever- ness in it, perhaps promise ; but if the potential promise is ever to develop into pleasing performance, Mr....

D.D. (Appleton, New York.)—One may not agree with Dr. Lewis's views—which he hints at rather than fully expresses, at all events in this volume—and yet freely admit that this is...

Co.)—Though it is last in published order, we prefer to tale Health in Schools and Workshops first, as being of the greatest importance to the masses of the population....

(Hurst and Blackett.)—This story will suit the numerous readers who like a stirring, well-tangled plot, with plenty of exciting situations, and are not unduly exigent in the...

pleasant recollections of Mr. MacAlpine's "Teresa Itasca, and other Stories," and there is material for pleasant re- collections in Broken Wings, though we do not think it...

and Co.)—We have a vague recollection of having seen one or two of these stories before, and probably many or all of them have been reprinted from periodicals. As magazine tales...