SOME CHILDREN'S BOOKS.* PRESUMABLY all the "really truly" fairy-stories are "told out," for Mr. Andrew Lang gives us this autumn, instead of the usual fairy-book, a Book of...

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those 14o have of recent years taken an active interest in the reunion of Christian bodies have not paid more attention to the history and position of the Greek Church. A...

A DOUBLE interest attaches to this book. It represents the last words of one of the keenest minds amongst English philosophical writers of the second half of the nineteenth...

SCOTTISH HISTORY AND LIFE.* THIS very handsome volume is an outcome of the Glasgow International Exhibition of last year. One of the most interesting parts of that Exhibition...

THIS is one of the occasional "Portfolio Monographs," and fully supports the high character of the series. The material with which Canon Benham had to work was fortunately...

is one of Mr. Manville Fenn's many gifts to be at home in all regions. "Pone me," he might say with Horace, "sjccis campis," or anywhere else, and he will sing, not of Lalage,...

by Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Miles has again given us a very pleasant collection of tales. It may perhaps be objected that some of the incidents described...

and Son. 5s.)—It is, of course, too early to write the history of the Spanish-American War, but we cannot object to stories about it. It is new ground; it gives an opportunity...

3s. 6d.) -A school-story this, and a good one. The most puzzling thing that ever comes to pass in a school is theft. It cannot be regarded from the ordinary point of view ; that...

is a prettily written fairy-story, not on the old lines of the "White Cat" and "Jack the Giant Killer," but of a more sentimental kind. Oberon, Titania, Robin Goodfellow, Puck,...

is always a welcome sight, and the present volume, as a whole, does not fall below the expectations of the reader. We cannot but think, however, that it is a mistake in a...

6d.)—Miss Giberne has made a success of this collection of short stories. Each has a sufficient interest of its own, and this is heightened by the skilfully managed thread of...

to meet the requirements of a magazine which can be given with equal appropriateness to boys and girls ; the letter- press is chiefly of a kind that will interest both. This is...

6d.) —" Will you, too, sell those apples at the fair ?" said Ladykin's father to her. " No, daddy, no !" answered the child, " I shall give them away." "Then you will indeed be...

6d.)—Mr. Ker, who lays the scene of his story in Eastern Brazil, opens the tale with a striking incident, admirably de- scribed, and keeps up to the same level with considerable...

Browne, and Co. 35. 6d.)—Mr. Whishaw is always able to tell a story well, but he has not this time, we think, got a subject that suits him particularly. The "Lion's Cub" of last...

(Seeley and Co. 5s.)—These eleven stories are of a somewhat a nimal quality. They are wholly unconventional ; the figures in them are not cut to the familiar patterns to which...

and Sons. 5s.)—Miss Everett-Green's literary output is not a little surprising. Here is a volume of about a hundred and ten thousand words, a task to which a good portion of a...

we liked the first half of this story better than we liked the second. Miss Lyster might have enforced the lessons and drawn the morals which she wishes to enforce and to draw...

(Blackie and Son. fis.)—The story of the British Legion is not exactly one which Englishmen look back to with great satisfaction. It was commanded by a gallant and skilful...

Partridge and Co. 2s.)—A "tramp ship," it should be understood, is a ship that is ready to carry cargo wherever it may be wanted. The Meteor' carried tinplates from Wales to the...

the more interesting because they will be new to most English readers. Ursula Clifford comes to live with her uncle, George Brendon, at his farm up-country. She is but fifteen...

Nelson and Sons. ls.)—Mr. Higginson tells us a breezy story of " blackbirding " and piracy in the South Seas. It is full of ad- venture, contains an exciting plot, and is by no...

Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Probably older readers will appreciate this collection quite as much as children will. We can assure them that they will find some charming...

Co. 5s.)—Mr. Leighton has reached such a degree of skill in nar- rating a romance or an adventure that it is no longer necessary for him to go far afield in search of incident....

what lurid in colour, for Walhalla was not as the shining Olympus, but striking in outline. What a fine imagining, for instance, it is when Thor in his journeying comes upon an...

Edited by A. H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 5s.)—Regarded from a literary point of view, these selections of Mr. Miles seem to improve, as he has widened his scope to take in...

3s. 6d.) —This is a collection of short stories embodying the moral that the Ancient Mariner learnt a little too late, and one that many people never learn at all. Most children...

Duncan Romaine, going with companions to seek a treasure somewhere in the province of Archangel, is beset and hindered at every turn by emissaries of the Russian Government. One...

Coast of Africa. They obtain their liberty, only to fall into the hands of the tribe who had wiped out the slave-hunters. They again obtain their release after sundry...

1878, and distinguishes himself in various ways. Mr. Johnston, who follows history closely in the campaign, describes the disaster at the ford, the cholera march, and the fight...

ls. 6d.)—The adventures of Lady Nithsdale, Grizel Hume, and Grizel Cochrane are very clearly and brightly related. One would like to have known how they managed to conceal Sir...

3s.'Gd.)—This is a Viking story with much of the full- bodied flavour we attach to the times and deeds of a lawless age. Conan, a Scot, is captured with a young Saxon thegn...

3s. 6d. net.) —This is a very uninteresting and commonplace story of every- day life, with no action, no vigour, and no humour in it. We have lots of characters, none under...

(J. Nisbet and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Here we have related to us the adventures of the Rabbit who spends a day in town under the guidance of the Fool. " J. B. A." tries various metres in...

heroine of a pretty little story of Mon- mouth's Rebellion. She is a Taunton girl, and her brother goes to Sedgmoor. He returns and is hidden, only to reveal himself when a...

Pearson. 5s.)—We cannot call this a satisfactory book on the whole. " The Battle of Omdurman " and " The Great Assault on Ladysmith" are fairly well described ; indeed, Mr....

Others. (W. and R. Chambers. 5s.)—Mr. Henty's name will attract many boys, but there are other names equally attractive to older readers,—to wit, D. C. Murray, Bryden, Guy...

2s. 6d.) —Aunt Abby is a practical Christian who lived somewhere in the States, and her conversations on such subjects as sects, charity, and friendship take up a chapter each....

AMONG SWAMPS AND GIANTS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa : an Acconnt of Surreys and Adventures in the Southern Sudan and British East Africa....

Nelson and Sons. 5s.)—Long as this story is, we think that few young people will lay it down without regret, for the many striking characters of the great Civil War move through...

Educational Studies and Addresses. By T. G. Rooper. (Blackie and Son. 28. 6d.)—This volume of essays is one that we heartily recommend to the attention of parents and teachers....

Education and the Larger Life. By C. Hanford Hender- son. (Gay and Bird. 6s.)—Mr. Henderson sets himself in this volume to inquire " how education can be so applied in America...

The series of volumes on " Music in the Nineteenth Century " under the general editorship of Mr. Robin H. Legge makes an excellent start with Mr. J. A. Fuller-Maitland's English...

Outlines of Criminal Law Based on Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge. By Courtney Stanhope Kenny. (Uni- versity Press, Cambridge. 10s.)—Dr. Kenny has supplemented...

devotion, liturgic usages, national temperament, and types and methods of expression current in secular art." We cannot attempt a detailed criticism of the results of his...

Colonial Government : an Introduction to the Study of Colonial Institutions. By Paul S. Reinsch, Professor of Political Science in the University of Wisconsin. (Macmillan and...

The Story of Florence. By Edmund G. Gardner. With 40 Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen, and many Reproductions from the Works of Florentine Painters and Sculptors. (J. M. Dent and...

The Prisoner in the Dock. By James Greenwood. (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d.)—The "amateur casual " has here produced an entertaining book, the result of four years' work as roving...

Madame de Pompadour. By H. Noel Williams. With 16 Photogravures. (Harper and Brothers. 25s. net.)—Probably no woman ever lived who did so much harm to her country as Madame de...

Charles the Second. By John Heneage Jesse. (Arthur L. Humphreys. 12s.)—This well-got-up volume is a piece of book- making in its most rudimentary form. It is simply a reprint...

The Heart of Japan : Glimpses of Life and Nature Par from the Traveller's Track in the Land of the Rising Sun. By Clarence Ludlow Brownell. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—It is possible...

Papal Aims and Papal Claims : with Remarks on Apostolic Succession. By E. Garnet Man, Barrister-at-Law. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. Ss.)—Mr. Man has collected in this volume...

The Development of Cabinet Government in England. By Mary Taylor Blauvelt, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—This interesting monograph on the origin and growth of Cabinet government...

2s. 6d.)—These fables are clever, a little difficult to understand now and then—a fable ought always to be lucidly clear—and not particularly agreeable to read. Didithe writer...

Progress of India, Japan, and China. By Sir Richard Temple. (W. and R. Chambers. 5s. net.)—This volume belongs to a " Nineteenth Century Series," now appearing in the United...

The American Invasion. By Sir Christopher Furness, M.P. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls. net.)—Sir Christopher Furness " does not despair of the republic" of British industry. He...

The Fascination of London : Chelsea. By G. E. Mitten. Edited by Sir W. Besant. (A. and C. Black. ls. 6d. net.)—This volitme, one of four on the same scale and with substantially...

Leader Office. 5s.)—Mr. Rose sets forth here the case for the Transvaal. His opinions, we need hardly say, are widely different from those of the Spectator. It is obviously...

late William Wills. Fifth Edition. Edited by his Son, Sir Alfred Wills, Knight, one of his Majesty's Judges of the High Court of Justice. (Butterworth and Co. 12s. 6d.)—This...

Peters, D.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—Dr. Peters has collected a number of letters, essays, and statements in various forms, dealing with great economical questions of the...

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in Tetuan and are threatening the town. It appears that the Basha refused to release several of their tribesmen from prison, including the murderer of a British subject, and...

The Government cannot agree to. the still higher duties upon food which the . Agrarians wish to impose, and the Socialists resist the duties fixed in the Bill by a method of...

spite of the bad weather, he fulfilled his engagement to review the Royals, of which regiment he is honorary Colonel, at Shorncliffe, lunched with the officers, delivered a...

M R. BALFOUR was, of course, the chief speaker at the Guildhall banquet on Monday, and made a striking speech, which will have a reassuring effect all over the world. After a...

in the United States, evidently intends that the Republic shall be a weighty power in the world's affairs. Speaking on November 11th to the Chamber of Commerce, the President of...

more optimistic,—perhaps a little too much so. He was certain that the great Governments wished for peace, and though there were "faults," geological faults, in the inter-...

case.

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of the Militia and Yeomanry Bill. Section 3 of Clause 1 provides for the formation of a special-service section of the Yeomanry, who are to be liable for service abroad in time...

had an easier task than usually falls to the head of his Department. In spite of the famine, the Treasury has seen two years of full coffers. In the year which ended on April...

whether the Government had decided to set apart increased areas of Richmond Park for Volunteer drill and manceuvres. The answer returned by Mr. Ailwyn Fellowei was as follows...

both by the Government and the people as a kind of reserve force to be utilised in difficult crises, has delivered a most striking lecture on the condition of Southern Italy. It...

the Dukhobors by the unhesitating employment of force. The fanatics, weakened by privation and exposure, were sur- rounded by mounted police, and although the men threw them-...

which would weigh more than it does in discussions on India but that its exponents have such a habit of exaggeration. The people as a whole are far richer under us than under...

of Commons to permit the Closure by compartments of the dis- cussion in Committee of the Education Bill. It has lasted thirty-eight nights, everything has been said, or might...

ting a certain number of remount horses to Yeomanry regiments. The horses are to be handed over to such Yeomen as may apply for them. The men may treat them in every way as...

was resumed at the last subsection of Clause 12. The Government proposal made the education authorities in Wales the bodies constituted under the Welsh Intermediate Education...

long and decidedly dull. There are no surprises and no gratifications of public opinion. The King's advisers have apparently thought that it would be well to scatter titular...

by Mr. Brodrick and Lord Roberts on behalf of the Reservists and their wives. Besides recommending the claims of Reservists to employers of labour, they issue a special appeal...

community, whose burdens the Unionist Government had done their best to relieve, and would further relieve when our finances justified it, declared the amendment im-...

largely attended meeting of Congregation at Oxford. The resolution submitted by the Hebdomadal Council was to the effect" that candidates shall not be required to offer both...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 94.

MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH. M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the Guildhall was in one respect of most happy augury. It was the first time that he had been called upon to speak as head of his...

by theories, but still they have their slow influence ; and we cannot think that Liberals and Radicals are wise, from their own point of view, in renouncing the theory as well...

A MORAL struggle of peculiar interest and import- ance . is in progress in North-Eastern France. The workers in the mines of the Departments of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais are...

the Times has been printing for nearly three months past came to an end on Tuesday. The writer sums up the con- clusions he has sought to establish in twenty-seven para- graphs,...

the King on the occasion of his Majesty's birthday is one that is not calculated to startle, though it may amuse, the large public that is directly or indirectly interested in...

of Greek should take in a liberal education has once more arisen in an important form. A resolution has been submitted by the Hebdomadal Council to Congregation at Oxford which...

T HE cheerful Australian writer who signs himself " Sun- downer " contributes a volume of fact and fancy to the snake-stories of the world. The "Tale of the Serpent" (Ghetto and...

A T times there is a temptation to believe not only that idyllic things are passing away, but even that they never existed ; that they were invented by men and women in despair...

THE EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — To one accustomed to the liberal and just tone of the Spectator the article on "The Power of the Laity in...

Sia,—Referring to your article and remarks in the Spectator of November 8th with regard to the Kenyon-Slaney amend- ment to the Education Bill, will you allow an average Church-...

of the Church of England must feel a debt of gratitude for the consistent manner in which the Spectator has championed the cause of the voluntary schools during the present...

" A Soldier Secretary of State for War" and "The Power of the Laity in Religious Education" (Spectator, November 8th) curiously illustrate the different standards by which men...

to read your article on religious education on November 8th. The writer speaks of ordina- tion as being " highly expedient as a setting apart of candi- dates for a noble...

SIR,—As a regular reader of your paper, and I hope a frequent learner from it, I should like to thank you for your leader on the Kenyon-Slaney amendment and your kind words...

spirit of your article on the power of the laity in religious education (Spectator, November 8th), one cannot help feeling some surprise at your statement that the laity do not...

were more ready to trust our lay people, the amendment proposed by Colonel Kenyon-Slaney would not cause us much alarm. I cannot myself conceive any set of circumstances in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The articles and letters which have appeared in the Spectator in reference to the above subject have been par- ticularly interesting...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Reviewing politics is like squeezing a wet sponge,— write or squeeze how one may, the matter, as the sponge, is seldom squeezed dry....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.') SIn, — In craving your hospitality for a few remarks upon the kindly paragraph vouchsafed to my book, " A Whaleman's Wife," in the Spectator...

En THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Your reviewer and a correspondent consider that Ruskin " hampered " himself, and made much of his other• criticism inconsistent, by his...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—This year I have been shooting with three different village clubs in Switzerland, and it has occurred to me that some account of my...

[To TUE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In his letter (October 11th) dealing with the scheme of a Macedonian principality put forward by the Spectator in its previous issue,...

A TOAST. THE CIVIL SERVANT—INDIA, AFRICA, THE COLONIES. GENTLEMEN, charge your glasses : glasses Flushing with welcome, brim to brim, Oft to your heroes have ye drained;...

STONEWALL JACKSON.* IT would be that too common object of the literary seashore, a work of supererogation, to dilate at this period upon the merits of this book. Its position...

Professor of Engineering in the Owens College, Manchester, has been engaged for twenty years upon a research which promises to have a very remarkable effect upon our ideas as to...

IT would be difficult to find a better book of adventure than Captain O'Brien's, now for the first time reprinted under the auspices of Professor Oman. Simple and direct as a...

LAVINIA.* MISS BBOUGHTON'S novels always exact the attention that is due to a slow producer in an age when machine-made fiction predominates, to the possessor of a style which...

66.) —Mr. Levett-Yeats succeeds almost as well as is possible in lending freshness to a well-worn situation. The Royalist maiden who has an unworthy Cavalier and a worthy...

frankly say that we were not sorry to get to the end of this novel, not because it is dull and ill-written, for it certainly is not, but because the atmosphere seemed to us...

Sons. Gs.)—This is a novel by the well-known negro poet. He presents the reader with his photograph upon the first page. The story deals with negro life in New York, and it is...

(Cambridge University Press. 3s.)—It is explained in the preface that the information given in this volume is not official, but that it has been carefully collected and revised...

2s. 6d. net.)—These " tales about temperaments" consist of three stories and two short plays. One of the plays called " Repentance " is decidedly striking. The scene is laid in...

Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Gribble treats a subject which has often been made the occasion of work that is bad in every sense with tact 'and delicacy. The heroine, brought 'up in a remote...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not been reserved for review in other forms.] In Pursuit of the Mad Mullah. By Captain Malcolm McNeill, D.S.O. (C....

Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale. Edited by Andrew Ingraham. (Macmillan and Co. Is. net.)—The editor supplies practical directions for reading aloud (he seems doubtful whether we...

Sons, Manchester.)—William Green, a native of Manchester, began his plan in 1'787 and finished it seven years later. It seems to have been most conscientiously done. Even then...

by Charles Bertram. (C. Arthur Pearson. 6s.)—This is a thorough manual of the conjurer's art. There is an essay on " General Principles of Natural Magic," another on " Manner...