LONDON: NOVEMBER 16, 1895.

MR. STEVENSON'S LETTERS.* EVER since it was announced that Mr. Stevenson's diary. letters, written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin, would be given to the world, the admirers of...

ONE of the results of the war of 1805 was the severance of Tyrol from Austria, and its enforced union with Bavaria to the dire dismay of the Tyrolers, who were passionately...

IN one of Mr. Kipling's stories, entitled "The Mutiny of the Mavericks," there occurs a scene in which an Irish private is represented as unfolding the regimental colours and...

IN Japan, as in China, the religion of the majority of the people is complex and eclectic, an amalgam of three ori- ginally distinct systems. "The average Japanese," says Dr,...

their personal affairs are the principal feature ; but the author of this book has strangely little to say about either himself or his belongings. His talk is chiefly about the...

task of holding up France as a country which is not successful in producing happy children, good soldiers, or painstaking citizens. His book is a collection of lively...

IT is very difficult to state with anything like precision the merits or faults of a book of fairy-tales, or to give intelligible reasons for liking or disliking it. One can do...

BEAST AND MAN.* HERR EERELMAN is a Dutch George Morland ; only, we hasten to add, what poor Morland never succeeded in being, a good citizen. To use another comparison, he does...

before us by three stories,—" Told by a Housekeeper," by Evelyn Everett-Green ; " Nadya : a Tale of the Steppes," a vivid and beautifully illustrated Russian peasant-story by...

have reached, respectively, their seventeenth and sixteenth yearly volumes. Among the other contents of the first in the way of fiction are "Amid Siberian Forests : a Tale of...

level of providing the very best and most varied of mental nutriment. We have a good serial with plenty of reading in it by Leslie Keith, entitled "The Indian Uncle," in which...

purpose of supplying "Sunday and General Reading" very well. Fiction, which, we need hardly say, is of a serious type, occupies but a moderate space ; the directly instructive...

—Mr. Cousins has been a missionary in the island for more than thirty years. To these opportunities of observation he adds a liberal and broad-minded way of looking at things...

this volume with the good quality of some of the verse, an article which ought to be made as good for children as for grown-ups. There are other praiseworthy things in the maga-...

Dobson. Illustrated by Herbert Railton. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Mr. Austin Dobson tells the story of the last three years of Hood's life,—years of work done, in spite of all...

Son.)— This is a very vigorous picture, which Mr. Henty has drawn for his young readers, of the wars between the East India Company and Tippoo, the Tiger. Dick Holland, the...

volumes, My Book of Perils, in which the balloons of the Siege of Paris, the trenches in the Crimea, and various other scenes of war, hunting, and exploration furnish the...

St. Andrews in 1645 - 46. By D. R. Kerr. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—Nowadays an extraordinary amount of interest is taken in old St. Andrews, and not by Scotchmen alone. It...

the Princess Alice. Not only had she great opportunities of action, and used them to the full, but she had also an intellectual and spiritual side to her life, which presents...

"For the Home, the School, and the World," claims as its founder the late Dr. Meynell Whittemore, a well-known writer of this kind of literature. It is an interest- ing and...

a boy's heart. Not only is he a giant in stature and courage, but he has a cool head, and shows himself a born leader. He rapidly works himself into the favour of the Black...

Anderson, and Ferrier), we have Nature's Story, by H. Farquhar, B.D. Mr. Farquhar discourses about flowers, with special refer- ence to their reproduction and preservation, and...

Edward William Lane's translation of The Arabian Nights' Enter- tainments. They have added from another source the stories of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "All Baba and...

fitting end when he and the traitor Tostig and their great invasion were defeated. Captain Young follows the adventures of Harold— partly historical and partly imaginary—first...

a story in which Mrs. Malaprop's theory that a little aversion is a good beginning for love, is justified by results. Effie Penrose is made the victim of a most extraordinary...

is a statement of the statutes that have been passed on the subject of food adulteration. These began with the 5 George I., cap. 11, though in those days our legislators'...

F. A. Gaussen. Edited by the Bishop of Stepney. (T. Fisher Unwin ) —Mr. Gaussen had an unusual acquaintance with Russian litera- ture, and helped to introduce some of its best...

Long, and Co.)—" A short and unpretending little work" is Mr. Cop:Lees description of his tale. Both epithets are justly applied ; and we may add that it shows good sense and...

Son.)—This "story of Russian intrigue" belongs to a class of literature which must be very well done if it le to succeed. There are some masterpieces, both in French and...

Co.)—In spite of its too great length, this is an extraordinary story,—extraordinary alike as regards the incident with which it opens and the Defoe-like, rather than Zolaesque,...

Quiller- Couch. (C. J. Clark.)—We may commend this little volume, a painstaking account of the Cornish Holy Wells. They have been personally visited, and their present condition...

—This volume reminds us of the photographs that one sometimes sees in a fifth-rate London street or small provincial town, poorly executed portraits of quite uninteresting...

H. E. Roscoe. (Cassell and Co.)—No one is better fitted to estimate the work of Dalton than Sir H. Roscoe. Doing this with characteristic aptitude in this volume, he adds a...

is not true that the Grand Trunk Road and un- counted empty beer-bottles are the only monuments of British sway in India, so we may refuse to believe that the British rulers...

Co.)—We cannot undertake to analyse the contents of this volume, the outcome, it is evident, of long and careful study. But it is interesting to note the conclusion to which...

is a theorist who contrives to deliver Europe from the adverse influences of militarism, socialism, anarchism, and the rest of the " isms " that threaten society. His executive...

J. Mason. (S.P.C.K.)—It is not necessary to do more than com- mend Dr. Mason's lectures to the notice of our readers. The sketches are necessarily in outline, for each portrait...

II. Edited by J. H. Levy. (P. S. Kin g and Son.)— There are some very interestin g papers in this volume, papers dealin g with many of the g reat economical q uestions of the...

S. H. Wayless. (Lon g mans.)—" Thou g hts" is hardly the word to describe these extracts. " Fancies " mi g ht be better. Jefferies described with a rarely sympathetic power, but...

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late. So far from the danger of the Christians being exaggerated, every account which reaches the Ambassadors is worse than those which reach the public. There is reason to...

not last. The Radicals and Socialists are as good as gold, and avoid awkward questions with a discipline of which they were believed incapable; but the Moderates are growing...

T ORD SALISBURY made his anxiously expected speech J at the Guildhall on Saturday, and its effect throughout Europe has been very great. He denied the existence of dangers in...

the new Governor Designate of Western Australia, Mr. Chamberlain, who presided, delivered both a very lively and a very instructive speech, in which he remarked on the great...

The Sultan, almost paralysed by personal fears, has fallen completely into the bands of a palace clique who trade on those fears, and represent that his Majesty can be safe only...

some understanding both as to the Far East and the Near East, but the course of action is not yet clear. Apparently, some proposal is to be laid before the Sultan, supported by...

of the National Federation by 47 to 40; and from the governing Committee of the Irish party in London, by 33 to 24 The nominal reason for expulsion was Mr. Healy's independent...

on Thursday night. He laughed at the inconsistency of the Radical organs, which complained in July of the Government for having no programme, no political food to offer us at...

Royal Colonial Institute on the prospects of East Africa. Captain Lugard thinks that region offers a fair field to English settlers of the right kind,—that is, men with a little...

sanguine, and perhaps hardly as prudent as he might have been, when he said in his speech on Colston Day at Bristol (Wednesday last) that it was "within the reasonable bounds of...

the capital. The Municipality, as was expected, met the Imperial refusal to sanction Dr. Lueger's election by re-elect- ing him, this time by a majority of 47 (92 to 45). The...

Mr. Chamberlain, a great many qualifications are needed,— namely, high character, good social standing, a large experi- ence of affairs, tact, discretion, exceptional...

ultimatum, and an expedition has therefore been ordered against him. It will he a small one, consisting of three hundred picked men from battalions at home, a West India...

replaced by Mahomed Fehmy Pasha. The reason assigned is physical infirmity, but Nubar, who is only seventy, was quite well a fortnight since, and it is quite probable that the...

week in the Church of St. Mary-at-Hill, Durham, on the difficulty of dealing with the unemployed. He seemed to think that with the increasing population of the world the...

Anchor - Society's meeting (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach of course spoke at the Dolphin Society's meeting) began by saying that the date Government had nothing to apologise for and...

Edwards, - the editor of Young Wales, expressing his gratification that there is to be what is, in the literary cant of the day, called a symposium,"—meaning a collection of...

general principles of Mr. Forster's Education Act, as regards Board-schools and voluntary schools, were to be in any way -revolutionised, but pledged the Government "to consider...

the enterprise in which Mr. Mummery, probably our greatest Alpine climber, and two Goorkbas lost their lives last August. They were attempting to reach the summit of one of the...

of the African elephant is going on, has appeared within the last ten days in the Times. It seems that there are more wild elephants preserved in Cape Colony than in the great...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1061.

LORD SALISBURY AT THE GUILDHALL. T ORD SALISBURY'S literary training is sometimes J mischievous to him, an epigram which he has thought of, burning his mouth as a shilling...

better to say, are charging the Government with complete indifference to the promises made by their supporters to the public before the General Election, and with a wish to...

the present year, which during its first three-quarters was memorable for the number of records broken on the side of optimism, has freed itself from the reproach of monotony by...

expedition to Coomassie, the principal kraal of Ashantee, and we wish it every success. The Chief of Coomassie—the word ." sheik" should be adopted for the head-men of all...

M R. HEALY has shared the fate which he helped to bring on Mr. Parnell. Like his much greater leader, he has been expelled from his position in his party, and driven to form a...

I T would not be esay to find any speech of an Opposition leader more satisfactory to the party in power than that of Mr. Asquith on Colston Day at Bristol. It was on the whole...

on Monday last possesses unusual interest. It is not the first such list which in recent years has included the names of Peers of the realm. Lord Bute was Mayor of Cardiff and...

" O F one thing be assured : Russia will never recog- nise a Roman Catholic Prince,—never, never !" In this sentence lies the kernel of the long controversy about the religion...

of tolerance which the classes are certainly very reluctant to grasp, even for the benefit of the masses,—we mean tolerance in taste. The Vestry of St. Mary Abbott's,...

T HEQuakers are holding a meeting this week at Man- chester to consider among other things the future of their Society; and when the speeches made are published in full we shall...

F ROM Hunstanton at the eastern entrance of the Wash, to Foulness beyond Cromer, the Norfolk coast lies in a straight line of forty miles, running from west to east. This great...

JOWETT. [To THE EDITOIG Of THE " SPZCTATOR."3 SIR,—Your friendly, though dissentient, notice of my volame;_ in the Spectator of November 2nd, tempts me to make two. remarks....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a great admirer of the Spectator, may I be allowed to protest against a verbal inaccuracy, in the article in the Spectator of...

MR. WATSON'S NEW POEMS.* Mn. WATSON gives us here what is perhaps the finest, perhaps, again, only the all-but finest, poem he has ever written. He asks of the Sea "a subtle...

[TO THE t DITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • 'SIR,—Your interesting review of my essay on "The Rigidity of Rome," presupposes so wide a difference between us, as to the philosophy of...

WE do not know why it is, but memories of Wagner will always bring back to us a story of him and the elder Dumas, —so characteristic of the two as to be worth recording. The...

Mn. DASENT must be credited with having spent a vast amount of research on this history, and the result is eminently satisfactory. In writing it he has consulted the parochial...

THE interests of South Africa are many-sided. This curious. agglomeration of States, administered by the Imperial Govern- ment, the Cape Colony, a joint-stock company, and...

SOMETHING of the self-revelation of which Mr. Noble speaks in his praise of the "charms of autobiography" penetrates this little volume of short essays. While reading them we...

To all who can enjoy military history this will be a fascinating book. It is written in conjunction by Captain F. E. Young- husband, formerly political officer at Chitral, and...

Stuck Up. By Nat Gould. (Routledge and Sons.) — Stuck Up, as its title implies, is an Australian story, and a very stirring one, too, of bushranging days. There are two brothers...

heroine of this story—a combination, as it may be sup- posed, of fiction and fact—is the Flora Macdonald who may be said to have saved the life of the young Pretender, with...

and Co.)—The Andes have always seemed to us to appeal more to the imagination than any other mountain range, and consequently this story of an expedition in quest of adventure...

Co.)—We are disappointed with this story, for so much more might have been done with the secret,—which, indeed, is the Secret of Life, discovered in an Egyptian temple. Mr....