MR. LELAND'S MEMOIRS.* Mn. Louis STEVENSON, perhaps in The Inland Voyage, per- haps in another book, but at any rate somewhere, speaks of that large class of people—natural...

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the deuxibme pas rather than the premier pas that is really critical. An impressive first novel may testify to a store of inherent power which can always be drawn upon, in which...

women's work in literature the name of Augusta Webster must be familiar. Her trans- lations of Greek tragedies are well known, as are also her numerous volumes of poems and...

Legacy, which bears on its title-page the name of a now writer, is one of the best Indian, novels which have so far been written. It is remark- ably clever ; it is written in a...

this curious but decidedly interesting memoir by her maiden name, was born at Riga in 1764, and was the daughter of a wealthy Livonian merchant-prince of German extraction....

not the least entertaining part of his volume, Mr. Lang apologises to his young readers for a possible disappointment,—t hey may have been expecting another book of...

excellent specimens of very different varieties in the art of story-telling. Mr. Frankfort Moore entertains us with a series of exciting ad- :ventures, which, however, he...

The Magazine of Art, 1593. (Cassell and Co.)—The annual volume of this magazine displays the great variety of interest which distinguishes it. We may find elsewhere finer...

Tract Society.)—This is "a story of two friends," the scene being laid in India, and it is told in a very simple, unpretending style. The two friends are old acquaintances in...

(Longuians.)—At an Eisteddfod held at Llangollen some thirty-five years ago, a prize was offered for the best essay on the "Discovery of America in the Twelfth Century by...

(S.P.C.K.)— Mr. Fenn always tells a story well. He knows his subject, be it of the land or of the sea, be the scene in it mine, or a factory, or a tropical river; and the...

Portuguese Discoveries, Dependencies, and Missions in Asia and Africa. By the Rev. Alex. J. D. D'Orsey, B.D. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—This is a book which is dated and prefaced...

Series. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We regret to say that this book, on a subject of the highest interest, is not com- piled in a manner to inspire interest enough to justify a long...

School Union.)—The story before us relates the adventures of a would-be page in the days of Queen Elizabeth ; would-be because lie never gets to Court, but is kidnapped by...

(Religious Tract Society.)—This is the third edition of an interesting little book, the work of a missionary in the region which he describes. The author has added a chapter...

Virtue and Co.)—Even the interest attaching to some of the adventures of our " Union-Jack" in Africa cannot redeem the very third-rate style and treatment of his subject by...

John Payne. (Clarendon Press.)—The voyages of Hawkins, Fro- bisher, and Drake, here reproduced from Hakluyt, are well worth reproduction, though we can hardly agree with Mr....

the old favourites,—" Beauty and the Beast," " Tom Thumb," "Blue-Beard," "Aladdin," and the rest of the familiar figures. They seem to us much the same as they have always...

Parts I. and II. (Deighton, Bell, and Co.)—This book appears under the editorship of Professor John C. B. Mayor, who thus pays his Operripta to the College in whose endowments...

Stoughton.)—The booksellers occupy about fifty pages. lin London these number, including the " second-hand " trade, between 500 and 600. The provincial booksellers may be...

Rev. Frederic Denison Maurice. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Maurice preached the sermons which were published under this title not quite forty years ago (February 26th—August, 1854)....

Harrison, M.A. (II. Frowde.)—Mr. Harrison gives some inter- resting particulars about Saxon architecture, with a special examination of the claim of the tower of St. Michael's...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Ellis traces back the history of the earth (and the nebula from which it may be supposed to have been developed) down to the doom,—the...

under Napoleon. By Louis Adolphe Thieve. Translated by D. Forbes Campbell and john Stubbing. Vol. I. (Chatto and Windus.)—We have here the first volume of a proposed reissue...

Acts. By Frederick Henry Chase, B.D. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Chase's theory i s that an old Syriac version, not the Syriac Vulgate, had a considerable effect on the text of the Codex...

(Remington.)—The first of these two stories is a study of homi- cidal insanity, horribly vivid and minute in its details. The distorted logic of the madman's reasonings is...

are now before us. Amelia is to appear, or has appeared, for it is advertised for September, in three ; Jonathan Wild in one; the twelfth and concluding volume containing the...

Wiggin. (Gay and Bird.) —Here we have two prettily-written tales, or what our American kinsmen are pleased to call tales, narratives wholly free from incident. To American...

M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is the seventh part of the history of the parishes in the Deanery of Bicester. The two parishes are separately treated, the historian displaying much...

and Downey.)—This book contains what the writer is pleased to call "four studios of the artistic temperament." People who may possess this temperament will scarcely be pleased...

G. Tallentyre. (W. Heinemann.)—The combined efforts of those two gentlemen to he humorous are but moderately successful. We do not profess to have read the whole of their...

(T. and T. Clark.)—To follow this book throughout would be to touch on many questions which cannot be discussed in these columns,— theories of law, its development, Roman,...

Edited by George W. Forrest. Vol. I. (Military Department Press, Calcutta.)—This volume contains an instalment of papers relating to the Indian Mutiny, The editor has arranged...

(Sim pkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. Rime has here put together in a convenient form and shape a number of familiar rules, instructions, and suggestions to the beginner in the...

able to praise Di'. Parker's utterances, but he is at his best in this volume. It is full of plain sense plainly put, but with a certain freshness and originality of manner that...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. David Jones is a beneficed elergymnn in Wales, and he pretests against the Anglicising policy which has been pursued with regard to the Church...

Introduction by Clifton Bingham. (Dean and Son.)—Let none be deluded by the handsome appearance of this volume into classing it with the "gift-book" species. It has a very...

Barnes gives in this little volume, which has the appearance of lectures republished, the outline of the evidence relating to the Gospels. He traces it backwards from the end of...

is "Diamond 128mo," in technical language ; to put it more plainly, it is about 11 in. by 11 in. by in. in size, and weigh exactly the same as two pennies and a farthing. It...

J. Gordon. (Day and Son.)—This is the most complete description of the birds of Britain which has yet appeared in so small a compass, and the arrangement, descriptions,...

Street, Strand ; and Published by Joust Castrnum„ of No. 1 Wellington Street, In the Precinct of the Snvoy. Strand, In the ceeety o Middlesex, at the 51 BrpoTATost" Office,...

T HE Government, aware that the revenue is sinking, has intervened, though very cautiously, in the coal crisis. On Tuesday, a letter was published, addressed by Mr. Gladstone to...

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the British Envoy having received his final audience on the 13th inst. No details have transpired, but the Times' corre- spondent sends a most friendly speech made by the Ameer,...

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to Italy, appears to have excited great interest upon the Continent. He visited the King at Monza, remaining in conversation with him for an hour-and-a-half ; and has since had...

hopes, and on Thursday two amendments were practically carried against the Government. Mr. H. S. Foster moved that the Employers' Liability Bill should not apply to...

at Agra, a most important speech. Nothing, he said, had given him more pain than the recent revival of jealousy between the two great faiths of India. There were faults on both...

case.

the author of a book on the philosophy of religion, which we lately reviewed, has been elected Master of Balliol in succession to Professor Jowett. He was once an Exhibitioner...

deputation how much more be had done than be appeared to have done, in introducing new elements upon the Bench. He showed how wisely anxious he had been to render the various...

section of the Employers' Liability Bill ended last Friday in its defeat by the narrow majority of 19. The drift of the amendment was to allow certain contracts,—chiefly those...

the Ulster Hall, Belfast, yesterday week. He pointed out that Mr. Asquith, while maintaining that it would be absurd to dis- solve on the refusal of the House of Lords to pass...

Asquith and his supporters to show that the railway men were not really favourable to the amendment, and had voted for it under a sort of coercion, completely failed, nor did...

Moses Room of the House of Lords on Wednesday by 210 Glad- stonians and 70 Irish Members, who waited upon him to urge greater energy and speed in the process of filling the...

presided at the Conference of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, held at the National Liberal Club on Tuesday week, made no attack on...

form,—almost any woman of full age, even if a mere visitor to the island, would have a vote,—and has carried it almost by a fluke, for it seems that a good many Members of...

a body of Anarchists to commemorate the deaths of "the Chicago Martyrs," and some violent speeches are said to have been made. A Mr. Murdoch declared the Barcelona outrage a...

at Munich, of the Baroness Tautphoens, the author of two or three of the most brilliant stories of our time, especially "The Initials" and "Quits." She was an Englishwoman, the...

Hall of St. Mary, Battersea, while appreciating very emphatically, —perhaps- even a little artificially,—the new municipal life which is strong in London, managed to say a...

has not produced the revival of financial animation that was hoped for, any more than it has produced the downfall of silver that was feared. In. the latter case, a new factor...

of Lord Vivian, and now Sir Robert Moder, Ambassador in St. Petersburg, a much greater man, has passed unexpectedly away. He died on the 16th inst. at Montreux, where he had...

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LORD HERSCHELL AS A DISCIPLINARIAN. M R. ALPHEUS MORTON, if he be as intelligent as he is certainly headstrong, will not soon forget the moral discipline which Lord Herschell...

M R. GLADSTONE has taken our advice, unconsciously of course, and has intervened in the coal strike. He ought to have done it before. It has been clear for weeks past that this...

M R. ASQUITH made a grave mistake on Tuesday. He may be perfectly right in his contempt for 4narchists, though every week brings new evidence of the danger they cause to the...

last week on the decline of Liberalism, we little thought what an illustration the deinte on Mr. McLaren's new clause in the Employers' Liability Bill would afford of the...

W E cannot help thinking that Unionists are some- times carried too far in their eagerness to deprive the victories of the Government of all moral significance, by pointing to...

W E trust that the leaders of the Unionist Party, weary as they must be of this protracted Session, will not allow it to end without at least one serious debate as to the exact...

something in education and ex- perience of affairs. Sir Charles Russell is not as Mr. Theodore Dodd. At the meeting of the London Liberal and Radical Union last Monday, the...

OHNS ON did not include the word " pathos" in his dic- tionary, though he included the words " pathetic " and "pathetical." But even to these he gave a meaning which we should...

I S it genuine love for others, or only distrust in ourselves, which has revived the discussion as to the lawfulness of conquest ? Certainly it is not knowledge of the history...

Crosswell v. Hearn," which was ultimately decided in favour of the. plaintiff, con - tributed at least to the amusement of the publics, if not to its edification. Indeed, a less...

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AND MR. GLADSTONE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIE, — As the letter in the Spectator of November 11th, signed "Scrutator," is preceded by my letter...

[To THE EDITOR, OF THE " SricoTATos."] Sin,—With the profound respect which I feel for the Spectator, make bold to call in question your reasoning about requiescat in pace, in...

[To THE EDITOR OF MC "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a constant reader, I noticed in the Spectator of November 4th that you spoke of the explosion of Clerkenwell as the explosion of...

MARIE ANTOINETTE.* WE observe that the original of this book has been com- mended by the French Academy, and it would be hard to find in modern French literature a work that is...

, To THE EDITOR OF THE "Brxotkroa."] follawing brief communication, from a person who had some friendly and professional acquaintance with the great physician who has recently...

THE recent addition, by a new publisher, of a volume of Ben Jonson to the " Mermaid" series will have been a pleasant surprise to many who were grieving over what they supposed...

ENGLISHMEN who are disposed to grumble at the slow couree of justice at home—at the long delays of the law or its in- effectual effort to grapple with crime—should read Mn....

Hill's instructive and entertaining volumes without an enhanced appreciation of the achievements of the English nation, when due allowance has been made for the sartorial...

to publish from time kto time chapters of a book on art. These chapters have been .gathered from the mass of art journalism which had grown about them, and I reprint them in the...

about many things—about the" Bondage of Women," about "Genius and Marriage" ("the sum of all experience is apparently rather against marriage for the race of the gifted "),...

woman, who particularly resents being looked after by the aunt who acts as her chaperon, is cured of her mental ailment by being roused to care for others. This cure is begun by...

Juanita,. By J. Fogerty. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—Mr. Fogerty's novel has for its prevailing background the wild scenery .of the west coast of Ireland, though in the third...

Douglas.)—This, the "Second Series" of Mr. Winter's theatrical' memories, is a pleasant volume to look at and to read. Some of the names are probably better known on the other...

Our County" is, we find, Northamptonshire. Why so vague a title ? Mr. Adkins has a lively and sometimes a caustic pen.. It is possible that some of the magnates whom he...

Stack.)—Things new as well as old are to be found in this collection of literary scraps, criticism, and information. So far from being confined to "Old-Time Literature," The...

mentioned. The History of the Monument. By Charles Welsh. (Corporation of the City of London.)—Here we have many curious particulars. The Monument, which is higher than any...

certainly some humour in the idea of writing a novel in which all the dramatis personcs shall be minor poets, even though it is not carried out exactly. The reader will not...

was a happy idea to call the small creatures, about whose good or bad offices in agriculture we are undecided, "workers without wage." We give but scant thanks to toads, worms,...

these eight short stories is in the manner of Edgar Poe, whose influence, indeed, seems, with or without the author's consciousness, to have affected the whole book. But there...