favour on both sides of the House. In his speech he gave a very much less formal exposition of the figures than any Chancellor of the Exchequer during the last twenty years, not...

been called the "Reptile Fund." He will not sub- sidise newspapers, or use them, as Prince Bismarck did, to attack his enemies. The whole House cheered this declaration, the...

little noticed, was of some importance. Mr. Buchanan, Sir G. Campbell, Mr. Bethell, Sir L. Pelly, and others tried to extract from Sir J. Fergusson definite accounts of what is...

case.

G ENERAL CAPRIVI has made his first official speech. The new Chancellor of Germany is also Premier of Prussia, and he made an address on Monday to the Prussian Diet. He...

formerly Chinese Ambassador to London and Paris, though not for the reasons we see assigned. We do not believe that the deceased statesman desired to introduce European ideas...

£86,857,000, and the revenue at £90,406,000, showing a surplus of £3,549,000. Of this surplus, Mr. Goschen pro- posed to spend £300,000 in the year on barracks for the Army;...

The election took place yesterday week, when Mr. Lloyd George was elected by the very narrow majority of 18 votes (for Mr. Lloyd George, 1,963 votes ; for Mr. Ellis Nanney,...

that the chief improvement had taken place in the first nine months, and that there had been a real retardation in the last quarter, which had suggested the necessity for great...

intends even to visit Corsica, where the Napoleonic legend still lingers, constituting, in fact, the great popular epic. He is well received everywhere, and we note, as a...

replace the rejected Wheel and Horse taxes of last year, Mr. Goschen further proposed not only to transfer the Beer-duty (£386,000) to the Local Councils, but to put a tax of...

week, and may go much higher, the two Houses of Congress having agreed on a Bill to compel the Treasury to buy $4,500,000 a month of silver, instead of $2,000,000. Certificates...

Saturday's Times, that Mr. Gladstone already appears to be repenting of the opposition he gave to Dr. Clark's amendment to the address in favour of Home-rule for Scotland on...

bakery, Milkwood Road, Brixton, which is remarkable only for the exceeding smallness of the motive. The victim, Thomas Furlonger, one of the bread-packers, was found in a pool...

Civil Engineers, gave an interesting account of a new method of welding metals by electricity. The methods hitherto used have been imperfect, mainly because the heat has been...

East Galway, one of the most open of the Fenian party, who compared the resistance to be made to the landlords to partridge-shooting, and honestly told the Special Commission...

pupils too hard, they defending themselves when needful by an inner determination not to learn. This iá probably true of English Public Schools, where the tone is really set by...

the high snow-peak of Kibo, which towers above Kilima-Njaro, gave a very interesting account of his ascent to the Geographical Society on Monday evening. He had reached as high...

constituents on Friday week which shows that he is no more contemplating the desertion of the Unionist Party, than he is contemplating turning Conservative. He was more of a...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 981- to 981.

MR GOSCHEN'S BUDGET. S IR WILLIAM HARCOITRT was evidently not in spirits when he got up to criticise Mr. Goschen's Budget. He spoke with more genuineness than usual when he...

I T is very hard to be just to Mr. Parnell when he throws himself, as he is about to do next Monday, right across the road which the State coach must traverse, and not to regard...

W E do not like these telegrams from East Africa, whether English, German, or Portuguese. They point to a coming danger which, if the Powers concerned do not take care, may...

PriHAT a new regime, and a most interesting one, is _L coming in Germany, is sufficiently clear; but it is a mistake to think that it will be a constitutional one, after the...

P ROBABLY the most common mistake which Paxlia- mentary politicians make, is the confusion between noisy opinion and public opinion. Mr. Matthews is wise in that he does not...

A QUESTION of considerable interest would have been raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday, had Sir Algernon Borthwick moved his amendment to Lord Compton's motion about the...

D R. MARTINEAU'S new book on "The Seat of Authority in Religion," published by Longmans, is not one that it is easy to read and master in a few days, or even in a few weeks. It...

quite right : it is the "man in the street" who makes, and sometimes unmakes, the English language,—who, that is, adopts a new word, or modifies a grammatical form, or...

WHICH "OLD TESTAMENT" DID CHRIST QUOTE FROM P [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The most dramatic episode at the Manchester Church Congress was the reading of four...

[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—The correlation of the divine and human in our Lord's Person is altogether so mysterious, that it is necessary to write very...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 'SIR,—Permit me to remark on Mr. Page's letter under the above title, that whether or no the charge of "unhesitating dogmatism" which he...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With some reluctance I venture to go rather farther than your other correspondents, and to deprecate that whole manner of regarding...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Might I reply through your columns to a number of clergymen who have been good enough to write to me privately in regard to the Tithe...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I thoroughly agree with your suggestion that to electrically propel may be aptly named to " telepher," or, say " telpher " as an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-It surely would not be very far wide of the mark to describe the Irish Land-Purchase Bill as a measure for further and permanently...

Fro THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your issue of April 5th, you mention that 5,400,000' of the 6,800,000 tons which passed through the Suez Canal last year were...

VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS. VERY different kinds of art jostle one another in Bond Street at the present moment. Messrs. Dowdeswell once more earn the gratitude of lovers of painting...

(To ma EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Permit me to call your attention to an error in the figures of this Union, quoted in your review of "The English Poor-Law," by Mr....

A LOST PARA_DISE. GREEN fields and young faces, Sunshine and flowers- Ah, in far-off fairy places, Once they were ours ! Now, when cares and crow's-feet thicken, Brown locks...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In your article, in the Spectator of April 12th, on "Democracy and Justice," you refer to "the French noble who said that God thought...

PRINCE RITPERT.* LORD RONALD GOWER has written this little book because' he thinks that his hero is "worthy of a niche in the temple of fame." Has he not got one Is not his...

MR. MICHAEL J. SCHAACK, in the portrait prefixed to this volume, looks every inch of him a resolute Captain of Police; while his book not only shows him to be so, but shows him...

to write a small book of this kind on Oxford. His light touch and singular facility for seizing salient points, putting them in picturesque and easy prominence, and his...

of lectures delivered at Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Stokes takes up his investigation into the religious and social condition of Ireland at the point where he left off...

"THERE is a deal of fine, confused eating on a sheep's head," said the Ettrick Shepherd, in Noctes Ambrosianz. And there is a deal of fine, confused reading in the book before...

THIS book contains at least one cleverly turned sentence, which is worthy of quotation, and that chiefly as a varia- tion upon the popular rather than intelligible phrase, "We...

is not favourably impressed by the beginning of this novel. Why "auricular faculties" instead of ears ? Why is a Roman eagle said to have "waved" over an encampment ? The author...

2 vols. (H. K. Lewis.)—With regard to these two volumes, we stand in a position quite different from that sometimes attri- buted to the reviewer. Instead of being prepared to...

Tuileries. By Madame C,aretto. Authorised translation. (Dean and Bon.) —Long experience must have convinced the mass of readers that no very surprising disclosures, nor any...

London of To - Day, 1890. An Illustrated Handbook of the Season. By Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Simpkin.)—This is the sixth annual edition, "revised, and in part rewritten," of a...

Morley (Routledge and Sons), bears the title of Parodies and other Burlesque Pieces. These parodies, &c., are the work of Canning, Ellis, and Frere, and with them is included...

and Sons.)—" No attempt," says the author, "has been made in writing these tales to interpret their allegorical or explain their historic bearing." This is as it should be. It...

Merchant, B.A. (Rivingtons.)—The historical and linguistic interest of the speeches of Andocides amply justifies the labour spent upon them. It is only indirectly, perhaps,...

Stock.)—Mr. Wheatley is an expert, and writes out of a fullness of knowledge in which he has few equals. It seems a simple matter to make a catalogue : the difficulties that...

D.C.L. (G. Philip and Son.)—A critic need do nothing more than express what must be the universal opinion, that no one could tell the story of Palestine more fitly than Major...

Alexander (Mrs.), A Life Interest, or 8vo (White) 2/0 Bairstow (J. 0.), Sensational Religion in Past Times, or too (E. Stook) 2/0 Barrie (J. M.), My Lady Nicotine, or Etvo...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand; and Published by him at the " SPECTATOR" 03Ioe, No. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

TO prrtator FOR THE No. 3,225.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1890. [ RICGIBTERID /OR } GRATIS. TRADTBRUBBION ABROAD.

LIFE OF THE REV. J. G. WOOD.* THE g • flint naturalist and popular writer whose life and work are described in the volume which is the sitbject of this review, was happy in...

LONDON: APRIL 19, 1890.

true, that songs and ballads have greater influence upon the people than the laws by which they are governed, it is equally true that the religious belief of a nation is more...

long filled the Greek chair in Edinburgh University maintains his fondness for poetising. Little short of sixty years have passed since he essayed a translation of Goethe's...

DEAN KITCHIN has done a first-rate piece of work in this history of the first capital of England. He has shown a true appreciation of the main interest of Winchester in devoting...

has been said, is the nation whose annals are dull, and this saying implies that war is a livelier subject to write about than peace. Mr. Bury's History treats of a nation, or...

Mug. HAMILTON KING's little volume of Ballads of the North seems to show some of the same characteristic power that dis- tinguished The Disciples — so far as it is possible to...

and Son.)—There is something especially attractive about these reminiscences. In the first place, there is a friendly, confidential tone about them. The writer, without ever...

Harrison (in Holinshed's Chronicles)." Edited by Loth rop Withing- ton. With Introduction by F. J. Furnivall, LL.D. (Walter Scott.) —Mr. Withington has compiled an interesting...

and Co.)—Mr. Fitzgibbon has given us in this volume six plays of the Elizabethan period,—Dekker's Shoemakers' Holiday, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Silent Woman, A...

LL.D. (Walter Scott.)—It seems inevitable in our day that the lives of illustrious men should be written again and again in order that they may fit into their places in...

The Land of an African Sultan. By Walter B. Harris. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The "land of an African Sultan" is Morocco, with which a long acquaintance has made Mr. Harris-...

Tract Society.)—Bogatzky was descended on the paternal side from a Hungarian Protestant refugee. Mr. Kelly tells the story of his life (1690-1774), for which, as he wrote an...

Clark, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—This volume should, we think, have been marked as a "new and revised edition," and not have been made to appear as though it were now published...

has followed up his "By-Ways in Book- Land" with another agreeable volume of literary gossip. We cannot wholly agree with his maxims on the treatment of books. "Make your notes...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—Here we have directions to the traveller how he is to make himself comfortable on board the steamer while he is going out, and how he may best manage...

A. O'Connor, B.A. (J. C. Cornish, Manchester.)—Here we have eight essays, originally published in a Manchester periodical, and now repro- duced as a memorial to the gifted...

and Co.)—We are almost inclined to prefer A Life's Remorse to "Molly Bawn." Some of the characters may not excite our sympathy as much, though they are equally true to life,...

Michael Rossetti. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. W. M. Rossetti con- tents himself with the useful task of describing what his brother did year by year in the way of painting and...

of a theatrical family, his grandfather, if we understand the pedigree aright, having been an actor and vocalist at Astley's, and his father an actor and manager of considerable...

full of keen and loving appreciation of Nature. The writer is a "skilled workman," as the editor describes him, "who has made the study of wild creatures in their native haunts...

(Swan Sonnenschein.)—This is a plain, practical, liberal-minded exposition of the Articles. Dr. Lightfoot expresses himself very decidedly against the Calvinistic theory of...

Publishing Company, Oakland, California.)— English readers who compare Mr. Moses's little work with that on the Swiss Constitution which was recently published on this side of...

R. Lydekker. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This is a third edition of what must now be a standard work on paheontology. The two large octavo volumes number some 1,600 pages, so that...

an attempt "to identify the scenes and trace the in- fluences of Lincolnshire" in the poet's works. The identification is more than doubtful, and Mr. 1-1S3lam Tennyson has...

by Alice Meynell. (Burns and Oates.)—Pen and pencil have made a happy alliance to set forth the good work done by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, who have their home somewhere...

Missionary Society.)—This book is best described by its sub-title, "The Story of the Amoy Mission," though it certainly supplies materials for the answering of the question...

—The writer takes us again to Patagonia, which country seems to have struck her fancy, and describes to us ostrich-hunting and prairie-fires with much enthusiasm and vigorous...

all interested in missions both to Plato and to Aristotle. On the whole, this can be recom- by his admirable narrative of his labours, as given in the first P1 - ( of his...

in Europe. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The author erudite, this is an interesting, readable, impartial, and, on the has a strong bias towards France. Few, indeed, will be disposed...

financial, (Blackwood.)—Both the subject of this poem and the niailner in and legislative arrangements of Switzerland are, however, stated which it has been treated, remove it...

splendour, of which- " Hislop, thou shalt away to hell tonight, " Across the sky spread Night a drapery dense, With such a crime on thy polluted soul

Thompson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Sir Henry Thompson states the case for the practice of cremation with all the ability and all the fullness of knowledge which we should...

Sons.)—This is the third of a series which is to deal with the "Great Cities of the Republic." New York and Washington have already been treated, and now Mr. Gilman gives us...

here all the verses that she has written, or, at least, thinks fit to give to the world. Some of them have already appeared, and have met with that moderate approval which...

Peek seeks to deal frankly and liberally with various pro- blems that occur in the large controversy of Religion v. Science. If the friends of belief would have the courage, for...

and Co.)—Miss Yonge has a practised pen, good taste, and abundance of materials. By the help of these, she has made a pleasant and useful book on a familiar subject. Novelty...

2 vols. (James Maclehose, Glasgow.)—Professor Caird, already known as the ablest expositor of the Kantian philosophy in this country, gives us here his final criticism on it...

Scott.)—This is one of Professor Eric Robertson's series of "Great Writers." We can give the highest praise to it; it estimates Lessing's position, his work, and his genius,...