"A. K. H. B.'s " FRESH REMINISCENCES.* THERE are several points of resemblance between the second volume of these readable recollections and the first ; there are also some...

A REVIEWER of this book naturally looks for information about those who follow the occupation of letters. This he does not find. Apparently, it is impossible to isolate literary...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 19, 1892.

THE great ambition of an Englishman is to possess a bit of land. Of this there can be no doubt; it is nothing less than a passion, and reveals itself in the most unexpected...

THE object of this book is to expound the new views of Greek history which have been brought up before us by recent excava- tions in classical countries,—" in Greece and Asia...

THE campaigns described in Captain Bourke's reminiscences are those undertaken by General Crook in 1871 against the Apaches of Arizona, and again in 1876 against the Sioux and...

very easy to define precisely the aim which Sir Charles Gavan Duffy set before himself and his hearers in his interesting address to the Irish Literary Society of London. At...

MR. LANG has exhausted the available colours, for this is to be the last of the "fairy-books." Perhaps he does well to stay his hand ; we can see, indeed, no sign of...

G IFT-BO OKS. The Heiress of Courtleroy. By Anne Beale. (Blackie and Son.) —We know pretty well what to expect from our authoress by this time,—a long but interesting story,...

Sandy Carmichael is one of the best stories we have read, dealing with the exploits of the English on the Spanish Main. The nar- rative starts with the flight of two of Charles...

Short Arrows" is the heading given to those fascinating little para- graphs touching on innumerable subjects, and each of which enshrines. of course, a moral. " The Quiver Bible...

THERE is some satire in this book, good-humoured and reasonably effective, and there is plenty of fun, the quality of which is beyond all question. Viscount Berkeley, hearing...

to recoup them- selves by trapping musk and beaver. There are four in the party, and the voyage up the river and the subsequent adventures are related by one of them. The whole...

is certainly one of the best stories we have had of the Australian Bush, well told, with a good plot, an action always good, and rising into dramatic intensity at times. In...

Mr. Gordon's tale relates the last days of Louisbourg, the strong- hold of the French in Canada about a hundred and fifty years ago. The combined siege by the colonists takes...

:— Patience Wins ; or, War in the Works, by G. Manville Fenn (Blackie and Son) ; The Missing Merchantman, by Harry Coiling- wood (same publishers) ; and The Great Show in 'Cobol...

name. He leaves her a ruby ring, which is as good as a For- tunatus's purse to her. She makes money at once by lending it on hire, and she finds in it the secret of how she is...

—Penelope is the eldest of a family of five children; and Miss Walton relates their experiences in a very pleasing little narra- tive, brightened with not a few touches of...

is the story of one Anthony Ingram's adventures on the Spanish Main in the year 1567, and throughout the narrative the flavour of the Elizabethan freebooters and their life...

S. Virtue and Co.)—This is a really good book, well written, as, indeed, we should expect in anything coming from the author's pen, and well illustrated. The " Pilgrims' Way "...

St. Patrick and his fellow-missionaries were build- ing a little church on the plain of Meath, they were aware of a company of giant-like men that was approaching them. These...

Quaritch..)—Mr. Moyr Smith gives us an Introduction, in which he discusses the play especially regarded as a spectacle, and describes the way in which it has been brought upon...

Son.) —Vera, the daughter of a certain Mona. Despard, who is not a very steady character, and his English wife, comes to the home of her English relatives, and naturally is...

forgets to give her his annual gift of a half-sovereign. So she cannot buy her sister Nancy the pair of satin slippers she had thought of. To make up, she ornaments an old pair...

and Co.)—This is the story of a great religious change, a subject which we feel to be scarcely the proper province for the pen of the tale-writer. Miss Colvile writes, it is...

Henry Frilt. (Blackie.)—The "Cruise in Cloudland" necessarily occupies but a small space. Balloon voyages cannot last long, and though they often end in striking catastrophes,...

(E. Howell.)—This is one of the numberless imitations of " Alice in Wonderland," or shall we say that it might be labelled, were it a picture, " School of Lewis Carroll " We do...

a story of the Great Fire of London, which is made to supply a well- contrived denouement. The chief characters are Master Widdring- ton, a clockmaker, somewhat in advance of...

Ferrier.)—Mary Deverell gives her word to a Guy Chevelay, a young man who has no intellectual solidity or moral strength. He takes up opinions more because they are extreme than...

Co.)—This is a pretty character-study of boy-nature, illus- trated throughout with descriptions, worked, it is clear, with a very full and loving knowledge, of rural life. "...

and Hall.)—The general effect of Captain Anderson's stories is good, though it must be owned that he is sometimes so highly technical with his nautical terms as to be hard to...

of a temper, and is therefore unduly restrained, and children of the not un- common kind, who are prepared on any and every occasion to play the knights and the soldier—are very...

Hew Ainslie. With a Memoir of the Author. By Thomas C. Latto. (Gardner.) —Hew Ainslie died at a great age in America, in 1878. In early life he wrote the Pilgrimage to the Land...

by Wilfrid Meynell. (Leadenhall Press.)—This volume is dedicated by the editor to his wife, the mother of eight children, whose pretty if somewhat fanciful names are inserted on...

while they are made to differ somewhat from the familiar experiences of African travel and adventure. The two friends are left on shore by a captain who disapproves of their...

East Anglia. This incident is the base of Miss Blake's story, which tells how the two Earls rebelled ; how they were deserted by Waltheof, whom they had at first intended to...

Digby, Long, and Co.)—This is a collection of notices of the lives of five women, who centred more or less round Bishop Ken. They are not, however, in strict truth the leading...

Downey.) —This tale somehow reminds us of Albert Smith's " Christopher Tadpole," not so much in the plot as in the style. There is a certain gaiety of humour about the two which...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—We do not know that there is any falling-off here as far as literary power is concerned, able as was tho " Russian Priest." But the book will not be found so...

Maurice. (Macmillan.) A second edition, published after the lapse of nearly fifty years. The book has been long prized by those who were happy enough to possess it, and will...

(Black- wood and Sons.)—Mr. Rae has manifestly used much research for this work of his. He examines the traditions which connect the Malabar Church with St. Thomas, and, while...

and Co.)—This is an adaptation of Professor Marshall's larger work to the needs of junior students. The change that has come over the science of Political Economy is strongly...

Unwin.)—Mr. Boyesen, who is "Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures in Columbia College," has given us here a volume of no little merit. His style is vigorous, though...

Co.)—Though many of Mr. Horsfield's seventeen stories are sporting sketches, the rest have but a slender connection with the "Gun-Room." But we are getting accustomed to these...

Society.)—This is a republication of papers which appeared in the Leisure Hour. The darkness that used to enshroud the editorial offices of a newspaper has disappeared. The...

and Published by Joan Ourrainm, of No.1Wellin g ton Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Btrand, in the Comity of laddlinsex, at the " SrEcrarOn" Office, No.1 Wellington...

to be possessed with the conviction that the Conserva- tive cause is gaining adherents amongst the agricultural labourers of Scotland. He appeared to ground that convic- tion a...

Conservatives at Bristol, Sir G. Trevelyan being the principal speaker on behalf of the Gladstonians, in the Anchor Society, and Lord Ashbourne, with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,...

FOR THE No. 3,360.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1892. [ Ri zT:=.7.L `t D IC 1 11 08T. 6 6 4:

THE fate of the French Ministry was on Friday evening again trembling in the balance ; but the vote will not reach us in time. The subject of a debate in the Chamber con- tinued...

case.

win, but the result is uncertain, because the Bill is a mere pivot for a different struggle. The Conservative classes in France, as we have pointed out elsewhere, have been...

Manchester was dismissed on Thursday, with costs against the petitioners. Those gentlemen seem to have been blinded either by party feeling or false information as to the...

his clergy on Thursday. Dr. Westcott is deeply impressed with the moral necessity of aiming at any policy which will have the effect of bringing the different layers of society...

day at Deansgate, the Sanctuary, Westminster, to the Church of England Temperance Society. His rather emphatic pre- ference for new as against old sermons we have discussed in...

will greatly interest our teetotal friends. There is little teetotalism in France, as it is opposed, not only to the traditions, but to the character of her people ; but there...

view of the Evicted Tenants' Commission from that taken by Sir George Trevelyan. He remarked not only on the strong party character of the Commission, and the pillory- ing of...

the pivot of the proposal to make civil marriage obliga- tory has ended in a complete victory for the Constitu- tionalists. The Emperor, who was reported to be greatly opposed...

Government for following, in many cases, the lead of the late Government. This, when in Opposition, they had treated with the most deliberate hostility, not because they really...

prosecute the directors of the Panama Canal Company for misuse of the funds entrusted to them, the sub- stantial charge being, in fact, one of waste. Certain con- tractors, both...

direction. Its proposal that ground-rents should be taxed like all other real property in cities is, at all events, arguable, and, if regard is paid to leases, reasonable ; but...

has resigned his place on the Evicted Tenants' Commission, and the head of that Commission, Sir James Mathew, on the subject of this resignation. Sir James Mathew says that in a...

reissued the circular of 1886 (Mr. Chamberlain's, we believe) to the various Boards of Guardians, suggesting that any relaxa- tion of the rules against outdoor relief is...

famine, by the decline in certain receipts, caused also by the famine, and by its military expenditure, is once more in straits for money. Having quarrelled with the Jews, it...

Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, at a dinner attended by Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Depew is a strong Republican, but he is also a humourist, and he was equal to the occasion. "I ex-...

New Consols (n) were on Friday 97t.

of experiments on living animals, in opening the new building of the Bristol Medical School and Faculty. He pro- fessed great sympathy with the opponents of Vivisection, but did...

THE GROWTH OF CABINETS. I T is clear that Cabinets are tending to become minia- ture Parliaments of the majority. When Macaulay wrote his review of Sir William Temple's Life in...

on the Anarchist Press Bill will not reach us in time for record, but whichever way it goes, it will not affect the seriousness of the new situation in Paris. The deep cleavage...

M R. MORLEY is probably aware by this time that he has not gone at all the right way to work to elicit " the facts of the case " in relation to the evicted tenants. In the first...

Mann before the Labour Commission, on Monday and Tuesday, was unusually interesting. He is believed to be quite honest, he has great practical acquaintance and influence with...

Tuesday was of an unusually jubilant character. In part, this may have been due to the natural tendency of all fighting organisations to put the best possible face upon their...

O RDINARY political speakers, where they find cir- cumstances adverse to their party, are usually satis- fied with a recognition of this fact, and an exhortation to their...

T HE end of last week saw a new departure in the famous hospitality of the City. The feasting of Ministers and Judges was only a prelude to the more anxious work which was to...

" C OLUMBITS must have talked to Isabella very much in that way." That is, we conceive, the sentence which has risen unbidden to the lips of almost every one who has heard or...

I T is said that Carlyle used to declare that there was only one oratorical figure of speech worth anything, and that was repetition. But then Carlyle bad an immense power of...

T HERE is a popular superstition current among us to the effect that an Englishman's house is his castle, and that he is free to live in it after any fashion that may please him...

THE EVICTED TENANTS' COMMISSION. [To THE EDITOR OF TEX " SPICTATOR."] SIE, — With the general tone and tenor of your remarks on• the Evicted Tenants' Commission, I heartily...

[TO THE BOMB OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A.8 I see some remarks of mine on this subject quoted not quite exactly, permit me to state my own impressions. I will not venture to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, —A review occurs in the Spectator of November 12th, of " The Catholicos of the East and his People." May I be allowed to point oat...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Concerning dreams; I do not know whether Mr. Greenwood explains this phenomenon :—The dreamer is con- fused by the existence of two...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—May I point out a slight inaccuracy in the article in the Spectator of October 29th on " The Rarity of True Conver- 'ration"? The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] , SIR,—Your correspondent, "H. R.," in the Spectator of November 12th, writes to correct you as to the above. It is he, however, who is in...

MR. SANTLEY'S REMINISCENCES.* THAT Mr. Santley should have been importuned by his friends to write his reminiscences is natural enough ; that he should have succumbed to their...

Lancashire. In a literary article it is not the place to play the historian or the prophet, but the republication of Edwin Waugh's sketches opportunely enables us to recall the...

either expressive of love or meditative on the subject of love, is a very thought- ful and interesting one, and, on the whole, we heartily agree with his frankly expressed...

WE have been treated to a great many volumes of reminis- cences of late years, but to few which have afforded us so much pleasure and amusement as this one of the Dean of...

the last two years, architects have been sharply divided by a family quarrel in which, roughly speaking, those who are artists as well as architects are on one side, and those...

To the various political and literary prophecies of Heine, which have been fulfilled in our own days, belongs his pre- diction that with the improvement of the political state...