Jenkins four, or 2 per cent. every month. It is easy to calculate the has reopened a very old and much - debated chapter of profit. The capital of 60,000 tads for every house,...

journey much that appeals to the imagination, for we all know that the region of the Pamirs is a Wonderland of Nature, containing the mightiest mountain masses on the globe, and...

great work on the history of diseases in this country, is characterised by the same thoroughness of research and skill in arrangement and marshalling of fact and comments as the...

Brighton, the Brighton Road, and Brighton Coaches, that it is not easy to imagine that room could be found for another work on the subject. Time, it is to be remembered, is...

interesting book, especially for those who have travelled abroad and been surprised at the ignorance there prevailing about our own Church. One meets in a train a stern-looking...

of place in a Court of Justice, nor is it indeed common in those precincts, but it appeals to the sense of the ludicrous the more keenly that it contrasts with its solemn...

In the Wilds of the West Coast. By X. Macdonald Oxley. (Thomas Nelson and Sons.)—The work of the Hudson's Bay Company in North America is almost a new mine for the writers of...

Newnes, Limited.)—These stories, the majority, if not all, of which, unless we are greatly mistaken, have already appeared in a magazine, introduce the lover of sensations to a...

Venture," by E. B. Bayly ; and "The Mystery of Alton Grange," by E. E. Green—run through the magazine. Then we have some interesting experiences, in several chapters, of life...

as a tale-writer was, perhaps, the story of school- life. "His boy-heroes" are, as the writer of the short memoir which is prefixed to this book remarks, " neither prigs nor...

Synge. (Skeffington and Son.)—This is a short but clever and artistic study in child- character. Beryl, the daughter of a very simple but learned man, is a bit of a spitfire,...

Sons.)—The story opens with the friendship struck up between a Norwegian boy and a Highland boy, and the visit of the Nor- wegian lad to the Scotch home in the winter, where he...

of good material in the shape of serial stories and miscellaneous articles. We may mention some of the various subjects covered by the word "miscellaneous." There are economical...

A Wild-Catter,," the author is good enough to explain, "is a prospector who goes to a new region and sinks a well on the off- chance of striking oil." This is what Mr. George...

London, in Mr. Henty's story, does not begin to burn till we reach p. 361, out of a total of 388. As the last chapter is devoted to a satisfactory winding up of the hero's...

Monthly Office.)—Tbe "two" are a City clerk and the lady to whom he is engaged. He has a prodigal brother ; she has a somewhat helpless father. Still, between them, they...

(Mao- millan.)—This story is a curious mixture of the real and the fanciful. The "Red Jar" which Maurice's parents keep with such religious care is somewhat like the "Luck of...

four stories included in this volume are excellent in their way, "The Satellite" being, perhaps, the most amusing, and " Fraidein Schmidt" the most instructive. "The Satellite"...

but an extremely popular and well-written series of books. Of the six volumes, two-and-a-half are to be devoted to mammals, an arrangement which nobody can quarrel with. The...

whose "eventful journey" is here described, appeals against local oppression to the absent proprietor of the estate. To do this, he has a long way to traverse, and many perils...

story of this kind. Walter Gaydon. By F. Scarlett Potter. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—These adventures of an " Art Student "—has he illustrated, we wonder, his own book...

is more of the itinerary than the story in this book. Claudius Bombarnac, being at Tiflis, receives a telegram from his employers—he is special correspondent to the Twentieth...

Arnold.)—It requires a very peculiar power to make such extrava- gances as form the staple of Mr. Fawcett's tale attractive. The hero and his party are swallowed up by an...

Co.)—We must frankly say that we should not put this story into a young girl's hand. The most prominent feature in it is the wife's jealousy of her husband,—a jealousy which an...

Mouton. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Joel Kerbabu is a Breton boy of some three hundred years ago. He comes of a family of sailors, and his destiny, though he seeks to avoid...

Vivian Dynecourt is the "difficult daughter" whom her parents, Lord and Lady Lyon, entrusted, during a forced sojourn abroad, to the care of Dr. and Mrs. Temple, Mrs. Temple...

Chappell. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—The "haunting " of the house, we may say at once to relieve the fears of anxious parents, is a fraud. A certain house gets an evil...

Ecroyd is a girl of the new type,—that is, she is pos. sessed with the wholesome conviction that there is no disgrace in a woman's earning her own living. She pays a visit to...

Co.)—These four-and-twenty stories, though not by any means of equal merit, reach, on the whole, a good level of excellence. "The Chemistry of Anarchy" is in particular a...

Elder, and Co.)—A certain Wetherington is perhaps the real hero of this mystery, and it is the relation in the first person of the fate that overtakes him, through the agency of...

—The chief subject of this tale, which is told with considerable force, and certainly justifies its title of "A Tale of Some Strange Adventures," is life at the goldfields of...

) —A story that would attract any boy, Sou'-Wester and Sword will fascinate those boys who have a passion for salt water, for not only is it full of stirring incident, but the...

region of Canada, and this story of a clergyman's work in it is well worth reading. That there are difficulties in it need not be said ; the writer does not try to shirk them ;...

—We have here some twenty stories of North and South Wales, attributed to the various counties, seven in number, to which they are supposed to belong. They are of various...

Cutts. (S.P.C.K.)—This is a thoughtful and thorough study of early Christian emblems and ornaments, and helps us to realise much that seems anomalous and semi-pagan about...

P. Cornelii Taciti Dialogue de Oratoribus. Edited by Alfre I Gudeman. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is as elaborate an edition of a Latin classic as we have ever seen. The...

Ferrier.)—This is a melancholy story, written with an excellent purpose, but not very pleasant to read. It may be all for the best that the good people meet with a sad end, and...

Book," ' Toby' delivers himself of his " experiences and opinions," and he does it very well, as might be expected when he has so skilful an interpreter as Mr. Asoott Hope. '...

Partridge.)—Mr. La Trobe, of the Moravian Missionary Society, writes a preface to Miss Annie Marston's book, commending it to all who are interested in the works of missions....

This is one of the least pretentious, but at the same time most quietly effective, books dealing with Scotch life of yesterday, that have recently appeared. The writer does not...

ballads are his best work ; there is plenty of movement in them if he has not caught the simplicity and lilt of the ballad-singer. Pleasant reading are the poems on Nature, "The...

and Bird.)—Very pleasant and chatty are these chapters by an American on Gibraltar, 'rangier, Cairo, Athens, and Constanti- nople. They are enlivened by plenty of American...

edited by the Rev. James Hastings, M.A. (T. and T. Clark.)— Sermons delivered by most of the great preachers of the day, reviews of books, essays on subjects connected with...

Frankland (S.P.C.K.), a volume in the "Romance of Science" Series. The author has added a chapter " on the comparatively novel subject of the action of light on...

75, & 76 Groat Queen Street, W.C.; and Published by Jona; JAMES BAKER, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, iu the County of Middlesex, at the "...

form a definite opinion as to the precise position of Li-Hung-Chang. The Viceroy of Chi-li has been for years Premier of the Empire, representative of Chinese as opposed to...

T " young Czar was married on Monday to the Princess Alix of Hesse with a ceremonial which, though restricted on account of the late Czar ' s recent death, was sufficiently...

they will demand is still noteworthy. Many observers believe that they will grant no peace until they have entered Pekin, while others believe that the difficulty is the amount...

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to be &virtual victory for the Progressives, though they just failed, chiefly from defective strategy, in giving a majority to the Progressives. Indeed, the Moderates still...

his fifteen thousand Japanese have been steadily .creeping closer and ()loser to Port Arthur in two columns, oarrying the passes one by one, until, on the 20th ult., they were...

case.

on Tuesday in support of the new Unionist can& dates for the various divisions of Devonshire, which out of thir- teen Members at present returns a Unionist majority of only...

their coming campaign against the House of Lords, calls upon. the Government to propose to the House of Commons the reso- lution to which Lord Rosebery referred in his speech at...

the House of Lords question, from which it would appear that he is not at all desirous of any Second Chamber which should have authority to throw out legislation ; indeed, he...

which will shake him much more than his removal from office. ' His wife, whom be married in July, 1847—more than forty- seven years ago—died on the 27th ult. of heart disease,...

their manners by their victory. The vote of thanks to Mr. Diggle for his ability and impartiality as chairman of the old Board should have been passed without a debate, and at...

Rosebery, will delight Mr. Labouchere. Sir Charles Dilke protests vehemently, in the name of all the Radicals and all the Democrats, against the Reform of the House of Lords....

week at the Working Men's College, on the senses and intelligence of animals, pointing out how little we really know of them, and how likely it is that the complex organs of...

-war with Madagascar. The credits were passed last Saturday by a vote of 390 to 112, while a medium proposal by M, 'Boucher, to blockade instead of invading, was rejected by 381...

deference due to English dignity, because, in a letter to a Spanish Archbishop, he appears to express his belief that England will still one day be converted to Roman...

more bitter. They have just forbidden the use of English in Parliamentary discussions, and a league has been formed to restrain the " foreigners " from further aggression. They...

cf the Baring estates has ended, and the guarantors are released from further liability. The remaining debt to the . Bank, £1,500,000, has been paid, and the assets taken over...

every interesting lecture on the man from whom that hall has been named,—we mean Mr. Arnold Toynbee, of whom many find a very effective picture in the Sir. Malin of Mrs. Humphry...

accused -of direct blackmailing,—that is, demanding money from clubs and individuals, by threats of denouncing them for gambling, and of publishing their biographies as kept in...

Friday, 103k.

LORD ROSEBERY AND THE RADICALS. T HE Duke of Devonshire even surpassed himself in that speech on Lord Rosebery's method of carrying a great revolutionary measure, which he...

prises. No one acquainted with the history of Asia Empire without inquiring afresh, as each new incident has ever doubted that some Asiatics are good soldiers, or reveals the...

W E have always maintained that, in spite of all the un- fortunate vehemence and even violence with whiali the two School Board parties have assailed each other, it was...

W E know of few incidents in the history of democracy better worth studying than the recent revolution in American politics. The people of the United States have at one blow...

T HE eager interest felt in Russia in the first pro- ceedings of the young Czar is explicable enough, His true character is not known, and to the educated his true character is...

A S far as the collateral duties of the office are con- cerned, Lord Rosebery is an excellent Prime Minister. If he has no definite policy, and is following the lead of a...

S IR JOHN LUBBOCK, in his lecture, delivered last Saturday, on the senses and intellect of animals, suggests that there may be numbers of sights and sounds visible and audible...

and hideous Sondanese task mistress. The man who had lived through that and survived would never, he thought, dread anything, not even ridicule or the Prussian police. That fate...

[" Some eno has been lying on my bed," said the father bear. "And some one has been lying on my bed," said the mother bear. "Some one is lying in my bed," said the little...

THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION IN SOUTHWARK. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In commenting on the election results in the Spectator of November 24th, you say that...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I cordially sympathise with what you say (in the Spectator of November 24th) of Mr. Giffen's services to the State, and their scanty...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] In your notice of Mrs. Gaskell's " Collected Works," in the Spectator of November 17th, you seem to think that Mrs. Gaskell followed in...

RUBINSTEIN : AN IMPRESSION. WHERE Piccadilly's torrent meets a weir By crowded portals in the sultry air, Once moving with the stream, my eyes met there A Sphinx-like...

[TO TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sun—Your correspondent, " W. G. H.," is mistaken in attri- buting the lines he quotes,- " And yet, We lost it in this daily jar and fret,...

THE LIFE OF MRS. AUGUSTUS CRASVEN.* The Story of a Sister receives in these volumes its fullest com- mentary and its most impressive illustration. Probably never before that...

way in which she has fulfilled her part in the small volume of the " Contemporary Writers" Series now before us. In so limited a space, it would, of course, be impossible to...

master of anecdotes. Un- commonly good and very new are many of them,—passably good and respectably old are others ; but the general impres- sion left upon the mind is that of...

Ma. Max O'RELL's first book, which was simply an account of the British Philistine seen in more than his native hideous- ness through very French spectacles—a book which...

book, the evolution of the English novel is traced, step by step, through the four hundred years that separate the "Canterbury Tales" from "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." During...