THE THACKERAYS IN INDIA, AND SOME CALCUTTA GRAVES.* WITHIN the modest limits of one hundred and eighty-four small octavo pages, Sir William Hunter has written a book so crowded...

IN publishing, at the Clarendon Press, Notes of Adam Smith's Lectures delivered at Glasgow University not later than the Academical Session of 1763-64, the University of Oxford...

THE relations between States in time of war are correctly laid down by Mr. Risley as being divided into two main branches :— " 1. The Law of Belligerency, or rules regulating...

THE present craze, not only in Scotland, but outside of it, for the picturesque region of Dumfriesshire and Galloway, to which these two elaborate volumes bear testimony, is no...

already published in this series had one advantage denied to Professor Herford. Dryden was indisputably the chief literary figure of the age covered by Dr. Garnett, and Pope had...

IV., "South and East Africa." By C. P. Lucas. (Clarendon Press.)— Mr. Lucas's two volumes dealing with the history and geography of British South and East Africa aie full of...

Puppets at Large. By F. Anstey. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.) —These humorous dialogues and monologues reprinted from Punch contain some of the funniest things ever written by Mr....

Co.) has only one serious objection. It is too fat and heavy to go into the pocket, and it has notes which are not wanted in a volume intended to be always at hand. But in...

Potts, Banbury.)—The site of the famous battle is commonly spoken of as Edge Hill. This name, which indeed should be in the plural, does not denote a single eminence, but a...

story of Highland life. There is description of scenery in it; there is sport ; there is a selection of poetry, in which the author seems to have a good taste ; and, of course,...

by John De Villiers. (Chatto and Windus.)—M. Bourget writes a preface for this translation of his novel, in 010 he makes an apologia pro libro suo. The substance of it is this,...

"Romance of High Politics" will not, we imagine, appeal to a very large audience. To understand it, the reader must have more knowledge than is commonly possessed of the...

Themes. By William Mathews. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Mathews informs us that he was at one time librarian of the Young Men's Library Association at Chicago, and from first to...

A. Shaw. Part I. (The Chetham Society.)—The " Classis " was a Presbytery consisting of the ministers and elders of six Lancashire parishes,—viz., Bury, Bolton, Middleton,...

contains some heindrede ,of "annotated tests- mentary abstracts," ranging in point of time over about two centuries and a half (from the sixteenth century). The chief value of...

Pridham. (J. Heywood.)—Miss Pridham quotes the advice of "a German poet-philosopher, who bids us thoroughly study the unwritten history of a single plant until we know it by...

Macqueen.)—Mr. Cliffe begins his detailed account of Italian literature with Dante, and carries it down to the present century. Among modern writers the greatest amount of space...

England, Ireland, and America, 1725 —1896. By W. Carew Hazlitt. With Portraits. 2 vols. (Redway.)—Mr. Hazlitt declares that he is indifferent to the opinions of the Press, and...

Dr. Wilhelm Busch. Translated by Alice M. Todd. (A. D. Innes and Co.) —This volume, which ought to have been noticed long ago, comes with an introductory commendation from Mr....

These "Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia" date, of course, from before the late troubles, though the writer in preparing the narrative for the press has had the events of...

Long.)—We do not see anything of the "newest" about Chrystal. There is, perhaps, something new in the gloss which the writer of this story puts upon her ways of thinking and...

By C. J. Matthew, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is an effort, and on the whole a successful effort, to give the inner meaning of the changes and movements which seem at first...

Hort, D.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—" These," writes the editor in his prefatory note, "were almost the only popular lectures which Dr. Hort gave." Commonly the extreme condensation...

charm- ing little volume, containing about fifty pieces chosen from Mr. Aldrich's later volumes, — viz., "Mercedes," "The Sisters' Tragedy," "Wyndham Towers," and "Unguarded...

Ellerton certainly deserves to be put in the first rank of modern hymn-writers. His compositions of this kind numbered in all nearly a hundred, and some of them have met with a...

Co.)—This is a book meant for teachers, and among these, for such as have not had a regular mathematical train- ing. It deals with elementary qualities of both planes and...

is a more than usually interesting volume. Mr. Louis Dyer disposes of the somewhat prosaic objections which have been made to the plot of the Agamemnon, in which certainly the...

Cudlip). (F. V. White and Co.)—Why "four" only ? There are twice as many. Mrs. Sutherland and her three daughters, Jenny Wyvern (who is the heroine), her mother, Donald Cleve's...

(.o.)—The daughter of Alouette is a half-bred girl, daughter of a French trapper and an Indian woman. This is a clever study of her character, as she grows up under the care of...

Warne and Co.)--Mr. Hope uses his well-practised pen to good purpose in this book. He compresses into a volume of moderate compass a long story, makes a telling picture by his...

tells the familiar story in rhymed verse, which runs easily and smoothly enough. Some prose there is, but the greater part is verse. But as the play is meant to be acted, and...

is a long time before we get to Scotland in this story. The hero, when he is a boy, falls into the hands of a French privateersman, and has some very interesting adventures in...

Miss Fuller makes us realise very thoroughly the Venetian atmo- sphere. And the place, with all its varied interests, is peopled for us by her imagination with some remarkable...

and Co.)—" Stories of Scottish Adventurers" is Mr. Davenport Adams's sub-title. Among his heroes are the Scottish soldiers who took service with the French King (best known to...

Co.)—Poor little Philip, with the cousin whom he wearies with his tears and childish ways, is a pathetic little figure. Miss Mann makes a very effective story out of his...

son and Co.)—If any one desires to sup full of horrors here is a chance. John Fordham marries a woman who is a drunkard. How he could have been ignorant of a vice that had...

golf, and his consequent neglect of his wife, would not hold out as the subject of a volume which had to run to the conventional three hundred pages. Matter thus falling short,...

for herself and her little sister by literature; the other also aims at literary success, not because she wants the money, but because she is tired of a dull life at home, and...

is written with some spirit. The dialogue is easy and natural, and the characters show some power of drawing, though they are not, for the most part, of the quality on which...

Co.)—There is much cleverness, we might almost say brilliancy, in the writing of this tale. And there is a certain power in the drawing of one at least of the characters, Dr....

Markwick apologises for his style by telling us that as he has been occupied in journalism all his life, he could not be expected to acquire a style, and urges that as he has...

Meade and Clifford Halifax, M.D. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—Dr. Clifford Halifax is evidently a very clever man. He cures, for instance, a case of congenital blindness which...

more pleasant personage than the intense young man who so often displaces him in modern fiction ; the somewhat cynical Mr. Wilson ; and a number of other entertaining people,...

Bentley and Son.)—This is a spirited story of the disastrous Afghan War that culminated in the destruction of a British army in the Khyber Pass. Mr. Arthur Stanhope has the...

English by Margaret Dunlop Gibson. (C. J. Clay and Sons.) —The apocryphal tracts here given are seven,—(l) The Anaphora and Paradosis Pilati, i.e., his report to Tiberius and...

and Co.)—The plot of this book may be described as a sort of travesty on the first chapter of the Book of Job. A certain Arthur Greenstreet, who is a pessimist, falls into...

tale of the days that followed the '45, is scarcely as good work as we should think the author could have produced. When the author speaks of his own person he uses clumsy...

Shapcott. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We must own that we have not been able to take in the bearing of this story. The characters in it do not act in the way that we should have expected...

Blackett.)—This tale may be described as a mixture of the novel and the romance. The plot is distinctly romantic; the two marriages and the unexpected appearance of the true...

Co.)—This is an Australian story, the scene being laid in Queensland, and the most striking feature the description of a flood in Brisbane, a description which has every...

collection of twenty short stories, mostly designed, one might say, to show that revenge is not, as some would maintain, an extinct passion. It has, on the contrary, a very...

Mathews.)—Mr. Mason mixes into a draught—potent certainly, but as certainly nauseous—the ingredients of a woman's weak- ness, revenge, murder, suicide. It is only fair to say...

a remarkable, but rather disappointing, book by a writer who has attained high distinction as a leader in that movement in Scottish—though not exclusively Scottish—litera- ture...

and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a volume of really good verse, as good as anything that we have seen of late from poets not of the first or second rank. What the writer wants...

and other Poems. By J. A. Osborne, M.D. (T. Fisher TJnwin.)—In This Our World : Poems and Sonnets. By Charlotte Perkins Stetson. (Same publisher.)—The Poetic Year, and other...

T HE Concert has failed to prevent war. The repeated raids of Greek irregulars into Macedonia so excited the Ottomans in Constantinople that the Sultan, who dreads war because...

iB.el WAR BETWEEN TURKEY AND GREECE. W AR has at last been declared formally, but the first events of the campaign have not been happy. The aptitude of the Ottoman tribe for...

S PECULATION upon the future results of this war is very useless, and yet it is very difficult to avoid it. The consequences, as every diplomatist is saying or thinking, may be...

W E see no reason to doubt the truth of the telegrams from Cairo in regard to an advance to Abu Hamed as soon as the water rises sufficiently to allow the steamers now at Merawi...

M ANY people are rejoicing over the folly and fatuity of the resolutions passed by the Independent Labour party at the recent Conference. The wildness, nay, wantonness, of their...

their sympathy with free States, free institutions, and freedom of speech and writing ? We do not believe it, but certainly the language indulged in by some of our...

very serious moment in reference to the financial condition of the University of Cambridge. Indeed, thcugh this is the nominal subject of the article, its real scope is wider...

I T is very instructive to compare the enormous sums lavished every year by rich peoples on the mere maintenance of their armies on a so-called peace footing with the absurdly...

philosophy, as well as very considerable effectiveness of ex- pression, in the presidential address delivered by Mr. J. C. Addiscott at the Conference of the National Union of...

W E once ventured to assert in these pages that the day before the end of the world two subjects would be sure to be under universal discussion,—one was "the de- generacy of...

T HE Anglican Church appears to weary of her "splendid isolation." Not content with collecting, as she will this year, all her sister and daughter Churches at Lambeth, in a...

I N an article in the Cornhi11 Magazine of January, sug- gesting means by which some of the Crown forests might be retained as sanctuaries for wild animals, both native and...

SQUIRRELS. [To THR EDITOR OF MIR " OrscrAroz.".] :Sia,—The public park-squares of Philadelphia, U.S., were at one time enlivened by the presence of considerable numbers of the...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE "STEC/ATM..] SIR,—The great Duke of Wellington is indeed a crushing authority on the subject of national defence ; but he was surely purposely...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] am induced by reading your interesting article in the Spectator of April 10th to look back on life in my native village at the commencement...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."] Sis, — In the Spectator of April 17th " Catholicus" asks "Is there not a story of Dr. Johnson on his knees in the muddy kennel of Lichfield...

THE SYSTEM OF SCEIOPENHAITER.• THE growth of the influence of Schopenhaner is a signficant chapter in the intellectual history of the latter half of the nineteenth century ;...

[To THR EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR." ] SIB,—In Sir M. E. Grant Duff's " Diary " the question is again raised as to the unfinished sentence in Mr. Disraeli's famous first speech,...

the Kafirs which inhabit one or the wildest parts of the Hindu-Kush Mountains, known as Kafiristan. A typical race of mountaineers,—courageous, independent, and capable of...

in which he won his earliest and most resounding triumph, Mr. R. H. lichens deserves considerable credit. And it may be con- ceded that in Flames, his latest and most ambitious...

THE main title of this work, The Buddhist Praying Wheel, does not convey a full idea of its scope, the praying wheel of Thibet being quite a subsidiary matter, which is indeed...

Ma. CONANT chose one of the most interesting subjects that aan engage the attention of a practical economist when he set himself to the compilation of his history of banks of...

THE author of this book has got hold of a capital subject, and it is matter of some regret that he should have made a rather indifferent use of it. The idea of giving a ship a...

Sons.)—There is no reason why a story should not be written with a plot in which the central motive is kleptomania. But the incidents of The Sun by the Shore make too large a...

Whitney. (Macmillan and Co.)—Professor Max le Blanc, of Leipzig, modestly says his work "may contain some new ideas." It certainly seems to throw a clearer light on the great...

Innes and Co.) —Here we have something like "Punch's Essence of Parliament." The proceedings of the last Session are described in humorous verse, which, though varying in...

Tales from the Isles of Greece : being Sketches of Modern Greek Peasant Life. Translated from the Greek of Argyris Ephtaliotis by W. H. D. Rouse. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—These...

able to see the necessity of all the dramatispersonse which appear in this story. It almost seems as if Mr. White had altered his mind as to what was to be done with his...

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