"BADMINTON" ON DANCING.* • Dancing. "The Badminton Library." By Mrs. Lily Grove, and others. Landon: Longmans, Green. and Co. IN its latest volume, on dancing, the " Badminton...

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THE sayings and doings of old women were the subject of perhaps the most perfect among Miss Wilkins's stories of New England life. Her insight and power of presentation made...

THE first nine volumes of this charmingly printed and bound edition of Poe's works contain a complete col- lection of the tales, and so give a good opportunity for estimating...

WITH the exception of the "Song of Roland" few of the epics of medimval France are at all familiar to English readers. The greatness of its subject, no less than the excellence...

examples of anomalies which, though indefensible on abstract grounds, work much better in actual practice than any system which human ingenuity can devise when proceeding on the...

ADMIRAL WOLSELEY, a distinguished sailor, the subject of this memoir, was born in 1756, two years before Lord Nelson, under whom he subsequently served. He lived to take part in...

English Pastorals. Selected, and with an Introduction, by Edmund K. Chambers. (Blackio and Son.)—This volume forms one of a series of literary " Guide-Books," each of which "...

M.D., F.It.C.P.E. (A. and C. Black.)—After.a practice of nearly sixty years, Dr. Keith states in plain language his opinion of the treatment usually adopted nowadays by his...

Anecdotes of '!'homes De Quincey. his Friends, and Associates. Written and collected by James Hogg. (Sampson Low.) —Mr. Hogg, the editor of De Quincey's " Uncollected Writings,"...

H. Corn- wall Legh. (Edward Arnold.)—This delightful and beautifully printed volume hardly calls for criticism. Dick and Molly, two bright-witted children, are engaged in taking...

(AI and C. Black.)—The late Mr. Sala in his little hand-book has done justice—some readers may be inclined to say more than justice— to "the most famous of English...

Unwin.)—This is a very careful, but also, to tell the truth, very wearisome and irritating, study of "family jars." In the Red Lodge we have a mother-in-law and a...

is a story, as the title itself indicates, of the life of a British private. The author, who, as is well known, holds strong opinions on socio-political questions, and has a...

Co.)—The author of this volume, which is full of curious details, dedicates it to " the American girl," who, she says, "makes the most charming of friends, the best of wives,...

are naturally reminded by Mr. Max Pemberton's theme of the masterly sketches of Mr. Stanley Weyman. But he has nothing like the delicacy of touch which makes Mr. Weyman's...

Alexander Brebner. (T. Fisher ITnwin.)—This is a pleasing combination, in a little volume which does not run to two hundred pages, of fact and fiction, the latter purporting to...

By the late G. T. Bettany, M.A., B.Sc. (Ward and Lock.)—The late Mr. Bettany wrote on a good many different subjects, and wrote very conscientiously on them all. He was by...

Directory of some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, and being the first attempt to show which Arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority. Compiled and edited by Arthur...

on Structure and Classification, by Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Hudson has evidently taken great pains with his subject ; and the book is one of the most...

is likely to prove a lively disappointment to admirers of Mr. Wells's former story, "The Time Machine." One need hardly say that it is excellently well written, for that might...

Trueba y la Quintana. (Longmans, Green, and Co.)—The Cid Campeador, Ruy Diaz de Bivar, is, as the translator of this history says in his preface, the great popular hero of Spain...

John Mac- kinnon Robertson. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—We seem to enter into a hopeless maze in attempting to criticise Mr. Mac- kinnon Robertson's criticism of Buckle's...

is a delightful addition to the publishers' series of " Pocket Novels." Morton Carlton, an American portrait-painter of considerable eminence, falls in love with the portrait of...

Pail Mall Gazette and Budget will be glad to find that the amusing stories contributed by Mr. Wells to those two publica- tions have been collected and republished in the form...

and Co.)—The size of this volume, as well as the quantity of matter which has been ably and judiciously com- pressed into it, will prevent it, we regret to be compelled to say,...

Co.)—This is a clever story of social life,—the story of an honest man who has the misfortune to have a father and a mother who are not honest by any means. There are no...

the Rev. Gerard W. Banks. (Cassell and Co.)—The title and plan of this little volume naturally recall Charles Kingsley's famous " Water-Babies." The difference is that there is...

Luckock, D.D. (Longmans.)—Dean Luckock adds to his title the clause, "In Relation to Divorce and certain Forbidden Degrees." This indicates the purpose with which he writes. He...

Dent.)—Mr. Morris's verse is distinctly above the level of mediocrity, but does not rise into excellence. Correct, fluent, touched again and again with tenderness and force, it...

Collected and arranged by I. H. Elie, M.A. (Long- mans.)—Handbook of Games. By William Hutchinson. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Greenhouse and Window Plants. By Charles Collings....

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and in responding to the toast of his health. made the happy remark that of two people who were on bad terms with each other, it used to be said that they were " at the...

G ERMANY celebrated on Saturday, the 18th inst., the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the Empire. The festival was kept amidst much popular rejoicing, and the Emperor as...

week, except the news of the departure of Dr. Jameson and his followers for England. The arrested Outlanders have not yet been brought to trial, and Mr. Kriiger has made no...

perhaps as Mr. Cochrane-Baillie in the House of Commons), the new Governor of Queensland, at the Hotel Metropole on Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain, who presided, made several speeches...

Russia and Turkey had renewed the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, under which Russia agreed, if called on, to defend her ally by closing the Dardanelles. The statement affected the...

on the public. but they have roused semi-official writers to a delirium of enthusiasm. The North German Gazette in particular goes off into a strain worthy of Mr. Jefferson...

case.

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

settle- ment of the shipping dispute. At first it seemed as if the obstinacy of the Belfast operatives, who refused the terms. agreed to by their brother-workmen on the Clyde,...

Thursday night, declared the opinion of the Liberal Unionist leaders,—namely, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Chamberlain, and himself,—that it would not be wise for that party- to...

East Grinstead, dwelt with legitimate pride on the manner in which the Admiralty had equipped the Flying Squadron. The notion that the Squadron was to be sent to any special...

weak compromise upon the cotton-duties. The duty on yarns is abolished, and the duty on woven cottons reduced to 31 per cent., imposed not only on the imported article, but on...

speech at Aberdeen on Tuesday on English foreign policy, supporting the Government with great frankness and cor- diality. In relation to the Transvaal he entirely approved of...

that the Government were endeavouring to give com- pleteness to the national defences. The lack of a reserve of am- munition was rapidly being got over, the factories at present...

at the Birmingham Town Hall. He said he thought that it would be quite fair if School Boards, whenever they supplemented grants in aid by a precept for a school- rate, should be...

blood- less Asbantee Campaign has been clouded by the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the husband of our own Princess Beatrice. The Prince, who, though unknown to the...

Martinez Campos, who, with a hundred thousand troops at his disposal, finds it impossible to crush some fifty thousand Cuban rebels. They have consequently resolved to stake all...

to the British Ambassador in Paris, describing the bases of an agreement which has been made between the two Governments as to Siamese affairs. Siam, defined as the drainage...

the Daily News • has celebrated its jubilee, our weekly contemporary, the Guardian, should have also celebrated its own. The Guardian published on Wednesday a paper of great...

officers met Governor Maxwell in the great square of Coomassie on the 20th inst., and made an abject submission, the " King" grovelling with his head in the dust in the true...

favour- able to peace, and it seems to be understood that the Government of Washington will induce the Government of Venezuela to open negotiations with Great Britain direct, on...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 107!.

THE RESTLESSNESS OF THE NATIONS. T HE century has been one of almost continuous pro- gress, but its close is being marked by a singular epidemic of restlessness among the...

A T the banquet given to Lord Lamington on his de- parture to assume the governorship of Queensland, Mr. Chamberlain made a speech which contained two points of great interest....

T HE world, fortunately for its peace, is not Avverned by newspapers, but if the journalists do not take care, they will render the successful management of British foreign...

W E do not feel very triumphant over the conquest of Ashantee. We admit, it is true, that it was a just war, for the King, by breaking the Treaty, gave fair occasion for...

T O a very large body, nay, to the vast majority of Englishmen, one of the most painful aspects of the present controversy has been the evidence afforded that Americans seem...

at the Vatican has been recalled has excited more interest than commonly attaches to diplomatic changes. This was due in part to the apparent irrelevance of the reason first...

T HE brilliant author of the tales in Blackwood on "The Seen and the Unseen," has given us in the current number a new specimen of the singular power with whioh that series has...

St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, marks a distinct era in the history of English Christianity. Rev. William Rogers was one of those Broad Church clergymen in whom the...

T HE Daily News attained its fiftieth year on Wednesday, and apparently takes in that fact considerable pride, publishing, for one thing, a facsimile of its first issue,...

R EFERRING to the account of the wild-fowl on Holkham Lake, which appeared in the Spectator of January 18th, Kr. Francis Darwin writes from Arthington, in Yorkshire :— " At...

THE UNITED STATES AND THE NEW MONROE DOCTRINE. [To Ins EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] was in England at the time of the publication of President Cleveland's Message, and having...

• THE CHARACTER OF MODERN WAR.* gt. FEW months ago two of the most distinguished officers of our day expounded almost simultaneously their views upon the general management of...

VICTORY. So I have gained a crown, and lost a friend ! What, was he envious of my echoed name ? Did he aspire to what I did not claim, Mistake the summit that I dared ascend?...

THE poems in this volume are founded chiefly on old Irish legendary myths and folklore, strange and weird stories, • Poems. By W. B. Yea's. London : T. Fisher trawls. with...

IT is always with a sense of mental confusion and trepidation, not allayed by gleams of faint disturbing hope, that we open a new book by Mr. George Meredith. We have of late...

WE may soon begin to regret the times when History was a plant of slow growth, and it was reserved for a future genera- tion to form any definite judgment of its greater...

BY a polite fiction childhood is called the golden age, but we doubt if anyone grown to man's estate would beg Time to " run back and fetch the age of gold" for his own...

We accord with pleasure our customary greeting to the annual volume of the Journal of Education (Rice, 86 Fleet Street).—We have nothing new to say; the qualities of...

Ritchie in this book goes deeply into what may be called the foundations of human life. He takes nothing for granted, and some conventions commonly accepted, of the " Natural...

sketches in this volume are pleasingly compounded of the serious and the entertaining. The love-story of Bob Riach and Effie Young, for instance, is particularly good ; the...

no difference from the publications of former years, except that the net value of the livings is approximately given in place of the gross, though, indeed, this change is not...

C. Black.)—Dr. Ingram has compressed within the compass of a moderate-sized volume a history of slavery which is quite adequately complete. He begins, after an introductory...

issue of a work which, bringing together as it does the results of medical investigation and practice into a convenient compass, must necessarily be of very great utility to the...

S. Virtue and Co.)—This is the " seventeenth annual issue," containing, we observe, the new feature of a critical review of the year's art under the title of " Memories of '95,"...

Rise and Decline of their Eastern Empire. By Frederick Charles Danvers. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Danvers has compiled a careful account of the successive stages by which the...