a very uncertain sound. It looks as if he meant to throw all possible difficulties in the way, while protesting that he is as anxious for a strong Navy as the Government. But...

Tuesday, in which he sang a song of triumph over the Govan election. We ourselves told Lord Salisbury, when he spoke of Scotland's having come round to Unionist views, that we...

Unionist demonstration in the skating rink at Ashton-under- Lyne. He maintained that the objection of the Liberal Unionists to give up the name of Liberals was most natural,...

been broken off, there is still hope that an arrangement may be made. The Chinese Government is evidently dissatisfied with the management of its Envoy at Darjeeling, who has...

Wednesday, in which his first point was that he found the prominence of the Irish Question dis- tinctly declining. Mr. Morley and his leader were both putting forward other...

T HE contest between General Boulanger and M. Jacques for the vacant seat in Paris will be decided to-morrow ; but, owing to the enormous number of the electorate, which...

any case.

Scarborough on Wednesday, on the Irish Question. He said that he did not attach much importance to by-elections, but talked• about the victory at Govan for at least a quarter of...

explain elsewhere, probably marks an important change in the drift of American opinion. The House of Representatives recently appointed' a Committee to inquire into immigration,...

ment to establish free schools, which he proposes to do without interfering with the denominational schools, by adding the usual fees for attendance to the Government grant....

Council will be to restrict discussion to the business the Council is in- tended to do, and so preventit from degenerating into a debating society. There is an idea abroad that,...

week has been that of Patrick J. Farragher, from County Mayo, who, after having refused to pay his rent, and consequently having, been evicted from his farm, was pro- mised, and...

how the County Aldermen should be chosen,—from amongst the members popularly elected, or from outside. Our own view is very clear that the object should be to find upright men...

of the discussion on free dinners at Thursday's meeting of the London School Board, really was. Some of those who supported the resolution, —especially Mrs. Besant, who herself...

but its actual importance does not, we think, increase. The United States Senate is supporting the President, and there is a good deal of talk about secret agreements between...

most moderate journal not given to sensationalism, that Prince Bismarck undoubtedly did recently desire to annex Samoa. Three years ago, he requested a German of great rank, and...

Mr. Phelps, the departing American Minister, a diplomatist who, although he had, as Mr. Lecky said, the misfortune to succeed Mr. Lowell, has attracted to himself a strong...

of the districts stricken with famine in China, and every one who wishes can subscribe. The Lord Mayor was obviously reluctant to give his consent, but was overborne by local...

C. Osier, the President of the Birmingham Liberal Association, on the rather bitter controversial style of the discussions between the Birmingham Unionists and the Birmingham...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 991 to 99t.

MR. MORLEY AT SHEFFIELD. A VERY few months ago, if any well-informed reader's eye chanced to light on a speech of Mr. Morley's on the Irish Question without knowing who the...

I T has always been to us a subject of some surprise that the English people, with its long history of victory and its amazing present Empire, has been so little struck with the...

T HERE is a real interest for the historian as well as the politician in the election which will be decided to-morrow by the four hundred thousand voters of the Department of...

THE death of Carlo Pellegrini, one of our ablest _L, caricaturists, who twenty years ago was at the head of the caricaturists of this country, and who probably made the fortune...

by the Immi- gration Committee of the House of Representatives is, we believe, the first of a series of enactments which will ultimately prohibit or seriously restrict...

S IR WALTER SCOTT'S old laird tells his son to plant trees, because " while we're sleeping they're growing." The British elector may look with somewhat similar feelings upon his...

TT is perhaps curious, but it is, we think, almost certainly true, at least in England, that the lyrical poetry which gives most pleasure in any age is the poetry which...

H AT may be deemed a trivial incident? What is an occurrence of serious importance P Those who have observed life most closely will probably be the least able to furnish to...

A MIDST the deluge of discourses now poured forth every day almost to the drowning of thought, there is one class of speech which we seem to miss,—the speech in which the old...

THE REV. CHURCHILL BABINGTON, D.D. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Others have spoken of the services which Dr. Babington rendered to archaeology and to natural...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue (just received) of December 22nd, 1888, the writer of the article on "The Evil Eye" refers to the un- willingness of...

OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the interesting article on "Laughter," in the Spectator of January 19th, I observe that your contributor translates. both yiAcariza and 7eXciaceact...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—May I point out that the Psalmist did not say, " grin like a dog," nor even the Authorised Version, but only the- Prayer-Book version ?...

SOUTHWARK AS IT WAS.* How pleasant is the sustaining enthusiasm of a genuine antiquary, who collects an infinite variety of details by diligent search in the lumber-rooms of...

one of Mr. Wilkie Collins's beP+ novels ; but it remind us of one of his best novels, for in one respect its intellectual scheme is very similar to the intel- lectual scheme of...

says Dr. Salmon, " with certainty, on com- parison of the substance and the language, that the doctrine of the Epistle to the Hebrews is altogether Pauline." We confess to...

professes to contain the subject- matter of articles and addresses written and delivered on different occasions, ib still possesses a high value, giving as it does, within a...

MORE than a hundred years ago, long before the science of anthropology was ushered into existence, Fontenelle, the nephew of Corneille, applied the anthropological method to the...

Watson, and Viney.)—The editor explains that he has altered the title of this annual, which now appears for the fourth time, to "A Cyclopedic Record of Men and Topics of the...

Church Quarterly Review. January. (Spottiswoode and Co.)— The best articles in this number, we are inclined to think, aro those on " The Religious Opinions of S. T. Coleridge,"...

Fisher Unwin.)—This is the fourth, and, we are sorry to say, the last, of Mr. Cox's admirable Expositions. They have certainly had a succds d'estime, and that of no common kind....

S. Virtue.)—The contents of this volume are large in bulk and varied in kind. The " National Museums " occupy the first place. We have under this head a record of what has been...

of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day," is naturally very muoh like those that have been exhibited before. The demand for celebrities to fill up fifty-two pages,...

Co.)—This is the first volume (including the eight months, May to December) of a new venture. We wish it all prosperity. It gives an abundance of good matter, contributed by...

Unwin), is described in its title as " A Manual and Year-Book for Electors, Citizens, and Ratepayers, and for Members of the County Council of London, City Corporation, School...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This volume, the fifty-third of the series entitled " Questions of the Day," is a formidable indictment of the Protectionist system of the United States...

suppose that comparatively few readers belonging to this generation know Mr. Samuel Warren's " Ten Thousand a Year." Those who do will have a fairly good idea of the story of An...

U.S.A., and New York.)—Miss Replier has certainly no little skill in the art of essay-writing, an art which, indeed, is cultivated, we fancy, with more success on the other side...

the late Cornelius Walford. (G. Redway.)—In this "new and en- larged edition," we have brought together a vast amount of curious information collected by the author, one of the...

for 1889. (Whittaker and Co.)—This well-known perio- dical has now reached its forty-ninth year. It reaches to nearly a thousand pages, and gives copious information on all the...

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LA MAR TINE .* IT is time that an impartial estimate should be made of Lamartine, and this volume sketches agreeably the life of a man whose political failure may well be...

LONDON: JANUARY 26, 1889.

was to complete his work on Hampton Court Palace in two volumes, but finding he could not do this without sacrificing important matter, he stopped the new volume at the death of...

HOLLAND, the " Holl " or " Low " Land, is the creation of the Rhine. " Its uplands," said Napoleon, " are mine by right of conquest ; its lowlands, which owe their existence to...

IT is not too much to say that this book lays the whole of the English public which is interested in theological—nay, in religious matters, under deep obligation. The great...

we remarked (Spectator, June 20th,1885), "This volume is pleasanter reading, because the style is maturer, and the manner more sober, than its two predecessors, West African...

by more than 2,200 Woodcuts in the Text, 168 Full- Page Engravings, and 12 Plates in Colour. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—It may be doubted if there has ever been published a...

Random Recollections of Courts and Society. By " Cosmopolitan." (Ward and Downey.)—" Cosmopolitan" has nothing to say about our own Court, but he has a good many stories to...

published by Messrs. F. Warne and Co. It consists of twelve volumes, very neatly and clearly printed on excellent paper. The so-called illustrations with which these editions...

Author of " Sleepy Sketches." (Sampson Low and Co.)—The Anglo-Indian character in this book is very strongly developed, so strongly that it is difficult for one who has not had...

instructive in its way. Truth for its Own Sake : the Story of Charles Darwin. By W. Mawer, F.G.S. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—It strikes us that Mr. Mawer is not quits fair to...

Putnam's Sons.)—This is described as being "based on Webster's Un- abridged Dictionary" as "a guide to correct pronunciation by means of exercises in the elementary sounds and...

Co.)—This is a plain history of a manly, simple-minded missionary, who laboured at his own charges for the Church Missionary Society a short time in South India, and for about...

M. Barrie—for we gather from the second page of this booklet that " Gavin Ogilvy " is the nom do plume of the author of " Auld Licht Idylls "—is in danger, like so many young...

even political earnestness of Mr. Samuel Fothergill, as shown in his Essays on Popular Subjects (Digby and Long), which include " Gladstone, Ritualism, and Ritual," " The...

Sons.)—Although this volume contains the sayings and doings less of adults than of boys and girls, the moral which it teaches subtly pervades it instead of being directly...

Anne. Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner. With Notes and Illustrations by Robert C. Leslie. (Chapman and Hall.)—In the course of Captain Rogers's famous...

Surtees. (H. Gray.)—Mr. Scott Surtees does not think that Mr. Ignatius Donnelly has proved his case, and doubtless is right in so thinking. Yet one of his reasons is a curious...

These are, Practical Surveying, by George W. Usill (Crosby Lock- wood and Son), described as " a text-book for students preparing for examination, or for survey-work in the...

Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Canon Bell tells pleasantly enough a story that has been told many times before. He spent a winter in Egypt, going up the Nile in a steamer as...

this volume a compendious account of the work of all the missionary societies of Christendom. The list begins with the "New England Company," an institution of which, we venture...

The Hittites : the Story of a Forgotten Empire, by A. H. Sayee, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Professor Sayce popularises, with the skill which we are accustomed to associate...

by his Daughter, Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The subject of this charmingly written memoir was born in 1806, entered the United States Navy as a...

more than once had occasion to say that tales constructed on an elaborately didactic plan such as we find in the volume now before us, are seldom successful. "A Tale...

Graham. (Macmillan and Co.)—No one who reads Mr. Graham's book can fail to see that he possesses a more than ordinary share of dramatic talent. His situations are, for the most...

Streamlets of Song. By F. R. Havergal. (James Nisbet and Co.)—This volume contains certain of Miss Havergal's poems which froni their simplicity have been chosen as suitable for...

are noticeable for the deep feeling which they show, and for a quiet beauty of expression. In the first of the volume, " The Venus of Milo," Mr. Sill has skilfully drawn a...

—In this work Mr. Waite has produced a poem very much above the average of poetic merit. Though The Soul's Comedy is never likely to become a popular book, yet it will be read...

Co.)—Those who take up Mr. Emslie's book for the first time will probably be surprised at his boldness in choosing such a title. When they have finished perusing his pages, it...

up his volume of four lessons in recitation, some new extracts for reading, sketches of readers, and various miscel- laneous articles bearing on the topic of elocution. Of the...

Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Cook possesses a certain amount of dramatic power. So much we can judge from the play before us. But whether he is likely to write one which will succeed on...

by W. H. G. Boot. (Cassell and Co.)—This is the second and completing volume of this work. Twenty trees, natives of this island, and strangers that have been, so to speak,...