LONDON: JANUARY 26, 1895.

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.* Mx. ROPES is a lawyer, and his method is judicial. Instead of giving an even narrative into which all events are propor- tionately...

THIS work, which is issued by a Birmingham firm in a volume at once substantial and dainty, appeals in the first place to a local audience. The names of various major and minor...

from Turkestan in 1890, he began, with the curiosity of the true traveller, to turn his eyes to Thibet and the great unknown plateau of the Chang. In his preface, he speaks with...

with his customary wit and point, told the assembled librarians at Belfast that they are a veritable new priesthood, whose function it is to sort out, arrange, and select the...

Hokkaido (Yezo) are the most primitive and therefore the most interesting savages left to us. The Australians are a more developed race, and have, more- over, certain tribal...

"contains a collec- tion of essays designed to stimulate the systematic study of general history." The papers of which it is composed have already seen the light in the form of...

A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools. By J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Robertson states that this History has been written, in the first...

Introduction by Edward Dowden, LL.D. (Elliot Stock.)— About thirteen years ago, Miss Braddon undertook to abridge the Waverley Novels, and to serve them up to the public in...

idea of this book, as its author frankly allows, was suggested by Mr. Henry T. Crofton's " English Gypsies under the Tudors," which was originally published as a pamphlet under...

(Morgan and Scott.)—This is a companion volume to its author's works on Abraham. Joseph, Moses, Joshua, &c. Like them, it is partly historical and partly aermonical.—Mr. Mayer's...

B.A. (Morgan and Scott.)—Mr. Meyer gives a romantic title to the record of what is necessarily prosaic, but is not, therefore, ignoble work. Re- calling the story of the...

Religious Tract Society.)—This is a very well constructed and well-written story of adventure, in which there is a trifle—but not too much—of preaching, by example, however,...

Memoir and Notes, by William C. Ward. 2 vols. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—The charming series known to all lovers and purchasers of poetry as "The Muses' Library" contains few names...

LL.D. (John Murray.)—The author of " Self-Help" could not write the biography of a man whose career was more distinguished by that characteristic than Josiah Wedgwood. Amidst a...

Milner. (Longman, Green, and Co.)—The author of this pleasant, hand- some, and admirably illustrated little volume, describes it as " un- pretentious notes," and a sequel to his...

we have a modest, delightful, and well- written book, dealing with what the author terms the " fringes " of perhaps the quaintest and historically most interesting county of...

the rather too numerous writers of the present day who give us sketches of Scotch character and studies in Scotch dialect, Mr. W. D. Latto is the most alarming, but not the...

by J. W. L. Glaisher. 2 vols. (The Clarendon Press.)—The sub- jects treated in these two volumes are, of course, of a technical character, which makes them unsuitable for...

and Ferrier.)—Here we have " Glimpses of a Fife Man" in the old weaving days when men worked at the loom in their own houses. One Saunders, who rises from a humble station to be...

Southampton, 1757 - 1894. By Colonel Lloyd Verney. (Longmans.) —This is beyond doubt a handsome, well got-up volume, in which many people will find much that interests them. The...

Charles Fox-Davies and M. E. B. Crookes. (T. C. and E. L. Jack, Edinburgh.)—The contents of this book are sufficiently described by its sub-title, " A CyclopEedia of the...

—The chapters in this book are addressed to young men about to enter business, but we do not think any man, whatever his occupation might be, could read them without learning...

that is characteristic of Russian fiction ; yet as a whole, compared with other authors that might be named, Poushkin is fairly cheerful. His "Amateur Peasant-girl," for...

Downey.)—The story is commonplace enough, but it is told with a certain grace of style. The heroine is somewhat foolish ; her honest lover a little tedious ; her dishonest one,...

Jessie Muir. (Hodder Brothers.)—There are some things in this volume which can be read with unmixed pleasure,—the interesting memoir of the author, for instance, and the chapter...

to Algiers, by George W. Harris (G. Philip and Son). We are told that it has been thoroughly revised up to date (the preface to this edition, indeed, bears the date " Algiers,...

volume contains a record of the ministry carried on by missioners of the Roman Catholic faith at Stafford between the Reformation and the present time. The writer's intention,...

artist fails to interest us ; if his " fate" keeps us in sus- pense—and indeed we do not know for a time whether he is destined for one of the daughters of Mr. Salmonsen, the...

Institute, Northumberland Avenue.) —The first paper in this volume is Lord Onslow's " State Socialism and Labour Govern- ment in Antipodean Britain," a deliverance of experience...

M. Dent and Co.)—Mr. George Saintsbury writes an introduction to this new edition (revised, we are told) of an old English version of Corinne. If Mr. Saintsbury was brought to...

Schiller's Wallenstein. Edited by Karl Breul, M.A. (Cambridge University Press.)—The editor has supplied a sufficient furnishing of Introduction (containing a life and criticism...

Herring, M.A. (Rivington, Percival, and Co.)-A book edited on a good plan, and very well calculated for rudimentary classes ; but we do not believe that real progress in Latin...

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case.

full and impartial inquiry into the recent massacres in The Government of the Sultan pretends that it desires a full and impartial inquiry into the recent massacres in Armenia,...

T ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL died at 6.15 a.m. on Thursday morning, being then within a month -of forty-six years old. He had been in Parliament twenty years, had been Chancellor of...

had to form a Ministry, and he decided to form one from all the Republican groups, including rather ex- treme Radicals. He asked M. Bourgeois therefore, who, though temperate,...

perfect silence another expedition has been prepared at Hiroshima, and on January 19th a fleet of fifty transports, escorted by cruisers, and twenty-five thousand soldiers, with...

by the King which, in all but form, is a coup d'etat. The popu- lation of Athens held a meeting on Sunday to remonstrate against M. Trieoupi's financial policy, and orders were...

FOR THE No. 3,474.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1895.- [ R 7. 8 ;:rgint,: i 6d.

on Saturday in the Town Hall at Cardiff, by the Liberal Whip, Mr. Thomas Ellis, M.P., in which, while he declined to indulge in prophecy, he ventured to say, "If I am to attempt...

week were most remarkable, as we have elsewhere said, for the change of tone as to the Dissolution on the House of Lords question,—in relation to which Sir William Harcourt's...

shows how fast the tide is rising against Lord Rosebery's Government. Colonel Long got in by a majority of 1,175 on a total poll of 8,345 votes,—for Colonel Long, 4.760; for Mr....

masculine and confident one, though we doubt whether the confidence he himself felt in his own ideas was at all equalled by the confidence which he felt in the enthusiasm of his...

the convocation of the London University, in relation to the scheme for the foundation of a Teaching University of London in connection with the present Examining University,...

it was stated that the Government had absolutely refused arbitration on the differences between the Government and the Directors as to the terms on which the Company should cede...

though it always ends in one way, is more bitter than in England. The tramcar drivers of Brooklyn, for instance, have gone out on strike, and the contest has at once developed...

Septimus Hansard, rector of Bethnal Green. His immediate charge was a district containing only ten thousand people ; but until the passing of the Parish Councils Bill, he...

on Tues- day, Dr. Kenny declared that they ought to send back the pre- sent Government to the country defeated and disgraced. Other speakers followed in the same vein. Mr....

to address a body of working men on an abstract subject with- out being either prosy, pompous, or patronising, or all three, spoke on Saturday last at the annual meeting of the...

New Consols (2) were on Friday, 105t.

the best and most reflective speeches of his life at Ulverston, in Yorkshire. He said that while there had been great progress during this generation, the material condition of...

while speaking at Bow on Friday week, he actually con- trived to illuminate the dullness and darkness of the political situation with a joke. After declaring that the great...

A FRENCHMAN is an Irishman with a mathematical brain, and nine times out of ten, when a " crisis" is approaching in France, he pulls himself together, looks the situation in the...

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT has broken silence at last ; but either the gloom of the situation or some personal depression has paralysed his usually bright and vivid tongue. We have...

are very interesting. If ever there were a worshipper of what Lord Byron termed" Circumstance, thou unspiritual God," it is Lord Rosebery. On two aspects of the policy to which...

T HE specialty, the invaluable specialty, of the Duke of Devonshire's mind, when he is thinking as politician, is its detachment. He does not think as ordinary states- men...

of comments on the speeches made during the last ten days by the Unionist leaders, Mr. Balfour and the Duke of Devonshire, but strangely enough, the most important and...

W E do not worship Mr. Rhodes, for we never quite understand his views about slavery ; and are never quite sure whether his governing object is the good of Great Britain or a...

Air BRUNETIERE is an eminent man of letters, he is 1Y - L. • one of the Forty, and he is the director of the first organ of literary opinion in Europe. In all these characters...

M R. W. S. LILLY is giving at the Royal Institution a course of four lectures on our modern humourists which does not seem likely, we think, to prove what Madame Mohl used to...

T HAT men with whom equality is an ideal should dislike the existence of millionaires is logical enough ; but why they should object to their expenditure when it does not...

I T is now fifteen years since Frank Backland bequeathed his museum of pisciculture to the nation, as we are reminded by Mr. G. Ffennell in a letter to the Times of January...

ET — th t e he ni p e r e e t s ie e s nt of pP has nothing ontohnin-lgegwahl whatsoever be erto re d as o s w ur i e th d, pap e r a- veyancing or matters matrimonial. Its...

THE RESIGNATION OF M. CASIMIR-PERIER. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The severe judgment expressed by the Spectator of January 19th, and the English newspapers...

confirm the testimony of your correspondent, " C. J.," as to variety of character in spiders. I once spent a month with a friend in a wooden but in Norway. My friend, who is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'? Sin,—A good man has just passed away. The Rev. Septimns Hansard, rector and titular head of the great parish of Bethnal Green, died suddenly...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Six, When, forty years ago, I first became a Justice of the Peace, there were many more clerical Magistrates than there are now, and I...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I have read your correspondent's remarks in the Spectator of January 19th and the comments contained in an article in the Daily...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Six,—In the Spectator of January 12th you review the " Almanach Hachette," and you say on p. 55, "It is worth noting that in the English...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIE,—In the article in the Spectator of January 12th, entitled as above, occurs the following :—" But why should a Christian care, and...

MR. MINTO'S POSTHUMOUS WORK.* PROFESSOR MINTO died in the full vigour of life, for he had not reached his fiftieth year, but he lived long enough to gain the love and admiration...

CHARLES LAMB AT ENFIELD. ["Yet in this saf•condemned oblivion, in ;he stagnation, some molesting yearnings of life, not quite killed, rise prompting me that there was a Loudon,...

IT was a year after the Napoleonic Campaign of 1859, when, in the words of Massimo d' Azeglio, the Third Napoleon "entered Italy with two hundred thousand soldiers, spent half a...

which various specimens are given us of the rhymed Hebrew psalms of the Middle Ages, translated into English verse approaching as nearly to the originals both in metre and rhyme...

FOR a nation of shopkeepers, we are surprisingly ignorant of matters financial. The average Briton, if he is not actually a man of business, hates nothing so much as being...

SOME time ago Mr. Hall Caine, while avowing himself largely in favour of one-volume fiction, deprecated the total abolition of the three-volume novel, on the ground that it...

already appeared in this journal, and may be remembered by some of our readers, but the volume has been supplemented by others which consist chiefly of the retelling of old...

Harper most certainly knows what he is writing about, and, so we suppose, must be allowed to be positive in his argu- ments and occasionally contemptuous to the point of...

free in virtue of their having touched English ground, were to be sent. The experiment did not promise well at first. Four hundred left England ; eighty-four died on the voyage,...

of the United States (Chatto and Windus) that it is likely to be enjoyed by readers who find a pleasure in Comic Histories of England, and the like.

Mr. Bram Stoker appears to have a very catholic taste so far as the selection of scenes for his stories is concerned. If we remember aright, Ireland gave him the scenery for a...

briefly commend this volume—one of the series entitled " The Victoria Library for Gentlewomen "—to our readers. Mrs. Douglas would follow the golden mean between the " hygienic...

and Ecclesiastical Directory, 1895, in England, Wales, Ireland, Scot- land, and the Colonies, including the various Chaplains of Army, Navy, and Foreign Places. (Kelly and...

in this most readable book have appeared as separate articles, but it would have been a serious loss to the public if they had not been collected together. The " In Cap and...

Sweet-Scented Flowers and Fragrant Leaves. By Donald McDonald. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We can hardly believe that Mr. Donald McDonald intended to be funny in the historical...