THE BEGGARS OF PARIS.* PARIS is certainly a wonderful place; not only has it the best police in the world, but the most completely organised system of begging of any capital. A...

in providing preachers with illustrations, similes, quotations, anecdotes, and ornaments of all kind, wherewith they may make their discourses more telling. Mrs. Wood has had...

DR. ARCHIBALD FORBES does not exhibit the vigorous and picturesque style of which he is a master to the best advantage except when he is relating events quorum pars fait. He is...

THE Expedition which ended so triumphantly with the occu- pation of Dongola was well worthy of a chronicle. As a military achievement it cannot be mentioned in the same breath...

Sin WA.LTER SCOTT, in his introduction to The Lord of the Isles, said of Lord Hailes, the author of the once celebrated and still authoritative Annals of Scotland,—" He is as...

Tire attractive little book before us is likely to be one of the most useful which Mr. Furneaux has yet published. His last venture, British Butterflies and Moths, related to a...

Ferrier.)—This is a volume of Scotch sketches of the now almost too familiar "Kailyard" type. They are conscien- tiously constructed and carefully written, and the dialect is...

Rev. M. C. F. Morris. (John C. Nimmo.)—Few names were better known to the diligent reader of newspapers between the years 1850 and 1890 than that of F. 0. Morris, rector of...

(William Blackwood and Sons.)—This addition to Blackwood's series—which promises to be an excellent and useful one—of Scottish county histories deals with one of the most "...

who knows anything of Scottish Church history has heard of the Cameronians ; but how few could say how they got the name ! It was not of their own choosing ; they dis- claimed...

(John C. Nimmo.)—Mr. Hutton's research and literary skill, assisted by the graceful and effective pencil of Mr. Railton, has done justice to Hampton Court. The palace is not fax...

By Pro- fessor L. C. Miall. (Macmillan and Co.)—This is a quite delight- ful volume. Not every reader, it is true, will be interested in everything that he finds in it ; but...

The Birthright. By Joseph Hocking. (James Bowden.)—This volume proves beyond all doubt that Mr. Hocking has mastered the art of the historical romancist. The Birthright is, in...

(B. H. Blackwell, Oxford.)—Mr. Fletcher was the last rector of Carfax, which, after an existence of at least five hundred years —we are speaking of the ecclesiastical entity,...

(W. H. Allen and Co.), we have A Handbook to the Game- Birds, by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Vol. II. First in the contents comes a second division of the pheasants, containing two...

of the "New Vagabond Library" is good reading. Mr. Hornung has made the bush and the bushranger his province, just as Mr. Stanley Weyman has appropriated the France of Mazarin...

and Sons.)—When Daffodil says to 'Koko,' the black poodle, "What is it you are looking at ?" and ' Koko ' replies, "I am watching the Minutes and the Hours as they fly past," we...

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—The " King " is the first James of Scotland, the " romance " begins with the view which the Royal prisoner caught of Jane Beaufort from the window of his...

Ferrier.)—This is a pleasant, practical, common- sense book, the tone of which contrasts, one might say, with its sub-title, "The Need of a New Crusade." Mr. Lamond was much...

Newton. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Women as a rule write in- finitely better books of travel than men, because they prepare them with the easy carelessness with which they write...

author of this extremely clever and interesting volume visited China while it was at war with Japan, and published a longish descriptive article entitled "House-Boating in...

is, we are given to understand, Miss Eveson's first venture in fiction. It is told in a leisurely, lengthy fashion which is scarcely suited to the time. The style is cumbrous...

Glasgow.)—Dr. Black attacks with no little fierce- ness the hospital system, and certain practices in medical ethics and etiquette. He makes a case against both ; that a patient...

twelve years ago Mr. Lefroy published a volume of verse with the title of "Echoes from Theocritus, and other Poems." It made a great impression on the writer of this notice, as...

Fisher Unwin.)—These "glimpses of early Norse life in Orkney and Shetland" are highly graphic, and are all the more interesting because they have to do with a by-path of history...

"tale for girls" is a good piece of work, well constructed and well written, thoroughly wholesome in tone. Some readers of romantic temper may object to the excessive courtesy...

Rev. F. F. Carmichael, LL.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—These fifteen sermons, occupying altogether little more than a hundred pages. are vigorous and courageous utterances. "...

Woodburn. (G. P. Patnam's Sons.) — This second volume contains nine orations delivered during the period 1820-1852, on various phases of the Anti-Slavery Struggle. The first two...

particular fault to find with the selection of "Public Schools" for the purposes of this volume, except, indeed, that Shrewsbury does not appear in the list. Merchant Taylors'...

is no little power both of pathos and humour in these sketches of life in a Scottish town where a manufacturing and a fishing population live side by side, sufficiently...

is the editor of " Browne's Insurance Direc- tory" and "Browne's Handy Assurance Manual," both of them periodicals which have been frequently noticed in these columns. In this...

Black.)—The sub-title will explain the subject of this volume, "Royal Warrants for Collections for Charitable Objects." The " briefs " were finally abolished in 1827, the three...

and Son.)—Miss Carey has put too many threads into her plot. The story of Ellison Lee and Lorraine Herbert, how they labora- bent in uno, and how the matter ended, would almost...

the late Lord Leighton. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This volume contains eight biennial addresses, ranging in date from 1879 to 1893. The first deals with the very wide...

is an attractive title. Who would not wish his whist to be of the " winning " kind ? But teaching by an expert does not always improve the learner. Mr. Boardman describes his...

Inner Temple by Thomas Graves Law. Vol. I. (The Camden Society.)—The " Arch-Priest Controversy " was substan. tially a dispute between the political and the non-political...

by Dominic Daly. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) —Is Mr. Dominic Daly laughing at us ? and has Mr. H. M. Stanley, who writes a commendatory preface, taken a part in the joke ? The...

Unwin.)—This is a valuable contribution to the litera- ture of "climbing." Signor Sinigaglia is one of the most dis- tinguished exponents of the art. It was in his attempt on...

(G. Bell and Sons.)—This volume, which is thoroughly well illustrated, ought to do whatever can be done for a learner by instruction on paper. The amount of this is probably but...

Graves. (Downey and Co.)—Mr. Le Fanu gave us such a surfeit of horrors in his prose, that we do not feel much appetite for the same food, dressed up with not quite equal skill,...

T HE festival of Jubilee Day was a complete, indeed an unprecedented, success. Even the skies were kind, the weather, which had been threatening, becoming benignant a few...

LITEILLIVi SUPPLEMENT.

THE JUBILEE. S o great has been the success of the Jubilee, so un- precedented the explosion of feeling in London, the Kingdom, the Empire, and indeed the world, that the...

W E have all of us heard of the peace on earth which is promised to "men of goodwill," but Lord Salisbury was quite right yesterday week when he re- marked on the boldness of...

T HE Times of Monday published a letter from its Paris correspondent which during the Jubilee fever may have escaped attention, but which is of considerable importance. It was...

holding its firs t be General Election under a new and more popular suffrage. The number of electors is believed to have been about doubled by the late Reform Bill. They were...

the glories of the Jubilee Day force upon the minds of those rather numerous persons who accept democracy without exactly trusting it. Are all these glories, this abounding...

A MONG the most noteworthy and least challengeable - of the Diamond Jubilee honours are the elevation of the towns of Nottingham, Bradford, and Hull to the rank of cities, and...

W E should be very sorry to think that the Freeman's Journal was correct in stating that the Nationalist Members who voted against the Address in the Commons on Monday last had...

W E doubt if any one in Europe, not being an Anglo- Indian, quite realises the extent of the diffused un- happiness to which India has within these twelve months been subjected....

T HERE are people who believe in advice in the abstract, as a thing good in itself. They do not care whose advice you take; they only cannot be happy about you if your are...

R EADING," at Oxford and Cambridge, is a term that has been narrowed down into meaning the study of books profitable for the schools rather than enter- taining as literature,...

T HE cyclone which caused such destruction in the environs of Paris at the end of last week brought absolute ruin to the " suburbs " of one of the most interesting bird cities...

A STUDY IN CROWDS. [TO TRX EDITOR OF TIM " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—For weeks before the Jubilee Londoners diligently frightened one another with appalling prognostications about the...

DOES AMERICA HATE ENGLAND ? [To ros EDITOR Or TEl "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—On looking over the columns of your valued paper's issue of June 12th, my eyes fell upon the above...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit a word from a somewhat different point of view on the "poor benefice" as distinct from the "poor parson" question ? One...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Siu,—In the Spectator of June 19th you speak of the sufferers in the Welshampton accident as "exhibiting a per- fectly marvellous fortitude...

with us " the throne is always safer in the possession of a woman." Fifty-eight or fifty-nine years ago I was scoffed at by my elders for saying that Ministers ought to profit...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 &n,—I had a setting of wild duck's eggs sent me, but not having a hen of my own willing to sit, I borrowed one from a neighbour. This hen,...

THE TURK, THE PERSIAN, AND THE SLAV.* Tam is one of the most interesting books of travel we have read for a long time. The region covered is unhackneyed, and in many parts but...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sracrezon.") &a,—Your paper occasionally contains statements with regard to India which make me wonder who your informant can be. For example, with regard...

OHNE EAST, OHNE RAST. FLOW on, little life, flow, flow! What if the sun gleam not in thy face, And clouds hang dark in the sky for a spaoe And bitter winds blow? Little life,...

PROFESSOR MURRAY soon convinces his readers that he is equal to his subject, has something fresh to say about it, and is able to say it with a quite uncommon vigour. How plain...

from the style and matter of the strangely-named " foreword " by Mr. Crockett, which in- troduces the volume before us, that he had, as he himself tells us, sate as assiduously...

Angus and Itobertaon. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. A PRIME MINISTER'S EARLY STRUGGLES.* THESE brief, unpretentious, but deeply pathetic personal letters...

THE once-famous scandal of Hannah Lightfoot, the "pretty Quakeress," and Prince George—afterwards George exhaustively examined and exploded by the late Mr. W. .L • (1.) A...

WE have no hesitation in saying that this is the most important book dealing with the Navy that has appeared since the publication in 1890 of Captain Mahan's epoch- making, and...

M.A., and Thomas R. Mills, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— Professor W. M. Ramsay prefaces this volume with a well- deserved commendation. It gives the substantial contents of much...

The Tragedies of Euripides in English Verse. By Arthur S. Way. Vol. II. (Macmillan and Co.) —Mr. Way carries on his work of translating Euripides with spirit and success. This...

Everett-Green has found a comparatively fresh subject, —the adventures of that remarkable man, La Salle, in the exploration of the Mississippi. A father and three sons, of...

This volume is another proof of a proposition which we have advanced more than once, that there is more true humour just now in the shape of verse than in that of prose. There...

M. Gibbs. (G. Bell and Sons.)—It was certainly worth while to republish these essays. Much of the argument is obsolete, but even this has an historical value ; and there is not...

Georgiana, Stisted. (H. S. Nichols.)—The writer is Sir R. Burton's niece, and claims to have written this book "with the authority and approval of the Burton family." Her...

Sons.)—This volume contains three critical essays dealing with Keats, Clough, and Matthew Arnold respectively. They are well worth study. About Keats, for instance, how true is...

is plenty of uncompromising realism about Miss Collins's story. The downward career of the wife who " drinks " and the interior of Mr. Brand's private hospital are described in...

(Seeley and Co.)—The materials out of which this volume is compiled are various and of varying interest. The "Reminiscences of his Early Life" might have been advan- tageously...

one of the stories which appear insoluble enigmas to a critic who accepts the usual views of the use of literature. What pos- sible end can they serve ? They are not beautiful;...

Lane.) — This is a " society " story, very clever and very depressing. We are introduced in the first chapter to two worthies of the older generation.—" old Mrs. Rowe, of...

—Mr. Baldwin was appointed to an Indian chaplaincy in the May of the year of Mutiny, 1857, and received orders to sail on September 4th. It was a time when such an appointment...

man of some distinction in civil life, rising in the end to be President of the Burgundian Parliament. His tastes were of the scholarly kind. But of the many books which he...

a tale of murder in China. It wants close following, for without this it loses coherence; with it the reader finds it to be a careful study, not unlike the work of Edgar Allan...

and Windus.) —This is not the usual form in which we are accustomed to see Mr. Henty's stories. Somehow The Queen's Cup does not look quite up to his average in this somewhat...

Gould, MA. Vol III. (March). (John C. Nimmo.)—Epietetus. 2 vols. (Arthur L. Humphreys.)—This is a reprint of George Long's translation, part, it will be remembered, of "Bohn's...

of the Collections By Ralph Richardson. (Elliot Stock.) — A Biography of the Works of William Morris. By Temple Scott. (G. Bell and Sons.) — Cassell's Guide to London. (Cassell...

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