FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV.* M. BOURGEOIS has compiled a very complete and readable account of French life in the days of the Grand Manarque, but the attractiveness of the work, it...

LONDON: JUNE 27, 1896.

if the necessity for the command of the sea being in English hands were a new idea, and as if it had been reserved for the present generation to realise that but for the command...

many ways, especially in the variety of its scenery, and contrasts favourably with most European countries in this respect. No doubt there are beautiful spots in France, but one...

IMPEltIkl, Britain, like Imperial Rome, has good reason to reflect on the truth of the words—Ab Africa semper novi aliquid, for her attention is perpetually engaged upon one...

THESE two volumes mark an addition of strength to the reaction against the speculations of the destructive school of Biblical critics. We are again going through an experience...

obtained for this edition of Byrom's Poems (making up the annual issue for the years 1894.95) the services of so dis- tinguished a scholar as Principal Ward. Byrom himself, si...

the Earliest Times to Recent Years. Edited by W. Roberts. (Elliot Stock.)—If an anthology of this kind be called for, it could not have had a more competent editor than the...

is a good deal of unforced cleverness, unnecessarily long drawn out, however, in this story. There is in it plenty of modern art, and of living abroad more or less upon the...

Low, Marston, and Co.) —The author of this curious book has evidently got through a great deal of reading, and not a little thinking. But it is also evident that he has not...

Johnson's Lives of the Poets. A. new edition. With Notes and Intro- duction by Arthur Waugh. In 6 vols. Vol. I. (Began Paul and Co.) —Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. With...

Habits of Insects. By Fred W. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. With numerous illustrations. (Methuen and Co.)—The little book before us is intended, as the author tells us in his preface,...

(Macmillan and Co.)—For a severely technical text-book this volume is beautifully illustrated with cute and a few coloured plates. It is one of the excellent series of "Manuals...

Co.) —The heroine in A Comedy of Honour steals her friend Nellie's lover—one Sarney—unconsciously, and thereupon suffers agonies of remorse, nor does she hesitate to tell her...

D'Aguilcourt. (Electrician Publishing Company.) — Mr. Carter, reasoning on the bold hypothesis that there may be a people living in the interior of the moon, and also on that...

C. Thorpe Fancourt. (Elliot Stock.)—The title of this little book led us to expect a book of popular natural history ; but it is hardly this. It is a story of a little boy sent...

and Co.)—We suppose that the idea of a balloon suggests something exciting, and we were prepared for thrilling adventures, and, we must admit, were disappointed. The plot is...

of American life have more freshness and originality than we generally associate with literature of this kind. They will not put a new complexion on the aspects of the social...

Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Frazer has embodied in some rather grandiloquent writing a few traditions and tales of the religions of Southern India. He has fully entered into the...

Co.)—These are delightful examples of the Donegal peasant's unconscious humour. The wit and the brogue are admirably rendered, and if there is a slight lack of skill in putting...

is reprinted from Atalanta, and is a picturesque and striking attempt to give reality and colour to the gruesome tradi- tion of the "were wolf." The contrasted characters of the...

Hannah Stubbs is a simple country girl, naturally a powerful " medium," and becomes, in the course of some seances, " obsessed "—that seems to be the right technical word—by the...

(S.P.C.K.)—These six lectures will be found a useful storehouse of argument, and also therein fulfilling a not less salutary end— a valuable reminder of the duties that the...

and Sons.)—This book contains an abundance of anecdotes, " upwards of one hundred and twenty original anec- dotes," of dogs, who, very properly, have the largest section of the...

years as a text-book of acknowledged excellence, Historical Outlines of English Accidence, by the late Rev. Richard Morris, M.A., appears revised by L. Kellner, Ph.D., with the...

A. Kennedy. (T. and T. Clark.)—Dr. Kennedy's argument may be briefly put in this way, that the New Testament Greek and that of the Septuagint, from which it is largely drawn, is...

North Derbyshire " is constructed on lines that must be familiar to the most casual reader of novels. There is a long-lost son, confidently reported to be dead, but recognised...

author of this volume draws out in it a number of instruc- tive analogies between the spiritual life and emotions of man and the phenomena of Nature. It is in its way a book of...

A. Cornelison. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—" A State without a Church, but not without a Religion," is the motto on Mr. Cornelison's title-page which expresses his views. The...

some exaggeration in this book, as there must needs be when a moralist uses satire, but there is good sense also. It is not true, for instance, that "to be taught to be the...

and Sons.) —The "Mystery" is of a sufficiently familiar kind. A certain Mr. Hazeldine is murdered. The secret to be discovered is,—who has murdered him ? Of course, it is not...

Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll (Hodder and Stoughton), we have two volumes, The Book of Deuteronomy, by Andrew Harper, D.D. ; and The Canticles and Lamentations, by Walter F. Adeney,...

Stalker, D.D. (Isbister and Co.)—This volume contains what looks like a series of sermons on the character, first, of the Evangelist St. John, and, secondly, of the Baptist....

Laughton, MA., with the assistance of James Young F. Sulivan. (Naval Records Society.)—With every feeling of sympathy for the work of the Naval Records Society in publishing the...

H. M. Bernard. Edited, with Notes, by G. B. Howes. (Macmillan and Co.)—The special object of this work will be indicated by the words, "An index to his past history." It is, in...

Macnamara is a satirist, who has a definite object in view. He wants to benefit his profession. Hence he pictures the hard- ships and injustices which its members endure,...

century, though that now existing is Flemish, and is about a century later in date. (We presume " eleventh " on page xv. is a kspsus calami for "twelfth," to agree with the "...

and Co.)—Mr. Laurie has not altogether fulfilled his excellent intention of writing a standard popular account of the settlement and colonisation of Australia, a task by no...

has made a very curious collection of practices and principles which had their origin in needs or belief of the day, served, more or less, a useful purpose, became in process of...

(S.P.C.K.)—As a diocese Chester has no great antiquity. It was constituted in 1541, but insufficiently endowed (out of the revenues of the suppressed Abbey of St. Werbergh). At...

From Aristippus to Spencer" is the range of subject which Professor Watson proposes to himself, starting with a preliminary discussion on the "Influence of the Sophists on Greek...

a good deal of smartness, possibly one might call it cleverness, in this book. That is all that we can say in praise of it. Miss Magee seems to be stricken with the same poverty...

formidable list of cases which Mr. Chamier prefixes to his argument suggests that the subject is not without difficulty. First, we are confronted with the question — one not to...

Great Queen Street, W.O. ; and Published by JOHN JAMEB Banta, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " Brno:non"...

A RUMOUR that Salisbury, in Matabeleland, had fallen, which spread everywhere on Thursday, and was supported by two telegrams in the Daily Telegraph, has happily not been...

Cabinet meeting of Saturday, and defended by Mr. Balfour in his remarkably able, though naturally not very exultant, speech of Monday last. He pointed out that the debates in...

the Midland Union under Lord Windsor's presidency at the Westminster Palace Hotel, after his lordship had remarked that the indications of want of cohesion in the party had at...

Russia has agreed to support French demands about Egypt in the following form. Europe collectively is to request Great Britain to retire, to neu- tralise Egypt, and to place the...

to the Sultan with respect to Crete. They have presented a joint Note advising his Majesty to appoint a Christian Governor, to re-establish the Pact of Halepa, and to summon the...

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was expressed with something like good taste. Of course he exaggerated greatly when he attributed Mr. Balfonea failure to the hasty concession he had made to Sir Albert Rollit,...

on Wednesday at the ninety-eighth annual festival of the Masonic Institution for Boys, which appeared to indicate that he did not greatly regret the loss of the Education Bill,...

honour to Li Hung Chang when he arrives here. He is entitled, of course, to all the respect usually paid to the representative of a first-class Power, but the shrewd and smooth...

by the withdrawal of the Education Bill, are opposing it by every device possible, but still it does advance. On Tuesday an effort was made to stop the Bill altogether, on the...

Conference between Churchmen and Nonconformists held at Sion College on Monday. He pointed out that the union among Christians did not necessarily imply any fusion of...

Hanna, who, if Mr. McKinley is elected, will, in the judgment of its New York correspondent, be the real President of the 'United States. He is a banker in the State of Ohio, is...

has received cordial praise from the Westminster Gazette. We could hardly have been more surprised if Mr. Labonohere himself had praised it. It is no doubt a very graceful and...

of the Baroness de Valley, who had apparently been strangled, is accounted for, it seems, by her reputation for wealth, amassed by a long course of rigid parsimony. She had...

election in the Canadian Dominion which has been fought round the pivot of denominational education. The Con- servatives have maintained the right of the Roman Catholics of...

Pembroke College, Oxford, on Tuesday, Dr. Bartholomew There was an interesting meeting of the Johnson Society at Pembroke College, Oxford, on Tuesday, Dr. Bartholomew Price,...

on Wednesday night to agitate once more for the release of the dynamiters, whom they term "political prisoners." Mr. Dillon in his speech made an effective use of the easy terms...

Westminster Town Hall on Tuesday, favouring the emigra- tion of natives of India into British tropical Africa. The main argument put forward was the enormous growth of the...

pleasant address at Uxbridge on Thursday on Free Libraries. He was opening a free library in the Uxbridge Road, built, as is now usual, at the expense of Mr. Passmore Edwards....

Friday, 113k,

THE FIRST FAILURE. W E were quite wrong in anticipating that " the stranded whale" would get off again into deep water. It has been really harpooned. The Education Bill is...

TT is usually wise to wait, but we are by no - means sure 1 that the Colonial Office is wise in tolerating the Chartered Company of South Africa any longer. Its in- competence...

W E are very much of the mind of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in his letter to Tuesday's Times, that the Closure, though it is really essential to Parliament, as Parliamentary...

T ET no one who wishes to read the Duke of Argyll's I pamphlet on " Our Responsibilities for Turkey "—it is printed and bound like a book, but it is strictly a pamphlet—shrink...

I T will not be the fault of the Liquor Commission if the country should fail to be enlightened on any subject which can be regarded as in any sense cognate to the inquiry...

the Strand on Tuesday had an opportunity of noticing a fact highly characteristic of the hour. The street was full of news- paper placards announcing that "the Australians were...

the Cure of Molene is one of those happy inspirations which can come only to people in great place and do not always come to them. Those to whom it is addressed are in one...

I S there such a thing in the world as a true " savage," in the old and popular sense of the word,—that is, a" wild" man, a creature who follows impulse only, whose one...

T HE falling of the summer solstice on a Sunday, con- curring with the bicycle craze and the accident of a remarkably fine moonlight night, brought an unusually large number of...

W E wonder what the special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle meant by "Fate" when he concluded his able letter on Mr. Marquardt's rescue from the ' Drummond Castle' in the...

N O estate in the South of England offers such attractions to bird life as that of Beaulieu between the New Forest and the Solent Sea. Its tidal river goes up into the heart of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR, — Will you allow me to offer a few lines of respectful criticism on your interesting article, " Life in Poetry, " in the Spectator of...

PLACES OF BEAUTY: TINTAGEL AND ALFRISTON. [To THZ EDITOR OP THE "epic - nem"] Sin,—It is now some two years since an article in the Spectator pointed out that it might be as...

SIR,—Idy children have lately set up a cage of white mice, One of them when given a ran has a way of making for tho chimney,—perhaps he p.afers a little colour. The other day he...

l're THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTITOR:9 SIR, — I had an opportunity yesterday of observing an in- teresting and almost humorous illustration of the development of special instinct...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] read with interest, in a recent number of the Spectator an account of the friendship between a hen and a kindly natured cat, the pet of the...

Sra,—Your readers may be interested in the following story of bird-life. A pair of blackbirds had built a nest on an ivy- clad wall in my garden, and hearing them make a great...

Sin,—The following instance of "blue-tit" determination to get its own way has taken place in the garden here :—There is a small pump under a yew-tree, which on April 15th was...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " srEcuroa.i SIR,—The fatted "bull" can grow as well on English ground as on Irish. This very afternoon a lady of my acquaintance, having some slight...

MR. MACAN'S "HERODOTUS." • This is a highly valuable contribution to the study of early history in general and to the criticism of Herodotns as an historical authority in...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTAT011."] SIR,—In your review of Colonel Dalbiac's "Dictionary of Quotations," you hardly give the credit which is due to his predecessors in similar...

" WHERE TRUE JOYS ARE TO BE FOUND." TIME was I yearned for happiness, Time was I burned for fame, Nor marked the Love and loveliness Unsought, unbought that came : Now...

the following fully equals any instance of cat adventure given in the Spectator. I observed one day a large white favourite cat galloping across the lawn towards the open window...

IT was a happy idea that occurred to Mr. Harper of writing the history of the classic coach-roads of this country. If anything of the kind is to be done, there should be no...

AMONG the crowd of clever modern novels it is delightful to come upon one which, like Mr. Robert Buchanan's Effie Hetherington, is above all things a work of imagination. The...

story relates the adventures of a Huguenot family of Nismea who go up to Paris soon after the declaration of "equal civil rights." One of the brothers, a former Protestant,...

Unscientific Guesses from a Non-Expert to Non-Experts. By " Zero." (Digby,. Long, and Co.)—This is an extremely interesting and thoughtful pamphlet by a thinker who has read a...

Thoughts on the Spiritual Life. By Jacob Bebmen. Translated from the German by Charlotte Ada Rainy. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This is a very interesting little...

book is of too technical a character for detailed notice in these columns, but it may be generally commended to those interested in the study. The introductory chapters are...

fifth edition, but our readers will scarcely need remind- ing that cycling has developed at such an extraordinary rate since the introduction of the safety bicycle, and most of...

1895. By J. E. Foster, M.A., and T. D. Atkinson. (Deighton, Bell, and Co. and Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge.)—This is an illustrated edition, revised and augmented, of the...

and Co.)—This modest volume contains an interesting record of the game as it has been played during the last two centuries— not to speak of the somewhat vague notices that have...

(T. Fisher Ifnwin.)—Mr. McCormick joined the exploring and surveying expedition of Mr. (now Sir) William Martin Conway in the capacity of artist. He gives us in this volume the...

Co.) - In spite of the ultra-scientific thought which pervades so much of the fiction of the day, we really think Mr. Cromie has hit upon a scientific plot that is original. A...

mentioned together. These are, The Mystery of the Island : a ' Tale of Bush and Pampas, Wreck and Treasure Trove, by 'Henry Kingsley (Gibbinga and Co.) ; and Life and Adventures...

little book, not much bigger than the palm of one's band, is full of practical good sense. Miss Clifford is a Guardian of the Poor in a Union near Bristol, and she writes this...

Scott's volume has, so to speak, more " flesh " about it than those which have appeared for some time past under the title of " Book Prices Current." There is an introduction...

is a useful volume, of which we have spoken in praise more than once. All needful particulars as to the staff, the endowments, the method of education, &c., are given for some...

(Chapman and Hall.)—" Nothing too old and nothing too new " has been the editor's maxim in choosing. He does not go back beyond Elizabeth. The pre-Elizabethans are too archaic...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Warfare of Science with Theology. By Andrew Dickson White, LL.D. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co.) — Conscience and Law. By William Humphrey, S.J. (Thomas...

W. Part- ridge.)—This "Autobiography of a London City Missionary" is full, as may easily be supposed, of interesting and even exciting facts. A city missionary sees a good deal...

(Hachette.)—This is an amusing story, told in verse of the very easiest French, how Fanfan la Tulipe, so-called from being found in a bed of tulips by an old gardener, said one...

McIlvaine, and Co.)—We must be content with briefly mentioning that this little volume contains Professor Waldatein's inaugural lecture, delivered at Cambridge in June last. We...