MR. ANDREW LANG ON ST. ANDREWS.* SCARCELY Oxford herself, "steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last...

LONDON : APRIL 28, 1894.

Boors of sporting adventure are generally popular, and at present the supply is rather above than below its normal standard. The success of such works as the late Sir Samuel...

Dagonet, now first given to the world with the name of its author, one's old impres- sions, never yet put into words, seem to return with twice their strength and half their...

A WORK of fiction professedly written to support a " cause " is, as a rule, a polemical tract rather than an artistic romance. We all know the so-called religious—in reality,...

into the inner life of any foreign nation, even European, but the inner life of the East is wrapped in a veil of impenetrable mystery, which it is doubtful if any European has...

THERE is so much of what is called " cleverness " in modern works of fiction that people are apt to forgive a lack of well- defined plot and a certain want of vitality in the...

THE ideal sketched by the Hebrew prophet twenty-five centuries ago, when "nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more," seems almost as...

Anglican Orders and Jurisdiction. By Edward Denny, M.A. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—Mr. Denny dis- cusses, from the standpoint of an Anglican, the well-worn...

(Tait, Sons, and Co., New York.)—After reading this it is hardly possible not to entertain a suspicion—possibly an altogether unjust one—that but for the success of Mr. Rudyard...

Gilchrist (Methuen and Co.), is a collection of short stories that seem only definable as the productions of a morbid brain, haunted by nightmareish visions of such things as...

is a very agreeable story of cross-purposes in love-making, with a little art and a great deal of tea-drinking and other equally harmless enjoyments thrown in. One can quite see...

his daughter, Helen Pelham Dale. 2 vols. (George Allen.)—It seems useless to protest against big biographies. Here are two large volumes on a subject for which one small one...

and Co.)—Not for long have we seen sketches of country English life so full, as are these, of nature, of quiet pathos, of dry non-assertive humour, and of fidelity to the...

clever, very carefully written, but also very melancholy story dealing with a district in England, which readers will have no difficulty in identifying from the recurrence of...

Divorce Court, of the hypnotic s6ance, and of the sanatorium for inebriates, are here lavishly drawn upon. Then the lives of all the leading characters in the story—Gladys...

Williams. (Digby, Long, and Co.)—Mr. Williams here presents us with translations of one of the shorter works—first, of the Norwegian Bjornson, and next, of the Russian...

Edited, with Introductions and Notes, by T. H. Bindley, B.D., Principal of Codrington College, Barbados; and Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—We...

have had to wait till now for a separate hand- book for Oxfordshire. Its appearance in the Redeker form as a real pocket hand-book is, no doubt, a tribute to the increasing...

and Son.)—This is yet another school-jubilee pro. duction, in which the writer sounds with no faltering trumpet the praises not only of the school, but his own as its creator....

Edward Charming (Longman, Green, and Co.) —It does not appear why English history, as presented to New York for American readers, should differ from English history for English...

vols. (Gay and Bird.)—Though this is, in appearance and in fact, an ordinary novel, written for adult readers, it reminds one strongly—perhaps a little too strongly—of the...

by Walter Crane. (Osgood.)—This is a pretty volume to look at, every page being daintily decorated with fantastic designs in colour. Mr. Crane's pleasing art may be almost said...

LL.D. (Gay and Bird.)—Many years ago Dr. Underwood, who is now United States Consul at Edinburgh, published two handbooks of English literature. Of these volumes one was devoted...

St. Michael and All Angels, and other Verses. By Emma Marshall. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—These verses are full of tenderness and devotional feeling. Mrs. Marshall has won no...

W. B. Yeats. With a Frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. (Lawrence and Sullen.) —We have here a moat fascinating little book on Irish folk-lore, which will appeal to readers of very...

we may have entertained. There is something fascinating about the idea of possible habitability. Alas! Venus seems almost as unsuited for life, at least under human conditions,...

hero "an Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen from Modern Authors." He begins with Mr. T. B. Aldrich's " Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book." Mr. Aldrich is followed by Mr. Edward...

& 76 Great Queen Street, W.C.; and Pubashed by Jowls JAMBS &tare, of No. 1 Welling' toriBtreet, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " Br...

which the centre appears to have been Thebes. That town has been almost totally destroyed, with the villages in its neighbourhood, the shock extending to Atalanti on the Eubcean...

T HE march of the unemployed on Washington has at last roused the alarm of the national Government. From 'every State outside New England, the wretched, and the tramps and the...

appointed by the Government, has reported that the epidemic now raging there is true cholera-morbus, though of a mild type, imported probably in a merchant vessel from the Cape...

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safely through the rocks. He has conciliated the Irish by imposing the additional whisky-tax for a year only, and baffled the economists who laughed at him and pointed oat that...

the -Czar, dissatisfied with the promise of his eldest son, has con- templated excluding him from the succession in favour of his brother, the Grand Duke Michael. This was done,...

".ITERARY SITPPLEMENT.

case.

to eight hours a day, calculated "from bank to bank," passed its second reading on Wednesday by a majority of 281 to 194, an addition of 10 to the majority of last year. The...

Wednesday, in favour of Dr. Purvis, the Unionist candidate for the city, and put strongly and effectively the reasons for supporting a Unionist. We very much regret, however, to...

last Saturday. The victim was James Donovan, the caretaker of an evicted farm on the estate of Lord Cork. Donovan, occupied a portion of the house on the farm. In the other half...

Welsh Disestablishment. The Bill is to affect the County of Monmouth as well as the legal Wales. These thirteen counties include twelve parishes belonging to English dioceses,...

—a club divided between Gladstonians and Liberal Unionists,. —took the chair on Tuesday at a house-dinner of the Club, and made a speech intended to reconcile, as far as...

are to be handed over to the representative Church body which is to be created by the statute ; but the cathedrals, Bishop's palaces, and deaneries are to vest in the Commis-...

on Wednesday, and was naturally supported by a good many soldiers, who have excited the spleen of one of our contem- poraries, less, we suspect, because they were soldiers, than...

will pass, its Democratic opponents having agreed to cease from resistance if the Income-tax is given up. This result does not appear probable on the face of things ; but it is...

Limerick, of Lord Emly, one of the staunchest Unionists, as well as one of the staunchest Catholics, of Ireland, who has always been a resident proprietor, and as earnest an...

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exceed- ingly bad. The tripartite control exercised there by England, Germany, and the United States has paralysed native authority without appeasing native quarrels ; the...

on Agriculture, is reported in the Times of Monday last. Mr. Albert Pell, sometime M.P. for Leicester- shire, one of the greatest authorities on land in the King- dom, stated...

a cure for Socialism among agricultural labourers. It intends to utilise all municipal and State land in this way, and, if necessary, to make some large purchases. Recently, in...

the col- lection of casts from Greek sculptures, which Dr. Perry spent so much labour in collecting for the British Museum, has now been banished from the large and well-lighted...

the Hermit crusade, or march of the unemployed on Washington, is by no means the slight or purely grotesque affair which some of our con- temporaries assume it to be. It is...

LORD ROSEBERY'S POLITICAL SEDATIVE. Ti ORD ROSEBERY, in his first speech to the Glad- stonian party as their leader, told them that while Mr. Gladstone had the great gift of...

M R. ASQUITH'S exposition of the Government's Welsh Disestablishment Bill, was, as is usual with him, a very terse and lucid one, though there are necessarily many points on...

throughout Europe in the betrothal of the Cesarewitch has its justification, even in the eyes of the most cynical. It is not "a young man who marries a young woman," as somebody...

W E regret that the Conservative leaders appear dis- posed to resist the equalisation of Death-duties on land and personalty. It is not good policy, and it is doubtful finance....

I F the Evicted Tenants Bill passes in the shape in which it was introduced, the House of Commons will have done one of the cruellest and most oppressive acts ever perpetrated...

T HE Dean of Winchester and nine other distinguished clergymen have backed a clerical appeal to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury in deprecation of the supposed atti- tude of "the...

M R. GORE, in a very striking communication to the Guardian of April 11th (ably commented on in last week's number by a correspondent who signs himself " X.," and criticised...

T HE better class of Radicals and quasi-Socialists, those among them, we mean, who truly believe their creed, who are now obtaining such a hold over the uneducated, forget, we...

C OMMENTING upon a recent sale of landed estate in the Carshalton district of Surrey, in which building-sites sold at an average of £500 per acre, a writer in the Daily...

mnaou OP THE "EIPBOTATOB.."] Slit, — Referring to the remark is the Spectator of April 14th, as to the United States being the only country where free grants of land can be had,...

[TO TER EDITOR OP THE "SPHOTATOE:1 thank you very much for your publication in tile- Spectator of April 21st of Miss March-Phillipps's valuable- communication on the Labour...

THE NONCONFORMISTS AND THE "CIRCULAR." rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is one sentence in your article on the Bishop of London and the London School Board in...

wsraor.roz."] the first volume of the Saturday Magazine, 1832, -occurs the following account of a Brahmin named Sheshal, 'who was then performing this feat at Tanjore, in...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In regard to what are called by the unpleasant name of "Death-duties," you ask (in the Spectator of April 21st, p. 524) why Sir...

' THE EDITOR THE wfipzerwroe'l pia,"—Pablisiers are accustomed - to criticism of all kinds, including Many complaints Which are mutually destructive of each ether. If a...

[To ma EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR:11 SIEr°4 - 011r leading article in the Spectator of April 14th, on the "London County Commit Budget," is of special general interest, in that...

FAIRIES. FAIRIES are dancing, are dancing in the meadows, Slip out through the window, not a soul will see ; Let us watch them playing, through the moonbeams and the shadows,...

LORD WOLSELEY'S " MARLBOROUGH." *- BISHOP MOBEBLY, comparing the respective influence or Bishop Ken and of Marlborough, once said : " If any man should attempt to gauge the...

THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. Niagara offer Long Drought. By Alfred W. Hunt. I have never seen any representation of Niagara which gave an impression of magnitude at all...

WE should have to go back to Richardson's Clarissa for a story which is as original, as coherent, as much a product of its age, as elaborate, and as full of one vivid and...

A FREE translation of an easy title will be enough intro- duction of the small volume of gossip of an author who is perhaps better known in other lines of writing. Having...

THE revival in France of the Napoleonic legend has produced a whole crop of literature devoted to the praises of the Emperor. One of the most elaborate of these apologies—...

THERE is something melancholy in reviewing the posthumous work of a young man of fine promise. The personality of Mr. Balestier is said by those who knew him to have given the...

— Tinder the Trees. (Same author and publishers.)—These two volumes may be read together ; they describe respectively the delight of a student's indoor and outdoor life. The...

Essays in Idleness. By Agnes Repplier. (Gay and Bird.),-Here is another province wrested from man by the growing powers of his rival ! Whatever woman could do, we had thought...

2 vols. (Longman.)—Bishop Polk was one of the leaders of the Confederate Army. His life presents as curious a contrast as is to be found, we imagine, in all the regions of...

with judgment and good taste, and forms an interesting narrative. He belonged by inheritance to the Society of Friends and was influenced for good throughout his life by the...

Blyth commends to the favourable notice of the public this book. The illustrations, which number more than twenty of full-page size, and between fifty and sixty in the text, are...

with little mercy by the writer who has called him into being. He comes over to England, the son of a mil- lionaire — so, at least, every one supposes—and is interrupted in the...

Society.) — Mr. Carnegie spent ten years (1882-92) in Matabeland, and after a furlough has returned thither. His station is ten miles from Buluwayo, and he had been in friendly...

and Foster.)—The " Aunt " of this story is very much of the same age as the " niece " who tells the story. There is something comic in the situation, and it is skilfully and...

D.D. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Dr. Lee, having already pub- lished three volumes on the Supernatural, now adds a fourth. The arrangement is not all that could be desired. Why should...