LONDON : JANUARY 28, 1893.

MRS. CROSSE'S "RED-LETTER DAYS."* ELDERLY people who have lived much in society have been prone of late years to record their recollections for the benefit of the public. There...

with the great Republic beyond the seas. There is the impress of novelty and audacity on all her doings and undertakings ; and every day the feeling grows how inextricably all...

'Dates suer in its Dean. Dean Kitchin has already produced the best volume of the "Historic Towns" series in his History of Winchester ; and now he has published some records of...

of Flaubert's letters is completed by the appearance of the fourth and final volume, containing the correspondence of his eleven last years. We are thus able to come to close...

it, that no sport has quite the same power of developing all the qualities that go to make the best type of manly character as mountaineering, even in this adventurous age. The...

a particular public. Although now of the Roman Communion, in this volume he speaks merely as the Christian apologist against the outer world of cultivation : such a world as is...

a thousand miles south by degrees, beginning with Normandy, passing on to Brittany, then to the Pyrenees, Spain, and Algeria. The illustrations which accompany each part of his...

8 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—We have here a curious combina- tion of the old and , the new. The story is constructed on very familiar lines. A profligate young noble who marries...

The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior. A now edition, revised, with Memoir, by Reginald Brimley Johnson. 2 vols. (Bell and Sons.)—The peculiar merit of Prior has been better...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Gamier has collected in this volume a great store of facts relating to the tenure and the culti- vation of land in England from the earliest...

has collected in this volume twenty odd papers by various writers on various places and persons connected with Derbyshire. Mr. F. Davis explains the name Derby, by the...

Cheyne, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Professor Choyne's object is one to be thoroughly commended. There must be criticism, and to a certain extent this criticism must be destructive....

under a bond of this kind, which it would trouble their conscience to break, we recommend this volume. Romolo Gessi served as an interpreter with the English Staff in the...

Buchanan. (W. H. Heinemann.)—This is an effective pastoral, not of the Daphnis and Chloe kind, but with real men and maidens of the country-side. Mr. Buchanan chooses for his...

M.A. (Macmillan.)—Professor Du Bose gives in this volume a very able and closely reasoned exposition of New Testament teaching as to the person and work of Christ. The meaning...

(Long- mans.)—Canon Knox Little describes his book as " a collection of miscellaneous essays and notes of travel." Perhaps if he had added "portions of sermons," he would not...

vast variety of useful and curious informatiom. We hear, for instance, that at Euston each booking-clerk takes on an average 450,000 in the year, and that the London and...

prefixes to this, his second course of "Gifford Lectures," a preface in which he sets forth his view of miracles, and he devotes his first lecture to the subject of "Free- dom...

man who lives a selfish, scientific life—a mere automaton, he calls himself—wakes up to the fact that he has a soul and can sin. The cause of this is a woman found frozen in a...

say that there is some excellent reading in this volume. Professor Tyndall discourses on the " Sabbath," a lecture de- livered, not without courage, considering its contents, in...

Low and Co.)—The plot of Mr. Fergus Hume's novel is good, as most of his plots are, and the situations many of them dramatic and strong. The average novel does not depend so...

and Windus.)—There is something inexpressibly ghastly in the idea of an autobiography of a man who, while mad, murders his friend. Apart from this feeling, one may well admire...

vols. (Hutchinson and Co.)—We do not often get such good, careful work in novels as Mrs. Chetwynd has put forth in A Brilliant Woman. From the first to the last page it is well...

Low and Co.)—The anonymous " Gringo" gives us a very fair, observant, and interesting description of the life and manners of the Mexicans, from the standpoint of a kindly...

and vivid story is this tale, another "Romance of the Cape," indeed. We are introduced to three actors in the drama- Carhayes, a farmer; Milne, his cousin ; and Eanewith, the...

the Edict of Nantes, from its Enactment in 1598 to its Revocation in 1685. By Charles Tylor. (Simpkin Marshall and Co.)—Mr. Tylor has set himself to write a history of the...

Co.)—We welcome with pleasure a little volume of Hymns for Children, by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. He dedicates it to two of his own children in the words : As a small part of a...

Here we have the career of a young girl who is brought up alone in a house with a bachelor uncle, detailed to us by means of her diary and that of a girl-friend. She is, of...

Chiswell. (1. Masters and Co.)—Archdeacon Chiswell is very happy in some of his descriptions of society life in the country, and there is considerable liveliness and freshness...

could hardly be a better illustration of the dis- advantages of the three-volume system than that provided by this novel. It is clearly the work of an able and cultivated woman...

V. White and Co.)-1 man piqued by the marriage of a woman who had always waited, and got tired of waiting, for a declaration of love, proposes to an almost unknown girl, who...

By Belle Duffy. (Fisher IInwin, London ; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)—We fully appreciate the difficulty of compressing the necessary amount of information into the limits of...

; and Published by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the " SPECTATOR" °Mee, No. 1 Wellington...

Panama scandals. It is hinted that the investigating Magistrate, M. Franqueville, has a strong suspicion of M. Clemencean, who has been interrogated at great length ; but the...

interference from France and Russia, but they are all exag- gerations. Both Powers have made inquiries, but both are quite aware that while Great Britain remains in Egypt, She...

FOE THE No. 3,370.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1893. [REIGrIESWITSRPAEPDEARS. AL B = T 664:

new Administration, made an able and eloquent speech at Liver- pool yesterday week at the National Liberal Federation, though he did not pay much respect to the advice given to...

any ease.

M ATTERS have not gone so smoothly in Egypt as was hoped. The young Khedive yielded so far as to appoint Riaz Pasha Premier instead of Fakhri Pasha ; but he retained his two...

it is even now increasing its defensive armaments against Russia, it has no wish to provoke either the Russian dynasty or the Russian people. The heir to the Russian Throne —not...

seats from the Home-rulers was given in Dublin on Thursday, and speeches were made by Mr. William Kenny, M.P., Mr. Arnold Forster, M.P., Mr. John Ross, M.P., the Hon. Horace...

the Marquis de Mohrenheim, Ambassador from Russia, and Count Menabrea, recently Ambassador from Italy, of taking bribes from the Panama Company. Apart from the charac- ters of...

week. Mr. Henry Hope Morley, one of the sons of the late Mr. Samuel Morley, received under his father's will about £170,000. He was a weak person with epileptic tendencies, and...

Liberal Unionists to Mr. Austen Chamberlain, at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, Mr. Chamberlain made one of his singularly telling speeches. He observed upon the eagerness, not to...

following clay,—that is, last Saturday,—when addressing a great Unionist demonstration at Skipton, in a stately and powerful speech, which could only have been described as...

on Wednesday. On his curious testimony to the vehement and persistent effort of the Gladstonian leaders and Parliamentary followers to unseat him, which he had resisted without...

shall be as perfect an intelligence department in all matters that affect employment and the general interests of Labour as can be devised. On Tuesday, Mr. Mundella received a...

County Clare was held at Ennis. The meeting was convened by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, Lord Inchiquin, to take into consideration the very disturbed and lawless...

on Thursday the complete list of his Ministry was re- ceived in London by the Agent-General. The new Prime Minister has declared in his manifesto that he is " deeply impressed...

given on Thursday. Mr. Melford wrote a play called The Maelstrom, which was acted in April, 1892, in the Shaftesbury Theatre. The critic of the People, besides other...

port—a person who must in no way be confounded with Mr. Alphasus Cleophas Morton—in a speech made at the recent National Liberal Federation, and reported in last Saturday's...

on Thursday on the Secret Service funds. So much has been said, during the Panama inquiry, about the misuse of these funds, that it was thought a hostile vote might be obtained...

New Consols (2t) were on Friday 981.

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT. T HE Government has acted wisely, as well as firmly, in doubling the garrison of Egypt, which had been gradually reduced, under the influence of apparent...

Q IR HENRY JAMES'S account of the dead-set made L by the Gladstonians against his seat in Bury, reminds us of the strong invective of Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt...

T HE preluding for the great battle has begun. Mr. Asquith in his speech at Liverpool on Friday week, tae Duke of Devonshire in his speech of the following day, and Mr....

1- F we were not the most Conservative people on the face of the earth, we should long ago have done what every other civilised nation does,—hold all elections at a General...

I T is an agreeable change to pass from the atmosphere which commonly surrounds popular oratory on economic questions to that in which Mr. Giffen is accus- tomed to carry on his...

N O one ever discusses the social changes which must follow the concession of Home-rule to Ireland, pro- bably because no one can exactly foretell the direction which the...

ideas in Mr. Pearson's book on "National Life and Character," of which we spoke last week, the most interesting to the present writer is his view of the chronic struggle between...

R. CHAMBERLAIN'S amusing speech at 13irmingham on; Saturday, on"the modern Press and modern Journal- ism, brings out very effectively the ill-defined homage to which the Press...

T HE American Episcopal Church has sustained a severe loss, which will scarcely be less felt throughout the whole Anglican Communion on this side of the Atlantic. Dr. Phillips...

T HERE is great need at the present moment of some patient and industrious philosopher who will make it his business to trace to their source the varying fashions of female...

last week to print a letter from me, under the signature, " County Kildare." In that I tried to answer the question hitherto not seriously considered by either party in this...

ULSTER AFTER HOME-RULE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I am gladIto see the two letters in the Spectator of January 21st, on "How Home-rule will affect Irish...

see the pages of the Spectator open to the expression of the opinions of the Irish Unionists. Will you allow me to add to the excellent letter of " County Kildare" the following...

WE, homely souls, whose courage fails At perils hid in modern tales, Dread airings of religious dreams, Social reforms and moral schemes, Turn to those simple idylls sung, When...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have heard it said by a friend of the late Albert Way, the well-known archeologist, that he came by a fortune in this wise. Crossing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,'] SIR,—The " Temperance" fanatics ought to thank you— though, I fear, they will not—for your much-needed warning against the arrant nonsense...

to see attention called by correspondents and by yourself in the Spectator of January 21st—I believe for the first time—to a point which, as an Ulsterman, I have long believed...

OLD MASTERS AND AMATEURS. THERE is a sharp dividing line in the present exhibition at the Academy between the painters who had mastered their art and a group of English...

MR. BUCHANAN'S "WANDERING JEW." A STRINGER " Christmas Carol " was, perhaps, never written. Mr. Buchanan's poem may be fairly called a half-tremulous, half-wistful wail over...

in whose companionship we have a comfortable sense of security; for we know that we shall never be bored and never irritated, and such knowledge is great content. There is...

world from its• aqueous ages to the industry and intelligence of the beaver, the animal which first knew how to control and turn to account the opposing elements of land and...

SACILARISSA, and the poetic passion she inspired in Edmund Waller, have been lately rescued from a partial oblivion, and a careful reprint of Waller's poems, edited, with many...

in this country, with speculations as to its origin, and a full account of the Hull Guilds and Trading Companies. It is very well printed, and is furnished with several pretty...

IT was with a certain amount of misgiving that we discovered ourselves, in the opening chapter of this excellent work, groping, under the guidance of its editor, for the...

)—The new edition of this most useful book of reference is as complete, and, as far as we can judge, as accurate as of old. It is brought up to date with scrupulous care, and,...

ways. By William Andrews. (Hutchinson and Co.)—The author of this series of sketches has put them pleasantly together, and though there is no pretence of any groat research,...

In the illustrated magazines for January there is not a great deal that calls for notice. The English Illustrated Magazine has a little design for " Orpheus with his Lute," by...