MR. GOSSE ON ENGLISH LITERATURE.* Mn. GOSSE'S volume is the third in a series, to which Pro- fessor Murray and Professor Dowden have already contributed histories of Greek and...

title of this volume express its differ- ence from other philosophical treatises upon religion. The book consists of a series of meditations addressed to such persons as have...

THE task of a military historian is subject to one insur- mountable difficulty; even if he employs the nicest care and impartiality, he can never hope to give entire...

life in South Africa are always welcome. He is thoroughly well informed on most subjects relating to sport, natural history, and travel south of the Zambesi ; and his...

doubt the deadening and chilling effect IP we were asked which branch of art had made most progress in England during the past twenty years we should be inclined to say that it...

Transatlantic Traits. By the Hon. Martin Morris. (Elliot Stock.) —This lively little volume is the outcome of a two-months' trip to the States, and emphatically belongs to the...

of Philosophy in the University of Leipzig. Translated by Julia Gulliver and Edward Bradford Titchener. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 7s. (3d.) — Among the very first of...

Osgood Wright and Elliott Cones. (Macmillan and Co.)—This, in spite of its somewhat repulsive title, is an excellent child's book, although one which must needs appeal more to...

Charles Dixon is well known as the author of several popular works on ornithology, and is moreover a man of science and an observer. 'I he present work ix, according to his own...

as Sir Walter Besant truly observes, a place full of literary and artistic associations, and he adds that because this volume is an Annual, "we must not take the whole story of...

Co.)—This book is a specimen of the Higher Criticism at work, unrestrained by any of the compromises which the sur- roundings of most Biblical scholars suggest. The reader will...

(Daw- barn and Ward.)—A. quotation from the late Richard Jefferies describing Kew Gardens as "a great green book, whose broad pages are illuminated with flowers, lying open at...

and Stoughton.)—Dr. Moule's treatise is largely hostatory and devo- tional. This characteristic, however, does not interfere in the least with the close and careful attention...

Bell. (Macmillan and Co.)—There is nothing, it may be said, in the whole cycle of education about which there is more delusion than religious teaching." A very large portion of...

Co.)—These "Lectures" are, as the sub-title explains, "Aristotle's Ethics for English Readers." It was a happy thought to restore the Ethics to the form which they originally...

published in the Daily Chronicle, and now brought together in one volume, in which the history and development of the Empire during the Queen's reign are succinctly recorded. On...

Cal.) — If enthusiastic admiration for the subject of a biography is a sufficient qualification for writing it, no one ought to succeed better than Mr. Crowest. Unfortunately...

"Doctor" has much that is interesting to tell us. If we do not always accept his conclusions, we always recognise that he is suggestive and instructive. Perhaps there is a...

useless to regret a vanished past ; still, we cannot help thinking how much more pleasant it would have been to read Marietta's Marriage in the three-volume form, which,...

essays have not a little of the charm and the insight which are characteristic of "Vernon Lee's" work. It would be difficult, for instance, to find elsewhere a criticism at once...

Bird.)— Mr. Hough in a very interesting book tells us the story of the great cattle-ranching business of the Far West, beginning with the old Texas days, and following the...

Allen. (Kegan Paul and Co. 21s.)—This is a curious and interesting book for the student of human nature. It gives us the picture of a woman who was not only genuinely religious,...

Story" is really excellent. Tom Johnson goes to school, and strikes up a friendship with a certain Stephen Smith, to whom, by reason of his red hair, he gives the name of Rufus....

Boddy. (S.P.C.K.)—We have known Mr. Boddy for some time as an observant and intelligent traveller. He has now turned to an excellent use his gifts and abilities. This book...

is a fresh and readable story of ranch life in one of the Western States. It relates the life of a cultivated family, of course, and not so much the actual cowboy life as the...

John Telford. (Charles H. Kelly.)—This is one of the series entitled "Books for Bible Students." It is, as its title indicates, mainly historical, but the very fact of the wide...

we are sorry to say, gets mixed up with a celebrated highwayman, by name " Lord Claud." The story is laid in the time of the great war of the eighteenth century, and Tufton, who...

and Co.)—This book, says the author, "was designed to be chiefly the study of a single female character." This one character is the niece of an Indian Nawab, whom her uncle, a...

Sons. 150.) —Mr. Temple Scott summarises in an interesting introduction the chief events of the year in the market for old books, and draws certain conclusions. The public...

Co.)—The story is not constructed with any special skill, and is, so far, unequal to what we expect from Miss Braddon. But there is very good work in it. The general purpose...

must own to not quite understanding all the nautical manceuvres which " Palinurus " describes in the first of the six stories put together in this volume, "My First Big Race."...

A. E. M. Anderson-Morshead. (Office of Mission, Dartmouth Street.)—The history begins with 1859, when Charles Frederick Mackenzie, then Archdeacon of Natal, was asked to take...

and Co.)—Two young Englishmen are made aware of a treasure in the neighbourhood of a certain pagoda in return for their kindness to a Burmese phongyee or priest. They travel up...

tale of the Huguenots," and is a good specimen of its kind. The picture of the perils and anxieties of the Protestant confessors in France is made to contrast in a very...

Andrews. (W. Andrews and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Andrews has collected here some seventeen papers, two being contributed by himself,— viz., "Fortified Church Towers" and "The...

White and Co.)—May Lindsay is as unconscionable a little flirt as ever has been seen in fiction. Nothing but nearly breaking her back was able to cure her of the habit. Her "...

—This is one of the stories which make us regret the disappear- ance of the three-volume form. One of its merits lies in the abundance of detail faithfully given, natural...

has the privilege of being loved by two girls, both of them good, and one of them exceedingly clever and capable. He himself is a poor creature with some good instincts in him ;...

Douglas King works again with the subject which he found, it would seem, attractive to some readers in the "Scripture Reader of St. Mark's." The conflict between passion and...

Introduction by John W. Hales. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)— Professor Hales writes an admirable introduction, containing in a very small compass a most instructive criticism of...

Griffen- hoofe, M.A. (Ward and Downey.)—Much that is sensible and useful will be found in this volume. Mr. Griffenhoofe has a chapter on "Good Sense," and he has evidently the...

"Church Magazine for Children." It has a special con- nection with the "Sunbeam Warrior," which is described as a "Children's Mission to Children." There is a series of articles...

very little in this book, and it is not easy to say whether one should take what there is seriously. But it is distinctly clever. The paradoxical defence of idleness, for...

the name of "Conditional Immortality." The obstinately impenitent, he thinks, will cease to exist. Their doom is not torment, but death, not punishment that goes on for ever,...

little absurd. We look, for instance, at January 28th, and find "The snow had drifted down the wide chimney." There is nothing especially classic about that. The art of the...

as it seems to us. The ideal of this kind of writing is to be found in Edgar Poe's "Journey to the Moon." There we are kept within the limits of the credible up to the last...

Two young Englishmen get kidnapped in Constantinople while sightseeing, and after an attempt at escape, fall into the same hands again, to be carried away till ransomed. The...

is a story of the Netherlands in the days when Philip H. was seeking to crush the riew reforming spirit. The author introduces it with a somewhat polemical preface, in which, as...

owe their origin to "Alice in Wonderland." They are cleverly written and skilfully illustrated. To judge of them in cold blood, so to speak, is almost impossible. They ought to...

Mr. Gilchrist gives us vigorous pictures of his dwellers in a Peak village. Few of them, it must be allowed, are pleasant to behold, but he lures us on by giving now and then a...

is a powerful story of the dramatic world,—playwriters, managers, and the rest. The theatre takes itself a great deal too seriously. But, granted that it is as important as it...

is an elaborate examination of the locus classicus, Phil. ii. 5-11, with a special reference to the theory of idnocrts. Dr. Gifford first investigates the signitkation of the...

reminds us of "A Noble Life," for it is the story of a lad who meets with a disabling accident, but does not suffer the disability to hinder him from doing, but rather uses it...

This powerful tale, noticed in our columns some months since, has, we see, been reprinted. It is "a tale of the Cuban Rebellion," not the rebellion, it should be understood, of...

Symons (T. Fisher Unwin), brings together conveniently what is beat worth preserving of a gifted woman whose powers of expression were scarcely equal to her powers of thought...

is "A Story of North Polar Expeditions by the Nova- Zembla and Spitsbergen Route." The author has drawn on the narratives of Nares, Greely, and Nansen, and put together out of...

is a distinctly amusing adaptation of the recent development of science by which experts in psychology trace the development of conscience and other mental phenomena by...

T HE diplomatic struggle at Pekin continues, but the Russians, we fancy, are losing ground. Germany has deserted them, and intends to make of Kiao-chow a port free to all, and...

THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS. T HE air is a little clearer all round. We would warn our readers earnestly against the growing habit of believing the telegrams of each day as if they...

French crisis which are hardly perceived in this country, but of which we are told local politicians are very keenly aware, and regard with dismay or hope according to their...

F REEDOM of thought, the right to think and to teach as they would, was once the boast of the Germans. They might be forced to admit that of political liberty they had little,...

I T would be idle to pretend that the state of things in Uganda is not most critical. The British authorities there are engaged in a life-and-death struggle with a body of...

I T is not unnatural that Lord Rosebery should be inclined to belittle Parliament. He says he is "a Member" of that body ; but he is only a Peer, and we can imagine no position...

I N his final speech at Liverpool Mr. Chamberlain dwelt with much grace on the pleasant relations existing between rival political partisans in England. Radical and Tory will...

I T is possible that in the revival of Julius Cmar at Her Majesty's the public is more beholden to Mr. Tree as a manager than as an actor. Be that as it may, there can be no...

Q IR M. E. GRANT DUFF delivered on Thursday week lecture at the Imperial Institute on "The Recreations of an Indian Official" which deserves more than a word of comnent There...

A WRITER in the Edinburgh Review for January gives a very pleasing and accurate description of the present bird-population of London. Of the hundred and eighty- four species...

THE SITUATION IN UGANDA. [TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—War, and rumours of war, military and industrial, throughout nearly the whole Empire have drawn the public...

[To THZ EDITOR 07 THZ " SPZCTAT011."3 Sin,—Your correspondent, " Laicus," has to some extent misunderstood the positions maintained in the "Epilogue" to "The Life and Times of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] your note referring to the decision of the Govern- ment to cast Mr. Watts's splendid statue of "Vital Energy," you refer to the action of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR, --. A.8 bearing on this interesting subject, will you permit me to mention the following incidents, one of which came within my own...

rTo THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECT•TOR."1 SIR,—I see Truth has cast doubts on the accuracy of the account of a fox fascinating a pheasant by circling beneath its perch, described by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In the many excitements connected with the present state of European politics, the controversy between German and Bohemian is likely to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of January 22nd you wrote : "The For ever, never' refrain of The Old Clock on the Stairs' seems so entirely the...

FROM THE SONG-BOOK OF BETHIA HARDACRE. TO (Who says that a life disabled for active service must be intolerable). THINE eyes are holden and but see Life from the standpoint of...

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.* IN The War of the Worlds Mr. Wells has achieved a very notable success in that special field of fiction which he has chosen for the exercise of his very...

THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I should be very glad to know the name and address of the kind friend who sends me the Spectator, with postmark,

WRITING on "the origin and importance of small tracts and' fugitive pieces," Dr. Johnson makes the following remark :— "There is perhaps no Nation in which it is so necessary as...

of the American Republic, France and America were bound together by a tie of enthusiastic sympathy which may only be compared to the Franco-Russian frenzy of to-day....

No student of economics can afford to neglect this able and comprehensive work, which is the first attempt to relate the industrial to the general political movement of our...

this memoir, will still, perhaps, be best remembered as one of the most skilful and daring horsemen of his day, a thorough sportsman in the best sense of the word, and one of...

THE mere title of the story which occupies three-quarters of Mrs. Woods's new volume, "Weeping Ferry," is enough to indicate its general tenor. Though free in great part from...

The Indian Village Community. By B. H. Baden-Powell, M.A., C.I.E. (Longmans and Co. 16s.)—This exhaustive and rather laborious treatise is written to disprove the theory that...

Scully. (Methuen and Co.)—Mr. Scully has already written a volume of" Kaffir Stories," and he now brings us another budget of the same kind. They are not of a tone, it is almost...

By the Rev. R. B. Peery, A.M., Ph.D., of the Lutheran Mission, Saga, Japan. With Illustrations. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.) —It is difficult for a book about Japan to be...

6d.)—John Davenant was Bishop of Salisbury for not quite twenty years (1621-1641). Previously he had been Lady Mar- garet Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and he was one of...

Shorter. (James Bowden.)—Mr. Shorter states that this is a "Jubilee volume," and we are, therefore, bound to regard the writer's end. It is obvious at a glance that any adequate...

an Indian Official. By H. G. Keene, C.I.E., 4k.c. Illustrated by W. Simpson, R.I., from Original Sketches by the Author. (W. Thacker and Co., London ; Thacker, Spink, and Co.,...

This volume is, in fact, the commonplace book of the late Dr. Pearson, who, after some years spent in the bishopric of New- c istle, N.S.W., became vicar of an English living,...

" mystery " is a secret, and there is not much of a secret about the murder of the artist Arnold. The suspicions of the reader fall at once on Gustave. There is a certain...

of portraits and autographs of the most eminent subjects of her Majesty. "Mr. Andrew Lang furnishes a preface."

Osmond Paton leaves a million of money, which he bequeaths to his brothers at Quito, but the money cannot be found. There is a search ; and part of the search—if not for the...

McIlvaine, and Co.)—We do not quite understand the develop- ment of the heroine's character, though the Blight of the latter part of the book is more intelligible, and is a...

Long, and Co.)—Mr. Chayton has produced a readable story, with some interesting people in it, and with just that touch of the weird and horrible that the general reader looks...

C. Tancock, M.A. (John Murray.)—Mr. Tancock has had permission to use Canon Rawlinson's translation and notes, and he has thus put together a very useful little book. It is...

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