HENRY DRUMMOND AS A RELIGIOUS TEACHER.* WE must confess that we have never been able quite to understand the importance attached to the late Professor Drummond as a thinker....

had quite the experience which Mr. de Windt and George Harding underwent in the Tclinktai village of Orunwaidjik. That awful sojourn in perhaps the worst of all climates, and...

which the interest of the sub- ject and the easy fluency of the style cover many defects of construction. It is a series of magazine articles tossed together apparently at...

THE pertinacious and patriotic, if also rather wooden-headed, clerk to the Board of Trustees in Edinburgh, who was born • George Thomson, the Friend of Burns: Ms Life and...

the career of the Prince of Wales, "including his Birth, Educe.- tion, Travels, Marriage, and Home Life ; and Philanthropic, Social, and Political Work." It is a gathering...

Ambroise Pare and His Times : 1510-90. By Stephen Paget. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 103. fld.) —The Life of Ambroise Pare covers a very interesting period of French history ; and...

he became familiar in his childhood prepared him for the position which he ultimately filled as the first of Scottish—and not the least of British—descriptive poets. Educated at...

the recent story of Chitral is perhaps the best illustration. In the James Thomson. By William Bayne. (Oliphant, Anderson, case of Chitral, however, as in many other cases...

how to observe children with a view to forming a just estimate of what costume. One immortalises the fashion of crinolines, the other may be expected from them in the way of...

Ben Nicoll. Vol. II. (Hodder and Stoughton. 28e.)—This volume contains the Gospels, — the Synoptic Gospels having been treated by Professor A. B. Bruce, the Gospel of St. John...

J. O'Donoghue. (Patrick Geddes and Co., Edinburgh. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. O'Donoghue begins his introduction by remarking that "to write a life of Mangan is one of the most difficult...

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—These sermons discuss in a manly, religious, and common-sensical spirit many of the problems that most exercise the minds of average men and women who...

Papers of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his Children. Translated by Clara Nordlinger. (Smith and Elder. 16s.)—Gabriele von Billow was the daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the elder...

and Sons. 21s.)—There is a good deal of the iconoclast in the best sense in Dr. Christison's work ; there is un- fortunately also a good deal of Dryaadust. In this substan- tial...

of his Life, with Selections from his Letters. By his Sister. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Even those who had but the slightest acquaintance with Bishop Maples (as was the case...

By J. Kersley Fowler ("Rusticus "). (Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Fowler, who has already published two volumes upon " Old Country Life," completes a trilogy in these "...

and Son.)—What Mr. Swinburne justly calls the " matchless genius" of Dickens is criticised with knowledge and discrimina- tion in this little volume, which belongs to the "...

(A. Constable and Co.)—A pathetic interest—the interest of hope deferred, and of hearts now sickening, it may be feared, to despair—attaches to this simple, enthusiastic, and...

Adamson, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This is a painstaking and judicious, though rather too long and detailed, biography of a clergyman who will surely be accounted at...

Pull for the First Time. With Elucidations by William Wallace. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 61)—In the present volume the editor makes use of the Lochryan MSS. that were employed...

Oates.)—Sister M. Aloysius writes under date December 1st, 1854: " We travel in our veils, in the face of England,—no disguise whatever." She expects her correspondent to be...

C. Chat- field-Taylor. (Gay and Bird.)—We need not stop to criticise the introductory chapter. We can only wish that Mr. Chatfield- Taylor's hopes for the future of Spain will...

Mr. Welwood dates his introduction from a " Manse," and therefore permits himself to say what he would probably resent were it said by any one else. We do not see that ministers...

a capital story, fully up to the standard of Miss Coleridge's work,—more it is needless to say. The motive is one of a fascinating kind, but very difficult to manage with...

Frederic Spencer. (Cambridge University Press.)—The twelve chapters of this volume, all of them written by experts in their own line, are most instructive. Greek and Latin, con-...

volume, reprinted, with additions, from the Quarterly Review, gives an excellent account of its subject. Fresh sources of information are now available, the Italian archives...

Edited by Chr. Wordsworth. Part IL (Cambridge Uni- versity Press. 30s.)—This second part has, for convenience' sake, been divided into two volumes, in which we have an...

Smith. (Ideal Publishing Union.)—This is a reprint of a volume published some forty years ago, now republished as part of the " Vegetarian Jubilee Library." It would be useless...

(John Lane.)—It is not easy to see what Mr. Robertson means by a "critical method." He gives us his views, ethical and literary—the literary being preferable, we cannot but...

Meadows. (Roxburghe Press.)—The first of these stories is a very well told experience of the Backwoods. By "well told" we especially mean told in such a way as to impress the...

B. Drake. (R.T.S.)—Mr. Drake, who is in the service of the Baptist Missionary Society, gives us some very interesting accounts of his experiences in Southern Shan-si. Among...

Oliver H. Richardson. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Richardson, who is Pro- fessor of History in Drury College (Springfield, Mo.), has given us here a useful volume. In his first...

and Co.)—This is a pleasant little book which tells us what we want to know about Whitby as it is and as it was. Mr. Holt goes back to days before Whitby became fashionable,...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a " Jubilee " volume, and naturally has a Jubilee tone. Whatever discount, however, we may be inclined to take off on this score from Dr. Harvey's...

Marston, and Co.)—This is a " revised and enlarged edition " of a work published in 1886. It is carried down to the present time. Mr. Gisborne points out with perfect truth that...

who do not intend to g o deeply into the lan g ua g e, but desire to pick up just enou g h Arabic to g et alon g with in E g ypt, this is exactly the book. It contains a few...

is a series of amusin g sketches of fishermen and their craft, their virtues, and their weaknesses, especially their tendency to adorn their tales. The humour is sometimes a...

Rev. F. W. Farrar, D.D. (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)—In this very eloquent lecture Dean Farrar g ives a vivid sketch of the advances in civilisation, knowled g e, power, and wealth...

T HERE is no "latest intelligence of the war." News of the battle off the Philippines, which should come first, had not arrived when we went to press, and the remaining "news"...

W E wish our Jingo contemporaries, with the Times at their head, would be a little more frank in their comments on the situation in the Far E Lst. Do they think it would be wise...

THEIMMEDIATE FUTURE OF THE WAR. T HIS will be an original war. It is to be fought under conditions of time, of space, and of impelling force for which we can remember no...

W AR now, as it did in the sixties, is drawing public attention in this country to the position of the American President. Our people see an LInglish-speaking man placed in a...

vulgar than that which declares that the people of the United States have no right to the barbarous but useful term, "Anglo- Saxon." We are told, for example, that what little...

A CORRESPONDENT last week was quite indignant with us for saying that there must be in the Spanish character, otherwise a very strong one, some root of in- efficiency ; but how...

without its moments of relaxation. Question time, indeed, gives no particu- lar pleasure to any one but the Member who has for the moment the ear—not of the House, but of the...

Mr. Asquith to the. University Extension students last Saturday was, from every point of view, an excellent piece of work. It was as clear in manner as it was sensible and sound...

I T is by no means easy to decide which of the races of man- kind is the bravest upon the battlefield. We are rather inclined to assign that place to the Osmanli, who, besides...

W HILE the attention of the world is mainly centred on the sea passage to Cuba and the acquisition of a port of landing for the American troops, the United States Government are...

"BULLS" FROM IRISH PASTURES. tTo THZ EDITOR OF THY " SPECT/TOH."1 Sin,— " Has the traditional capacity of the Irish for making bulls' become impaired ?" This was one of the...

PEMBA. AND SLAVERY. [To THE EDITOR Or [HZ "SPECTATOR ..] an article in the Spectator about two and a half years ago (December 28th, 1895), you made a suggestion that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — One expects the Spectator to understand, and not to- misrepresent, the point of view of its opponents. Your article with the above...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It may interest your readers, with reference to your article in the Spectator of April 16th on the character of the Spaniards, to...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your defence of the conduct pursued by the United States in regard to the Cuban horrors deserves the thanks of all civilised States....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR ,— The enclosed extract from "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crnsoe " may interest you.—I am, Sir, &c., "And therefore I must...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR."] SIE,—It would require many volumes completely to answer all the questions put by your correspondent under the above heading in the Spectator...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] tfilE,—In the Ordnance Survey map of England, Sheet 318, :almost due north of Worthing, and about two miles from Broad- water, there is a...

[TO lax EDITOR 01 , THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—In the review of the Hampton Lectures in the Spectator of April 16th you say : "If our memory is not at fault, the late Mr. Aubrey...

it to be inferred from the review or the Wil,1 Birds' Protection Acts" in the Spectator of April Nth, that Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, is under protection for three years from...

TO THE AUTHOR OF FESTUS." POET, who in your snowy years, Waitest the end of thought and tears, With stately calm, superb content, By crocus-purple banks of Trent. Long since...

LTO THE EDITOR. OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Is this conduct usual, and can any of your readers throw light upon it ? In this garden a thrush is sitting on a nest of blackbird's...

THE NEW GALLERY. THE present exhibition at the New Gallery may be pro- nounced either good or bad. The judgment depends 0E1 which we dwell most upon,—the leaven or the lamp....

THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OF THACKERAY. THE word " biographical " in the above title is to be taken as referring to the books in the new edition of Thackeray's works, not to...

IT is now forty years, save two, since Dr. W. Smith edited the Dictionary of the Bible. In his preface he spoke of Biblical studies having received a fresh impulse, of new and...

Muca as the sentiment expressed in the tritest of Tenny sonian quotations may recommend itself at first sight to readers, the touch of the vanished hand and the sound of the...

IN his Life of John Hunter Mr. Stephen Paget makes a very important contribution to the series of biographies which is now being published under the title of "Masters of...

Miss FORBES-ROBERTSON essays to give us in The Potentate a full-length portrait of one of the despots of the late Italian Renaissance who combined culture with cruelty in equal...

Black. 21a.)—There is not much of the literary element in this book, but there is not a little of the humours of travel and of experiences 'which might be made instructive. It...

and Co.)—This volume belongs to the class which Charles Lamb denounced as " books that are no books ; " it is a more reprint of letters written by Mr. Stanley to the paper,...

D.C.L. With a chapter by W. Spiegelberg, Ph.D. (Quaritoh. 10s.)— In this volume Professor Petrie describes the work of the last season conducted at the private expense of Mr....

Industrial Evolution of the United States. By Carroll D. Wright, LL.D. (Gay and Bird.)—We need hardly say that this is an interesting book. Dr. Wright is a " Commissioner of...

is clearly an enthusiastic lover of the poets, and he , has turned his admiration to some purpose in this little volume. There are passages of considerable delicacy and...

Hickson, D.Sc., F.R.S. (George Newnes.) — This is an exceedingly useful little book, one of a series whose value is in inverse proportion to their price. Within the brief...

Co.)—It makes all the difference in the world whether af book of this kind is a record of personal experiences or an imagination. A writer should state this by way of preface,...

Robinson, M.A. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. Robinson discusses the question, which includes another of a kindred- nature—what is the Present of Mahommedanism ?—in a very ,...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—While we are by no means disposed to decry as a whole what may fairly be called " globe-trotters' literature," we are compelled to remark that most of it is...

an interesting sketch of Wycliffe, his work and life. The old story, we see, is repeated of the " 30,000" students of Oxford. Has Mr. Tylor ever reflected how large the town...

six hundred and fifty-six pages of this volume contain so great and so various a mass of facts that it is quite impossible to give any adequate epitome or analysis. Taking one...

Edited by Richard G. Moulton. (Macmillan and Co.)—It• will be remembered that this does not pretend to be a critical edition. Criticism is not, indeed, wholly avoided. There is...

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