SONGS AND BALLADS OF YOUNG IRELAND.* ALL true lovers of English literature will welcome this little volume of Irish political verse. We say "English literature" advisedly, for...

MR. PATER'S last work, as no one with an interest in modern literature need look at its title-page to be informed, is a fragment. Not long after the completion of Marius the...

WE generally associate Dyaks with the murderous pastime of head-hunting and the remarkable dynasty of the Brookes, but the Land and Sea Dyaks have other claims on the interest...

THE two books before us deal by different methods and from very different points of view with the same subject. Dr. Hopkins, though he calls his closely printed volume of five...

THE last half-century has witnessed many changes in social life, but none more radical than that which has taken place in our public schools. The change must have been a...

—There are many curious things in this book, and some, cer- tainly, that are not wholly edifying. Among the latter is one which nevertheless might, from one point of view, be...

Heckethorn. (Elliot Stock.)—This is one of the books which a writer who is not an expert in the subject may commend to the public without hesitation. The illustrations are...

Hutchinson. (W. Heinemann.)—This is the record of a remark- able career and the description of an interesting personality. Charles Gounod had artistic powers of an unusual kind....

Animal Episodes and Studies in Sensation. By G. H. Powell. (George Redway. )—These are very clever stories, and there is nothing in the least unhealthy about the "Studies in...

and Co.)—Mr. Jones, in publishing this play (withdrawn, it will be remembered, after ten performances), provides us with a criticism ready-made. It is, says Mr. Joseph Knight,...

A. D. Surridge, M.A. (Skeffington and Son.)—Mr. Surridge, when he keeps close to Xenophon, gives a critic no cause to complain. But when he lets his imagination run away with...

this work probably the purely historical writing on the subject of Joan of Arc will cease. Not that it is mere research. But it includes it, and sums up the authorities ; and...

and School. With Special Reference to Dr. Felix Flagel's Dictionary. Edited by Professor Im. Schmidt, Ph.D., and G. Tanger, Ph D. 2 vole. (Asher and Co.)—Every English student...

F.R.S. Vol. II.," F—M." (Macmillan and Co.)—The second volume of Mr. Palgrave's stupendous dictionary is more interesting than ite predecessor, as it covers some specially...

and Co.)—No one knows better than Professor Lodge the limitations which are imposed upon one who tries to write of Riche- lieu in two hundred and twenty-nine pages. We can only...

Simpkinson, M.A. (Isbister.)—Anthony Thorold was one of the men, happily not seldom found on the bench of Bishops or elsewhere, who grow to their work. He had but small...

Boston, U.S.A.1—This volume contains five papers, all of them dealing with somewhat technical subjects. In the first John Williams White discusses the question whether the...

Keane, F.R.G.S. (Edward Arnold.)—This volume shows that "many "—the authors exaggerate in saying " most "—" of the Colonial possessions of the Empire [including those which we...

and Co.) —This is a good story which we can recom- mend to our readers without hesitation. Gordon Counselman and Alice Copeland, who may be called the hero and heroine of the...

W. R. Adams. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Parr, we should explain, furnishes the letterpress, Mr. Adams the illustrations. Both letterpress and illustrations are excruciatingly funny....

(E. Arnold.)—Canon Fleming's hints, instructions, and censures are, for the most part, excellent. We say "for the most part" because here and there, as it seems to us, he may...

has been spun out to nearly four times its proper length. There is a hero, an idle medical student who turns out a capable doctor, a. heroine who goes through a number of...

is nothing new in this volume, nor indeed is it to be expected that there should be. Mr. Jerrold gives a useful resume of what is known about the early printers and their work,...

Mr. Boddy, who has a benefice in the North of England, went out as chaplain to an emigrant-ship bound for Canada, and has of course some interesting things to relate. Here is...

Marshall. (Seeley and Co.)—The " Haunt " is Nicholas Ferrar's house at Little Gidding, and Dr. Donne and George Herbert take a part in the scenes described in the story. An...

In every country save England," writes Mr. Pennell, "illustrators rank with any other artists." Whose fault is that ? Mr. Pennell suggests the critic. "Critics—even the best of...

and Co.)—These Confessions originally appeared in the Pal/ Mall Gazette, and will already have amused many readers. Of definite and serviceable information there is little in...

with Introductory Matter and Notes, and with Speci- mens of their Poetry rendered into English. By Ida Parnell. (David Nutt.)—There was no great poet among the troubadours; much...

sheaf of essays, although of little interest to the average English reader, furnishes forth an unpretentious little book, which is deserving of some critical commendation. It...

McIlvaine, and Co.)—We have here a narrative of a hunting excursion undertaken in search of wood-bison and musk- oxen, by a gentleman who had previously had some experience in...

By Walter B. Harris, F.R.G.S. (W. Black wood and Sons.)—This is a lively sketch of the observations of a rather rapid journey through Transcaucasia and the districts to the...

Marston, and Co.)—There is at least a full proportion of adventure and romance in this volume. The characters present familiar types. We have the stolid, solid Englishman and...

Arnold.)—The "Eton Playing-Field" has nothing in common with that which Gray and the Duke of Wellington apostrophised. It is located in the region of Hackney Wick, and those who...

new version of "Paul and Virginia," with not a little difference, and the difference not in the way of improvement. In fact, to speak plainly, there is absurd sentimentality...

Lucas. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is the sequel of a novel noticed in these columns a few months ago. Emmanuel, a Danish pastor, makes a sensation in his world, great out of all...

a collection of short stories,— every third book we take up seems to belong to this class. They are much the same as other short stories ; the style is somewhat grandiose. There...

En- cyclical on Union. The original Greek, with English translation, edited by the very Rev. Archimandrite Eustathius Metallinos.— This document, signed by the Patriarch of...

bray.)—Mr. Biggs, who was chaplain for six months to Bishop Blyth, writes in a very thoughtful way about matters social, ecclesiastical, and religious in Jerusalem. He pleads...

W. P. O'Brien. (Downey and Co.) — It is not for the reviewer to criticise Mr. O'Brien's book. It is the outcome of careful study and exceptional opportunities of observation...

University Press.)—The Statute of Labourers, by which Perlis ment vainly attempted to keep down the price of labour, largely increased as it was by the mortality of the Black...

)—General Robley deserves the thanks of students of that very wide science, anthropology, and, indeed, of the public in general, for the composition and publication of this...

the Rev. Charles Voysey, B.A. (Williams and Norgate.)—This book would be of no importance but for the recent action of some leading members of the Unitarian body in regard to...

Watson. (Elkin Mathews.)—Mr. Watson begins by telling us what he thinks about the essay, criticises various essayists, John- son and others. Then he proceeds to give us some...

Petschenga Monastery was, while it stood, the most northerly one on the globe, standing as it did on the seventieth parallel of North Latitude, and on the actual shore of the...

Lucy. (Cassell and Co )—This is a very lively and graphic account of the three Sessions of the Parliament which restored Mr. Gladstone to power in 1892, and sent him, or rather...

Albert William Quill, M.A. Vol. II. (Longmans and Co.)— Mr. Quill completes in this volume his translation of the History. He tells us in his preface that he has "devoted a far...

and Co.) —Some of Mr. Deir's humour is very poor stuff indeed, and though the latter part of the book is readable, it is only just readable, and readers who begin the book will...

Co.)—This is a story of the marvellous kind, of the " She " type of tale, to describe by a well-known example. There are those to whom this literature appeals very strongly,...

really interesting, for they refer to a period which can be recollected by only a few. He seems to have enjoyed his term of service in Canada with bunting, sleighing, and all...

the younger, a decorous and prosperous young man, grows weary of the set conventionalities of the respectable life which he leads, and, so to speak, "kicks over the traces."...

good birth, who has accompanied a hunter on a big-game expedition, is persuaded to tell his history by the camp fire while the camp is on the qui vive lest lions should stampede...

of Dolomite Strongholds, by the Rev. J. Sanger Davies (George Bell and Sons). We commended the volume on its first appearance. It is a description of some interesting climbs,...

College." (Constable and Co.)—The hero is, as may be guessed from the title, a humbug and a hypocrite, who does not meet with his deserts. The other personages in the story are,...

C OUNT MURAVIEFF, the Foreign Minister of Russia, having been specially ordered to repair to Paris, has arrived there, and has, of course, been received with nearly Royal...

MR. RHODES AS A PERSONAGE. T HE great honour paid to Mr. Rhodes in England, or rather the great fuss made about him, creates a bad impression on the Continent, being held to be...

I T would seem as though the Radicals would greatly like to make the Education struggle a seven years' war. They have lived for a year at least on the with- drawal of the last...

I S the "Concert of Europe" to end in a stock-jobbing transaction for the benefit of Paris banks ? We sincerely hope that the answer will not be in the affirmative, and we feel...

I T does not appear possible to imagine a concurrence more complete than that which exists at present between the Government, the Opposition; and the Irish party, both...

in the House of Commons always distress Anglo-Indians ; they are always so well intentioned and usually so entirely sterile. The debate on the Famine on Tuesday was no exception...

I T is never safe to prophesy, especially when the subject of prediction is the Irish party. But for this it might seem safe to say that the crisis in the Irish party which has...

decision of the Queen not to perform the cere- mony of opening the Blackwall Tunnel next May was inevitable as soon as it was arranged that 1897 should be celebrated with the...

been evident to all who read the criticisms of the orthodox, and even of some of the more rationalising, Jews, on the proposal to take Judaism in what the latter regard as its...

T HE millionaires are giving us trouble already in South Africa, and they will give us more at home. It is not anything they do or leave undone, so much as their existence,...

P RESENT prices will certainly not alter the English feeling that the wearing of fur is a luxury, and' a most expensive one. A series of very severe winters' might force us to...

ALFRED HUNT. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The many admirers of Alfred Hunt, and the few friends who remember his Newdigate poem at Oxford, 1851, will enjoy his...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. J. Llewelyn Davies, who writes to you, in the Spectator of January 23rd, under the heading, "Clericalist Church Reform," does not...

[To TITZ EDITOR Or TEX " EIPZOTATOR,"] SIR,—Seeing a piece on kangaroos in one of your recent numbers, I thought the following incident might be of interest to some of your...

[To TICK EDITOR Or TEl SPEOILTOR."] Sin,—As I have known Bombay for Oyer thirty years, and during more than half of that period was a resident there, you may perhaps permit me...

[To THZ EDITOR Or THZ " SPECTAITOR."] the able review entitled "East African Exploration" in the Spectator of August 22nd, 189G, which has just reached -me, I observe that you...

A SONG OF BATTLES. OF fighting stock it is I come, On many a field my forebears fell ; The Funeral-March, the muffled drum Sounded my father's knell. Where steel could do or...

M. BINET'S "ALTERATIONS OF PERSONALITY." THIS is a most remarkable book by one of the greatest of the French physiological psychologists. It is the book of a very acute and...

IN one of the best of her graceful little essays on children Mrs. Meynell observes how very modern is the present interest taken for its own sake in childhood and child-life. It...

THE lives of great teachers or leaders of men, as recorded by their chroniclers, are the best lesson-books for succeeding generations. Honesty, perseverance, courage, goodness,...

THE Cuban Rebellion with which Dr. Emerson is concerned in Caoba is not that which General Weyler is endeavouring to. Bopp, ess by newspaper interviews, but the outbreak of...

better books than this, but not a brighter, or one more calculated to make the reader say that if the well-known special correspondent had been caught early and set to...

The Devil is Britain and America, Mr. Ashton has given us a short account of witchcraft and demonology as practised in Old and New England, in which he has attempted a rough...

Dr. Somers reprinted Malory's text word for word, line for line, letter for letter, with an account of his sources. Sir Edward Strachey gave the same text with modern spelling...

Junior. (Vanity Fair Office.)—For its really distinguished men the Album has to go out of England. It might even be said that there is but one who can be so described. This is...

book certainly is in some respects what it professes to be. But it is also something different. It seems to be the deliberate revival of much that was deliberately dropped when...

a remarkable story. So much we can see qnite plainly, though there is much in it that it is not for every reader to appreciate or even to understand. No small portion of the...

The Alcestis of Euripides. Edited by W. S. Hadley, Fellow and Assistant-Tutor of Pembroke College. Cambridge. (Cam- bridge University Press.)—This play, one of Euripides's...

Doctor. By the late Dr. Gibney. (Bellairs and Co.)—Dr. Gibney describes how he studied medicine at Dublin and Edinburgh, and gives some curious sketches of the Professors whose...

meets with a welcome from readers who have the good taste to like simple, natural characters and a wholesome sense of right and wrong,—not always to be found in latter-day...

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