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BOOKS.
The SpectatorA COMMENTARY UPON HOOKER.* IT has sometimes seemed to us when a too rare chance has brought in our way some writing of the present Dean of Christ Church, that he, perhaps more...
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RUSSIA. ON THE PACIFIC.* THE writer who disguises himself under
The Spectatorthe name " Vladimir" published two or three years ago an interesting volume on the China-Japan War. His work seemed to show an intimate knowledge of the Japanese, and a...
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BISHOP SELWYN.*
The SpectatorTHE opening pages of Mr. How's memoir of Bishop John Selwyn carry us back to an incident in the life of John Selwyn's father, the first Bishop of New Zealand. At mid- night on...
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GIFT-BOOKS.
The SpectatorTALES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.* Mn. HENTY, who must soon, we should think, have to sigh for new worlds to write about, gives us his usual, or even more than his usual, allowance of...
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Baby's Biography. By H. M. *M. Illustrated by Nat. R.
The SpectatorPrince. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s.)—This book, we are told, is designed " to afford parents, and more especially mothers, an opportunity of keeping a continuous record of...
Mabel's Prince Wonderful. By W. E. Cale. (W. and E.
The SpectatorChambers. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the stories which would hardly have existed but for " Alice in Wonderland." Mabel makes " a trip to Storyland," and sees a number of figures...
Homes and Haunts of the Pilgrim Fathcrs. By Alexander Mackennal,
The SpectatorD.D. (R.T.S. 30s. net.)—Dr. Mackennal makes us understand why the subject which he treats has come into prominence within quite recent times. It is, we must explain, the...
Loyal. By Arthur Collard. (S. W. Partridge and Co. 2s.
The Spectator6d.) —There is something worth reading in this " story of a mer- cantile marine officer." Mr. Clark Russell has set the fashion in nautical romance of going to the Merchant...
some verse, so obviously careless and hasty that we cannot
The Spectatorhonestly call it more than passable. When the shepherd boy and the fisherman, each discontented with his lot in life, pass each other, why did they do it "with a nod...
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Life's Possibilities : a Book for Girls. Edited by E.
The SpectatorA. D. With a Preface by the Right Rev. A. F. Winnington-Ingram, D.D., Bishop of Stepney. (A. R. Mowbray and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—T his is 'a collection of pleasant stories and...
The Grins House. By Mrs. Molesworth. (Nisbet and Co. 5s.)
The Spectator—Mrs. Molesworth is always fond of a little mystery. Ghosts are very much to her taste, and if a ghost does not suit the occasion—and it hardly does when one writes for. the...
The Boys of Dormitory Three. By H. Barrow - North. (Rout- ledge
The Spectatorand Sons.)—This "tale of mystery, fun, and frolic," with its comic sailor, Chinee, French-master, and other familiar characters of farce, is fairly entertaining. There is a...
Rag, Tag, and Bobtail. By Edith Farmiloe. Verses by Winifred
The SpectatorParnell. (Grant Richards. 6s )—Miss Farmiloe evidently believes in the effectiveness of simple lines and dots. Sometimes she succeeds with them, but not, we are bound to say,...
Fairies, Elves, and Flower Babies. By Marion Wallace - Dunlop and Marion
The SpectatorRivett-Carnac. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This book is intended for very young children. Like hundreds of others published at this season, it is attractively - got up, rather...
Yule - Tide Yarns. Edited by G. A. Henty. (Longmans and Co.
The Spectator6s.)—Here are ten stories by well-known writers, Messrs. H. Collingwood, J. Bloundelle-Burton, D. Ker, and F. Whishaw being among them. The first, entitled " Chateau and Ship,"...
Fairy Folk from Far and Near. By Annie C. H.
The SpectatorWoolf. (J. MaeQueen.)—These fairy tales are described as coming from China, Arabia, Greece, Rome, and we know not what other places. Miss Woolf introduces them without any...
Roses. By Amy Le Feuvre. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s.)— This
The Spectatoris a pretty little story. " Dimple," who comes to disturb the peace of Mrs. Fitzherbert, as every one in the house is sure, turns out to be a quite delightful child, not too...
The Prince's Story Book. Edited, with Introduction, by G. L.
The SpectatorGomme. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—This is the sequel to two volumes of a similar kind, respectively entitled " The King's " and " The Queen's Story Book." There are between...
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Little Folks: a Magazine for Young People (Cassell and Co.,
The Spectator3s. 6d.) is as good as usual both in letterpress and illustration. —This firm's New Penny Magazine (2s. 6d.) is certainly a triumph of cheapness. The frontispiece alone, a quite...
Philosophy of Theism: the Gifford Lectures Delivered before the University
The Spectatorof Edinburgh in 1894-96. By Alexander Campbell Fraser, LL.D. Second Edition, Amended. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Gs. 6d.)—Professor Fraser has published a second edition of his...
In the Year of Waterloo. By 0. V. Caine. (Nisbet
The Spectatorand Co.) —Mr. Caine works the Napoleon vein to good purpose. This story of 1815, with its scenes at Elba, and during the progress of Napoleon from the place of landing to Paris....
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo. With a Preface by Paul Meurice. Translated by John W. Harding. (W. Heinemann. 10s.)—This is a book which every thoroughgoing admirer of Victor Hugo...
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French Literature of To-day. By Yetta Blaze de Bury. (Archi-
The Spectatorbald Constable and Co. 6s.)—We gather that the lively sketches of modern French writers which make up this volume have appeared at different times in various American magazines....
Twelve Months in Klondike. By Robert C. Kirk. (W. Heine-
The Spectatormann. 6s.)—In the autumn of 1897 Mr. Kirk went from San Francisco to Klondike, and there remained a year,—whether out of a love of adventure, to seek gold, or to gather...
La Macedoine. Par le Dr. Cleanthes Nicolaldes. (Johannes Rtede, Berlin.)—Dr.
The SpectatorNicolaldes reminds us forcibly in this work of the chief political question, apart from Constantinople itself, remaining in the Balkans,—that of Macedonia. He writes from a...
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A Preacher's Life. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.
The Spectator6s.)—Dr. Parker speaks kindly of those whom he has occasion to mention, whether they were friends or opponents, and we have no wish to say anything but what is kind of him....
The Tragedy of Dreyfus. By G. W. Steevens. (Harper and
The SpectatorBrothers. 5s.)—The larger part of this book consists of a series of brilliant sketches of the trial at Rennes by the correspondent of the Daily Mail. It is not, however, a mere...
The Human Machine. By J. F. Nisbet. (Grant Richards. 6s.)
The Spectator—This somewhat too materialistic " inquiry into the diversity of human faculty," by that able and remarkable journalist, the late Mr. J. F. Nisbet, is, however much we may...
Back to Jesus : an Appeal to Evangelical Christians. By
The SpectatorRichard A. Armstrong, B.A. (Philip Green. ls.)—There is undoubtedly a marked tendency to-day to get back to the living personality of Jesus Christ as a source of present...
The Ascent through Christ : a Study of the Doctrine
The Spectatorof Redemption in the Light of the Theory of Evolution. By E. Griffith - Jones, B.A. (James Bowden. 7s. 6d.)—In reading this remarkable book we are constantly tempted to repeat...
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The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tasters Bright.
The SpectatorBy E. B. Bright (Brother) and C. Bright (Son). (Constable and Co. 63s. net.)—These two volumes are the story writ large, but not too large, for those who are specially...
Ruling Cases. Arranged, annotated, and edited by Robert Campbell, MA.,
The Spectatorand other Members of the Bar. With American Notes by Irving Browne. Vols. XVII. and XVIII. (Stevens and Sons. 25s. each net.)—The series of Ruling Cases is making steady, and...
Embroidery; or, The Craft of the Needle. By W. G.
The SpectatorPaulson Townsend. Assisted by Louisa F. Pesel and others. (Truslove, Hanson, and Combs. 35. 6d.)—It is difficult to write anything to the point on this subject, and the author...
Tales of the Divining Rod. By G. D. Beaven. (A.
The SpectatorH. Stockwell and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Beaven here dilates at considerable length on a subject which, as has been demonstrated by the recent Report of the Society for Psychical Research,...
The History of South America. By an American. Translated by
The SpectatorAdnah D. Jones. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 10s. 6d.)—If it was worth while to publish this book, it was worth while to complete it. The history is not carried beyond 1876, and...
La Renaissance Catholiguo en Angleterre au %IP. gaols. Premiere Partie,
The Spectator" Newman et le Mouvement d'Oxford." Par Paul Thureau-Dangin. (E. Plon, Nourrit, et Cie., Paris.)— M. Thureau-Dangin gives us in his sketch of the history of the Oxford Movement...
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Enchanted India. By Prince Bojidar Kara g eor g evitch. (Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—We
The Spectatorhave here what appears to be an excellent translation, by "Clara Bell," of an interestin g volume on India by Prince Bojidar Kara g eor g evitch. It was ori g inally written in...
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London : Printed by LOVE & WirmaN (Limited) at Nos.
The Spectator71.76 Great Queen Street, W.C.; and Published by JoRN BAKER for the "SrEcravon" (Limited) at their Office. No. 1 Wellington Street. in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...
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To our artillery, however, belonged the chief honours of the
The Spectatorday, for the guns seem to have been splendidly handled. Especially fine was the shooting of the guns manned by blue- jackets from the Powerful,' which had been brought up from...
But though Ladysmith is not yet invested, it is impossible
The Spectatorto deny that during the next week there must be a great deal of anxiety as to the position in Natal. We trust and believe, however, that General White, who certainly was quite...
While our men were milting their hopeless stand at Nicholson's
The SpectatorNek on Monday morning Sir George White was using his whole force, except an obligatory garrison for the camp, in what may best be described as an attempt to push back the slow...
To go on with the chronicle of the war ;
The Spectatorthe artillery duel seems to have been continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, our heavy naval guns keeping down the enemy's fire. On Thursday news was received that the telegraphic...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorO N Monday the most important action of the war up till now took place at Ladysmith,—an action which, unhappily, included the isolation and surrender of a British column. We...
The accounts of the surrender are still very meagre, but
The Spectatorthe report of the correspondent of the Star, who visited the field, te.ems to show that about twenty officers and men were killed outright, about one hundred wounded, and...
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Another small French detachment in Africa has been cut to
The Spectatorpieces on its way to Lake Tchad, or, more precisely, at or near Togbau, 9° 42' North latitude. Lieutenant Bretonnet had only two subordinate officers with him and thirty...
Nothing could encourage the private soldiers engaged in this war,
The Spectatorand especially the Reservists, whose lot is often exceedingly hard, more than the certainty that their wives and families will be provided for. We welcome, therefore, the appeal...
The Times correspondent in Rome declares that Italy is just
The Spectatornow so prosperous that the British Ambassador, Lord Currie, is astonished at the advance he finds both in agri- culture and industry. The revenue comes in regularly and keeps an...
The German Government has put out through many journals a
The Spectatorproposal, not yet absolutely official, but undoubtedly entertained in high quarters, to depart from the programme of naval construction which in 1898 was settled for six years....
America, supplies the one great exception to the rale. Opinion
The Spectatorthere is steadily on the British side. A crowd in New York cheered loudly when it was known that the naval guns bad silenced the Boer forty-pounder, and the Press almost without...
The tone of the Continental Press has been rather steadied
The Spectatorthan inflamed by the reverse at Ladysmith. Almost every- where sympathy for the Boers is slightly cooled by their assumed successes. They have ceased to be " a peaceful little...
We doubt the conclusion of any bargain. As yet the
The Spectatororgans of the Centre are most hostile, and they are putting forward a new and powerful argument. They say that a conflict with the Imperial Government is not an unmixed loss,...
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The passage which has been most commented on in Lord
The SpectatorRosebery's speech must be given textually. It is as follows —"I, at any rate, had another motive for laying a wreath to- day on the tomb of Mr. Pitt. I regard Mr. Pitt as the...
At Bath on Friday, October 27th, Lord Rosebery made an
The Spectatorinteresting speech, or, rather, series of speeches, on the two Pitts ; but more important was his able and patriotic declara- tion in regard to the present war. His chief points...
The Canadian contingent, one thousand strong, sailed from Quebec on
The SpectatorMonday. After a formal inspection the Viceroy, Lord Minto, bade farewell to the regiment in a short speech in which he emphasised the epoch - making character of the occasion....
Parliament was prorogued on Friday, October 27th. At the last
The Spectatorsitting of the House of Lords, Lord Hardwicke did his best to make the Assembly to which he belongs ridiculous by inducing the few Peers present to condemn the erection of a...
Speaking at a meeting of the West Cumberland Liberal Association
The Spectatoron Monday evening, Lord Spencer, while support- ing the vigorous prosecution of the war and condemning President Kruger's ultimatum as an insane and reckless document, found...
The polling at the by-election in Bow and Bromley resulted
The Spectatorin the return of Mr. Guthrie, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 2,115 ; the figures being, Guthrie, 4,238, and Spender, 2,123. At the last election—i.e., that of 1895 —...
On Saturday last Professor Westlake delivered at Toynbee Hall a
The Spectatorvery able lecture on the war. It was a war between two ideals rather than a war between races. The English was that of "a fair field and no favour." It welcomed all corners who...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE DISASTER AT NICHOLSON'S NEK. T HE disaster at Nicholson's Nek, where six companies of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, four and a half com- panies of the Gloucesters, and the 10th...
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LORD ROSEBERY AND LIBERAL IMPERIALISM.
The SpectatorI T is Lord Rosebery's belief that in ten years' time we shall see the destinies of the nation controlled by the party of Liberal Imperialism. Lord Rosebery is himself a Liberal...
THE BOERS AS VOLUNTEERS. T HE Boers are affording us a
The Spectatormagnificent object-lesson on the value of Volunteers in defensive warfare. They are strictly Volunteers. That is to say, they are not trained at all in barracks ; and though...
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MOBILE AND IMMOBILE FRANCE. T HE present. Government of France must
The Spectatorbe credited with considerable insight into the internal situation. Its policy in permitting a second trial of Dreyfus, which it probably knew would end in his second...
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THE COTTAGE PROBLEM.
The SpectatorA VERY interesting article on the rural aspect of the housing question appeared in the Daily News of Monday. It dealt, not with the mischiefs that come of insanitary or...
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POLITICAL PROPHECY. F EW illusions of the human mind have been
The Spectatorso persistent as the belief that certain uninspired men may possess the power of predicting events outside the range of calcula- tion; that is, in other words, of uttering what...
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MULES AND HORSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
The SpectatorT HE Daily Mail on Thursday published a graphic map of the progress of our fleets now on the high seas on their way to the Cape. Of these some fifty vessels are conveying men...
THE USE AND ABUSE OF EPIGRAM.
The SpectatorT HE power of epigram in literature has been great. We are largely ruled by phrases, and some of the most pregnant sentences of the antique world have an influence over our mind...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE BOER WAR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Many of those who sympathise with the Boers have sought, in their speeches and their writings, to draw a parailri between...
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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The Spectatorrejoice to see that the American papers notice that the anti-British clamour of the Continental Press is f ally as violent and minatory now as it was anti-American in the case...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Does not your correspondent,
The SpectatorMr. Bernard Holland, in the Spectator of October 28th, misstate the cause of variance between us and President Kruger when he says : "The real issue is whether the Transvaal...
THE KAISER AND THE TRANSVAAL.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May not the present attitude of the Kaiser towards us in South Africa be very simply explained ? Three years ago, the Jameson Raid,...
[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I quote a
The Spectatorpassage out of Tolstoi's "Peace and War," Vol. III., p. 265, which seems applicable to the present situation in the Transvaal ?- " One of the most remarkable exceptions to the...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSin,—Mr. Bernard Holland, in the Spectator of October 28th, states very concisely the Doer alternative, between an ultimate Outlander supremacy in the Transvaal and war. I would...
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A CORRECTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Yon state in your excellent description of the attack on Talana Hill (Spectator, October 28th) that "the Dublin Fusiliers and the 60th...
THE PERIL OF THE ROMAN CHURCH.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Ward seems partly to misconceive and partly to misstate the point at issue. " We must see," he tells us, in the attitude of the...
THE FRENCH CLERGY AND THE DREYFUS CASE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Abbe Pichot, the founder of the Dreyftisard Comite Catholique pour la Defense du Droit, is desirous that his two brochures,...
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THE SOLAR RAINBOW.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have little doubt that what your correspondents saw on Wednesday, October lltb, was a fragmentary phase of the well-known, though...
WILLIAM PENN SYMONS. (MORTALLY WOUNDED IN ACTION AT GLENCOE ON
The SpectatorOCTOBER 20TH; DIED OCTOBER 23RD, 1899.) TILL England's praise had reached thee, and our sore And grateful hearts were to thy sight reveal'd, Merciful death a little while...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE HISTORIAN OF BATTLES.f KINGLAKE'S masterpiece, edited for military students, must perforce lose something of its strength and character. For Kinglake was not merely the...
POETRY.
The SpectatorKING'S ROYAL RIFLES. ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS. OCTOBER 20TH. PEACE to the empty rhetorical prater, Peace to your " patriot " chatter and brag ! What ! did you deem that the Celt...
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To write a Life of Luini is about as impossible
The Spectatora task as to write a history of the snakes of Ireland. Unfortunately for the biographer, though perhaps fortunately for the artist, Vaaari remains silent as to Luini excepting...
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MR. LILLY ON DEMOCRACY.*
The SpectatorIT can scarcely be doubted that the two fundamental ideas which Mr. Lilly in this work (dedicated to Mr. Lecky) treats are of vital importance at the present hour. In the first...
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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* THE growth of Particularism in modern
The Spectatorfiction has been at- tended with diversified and disputable results ; but as illus- trated in the works of Mr. Quiller-Couch, whose local patriotism is free from the taint of...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorWE note with pleasure the appearance of the second number of Lady Randolph Churchill's quarterly, the Anglo - Saxon Review. The binding of the second number is, considering the...
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Twelve Pioneer Missionaries. By George Smith, LL.D. (Nelson and Sons.
The Spectator7s. Ed.)—We cannot find fault with Dr. G. Smith's selection. All the twelve are representative; all are noble figures, worthy of being included in a roll of honour. The list...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorSOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) The Way They Have in the Navy. By F. T....
With the Peshawar Column. By Richard Gillham Thomsett. (Digby, Long,
The Spectatorand Co. 3s. 6d.)—Colonel Thomsett begins with an interesting account of the state of feeling which immediately preceded the Pathan outbreak of 1897. He attributes no little...
A Summer in High Asia. By Captain F. G. S.
The SpectatorAdair. (W. Thacker and Co. 125. 6d. net.)--Captain Adair's hunting-ground was a region of Kashmir, Leh being its most important place. (A map of the country with the route...
The Exeter Road. By Charles G. Harper. (Chapman and Hall.
The Spectator16a.)—This is the fifth volume that Mr. Harper has con- tributed to the literature of the road and the coaching days. Necessarily these volumes have a cdrtain sameness about...
The Law of Railway Companies. By J. H. Balfour Browne
The Spectatorand H. S. Theobald. Third Edition, by J. H. Balfour Browne and Frank Balfour Browne. (Stevens and Sons. £2 2s.)—This monumental work has been brought down to the present time by...
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Starting Housekeeping. By Mrs. Alfred Frage. (Chapman and MTh 2s.
The Spectator6d.)—" Make a good beginning" sums up much of the excellent advice which Mrs. Frage gives to young housekeepers. One of the things is, press for a regular house allowance, and...