LONDON : DECEMBER 5, 1891.

DR. C. WORDSWORTH.* THIS is an age of autobiographies and personal reminiscences, and we are inclined to think that the public are having a surfeit of them. There is no more...

century in its true pro- portions, and all that is lofty in it stands out against the clear sky, no longer crowded out of sight by the circus and the mart, nor hidden by the...

FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the great in the land to entertain an official of some kind whose special function was to declare to the world the height, width,...

Tins book is only too full of matter. The story of each of the Oxford Colleges, now, by the restoration of Hertford and the foundation of Keble, numbering twenty-one, has been...

THE plot of Mr. Ernest Glanville's Mashonaland romance is the hunt after a certain mine, a mysterious individual called " The Fossicker," and finally, and indeed chiefly, to...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—Whether or no we can concede the modest claim of the Magazine of Art to " a unique place at the head of all serials devoted...

Tuis story stands out among the crowd of books of a similar kind with which a reviewer is overwhelmed at this time,—so overwhelmed that it is difficult to preserve the power of...

Co.)—Two serials, by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Barrie, form, as it were, the backbone of Good Words. In the biographical and his- torical department, we have, amongst other good...

a second title to her story, " The Charity that Encourages a Multitude of Sins," and gives us some lively pictures of the professional beggar. Jeannette is a weakly infant who...

little story of what a little girl, by help of an innocent curiosity, a simple .and loving temper, and, we mast add, some remarkable coincidenceNscoomplished in healing a family...

(Isbister and Co.)—There is one long serial in the volume, " Godiva Durleigh," but it is not so strong as Sarah Dondney's stories generally are. A shorter one by Mrs. Meade, "...

and Edith C. Kenyon. (Religious Tract Society.)—Harold Brown falls away from the belief in which he had been brought up, and finds the new belief which he has adopted—a belief...

Gamier. (Routledge and Co.).--This book is very much superior to the average of volumes which bear similar titles. It does not give a. set of gaudily coloured pictures. The...

Nelson and Sons.)—Miss Everett-Green has laid the scenes of this story in the closing years of Henry VI.'s reign. the hero is for some time the companion of the unfortunate...

Havell, B.A. (DIacmillan.)—Mr. Havell has found an excellent subject for his pen in Longinus, who, strangely enough, has not been translated for more than fifty years. Longinus...

familiar rhymes, "Cock Robin and Jenny Wren," and the rest of them, by hundreds we may.AaY, illustrated by the pencils of Sir John Gilbert, Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter...

H. Robinson. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—" Romeo" Coates might have been allowed to rest quietly in his grave. When a man hats escaped a biography for more than forty years,...

(Longmans and Co ) —We had occasion to welcome the first volume of this Dictionary last year, and we are equally pleased to welcome the second. Its merits are its literary form,...

stories are now printed, we are told, for the first time in England ; they are probably already known, but certainly deserve to be better known still. There are eleven stories,...

for Boys. By his Sister. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—It is needless to describe the contents of this book. Though not the same as "Mackay of Uganda," they are in substance well...

editor, Mr. George Offor, tells us in his preface that he has done his best to make this edition " a correct fac - simile of what the author himself published." He has added...

This is a capital story, in Dr. Stables's best style. It is about equally divided between adventures on the West Coast of Scotland and ad- ventures in the Southern Seas, the two...

sent us an exquisite little Pocket Bible, in flexible russia, on Oxford India paper, containing 1,566 pages in a size of 31 in. long by 24 in. broad, and only seven-eighths of...

Sons.)—This is a stirring enough tale of Wales during the war- fare which Edward I. waged against the Principality. It relates the fortunes of the House of Dynevor, in the...

English History for the Little Ones (twenty-fourth thousand), and Stories from Bible History for the Little Ones, by the same author (sixteenth thousand). (Both are published by...

Oates.) —This is one of that most objectionable species of books, the con- troversial novel. Questions of theology and etclesiastical govern- ment are mixed up with the more...

Hickey. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The poem which gives a title to Miss Hickey's volume naturally reminds us of " Aurora Leigh." Michael Villiers is not unlike to Romney, and...

to our own forefathers, remote and near. Some very curious stories he tells,—that of William Barwick, for instance, who drowned his wife in a pond at Cawood, in Yorkshire, and...

of those dismal stories with which writers of fiction are at present afflicting us. The literary merit of this particular specimen of the fashionable novel of the day is of the...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This volume consists of two parts, the first being a reprint of the author's " Chats at Sant' Ampelio," the second a continuation, under the title of "...

transferred to another parish, and the most notable members of his new flock are described. Throughout this description runs the "Minister's Record," with its slender thread of...

Co.)—This is another pleasant story of Virginian life, as it was in the days before the Civil War. Colonel Landon, a gentleman of descent, proud and arbitrary, but with a tender...

Co.), we have a number of volumes treating of diverse subjects, and of various degrees of merit. Some of these volumes have been reviewed in these columns from time to time, but...

Ernest Steinhal, of Lincoln's Inn, will be found useful by school- managers and their legal advisers in interpreting questions of doubt that may arise in regard to the working...

Pasquale Villari. Translated by Madame Linda Villari. 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwire.)—This is a more complete edition of a work which first appeared in 1878-83. The author explains...

in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and Published by tine at the " SrscrAros" Office, No, 1 Wellin g ton Street,...

and with a certain readiness to believe that he does extraordinary things. The statement that he has published sermons preached by himself on board the Imperial yacht is now...

week, most of which contradict each other. So far as we can judge from a careful comparison of them, the truth is something in this wise. An insurrection has broken out in...

on Tuesday, February 9th. In other words, the House of Commons is to have no Winter Session at all, but is to resume the normal practice of the period before obstruction was...

the opening of the County Conservative Club House, and devoted his speech chiefly to the subject of the Local Govern- ment Bill for Ireland which it is proposed to pass next...

G ENERAL VON CAPRIVI delivered a strong speech to the Prussian Reichstag on Friday week in favour of .optimistic views of the situation. He maintained that pessimist views were...

to the Foreign Office, is probably the most accurate yet received. It runs as follows :—" An outbreak has taken place to the west of Jehol, beyond the Great Wall. It is led by...

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on Tuesday. He declared that, with the reductions the Government had made, the deficit of 1891-92 would be only £40,000, and in 1892-93 there would be a surplus of £360,000,...

remarkable statements about forgery. It appears that the "average annual number of forged notes presented to the Banks in the ten years from 1812 to 1821 was 750 of five-pound...

Pool, and made a great speech on Labour. With the exception of one injudicious sentence, which we have discussed elsewhere, about the " idle rich," it is a most excellent...

Nationalism at Limerick this week. On Wednesday, Mr. Dillon, speaking from the window of the hotel, exhorted the Anti-Parnellites " to sweep out of the country every trace of...

Unionists, but a victory by a reduced majority (namely, 347). Mr. Sturt, the Conservative candidate, polled 4,421 votes, against 4,074 given to Mr. Glyn, the...

one political and one social. In his political speech at Wirral he supported Mr. Morley, attacked Lord Salisbury for not recognising the various forms of Continental Home-rule,...

London Chamber of Commerce, and on Friday a letter appeared addressed by him to the Governor of the Bank of England, in which they are stated with great lacidity. The proposals...

ment, if it were Gladstonian, should pass any first-rate measure except Home-rule, SirW illiam Harcourt showed extreme irrita- tion, and swelled himself out in his usual blatant...

the Staffordshire Liberal Association, whose members he reproved for having allowed a representation of fourteen Liberals to three Tories in 1885, to be transformed into a...

to the London Domestic Mission, whose Chairman, P. M. Martineau, of 6 Christian Street, E., will receive for the Mission any subscriptions or donations sent to it. It is the...

James's Gazette, who has been sending a series of papers on the village question, says that even in Northumberland the labourers are "stealing away to the towns." The farmers...

is determined to go on with its prosecutions of Bishops, and that it has informally warned the Church that unless the Epis- copate becomes more favourable to the Republic, the...

stituents at Derby on Thursday. It is so full, again, of military metaphor, that it is clear he is preparing to take the place of commander-in-chief of his party ; and he began...

New Consols (2k) were Ou Friday 951.

• MR. GOSCHEN'S TWO PROPOSALS. M R. GOSCHEN is, we imagine, wise in the unusual course he has adopted of explaining his new currency measure, and his measure for the prevention...

W E do not think that the fighting-power of either of the two great parties of the day, the Unionists and the Home-rulers, would be in the least diminished if they would make a...

THERE is trouble brewing in China, and trouble that will move the European Governments, especially our own, which must, from its heavy interests, its strong Fleet, and its...

W E cannot better illustrate the embarrassment which English Unionists feel in relation to Mr. Balfour's project of passing a Local Government Bill for Ireland in the early part...

HE result of the School Board Elections, on the whole, T is to us a depressing one. The depression, is not( caused by any party feeling, for if the voters were affected by party...

U LTRA-DEMOCRATS will in future be able, or at all events will say they are able, to quote Mr. Gladstone in support of one of their most extreme dogmas. They are all beginning...

-J.- AIRS. SUTHERLAND ORR has not the art of per- spicuons exposition. Her new contribution to the discussion concerning Browning's religious attitude makes vagueness vaguer and...

T HERE is one British quality—an eminently British quality, if we may believe our foreign friends and critics— which has been much shaken of late years by the march of social...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PLAYWRIGHT.* THESE volumes form a curious, and in some respects highly suggestive, collection of theatrical reminiscences. They also contain the diary of a...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE New English Art Club has opened this week its first -winter exhibition with the announcement that it is to be an annual event. The announcement...

to postpone all our correspondence till next week.

IT is always interesting as a study of human nature, to observe the different effects which their professional habits and training exercise upon men. They are by no means always...

NOT even Thales of Miletus, nor that more modern philoso- pher, Sir Wilfred Lawson, has preached the doctrine of water with more energy and sincere conviction than Pfarrer...

the republication of certain of those works of picturesque topography for which Turner made drawings, and of which the original plates have come into their possession. The...

WE welcome back M. Gabriel Monod to the Contemporary, from which he has been absent for a twelvemonth, not writing, as he says, simply because there has been nothing in French...

from Mr. T. T. Lynch's " Rivulet " and " Theophilus Trinal," Sze., by Mr. Morell Theobald (Clarke and Co.) Mr. Lynch's works, abounding in thoughts which, whatever their...

a fund of useful and entertaining reading as usual. There are " complete stories," to be reckoned by scores, even hundreds, and five serials,—to wit, " A Baffling Quest," by Mr....

Lillie Wide - Awake. Edited by Mrs. Sale Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—We welcome the appearance of this old friend and favourite of the children. The young people like it, we...

Of the former, we may mention the frontispiece, " Winter in Brabant," by Mr. J. C. Farrer, after G. H. Boughton, and " For God and King," a very spirited battle - piece by Mr....

With Memorial Notice by the Rev. E. F. Russell. (Regan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co.)—The late John Sedding, over and above his eminence as an architect, was a man of many...

of the Diocese of Bath and Wells shows in this little volume, the first form of which was a lecture, that the history of a country village need not of necessity be Dryasdustish,...

Stoughton.)—This volume is valuable as a collection of interesting quotations, if for no other reason. Mr. Young, although an earnest believer in Christian Missions, gives both...