JEAN FRANcOIS MILLET.* "IN the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." These words, constantly repeated by Jean Francois Millet, give the clue to his mind, and consequently to...

LONDON: DECEMBER 5th, 1896.

No other sport in all the world—neither hunting, pig-sticking, steeplechasing, big-game shooting, nor polo—can approach "running a blockade" for real excitement. That, at...

may bring forward for the extraordinary economic vagaries that they have performed during their more recent history, they certainly cannot urge the lack of sound teachers on...

BY this volume Mr. Hume will add very greatly to the re- putation as a serious but not dryasdustish or pedagogic historical investigator which he obtained by his Courtships of...

WITHIN the past quarter of a century much attention has been paid to the municipal progress of Glasgow, whose population has increased during the second half of the century by...

WITH THE JUNGLE-FOLK.* BIIRMAII, not India, and Mr. Coming, not Mr. Kipling, are responsible for what is described by the author as a common- place story of Burmese village...

the talents for the entertainment of the children. About a score of people clever with pen and pencil have been called in to help, and if the young readers find anything lacking...

A CONSIDERABLE portion of the rich store of information presented to the public in Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales can only be done full justice to and...

(W. and R. Chambers.)—This is a very pleasant girls' book, but the now experienced author can hardly be said to be seen in it to the best advantage. She tries rather too often...

im- mortal fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen as rendered by Madame de Chatelain and illustrated by Mr. E. A. Leman. No prettier edition of these stories, of which,...

is not quite in the vein which we associate with Mrs. Molesworth, but it is very clever, very fantastic, and very enjoyable. Perhaps it is a rather serious tax upon one's powers...

(Edward Arnold.)—Mr. Eastwood is a most obliging father. When Aunt Jemima, thinking of the interests of his children, says to him that it is a shame that they should know so...

story is told, alternately by the nurse and her husband, of the fortunes of the laird's child, which he places in her hands on the eve of his exile to the Court of St. Germaine....

—Admirers of Mrs. Meade's work in fiction—which is often very excellent—may be somewhat disappointed with this new story, because there is in it no story to speak of....

Australia, where we are introduced to the hero and the convict Sanders, with whose past and future the tale is inti- mately connected. Parkyn returns to England, where his...

and Co.)—If popularity is the condition of being exhibited in a birthday book, there can be no doubt of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's claim. Otherwise we do not think that this...

or to relieve it by peeping at the end. We may advise the doubtful to persevere. They will find a capital little story, with a very wholesome pur- pose, not too obtrusively put....

Co.) —Mr. Holmes also gives us a " glance at some navies of the ancient world," telling us about the naval supremacy of Athens, the fatal expedition to Syracuse, and, passing...

has something to tell us about the circumstances under which the comedies were brought out. In his criticisms of Goldsmith he does not give us anything of remarkable value....

begins by describing, by pen and pencil, the horn- books out of which the little girls of bygone generations learnt to read. This is well enough ; let us hope that young people...

Eden. (S.P.C.K.)—The edition of Mrs. Ewing's books which we have noticed from time to time in these columns is now completed by a memoir, supplemented with a selection from...

was the armour-bearer of Edmund, the East Anglian sub-King, who was martyred by the Danes in 870. Mr. Whistler has carefully studied the authorities, and gives us a very...

Mr. Hugh St. Leger is a writer who evidently is quite at home on the roaring wave. We have storms and mutinies, and the unfail- ing attraction of treasure trove, and everything...

introduction of Miss Hester Lavenham, a new pupil and a very charming and pretty girl, to the school-room of Miss Millington. She comes from a country rectory, where her...

Chambers)—Two neighbours in the North Country, the Edens and the Darleys, cherish an hereditary feud. No one exactly knows how it arose. The Edens attribute it to an...

and Co.)—Although a little too long drawn out, this is a very readable and conscientiously written historical romance dealing with the commencement of the struggle between...

Dr. Rumsey's Patient. By L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax, M.D. (Chatto and Windus.)—The authors of this novel call it " a very strange story " in their title-page, and then...

Downey.)—Mr. Oppenheim, who has undoubtedly proved himself a master of the art of writing sensational fiction, has here surpassed himself. From the first chapter, in which...

and Co.)—The author of these slight sketches is by way of being a New Humourist, and he has no doubt an eye to the lighter and slighter aspects of life, as well as a command...

Boothby is making quite as effective play with Dr. Nikola as Mr. Conan Doyle ever did with Sherlock Holmes. This mar- vellous man, who is no less striking a personality than the...

With an Introduction by H. C. Beeching. " The Muses' Library." 2 vols. (Lawrence and Bullen.)—Judgment and knowledge are the qualifications demanded of an editor, and both are...

Co.)— This is a moat ingenious story of the breathlessly sensational sort. The fundamental "idea" is a startling one, being that of a " murder syndicate" composed of persons...

(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—The biographer of the pro- fessional "investigator," Martin Hewitt, has constituted himself successor to the biographer of the old favourite, Sherlock...

Ages. By " L. G." (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This little history opens with the reign of William the Conqueror, and ends with the martyrdom of William Tyndale in 1536....

of Signor Arditi, edited by the Baroness von Zedlitz, are exactly what we might expect. Stage-folk, despite (or by reason of) their special genius, are often in other matters...

(W. and R. Chambers.)—This is a useful little manual of Prussian history, for it deals with the Emperor William's predecessors as well as his successors. The writer's account...

Names, by F. H. Habben, B.A. (T. Fisher Unwin), is a careful collection of notes about London streets. These notes are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order. Of course as...

(Lee and Shepard, Boston.)—We confess to a fondness for books of folk-lore, especially when they are not too recondite and have the true smack of rusticity. There is often so...

Shepard, Boston.)—Mr. Keane, like all empiricists, holds that to dub any set of disconnected observations with a Greek word ending in "elegy" is to create a new science. To...

is all very well to call this " The Original Edition," nor do we deny that it is full of useful information. But where are "The Remarkable Prophecies and Predictions" which...

Co.)-There seems to us an opportunity lost in An Odd Career. Though the author is not much at home in his first chapters, his style improves afterwards, loses its redundancy,...

Sons.) -We are sorry to see that " Rowland Grey," who has done better things, can find nothing else to write about than a married woman's love for a man who is not her husband....

74.76 Great Queen Street, W.C.; and Published by Joel; James Basta. of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middle's:, at the BremaOa"...

evening by order of the Home Secretary, his condition, after a somewhat serious operation, causing some anxiety, and a very reasonable wish that he might be placed under less...

conductors have opened a national subscription to present a testimonial to Mr. Bayard, the American Ambassador, upon his departure from this country, and have headed it with a...

the &nth African Company is published in the Times of Novem- ber 28th. In it his Lordship, who is now administering Rhodesia for the Company, states that a new policy will be...

T HE Government has received a disagreeable though not a disabling blow in Egypt. Under the absurd condominium of six Powers which prevails there, the Court of Appeal which...

League, held on Thursday at the Guildhall under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, the Duke of Devonshire made a very im- portant statement as to the general agreement between...

case.

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'LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

but to say what you want to say in a capital where you might be imprisoned for saying it, and yet to give no offence, is a task that might puzzle Henri Rochefort. It is puzzling...

Africa, but delays its decision, partly because it has to negotiate with England and Egypt, partly because the exist- ing Parliament might refuse its consent. The country, it...

generally, and of the working of the Education De- partment in particular with which he has become acquainted. through his correspondence with it in relation to his own small...

Education League a the Evangelical Free Churches met on Tuesday at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, under the presidency of the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers, and determined on...

Radical leadership, said that Lord Rosebery was forced to accept the leadership by the refusal of many of the Liberal Ministers to serve under Sir William Harcourt,—a refusal...

in which he strongly defended military training, Lord Wolseley on Thursday took occasion to repeat an old opinion of his,— that a great army might be formed in China. He...

with its beautiful Arab hall, to the nation on condition that it shall be properly maintained at the public expense. The only serious obstacles to be now sur- mounted are how to...

that the Government of Bombay are about to set up a sanctuary for the African elephant in the coast-area of Somaliland. Within the reserve, shooting at elephants will be...

introduce compulsory registrations of title to land into England, because England is an old country and its land system highly complicated. Registration may do very well for...

recognised by the public, should be a little more minute in his detail of facts. He reports on Thursday a most important speech by the Viceroy on opening the Taptee Railway, a...

Saturday,—a railway which runs from Brighton to Rotting- dean (some four and a half miles) through the water instead of under it. This is accomplished by the rails being laid...

last week from a contemporary turns out to be nearly base- less. The Trustees of the Museum were obliged, indeed, to open certain receptacles at considerable intervals, but they...

on its system of scattered or isolated homes for pauper children. The object of the scheme was to avoid all aggregations of pauper children and to secure the most com- plete...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1111,.

THE NEW POLICY IN RHODESIA. W E do not like the letter, describing the new policy to be adopted in Rhodesia, which Earl Grey addressed to his Directors of the Chartered Company...

signs himself " Emeritus " in the Fortnightly Review lays too much stress, we think, on the deficiency in Lord Rosebery of an aggressive attitude of political mind. He is,...

England will create a great fuss some day. " Trusts," i3 the sense in which we are now using the word, are only monopolies, and it is around the right to create a monopoly, as a...

W E cannot take the same view as our contemporaries do of the latest incident in Egypt. It is quite true that this country can find half a million for the re- conquest of...

Free Churches held on Tuesday at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, under the presidency of the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers, determined on assuming a more " aggressive " attitude...

M R. BURNS, in the early days of the London County Council, is reported to have said that no man was worth more than £500 a year. Though the Council did not act rigidly upon...

_A NOTHER case is said to have occurred this week of one of those sudden lapses of memory which are some- times so bewildering when we consider the question as to ,how much of...

N O national character is more difficult to understand than that of the Japanese; nor upon any is there a greater conflict of apparently trustworthy evidence. According to one...

T HE recent adventure of a " mad bull" in Langham Place shows that such animals still exist in fact. In fiction, where the mad bull once played an important part, giving endless...

CONTRASTED CONTINENTS. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THR " SPICTALTOR."] SIR,—The writer of " Day-Dreaming in Politics," in the Spectator of November 19th, told his geographical...

THE LILY. I DREAMED that after wandering long I came To a dark garden with frail souls for flowers; And saw the gentle lady we call Death Pace to and fro ; above each bloom...

THE ABBE DE LAMENNAIS.* IT is well that we have at last a monograph in English of that extraordinary man who shares with Comte de Maistre the position of founder of modern...

THIS volume is one of the " University Extension Series," and is primarily intended for students who do not read Greek. But like Mr. Mackail, who has written on Latin literature...

FIONA MACLEOn prefixes to her little volume of songs, which seem as if they had been made to accompany an 2Eolian harp, this sentence from the Finnish epic " Kalevala " :—"...

Story of Hannah, is given a striking, original, and thoughtful study of a person whose genuine, deep-seated love and tenderness are masked during most of his life by an...

DECEMBER is not a good month for the magazines, though it is possible to pick out some papers well worth reading. They are fewest for once in the Nineteenth Century, which is a...

The Church Quarterly Review, October. (Spottiswoode.)—This is a number of more than usually varied interest. The articles are ten in number, of which the moat important,...

collection of Calendars, Cards, Pocket-books, &c. The calendars are of every kind, presenting a quite extraordinary variety of quality and design. One of the most interesting is...