LONDON: NOVEMBER 5, 1892.

THE YOUTH OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.* THE writing of an impartial history is a feat which, though often proposed, is seldom accomplished. For a French- man of to-day to write a...

old, although comparatively forgotten, have never fallen into absolute neglect; and the admiration expressed for them by more than one famous author of our century has, to some...

SOME little time ago, we had the Last Words of Thomas Carlyle ; now, in these Rescued Essays, we have " more last words;" and, from a literary point of view, the Seer of...

SPORT is a word of many meanings. To country lads, it suggests ferreting for rats in a barn ; to public-school boys, cricket and football ; to Northern miners, dog-fighting and...

PERSONALITY is one of the most extraordinary forces in existence. The ten talents making up the ideal of perfect success and absolute power may be divided into gifts of cir-...

THIS is one of the freshest and liveliest of Mr. Henty's stories. Godfrey Bullen, sent out to join his father's business in St. Petersburg, gets himself mixed up with some...

Tun dozen or so of stories that Miss Ingelow has put together in this volume all evince her exquisite literary touch ; the plainest narrative, the simplest facts, under her wand...

one of the best things that Miss Bramston has done. It is mainly a study of character done in very broad and effective strokes ; but it combines with this a well-constructed...

Stoughton.)—This "story from Nova Scotia" is pleasantly written, and has the advantage of a certain novelty in its surroundings. Boys seem to be much the same in Nova Scotia as...

Tract Society.)—These two volumes are as fell of good reading and spirited illustration as usual, and are, as usual, distinguished by just the right sort of differences. The...

There is a very charming description of an old Kentish Manor- house in St. Dunstan's Fair, and the children who figure in it are spirited young creatures whose acquaintance we...

and Co.)—" From Surrey to Spenser" expresses the range of subject which this volume includes. It is not, however, inclusive as far as the lower limit is concerned. Spenser is...

Irving Montagu. (Skeffington.)—This "nineteenth century fairy-tale," as the author describes it, is decidedly good fun. A child may read it without looking for anything but the...

GIFT-BOOKS. Soap Bubble Stories. By Fanny Barry. (Skeffington and Son.) —These are certainly as good specimens of the modern fairy-tale as any that we have ever seen. If Miss...

"story for girls," is excellently suited to the readers for whom it is intended. There is just a touch of romance in it, Old Lady Myrtle's love for Jacinth, granddaughter of...

R. Chambers.) —Mrs. Meade takes us to the coast of Brazil, where the " four "— two girls and two boys—are carried out to sea in a boat, land on a desert island, and contrive, by...

by the Rev. James Paton. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here is a book of adventure — adventure in real life — which it would not be easy to match in fiction. "Thirty Years Among South...

Library of Wit and Humour." (Henry and Co.)—Some very happy descriptions of Mexican, and particularly Californian, life are to be found in Mr. Batter's Pedigree, as good,...

Patrick Kennedy. (Macmillan.)—The folk-lore of the Celtic inhabitants of Ireland, and the legends of the heroic period of the country, make together the subject of Mr. Kennedy's...

By Haskett Smith, M.A. (William Blackwood and Sons.)—If Mr. Haskett Smith had not told us that Cyril Gordon was in- tended to portray Laurence Oliphant, it is possible that wo...

we have descriptions, the work of skilful pencils and pens of four-and-twenty famous houses, beginning with Welbeck Abbey, and ending with Chillingham Castle, the interest of...

Annual (Clarke and Co.), very copiously illustrated, it has three hundred pictures, among which the drawings of animals seem to us notably good ; Little Folks, New and Enlarged...

three old favourites, is Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, and Lob Lie- by - the - Fire, by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott (S.P.C.K.) Author and...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Of the three tales Mr. Black has given us, we must select " A Hallowe'en Wraith " as the best. Tho author's delicate touch, his complete sympathy with the...

Marston, and Co.)—This is not one of the fictions with which our boys and girls are wont to be entertained and instructed, more or less, at this season, but a true chronicle of...

Mr. Frost tells by the aid of a comic pencil and a sparing use of letterpress curious stories of misadventure,—how a philanthropist buys a calf because he thinks it cruel to...

Risen Dead is not up to the level of Florence Marryat's previous novels. Unpleasant as some of them are, their writer possesses a certain power of describing the lower passions...

and Long.)—This " romance of modern science " can hardly be called scientific. Mr. Foden Flint learns some curious secrets from an Eastern "occulist "—surely "occultist" is the...

and Co.)— We have the character of one of those tiresome individuals known as " black sheep " very well set forth in the personality of "Rex Sutherland." He is not viciously...

and Co.)—Amusing and witty, abounding in humorous situations and Bohemian characters, these short stories make capital reading for a few minutes. The fate of these products of a...

(Digby, Long, and Co.) — This is a very poor sort of " dreadful," better bound, to be sure, than the ordinary "penny dreadful," but of equal merit in every other respect, full...

and Co.)—Miss Margaret Thomas, with a lady com- panion, seems to have scampered through Spain, from St. Jean de Luz to Tangier, without much inconvenience or hardship. She used...

(G. Philip and Son.)—This volume contains twenty-three " sketches of the lives and writings of the following emancipators of the European mind," the following being twenty-three...

and Notes by E. Sherwood Smith. (Walter Scott.)—This volume is not by any means the least attractive of its series,— " The Canterbury Poets." Some thirty poets are put under...

edited by the Rev. T. C. Bridgett. (Burns and Oates )—There is much wit and wisdom in the writings of Sir Thomas More, and Father Bridgett has not failed to find and bring...

Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Hunter-Duvar knows his facts, and has plenty to say about the life early man led, and the teachings of archaeology. This is a subject that admits of...

Adam de Chetwynd appears at the end of the twelfth century as the lord of eleven manors, which at the beginning had belonged to Turold de Vesley. From this per- sonage Mr....

(Digby, Long, and Co.)—The three hundred miles' ride of Mr. McCormick was unique of its kind ; but the absence of the remotest vestige of literary form has completely obscured...

Co., Belfast.) —This very handsome volume is not unworthy of the subject and the occasion,—Trinity College celebrating its tercentenary. Professor Mahaffy relates the history of...

by C. R. Ashbee. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a useful little publica- tion, conveying much information about the Guild and its work, and some chapters devoted to the requirements...

Williams. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Sir Evelyn Wood, having begun life as a Midshipman, has seen as varied and brilliant a life of service as most men. While still legally an "...

of Dr. Blass, by W. J. Parton. (Cambridge University Press.)—To the question,—Should we approximate in pronunciation to the modern Greek ? Dr. Blass answers em- phatically,—No....

In these thirteen short stories, we have the life on board an " Ocean-liner " described with admirable fidelity. The flirtations, the tragedies, the comedies, the stowaways ;...

is a distinctly good story, with the elements of religion, politics, and love happily combined. Lord Ryde is an aristocrat with a democratic turn, and involves himself in the...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Goodman thinks he has discovered the best route for the traveller in search of scenery in Norway. It certainly seems to have combined the finest...

his readers how to plant orchards and small fruit-gardens, how to manage them, and what returns may be expected from them. A second part is addressed to " Private Growers," a...

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Dodds, in command of the Expedition, reports, on October 31st, that he was attacked on the 20th and 21st by the entire Dahomey= Army, but repulsed it with great slaughter. On...

in Afghanistan. The Government of India obviously apprehends trouble there, and is insisting with some vehemence that the Ameer shall meet General Roberts, the British...

at a great Unionist meeting there. He said that Lord Salisbury's demand for twenty years of firm govern- ment was a considerable over-estimate. Five years of Mr. Balfour had...

• T HE last ten days have been distinguished by three grievous disasters. One, the destruction of the Scotch express near Thirsk on Wednesday morning, by collision - with a...

at the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast on Thursday. He said that many regarded the present Government as emissaries of the Evil One, who were permitted to assume the reins of...

case.

liquidation, threatens to turn out an exceptionally bad one. The Society was practically a bank of deposit, with deposits exceeding three millions, mostly made by poor persons...

the advice of M. Clemenceau ; and M. Loubet, as per agreement, has consequently pardoned the rioters, most of whom have also been reinstated by the Company. Opinion is greatly...

elsewhere that, in his opinion, while Govern- ment can by taxation raise the price of its silver coinage, which is a manufactured article, it cannot raise that of silver as an...

ment Board, received a deputation from the unemployed, introduced by Mr. John Barns, who asked that the claims of the unemployed to have work provided for them should be...

Cape Colony, was entertained at the Hotel Metro- pole on Monday, Sir John Lubbock in the chair. In reply to the toast of his health, Sir Henry Loch made an interesting speech...

Plan of Campaign " stops murder. He has just said that five fear- ful murders took place on the Clanricarde Estate before the " Plan of Campaign" was put in force, but that...

Granada. The Queen-Regent of Spain had promised a visit to that ancient city with her son, the baby- King, and the citizens exerted themselves to put up arches, arranged...

of Prince Bismarck. In an interview with a correspondent of the Zukunft, the ex-Chancellor has, it is said for the fourth time, invited Russia to seize Constantinople by a coup...

he did not assume the truth of the statements, either against the Evicted Tenants, or against those to whom the failure of the 13th Clause of the Irish Land-Purchase Act of 1891...

the first of a series of lectures at the Athletic Institution, at which Sir Walter Foster, M.P., the Parlia- mentary Secretary of the Local Government Board, presided, He called...

A writer in the Militar Woehenblatt, known to repre- sent their opinion, defends the new Army Bill, declaring that in the event of the great war the Russian army is so superior...

now being recorded, and amongst them there is an opinion of the mischief which would be caused by the Disestablishment of the Church, which was addressed to Mr. Bosworth Smith...

Milner, M.P. for the Bassetlaw Division of Nottinghamshire, and Mr. John Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, was published in Thursday's Times, which shows rather painfully...

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on Lord Mayor's day. Sir Andrew Clark has, it is already been dragged. Mr. Gladstone, especially in the dinner speakers, he prefers to dine with the Prince Spencer, the...

I F Prince Bismarck entertained, when in power, the ideas he is expressing now, Europe may have eseJped great dangers through his dismissal. It is evident from his recent and...

M R. STEAD has applied his ingenious mind in the Contemporary Review to the whittling away of the Irish difficulty. Amateur statesmen are, however, very apt to find solutions...

W E see no reason whatever to doubt the statement of the signalman Holmes, given at the inquest, as to the cause of the horrible railway accident at Thirsk ; and if that...

I T is quite natural, and may be advisable, that squires and farmers should hold the National Conference on Agriculture, which is to assemble in London, on December 7th. Every...

I T seems hardly open to dispute that all the changes of the century which has elapsed since the outbreak of the French Revolution—the movements, intellectual, polititical, and...

tains two, at least, of his most characteristic and vigorous poems,—" Akbar's Dream " and " The Church- warden and the Curate." The latter is one of the series of those poems in...

A LL Americans agree, we think, in believing that their country is pervaded by a distaste for leisure. Some of them describe it, like the acute Frenchman, M. Paul de Rousiers,...

[" When a blanket wraps the day, When the rotten woodland drips, And the leaf is stamped in clay."] T HE signs and warnings of rain given by birds and animals have for ages been...

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTA.TOR] SIR,—Fully agreeing with you that arbitration must rest on an ultimate " sanction " of force, I would still ask...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " BPECTLTOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me a few words with reference to a paragraph in your courteous remarks on my Chamber of Commerce speech P You say that...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB, — It is difficult to believe that any one could have accepted the spurious interpretation of " the dark," in " Crossing the Bar,"...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR." have read with much interest your article of October 29th on " nippers." All my sympathies are with the people, and I never forget that a man...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, Owing to my being a wanderer in Egypt, I have only just seen the Spectator correspondence on this subject. Your correspondents " M."...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — There is one, and I believe only one, serious error in Miss Cobbe's book, and even that is perfectly pardonable if the method of its...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] am surprised to find from your own remark, assuming the identity of these names, and from the confession of a correspondent in the...

most unwelcome identification—this of the dear and delightful name, Isabel—to which one of your corre- -spondents has been unfortunate enough to draw our attention. And he seems...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR, — In the Spectator of the 29th inst., in a notice of " The Parish Church of Folkestone," by Mr. Woodward, your critic says of...

THE NEW GALLERY. How far a symbolist painter, having painted his mystery, should mislay the key, is a nice question for the casuist. The resolution depends upon the public...

MY PNEUMATIC. IN the airy whirling wheel is the springing strength of steel, And the sinew grows to steel day by day, Till you feel your pulses leap at the easy swing and sweep...

A NEW TRANSLATION OF TACITITS.* MR. QUILL makes a contribution of distinct value to the study of Tacitus. His Introduction, though somewhat grandiose in style, contains some...

To make the manners of the olden time live again is a distinct branch of art in fiction. To use a lawyers's phraseology, it arises more from implication than by reason of the...

Ix novel-writing, even more than in other things, the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. The well-known novelist is not always the most successful,...

IN the year 1704, Deerfield, now a considerable town, was a village of forty-one houses, standing on a plateau overlooking the Connecticut River, close to what was then the...

M. EDOUARD ROD'S account of the moral ideas which rule French minds through the literature of the present day, is interesting and cleverly written. It would also be saddening,...

THERE is hardly as much about Tennyson in the half-crown Magazines for November as one would have expected, though there is a fine eulogium, rather than criticism, in...

Dictionary of Australasian Biography. By Philip Mennell. (Hutchinson and Co.)—To compress accounts of two thousand lives into a volume of 542 pages can have been no easy task...