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• does not fall, yet his interpretations of facts require
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of commonplace schoolboy rant. Not venturing to rush in where
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The Spectatorportraiture of the "Little Corporal's" youth. Mr. Oscar Browning's present book is not a mere abridgment of Napoleon Inecmnu and La Jeunesse de Napoleon. He has controlled...
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on the face, and sit upon their laps. Passing to
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querors from " Macedonia's madman to the Swede," while his
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accompli by an opportunist who does not scruple to range
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the table, as if a strong wind had blown them
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highly. Her translations, as the above specimen may show, The
The Spectatornotes prefixed to the different letters are most interesting and useful. The book as a whole ought to C URRENT LITE RAT (IRE. THE DIVERSIONS OF A HEAD-MASTER. Carthusian...
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COLLEGE HISTORIES.
The SpectatorMessrs. Robinson have done well to include in their series of "College Histories " this volume, The University of Wales, with its Constituent Colleges, by W. Cadwaladr Davies...
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MADAME GUYON AGAIN.
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the very problems which existed in 1832. Students of sociology
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for amiability, "the out-of-date virtue so mach lauded by the
The Spectatorold school of romancers, and so bespattered by the later." Lady Jeph son modestly contends that this old-fashioned quality, without which once upon a time no woman could justify...
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TRADE UNIONS.
The SpectatorTrade Unions. By Geoffrey Drage. (Methuen and Co. 28. 6d.) --The author of this volume has frequently shown his capacity for dealing with its subject fairly. Perhaps he takes...
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FROM TOKIO THROUGH MANCHURIA. East, as affected by the recent
The Spectatorwar, the end is not yet. They have by this time, however, reached the second stage common tO such literary torrents,—the purely descriptive giving place to the...
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Prince Billow also unburdened himself to M. George Villiers, of
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T HE event of the week is nob diplomatic but journalistic.
The SpectatorWe refer to the very interesting account given in Wednes- day's Times of an article in the Novoe Vremya which suggests that all the Powers interested in the Far East—Russia,...
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The deadlock between the Porte and the Powers over the
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said to be the ringleader—a report since denied—and several others
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Some interesting papers were read on the subject of "Christianity
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When we Iltve made it clear, first, that we have
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vement to them, fortii - the - Conimittee, - and supervise the financial side of
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It is a wonderful movement of which they are the
The Spectatorfruit. Thirty years ago Matthew Arnold, influenced by German examples, preached the doctrine that education and culture must enter more largely into daily life, and that the...
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ceding territory, and of concluding treaties, though it is also
The Spectatoran established convention of the Constitution that treaties which involve a change in the law,eor a financial charge on the people, are subject to the sanction of Parlia- ment....
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NATURE AND THE SUPERNATIURAL. T HE delightful essayist who writes in
The Spectatorthe Cornhill under the heading "From a College Window" deals in the current number of that magazine with certain instantaneous perceptions of natural beauty which have come to...
hanging over me, with the light gone out of life,
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his duty. "I had two or three times, at or
The Spectatorabout my deliver- ance from this temptation, such strange apprehensions of the grace of God, that I could hardly bear up under it : it was so out of measure amazing, when I...
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One asks oneself, What do these things mean ? Many
The Spectatorreligious people, and many true lovers of Nature, are quite unconscious of any like experience. Yet though they have no moments when—to steal another striking expression of...
