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9 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1897. are also mostly absent. Andrew Kirkcaldy is supposed OF THE WEEK. if Wimpole has never spoken, Helen Harmon, PUBLICATIONS. of the subjects on which he touches, with much cleverness and suggestiveness, and with a humour tlFat is seldom to be found in works of paedagogy, but, in effect, the whole is a nlea for greater con distinctive mark.

"The Captain's Book" is a pathetic version of an old story, and is perhaps the best tale of the series. In "A Nocturne" the reader's sympathies are alienated by the language and character of the person who is made to relate the story. But the author has put her most ambitious work into "The Heart of the Apple," which, among certain defects, gives evidence of much imaginative faculty. In The White Hecatomb and Other Stones, by W. C.

Scully (Methuen and Svo, pp. 323, South African life is described with con touches in the picture of Marcia's struggle, but she would seem sufficiently punished in marrying tiresome and foolish old man withojt being doomed to find in him later that muia rarer product of academic life a fraudulent gambler. But the chief failure of the book is in its chief figure. The doctor's intellect and high-mindedness have to be taken for granted, while the boorish manner which is sometimes supposed to accompany these qualities is much in evidence, and the "tale of his passion is neither edifying nor lifelike. Miss Thicknesse seems to us unfortunate in her ideal of manhood, but there are indica BOOKS Tiuinranhieal.

VonfT11 Now first collected. With bTS- B-Crockett. London: James 297. 8s. 6d.

i cti BVO, PP. -J" Gfbour of piety to collect all that was labour or pj or It, is ldw. hv so ereat a man as and volume of essays has the eater Cjn- if that it contains his earliest works, and to those curious style, pf his ris tlio vears lezu ana xo-io net, number of articles to Brewster's jw contnniiw" di which are here r6 jjeLncrou. Edinrghook form- He seems to have first lent pnatedia DO" publication had reached the his aid ne" firgt oa Montaigne, lter rifchdrawn before the end, for his and to 'r-yiiam Pitt the "lounger. tel 15 ftPtical limits' nothing camo amiss to when he was working, for 1,1 recosmition, if not for fame, a room and recoil" rr ilhf work of a gazetteer, and here are articles 1 iT Netherlands ana iewiuuuuimu, vrrViamDton, and jNortnumDenana, an 0 written and Very informing.

The The essays some- do ciouot 6 Montesquieu brought him 13 3 notice of Jeffrey, ana so lea airecmy t-n'ier tno iKitl work that he did for the to iao i i rh The mam interest or tnis douk EiiBburS: matter, which was Varlvle's choosing, but rather in the i Trkness in which it envelops the fas-iproWemof Carlyle's style. Perhaps cinao! -l. Hisr-jivei-ed how. when, and mrne vie fell upon him like a garment. of "Sartor" seems to have fae his stj lhe mine-point.

In the meantime these beC" 1 Carlvle as a very painstaking and nnrenuc-o maimer. Of Mile. Susanna Curchod, the rotuna j. jj0 sayS) in a sentence that others: "She was intimately versed Venture, ancient and modern, and united a Vfch and a great capacity for such pursuits 11 tho trraco and softness which adorn the rather Gibbon describing his lost love? nS here are three hundred printed pages of c-ice in this kind, to which Carlyle, when once abandoned it, never returned. Among his works, the "Life of Schiller" alone fVnjcliSes this prehistoric period of his style.

I- as an illustration of this paradox, therefore, rd also because readers not a few may perhaps who desire to possess the whole of v-Vi work, that the present volume has a its matter is not remarkable, and its inci-t jjul judgments are the voice of encyclopaidic common sense. One blot on the hook, the 10-etvord," should not, for conscience sake, he vwil over without protest. It is too common a habit of publishers to secure a few pages of hiitv introduction from some writer whose books have a large circulation while he himself a plentiful lack of time for scholarly work: 'ut wo do not- remember any dis-r, iy of unblushing cynicism to equal this of Mr" Crockett's. Ho occupies his few pages in the pretenco of having read the book, retailing savourless anecdotes about his own repeating the traditional story about, his first cheque which, if he will consider it. was respectable not so much because he gave it to his mother as because ho earned it, and in br hng with fine writing the great man whom he o.iiK "him of the burning stomach, and the Jimict.

forth-looking, irascible eyes." The con-trat between all this and Carlyle's laborious juvenile work is sufficiently grotesque, but it i3 not Cailylo'a work that suffers. Messrs. Hurst and Blackott have issued a new jnd revised edition of Lady Hamilton and Lord Xchon, by John C. Jeaffreson (8vo, pp. viii.

341, t'O. Mr. Jcaffreson's book, which was first i'liblished nine years ago, remains the fullest and host account of the life of this remarkable unman. In all questions as to facts and dates Mr. JcalTreson's judgment is almost invariably quite conclusive, and if we may take exception his criticisms in many places, ho is by no mwuis a sentimental apologist, shirks no facts, and offers documentary evidence for all his The early part of the volume will be fiiund somewhat unpleasant reading, and the I iitor part painful to Nelson's judicious admirers.

Vot tho story of Lady Hamilton's life is a psycho-lotiral study of more- than ordinary interest. I hore aro not wanting elements of pathos and n.iuedy. Mr. Jeaffreson vindicates Lady Hamilton's warm good nature, affectionate disposition, generosity. Yet she remains a wanton, destitute of the real passion which alone could make .1 umnd historic figure of her.

It is impossible to liolievo that she ever had a genuine passion 1 1 Nelson, Sir William Hamilton, or even for himself. Of that her letter to Greville, iier she had first hoard of the disgraceful plans tli.it' mic-Ie and nephew had formed with regard her, is conclusive evidence. She envies the itor that Gruville's" lips have touched; she Mornis and threatens to murder herself and tho Grevillo; she goes on to record a paid to her by a wretched Neapolitan I'mico; adds that her blue hat is universally throughout Naples and, finally, concludes in threatening postcript that if Greville affronts lu i sho will mako Sir William marry her. That 1 the reid Lady Hamilton stagey hut utterly PK-ionlpss to the last. One is compelled to ad-11 however reluctantly, that her connection Nelson, on her was merely one of her attitudes" the most notorious and successful, a- it was the least graceful and attractive.

This 1- not to adhere to tho harshest judgments that line been formed of Lady Hamilton. It is iik-ivly to deprive her of the glamour with which 1 timnection with Nelson has invested her. On side the connection was tragic. On her side it was the merest The lato James Waylen's House of Cromwell, ni which a new edition, revised bv Canon Crom-Tl kbeon t.suod (Elliot Stock, 8vo, pp. xii.

gives an iutoresiing account of the immediate family, with particulars of hi- deM-cndants in every line. The male line of tao Crromvolls became "extinct in 1821, but the t.wi-ondants in the female line are exceedingly "timorous. Amongst the livins; inheritors of the of Oliver Cromwell are Sir John Lubbock. 'r. C.

1'. Villiors. M.P., and the Marquis of I'ltwn. Nicholas Yansittart. and Sir George vornewall Lewis, both Chancellors of the Ex-t vqtier, were of Cromwell.

a.s was l-o ir Charles Krankland, the storv of whose romantic marriage with Agnes Surriage, is well Mown to reader-; of American poetrv. While 1 House 0f Cromwell contains "much that wi.l interest, tho general reader, it is, from the 7' point, of view, not. entirely satisfac-ory, lieiilir deficient in mmt, jinH in refer- to authorities. Canon Cromwell lias added chapters to the book, but his revision has 00011 very penimctorv. Ho has made no effort brinB the genealogical details up to date, nor 'i's he appear to have made anv use of the many juries of information, now readily accessible, nijich were unavailable when Mr.

Wavlen wrote. is useml to have an English translation of ''Merot own text of Xameau's Nephew (Long-nan and Svo, pp. xxii. 176. 3s.

It not published in the author's lifetime, per-J'-'Ps because of the freedom with which it dealt Persons in Parisian society. A MS. copy into Schiller's hands, and was translated into 'cnaan by Goethe. A French version made ow. as the original.

Diderot's w.hich has since been found, has been i tmtot: niui the present version, by Sylvia Mar--wt froni it The "value of Nephew" has been fullv shown bv ir. John Morley. It is a book symptomatic of literary and social conditions that preceded rench Revolution. Klph Richardson's catalogue of Georae land's Pictures (Elliot Stock, Svo, pp. 105) examples, and the information riven in to the request is set down in this uiume.

As Mr. Richardson very honestly con- Iispj the list as if chni rvmcAnf. Anl a he or Mnr nnrl'c i- i i ter than nothing, and it wili serve as anucleus the collection of further information about loriiuul's paintings and the contemporary en-t'-ivings after them. 1 ba lr larver addresses to narents and discursive essays on education. It 'mt'osiible in a brief notice to mention a tithe 11 oouif? Constable and Svo, pp.

xx. 282, 6s.) a series of ing of to of on is in to be in the South bolstering up the House of Lords in the person of the Earl of Dudley. An important feature of St. Andrews will be the new ladies' course, which is between the men's new course and the sea. It seems very narrow, but ladies are always such very straight drivers that this is, perhaps, of little consequence.

Another novelty will be the Jubilee fountain, near the ladies' course. It seems to be almost impossible to prevent Mr. G. F. Smith, of the Southport Club, from winning their competitions.

As Mr. Smith is now plus 9, and con tinues to win, it is probable that the committee may prefer to put up the other handicaps rather than to reduce him further. There is a constant tendency in all clubs that have few first-rate players to get tho handicaps too low. I need dake no apology for referring to one more incident in the Ladies' Championship. Mist Kennedy, of Rhyl, is said to have been on the green ia two and down in four at a hole which is 353 yards and uphill.

This has been justly, if inelegantly, described as an eye- opener." The cause of women's education has lately receive! a rebuff at Cambridge, and Miss Kennedy's performance Js. therefore, distinctly opportune. The Universitv boat seems verv much in want of fresh material, and two or three vigorous and plucky young women might perhaps save Cambridge from another defeat. Perhaps, however, the noisy protests of tho undergraduates were provoked by the fear of an influx of dangerous competitors for the various blues." A fashion will penetrate even to Paris in time, and it appears from Golf and Cycling Illustrated that the ardent" and "enthusiastic" golfer has made a be ginning at Mesnil-le-Koi, where there is now one of the finest inland courses in France. The same paper de scribes the new links of tho Birkdale Club, which bids fair to become one of the best in the countrv." The lengths of the holes are given as respectively 256.

195, 230, 187, 143, 222, 367, 201, 290, 23, 250, 30, 110, 175, 163, 22, 210, and 185 yards. It is certainly impossible to base an adequate criticism of a course solely upon the lengths of the holes, but it is a little difficult to understand how a green with any pretensions to the first-class can have half the holes of the drive and iron length and only two which require a second shot with a wooden club. Mr. C. E.

Hambro, who won the St. George's challenge cup at Sandwich last week, is said to have done a record for tho green with bis second round of 78. It may be remembered, however, that in the amateur championship last year at Sandwich, Mr. Hambro was credited with 77, while Mr. Tait, but for neglecting to hole an unneces sary short putt, was 76 in the first round of the final Possibly the course is altered, or it may be that both of these rounds wero not formally holed out.

It is neces sary to guard records somewhat iealouslv. We can all do them if a few very slight modifications of our rouuds are permitted. BUXTON WHIT-WEEK TOURNAMENT. The summer meetinsr of the Buxton and Hih TV.ife doit Club commenced on Whit-Monday, and was con tinued throueliout the week. There was no competition on Tuesday, and as if to second the efforts of the club officials to make the course and the greens as perfect as possible copious showers fell on that day, and for the roso ui tne wees ine weatner conclitionR were perfect.

There was a large attendance of non-resident members and their friends, and each competition brought out a large nuniDer ot players. 'lhe club accommodation was supplemented by the addition of a large marquee. The luwest, lirusa score oi tne iveeic lor whicli a rjrize was given was made by Mr. C. S.

Hoare, who returned 82. ltn one exception each comDetition during the week resulted in one or more ties, and the meeting finished with two events undecided. A foursome tournament was played on the afternoons of the last four days, and this resulted in a win by Messrs. J. H.

Beckett and VV. B. EdmondsoD, after an exciting match. The com- peuuon tor uie silver vase, presented by the Duke of Devonshire, resulted in a tie between Mr. C.

S. Hoaro and Mr. A. H. Pearson.

This was rjlayed off yesterdav. when Mr. G. b. Hoare won.

As evidence of the strict impartiality exercised by the Handicannin-r Committee. it may be stated that of 36 prizes competed for in the last tmree-ana-a-nait years only four prizes have been wuu oj- uxion resiacnc members, itesuits MONDAY. COLONF.L SlDEBOTTOM's CUP COMPETITION. Gross. ep.

Net. Cross. ep. Xet. Rev.E.T Satter- Colonel Hall ...104 15 thwnite 84 3 A.

91 10 F. W. Stevenson 97 16 A. Coventry ...104 25 H. Latham 98 16 W.

Bell 85 2 K. D. Swanwlclt 90 6 I. H. 18 J.

B. 87 2 K. H. Frestwich 88 3 T. 3.

Yates 84 plus 2 K. C. Barnes 90 4 W. R. Craig 91 5 A.

ClegK 95 9 S. Brown 91 4 W. Edmondson. 97 10 A. H.

Dixon 95 7 A. H. Beard 99 10 Jas. Jowett 107 18 W. Brindle 109 20 Messrs.

Satterthwaite, B. W. AshweII.106 E. M. Owen ...100 E.

W. 17 10 10 J. J. 92 2 H. A.

Doilfl 90 Dlus 1 G. II. Cammell.104 13 S. G. Fildei 109 18 H.

Lancashirc.110 19 If. A. Little 115 24 Capt. Macbean.107 15 I. Taylor 108 16 86 1 Caiit.

.108 16 86 Colonel Shuttle- 86 I worth 110 18 92 87 Chas. Jowett ...102 9 93 87 I IV. A. 6 94 88 C. K.

15 94 89 J. Lvnes 103 8 95 89 I G.E.Stevenson.115 20 95 89 S. JJarwise 116 19 97 Carrington. and Stevenson divided the sweepstakes, In playing off tho tie tho Rev. E.

T. Satterthwaite won the cup. WEDNESDAY. Cattaim Walker's Cup Competition. This compe tition was umiteu lo io nanaicap.

Kosuits Grnsi. Heap. Net. I Gross. H'can.

Nef Cant. 95 15 80 S. C. Barnes 93 4 8a I. H.

18 85 K. M. Owen 95 10 85 W. B. Edmondson 95 10 85 H.

Latham 98 13 85 A. Cleeg 94 9 85 G. H. Cammell 99 13 86 Colonel Hall ...101 15 86 Hev. B.

T. Satterthwaite 89 2 87 G.C.Greenwell 91 4 87 II. A. Dods 86 plus 1 87 T. G.

Yates 86 plus 2 87 C. S. Hoare 89 1 88 A. Macbean 97 9 88 T. Latham 100 12 88 F.W.Stevenson 99 J.

E. 92 A. G. Gray 102 H. Shipton 91 W.

A. 98 A. J. J. 94 E.

D. Swanwick 99 U. W. AshwelL.110 E. W.

Barnes ...104 VV. TL Craig 99 J. R. James A. Coventry ...116 10 2 12 sc 6 8 2 6 17 10 5 18 18 16 18 89 90 90 91 92 92 92 93 93 94 94 95 95 9b 93 Captain Macbean won the cup.

Messrs. Harrison! Owen, and vV. ii. Edmondson divided the sweepstakes. THURSDAY.

Mn. G. H. TAYLO-WniTEHEAD's Prizb Competition. Groin.

H'D. Net J. K. 84 2 82 E. a Barnes 4 82 A.

Macbean 32 3 S3 I. H. HarrisonlOO 16 84 If. A. Dods 83 plus 1 84 T.

B. CampbelUOS 23 85 Dr. J. I-ynes 93 8 85 C. Jowett 95 9 86 J.

J. 88 2 86 A. Coventry ...104 18 86 H. Shipton 86 86 W. A 93 6 87 G.

C. Greenwell 91 4 87 A. H. 19 88 G. K.

Stevenson 103 20 88 J.L. M'Lalne ...106 18 88 H. H. Fretwrich 92 3 89 Capt. Walker ...105 16 89 Colonel Hall ...104 15 89 Qroas.

Hep. Net. J. C. tvater- house 107 J.

H. W. K. Crale 95 W. Brindle 110 A B.

Schofield 90 W. B. Bdmond- on 100 Jas. Jowett ...110 A. CarringtonlOO Bev.

E. T. Sat- tertbwaite 94 H. D. Tonge ...100 A.

G. Gray 104 E. M. Owen ...102 B. W.

Barnes. ..104 B. W. Aahwelllll P.Taylor 110 T. H.

Mills 110 18 24 5 20 EC 9 18 8 2 8 12 9 10 17 16 15 89 90 90 90 90 91 92 92 92 92 92 93 94 94 94 95 Mr. J. E. Pearson and Mr. E.

C. Barnes tied for the prize. In playing off Mr. E. C.

Barnes won. Mr. E. C. Barnes won the first sweepstake, Mr.

A. Macbean the second sweepstase, and Mr. Harmon and Mr. Ju. A.

Dods divided the tbird sweepstake. FRIDAY. Club Ctrp Competition. Gross. BTcp.

Net. Gross. H'cd. Net. IS 82 J.

u. water-bouse 106 16 A. H. Dixon 97 7 J. K.

.108 18 13 ...182 SC 04 A. G. Barnca ...101 16 85 W. K. Crale 91 5 6 T.

G. Yates 88 plus 2 W. Lm 93 7 86 H. D. Tonge 99 8 S.

Hoare 8 1 87 J. H. 24 K. C. Barnes 91 3 83 A.

Macbean 100 8 H. Shipton 88 sc 83 C. Jowett 102 9 W. A. 94 6 88 J.

J. 95 2 Dr. J. Lvnes 94 6 83 I H. Latham 108 13 E.

VV. 99 10 89 G. H. Camraell.UO 13 Capt. Walker ...105 16 39 8, E.

M.Owen 98 9 89 P. Taylor 114 16 A. H.Pearson. ..109 19 90 H. 117 19 J.

B. 91 1 90 Mr. Harrison and Mr. G. E.

8tevenson tied for the cup and divided the sweepstake. Mr. A. B. Schofield saved his stake.

Mr. G. E. Stevenson having received an injury the date for playing off the tie ha3 not been fixed. SATURDAY.

Dckb of Devosshiee's Vasb Competitios. Qross. II'p. Nt. Gross.

p. Nt C. S. Hoare 82 1 B. M.

Owen 99 9 A. H. 100 la Rev. B. J.

Sat K. A. Little lit W. B. Edmondson 99 I.

H. 105 Capt. Capt. Mac bean. 10 W.

Brindle 113 H. Larjcaahire112 A. G. Gray 107 J. H.

J. 3. BrlckhilL. 98 T. Coventry ...103 J.

J. 24 a 14 16 11 20 19 12 18 2 6 2 terthwaite 85 A. G. Barnes ...101 O. H.

Cammell S3 H. D. Tonge 33 H. Latham 101 J. D.

Milne 97 2 83 16 85 13 85 8 85 13 S3 9 83 H. A. Dods 83 plus 1 89 89 89 90 90 G.C.Greenwell 93 4 A. Macbean. 97 8 K.

W. 10 J. E. Pearson 91 1 Mr. Hoara and Mr.

Pearson tied for the vase and divided the sweepstake, and the Rev. E. J. Satter thwaite saved his stake. On the tie being played oS yesterday, Air.

Jioare -won. WINDBRMEBE CLUB. On Saturday last tbe members' tiura montniy xneoai rompeuuon was neia in charming weather. Eleven members entered. The first each month receives a memento, he and the runner up also qualifying for the final to.

be played in the antumn. The day was most lavronraoie ior low scoring, ana tne competitors made tne most of their opportanltlea, as will be seen from the gross scores. Tbe record in members' competition is 79. and this was reached bat not beaten on Saturday by F. us grave.

I. M. Bladen won the memento with a net of 73, he and P. us grave with a net of 74 qualifying for the final. The following are the scores Gross.

H'ep. Net. I Gross. H'ep. Set.

J. JL 6laden 85 12 73 i G. H. 81 81 P. Mosgrave 79 5 74 A.

K. Sladen 85 3 82 N. Green 82 7 75 S. J. Bowler SO 7 83 Y.

H. Smith 80 2 7J I Beg. H. Hill 96 13 83 1. T.

A. Eitson, and B. Torker made no returns. wiiu seurewy returns ms anection, nas done more than her duty by her scoundrel of a husband, who has ill-treated her in every way from the mav, uas ended his active career as an alcoholic maniac. It is Colonel Wimpole who suggests to Mrs.

Harmon the possibility of her husband's recovering his mind; what would she do in that case? The sinmle remedv of a divorce one of which she will not hpnr nnd when she shortly put to the test for Harmon, of course, iwutera, ana writes to ask her forgiveness she decides to sacrifice the rest of her life and to live with him again. We need; not, irsn further this clear and interesting storv, which gives abundant opportunity to Mr. Crawford's dramatic instincts and love of working out moral nroblems, K-1 i -i 1 uj, Bumo iiveiy moments ana aesenp-tions, and much injured by the introduction of tedious essays on moral and other questions. We do not care for the opening episode, in which Sylvia declares her love for the old Colonel, her guardian; it hangs by nothing, and is irrelevant to the story it is not beautiful nor natural, and it gives an inevitably ungraceful part- to a charac ter so constantly advertised as the perfection of grace that one almost hates the Colonel as the Athenian hated Aristides. On the other hand, poor Archie Harmon playing with his toys, the incident of Sylvia's hat, the description of the tourists, Miss Wimpole's comments on her Drotners strange manner, are admirable passages.

For the tracts which Mr. Crawford has inter spersed there is nothing to be said. One is on the evils of divorce another defends idealism in fiction. Why are they here? A good novelist need not be a wise sociologist or politician, nor even a sane critic. It is not altogether probable a rule that he will be either.

But if he assigns so large a place to the expression of his mere personal opinions, he gratuitously tempts nis readers to measure their appreciation ot his literary worth by their agreement with his theories, and to call him a bad writer of fiction because they dislike his monometallism or his worship of Wagner. It would be natural to refer this vice of Mr. Crawford's to an exhausted imagination and a growing obligation to "pad;" we preier to quality these strictures with a genuine admiration for a man who writes so much so hastily, and yet can still compose novels far superior to the mass of modern fiction. We are glad to welcome a new work from the pen of the clever authoress of "John Ward. Preacher." Mrs.

Margaret Deland continues to work in the genre in which she made her reputation. High as is the artistic value of the stories published under the title of The Wisdom of Fools (Longmans and Svo, pp. 248, their chief interest centres in the moral problems of one kind or another which are here presented, -T. 1 .1 1 l. -r uiscussea, ana leit witnout solution.

in tne opening tale a clergyman of blameless life, who for nearly twenty years has been a minister of quite exceptional holiness and usefulness, falls in love, and is led by a chance remark of his betrothed to confess to her a crime of forgery, committed years ago, when ho was a mere boy, in fact another person." The crime was never discovered, it was bitterly repented, and the mature man can trace no connection between himself and the reckless boy who signed his patron's name but to the girl's mind the stain appears ineffaceable, and she breaks from her lover with horror. Was it a duty to speak or a duty to be silent Was West a fool or a saint is the question that Mrs. Deland leaves the reader to answer for himself. In "The House of Rimmon" a woman, apparently of feeble character, who has little training and a narrow experience, is suddenly confronted with a situation where she has to choose between tho material comfort of herself and her children and duty to her conscience. The conscience of an American woman is keen as a razor's edge, and makes short work of the sophistical casuistry which would obscure an immediate and obvious duty by appealing to larger considerations.

But in this particular case conscience has nothing to obstruct it but tho thought of material comfort, and it is a little difficult unreservedly to admire an act of heroism which was based on an entire ignorance of the real issues involved or of the economio laws which were at the bottom of the dilemma. Counting the Cost must he intended as a veiled attack on the extraordinary respect with which our democratic cousins regard their social distinctions distinctions, it must be confessed, that the English reader sometimes finds it difficult to appreciate. At any rate, the difficulty which it is intended to illustrate is one which, in this country at least, is felt keenly every day, and which may be trusted to disappear as education penetrates more deeply into the life and manners of the "different sections of the community. The last story of tl series approaches a far bolder and more dangerous question to which Mrs. Deland hardly ventures to suggest an answer.

Should the fallen be raised who deserve to fall Should we assist the irredeemably bad to survive and propagate their kind Should philanthropy discriminate, and how far is it possible, without danger to our own humanity, to stand aside while moral idiots go to their appointed doom? Mrs. Deland's treatment of such questions is marked by a rare impartiality and absence of dogmatism. She has the gift of displaying her subject from many points of view. She is suggestive without being didactic, and though the action of her characters may point a moral, the characters themselves never fail to be interesting men and women. It cannot truthfully be said that in A Fountain Sealed (Chatto and Windus, 8vo, pp.

301 6s.) Sir Walter Besant has made a succcss- it iL.l ful experiment. tie reus us in tne pre race mm a certain love affair between George HI. when he was Prince of Wales and a beautitul Quaker maiden has remained shrouded in mystery until the present day, baffling historians and puzzling psychologists. Lovers of scandal put at the time, and' have continued to put, the worst possible interpretation upon the episode, those ot a sceptical x-urn nine ftuuwn an luuujidwuu iu doubt its ever having taken place, while a cer tain number ot idealists have seen in it tne of a genuine romance. It is among the latter that Sir Walter boldly ranges himself, and tho book is an attempt to tell the story as he conceives it to have really happened.

Unfortu nately, as wo said at the outset, the attempt is not success. To begin with, it is difficult for anv novelist to invest any member of the House of "Hanover with the glamour of romance, since history, rightly or wrongly, has represented them as anything but romantic figures. This difficulty is indeed so great as in our opinion to oe insuperable; at any rate there can be no doubt that. Sir Walter" has not surmounted it, for George, Prince of Wales, impresses one from the first page to the last as a creature or tne imagination pure and simple. The actual story, too.

fails to carrv conviction. That two princes of the reigning house, one of them the heir to the throne to boot, should have succeeded in carrying on a close friendship with two women in the heart of London without the said women having a suspicion as to their identity is altogether incredible too incredible, in fact, to form a satisfactory basis for a novel. The character drawing, is vague and flimsy, and one puts down the book full of the conviction that whatever George IH. and his brother Edward were like in their vouth, they were certainly not like the pictures of them drawn by Sir Walter Besant. The book is curiously lacking, too, in local colour the scene is laid in London, in the middle of the last century, and yet, for all the impression of eighteenth-century life afforded us, it might just as" well have been laid in Timbuctoo at the present day.

There is, of course, a certain charm about the story, as there is about everything that Sir Walter Besant writes, but thatj viewed either as a historical novel or as a romance pure and simple, it is a failure there can, we think, be no reasonable ground for doubt. Two Sinners, by Lily Thicknesse (Downey and Svo, pp. 315, aims high, but lacks clearness of touch to work out its purposes satisfactorily. To the close of the book we remain uncertain which of its characters are indicated by the title (if, indeed, the title be not partly ironical), for, to do Miss Thicknesse justice, none of them so far depart from humanity as to be entirely sinless. The hero, Roger Tadwortii.

is a medical man who has given up a fashionable practice in London in order to tend the bucolic sick in Oxfordshire. He is loved by three women Marcia, who does violence to her feelings by jilting him in favour of an Oxford master Margaret, beautiful, virtuous, and highborn, who lets concealment prey on her damask cheek; and Mary, a girl of humble birth but seme education and great natural intelligence, who has been seduced and deserted by Margarei's brother, a brainless youth. There are clever a jyjACMJLLAN. NEW BOOKS. with Illustrations.

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The somewhat pretentious title of Cities of the Dawn, by J. Ewing Ritchie (T. Fisher TJnwin, evo, pp. xvi. 219, heralds a well-mean ing little book of which the adiective "chatty' completely descriptive.

The book consists of an account of one of the Mediterranean tours conducted hv a certain tourist agency. Athens, Constantinople, and Cairo were all visited for about two to seven days each. The author, oddly enough, alludes with great scorn to people who take cneap trips to Jerusalem, and also to his fellow-travellers who spend their mornings writing their diaries if with a view to publication, a sad look-out." He is perhaps risht, and it is a sad look-out that an account of so very well known a journey should be given to the world. In Through a Pocket-lens (Religious Tract Society, 8vo, pp. 192, 2s.

6d.) Mr. Henry Scherren has given the young naturalist a work that ought to be a real help and treasure to him. He shows how, with an apparatus which may be had at prices varying from a half-crown to a half-sovereign, interesting and valuable observations may be made of a whole host of everyday creatures. He shows, both bv example and precept, how false is the notion that to produce useful scientific work expensive apparatus is essential, and he quotes, among other instances, the case of Darwin, who habitually used a single lens, and always suspected the work of a man who never used the simple microscope." With such an instrument groat discoveries have been made in the past, and as great ones wait for him who has the patience and enthusiasm needed tor the work. The Rev.

H. M. B. Reid has written a little hook on Books that Help the lleligious Life (Edinburgh J. G.

Hitt, 18mo, pp. 127). The list includes the "Confessions" of Augustine, the Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living and Holv Dvine," Milton's "Paradise Liost" "Serious Call." Baxter's "Saint's Everlasting Rest," Young's "Night Thoughts," and Keble's Christian Year." The mere enumeration of the titles will show what a wide field Mr. Reid has chosen. He has been content with brief exposi tion of criticism there is scarcely anything.

Text-books on phvsics, mostly of high quality, have of late succeeded one another with quite unusual rapidity. The latest, Outlines of Physics, by Professor Nichols, of Cornell University (New lork: Alacmillan Uompany, avo, pp. 402, is. is an attractive little volume, intended for use in the laboratory as well as in the study. A number of representative experiments in each branch are carefully described, and all necessary precautions emphasised.

These, if conscientiously pertormed, would lay tne rounciations or accurate knowledge, and pave tne way ior nigner worK. A short account of the rays, and several novel simple, and ingenious forms of apparatus are a welcome feature. The only fault of the book is that the author has attempted a task which is impossible within the limits assigned, and though every part is admirable, there are too many gaps lett. It'is not everv man, as Fitzherbert once said who ran carrv a Lon. mot.

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Mr. Jerrold has the most ex traordinary faculty of telling pointless stories that can easilv bo" imagined. Opening his book at random, one finds such a thing as this: "Asked by a friend if he did not think Miss Kelly's acting in the 'Maid and the Magpie' exne'edinclv natural. Byron replied, 'I really am no judge, was never innocent of stealing a "Men and hangels, igsplain this!" as Mr. Yellowplush cried with less reason.

In most of Mr. Jerrold's anecdotes a little thought will show one what the point is, but many are as hopeless as the one that we have quoted. We douht if there ever was a sadder jest-book. Messrs. Cassell and Co.

have again reissued The Queen's London (4to, a volume containing over seven hundred pictures of the streets, buildings, parks, and other objects of interest in the capital. The recent celebration is no doubt responsible for the Rev. Duncan Macgregor's tiaint Columba A. Record and a Tribute (Edinburgh J. Gardner Hitt, 8vo.

pp. 104, In addition to a good biographical sketch there is a translation of the "Altus and of some other of Columba's literary remains. The two new volumes of the "Ancient Classics series of Messrs. Blackwood are Bishop sEschylus (8vo, pp. 196, Is.) and Sir Alexander Grant's Xenophon (Svo, pp.

180. The Journal of the Architectural. Archreological, and Historic Society for Chester and North Wales is excellent of its kind. The papers are good and not too lengthy. It is a result perhaps of the lack of co-operation amongst local societies that a biographical notice is given of Dean Wythines of Battle in evident ignorance of the fact that a notice or tnat wortny uiiu uhito appeared in the seventh volume of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.

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a loTit: hour mav he spent over A Rose of vWa. bv F. Marion Crawford (MacmDlan Gtto nn. 230. lhe scene is Lucerne, and the story turns upon the meeting there of some America" i is travelhng with hia Tid'en sister and their niece Sylvia; Mrs.

Har mon, who with her son a young man Pmig less than a child's inteiugence oe staving near them, is the woman whom the Colonel has lovea tweui-. .7 pair are equally noble and steadfast in character; is is siderable power. The author has evidently been a caretul student of the manners and customs ot the natives, and he must have heard many of the incidental legends and traditions from the older of the aborigines. Some of the details are almost revolting in their gruesomeness, but the more attractive features of the savage are not forgotten, and the Kanirs some ot the tales are honest and true. In the most interesting of the stories, "The Return of Sobedu," the hero, in fact, is quite an ideal character, long- sun ring witnout ueing vengeiui, ana ms who is not less faithful than he is brave.

ihere are two or three stories in the collection in which the natives are not prominent, but these are, on the whole, the least "successful. In His Prodiiial Betty: A Storv of the Lanca shire Lake District, bv Mane Jfc. JNicholls (John Hevwood, Svo, pp. 129, beside some descrip tions of weather and the use of local names, the author gives us a peep at the gable-end of Brantwood," and Jhe passage of "the white sail of Ruskin's boat across the lake. Susannah Sadd, the only rustic character introduced, is not a very successful study, and the heroine is hardly so very prodigal after all.

True, she runs away but it is from an undesirable lover, and to become a nurse and what could she do more conven tionally respectable than marrv tho curate the end A Royal Smile, a Child's Ston of York the oevmteerith Century, by J. Rame (Richard Bent ley and Son, pp. 159), contains a "foreword" by J. W. Jbirth, the artist, as an advocate on behalf of his great-niece, the writer." The little story is prettilv written, but a sentimental appreciation of royal smiles combined with death-bed visions of glorified royalty is not the form in which history may be most favourably presented to the young, even in the current year A man may easily know more about a woman's temperament than she knows herself when he has squeezed her uand." This gem of psychology is to be tound 111 Air.

rancis dribble Only an Angel (A. L). lnnes and svo, pp. IM, lis.) lhe novelette is defined as a story of two Kreutzer Sonatas," whatever that may mean, and it is written what its author calls Impossible J.etter.-5. lhe reader who is weaned by the author's self-conscious outpourings will incline to wish that tho letters had been as impossible as he would have us believe.

There seems to be a crowing tendency to seek in the Bible for the crude materials of the novelist's art. The latest example is Lucas Cleeve's Lazarus (Hutchinson and 6vo, pp. 31, Here incidents of the Gospel narrative are blended with a love-story. Lazarus, risen from the grave, has the affection both of Mary Magdalene, whom he loves, and of the daughter of Caiaphas, the High irriest, who slays ner rival. Jrontius Jfilate, Poter, the Virgin, Martha, and her sister Mary are among the dramatis This will sufficiently indicate the character of the book.

In He Would be an Officer (Roxburghe Press, Svo, pp. 14S, Is.) Mr. Belton Otterburn sketches the trials and experiences of a militia officer who afterwards passes into a hussar regiment. Tho new edition of Mr. George Meredith's works, instalments of which are due every month, is making way.

and the last issue is Jhe Ad ventures of Harry Richmond (A. Constable and 2 10s. 6d. each) The changes made in revision since the edition of 188G are most unimportant, and no effort has been made to clear the intricacies of the plot. We note some slight omissions in the forty-eighth chapter, "The Princess Entrapped," including that of Harry Richmond's short dialogue with Miss Goodwin.

There is also the usual repunctuating and respelling of certain words. lhe next volume promised is Beau- champ's Career," and it may be added that the series its latter volumes is to comprise not only The Shaving of Shagpat," which was the earliest of Meredith's tales and has a distinguished place apart, but two volumes of the poems, one of essays, and one of short stories. This series can only be bought in the full set of 32 volumes. Balzac's tale "Lo Lys dans la Vallee has been put into by Air. James Wanng.

with the sufficiency and closeness that he has shown in his other contributions to the series now being edited by Professor Saintsbury and pub- usneu oy iuessrs. uent ana Jo. The iDnglish title, lhe JJiiy of the alley (ovo, pp. xi. 312, as.

oa.i, is explained to be tne only bearable though not the literal rendering of the French which means, not a 71 uuc, but a lily of the other type. The few prefatory pages by the general editor duly set forth the irreversible difficulty, to tho English sense, of submitting to tho charm of the Lily," Madame de Mortsauf (whom one mav find a little rancid, a little like stale cold cream of lhe book is Balzac worst exhibition of misapplied sentiment and misapplied power, though in certain passages the sentiment is as lull ot power as it is in any of his novels. Admirers of Hawthorne's work which is in some respects the finest fruit of American literature will bo grateful to Messrs. Service and Paton for the new edition that thev have rmh lished of The Scarlet Letter (Svo, pp. xix.

340. 3s. to Mr. F. H.

lownsend for his illustrations, and to Dr. Moncure D. Conway for the introduction, in which he has given a vivid sketch of the circumstances of Hawthorne's early adventures in literature Mr. William Canton has reissued in a single volume I he Invisible Playmate and W. V.

Her Book Jsbister and 8vo. on. x. 235. 3s.

6d.) The charm and beauty of these pictures of child life have, we are glad to know, found favour with the public, as appears by this handsome edition 1 here are two illustrations bv Mr. C. E. Brock one of them, particularly quaint, shows W. method of playing at botany." Mr.

Canton has not reprinted the various verses a matter of regret, but has added a new and final chapter, GOLF. The Buxton week has become quite a feature of Whit suntide, and this year's meeting was, prhaps, the most successful of the series. The record of the green in competition was lowered to 82 by Mr. Hoare on Satur day, this being three strokes less than the old record. which during the week had also been beaten by Mr.

Dods with 83, and by Mr. Yates, the Rev. E. T. Satterthwaite, Mr.

J. E. Pearson, and Mr. A. B.

Schofield with 84. The good scoring is accounted for partly by the excellent condition of the course and the greens. Buxton is now at its best, and with the firm turf and good lies the brassey player has a delightful time. The foursome tourna ment was won by Messrs. Beckett and Edmondson, who received 11 strokes from Messrs.

Prestwich and Bell in the final, and defeated them by 3 up and 1 to play. The winners deserve great credit for their performance, but most of their opponents seem to have been Bet rather too severe a task. An interesting event of the week was a match bet-ween the Buxton Club and the Working Men's Club. An enjoyable game resulted in favour of the Buxton Club, though their opponents had the assistance of Kitchen and Lowe. Perhaps the most remarkable incident of the Buxton week was the holing-out at the thirteenth in a three-ball match between Mr.

Prestwich, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dods. The thirteenth, it may be remembered, is two full shots, and Mr. Dods and Mr.

Prestwich were both over the wall with their seconds, while Mr. Bell, contrary to his wont, had taken four to reach the green. Mr. Dods then holed his mashie shot from beyond the green, Mr. Prestwich holed from just off the near corner of the green, and Mr.

Bell, playing an exhibition shot, holed a putt of eight or ten yards. An old inhabitant who accompanied the match declared that he had "never seen such players." Another curious incident occurred the other day on a green near Manchester. An iron approach shot struck a linnet that was hovering above the ground, killed the bird, and rolled to within a yard of the hole. By such strange and prodigal expenditure does man attain his ends. Reports from St.

Andrews describe the course as hardly in the best condition just now. One cr two of the putting greens are sot as good as they should be, and the high hole, coming in, is particularly bad. The tees, too, are hardly up to the reputation of St. Andrews, and it ia to be hoped thai the town authorities, who have now the control of the green, will not degenerate from a high standard of efficiency. There are few viators in the ancient city, sad the local cracks tions in her work that on simpler lines she might produce a more pleasing result.

We are a little tired of meeting the African explorer on the highways and byways of fiction, and an up-to-date story which contained no reference to him would nowadays be a refreshing variety. In Mr. Julian Sturgis's new book The Folly "of Pen Harrington (Archibald Constable and Svo, pp. 24S, 6s.) he figures as the hero, but under a type more commonly found, perhaps, in the pages of a novel than in Africa or London. Peter Blake (dubbed "Pete" by the lively Pen herself Penelope by baptism) is a very simple-minded adventurer, careless of the fortune to be made in the "claims" which are the canture of his shrewdness and hard work, despotic to Kaffirs, but gentle with ladies, and, above all, primitive in his attachment to -old-fashioned manners and morals.

Pen, on the other hand, is or believes herself to be everything that is of the most modern. She has read all that women do read nowadays, and has poked her charming little nose into every crazo of tho day, from country-house romps to working-girls' clubs, but with a whole-hearted geniality and animation which are all her own. Such contrasts, even if superficial, or all tho more because they are superficial, must attract each other, and "the manner in which the reluctant Pen is forced to recognise the innocence and girlishness underlying her veneer of cynicism and worldly wisdom makes capital comedy to use the word applied to his work by Mr. Sturgis himself in a prefatory note addressed to Miss Rhoda Broughton. For the sake of Pen we put up with the more or less stagey Peter.

Tho other figures, although bordering at times on caricature, are certainly not lacking in vigour, and the story as a whole is decidedly to be recommended as light and lively reading. Whiled Sepulchres: or, The Story of Alec, bv Frances Lockwood Green and pp. 198), is the story of a little orphan boy, brought up by an aunt, whose excessive harshness and cruel neglect lead directly to his death. The motive of the authoress in wishing to advocate a sensible and sympathetic handling of young chil dren is so estimable that we are sorry to say anything against the book. But a fanatical pleader unfortunately does more harm than good, and it is impossible to conceive sane persons other than fiends acting as this lady does.

Ter rible cases do no doubt occur from time to time of mania generally religious mania, taking tho form of cruelty to children, but the dedication of this book to "those zealous but deluded educationalists who vainly rely on creeds, catechisms, and coercion to inculcate infinite love seems to show that Miss Green had no such isolated instances in view. The book is from every point of view painful, and where there is such a large field open for wholesome suggestion and criticism as in the UDbringing of children one cannot but regret to see labour wasted on extravagances of this kind. Mr. Louis Becke has made a speciality of Kanaka stories. His knowledge of the race is intimate and varied, and his last series of Pacific Tales (T.

Fisher Unwin, 8vo, pp. 323, 6s.) is a very picture gallery of soft-eyed beauties and man-forsaken beechcombers. A few of the tales aro excellent of their sort, and some of tho heroines have a piquant attractiveness, which depends no doubt in part upon novelty, but in part upon faithful portraiture, for the author has a keen eye for the pathos of native feminine helplessness confronted -with the brutality of the white male. Mr. Becke has discovered new gold mine, but he must be careful not to work it too hard.

Much of the success of his stories depends upon the freshness of the subject, but we must confess that they do not gain by being published in a collected form that the general effect is monotonous and a little weari some. The clever authoress who writes under the pseudonym of George Fleming has lately issued in a collected form stories that have appeared from time to time in various periodicals. As tho title indicates, Little Stories about Women, (Grant Richards, Svo, pp. 244, 3s. somo aspect of female life or female character is described in each tale.

We do not think that the writer's estimate of her own sex has risen in course of time. The stories unquestionably show a marked advance upon her earlier novels. Tho style is more even if less ambitious, and the authoress is sufficiently master of her trade to choose her themes where she will but the sunshine that illuminated her earlier works has disappeared, the sombre light of common day has taken its place, and while the work has perhaps gained reality and truth to nature, it has lost something of its former charm. But The Prince of Morocco," which relates the hitherto untold history of some of the characters in the Merchant of Venice," is altogether charming. and all the stories display much dramatic skill and appreciation of what is picturesque and interesting in life and morals.

George Fleming is certainly one of our best writers of short tales. It is unlikely that people who are familiar with the lives of the poor and have formed friendships among them will read Mr. A. St. John Adcock's East End Idylls (James Bowden, 8vo, pp.

260, 3s. But if the introduction, which is written by the Rev. James Adderley, should tempt them, they will regret a wasted hour. There is little excuse for stories of this nature. A certain chivalry is due even to the humblest of men and women, and to set out, in a crude realism aggravated by a jarring sentimentality, the story of their nameless sufferings, of their pititul hopes, ot their generosity, ot their loves and quarrels for the amusement of idlers who affect a vague interest in "social questions" or play at philanthropy is less than chivalrous and less than just.

The first of the Idvlls," Sal vation His Holy War," is the most offensive, and the eleventh, Street that was Condemned, perhaps the least. The introduction calls for the briefest remark. It is a plea for imaginative treatment of the questions to which the book alludes. "Poetry," writes Mr. Adderley, "and imagination and idealising and even fiction itself have their place in dealing with even such a practical matter as the social problem." No doubt; but one looks in vain for any of these in Mr.

Adcock's pages. And the sneer at Mr. Charles Booth's great work is unpardonable. There is more humanity in the "Life and Labour of the People" than in many "East End Idylls." A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire has set himself a formidable task. Most of the delightful old supersitions of the past have an unhappy way of appearing limp and sickly in the glare of a later day, and in such a story as Dracula, by Bram Stoker (Archibald Constable and Svo, pp.

390, the reader must reluctantly acknowledge that the region for horrors has shifted its ground. Man is no longer in dread of the monstrous and the unnatural, and although Mr. Stoker has tackled his gruesome subject with enthusiasm, the effect is more often grotesque than terrible. The Transylvanian site of Castle Dracula is skilfully chosen, and the picturesque region is well described. Count Dracula himself has been in his day a medieval noble, who, by reason of his "vampire" qualities, is unable to die properly, but from century to century resuscitates his life of the "TTn-Dead," as the author terms it, by nightly draughts of blood trom tne throats or living victims, with the appalling consequence that those once so bitten must become vampires in their turn.

The plot is too complicated for reproduction, but it says no little for the author's powers that in spite of its absurdities the reader can follow the story with interest to the end. It is, however, an art-is tic mistake to fill a whole volume with horrors. A touch of the mysterious, the terrible, or the supernatural is infinitely more effective and credible. The stories collected under the somewhat elusive title of Symphonies, bv George Egerton (John Lane, 8vo, pp. 256, 4s.

6rL), are not without merit. In none of is the motive original, bat old themes are handled in an agreeable and attractive manner, and the work is characterised by a certain boldness of treat-moat and racioesa of dialogue which gives it a.