Tuene are no political questions of any pressing moment treated in the weeklies to ud by this mail, The Saturday has an article on the Afairs of China, it is true, Dut it contains nothing of special i The writer concludes by expressing it as his opinion that the Chinese ha their minds to the French as and, that being sv, they prefer that they should be on the borders of Tonquin rather than on the frontier of Yanna made for thy mere purpose of dragging out negotiations and leaving a wide margin for concessions; but even so they further proof that the Ohinese are mined to yield nothing which they consider e age Spiel dex tial." The Spectator devotes troubles brought upon us in Shanghai by paragraph to the social and sanitary
the influx of Chinese. Says the write We are not entirely in favour in Asiatic fof what ix called "equality" 13 and natives, It is some-in or leadership, to protest lous rivals; but acc: hho render the t owk of supporting ably difficul ently uncon Times, for example, s well often very moderate, complains th that when Shanghai was formed, the land of the settlement was' unfortunately" not reserved exclusively for foreigners, and rich Chinamen, flying before intestine troubles, ly bought bits of it. "Hence all our and potential difficulties, sanitary and political." That notion of our feebleness in allowing the Chinese to bay at our prices Innd in their own country would be incredible, but that it is justice, compared with the ideas of South-African colonists. It is, we believe, law in the diamond fields that though native inay dig for wages as munch as he wi he must not own a "claim" or poss diamond. Li-he does, he is logged, the presumption being that not, of course, the d:
usually as muck an im but this cool den monstrous.
Chinese are suspicious of the equity of the Consular Courts, aa suspicions as we are all over the world of any but European Judges.
The misconception which lies at the root remarkable utterance is of course We should have thought, at the Shanghai Cart of the Fines had ficiently clear, On the attitude of the French Government towards China, the Spectator remarks for leave to exist,' composed the majority of the Pealme, A Vizier poured out the marvellous iymne which we call the Prophecies. of Toaiah, Shakespenre did his moat poetic Work while immersed in the cares of hia theatre, paying every court to society, and making the money he needed to get away froma it all. Byron was steeped to the lips in adair, often discreditable and harassing 5 Goethe was a Premier; Victor Hugo is a itician; Mr. Morris decorates our hoi i not to be taken in: production of such poetry possible to men eseentinily of the world, and loving the world, doing its work among crowds, and distracted hourly and imperative calls on their attention, why should the appreciation of poetry be impossible to men similarly situated? Could posts have written, if they did not appreciate? It is not #0 in Art, Lhe Archbishop of Canterbury has a tuneful son, A few weeks ayo ho contributed to the Spectator a somewhat obscure sonnet in praise of Buddha. This week he gives vent, apparently, to his appreciation of the new paternal residence near Croydon, Ho calls his poem An English Homo? p in a hazy hollow of the down Phe brick-built Court in mellow squareness stood, -athery beeches fringed the hanging Chamber is able to cope with such difficulties it will prove that it is competent to govern, that the future of Prance, even in matters of ies, may antely he trusted when it is not under the mind, Its str yeh, if it displays any, will come its own representative character, on the 6 her hand, it la not competent, devoted fiends "of publicanieun will whether it in p Executive of the best articles this week is that in the Saturday defends Rabelais from th gation tang diag ces a die a cedars spread a carpet brown, Out of the elms the clamorous tree-folk sent A breezy wel ore, while the roses made Their vesper offering, and the creeper laid Hiv flaming hands about the pediment, happy souls, moat fatherly denied The cares that fret, not quicken: drawn to "The healing ug upon the Cross, Ant through pare agony love and loss Wrought into sorrow for the world of woe, And from a prosperous baseness purified, Further on we have a review of the recently published Wentworth Papers, 1705-39. This la a very mirth-provoking book, to judge by the selections give apell-
Punch. Mr. Bur abelais Hay [is enough to make one's hair stant on and, hard 1 lord ngs 8 hundeod fey tempts 0 Here in specimen, Lady Strafford, Bed-Saturday is mightily severe. The critic chamber Woman to James Li's Queen, it bemanning the death of a pag proposes thay-Rabylais should be kept, for uso of professional litterateurs and students, T have a moste dismal story to tell you God forgive me for it. T cannot help bei place isolated from more ten Lought concerned. I shall tainly he should be kept out of th Jov anything of that hynde quarter soe well of professional punsters and ignoramuses.
Te Rabelais had' employed a chaste leisure again, had rether lost a hundred pd., nay all the rest of my doms would have geven to in turning the noblest poetry of the world have saved poor, charming Fubs, never poor to patter-songs, if he had spent his ti wretch had a harder death. As it loved soe in grinding the literary barrel-orga leoning its head in my which ballet-girls dance before an audience to map at any body in of mashers and chappies, we presume he angle ite herd to wean would have been a highly respectable we and Sus, whoo eryeth litterateur. But, as he did take his lif for thre deo fora childe oF husband, "Sure of all its kyud theat is hand' daily, by attacking never Wi one nor never own he, #0e and cruelty, and as he hi nich one andi joni purpose, like the cuttle-Bsh, in a suth ly ous d ho is styled a dirty old tainly, if any of our ded with Ra have buiryed her in this g courseness, and hare failed to disco 1 in a atoan layd at hier bead. the deeper motive which underlay it, and the description of tue Prine his the article in the Suturday will prove of great interest There is another very goyd paper on the man country clergyman, and, as might expected, a terrific cut-up of the of expo parol' ing Mr. Butuand's burlesque on the Tem ric], next to that a dis pest. Mr. Hotham's Eight Years in Japan? ext to that a groat custard, and next reviewed, and favourably upon the whole. that another dish of hisketa parched almonds The flippancy and manner ian of the author preserved apricocks, and next a quarter are, however, censured. The Spectutor not a very remarkable number this weel Secley's book, the 'Expansion of One of the hest articles in it, per: ably reviewed in the Atheneum, that on Civilisation and Poetry; based u novel 'Belinda,' which k Pattison's address on Postry out in Temple' Bar, before the ladies of Bedford College. The emphatically pronounced the worst she paragraph is suggestive over wrote, It certainly leaves an unplea-'Dyes immersion in the world's work, even sant flavour in the month, and asa work it i d the care of of art—if it be permissible to dignity it inder the apprecia of poetry? with such a name—is coarse and orde.
A prion it should its production. A Bound," hit he followin s are from the column of Literary:—The Grst of Mr, ip Tames Payn's 'Literary Recollections' will
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