flattered by Lord G.'s call, will give lun &e., will clu all things but speak a little lew Wo believe there are still persons who praise and magnify Carlyle. 'The Athenewn Is still before us. Among the books which are favourably reviewed in this week's nimber we have Mr. Austin Dobson' 'Eighteenth Century Essays.' Mr. Dobson is one of the most exquisitely-finished writers of graceful verso now alive, and the present volume is said to be the pleasantest number of the Parchment Library series to which it belongs. 'There is also a highly favourable notice of 'Unexplored Baluchistan,' by Ernest Ayscoghe 'This book should be a great to the literature of modern travel. The following is part of a poem descriptive of a mountain stream, from Professor Blackie's book Altavona': Fact and Fiction from my Life in the High-We have no room for it at full trickles down granite crown, Clear and cool Keen and eager though it go Through your veins with lively flow, Yet it knoweth not Through the chi With mis: Where dark water-c1 You wi With mosey So mild, ami soft, and mellow, In its pouring.
In its pouring.
Then hends beneath the boulders *Neath the shadow of the shoulders Of the Ben, Through a country rough and shaggy, So jaggy and ea knaggy, Full of hummocks and of hunches, Full of stumps and tufts and bunches, Full of bushes and of rushes, In the glen, Through rich green solitudes, And wildly banging woods, With blossom and with bell, Tu rich redundant swell, Of a bride, The other weeklies all have something to say about the so-called "revolt" that has broken out in Zululand. The Spectator firma that it is no revolt simply beat Zululand has never been annexed, an urges the restoration of Cetewayo as the only reasonable course. 'Those who wisely prefer natural history to politics will find an admirable article in this paper on 'The Apparent Jingoisin of Ants,' dealing with Sir John Lubbock's latest book. 'The ro-viewer deals with the question why ants are 80 aggressive in their policy, making raids on each others' domains, and suggests that it is for the same purpose as that held in view by the Romans when they carried off the Sabine girls; only in this instance it is not wives they want, but children, 'The Saturday has another interesting papercognate to the Eastern ques tion, on 'Saladin in Cairo,' This will well repay perusal, but is not easily summarised. 'Then there is an article on the Pastoral recently issued by the prelates of Dublin, including four archbishops and twenty-four bishops, upon the state of Ireland. 'The sins coudenned by the Pastoral after tivo years' rumination are as follo Firat, refusing to pay just debts when able coundly, preventing others just debts; thirdly, injuring their ueighiour in his person, his rights property 5 fourthly, forcibly resisting the law And those charge with its administration, or inciting others to do so; fifthly, forming secret ations for the promotion of the terror and other like objects, or obeying the order of such condemned associations, Under each heads numerous offences, all more or criminal, have beau committed, fearfully prowment among them the burder, which even at the moment disgrace auutry and provokes the anger of the Almighty.
The penultimate clause of the Pastoral, however, proceeds to condone the crimes which this clause condemns Ie insists that "the people have been Uriven to despair by evictions and the pros. pect of evictions," and that the continuance of such evictivus, justly designated by the Prime, Minister of Eo death "—Mr. Gladstone had denied in Parlia. ment having ever used this Ianguag be a fotui permanent provocation of crime," and that "it la the duty of all friends of social order, and espreially of the Govern. ment, to put an ent to them as speedily as possible, and at any cost." Do. the bishops really imagine that any evictions, however harsh and unjust, can excuse the murder of Mr. Bourke or Mra, Smythe, or the Phoenix Park tragedy? That is what they will certainly be uuderatood to mean itis this paragraph of the Pastoral, if any, that will fix itself in the memory of the Fenians, Moonlight Boys, and other devoted and obedient children of the Church to whom it is addressed, and will effectually neutralize
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