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IoSnoN Anril 7.-The House OF Commons, wmch
.eassembIed on Thursday, has done ho1nihg I'LL
nortant. Patriots Of the LAbouchere stamp nave
amused themselves by nibbling at the Estlmates
IN, the Estimates are not much the worse 1he
roirt of real gravity In the situation IS to-nor-
- rrorromme in Ireland. The Irish leaders,
~ ,,o,, of response TO Mr.. Balfours assertion that
.bo National League is actually suppressed in Ire
1and resolved 10 hold great public meetings
reaIIv. il not nominally meetings OF the League
These gatherings have all been proclaimed, and
the police and troops ready and will use
to,ce Il needful TO disperse them. The National
Its say that the meetings will nevertheless be held
AZ all hazards. If they keep their word, there
will be wigs on several green's.
The split in the Liberal party is wider this
rreel, than il was last. The Birmingham Liberal
Association, perhaps the most important body OF
the kind in the Kingdom has broken up. The
recent elections gave the Gadstonans majority.
Mr.. Chamberlain says that this was done by
sharp practice. Sharp or otherwise, the natural
result has followed. The UnioniSts have With
drawn, Mr.. Chamberlain marshalling them In the
way that they should 60 The UmonlSts are
according TO him, majority, not merely IN BIZ
mingham as O whole, which is undlsputed, out
within the Liberal party of Birmingham, which
may De more uOuDUlul. Ill any O"oO OANS S"' "'A~
with them vanishes one more hope of seeing
reunion of the Liberal party. Its two wings
meet henceforward as open foes.
The most friendly criticism which have yet
seen of Mr. Matthew Arnold's Civilization in the
United States describes his article as mixture
of home truths and paradox lie is told that he
is too sweeping, that there is better SIDE
10 the picture, and that his paper is not nearly
50 good as that masterpiece Of insight and humor,
Mr. Henry James's Point Of View" This last
thrust of an English veteran was hardly like the
verdict of intelligent and friendly English men and
women, which have heard well expressed by one
Of the best Of the latter. Mr.. Arnold" she
said . Is completely unfair to you" That his paper
Is the product Of personal pique is the opinion ex
pressed freely and far more strongly than should
have ventured to suggest. That il is rambling, and
wanting in the penetration and shrewdness once
Characteristic of bim-these also the pious
opinions which I have heard piously expressed
by Mr. Arnold's friends.
writer in Z" The St. James's Gazette under
well-known signature examines Mr.. Arnold's state
ments and conclusions critically. He finds him
unjust. attending to but one side and applying
q measure to the culture of America different from
that used for Europe. "Mr. Arnold" says the
writer probably knows what is best in Ameri.
can society. But he masses it by. Then he NOR
allies on the vulgarity. Where in Europe will
he find less? How does he explain the fact that
Millet's best work has gone to New-York and
Boston? Why does he omit law and constitu-
tonal politics? I cannot think" says our Eng
nsh advocate, that the generation Of Kent
and Marshall will need to excuse themselves
before history for having failed to produce
Wordsworth or o Turner. The judgments of the
~ f1,o,nca 1voc
As for newspapers, Mr.. Arnold has not the data
for an opinion. If the best American papers are
inferior to our best are the worst of them so bad
as our worst? There may be Americans who
praise their country in bad taste. But let Mr..
Arnold take his lantern and 90 round the world in
search of men Of faulteSS self-discernment When
he has found them. we may begin to be anxious
about the United States" Such is the conclusion
Of an article which is moderate and fair through
out. It's author is, think Mr. Frederick Pollock
the distinguished barrister and writer on law and
metaphysics.
Letters from friends in the country say that
Mr.. Arnold's essay is much quoted and criticised,
both in the country press and in country houses
1t is decidedly making sensation, writes one
good Judge. Mr. Knowles, l hear is rather
anxious to know what Americans will think and
whether they will resent his making The Nine
teenth Century" the medium for Mr.. Arnold's
animosities against America.
Many things are said in London. Burke"
remarked one Englishman, " said that he did not
know how TO draw an indictment against Nation.
Mr. Arnold thinks that he do what Burke
could not. doubt whether his countrymen will
agree with him. An English lady of fashion
said to an American not less distinguished: II
hope that you will give yourself no concern about
MP Arnold. lQu pOn1ann inn
strongly than we do"
Mr.. LOwelps Hearsease and Rue elicits from
- The Times a column Of critical eulogy. ex-
tract the passage best worth quoting: Mr. Low
es strength is that Of fine sensibility to all that
IS most interesting in nature and man, of wide
and real knowledge Of the best that has been said
and thought in the world, and of nearly com
plete mastery of his instrument of language. His
weakness lies in too great fondness for epigram.
matte turns Of phrase, q fondness which makes
him the Cowley or Donne of the present dav.n This
reviewer finds in Mr.. Lowell's poems a charming
picture OF the man and his circle q picture he
says, which reminds us that civilization has
brought other gifts to the United States than
those which Alr Matthew Arnold has letejy been
describing" This rebuke is delicate .,,o,, ~, to ho
appreciated by Mr. Arnold himself
Mr.. Gladstone, Z il said, viii oeleh,ato bis
reconciliation with Alr Knowles by contrihutip,
to the next Nineteenth Century" q review ~
hrs. Humphrey Wards novel, Robert Elsmore
ihis remarkable book is much more than novel
and perhaps for that reason is not very PLEASING
TO readers who want nothing but story we'll
told Mrs. Wards intellectual range is a wide
one. Metaphysical and psychological problems
interest her, as they did George Eliot She is
known in America as the translator Of AzePs
Journal, which found more readers there than
here
Her husband is one Of the editors Of 1.-THE
Times for which he writes, among other things,
criticisms on literature and pictures; not ALL but
some. lie certainly did net write tc-day's re-
view, IN which his wife's novel is described as
clever attack on revealed religion The reviewer