New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-26


minutes notice. What he and General BOOM
have broached in this wonderful book is gigantic
scheAe for dealing with poverty and crime ny
means Of city homes. farms, cooperative industry
and many other old devices in a new form. lhey
want five million dollars to carry out their plan'
When they get it, the plan may be worth con-
sidering.
Mr. Andrew Langs Life Of Lord Iddesleigh Is
very interesting piece Of biography, ana Is In
some respects unique. 1t is an elaborate study
Of political life by man who knows little OF
politics and cares less. Mr.. Andrew Lang Is
man of letters, and singularly good and dellca'e
example Of that class. Lord Iddesleigh was also
a man Of letters That is the real connecting
link between him and his biographer. He was
however, only incidentally man Of letters he
spent his life in politics. lie was thirty years IN
the House Of Commons, and held great puohc
Office almost long: He was unknown
to the mass Of his fellow-countrymeD otber-
wise than as politician and statesman
Mr.. Lang deals with all this part of his heros
career dutifully, but never sympathctically When
he has to discuss q long contest in the House ne
describes himself as sick Of the see-saw OF the
whole thing" But his narrative is sufficient, save
where discretion has fettered his pen. in the more
critical and interesting parts, Of course OF Lord
Iddesleighs life. He does justice to Lord lddes-
1eigh's amiability. his sincerity, his perfect up
rightness. and his sweet reasonableness.. HIS re-
lations to Mr. Gladstone throw some light on Mr..
Gladstone also. There is much about Disraeli
which is striking. and episode in which Lord
Randolph Churchill figures most cOnspicuously D
described with some plainness of speech, though
with much reticence.
Mr.. Gladstone, we are now told on the authority
of his chief London organ, has once more entered
the field against Professor Huxley. great
part of his forthcoming book, The Impregnable
Rock Of Holy Scripture-a reprint OF recent
magazine articles-is a challenge to Professor
Huxley. with the assistance Of an expert IN
hydraulics says this uncOnscously humorous
organ, mfr. Gladstone has even criticised those
calculations respecting The subsistence OF Tho
waters upon which Professor Huxley has I'm
pugned the narrative Of the deluga' And with
or without the assistance Of expert in spiritual
hydraulics, the great Home Ruler has also given
his reasons for supposing that the Gadarone
pig-owners were Jews unlawfully possessed OF
the swine possessed by devils. II they were,
Professor UuXey's argument against miracles
because employed in this case for the wanton de-
struction Of oter peoples property, is supposed
to be shattered in pieces. A reply from Professor
Huxley on these and other points is expected.
Mr.. Gladstonc's opponents, remembering the fate
which befcl him in his earlier, yet still recent con-
troversy with Professor Huxley, expect 1t joyfuly
But Mr.. Gladstones power Of seeing only what he
wants to see is Just as remarkable in theology as
in politics. and in both his courage is perfectly
splendid.
ha cot6
TO remind the English public Of his existence.
His greatest deeds of travel were done long since
his Journey to Mecca in 1852. his journey to Har-
rar In 1854, and his discovery Of Lake Tangan-
yika in 1858. lie has done many things since.
and written many books, but his books, all but
one are forgotten, admirable as some Of them were.
His fame as an African explorer has been obscured.
though not ecipsed, by Livingstone and afr. Stan
ley, of whom he was the predecessor and worthy ri
val What the world has Of late years known him by
is his translation of The Arabian Nights. That
nave him q dubious or at any rate a somewhat
mixed sort of celebrity 1t is a work of genuine
scholarship, full of accurate and copious knowl-
edge of the East and, to use Mr.. Gladstone's word
about Pitt, befouled with much curious inquiry
into matters that might have been left alone.
But Sir Richard Burton was gallant spirit, who
fought his own fight with the world and had
hard measure in return. England whose annals
of adventure he has illumined left him to mOulder
in an obscure consulate. He died at Trieste
The delivery of the American mails Of last
Wednesday week in London on Wednesday morn
ing Of this week makes record. The BRUSH
Postofice however. seem to have had little to do
with it, except to receive the letters when broueht
TO them. The Irish and English railway conf
panies arranged the matter, and ran special
train from Cork to Dublin special steamer from
Kingstown to Hoyhead, and special train from
Holyhead to London. This is what the public
has been vainly asking for years, but the Post
office always steadily refused. English papers
speak of this as six days mail service from
New-York to London, supposng the letters posted
in New-York on Wednesday evening. In truth,
the mail closed in New-York at . 80 o'clock on
Wednesday morning; practically, Tuesday even
ing. The Tcutonic, which brought no mails, az
rived two hours ahead Of the City Of New-l ork.
making the record five days nineteen hours. The
Teutonic thus holds the record for both Eastern
and Western voyages. Had the Teutonic
brought the mails they would have caught
the regular express from Cork to Dub
lin. and been delivered by the first
post en- Wednesday morning. The special service
by which the City OF New-lOrk prOnleu WAS
organized in the interest OF Queenstown as against
Southampton. It's success is the more striking
because the Werras mails, leaving New-York n
dny earlier, were not delivered in London till the
evening of Wednesday. The agents of the Ham,
burc-American line, which calls at Southampton,
have writter letter on this subject, which most
of the papers print this morning. They say quite
truly that this delivery Of mails within seven
doys now extolled as remarkable. has been ac-
compished all this season BY the express steamers
of this company. They forget, however. that the
British Postoffce prefers slow service by English
ships to quick service BY German ships.
The most important political event on the Con-
tinent this week appears to have been the appear
ance Of Mime. Sarah Bernhardt in NJ. Sardou's
new-very new-play, cleopatra" 1t is at any
rate an event, II not strictly political OF inter-
national interest There is but one opinion Nj.