11 FEBRUARY 1905

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The political situation in Hungary shows no signs of clearing.

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Count Julius Andrassy, at Count Tisza's recom- mendation, received the Emperor's commission to sound the party leaders and endeavour to form a Cabinet. The party of...

NEWS - OF THE WEEK.

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T HE news from Russia shows that the internal condition of affairs is still menacing. The discontent, though for the time driven below the surface, burns as fiercely as ever,...

A very interesting article appeared this week in the Paris

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Figaro by Count Boni de Castellane, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. He considers that now is the time for France to use her influence to bring Russia and England together...

A comparative estimate of the losses of Russia and Japan

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in the first year of the war is given in Tuesday's Daily Mail. The total casualty list on both sides is set down at 240,000, of whom 40,000 were killed or drowned at sea,...

Though there is no further news of. fighting on the

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Sha-ho, it must not be assumed that great events are not being planned or in process of being carried out. Remember, there are now no war correspondents with the Japanese...

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The prospects of the Government in the coming Session are

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the subject of endless discussion. The better opinion seems to be that there will be a Dissolution before the end of March, and then a debacle for the Unionist party equal to,...

We do not mean to dwell upon the storm in

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a tea-cup raised over Mr. Arthur Lee's speech at Eastleigh on Thurs- day week. It is probably a good rale that no member of the Government, except the Prime Minister and the...

Speaking at Mr. Arthur Lee's meeting at Eastleigh on Tuesday,

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Mr. Arnold-Forster waxed enthusiastic over the prospects of his party. He was, he said, very sanguine of the success of the Unionist party at the next General Election: Whatever...

A serious deadlock has arisen between Sweden and Norway over

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the question of the separate Consular ser- vice which Norway seeks to establish. Both Governments admit that the negotiations cannot be continued on the stipulated basis, and...

We may smile at this account of the genesis of

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a Spectator "leader," but Herr Richter's blunder throws an interesting light upon the kind of methods which may be expected from those who are working for a big Navy Vote. The...

The American Senate has shown its deliberate resolve to curtail

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the prerogatives of the President in very striking fashion. The Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday unanimously adopted an amendment to the seven Arbitration Treaties,...

The strength of German influence at Constantinople has been illustrated

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by the progress of the negotiations between France and Turkey in regard to the Syrian railways. The Sultan was prepared to satisfy French claims, and in addition to expend...

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We desire to associate ourselves with the timely and vigorous

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protest uttered by the Times on Tuesday against the destruc- tion of the Avon Bank between Bristol and the sea. The action of the Corporation, with the sanction of the Board of...

Friday's papers contain a manifesto of Liberal policy put forward

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by Lord Spencer in the shape of a letter to Mr. Corrie Grant, which, according to the Daily Mail, was issued after a Conference of Liberal leaders at Spencer House. For...

The Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Carson, K.C., M.P., in the course

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of a speech delivered at Manchester last Saturday, dealt with the necessity of sifting, and, if possible, satisfying, the grievances of "our Irish Unionist fellow-countrymen in...

We are not in the least frightened by the paragraph

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in regard to Ireland. That is a purely conventional expression of opinion put in to "save the face" of those who have so long professed a devotion to the ideal of Home-rule....

On Friday week Mr. Haldane presided over an interesting meeting

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at the Royal United Service Institution under the auspices of the Committee formed to promote advanced historical teaching in London. The aim of the Committee is to provide...

Mr. Asquith was the principal speaker at a Liberal meeting

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at Heywood, Lancashire, on Saturday last. He described the situation created by the Government's postponement of an appeal to the country as indecent and perilous. " Everything...

Consols (2f per cent.) were on Friday 89}.,

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THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT AND THE STATE OF THE ARMY.

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N O one will accuse the Spectator of not attaching sufficient importance to the question of Free-trade, or of any desire not to make it the vital and essential issue in our...

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THE COLONIES AND THE FISCAL CONTROVERSY.

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NOTHIN OTHING has been more remarkable, nothing is a NG proof of the political steadfastness and 'good-sense of the English race, than the way in which the Colonies (we dislike...

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A YEAR OF WAR.

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A YEAR ago last Sunday the Japanese Minister at St. Petersburg, by order of his Emperor, an- nounced to the Russian Government that, diplomacy having failed, Japan would resort...

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W E make no apology for raising again the question of

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the physical training of the young. Without a sound. physical basis no citizenship is possible, and unless the body is cared for all schemes of educational progress are no more...

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THE PRIME MINISTER.

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( HE Prime Minister meets Parliament next Tuesday after a Recess the speculative interest of which has mainly turned on the question whether the opening of the Session would...

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I N a letter written by Dr. Simon Pattie, Bishop of

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Ely, dated February 8th, 1682, the following words occur :— " I always took the almoLas to be only articles of communion; and so Bishop Bra mhall expressly maintains against the...

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T HE word " improvement " is getting a new meaning.

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The alterations now being carried on in the Mall have resulted in the bettering of conditions of life in London by the abolition of a three-hundred-year-old Milk Fair,—no doubt...

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I F ever the Fraternity of the Ancient Order of Freemasons

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chose to add a crest to the many bearings which it emblazons among its insignia, the claims of a very remarkable little bird to that honour are worthy of consideration. It is...

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THE COLONIES AND THE LOYALTY OF THE MOTHERLAND.

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[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—From his latest speech it would appear that Mr. Chamberlain's history is getting almost as threadbare as his political economy....

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you allow a Liberal candidate to echo the strong hope

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which you express in last week's Spectator that means will be found to avert the blunder of an attack from Liberal quarters on Mr. Arthur Elliot's seat P On the ground of...

MR. ARTHUR ELLIOT AND THE DURHAM ELECTORS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Please to let me add my testimony of hearty agreement with your article in the Spectator of February 4th on the political unwisdom of a...

SIR,—As a Liberal of over fifty years' steady attachment to

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the party, and often an active worker, I should like to add my humble voice to the advocates for an appreciative, and even generous, action towards Unionist Free-trade...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ]

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SIR,—Your article upon the above in your issue of the 4th inst. has attracted considerable attention in this (Durham) district, and you will perhaps allow me, as a Liberal,...

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THE MANNING OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "SPZOTATOR:] Sin,—In your issue of February 4th, and under the above heading, appears an interesting letter from Mr. Frank T. Bullen. The scheme there set...

THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM OR PROTECTION P [To THE EDITOR

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Or THE " SrECIATOB..1 Srn,—I have no doubt that Mr. Biddell's account in the Spectator of February 4th of the supplementary aid to agri- cultural labourers in the hungry "...

THE FREE-TRADE LEAGUE AND THE UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE ..srscrsros..i SIR,—I beg to enclose a copy of a resolution unanimously passed by the Executive Committee of the Free-Trade League at its meeting on...

CHINESE IN RAND MINES.

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[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,,—Permit me briefly to call attention to one curious mis- take into which Mr. Ralph Stokes—in your last issue—and almost all the...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ]

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Srn,—The use in some of the reports from Russia of the form of the celebrated Warsaw despatch, " Order reigns in Warsaw," reminds me of a snot I heard Sir William Harcourt make...

THE RAFT AT TILSIT. [To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ]

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Days in Diplomacy," and of helping to prepare the book for press; its venerable authoress has called my attention to a letter signed " A. L. K." in your issue of January 7th,...

[To THE EDITOR or Tar "SPECTATOR. " ]

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Sia,—An interesting document of the great Protector, whose fame is year by year being more cleared from the mists of calumny, has lately come to light at the Northampton Free...

Sra,--Surely "A. E. T." is strangely misinformed when he writes,

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in the Spectator of February 4th : " All [the Protestant sects] agree in not believing them [the Sacraments] to be the means of conveying the grace they represent." The Sacra-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE .srecraToa."1 Sin,—My attention has been

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called to a question in your last issue (p. 186) as to the identity of the civilian who rendered some service to Wellington at Waterloo. His name was Moore, a button...

THE FREE CHURCHES AND THE SACRAMENTS. l'ro THE EDITOR OF

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THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—Your correspondent " A. E. T.," in last week's issue, betrays an astonishing degree of ignorance about the views of others for one who sets out to...

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CHEAP COTTAGES EXHIBITION FUND.

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WE acknowledge the following sums sent to us as contributions to the above Fund, and have forwarded them to the County Gentleman : — Among those who have recently consented to...

SMALL HOLDINGS.

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[To TDB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of January 28th you printed an interesting letter on the above subject from Mr. F. Impey, and in a note you drew...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE] "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — May we suggest to:the

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public through your columns a means of lessening the long hours of dressmakers' assistants during the season P If ladies would place their orders for summer clothes with...

OXFORD EPIGRAMS.

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[To TRY EDITOR or TRY " SPECTATOR"] SIB, I am glad to confirm the incident related by my friend Mr. Bond in the Spectator of February 4th as regards the late Dean Mansel, and...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Quite lately a working

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man of the best type, having been laid up in a London hospital with an illness which needed incessant care, was at last nursed into convalescence. Gratitude to the kind lady who...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR"]

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SIR,—In 1894-95, at the Lal Bagh aviary, Bangalore, there was a winter or albino crow, separated only by stout bars from a sick vulture in the next compartment, and otherwise...

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[The King was an Irish King, and shook a bou g h, with Golden Apples on it, when he required silence. A henchman, entering his room after the Golden Apples had sounded, fell...

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MR, WATSON does not despise " lapidarian toil," as he

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tells the reader in his lines " To a Slovenly Versifier." In the new edition of his works he has made several alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend...

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IT is scarcely necessary to say that this is a

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very difficult book to deal with. To check this or that statement of fact or judgment of character is commonly impossible. We can do little more than make a general estimate of...

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THE late Mr. Payne, whose untimely death all historians must

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lament, was admirably fitted for the task of writing a guide-book to the economics and politics of the Empire. He had made historical geography his special subject, and, as was...

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CAPTAIN LEE has not written a biography of his dis-

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tinguished father, nor has he given us a connected history of the great war in which General Lee played so conspicuous a part. But he has printed an interesting collection of...

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Graham's volume under the head of fiction, seeing that its

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ironical title is identical with that given to the narrative, founded on a book published in Mexico, of an episode in the recent history of that Republic, and that the remaining...

By What Authority ? By Robert Hugh Benson. (Isbister and

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Co. 6s.)—The second half of this book is by no means equal to the opening chapters, for the excellent reason that Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality,...

Tales of the Five Towns. By Arnold Bennett. (Chatto and

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Windus. 6s.)—Whether Mr. Arnold Bennett will ever write anything so wholly excellent as his novel, " A Great Man," may be doubted, but the standard is not very sensibly lowered...

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Western Europe in the Eighth Century and Onward. By the

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late E. A. Freeman. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—There seems to be no end to the posthumous works of the late Professor Freeman. Recently we had occasion to deal with one of these ;...

Studies on Anglo - Saxon Institutions. By H. Munro Chadwick. (Cambridge University

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Press. 8s. net.)—Mr. Chadwick begins with an essay on the "Monetary System" of the Anglo-Saxons, and proceeds to the consideration of the " Social System." The connection...

The Licensing Act, 1904. By St. John G. Micklethwait, M.A.,

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B.C.L. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—A Treatise on the Laws of the Stock Exchange. By Walter S. Schwabe and G. A. H. Branson. (Stevens and Sone. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Mickle-...

The Century Bible : Samuel i.-ii. Edited by A. R.

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S. Kennedy, D.D. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 2s. 6d. net.)—The reader of The Century Bible will expect to find the subject treated with con- siderable freedom. Professor Kennedy sees...

length of life among the Jews is considerably greater than

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among their Gentile neighbours. He makes other observations which are worthy of consideration. He holds that the ideal will never be realised till religion is the motive-power....

The Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Southwark. By the Rev.

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Canon Thompson. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)—Canon Thompson has done a good work in putting together this account of the " History and Antiquities of St. Saviour, Southwark." We...

Pope Jacynth, and other Fantastic Tales. By Vernon Lee. (Grant

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Richards. 3s. 6d.)—The stories which compose this volume are mediaeval in spirit, we might almost say in odour, and show their authoress, " Vernon Lee," at her best, if not...

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We have received the first part of a publication to

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be com- pleted in sixteen parts, Old Houses in Edinburgh, Drawn by Bruce J. Home (W. J. Hay, Edinburgh, ls. net per part). The three drawings in this part are " Sir Archibald...

Synopsis of Dickens's Novels. By S. Walker McSpadden. (Chapman and

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Hall. 2s. 6d. net.)—This book, if it finds a public--and we do not doubt that it will—will be a fresh proof of Dickens's popularity. It gives a list of his books and scattered...

The Thackeray Country. By Lewis Melville. (A. and C. Black.

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Os. net.)—Mr. Melville says very truly " There cannot be said to be a Thackeray Country in the sense that there is a Scott Country or a Burns Country." If there is such a...

Far and Near. By John Burroughs. (A. Constable and Co.

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5s. net.)—Mr. Burroughs has done well in reconsidering his purpose not to write another " outdoor book." Far and Near contains an account of a tour in Alaska in which the author...

The Tower of Pelee. By Angelo Heilprin. (J. B. Lippincott.

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15s. net.)—The " Tower " was a strange product of the succes- sive eruptions of the great volcano of Martinique. We say " was " because it has now disappeared. At the time of...

We welcome the appearance of the second annual volume of

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Flora and Sylva, Edited by W. Robinson (17 Furnival Street). It is described as " A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree, or Flower ; New and Rare Plants, Trees,...

Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes, 1905.

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(Kelly's Directories. 16s.)—The " Handbook " is now in its twenty-fifth year of publication. Its speciality is the in- clusion of the " official " classes, a most useful...

ScHoofeBooKs. — The Elements of Geometry, Books I. III. By Braithwaite Arnett,

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M.A. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 2s. each.) —Book I. contains the substance of Euclid I., 1-34 ; Book II. treats of the Circle, Ratio, and Proportion; and Book III. of Similes,...

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NEW Enmows.—Butler's Hudibras, Edited by A. E. Waller, is one

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of the "Cambridge English Classics" (Cambridge Univer- sity, 4s. 6d. net). The plan followed in this, as in other volumes of the series, is to correct obvious misprints in the...