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BOOKS.

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SOME CHILDREN'S BOOKS.* PRESUMABLY all the "really truly" fairy-stories are "told out," for Mr. Andrew Lang gives us this autumn, instead of the usual fairy-book, a Book of...

Etterarp Ouppinurnt.

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LONDON : NOVEMBER .15th, 1902.

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STUDENT'S HISTORY OF THE GREEK CHURCH.* IT is strange that

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those 14o have of recent years taken an active interest in the reunion of Christian bodies have not paid more attention to the history and position of the Greek Church. A...

THE POSITION IN PHILOSOPHY.*

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A DOUBLE interest attaches to this book. It represents the last words of one of the keenest minds amongst English philosophical writers of the second half of the nineteenth...

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GIFT-BOOKS.

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SCOTTISH HISTORY AND LIFE.* THIS very handsome volume is an outcome of the Glasgow International Exhibition of last year. One of the most interesting parts of that Exhibition...

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OLD ST. PATJL'S.*

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THIS is one of the occasional "Portfolio Monographs," and fully supports the high character of the series. The material with which Canon Benham had to work was fortunately...

The Peril Finders. By G. Manville Fenn. (S.P.C.K. 5s.)— It

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is one of Mr. Manville Fenn's many gifts to be at home in all regions. "Pone me," he might say with Horace, "sjccis campis," or anywhere else, and he will sing, not of Lalage,...

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Fifty-two Stories of the Brave and True for Girls. Edited

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by Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Miles has again given us a very pleasant collection of tales. It may perhaps be objected that some of the incidents described...

Under the Spangled Banner. By Captain F. S. Brereton. (Blackie

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and Son. 5s.)—It is, of course, too early to write the history of the Spanish-American War, but we cannot object to stories about it. It is new ground; it gives an opportunity...

The Pot - Hunters. By P. G. Wodehouse. (A. and C. Black.

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3s. 6d.) -A school-story this, and a good one. The most puzzling thing that ever comes to pass in a school is theft. It cannot be regarded from the ordinary point of view ; that...

The Dew Babies. By Helen Broadbent. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—This

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is a prettily written fairy-story, not on the old lines of the "White Cat" and "Jack the Giant Killer," but of a more sentimental kind. Oberon, Titania, Robin Goodfellow, Puck,...

The Century Magazine. (Macmillan and Co. 108. 6d.) — The Century Magazine

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is always a welcome sight, and the present volume, as a whole, does not fall below the expectations of the reader. We cannot but think, however, that it is a mistake in a...

Stories of the Abbey Precincts. By Agnes Giberne. (R.T.S. 3s.

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6d.)—Miss Giberne has made a success of this collection of short stories. Each has a sufficient interest of its own, and this is heightened by the skilfully managed thread of...

St. Nicholas Magazine. (Macmillan and Co. 8s.)—St. Nicholas really seems

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to meet the requirements of a magazine which can be given with equal appropriateness to boys and girls ; the letter- press is chiefly of a kind that will interest both. This is...

The Doll - Man's Gift. By Harry A. James. (G. Newnes. ls.

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6d.) —" Will you, too, sell those apples at the fair ?" said Ladykin's father to her. " No, daddy, no !" answered the child, " I shall give them away." "Then you will indeed be...

Torn from the Foundations. By David Ker. (Andrew Melrose. 3s.

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6d.)—Mr. Ker, who lays the scene of his story in Eastern Brazil, opens the tale with a striking incident, admirably de- scribed, and keeps up to the same level with considerable...

The Secret of Berry Pomeroy. By Fred Whishaw. (Griffith, Ferran,

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Browne, and Co. 35. 6d.)—Mr. Whishaw is always able to tell a story well, but he has not this time, we think, got a subject that suits him particularly. The "Lion's Cub" of last...

The Kidnapping of Ettie, and other Tales. By " Brown Linnet."

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(Seeley and Co. 5s.)—These eleven stories are of a somewhat a nimal quality. They are wholly unconventional ; the figures in them are not cut to the familiar patterns to which...

A Hero of the Highlands. By E. Everett-Green. (T. Nelson

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and Sons. 5s.)—Miss Everett-Green's literary output is not a little surprising. Here is a volume of about a hundred and ten thousand words, a task to which a good portion of a...

Worth While. By Annette Lyster. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—We must own that

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we liked the first half of this story better than we liked the second. Miss Lyster might have enforced the lessons and drawn the morals which she wishes to enforce and to draw...

With the British Legion in Spain. By G. A. Henty.

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(Blackie and Son. fis.)—The story of the British Legion is not exactly one which Englishmen look back to with great satisfaction. It was commanded by a gallant and skilful...

The Tramp Ship's Fate. By F. M. Holmes. (S. W.

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Partridge and Co. 2s.)—A "tramp ship," it should be understood, is a ship that is ready to carry cargo wherever it may be wanted. The Meteor' carried tinplates from Wales to the...

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told with much force, and full of interesting experiences, all

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the more interesting because they will be new to most English readers. Ursula Clifford comes to live with her uncle, George Brendon, at his farm up-country. She is but fifteen...

The Cruise of the Katherina. By John A. Higginson. (T.

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Nelson and Sons. ls.)—Mr. Higginson tells us a breezy story of " blackbirding " and piracy in the South Seas. It is full of ad- venture, contains an exciting plot, and is by no...

Fifty - two Stories for the Little Ones. Edited by A. H.

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Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Probably older readers will appreciate this collection quite as much as children will. We can assure them that they will find some charming...

Cap'n Nat's Treasure. By Robert Leighton. (S. W. Partridge and

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Co. 5s.)—Mr. Leighton has reached such a degree of skill in nar- rating a romance or an adventure that it is no longer necessary for him to go far afield in search of incident....

Thor, Balder, and the giants with whom they contended, some-

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what lurid in colour, for Walhalla was not as the shining Olympus, but striking in outline. What a fine imagining, for instance, it is when Thor in his journeying comes upon an...

. Fifty - two Stories of the Brave and True for Boys.

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Edited by A. H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 5s.)—Regarded from a literary point of view, these selections of Mr. Miles seem to improve, as he has widened his scope to take in...

Only a Kitten. By E. M. Mian. (T. Fisher Unwin.

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3s. 6d.) —This is a collection of short stories embodying the moral that the Ancient Mariner learnt a little too late, and one that many people never learn at all. Most children...

The Frozen Treasure. By C. Dudley-Lampen. (S.P.C.K. 2s. Gd.) —Captain

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Duncan Romaine, going with companions to seek a treasure somewhere in the province of Archangel, is beset and hindered at every turn by emissaries of the Russian Government. One...

hands of some slave-dealers after being wrecked on the East

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Coast of Africa. They obtain their liberty, only to fall into the hands of the tribe who had wiped out the slave-hunters. They again obtain their release after sundry...

in the 10th Hussars, goes through the Afghan Campaign of

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1878, and distinguishes himself in various ways. Mr. Johnston, who follows history closely in the campaign, describes the disaster at the ford, the cholera march, and the fight...

Three Scottish Heroines. By E. Traice. (T. Nelson and Sons.

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ls. 6d.)—The adventures of Lady Nithsdale, Grizel Hume, and Grizel Cochrane are very clearly and brightly related. One would like to have known how they managed to conceal Sir...

Conan, the Wonder Worker. By Mary II. Debenham. (National Society.

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3s.'Gd.)—This is a Viking story with much of the full- bodied flavour we attach to the times and deeds of a lawless age. Conan, a Scot, is captured with a young Saxon thegn...

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A Knight of Snowdon. By M. C. H. (Alex. Gardner.

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3s. 6d. net.) —This is a very uninteresting and commonplace story of every- day life, with no action, no vigour, and no humour in it. We have lots of characters, none under...

The Bunny Book. Written and Illustrated by J. B. A.

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(J. Nisbet and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Here we have related to us the adventures of the Rabbit who spends a day in town under the guidance of the Fool. " J. B. A." tries various metres in...

Mistress Dorothy. By Dorothea Moore. (National Society. ls.)—Dorothy is the

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heroine of a pretty little story of Mon- mouth's Rebellion. She is a Taunton girl, and her brother goes to Sedgmoor. He returns and is hidden, only to reveal himself when a...

The Boy's Book of Battle. By Herbert Cadett. (C. Arthur

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Pearson. 5s.)—We cannot call this a satisfactory book on the whole. " The Battle of Omdurman " and " The Great Assault on Ladysmith" are fairly well described ; indeed, Mr....

Grit and Go. Stories told by G. A. Henty and

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Others. (W. and R. Chambers. 5s.)—Mr. Henty's name will attract many boys, but there are other names equally attractive to older readers,—to wit, D. C. Murray, Bryden, Guy...

Aunt Abby's Neighbours. By Annie Trumbull Slosson. (F. H. Revell.

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2s. 6d.) —Aunt Abby is a practical Christian who lived somewhere in the States, and her conversations on such subjects as sects, charity, and friendship take up a chapter each....

C URRENT LITERAT URE.

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AMONG SWAMPS AND GIANTS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa : an Acconnt of Surreys and Adventures in the Southern Sudan and British East Africa....

The Last of the Cliffords. By E. F. Pollard. (T.

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Nelson and Sons. 5s.)—Long as this story is, we think that few young people will lay it down without regret, for the many striking characters of the great Civil War move through...

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TWELVE ESSAYS ON EDUCATION.

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Educational Studies and Addresses. By T. G. Rooper. (Blackie and Son. 28. 6d.)—This volume of essays is one that we heartily recommend to the attention of parents and teachers....

EDUCATION AND THE LARGER LIFE.

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Education and the Larger Life. By C. Hanford Hender- son. (Gay and Bird. 6s.)—Mr. Henderson sets himself in this volume to inquire " how education can be so applied in America...

ENGLISH MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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The series of volumes on " Music in the Nineteenth Century " under the general editorship of Mr. Robin H. Legge makes an excellent start with Mr. J. A. Fuller-Maitland's English...

CRIMINAL LAW.

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Outlines of Criminal Law Based on Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge. By Courtney Stanhope Kenny. (Uni- versity Press, Cambridge. 10s.)—Dr. Kenny has supplemented...

MUSIC IN THE WESTERN CHURCH.

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devotion, liturgic usages, national temperament, and types and methods of expression current in secular art." We cannot attempt a detailed criticism of the results of his...

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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.

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Colonial Government : an Introduction to the Study of Colonial Institutions. By Paul S. Reinsch, Professor of Political Science in the University of Wisconsin. (Macmillan and...

THE STORY OF FLORENCE.

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The Story of Florence. By Edmund G. Gardner. With 40 Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen, and many Reproductions from the Works of Florentine Painters and Sculptors. (J. M. Dent and...

THE PRISONER IN THE DOCK.

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The Prisoner in the Dock. By James Greenwood. (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d.)—The "amateur casual " has here produced an entertaining book, the result of four years' work as roving...

MADAME DE POMPADOUR.

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Madame de Pompadour. By H. Noel Williams. With 16 Photogravures. (Harper and Brothers. 25s. net.)—Probably no woman ever lived who did so much harm to her country as Madame de...

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CHARLES THE SECOND.

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Charles the Second. By John Heneage Jesse. (Arthur L. Humphreys. 12s.)—This well-got-up volume is a piece of book- making in its most rudimentary form. It is simply a reprint...

THE HEART OF JAPAN.

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The Heart of Japan : Glimpses of Life and Nature Par from the Traveller's Track in the Land of the Rising Sun. By Clarence Ludlow Brownell. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—It is possible...

PAPAL AIMS AND PAPAL CLAIMS.

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Papal Aims and Papal Claims : with Remarks on Apostolic Succession. By E. Garnet Man, Barrister-at-Law. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. Ss.)—Mr. Man has collected in this volume...

CABINET GOVERNMENT.

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The Development of Cabinet Government in England. By Mary Taylor Blauvelt, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—This interesting monograph on the origin and growth of Cabinet government...

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More Fables in Slang. By George Ade. (C. Arthur Pearson.

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2s. 6d.)—These fables are clever, a little difficult to understand now and then—a fable ought always to be lucidly clear—and not particularly agreeable to read. Didithe writer...

PROGRESS OF INDIA, JAPAN, AND CHINA.

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Progress of India, Japan, and China. By Sir Richard Temple. (W. and R. Chambers. 5s. net.)—This volume belongs to a " Nineteenth Century Series," now appearing in the United...

THE AMERICAN INVASION.

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The American Invasion. By Sir Christopher Furness, M.P. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls. net.)—Sir Christopher Furness " does not despair of the republic" of British industry. He...

THE FASCINATION OF LONDON.

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The Fascination of London : Chelsea. By G. E. Mitten. Edited by Sir W. Besant. (A. and C. Black. ls. 6d. net.)—This volitme, one of four on the same scale and with substantially...

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The Truth about the Transvaal. By Edward B. Rose. (Morning

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Leader Office. 5s.)—Mr. Rose sets forth here the case for the Transvaal. His opinions, we need hardly say, are widely different from those of the Spectator. It is obviously...

An Essay on the Principles of Circumstantial Evidence. By the

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late William Wills. Fifth Edition. Edited by his Son, Sir Alfred Wills, Knight, one of his Majesty's Judges of the High Court of Justice. (Butterworth and Co. 12s. 6d.)—This...

Labour and Capital. Edited, with an Introduction, by John P.

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Peters, D.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—Dr. Peters has collected a number of letters, essays, and statements in various forms, dealing with great economical questions of the...

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Loxpolf : Printed 'by Lovr & NALCOXSON (Limited) at Noe.

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74-76 Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by .A;nra PALta for the " SPECTATOR " (Ioinlit6d) at their Office, No. I Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand,...

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Telegrams received from Ceuta show that the Kabyles have risen

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in Tetuan and are threatening the town. It appears that the Basha refused to release several of their tribesmen from prison, including the murderer of a British subject, and...

The German Tariff Bill will, it is believed, be dropped.

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The Government cannot agree to. the still higher duties upon food which the . Agrarians wish to impose, and the Socialists resist the duties fixed in the Bill by a method of...

The German Emperor arrived in England on Saturday last. In

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spite of the bad weather, he fulfilled his engagement to review the Royals, of which regiment he is honorary Colonel, at Shorncliffe, lunched with the officers, delivered a...

NEWS ' OF THE WEEK.

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M R. BALFOUR was, of course, the chief speaker at the Guildhall banquet on Monday, and made a striking speech, which will have a reassuring effect all over the world. After a...

President Roosevelt, who is now by far the greatest force

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in the United States, evidently intends that the Republic shall be a weighty power in the world's affairs. Speaking on November 11th to the Chamber of Commerce, the President of...

Passing on to foreign affairs, the Prime Minister became still

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more optimistic,—perhaps a little too much so. He was certain that the great Governments wished for peace, and though there were "faults," geological faults, in the inter-...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

POR THB

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No. 3,881.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1901 [ REGISTERED As • / NEWSPAPER. ST POST...6r. POSTAGE ABROAD . ..... D.

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Late on Monday night Mr. Brodrick moved the second reading

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of the Militia and Yeomanry Bill. Section 3 of Clause 1 provides for the formation of a special-service section of the Yeomanry, who are to be liable for service abroad in time...

In introducing the Indian Budget on Monday Lord George Hamilton

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had an easier task than usually falls to the head of his Department. In spite of the famine, the Treasury has seen two years of full coffers. In the year which ended on April...

At question time on Tuesday afternoon Sir Gilbert Parker asked

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whether the Government had decided to set apart increased areas of Richmond Park for Volunteer drill and manceuvres. The answer returned by Mr. Ailwyn Fellowei was as follows...

Baron Sonnino, who leads the Italian Opposition, and is regarded

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both by the Government and the people as a kind of reserve force to be utilised in difficult crises, has delivered a most striking lecture on the condition of Southern Italy. It...

The Canadians have solved the very serious difficulty created by

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the Dukhobors by the unhesitating employment of force. The fanatics, weakened by privation and exposure, were sur- rounded by mounted police, and although the men threw them-...

There is, of course, another side to this pleasing picture,

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which would weigh more than it does in discussions on India but that its exponents have such a habit of exaggeration. The people as a whole are far richer under us than under...

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The Prime Minister has been obliged to ask the House

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of Commons to permit the Closure by compartments of the dis- cussion in Committee of the Education Bill. It has lasted thirty-eight nights, everything has been said, or might...

The War Office have made an important departure in allot-

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ting a certain number of remount horses to Yeomanry regiments. The horses are to be handed over to such Yeomen as may apply for them. The men may treat them in every way as...

On Wednesday the discussion of the Education Bill' in Committee

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was resumed at the last subsection of Clause 12. The Government proposal made the education authorities in Wales the bodies constituted under the Welsh Intermediate Education...

The Birthday List of Honours published on Monday is very

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long and decidedly dull. There are no surprises and no gratifications of public opinion. The King's advisers have apparently thought that it would be well to scatter titular...

We are glad to record and endorse the appeal made

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by Mr. Brodrick and Lord Roberts on behalf of the Reservists and their wives. Besides recommending the claims of Reservists to employers of labour, they issue a special appeal...

In reply, Mr. Balfour, while sympathising with the agri- cultural

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community, whose burdens the Unionist Government had done their best to relieve, and would further relieve when our finances justified it, declared the amendment im-...

On Tuesday the question of compulsory Greek came before a

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largely attended meeting of Congregation at Oxford. The resolution submitted by the Hebdomadal Council was to the effect" that candidates shall not be required to offer both...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Friday 94.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH. M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the Guildhall was in one respect of most happy augury. It was the first time that he had been called upon to speak as head of his...

THE PRESENT PROBLEM OF PARLIAMENTS. E NGLISHMEN are not much governed

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by theories, but still they have their slow influence ; and we cannot think that Liberals and Radicals are wise, from their own point of view, in renouncing the theory as well...

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INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION IN FRANCE.

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A MORAL struggle of peculiar interest and import- ance . is in progress in North-Eastern France. The workers in the mines of the Departments of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais are...

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MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM. T HE series of articles on Municipal Socialism which

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the Times has been printing for nearly three months past came to an end on Tuesday. The writer sums up the con- clusions he has sought to establish in twenty-seven para- graphs,...

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THE BIRTHDAY HONOUR LIST. T HE list of honours conferred by

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the King on the occasion of his Majesty's birthday is one that is not calculated to startle, though it may amuse, the large public that is directly or indirectly interested in...

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GREEK AT OXFORD. T HE question of what share the teaching

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of Greek should take in a liberal education has once more arisen in an important form. A resolution has been submitted by the Hebdomadal Council to Congregation at Oxford which...

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RECENT SNAKE-LORE.

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T HE cheerful Australian writer who signs himself " Sun- downer " contributes a volume of fact and fancy to the snake-stories of the world. The "Tale of the Serpent" (Ghetto and...

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THE FARM-SERVANT'S SATURDAY NIGHT.

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A T times there is a temptation to believe not only that idyllic things are passing away, but even that they never existed ; that they were invented by men and women in despair...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — To one accustomed to the liberal and just tone of the Spectator the article on "The Power of the Laity in...

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(TO TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")

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Sia,—Referring to your article and remarks in the Spectator of November 8th with regard to the Kenyon-Slaney amend- ment to the Education Bill, will you allow an average Church-...

LTo TUE EDITOR OF TUE " Sinici.iTort."1 SIR,—Every loyal member

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of the Church of England must feel a debt of gratitude for the consistent manner in which the Spectator has championed the cause of the voluntary schools during the present...

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Your two articles on

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" A Soldier Secretary of State for War" and "The Power of the Laity in Religious Education" (Spectator, November 8th) curiously illustrate the different standards by which men...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Stn,—I was very sorry

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to read your article on religious education on November 8th. The writer speaks of ordina- tion as being " highly expedient as a setting apart of candi- dates for a noble...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—As a regular reader of your paper, and I hope a frequent learner from it, I should like to thank you for your leader on the Kenyon-Slaney amendment and your kind words...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—While thoroughly endorsing the

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spirit of your article on the power of the laity in religious education (Spectator, November 8th), one cannot help feeling some surprise at your statement that the laity do not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, If we clergy

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were more ready to trust our lay people, the amendment proposed by Colonel Kenyon-Slaney would not cause us much alarm. I cannot myself conceive any set of circumstances in...

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TEUTONIC ANGLOPHOBIA.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The articles and letters which have appeared in the Spectator in reference to the above subject have been par- ticularly interesting...

GERMANY IN SHANGHAI.

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[TO TILE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Reviewing politics is like squeezing a wet sponge,— write or squeeze how one may, the matter, as the sponge, is seldom squeezed dry....

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MATTHEW ARNOLD AND THE "POOR."

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.') SIn, — In craving your hospitality for a few remarks upon the kindly paragraph vouchsafed to my book, " A Whaleman's Wife," in the Spectator...

JOHN RUSKIN.

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En THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Your reviewer and a correspondent consider that Ruskin " hampered " himself, and made much of his other• criticism inconsistent, by his...

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SWISS RIFLE CLUBS.

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[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—This year I have been shooting with three different village clubs in Switzerland, and it has occurred to me that some account of my...

THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION.

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[To TUE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In his letter (October 11th) dealing with the scheme of a Macedonian principality put forward by the Spectator in its previous issue,...

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POETRY.

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A TOAST. THE CIVIL SERVANT—INDIA, AFRICA, THE COLONIES. GENTLEMEN, charge your glasses : glasses Flushing with welcome, brim to brim, Oft to your heroes have ye drained;...

BOOKS.

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STONEWALL JACKSON.* IT would be that too common object of the literary seashore, a work of supererogation, to dilate at this period upon the merits of this book. Its position...

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THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE.* Du. OSBORNE REYNOLDS, who is

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Professor of Engineering in the Owens College, Manchester, has been engaged for twenty years upon a research which promises to have a very remarkable effect upon our ideas as to...

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DONAT O'BRIEN.*

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IT would be difficult to find a better book of adventure than Captain O'Brien's, now for the first time reprinted under the auspices of Professor Oman. Simple and direct as a...

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NOVELS.

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LAVINIA.* MISS BBOUGHTON'S novels always exact the attention that is due to a slow producer in an age when machine-made fiction predominates, to the possessor of a style which...

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The Lord Protector. By S. Levett-Yeats. . (Cassell and Co.

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66.) —Mr. Levett-Yeats succeeds almost as well as is possible in lending freshness to a well-worn situation. The Royalist maiden who has an unworthy Cavalier and a worthy...

The Sentimental Warrior. By Edgar Jepson. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—We will

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frankly say that we were not sorry to get to the end of this novel, not because it is dull and ill-written, for it certainly is not, but because the atmosphere seemed to us...

The Jest of Fate. By Paul Lawrence Dunbar. (Jerrold and

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Sons. Gs.)—This is a novel by the well-known negro poet. He presents the reader with his photograph upon the first page. The story deals with negro life in New York, and it is...

The Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Cambridge.

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(Cambridge University Press. 3s.)—It is explained in the preface that the information given in this volume is not official, but that it has been carefully collected and revised...

Tales about Temperaments. By John Oliver Hobbes. (T. Fisher Unwin.

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2s. 6d. net.)—These " tales about temperaments" consist of three stories and two short plays. One of the plays called " Repentance " is decidedly striking. The scene is laid in...

A Romance of the Tuileries. By Francis Gribble. (Chapman s and

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Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Gribble treats a subject which has often been made the occasion of work that is bad in every sense with tact 'and delicacy. The heroine, brought 'up in a remote...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not been reserved for review in other forms.] In Pursuit of the Mad Mullah. By Captain Malcolm McNeill, D.S.O. (C....

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REPRINTS AND NEW EDITIONS.—Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Knight's

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Tale, and Nun's Priest's Tale. Edited by Andrew Ingraham. (Macmillan and Co. Is. net.)—The editor supplies practical directions for reading aloud (he seems doubtful whether we...

A Plan of Manchester, 1794. By William Green. (Falknor and

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Sons, Manchester.)—William Green, a native of Manchester, began his plan in 1'787 and finished it seven years later. It seems to have been most conscientiously done. Even then...

The Modern Conjurer. By C. Lang Neil. With an Introduction

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by Charles Bertram. (C. Arthur Pearson. 6s.)—This is a thorough manual of the conjurer's art. There is an essay on " General Principles of Natural Magic," another on " Manner...