16 JANUARY 1904

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The third reply of the Porte to Russia and Austria's

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Note embodying the demands of the Powers in regard to Macedonia is summarised in Friday's Times. The chief feature of this unsatisfactory document consists in the attempt to...

M. Combes, the Frenoh Premier, delivered on Monday a strong,

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even a passionate, speech against Clericalism at the annual banquet of the Republican Committee of Commerce and Industry. He declared that peace was the first need and first...

T HE news from Japan this week, which, remember, is sharply

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censored, has been a little contradictory, and nothing definitive has occurred. On Tuesday matters looked black, for a telegram reached the Times stating that the 'Chinese...

A feature of the week has been the appearance of

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a sort of spasm of courage in the counsels of Pekin. The Chinese Foreign Office has suddenly agreed to a treaty with America under which the port of Mukden and two other ports...

It is extremely difficult to discern what is passing at

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Pekin ; how far the Chinese Government is in favour of the Japanese, or to what extent the reforms in the Chinese Army have actually been carried out. The Japanese Government'...

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Mr. Balfour addressed his constituents in East Manchester on Monday

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in an important speech, which is said to have fallen a little flat upon his audience. It was not, however, addressed to them, but to the Unionist party at large. Its general...

The Foreign Offices of Great Britain and France are under-

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stood to be following up their Treaty of Arbitration by a deliberate and honest attempt to come to agreements upon all the questions which now divide, or are likely to divide,...

We have analysed the correspondence between the Duke of Devonshire

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and Mr. Chamberlain elsewhere, but must add here that the victory which many presage for Mr. Chamber- lain will, we think, prove unreal. He may obtain a majority vote of the...

Sir F. D. Lngard's Report on Northern Nigeria for the

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year 1902, which is published this week as a Blue-book, is full of valuable information. It contains a complete account of the Kano Campaign, which brought about the end of the...

Mr. Balfour discussed nothing during his speech but fiscal reform,

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but he apologised for not entering upon foreign affairs. His reason was that "while Great Britain will to the full carry out all her Treaty engagements and obliga- tions in...

On Sunday Sir Charles Egerton encountered a large force of

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the Mullah's followers, estimated at about five thousand, at Jidballi, in the Nogal Valley, and completely routed them. He reports that this was probably the Mullah's chief...

Mr. Balfour was entertained by the Manchester Conser- vative Club

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to luncheon on Tuesday, and made an interesting speech. He would not, he said, speak on the fiscal problem, but asked leave to compress his speech of the previous night into two...

On Sunday Sir Charles Egerton encountered a large force of

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the Mullah's followers, estimated at about five thousand, at Jidballi, in the Nogal Valley, and completely routed them. He reports that this was probably the Mullah's chief...

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Major Seely, the Conservative Member for the Isle of Wight

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who served with distinction in the war, has a strong letter on the Chinese labour question in the Times of Tuesday. The importation of these "yellow slaves," Major Seely...

Those who weary of interminable discussions on the fiscal question

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should read the article on " Free Trade and the Unionist Party " in the new number of the Edinburgh Review. It is a masterly summary of the whole situation, and the writer's...

The Board of Trade Returns for 1903, briefly alluded to

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in our last issue, will require very adroit handling to prove of any assistance to Mr. Chamberlain. The total volume of trade is valued at £903,000,000, or £25,000,000 above...

Mr. Chamberlain has completed his Tariff Commission, an additional list

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of fourteen names, bringing the total up to fifty-eight, having been published on Wednesday. The new members include Sir Charles Elliott, the distinguished Indian civilian,...

Mr. Chamberlain was the principal guest of the Birmingham Jewellers'

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and Silversmiths' Association on Monday, and spoke for an hour on Imperial policy. Dealing with the charge of unpreparedness in connection with the war, Mr. Chamberlain said it...

While this branch of our trade had diminished, our trade

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with our Colonies had increased. But this trade was already seriously threatened by foreign tariffs, and would (unless we reformed our fiscal policy) go the way of our export...

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman addressed a Liberal meeting at Maidstone on

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Wednesday, and made some good points. The Prime Minister, he pointed out, had recently delivered a homily on the dangers of baste, but meanwhile the author of the proposed...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 88.

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it may be even to Ministers, rather than to electors,

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and it pathised with the agent who had gone ? He knew there gives them both a loophole. There must be many among was plenty of time. He knew, or might have known, that them who...

THE END OF LIBERAL UNIONISM. impossible, with any advantage, to

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maintain under the pre- sent circumstances the existence of the Liberal Unionist organisation." If it continues, the central office will have to subsidise local associations...

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W E are still unable to believe that peace will be

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kept between Russia and Japan. The difference between the interests, as well as between the aspirations, of the two Powers is too nearly incurable to be settled by diplomacy....

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S LR ROBERT ANDERSON, formerly head of the Criminal Investigation Department

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at Scotland Yard, has had a remarkable measure of success in educating opinion, both official and public, towards agree- ment with the conclusions he himself adopted as the...

T HINGS begin to go better in Somaliland This week brings

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us the news of the first real success which has attended the British arms. It is not yet clear whether the force of five thousand men which Sir Charles Egerton scattered on...

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A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS.

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A S distances shrink and facilities for rapid transit in- crease, some change must take place in the interests and sympathies of mankind. The enlargement of the mental horizon...

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THE PLACE OF PAGEANTRY IN NATIONAL THOUGHT.

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I T is only on rare occasions, such as the coronation of a King, the opening of Parliament, or the reception of a foreign Monarch, that the people of these islands are re-...

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THE BIRDS' BEDTIME.

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G IVEN certain circumstances, there are few things more enjoyable than a thoroughly wet day. Two conditions at least are necessary to this enjoyment. It must be abso- lutely...

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,-The great weight justly attaching to the opinions or Mr. Charles Booth renders it important to examine the proposals for fiscal reform...

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BURKE AND ADAM SMITH ON THE FISCAL QUESTION.

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[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] have come by chance across a passage in Lecky's " England in the Eighteenth Century " which bears on the question of the day, and to which I...

HOW TO CONSOLIDATE THE FREE-TRADE FORCES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srit,—The Spectator appears to be the only newspaper which until now has recognised the paramount importance of con- solidating the...

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[TO THE RD/TOR OP THB "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—It must be incomprehensible to most people of British birth why Mr. Henry Foljambe Hall and some few others who feel as he does can so persistently go out of their way to...

SIB,—I have no doubt that many Liberals who, like myself,

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cherish hopes of.special reforms are exercised in their minds as to their active co-operation with others, who may not have the same convictions, in the crisis aroused by this...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THY " SPECTATOR."]

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SIR, — It is urgently necessary in the interests of Free-trade that a compromise on the education question be speedily arrived at. The Norwich election is showing clearly that...

SIR,—I think that Mr. Hall's letter in the Spectator of

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January 2nd is open to a good deal of comment. As regards the composition of Napoleon's army, I quite agree that the number of veterans must have been exceedingly small. The...

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[TO THE EDITOR OD THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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Sin,—Published some thirty years ago, the Waterloo narrative of Fanny Burney, the epoch-making lady novelist of forty years earlier (see Spectator, January 9th), has no...

THE ANTI-AGGRESSION SOCIETY.

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f To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sin,—In the Spectator of January 9th you mention an article in the Contemporary Review in which a Mr. Alexander Ular congratulates Lord...

WELLINGTON AND BLUCHER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps you will allow me to correct an error into which your corrrespondent Mr. H. G. Keene (Spectator, January 9th) has fallen. So...

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ETON IN 1829-1830.

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[TD THE Mnros OF THE “spacrirop....] Sim,—In your notice in the Spectator of January 2nd of Mr. T. K. Selwyn's " Eton in 1829-1830 " you state that the late Lord Justice...

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY AT 111..6 NEW GALLERY.

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THE Exhibitions of the International Society are always looked forward to with interest by those whose outlook is not limited by a parochial view of art. The present collection...

THE HOME-RULE QUESTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB,—May I—a political atom, or rather, an electron, but one with a vote which would have been given for Home-rule before Mr....

DR. KEATE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The most remarkable thing about Dr. Keats was the singular successes of the boys. Among those at Eton from 1820 to 1829 were twelve...

WARREN HASTINGS OR CLIVE P

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your reviewer says (Spectator, January 9th) that Dr. Sandys quotes Warren Hastings, and says : " I am astounded at my own...

POETRY.

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AT THE GATE. BEYOND the gate I see a hand, It beckons me and I must go, The garden plot grows small and I Must rise and travel forth and know- Ah, little son, 'tis but the white...

THE MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts., — I notice that in your excellent review of Mr. Chirol's book, "The Middle Eastern Question," in the Spectator of January 9th, you...

JAPANESE IDEALS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space to assure Mr. Norman (Spectator, January 9th) that a willingness to abandon British supremacy in India...

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BOOKS.

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WE cannot pay Miss Ida Taylor the compliment of saying that in writing this Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald she has pre- served with absolute consistency the judicial temper...

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VENICE AND ITS STORY.*

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IT is a strong witness to the perennial charm of Venice that a new book on the subject is always welcome, though one would have thought that everything had been said already a...

ENGLISH LITERATURE.*

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THE second and fourth volumes of Messrs. Garnett and Gosse's illustrated record of English literature do not belie the promise of their predecessors. That is to say, they...

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SOME BOOKS ON AFRICA.*

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Tan sources of the Nile formed for more than two thousand years the chief speculation of geographers, and, as Sir Harry Johnston well says, since the discovery of America they...

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FOR TIIE WHITE ROSE.•

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JUDGED by statistics, there can be little doubt as to the superior attractiveness of the '45 to the '15 in providing novelists with the raw materials of romance. Mr. Wymond....

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Two Sides of the Face. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. (J.

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W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—The first of these eight stories, " Stephen of Steens," has a very strong Cornish flavour indeed. The hero has been ousted from the property held...

The Black Familiars. By L. B. Walford. (J. Clarke and

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Co. 6s.)—We are accustomed to see Mrs. L. B. Walford's name on the title-pages of novels of modern life, and accustomed also to find something good in them. We cannot...

Greek Story and Song. By the Rev. Alfred J. Church.

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With 16 Illustrations after the Antique. (Seeley and Co. 6s.)— Professor Church, who has done so much to make the unlearned value the literary wealth of Greece and Rome, and...

The Ways of a Millionaire. By Oswald Crawfurd, C.M.G. (Chapman

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and Hall. 6s.)—The title of Mr. Oswald Crawfurd's book suggests that the millionaire in its pages will be found to indulge in all sorts of nefarious practices. On the...

The Trackless Way. By E. Rentoul Esler. (Brimley Johnson. 6s.) — This

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book can hardly fail to remind the reader of a certain famous novel. Mr. Gideon Horville is a Presbyterian minister, not an Anglican ; his mentor is not a sceptical squire, but...

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The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. (Hodder

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and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This annual volume (VIII. of the sixth series) is full, as usual, of excellent matter. Most of the articles do not admit of brief description. We may...

DOCTORS AND THEIR WORK.

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Doctors and their Work. By Robert Brudenell Carter. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—From the layman's point of view, this must be accounted one of the most sensible and practical...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for renew in other forms.] A Versatile Professor. Edited by the Rev. G. Cecil White. (R. Brimley...

The German Emperor's Speeches. Translated by Louis Elkind, M.D. (Longmans

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and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—We may remind our readers that this work was reviewed in the Spectator of Novem- ber 8th, 1902, not long after its first appearance in Germany. Various...

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Of annual publications we have to notice The Church Directory

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and Almanac (Nisbet and Co., 28. net), consisting of three parts, —(1) "General Information," reaching to sixty pages, and giving, along with a calendar, various details about...

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Three pretty and very cheap little volumes published by Mr.

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Albert Broadbent, Manchester (3d.), may be mentioned together, —A Treasury of Translations (Verse), by W. E. A. Axon, Selected by Albert Broadbent ; The Emerson Treasury,...

NEW EDITIONS.—In the "World's Classics" (Grant Richards), History of Civilisation

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in England, by Henry Thomas Buckle, Vol. IL (18. net); and Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis (1s. net). We are not told by whom the translation was executed, or...

A New English Dictionary. Edited by Dr. James A. H.

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Murray. " Outyet-Ozat." (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d.)—This section concludes the letter " 0," leaving " P " to complete Vol. VII. of the great work. It makes the customary...