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Mn. HUTTON and Canon Henson have produced books so dissimilar

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in structure, literary method, and theological out- look that a study of both will give us a closer approximation to historical truth than can be obtained from either. The...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 19th, 1904.

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Tins is a remarkably interesting book, dealing with a period

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of history by no means well known. It is a little unequal in execution, parts of it being quite delightful reading from the historical imagination and descriptive power shown in...

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THIS correspondence takes us to the heart of a typical

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domestic episode of eighteenth-century life in England. It is like a bit of Richardson condensed, not by an officious modern editor, but by the stress and strain of actual life....

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THIS is the last of what the publishers rightly describe

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as Mr. Henty's "great series of historical stories for boys." Year after year for many years we have had the pleasant task of noticing them,—sometimes there have been three or...

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Tam is one of the books which it seems so

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easy but is really so difficult to write as they should be written. Shipwrecks and battles and fights with savages and searches for buried treasure have to be taken for granted...

The Brown Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang. (Longmans and

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Co. 6s.)—Mr. Lang has to go far afield when he wishes to add a new volume to his many-coloured library of fairy-stories. But he does not go in vain. Fortunately for him,...

The Right o' the Lsne. By R. Power Berrey. (Nisbet

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and Co. Ss. 6d.)—When the Greeks were being marshalled before the battle of Plataea the Athenians and Tegeans disputed who should be placed on the wing which the Spartans, to...

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True Stories about Animals. By Edith Carrington. (Blackie and Son.

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2s.)—These "true stories" are very good to read. Miss Carrington, a well-known friend of animals, has chosen them judiciously. Some are old friends ; with others we make...

Tales from Plutarch. By F. Jameson Rowbotham. (T. Fisher Unwin.

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5s.)—" Tales from Plutarch" should have more of the Plutarch tone about them. He loved gossip; he was not senti- mental. He would not have put into the mouth of Alcibiades what...

Brought to Heel. By Kent Carr. (W. and R. Chambers.

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5s.) —This is a school story, in which a somewhat doubtful subject, the jealousy between the Classical Side and the newly established Modern Side, is made the turning-point. The...

The Three Graces. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Andrew Melrose. 3s. 6d.)—There

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is no need to say much about this book. It might serve well enough for a novel of the ordinary type, only with nothing in it that could be objected to. The story begins with a...

David Chester's Motto, "Honour Bright." By H. Escott - Inman. (F. Warne

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and Co. 3s. 6d.)—And a very good motto, too ; yet, perversely enough, we wonder whether two eases of conscience which occur in the story were settled in accordance with it. The...

The Faith of Hilary Lova. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (R.T.S. 3s.

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(ld.)—Mrs. Everett-Green always studies the period in which she elects to place the scene of her story. We have no fault to find with the accessories of her picture, which is a...

the story of the inventor, lends, of course, unusual interest

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to the accounts of Marconi's invention and the airships of Santos-Dumont. Railways and bridges are older affairs ; much of their romance is common property ; so that Mr....

Sons of Victory. By 0. V. Caine. (Nisbet and Co.

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5s.)—Now that the Russian armies are in the field, it is not inappropriate to have a story in which Suvoroff is a conspicuous personage. We are permitted to see the great man...

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Pierre. By Mrs. Arthur Bell. (J. M. Dent and Co.

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6s. net.) —This is a charming little "story of Normandy." Pierre Lejenne is treated, by the kindness of a neighbour, to a trip to the neighbouring market town. It is a...

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Marcus, the Young Centurion, by G. Manville Fenn (E. Nister,

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5s.), is a story of Caesar's wars in Gaul. It is somewhat vague and indefinite. There are battles, but one does not perceive where or how they were fought. The names, too, are...

" Beard brigands in their secret den, And be, in

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short, a hero then." "Then" is quite intolerable. When will it be understood that verse for children ought to be as good in its way as verso for " grown-ups " ? It is all the...

The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home (R.T.S., 7s.

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61 each) are as full as usual of excellent reading. In the first, besides the story with which it opens,"In All Time of Our Wealth" (already noticed in the Spectator), we may...

New EDITIONS.-By Pike and Dyke : a Tale of the

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Rise of the Dutch Republic, by G. A. Henty (Blackie and Son, 3s. (3d.) ; and from the same publishers : - (laptain Bayley's Heir : a Tale of the Gold Fields of California, also...

exhibits in his text the different narratives which he supposes

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to have been combined into the story as we have it; while in his footnotes he gives the main reasons for the discriminating process which has arrived at the result. Much of what...

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CHR.ISTMAS LITERATURE FOR THE BLIND.-" The Way They Have in

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the Navy" Calendar (1s. 3d.) ; "Day by Day" Monthly Readings (9d.) ; A Christmas Carol (5d.); Christmas Cards (from 1d. to 6d.) (Issued by the Editor of the Weekly Summary,...

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Early Hebrew Story : its Historical Background. By John P.

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Peters, D.D. (Williams and Norgate. 5s.)—In this book, the seventh volume of the "Crown Theological Library," we traverse a part of the ground which we have gone over in the...

question : How does criticism affect our position as Christians

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? The same topic is treated in the sermon which concludes the volume. In V. Dr. Ryle writes of the Mosaic Cosmogony ; in VI. he takes for his subject the "Element of Compilation...

The Bible Hand - Book : an Introduction to the Study of

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Sacred Scripture. By the late Joseph Angus, D.D. A New Edition by Samuel G. Green, D.D. (R.T.S. 6s. net.)—This book covers a much larger field of inquiry than any one of the...

Old Testament History. By Henry Preserved Smith, D.D. (T. and

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T. Clark. 12s.)—" The purpose of the present volume," writes Dr. Smith in his preface, "is to put into narrative form the results of recent Old Testament study." He treats the...

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Giovanni Costa. By Olivia Rossetti Agresti. (Grant Richards. .21 is.

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net.)—The biography of the distinguished Italian artist, the friend of Mason and Leighton, is largely a history of the liberation of Italy. Before all things Costa was a...

people on shore to thank tl em for their kind

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entertainment. We are also told how the Mayor of Scarborough was tossed in a blanket because he assaulted the clergyman who would not read James II.'s declaration for liberty of...

G. P. Watts. By G. K. Chesterton. (Duckworth and Co.

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2s. net.) —This is a brilliant little book which deals with the spirit of the artist rather than with chronologies and catalogues. Mr. Chesterton writes with great wealth of...

Many are the thrilling ineidents recorded in this book, which

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are interspersed with the ordinary daily work of the artist, the subject of the biography. On one occasion Costa was trying to do some "gun running" near the Appian Way, when he...

Old Testament Criticism and the Christian Church, by J. E.

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MacFadyen (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.), treats, in more detail and in an argumentative rather than a persuasive style, of the same subject. The author holds the balance between...

Impressionist Painting. By Wynford Dewhurst. (G. Newnes. 25s. net.)—This volume

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does not add much of importance to the facts and views of M. Mauclair, who has made a special study of Impressionism. In spite of this, it is welcome, for the views are sound...

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Phil May in Australia. (Edwards, Dunlop, and Co. ..t1 is.

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net.) —This large book full of drawings represents Phil May's work for the Sydney Bulletin. As we turn the pages we marvel at the brilliant skill, the incisive satire, and the...

Memoirs of Alexander I. and the Court of Russia. By

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Madame la Comtesse de Choiseul-Gouffier. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co. 52. net.)—Much of what we know concerning Alexander and his Court has been drawn from these Memoirs of...

Liber Studiorum. By J. M. W. Turner. (G. Newnes. 10s.

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6d. net.) —Mr. C. F. Bell has written a short historical introduction to this collection of process reproductions of the great work. It is, no doubt, an advantage to have for a...

Examination of an Old Manuscript Preserved in the Library of

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the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick. By J. Le Marchant Douse. (Taylor and Francis. 2s. 6d. net.)—The manuscript here examined is the Northumberland manuscript, a facsimile of...

somewhat misleading, the title of Mr. Free's story of his

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sojourn in the East End is none the less appropriate. Other men know the East End of London, the Millwall that Mr. Free laboured in, but none have shown us the heart of that...

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Heralds of Revolt. By William Barry, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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7s. 6d.)—Although the author of these "Studies in Modern Literature and Dogma "—we prefer the sub-title of this book to the title, more imposing though that is—has a perilous...

A Short History of Ancient Peoples. By Robinson Souttar. (Hodder

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and Stoughton. 12s.)—In the second edition of Dr. Robinson Souttar's useful compendium of ancient history atten- tion is rightly drawn to the extraordinary widening of our...

Han and his Environment. Edited by John P. Kingsland. (John

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Murray. 7s. 6d.)—According to Mr. Kingsland, this volume is based upon the notebooks left him by a friend who had for many years led a life of solitary thought, the general...

Duol/ing Stories of the Sixteenth Century. From the French of

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Brantome. By George H. Powell. Illustrated. (I. H. Bullen. 7s. (Id. net.)—There are few more entertaining gossippers in literature than garrulous old Bra.nt6me, whose fifteen...

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• A Backward Glance: the Story of John Ridley, a

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Pioneer. By Annie E. Ridley. (J. Clarke and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Ridley was a notable combination of the practical man and the mystic. He invented a reaping machine, which helped...

An Impressionist in England. By F. Horace Rose. (J. M.

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Dent and Co. 4s. 6d.)—This is a volume of interesting sketches, chiefly, though not exclusively, dealing with "impressions" of England by an evidently very capable South African...

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During the week there have been many rumours of "

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hitches " in the negotiations with Russia, but on Friday the Daily Mail published a statement of a reassuring nature, declaring that they "understand the only outstanding point"...

M. Maurice Berteaux may, however, make his mark in the

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reorganisation of the Army. Though by training a stock- broker, in which capacity he has accumulated a great fortune, he was early recognised in the Chamber as a man of the...

T HE news from the front is still of an indecisive

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character, but another element of romance has been added to the siege of Port Arthur by the successful flight from the land and water beleaguered city of a torpedo-boat bearing...

General Andre, the Republican Minister of War, has fallen: He

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has evidently been told by his colleagues that after the vote of the Chamber, which acquitted him of the charge of espionage by a majority of only 2, he has become a source of...

The debate in the French Chamber on the Anglo-French Agreement

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ended on Saturday last, when the House voted a distinct declaration of approval by 436 votes to 94. The entire Convention was then ratified by 443 votes to 105. This majority,...

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e of Devonshire, Mr. orster, and Sir William Harcourt ......

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............ 795 " Hymns Ancient and Modern" as having been taken is eminently characteristic of German diplomacy. The Duke of Devonshire and

• NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Discussing the position of the Unionist leaders, the Duke contended

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that if words had any meaning, the policy of the Tariff Reform League had been openly and decisively re- pudiated by the responsible leaders of the Unionist party. He could not...

The Duke of Devonshire addressed a great Free-trade meeting, organised

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by the Free-Trade League, at Rawtenstall last Saturday. By the Premier's own admission, they had got into a dangerous impasse, and he could not doubt that the Government would...

The King and Queen of Portugal arrived in England on

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Tuesday, and were received with even more than the honour usually paid to Sovereigns, a mighty fleet having been assembled at Spithead to give them a characteristic welcome, the...

The Board of Trade inquiry into the North Sea outrage

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was opened at Hull on Tuesday before Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge and Mr. Butler Aspinall, K.C. The inquiry has been divided into two parts, the first dealing with the actual...

Count Tisza, the Hungarian Premier, made a speech on November

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14th which a few years ago would have marked him as a dangerous character. He is determined to prevent, or at least to limit, the use of obstruction in the Hungarian Parliament...

The official organs of Vienna assert that a Russian loan,

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said to be for £50,000,000 sterling, is about to be admitted to the German market, "thanks to the benevolent tendencies of the German Imperial Government." Germany in fact, it...

who would not pledge himself to oppose Mr. Chamberlain's policy,

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is not to be taken as merely a recommendation in favour of abstention but of no further action. On the con- trary, the Duke asserts his definite approval of the course pursued...

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While crediting the Opposition with the desire to main- tain

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a continuity of sound naval policy, Lord Selborne in somewhat exaggerated fashion deplored their ignoble and unconstitutional intention to upset everything else the Government...

Speaking at the Conservative Colston Banquet at Bristol on Monday

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night, Lord Selborne congratulated his hearers on the prospect of a pacific settlement of the North Sea affair. Dealing with the governing factors regulating the size of the...

We greatly regret that the pressure on our space does

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not allow us to deal in detail with the most important deputation, headed by Mr. Justice Grantham, which on Thursday waited on Mr. Long in regard to those reforms of the...

We regret to record the death on Tuesday of Lord

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North- brook, once Viceroy of India, and one of the most efficient of the many statesmen whom the house of Baring has produced. He was through his long life—he was born in...

The result of the polling at Horsham was declared last

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Saturday, Lord Tumour being elected by a majority of 784 votes. Lord Tumour polled 4,388, and Mr. Erskine 3,604 votes. This has been proclaimed by the Protectionists as a great...

Lord Rosebery delivered on Monday in the Debating Hall of

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the Oxford Union Society a speech of a kind which, so far as we know, could be uttered only in this country. It was an eloquent, and, as we believe, an accurate, appreciation of...

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LL Unionist Free-traders are grateful to the Duke of Devonshire

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for the manly and straightforward speech in which he addressed his Lancashire audience on Saturday last. After the sophistries and ambiguities on which so many of our statesmen...

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T HE vote of the Chamber passed on Saturday last on

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the Anglo-French Agreement is really a considerable event. It was, of course, certain that the Deputies would ratify the Agreement, for if they had not done so the Government...

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N O one should place complete confidence in the rumours of

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vast changes in Russian internal policy, of social disturbances, and of commercial ruin which pour in week by week, and almost day by day, from St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Moscow,...

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T HE new Member for the Horsham division of Sussex has

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only just completed his twenty-first year. This is a conspicuous return to a state of things which seemed almost to have passed away. Youth has long ceased to be a...

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W E are delighted to see signs that the nation is

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about to take the question of physical education into serious consideration. No one can doubt the need for paying attention to this subject who studies the health statistics of...

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It is needless to say that if we believed that

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the study of Greek were likely to disappear from the curriculum either of the great public schools or the Universities, as a consequence of the measures proposed by the...

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T HE link between a man's writing and himself is often

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invisible, yet almost every writer with any serious claim to consideration displays a consistent personality. The strange thing is that that personality appears very often not...

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The Thames Salmon Association, which was founded as a society

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in 1898, have had very little space to make their trials in, for it naturally took some time to settle the "how" and the "where." But they are as fortunate in their place as...

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[The following letters which have passed between Mr. St. Loa

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Strachey and the Duke of Devonshire have been sent to us for publication.] DEA.R DUKE OF DEvoNsarRE,—May I venture to trouble you with a question in regard to the last passage...

DEAR MR. STRACHEY,—I have no difficulty in – replying to your letter

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of the 14th inst. The words in my speech which you quote were certainly not intended to limit the action which Unionist Free-traders may think it right to take in any election,...

MR. PEARSON AND THE "STANDARD." [TO TRH EDITOR OP THE

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'SPECTATOR:1 feel that I can rely upon your courtesy and sense of fairness to allow me to reply to some aspects of the state- ments made and opinions expressed in your last...

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rTo TEE EOTT011 OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The evidence given before

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the Merchant Marine Com- mission now sitting in the United States under an Act of Congress approved in April of this year will afford instruc- tion to those of your readers who...

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Sra,—As one of the Unionist Free-traders who ventured to defend

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in your pages a Parliamentary attitude of friendliness towards the Government so long as Mr. Balfour did not repudiate the Sheffield utterances of October, 1903, I now ask to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I enclose a letter

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and declaration which speak for themselves. I shall be glad to receive the names of those who are willing to sign the declaration, and still more glad to hear of any who will...

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" We are His folk, He doth us feed,

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And for His sheep He doth us take," because the prose version runs : "We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture." And it may well be, as Canon Hutton suggests, that "...

me since the date of the inception of the force

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in 1859-60, when, with others, I used to drill four hours a day for months together. May I, then, be allowed to express the opinion that no truer words could have been written,...

Sin,—May I crave of your courtesy to correct the signature

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of my letter in the Spectator of November 12th? Illegibility leaves the fault entirely with me. You say, Sir, that "the fact that Russia is at war with an enemy fourteen...

I.TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—The writer of the interesting appreciation of the Duke of Devonshire's Life in the Spectator for Novem- ber 12th speaks of Mr. Forster as having been "forced to stand aside...

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[TO THE EDITOR Or TER " SPECTATOR."I

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Snt,—As Professor Dowden seems so anxious to get up a scare in England on the strength of certain words used by me at a meeting of the clergy here last June, and as you are...

Watching the strangers eat their food.

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And what we offered her she took In silence, with her quiet look, And when we rose to go, content Without a word of thanks she went. Another day in sleet and rain I chose the...

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A POET OF IMMORTALITY.* some completeness through his other writings,

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still more to those who knew him personally. To readers who did not so know him they will probably, fragmentary as they are, be some- what enigmatic, and will give them but an...

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net. realism will not give his saints one unlikely virtue,

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or his fools PURITANISM in its day produced many noble figures of men, but Cromwell and Bunyan were its most typical representa- tives, and therefore, in a sense, the most...

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THE majority of reminiscence-mongers have "no call," as the Irish

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say, to indulge in that somewhat perilous pastime. Mr. Hussey, on the other hand, has a host of indisputable qualifi- cations,—antecedents, age, temperament, and experience. He...

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Mn. CONEAD . S new book shows in the highest relief the

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characteristic merits and defects of his work. He has a. greater range of knowledge—subtle idiomatic knowledge— of the strange ways of the world than any contemporary writer. He...

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The Life of James Hood Wilson, RD. By James Wells,

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D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Dr. J. H. Wilson was minister of the Barclay (Free) Church, Edinburgh, for thirty-nine years (1864-1903); for fifty, if we reckon in the...

The Ring from Jaipur. By Frances N. Peard. (Smith, Elder,'

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and Co. 6s.)—This is a story of Anglo-Indian life, and the ring front Jaipur is useful in bringing a very unreasonable young lady - to her senses. It is, perhaps, a little...

The Farm of the Dagger. By Eden Phillpotts. (George Newnes.

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38. 6d.)—Mr. Phillpotts has one of the highest qualities of the novelist, the power of weaving a tale so in accord with a landscape that the human * action and the natural...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the welt

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as haw not Leen. reeerved fur review in other forms.] Outlines of the Synoptic Record. By the Rev. Bernard Hugh Bosanquet and Reginald A. Wenham, M.A. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—"...

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Naw EDITION8.—In the series of "The World's Great Sermons" (R.T.S.),

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Selected Sermons of Hugh. Latimer, B. 4- m., and. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield, with Introduction by the Rev. A. R. Buckland (1s. per vol.)—Ancient History. By Philip...

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