THE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES.* Trris, the second volume in point of time of The Cambridge Modern History, " narrates the history of Canada, and of the Colonies, French and...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 21st, 1903.

THE moral of the exceedingly self-righteous and disciplinary work before us is, briefly, that before any kind of civic improve- ment can be made the reproduction of the human...

AMONG the medley of new fancies—humorous, sentimental, grotesque, "precious "—that masquerade at this time of year under the insinuating domino of the nursery-book cover, it is...

story of Owen Glyndwr's Rebellion, and in the vivid description of the first phase of the Franco-Prussian War, events separated by nearly five centuries. " Cambria's chieftain"...

TWO SHORT ROMANCES.* Ma. EDEN Puruxbrrs dedicates this story to his son and tc "all other brave British and American boys." "Why," some stern moralist may ask, "why a story of...

Arthur Pearson. 5s.)—The engineer certainly seems to be a greater benefactor than the artist, or the poet, or the novelist, and most young people will perhaps agree to this,...

6d. each), with their judicious blending and distinction of the religious and the secular, deserve, as usual, a hearty welcome. One of the longer tales in the Sunday at Home,...

is a slight—we may say a very slight—story, but told with taste. If the bachelor uncle and spinster aunt, the wilful niece and the audacious lover, are somewhat conventional...

Co. 6s.)—This is, as usual, a pretty book, and, as usual also, admirably illustrated. Now and then we are inclined to think that the stories chosen are not as good as they were,...

Us. and 3s.) is a well-illustrated volume, as the names of the artists mentioned on the title-pag,e would lead us to expect. And the reading, too, is varied and interesting, of...

eighteenth annual issue. There is a variety of reading, and a plentiful supply of pictures, coloured, sometimes a little crudely, and plain. We may suggest to the writer who...

as we can make out from the preface and the title-page, a story told long ago by Clement C. Moore, LL.D. (We may remark that " L.L." is not the equivalent of Legum.) At any...

3s. 6d.)—This is a spirited narrative of the services of the Guards, from Charles H.'s time down to the present day. By "Guards" must be understood in the first instance the...

among gift-books, may be mentioned together. These are The Boy's Own Reciter, for Home, School, and Platform Use, edited by G. A. Hutchison, and The Girl's Own Reciter, edited...

of incident, if of no very exciting nature, and change of scene in the story of Ralph Sinclair's success in making a fresh start. He allows even his own mother and sister to...

and Co. 6s.)—The story of Quebec still exercises its fascination over the historical novelist, and it must be admitted that Mr. Henham has expressed it to some purpose. He has...

Chambers. 6s.)—This is one of Mrs. Meade's very dramatic and almost tragical stories. Christian Mitford overhears her father and mother, who are about to leave England,...

F. Shaw and Co., 3s.), is a collection of tales which range, in their subject- matter, over a considerable space of time and country. Robin Hood, Napoleon, British soldiers in...

a story as this is all too rare among books professedly written for boys. Jack Rodney is his own enemy, and the false steps he makes are such as any schoolboy with an inability...

Co. 6s.) —The story of Charles's flight after Worcester will always have a fascination for people of all ages. Mr. Caine has revived it with a skilful use of the known facts of...

Patriotism under Three Flags. By Ralph Lane. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—In the introduction to his book, which contains its "philosophy," Mr. Lane tells his readers that "the...

Melrose. 3s. 6d.)—This is a continuation of the "Story of Girl Life in Australia" which was given in a volume entitled "Teens." Lennie Leighton is now at school. She does not...

S. Scott and A. Hodge. (T. Nelson and Sons. is. 6d.)—The young heroes of the "Round Tower" are meant for a naval career, but the elder Inheriting his uncle's property in...

THE BEGINNINGS OF POETRY. The Beginnings of Poetry. By F. B: Gummere, Professor d English in Haverford College. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d.)— Professor Gummere has written a...

The Educational Conquest of the Far East. By Robert E. Lewis. (The Fleming H. Revell Company. 3s. 6d.)—This book is described, not at all egotistically, as "the first adequate...

Pagan and Puritan : the " Octatius" of Minucius. Freely translated by Arthur Aikin Brodribb. (G. Bell and Sons. 3s. ed.) —Minucius Felix, about whom we know nothing, not even...

The Lighter Branches of Agriculture. By Edith Bradley and Bertha in Mothe. (Chapman and Hall. 5s. net.)—This is the sixth volume of "The Woman's Library," appearing under the...

The Pedagogue at Play. By G. M. A. Hewett. (George Allen. 6s.)—We regret to have to say that Mr. Hewett's new book is a great disappointment. We read his "Open-Air Boy" with...

Memoirs of a Child. By Annie Steger Winston. (Longmans and Co. 2s.).—"Nothing in particular happened to her; she did nothing at all remarkable ; and not even any especially...

Guidance from Robert Browning in Matters of Faith. By John A. Hutton. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 2s. 6d.)— Although some may think there has been an abundance, if not a...

Poems and Hymns of Samuel John Stone. With a Memoir by F. G. Ellerton, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Stone was the author of one of the most popular of modern hymns, "The...

The Apostle Paul. By Alexander Whyte, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 3s. 6c1.)—The author of this volume is one of the most popular preachers in Scotland, and although...

Round the Home of a YorkAirs Parson. By the Rev. A. N. Cooper. (A. Brown and Sons. 38. &L)—The "Yorkshire Parson's Home" is Filey, and his recollections are, to a certain...

Ideals in Practice. By the Countess Zamoyska. Translated from the French by Lady Margaret Domvile. With a Preface by Miss Mallock. (Art and Book Company. 2s. net.)—We learn from...

Izaak Walton and his Friends. By Stapleton Martin, M.A. (Chapman and Hall. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Martin is an enthusiastic Waltonian, and has given us here, as the outcome of...

By Lakeland Dells and Fells. By W. T. Palmer. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—Perhaps the best part of this book is to be found in the first section, entitled "Shepherd Life among the...

Ideas of Good and Evil. By W. B. Yeats. (A. H. Bullen. 6s.) —There is a good deal of confused thinking of the Maeterlinekian type in this book, which deals with "The Celtic...

Sport on the Blue Nile. By Isaac Charles Johnson. (Banks and Son. is. 6d.)—Mr. Johnson's story of his sporting adventures does not differ materially from other books of the...

Sporting Yarns. By Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. Haggard, D.S.O. (Hutchinson and Co. 5a. net.)—This is a book which should please the general reader and delight the sportsman. One...

Studies in Nature and Country Life. By Catherine and W. C. D. Whetham. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a small but very admirable book, to be used by the...

Thirty Seasons in Scandinavia. By E. B. Kennedy. (E. Arnold. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Kennedy thinks that if one fished for a hundred seasons, there would always be something new...

Cities. By Arthur Symons. (J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Symons has written descriptions of—or shall we say meditations about ?—eight European cities. (Strictly...

Milton on the Continent. By Mrs. Fanny Byse. (Elliot Stock. 35. 6d.)—Mrs. Byse works out with much ingenuity a theory of the date at which Milton wrote "L'Allegro" and "Ii...

Rex Christus : an. Outline Study of China. By Arthur H. Smith. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) — Mr. A. H. Smith, who is con- nected, we suppose, with American missions in...

The Stage Shakespeare. (W. Collins and Son. is. 3d. net per volume.)—We have here six plays of what is to be, we suppose, a complete edition. A " Stage " edition is not an...

(George New - nes. 3s. 6d. net.)—This reprint of the edition of 1818 makes a very neat little volume, more than eight hundred pages being compressed into a very small compass...

(Mitchell and Hughes.)—Lord Powerscourt briefly relates the history of his family, so far as it is concerned with its Irish seat,—Powerscourt, in the county of Wexford. The...

on the 10th inst. a Note in which they peremptorily required submission to their proposals. They reminded the Sultan that the tendency in Europe to demand a separate...

delivered in the Senate on the 17th inst. He is a Freethinker bitterly hostile to the Church, which he thinks to be founded on the principles of old Roman Caesarism, and to...

.THE King and Queen of Italy arrived at Portsmouth on 1. Ttiesday, and proceeded straight to Windsor on their visit to King Edward. The reception was a little marred by the...

on his war against monastic institutions. While declining to accept a proposal introduced by M. Girard which would debar any person vowed to celibacy from teaching in any...

of abstinence from loud speaking and " sharp " food the Emperor will be completely recovered, and have, therefore, stopped all further bulletins. The result is creditable not...

case.

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defeat by the Lamas who govern Tibet. These persons, though formally warned of their folly by the Maharajah of Nepal, who is their feudatory as well as ours, after four months...

length elsewhere, and will only say here that by some mental process which we confess we find it quite impossible to follow he appears to have arrived at the conclusion that...

his internal troubles. The Bulgarians have returned a Chamber in which a large majority is favourable to his Government, and he has crushed a military conspiracy which was...

been distributed to the Chambers. Drawn up by M. de Pressense, it is singularly free from Jingoism. The Report welcomes the rapprochement of France with Great Britain and Italy...

from the attacks made upon him, proceeded to declare that those who peculiarly prided themselves on being the representatives of the true Free-trade doctrines were nothing of...

Mr. Balfour spoke on the fiscal policy in a tone which we suppose was meant to show that the support which Sir Michael Hicks Beach tendered him and the Government later in the...

and the explanation of the increased imports from Morocoo, are not the only damaging criticisms to which Mr. Chamberlain's hebdomadal budget of inaccuracies has been subjected....

to take leave of the Agents-General for the Colonies, and delivered a most interesting speech on the evolution of his fiscal policy. His supreme object, which had never varied...

Report issued this week by Mr. Henry Birchenough, the Board of Trade Special Commissioner, who visited South Africa early in this year to inquire into the prospects of British...

Frome. After a general criticism of the GoVernment, he formally accepted the assurances of Lord Rosebery's Leicester speech, and in a passage which his audience seem to have...

General Staff on the South African War were given iu the Times of last Saturday. The general verdict on Lord Methuen at Magersfontem is much more favourable than that passed on...

the health of Lord Roberts, who has been laid up with an attack of pneumonia. Last Sunday, indeed, the reports pointed to a very grave condition. Happily, however, the serious...

inst. he was riding home to Simla, when in one of the small tunnels on the road a coolie suddenly started up. Lord Kitchener's horse, frightened, swerved violently against a...

on Friday 88f.

SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH. T, ISTEN to the talk of those who fought in the South African 'War, and you will find that they always judge men according to whether they could or...

W E may fairly hope that Lord Kitchener's accident, serious as it is, will not disable him for long, but the news of it must have been a most annoying blow to the Government of...

I T is hardly necessary to say that we do not wish to see the Church of England descend into the political areaa„ and in its corporate capacity take a share in party strife. Not...

TIRE frank cordiality of the reception given by London 1 to the King and Queen of Italy will awaken observers to facts which will cause future historians some per- plexity. They...

strike may be supposed to have pleased Lord Penrhyn, but it can hardly have pleased any one else. The defeat of the men will inevitably leave much bitterness behind it. The...

N O counter has been more shamefully abused in argument than the unfortunate word "nature," whether employed alone as descriptive of some primordial essence whose existence is...

I T is, we believe, a fact accepted by students of criminal statistics that though one of the most noteworthy features of the social progress of the last fifty years has been a...

M R. F. T. SULLEN in a striking article in the County Gentleman of November 14th describes a battle between seagulls and rooks. The rooks resented the intru- sion of a single...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—Your correspondent "W. E. B." in the Spectator of November 7th asks why glass chemical apparatus is so largely, if not exclusively,...

THE NET RESULT OF THE FISCAL CONTROVERSY. [TO THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May an outsider, a non-trader, who has studied with deep interest both figures and arguments,...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The replies of Mr. Scarf and of "Galvaniser" (Spectator, November 14th) to the letters of Mr. Ellis seem to come to this : that as their own trades are not...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATO5.1 SIR,—Enclosed is an extract from a letter recently received by me from the secretary of the Pontardulais Trades and Labour Council.—I am,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The letter of "A Fiscal Reformer" in the Spectator of November 14th is such a typical instance of the way in which the Protectionist...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR=1 SIE, •— •YOET statement in an editorial note in the Spectator of November 7th that "there are plenty of labourers in the country whose wages...

SCHEME. rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—I enclose copy of a letter received from a relative in Canada, to whom I send your paper each week. He is a barrister in good...

[To THE EDITOR OP IliE " SPTCTATOR.1 Snt,—Referring to "W. P. C.'s " letter in the Spectator of November 14th re the outlay on bread in poor families, I should like to confirm...

THE EDITOR OP THE "SpitorAxoal Snt,—It seems to be very generally assumed (even by many of the opponents of Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy) that Australian opinion is entirely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — If the idea of an Imperial Club is destined to take practical shape, I suggest the following constitution. The London Imperial Club...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your "News of the Week" (Spectator, November 14th) you quote Lord Balfour as saying at Glasgow: "Mr. Balfour's policy of retaliation...

[TO THR EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") will have been amusing to many to read in the Spectator of November 14th of the " revival " of Ebenezer Elliott's "When wilt Thou save the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Referring to your article of the 14th inst. headed "An Imperial Club for London," I beg to send you the prospectus of the Imperial...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Is not the real cause of Tammany rule the apathy of the citizens of New York ? With most of them "time is money," and as it does not pay...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR.t'.1 SIR,—In the Spectator of November 7th Mr. Tollemache gives Mr. Gladstone the credit of inventing the phrase "bag and baggage." The phrase...

[TO TUE EDITOR 0 Ir THE " SPROTATOIL1 Six,—With your indulgence, I would ask leave to draw attention to a miscarriage of justice which is not only a national disgrace but a...

r To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sns,—As I was reading Greville's Memoirs the other day, I came upon the following extraordinary entry, which bears date September 30th,...

sense in the "English. Dialect Dictionary." It is not, perhaps, properly speaking, a dialect word, but it is said to be in general slang use. The word " boss-eyed " (cross-eyed,...

rTo THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 . SIR,—There is evidently some mistake about the plant found on the walls at Chester, as no such name as Erica hispanica is known to...

is said by your correspondent Mr. H. A. Russell (Spectator, November 14th) and add a little to it. In a large school that I attended fifty years ago when a: boy threw a stone...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • Sin,—The proprietors of the Royal Cornwall Gazette are republishing (weekly) extracts from that journal published in 1803. These extracts,...

Sin„—Upon this subject the testimony of an animal "pre- viously dumb," as "C. S. C." says, is, I think, of importance : " Anythink for air and exercise : as the wery old donkey...

SIR,—Is not "boss," in the sense of miss, simply a corruption of " botch " P—I am, Sir, &c., L. E. E.

"SPECTATOR."] Srs,—Can you not lend all the influence of your paper to stem the current which in Nonconformist circles is being made to flow in the direction of secular...

ENGLAND TO ITALY. "THE colder hand," we say, "the warmer heart ! " And here, beneath the chill November skies, Not soon nor lightly shall our fingers part, Linked by a hundred...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. AN Exhibition of the works of the New English Art Club is generally both interesting and disappointing. The present instance is no exception. The...

SIR, GEORGE TREVELYAN'S NEW VOLUMES.* IT is a fortunate thing for literature that Charles James Fox bad his lot cast in stirring times, for his biographer, having exhausted his...

of a bio- graphy more than the most of men, and it is a little strange that this tribute was not paid him long ago. Throughout his life he showed himself at once the loyallest...

volume tells us with some naivete how his interest in the question he has handled was excited by some remarks of Professor Minto ; how he carried Shakespeare's sonnets for ten...

REBECCA OF SIINNYBROOK FARM.* IF journalists—on both sides of the Atlantic—have been re- sponsible to a certain extent for impairing the maintenance of the entente cordiale...

is absolutely essential to the story that Mrs. Wharton's novel, Sanctuary, should be in two parts ; yet the book is so short that this necessary shifting of the interest makes...

something so offensive about the clandestine love affairs of a woman of forty with grown-up daughters that it is difficult to read certain parts of Mr. Arnold Bennett's novel...

['Under this heading we notice such Books of the meek as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] . The .Life of Hector Berlios : as Written by himself in his Letters-...

the problems dealt with above. At the same time, Mr. Capes must have due credit for having taken as much pains with his character- drawing as if lie had no plot to fall back...

—It is not often that a reviewer is sorry to finish a book. The Beryl Stones has given the writer of this notice that uncommon experience. It will not spoil the story to say...

Par/iamentary England. By Edward Jenks, MA. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—If Mr. Jenks had curbed his rhetoric, he would have Made this a better book. His real subject is of legs...

5s.), Sir Frederick Bridge has expanded the three lectures given by him early this year at the Royal Institution into a very pleasant little volume. The numerous references to...

if the interests concerned in the history of the time were not of the largest kind, the personal element was present in large measure. The picturesque adventurer was never more...

Botsford. 21s. net.)—Mr. Newton gives us here elevations and, plans of nineteen country houses which have been actually erected by himself. We can see what the house would look...

3s.)— This volume is one , of "The Country Handbooks," and its subject is of universal interest. Few people are without some love for birds, and Mr. Roberts's excellent little...

; we must say, however, that the process by which they are reproduced does not always seem to set them off to advantage.—Mazimes par Vauvenargues. 2 vols. With Trans- lation....

158. net)—The most informing chapter in this volume is that in which John Bright is described. Mr. McCarthy was on terms of intimate friendship with him, and saw something of...