THE JAPANESE SPIRIT.* IP it is at times profitable to see ourselves as others see us, it is perhaps not less desirable for others to see us as we see ourselves. The objective...

LONDON: JUNE 24th, 1005.

• The Personal Story of the Upper House. By KOEMIO Wilkinson. "On the English Constitution" Series. London: T. Fisher Uuwin. [Ns] realm grew into an independent Parliamentary...

review. The nine books set out below deal in different ways with natural history, sport, country life, and travel at home and abroad. Let us begin with England. Since Mrs....

A COMPANION TO GREEK STUDIES. Miss Harrison and Lady Evans, the tatter of whom discusses "Dress" with equal learning and taste, combined to publish a number of articles on...

Guildford in the Olden Time. By G. C. Williamson. (George Bell and Sons. 5s.)—This is a most excellent, clear, and concise history of Guildford and its associations. Its early...

H. L. Rolfe, and a Facsimile in Colours of a Model Book of Flies. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is an original book on fishing, in which a keen, observant, and, we doubt...

A. Barbeau. With a Preface by Austin Dobson. (William Heine- mann. 12s. ad. net.)—It is a little curious to have the history of Bath told us by a foreigner, and more than a...

Vol. I. (A. Gardner, Paisley.)—Mr. Fergusson devotes this first volume, after an introductory chapter on Logie Parish, which was a prebend of Dunblane Cathedral, to his...

the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the Canary Islands, and now in the Possession of the Marquess of Bute, with a Notice of some Unpublished Records of the same Series in the...

Co. 24e. net.)—Catalonia is obviously the place to write lengthy letters from, there being pegs in plenty where- upon to hang whatever garment a discursive letter-writer fancies...

Report of a Visit to American Educational Institutions. By E. S. A. Robson, M.Sc. (Sherratt and Hughes. ls. net.)—Mr. Robson, whose own work lies in the province of technical...

Nuremberg. Painted by Arthur G. Bell. Described by Mrs. Arthur G. BelL (A. and C. Black. 75. 6d. net.)—This is an attractive specimen of Messrs. Black's smaller series of books...

The Staple of News. By Ben Jenson. Edited by De Winter. " Yale Studies in English," XXVILL (H. Holt and Co., New York. $2.)—Yale University has been distinguishing itself of...

McCracken. (David Nutt. 5s. net.)—There could not be a more delightful little book about an old city than this about Gable. The place is very little known, and this fact...

Norway. By Nico Jungman. Text by Beatrix Jungman. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.)—No more delightful book on Norway has ever been published than this joint work of Mr. and Mrs....

The Dickens Country. By F. G. Kitten. (A. and C. Black. 6s.)— Mr. Kitten had scarcely completed his book for publication before his death (September 10th, 1904). Happily there...

Sons. 14s.)—This is the story of the gradual opening out of Western America and the conquest of the aborigine. It has a fascination, though we must confess that it is only that...

Geoffrey Chaucer. Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477.—Agustini Dacti Scribe super Tullianis elogancijs et eerbis exoticis tin stta faoundissinta...

A Queen of Unrest. By Henry Tighe. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 6s.)—There are few more pathetic and miserable figures, even in Spanish history, than poor Juana of Castile. Mr....

The Adventures of a Naval Officer. By Charles Hunter. (Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.)—The author of this book of adventures, the authenticity of which is vouched for by Sir Spenser...

Faiths and Folk-lore. By W. Carew Hazlitt. 2 vols. (Reeves and Turner. 21s.)—Mr. Hazlitt describes his work as founded on " Brand and Ellis." But he has gone much further afield...

Adventures among Books. By Andrew Lang. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—There is no more delightful guide among books than Mr. Andrew Lang. He would be the last person, however,...

The Age of Marie Antoinette. Revised Edition. By Charles Newton Scott. (The Leadenball Press. 3s. 6d.)—English and foreign reviews united in welcoming the first edition of this...

The Spenser of his Age : being Selected Poetry from the Works of Phineas Fletcher. With an Introduction by Walter Jerrold. (J. R. Tutin, Cottingham, near Hull. 2s. 6d....

Books and Personalities. By H. W. Nevinson. (John Lane. 5s. net.)—Mr. Nevinson has collected in this volume some thirty- odd reviews of books and literary sketches and studies....

Bygones Worth Remembering. By George Jacob Holyoake. 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s.)—We are not sure that all the "bygones" which Mr. Holyoake recalls are "worth remem- bering."...

This is a pretty and pathetic little book. At first sight it rather belies one's expectations, which were of changing months, wild flowers, the daily works and joys of a country...

The Amateur Spirit. By Bliss Perry. (Gay and Bird. 6s. net.) .--The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what American writers can do in this branch of...

A Treatise on International Law. By William Edward Hall, M.A. Fifth Edition, Edited by J. B. Atlay, M.A. (Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)—Mr. Hall's work on international law is...

Co. as. 6d. net.)—In this monograph, which gained the Lothian Prize in 1903, Mr. Welch disentangles with great skill and patience the complicated threads of European history in...

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. By Montague Rhodes James, Litt.D. (E. Arnold. 6s.)—There can be no question about the literary merit of these eight stories, and of the ingenuity...

and Doing." (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 5s. net.)-This is described as "a book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages." It seems, as far as we have...

Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 61)-Without pretending to have examined it in every clause, we venture to pronounce this a very good book. It deals in a common-sense manner with the...

and Hughes, Os. 6d. net), may be best recommended by saying that it has been "adopted by the Ling Association of Trained Teachers of Swedish Gymnastics."

by Arthur Carr, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. Is. 6d. net.)-" The Revised Version," remarks Mr. Carr in his preface as general editor, "has to some extent superseded the...

June 19th, and the interview has excited everywhere hopes that a Parliament will shortly be summoned,—hopes which, we fear, as we have argued elsewhere, are somewhat...

manner in which the Government have been reluctantly forced to take the inevitable step of appointing a Royal Commission, armed by special statute with the fullest possible...

the Committee had been in his hands for a month, the Prime Minister had apparently not in the least made up his mind what to do. He talked in an airy way about a Commons...

better than they were. The plenipotentiaries are to meet at Washington, but not till August 1st, and there is no fresh proof that the powers granted by the Czar will be...

The panic fear of Germany has passed away, and the two countries are negotiating a compromise about Morocco quietly, and agreeing, it is asserted, to terms which a Con- ference,...

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of the Pan-German Congress held last Saturday at Worms. The President, Dr. Hasse, welcomed the new forward policy in foreign affairs of the Imperial Government, and...

it impossible to form a strictly Parliamentary Ministry which will protect the unity of the Imperial Army, has appointed Baron Fejervary Premier in Hungary, in the hope that...

King, amidst a scene of great feeling, announced that his Ministry did not intend to use force against Norway, he having declared in Council that, although it was a matter of...

an interview with a representative of the Westminster Gazette, repudiates the notion that Australia intends to make a tariff the measure of her loyalty. " Loyalty with us," he...

United States Minister at Caracas. Mr. Bowen, it will be remembered, had associated himself with the charge brought against his predecessor, Mr. Loomis, now Assistant-Secretary...

a strong supporter of Protection, has published a remarkable article on Chinese labour in South Africa. We cannot associate ourselves with its wholesale denunciation of...

Free-Trade Club. The following, amongst many others, have recently been elected members :—Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir West Ridgeway, the Right Hon. F. J. S....

administration by which the Government proposed to put an end to the friction caused by the present system, viz., the establishment of two departments,—an Army De- partment...

of a number of drawbacks—plague, scarcity, and earthquake—he was able to report exceptional prosperity, the revenue being the largest ever gathered, while the surplus amounted...

on both sides of the House. Sir Henry Fowler dissented from the grounds on which the great increase of military expenditure was demanded, but approved of the compromise arrived...

the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. After several years' negative experimentation on the phosphorescence of cyanogen, which bad been declared by Pfliiger to contain the element...

America by the Colonial Office to inquire. into the settlement schemes organised by the Salvation Army, has issued a Report which is both a valuable account of an interesting...

Consols (2-1- per cent.) were on Fridar901.

T HE action of the Government in regard to the Report of the Butler Committee is perhaps the most amazing thing in even the amazing record of their past two years. One would...

the Czar and the delegates of the Zemstvos as some of our contemporaries. If Nicholas II. were, like most of the statesmen of Europe, intent upon showing himself a determined...

Minister to the introduction of important Bills under the Ten Minutes Rule. But a reason which he does not give for this dislike has far greater force than the reason he does...

with reserves about proclamations issued by the Papacy, at least a tendency to a fresh departure. Cautiously as he words his views, the Pope evidently wishes to recede from the...

His Bible," by the Rev. H. E. Fox, M.A., Prebendary of St. Paul's (Hodder and Stoughton, Is. 6d.) It is now generally, admitted, he says, that " the pre-Christian Scriptures...

Government were more than Unionists in name, they would introduce and pass during the present Session a Redistribution Bill by which. justice would be done to England and the...

suburban." How many times has not that criticism been passed by a visitor coming from one of the residential neighbour- hoods that lie in a ring an34here within twenty miles of...

S PEAKING of the difficulties of keeping tropical birds through the - English winter, Mr. Wiener, in a paper read before the• Ornithological Congress, mentioned his own...

SIR,—While staying on the Yorkshire moo r s, I have seen in a provincial paper an account of an interview with Mr. Deakin, the ex-Federal Premier of Australia, on the subject of...

William Tattersall in your issue of the 17th inst. is highly instructive and important. It is one, I need scarcely say, to which the attention of the Textiles Committee of the...

clubs is notorious, and is justified by the recent appeal of Lord Roberts ; but does it not seem illogical that whilst on the one hand those who try to do some military service...

Sra,—We have been instructed by cable from Pretoria by the solicitors to Meyer, Limited, and Messrs. Wilson and Worthington, who held large contracts from the military...

appeal for the encourage- ment of rifle-shooting, I cannot refrain from expressing delight and satisfaction that there is one soldier, at any rate, who can feel and interpret...

relative physical proportions of the well-to-do classes in England and Germany by a series of photographic groups from both countries would be interesting, but scarcely...

[To TRY EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As reporter of the modern girl's hardy excursion among the Greek philosophers, may I, as her " next friend," answer that I think your...

critics ?—I do not say against Eubulides and his fellow-Sophists, for their point of view was probably different from hers. Miss Palmer's aim is to arrive at the truth of the...

[To TUE EDITOTt OF TUE "SpEcTrroc. - ) SIR, — May I explain to Mr. Hill (Spectator, June 17th) why "I do not think that it would be useful to compare our public- school boys and...

pleasure in my Spectator of June 17th Miss May Doney's little poem, "Incense," and this pleasure was intensified when I came across the following passage in Mr. Eden...

Sin, — The Council which has organised the Edinburgh Vacation Courses in English, French, and German, to be held in the University in August next, will be very grateful for the...

22nd for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,328 ls. 6d., in addition to £320 promised to the Prizes Fund, making a total of 41,648 ls. 6d. paid and promised. Between forty and...

flower o' May And marguerites and elder-spray, Made either bank a milky way From Bablock Hythe to Eynsham. Fast anchored 'neath the wild-rose bowers, Like lovely thoughts...

AFRICA.* THE real significance of Mr. Amery's third volume lies not only in its value as a tactical and strategical study of what, after all, will never be reckoned as one of...

the status of colonies, but will remain dependencies for whose administration the direct responsibility will lie with the Imperial Government, the future administrative problems...

century that has not an interest to-day. The commonest trivialities take on a serious air with age, and it is from letters alone that we can sincerely and honestly reconstruct...

TAE debt which the reading public owes to the author , of Joshua Netoings is increased by the publication of The Marquis's Eye. When a novel is written with the sole pitrpose to...

Helen Forbes. (Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—In spite of its cumbersome title, the quality of this book is decidedly trivial. The story is an account of Army life in an Indian station,...

as haws not been reserved for review in other form.] Auction Prices of Books. Edited by Luther S. Livingston. 4 vols. Vol. I. , " A—Dick." (Elliot Stock. 28 83. the 4 vols.)...

Mr. Koble Howard gives us a rather pretty and entirely harmless little idyll in Love in June. A story based on the falling in love of a village maiden with a wandering artist...

English gypsy language, with other details about this people.—The Tragedies of Algernon Charles Stein- burne. Vol. I. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)—This volume contains "Tho...

and Co. ls. net.)—The usual information about population, revenue, exports and imports, and the statistics generally supplied in such books are to be found. And there is...

Introduction by C. S. Loch. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.}- The introduction, written as it is by an expert, is a very valuable conspectus. It is, as Mr. Loch says, " a...

Moring, ls. net) we have The Gull's Horn Book, by John Dekker, Edited by R. B. McKerrow. Mr. McKerrow gives in his introduction a biographical sketch of Dekker, of whom little...

of The Municipal Parks and Gardens of London, by Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Sexby, V.D. (Elliot Stock, 10s. 6d.) It should be understood that Colonel Sexby limits himself in this...

and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—The peculiar object of this book is to guide the searcher when the tree or plant is not in flower, and when the means of identification are limited to...

second edition of an elegant little volume, Sepiem Psalmorum Poenitentialium versio Elegiaca, a Richardo J. Walker (Wertheimer, Lea, and Co., 58. net). We venture to suggest to...

(W. Heinemann. ls. 6d. net.)—This account of the remarkable Russian writer was written before the " Deluge,"— i.e., before the events which have had so sinister an influence on...