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BOOKS.

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MARSHAL 1. U _RENEE.* THERE are many reasons why Britons should know some- thing of Turenne. In the first place, Turenne was Marl- borough's "Tutor in War." The "handsome...

Literarp Ouppirintut.

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LONDON: APRIL 25th, 1908.

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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.*

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MAJOR DARWIN is one of those candid writers whose method renders the work of a critic almost superfluous. He begins characteristically with some depreciatory remarks on the...

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THE OLD PRETENDER.*

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THE rehabilitation of all the Stuarts, with the single exception of the Young Pretender, goes on apace. Mary, her " divine right" son, the first and second Charles, have had...

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NAPOLEONIC NOVELTIES.*

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BACON classified -books according to their fitness for being "tasted," "swallowed," or "chewed and digested." To the great Lord Chancellor's first category we should assign the...

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C URRENT LITE RAT UR. E.

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ART BOOKS. Vittorio Carpaccio. By Pompeo Molmenti and the late Gustav Ludwig. Translated by R. H. H. Cast. (John Murray. ..432 12s. (3d.) —Some biographies have been described...

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The Catalogue of the Dublin Municipal Gallery of Modern Art.

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(Dollard, Dublin. ls.)—From this well-illustrated catalogue it is passible to form an idea of the really wonderful collection recently acquired by the Dublin municipality. There...

Augustus Saint - Gaudens. By Royal Cortissoz. (Hough ten, Mifflin, and Co.,

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Boston ; A. Constable and Co., London. 31s. 6d.)—The great sculptor whose life and works are set before us in this volume was the son of a Frenchman married to an Irishwoman,...

Constable. By H. W. .Tompkins. "Little Books on Art" Series.

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(Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The author has given a short and attractive account of Constable not encumbered with too many biographical details, and he has wound up with a well-...

The Art Journal, 1907. (Virtue and Co. 21s.)—A bound volume

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of an art magazine makes us realise how great a debt we owe to modern methods of photographic reproduction. By means of this method of illustration we can follow not only...

Am Bolg Solair: the Pedlar's Pack. (A. Sinclair, The Celtic

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Press, Glasgow.)—This is a collection of poems, prose, and pictures intended for those who cultivate the Celtic spirit in the High- lands. Mr. Neil Munro writes of those strange...

Rembrandt. By G. Baldwin Brown. (Duckworth and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The

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biography of Rembrandt has been written so often, and of late so exhaustively, that in a fresh book it is useless to expect anything that is new. All the same, Professor Brown,...

The Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood. By Ford 'Wades Hueffer. (Duckworth and Co.

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2s.)—Since Mr. Holman Hunt's Memoirs have been published there is not much new to be said on the subject of the origin of the "Brotherhood." Mr. Hueffer tells the story of the...

Rodin. By F. Lawton. (E. Grant Richards. 2s.)—This little book

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is written with sympathy and insight, and will be appre- ciated by those who have not time to read the author's longer book treating of the greatest figure in European art of...

Legend in Japanese Art. By Henri L. Joly. (John Lane.

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£.4 4s.)—This voluminous work might be well described as a dictionary. Its plan is to give alphabetically an account of the mythological persons who are often represented in...

The Year's Art. Compiled by A. C. R. Carter. (Hutchinson

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and Co. 38. Od.)—This directory of artists and book of general information about picture exhibitions is as useful as ever. In the present issue is to be found an account of the...

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THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

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The Life of an Empire, by Walter Meakin (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s. net), is an "attempt to write of the British Empire as if it were one vast country inhabited by numerous different...

SOCIETY RECOLLECTIONS IN PARIS AND VIENNA.

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Society Recollections in Paris and Vienna, 1879 - 1904. By an English Officer. (John Long. 12s. net.)—A title may often be most misleading, and reviews are useful in dispelling...

LISBON AND CINTRA.

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Lisbon and Cintra. By A. C. Inchbold. Illustrated by Stanley Inchbold. (Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6c1. net.)—Nowadays there is such a desire to crowd everything into our already...

PEKIN TO PARIS IN A MOTORCAR.

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Pekin to Paris : the Account of Prince Borghese's Journey across Two Continents in a Motor-Car. By Luigi Bimini. (E. Grant Richards. 16s. net.)—It is a true joy to come across a...

Wagner in der Karikatur. (Media and Co. 10s.)—The carica- tures

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of Wagner make quite a large book Many are, of course, of local and political meaning. Those which relate entirely to the works of the composer are the most intelligible and...

Goal Etsadings, and How to Enjoy Them : Norman Architecture.

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By Edith Browne. (Land C. Black. Ss. 6d.)—This book is put together ina very sensible way. First COM illustrated explana- tions of architectural terms ; after this we get a...

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LIFE ON THE OCEAN.

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Life on the Ocean. By George Little. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—This is a republication of the seafaring adventures of an American of nearly a century ago. As Mr. W....

THE RATING OF LAND VALUES.

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The Rating of Land 'Values: Notes upon the Proposals to Leer Rates in Respect of Site Values. By Arthur Wilson Fox, C.B., Secretary to the Royal Commission on Local Taxation....

WHOSE HOME IS THE WILDERNESS.

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Whose Home is the Wilderness. By William J. Long. Illus- trated by Charles Copeland. (Ginn and Co. 5s. net.)—A new volume of studies of animal life from the pen of Mr. Long-...

WEST HAM.

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West Ham: a Study in Social and Industrial Problems. Being the Report of the Outer Loudon Inquiry Committee. Compiled by Edward G. Howarth, M.A., and Mona Wilson. (J. N. Dent...

THE LEGENDS OF SS. NINIAN AND MACHOR.

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The Legends of SS. Ninian and Hachor. Edited by W. N.. Metcalfe, D.D. (A. Gardner, Paisley. 10s. 6d.)—The scholarly editor of this book trusts that it will "contribute to the...

THE FOREIGN EGG.

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The Poultry Industry in Denmark and Sweden. By Edward Brown. (National Poultry Organization Society, 12 Hanover Square, W. ls.)—The Danish egg bulks so largely in our shops that...

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AN ENQUIRY INTO SOCIA LTSM.

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An Enquiry into Socialism. By Thomas Kirkup. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Longmans and Co. 48. 6d. net.)—Now that Socialism aspires to take its place in practical...

ADAM SMITH AND MODERN SOCIOLOGY.

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Adam Smith and Modern Sociology : a Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. By Albion W. Small. (T. Fisher Unwin. -55. 6d. net.)—"An objective Science of Economics...

OVERSEA BRITAIN.

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Oversee Britain. By E. F. Knight. (John Murray. 6.9.)— This volume, as announced in its sub-title, is a "descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological, and...

WILD BEES, WASPS, AND ANTS.

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Wild Bees, Wasps, and Ants. By Edward Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. With numerous Illustrations in the Text and 4 Coloured Plates by Constance A. Saunders. (George Routledge and...

POST-EXILIC PROPHETS.

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Post - Exilic Prophets. By W. H. Bennett. (T. and T. Clark. Os. net.)—This is the first volume (first in date of publication, but sixth in order of subject) of a, series which...

MARX'S "CAPITAL."

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Capital : a Critique of Political Economy. By Karl Marx. Tel. II., "The Process of Circulation of Capital." Edited by Frederick Engels. Translated from the Second German Edition...

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THE MAGI: HOW THEY RECOGNISED cumsrs STAR

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The Magi: How They Recognised Christ's Star. By Lieutenant- Colonel G. Mackinlay. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Colonel Mackinlay rejects the notion that the Bethlehem Star was a...

A HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SINCE THE REFORMATION.

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A History of the Christian Church since the Reformation. By B. Oheetham, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—Dr. Cheetham has produced, as might have been expected, a very...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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Abraham Lincoln. By Carl Schurz and Truman II. Bartlett. (A. Constable and Co. 42s. net.)—This handsome volume consists of two parts. First, we have reproductions of various...

THE PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS.

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The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. By Angelo Mosso. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—Signor Mosso is primarily an anthropologist, and modestly describes himself as an "amateur...

THE RECORD OF AN AERONAUT: THE LIFE OF JOHN M.

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BACON. The Record of an Aeronaut : the .We of John M. Bacon. By his Daughter, Gertrude Bacon. (John Long. 168. net.)—John M. Bacon was born in Jane, 1846, the son of a...

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PHILOSOPHY AND POPULAR MORALS IN ANCIENT GREECE.

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Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece. By Archibald E. Dobbs. (Ponsonby, Dublin. 5s. net.)--Students of philosophy and history will find much that is valuable in Mr....

A CATHOLIC ATLAS.

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A Catholic Atlas. By Bishop Grafton, S.T.P. (Longmatis and (Jo. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Grafton has put his statement of doctrine into a very unattractive form, a sort of table of...

RICHARD HOOKER WILLMER, SECOND BISHOP OF ALABAMA.

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Richard Hooker Wiltmer, Second Bishop of Alabama. By Walter C. Whitaker. (G. W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 8s. net.)— Bishop Willmer, a Virginian by birth, came of a clerical...

THE LOG OF THE SUN.

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The Log of the Sun: a Chronicle of Nature's Year. By C. William Beebe. With 52 Full-page Illustrations by Walter King Stone and numerous Vignettes and Photographs from Life....

IS IT WORTH WHILE?

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Is It Worth While ? (Universities' Mission to Central Africa.) —There is an illustration in this little book whioh of itself goes a long way towards proving the case. It shows...

HENRY HUDSON.

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Henry Hudson. By Edgar Mayhew Bacon. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—We cannot say that this volume throws much new light on the obscure subject of Hudson's career and character. The...

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Embroidery. By W. G. Paulson Townsend, Assisted by Louisa F.

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Pesel. (Truelove and Hanson. 3s. 6d.)-This is a new edition of a useful little book published about nine years ago. There are a number of good reproductions of old work, mostly...

THE RELIGION AND WORSHIP OF THE SYNAGOGUE.

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The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue. By W. 0. E. Oesterley, B.D., and G. H. Box, M.A. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)-The authors limit their subject by...

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Leases Printed by LOVE & Mstcostsort (Limited) at Nos. 4

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and 5 Dean Street, Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by Joss Barna for the "SrEcratos " (Limited) at their Office, No, 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy. Strand, in...

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The secondary matters in dispute were explained by Signor Tittoni

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to the Turkish Ambassador in Rome on Monday. On that day the Turkish Ambassador announced the yielding of the Porte as to the post-offices. The right to open them in the fire...

Disquieting news comes from India, where serious trouble is threatened

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on the Mohmand frontier. It seems that the Mohmands rallied to the appeal of fanatical Mullahs during the recent expedition against the Zakka Khel. But before they could come to...

The papers of Monday published the explanation of a recent

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rather mysterious mobilisation of the Italian fleet at Gaeta. The fleet, which consisted of three divisions, was intended to force the Sultan to concede certain Italian demands,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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W E deeply regret to record the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who passed away on Wednesday morning, having survived his resignation of the Premiership little more than...

The news of the late Prime Minister's death, though not

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unexpected, has evoked the deepest regret and sympathy throughout the United Kingdom and the Empire. Among the messages which have poured in from all quarters we may specially...

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

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case.

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No. 4,165.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1908. [ REGISTERED AS A} PRICS.........151). NEWSPAPER. BY POST 1D. POSTAGE ABROAD 1 D.

NoncE.—With this week's " SrEcrwrou " is issued, gratis, a

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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On Friday week M. Isvolsky, the Russian Minister for Foreign

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Affairs, explained to the Duma his views on the Macedonian question. He said, as the Times correspondent tells us, that his duty was solely to safeguard the interests of his...

The Times of Tuesday publishes from its Johannesburg correspondent an

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explanation of the dispute between Lord Selborne and the three members of the Inter-Colonial Council —Sir George Farrar, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Quinn— who have resigned....

The Peking correspondent of the Times announces in Thursday's paper

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that Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector. Generalof the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, left Peking on Wednesday for Europe. The largest international gathering ever seen at...

The Times of Thursday publishes a letter from a corre-

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spondent about the prospects of a new British Treaty with Siam. Negotiations for the new Treaty have been going on for some time, and it is said that by the proposed arrangement...

The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill was under discussion in

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the - United States Congress on Mon. clay, and led to some pointed allusions to alleged devia- tions from Republican simplicity on the part of the Ambassadors in Berlin, London,...

The Times of Tuesday publishes some notes on the recent

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Portuguese elections from its Lisbon correspondent. Immediately after the elections we remarked that, while the special correspondent of the Times thought that the elections...

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The by-election in North-West Manchester has monopolised public attention at

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home during the week. On Monday night Mr. Winston Churchill made two important pronouncements. The first related to the prospects of a concordat on the education question on...

Mr. Lloyd George spoke no fewer than four times in

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support of Mr. Churchill on Tuesday. His chief speech, delivered at the Gaiety Theatre in the afternoon, was a brilliant piece of electioneering advocacy and excited great...

Mr. Churchill's explicit declaration, prompted by the representations of a

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delegation of Irish Nationalist Members, elicited a manifesto from the United Irish League of Great Britain signed by Mr. John Redmond and Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The manifesto...

Free-trade was not only best in the interests of commerce,

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but it was a great pacificator. It was "slowly but surely clearing a path through the dense and dark thicket of arma- ments to the sunny land of brotherhood among nations." But...

An interesting letter from Mr. Balfour was published in Wednesday's

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papers, in which he confidently anticipated the success of Mr. Joynson-Hicks. Mr. Balfour draws this hopeful conclusion from the contrast between Liberal promises and...

We may note that while so staunch a Free-trader as

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Professor Dicey appeals to Manchester Unionists to reject Mr. Winston Churchill as a Home-rule candidate, so stalwart a Unionist as Mr. Arthur Elliot supports his candidature in...

The result of the poll at Dewsbury, where Mr. Runciman

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was seeking re-election on his promotion to the Cabinet, wail declared on Thursday night as follows :— Mr. W. Runeiman (L.) 5,594 Mr. W. B. Boyd-Carpenter (U.) ... 4,078 Mr....

Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 34 percent. March

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19th. Consols (24) were on Friday 861—on Thursday week 874.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE LATE PRIME MINISTER. T HE death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, which the whole British Empire deeply mourns, turns the thoughts of all who are interested in men and...

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THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY. T HE disappointment which, as we

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mentioned last week, is felt by educated Germans at the poverty of the Imperial Exchequer, while the political position of the Empire has been so greatly aggrandised, is...

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THE BUDGET AND THE SUGAR - TAX. T HE Budget which Mr. Lloyd-George

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will lay before the House of Commons in about ten days' time will be of supreme importance both to the Liberal Party and to the cause of Free-trade. So far as the Liberal Party...

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A BIRTHDAY GIFT TO CANADA.

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T is very easy to overdo the memorials of eminent men. Their deeds are their monument, and to give the name to a statue or a building produces often the sense of anticlimax....

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POINTS IN THE LICENSING- CONTROVERSY. T HE root-and-branch supporters of the

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Licensing Bill, feeling possibly some uneasiness at the amount and variety of the criticisms it has met with, seem disposed to cheer themselves with the assurance that the...

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AN ENGINEER OF THE NILE.

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T HE old Greek philosopher whose theory of the underlying principle of the universe was that "Allis water " might have pointed, were he alive to-day, to Egypt for at least a...

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TIPPING.

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T HE frequency with which the custom of giving tips is discussed expresses the degree of tyranny which it is felt to exert. Yet the tyranny, so far from being removed, becomes...

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" PHARISEES " AND FAIRY RINGS.

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T HERE are modern folk who will tell you that the fairies are all dead, that no one to-day ever bears of those kindly actions which they were accustomed to shower on simple...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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QUEBEC TERCENTENARY.—WOLFE AND MONT- CALM MEMORIAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THIC " SPECTATOR:1 SvR,—In July of this year Canada celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of her...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

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[TO TI111 EDITOR OF TUN sesankron.1 SIR,—With the approaching introduction of the Budget the question of the provision of old-age pensions by the State becomes urgent. May I,...

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ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMIC THEORY.

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rTO TUN Eraros Or TEM " Srsorsroa.'1 Sin,—The observations of your reviewer in his notice of Professor Clark's "Essentials of Economic Theory" in the Spectator of April 4th...

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THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH'S BILL.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIB, —Are you quite sure that informed moderate opinion is in favour of the Bishop of St. Asaph's proposal in its entirety ? I greatly...

MODERNISM.

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Um Wm EDITOR OF THE "Bpsernos.1 Sra,—Mr. Ambroseden and I are not, I hope, in substantial disagreement. It was not my intention to put the dilemma, Submission or secession P It...

THE PRESENT CRISIS IN INDIA.

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[TO THE Eorros Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—No one in India just now who is sensitive at all to the movements in the minds of the people about him can help being greatly troubled...

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THE SUGAR-TAX.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " Er ELT/TOR:1 SIR,—" A Constant Reader" attempts in last week's Spectator to confuse the issues of your admirable article on the Govern- ment and the...

"TO" OR " BY" P [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I am not sure whether the reviewers have noticed a curious slip in Mr. Dasent's "Life of Delane " a propos of the plan proposed by Benedetti to Bismarck for...

NEW YORK.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE ..EFECT•TOR."1 Si,—Your article on "New York" in the issue of March 21st has this allusion :— " But these chapels-of-ease [Brooklyn and Jersey City] were...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR, — Mr. A. B.

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Sharpe says (Spectator, April 18th) that "since Huxley could find no evidence of the existence of a divine Creator, it follows that the occurrence of miracles in the sense...

PRICES IN GERMANY.

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[TO T II II EDITOR OF THE " SF ECTATOR.1 SiR, — Your article in the Spectator of April 18th is very a propos, and, indeed, the cost of living in Germany is much higher than is...

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A HINT TO PUBLISHERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:'] have read with much interest the letter of "An Englishman Long Resident in New Zealand " in your issue of March 28th; but I am afraid that if...

THE PROBLEMS AND PERILS OF SOCIALISM.* LETTERS TO A. WORKING

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MAN. XVII.—NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL TRADING. DEAR Mn. 9 Those who, though not Socialists, have Socialistic Leanings often ask me whether I object to all national and municipal...

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POETRY.

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FORERUNNERS. (A PREPARATOR Y SCHOOL SONG.) Ws have no high historic roll, No list of glorious names, Like Harrow on her steepled hill Or Eton by her Thames. But we are heirs...

THE THEATRE.

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SHAKESPEARE ON THE STAGE. IT is difficult not to sympathise with those fastidious people —so great a critic as Charles Lamb was one of them—who refuse to see Shakespeare acted....

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BOOKS.

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HEINE'S BOOK OF SONGS.* THERE is a notable passage in Heine's prose writings where he describes the playing of Paganini, and tells how he saw behind the performer's shoulder a...

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN SEA POWER.* PUBLIC interest in the

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development of the German war-fleet is exceptionally great just now ; it has been increased by recent debates in both Houses of Parliament. It has been frankly admitted that in...

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THE SMALL TRADESMAN.*

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FOR a long time the small tradesman has been struggling with adversity, and we suspect that the fight is even harder for him now than it was when Mr. Bullen kept a shop and went...

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WILD SPORT IN NEWFOUNDLAND.*

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Is' it is the mark of a good travel hook to make the reader earnestly desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful work. The library of Newfoundland...

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THE SCOTS IN SWEDEN.*

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THIS work, like the late author's The Scots in Germany, is a notable piece of research executed with characteristi- cally Teutonic thoroughness and minuteness. The labour of...

NOVELS.

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THE ALIEN SISTEMI' MRS. DEARXER's new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound enough, probes the seamy side of human nature too * The Soots in Sweden. By the late Th. A....

A GREAT LABOUR LEADER.*

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THERE is nothing in the history of our English political life more reassuring to lovers of Constitutional government than the patriotism with which the elected representatives...

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READABLE NOVELS.—Lord Cammarleigh's Secret. By Roy Horniman. (Chatto and Windus.

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6s.)—A ludicrously impossible story of modern life. It is, however, amusingly told.--Ths Master Knot. By Alice Birkhead. (John Lane. Os.)—A stoty of a marriage of convenience,...

Miss Lucy. By Christabel Coleridge. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—" Miss

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Lucy," the neglected child of a squire's family, marries an under-gamekeeper at the age of seventeen in despair of finding a congenial home in her own class. This is the intro-...

The Amateur Adventuress. By Frankfort Moore. (Mitchinson and Co. 6s.)—This

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is a pleasantly written little story about a young lady who gets so tired of a quiet life in the country that she determines to spend half her Capital in having what Americans...

THE QUARTERLIES.

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THE writer of "Parties and Politics" in the Edinburgh expresses clearly enough what reasonable people are thinking and doing. Groups of all kinds are claiming victories; the...

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The Three Creeds. By the Right Rev. Edgar C. S.

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Gibson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—Bishop Gibson begins with a chapter on "Creeds in General," in which the "Development of Creeds" is the most...

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 review in other forms.] Palestine Exploration Pund Statement, April. (38 Conduit Street. 2s....

A New Self - Help. By Ernest A. Bryant. (Cassell and Co.

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6s.)— Mr. Bryant describes his book as the "story of worthy success achieved in many paths of life by men and women of yesterday and to-day." It is now about fifty years since...

Worlds in the Making. By Svante Arrhenius. Translated by Dr.

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H. Borns. (Harper and Brothers. 6s. net.)—" The evolution of the Universe" is the problem which Dr. Arrhenius attacks, and he attacks it from something of the same standpoint as...

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Advanced Golf. By James Braid. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d.

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net.)—The modesty of a critic is much tried when he has to appreciate these" hints and instruction for progressive players." Of course, he is not so foolish as to decline the...

Montreux. Painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis.

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Described by Francis H. Gribble. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Everybody may not know that Montreux is at the eastern end of the Lake of Geneva; that it is one of the two...

We have received the second volume of the Dictionary of

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National Biography, Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (Smith, Elder, and Co.. 15s. and 21s. net), in its new form. It takes in the lives "Beal, William" to " Browell,...

Political Persecution in Hungary: an Appeal to British Public Opinion.

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By Scotus Viator. (A. Constable and Co. is. net.) —"Scotus Viator" has reproduced in this pamphlet the sub- stance of two articles which have already appeared in print, one of...

NEW EDITIONS.—The Life of Richard Cobden. By John Morley. 2

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vols. (Macmillan and Co. Sc. net.) — The book first appeared in 1881. This edition brings it into the " Eversley Series."- Time-Table of Modern History, A.D. 400-1870. Compiled...