THE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VIEW OF NAPOLEON.* NAPOLEON received something less than justice from the great majority of his contemporary critics. The reason was obvious. HI was an...

LONDON : APRIL 25th. 1914.

Tins selection from the correspondence of Ralph Thoresby, author of the Dutatus Leocliensis and the Vicaria Leodiensis, and contributor to Gibson's Camden, contains many points...

which is as difficult to describe as it is delightful to read. Her reminiscences have few dates and scarcely a pretence at arrangement. At one moment they deal with the past of...

Tas Duchess Christina is an excellent subject for that kind of historical biography of which Mrs. Ady was one of the pioneers, and in which she has had so many followers and...

opposite in poetical temperament than the two who come first on our list. Mr. Binyon notinappropriately dedicates his new book to Mr. . L Auguria. By Laurence Blnyon. London:...

TWO NEW VOLUMES IN " Illh LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY." Dio's Boman History. Translated by E. Cary. 9 vols. Vol 1.—Suetonius. Translated by J. a Rolphe. 2 vole. Vol. L " The Loeb...

Common-Sense in Law. By Professor Paul Vinogradoff. "The Home University Library." (Williams and Norgate. ls. net in cloth; 2s. 6d. net in leather gilt.)—It is surely...

The Land of Open Doors. By J. Burgon Bickereteth. With Foreword by Earl Grey. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Earl Grey tells us in his appreciative foreword that...

The Port Books of Southampton, 1427-1430. Transcribed and Edited by Paul Studer. (Southampton Cox and Sharland. 15s. 9d. net.)—The Southampton Record Society is now in its...

A History of Chess. By H. J. R. Murray. (Clarendon Press. 38e. net.)—This work of stupendous learning shows an hereditary capacity for patient research. Mr. Murray has done for...

Notable Women in History. By Willis J. Abbot. (Greening and Co. 16s. net.)—Mr. Abbot thinks that no one can read his sketches of seventy famous women without " appreciating some...

Boman Private Law : Jurisprudence. By E. C. Clark, LL.D. 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press. 21s. net.)— These two interesting volumes have been compiled by Dr. Clark, Regius...

The Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation. New Series: No. XXX., January, 1914. Edited by Sir L Macdonell, C.B., LL.D., and E. Manson. (John Murray. So. net.)—The...

Compulsory Arbitration in Industrial Disputes. By W. F. Hamilton, K.C. (Butterworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This useful little book is the result of a visit paid in 1912 (the year...

Plant Life in the British Isles. By A. R. Horwood. Illustrated with 73 Photographs. (J. and A. Churchill. 6s. 6d. net.)—This little book is an introduction to the study of...

Chemistry and its Borderland. By Alfred W. Stewart. (Longman and Co. Ss. net.)—Dr. Stewart gives the non- technical reader a lucid account of "some recent develop- ments in...

The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Comedies. Edited by T. M. Parrott. (G. Routledge and Sons. 6s.)—. More than forty years have elapsed since we had a complete Chapman,...

Familiar Spanish Travels. By W. D. Howells. (Harper and Brothers. $2 net.)—To travel through Spain, from lean to Tarifa, at the age of seventy-four, seeing most of what was to...

Studies in Water Supply. By A. C. Houston. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)—Dr. Houston has been engaged for more than eight years as Director of Water Examination under the...

The Beautiful Rio de Janeiro. By Alured Gray Bell. (William Heinemann. 42s. net.)—Of all the land-falls that are the lot of the globe-trotter, none can be more memorable than...

Lord Clive : a Drama in Five Acts. By T. S. Krishna Aigar: (Trichinopoly: St. Joseph's Industrial School Press. ls.-12 annas.)—Mr. Krishna Aigar's play has many faults, judged...

Venice: the City of the Sea; and San Francisco : the City of the Golden Gate. By Joseph Pennell. (T. N. Foulis. le. 641. each net in wrapper; 2e. 6d. each net bound in Japanese...

The Early Weights and Measures of Mankind. By Sir Charles Warren. (Palestine Exploration Fund. 7s. 6d.)— Mankind's earliest standards of mensuration were based on the human...

Explanatory Lectures for Nurses and their Teachers. By H. Hawkins-Dempster. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) —Miss Hawkins-Dempster has written a book that should prove...

A Guide to Historical Fiction. By Ernest A. Baker. (George Rontledge and Sons. 21s. net.)—This learned and comprehensive catalogue has grown out of two previous works by the...

Alan H. Gardiner and Arthur E. P. Weigall. (B. Quaritch. 10e. net.)—The "private tombs" at Thebes consist of a number of rook-cut funerary chapels of high dignitaries, from...

Plays. By Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. (Constable and Co. 55. net.)—Three of the six plays contained in this volume are now freshly translated by Mr. and...

A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare : Cymbeline. Edited by Horace Howard Furness. (J. B. Lippincott Company. 18s.)—A melancholy interest attaches to this volume of Dr....

2 vols. (George Allen and Co. 25. net per vol.)—After dealing in a brief introduction with con- structional peculiarities and general external and internal conditions, Mr....

Elizabethan Drama and its Mad Folk. By Edgar Allison Peers. (W. Heifer and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—This entertaining essay won the Harness Prize at Cambridge last year. Mr. Peers...

Stoughton. is. sa. net.)—Mrs. Lathbury's little book consists of six essays, and they are all charming, though perhaps we say it that should not, for their authoress thanks the...

The Book of Public Speaking : Vol. V. Edited by A. C. Fox- Davies. (Caxton Publishing Company. 8s. 6d. net.)--Seleeted English Speeches : Burke to Gladstone. Edited by Edgar B.....

Trench, and Co. 4e. 6c1. net.)—Would one social life be conveniencal by a reform of the calendar which should make the same days of the week and of the month coincide year by...

Tupper. (Cassell and Co. 16s. net.)—Sir Charles Topper is the oldest statesman now living. He is nearing his ninety-third birthday, but neither in temper nor in style does his...

(John Lane. 10s. 6d. net.)—This entertaining and admirably illus- trated book does not claim to be a "complete biography " so much as a "personal study" of the unfortunate Duke...

(John Long. 5s. net.)—This is a small book, illustrated with a large number of photographs, which treats of the management, breaking, handling, and feeding of dogs used in...

1378. Edited by Reginald R. Sharpe. (R. Clay and Sons.) —This interesting repertory of social life in mediaeval London is printed by order of the Corporation under the direction...

(Harper and Brothers. 2s. 6d. net.) — Mr. Carr begins by setting forth in popular language some of the latest discoveries about electrons. On these he bases his argument that...

(Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)—This collection of newspaper articles is a heterogeneous compendium of Mr. Wells's im- pressions of modern life, which it is easier to read than to...

and Cyril V. Hawksford. (Stevens and Sone. 12s. 6d. net.)—The passing of the " Street Betting Act, 1906," and the decision of many important cases, such as "Powell v. The...

6d. net.)—This book is " a criticism of the alphabet with suggestions for reform," in which the needs of the average reader of printed type are throughout kept in view. Mr....

Couper. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)--Mr. Cooper complains in his preface that biographers have devoted much attention to publishers, whilst they have unduly neglected...

Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The authentic history of the Cecile begins with David Cyseell, or Syssell, of Stamford, the grand- father of Lord Burghley. But in Elizabethan times the...

Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)—The moat stirring episode in Mr. Vizetelly's adventurous career as a war correspondent was the Franco-German War, with which this volume chiefly deals. Mr....

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the best thing would be for the United States effectually to occupy Mexico, and administer it for a period long enough to test the ability Of the Mexicans to govern themselves....

President at the Elysee. There were over two hundred guests at the banquet. M. Poineare, in the course of his most warmly and gracefully worded speech, said that the friendship...

T HE outstanding fact in foreign affairs is the breakdown of all President Wilson's plans and hopes for the " elimination " of General Huerta without going to war with Mexico....

the British colony at the Britiah. Embassy. In the afternoon there was a brilliant review of troops at Vincennes, ending with the indispensable and ever impressive charge of...

have released Ariz All Bey, generally known as El lifaari (the Egyptian), who had made a great name for himself as a leader of the Arabs in Cyrenaica, and was recognized by the...

casualties are said to have been under a hundred on the American side. As soon as Vera Cruz was occupied General Carranza sent a message to the President requesting the...

visit to the President of the French Republic. The fact that Sir Edward Grey accompanied them proved that the visit was in part political. Happily it is now possible to talk of...

No. 4,478.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914. [ 11 ti. X0INTERRD AB • } Paler ...ea. Nswarara Poar POSTAOr Aaron .20.

case.

Act—of the Welsh Church Bill was moved in the Commons on Monday. Lord Robert Cecil, who moved the rejection, said that the Bill was being forced through at a time when a...

a question put to him by Colonel Chaloner, the Prime Minister again declined to grant a judicial inquiry into the "plot to overawe Mater by an armed occupation." On this Mr....

Mr. Bonar Law repeatedly urged that only by state- ments taken on oath could things now so dark and obscure be presented in the light of truth. All that Mr. Asquith would do,...

spent in the traditions of Welsh Nonconformity, declared that the Church in Wales had been a failure because its ritual bad failed to appeal to the hot and impetuous Celtic...

Com- pany at Ludlow, Colorado, culminated on Monday in a pitched battle between the strikers and the Colorado Militia. The fighting grew out of an attack on some Militiamen by...

that Disendowment was the central question of the Bill. But on that central question it did not matter what conclusion popular passion in Wales might have arrived at. It was...

questions was addressed to Mr. Asquith, questions which in almost every case were parried rather than answered. When the House went into Committee on the Army (Annual) Bill, the...

made the important statement that Mr. Austen Chamberlain would move, on behalf of the Opposition, a motion demanding an impartial inquiry into the movement of troops in Ulster....

a genuine grievance, while strongly demurring to Lord Lucas's view that Mr. Lloyd George's speeches had been specially designed to elicit such proposals for its removal as Lord...

with a point noticed by us elsewhere—namely, the similarity between the Marconi scandal and the story of the Government's plan for coercing Ulster :— " The Prime Minister...

the insufficiency of agricultural wages in certain parts of the country, and associated himself with the demand that the Government should grant an impartial and official...

put upon Lord Derby's speech in Monday's West- minster Gazette, but plain persons will welcome its candour and good sense. Indeed, it is not too much to say of it that it puts...

last Saturday night. Starting from the Duke of York's Column at 7.27 p.m., sixty-two men, averaging twenty-two years, and carrying great coat, mess-tin, pickaxe, shovel and...

cry "The Army against the People." If he believed that the Unionist Party had deliberately gone out of its way to make the Army disobey what be called the fundamental rule of...

answer was that of Mr. Asquith as to the movements of the Third Battle Squadron. Captain Faber asked which Cabinet Minister had promised the help of the Navy against Ulster. "No...

Jan. 29th. Console (21) were on Friday 741—Friday week 751.

THE KING'S VISIT AND Tilt ENTENTE. THE visit of the King and Queen to Paris has proved, as we were sure it would, a very great success. Englishmen are popular now in France,...

T AST week we warned the Government that they had _L./ better make a clean breast of their plan for combined naval and military operations in Ulster, because, if they did not,...

O NE of the worst features in the revelation of the Government's plan of campaign for the coercion of Ulster is the likeness to what happened in the case of the Marconi...

P RESIDENT WILSON'S pathetic clinging to the belief that it is possible to dictate to a nation and still call it free, and to make war without breaking the peace, has reached...

MITERE was a time when Mr. Winston Churchill and I- Mr. Lloyd George were running neck-and-neck for the future leadership of the Liberal Party. No one cared to predict which of...

a figure with the French people as his father was before him. He will be popular for a different, but by no means a less valid, reason. King Edward was looked upon almost as a...

I T was said of Marjory-Fleming, Scott's " Pet Marjorie," that she was "not so much a child genius as the genius of childhood." Mr. Lachlan Macbean, in the new book about her...

T O be assured not merely that we may, but that we undoubtedly shall, be Buffering in the course of the next few days from a malady which we do not expect—what item of the news...

QUAKERS, PEACE, AND ULSTER. [To ram Emus or Tea "Sracwroa."1 Sra,—The letter from an "Irish Friend" in your issue of April 11th arouses some reflections in my mind, a member...

(To ME EDITOR or vas .. arscrivoa."1 you permit me to assure you that the cause of Ulster is gaining sympathizers every day on this side the Atlantic, while "Home Rule " is...

[To no: Romig OF vim "Ersorwroa."] SIR,—In recent years the Spectator has become so pronouncedly Unionist that apparently the post brings it few letters on the other side. But I...

[To rat Relies OF TUN SPECTAreR...1 SIR, —In your article on the plan for military and naval action in Ulster on April 18th you take far too lenient a view of the real object of...

[To TaS EDITOR Or TIM .. EPECTAT0101 HIR,—I cannot expect you to give me more room to discuss the Arnold case; but, in reply to "Official" on April 18th, I beg leave to say that...

to see that your open-minded journal showed in your issue of April 4th "another side of the blind question" that I venture to advocate very strongly your correspondent's plea...

or me "erscr.roa'] Sra,—May I say a few words in reply to a letter of Miss Ida Sharpe in your issue of April 11th P I perfectly agree with Miss Sharpe that the first need of the...

Sia,—Among the many factors in the present Home Rule crisis which call for explanation, not the least puzzling is the attitude which is being maintained by the Liberal Noncon-...

[To ran Eorroa or vs. "Srecraroa."] Stn,—The beauty of Scotland is an asset which has earned many millions sterling to the country since the Wizard of the North wrote his...

[To Tax Eorros or TH. "SracrAt0e.1 Sin,—A brief record of BOMB personal traits of the late Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr, whose high achieve- ments and charming character...

[To ray Maros or TH. Brat-FASO.."] Sia,—Your references to that great man, Cardinal Allen (Spectator, April 18th), -raise interesting questions, and are undoubtedly the views of...

[To vas Enna OF THE .. HFICTATOZ.:] SIE,—Here is "ourselves as others see us," or, let as rather say, political integrity as the party concerned have interpreted it, seen by an...

um rex Herron or Tax .• Snrcuroz..] SIR,—In your issue of April 11th we note a letter from Dr. Arthur Lumsden Marshall. Apparently this gentleman is labouring under a...

[To ion EDITOR Or 71U "BMTAT071.'7 Sra,—Your article upon flies (Spectator, April 18th) will without doubt excite a considerable amount of interest, which, far from being merely...

[To TM Enives OW TIM " Snowman Sra,—I have only too good cause to differ from your assertion that "it is safe to say that 'Spoonerisms ' are inventions from beginning to end. "...

or nu “firnrraron."] SIR,—Owing to your courtesy, I have been permitted on two or three occasions to publish in the Spectator some extracts from old diaries and letters in my...

THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN VOICE. Ma. PERCY Gnattrarn, who of late years has laboured diligently to purge musical titles and musical vocabulary generally from the taint of...

OUR LUCKY GOVERNMENT. ••A i 4 rtec:al Providence watches over the Government."—Daile Chronicle, A eThe t ;rays of Providence are unsernpulous."—Mrs. M.ErflOP. WHEN rifts...

[To THE Hutton or ran "Spy:amen."] Snt,—How many of those of your readers who have been lucky enough to obtain an Easter holiday are prepared to give a thank- offering for...

or or with a pseudonym, cr ore marked " Communicated," the Editor must net necessarily to held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

CESARE BORGIA.* IT is a commonplace that moral considerations should not lead us to a wholesale and unqualified condemnation of an historical character. To no characters of...

• Tho Bete of Brittany, demand de CAatoantriand, 170 - 1809. By M. E. 'rrnnelated by Mr.. Colquhoun Grant. London: Mills and Boon, [rOe id. net.] His records no more pitiful...

OF the two books before us, the more important is that which Mr. H. W. Williams has contributed to Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons' excellent " Countries and Peoples " Series. It does...

valuable book to the history of the English countryside. She has taken a small district and -shown ne what the conditions of life of the people who have lived in it have been...

being hustled through Parliament we beard vaguely of the great success of the German compulsory schemes. Dr. Ludwig Bernhard and others may have taken away some of the glamour...

MODERN science is very largely dependent on a knowledge of wave-motion. Man himself, as old Montaigne postulated, is a creature divers of ondoyant at any rate, we know that all...

THIS little book hart - local feeling - hr - the best sense, for the artist, writer, and publisher all belong to the district of which it treats. Mr. Hyde's drawings are of two...

LISMOYLE.• Mas. CHOKER has been writing for more than thirty years, and though she has never improved on Diana Barrington and Pretty Miss Neville, she has never fallen much...

6e.)—" G. K. C." is our real and only romantic. He sees the world and this dull human life of ours as one great adventure; he cries "Follow, follow !" and we chase across the...

[Under this heading ins node. awls Rooks is/ M. Irak as Sum nab lies rssinnsil for inning in other forms.] The Ozyrhynchus Papyri, Part X. Edited by B. P. Grenfell and A. S....

Riley and Sir Laurence Gomme. (London County Council.) —The admirable survey of London which is being carried out under the auspices of the London County Council has now reached...

A. By H. Poutama. (Groningen: P. Noordhoff. 13s. Gd. net.)— This is an amazing piece of work for a foreigner to have undertaken. The present instalment of some seven hundred...

Sons. Is. not.)—Canon Vaughan has chosen a delightful subject, and has made a charming book out of the historical and literary associations of Winchester. He describes the...

6s.)—There are some charming passages in this book, which, however, cannot by any stretch of imagination be called a noveL The nearest model which it suggests is the delightful...

6s.)—The life of Jacob Elthorne is one of the most detailed and complete autobiographies that we have ever found under the heading of "Fiction." Here is an account, not only of...

Fenster. (Humphrey Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—This con- scientious monograph originated as a thesis in Columbia University. It discusses at length Chaucer's relative debt to...

and Co. 6s.)—A melodramatic account of the lose of a lady's jewels, and the attempts of some amateur detectives to recover them.—Molly's Fortune. By "M. E. Francis." (Sands and...

net.)—The author of this important contribution to the archaeology of Northern Africa has long been engaged in collecting materials for a history of Cyreuaica. His Libyan notes...

Sons. 10s. 6d.)—This useful work is a complete directory to our Indian Services, with statistics of the country up to date.—The City of London Year-Book, 1914. (W. H. and L....

7s. 6d. net.)—After an experience of Ulster extending over some fifty years, Mr. Moore tells us that he does not remember the time when she has not been fighting. In his...

R. Ingpen. (Stevens and Sons. 25s. net.)—In this second edition of a standard work nearly five hundred additional cases have been inserted.—The Magistrate's General Practice. By...