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which are almost, if not altogether, on a level with those of the subject of his biography. He does not forget the fact that the story of Outram has "furnished one able...

Ittrtarp Ouppirintut.

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THE disclaimer made by Mr. Riis in his preface only

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adds value to the contents of this volume. He has often been asked why he does not write an " Eastside novel," and he has but one answer, and that a very simple one, to give to...

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AMERICAN SPECTACLES.* THIICYEIDES, says the legend, chiefly composed his history

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beneath a plane-tree when an exile in Thrace. Our well- known American author knows a trick worth two of that. Besides ransacking the British Museum, the Record Office, and the...

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MR. JOHN STEVENSON, the author of Pat M' Carty :

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his Rhymes, is experimenting in different directions, trying his feet in prose and his wings in verse, and at times so much more successfully in one or the other region that he...

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ALFRED TENNYSON.

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Alfred Tennyson. By Arthur Christopher Benson. With 8 Illustrations. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 13d.)—Few things of the kind are more striking than the multiplication of editions of...

dating from 1870, the political revolution of 1890, the causes

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and consequences, and the general movement of events throughout the four periods of New Zealand history." We may say at once that it is a volume which every one closely...

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a feeling that the author has not done all he

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; we look in vain for hints of that magic of which ho has the secret, he almost alone among living poets. In The Pot of Broth, which is mere farce, a trifle light as air, magic...

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[He goes Oct. A wow. The foot goes to the

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great door at Lack and looks out after Si,,,. [They go sal."

FERNANDO DI SOTO.

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MR. YEATS'S PLAYS. The King's Threshold ; On Baile's Strand. By IV. B. Yeats. (A. H. Bunn. 35. 6d. net.)—The Hour - Glass; Cathleen sot Houlihan ; The Pot of Broth. (Same...

some two hundred soldiers to divide it. It was the

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ransom for the Inca. Pizarro took it, and then put the ransomed man to death. It is not easy to see how he conformed to what Mr. Graham says was his ideal,—honour first, and...

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Memoirs of Anna M. W. Pickering. Edited by her Son,

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Spencer Pickering, F.R.S. (Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. net.)—Anna Pickering was the eldest child of John Spencer Stanhope and Elizabeth Coke (daughter of Mr. Coke of Holkham,...

A Handbook of Modern Japan. By Ernest W. Clement. (Kegan

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Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s. net.)—This book is not the less interesting and useful because it was not specially compiled in view of the present situation. The introduction bears...

Confessions of a Journalist. By Chris Healy. (Chatto and Windus.

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6s.)—.A firm of publishers may find it consistent with discretion to give this volume in its entirety to the world, but a critic has serious doubts whether it would be prudent...

The Khedive's Country. Edited by G. Manville Fenn. (Cassell and

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Co. 5s.)—Mr. Fenn, whose appearance in a new line of literature we welcome, explains that his information comes in the main from the Superintendent of the Khedive's farms near...

Antwerp : an Historical Sketch. By Wilfrid C. Robinson. (R.

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and T. Washbourne. 5s. net.)—For some years during the second half of the sixteenth century the history of Antwerp was full of tragical interest. Outside this period it has...

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Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud.

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Translated by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.)—This is at once a condensation and a translation of the private Journal of General Gourgaud, which, running...

The Strength of the People. By Helen Bosanquet. (Macmillan and

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(Jo. 85. 6d.)—The chief interest of the second edition of Mrs. Bosan- quet - 's interesting and earnest book, which appeared originally in 1902, is to be found in the preface,...

The Kinship of Nature. By Bliss Carman. (John Murray. 6s.)—Mr.

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Carman is not quite a second Emerson ; he has got to learn much in the way of reserve and restraint in style. But he takes a brave view of life, as becomes a Canadian, and...

Jewish Forerunners of Christianity. By Adolphe Danziger. (John Murray. 6s.)—This

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compact and lucidly written volume should be very valuable to historical students of Christianity and of religion. While not pretending to contain anything in the shape of...

The Life of His Majesty William the Second, German Emperor.

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By William Jacks, LL.D. (MaeLehose and Sons, Glasgow. Os. net.).— " Unfortunately—as I think—almost all the biographies published in Britain have an undercurrent of...

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Venn Family Annals. By John Venn, F.R.S. (Macmillan and Co.

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158. net.)—William Venn, otherwise Fenn (with varieties of spelling), was vicar of 011erton from 1600-22. He matricu- lated at Exeter College as " Gulielmus Fenne, Pleb. fil....

VoL I., " Martyrs under Henry VIII." (Burns and Oates.

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7s. 6d. net.)—The first stage in the process of canonisation is a Papal decree ordering the cause to be introduced before the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The candidate then...

The Home. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (W. Heinemann. 5s. net.)—"

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The purpose of this book," says Mrs. Gilman in her introductory chapter, "is to maintain and improve the home." But she certainly has a very different conception of the thing...

Boys' Second Book of Inventions. By Ray Stannard Baker. (Harper

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and Brothers. 6s.)—There is not a chapter in this book which is not deeply interesting ; but some will probably strike the reader with a greater sense of the unexpected than...

Excavations at Phylakopi in Meios. Described by D. T. Atkinson,

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It. C. Bosanquet, and others. (Hellenic Society ; sold by Mac- millan and Co. 30s. net.)—The excavations described in this volume were commenced in 1897, and have been carried...

Our Roman Highways. By Urquhart A. Forbes and Arnold C.

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Burmester. (F. E. Robinson and Co. 6s.)—The authors of this readable and interesting volume say they have "abstained from attempting any detailed examination of the course...

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The United States in Our Own Time. By E. Benjamin

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Andrews. (Chatto and Windus. 165. net.)—The limits of this book are given by the sub-title, "from Reconstruction to Expansion." It includes, to speak roughly, a generation,...

Life of Robert Napier. By James Napier, MA. (W. Blackwood

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and Sons. 12s. 6d. net.)—Robert Napier has been long left without a biography—he died in 1875—but it is welcome when it comes, and, we need hardly say, full of interest. Robert...

A. CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND

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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. sculptors down to the time when the circumstances made art im- possible Many are copies of works of better periods; of those the most intrinsically important...

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Orford. By the

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Rev. Henry L. Thompson. (A. Constable and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—It was certainly a happy thought in Mr. Thompson to take for the subject of the sermons which he was called upon to...

The Ingoldsby Country. By Charles G. Harper. (A. and C.

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Black. 6s.)—The "Ingoldsby country" may be roughly described as East Kent; a line drawn from Sheerness to Rye (which would there include a small portion of Sussex) would be its...

Modern Poets of Faith, Doubt, and Paganism. By Arthur Lyttelton,

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D.D. With a Memoir by the Bishop of Rochester. (John Murray. 9s. net.)—The seven essays which make up the contents of this volume appeared originally in the Church Quarterly...

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The Principles and Finance of Fire Insurance. By F. Harcourt

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Kitchin, B.A. (Effingham Wilson. 6s. net.)—Mr. Kitchin affirms, and a little consideration inclines us to agree with him, that fire and marine insurances are very difficult...

B. C. Boniter. This is likely to be a useful

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little book. It contains plenty of information within a small compass. But what is meant by the following paragraph in the account of the Nall of the Vestals ? "The name of one...

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The question whether the Carthusian monks were or were not

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blackmailed in the interest of the Government, or of M. Combos, the Premier, or of M. Edgar Combos, his son and secretary, is the question of the hour in France. The attack on...

The importance of the assassination of General Bobrikoff, the Governor-General

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of Finland, has been increased by subsequent revelations. It appears that the ' murderer, Eugen Schaumann, after deciding on his crime, deposited in Sweden a copy of a letter to...

I T is impossible as yet to give any intelligible account

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of what has been happening during the week in the theatre of war. Friday's news consists only of rumours that a great battle has been proceeding since Monday, in which a hundred...

The German Emperor made a speech on Tuesday at a

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banquet at Cuxhaven in which he praised the " solidarite " which, he said, was growing among the civilised nations in all departments of life. That solidarity must, he said,...

Mr. Brodrick on Monday announced in the House of Commons

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that as the Dalai Lama has declined even to reply to the representations of the Mission, the expedition will pro- ceed to Lhasa, starting probably on the 25th inst. The arrival...

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The Paris correspondent of the Times asserts, on authority which

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he does not doubt, that the Vatican is in- quiring of the Bishops of France what they think will be the effect of a measure abolishing the Concordat. They are also asked to...

Considerable uneasiness has been created this week by the resignation

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of Sir Charles Eliot, the Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate. At first it was supposed that the proposed grant of land to the Zionists had something to do with his...

The debate in the House of Commons on Monday gave

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rise to a very remarkable statement by Mr. Balfour. Mr. Balfour, while resisting a Motion by Mr. Churchill, used the phrase, "Those of us who are in favour of Colonial...

The Republican Convention at Chicago has nominated Mr. Roosevelt as

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candidate for the Presidency, and accepted Mr. Fairbanks, of Indiana, though he is little known, for the Vice-Presidency. It is clear that the party as a whole approves the...

During the past week the Chinese labour question has been

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under discussion in both Houses of Parliament. In the Lords on Monday, in reply to Lord Coleridge, the Duke of Marl- borough quoted a telegram from the Governor of Hong-kong...

Meantime the first batch of Chinese labourers have arrived at

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Durban, and were sent on in locked com- partments and under armed escort to the mines. They have also been photographed for future identification, and their finger-prints...

practically no progress has been made. This is by no

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means altogether due to the dilatory tactics of the Opposition, for the Government have actually been forced to obstruct their own business by putting up Members to speak...

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In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Lytton moved

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the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the administration of the Chantrey Bequest in a speech of no little ability. The Trustees did not carry out the intentions...

We have been assured again and again by the Colonial

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Secretary that every effort would be made to render the terms of their service perfectly clear to the indentured labourers before they signed their contracts and left China. But...

On Wednesday the King received General Booth at Buckingham Palace,

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and conversed with him for some time on the work of the Salvation Army. The incident has given rise to expressions of satisfaction throughout the country, and with these we are...

We have two by-elections to record, and both have gone

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against the Government and Fiscal Reform. In Market Harborough, the centre of a sporting district, Mr. Philip Stanhope, not a specially popular candidate, was on Friday week...

The Birthday Honours published on Friday are not of any

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special interest. There are no new Peers, but three Privy Councillors, seven Baronets, and twenty-six Knights. First among the Privy Councillors stands the name of Mr. Charles...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday also the Duke

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of Bedford raised a not very satisfactory debate on the War Office Reconstitution Committee. Though we do not agree with all the Duke of Bedford's criticisms, the tone of his...

The Times of Wednesday contained the text of an appeal

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which the Committee of the new Chapel of St. Michael and St. George are about to issue to members of the Order. The Chapter of St. Paul's having placed a chapel at their...

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with most unusual regularity one way. From the day when

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Mr. Chamberlain's proposal was sprung upon the country the Protectionists have only been able to carry and hold one seat previously held• by their opponents. Whatever the...

I F Englishmen were to think only of the interests of

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their own country, they would probably desire the success of the Democratic candidate at the Presidential Election. Neither party in the United States is now un- friendly to...

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I T is greatly to be hoped that the Government will

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not much longer delay bringing their Army proposals before the country. At present the mind of the nation is utterly confused. in regard to the whole question. For a week the...

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PHIS war, it is becoming clear, will -produce at least

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one good result : it will discredit the system of hereditary autocracy. The end, it is true, is not yet, for the great Slav people may throw up a man of first-class military...

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I T is believed that Mr. Hobhouse's amendment to the second

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clause of the Licensing Bill will be held to be in order, and that the question of a time-limit will again be debated. It must not be supposed that in advocating this addition...

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B ELIEF in prayer is an instinct, an instinct which neither

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argument nor disappointment is able to eradicate. The great majority of men pray if they find themselves in sufficiently acute distress, and that without regard to what we call...

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I T used to be the custom at some Oxford Colleges—possibly

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it is the custom still—to enforce a certain standard of behaviour at dinner in Hall by a system of " sconcing," or fining the offender a fixed amount of beer, to be drunk by...

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T HE present war in the East is probably the only

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instance of a great campaign between civilised nations in which one of the combatants has relied almost entirely on man- power, instead of horse-power, for transport, the whole...

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THE LICENSING BILL.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si, —The letter of Mr. Agg- Gardner in your issue of June 18th is so misleading that we shall be obliged if you will permit a brief reply....

Until I retired owing t6 infirmity a few years ago,

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I had been for several years one of the Commissioners of Income-tax for this district, one of whose duties it is to hear appeals about the Inhabited House Duty. About a year...

But as "the point at issue" is a proposal to

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increase the yield of the License-duty from 41,500,000 to 410,000,000 by an en- hanced duty, surely the amount of the taxation already paid by the industry that is to bear the...

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The arguments used in your comments have been over and

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over again exploded by more able pens than mine. If they have not been entirely demolished, it is because of the great reluctance with which professional soldiers of all "...

SIB,—We desire, as persons deeply interested in social welfare, and

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seriously concerned at the provisions of the Licensing Bill now before Parliament, to address you on the subject of that Bill. The concession of the right to compensation with-...

I am not concerned with the writer's own opinions, but

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I join issue with him when he claims as an expert to dogmatise on the Volunteer Force. I challenge, in particular, one sentence to the effect that "seven-tenths of the Volunteer...

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recent Royal Commission :- Major - General Sir John Ardagh.

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"Q. 3,316.—There are a very large number of very good bat- talions in the Volunteers, I think much larger than most people have any conception of." "Q. 3,328.—It appears to me...

Sra,—With reference to your very apposite remarks in your last

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week's issue upon the letter of "Adjutant, Volunteer Artillery," who, if he really holds such appointment, is the last person who ought to have written such a letter, it is of...

requisite preparations.

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German hatred "towards England is fierce, inextinguishable, persistent; and, to our shame be it added, is based as much upon contempt for our military incapacity and unreadiness...

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The first, which, being a side issue, is sure to

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be raised first, is the question of sport versus militarism. Mr. Kipling's idea seems to be that under early and judicious training the national instinct for sport will shift...

SIR,—I hope you will allow me, as a resident Englishman

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in Germany, to express my appreciation of the remarks made on this subject by Mr. Rime in your issue of June 11th. During a period of 'eleven years lived' in Germany I have had...

Sfit,—I think it is generally agreed that this country requires

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a large, efficient, and not too expensive Army for home defence. This can be obtained by calling out the Militia for the three winter months, and paying them a fair wage. There...

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SIR,—If when Tennyson wrote of "the good gray head which

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all men knew" (see Spectator, June 11th, p. 918) he supposed himself to be imitating Claudian's " Stilichonis apex et cognita fulsit Canities," he misconceived the Latin...

Sin,—May I say one more word on this subject? In

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your note to my last letter (Spectator, June 18th) you say I fail to prove my main contention that the independence of the Pope is due to his attitude of protest. But whilst I...

in a form which invites answer.

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Thus he frankly compares "the teaching of the language scientifi- cally and grammatically," to those who do not know the language, by those who do not speak it, to the...

SIE, - I was seven years at Clifton under the present Bishop

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of Hereford. I loathed French, German, and English history. Dr. Percival once lent me his own "Tennyson." My thanks were so tepid that he said in a disappointed tone : "I...

SIR,—Much has happened within the last twelve months to enhance

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Ireland's attractions as a tourist resort. • In the first place, the London and North-Western Railway have considerably accelerated their trains to and from the North of...

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Sis,—May I ask you to allow me to make use

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of your columns to call attention to the movement (already referred to in the Times) for erecting a memorial in Bristol Cathedral to the late Canon Ainger, Master of the Temple...

THE LAMBING.

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With a tiny dimpling hand to the yielding bosom pressed— As I rose from her side to go—though sore was my heart to stay— To the ease of the labouring ewes that else would have...

Sin, —" The Letters which Never Reached Him" (noticed in the

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Spectator of June 18th) must be translated from the German of a little book published anonymously under the same title (" Briefe die ihn nicht erreichten"). It is very pleasant...

Silt,—Mr. H. W. Massingham must be singularly destitute of mechanical

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instinct if he finds that the whole pleasure of motoring is speed (see Spectator, June 11th). This may be his own individual experience, but there are certainly many not...

SIR,—In the article under the above heading published in the

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Spectator of June 4th the writer observes that the goats occasionally to be met with in that district are probably the most southerly of the feral goats left in England. It may...

printed.—I am, Sir, &c., REGINALD LUCAS. Heatherwood, Ascot.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "sexcriToa..]

Mrs. Lyttelton ' s play ? Employers constantly endeavour to evade the

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detection of their illegalities, especially as regards overtime ; and it is difficult to exaggerate the defencelessness and isolation of the workgirls. They dread the...

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THERE can be no question of the interest of the

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tale Mr. Thorburn has to tell, though there may ben difference of opinion on the merits of his method of telling it. The Punjab since the day when Runjit Singh first came in...

SzvEN years ago Drs. Grenfell and Hunt made one of

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the most interesting discoveries of a time fertile of such events, a fragment of papyrus containing eight "Sayings of Jesus" not found in the Canonical Gospels. They have now...

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poems which give its title to the book illustrate the

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peculiar qualities of the Broadland landscape under a variety of aspects, and with an intimate appreciation of its magic born of long and faithful observation. Whether Mr. Brad...

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• Bacteriology of Milk By Harold Swithinbank and aeorge Newman.

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Blea- trated. London : John Murray. [25e. net.] Bacteriology of Milk with the aid of his collaborator, Dr. Newman, who is the Medical Officer of Health of the Metro- politan...

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THE criticisms which we felt bound to make on the

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method adopted by Mr. Quiller-Couch in his Hetty Wesley—on writing a novel, that is, in compartments in which fiction alternated with fact—do not apply to his stirring romance...

Garmiseath. By J. Storer Clouston. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—leaders

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of that admirable book, "The Lunatic at Large," may find in this story something to disappoint them. There is none of the irresponsible fun and delicate extravagance of the...

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The Faith of Men. By Jack London. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—

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Although these stories are written with great force, the touch of poetry which distinguished 3f.r. London's best-known book is to some extent lacking. Human beings, apparently,...

THE DIVERSIONS OF A MUSIC-LOVER.

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The Diversions of a Music - Lover. By C. L. Graves (Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)—This is a delightful collection of essays on music, reprinted from various sources. Some of the...

His Majesty's Peacock. By W. A. Mackenzie. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—It

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is sometimes a relief to escape from the problems which are constantly presented to the readers of fiction, and absorb oneself in a frank melodrama. Mr. Mackenzie's new story,...

Retvisan' had her armoured deck continued downwards so as to

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constitute an extra defence against torpedoes. But it is not so much the simple blowing of a hole as the extensive jarring, and consequent loosening of rivets and plates, that...

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Magdalene College, Cambridge. By Edward Kelly Purnell, M.A. (F. E.

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Robinson and Co. 55. net.)—We cannot say that Mr. Purnell has the gift of lucid exposition. The story of the foundation of the College is somewhat complicated. There was a...

Under Croagh Patrick. By Mrs. William O'Brien. (John Long. 68.)—Mrs.

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O'Brien's book is for the most part, as one might expect, an agrarian and political pamphlet. We need not say much of it under this aspect. Mr. O'Brien has found out by this...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week

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as haus not been reserved for review in other forms.] Consolation of Du Perrier" are always welcome, especially when they come with the vigorous criticism which Mr. Belloc knows...

Essays on Life, Art, and Science. By Samuel Butler. Edited

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by R. A. Streatfeild. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—We cannot but think that it would have been well to leave the majority of these nine essays to the oblivion into which they had...

History of the Town and County of Wexford. By Philip

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Herbert Here. (Elliot Stock. 40s. net to subscribers.)—This is the fourth volume of Mr. Here's exhaustive work. More than half of it is occu- pied with the history of Duncasmon...

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The Housewife's What's What. By Mary Davies. (T. Fisher Unwin.

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6s. net.)—It cannot be doubted that there is a vast amount of useful information collected in this volume ; but the net has been thrown a little too widely. The alphabetical...

Near Oxford. By the Rev. H. T. Inman. (Alden and

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Co. is. rid 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a companion volume to the publishers' "Oxford Guide," and gives particulars of some hundred places of interest within a radius of fifteen miles...

An En g lish Girl in Japan. By Ella M. Hart Bennett.

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(Wells Gardner, Barton, and Co. 3s. net.)—Miss Bennett introduces us to a number of interesting and agreeable acquaintances. She found the Japanese very pleasant, as every one...

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Shakespeare Documents. Collated and Arranged by D. H. Lambert, B.A.

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(G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—The " Documents " reach a number for which one is hardly prepared,—one hundred and sixty-one. But then Mr. Lambert has included, and that, we think,...

Clarence Kin g Memoirs. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d.) —This

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volume contains a short story, "The Helmet of Mambrino," addressed by Clarence King to his friend, Horace F. Cotter (otherwise Don Horaeio) ; a paper on "Don Horacio " by James...

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK. ,

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