25 MAY 1901

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A striking account of the new defences of Pretoria appears

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in Monday's Times. The much-talked-of fortifications erected by the Boers resolved themselves, on close inspection ten months ago, into four "toy forts," which could have...

The health of Queen Draga of Servia, has suddenly become

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a matter of acute interest to Eastern Europe. The matter is in this wise. The King and Queen have for some time past expected the birth of an heir, foreign Courts have been...

There has been a muddle at Constantinople which might have

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become most menacing. The Sultan's fears of revolt have recently been accentuated by information, true or false, f as to the designs of the Young Turkish party. He fancied that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T T is the custom of the German Emperor to keep the birth- I- day of the Emperor of Russia, and this year the custom was observed at Metz, where William II. happened to be...

The war news continues to be meagre, apart from the

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usual ' lists of surrenders and captures of livestock, but the total Boer casualties 'fOr-Ainil reach the total of 105 killek118 Wounded, prisoners and surrenders 2,193. It is...

We go to press without being able to do more

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than merely record the arrival in London of Sir Alfred Milner. But the -preparations, official and otherwise, which have been made to welcome him ought to be a sufficient answer...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuseript,in any case.

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As regards the Concert Lord Lansdowne was evidently dissatisfied. Manchuria,

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he admitted, could not be restored to the Chinese until a Chinese Government had been estab- lished in the capital sufficiently, strong to guarantee Russia against a renewal of...

The Times special correspondent at Pekin draws in a letter,

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which appeared on the 22nd inst., a horrible picture of the ravages which the European troops have committed in Northern Mina. From the mouth of the PeihO to Tientsin, and from...

Lord Lansdowne made on Tuesday the "important" speech -on China

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which has been so largely advertised. It is im- portant in a way, but it is not very interesting, as it only places an official stamp on well-known decisions. His Majesty's army...

Sir H. Fowler on Monday commenced the debate on finance

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by an amendment which, while agreeing to provide for needed armaments, accused the Government of want of due regard for economy. His speech was less effective than had been...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Lord Chancellor

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brought forward a simplified version of the Prevention of Corruption Bill, originally introduced by Lord Russell of Killowen and more recently by Lord Alverstone. The measure,...

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The King has had a happy escape from what might

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have been serious or even fatal injury. On Wednesday his Majesty had gone on board Sir T. Lipton's racing yacht, `Shamrock II.,' at dowes, and the vessel was just start- ing on...

Mr. Morley on Thursday made a speech on the second

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reading of the Finance Bill which is, as an academic perform- ance, absolutely charming to read, but the political strength of which may be concentrated in two of his own...

The vacant bishopric of Oxford has been filled by the

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appointment of Dean Paget. The Bishop designate, who is just fifty, worthily maintained the repute of Shrewsbury scholarship by a brilliant academic miner. He has been in...

On Tuesday Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman was the principal speaker. He

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dwelt almost entirely on the in- crease of regular expenditure, especially on armaments, which he reckoned at thirty-three millions, and on the careless administration which he...

The population of Scotland as revealed by the new Census

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now exceeds that of Ireland by 15,411, the figures being, for Scotland, 4,471,957, and for Ireland, 4,456,546. Neverthe- less Scotland, which is enormously the richer country,...

We notice with great satisfaction the line taken by Lord

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Dundonald in a speech made by him last Saturday and reported very briefly in Monday's Times. Lord Dundonald said that he had seen what the ordinary Englishman could do without...

Sir Courtenay Boyle, the Permanent Secretary to the Board of

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Trade, who died suddenly last Sunday at the age of fifty-six, was a public servant of the best type. He was twice private secretary to Lord Spencer in Ireland, and rendered...

The reply of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach was a telling one,

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if rather too Parliamentary, that is, addressed to his opponent's arguments rather than the facts. He maintained, first of all, that his heavy Budget was a war Budget, which Sir...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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_ New Consols (2f) were on Friday 94i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SIR HENRY FOWLER. I T would, we are sometimes tempted to think, be a good thing for the Radical party if they were a little stupider, a little more like, that is, the average...

THE SERVIAN SCANDAL. been. " If we were Germans, again,

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we should note with alarm the extreme imitation of the French at the Russian Ambassador's acceptance of the German Emperor's invita- den to dine with him at Metz. William II....

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MR. CARNEGIE'S GIFT TO THE SCOTTISH ' UNIVERSITIES. T HE newspapers

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of Tuesday contained. the announce- ment of a benefaction which must have taken away the breath of many readers by its bold magnificence. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, following up the...

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- THE SPANISE PUZZLE.

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W E are not going to say much about the Spanish elections. In fact, when once the figures have been given nothing more can be said. What they mean or why . they are 'what they ,...

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THE LORDS ON GAMBLING.

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T BE Lords spiritual and temporal of England feeling their way, under a cooling shower of anticipatory criticism from their leader, towards measures for the abatement of social...

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INVERTED WITCHCRAFT.

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W E are unable to believe in a millennium, and can find no promise in Scripture from which a hope . might be deduced of a possible second revelation, but sometimes we cannot...

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THE USES OF SELF - CONSCIOUSNESS.

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A "FURTHER Memoir of Marie Bashkirtseff " has just been published. It is as self-conscious, but by no means as interesting, as the former one. It was said of G-oethe that, like...

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THE ENGLISH MOCKING-BIRD.

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A CORRESPONDENT of the Newcastle Journal, writing from Team, near Wooler, in Northumberland, gives some account of the accomplishments of a wild starling which has settled near...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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CANON GORE UPON THE EUCHARIST. [To TIM EDITOR OF TRH "SPICITATOR.1 Sin,—Canon Gore tells us in his preface that this book* is in part the result of an attempt to clear up his...

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VASTNESS AND ISOLATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sza,—Might I dare to suggest, as a Philister incurable, that the disturbing sensations so vividly described by your various correspondents...

FAITH.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TES "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—In the interesting article on " Faith " in the Spectator of May 18th the writer says : "According to Dean Stanley, and, so far as we can...

LORD SALISBURY AND TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you kindly allow me to offer a few criticisms upon that part of your very laudatory article in the Spectator of May 18th on Lord...

• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SP zerszos.i Sin,—In reference

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to the language of Mn Symonds men- tioned in your correspondence on "Vastness and Isolation," may I venture to quote Robert Browning's words in " Pauline " ?— ig I am made up of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CO-OPERATION FOR THE ARMY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SLR,—Mr. Fortescue's letter in the Spectator of May 18th is, as you say, striking, but his blows are delivered...

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THE " SWEETNESS " OF ENGLISHMEN.

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• [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—In the Spectator of May 4th,which has just come to me from a friend, is an article entitled "The 'Sweetness' of English- men" (as you...

A GREEN GIRDLE FOR LONDON.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Many of your readers on reading the article in the Spectator of May 18th on the above subject must have been reminded of the prescience...

IS HELL LOSS OF BEING ?

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[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—IS it not sufficient to ask this question in order to realise its absurdity? If hell is merely loss of being, what possible deterrent...

Ivo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your interesting article

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in the Spectator of May 18th on the length of speeches in Parliament you remark that "constituents do like to feel that they have got something" when they read their Member's...

POETRY.

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VICTORIA DAY. (VERSES SUGGESTED BY THE LATE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.) Now that the Queen is dead, have we aught that is worthy to live for— We who were proud of her reign, wholly in...

THE SEIZURE OF THE "IRISH PEOPLE."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia, — May I point out the possibility of your article in the Spectator of May 18th on the above subject being written from the point of view...

SPEECH AND TIME.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Is it quite certain that the average Parliamentary speech is of excessive, or even of considerable, length ? I take at random seven...

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ART.

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THE ACADEMY.—III. DOES the Academy desire to educate the taste of both artists and public ? If it does, it has a means at its dis- posal for this end which would prove...

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BOOKS.

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SIR MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF'S DLiRIES.* TALKING of books good to take on a journey—at one of the Grillion breakfasts where so many of the "good things" of Sir Mountstuart Grant...

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THE SWORD.*

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CAPTAIN HUTTON . a book is less a treatise on the sword than a history of those who have used it ; it may beet be described as an anthology of the duel. Perforce dis- connected,...

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THE HIGHER CRITICISM.*

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WHAT this excellent little book chiefly wants to complete its usefulness is a more detailed illustration by example. We do not say that Professor Nash is to blame for not...

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SIR HENRY COLVILB ON THE WAR.* The Ninth Division did

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not come into being till February 10th, 1900, but the author commanded the Guards Brigade from Belmont to Magersfontein. He sketches very clearly and briefly the nature of the...

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*

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Ma. PHILIP &mum follows the new fashion, or convention, of choosing an eminently unheroic hero. The central figure of his awkwardly named story is not only the son of a bargee,...

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C URRENT LITERAT (IRE.

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MR. YEATS'S POEMS. In his newly published • volume of Poems (T. Fisher trawin, is. 6d.) Mr. W. B. Yeats gives us a revised reprint of the lyrics • and plays published in three...

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THE NATURE, ORIGIN, AND DESTINY OF THE SOUL.

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Whence and 1Vhither. By Dr. Paul Carus. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co. Is. 6d.)—This little work is an inquiry into the nature, origin, and destiny of the soul. It is in some ways...

AMONG THE WOMEN OF THE SAHARA.

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Among the Women of the Sahara. From the French of Mme. Jean Pommerol, by Mrs. Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers) 90 Illus- trations. (Hurst and Bleckett. 12s. net.)—Mme. Jean Pommerol...

SANITY OF MIND.

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Sanity of Mind. By David F. Lincoln, M.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 5s.)—This is a work of an increasing class, dealing as it does with the sad and seamy side of our civilisation....

CONGREGATIONAL INDEPENDENCY IN SCOTLAND.

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A History of Congregational Independency in Scotland. By James Ross. (James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow. Os.)— This is a useful book, and will be found very valuable by every...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Undo this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been merged for review is other forms.] Th4 Church in Greater Britain. By G. Robert Wynne, D.D (Kegan Paul,...

ANIMALS OF AFRICA.

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Animals of Africa. By H. A. Bryden. (Sands and Co. 4s.)— This is a book for young people, and the second volume of the "Library for Young Naturalists" which Mr. Afialo is...

The Public School Word Book, By John S. Farmer. (Hirschfeld

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Brothers. 21s. net.)—This "historical glossary" of words, obsolete or in use, that make up the "slang" of public schools and-Universities is, we are told, "privately issued for...

The Inner Way : Sermons of John Tauter. Edited by

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A. W. Hutton, MA. (Methuen and Co. 2s.)—Here is another volume of "The Library of Devotion" to which serious objection may be made. The "Guide to Eternity" of Cardinal Bona...

Tennyson's In Memoriam. Edited, with Commentary, by Arthur W. Robinson,

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B.D. (Cambridge University Press. 28. Gd.) —We can speak in very high terms of this volume. It gives us exactly what is wanted. The text is not overloaded with criticism or...

Old Highland Days : Reminiscences of Dr. John Kennedy. (R

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T.S. 6.s.)—Mr. Howard Angus Kennedy introduces his father's reminiscences and his own biographical chapters by what we may call a "fighting" preface. Dr. Kennedy was a fighting...

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Parochial Sermons. By the late S. J. Stone, MA. (Skeffington

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and Son. 4s.)-Mr. Stone lives in the grateful memory of many as the author of some very effective hymns, "The Church's One Foundation" among thew, and these sermons will not...

there are serious gaps from time to time in their

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continuity. (Vol. I., we may remind our readers, began with a document of the beginning of the twelfth century.) The whole furnishes materials for a very interesting survey of...

Evangelical Doch ice Bililc Truth. By the Rev. C. Anderson

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Scott. (Hodder and Stoughton. Es.)-This volume contains a polemic of considerable force levelled against what may be called, for sake of brevity, the sacerdotal position....

The Evolution of Immortality. By S. D. McConnell, D.D. (Macmillan

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and Co. 5s.)-This is a highly interesting book, of which we cannot pretend to give an adequate appreciation. We have been compelled to reconsider many things which our fathers...

The Alfred Jewel. By John Earle, LL.D. (The Clarendon Press.

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12s. 6d. net.)-Professor Earle ' (whom we would con- gratulate on having passed the jubilee of his professorship, a brief interruption being left out of account) has been in the...

The Diary of Nicholas Garry. (B. Quaritch. 5s.)-Mr. Nicholas Garry

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was a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, and when this Company came to terms with its great rival, the North-West Company, he went out, with a representative of the other...

A Short History of the Greeks. By Evelyn S. Shuckburgh,

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M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. 6d.)-Series succeeds to series. This volume belongs to the "Cambridge Series for Training Schools and Colleges." We are not aware of any...

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Sell's Dictionary of the World's Press, by Henry Sell (167

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Fleet Street, 75. 6d.), is even more interesting than usual. It is much more comprehensive than even its title, though this sounds large, would indicate. Literature, politics,...

Co. 10s. 6d.)—This volume (the thirty-eighth annual publica- tion) contains

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the results of the last Census both at home and in India. Several Censuses of foreign countries have also taken place. Other changes and additions there are—the beginning of the...

fitonyhurst College. By the Rev. G. Gruggen, S.J., and Rev.

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J. Keating, S.J. (Kegan Paul. Trench, and Co. 7s. 6d.)— Stonyhurst is St. Omer's, compelled to migrate to England by the French Revolution, and it has now more than completed...

" Clonfert Cathedral. (Canon McLarney, Clonfert.) — The rector of

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Clonfert issues an appeal, to which we gladly give such circulation as we can, for help in the restoration of the Cathedral (now the parish church) of Clonfert. This building...

A History of Upper Chapel, Sheffield. By J. E. Man-

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ning. M.A. (Independent Press, Sheffield.)—Upper Chapel was founded, says Mr. Manning, by Independents. The con- gregation began with the expulsion of James Fisher, vicar of...

We have received Vol. XI. of the Parents' Review, edited

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by Charlotte M. Mason (Began Paul, Trench, and Co., 7e. 6d. bound), a repository of varied information and speculation on the inex- haustible subject of the training and...

We may briefly mention a seasonable book, Small-Boat Sailing, by

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E. F. Knight (John Murray, 5s.), described in its sub-title as "An Explanation of the Management of Small Yachts, Half- decked and Open Sailing-Boats of Various Rigs ; Sailing...

The Romance of the Heavens. By A. W. Bickerton. (Swan

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Sonnenschein and Co. 5s.)—Professor Bickerton's volume is "an application of chemistry and physics to celestial phenomena." Nothing has been more fruitful in modern science than...

The Revolt and The Escape. Translated from the French of

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Villiers de L'Isle Adam by Theresa Barclay. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. net)—Dramas are not commonly good to read, but these two are an exception. The Revolt is, indeed, scarcely a...