TALLEYRAND.* Ow the crowded page of history, which records the names of those who held the fate of modern Europe in their bands, when France was torn by civil feuds and bound...

LONDON JANUARY 26th, 1907.

of one hundred and seventeen pages Mr. Pigon pursues with much industry some of the minor arguments on which the Protectionist cause continues to rely. The contest has been, and...

assurance to Laertes at the Castle of Elsinore, "You cannot speak of reason to the Dane and lose your voice," has received modern confirmation by this historian's career. The...

"On to be beyond the pale once more, out of civilisatioU into savagery ! Anna, I abhor civilisation !!' So spoke Mra. Bishop at the age of sixty, when she had returned from one...

MEDIAEVAL LONDON. Mediaeval London. By Sir Walter Besant. Vol. II., "Eoelesi- astiold. - (A. and C. Black. 30s. net.)—Though this volume is described as "Ecclesiastical,"...

Students of economic questions would do well to direct their attention to the work of a distinguished Hungarian writer,— Hundert Jahre Zollpolitik, by Professor Louis Ling,...

The Silver Age of the Greek World, By Professor Mabaffy. (T. Fisher llnwin. 13s. 6d. net.)—The anther of this volume had a great subject, but has hardly dealt with it in the...

Arctic Exploration. By J. Douglas Hoare. Illustrated. (Methuen and Co. 7s. 64. net.)—There are few more interesting stories than that of the gradual extension of our...

Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula. By Walter William Skeet and Charles Otto Blagden. Illustrated. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 42s. net.)—A rich body of material for the...

Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2 vols. (Brown, Langharn, and Co. £2 2s. net.)—Mr. William Rossetti has already written much on...

American Finance. Part I., "Domestic." By W. R. Lawson. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s. net.)—Though, as above indicated, we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters...

Lane. 21s. net.)—Mutatis rautandis, we are inclined to say to 1dr. Chapman very much what we have said to Mr. Melville. The ecordid tragedy of the wife of George IV., the...

Banking and Negotiable Instruments : a Manual of Practical Lau , . By Frank Tillyard, M.A. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (A. and C. Black. 6s. net.)—The subject-matter...

British Economics. By W. R. Lawson. Second Edition, Revised. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Os. net.)—The author, in the preface to this second edition, complains that his work has...

The Churl and the Bird. Translated from the French by John Lydgate. Printed by William Caxton about 1478.—A lytell treatyse of the horse, the sheep, and the glues. By John...

Notable Trials Romances of the Law Courts. By R. Storry Deans, Barrister-at-Law. With Illustrations. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—The craving of the public for stories of battle,...

by Charles Holme. (Studio, Leicester Square, W.C. 5s. net.)—Country Cottages and Week End Homes, By J. H. Elder-Duncan. (Cassell and Co. 5s. net.)—These two volumes, both...

Report on the Pouitry Industry in America. By Edward Brown. (National Poultry Organisation Society, 12 Hanover Square. Report on the Pouitry Industry in America. By Edward...

The Tam. By W. H. R. Rivers, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Macmillan and Co. Els. net.)—Mr. Rivers's learned book will remain the chief authority on the interesting...

Salmon-Fishing. By W. Earl Hodgson. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Of books on fishing there is no end, and we desire none. Almost alone among the sports, it allows a man to...

Sport and Travel in Abyssinia and British East Africa. By Lord Hindlip. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—Lord Hindlip has had more sport and pioneering in strange places than...

The Old Inns of Old England. By C. G. Harper. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall. 42s. net.)—Mr. Harper's account of the inns of England is a poor book on a good subject. Though for some...

ROMAN EMPIRE. Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Boman Empire. Edited by W. Id, Ramsay, Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen....

Birds brings out his best qualities. The play, we know, only obtained the second prize, being defeated by 'The Revellers" of Ameipsias. Nor is this, perhaps, strange, for the...

A History of Classical Scholarship. By Dr. Sandys. Vol. I. Second Edition. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)— Thin admirable work was reviewed in these columns little...

Twenty Years of Continental Work and Travel. By Bishop Wilkinson, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Bishop Wilkinson has for his diocese Northern and Central Europe,- i.e.,...

Saint Catherine of &Ma and her Times. By the Author of "Mademoiselle Mori." With 28 Illustrations. (Methuen and Co. 'Is. 6d. net.)—The fascination that clings round Catherine...

Touraine and its Story. By Anne Macdonell. With Coloured Illustrations by A. B. Atkinson. (P. M. Dent and Co. .51 la. net.)—Books dealing with Touraine and its bordering...

Lees, B.A., F.R.G.S. (Charles Kelly. 5s. net.)—Mr. Robinson Lees contributed to Syrian archaeology a valuable addition when he followed the course of the Roman road across the...

book is in reality a treatise upon the imMense difficulty of maintaining a proper equipoise between the spiritual and the practical in matters of religion. "L. S." considers...

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

German elections, and the results throughout the Empire will be known by to-morrow. The system is that only that candidate is elected by the first ballot who receives more than...

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• __„, _ • nplIE news from Kingston shows an improvement in the genetal situation. Slight shocks of earthquake continue, but though three thousand persons are still homeless,...

actually occurred, we are not disposed to join in. the chorus of unqualified condemnation which has greeted the Governor's action; but the tone of his letter to Admiral Davis...

delivered at a private meeting of the German " intellectuals " last Saturday , a revised statement of his creed. ; His speech was remarkable for, its profession of lofty...

the electorate has largely increased. At the last Election five Socialists and one Radical were returned, but there is a strong chance of the Socialists now winning also in the...

the Times correspondent in San Francisco sends a remarkable account of the appalling growth and progress of municipal corruption in the capital of California since the...

either in the Press or on the platform what he considers the tendencies of the moment. On Tuesday evening at the banquet of the Republican Committee of Commerce and Industry be...

without so far any good results. They have issued a reply to the Papal Encyclical which satisfies the Vatican, but is no more than a formal tribute. Apparently their delibera-...

at San Francisco to test their rights as against the State of California, and to enforce the provisions of the Japanese Treaty. One is brought in the Supreme Court of the State...

attacks on the personal honour of M. Polonyi, the Minister of Justice. They began with the charges brought by M. Halmos, ex-Burgomaster of Buda-Pesth, against M. Polonyi, but...

the Diet, made an important declaration of policy. He began by expressing his great satisfaction with the English Alliance, which was growing in strength and solidity. Reis.'...

St. Petersburg, in weather of exceptional severity. Last year, it will be, remembered, almo4 the whole Labour Party boycotted the elections, and the Constitutional Democrats had...

ship and of Mr. Reginald McKenna to the Board of Education were officially announced on Thursday. In the case of Mr. Birrell, the announcement merely confirmed an open secret,...

settlement of the education question has been manifested both in and out of the House of Lords, propounds a scheme in Thursday's Times which deserves sympathetic consideration....

the dubious attitude of the Government towards Home-rule, and the probability that a large measure of Devolution will be introduced next Session," an organisation has been...

Churchmen that in what have hitherto been their own schools distinctive religious instruction should henceforth be relegated to out-of-school hours, but contends that that was...

was issued as a Blue-book on Monday. Of the con- clusions and recommendations of the Commissioners, the most important are the following :— That Trinity College has been and is...

dealt mainly with the House of Lords, a grievance which is being made the chief cry in the Derbyshire by- election, and which Mr. Bryce and Mr. Lloyd-George also turned their...

Jan. 17th. Console (21) were on Friday 87—on Friday week 871. Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 6 per cent. Jan. 17th. Console (21) were on Friday 87—on Friday week 871.

is visiting Canada as the guest of Lord Grey, made a notable speech at the Canadian Club at Ottawa before a large gathering of distinguished Canadians. He dealt mainly with the...

T HE final Report of the Royal Commission on Trinity College, Dublin, is a document of great value in the way of furnishing the Government with a large collection of facts and...

BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. T HE unfortunate misunderstanding which has arisen between Sir A. Swettenham, the Governor of Jamaica,- and Rear-Admiral Davis, of the United...

- 11 - TE do not believe that the " tension " said to be V V existing between Japan and the United States will produce immediately any regrettable consequences. The Government...

T HERE are few words in the language more misused than charity. If it includes in its connotation many virtues, it also covereth a multitude of sins. Nothing is more delicate...

F ORTUNATELY for innocent men, public opinion in this country is invariably aroused to a high pitch of interest whenever there is a suspicion that the wrong man has been...

I F this were quite true, it would be a great deal easier than it is to read character aright. The wisdom of the ages concentrates itself into unqualified assertion, but the...

W HAT is a dictionary ? The question is not one which it is easy to answer off-band. But we may safely say that a dictionary is a book of reference; it is not intended to be...

I N our at all times and seasons beloved sea estuary, widely open to the west, the appropriateness of the derivation of fog from fyge, a drift, is oftentimes made specially...

THE STATE OF THE NAVY. [To Tat EDMOS OT TBK SPECTAT08:1 Six,—The letter from Professor Biles published in your last issue shows that be has studied most carefully my letters on...

[To Ts. EDITOR Or TEE SPECTATOR...1 SIE, — It was with the deepest regret that I read your article entitled as above in the Spectator of January 19th, although your notes to my...

Ito THE EDITOR OS TRH "Srscuroa.1 Sts,—The attitude of the Unionist Party towards the question of old-age pensions is likely to become one of such vital importance that I am...

SIE,—Your article upon "Desolation and Home-Hale" in the Spectator of January 19th should be the means of enlightening your English readers upon the present situation in...

"SPECTATOR-1 Era, — It is to be hoped that the 'influential Committee of Tutors " which (as your correspondent Mr. Merchant in last week's Spectator tells us) is at present...

correspondent "H. W. S. " in the issue of January 12th taking a "Protectionist " view P Is it not best for the nation, nay, even for the world at large, that clever boys should...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE . SPECTATOR..] Stn,—The enclosed lines "from "The Gathered Poems of Ernest Myers" may be of interest to your readers in con- nexion with the proposed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE “SPEOTATOR:1 Szn,—An amusing instance of the slipperiness of familiar quotations occurs in a letter in your number of January 19th (p. 87). In my little...

THE MUSIC OF YESTERDAY AND TO-MORROW. THE correspondent of an evening paper, a propos, of the per. formances of German opera at Covent Garden, recently un- earthed an amusing...

[To Tug EDITOR 07 TWA "SPNCTATOR..] SIR,—Allow me to correct a small error which occurred in the interesting article in the Spectator of January 5th entitled " Tusks and...

[To THY EDITOR 07 THZ . SPEC7A708.1 S,—Last week I was most kindly permitted by the com- manding officer to observe the results of the "six months'" training of Militia recruits...

THE MASTER OF CHARTERHOUSE. IN MEMORIAM. (Switzerland, January 16th.) TEE sun that late lit up our snowy way Sinks, and a sudden chill is over alL The laughter dies. Yonder...

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.* PIIFFENDOEF, after the Peace of Westphalia, comparing the Germany of his day with the league of Greek States led by Agamemnon against...

to get 1 better understanding of the Liberal Roman Catholic position should read this book. Mr. Williams not only presses the claims of the Roman Church upon all who profess and...

THE elder Pitt is so mysterious and fascinating a figure that we welcome any scrap of information which increases our knowledge of him. For he has suffered little indeed from...

THE EMPTY HOUSE.* THE art of writing ghost stories, if it cannot be called a lost art, is at least one in regard to which the present generation are hardly in a position to...

[Under this lusting we =Bee much Books of the week as have net been reserved for review in other forms.] The Russian Government and the Massacres. By E. S6ranoff. (John Murray....

THE QUARTERLIES. The most important article in the Edinburgh Review is a careful study of the, new problem which faces Lord Cromer in Egypt. Formerly the task of the British...

no story concerning the theft of a mysterious Eastern jewel can claim to be original, Mr. Christie Murray may be congratulated on the great diversity of thrills with which he...

William Teignmouth Shore. (Hutchinson and CO. 6s.)—Apart from the extremely conventional attitude of the heroine, Cynthia Keiglaley—which is necessary if we are to believe in...

Maxwell and the companion of his voyage did their best to confirm the opinion common on the Continent of an Englishman's mental condition. They took their little craft, the...

Lone), (H.), Great Golfers lathe Mak,ng. S.o and prices. In the "School and ROMO Library" we have Mared the Unlucky, and other Tales, by Maria Edgeworth (is.)— the "other Tales"...

issue of the Guide, gives in its A.B.C. List of "Newspapers and Periodicals Issued in the United Kingdom" a catalogue reaching over two hundred and ten pages, and containing, on...

Co. 15s. net.)—These letters, two hundred and forty- eight in number, belong to the latest period of the cuneiform script. The few that are dated refer us to the years 555-425...

M.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 68.)—This is a revised and enlarged edition of an interesting book. It givhs "Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn " in English translations in...

la. net.)— This is one of the "Homeland Handbooks," and well worthy of the,excellent series to which it belongs. Mr. G. M. Arnold, who is Mayor of the borough, has contrihnted...