26 NOVEMBER 1910

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Remember what this piece of party tactics means when translated

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into action. If sin g le-Chamber g overnment is established, and the Home-rule Bill forced on the Lords without any appeal to the people, it will then have to be forced upon the...

In these circumstances we have no hesitation in sayin g that

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our duty, and the duty of all moderate men, is to do their utmost to defeat the present Government and their policy. Incendiaries are at work attemptin g to set fire to the...

In our opinion, the q uestion of the Union remains the

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supreme and essential issue. We must never for g et that in fact, if not in name, we are bein g asked to destroy the House of Lords because it has proved an obstacle to the...

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

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case.

We are bound to point out, however, that a g reat

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responsi- bility rests upon the Tariff Reformers. If they are sure of winnin g without adoptin g the course we indicated, well and g ood, but it is obviously essential that they...

If the Government obtain a majority, and moderate Liberals find

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themselves under the g rossest of all tyrannies —sin g le-Chamber g overnment—and also find the inte g rity of the United Kin g dom destroyed, it will be a poor consolation to...

Let us briefly restate our own position. We hold it

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to be the duty of Free-trade Unionists and of all moderate men to vote at this crisis for Tariff Reformers because that is the only effective way of preventin g a Constitu-...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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O N the day on which our next issue appears the first pollin g s will take place in an Election which promises to be one of the most momentous in our whole history. The advice...

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Lord Crewe commented upon the physical difficulties of a joint

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sitting, and proceeded to criticise the proposal for a Referendum. He asked how it was to be decided what questions were of sufficient "gravity" to be sent to it, and declared...

The time of the House of Commons during the last

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week has been chiefly devoted to passing the new Finance Bill. On Monday the Government carried their very severe Closure Resolutions in spite of the protest of the Opposition,...

A serious revolution has broken out in Mexico. The news

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has naturally been received with surprise, as only two months ago all Mexico seemed to be sincerely joining in the fetes when President Diaz's eightieth birthday and the...

Even more important was Mr. Asquith's announcement of the Government's

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decision upon the Osborne judgment. After repeating his announcement with regard to payment of Members, he said :— "We shall further propose legislation empowering Trade-...

Lord Cromer, Lord George Hamilton, and several other distinguished Unionists

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have signed a public manifesto which in fact endorses the policy' which we put before country at the last General Election and have continued to keep before it,—namely, that it...

On Wednesday Lord Lansdowne introduced his Resolutions, which we discuss

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in detail elsewhere. He pointed out that the details of the means of settling differences between the two Houses could not be arranged before the composition of the Houses had...

In the House of Lords on Monday Lord Crewe moved

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the second reading of the Parliament Bill. He traced the history of the veto controversy from the winter of 1906, when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's first Education Bill was...

An interesting letter appears in Wednesday's papers signed by the

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deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society which recently visited Lisbon. On the day of their arrival the formation of an Anti-Slavery Society in Portugal was announced,the...

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An admirable speech made in Thursday's debate was that of

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Lord Curzon. Nothing could have been better than the way in which he dealt with the misapprehensions about the Referendum. He exposed the absurdity of suggesting that a...

Mr. Lloyd George addressed an audience of five thousand men

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at the Paragon Theatre, Mile End, on Monday night. As for the Lords, "no free country in the world would look at our system." "Aristocracy is like cheese, the older it is (A...

Last Saturday Mr. Asquith blew the fanfare for the opening

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of the Liberal campaign at the National Liberal Club. Negotiations, he said, were over, and the state of war was resumed. As the Election bad to come soon in any case, it was...

We maintain our determination not to advertise the militant suffragists

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by describing their riotous and hysterical behaviour. We must note, however, the remarks made by the Chief Police Magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, at Bow Street on Thursday....

One of the difficulties of summarising the debates in the

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House of Lords is the very great ability shown by speakers. There are practically no twaddling speeches such as are to be heard in the House of Commons debates,—speeches which...

The debate in the House of Lords was continued on

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Thursday. The Lord Chancellor spoke with that attractive combination of earnestness and moderation which always characterises his speeches, but he does not seem to have in the...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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Oct. 20th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 79—Friday week 78i.

Count Tolstoy died early last Sunday morning at Astapova. His

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last words were : "There are millions of suffering people in the world. Why are so many of you around me 2" We dwelt at such length last week on the literary greatness of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE UNIONIST ALTERNATIVE TO SINGLE- CHAMBER GOVERNMENT. - LIVERY moderate man in the country, and every man 1 1 who desires an orderly democratic Constitution in which the will...

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THE ELECTION ISSUES. T HE Government are not dealing honestly with

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the British people. To judge by the speech of the Prime Minister at the National Liberal Club, the speech in which he announced his policy, the one question before the country,...

THE OBJECTIONS TO THE REFERENDUM.

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D URING the course of the debate in the House of Lords, and in Mr. Lloyd George's speech at St. Pancras Baths, certain broken-kneed. objections to the Referendum were trotted...

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THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN TURKEY.

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I T has been impossible for many months to disregard the signs that the theory of an Ottoman Empire, as distinguished from a Turkish Empire, is in danger of final collapse. The...

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" LLOYD-GEORGISM."

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T HE art of the mob orator remains the same all through • the ages. It was the same in Athens two thousand years ago as in Mile End to-day. It consists essentially of a direct...

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CHRISTIANITY AND DIVORCE.

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T HE evidence given before the Divorce Commission on Monday was of exceptional interest, as it set forth the teaching of the New Testament on divorce as interpreted by Dr....

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1.11.6 HONOUR. OF MEETING.

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r ERE is a certain charm about everything that Mr. Howells writes. He can please the generation which is growing up, and yet continue to please the generation which remembers...

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THE PRESERVATION OF COMMONS.

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-w - HEN a book originally costing ten shillings and sixpence is enlarged and improved and offered to the public for half-a-crown, the proceeds of the sale to go to the funds of...

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THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LORDS.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 beg to suggest that attention should be called to an essential difference between the Government proposals with regard to the House of Lords...

LETTERS TO TIIE EDITOR.

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE. [To THE EDITOR Or THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—The three outbursts of the Home Secretary, the Prime Minister, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are now...

[TO MR EDITOR OP TION "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—It seems so probable

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that the vital issue at the forth- coming elections may be lost sight of by many electors in the dust raised by party warfare, or, if kept in view, relegated to a place among...

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OUR RATING SYSTEM AND ITS INJUSTICE TO AGRICULTURE.

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pro TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECT•TOR."1 enclose report of speech I made in the House of Commons on Monday in connexion with the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill. In view of the...

COMMERCIALISM V. SOCIALISM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — It has occurred to me that a protest, such as the enclosed, would commend itself to moderate men of both parties, and might form a...

A NATIONAL PARTY.

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• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIEjThe one lasting hope of all moderate men, no matter to what political party they may belong, is that the nation may be indulged during...

THE ACTON REFERENDUM.

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pro THE EDITOR Or TEE "srsersroa."1 Sut,—You may be interested to hear that the Acton Refer. endum declared by 202 against municipal trading in electricity,—a most unexpected...

(1) The assertion by Socialists that the basis of commerce

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is selfishness and that capital is robbery or impropriation from the workers. On the contrary, every business transaction imports a mutual benefit, and capital is savings...

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THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 6111,—Allow me to protest against the action contemplated by the Government (if returned to office) in the matter of the Osborne judgment. If...

REMARKABLE BUDGET FALLACIES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." 8111, - With reference to my letter entitled "Taxation of Royalties" in your last issue, will you kindly allow me to expose a further method...

THE EXHIBITION AT 1111, GRAFTON GATJYRIES: GAUGUIN AND VAN GOGH.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szn,—The Chinese, who bestow lasting fame for an apparent trifle, for one trait of character exhibited, have cherished during hundreds of...

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pro THE EDITOR OP THE "spEcrirea..1

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Thackeray Turner's cottage is in design and con- venience without doubt greatly superior to Mr. St. Loa Strachey's ; but to form a just judgment, the actual cost of each should...

THE CHEAP COTTAGE PROBLEM.

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[To TUE EDITOR Of TUE " SFECTLTOR."] SIE,—Referring to Mr. Strachey's cottages, they are certainly not cheap, compared with some I recently erected in the Midlands covering...

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ITO THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."]

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Sra,—The better housing of the wage-earners is of prime importance; health, self-respect, and morality, with many other benefits, are involved, and aids to solving the problem...

SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:9 Sm,—Whimbrick Mill, an old windmill in the parish of Aughton until recently a prominent landmark on the hills about eight miles to the...

[To THZ EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sra,—Aluminium has sunk to about 11d, a pound, a fourth of the cost of copper in bulk or in sheets. Roofs may be made of sheets passing from cave over the ridge to eave, and...

MICE LAND UNION AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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[To TER EDITOR OF TES "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I through your columns circulate the following state. meat and appeal? The Land Union has, since the passing of the Finance Act in...

TRADESMEN, SERVANTS, AND SECRET _COMMISSIONS.

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[To TICE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sm,—The Council of the Secret Commissions and Bribery Prevention League, Incorporated, has framed undertakings, which, it is suggested,...

TALBOT HOUSE SETTLEMENT.

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MI THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:9 SIB,—I should be greatly obliged to you if I could let it be known to readers of the Spectator that the Talbot House Settlement in Addington...

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION ASSOCIATION'S CONFERENCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May I ask whether you would allow the Committee of the British Constitution Association to make known to your readers through your...

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TO T. E. PAGE.

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(Lines written for a gathering of his friends.) DEAR Page, you see us gathered here, In friendly but informal session, To mark the closing of the year That severs you from...

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”1

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Sin,—May I announce through your columns that an authentic biography of Thomas Love Peacock is now being prepared ? It will be esteemed a favour if any persons possessing...

POETE,Y.

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SING A SONG OF STATESMEN. SING a song of statesmen, A pocket full of power, Half a thousand new Lords Baked in an hour ! When the House was opened The Lords began to rat;...

"SENATES AND UPPER CHAMBERS."

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ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is not my wish to enter any protest against your review of my book, "Senates and Upper Chambers," in your issue of the 5th inst.,...

NOTICE. — When Articles or "Correspondence" are signed with the writer's name

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or initiate, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE " SPECTATOR " EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY. AT the time of

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the announcement of the Dissolution we were on the point of making arrangements for getting together the members of the Spectator Experimental Company at a parade in London....

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ART.

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RA_EB1T1tN'S PORTRAITS. IT is now eighty-seven years since Raeburn died, but the Exhibition of thirty portraits at the French Gallery, Pall Mall, is the first fairly...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB.

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Mona paint and ink has flowed since the days of the old jibe that the New English Art Club wasn't new, wasn't English, wasn't art, and wasn't a club. Mr. Clausen and Mr. Sargent...

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B 0 Q K S.

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CHATHAM : HIS EARLY LIFE AND ' CONNEXIONS.* LORD ROSEBERY'S book on the younger Pitt was a brilliant study, but this long-awaited examination of the sources of the elder Pitt's...

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THE GREAT ILLUSION.* WE welcome this book, based on Mr.

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Norman Angell's pamphlet entitled Europe's Optical Illusion. The larger space which it occupies naturally allows him to set forth his case more clearly, and to make his points...

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CHATTERTON.*

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Tina Muse is said, by the best loved of all the poets, to bestow paradise—coe/o beat — and to rescue from oblivion ; but these favours are lavished on the people who are...

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THE MOUNT OF VISION.*

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The Mount of Vision is a new and charming anthology of English mystic verse. The name is happy, for though the seers who scale the heights of mysticism may seem sometimes to...

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MIL STEPHEN PHILLIPS'S NEW POEMS.*

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IT is a pleasure to welcome new work by Mr. Stephen Phillips, for it is some years since we have had anything from the hand of one of the most accomplished of modern poets....

THE CORNISH COAST.* Ix must be difficult for one who

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knows the Lizard and the Newquay country to keep to a wise discretion in praise and to a sane use of superlatives. Whatever he may do he will disappoint the enthusiast, who will...

WORCESTER PORCELAIN.-I- CHINA seems to have been before the rest

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of the world in the making of porcelain, as in many other things. Mr. Hobson dates its beginning earlier than the tenth century. In Europe it appears towards the end of the...

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NOVELS.

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DARWELL STORIES.* ADMIRERS of Mr. Cornish's Sunningwell will welcome another volume from his pen. The qualities which mark his work do not make for a wide appeal, but they will...

Sir Pulteney : a Fantasy. By E. D. Ward. (Methuen

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and Co. is. net.)—"E. D. Ward" has written a political satire which is extremely amusing, and is so obviously the work of an accom- plished author, that its readers may give...

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Iolanthe, and other Operas. By W. S. Gilbert. (G - . Bell

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and Sons. 15s. net.)—" Savoy Operas" was the title, as our readers will doubtless remember, of a book published last year. Here we have a companion volume ; the "other operas"...

diemaotoanis. — An Anthology of the Poetry of the Age of Shakespeare.

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By W. T. Young, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is the first of a proposed series of "Cambridge Anthologies." The term "Age of Shakespeare" is somewhat...

The Clarendon Press has published a "Red Letter Edition "

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of The New Testament. It is bound in black leather, is printed on the admirable India paper, measures six inches by five by one-third of an inch, and weighs a little over four...

READABLE NovaLs. — The Sword in the Mountains. By Alice MacGowan. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—This is a story of the American Civil War, the locality being the debateable land of Tennessee. The theme offers dramatic situations which are admirably...

Bailie Hunting Directory (Vinton and Co., 58.-7s. 6d.) appears for

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the fourteenth time. It gives particulars of hunting paelra of all kinds, from staghounds to beagles, in this country and abroad, of point-to-point races, of puppy shows, ko. A...

To Work a Grass Holding at a Living Profit. By

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H. B. M. Buchanan, BA. (Constable and Co. is. net.)—It can be done, says Mr. Buchanan in effect, but it is very likely not to be done. The holder must know about the right...

A Demoiselle of Prance. By W. J. Ecoott (W. Blackwood

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and Sons. 6s.)—This story is told in the first person by the Abbe de Richelieu. In view of the adventure in the very first chapter, it is a relief to hear that he has not yet...

Edgar Allan Poe. By Arthur Ransoms. (Martin Seeker. 7s. (3d.

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net.)—It is satisfactory to find a writer who in dealing with Poe can hold the balance even. The "Biographical Back- ground" with which Mr. Ransom° begins is reasonable both in...

Chliteau D'Oez. By Ernest Dudley Lampen. (Methuen and Co. 6s.

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net.)—Winter sport may be said to be the main subject of this volume. But there are many other things in it, for ChLtA3au D'Oex was well known long before this novelty was added...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[tinder this heading we notice such Books of the wads as hass not loss reserved for review in other forms.] The New Testament of Higher Buddhism. By Timothy Richard, D.D. (T....