LONDON: APRIL 27th, 1907.

LETTERS OF LITERARY MEN.* SIR Tnocuis MORE was imprisoned in the Tower for denying the headship of the King in matters ecclesiastical in England. Not long before he was...

A woma of interest and scientific insight was to be expected from Professor Ray Lankester, and in his latest book that expectation is fulfilled. The work is divided into three...

WE cannot pretend to review the judgments which Messrs. Seccombe and Robertson Nicoll—the preface assigns the greater part of the work to Mr. Seccombe, and 'associates the name...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF AITSTRALIAN VERSE. An Anthology of Australian Verse. Edited by Bertram Stevens. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stevens has prefaced his anthology by a...

The Passing of Korea. By Homer B. Hulbert, A.M., F.R.G.S. (W. Heinemann. 165. net.)—This book has been written with the avowed object of interesting the reading public in a...

A History of Socialism, By Thomas Kirkup, Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (A. and C. Black. 75. net.)—Mr. Kirkup's work has already achieved an honourable place in the...

The Future of Russia. By Rudolf Martin. Translated from the German by Hulda Friedrichs. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This little volume is by a member of the Prussian...

The Epistle of Jude and the Second Epistle of Peter. By Joseph B. Mayor. (Macmillan and Co. 14s. net.)—This volume, with its introduction, notes, commentary, and elaborately...

' The Sociological Theory of' Capital : being a Complete Reprint of the New Principles of Political Economy, 1834. By John Rae, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. na. net.)—Dr. Charles...

Fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore. By J. A. Harvie- Brown, F.R.S.E, F.Z.S. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 30s.)— This volume is the tenth of a series started some eighteen years...

The Trial of Deacon Brodie. Edited by William Roughead, Writer to the Signet. With Portraits and Illustrations. "Notable Scottish Trials" Series. (Sweet and Maxwell. Is. net )...

preface that it is not enough to make experience intelligible by merely resolving it into ideal—that is, intelligible—elements, or by leaving experience outside the explanation....

Cambridge a Brief Study in Social Questions. By Eglantyne Jebb. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge. 45. gd. net.)—Miss Jebb and her friends have written an admirable little book....

Luaus Alteri Westmonasteriensis. Curantibus R. S. Mitre, J. Sargeaunt, J. Gow. (In Domo Ashburnhamiana.)—This volume contains the prologues and epilogues of the Westminster play...

The Austinian Theory of Law. By W. Jethro Brown, LL.D. (Camb.), Litt.D. (Dublin). (John Murray. 10s. fid. net.)—This volume is stated to be an edition of Lectures I., V., and...

Abyssinia of To - clay: an Account of the First Mission Sent by the American Government to the Court of the King of Kings, 1903-1904. By Robert P. Skinner. (Edward Arnold. 12s....

Untravelled England. By James John Hissey. (Macmillan and Co. 16s.)—This book is, like most storks of the same kind from the same pen, a delightful—and delightfully Pickwickian-...

The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh, or Christ's Kirk at the Tron: Rev. Dr. James Macgregor contributes a chapter of reminiscences to this very interesting volume. He was minister of the...

Letters and Recollections of George Washington : being Letters to Tobias Lear and Others between 1793 and 1799, showing the First American in the Management of his Estate and...

Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe. Edited by his Daughter, Laura E. Richards. (John Lane. 16s. net.)—S. G. Howe was known in after life by the admirable work which he...

The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi. Translated into English by Father Paschal Robinson. (J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d. not.)—The writings of St. Francis of Assisi afford us...

Nyasaland under the Foreign Office. By H. L. Duff. (G. Bell and Sons. Is. 8d. net.)—Mr; Duff is a member of the British Central Africa Administration, and he has written almost...

Romantic Cities of Provence. By Mona Caird. Illustrated from Sketches by Joseph Pennell and Edward M. Synge. (T. Fisher ITnwin. 155. net.)—This book does not by any means, like...

A Pastoral Bishop a Memoir of A. Chinnery-Haldane. By Thomas Isaac Ball, LL.D. (Longmaus and Co. Os. 6d. net.)— Mr. Chinnery-Haldane was ordained in the Anglican Church, but...

Sir William Flower. By R. Lydekker. (J. M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of the "English Men of Science" Series. Naturally it is chiefly devoted to the scientifie...

King's College, Cambridge. By C. R. Fay. (j. M. Dent and Co. 2s. net.)—Mr. Fay's pen and Mr. Edmund H. New's pencil combine to make a very pleasing volume. Perhaps the strongest...

Brier-Patch Philosophy. By William J. Long. Illustrated by Charles Copeland. (Ginn and Co. 6s.)—When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us stories about...

The Old Roof-Tree: Letters of Ishbel to her Half-Brother, Mark Latimer. (Longmans and Co. 5s. net.)—Something of an intro- duction to tell us the point of view from which "...

The Defence of the Realms. By Sir Henry Knyvett, 1596. With Introduction by Charles Hughes. (Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)— Sir Henry Knyvett, of Charlton, near Malmesbury, drew up...

Way and Walter G. BelL (John Lane. 42a. net.)—We have lately had several books about the Thames, but none in which the lower course of the river is more graphically pictured....

78. 6d. net.) —This is a very striking book. It describes with extreme minute- ness the mental and physical sensations of the author as he approaches "the gate of death." The...

and 5 Ddan Street, Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by loan Bases for the "Sescrarea (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in...

paper that at the end of last year Imperial dedrees were passed which raised the Sage Confucius from the level of the sun and moon to the level of the heaven and earth, and...

come to a speedy and satisfactory end. It will be remem- bered that the Makhzan gave an order for works at Tangier, including a drainage system and a marine boulevard, to a...

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

T HE visit of the King and Queen to King Victor Emmanuel at Gaeta on Thursday week had no worse sequel than mutterings in the German Press. The visit was simply an act of...

any case.

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despatch from Lord Cromer issued as a Parliamentary Paper on Monday. Lord Cromer summarises the enormous benefits conferred on Egypt by the perennial irrigation furnished by the...

explained in the Reichstag the Estimates for rearma- ment and the reconstruction of fortresses. He had been pressed to spread the expenditure over a shorter time, but he hoped...

Duma bas,been the reception by the Emperor of M. Golovin, the President. Considerable importance is attached to this audience, which is taken as a sign of the Emperor's...

passage in Gibbon's autobiography in which the historian declares that "the family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the noblest upon earth. Seventy authentic genera- tions have...

the Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannernian, who presided, welcomed the Premiers in a cordial speech in which he declared that there was neither...

of the resolution it appears that the abandonment of an Imperial Council (i.e., a body formed of the present members plus a permanent Imperial Civil Committee). and the limiting...

dealt with at length in a leading article, was one of the ablest and weightiest be has delivered this Session. Specially excellent was his defence of the Militia. Do not let us,...

when Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Labour M.P. for Leicester, criticised Mr. Haldane's scheme in a speech of very great ability. The Labour Party, he declared, were not in favour of...

ference issued on Monday announced that a resolution bad been unanimously adopted with regard to the style and con- stitution of the Conference and the establishment of a...

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's criticisms, and we think that his references to what he called conscription were particularly unfair, for ho should surely know that no one advocates...

of the Proportional Representation Society, held at his house in St. James's Square. Re pointed out that in 1886 the Unionists obtained a majority of a hundred and four seats at...

Member of the Parliament of the Australian Commonwealth, gave an address on "Compulsory Military Training from the Point of View of an Australian Labour Leader," in which he...

atten- tion to the memorial on the appointment of Magistrates presented to the Lord Chancellor in December, and moved for papers. The Lord Chancellor laid it down that there...

Unionist dinner and making a plea for Unionist unity, declared that " he was led to make these remarks because he saw that a speech of his, made a little time ago, was inter-...

for a bitter attack on Mr. Asquith's proposals from Mr. Snowden, the Labour Member for Blackburn. No Chancellor of the Exchequer, he declared, bad had so magnificent an...

on Thursday by Lord Lansdowne, who, while urging that the movement to bring back more and more people to the soil should have the support of both political parties, described...

Apr. 25th. Consols (2k) were on Friday 85f—on Fri day week 86}.

THE . LAND POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. T HAT it is desirable from every point of view, moral, physical, and social, to encourage men to live and make their living in the country...

I T seems that there is no place for a moderate man in Ireland. The decision of the Government shortly to remove Sir Horace Plunkett from his office as Vice-President of the...

W E have dealt elsewhere with Mr. Balfour's speech in the House of Commons during the debate on Mr. Haldane's Bill. The greater part of that speech was quite admirable, and,...

T HE incident at Lahore reported in the Times of April 18th is of some importance,—first, because it shows that the dislike of Europeans, which has been growing in India,...

M R. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S speech on Monday was an unusually interesting contribution to the Budget debate. The Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being is necessarily...

A STRONG and able plea for "freedom in the Church" comes to us from America. It is written by Dr. A. V. Allen, a Professor in the Episcopal Theological School iu Cambridge, and...

'W E are told sometimes by people who reckon themselves competent observers that the English character is changing; that it becomes more mercurial and less stable, more Southern...

H ERE and there not man, but the genius of the place, seems to say to himself, "I will make a garden." On the clean slope of a Sussex hill, in the deep quiet of a Surrey wood,...

POLO ON DONKEYS. [TO TIEN EDITOR ON TUN "SPNOTATOR:3 Sts,—Your reference in the " News of the Week " of April 13th to polo on donkeys, and to the possibilities of importing...

[To Tea Eorrox or Tam Srscmort...] SIR, — Would you allow me to enter a modest protest against Mr. Haldane's summary sentence upon the Roman Empire in his excellent speech at...

interesting letter, 'fp your issue of April 20th, it may be useful to point out that there is a delightful little book written by Colonel John Biddulph entitled "Striiger...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THY SPICTAT011.1 Sia,—I venture to make a suggestion with reference to the vexed question of female suffrage, which evidently, for good or for evil, will force...

SI8,—In a letter in your issue of April 20th Colonel Harcourt, in his desire to do justice to the honoured memory of Colonel Stringer Lawrence, has done much less than justice...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,--•" D.'s" letter in last week's Spectator is most valuable at the present time, and every lover of Ireland should be roused by it to agitate against such...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,---Only Mr. Punch has so far taken any serious notice of the manifesto of the Social Democratic Federation on Mr. Haldane's Army...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your issue of March 9th, just to hand, I have read with interest a letter from your correspondent Sir H. Evan M. James on " The Treatment of Sedition...

[TO THE EDITOR. or TIM .Semcreron..1 SIE, — Your correspondent " Manufacturer " of April 20th is evidently more familiar with the weaving of cloth from bought yarn than with...

"SPECTATOR.] Snc,—There is a statement in the Spectator of April 20th (p. 623, col. 1) which must appear quite startling to many of your readers. It is this:- " What is obvious...

[TO TUX EDITOR OP TUX .5PIL0TATOR.1 think your readers may be interested in a mixed metaphor which recently appeared in the Egyptian Standard, the paper of Moustapha Kernel...

[To TR it EDITOR 05 TITS EP MOUTON:I SIR, — May I add an instance to those which have lately appeared in the Spectator of the long period which may be covered by the lives of...

[TO TUN EDITOR Or TUX Sr scraron..] SIR, I seem to see now again, as I saw many years ago, a little man walking across a stoned courtyard, entre cons et jardin, on his way to...

[To TIM EDITOR OP Tel " SPECTATOR:1 Sur,—The Bengal Provincial Conference, an appanage of the " Congress," is holding its annual meeting at Berhampore, in the district of...

LTO TUX Raises or :ram "SrICTATOR.1 " haunting lines" from Catallus which your corre- spondent in the Spectator of April 20th thinks have never been rendered into English have,...

ON CHAPMAN BARROWS.* THE lark that rises from his sheltered nest, No swifter is to greet the coming day Than he whose feet the ancient grasses pressed, In years long passed...

THE NEW GALLERY. WHEN making a general survey of the pictures hung in a gallery one cannot help recalling the effect of previous Exhibitions in the same place. While looking at...

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RUSSIA AND REFORM.• IF Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we are all the more ready to believe his word—in England we have been asked to believe...

IF the useful bibliography at the end of Mrs. Jerrold's book is entirely to be trusted, this is only the second time that a complete Life of Vittoria Colonna has been written in...

reminiscences were common on publishers' lists. From Lord Cockburn's Memorials onward, there flowed a goodly stream, and the house of Blackwood was foremost in their production....

GHETTO COMEDIES.• Ma. ZANOWILL'S new volume forms a fitting pendant to his Ghetto Tragedies, and in that bald statement we desire to pay fitting tribute to his genius. Once...

THE QUARTERLIES. The last article in the Edinburgh Review, "Political Parties and the Country," is a masterly survey of the situation. So far, the writer thinks, the Ministry...

(Under this heeding so. 'lotto. Inch Book. of the week as Ions not been reserved for review in ether forma.] W. H. Caine, M.P. By John Newton. (J. Nisbet and Co. 105. 6d.)—The...

delighted to notice a reprint of the Duke of Bedford's admirable speech on the Militia question, delivered in the House of Lords at the end of March. We have already noticed the...

Windus. 2s. 6d. net.)—A. story of modern society, the scene of which passes chiefly at Biarritz.—The Plow-Woman. By Eleanor Gates. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A powerful story of life...

Except for the descriptions of scenery in Devonshire and North COrnwall, it is impossible to call this a pleasant noveL The book is a psychological study of a woman who has...

- Walter P. Wright. (Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Wright, who fills the post of Horticultural Superintendent to the. Council , of Kent, the "Garden County!' of England, gives...

(T. and T. Clark. 3s. net.)—Dr. Plummer begins with a disquisition, which seems to us irrelevant, on the execution of Charles I. Surely the King was not a "prisoner of war." Had...

(Homeland Association. 7s. 6d. net.)--Mr. Bennett, who has been assisted by Mr. Benjamin Harrison and other contributors, has found an excellent subject in the story of this...

—This is a 'useful little volume, containing information which the investor would do well to study. On the whole, the outlook is not encouraging. The set of the tide is against...

an Introduction by A. G. Gardiner. (Duckworth and Co. 38. 6d. net.)—There is, of course, a quantity of detail in this volume which it is not within our competence to examine....

we have the prices realised at picture-sales during the years 1905-6. Two indexes are given, one of painters (in oil and water), another of engravers, etohers, do. The details...

in the magazine mentioned above. These eighteen discourses may be most emphatically recommended. Boys are not an altogether easy audience to address. But they are in some...

reading-books which have a special use of their own. These are in the "Look-about- You " Nature Study Books, one about trees and another about a variety of common country...

12e. 6d.)—This directory seems to be as complete and as well up to date as usual. Besides the information found in books of this kind, and its speciality—matters that have to do...

Hutchin- son and Claude Delaval Cobham. (E. Stanford. 2s. 6d. net.)— Sir J. T. Hutchinson is Chief Justice of the island and Mr. Cob- ham is Commissioner at Larnaca. The...

Guiney. (J. R. Tutin, Hull. ls. 6d. net.)—Thomas Stanley was born in 1625 and died in 1675. An interesting appreciation of the man and his work is given by the editor.— In the "...