FORGOTTEN POETS.* Otra modern literary pantheon is large enough to include every variety of divinity; and the series of reprints which Professor Saintsbury is now editing shows...

LONDON: JANUARY 27th, 1906.

Moliere died at his work. Le Malade _Tmaginaire was acted for the fourth time at the theatre of the Palais Royal ; it was only a week since it had been first put on the stage....

MANY books, some authoritative but dull, others notable chiefly for their bulk, have been written about Glasgow, especially since its growth assumed positively American...

ranges over a wide field, from Chaucer to Tennyson, giving five lectures and two essays to Shakespeare, and writing also of Swift, Cowper, Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge,...

COLEREDGES. The Story of a Devonshire House. By Lord Coleridge, K.C. (T. Fisher Unwin. 15s.)—Lord: -Coleridge has given us an admirable and delightful book which deserves to be...

Proceedings of the British Academy (1903 - 1904). (Published for the British Academy by Henry Frowde. 21s. net.)—This tall and decorous volume describes the birth of the...

The Principles of Economics : a Fragment of a Treatise on the Industrial Mechanism of Society ; and ether Papers. By the late W. Stanley Jevons, LL.D., F.R.S. With a Preface by...

Lord Elgin. By Sir John George Bourinot. "The Makers of Canada" Series. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—The late Sir John Bourinot fortunately lived to complete and revise...

Life of Lieutenant - General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke. Edited by Colonel R. H. Vetch. (John Murray. 15s.)—This is in every respect an excellent biography of a soldier and...

Nature in Eastern Norfolk. By Arthur H. Patterson. With 12 Illustrations in Colour by F. Southgate, A.B.A. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The county of Norfolk has always received atten-...

A Queen of Napoleon's Court : the Life - Story of Disires Bernadotte. By Catherine Bearne. Illustrated. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Just as English readers have gained a...

The Jordan 'Valley and Petra. By William Libbey and , : Franklin E. Hoskins. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 25s.)—Messrs. Libbey and Hoskins performed a journey of - which they...

Nature's Nursery ; or, Children of the Wilds. By H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn, M.A., dtc. With 240 Illustrations from Nature by the Author. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—This is a good...

Quebec in the Seventeenth Century. By James Douglas, LL.D. (The Burrows Publishing Company, Cleveland and London. 102.)--Tha alternative title given to this interesting volume...

The Electra of Euripides. Translated by Gilbert Murray, LL.D. (George Allen. 2s. net.)—We are glad to have another of these admirable translations. Never has a great poet had...

The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai. Translated from the Tamil and Edited by Sir J. Frederick Price, Assisted by K. Range- chari, B.A. Vol. L, 1736-1746. (Government Press,...

Calcutta, Past and Present. By Kathleen Blechynden. ( W. Thacker and Co. 7s. net.)—Miss Blechynd en's story of Calcutta begins with a romance,—how its founder, Job Charnock,...

De Moira a Roosevelt, 1823 - 1905. Marquis do Barrel- Montferrat. Avec une Preface de M. le Comte d'Haussonville, de l'Academie Francaise. (Plon-Nourrit et Cie., Paris.)—This is...

History of the Pacific North - West. By Joseph Schafer. (Mac- millan and Co. 5s.)—The interest attaching to the growth of tho Pacific seaboard of America is perennial, and Mr....

The Appeal of the Anglican Church. By the Rev. Arthur Galton. (Dover Street Book Store. 2s. net.)—Mr. Galton has stated in this volume with much ability and in a temperate...

Nelsonian Reminiscences. By G. S. Parsons. Edited by W. IL Long. (Gibbings and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The strictly " Nelsonian' part of these "Leaves from Memory's Log" (first published...

Principles of Parish Work. By the Rev. Clement F. Rogers. (Longmans and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Rogers has much excellent advice to give to the clergy. Begin, he says, with a system...

Expositions of Holy Scripture. By Alexander Maclaren, D.D. "Matthew i.-viii." (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Dr. Maclaren has a great task before him ; we wish him health and...

The Pentland Rising and Bullion G - teen. By Charles Sanford Terry. (J. Ma.cLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—Professor Terry gives as lucid an account of the Pentland Rising as...

Giordano Bruno. By Alois RiehL Translated by Agnes Fry. (T. N. Foulis. 2s. 6d. net.)—This book first appeared in 1887; Dr.Riehl published a second edition in 1900 in preparation...

Makers of English Fiction. By W. J. Dawson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. Dawson reviews the writers of English fiction from Defoe down to George Meredith in the strenuous...

ham Wilson. 3s. 6cL net.)—The Clearing House is supposed tc be about one hundred and fifty years old, though the first definite notice of it quoted by Mr. Howarth is dated 1773....

and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Miss Stone reprints from the Month, Blackwood, and other periodicals thirteen papers, some of them archaeo- logical, others controversial. It is natural that...

Co. 6s.) —These twenty-four sketches have already appeared in print, and are probably known to many of our readers. We have no intention of criticising them. Let it suffice to...

6s.)—The " Nomad's " reminiscences are in three parts. The first is entitled "A Voyage to the Orient," and includes recollections of the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, Aden,...

Creighton, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) —Mrs. Creighton's introduction is a pleasant sketch of her husband's ways with young people, ways always marked by kindliness and...

and Sons. 75. (3d. net.)—Mr. Gilpin died in 1892, leaving this work nearly completed. Bough himself died in 1876. Its appearance, therefore, is somewhat belated. Still, it is an...

and Co., Is. net), is a collection of quotations, one for every day of the year, from Dante, Emerson, Browning, Wordsworth, Sir A. Helps, George Macdonald, George Eliot, R. L....

3s. 6d.) -The notion of how the three friends whose travels are here related came to travel is humorous in its way, and may serve as a sample. A certain magazine offered prizes...

S. Milford, M.A. (Henry Frowde. 2s.)-This "Oxford Edition" is one of a series so excellent and so low-priced that it deserves all the encouragement which can be given to it. Mr....

5 Dean Street, Holborn, W.C. ; and Published byJoint BAKER for the " SPECTATOR " (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellingtva Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

ment Mr. Balfour shall have a seat found for him in the City,—where a majority of 10,000 makes his re-election certain. We understand that resignations in several other...

T HE most memorable General Election of modern times is practically concluded, for, writing on Friday, we are able to give the effect of the pollings in over six hundred...

past week. For the time the Government policy of repression seems to have succeeded, and all the advocates of reaction are jubilant. The registration of voters for the Duma goes...

the unfortunate Unionist Party. Not content with having hurled it over a precipice, Mr. Chamberlain now seems bent upon making it impossible that the crippled body shall ever be...

should make the Administration the most power- ful of modern times ; but we must not forget that weak and broken Oppositions make careless Ministries. We are not in the least...

case.

Pra 6 goo No. 4,0480 4 BOB TEl rESISTERED AR • PRIOR WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. NEWSPAPER. Br POST...6jD. POSTAGE ABROAD lin.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

a word in regard to the attempt which is now being made by the Boers to induce the Government to abandon the principle of "One vote one value" which has been adopted for the...

resolutions adopted by the Toronto Board of Trade on the subject of Imperial Union, which will be presented at the next Congress of Canadian Chambers of Commerce. With the first...

Prince Billow made a violently reactionary speech against the Social Democrats. The Government would do all in its power to repress disorder. "We do not bow before the tyranny...

occupied with the discussion of the Report of the Committee appointed to draft regulations for the prevention of the contraband traffic in arms. Out of the articles of the draft...

Thursday a leading article protesting strongly against the monstrous • threats in regard to secession which have been indulged in by a certain section in the Transvaal, and have...

the only wise Om is to choose a sound and just principle, and to maintain it fearlessly. We agree with the Westminster Gazette's very moderate and sensible article of Thursday...

Articles for checking contraband trade were finally- passed. The attention of the delegates will next be turned to the task of devising some scheme of taxation applicable to...

who, worn out by his long struggle with France, and heart-broken by the news of Austerlitz, lived only long enough to hear of Trafalgar. Our history provides no parallel to the...

his eighty- ninth year removes a lifelong reformer, notable alike for his high character, courage, consistency, and disinterestedness. If he founded "secularism," it must be...

and in particular made an admirable comment on the alarm professed by certain persons at the return of so many Labour Members on the strength of their alleged Socialistic...

since Our last Lime. On Friday and Saturday last, it is trtie, there was a slight set-back, the Unionists recapturing five seats on Saturday which had been lost at the...

on Friday 891.

gain of eight seats to the Liberals and one to the Labour Party, while the Unionists won a seat in North-West Lanark owing to the splitting of the vote. A curious result was...

list of Liberal victories. A remarkable turn-over was wit- nessed in the Walthamstow division of Essex, where Mr. J. A. Simon converted a Unionist majority of 2,465 into a...

WILL THE UNIONIST PARTY TOLERATE AN UNPATRIOTIC OPPOSITION? A ' AT E pointed out last week that if the Unionist Party was to regain the confidence of the nation, it was...

9'SHE birth of the new party, the Labour Party, is one J._ of the most important events of the General Election. Of the fifty or so Labour Members who have been returned to the...

proved to be its special weakness. In the first instance, Europe looked on with wonder at a vast uprising of the Russian people with no recognised leaders and only partial and...

Berlin are full of interest to every student of Continental politics. It has long been a truism that most of the tenets of the so-called Social Democrats are indistinguishable...

" T WOpoints come out in the history of this Election which hitherto have attracted but little attention. One is the powerlessness of the Press, more especially in London,...

I N the play which was produced at His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday evening Mr. Stephen Phillips has made a clear advance in knowledge of stagecraft. In many respects Nero...

A REMARKABLE paper appeared in the last number of the London Quarterly Review entitled " Japan : Old and New,7 . by Professor - Takakusu. The first half of the article is headed...

S TEVENSON writes somewhere of the ease and pleasure of a voyage in an atlas. You are tired, perhaps, of the climate or country in which you happen to be living ; a yellow fog...

SIR MOUNTSTUART ELPHINSTONE GRANT DUFF. [To TER EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sur,—January 12th will always be a sad day to many of us, for on it we lost a delightful companion,...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR."] SIR,—The country has spoken with no uncertain voice, and Protection now takes its place among Mr. Chamberlain's un- digested schemes; but...

THE VICTORY OF FREE-TRADE AND TRUE CONSERVATISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF TRII "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — The little English colony on this sunny shore is this week awaiting the arrival of...

TRY " EPROTATOF.."] think most reasonable men will agree with you that the Unionist defeat is in the main due to the attack on Free- trade, and not to any "wave of unreasoning...

Si,—Thanks largely to your steady advocacy of Free-trade principles, the nation has now rightly decided that Protection in any of its forms is not the remedy for our industrial...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTAT0R:1 SIR, — As a constant reader of the Spectator (and yet a con- firmed Tariff Reformer), perhaps you will allow me to express my opinion on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—I have been reading year views as to the political out- look in your last issue with much interest, but I cannot agree with you that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Si,—As a Unionist Free-trader, I have nothing but admira- tion for your advocacy of Free-trade principles. But I cannot see how you can...

LTO TILE EDITOR OF TIIIC "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—" Supply the agricultural labourer with sound premisses and he will reach a sound conclusion," says Mr. Fiennes, writing in the Times...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—May I, as a lifelong friend of the late Herman Merivale, send you a few lines in tribute to his memory ? I knew him first, intimately,...

[TO THE ED1TOR OV THE "SPECTITOFt.1 SIE, — The London journals which support the Opposition argue that the Tariff policy has been defeated because the facts of Mr. Chamberlain's...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—May I say, with reference to your sympathetic paragraph on the late Sir M. E. Grant Duff in last week's Spectator, that he was hardly so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR.1 Sin,—" Delta" in his letter in last week's Spectator on the subject of Chinese labour gives figures showing that the proportion of labourers...

SIR,—May I be allowed to modify in some slight details your abstract of the proposition contained in my letter of the 20th inst., as follows P- (1) What I suggested was that a...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR:1 Sig,—May I add myself as one more to plead in your columns for the only solution of the religious question in elementary schools which will...

LTG VIII EDITOR OF TUN "EIPEOPLTOR.1 SIR,—In your issue of November 11th, 1905, there appears a letter headed "Boer Heroism at Elandslaagte," and signed J. S. Trotter (Pm-Boer),...

[TO PEE EDTIOR OP TEE "8Prorwroe.."1 SIR,—Will you allow me, as a Church of England clergyman, to endorse the general contention of the Rev. Bernard Snell (Spectator, January...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent "R. N." (Spectator, January 20th, p. 93) in seeking to differentiate between a naval and a military Court-Martial is...

SIR,—In reference to the interesting and helpful discussion on "Fundamental Christianity and the Education Question," started in the Spectator for December 30th, 1905, the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] enclose a small contribution to your Militia training scheme, although in these days of bloated expenditure I can very ill afford it. With...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The outlook in Hungary is to-day blacker than ever. The informal negotiations which have been proceeding since the beginning of...

[TO THE EDITOR OIT THE " SPECTATOIL” J Sin,—In the review of Dr. Con's "Royal Forests" that you publish in your issue of January 13th, I notice an error with regard to...

[THE experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

—0-- THE ROMANTIC PERIOD.§ IT was a singularly happy choice which assigned the last, and necessarily the most controversial, volume of The Oxford History of Music to the late...

THE EJECTED MEMBER'S WIFE. WE shall see her no more On that balcony, Smiling while hurt at the roar As of surging sea From our stormy sturdy band Who have doomed her lord's...

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.* THIS is a very delightful and refreshing book. It might have been reduced a little in bulk—for though certainly not subjectively heavy, objectively it is...

THE three writers whose works are before us approach the question of Colonial theory from different sides. Mr. Hertz gives us an elaborate historical study of the old Colonial...

which are given below cover between them nearly the whole field of the historic styles of architecture, and before considering them at greater length, it is worth while to view...

ROSE AT HONEYPOT.* MRS. MANN, whose name on the title-page of a navel always rouses agreeable anticipations in the mind of the reviewer, administers in her new work a salutary...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Perceval Gibbon has found virgin soil, which he is tilling to much profit. His "Souls in Bondage" showed a remarkable insight into the half-caste...

very justly describes his story as a "fantasia," for the plot of Hugo concerns an enormous shop,—a shop so big that it resembles Whiteley's, Harrod's, and the Army and Navy...

TILL EDINBURGH REVIEW. The new number of the Edinburgh Review opens with an admirable article on "Protection and the Working Classes." It deals patiently and dispassionately...

[Under this heading us notice such Books of ths week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Expositor. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. (Hodder and...

new book, "embodying little more than the framework of its pre- decessor," the well-known " Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer." Its pages exceed two thousand in number, and the...

6s. net.)— Mr. Wright has collected with diligence, and brought together with no little skill and in effective contrast, a multitude of interesting facts. In such a wiaic it is...

Smith. (G. Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Toulmin Smith has gone for her text to the manuscript authority,—i.e., to Leland's own MSS. (the " Itinerary " and the "...

Sa'-Zada is the keeper of the "Animal City "—what we commonly call a menagerie—and in a great heat-wave he contrives for his charges the distraction of telling the stories of...

the look of a very serviceable volume. It is of manageable size (7 in. by 4} in. by 1 in.), bound in leather, as much- handled books ought to be, with a useful collection of...

and Haynes. 16s.)—Dr. Briggs gives a comprehensive view of the subject, dwelling in especial detail on the law as it stands in the United States and in the Colonies. It is, of...

net.)—The scarab, or beetle-shaped seal, is one of the commonest of Egyptian objects. There are multitudes of genuine specimens, ranging in date over a very long period—there...

woode and Co. 3s. 6d.)—" A List of over 3,000 Clubs frequented by the English in All Parts of the World," and of the 3,000, 1,140 are golf clubs, 319 ladies' clubs ; while, to...

Unwin. Is. net.)—There is as much humour and good humour, and as little ill-nature, in those caricatures as any reasonable person could expect in the circumstances. They appear,...