27 MAY 1905

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O N Thursday afternoon London was full of rumours of a

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naval battle, and it was even reported that the Japanese had sustained a defeat. Friday's telegrams showed, however, that these rumours were without foundation, and that the...

The German Emperor has warned the Navy League at Berlin

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that their zeal is becoming inconvenient. In a tele- gram from the Mediterranean he informed Prince Salm, the chairman of the League, that Chauvinistic proposals do mis- chief,...

The Union between Sweden and Norway, which has lasted ninety

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years, without, so far as we can perceive, injury to either country, appears to be approaching its close. The Norwegian Parliament has passed a law creating a separate Consular...

Count von Tattenbaoh, the German Envoy to Morocco, has accorded

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an interview to the special correspondent of the Echo di Path, and has explained his ideas with some clearness. He contends that the Conference about Morocco for which the...

An affair which threatened last week to cause an explosion

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in the Near East has been happily settled. Four "Kutzo Vlachs," or Wallachs not of Wallachia, began inspecting Wallach schools in Albania. The Vali of Janina, either out of...

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President Roosevelt's resolve to purchase ships and supplies in the

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open market for the carrying out of his Panama policy, instead of excluding all foreign competition, has naturally created a tremendous stir in the States. Yet, according to the...

The Times of Monday published, in advance of all other

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papers, the text of the new Treaty with Afghanistan. As was expected, it simply renews the arrangements made with Abdurrahman Khan, father of the present Sovereign; under which...

The House of Commons was convulsed by a scene of

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violent passion on Monday. At question time Mr. Scares asked the Prime Minister whether, if the present Govern- ment were still in office at the time of the holding of the "...

As a result of these answers, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman moved

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the adjournment of the House. After reading the passage in the Edinburgh speech, he proceeded to quote Mr. Chamberlain's criticisms and objections to the policy of two...

The resolutions passed by the Council of the National Liberal

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Federation at Newcastle on Friday week were numerous and comprehensive. That moved by Mr. Haldane advocated the speedy amendment of the Licensing Act so as to secure a...

Further pressed as to whether he departed from the pledge

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he gave in his Edinburgh speech, Mr. Balfour declared that he in no sense did so, but admitted that when he made that speech he had forgotten that a Conference was to come...

Mr. Walter Long was entertained at dinner by the Unionists

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of Dublin on Saturday last, and spoke at length on the subject of Unionist policy. He criticised Lord Dunraven's recent speech at Manchester as mischievous and unjust: it showed...

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It has been arranged that Sir Edward Grey shall on

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Tuesday next move a Vote of Censure on the Government in consequence of the ambiguity of the Premier's declarations as to the Colonial Conference. Mr. Balfour attempted to...

• The question of the Transvaal War contribution was raised

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in the Commons on Wednesday during the consideration of Clause 7 of the Finance Bill in Committee. In reply to a request from Mr. Dalziel to state whether he considered the...

Empire Day was celebrated on Wednesday, May 24t4i (Queen Victoria's

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birthday), throughout the United Kingdom and the Colonies. The King held a review at Aldershot, and the monument erected in St. Paul's to the four thousand three hundred...

Lord Goschen, writing in the Times of Tuesday, dealt with

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Mr. Chamberlain's statement that £27,000,000 of . annual profits are derived from 2600,000,000 of British capital invested in industrial enterprises—i.e., the competitive manu-...

When the Leader of the Opposition sat down, Mr. Lyttelton

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rose to reply. He was at once greeted with cries of 4‘ Balfour! Balfour!" and for nearly an hour a scene of indescribable heat and confusion followed. Mr. Balfour would not...

But though we are bound to point this out, and

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to express our condemnation of the action of those who refused to hear Mr. Lyttelton, we fully realise the almost intolerable provoca- tion afforded by the Prime Minister. The...

Bank Rate, 2i per cent.

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Consols (2i- per cent.) were on Friday 901.

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MR. BALFOUR AND THE TWO ELECTIONS.

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T HE House of Commons is very much like a school. If the head-master is firm and plain-spoken, even though unpopular personally—" a beast, but a just beast," as the Rugby boy...

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W E publish in another column a very able plea by

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Mr. Seton-Watson for a better understanding between Britain and Germany. Though we cannot agree with all Mr. Seton-Watson's assumptions, we do not fail to appreciate the...

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THE FUTURE OF MANCHURIA.

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T HE Japanese keep their secrets well, and among the secrets they keep are the terms upon which they will insist when Russia is sufficiently worn out, or sufficiently afraid of...

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Tub POWDER MAGAZINE IN THE NEAR EAST.

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11:4 - 1UROPE has just missed an explosion in the Balkans. 'A The truth seems to be that the paralysis of Russia, through her defeats in the field. and the discontents which are...

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S LR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN'S speech at Newcastle yesterday week began with

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a criticism of the Government policy, and went on to an exposi- tion of the policy which the next Liberal Government ought to make its own. The first part was excellent. We have...

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not only for their mere number, but particularly on account

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of their character. As it was the South African War which first showed, in a manner that not even the dullest or most cynical could fail to see, the strength of the cord of...

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THE ANTISEPTICS OF CONDUCT.

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T HERE are three qualities not, properly speaking, virtues which yet tend to keep the social waters wholesome. They are small qualities which do instead of great ones, and...

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T HE two classes of birds which, with the exception of

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the artificially bred pheasant, have increased more than any others in this country are the various wild pigeons and the wild ducks. The wild ducks receive special protection,...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE " MEAGRE " RESPONSE OF THE VOLUNTEERS. [TO THB EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following notice of a Motion in the House of Commons will be of interest to many of...

THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

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rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Now that the sensation caused by William IL's visit to Tangier is beginning to subside, the moment seems favour- able for discussing...

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MR. BALFOUR ON IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sla,—With great respect, I am unable to follow your strictures on Mr. 1RP1four's speech in last week's Spectator, the burden of which is...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE specraroa."] Sra,—Here, on my table

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in Southern California, I have a bit of lilac from a friend's garden. The sight and the scent of it have given me a particularly keen, sweet stab of home- sickness ; and I...

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THE LATE WILLIAM CLARKE.

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fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—I think that readers of the Spectator may like to read the inscription which has been placed on the tombstone which marks the grave of...

THE PHYSICAL TRAINING OF THE WELL-TO-DO CLASSES IN ENGLAND.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In your comments on my pamphlet, "The Relation of National Service to the Welfare of the Community," in the Spectator of May 20th, you...

BUYING AND SELLING.

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IT° THE EDITOR OF TIlE " SPECTATOR:9 SIE,—I am a constant reader of your excellent paper and for many years a subscriber. As such may I hope that you will insert these few lines...

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR: 9 1 SIR,—One of the

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most frequent things the inquirer— especially the inquirer into pedigree or family history —wants to know is the whereabouts of collections of documents relating to a given...

[TO THE EDITOR OP PITH "SPECTATOR."]

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SIE, — }razlitt in "The Sick Chamber," his last essay, written but a few weeks before be died, says : "A book is the secret and sure charm to bring all [pleasing] associations...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As bearing on your

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interesting article on the above subject in last week's Spectator, it may not be generally known that a slight tap with the finger on the end of the nose of the mole kills it at...

A MILLION STAMPS.

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pro TEE EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—At the village of North Berated, near Bognor, there is an inn in which the parlour is covered all over the walls and ceiling with...

DISUSED CANALS.

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absence of a National Trust or other funded means of working them, at a time - when our highways are so overloaded with motor-cars, tramcars, and cycles of all sorts, and...

pro THZ EDITOR OP THE "srxerAzote."1

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Stu,—With reference to the article on the above subject in your issue of May 13th, the idea of the collection of a million stamps for a philanthropic purpose is not entirely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Smarms."] sra,—on p. 743 of

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the Spectator of May 20th, in an article on "Substitute Senses," reference is made to the objection ants have to light, and their efforts to exclude it from their dwellings....

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POETRY.

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THE HAPPY LAND. [The following is a modernised version of the opening lines of the Anglo- Saxon poem on the Phcenix, based upon a Latin poem on the same subject which has been...

CHEAP COTTAGES EXHIBITION FUND.

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Tax amount of subscriptions and fees received up to May 25th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is 41,196 9s., in addition to 4420 promised to the Prizes Fund, making a total of...

BOOKS.

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RUSKIN.* IT is yet too soon to take a complete measure of the work and achievement of Ruskin. The embers are still alight of some of the artistic controversies in which he took...

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JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.*

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HALF-A-CENTURY ago the representatives of the United States in European capitals did not enjoy the considera- tion possessed by such personages now. Specially unfavour- able to...

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MAN AND NATURE.*

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THE first five books lying before us deal with the place of man in the world. They attack that great and endless problem in diverse ways, which yet may all claim to come within...

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JoRN DILL.*

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THE German novels which of late years have made most stir outside Germany have not always redounded to the credit of the Fatherland. It is fortunately otherwise with .1bin Uhl,...

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Dorset Dear. By M. E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell). (Long.

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mans and Co. 6s.)—Seldom has it been the present writer's fate to read so delightful a collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell's new volume of short stories,...

Rose of the World. By Agnes and Egerton Castle. (Smith,

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Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Instead of their usual airy romances of the eighteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle have given us in their new novel a curious mental study of modern...

The Taming of the Brute. By Frances Harrod. (Methuen and

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Co. 6s.)—Whether Evan Rhys, the " brute " of the title, remained tame, or rather reformed, after his marriage with the charming Cecilie, will remain doubtful in the mind of the...

The Bell and the Arrow. By Mrs. W. H. Chesson

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(Nora Hopper). (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—In spite of a good many touches of poetry in this book (which, if we are not mistaken, is "Nora Hopper's" first attempt at writing a...

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A Book of Bridge. By Pontifex. (Blackie and Son. 5s.

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net.)— A handsome book this and beautifully printed, worthy of the social favourite with which it is concerned. It is impossible to deal with the many questions which it minas....

The Old Shipmasters of Salem. By Charles E. Trow. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Salem of the present is very much like Rye, a shadow of its former self. Its golden age lasted for not quite thirty years, 1781-1808. In the...

-4-- [Under this heading we notice such Books of the

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week as ham not been swerved for review in other forms.] The Legal Position of the Clergy. By P. V. Smith, LL.D., (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. not.)—Mr. Chancellor Smith has, it is...

Our Brief against Rome. By the Rev. C. S. Isaacson.

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(R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—This summary of the Roman controversy is well put together. The Papal claims, temporal and spiritual ; the exalta- tion of tradition ; the continual development...

THE SWORD OF ISLAM.

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The Sword of Islam. By Arthur N. Wollaston, C.I.E. (John Murray. 10s. 6d. net.)—This book is an enlargement of the author's previous Work, "Half-hours with Muhammad." The first...

Middle Temple Records. 3 vols. and Index. Edited by Charles

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Henry Hopwood. . (J. Butterworth and Co. Members, 200. net, and non-Members, 408. net.)—Vol. I. covers the period 1501-1603. It contains also a short essay by Mr. J. Hutchinson,...

Classic Myths in Art. By Julia Addison. (T. Werner Laurie.

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6s. net.)—Miss Addison gives us here some reproductions of various pictures in which painters from the fifteenth century downwards have expressed their conception of Greek and...

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"The Arnold Prose Books." (E. Arnold. 2d. and 4d., cloth.)

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—This is a collection of extracts from various prose writers ; "essayists and writers whose complete works do not usually find their way into school have, as a rule, been...

Expositions of Scripture : Isaiah i. - z1viii. By Alexander Maclaren, D.D.

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(Hodder and Stoughton. 78. 6d.)—Dr. Maclaren's exposition is, as we said in noticing his book on Genesis, homiletic, not critical, and primarily exegetic. We do not say this in...

With Singing unto Zion. By Edward Gough, B.A. (Kegan Paul,

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Trench, and Co. 65. net.)—Mr. Gough, whose "Bible True from the Beginning" we remember to have noticed in one or more of its issues, is, in his way, an " Athanasius contra...

The Preservation of Antiquities. Translated from the German of Dr.

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Friedrich Rattigen by George A. Auden, M.D., and Harold A. Auden, D.Sc. (Cambridge University Press. 45. 6d. net.)—Iii this "Handbook for Curators" are described the changes...

A History of Crondall and Yateley. By the Bev. C.

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D. Stooks. (Warren and Son.)—Crondall and Yateley are two large Hemp. shire parishes. They contain respectively fifteen and sixteen square miles, with populations of 3;188 and...

The Itivynter's Lexicon. Compiled and Edited by Andrew Loring. With

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Introduction by George Saintsbury. (Routledge and eons- 713.-6d. net.)—Professor Saintsbury's introduction is a partial anticipation of a "History of English Prosody" on which,...

The Classics and Modern Training. By Sidney G. Ashmore. (G.y.

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Putnam's Sons. 5s. net.)—Professor Ashmbre gives us here five - addresses which, more or less, answer to 'the general title which he has given them. The first deals with the...

The Puritans and the Tithes. By the late Rev. T.

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Hancock. (S.P.C.K. 6d.)—This pamphlet is published by the Church Defence Committee. The point is the emphasising of the dis- tinction between the Nonconformists proper and the...