THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND.* Tins history of England, if it may be judged from the volume before us, promises to be one of very considerable value. It is not a work of any great...

LONDON: APEIL 28th, 1906.

THIS encyclopaedic and very attractive book is a worthy companion of the late Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar's monumental hundred-and-seven-volume edition of Goethe's works. The...

OF all the books the preparation and publication of which can be traced to the centenary of Trafalgar, and the consequent revival of the memory of Nelson, this is one of the...

The Trade Policy of Great Britain and her Colonies since 1860. By Carl Johannes Fuchs, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Freiburg. Translated by Constance H....

The Cotton Industry and Trade, by S. J. Chapman, Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy, and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in the University of Manchester (2s. 6d....

THE TEACHING OF CHRIST. The .Authority of Christ. By David W. Forrest, D.D. (T. and T. Clark. 6s.)—Dr. Forrest is careful to give a logical complete- ness to his treatment of...

Half a Century of Sport in Hampshire : being Extracts from the Shooting Journals of James Edward, Second Earl of Malmesbury. With a Prefatory Memoir by his Great-grandson, the...

Text - Book of Sociology. By J. Q. Dealey, Ph.D., and L. F. Ward, LL.D. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)—In this collabora- tion Dr. Dealey, it would seem, acts as editor, giving to...

The Salt of My Life. By F. G. Aflalo, F.Z.S. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Since the reader would be un- likely, did he not know Mr. Aflalo's tastes, to discover the...

The Riviera, by S. Baring-Gould (Methuen and Co., 6s.), furnishes Mr. Baring-Gould's facile pen with a subject full of variety. Whatever the theme, it seems to be equally at...

On Two Continents : Memories of Half a Century. By Marie Hansen Taylor. With the Co-operation of Lilian Bayard Taylor Kiliani. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 10s.)—This is a quiet...

The Moslem Doctrine of God. By Samuel M. Zwemer. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. as. 6d.)—This "essay on the character and attributes of Allah according to the Koran and...

Napoleon's Notes on English History Made on the Eve of the French Revolution. By Henry Foljambe Hall. (J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d.)—A very pathetic interest attaches to this...

Underground Man. By Gabriel Tarde. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d.)—To more than one philosopher there has occurred the cheerful idea that mankind will spend its decaying years in...

The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London. By Thomas Dekker. — Underwoods. By Ben Jonson. (Cambridge University Press. 21s. net each.)—The Cambridge University Press has been of late...

Blue - Grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky. By John Fox, jun. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—The writer of this delightful book takes us to the pleasant hill-country in...

is the personification of a whole people ; who defends their most sacred rights ; the melodious speaker who fascinates and overpowers the multitudes with his sonorous sentences,...

Back to Sunny Seas. By Frank T. Bullen. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Thackeray once took a trip as the guest of a great steamship company, and wrote a book on his experiences....

Constitutional Law of England. By Edward Wavell Ridges. (Stevens and Sons. 12s. 61)—In his modest preface to this substantial volume of over four hundred and fifty pages Mr....

The Homes of Tennyson. Painted by Helen Allingham. Described by Arthur Paterson. (A. and C. Black. 75. 6d.) —This is one of the best books of its kind—illustrative, that is to...

John Wilhelm Rowntree: Essays and Addresses. Edited by Joshua Rowntree. (Headley Brothers. 5s.)—This volume, apart from the strong biographical interest attaching to it, will be...

A Middle English Reader. By 0. F. Emerson. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. net.)—This reader is based upon a plan which the author has found of practical advantage in the classroom....

Everyday Life among the Head Hunters. By Dorothy Cator. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—Mrs. Cater writes freshly and vigorously of Head Hunters and Borneo scenery, and, in the second...

Old Ayrshire Days. By William Rcibertson. (Stephen and Pollock, Ayr. 5s.)—Ayrshire, and particularly its capital, the "wicked toon " of Ayr, are associated with some of the...

The St. Lawrence River. By George Waldo Browne. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s. net.)—If the St. Lawrence had as many centuries of history as the Rhine, there would be nothing like...

The Stoat Pack. By G. S. Desmond. Illustrations by Ivor J. Symes. (Alston Rivers. 5s.)—The elderly reviewer may be for- given if he is diffident in criticising a child's book....

The Principles of Heredity. By G. Archdall Reid. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d.)---Mr. Reid does not believe in heredity, in the heredity that transmits parental acquirements, or...

Marie Antoinette. By Pierre de Nolhae. (Arthur L. Humphreys. 12s. net.)—It is several years since the original edition of this first-rate translation of M. de Nolhac's book was...

Ecclesict Antigua. By the Rev. John Ferguson. (Oliver and Boyd. 7s. 6d. net.)—In this book we have the story of the church of Linlithgow (dedicated to St. Michael), with its...

Romance of the French. Abbeys. By Elizabeth W. Champney. Illustrated. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s. net.)—This is a new volume of the series which Mrs. Champney has devoted to the...

Edmund Burke : Apostle of Justice and Liberty. By T. Dundas Pillans. (Watts and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Pillans is of opinion that "the principles which Burke advocated and which...

—This volume contains the pathetic record of a short life—some- thing less than four years and a half was its duration—in which there was to be seen an extraordinary...

Chronicles of London. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by C. L. Kingsford, M.A. (The Clarendon Press. 10s. 6d. net.) Mr. Kingsford discusses the date, authorship, and...

The New Forest, by the late C. J. Cornish, whose work is, we are sure, known and valued by all readers of the Spectator.

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

Minister, in reply to an interpellation on the position of the Triple Alliance, made a declaration on Italy's foreign policy. He began by referring to the Algeciras Conference,...

Thanks to the strenuous efforts of police, firemen, and soldiers, the fire has been checked ; the recurrent shocks of earthquake have not been serious ; the formidable task of...

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but it would be unwise not to recognise that there is still cause for very grave anxiety. The Militia are in pursuit of Bambaata, who is believed to have left Zululand and to...

for raising the question of reform in the higher offices of the Imperial Administration. As things stand, every Imperial Department is overworked and understaffed, since the...

case.

I T was announced last Saturday that the Government had decided to increase the British garrison in Egypt. The step, we assume, has been taken as an indication to the intriguers...

on the development of German maritime interests, based upon the Report on the subject presented last year to the Reichstag by the Ministry of Marine. After showing the enormous...

was moved in the Commons by the Solicitor-General. Sir W. Robson, in a very able and ingenious speech, argued that it was the business of the House to return to the basis of...

against the Rev. Edgar Stannard in the Congo State was published in Wednesday's papers. Reply- ing to a letter from Mr. Morel, the secretary of the Congo Reform Association, Sir...

Thursday states that Mr. Watson, the leader of the Labour Party in the Australian Commonwealth, addressing a meeting at Adelaide on Wednesday, declared himself in favour of a...

two remarkable articles to the issues of Monday and Tuesday on "The Growth of New Political Forces in India." After explaining the causes which have concentrated Indian...

Lord Elgin made a speech which we trust will convince the Empire of a fact of which we ourselves have never entertained the slightest doubt,—viz., that the Colonial Office is in...

conferring the Parliamentary franchise on women led to an unfortunate scene in the House on Wednesday night. After several speeches had been delivered on both sides—including a...

Consols (2f per cont.) were on Friday 901.

:—" The progress of this experimental com- pany should be watched with great interest during the next five months ; for, begging the test comparisons altogether, and entirely...

Radical fanatics, opposed with no little clamour and acrimony the payment of a salary of £2,000 a year to the Lord President of the Council, Lord Crewe. If Lord Crewe is...

the House was cordially welcomed by both sides, declared that he should not vote against the Government Bill, which contained in substance the recommendations of the Royal...

with the cotton trade was made at Manchester on Tuesday. As the result of a joint meeting in Manchester of the representatives of the Employers' Federa- tion and the Operative...

ragging " case in the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards were issued on Monday. Colonel Cuthbert is to be placed on half-pay; the Adjutant, Captain Stracey, is to be severely...

article from "Our Special Correspondent" on the Spectator Experimental Company. After describing the nature of the Experiment, and the good results which he himself witnessed,...

THE NONCONFORMISTS AND THE BILL. W ILL the Nonconformists be wise and patriotic if they insist on their pound of flesh ? That is a question which we wish to ask in no hostile...

W E began the article preceding this by an appeal to Nonconformists not to ask for their full pound of flesh, however great may be the temptation to do so, and however strong...

I F the Sultan imagines that there will be any difference of opinion here in regard to his attempt to encroach upon the frontiers of Egypt, and to take possession of certain...

of strikes in France—in the mining districts, in Paris, and, indeed, in all industrial centres — is a misfortune for the Government, because it adds to the Opposition another...

stands alone among English journalists in his intimate acquaint- ance with Chinese character and Chinese policy. The long telegram from him which appeared on Tuesday is more...

second reading on Wednesday without a division. But the Bill which passed the House is not the Bill which is really at issue, for the Solicitor-General, following the example of...

W HAT is the attitude of the working classes towards Christianity ? Twelve writers, including workmen, clergymen, Nonconformist ministers, and Mr. Bramwell Booth, the " chief "...

T HROUGHOUT the past ten days the dominant note of the news from San Francisco has been one of uncon- querable optimism. It is true that as regards the exact amount of damage...

rpHERE'S a blackbird singing like a mad thing in the hazel copse, and the year is still so young, or rather the season so backward, that the shin boughs cannot hide his stout...

THE NATIONAL CHITRCH AND THE EDUCATION BILL. Fro THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR."3 . Sur,—The pronouncements of the majority of the Bishops, , and the polemical fervour with...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB "S1'ECTATOR:1 put,—As one who had shared " Conservator's " apprehensions (see issue of April 14th) that much zeal for Free-trade had chilled for a time the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sre,,—Grant to an old man who has tried to keep himself at school some seventy years, and who has been a school manager for nearly fifty...

• [To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPZOTATOB.."] SIR,—In common, no doubt, with thousands of my fellow- clergy, I have seriously pondered the advice you gave us on the above subject in...

to admire the counsels of modera- tion and good sense you have 'given during this miserable controversy. The real danger, the Scylla for the Church, is secularism. The whole...

[T•., THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is there not some insincerity in the demand for daily denominational teaching of religion in public elementary schools? It would be...

of your promised article on the Education Bill controversy, I take the liberty to send you a copy of the syllabus which, with slight variations, has been in use here for thirty...

Sra,—Is it too late to ask the Nonconformist supporters of the Education Bill to reconsider the whole matter calmly by the light of their own principles of "religious equality"...

SYLLABUS OF cTHE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " seitcrwron.".1 Sin,—Canon MacColl writes in your last issue :—" Is the Godhead of Christ included ? It was...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TIM SPIIIOTAT0R.9 13334—With reference to a correspondence which has taken "Pane in the Spectator; Lord SelbOrne's official decision was that there should be...

quite true—as suggested by your reviewer in his notice of Mr. Atlay's "Victorian Chancellors" in the Spectator of April 21st—that Lord Brougham is very little remembered by the...

[TO TIM EDITOZ OF TEE " SPEITATOZ."] SIR,—In the review of Mr. Atlay's "Victorian Chancellors" in your last issue you ask : "Who was the . author of the famous mot that Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—The possible interdependence of the California horror and the Vesuvius eruption suggests to me to send you these notes. I have a fish...

Sra, — In your issue of March 10th your correspondent, Mr. William Clarke, observes : "I believe that Emerson some- where said that the mud of all the continents had gone to the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE 4 . Srseraroa. - SIR,—May I ask the favour of a few lines of your valuable space in aid of the memorial to the late Frederic W. H. Myers which it is...

rro THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:g SIB,—On Monday last, the 23rd inst., being the triple anniversary of St. George's Day, and Shakespeare's birth and death day, we played the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—It would seem that the Czar has fixed May 5th as the day for the meeting of the Duma. It is interesting to recall that May 5th marks at...

ADDITIONAL SuIsSORIPTION &WHITED FOR THZ AHOY/. Richard H. Hatton (Mexico City) ... £2 2 0

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your correspondent, Professor E. H. S. Schwarz, in last week's Spectator, has fallen into a somewhat curious error, reminding one of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sxn,—Your review of Mr. Abbott's "Through India with the Prince" in last week's issue assumes that the author has only visited India for the...

SAN FRANCISCO DRSOLATE. RUIN ontraced the dawn. When the ports of night were drawn, The feast of Death lay spread ; The city bowed low her bead, Disconsolate in the morn,...

THE NEW GALLERY. IT has often been the case of late years that an Exhibition has owed its chief attraction and distinction to the works of Mr. Sargent. This is true of the...

A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE AENEID.* To discuss a new version of the Aeneid is the rashest of literary adventures. It is no doubt easy to argue about metres and to compare extracts...

WE have before us five first volumes of this magnificent series. It would be unreasonable to complain of this publishing by instalments. One reason, and this obviously...

FROM the standpoint of essentials, as contrasted with non. , essentials, this book is provokingly, and, indeed, preposterously-. large. The main object of the author is to tell...

LADY BALTIMORE.* THE author of The Virginian was sure in advanoe of an appreciative hearing from the large English audience who had enjoyed the fine qualities of his earlier...

are a good many curious details about life in Japan in this volume, which will tend to make the reader half forgive its anonymous author for having chosen the dfficult form of a...

6s.)—Mr. Marriott's writing is always Much above the average, and in the present book he gives his readers admirable pictures of the coast scenery of Cornwall, combined with...

THE QUARTERLIES. The Edinburgh Review opens with a very able and judicious article on "The Political Situation." The writer is convinced that the main issue at the Election was...

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[Under this ;wading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Progress of Poesy. By J. W. Mackail. (The Clarendon Press. ls....

Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is an eminently practical little volume. It is not to a large degree critical. The Elihu speeches are indeed definitely assigned to a later...

Marshall Broomhall, B.A. (Morgan and Scott. 2s. net.)—Adam Dorward was a really remarkable man. Ile gave up a lucrative business for missionary work, spent two years in...

a considerable part of this volume, and have nothing but praise for the accuracy with which it has been corrected and brought up to date. The plan is to give an alphabetical...

By Conrad Noel. (T. Fisher Unwin, is. net.)—We cannot discuss the "Demands of Labour" as they are set forth in this volume. To many people they will seem both unwise and unjust....

Judge. (Williams and Norgate. Is. net.)—Our readers will be . interested in learning how this matter stands. The London County Council at their meeting of March 20th rejected...

(Methuen and Co., 25. 6d. net), is one of the excellent series known by the title of "The Little Guides." The plan is to give general chapters on area, physical features, roads,...