LONDON : JUNE 29th, 1907.

ADMIRAL VERNON AND THE NAVY.* VINDICATION becomes yearly a more pronounced feature of our literature. It is a revision and reversal of the judgment of the centemporaries of the...

IN writing two fair-sized volumes on moral philosophy, of which every page is thoroughly readable, Dr. Rashdall has performed what is in itself no mean feat, and it is a...

THE Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels is described by the editor as mainly homiletic in its object. "It is, first of all, a preacher's Dictionary." The contributors, who...

by A. Calverley (John Lane, Ss. 6c1.) dealing with The Escorial, Murillo, Spanish Armour, and The Prods, this last being written in conjunction with C. G. Hartley. In these...

by order of the Trustees. is. 6d.)—The British Mueeum seems to accept a very wide meaning of the word "Mediaeval." for in this book are included many seventeenth-century...

pamphlet with this title has reached us. It contains but six pages of print, and no publisher's name is given ; but the question raised by the author is an interesting one....

Battle on the Scha - Ro ; The Battle of Mukden. Translated from Supplements to the Milittir Wochenblatt by Karl von Donat. With Maps. Comments by Lieutenant-General von...

first volume of a work on Blake, contains a general introduction and the illustrations to the Book of Job. Mr. Binyon writes with admiration of Blake, and knows how to...

Williamson. Connoisseur Extra Number. (Connoisseur Office. 5s. net.)—Downman was a clever draughtsman up to a point, but he had the ordinary failing of the English Academician...

was a far stronger man than Downman, but he too had the fatal inclination towards prettiness rather than beauty. Occasionally in his earlier work, especially in groups of...

in having the Academy reduced to black and white. No doubt the good pictures suffer, but they are so few; and against this loss must be set the inestimable gain of having the...

This is not a brilliant study of the genius and technique of the unrivalled master like that of the late R. A. M. Stevenson. Rather it is a calm, critical study, full of patient...

Is.)—After turning over the pages of this little volume of the "Temple Cyclopaedic Primers," we look at the title-page to see whether it is written by our old friend Professor...

' The Causes of Decay in a British Industry. By " Artifex" and • "Opifex." '(Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The trade under review is the Birmingham gun trade,end the book is...

Ethics of Citizenship. By John Maccunn, M.A., Professor of Philosophy in the University of Liverpool. (I. MaeLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 2s. 6d. net.)—The keynote of this work is...

The Rise and Decline of the Netherlands a Political History and a Study in Practical Statesmanship. By J. Ellis Barker. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This interesting...

The Romance of an Eastern Capital. By F. B. Bradley-Birt. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 12s. 13d. net.)—Although Dacca, as capital of the new province of Eastern Bengal, has already...

Memories of the Months Fourth Series. By the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S. (Edward Arnold. Is. 6.1.)— When we say that this new series of Memories fully...

Bide-lights on Astronomy. By Simon Newcomb. (Harper and Brothers. Ts. 6d. net.)—Professor Newcomb, who has so long steed at the official head of astronomy in the United States,...

Tfrismt Fishing in Zieziso and Florida. By E. G. S. Churchill. (Harrison and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—We imagine that most an glens Would like to have a tarpon stuffed and mounted...

the Accession of Henry VII. to She Death of Henry VIII. (1485-1547). By H. A. L. Fisher, Fellew and Tutor of New College, Oxford. (Longmans and Co. 75. 6d. net.)—This, the fifth...

A History of Wil/iam Paterson and the Darien Company. By James Samuel Barbour, formerly Accountant of the Bank of Scotland. With Illustrations and Appendices. (W. Blackwood and...

The Control, of a Scourge. By Charles P. Child°. (Methuen • and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) — There is a common prejudice, , which is often well grounded, against medical books which...

Pour Centuries of the Panama Canal. By Willis Fletcher Johnson. (Cassell and Co. 12s. net.) — Now that the Panama Canal is at last in a fair way to be constructed, with...

her lessons in philosophy, said of Queen Christina of Sweden—the only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus—that she was made more in the image of God than mostmen. This sentence...

Winged Wheels in Prance. By Michael Myers Shoemaker. Illustrated. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 108.6d. net.)—The sensation of reading this book is very much like that of flying along...

character as a survey of important movements and men in the early Christian centuries." The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the moat interesting in the book,...

_To-morrop is the _East. By Douglas Story. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Story seems to have the happy knack of pene- trating into the inmost council-chambers of the most...

The Complete Photographer. By R. Child Bayley. (Methuen and Co. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bayley, whose editorial. work on Photography has been so Inilpful to many who, like himself,...

Essays, Critical and Political. By J. H. Balfour-Browne, MC, Vol.I.," Critical." Vol. IL "Political." (Longmans and Co 7s 6d net each.)-We may say a few words about the contents...

and 5 Dam Street, Holborn, W.C.; and Published by joss MEND for the "SPUTATOlt (Limited) at their Office. No, 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of tan Savoy, Strand, in the...

has been as unexpected and dramatic as his sudden visit to M. Clemeneeau. On his return to Narbonne, he publicly announced to his followers where he had.been, and frankly...

Secretary of State for the Interior, was announced on Monday. Count Posadowsky, who was also a Prussian Minister of State and acted as the Imperial Chancellor's representative...

T HE latest news from the South of France seems to show that the troubles caused by the Wine War will soon be settled. A dramatic incident occurred on Sunday last. M. Marcellin...

high international Prize Court are set forth and analysed by the Times correspondent at the Hague in Wednesday's issue. The German delegation propose that the Court should be an...

Campbell- Bannerman submitted his Resolution in regard to the House of Lords. His proposal is to introduce a Bill embodying the following plan. If the two Houses cannot agree...

SUPPLEMENT.

FOR. THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907. [ BROISTEREO A. • Pates Re, 21EWSPArRE. Posr 64e. rc.r/iGi Aso°.

any ease.

in debating the second reading of Mr. Haldane's Army Bill. The level of the debate, as is so often the ease in the Upper House, was extremely high, but we can only find space to...

Monday on the Motion of Lord Arran, who asked the Government whether, in view of the statement of the Chief Secretary that he expected owners of property in Ireland "to take the...

morel courage and firmness," and make the people understand that intimidation would not pay ; and Lora Mayo contended that the disorder woe not confined to small areas of...

the Government side being the Attorney-General and Mr. Churchill, both of whom spoke with force and ability. On the Unionist side the chief spokesmen were Mr. Arthur Lee, who...

those thoughtful, and also practical, speeches for which he has a well-deserved reputation. The most important passage was that in which he criticised Mr. Haldane's Militia...

gave ample opportunities, some would think too ample opportunities, UT disenssien and reflection. The rest of his speech, except for an intimation that it was part of the...

critical speech of great power. He found no difficulty in showing that what the Liberal Party meant by the will of the people was the will of a Government which commanded a...

meeting, and in the evening its annual banquet. We cannot, unfortunately, find space to record the speeches, hat we may congratulate the League on the excellent progress it has...

reply to a Parliamentary question on Wednesday that a vete of money will be proposed for Lord Cromer, but that the date for submitting the Resolution for a special grant has not...

of the Duke of Devonshire. The Duke was taken ill on Friday week at Windsor, and has since been confined to his room at Devonshire House. Happily, his illness is not of a very...

Apr. 2811%. Console (21) were on Friday 84t—on Friday weelt 881.

given in his honour at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday. Mr. Birrell, who presided, proposed the health of the guest in a happy speech. Mark Twain's reply was full of good sayings and...

that the Government were not in favour of compul. smy service. Though he had great respect for Lord Roberts's opinion, a largo conscript army was not required for home defence...

new Peers. The first of these is Sir James Kitson, well known as a great captain of industry in the North. Next follows Sir James Blyth, who, besides exeenent work for the...

Encaenia at Oxford on Wednesday. The recipients were welcomed by the new Chancellor in Latin, some of his phrases being models of eulogistic allusiveness. Thus the Prime...

WAR WITHOUT WARNING. W E trust that the Hague Conference will be able to make a substantial advance in crystallising' the public opinion of the nations in regard to the...

P ERHAPS the strangest thing about the strange and abortive Constitutional crisis which Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and . his colleagues are trying to force upon the country is...

for M. Clemencessu never yields to com- pulsion, and the South, even when seething with anger, is not prepared for an armed struggle with the North. The well-to-do classes bogie...

A VERY interesting discussion took place on Tuesday, when Lord Carrington and Mr. Burns held a con- ference with a number of' representatives of municipalities on the subject of...

W E have been favoured with a sight of a very remark- able document, so remarkable, indeed, that we print it in full before venturing to comment on it. It is not, we admit, an...

!THOSE whose childhood was nourished on "Sandford and Merton" will probably remember the story of Androclus and the lion, although they may have forgotten some of Mr. Barlow's...

4f ITARTERLY, or and gules; on the first a raven proper." kee Such is the sign of the old village inn, whose date, earved directly below, bespeaks a time when these things were...

riF the many people who must admire the flight and the appearance of our seagulls and other aquatic birds, very few, in all probability, give a thought to their ways of life at...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. [TO TUE EDITOK Or VIZ •SPECriT011.1 Sin,—Accepting your estimate that it would be necessary to raise £30,000,000 annually to provide adequately for old-age...

[TO TER EDITOs OF THE SPECTATOR:] merely write to say that I am thoroughly in accord with your editorial comment upon my letter of last week. I should like to be allowed to say...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TEM . SPECTATOIL.1 Si,—On a small estate of some eighteen hundred acres I have established during the last few years five agricultural labourers and their...

[TO MI EDITOR OF TUE .SPItafLTOtt."] SIR,—Sir Francis Channing admits clearly in his letter in last week's Spectator that State pensions are equivalent to State subsidies in...

this letter can appear many of your readers will have seen the Pageant. My first opportunity of witnessing it came on the .21st, a Friday,—I have observed that important events...

(TO Toe EDITOR OF TIES "SPECTATOIE.”.1 SIR,—The letter in your issue of May 18th under this title was so interesting that I have been surprised to see no further contributions...

[To Tan EDITOR OF pie. " SPEODAT011:9 Sea — A propos of your interesting review of Mn Parker's Life of Sir James Graham in last week's Spectator, the following incident may be...

fro DEN EDITOR 01 , Tag . 5ntorLTOR.1 Stn,—May I correct the statement contained in yonr article in last week's issue on "The Anniversary of Plessey" that Orme's history has...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF MD “SPRCTATOR: . ] landed at Dover on June 13th, completing the circle of the world in forty days nineteen and a half hours. Had I succeeded in catching the...

[TO Ten EDITOR OF Tat " SPROTATOR..) Stn,—The careful Spectator occasionally blunders. In your article on "Songs for Soldiers" (May 25th) is a tribute to "The Battle Hymn of the...

(To TRI EDITOR Or UR .SPROTAT08.1 Sra,—A few weeks ago Colonel Pollock in a letter to you put his finger at once on the sore spot in the Army. It is, indeed, the perpetual...

[To TIER EDITOR Or 5215 "SPXOTATOR.1 Sur,—Mr. Tollemache (Spectator, June 15th) may like to know that the omniscient M. Salomon Reinach read a paper- to the Academie des...

f TO TEN EDITOR Or TUB .85110TLT0R."3 Sra,—There seems to be a blindness in this vital matter of national training on the part of those who discuss it. They do not realise that...

110 282 EDITOR Or SIMI/TAU/R.1 StE,.—You may think it worth while to place on record the following instance of the courage and pertinacity of rooks, and of the way in which, for...

COMEDY IN MUSIC. MUCH that concerns the nomenclature of music is perplexing and unsatiafactory,—a not unnatural result when one reflects how much of its terminology is borrowed...

[To nit EDITOR OF TUN "SFECTATOR."1 SIR,—By means of your considerate assistance the owner, residing in Glasgow, of pigeon RP/N-1906/4028 has written to claim his bird.—I am,...

[To TDT EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR:9 Sra.,—My daughter's experience this last week would suggest that parrots do understand what is said to them. When feeding our bird he attacked...

JENNY JONES. (After The Welsh.) ONE morn from Llangollen's dim violet valley Light-hearted I clambered to Geer Dins Bran. O'er Cynwyd and Corwen I saw the sun sally, Ruabon's...

THE ART OF NAVAL WARFARE.* THIS small book of two hundred and fifty pages represents a large amount of labour undertaken by a distinguished naval • Th. Art of Nara/ Warfare....

THERE are a great number of persons who take an intelligent interest in birds, who can identify a number of species, who watch eagerly for the coming of the migrants, and who...

book is sufficiently striking. It shows a real talent for choice and knowledge of effect; the plan of it has been carefully sketched, and, on the whole, successfully carried...

NEW CHRONICLES . OF REBECCA" IT was clearly impossible for Miss Wiggin to withhold further information as to the career of Rebecca of Sunny. brook Farm. That irresistible young...

'Pitman and Sons. 60)—This is a collection of stories of the kind conventionally known as supernatural told at a symposium of ,Chorahotee of the Roman Church ofter dinner in...

(A- Constable and Co. es.)---A tale of New Orleans, a powerful exposition of the race question.—The Long Trail. By }baulk, Garland. (Harper and Brothers. As.)—,Tack Henderson,...

another book which concerns the world of spirit, although the personages of the story move in the most materialistic of modern worlds and have the inevitable Duke of...

[Under this heading us notice such Book, of the week as have not been reserved for Teri., in other forma] . . Orford and the Nation. By Some Oxford Tutors. Reprinted from the...

Fiction" (Ceiling, 74. net per vol.) we have The Great Refusal, by Maxwell Gray ; The Secret Woman, by Eden Phillpotts ; The Brown Eyes of Mary, by Madame Albanesi ; and The...

D.D., and Theophilns G. Pinches, LL.D. (Royal Asiatic Society. 5s.)—The tablet discussed in these pages is a fragment, the original having been, according to various estimates,...

B. Woodward. (E. Stanford. 12e. 6d. net.)—This is a second edition, revised throughout as to both text and maps, and largely augmented by "a sketch of the geological features of...

?ono. netaa-The Dutch discovered the 99emectieut and its beautiful valley in 1614, and its history at once hews. interesting, and continued so for three hundred years. The Dutch...

Robert Hunter. (Manchester University Press. 6d. net.)—This lecture contains a strong indictment of the neglect with which an important matter has been treated, and, what is not...

we havo Orion the Teacher. This little volume contains a tranalsa tion by the Rev. W. Metcalfe, together with an introduction and notes of the address delivered by Gregory...