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THE MEMOIRS OF DR. THOMAS

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COWPER'S POETICAL WORKS.

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DANTE. Cary's Translation. HOOD'S POETICAL WORKS. KINGSLEY'S WESTWARD HO ! LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS. SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS....

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Littrarp isuppirmatt. LONDON : DECEMBER 2nd, 1905. BOOKS. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.* "My explanation for seeking to add to the numerous works on Mary Stuart may be stated in a...

JULIAN THE APOSTATE : a His- torical Study. By GAETANO

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As to criticism of other historians, Mr. Henderson gives it

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exceeding abundantly, and often with great acuteness. But he has so much criticism at his disposal that he bestows it freely on " episodes " which are by no means "main...

woman," as in Mr. Froude's theory. She " had excellent

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gifts and graces characteristics that were generous and noble," while " her imperfections and mistakes become dwarfed into insignificance as the determining causes of her...

and, as Mr. Henderson shows, her uncle the Cardinal, broke

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down her long caution and self-control, while Darnley mad- dened her, and she was besotted with her only passionate love, the love of Bothwell. The rest was expiation. Except,...

verdict as the more critical.

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As a specimen of the disproportionate dispensation of Mr. Henderson's criticisms this one must serve. Nothing in Mary's early married life as Queen of France can have been *...

Henderson might have quoted the full and rather critical description

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of the child by her maternal grandmother. In essentials it serves for her looks till, about 1582, she became fat and "flat-faced with a double chin," as Wingfield describes her...

slaves. In Scotland (1561-1565) she bore with almost in- credible

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patience the daily insults to herself through her religion : she suffered, she fainted, she was often in great bodily pain, but she kept her temper to a miracle. On the other...

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Mr. Henderson's account of Mary in Scotland (1561-1568) is throughout

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excellent. The affairs of Chastelard, of Riocio, of the murder of Riccio, of Mary's passion for Bothwell, are all treated carefully, judiciously, and with energy. On the...

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To this last detail we may add that in discussing

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the famous Berlin wire to Pretoria after the failure of the Jameson Raid the admirable Saxon Monarch concluded his remarks with the declaration : " Je n'aurais pm envoys ce...

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The text, in order to secure as fully as possible

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TWO NORSE STORIES.* " VINLAND " is America, or rather that part of America which the Norse adventurers of the tenth and eleventh centuries are said to have discovered. The name...

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With this interesting book it is natural that we should

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notice Mr. Cuthbert Hadden's succinct and often spiritedly written Nelson Navy Book, an epitome of all that we prize most in our naval history. Divided, as the volume is, into...

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The Women Martyrs of the Reformation. By Walter Walsh. (R.T.S.

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Lives of British Seamen. By W. A. Atkinson. (J. F.

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Shaw and Co. is. 6d.)—This volume begins with a record of the services of Sir John Fisher, including an account, which makes it especially seasonable, of the constitution of the...

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is charming: Where all is so good it is di ffi cult

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to choose a leav d e e 3n r so t .t h 6 e ad h s io r d ka „ quotation, but here is the last verse from the poem called "The Gentle Dark " :— " The voice is tender, (0 little...

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PROFESSOR DOWDEN ON MONTAIGNE.

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C. Black. Loki,' the cat of this book, lived with

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ABROAD 2o. the particular movements seldom succeed, and that the strikes are not pushed to the point where absolute starvation would result; but in spite of their apparent...

Otcbakoff.' About two thousand men seem to have sur- rendered,

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but the casualties are said to have been very heavy, —five thousand is, indeed, stated in some reports as the total figure. But even if the mutiny at Sevastopol is at an end,...

Church of Scotland's Creed 926 'What was the Resurrection ?

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927 Mary Queen of Scots 899 Sir Horace Rumbold's Final Re- collections 900 The Great Abbess of Port-Royal 901 The Diversions of a Pedagogue 927 Fieldfares 927 The Preservation...

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Last Saturday the Egyptian Budget for 1906 was submitted to

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the Council of Ministers. The revenue for the year is estimated at £14,500,000, which will show a surplus over expenditure of £500,000. This surplus is to be attained in spite...

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Wednesday's papers contained the announcement of the appointment of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, promised by Mr. Balfour at the close of last Session. The terms of...

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Perhaps this forecast of an affiance between the Pro- tectionists

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and the Irish will be regarded as impossible. Those who are inclined to raise such an objection will be interested in a passage which appeared in a leading article in the Daily...

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We cannot here hnd space to reproduce the cogent arguments

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set forth by the writers of the article in the National Review, but we would strongly urge upon those of our readers who are interested in Indian affairs to study it for...

man who cares for the welfare of the Empire must,

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at any rate, consider the view they put forward before deciding whether he will support Lord Curzon, or Mr. Brodrick and Mr. Balfour, in the controversy which is certain' to...

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to such men as high-caste Bajputs, Dogras, and Brahmins Little

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training of any value was to be anticipated from making the men knead and carry mud, a task which interferes with their military training and is highly unpopular with the men,...

" We are now told that the Commander-in-Chief has proposed

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to change all this; and with the object of making the Imperial service troops more really efficient for all military purposes, to place , them under the Army Department and...

It may be mentioned in this context that it was

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the refusal of the French commanders in the eighteenth century to recognise the prejudices of their native soldiers in the matter of digging the earth which had 'a great deal to...

We can best end our account of the article with

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which we have been dealing by reminding our readers that our view is 'one which is entirely free from any party feeling, or from any prejudice against the present Govern- ment...