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BOOKS.

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TH11. IRISH QUESTION IN 1690.* MR. Doi:monies aim is to provide a consecutive narrative of the fighting in Ireland up to the Treaty of Limerick and of the formation of the...

Littrari Ouppinntnt.

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LONDON: DECEMBER 2nd, 1911.

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GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE,

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Ma. BARRINGTON on the first page of the magnificent volume which he has dedicated to Dundee's memory sets down very appropriately two different views of his hero. One is...

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NATURAL HISTORY AND SPORT.*

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THE title, Marvels of Fish Life, which Dr. Francis Ward has chosen for his book hardly prepares the reader for the amount of interesting and original observations which it...

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INDIAN ECONOMICS.*

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MR. BANERJEA'S book " is intended to be an introductory manual for those who wish to make a serious study of Indian economics." He confronts us at the outset with the'problem,...

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GIFT-BOOKS.

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PIONEERS. * CANADA and West Africa! What could be more unlike ? And yet there is no little significance in thus putting these together ; it makes us feel something of the...

A NEW FAIRY STORY.t Mss. LANE thinks that " Honey-Bee"

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will join " her enchant- ing companions, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, the Sleeping Princess," and other fair ones of Fairy Land. It may be so • (1) Pioneers in Canada. By Sir...

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MR. HERBERT STRANG'S NEW TALES.*

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THERE is a certain boldness, we might even say grandeur, in the conception of Mr. Herbert Strang's tale, The Air Scout. He projects himself and his readers into the future. The"...

Pins and Pincushions. By E. D. Longman and S. Lock.

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(Long- man and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—At first sight pins and pincushions might seem to afford scanty material for a book, but the authors of this volume have known how to...

Good Cheer: The Romance of Food and Feeding. By Frederick

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W. Hackwood. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hackwood has many interesting things to tell us, from the discoveries made in the " kitchen raiddens " of primitive man to the...

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The Children's Shakespeare. By Alice Spencer Hoffmann. (J. M. Dent

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and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here we have twenty of the plays " told and chosen "—should it not have been " chosen and told" P The choice is not altogether to our taste. Othello, for...

Lives of Great Men Told hy Great Men. Edited by

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Richard Wilson. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6s. net.)—We are glad to have Mr. Wilson's book, though we -do not altogether approve of his choice. Some of the men whose lives are told...

RoU in the Woods. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thomp-

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son Seton. (Constable and Co. Cs. net.)—Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has written an extremely good boys' story. It deals with the adventures of Rolf Kittering, a Yankee lad of...

A Book of Noble Women. By C. C. Cairns. (T.

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C. and E. C. Jack. 7s. eal. net.)—Though the women of whom Mrs. Cairns writes are as far apart in time and temperament as Vittoria Colonna and Miss Beale, the reader would,...

The Master Builders. By S. B. Macy. (Lon,gmans and Co.

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3s. Cal. net.)—Here we have " the story of the Acts of the Apostles re-told to children," and very well re-told too. Mr. Macy has taken great pains to consult the best...

The 'Flower of Gloster.' By E. Temple Thurston. Illustrated by

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W. R. Dakin. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Thurston spent a delightful spring holiday in wandering about some of the canals of England in a barge called the `Flower...

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The First Flight. By Mary Debenham. (National Society. 3s. 6d.)

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—A good tale of the days of James I., in which the characters of the time are given with considerable success. The gracious figure of Bishop Andrewes is introduced with no small...

The Romance of Australia. Edited by Herbert Strang. (Henry Frowde

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; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This volume belongs to a series entitled "The Romance of the World." Australia in the matter of romance more than holds its own, if we remember how...

Elizabethan Adventurers upon the Spanish Main. (Adapted from the "

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Voyages " of Richard Hakluyt.) By Albert M. Hyamson, F.R.Hist.S. (G. Routledge and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Hyamson has chosen his title wisely : the Spanish Main is still a name to...

Within a Year. By Frederick Harrison. (S.P.C.K. 3s. 6d.)— The

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eventful year which Mr. Harrison has set himself to describe is one of the last of the eighteenth century. Great days those of highwaymen and smugglers, and our tale opens with...

The Chief Scout. By W. Francis Aitken. (S. W. Partridge

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and Co. ls.)—The " Chief Scout" is, of course, Sir Robert riacitU- Powell ; it is his life story which Mr. Aitken tells, and verb interesting it is. About the early Indian...

The King's Story Book, The Queen's Story Book, The Prince's

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Story Book, and The Princess's Story Book. Edited by Sir George Lawrence Gomme. Illustrated by John W. Campbell and W. H. Robinson. (Constable and Co. as. 6d. per...

The Story of the Crusades. By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. (George

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G. Harrap and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The story, as it is told here, takes in a wide range of time, for it begins with the birth of Mahomet and ends with the Fall of Constantinople. The...

Under the Wolf's Fell. By Dorothy Moore. (S. W. Partridge

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and Co. 5s.)—The " Fifteen" has, we fancy, furnished far fewer romances than the " Forty-five." But that it can be made the pivot of a fascinating tale is proved in Under the...

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The Ferry House Girls. By Bessie Merchant. (Blackie and Son.

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es. 8d.)—The Ferry House is somewhere on an Australian river, and all the surroundings of the story axe in keeping. There is a drought of the Australian type, the river falling...

A Daughter of the West. By Morioe Gerard. (S. W.

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Partridge and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Though this tale opens with a blizzard, the " West" of the title is not the land where such things are common, but Cornwall, where they are...

Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dube. (Hodder

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and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—The stories chosen are seven in number, "The Snow Queen" standing first in the list and being the longest. Next to it comes " The Nightingale." These...

Redwood Ranch. By Bessie Merchant. (S.P.C.K. 2e. 6d.)— Notwithstanding the

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somewhat amateurish adventures of young Oscar Layne this story of an isolated Californian ranch does give the reader a notion of the life led by a settler's family. The...

Stories of Indian Gods and Heroes. By W. D. Monro,

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MA. (George G. Harrap and Co. 5s. net.) —Mr. Monro explains lucidly in his Preface the sources from which he gets the material for his stories. These are, to put it briefly, the...

The Champion of the &hoof. By Captain Frank H. Shaw.

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(Cassell and Co. 3s. ed.)—There is a certain originality of plot in Captain Shaw's book. Jack Ambrose has to leave the Grammar School at 13attersfield. His father finds money...

The Wonderful Garden. By E. Nesbit. (Macmillan and Co. 68.)

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—Miss Nesbit has a very lively imagination and a very pretty gift of humour. Three children go on a visit to their uncle Charles. They are learned in the language of flowers,...

Peggy, B.G. By Helen H. Watson. (Cassell and Co. 3s.

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6d.)— This is a continuation of "Peggy, D.O." " S.G." means "school- girl"; so we have Peggy's experiences at Newton Spa, a high school for girls, which, with its very efficient...

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Betty Martindale's Secret. By Lena Tyack. (R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)— We

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do not much like the "secret" part of the story ; it seems to us somewhat far-fetched and improbable ; but the children, especially the Irish brood at the Rectory, are quite...

Queen flab's Daughters. From the French of Jerome Doucet. (H.

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Frowde ; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—We do not think that we should class M. Doucet with Perrault. Here is a summary of his first story. Princess Minna is rude enough to throw a...

The Boys' Guide. By Archibald Williams, B.A. (T. Nelson and

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Sons. 5s. net.)—This is a complete guide to all kinds of sports and amusements. (Chess is described, but other games of the kind, as draughts and backgammon, are not dealt...

Better than Play. By Mabel Quiller-Couch. (R.T.S. Is.)— This is

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a pretty little story of how a boy and girl help the family by industry and courage—possibly, we might add, by their good fortune. Selling flowers and vegetables does not always...

Herbert Strang's Annual. (H. Frowde; Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—The

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"Annual" is as full of good things as the names of the contributors would lead us to expect. There are school stories and historical stories—one by Captain C. Gilson, of the...

Naw EarrioNs. — The Personal History of David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens.

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Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—This is a handsome volume, not unworthy of a masterpiece. The printing, paper, &c., are excellent, and...

Fairy Tales of Old Japan. By W. E. Griffis. (G.

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Harrap and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Griffis tells us that he has drawn his collection of Japanese fairy tales from many sources. Had he gone further and told us which owed their origin to...

Confessions of a Robin. By A. F. Mockler-Ferryman. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)---The

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Robin, lineal descendant, as he tells us, of the historic " Cock Robin," is a very interesting person, especially when he relates his experiences of human society. Evidently he...

The Master of Life. By W. D. Lighthall. (Hodder and

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Stoughton. 3s. 6d.) — Mr. Lighthall tells us the story of Hiawatha in a new guise, in which he bears no resemblance to the hero of Longfellow's poem, but is depicted as a Mohawk...

The Book of Baby Beasts. By E. S. Detmold. Descriptions

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by Florence E. Dugdale. (H. Frowde ; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Detmold has given us here some very pretty pictures, twenty in all, including the "Rabbit on the Cover....

The British Boy's Annual and The British Girl's Annual. (Cassell

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and Co. 5s. each.)—These two volumes show the customary differ- ence—advocates of equality must look to this—but they are both good in their way. The boys will find exciting...

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George Eliot : Scenes and People in her Novels. By

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Charles S. Olcott. (Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Olcott has made a very careful study of his subject. And, indeed, it was worth making, not only because "George Eliot " was a...

THE STORY OF ANCIENT EGYPT.

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The Story of Ancient Egypt. By Robinson Souttar, D.C.L. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls. net.)—The title goes on to include tho "neighbouring peoples." "The story of the Hebrews" is,...

CURRENT LITERA_TURE.

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THE PROGRESS OF JAPAN, 1858-187L The Progress of Japan, 1853 - 1871. By 3. Gubbings. (The Clarendon Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—There are not a few persons still living who can...

The Lady of the Decoration. With illustrations in colour by

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Wakana Uti gawa. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—This book is a reissue of a sentimental story of a young widow who goes to Japan as a missionary to get over the effects of an...

SUGAR.

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We are too apt to accept results without caring to inquire how they came about. This knowledge is to be made easy for us. Nor could there be a better choice than sugar, if only...

THE DANGEROUS AGE : LETTERS AND FRAGMENTS OF A WOMAN'S

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DIARY. The Dangerous Age : Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary. Translated from the Danish of Karin Micheelia With an Introduction by Marcel Prevost. (John Lane. 3s. 6d....

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The Empires of the Old World. By M. Bramston. (Blackie

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and Son. 3s. 6d. net.)-" Not a text-book for examinations, but a framework in which the fuller history of a 'period' may be inserted," is the description given in the Preface of...

A Hundred Short Essays. By W. Stewart Thompson, M.A. (Simpkin,

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Marshall and Co. 2s.)-This is a second edition of a second series. Evidently Mr. Thompson ministers to a public want. These essays are on " Public Examination Topics." The...

London Houses from .1660 to 1820. By A. E. Richardson

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and C. Lovett Gill. (B. T. Batsford. 15s. net.)-The authors divide the time covered by their book into three periods, the Formative (1666-1720), Middle or Palladian (1720-1760),...

The Book of the Seven Ages: An Anthology. Compiled by

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Henry W. Clark. (Herbert and Daniel. 3s. 6d. net.)--Mr. Clark's idea for another anthology is a very good ono. He takes the famous passage from As You Like It, " All the world's...

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LONDON : Printed by L. urcorz GILL, at the London

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and County Printing Woyka, Drury Lane, W.C.; and Pabliehed by Joss Blouse for the "81.80TATOE " (Limited), at their Office. No. 1 Wellington Street. in the Precinct of the...

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We deal elsewhere with the rest of the debate and

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with the agitation against the Bill, but we may say here that we hold that the best way in which the House of Lords can deal with the intolerable situation created by the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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B Y far the most important political event of the week was the action taken by Mr. Bonar Law in the House of Com- mons on Thursday night. A quarter of an hour before the guil-...

Mr. Lloyd George was naturally furious, but his answer was

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the merest and meanest he quoqv,e. The Opposition had used the closure as drastically as he had. He went on to twit the Opposition with having taken up forty or fifty days in...

DEC 1 2 . . FOR THZ

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REGISTERED AS AI ER/C11 S 6D. [PONETZAWSSEITELD B r P"r•••21;:• ,IVIEIC ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911.

Curiously enough, however, the Government organs seem to have forgotten

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their own Parliament Bill, and declare that if the House of Lords do what they call "reject" the Bill—i.e., hang it up—the Government will be forced to drop their measure. Why...

If this is the net situation, as we say, without

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fear of con- tradiction, that it is, are we not right in declaring that the whole thing is an outrage ? In all these circumstance we say once more that the best way out of the...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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At the end of last week the Russian Government presented

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an ultimatum to Persia calling for the dismissal of Mr. Shuster, the American financial expert. The Mejliss, we are informed by a telegram in Friday's Times, has unani- mously...

It is clear from this that the Russian and British

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Govern- ments are in accord, and that we could not support Mr, Shuster in his erratic and ill-considered action without a breach of faith with Russia. Taking the question as a...

Mr. Bonar Law informed the House that the change in

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the leadership of the Opposition meant no change in the Opposi- tion view of foreign politics. He was convinced that every step taken by the Government and described by Sir...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Courtney opened

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the debate on the Morocco question. He spoke with approval of the Anglo-French Agreement of 1904, and asked why it should not be possible to conclude a similar agreement with...

In spite of this intimation, which was patently a very

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grave warning, the German Government made no further communication (with the exception of a colourless statement to our Ambassador in Berlin on July 12th) till July 21st, when...

In the House of Commons on Monday Sir Edward Grey

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made his promised statement on foreign affairs—a statement which had been awaited with almost unexampled curiosity and anxiety. He announced that he would deal exclusively with...

Lord Morley of Blackburn said that he had listened with

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profound regret to Lord Courtney's speech—a regret which will be shared by all sane people, fora more mischievous public utterance we find it difficult to recall. Lord Courtney...

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The Times of Monday published an excellent letter from Mrs.

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Humphry Ward on Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Bath. Mr. Lloyd George had declared that women ought to be consulted on education, housing, sanitation, pro- vision for old age and...

On Tuesday the names of the new Insurance Commissioners were

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announced. The Chairman is to be Sir Robert Moran; and the four others are Mr. John Bradbury, Mr. D. J. Shackleton, Mr. J. Lister Stead, and Miss Mona Wilson. A cynical observer...

The Report stage of the Insurance Bill in the House

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of Commons was begun on Tuesday and continued on Wednes- day and Thursday. On Tuesday the discussion centred chiefly in the new clause which Mr. Lloyd George pro- posed to add...

A striking demonstration was held on Wednesday night at the

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Albert Hall to protest against the inclusion of domestic servants in the Insurance Bill. The meeting is described by the Times correspondent as "an astonishing manifestation";...

Lord Lansdowne said that the Anglo-French Agreement had rendered a

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great international service. There was no desire to divide Europe into hostile camps. He was glad the Government had consented to publish the secret articles of 1904. He thought...

It was announced on Tuesday that Admiral Bridgeman has been

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appointed to succeed Sir Arthur Wilson as First Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg succeeding Admiral Egerton as Second Sea Lord, and Captain Pakenham becoming Third Sea Lord...

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Mr. Lloyd George spoke at Bath on Friday week. After

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a judicious reference to foreign affairs, he plunged into a heated defence of the National Insurance Bill, which was "swimming along through a murky flood of misrepresentation,"...

Sir Edward Carson delivered a vigorous criticism of the Government

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at Eastbourne on Saturday last. The industrial unrest was due to their setting men, for the sake of their votes, above the law. And now they had to settle with the Irish...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SIR EDWARD GREY'S TRIUMPH. W HEN we wrote last week we expressed our confidence that Sir Edward Grey would emerge victorious from the attacks made upon his conduct of Foreign...

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THE INSURANCE BILL. T HE Insurance Bill will be through the

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Report stage by the time these pages reach our readers' hands, and will be ready for Third Reading. That being so, it may be worth while to set down some of the salient facts...

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THE S11 UATION IN CHINA.

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THERE has yet been nothing in the reports from China 1 to show that the future lies decisively in the hands either of the republican rebels or of Yuan Shih-kai and the moderate...

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A SOLDIER'S GENERAL PAPER.

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T HE excellent French weekly journal L'Opinion has just published the answers given by some French recruits to questions in general knowledge. It is the custom of French...

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THE DRAMATIC CENSORSHIP : LAST PHASE. T HE censorship as conducted under the

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secret and arbitrary authority of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays has long been ridiculous, but it has now reached such a point of ridiculousness that one almost...

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ENGLISH HEXAMETERS.

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T AST week we said something about English hexameters. The subject is worth returning to. It is the misfortune of English hexameters, as we have pointed out before, that they...

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THE KITCHEN-GARDEN IN WINTER.

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W HEN the Walrus remarked to the Carpenter that the time had come to talk of cabbages and kings, he really suggested a very proper combination of subjects. Cabbages, looked at...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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GERMAN UNREST. [To THE EDITOR OP TES " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Even the most cordial friends of the German people must admit that the German Empire is to-day pre-eminently the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. [To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While well aware of the many grave defects of the National Insurance Bill, defects of which some may be...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THR "SPECTITOR.") SIR,—As employers have now

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been definitely refused repre- sentation on the governing bodies to be set up under the National Insurance Act, it is essential in the interests of the industries which they...

[To TAR EDITOR or THZ " Srzczeros.'] Sin,—It is unfortunate

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that the first really popular and wide- spread demonstration against the present Government should have its origin in the Insurance Bill. The Old Age Pensions Act is a...

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"A PURE DEMOCRACY AND THE REFERENDUM."

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SFECTATOR."] SIR,—In his speech at Bath on November 24th Mr. Lloyd George said:— "Well, now, why do they distrust the democracy ? Democracy has never...

JOHN BRIGHT AND HOME RULE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAICIR.1 Bin,—The recital in the Times (Nov. 16th) of John Bright's pathetic account of his interview, just after his first widow- hood, with Cobden...

THE LORDS AND THE INSURANCE BILL.

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[To lax EDITOR or mils "Spice-ramie."' Bra,—Whatever the Lords may do, I trust they will not, as recommended by a correspondent in the Spectator of Novem- ber 25th, accord...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I believe your

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contention that Ireland is not overtaxed because individual Irishmen pay the same taxes as individual Englishmen is a delusion and a snare. One instance is enough to destroy...

THE TAXATION OF IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The answer to the conundrum raised by you in the issue of November 25th, " How can Ireland be overtaxed, as compared with England,...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "]

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SIR,—Are not the letter of "A Liberal and a Nonconformist" and your note on the same based upon two serious misappre- hensions respecting the identity of the tithe-payer and the...

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In view

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of the importance of the question of Anglo- German relations at the present time perhaps you will allow me to refer• to the remarks in your issue of November 4th in connrxion....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—No doubt we

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are terribly in the bondage of tradition- alism, as " J. W. B." implies, and it would be a happy event for the Church if, without loss of continuity, its bondage could be...

THE ANCIENT FUNDS OF THE WELSH CHURCH.

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[TO THE ITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I, with your permission, reply briefly on this interesting correspondence (1) It has been well worth while to elicit a widespread...

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ANGLICAN MASTERS IN NONCONFORMIST SCHOOLS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOTI."3 SIR,—Will you allow me to say in reply to Mr. McAlpin's letter in last week's Spectator that at the Leys School assistant masters are to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1

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SIR,—May I trouble you with a short statement of fact by way of comment on a letter which appeared in your last issue from Mr. Kenneth MeAlpin ? One head master of Mill Hill...

TRADE-UNION ACCOUNTS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPRCTALTOR:1 Sin,—I was disappointed not to find in your issue of Nov. 25th any reference to a series of articles that have been appearing in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—Would you kindly allow

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me to make a few remarks in reference to the letter from " A Liberal and Nonconformist " in the Spectator of November 25th in reference to the question of tithe ? The writer...

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MR. A. C. BENSON ON MATTHEW ARNOLD.. [To TEE EDITOR

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OP TEE " SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—In his latest book Mr. A. C. Benson writes : "He- [Matthew Arnold . ] did not care for Shakespeare, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, or Thackeray." As...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Commenting on the valuable

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article by Miss Loane on; "The Saving of Child Life " in your issue of 11th inst., may I point out that in my district—a very poor one quite in the country—I find no urging...

THE SAVING OF CHILD LIFE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' Sin,—In reading Miss Loane's article in your issue of November 11th I was surprised to find that she made no reference to the schools for...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."'

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SIR,—I15 it too late, or too soon, to remember that some men of letters have seen nothing to admire in the phrase of Petronius P Dr. Joseph Walton, in his " Essay on the Genius...

"CURIOSA FELICITAS."

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sag,—The following rendering is to be found in "The Dic- tionary of Classical Quotations." "Carlow. felicitas," Petr. Arb. : "Studied...

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I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] -Sra,—The Spectator has

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been considerably passed round before it comes to my bands in New Zealand; consequently I have only just received the number of August 19th containing - -the-interesting article...

COLLEY HILL, REIGATE.

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[To THE EDITOR. OF THE •‘ SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In reference to the interesting letter and earnest appeal from Sir Robert Hunter may I be permitted to call your readers' attention...

MOSQUITOES AND MILLIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Some of your readers will probably be glad to know that Dr. W. B. Graham, Director of the Medical. Research Institute at Lagos, has...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. "]

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Srn,—"'Curiosa felicitas" may well be an echo of the argu- ment by which Socrates founds n'n-exia on (rage in Plato's Euthydemus," p. 280.—I am, Sir, &e., C. G. C. ['We must,...

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POETRY.

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TO SLEEP. AFTER STATIIIS SYLV., V. 4. KIND sleep, boy sleep, of all the gods most kind, What is my crime that of all living things I, I alone, must lack thy solaces ? The...

BOOKS.

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SEEMS SO!* HR. STEPHEN REYNOLDS is already, well known to our readers through his books, A Poor Man's House and Along- shore. His new book, a collection of sketches and essays,...

THE LONE. SCOUT MOVEMENT. (To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR. "'

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Sm.,—Would you allow me space in your valuable paper to. call attention to the feet that a vast number. of boys are unable to join .a Boy Scout Troop ? Sir Robert Baden-Powell...

MILITARY MA.NCEUVRES AND GAME.

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[TA THE EDITOR Ol THE " SPECTATOR."] Zut , ,—I have read with much agreement your article of last week on " Military Manceuvres and Game Preserves," and I may say at once that....

GOLFERS' LANGUAGE.

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lT0 ma EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In the Supplement to your issue of November 18th you are grateful to Mr. Maio for his application to golfers of the 'Virgilian...

NOTICE.—When " Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's

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name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in. agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

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THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.* To the English—and, indeed, to most of

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Europe—Russia has for the last century been a terror, a riddle, and, at last, a dis- appointment. Until a short time ago the aphorism, " Scratcir a Russian and you find a...

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AFRICAN SECRET HISTORY.*

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• (1) Secret Service in South Africa. By Douglas Blackburn and Captain W. Waithman Caddell. London : Cassell and Co. [10s. 6d. net.]—(2) John Bops: King of the Wa-kilatyu....

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CANNED CLASSICS.*

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THOUGH Mr. Graham has, perhaps, never quite reached the Olympian heights of his first book of verses, ".Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes" with their almost divine calm -and...

'CIIESITCLL THE author ofthis book, although ,greatly interestetlin the- latest

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- developments of chemical and ptiyaicaltheory, is very farfrom being-one-Of those scientists who despise the applications of pure discovery. Indeed, two-thirds of the volume`...

STUDIES TN iBIOGRATMEt

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Mn. 'BENSON'S title was not suggested by the 'Homeric °Ye ars!, ep6XAcev yeveC loin Si Ka! avSpay, but by reasons touching the moral and spiritual foundations of life which our...

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The Doubts of Diana. By Evelyn Tempest. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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6s.)—One is inclined to wonder whether both the books by Miss Tempest which have appeared since the pub- lication of " The McArdle Peerage" were written before or after that...

NOVELS.

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ADRIAN SAVAGE.* Lucia MALET'S new novel raises several interesting ques- tions. It prompts us to ask, to begin with, whether any .-entirely satisfactory work of fiction was...

READABLE Novzas.—One of the Family. By Keble Howard. (Ward Lock

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and Co. 6s.)—One of Mr. Keble Howard's usual sketches of -middle-class life. It is written in his customary style, though perhaps it is not quite so clever in its detail as "The...

Sanders of the River. By Edgar Wallace. (Ward, Lock and

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Co. 6s.)—Mr. Edgar Wallace gives a series of convincing sketches of life in Western Africa in his study of the adventures of Mr. Commissioner Sanders. Some of the stories are of...

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Messrs. Mowbray also send a large number of Christmas Cards.

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We cannot say that all are to our taste, but many are all that could be wished. In some cases pictures by old masters in private collections have been utilized to excellent...

Acting Edition of the Acharnians of Aristophanes. By G. Nor-

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/mod, M.A. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. is. net.)—Professor Norwood gives us the Greek text, with a few modifications, on one side and a spirited translation in rhymed verse, most...

The Religious Tract Society sends three packets marked A, B,

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and C of Scripture Postcards, reproduced from the Illustrated Bible, by Mr. Harold Copping. Each packet contains twelve cards (four relating to the Old Testament and eight to...

SOME BOOKS OF THE W EEK.

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[ruder this heading we yolks such Ras of the week as hare not been 4-coerced for review in other forms.] Fads and Figures of Church Finance : Supplementary Volume. (Longmans and...

The Christian Remembrancer (S.P.C.K.) is a very convenient combination of

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diary and calendar, intended for the writing table, as we have proved by personal experience for some years past ; a very serviceable arrangement of blotting-paper which does...

Messrs. Hill and Co. send us a large variety of

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Christmas Cards under the general titles "For the Empire Series" and the " Rubric Series " of motto cards. There is much good and tasteful work in them, with here and there a...

From Messrs. Mowbray we have received a variety of calendars

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in the style of ecclesiastical art which we connect with their name. Prominent among them is The English Churchman's Almanac, ls. net, showing us on the front page the "new High...

Messrs. Hills also send us some calendars with various titles

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from which we would single out for special praise The Garden. Lovers' Calendar, a very elegant little affair with some well-chosen quotations.

Now Enrrions.—Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard H. Dana,

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Jun. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This book, first pub- lished just seventy-one years ago, now appears with a brief introduction by Sir Wilfred , Grenfell—not without a...