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BOOKS.

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ADAM LINDSAY GORDON.* IT is curious that, although Gordon died in 1870, there should until this month have been no complete edition of his poems and no comprehensive memoir of...

Littrarp Ouppientent.

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LONDON: NOVEMBER 2nd, 1912.

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A COLONY IN THE MAKING.*

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LORD CRANWORTH has written an admirable handbook to the most interesting of our newer colonies. The stream of East African literature is, indeed, becoming copious enough, for...

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RAILWAYS AND THE STATE.* RAILWAY problems, including the tremendous problem

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of the relationship of the railways to the State, are attracting increased public attention, and we have before us three books all dealing with these problems, though from...

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THE FUTURE OF THE SMALLHOLDER.*

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IN spite of a certain lack of fairness Mr. Green has written a stimulating and a useful book. His subject is the future of the smallholder, and, in order to see for himself what...

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EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.*

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OF the making of books there is indeed no end. Half-a- century ago, no one had thought it possible to buy, for a shilling, all those books most worth the reading. Yet here are...

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THE GROWTH OF CAMBRIDGE.* THESE is no more fascinating subject

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than the history of Cambridge University. The mere mechanical growth, from its crude beginnings when in 1280 Hugh of Balsham introduced into the existing Hospital of St. John a...

SIR FREDERICK WEDMORE'S MEMORIES.*

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GREAT names dignify every chapter of Sir Frederick Wedmore's neatly and fluently written volume. Apt descrip. tion and discreet reminiscence blossom on every page. Never was a...

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GIFT-BOOKS.

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SOME ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES.* THE reproduction in colour of old and new pictures has set on edge the teeth of most artists at one time or another. • (1) The Pickwick Papers. By...

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS.*

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The Fairies and the Christmas Child is a charmingly written story about a boy who, because be was born on Christmas Day, had the gift of fairy friendship. Chris, as he was...

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JAPANESE STORIES.*

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THERE are unending stores of delight for us Westerners to extract from the tales of the East, and Mr. Davis gives us good measure. Some come from original sources, others from...

Messrs. A. and C. Black issue an attractive series of

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small books entitled "Peeps at Many Lands," which should whet young appetites for fuller knowledge of the subjects treated. Before long their readers will despise the study of...

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Delphina of the Dolphins. By Mary A. Taylor. (The Vineyard

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Press. Is. 6d. net.)—This is a story of modern life in Rome, in which the heroine consoles herself for the death of a lover by founding a School of Arts and Crafts. She is a...

Royal Gardens. By Cyril Ward. (Longmans and Co. Large paper,

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£2 2s. net; small paper, 16s. net.)—This is what is called a handsome book, and it gives large illustrations of the gardens at Windsor, Bagehot, Hampton Court, Osborne,...

Japanese Gardens. By Mrs. Basil Taylor (Harriet Osgood). Illustrated by

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W. Tyndale, R.I. (Methuen. 21s. net.)—The reader of this book will put it down with the pleasant feeling that he has learnt something worth knowing of the best side of the...

An Artist in Egypt. By Walter Tyndale, R.I. (Hodder and

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Stoughton. 20s. net.)—Here we have some charming pictures for which mechanical reproduction seems to have done its best. Of brilliant African sunshine we should pick out "An...

The Four Gardens. By Handasyde, illustrated by Ch. Robinson. (W.

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Heinemann. lls. net.)—There is a wholesome fragrance about these garden sketches that is very pleasant. Each of the four has a character of its own, but each leads us naturally...

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The Boy Scout's Companion. Edited by Morley Adams. (R.T.S. 3s.

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6d.)—This book would make a very good prize for a competition among Scouts during their indoor work in the winter. The dif- ferent chapters discourse on many features of the...

be one, but a sad dream of love at the

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time of the French Revolu- tion. The language partly follows that curious but sometimes effective convention of a seemingly literal translation of French idioms, and the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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AUGUST STRINDBERG'S " LEGENDS." Legends : Autobiographical Sketches. By August Strindberg. (Andrew Melrose. 6s. net.)—The series of "novels" in which Strindberg told the story...

His Great Surrender. By B. Merchant. Illustrated by Gordon. Browne,

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R.I. (S.P.C.K. Is. 61)—This book is filled with adventures, in which the curate hero takes a bravo park and, after many hardships, his union with the heroine is brought about as...

An Anthology of Babyhood. Edited by Muriel Nelson d'Auvergne. Illustrated

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by T. J. and E. A. Overnell. (Hutchinson and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—We commend the editor's cheerful resolve to make this "a book of the joy of babyhood," and to "shut out all...

The Brownie of Weirdlaw. By Cyril Grey. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—

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If the girls for whom this book is meant are not annoyed at the conventional beginning, they will find a pleasantly written story of the brave struggles against misfortune of an...

Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages. By Wolff Pascheles and

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others. Selected and translated by Claud Field. Illustrated by May Mulliner. (Robert Scott. 2s. 6d.)—It is interesting to see something of the Middle Ages (this term is here...

The Empire Annual for Girls ; The Empire Annual for

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Boys. (Same publishing office. 3s. 6d. each.)—These smaller, but still substantial, volumes seem to have thoroughly established them- selves. Each is, for the price, a bountiful...

Portrait Miniatures of Five Centuries. By Ernst Lemberger. (Hodder and

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Stoughton. 42s. net.)—This is a sumptuous volume for which Herr Lemberger has written thirty-six pages of letter- press in faultless English (there is no mention of a...

The Boys' Own. Annual ; The Girls' Own Annual. (Boys'

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Own Paper Office, 4 Bouverie Street. 8s. each.)—These are unfailing storehouses of interest for young folk who may have just lost the habit of hanging up a stocking on Christmas...

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A NEW SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA.

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A New System for Preventing Collisions at Sea. By Sir Hiram S. Maxim. (Privately printed.) -It is not possible for a non- technical paper to discuss the value of Sir Hiram...

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LONDON: Printed by L. Upson GILL & Son, LTD. at

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the London and County Printin g Works, Drury Lane, W .C. ; and Published by Joan Basra for the " orAzon" (Limited), attheir (Mace, No. 1 Wellin g ton Street, in the Precinct of...

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In Macedonia, Epirus, and Albania things during the week have

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steadily progressed in favour of the Allies. Zeki Pasha's army, indeed, has apparently vanished, or at any rate, is making little or no stand, and the world is wondering whether...

With one flank on the Black Sea and the other

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on the Sea of Marmora and guarded on their right front by a fresh-water lake and on the left by an inlet of the sea, the Turks are further protected by marshes and swampy...

alte c*potriator No, 4,4oq v i 2 1.412 WEEK ENDING

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1912. [ REGISTERED AS Al NEWSPAPER. By Posr...6}a, FOSTAOR ABROAD 2a.

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

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case.

If we banish from our minds the possibility of a

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military miracle, what we may expect is that Nazim Pasha's army will fall back to the Tchatalja lines, and the Bulgarians will then have something like a Port Arthur problem to...

The three days' battle which began on Tuesday ended on

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Thursday in the defeat of Nazim Pasha's army, which has now been driven back along the blunt-nosed peninsula at the end of which Constantinople is seated. As far as can be...

As we write on Friday the most significant piece of

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news is to be found in two lines which conclude a telegram from that ablest of war correspondents, Lieutenant Wagner, the Austrian staff officer who represents the Reichspost at...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"He is come to liath, he is passed through Migron ; at Mich/mash he layeth up his baggage : They are gone over the pass ; they have taken up their lodging at Geba : Ramesh...

NOTICH.—With this week's " SPECTATOR" is issued, gratis, a LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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The Morning Post of Wednesday and Thursday contained full discussions

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of the two questions connected with Indian finance which were raised by Mr. Rupert Gwynne in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The first of these is con- cerned with the cash...

On Wednesday the eighth clause, which determines the constitution of

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the Irish Senate, was discussed, and, owing to a sudden and radical alteration in the Government's proposals the debate was adjourned early in the evening in order to allow of...

There has been a great deal of talk as to

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"partition" during the week, and a French newspaper has set forth a scheme in detail which is alleged to be occupying the Powers. Curiously enough it corresponds very closely...

The discussion of the Home Rule Bill in Committee of

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the House of Commons has proceeded during the week. Clauses 5 and 6 were passed on Monday, the latter without any discussion at all, and Clause 9 on Tuesday. The " Political...

These conversations, he continued, though valuable and indis- pensable, must

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neither now nor hereafter have the object of altering the essential lines of the foreign policy of France. She was incapable of inconstancy or of unfaithfulness. She wanted no "...

It seems to us incredible that Ministers should not have

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a finer sense of pride, and of what Burke called "the chastity of honour," in these matters. One would have thought that they would have gloried in practising a kind of pedantry...

The second question raised by Mr. Gwynne concerned the purchase

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of silver for rupees by the Government of India. It is stated that no silver has been bought since 1907 until this year, and on this occasion the silver was purchased through...

An interview with Mr. Arthur Lee in Tuesday's Pall Mall

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should be useful in correcting certain misconceptions as to the aims of the supporters of the Bill for suppressing the " White Slave Traffic," which is about to reach the report...

The speech of M. Poincare at Nantes on Sunday was

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a very able vindication of French policy in regard to the Balkan War. He pointed out that in declining to facilitate a loan to Bulgaria six months ago they had at least deferred...

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Professor Goudy, the Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford,

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has a remarkable letter on the Home Rule Bill in Tuesday's Times. Writing as a lifelong Liberal, with hereditary and personal sympathies with Nationalist aspira- tion, but also...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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October 17th. Consols (24) were on Thursday 734—Friday week 73.

An interesting test of Proportional Representation was carried out at

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the House of Commons on Monday night. The seven members elected were Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Buxton, Mr. MacDonald from the Ministerialista, and Mr. Bonar Law, Sir E....

Mr. Bonar Law was the principal speaker at a dinner

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held by the Nonconformist Association yesterday week. After describing the nature of the influence exerted by the Prime Minister on his supporters by doles and rewards, Mr....

Under the beading "Mr. Churchill and the Heptarchy " a

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letter from Mr. John Chartres appears in Monday's Times. Starting from Mr. Churchill's assertion at Dundee that he was "speaking his own thoughts on the question," Mr. Chartres...

We have always felt that the great thing was to

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increase the numbers of the Reserve, and to make it so big that no one would dare to neglect it. Though perhaps we should leave well alone in the matter of prophecy, we feel...

A letter from Lord Curzon in last Saturday's Times draws

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attention to the approaching sale by the Government of India of Hastings House at Alipore, which has been used as an official " guest house " for the last few years. It was...

It was announced on Wednesday that Canon Hensley Henson had

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been appointed Dean of Durham. The pro- motion is well earned, though his removal to the North is a great loss to London. Alike as a worker, preacher, and author be has shown a...

The Morning Post of Thursday contains an interesting article from

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a special correspondent in regard to the progress and position of the National Reserve. That force has now reached close on 170,000 men. Though delighted, we are not surprised,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION. W E have dealt in our " News of the Week " Notes with the progress of the war and with the earth-shaking battle, or rather series of battles, which...

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THE FREEDOM OF LABOUR.

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T HE House- of Commons is now considering in Grand Committee the Government Bill for reversing the famous Osborne judgment. Simultaneously there has been meeting in London the...

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1.11.0 TWO AMERICAS. T HE South American Supplement to the Times

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of Tuesday has a letter of great interest from their correspondent at Panama. It purports to describe the feeling of Latin America towards the policy of absorption which is...

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A SURREY GUIDES' FIELD DAY.

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O UR readers have shown no small interest in the effort which is now being made in Surrey to organize the local knowledge of byways, bridle paths, and cross-country tracks in...

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WITHIN THE GATES. T KE Manor was not, properly speaking, a

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manor at all, but a long, low, white farmhouse standing at right angles to the public road, on a meadow above a stretch of tranquil water that reflected every mood of the...

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A DOCTOR'S HOLIDAY.

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TN our profession a holiday is a rare delight. Th e week- ends, ends, the Christmas and Easter bank holidays, which bring change and rest to many workers, are unknown to us....

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A CLIMBING CAT.

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C ATS share a great many human weaknesses. We have lately found social ambition to be one of them. The present writer owns a cat in whom this trait is strongly marked. Elderly...

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"DUE PROCESS OF LAW" IN IRELAND. [To ma EDITOR Of

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TUE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—.61r. Astor's amendment (rejected by a hundred and two majority), by means of which it was sought to limit the powers of the proposed Irish Parliament,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE FITNESS OF IRELAND FOR SELF- GOVERNMENT. [To TER EDITOR or THE "Sracraros.") Slit,—Mr. T. Healy complained the other day that people credit the inhabitants of Ireland with...

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TOLERANCE IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THY " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —As a Protestant clergyman and a Unionist whose Unionism has been strengthened rather than weakened by recent events in Ireland, I...

!lib FUTURE OF TURKEY.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 Stn,—I happened to be re-reading the second volume of the "Memoirs of Francesco Crispi " at the moment when your last number with its...

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE "EnsmAros,.”.1 Srn,—It is possible that at this time such letters as those signed "S. R. H." in your issues of October 5th and October 26th may be...

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THE PASSING OF THE NEAR EAST.

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[To TEN Earroa 07 7111 "SIMMAT011."1 SIR,—The fiat of the Great Powers is as the laws of the Medes and Persians—in theory immutable, in practice the puppet of circumstance. In...

THE MODERN GREEK.

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[To THE EDITOZ OF ISE "SPICTATO1P3 SIR, —It may be surmised that the writer of the article " The Modern Greek," which appeared in your issue of October 19th, has not visited...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Perhaps you can offer

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me some advice in the following circumstances, as it seems to me others must be in a similar difficulty. I am the father of a boy, age seventeen, who has just left one of our...

RED CROSS TRAINING FOR WOMEN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I have read with interest, under " Red Cross Training for Women" in your last issue, that a congress has been arranged to take place at Exeter the...

NATIONAL SERVICE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOS."] SIR,—I wonder if you feel justified in expressing an opinion as to the probable course of action of the Conservative Party, if it came into...

THE THREE ESTATES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Are we never to be rid of King, Lords, and Commons composing the "estates " of the realm ? There is Sir William Forwood in your issue of...

LORD ROBERTS'S MANCHESTER SPEECH. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE "

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SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Your paragraph upon Lord Roberts's speech in Man- chester draws no distinction between the various contentions contained in it, and you express your " most...

A. CORRECTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOM."] SIR, — I see in your paper of Saturday last a letter signed by " A Scotswoman," in which she says " At the end of the Ardlamont case the...

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THE DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S AND THE " TIMES "

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ON MYSTICISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPEOTATOR.41 SIR,—A leading article in the Times of October 24th, com- menting on Dean Inge's recent lecture on Christian mysticism,...

A CAT'S TALE.

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EDTIOB OF TIER "Srmorirega.”] SIR, — In March 1905 the Rector of Whitburn(Dr. Moore-Ede, now Dean of Worcester) had a fine Persian cat, to which be and his family were much...

fill!•; MACEDONIAN RELIEF FUND. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE "

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SPECTATOR 03 SIR, —Among the sufferers by the war in Eastern Europe there are none whose position is so helpless as that of the Christian towns- folk and peasantry of Macedonia...

A PRAYING AGNOSTIC.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEl 'Elrzerikroa."I' SIR, —The following words of the late Mr. Leaky seem to be a true statement of the case with regard to Agnostic Prayer :- "Prayer, by a...

THE SAVILL PRIZE.

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[To THZ EDITOR 07 TRH "Srsorrrort."] SIR, — It may interest some of your readers to know that a prize is to be given every year—from July 1913 forward—to students of either sex...

TEE IDLE RICH.

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[TO THE EDITOR 07 TEl " 87scraTou.'n SIR, — In your criticism of Mr. Arthur Ponsonby's book, "The Decline of Aristocracy," you say "The ' idle rich' are a small and...

SELF-SLAUGHTER,

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE spzeraTop..-1 STit,—I find the following sentence in Mr. Bernard Thomson's letter on the tragedy of General Nogi (Spectator, Oct. 26th): "From the...

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POETRY.

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AN OLD SONG. THE almond-bloom is overPast, the cherry blolusoms blow; I never loved but one man, and I never told him so. My powers -will never _Come to fruit, but I have kept...

BOOKS.

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, THE COMPLETE MR. BALFOITR.* THIS volume of selections, made by Mr. Balfour's private secretary, may give the ordinary reader some idea of the • Arthur James Balfour as...

A CORRECTION.

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[To MIR EDITOR or TRY "srzorsrov.."3 Sin,—Perhaps you will allow me to say that I wrote' (Spectator, October ,26th) "the" series of Scottish trials, not "two" series, &c., and...

HELP FOR TURKISH WOMEN AND CHILDREN. [To Tun EDITOR OF

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THE "SPICTATOR."3 Sra,—It is only my conviction of the generosity and pity that lie in English hearts which gives me courage to appeal to England for help for the sufferers in...

ART.

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EARLY ENGLISH MASTERS. Ir the shades of the old Dilettante Society ever revisit the town the one picture shop to which they are most likely to betake themselves with snuff-box...

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

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in

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SOME CLASSICAL BOOKS.*

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ilLASSICAL study is often said, not without much truth, to be rapidly losing the eminent place which, ever since the Renaissance, it has held in. liberal education. But however...

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ROGET'S THESAURUS.*

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'THE present writer must confess that when he received this -wonderful volume for review he had never seen Roget's Thesaurus. The name, indeed, was familiar to him as a...

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THE MYSTERY OF LOUIS XVII.*

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IN the yeara following the Revolution no fewer than forty persons *claimed to be the unfortunate Charles Louis de Bourbon -Louis XVII. of France — who, according to generally...

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FICTIO N.

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THE GATE OPENERS. t THE two ladies who collaborate under the name of " L. Montgomery" have given us in The Gate Openers a brilliant fantasia on a historical theme—the Rebecca...

THE MEANING OF INDIVIDUALITY:I.

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THOUGH Mr. Julian Huxley is concerned chiefly with biology in the present volume, he is anxious to make it plain that he is also treading upon the threshold of philosophy, and...

MR. GALSWORTHY'S ESSAYS.*

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Mn.. GALSWOBTHY has at last found his motto, and has boldly printed it upon the title-page of his new book. It is from M. Anatole France, and, indeed, we had half-suspected...

WOODROW WILSON.*

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The pergontility of the Democratic candidate for the Presi- dency of the United States is so little known in Britain that many readers will welcome Miss HosfOrd's little book....

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Mrs. Ames. By E. F. Benson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)— .

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Mr. Benson gives the impression of having taken over his latest novel far more serious trouble than usual. At any rate, there is more close observation and description of the...

Tryfield. By • G. and M. Hayling. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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6s.)—This is a very prolix and painstaking novel, telling in immense detail of the second marriage of a widower and-a widow, who both have families. The interest of the story...

,READABLE NOVIILS.—Honoors Easy. By Mrs. J. O. Arnold. (Methuen and

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Co. 6s.)—A learned man leaves his money to • anyone who completes his researches,-with, reversion to his step- daughter. The reader is pleasantly occupied in' finding how Iong...

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Persian Literature. — By Claud Field. (Herbert and Daniel. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr.

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Field does not giVe a very well ordered account of the literature of Persia, and he is more occupied with anecdotes of the lives of writers than with criticism of their works....

Scotland end the French Revolution. By Henry W. Meikle (Glasgow

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: Matt:chose and Sorts. this - able mono- graph Dr:Meikle traces the influence which the French Revolution had upon the political and social development. of Scotland. He follows...

Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde." By George Ainslie Hight. (Stephen Swift.

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5s. net.)—Mr. Hight discusses opera in general as an " art-form " in a most obscure chapter upon " Music as an art of expression." He also considers the Wagnerian drama and its...

SORE BOOKS_ OF'. THE WEEK;

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r [Uncle,' "heading -we notice such Book(' of the week 'as 'have -not' been teserred for review other forms.) ' The Pocket Disraeli. Compiled by J. B. Lindenbaum. (Mills -and...