THE MAN OF THE MASK.* THE identity of the Man in the Iron Mask was coupled by Disraeli with the authorship of the letters of " Junius " among the subjects to be eschewed by the...

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poetry, and the epic is gone out of fashion. . Few have the courage, the optimism, and the serious trust in the Muse to put their hand to large under- takings.. To be...

save by professional students of our military literature; the late General Thackwell was one of the most experienced cavalry leaders in the British Army. Unfortunately, the...

author of this excellent work as "the father of concrete." There can be few, if any, men still in active work whose experience of concrete goes farther back than Mr. Potter's....

Stewart of Lovedale. By James Wells, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—James Stewart was born in Edinburgh in 1831. His father made a modest fortune as a cab-proprietor in...

AESCHYLUS IN ENGLISH VERSE. Zschylus in English Verse. By Arthur S. Way, D.Lit. Part III. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) — . - Dr. Way with this volume, containing the great...

THE authors of The King's Customs have succeeded in writing a very informing and entertaining work. They modestly leave it to Mr. Parry to explain the difficulty which beset...

fiction of the 'original manuscript "—falls in no way below the level of its delightful predecessors. Indeed, we question whether the earlier hooks can show anything equal to...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich. By Ferris Greonslet. (A. Constable and Co. 128. ad. net.)—" Though I am not genuine Boston," Aldrich was wont to say, "I am Boston-plated." There is some-...

The Private Palaces of London. By E. Beresford Chancellor, MA. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co. £1 Is. net.)—The "private palaces" are of two dames, those which have been and those...

The Relation of Swinton Poyntz, 1624-1638. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by the Rev. A. T. S. Goodriek, M.A. (Royal Historical Society, 7 South Square, Gray's Inn.)—"...

Tunis, Kairouan, and Carthage. Described and Illustrated by Graham Petrie. (W. Heinemann. 16s. net.)—Tunis is a very interesting place in the world of to-day, and Carthage...

Viscount Castlereagh. By Arthur Hassell, M.A. (Sir Isaao Pitman and Sons. 3s. Od. net.)—This volume belongs to a series of "Makers of National History" whioh is appearing under...

The Soil, By A. D. Hall, Director of the Rothamsted Station (La,wes Agricultural Trust). Second Edition. (John Murray. Ss. net.)—The chapter in Mr. Hall's excellent book which...

The Life of Sir Isaac Pitman. By Alfred Baker. (Sir Isama. Pitman and Sons. Is. 61)—Isaac Pitman was from the first ono, of the men whose natural qualities are such that they...

The History of Woodspring Priory. By W. G. Willis Watson. (Lawrence Brothers, Weston-super-Mare. is. net.)—Few people know the beautiful and romantic ruin of Woodspring Priory...

Ayrshire: its History and Historic Families. By William Robertson. 2 vole. (Dunlop and Drennan, Kilmarnock. 10s.)— Mr. Robertson gives the first volume to the county, the second...

A Book of Birds. By W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S., F.Z.S. With 80 Full-page Coloured Plates and many Illustrations in the Text. (Sidney Appleton. 6s. net.)—This is a companion volume to...

Contributions to the Textual Criticism of Aristophanes and Aeschylus. By R. T. Elliott, M.A. (Blackwell, Oxford. is. net,)— We cannot discuss Mr. Elliott's emeudation.s in...

A History of India. By E. W. Thompson. (Christian Literea ture Society, Madras.)—This is iutended, in the first place, for students proceeding to the matriculation examination...

Some African Highways. By Caroline Kirkland. (Duckworth and Co. Os. net.)—Miss Kirkland is distinctly Anglophil ; but she sees with the clearness of the outside observer what...

Select Readings from the Psalms. With Preface by Joseph B. Idayor. (John Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—We have long desired to see some seleetion of this kind, and. we feel deeply...

joseph SUpsey. By the Right Hon. R. Spence Watson. (T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—We are glad to have this memoir ' of a remarkable men, and should have been better pleased if...

out—and preferring the unfrequented to the common route. Here he gives us his experiences. We are glad to have them, only we could wish that the form had been somewhat simpler....

Courses of Study. Edited by John M. Robertson, M.P. (Watts and Co. 6s. not.)—This work was first published in 1904, and now appears in a revised and enlarged form. Seven hundred...

We may commend to the attention of our readers a new series of "Philosophies, Ancient and Modern" ( A. Constable and Co., is. not per vol.)• Four volumes are before us,—Early...

Dr. Jameson. By G. Seymour Fort. (Hurst and Blackett. 103. 6d. net.)—We should have thought that the biography of Dr. Jameson was one of those for which it is well to wait., It...

Mosses and Liverworts. By T. H. Russell, F.L.S. With Illus- trations from Original Microscopic Drawings. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—This introduction to the...

Chats on Old Miniatures. By J. J. Foster. (T. Fisher Unwin. 53. net.)—This book announces itself on its cover as "A Practical Guide to the Collector." Happily it has also a...

Forest Entomology. By A. T. Gilla.nders, F.E.S. With 851 Illustrations. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 15s. not.)—The study of insects injurious to man opens up a vast field for...

Stratford-on-Avon. 2s. 6d. not.)—This is a fine rendering of a fine original, set off by all that is to be desired in the way of paper and print. Here is a specimen :—" Withdraw...

Byealbert E. Hogan, LL.D. (W. B. Clive, 2s. 6d.)—This modest volume contains a great amount of information. There is a brief historical introduction ; then comes an account of...

and Sens. is. not.)—A. volume of the "Miniature Reference Library," giving some ten thousand names of celebrities, ancient and modern, with dates of birth and death and brief...

North America. By Nicholas Denys." Translated and Edited by William F. Ganong, Ph.D. (Champlain Society, Toronto.)— Richard Denys, born at Tours in 159S, and descended from an...

not.)—This is a very elaborate work, of which we must be content to give a most inadequate notice. Part I. supplies a sketch of the rite of baptism historically considered. What...

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an Introduction by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, G.C.B. (Chatto and Windus. 8s.)—This little book gives us a rapid survey "of the expansion of En g land by force of arms." With...

(Chapman and Hall, 4s. net). This "magazine for Dickens Lovers" seems to have no difficulty in filling its pages with interesting reading and appropriate illustrations, and we...

A.31., and Galen M. Fisher, A.M. (Methodist Publishing House, Tokio.)—This is the sixth annual issue, coming out under the auspices of the "Co-operating Christian Missions." The...

and Stoughton. 5s.)—Sir Robert Anderson leaves the critics for a while, and directs his attack against Rome and Anglican Romanisers. With much that he writes we agree. We wish...

Street, High Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN BAZIOR for the "SPECTATOR" (Limited), at their °Mee, lip. I Wellington Street, in the Preeiriot of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

expressed relief and satisfaction that an agreement, at any rate in principle, had been reached between Austria and Turkey. But while he considered that mutual dis- cussions and...

sincerely trust that the friendship which has for so long existed between this country and the dominions of the house of Hapsburg will never be broken, we cannot but bear in...

Hague was concluded at Washington on Wednesday, but with reservations which, as the Times corre- spondent says, might possibly reopen the *hole question. This tentative...

T HE most important European news of the week is that Russia has proposed to the other Powers that common representations should be made to Turkey and Bulgaria depre- cating...

of letters which Sir William White has contributed to our columns. In his last letter Sir William shows what a foinnidable Navy is in Process of being built up by...

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the Unionist Party are bad enough, but some of the indirect con- sequences, though less obvious, are even worse and more dangerous. We have had occasion to point out before now...

who interpreted his compact with his con- stituents as an insidious attack on Mr. Balfour's leader- ship, although they were the very people who a few months ago were clamouring...

themselves equally fanatical, and it will perhaps be urged that the Spectator advised Unionist Free-traders to vote for Home-rule candidates at the last Election. If such a plea...

on Friday week, devoted his speech to the campaign of the Confederacy against the Free-trade Unionists. They were urged to quit the party or be driven out. Person ally, he had...

vital changes in the chief naval commands and the reconstruction of the Channel, North Sea, and Homo Fleets,— rumours with which the name of Lord Charles Beresford is connected....

Secretary for Scotland, had accepted a peerage with a view to securing the presence in the House of Lords of a Cabinet Minister responsible for the administration of Scottish...

Radium Institute. Aesearch will be combined wit4 the Medlotd treatMent of cases in which radium has been proved to be useful. The funds for the Institute have been generously...

sudden death on Wednesday of M. Coquelin eine, probably the most accomplished actor on the European stage. Benoit Constant Coquelin was born in 1841, and became a soeiataire of...

the funds now being raised to meet the needs of the University of Oxford. It is the gift of sixteen distinguished Americans on whom honorary Oxford degrees have been conferred,...

of extraordinary outrages on Saturday morning last. Two Russian immigrants, named Hefeldt and Jacob, armed with powerful revolvers, waylaid a clerk who was bringing the weekly...

were both members of an extreme revolutionary society which has its headquarters in London, and that Hefeldt had for a while been employed in the rubber works at Tottenham The...

fog about a hundred and seventy miles east of New York between an Italian steamer, the Florida,' and the White Star liner 'Republic.' Two passengers on board the 'Republic' were...

14th. Consols (21) were on Friday 83i—Friday week 83i.

G. A. Wills, of Bristol, has purchased the Leigh Woods, including the famous Nightingale Valley, and that it is his Intention to present them to the city of Bristol. The woods,...

THE INDIAN MOHAMMEDANS AND LORD MORLEY'S REFORMS. A DEPUTATION of Indian Mohammedans waited on Lord Morley on Wednesday, and laid before him the views of their community, or...

,AST summer we declared that Mr. Asquith's calcula- tions in regard to old-age pensions were much too optimistic, and that they were much more likely to cost eight millions than...

COURTNEY OF PENWITH has the courage • of his opinions to a quite unusual extent. He is not the first man by a great many to feel that the weakness of the whole system of...

TEHE papers which Sir Harry Johnston has lately con- tributed to the 'Times on the negro • in America are particularly interesting because he has observed the negro in two...

T HERE seems to be a general consensus of opinion that the Government will next Session make some attempt to deal with the problem of unemployment, and, judging by the previous...

W E do not readily associate candour with religious litera- ture. Indeed, inasmuch as all religions are apologetic, they have been called uncandid. And in the non-moral sense of...

A LL 'invalids arc allowed the courtesy epithet of interesting. Yet there . are some who renounce the homage and solicitude to which their state entitles them. The illnesses of...

home to the newspaper reader when he is confronted with auk question in which bacteriology plays a part. Practically speaking, it is all a discovery since he was at school. AS a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Sin,—Austria possesses a war fleet which stands at the leaa of the minor navies, and is remarkable in many ways. Austrian naval officers...

THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO AND HOME- RULE. IT° T/11¢ EDITOR OF Tlls SPRCTATOR.1 Silt,—The manifesto of the Conservative Central Office has been published, followed by that of...

Sin,—Mr. Stephen Gwynn seeks to support his argument against "the pastoral system " by quoting the case of Colonel Everard, "the most capable farmer, probably, in County Meath,"...

[TO TEN Eurrnn or Tun "SPICOTAT071.1 SIR, — Mr. Stephen Gwynn's letter in your issue of the 16th inst. is characteristic of the lucid explanations of Irish problems given by the...

about 14d. per cubic foot. I cannot get half that sum, and am in the chronic condition of having elms which should be felled, and would be if I found a market for the timber. I...

[To TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The memorial service at St. Margaret's Church on Thursday for the late Mr. Arthur Wilson Fox, Comptroller- General of the Commercial,...

LTO TRH RINTOR OP TRU "SPBOTATOR.1 S na., - 1 should have been glad not to have troubled your readers with another letter on this subject, as my purpose had been attained by...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sia,—We wonder whether we can persuade anybody to take am interest in good boys. Somehow naughty boys appeal more to the general...

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 mode of...

LTO TEN EDITOR OF Tall "SPECTATOR." . 1 Brit,—I cannot accept your account of the history of Colonial references of last century (Spectator, January 23rd). I would refer any...

THE AGE OF CORNEILLE.* MR. TILLEY has chosen for the subject of an interesting and sympathetic study a period in French literature which is one of the least familiar to English...

TO A GIRL. ALL ghouls and ghosts shall Science lay P Not ours I Time is our Spectre-King. By bog and boulder He drives his bleating flock, once rosy hours, And still he...

DR. Nicames MURRAY BUTLER, President of Columbia University in New York, and one of the ablest and most dis- tinguished of American organisers and educationists, delivered three...

- So long as the love of letters survives, the two centuries which intervene "between the death of Dante in 1321 and the death of Leo X. in 1521" will have a perpetual interest,...

George Greenwood. M.P. liy H. C. Dooehinic, D.Litt. With Faeshniles of the Five Authentic Signatures of the Poet. Louden: Smith, Elder, and Co. [2s. not. J Old Cottages and...

Mr. Greenwood, and now, let us hope, finally disposed of by Canon Beeching, concerns the identity of Shakespeare. "Was Shakespeare the player identical with Shakespeare the poet...

Co. 6s.)—The tall title of this book is Episodes in the Lives of a Shropshire Lass and Lad ; and that being the case, the reader * The Golden Kew By Desmond Coke. London :...

Mn. LEHaitaix explains that these "Memories" are but to a small extent his own. They have been collected from letters written by or addressed to his father and mother, and from...

THE GOLDEN KEY.* Ma. DESMOND CORE, after giving us an excellent school story, dodged the pitfalls which encompass those who proceed to the inevitable sequel by his ingenious...

tale of 1805, when the Boulogne Camp was still threatening England. The main interest is in a plot for kidnapping Nelson.—The Leaven of Love. By Clara Louise Burnham. (A....

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. per vol.)—We have before us two volumes of this most excellent series,—St. Luke rviii.-xxiv. and The Epistle to the Bo-mans. We cannot, of course, follow Dr....

Worcester, Mass.)—Here we have a pleasant account of civilities and kindnesses interchanged between the English city of Worcester and its namesake in New England. The Mayor and...

5s. net.)—Lady Grove hits out pretty freely all round, and naturally does not spare the Spectator. We cannot argue the matter over again hero ; but one or two questions occur....

(John Murray. 15s. net.)—A "pleasure pilgrim" is a being whom South America is not prepared for, and does not understand. And after reading Mr. Mackellar's book we are not...

[Under nail heading no notice such Books of the week as hove not Web reserved for review in other forms.] The One-Volume Bible Commentary. Edited by the Rev. J. R. Dummelow....

it. By Laurie Magnus, M.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. (3d. net.)—The first meeting of the Jewish Board of Guardians was held on Mareh 16th, 1859. Its object was to orgauise the...

Constable and Co. Cs.)—Mr. Fox has not in this new book quite recaptured the charm of his earlier novel, "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," though it certainly provides...

four-hundredth year of the school is a fitting occasion of this book of pious remembrance. The calendar gives the Church festivals, major and minor, memorable events or...

World : a Monthly Magazine of Educational Work and Progress (Macmillan and Co., 7s. 6d. net). The "school world" dealt with is the secondary school world. We wonder whether all...

(Sherratt and Hughes. 5s, net.)—There have been four Acts dealing with this province of affairs passed in the period defined. These have been treated together. "The order of the...