HENRI FABER* THE full Life of Henri Fabre may yet remain to be written, and if so, it will probably contain much of the material of the Memoirs which, we gather from M. Fabre's...

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counties in the reign of Edward VI. has been frequently belittled by his- torians, and its causes have occasionally been misunderstood. • ( 1 ) The WeNtern Rebellion of 1549....

Ma. PHILIP GIBBS has brought an indictment against a nation- He has undertaken to describe the English man and the English woman of to-day. And a very unpleasant picture be has...

IT has sometimes been said that the generation before our own is the one of which we know least. If that is still true, our ignorance is our own fault. Books dealing with the...

THE second volume of Mr. J. G. Millais'a splendid work on British Diving Ducks' is in all respects a worthy companion to the previous volume, which was reviewed in the Spectator...

of Imbercourt and Viscount Dorchester, is a well-known figure in the diplo- matic history of the seventeenth century. His introduction to public life was unfortunate, for he was...

Moe. OWEN, who is Lecturer on Physics at the Birkbeck College, has done a useful piece of work in reprinting a series of articles which he contributed to the Electrician during...

collection do not begin till after the period in which Mrs. Thrale lives in literary history, She became Mrs. Piozzi in 1784. Johnson died within a few months. She compiled her...

True is a great book on sporting fish and fishing for sport, illustrated with many remarkable photographs. Dr. Holder, the anther, is a well-known authority on fishing in...

the Calle de Leon and the Calle de Cervantes at Madrid, on the ground-floor of which coal and groceries are now sold, bears the inscription : "Here lived and died Miguel de...

more properly be called" The Origin of Property in Land," attempts to present to the English reader a summary of the exceedingly valuable evidence which recent studies of rural...

authoritatively on Brazil and the great States of South America, turns his attention to the Central States, including all those which once formed the old kingdom, and later the...

The Life of Robert Toombs. By Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—Comparatively few readers in this country are well acquainted with the history of the...

THE STORY OF A PAGE. The Story of a Page. By John L. Heaton. (Harper and Brothers. 10s. &I. net.)—The subject of this solid volume is not Thackeray's "pretty page with the...

WHAT do most Englishmen, or, for the matter of that, most Anglo-Indiana, know about the great mountainous tract to the north-west of Sind, which contains a full thirteenth of...

Memories of a Soldier's Life. By Sir H. M. Bengough, K.C.B. (Edward Arnold. 8s. 6d. net.)—Sir Harcourt Bengougb is one of the few survivors of the Crimean Campaign left to-day,...

Marriage on Small Means. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (Constable and Co. 30. 6d.)—The young man wno is meditating matri- mony on an exiguous income will be well advised to present a copy...

Motoring. By Algernon E. Berriman. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The development of the motor-car into " a coin mon object of the country " has given birth to a whole library...

Dress Design. By Talbot Hughes. Illustrated by the Author. (John Hogg. Is. Gd. net.)—This is a new volume of "The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks," edited by Mr....

The Dankside Costume Book for Children. Written and Illustrated by Melicent Stone. (Wells Gardner, Barton, and Co. Is. Gd. net.)—This companion volume to the Bontaide Acting...

The Kitchen Garden and the Cook. By Cecilia Maria Pearse. (Smith, Elder, and Co. Is. net.)—This " alphabetical guide to the cultivation of vegetables, with recipes for cooking...

Old English Pattern Books of the Metal Trades. (His Majesty's Stationery Office. 6d.)—This is one of the cata- logues of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sir Cecil Smith says in...

and Sons. ls. 6d. net.)—This useful little handbook contains, in addition to the ordinary common and statute law on the subject with which it deals, chapters on old-age pensions...

the London and cemity printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. t and Published by JOE. BKEEla for the • tiAlIated.X.M 11 32 , 0210o. Na 1 WellingtOnStreet, in the Prez:Mat of the Sarah...

B Y far the most interesting and startling event of the week has been the deportation of the ten Labour leaders by the Government of the South African Union. The leaders were...

sitting at Glasgow, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moved on Wednesday a resolution" emphatically protesting against the suppression of Trade Union action in South Africa by armed force,"...

Wednesday application was made for an order to restrain the Government from deporting the Labour leaders, but Mr. Justice Weasels declared that the information was insufficient...

an English quay, what will be the position then? In that case the parties will be within the jurisdiction of the Coma of King's Bench, and we presume that that Court, though it...

tutional aspects of General Botha's action, but may point out here that some very interesting points of private law also arise. What is the position of the officers and crew of...

to be was made more clear on Thursday at a demonstration in Glasgow. Mr. Keir Hardie then moved a resolution calling upon the Government " to instruct Lord Gladstone to refuse...

in any case.

FOR TRH 4 Xo.:466,1. , WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914. Ip o tt,1:=.2 1 r t '' ... T: ......

announced in the papers of Friday. The Statthalter and the four principal Ministers of Alsace-Lorraine have resigned. It seems that the Statthalter, Count Wedel, offered his...

Africa have decided to remit the sentence of one month's imprisonment passed on Mr. F. P. Creswell, the leader of the Independent Labour Party. Mr. Creswell, who was charged...

Government's scheme for naval defence, as they are not satisfied that the scheme is adequate. A remarkable fact of the movement is the determination of the peasants— who, as the...

were carried. The first resolution was moved by the Centre asking the Federal Council to see that the conditions upon which the military can intervene in police matters shall be...

at the Hague a most interesting account of the plans for draining the Snider Zee. By this draining eight hundred and fifteen square miles of land will be reclaimed, and the...

expected, leaving everything much as it was before. The military despotism is maintained, and the majority of the Reichstag have failed, in characteristic manner, to press home...

that he would like to consult the leaders of the various parties with a view to forming a non-party Cabinet, Dr. Affonso Costa, the Prime Minister, and his Ministry have...

wireless, but if she were, and the captain took counsel's opinion thereby, we can imagine his being advised from this side to come as near as possible to the shore on a calm day...

an offer. The nature of the second or matured " offer " (not to be con- fused with the " offer " already made, though Mr. Birrell's language, we must say, rather encourages...

ended by a settlement arrived at onWe dnesday. Moat of the men have now returned to work at the old rates of pay, with the addition of certain concessions which were offered by...

out of an exquisite hoax. M. Birault, of that paper,, who is evidently a past-master of the fine art of lassie feria, invented a fictitious Republican celebrity with the...

has held since 1911, owing to ill-health, and Lord Chelmsford has been unofficially designated as his successor. Lord Chelmsford, who was appointed Governor of Queensland by...

attention to the statement made by Mr. Birrell on Monday—that before civil war began Mr. Asquith would have stated to the world the opportunity which had been offered to Ulster...

the recommendation of the Chief Officer of the Brigade, have decided to award their silver medal to Fireman Reuben Studd for extraordinary bravery shown at the fire at Hyde Park...

on Tuesday, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood announced his resignation of the chairmanship, which he has held for the last five years. He had been anxious to retire two years earn...

Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 76i—Friday week 74.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEPORTATIONS. T HE deportation of the South African strike leaders by the executive act of the Cape Government raises a very large crop of questions, legal,...

UNLESS all the reports about the doings of the l) Cabinet are misleading, the plot to out down the Navy Estimates has failed. As it was never in the least likely that the...

T HE two strikes in London, one in progress and the other happily now ended, following upon the recent strike at Leeds, are significant of the extremely disquieting state of...

W E offer our sincerest congratulations to the Secretary of State for War, the Army Council, and the War Office generally upon their success in the first stages of the campaign...

M IL BALFOUR in his Gifford Lectures has flattered plain men by making them feel that perhaps they have too long ordered themselves lowly and reverently before the highly...

I T is commonly said that the professions are losing their attraction. A few days ago the present writer was listening to lamentations on the subject from a public.sthool master...

I N May last year a petition was presented by a Surrey ratepayer (Mr. St. Loe Strachey) to the Surrey County Council, praying for the appointment of an Amenities Com- mittee, to...

[To ays Earron or TER "Srscraroel Snt,—You have for many years fought unflinchingly for clean government, and for some approach to respect for moral principles in the conduct of...

[To rot EDITOR or Tap ..SpRomon.”1 Sin,—You published recently an article on the correct pro- cedure for officers who are determined not to fight against Ulster, either from...

WHAT ULSTERMEN MAY EXPECT. [To rut EDITOR or rat '• SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You say that the Orangemen of Ulster should not be pet under the rale of men whom they detest and loathe....

[To ens Eames or Ts. Skecrreori."] Sea,—The correspondence on this subject seems to have reached a definite issue. All the writers are on common ground when they discuss the...

will be grateful to the Duke of Northumberland for the calculations regarding the Novar woods which he contributed to your columns last week. He has stated the case with perfect...

"SPSCSASOIL"1 am sorry that in a hastily written letter an ill- expressed sentence has given occasion for the letter of "IL J." in your issue of January 24th. I ought to have...

Sin,—Sir John Stirling Maxwell quotes Mr. Munro-Ferguson as having said that he made "£100,000 net profit in thirty years out of 4,000 acres of wood." Will Mr. Munro-Ferguson...

in his letter in the Spectator of January 17th appears to ignore the initial cost of planting. Taking it at £6 per acre, allowing for the maturing of the wood fifty years only,...

the Government purchased from Mr. Malcolm, of Poltalloch, the estate of "Inverleven," on " Loch Awe side," for the purpose of growing timber on it. The estate has an area of...

[To THE Emma or 21,8 ..SrscrArok."] Sia,—I note with pleasure that you are opening you• columns on this subject, which, in spite of all that was done by the Press to help us in...

Stn,—Having inspected horses en route to the Eastern ports of England for shipment to the Continent for close upon twenty years, I venture to point out certain phases of this...

SIB, —The fact of your columns having been opened to the discussion of this gruesome and discreditable traffic will be a source of satisfaction to many who, like myself, have...

[To THE Conon or VIZ . Srecrsion..1 Sts,—As one who had special opportunities for learning the sterling qualities of the late Sir William Leo Warner, will you permit me to add a...

[To las EDISON. or me .. S.47.0II:1 Sat.,—So many interesting letters on "Mothering Sunday" appeared in the Spectator in the spring of last year that your readers may be glad to...

Sat, — As an instance of how history repeats itself I send you an extract from a letter of Sir R. Southwell after the Portuguese uprising in 1668. From what I saw of the country...

[To TICE Enna or rag “SrscrAma."] SM,—Many Socialists and Labour men in this country as well as in Germany—Herr Hebei, as you have noted, was an excep- tion—are of opinion that...

[To 2117 Sousa or TEM "Einem:ma:1 SIR,—Thank you for your article on " What Kikuyu Stands For " (Spectator, December 20th, 1913), which, on rending, leads me to recall the...

SIR,—III your issue of October 25th, 1913(p. 656), the writer of a review of Mr. Ferguson's GreekImperialism speaks of the passage in Juvenal's 10th Satire about Alexander the...

Sin,—Your article in the issue of January 17th notices the phrase, "A bold, bad man." Just before reading it I came across a use of the word " bold" in Ireland which is clearly...

the article "The Casual Reader" in the Spectator of January 17th will look in Numbers xxxii. 23 of an old book called the Bible he will find the stock saying, "Be sure your sin...

SIE,—" Passive resistance" (Spectator, January 17th, p. 86)— " Here we are within the forbidden ground, without other impediment than the passive resistance of a heavy oak door,...

[To Ma EDITOR Or TH. ..ErtOTSTOR...] SIE,—In reference to Mr. Houston's letter last week on anticipations of Carlyle's famous dictum, may I quote an English one? There was in...

[To can EDITOR or ram "ErECTATOTI...] Sta,—The lines quoted on the front page of last Saturday's Spectator, " When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward slinks...

SIR,—Witb reference to the phrase or catchword "I don't think," there is no doubt it was used before the time of Dickens. A near relation of mine, born in the year 1800 spoke of...

[To Tan EDITOR or ens " SPECTATOR...1 Sru,—Your article in last week's issue scarcely does justice to what must always be the chief attraction to those who indulge in this...

means, or meant over eighty years ago, in Keswick, "I fear." When I was under ten years of age I indulged in a calf-love with Helen—the fifteenth child, by the way, out of...

THE COLLAPSE OF CRITICISM. LOVERS of music ought to be deeply grateful to Herr Schonberg. For be more than anyone else is responsible for reducing to absurdity the...

.ULSTER'S VIGIL. WE will not fear, for any sage's warning; We may not turn, though legions bar the way; For with us march the heroes of the morning, Sages and soldiers of an...

in your article on "Bird-Ringing Schemes" (Spectator, January 24th), and the more so as four days ago a young black-beaded gull was shot here with a ring number chronicled at...

ass .. srecTrup.".1 suggestion of your correspondent " R. G. H.," on January 17th, of utilising a Christmas tree is one which I followed last winter after reading a valuable...

[To Ts. EDITOR Or TIIR ..EFICTATOR...] reference to your notice of the book entitled as above, may I venture to beg as much space in your columns as will enable me to say that...

or initials, or gilt a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily is held to is in agreement with the views therein expressed cr with the mode of...

THE COURT OF PEKING.* ENGLISHMEN who have resided for long in the East, and who have thus been brought into close contact with the realities of Oriental life, are prone to...

THERE seems to be no end to the recriminations of the Balkan Allies. Mr. Cassavetti offers us the Greek point of view in this excellent survey of the events that led up to the...

CERTAIN people in this country desire to make war at sea without hurting anyone except those actually engaged in the Naval Service. The Navies are to enter the arena, like Roman...

MB. RONALD Kwox's formal reply to the collection of theological essays published under the name of Foundakions , is no less clever and witty, and, we may add, no less unfair,...

four lectures delivered to senior students at Guy's Hospital, and forms, as the author says, an attempt to bring the great biological movement of the nine- teenth century into...

UNTIL the production of the present volume there had not been a full Life of Goya in English. Mr. Stokes, in supplying the deficiency, has spared no pains in collecting all the...

6d.)—This is rstory in which Egyptian lore and Christian proselytising play an equal part. The Egyptian lore, though not profound, will at any rate do no harm. The same cannot...

65.)—A great many modern novels and plays, including Mr. Phillpotts'e last book, are taken up with telling us of high, unfettered souls, misunderstood and despised by the...

MAX CARRADOS.• AFTER the professional, the amateur. We recently reviewed in this column ex-Superintendent Froest's very interesting detective story, The Oral Mystery, with its...

A. Gardner. 2s. 6d. net.)—A curious literary experiment has been made by Mr. Henry P. Cameron in rendering the Imitation "free Latin intil Scots." He has thoughtfully added a...

Kenlon is the Chief of the New York Fire Department, which is notoriously efficient, and there is nothing which he does not know about the fireman's gallant business. In this...

sketches of the life of a girl in Canada, is pleasant reading for a week-end; the characters of farm hands and town dwellers are vividly drawn, for the most part by themselves,...

net.)—It is probably to the writings of George Borrow that we must attribute the chief stimulation of English interest in the Gypsies. Who that has ever read it can forget the...

re [Under [Under Ilds m heeding vs notice ] nrch Paolo of ow weak as hem net been Random. Recollections. By R. Caton Woodville. (E. Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—This high-spirited book...

Co. 27s. net)—This is a very excellent work which, whilst full of entertainment for the general reader (at whose interest it chiefly aims), will also serve as a bandy compendium...