THREE BOOKS ON SOCIALISM.* Wa take these books in what appears to be their logical order. In New Worlds for Old Mr. Wells sets out the grounds of our discontent, and pictures...

LONDON : OCTOBER 3rd., 1908.

FOUR centuries have elapsed since Labrador was first visited by English ships. But even now, if we look at the most modern map of that large corner of Northern America, we find...

THIS is the first English translation of a book little known, as a whole, in England, though the author's works have been of necessity among the chief authorities consulted by...

THIS attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and students of history. Besides a few line drawings, it contains a large number of coloured illustrations by...

Further Studies in the Prayer - Book. By John Bowden, Bishop of Edinburgh. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The most important papers in Bishop Dowden's volume are "The Athanasiau Crated,"...

Heroes and Heroines of Russia. By Jaakoff Prelooker. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 103. net.)—The " heroes and heroines" are of the revolutionary type ; the stories are certainly...

English Christianity in its Beginnings. By the Rev. E. H. Pearce. (S.P.C.K. ls. 6d.)—The four lectures which Mr. Pearce prints in this little volume deal with a period of which...

The Cottage Homes of England. By W. Walter Crotch. (Industrial Publishing Company. ls.)—This is a third edition, and some corrections and changes have been made. One is signifi-...

Crosby Place. By Philip Norman and W. D. Carte. (Com. mittee for Survey of the Memorials of London.)—This is the ninth monograph published by the Committee. Dr. Philip Norman...

In the " St. Nicholas Series," Edited by Dons Bede Camm, O.S.B. (Macdonald and Evans), we have The Story of Blessed Thomas More, by a "Nun of Tyburn Convent "; Father Mathew, by...

The Young Malefactor. By Thomas Travis, Ph.D. (T. Y. Crowell and Co., Now York. 6s.)—The introduction to Dr. Travis's book is written by the "Judge of the Denver Juvenile...

Poems from the Greek Anthology Attemptzd in English Verse. By G. H. Cobb, M.A. (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. Is. net.)—Mr. Cobb gives us here thirty-four epigrams, well chosen out...

German Education, Past and Present. By Friedrich Paulsen, Ph.D. Translated by T. Lorenz, Ph.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.)—Dr. Paulsen has of necessity to give more space to the...

of financial state- ments. Let any one take the balance-sheet printed on p. 37- a real document, we are assured—and spot the deception if he can. And yet the fair-seeming...

With Sword and Statute. By Major Hook. (Greaves, Pass, and Co. 10s. Gd.)—We cannot follow Major Hook through his story of fifty years' service, nor can we pronounce an opinion...

London Churches, Ancient and Modern. By T. Francis Bumpus. 2 vols. (T. Werner Laurie. Gs. per vol.)—After an" Introductory Sketch of London Church Architecture," Mr. Bumpus...

The Law of Money Lenders and Borrowers. By C. Grenville Alabaster. (Stevens and Sons. 6s.)—This book is, of course, mainly concerned with the Act of 1900. Mr. Alabaster thinks...

General History of Western Nations, 5,000 B.C. - 1900 A.D. By Emil Reich, D.J. Part I., Vols. I. and II. (Macmillan and Co. 15s. net.)—Dr. Emil Reich, not to be left behind by...

The Royal House of Stuart. By Samuel Cowan. 2 vols. (Greening and Co. 42s.)—It is certainly convenient to have the history of a famous dynasty put together in this way and pre-...

Influence of Letters on the Scottish Reformation. By George Christie, B.D. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 68. not.)—Mr. Christie sees three "Literary Influences " at work on Scottish...

Significant Etymology. By James Mitchell, D.D. (W. Black- wood and Sons. 7s. Cid. net.)—Dr. Mitchell gives us here a book full of interesting matter, arranged in what will be,...

Excavations at Ephesus. By David George Hogarth, M.A. Vol. I., Text; Vol. II., Atlas. (British Museum. .22 10s.)—Mr. J. T. Wood was employed iu excavations at Ephesus during the...

Cardinal Newman and his Influence on Religious Life and Thought. By Charles Sarolea, D.Litt. (T. and T. Clark.. 3s.) —This is one of the series of "The World's Epoch-Makers,"...

Administration of Charity. By Arthur Paterson. (City Council for Organization of Charity. ls.)—This pamphlet is reprinted from the Times, and is well worthy of a permanent...

Guesses at Truths. By David Christie Murray. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—Mr. Murray is known to most of us as the writer of a number of novels of varying merit, but sometimes, as...

The Historical Character of St. John's Gospel. By J. Armitage Robinson, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 6d. and 1s. net.)—The details of Dr. Robinson's arguments make up a very...

The Astronomy of the Bible. By E. Walter Maunder. (T. Seeley Claik. 5s. net.)—It is to be regretted that Mr. Maunder was not content with allowing that the Bible is not intended...

Report of the Classical Association. Volume Fifth. (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—This volume, in addition to particulars, personal and statistical, of the Association, contains...

The Edinburgh Periodical Press. By W. J. Couper, M.A. Vol. I. (Eneas Mackay, Stirling. 5s.)—There is much that is interesting to the antiquarian in the whole of Mr. Couper's...

The History of the County of Mayo. By Hubert Thomas Knox. (Hodges, Figgis, and Co., Dublin. 12s. 6d.)—In early Irish history Mayo makes but little appearance, and that little is...

The Art of Living in Good Health. By Daniel S. Sager, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—"It is regrettable but true," so runs the first sentence in Dr. Sager's preface, "that a...

The Aldermen of the City of London, By the Rev. Alfred B. Beaven. (Eden Fisher and Co. 21s. net.)—This volume is published "under the direction of the Library Committee of the...

The History of the Geological Society of London. By Horace B. Woodward. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The Society was founded on November 13th, 1807, by thirteen gentlemen,...

In Spain. By John Lomas. (A..and C. Black. Os. net.)—Some twenty-five years ago Mr. Lomas wrote a book, the outcome of many wanderings in Spain, under the title of " Sketches in...

Old Times and Friends. By the Rev. E. L. H. Tew. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Tew gives us in this volume a number of recollections which make pleasant reading....

Anderson, and Ferrier. 2s. 6d. net.)—This "religious study" we prefer to leave with a general commendation to our readers. They will find no little instruction in Dr. Butler's...

and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is essentially and practically a book of devo- tion. We do not mean to say that it does not contain much powerful argument. This it does. The reader...

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W E deal elsewhere with the Bulgarian situation, and will only say here that the telegrams in Friday's papers incline us to the belief that the railway question will be settled...

conversations with Mahmud Chefket Pasha, the new commander of the Salonika Army Corps, and with Major Enver Bey. Mahmud Chefket Pasha observed that their country was already...

Wednesday's paper that the arrival of Ramadan has made no difference to the situation there, and that fighting continues. For nearly five months, as be says, the Nationalists...

on the need of continuing relief work and outside assist- ance until the new Government is firmly established. " It cannot hasten the next harvest, it cannot restore all at once...

upheaval in Turkey, none is more gratifying and welcome than the altered relations of Turks and Armenians. The Society of Friends of Armenia (whose headquarters is at 47...

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of Representatives on Tuesday, and ts in form a series of amendments to the Act of 1903. It provides for compulsory training as follows :— " For cadets from twelve to eighteen...

Presidential candidate of the Independence Party, whose noutinatiOn was brought about by Mr. Hearst in July, are set forth in an interesting article in Wednesday's Times. Mr....

address which reads curiously like an echo of Mr. Chamber- lain's famous " ransom " speech. Hundreds Of millions were added to the national wealth during each cycle of plenty....

supremacy of the British Navy was the surest guarantee of European peace. That is, of course, a truism ; but less obvious, though equally sound, was Mr. hicKenna's next remark...

made a sympathetic reference to unemployment. Inflated prosperity inevitably gave way to tilanOrmal denrete sion, and the people of this country did not take to much advantage...

long-expected Hungarian Franchise Reform Bill will be based On plural voting. The Vienna correspondent of the TiMea states that its general effect will be to give one vote to...

arrived, as the Times correspondent tells us, in a special train, and the station was decorated, not ai for one coming to acknowledge the suzerainty of China, but as for an...

of the financial year, which was issued on Wednesday night, shows that the receipts were some £4,400,000 less than in the corresponding period for 1907. As the remissions of...

is indisputable evidence, an extraordinary case of a stoat attack- ing human beings. A young woman was coming out of the gate of Nynehead Vicarage, near Wellington, in...

States was established on October 1st. Mr. Sydney Buxton, the Postmaster-General, is to be congratulated upon an excellent piece of work. The cheapening of postal inter- course...

has come to an end. The Times will, it is stated, in future accept books from the publishers on the same terms as the ordinary circulating libraries. This, we take it, means...

which was on a voyage to the Mediterranean, was sunk off Dungeness on Tuesday morning in a fog. There were about a hundred and twenty passengers on board, as well as a hundred...

had resigned the office of Lord President of the Council for reasons of health. Lord Tweedinouth, who had rendered valuable services to his party as Whip, was appointed First...

at Haidarabad. They were caused by torrential rains which made the Musi River overflow. This river flows through Haidarabad, separating the oily proper from the suburbs, and the...

held in Hyde Park last Sunday. Including the pro- vincial contingents, who came up to London in one hundred and seventy special trains, and the crowds who attended the...

May 28th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 85g—on Friday week 85g.

THE SITUATION IN THE NEAR EAST. A S we write it seems probable that a pacific solution will be found of the dispute over the Bulgarian Railway. That being the case, the less...

C AN any political lesson be found in the Newcastle election ? We believe it can ; it is that the present Government have lost the confidence of the country, and if there were a...

in connexion with the American Presidential election deserve to receive almost as much attention on this side of the Atlantic as, we are happy to learn, they have received on...

service in collecting information as to the amount of unemployment, and the steps which are being taken to deal with it, in six great provincial cities. It is well to have the...

in the habit of estimating nicely for themselves the exact degree of iniquity in the various forms of crime. They readily accept the voice of authority, which is the law of the...

p RAYER and thanksgiving are perpetually coupled in the Old Testament. The latter was as essential as the former in the worship of Jehovah. To forget the benefits of God to the...

A NEW variety has been added to the list of frauds com- mitted on banks, and the student of crimes of skill should be grateful. Forgery, perhaps, is the commonest form of bank...

A NY one who was on board the Newhaven and Dieppe steamer Seaford,' which was sunk in mid-Channel in August, 1895, must be fully conscious of the similarity of his experiences...

THE "AMERICAN WOMAN."—I. PTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 $In,—The old-fashioned American novelist who was pressed for an explanation of the waywardness of his heroine found...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 Stn,—Will you allow me, as a constant reader of the Spectator of thirty years' standing, to put in a gentle protest in regard to your...

THE NEWCASTLE ELECTION. LTO THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR:1 Stn—It is interesting to compare the voting at Newcastle at the General Election with that at the recent...

Sie,—Perhaps one reason for the engrossing interest evinced in the Congress on Comparative Religion is to be found in the growing feeling that religion is, after all, one of...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE ," SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—.Tbe statement made by your correspondent Mr. A. J. N. Barker in last week's Spectator that the majority of the egret plumes exported...

[To TILE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, 2 —No doubt Professor Ridgeway is right in applying the doctrine of the survival of the fittest to modern social conditions. At - the...

[To THE E NT° I t or THE "SP ROTATOR.'] SIR, —You r correspondents—e.g.," Public Librarian" (Spectator, September 261h)—seem to me to - give a false impression of the cost of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I hope you will be good enough to draw the attention of your readers to the following statement :— " The London Municipal Society has...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The question raised by your correspondent Mr. A. B. Browne in last week's Spectator is but a restatement of that put by Lord Ripon...

reply to your correspondent of last week, I may say I have seen here, time after time, bats flying about during the day, and I fancy it is by no means a very unusual...

.SPEOTATOR." J SIR, —The writer of the interesting article on the above subject in last week's Spectator appears to be of opinion that the manufacture of charcoal-made iron...

last week's Spectator remarking on the "unusual sight" of a bat flying about in bright sunlight leads me to record what must be a still more unusual sight. On September 17th,...

[TO TIES EDITOR OF THIL "SrECTATOR."] SIR,—Now that Mr. Haldane's scheme for a Territorial Army is well under way, may I venture to suggest that the patriotic women of the...

[To rag EDITOR Or TUB SP ucr.ron..-] Srit,—Ovid's saying regarding the Roman ladies of his day is, I think, peculiarly applicable to the wearers of the matinee hat of the...

A POET ON POETS.* Cnincs, no less than mankind in general, may be divided into two classes,—Platonists and Aristotelians ; and there can be no doubt that Mr. Swinburne must be...

SNORRO THE VIKING. "On, who can drink at the world's brink, Or reach the twilight star? It's a long sail where the winds wail And the great waters are. Or who can say at the...

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...

A SUAVE and cultivated outlook upon life which has distinguished many renowned doctors has been expressed particularly in the love and practice of letters. Hippocrates and St....

A.411.811ION has sprung up recently of preparing large volumes on minor celebrities of the past, wherein letters of vanished interest and anecdotes of dubious point are...

THE Special Campaign Series" is intended by the pub- lishers to provide a concise text-book on each of the campaigns selected from time to time for special study by candidates...

Madame de la Varner° is in many ways an example of what such a book should be. Everybody knows into what pitfalls a writer may descend who finds himself in possession of all the...

DIANA MALLORY.* IT was, we think, a sound instinct that prompted Mrs. Humphry Ward in her new book to discard the ingenious formula adopted by her in her last three novels. The...

By T. E. Bridg-ett. With Notes by H. Thurston, S.J. (T. Fisher Unwin, and Burns and Oates. 21s. net.)—Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ. By the Rev. Dr....

is not construeted.on the usual lines. The conclusion will seem to-many readers somewhat lame and impotent. The farm- servant comes back at -fifty to- the place which he...

Chancellor. (Alston Rivers. 2s. 6d. net.) —Dr. -Johnson thought that Charing Cross was the centre of the universe; Mr. Chancellor puts it somewhat more to the north- west. But...

[Under this heading us notice such Books of the week as have not been .reserved for review in other forms.] F.C.G.'s Froissart's Modern Chronicles, 1903 - 1906. Told and...

Sir Richard Granville. By the Rev. Roger Granville. (John Lane. 10.s. 6d. net.)—Sir Richard Granville was the unworthy descendant of the famous "Sir Richard of the 'Revenge.'"...

6s.)—A romantic story of the Middle Ages of more than average merit. Arnoul is an English student in Paris in the days of Louis IX., and takes a part in strifes between the...

bo mentioned together. One is The Contour Road Book of Ireland, with Special Surveys by R. G. Inglis (Gall and Inglis, 2s. net). The cyclist will find here what sort of a...

instalment a portion of Vol. VIII., " Reserve — Ribaldously," Edited by W. A. Craigie, LL.D. (double section, 5s.) The section consists almost entirely of adopted words. Among...

and L. Collingridge. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Sanders divides his treatise into two parts. In the first he deals with hardy, or outdoor, bulbs; in the second with indoor bulbs, the...