4 JULY 1914

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FROM JULY 4th TO DECEMBER 26th, 1914, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A DVERTISING, the Economim of ... 8 Aneon, Sir Denis, Drowned in the Archduke PranMe Ferdinmd, the...

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A sign of the wise and moderate temper which prevailed

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in the House of Lords was to be found in the five minutes' speech by Lord Halsbury. That gallant and veteran prince of "Die- hards" showed at once his patriotism and his sound...

We have dealt at length elsewhere with Lord Lansdowne's admirable

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speech, and will only add here that his treatment of the time-limit was as statesmanlike—we cannot say more —as his treatment of the main problem of Exclusion. Other interesting...

On Thursday the debate was resumed in a speech by

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Lord Londonderry, who pressed the Government very strongly to say whether they would insist on the acceptance by the House of Commons of the "far-reaching amend- ments" which...

We wish we had space to dwell upon Lord Sydenham's

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very sound and reasonable appeal. We should like also to have been able to quote from the speech of the Duke of Abereorn,, but can only accord it the barest summary. Speaking as...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TN the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Morley moved the second reading of the Amending Bill. Lord Morley seldom snakes a speech without telling quotations, and very striking...

So many Unionist Peers desired to take part in the

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debate that it has been adjourned till Monday. There is no doubt, however, that the second reading will now be passed, and that the amendments made by the Opposition will be in...

After a somewhat fiery contribution to the debate from Lord

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Wimborne, and after Lord Dmiraven had urged yet one more plea for his favourite Federalism, Lord Midleton made a very important and welcome speech. Lord Midleton Las been...

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On Monday night Mr. Lloyd George announced the details of

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what the Times calls the third edition of the Finance Bill Part IV. (which deals with local grants-in-aid) into be dropped, since without a further resolution this cannot be put...

With profound regret we record the assassination last Sunday of

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the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Heir-Presumptive to the Atustro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Heisenberg. The Archduke had been attending military manceuvres in...

Before we leave the subject we most note as a

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very happy augury the moderation and good sense with which the Unionist papers have treated the debate and supported LordLansdowne's attitude towards the Amending Bill Nothing,...

On Wednesday the Conference at Niagara which has attempted to

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settle the Mexican dispute came to an end. Some of the mediators think (says the Times correspondent) that the negotiations have done much to prevent war between the United...

The aseassinations were followed by anti-Serb riots at Serajevo. The

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houses of Orthodox Serbs were sacked and looted by Mussulman Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats, The Serb-Orthodox Archbishop was wounded. As the police were unable to suppress the...

The relations of Greece and Turkey have improved since last

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week owing to the Greek acceptance of the proposed interchange of populations. It is to be remembered, however, that Greece will soon have her two new battleships, and her...

On Monday in the Commons there was a general discussion

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on foreign affairs. Sir Mark Sykes foresaw that the Admiralty oil scheme in Persia might end in the occupation of Persia and the break-up of Turkey. Then Great Britain might lie...

The sympathy and pity of all Englishmen have turned to

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the aged and lonely Emperor as much as to the young children of the Archduke and his wife. As the Emperor himself exclaimed, no sorrow seems to be spared him. His rewards for...

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Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 751—Friday week 752,

We should like to ask any unprejudiced person who knows

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Lord Crewe, and knows his public and private record—one absolutely stainless in the matter of delicacy and discretion— whether he thinks that Lord Crewe really believes that...

In Committee of Supply on Tuesday in the Commons Mr.

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Hope moved to reduce the salary of the First Lord of the Treasury for failing to act on the recommendation of the Lords' Report on the case of Lord Murray, by issuing instruc-...

Before we leave the subject we should like once more

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to express our regret at the way in which the Opposition speakers have again and again allowed the Government to escape the crucial test in the Marconi question. The point which...

If men of such standing would say that they would

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have done so, then of course, whether rightly or wrongly, we must alter our whole standard of Ministerial delicacy and discretion in pecuniary matters, and accept as inevitable...

Lord Kitchener, who presided at the International Congress on Tropical

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Agriculture at the Imperial Institute on Monday, gave an interesting account of the reclamation of waste salt, impregnated land at Biala, in the Nile Delta. As a result of...

As we go to press we learn with deep regret

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that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain died on Thursday night in London. We cannot attempt to write now of the fame and the significance of a career which for more than a generation luta...

The atmosphere became still more electric when Lord Hugh Cecil

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commented ironically on the scrupulousness of Minis- terialists in regarding it as an imputation gravely dishonour. lugto the Civil Service merely to warn them against doing...

In the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Saye and

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Sale made a personal statement in regard to the censures passed upon him at the Central Criminal Court during the hearing of the Army Canteens Case. After reading Lord Saye and...

The death of Lord Wemyss, within a few weeks of

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coin- pleting his ninety-sixth year, removes a most picturesque figure, a groat patrician, and a true patriot. He entered Parliament seventy-four years ago, he took an active...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD LANSDOWNE. T HERE is probably no man in this country who cares less for a merely personal triumph than Lord Lansdowne. Yet while the nation has no lack of politicians on...

THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE ARCHDUKE'S

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MURDER. I T is to be feared that the rioting which has followed the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Liberals like it or not, he has become the nation's...

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THE COUNCIL OF INDIA BILL.

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Ti ORD CURZON has done a very useful piece of work in directing public attention to the character of the Council of India Bill brought into the House of Lords by Lord Crewe. It...

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THE PAYMENT OF CABINET MINISTERS.

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" T "question of Cabinet Ministers' salaries is one which I think ought to be dealt with compre- hensively as a whole." This was the answer given by the Primo Minister to a...

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THE CONSOLATIONS OF COMPARISON.

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W E are always being told that the muse of contrast is a source of discontent. We compare our lot with that of our more fortunate neighbour, and are thereby made unhappy. This...

THE ECONOMICS OF ADVERTISING.

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- 1 -- T is estimated that as much as a hundred millions sterling is spent every year in the United Kingdom on adver- tising, and five or six times as much in the whole world....

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HOMING PIGEONS.

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W HEN Members of Parliament make matches with pigeons brought from their constituencies, and get Ministers of State to open the baskets to let the pigeons fly, the pastime of...

CORRESPONDENCE.

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SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS. [To run EOM. or Me ..13erxraroa.".] SI12,—The literary talent and the extraordinary industry of IL Emile Fagnet have seldom been better displayed than...

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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S GOSPEL OF BAD LUCK,

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[To TRY EDITOR OF TER "SPEC7ATOIt."1 SIB,—Shakespeare said the final word on the problem of luck. I commend it to Mr. Lloyd George:–. "This is the excellent foppery of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE GOVERNMENT'S RECORD. [To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECT■TOR."J wonder whether any intelligent and independent Liberal, calmly and dispassionately reviewing the events of the past...

T1:114 LORD CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH AT THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF 2111I "Brim-rms.:] SIR,—My dull intellect is quite possibly unable to grasp the wisdom contained in the above ; but I folly understand Mr. Lloyd George's...

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GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR..] SIR, — As one long interested in local government in London, I wish to draw the attention of your readers to two points in connexion with the...

SITE VALUE.

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L'ro THE EDITOR Or THE ”SpEcTATon. " 1 SIR, — I think it may be useful to give an example of the way the Government valuators are acting. No doubt my case is only a sample of...

INLAND REVENUE.

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[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR." . 1 SIR, — I am sure that in recommending a tax on amusements "Au Englishman Abroad" (Spectator, Jane 27th) has hit the nail on the head. Such...

THE PROTESTANTS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TRR "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — If Ulster, misguided by bigotry or by desire of Pro- testant ascendancy, excludes herself from the blessings of Home Rule, the...

THE PORTUGUESE AMNESTY.

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[To THR EDITOR OF TEX -spxcv.Tos."] Sin,—When the Portuguese prisons were crowded with political suspects the pamphlets of the British Protest Com- mittee could hardly be too...

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CONFIRMATION AND COMMUNION. [To THE EDITOR OF TEl ..sratarkrott."] Sin,—Your

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correspondent's letter hi last week's Spectator respecting the confirmation of John Evelyn recalls to me a passage in the fascinating Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton...

[To TIM EDITOR 07 THE " srEcTITcat."] SIR,—Like many of

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your readers, I have been much interested in the article by "A. C." on this important subject, and I notice that the Church Times accepts the argument that every parishioner has...

[TO THE EDITOR OF ms "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The argument of "A. C."

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to some extent depends on the suspension of the practice of confirmation during a period when irregularities were of necessity tolerated. In this respect there is, I venture to...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEl "SPECTATOR."] Sre,—I have read with

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great interest your article on "The Church and the Nonconformists" in your issue of June 13th, May I call your attention to a point which has apparently been ignored by "An...

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A WESLEYAN NON-OFFICIAL CONFERENCE.

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(To THZ EDITOR 0/ THIS "SPECTATOR.”] Si,—About a year ago, to the delight of your Wesleyan Methodist readers, and probably many others, you published a short anticipation of the...

A CLOISTERED VIRTUE.

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[To TEl EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—There are curious echoes that occasionally come from India of the views of women there on the conduct of suffragettes. My daughter is a...

THE ANTINOMY OF JOY AND SORROW.

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[To TER EDITOR 0/ TES " SPRCTATOR."] SIR,—It happens that this has been a period of great catastrophes in Europe, America, and Asia alike, and many pious souls must have been...

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GRACEFUL GIVING.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many years ago Canon Barnett and I were staying at Bordighera so as to be near Mr. George Macdonald and breathe the atmosphere of his...

BOOKS.

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THE THEORY OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION.* Tins study of modern conditions by a well-known American lawyer and publicist is of far greater interest than its title would seem to imply....

POETRY.

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WAVERLEY. 1814 - 1914. WHEN, on a novel's newly printed page We find a maudlin eulogy of sin, And read of ways that harlots wander in, And of sick souls that writhe in...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with Ike 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 agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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THE NAVAL BATTLE.*

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THE naval mind loves to dwell on the concrete, and is thus only too liable to miss the underlying principles. Hence is seen its readiness to adopt over-hastily ideas and methods...

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A LIFE OF FRANCIS THOMPSON.* Sucu lovers of Francis Thompson's

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work as are capable of a discreet and reasoned enthusiasm will close Mr. Everard lleynell's Life of the poet with disappointment and regret, Both as biography and as criticism...

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WILLIAM RIDGEWAY.*

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THIS is a pleasant book for the critic to read, but bard to review. Its only unity is the catholic sympathies of the scholar to whom it does honour. Is it possible, we ask,...

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THE PRIMITIVE TEXT OF THE GOSPEL AND ACTS.* ,THE study

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in the text of the Gospel and Acts which the new oCerpus Professor of Latin at Oxford has lately given us cannot but raise in a fresh form the question of the 4 .6 The...

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THE ODD MAN IN MALTA.*

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MALTA has a double claim upon Englishmen. It is one of our chief fortified places, and its position, midway between Sicily and Tunis, makes it a natural stopping-place for...

SPAIN UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE4 "SPAIN in ancient times was

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the Eldorado of Rome, and it is always interesting to compare the Roman fashion of exploiting it with Spain's methods towards her own colonies at a later • The Mechanics of Law...

THE EVOLUTION OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT.* .

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THIS volume aintains a collection of the Carpentier Lectures delivered at Columbia University by the learned author in October, 1913. Sir Courtenay Ebert, who was for many years...

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THREE HOUSEHOLD BOOKS.* THE writer of Leaves from a Housekeeper's

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Book tells us in her last chapter that the nearer she comes to "the end of the long passage" of life, the more she "longs to help those who are just starting out on the journey...

THE MAGAZINES.

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THE only article directly bearing on the Home Rule question in the Nineteenth Century is that in which Mr. Lathbury argues for Exclusion as the only compromise. While agreeing...

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FICTION.

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JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.* ARTISTS have a way of emerging in strange environments and asserting themselves 15-Ap idpoy. Dvorak was the son of a pork-butcher, Faccio of a baker, and...

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READABLE NOVELS.—The Judgment of Eve. By May Sinclair. (Hutchinson and

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Co. 6s.)—The tone of Miss Sinclair's stories is a little unpleasant, but they are, as her work usually is, clever and dramatic.—The Bed Wall. By Frank Savile. (Thomas Nelson and...

The Red Virgin. By G. F. Turner. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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6e.)—In the town of Weidenbruck, in the year 1911, Karl, the young and rightful heir to the throne, Cyril, Regent and ambitious villain, Fritz von Friedrichebeim, and many...

Snake and Sword. By Percival Christopher Wren. (Long. mans and

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Co. 6s.)—The true lover of Kipling cannot afford, in these days of sentimental and introspective novelists, to be narrow-minded ; he should extend his admiration to those also...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading les notico such Books of tho weals as have nd reserved for review In other forms.] A New English. Dictionary on Historical Principles. " Shastri—Shyster," by...

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The Essence of Astronomy. By Edward W. Price. (G. P.

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Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—This book aims at explaining, in non-technical language, the" things everyone should know" about the sun, moon, planets, and stars. The author is...

The Round Table. No. 15. (Macmillan and Co. 2s.

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This admirable political quarterly continues to preserve its high standard of interest. The article on domestic affairs is mainly devoted to an historical commentary on the...

Prehistoric London. By E. 0. Gordon. (E. Stock 10s. 6d.

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net.)—It is rather late in the day to revive the legend of Brutus, grandson of .Aeneas, as the eponymous hero of Britain. Yet this task is essayed in all seriousness by Mr....

Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Compiled by the Royal Society. Vol.

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XIII. (Cambridge University Press. £2 10s. net.)—The Royal Society is doing a great service to students by undertaking to catalogue the vast mass of scientific papers published...

The Study of Modern History in Great Britain. By C.

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H Firth. (H. Milford. 6d. net.)—In this paper, read last year at the International Historical Congress, Professor Firth points out that the progress of historical study in any...

Essays. By Alice Meynell. (Burns and Oates. 5s. net.)— George

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Meredith once said of Mrs. Meynell's essays that Matthew Arnold would have acknowledged that she could write and Carlyle that she could think—and he selected good judges. A...

Historical Sketches of Old Charing. By James Galloway. (John Bale,

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Sons, and Danielsson. 10s. 6d. net.)—These interesting studies in the history of London were written by Dr. Galloway at the reqnest of his students at Charing Cross Hospital,...

Bannockburn. By John E. Morris. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—In

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this brief but very interesting "centenary monograph" Mr. Morris discusses some of the problems con- nected with the famous battle of which we have just been celebrating the six...

• America and the Americans front a Chinese Point or

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View. By Wu Tingfang. (Duckworth and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Gold- smith, in one of his most entertaining productions, put his criticisms of English society into the mouth of a...

The Vanguard. By E. B. Bronson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 63.)—This

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entertaining volume deals with gamblers and road agents, "bad men" and cowboys, poker games and mining ventures. The crack of the revolver and of the stock-whip sounds...

On Lzfe and Letters. Second Series. By Anatole France. (John

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Lane. 6s.)—M. France's style is so personal and charming that it is bound to lose something in translation, but what he says is always so interesting that it can be read with...

The Annual Register, 1913. (Longman.s and Co. 18s.)—This long-established annual

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provides the politician and the journalist with a very convenient and trustworthy review of the public events of the past year, both at home and abroad. The only criticism we...