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BOOKS.

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MARTIAL.* THOSE who devote themselves to the classics should be greeted with kindliness and sympathy by all who frequent the old authors ; and it is surely commendable to spread...

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LONDON: NOVEMBER 4th, 1911.

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MR. HYNDMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS.*

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Wu expected to find so little to agree with in Mr. Hyndman's autobiography that it was with real pleasure that we came upon a passage in the Preface which expresses with the...

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OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIES.*

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Ix is to the advantage of his readers that Mr. Savage does not strictly observe the limitation of his title. It is to Irish libraries that his first chapter is given. While our...

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THE TARIFF PROBLEM.* " Fos some reasons," says Mr. Ashley,

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" I should be glad if I could rewrite the book," but "my University engagements leave me now no leisure," and so be has "put some of the reflections suggested by the subsequent...

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THE USE OF COLD STEEL.*

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MR. CHILDERS is still, as ever, bent on proving the futility of the arme blanche and on exposing the dire effects on the training of cavalry which are caused by its retention....

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MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS.*

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MB. STOKES here tells again, in a clear, judicial fashion and with every detail which can deepen its horror, one of the most dreadful stories in the annals of European crime....

A SISTER OF LOUIS XVL*

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THERE was very little likeness, on the whole, between Louis XVI. and his brothers and sisters. The Comte de Provence, clever and cunning; the Comte d'Artois, agreeable and...

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GIFT-BOOKS.

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RISEN FROM THE RATINGS.* SOME years ago in a short story Mr. Gleig gave us consider- able entertainment by making an " A.B." pose as someone in a different station of life; now...

A LIFE OF CHRIST.S.

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Da. HORTON has done a very difficult piece of work in quite an admirable way. Difficult we call it, because a writer wlio deals with this subject, while taking into account...

ALL SORTS OF STORIES.*

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Ma. LANG, whose prefaces have only one fault, that of being too short, gives us a most appetizing bill of fare of the feast provided for us by Mrs. Lang and himself. He even...

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Stories of the Scottish Border. By Mr. and Mrs. W.

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Platt. (G. G. Harrap and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The introduction to this volume will give young readers a useful outline of early Border history and, moreover, an interesting one....

THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.'

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IT is always astonishing to find how mechanical achievements seem to require antedating the moment we begin to make historical researches. Mechanical success is another thing....

The Kidnapped Regiment. By Robert Leighton. (Pilgrim Press. 3s. 6d.)—This

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" Story of 1745," though it can scarcely be reckoned among Mr. Leighton's most successful efforts, is a sufficiently brisk tale. It might even have been more effective without...

Rebels and Rogues. By Tom Bevan. (J. Nisbet and Co.

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5s.)— Mr. Tom Bevan has never done better than in this tale ; the "Rebels," it must be understood, are the unlucky West Country folk who followed "King Monmouth," the " Rogues...

Heroes of Modern Africa. By Edward Gilliat, M.A. (Seeley and

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Service. 5s.)—Mr. Gilliat divides his book into three parts, giving the first to explorers, the second to soldiers and sailors, the third to statesmen. It would not be easy to...

Black Man's Rock. By John Mackie. (J. Nisbet and Co.

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2s. 6d.) This story takes us back thirty odd years to the Basuto War (1879-1881). The "Rock" is Morosi's Mountain, a strong position which the Basuto chief of that name...

The Winning of the Golden Spurs. By Percy Westerman. (James

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Nisbet and Co. 5s.)—Redward Buckland has a past, as explained in the Prologue, which makes him glad, even when he is well into middle age, to stick to the business of fighting...

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Told in the Dormitory. By R. G. Jennings. Melbourne. (Thomas

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Lothian. 8s. 6d. net.)—The "Dormitory," it will be observed, belongs to an Australian School, and the stories are of a corre- sponding character. So we hear of how it fared...

Ties Moods of Delphine. By L. E. Tiddoman. (R.T.S. 2s.)—

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This is a pretty little story, so far as concerns Delphine, an Anglo- French girl, who pouts, and smiles, and quarrels, and makes friends in a. charming way, talking all the...

A Play - Book of History. By A. A. Whiddington. (Blackie and

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Son. ls.)—Here we have twenty-six stories from English history, beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with the aceession of Queen Victoria, told with explanations, with...

The Mystery of the Castle. By M. P. Boyd. (James

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Nisbet and Co. Gs.)—The heroine, Nadine, is a lively American girl who goes to stop with her step-grandparents in a Scotch castle. They live a quiet life, are obliged to be...

The Little Gingerbread Man. By G. H. P. (G. P.

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Putnam's Sons. 8s. net.)—A humorous little extravaganza of how a gingerbread cake-boy was made and of what happened to him, and what parts were taken by Mouser the cat, and...

Animals in Fun-Land. (James Clarke and Co. le.)—The drawings are

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by Mr. Louis Wain, who is worthily backed up by artists of the same temper—H. B. Neilson, Elsie Blomfield, and others. We may mention Mr. Louis Wain's "Lively Time" and...

A Disputed Heritage. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (The Pilgrim Press. 8s.

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6d.)—Mrs. Everett-Green is not afraid of well-worn themes, but she always treats them brightly and pleasantly. When Alys Rivers first goes to Riversmeet and is told that she...

An Impossible Friend. E. L..Haverfield. (James Nisbet and Co. 3s.

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6d.)—The impossibility of Madge Laugh= is so overwhelm- ingly displayed on her first appearance that it takes all the author's skill to win over the reader as well as Lucy...

Young England, vol. xxvii. (The Pilgrim Press. 6s.)—Of the two

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serial stories one is a tale of the days of James III. of Scotland; the other has to do with adventures in the West with Red Indians and other dangerous folk. There is a good...

The Scarlet Button. By Kate Mellersh. (R.T.S. 2e.)—There are the

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usual characters in this story, the naughty pair and the good, the good getting the better in a way that is worthy of all praise. We must not give away the surprise of the...

The Magic Dragon. By Baldwin S. Harvey. (Duckworth and Co.

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is. 6d. net.)—Probably the best sort of modern fairy story is that which we find here. It has a distinctly comic touch about it, and this is easier to give than the absolute...

The School Girl Princess. By Arthur Wyatt. (James Nisbet and

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Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is a story of the boldly romantic kind, which must deal with events of long ago, for Prussia would hardly allow a war of dynastic succession in any State of...

We have received from Messrs. Ward Lock and Co., two

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books, between which we do not find it easy to discriminate. Those are Ward, Lock and Co.'s Wonder Book (8s. 6d.), edited by Harry Golding, described as a " Picture Annual for...

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Art in France. "Ars Una" Series. By Louis Hourticq. (W.

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Heinemann. 6s. net.)—To condense the whole art of France into one small volume must have been a formidable task, and we marvel how well it has been done. The general...

Perugino. By E. Hutton. "The Popular Library of Art." (Duckworth

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and Co. ls. net.)—Mr. Hutton has shown in this essay—for it is an essay rather than a biography—that he has really entered into the spirit of Perugino and grasped what it...

CURRENT LITEILATURE.

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ART BOOKS. Gothic Architecture in England and France. By George Herbert West, D.D., (G. Bell and Sons. 6s. net.)—This is a very interesting book, written by one who...

Great Engravers. Edited by Arthur M. Hind. (W. Heinemann. 2s.

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6d. net.)—Two volumes bearing this title have been issued, one dealing with Albert Durer and the other with Mantegna and the early Italian engravers. Mr. Hind gives us a page...

A History of Architecture in London. By W. H. Godfrey.

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(B. T. Batsford. 7s. 6d. net.)—It will no doubt be a surprise to many Londoners in turning over the pages of this book to learn how many and of what varied styles are the...

We may mention, together with a praise which is certainly

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not less fully earned in this than it has been in previous years, some children's magazines. These are The Rosebud Annual (James Clarke and Co., 3s.), Our Little Dots' Annual...

Pinocchio. By C. Collodi. Translated by M. A. Murray. (J.

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M. Dent and Sons. 6s. net.)—This amusing story will give particular pleasure to English children (and their parents) who know Italy, as it pleasantly recalls many of those...

Italy and Italian towns furnish materials for endless descriptive writers.

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M. Maurel writes of the Little Cities of Italy (G. P. Putnam, 9s. net) and has much of history to tell us pleasantly condensed, and we are carried along by a story full of...

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle de France. By Elise

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Whit- lock Rose, with illustrations from original photographs by Vida Hunt Francis. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam. 21s. net.)—This work is more discursive than the one we have just...

Two little volumes issued by Grant Richards (2s. net each),

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one on Turner, by J. E. Phythian, and the other on Whistler, by F. Rutter, are both useful, and are sympathetic studies of the painters of whom they treat. Perhaps it would have...

The Masterpieces of Claude. (Gowans and Gray. 6d. net.)—This is

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a delightful little picture book which we can enjoy without being informed as to any of the facts about Claude Loraine, for there is no letterpress but only sixty charming...

New EDITIONS.—The Ingoldsby Legends. With Illustrations in Colour. By H.

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G. Theaker. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.) Bimbi and Other Stories. By " Ouida" (Louisa de In Hamee). With Illustrations in Colour by Maria L. Kirk (Chatto and Winans. 5s. net),...

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SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS ON THE STAGE.

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Sixty - eight Years on the Stage. By Mrs. Charles Calvert. (Mills and Boon. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Calvert had, of course, the chance of an early debut because her father was a...

THE FRANCE OF JOAN OF ARC.

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The France of Joan of Arc. By Lieut.-Colonel Andrew C. P. Haggard. (Stanley Paul and Co. 168. net.)—The title selected is conveniently elastic; all French history might be...

WAYS AND DAYS OUT OF LONDON.

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Ways and Days out of London. By Aida Roman de Milt. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author and her friends intended to give a week to London ; they had promised...

PHASES OF DICKENS.

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Phases of Dickens. By J. Coming Walters. (Chapman and Hall. 5s. net.)—This volume is published in anticipation of the Dickens Centenary (1912). As the work of a very diligent...

BIG GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA.

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Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma.—By Major G. P. Evans. (Longman and Co. 78. 6d. net.)—There is plenty of good reading in this book. Major Evans tells us of his first...

HOR;SVITTIATH CHURCH.

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Sorasheath Church. By Catherine C. Parson. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—Horseheath Church (some seven or eight miles from Cambridge) is an interesting structure,...

THE UNDERCLIFF OF THE ISLE OF 'WIGHT.

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The Undercliff of the Isle of Wight. By John L. Whitehead, M.D. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The "Undercliff" is a strip of land some five and a half miles in...

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In the "Arden Shakespeare," edited by R. H. Case, in

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succession to W. J. Craig (Methuen and Co.), we have Shakespeare's Poems, edited by C. Knox Pooler. The history of each poem, its ante- cedents, reception by the public, and...

In the "Poetry and Life" Series (George G. Harrap and

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Co. 83.) we have Burns and his Poetry, by H. A. Kellow. The series is not happily illustrated by this particular example. We like to have Burns's verse while hearing as little...

The Fragrance of Flowers : a Nature-Lover's Anthology. By Kate

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Ursula Brock. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)-A very attractive volume this, whether we regard it from without or from within. Miss Brock divides her collection into five...

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Loutor Printed by L. Urcorr GILL at the London and

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County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Pub li shed by Joint Hamm for the SPnera.1011 " (Limited) at their O ffi ce s No, 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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W E have dealt with the chief events of the week in Tripoli in our leading columns. Here we need only add that Friday's news is exceedingly meagre, but such of it as there is...

In our opinion if the Italians are wise they will,

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for the next few months, be content to hold the ports and coast line strongly and at places where their troops can be easily fed and watered, organizing meantime a few very...

The value of the aeroplane in warfare has been speedily

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demonstrated in Tripoli. Not only has it been effectively used for purposes of reconnaissance, but the Times corre- spondent, in a message dated November 1st, states that four...

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No. 4,349.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1911. [ REGISTERED Al A.} PRICE SD. NEWSPAPER. BY POST...61D. POSTAGE ABROAD 2D.

VI' The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

We have expressed elsewhere our deep regret at the reprisals

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of the Italians on the Arab population of the oasis. Though admitting to the full the provocation offered to the Italians, and also the danger to which they would have been...

Especially must we condemn the insulting character of the questions

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put in Parliament to Sir Edward Grey, in regard to which he displayed such strong disapproval. We congratulate him upon his courage and good sense in this matter. It would have...

NoTica.—With this week's " SPECTATOR " is issued, gratis, a

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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The French nation should make their representatives under- stand that

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the matter must be looked at in the big. Here, undoubtedly, France has scored. The position of absolute paramountcy accorded in Morocco, a position which makes Morocco, except...

Friday's news from Peking shows the rapid way in which

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the forces of constitutional revolution are working. The Times correspondent, telegraphing on Thursday, tells us that the situation is now as follows : " The Throne is crushed...

The Copyright Bill was read a second time in the

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House of Lords on Tuesday. Lord Haldane pointed out that it pro- vided an almost complete code of Copyright law, that it provided for international copyright, and that it laid...

The discussion of the same clause was continued on Wednesday,

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when Mr. Lloyd George replied to his critics. He said that if there were to be approved societies they must be given the right to select their members ; and it followed that...

A Berlin telegram published in Friday's Times tells us that

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the Franco-German negotiations have to all intents and pur- poses reached their end, the treaty in regard to the exchanges of territory in Africa having been initialed late on...

It is clear that Yuan Shih-kai has the ball at

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his feet. We believe he is to be trusted to act in the best interests of China, for besides being a far-sighted statesman he is a sincere Chinese patriot. If the revolutionaries...

The debate upon the Insurance Bill ban continued under

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the closure resolutions during the week. On Friday week and on Monday the discussion as to the constitution of approved societies was continued. On Tuesday Clause 32 was...

On Friday the War Office issued the new Regulations for

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the National (late Veteran) Reserve. On the whole the Regulations are satisfactory, and a great advance on those which they supersede. They recognize in the first paragraph...

We are further told that the Assembly is at present

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acting as a restraining influence on the military, but it will insist on the removal of all the Manchu prerogatives, including military control and the disbandment of all the...

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A meeting promoted by a committee of the Four Oxford

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Settlements was held at Oxford yesterday week. Lord Selborne in a lively speech dwelt on the lack of enterprise shown by the best men at Oxford to-day as compared with thirty...

The Regulations then lay down the thoroughly sound proviso that

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though the County Associations will frame their own rules for the formation and organization of the Reserve, the names on the registers are to be classified as follows:— (a)...

By this simple classification the military authorities will know exactly

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the nature of the asset which has been presented to them by the voluntary patriotism of the old soldiers and old volunteers of the country. Class (a) we venture to say, will...

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

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Sept. 21st. Consols (21) were on Friday 794—Friday week 78k.

We note with interest that the Times, in a leading

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article on "Problems of Admiralty" in the issue of Friday week, returns to the question of the expense to parents of the new system of naval training. While strongly demurring...

The Regulations will no doubt be minutely criticized. At present,

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however, no one who is interested in the formation of the Reserve should press objections in regard to details. The essential thing is to go forward with the work of forming the...

We are glad to note that on Wednesday the Home

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Secretary announced the Government's intention of omit- ting from the Coal Mines Regulation Bill the clause that forbids the employment of women at the pit brow. This provision...

The Regulations, though showing clearly that the Reserve is for

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use and not for show in case of the invasion of these islands, leave great elasticity as regards its use. In our opinion, however, there can be no doubt that if the enemy landed...

The Nineteenth Annual Congress of the National Free Labour Association

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was held this week at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street. Mr. Collison, who presided, welcomed the delegates in a vigorous address, in which he declared that they did not only...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE WAR IN TRIPOLI. N EWS received during the past week shows that the war in Tripoli has not, for the time, been going well for the Italians. Repeated and determined attacks...

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THE HOME RULE MYSTERY. T HE controversy over the nature of

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the Home Rule Bill raised by the forecast in the Daily News offers anything but an edifying spectacle. The Daily News sticks to its guns and declares in effect that its "utline...

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THE CHIN - ESE REVOLUTION.

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T HE rebellion in China has already produced the results which from the first seemed inevitable to all sound judges, and, whatever may be its final outcome, we can confidently...

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THE INSURANCE BILL MUDDLE.

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A S the Insurance Bill proceeds on its way through the House, large masses of it being swallowed without debate or discussion, it is almost impossible to form a clear estimate...

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"BETTING NEWSPAPERS AND QUAKERISM."

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"But I put betting on quite another basis,' he continued, ' for am faced with the undoubted fact that millions of good Christian people, of whose Christianity there can be no...

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M. BERGSON ON THE SOUL.

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C ROWDED audiences during the past fortnight have listened to a philosopher discoursing in a foreign tongue on a subject which is admittedly the most evasive and diffi- cult in...

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THE SPORT OF SHOOTING.

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S O many books have been written on shooting that it is refreshing to come across one which sums up its contents with the simplicity of Mr. Owen Jones's " The Sport of Shooting"...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. BALFOUR'S LEADERSHIP. [To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I quite agree with your note, under Mr. Rowland Hunt's letter, in your issue of October 28th : " A more...

[To TM& EDITOR Or THE "SHECTATOR."3 should like, as a

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Conservative working man, to be allowed an opportunity of discussing in your valued journal the point Mr. Rowland Hunt has raised respecting the attitude of working people...

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[To TEN EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I express my

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thanks and gratitude to you for your courtesy and fairness in inserting my letter, though so much against the policy and opinions of the Spectator P I am only very sorry that...

MILL ON INFANT INDUSTRIES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sm,—In a recent notice of Dr. Cunningham's small volume, " The Case against Free Trade," your reviewer referred to Mill's letters as...

MO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "]

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Sin,—I can confirm Mr. Hunt's letter in your last issue so far as regards the feeling of the rank and file towards Mr. Balfour's leadership. I am the chairman of a con-...

rTo THE EDIT= OF THE "SFECTLTOR."1 SIE,—In your note to

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Mr. Rowland Hunt's letter on " Mr. Bal- four's leadership " in the Spectator of October 28th you say : "To saddle Mr. Balfour with the loss of the three elections (1906,...

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MISAPPLICATION OF BY-LAW POWER.

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[To THE EDITOE or THE " SPECTAT011."3 Sit,—The use of a detail to defeat the principle to which its origin was due is seen in the prevalent by-law which stipulates that...

THE CANADIAN ELECTION&

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[To THE EDITOS or THE " SPECTATOli.".1 Sit,—It is seldom that I find myself out of sympathy with the conclusions of the Spectator, but I cannot help thinking that in your...

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[Cory.) Orchards, Godalming, Surrey, Oct. 21st, 1911.

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"Daily News Year Book." DEAR MADAM,—I understood from your letter, asking me to contri- bute a short statement of my views of the National Insurance Bill as it may affect the...

[Corr.] The Daily News.

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19-22 Bouverie Street, London, E.C. October 19th, 1911. Sir William Chance, Bt., "Daily News Year Book," 1912. DEA.S Sia,—I am sending you a proof, as desired, of the note...

CHINESE METHODS IN THE DAILY NEWS

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OFFICE. rs, THE EDITOR OF THE g'SYzerAres."3 think that the following story may be of sufficient public interest to justify its publication. A few weeks ago I was invited by...

IGNORANCE REGARDING EASTERN FAITHS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,—My attention has been called to the following passage in your issue of October 21st. Your reviewer quotes it from "Behind Turkish...

SIR WILLIAM CHANCE'S NOTE.

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I am asked what advantage will accrue to the Guardians of the Poor if the present National Insurance Bill passes into law. I take this to mean what will be its effect on...

ITALY AND TRIPOLI.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—" The whirligig of Time brings about its revenges." The many ruined castles which one sees in these parts, blown up and destroyed by...

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JOHN MALCOLM LUDLOW.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have been looking in your correspondence columns for some appreciation of a sturdy champion of good causes, social and political....

MAETERLINCK ON DEATH.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A student for many years of the art and of the act of dying, I read with eagerness Maeterlinck's recent Essay, only, I must confess,...

THE WIMBLEDON COMMON EXTENSIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — We appeal to all who possess wealth or influence in the Metropolis to come to the assistance, before it is too late, of the Council...

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SIR EDWARD FRY AND THE " CADBURY AND ROWNTREE NEWSPAPERS."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — After more than twenty-five years in fellowship with. the Spectator I am tempted to write you my first letter, feel- ing that you...

" L'EVOLUTION CREATRICE." uro TEE EDITOR 07 TER "EPECTATOR."

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SIR,—Your quotation in a previous number of the Spectator from Mr. Balfour's teleological criticism on M. Bergson's metaphysics was extremely interesting with the mention also...

" CURIOSA. FELICITAS."

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. - 3 Sin, — I should like to ask whether any of your readers can suggest an exact English equivalent of the above phrase. The phrase does not...

LTO THE EDITOS OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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SIE,—May I appeal to your courtesy for permission to correct two or three misunderstandings that have arisen from the letter of mine inserted in your issue of October 21st P...

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THE SALE OF DRUGS.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR," ! Sru,—A few months back the Spectator published an interest- ing correspondence on the subject of the sale of drugs. One letter...

AD MATREM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEN "SPECTATOR "] Sts,—If the last word on this subject has not already been said, I should like to add that no poet has shown a keener insight into the...

DOMESTIC SERVICE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sru,—A couple of weeks or so ago some discussion appeared in your columns upon the vexed question of domestic service. Readers of that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the delightful article

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entitled "Ad Matrem " in the Spectator, October 14th, no mention is made of Pope's tribute to his mother, than which, excepting Cowper's, there is nothing more beautiful in our...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I make no

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apology to you or your readers for quoting in full a beautiful little poem overlooked by the writer of the interesting article " Ad Matrem " of October 14th :— " There is a...

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POETRY.

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SAYS SHE. Mr Granny she often says to me, Says she, " You're terrible bold, It's you have a right to mend your ways Before you'll ever grow old," Says she, "Before you'll ever...

VILLAGE BOYS IN LONDON.

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[To THE EDTTOR or THE "SPECTATOlt."] Siu,—One constantly hears of little white pinched faces being sent out into the country for a breath of fresh air. In this case matters...

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 agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

" QUEERY LEARY NONSENSE."

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[To THE Earroa OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — Ycru say that the manner of Lear's amusing "Epitaph '' has had many imitators ; it also had some predecessors. The. wonderful child...

MUSIC.

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THE REVIVAL OF THE BALLET.. Tax success of the Russian ballet at Covent Garden pointedly illustrates the danger of saying that anything is ended or dead as a door-nail A cynic...

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BOOKS.

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THE GREEK COMMONWEALTH.* THE word " commonwealth " is one of the most beautiful words in the world. It suggests, as no other word does, just what a state, whatever its size and...

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DEATH.*

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IT is well that a book on death should be short: and this essay by M. Maeterlinck is hardly longer than an old-fashioned sermon. He has condensed into it many pleasant thoughts...

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THINGS . . . COMMONLY NOT OBSERVED.* THE writings of

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the military correspondent of the Times stand in no need of recommendation to a discerning public. Under the title of Essays and Criticisms we have here, published in book form,...

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SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY4 OF the eleven essays contained

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in this volume two appear for the first time. One of these, "A Lady Wit," adds but little to the value of the volume. The subject is Etheldreda, third Viscountess Townshend...

EASTERN SONGS.* THERE is happily no need to introduce "

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Ben Kendim " to readers of the Spectator. Some of the most characteristic pieces in this little volume have appeared in these columns— notably the " Song of Rivers," " Grace...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Nineteenth Century opens with a paper on "The Key of Empire," by Mr. J. A. It. Marriott. After examining the case for Federal Home Rule and showing that its application to...

CANON TEIGNMOUTH-SHORE'S RECOLLECTIONS.* CANON TEIGNMOUTH-SHORE is an interesting example of

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the very great varieties of occupation which are open to our Anglican clergyman. Not long after he had been ordained he became literary manager to the publishing firm of Cassell...

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Juggernaut. By E. F. Benson. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The part of

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"Juggernaut" in this book is performed by the man, who marries the very attractive heroine, and then allows his literary work so completely to absorb him that her married life...

Mrs. Drummond's Vocation. By Mark Ryce. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The author

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of this novel thinks it necessary to give what is in effect a warning to the reader that it is not intended for the "young person." But although this is true the book, in spite...

NOVELS.

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THE CHRONICLES OF CLO'VIS.• SHORT stories written for newspaper consumption, especially when they are as short as " Saki's," do not always stand the test of reprinting. But...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Annual of the British School at Athens, 1909-1910. (Macmillan and Co....

Biitish North America, 1763 - 1867. By A. Wyatt Tilby. (Con- stable

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and Co. 6s. net.)—This is the third volume of the series which bears the title of " The English People Overseas." In the first we had the story of the American Colonies up to...

Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. III., 1701 - 1800. Edited by

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W. Rouse Ball and J. A. Venn. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.)—There are noticeable facts in this volume apart from any interest attaching to individual entries. First comes the...

Scnoon Booxs.—The Poetry Readers. Edited by Alfred Perceval Graves. (Horace

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Marshall and Sons. 8d. per volume.)—There are not a few ex-schoolmasters—possibly there are some still at work—who remember a time when class-books of English literature...

Sunny Australia, By Archibald Marshall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. Marshall

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describes his book as "Im- pressions of the Country and People," and the description exactly suits it. In fact its value lies in this, that it gives impressions not judgments....

READABLE NovxLs.—Patches and Pomander. By Arthur Breb- ner. (Blackwood and

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Sons. 6s.)—A picturesque story of the reign of Charles II., in which Fifth Monarchy men, buccaneers, Court beauties, and others figure.—.Essence of Honeymoon. By II. Perry...