THE PARLIAMENTARY BAR.• Ma. BALFOUR BROWNE, who led the Parliamentary Bar for a good many years until the war virtually put an end to Private Bills, has written an entertaining...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 4th, 1916.

Ties keen and vivid work of M. Lenotre, always so well documented, and inspired by such straightforward heartiness of conviction, is a valuable weapon on the side of the Allies....

Ma. CLODD has collected friends as some men collect china or pictures. He is to be congratulated on his gift of friendship, which must have brought him many happy hours, and...

Matz is a brave, a breezy, a timely, and a suitably optimistic) book en the boundary problems of the whole wide world as they present themselves in war time to the doyen of...

tells us, originally intended for teachers. As it took shape on paper he realized that it could not be a text-book. He became conscious that he was writing for himself. The...

archi- tectural writings are familiar to all readers of Country Life and of his many bookie has found new and clearly congenial scope for his versatile pen in the writing of...

Tars book is called " an essay on the problem of evil." It is very cleverly conceived, though somewhat disappointing in the realization. The hero is a Dutch Jow of to-day, a...

Tins volume of two hundred and ninety-eight pages forms the thesis with which Dr. Banerjea won hls degree of Doctor of Economical Science of the University of London. Dr....

Ma. GORHAM'S new book on the Inquisition in Spain has a fearful fascination. It seems to us not so much an indictment of Roman Catholicism as an indictment of human nature, and...

Ireland under the Stuarts. By Richard Bagwell. Vol. III. (Long- mans and Co. 15s. net.)—Dr. Bagwell has completed in this volume his history of Ireland from the coming of the...

—This handsomely illustrated monograph on the sea-trout embodies the results of much original research, for Mr. Lamond, the well-known writer on angling, has had for many years...

Cor- coran, D.Litt. (Longman% and Co. 6s. not.)—The Professor of Edu- cation in the National University has printed a series of documents illustrating the chequered history of...

Press. 2s. 6d. not.)—This little book is especially interesting because it is written by an Australian teacher and gives an Australian view of our Colonial policy since we lost...

F. S. Morse. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 not.)—This useful book is a commentary on the American Constitution, as modified by successive amendments and by a long series of...

of the Church and Parish. By the Hon. H. C. Gibbs. (St. Catherine Press. 42s. net.)—Any one who prints a parish register, and thus ensures its preservation, deserves our...

and Co. 7s. 611. net.)—This excellent glossary, by the Secretary of the Litusean Society, appears in a third and revised edition. The nomenclature of botany is so great a...

Brrnaten 1906 and 1910 a body of volunteers, officials and others, collected statistics as to the economical condition of the deltaic distriot of Faridpur, which lies where...

not.) —This well-known publication of the Charity Organization Society, which deals with London charities, appears in its twenty-fifth edition, with much new matter relating to...

Heaney. British Journal of Psychology Supplement. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—This doctoral thesis for the University of London puts in philosophical language the...

(Longmans and Co. Is. net.)—The Director of the Elizabethan Stage Society summarizes in this lecture, delivered at the John Rylands Library, his well-known theory that " the...

21e. net.)—This scholarly book, which is very unlike the uncritical family histories of the past and present, contains a detailed and docu- mented account of the early Le...

3d. net.) —We are glad to see a cheap edition of this very important book. Our Government's attempt to avert the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 by proposing a simultaneous...

Tupper. By E. M. Saunders. (Cassell and Co. 25s. net.)—Sir Charles Tupper in the course of his long life--from 1821 to 1915—saw Canada develop from a tew scattered provinces...

Historical and Statistical Handbook of Sweden, published in two parts. Part I. deals with " Land and People," and Part II. with "Industries." The work is profusely illustrated....

Small. (Simpkin and Marshall. 7s. 6d.)—It is strange that the brilliant essay on Greek and Roman institutions with which Festal de Coulanges first made his reputation half a...

by the Royal Society. Vol. XV., "Fitting--Hyslop." (Cam- bridge University Press. f2 1064—The Royal Society's great author- catalogue of the world's scientific papers for...

very economical dishes (there is a variety of war cakes and eggless cakes) have been collected by Miss Milne. Gaskell, chiefly from Yorkshire housewives, and printed in book...

1916. (Anglo- Hellenic League, 43 Aldwych, W.C. 3d.)—Many of our readers will doubtless be glad to have the full text, in Greek and English, of M. Venizelos's fine address to...

The author has no difficulty in showing, by moans of a great array of official statistics, that a tobacco monopoly is less profitable to ths State than a tobacco duty, and that...

99 Fetter lane, P.C.; and Publbbed by Amish F.VEP EON tor the " EncorAvoit (limited), at their Ofike, lie. 1 waives %Amt. le the tredect of the Savoy, Strand, In the County of...

on conscription, and the whole world has looked on with singular interest at the bold reference of the question to the people. The result up to the present, for the voting is...

legs, and require to rest and refit quite as much as, if not more than, the Rumanians. But the Rumanians are in their own country, and this means that the process of rest and...

O WING to the appallingly bad weather which has prevailed on the Somme, the activities of our troops have been greatly reduced. What little action there has been, however, has...

on well into terrain north-east of Lea Bceufs and in the direction of Transloy. In this context we may note that the final reckoning of the prisoners in the great French victory...

subject of the Channel Tunnel, and in assenting to their view that the war had changed everything he promised that the matter should be reviewed by the War Committee or the...

going to turn out eminently unsatisfactory for the Germans. The Rumanians, with the Russian supports, have fallen back to the higher ground to the north—i.e., just below the...

across the Struma have gained some satisfactory local successes and have taken over three hundred Bulgarian prisoners. The Greek witches' caldron has not yet boiled over.

case.

Allies in what we may call the battles of the passes have in two cases scored real victories, first in the Jiul Valley, and next in the Vulcan Pass. In the Vulcan Pass the...

torpedoed by the Germans, are now coming in, and show (1) that some eighteen people lost their lives ; (2) that the ship was torpedoed without notice ; and (3) that the sea...

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to our disadvantage. In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Balfour said that we had lost six drift-net boats, and he qualified the statement as to the lossof two German...

with the newspapers which seem to think that it will have a bad effect on the Administration. The - nation just now cares very little about what happens in Parliament, though no...

the German protest against the decision of Norway to prohibit submarines from entering her territorial waters. Sweden issued an exactly similar prohibition and Germany said...

that 'sort," had a very fine excuse for sulking or half sullking—because of what they might have been justified in calling the bloOdy fiesta) of Gallipoli. Yet they never dreamt...

outcry against the Admiralty and Mr. Balfour because the Germans have made such a raid. It is not at all a difficult thing for destroyers to slip through well-guarded waters in...

" TheEpecial Register Bill " while being considOrM in Committee was strongly opposed. The Speaker having decided - that it was not in order to move an instruction that soldiers...

mentary Air Committ:e. He pointed out difficulties in the way of the proposal that an Air Lord should be added to the Admiralty. Afterwards the Executive Committee passed a...

for which fLteenniore V.C.'s have been awarded read like a fairy-tale. Take this description, for instance, of the heroism. of -Private T. A. Jones, of the Cheshire Regiment :—...

system of sterilizing wounds practised by Dr. Carrel, the .well-known American surgeon, which has had remarkable results. Dr. Carrel has apparently improved upon the sterilizing...

" During last night the enemy attempted a raid with ten des troyors on our cross-Channel transport service. The attempt failed ; one empty transport, the ' Queen,' was sunk. Tho...

the Nor- wegians at their heavy losses of ships and life' hrough submarine warfare deserves to be recorded as a priceless revelation of German thought. Herr •Erich Lilienthal...

Liquor Control Board with great effect against attacks upon its operations and composition. In answer to the criticism that the Board had exceeded its powers, he said that no...

Yes, 'tis too late—now Reason guides The mind, solo judge in all debate : And thus the important point decides, For laurels, 'tie, alas ! too late. What is possess'd we may...

School of Oriental Studies, but we feel that the subject is one of suck enormous importance to the Empire that we must turn to it again. We must remind our readers that the...

Board of Agriculture on Monday, Mr. T. H. Middleton said that our food production was far from satisfactory. Germany bad two-thirds of her land under the plough, while we had...

Wilson finds him- self in the mental predicament in which, as Crabbe points out, emost all men find themselves when they look back at their en- deavours and make resolves for...

July 13th.

the men wire are to govern the British Empire, though they should be encouraged to be good Orientalists, must first of all remember that it is their duty to think of the welfare...

Corps Commander in the British Force in France, took his seat in the House of-Commons on Tuesday. The event is one of interest from the Parliamentary as well as the military...

to quote them again. Lord Wellesley told the students of his College that " They are, in fact, the ministers and officers of a powerful sovereign; they must now be viewed in...

Crabbe in his celebrated poem entitled " Reflections " depicts the man who at the end of life intends to use all the experience he has gained in the tumult and struggle of...

statement that it is for the last time that America has kept out of a world-wide war, and that in future it may be assumed that she will take her share in the conflict on one...

war has made the opening of such a School not less but more urgent, and that it is a matter of Imperial importance that it should be in full working as soon as hostilities have...

T AST week in writing of the tragic situation to which Greece had been brought by King Constantine's un- constitutional conduct, we said that our prime duty was to stand by our...

A BADGED NATION. W E are not ashamed to proclaim ourselves Coalitionists, and not Coalitionists malgri eux, but on the merits of the present Administration. If we wished them...

I F the time has not yet come it is rapidly approaching when the British people, or rather the Allies as a whole, should consider the question of the undue prolongation of the...

price of wheat which has recently taken place happens to have followed very closely upon the action of the Government in undertaking the control of the wheat supplies of this...

I SUPPOSE that there are very few officers or men who have been at the front for any length of time who would not be secretly, if not openly, relieved and delighted if they "...

JOWETT, in replying to some of his pupils who had urged him to republish certain of his sermons, remarked that though the truths of theology were spoken of as eternal, they...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sne,—On the face of it the present may seem an inopportune moment to take up any space in your paper for a hospital appeal— especially for...

A THRICE-GALLANT CANADIAN. [To sue EDITOR Or TEL "SPECTATOR.") EIx,—Yo11 may like to see, and possibly to print, the enclosed written by a Canadian soldier of twenty to his...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—In your issue of October 28th there is an interesting article on this subject. The last sentence expresses the hope that " the country...

[To TEL EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR.—Your article under this heading is written from imperfect information. The subject is a large one and difficult to discuss in a letter,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sns,—I am, of course, not able to assent to Dr. Rashdall's comment on the Report of the Archbishops' Committee; but I am glad that, as in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—Following the publication in the Times of what Lord French said on the above subject at a Volunteer inspection near Norwich on October...

[To rns Emma or rag " Sescrssoa."] SIR,—" Scotsman," writing in last week's Spectator, says that it makes his blood boil to see half-a-dozen stalwart young Irish harvesters in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your " leader " of October 14th contrasts the " base and dishonourable man " with one " not only too proud to ask for help, but too...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A Committee is now sitting to deal with the subject of repre- sentation and redistribution. There is one royal road to a settle- ment...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sis„—As a participator in the details of Basque administration and reform, the happy solution of the nearest parallel to the Irish question...

or THE " SPECTATOR."] FIR,—The hopeless note struck in your references to peace impresses me painfully. Peace, you say, is a good; but peace can never be. That is a...

[To sae EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] don't know if you are aware of the fact that there are millions of members of the British Empire constantly praying to the great Pawei in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] am requested by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Minix to ask if you will be so good as to publish the enclosed appeal in your columns P...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—As President of the South African Hospital and Comforts Fund, I trust you will allow me to make a further appeal on behalf of South...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I send this as it may interest you, and in the hope that we may have found a formula in which we may agree. I was interested to find that my friend...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —A good deal has been said and written lately on the subject of " Christianity after the War." There is one aspect of this subject,...

[To. THE Einroa OP TES " SPECTATOR."' Silt, —May I,. provisionally, submit a reply to Dr. Beattie Crozier? (1) Generally—that learned gentleman misses the whole of his...

[To =a EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."' Sus—On reading Mr. Boas's poem on the Ulster Division in your issue of October 14th it occurred to me that two stanzas might well be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."" Sut,—Our attention has been drawn to the letters under the above heading which appeared respectively in your issues of September 30th and...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Mr. Kipling lately (October 26th) contributed to the papers an article on " The Meaning of Joss" in sailors' lingo. He defines it as "...

Royal Irish Fusiliers (Armagh Volunteers). 1 11th- Batn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal end Fennanagh Volunteers). 9th Bata. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Derry...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, In your review of Mme. Novikoff's Memories an extract is set out giving Baron Brunow's reply to the French Ambassador, who objected to...

Sia,—An embarrassing flood of letters has come upon me as the result of the inquiry I made in the Spectator three weeks ago about the Limericks on Exeter College and on Jesus...

(To THE Eritrea or " fiezczeroa."] Smi—With all respect to the " friend of the late Canon Ainger," and the Accuracy. of litre. Tricker, 1.1).232-grieved to.selate that the...

Tam leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article " Don't Worry " have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi- cated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

firs, We lire in an age of advertisement, but the University of Oxford—home of ideals, lost, stolen, and strayed—is far too proud to advertise. Nevertheless -compulsory Greek is...

SOME RUSSIAN CHARACTERISTICS.* Ir is eminently desirable that Englishmen and Russians, who are now engaged in what may accurately 40 termed a crusade against those amoral...

(To 'ens EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—You may like to know that my morning congregation heard last Sunday the best sermon they have had for many a long day— viz., " Don't...

Ws have received the following additional subscriptions to the above Fund :— s. d. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged 103 16 6 A Canadian Private " In Mrs. Riddick 10 0 0...

Sta. — Surely the Way of the Cross has always been known as the

Sia,—The statement of Sir James Ramsay in a letter in the Spectator of October 28th that the sacrificial way at Rome was never known as the Via Sacra, but always as the Sacra...

GERMAN PRISONERS. Waxer first I saw you in the curious street, Like some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey, My mad impulse was all to smite and slay, To spit upon you—tread you...

why Mr. Begbie should have called his book The Vindication of Great Britain, as it is chiefly, whether judged by its general emphasis or by the proportion of pages devoted to...

THERE are two things which alone would make the culminating period of the Italian Renaissance remarkable. One is that there do not seem to be any instances of neglected genius,...

AT first sight the writings of the late Henry James seem the most un- promising field for the anthologist. The detail of his work is so delicate, the development of character...

a friend and biographer of Bismarck, has written a pleasant book on his experiences in the service of the .New York Herald during the last twenty years. He met many eminent...

GREEN3LANTLE.* Tuts is the longest of the sensational romances that Mr. Buchan has given us since the outbreak of the war. It is also the most exciting and in our opinion the...

A fairy play in three acts setting forth " the adventures of the King of Ireland's son who goes in search of the Golden Apple of Healing," written with all the ironic humour...

[Notice en this CO1U17171 does not necessarily preclude sulnezuenl repine.] Archaeological Survey of India. Annual Report, 1912 - 13 ; and 1913-14, Part L Edited by Sir John...

E.C. ls. 6d. net.)—Despite the war, this old Society overcame a serious financial crisis in 1915-16 and increased its income by £20,000. The reports from India and China are...

A. J. Macdonald. (Longmans and Co. Cs. net.)—This able book won the Maitland Prize at Cambridge for an essay on the thesis, " Problems raised by the contact of the West with...

de Mattes. (Hurst and Blackett. 6a.)—Another book about the outbreak of the war. This time the story is told from the French point of view, and concerns the fighting on the...

is. viol. not.)—Mr. Lloyd George explains in the preface that the Ministry of Munitions has a staff who are concerned to see that the workers, especi- ally the women, are...

Bell a-si Sons. 2s. net.)—In this thoughtful little book the autho-, a school medical officer, explains - the importance of the regular medical inspection now enforced in...

Banks. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1•50 net.)—Mr. Banks, one of the able American archaeologists who have worked in Babylonia, has written a popular book of groat merit. Macaulay's...

Lewis. (T. Werner Laurie. 15s. net.)—This interesting book is concerned with old English and Irish table-glass, and should be useful to collectors, especially in the notes on...

3s. 6d. net.)—This is an original anthology, divided into fourteen " realms " of England, romance, battle, the sea, burlesque, humour, and so forth. Many living poets have been...

and Mythology. Edited by II. B. Walters. (Cambridge University Press. 21s. net.)—This is an astonishingly compact and complete handbook to classical antiquity, embodying the...

Black. 5s. net.)—The Reader in Education at Oxford, at the outset of this clever book, remarks that we spend £36,000,000 a year on our schools—" more than one quarter of the...

Pearson. 2e. net.)—Law, Judge Parry seems to say, is a dull subject for the study of charming ladies, and therefore, on the example of the con- siderate physician who coats his...