M. LOISY'S SOUVENIRS.* " To think one has the right to chatter about him- self to the public is a swelling presumption that ends usually in ridicule." So says M. Loisy in his...

LONDON: OCTOBER 4th, 1913.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ADAM WILLIAMSON, after long service in the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, obtained the Deputy- Lieutenantship of the Tower in 1722, and held it till his death...

ONE wonders, on turning over these pages from the memoir of a rake of the eighteenth century, how much of its similarity to the great novels of the time is due to a literary...

IT is probably wholesome for us to be reminded from time to time (as this little volume of Miss Baughan's most modestly reminds us) how sadly incurious is the Imperialism of the...

skill of the distinguished art critic, M. Robert de in Sizeranne, have never been more charm- ingly displayed than in his recent book, Les Masques et lea Visages. Lovers of art...

BIRDS still hold the field in works of popular natural history. Six of the nine books which we have selected for notice in this review deal with birds almost exclusively. But we...

Jowett Lectures, as given by Mr. Wicksteed at the Passmore Edwards Settle- ment in the year 1911. The subject, high and deep as it is, presents less difficulty to Mr. Wicksteed...

IN the preface to this volume, which consists of lectures and essays read to various societies, chiefly the Newnham College Sunday Society, Miss Gardner explains her title as...

MAXIMILIAN THE DREAMER. Maximilian the Dreamer. By Christopher Hare. (Stanley Paul and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hare has a splendid subject in the life of that brilliant and...

X. (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—The new volume contains a report of the general meeting held at the beginning of January, Among the many interesting papers printed we may...

The New Testament Documents. By G. Milligan, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Milligan has printed the six lectures which he gave at Edinburgh on the Croall Foundation...

Advance, India! By M. de F. Webb, C.I.E. (P. S. King and Son. 5s. net.)—It would be unfair to take either the merits or defects of Mr. Webb's little book too seriously. He tells...

In Feudal Times. By E. M. Tappan, Ph.D. (George Harrap and Co. 5s. net.)—This volume is one of that new and admirable school of books for children which are neither quite lesson...

Le Thiciere Anglais a Paris sous la Restauration. By J.-L. Borgerhoff. (Hachette et Cie. 5f.)—A most entertaining study might be written of the successive waves of interest in...

The Travels of Ellen Cornish. By Vaughan Cornish. (Ham-Smith. 12s. 6d. net.)—This volume has been compiled by its author as a memorial of his wife and of the many travel...

Africanclerisms : a Glossary of South African Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Place and other Names. Compiled by the Rev. Charles Pettman. (Longmans and Co. 12s. ed.) —South...

Vegetation of the Peak District. By C. E. Moss, B.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., &c. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. net.)—It will be enough to call the attention of botanists to the...

The Fourfold Gospel. Section I.: Introduction. By Edwin A. Abbott. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Abbott has just published the tenth part of a great projected...

Later Reminiscences. By J. L. Story. (MacLehose and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Readers of Mrs. Story's earlier volume of reminiscences will be glad to hear of the publication of this...

The Charm of the West Country. Compiled by Thomas Burke. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. Leather, 3s. 6d.; cloth, 2s. 6d. net.)—In this well-chosen little anthology we can find...

A Wayfarer's Faith. By T. Edmund Harvey. (Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. is. 6d. net.)—In A Wayfarer's Faith Mr. Harvey deals with many burning religious questions from the point...

the Loncicn end County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C.; and Published by JOSS BASER for the "rncTAToa." (Limited). at their Of.ee. No. 1 Wellit:gten Street, in the l'rceit.'...

General, Chang-hsun, for the recent murder of three Japanese at Nanking and for insults to the Japanese flag was satisfied last Sunday. General Chang-hsun had taken a fortnight...

Sydney dated August 19th, gives an interesting account of the party manoeuvres resulting from the Parliamentary dead- lock. Mr. Cook, the Liberal Premier who succeeded Mr....

given in his honour at San Sebastian on the 29th ult., and was received in audience by King Alfonso. While admitting divergence in the past, he spoke hopefully of the future. "...

she shall arrange with the Porte the disposal of the 2Egean islands. Turkey definitely claims certain islands, which were captured by the Greeks, as necessary for the defence of...

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T HE failure of the Powers to insist upon the observance of the Treaty of London is still yielding a plentiful crop of embarrassment. Turkey, with the Young Turkish element once...

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case.

St. Mary's Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury asked his hearers to consider what would be the thoughts of St. Paul if he could revisit the world and see what was happening...

but we are glad to see that the fears which had been expressed were not justified, and that there was nothing in the shape of disorder. We are hound to say, however, that a...

he dwelt on the urgent need of more strenuous thinking, more active and more insistent action in regard to the avoidance, the abuse, and the revolt against the responsi-...

threatened. We have described fully elsewhere the reasons for the grave decision which the Committee of the Employers' Federation took on Tuesday. As we write on Friday morning...

afternoon, after the President of the Southampton Evangelical Free Church Council bad read an address cordially welcoming the Congress. Dr. Talbot took for his subject " The...

a full account of the recent Somaliland reverse. It is explicitly stated that the attack by the camel constabulary on a large force of dervishes was an act of disobedience on...

Lord Lansdowne's speech on the land policy of the Unionist Party. Mr. Steel-Maitland shows that Lord Lansdowne in no way desired to suggest a gigantic scheme of land purchase,...

contemporary, the Economist, has at last discovered that the present Government is not a Free Trade Government, but one which long ago abandoned the principles of Free Exchange...

to a small number of visitors on Thursday. Sir Frederick Treves described the results of radium treatment, and although no cure can be considered final until it has been under...

common fields, comprising twelve acres, at Woodcote. In a letter to the Epsom Urban Council Lord Rosebery observes that the interruption of late of his old intimate connexion...

letter or with the controversy as a whole, but we are very glad to notice that this official explanation has been given. Though we are bound to say that we have very grave...

week when the King addressed the officers at the Conference. The King pointed out that the form of exercise which had been substituted for the usual manoeuvres had entailed the...

worm has turned, but we are perfectly certain that its plea to the Cobden Club and the Free Trade Union will fall upon deaf ears. No one in the Liberal Party will pay the...

on the attainment of his eighty-first birthday on Tuesday last. All parties and sections of the nation will be agreed in wishing him health and vigour and a still greater length...

for the Government " One of two things must happen: either the spoon-fed industry will prove a complete failure, in which case the taxpayers' money will have been uselessly...

Oct. 2nd. Consols (21) were on Friday 731--Friday week 731.

THE PROBLEM OF CIVIL WAR. T "public mind (and no wonder, considering the cross currents and divergent proposals) remains hopelessly confused in regard to the latest...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S most injudicious handling of the revived Marconi controversy has served to elucidate the position taken up by him and his colleagues in regard to the rules...

of peculiar significance because they are symptoms of a new condition in the perennial struggles between masters and men ; and if this new condition be not either removed or...

ALL the correspondents from the other side of the Atlantic who comment on the passing of the Underwood Tariff Bill are careful to say that though the Bill involves a heavy...

T S it beneath the dignity of those who can afford to set an artificial value upon their dignity to take a reward for finding lost property ? The present writer has put this...

AT a time when most people are indulging a vague notion that the next step in the progress of flying will be the production of an automatically stable aeroplane, M. Pegoud...

T HE Zoo seems to have reached a definite stage of increased popularity, and it is plain that something must be done to meet the new demands that are being made on it. Last...

SUFFERING IN ALBANIA. [To TER EDITOR Or THE 'Trier...Toil."] SIR,—It has always been the principle of the Spectator to speak for those unfortunate people who cannot speak for...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On taking up again, after more than fifty years, an old novel by Charles Lever, " The Knight of Gwynne," I am struck by a prophetic passage put into the...

[To TM EDITOR or THR "SPECTATOR. "] SIE, — I am a Unionist living for over sixty years in the South of Ireland in business with my Roman Catholic neighbours, and during that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The logic of your correspondent, Mr. Talbot Crosbie, is surely rather peculiar. He seems to admit—at least he does not deny—that...

Nation in a thoughtful and pacificatory article on the Irish crisis, "means government by consent, and no pains ought to be spared to secure that capital result." Agreed. Why,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR..." SIR, — I observe in the columns of your current issue a letter from Lord Heneage in which be attaches himself more or less directly to the...

too valuable to allow the prolonga- tion of an old controversy, which, however, is still vitally important. All I will say in reply to Mr. 3. Archibald Allen is that the...

[TO THE Enrroa OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—Mr. Neville Chamberlain in his letter to you in support of the policy of State aid to canals says that " The gain to be looked for is...

a good deal of confusion in the mind of Mr. Allen if he sees any resemblance between old-age pensions and the pensions of ex-Cabinet Ministers, officers and soldiers in the Navy...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The following passages from ancient classics bearing upon modern politics may be of interest at the present time. (1) With reference...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Six, —It seems generally conceded by students of the labour question that the chief points of controversy between capitalists and labour...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "Sru-rAror."] SIN,—In reply to Mr. Allen's last letter may I be allowed to point out that, without any suspicion of connivance, but simply from the want of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srs,—I read with lively interest the article on "The Little Owl" in last week's Spectator. With your kind permission I would ask leave to...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR..'] Sin,—In the otherwise delightful article on " Songs, Naval and Military," contained in your issue of September 20th, there is a story of...

Sin,—In the article "Songs, Naval and Military," appearing in your issue of September 20th, one inaccuracy has to be noted. Garrick's effusion, " Hearts of Oak," referred by the...

[To THE EDITOR O■ THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In your issue of September 20th, under the above heading, you write, "In San Domingo the United States assumed control of the eustoms...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECIAT014 . ] Sin,—In fairness to myself I would like to point out that my book, "The Spoilers"—now on sale in a cheap edition—was published before Mr....

of the most interesting article on the Little owl that, owing to recent importations the bird has become a nuisance in this country and has forfeited any claim it ever had to...

SARO SAN. (Suggested by the Reticulated Python at the Zoo.) So long ago that it can't be counted, There lived in a palace of golden glass, Roofed with crystal and jet, and...

SIR,—In the Spectator of September 27th " C. D." asks who gave fruit purees the insulting name of "fool"? I know of only one fruit purée so called—gooseberry fool—and I have...

SIR,—Referring to your correspondent " C. D.'s " remark about " the insulting name of ' fool,'" given to the family of fruit purees, may I suggest that its derivation is from...

[To THE EDITOR cm TH. "Srsonsos.") SIR,—Yonr correspondent of September 27th, who so rightly extols the merits of " blackberry fool" or puree asks, "Who first gave the whole...

111.E SHEPHERD GALLERIES. IN any survey of the week space must be found for the mention of a loss which art-lovers in London have sustained this Michaelmas quarter. The...

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

ESSAYS IN REBELLION.* A RADICAL well known for his wit as well as for his extreme Radicalism described his mental attitude as being "pro- Boer and anti everything else." This...

of history, not Balliol men alone, the title-page of this book will bring a keen sense of pleasure and satisfaction. No work by any living historian could command a wider or...

his book that it is destined to take its place as the standard authority on the important subject with which it deals. One cannot help feeling that the estimate is...

Mn. VERNON STALEY, the rector of Ickford, has taken in hand to write the life of Archbishop Sheldon, the Caroline • The Life and Times of Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of...

SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALLWEY has laid a large number of shooting men under a debt in publishing in book form the series of articles on "High Pheasants" which lie recently contributed...

and his cousin have deserved well of Harrow in particular, but also of a wider circle, by their portrayal in this small volume of a most remarkable man. Mr. E. D. Rendall has...

VARIETY rather than quality is the mark of the new Nineteenth Century. Sir Henry Blake answers his question, " How is Civil War to be Averted P " in a manner irreconcil- able...

London: Kogan Paul, Trench and Co. [la 65.1 t The Struggle for Christian Truth in Italy. By Giovanni Luzzi, D.D. London: Fleming H. Revell Company. [5a. net.] dislike to...

translator of Greek verse is already established. It cannot be doubted that the reception accorded to his second series of Greek Love Songs and Epigrams will be as cordial as...

NOTWITHSTANDING.* IN the perfect novel one expects a natural causation which yet does not preclude the element of surprise, without which there is no refreshment. The...

6s.)—Now that Mr. A. C. Benson has found his power as a novelist, it is open to Mr. E. F. Benson to step into his place, and betake himself to a gentle philosophy. It might be a...

and Co. 6s.)—These fifteen short stories keep up to a good level. Those into which Mr. Gibbon intro- duces the supernatural are, as one would expect, the least successful, but...

(Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—A record of an unhappy marriage, of the callousness of the husband, and the trivial flirtations of the heroine, who dies on the last page, to solve the...

[tinder this Leadin g ire noties such Eccks Ql the week as Tars rot leen 'furred for rettete in other forms.] The Story of the Great Armada. By John Richard Hale. (T. Nelson and...

(Effingham Wilson. 6s. net.)—Mr. Van Antwerp's book deals primarily with the New York Exchange, but it contains much that will be of interest to English readers. The author...

Economics in the University of Texas. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—In this exceedingly interesting book Professor Haney gives a concise analysis of the existing conditions...

Lane. 10s. 6d. net.)—Robert Fulton exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1791; but his claim to distinction rests upon other achievements. There has been a tendency to detract from...

Norwich. (Heath, Crouton and Ouseley. £1 ls. net.)—This handsome volume has been compiled as a memorial of the recent opening of the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist at...

by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. (John Lane. 6s.)— This brief sequel to the better known "Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque " is one of M. France's most agreeable works. The author,...