5 NOVEMBER 1904

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SHAKESPEARIAN STUDIES.* OF the making of books relating to the

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works of Shakespeare there is no end, and much of the learning devoted to this perennial subject is certainly a weariness of the flesh. The two books here noticed are, however,...

LONDON : NOVEMBER 5th, 1904.

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THE Master of Balliol in these learned and extremely lucid

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volumes brings vividly before the reader "those ideas of Greek philosophy which have most powerfully affected the subsequent development of theological thought." The value of a...

Tars very handsome volume contains biographical sketches of fourteen of

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those famous women to whom the earlier and later periods of the Italian Renaissance gave birth. The list includes, of course, Isabella and Beatrice d'Este, central and typical...

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THERE is no difficulty, save, indeed, from the abundance out

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of which a choice has to be made, about giving attractive specimens of the delights which may be found in this volume. Mr. Selous takes a wide range in Nature ; he has seen many...

A CHRISTIAN HERO.* THE story of Alexander Chalmers has been

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told before; but Mr. Lovett's narrative puts it in a very convenient shape, and certainly it is not one that could easily be matched. Not all the ingenuity which is spent on the...

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Condemned to the Galleys. By Jean Marteilhe. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—This

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book has a very curious history. A book, dated 1757, containing the story here told, was discovered in a library in France some fifty years ago. On inquiry it was found that...

The Crusaders : a Story of the War for the

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Holy Sepulchre. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. With Illustrations by George Morrow. (Seeley and Co. 5s.)—We welcome Professor Church's never-failing contribution of an excellent...

From the _Enemy's Hand, by H. C. Coape (R.T. S.,

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3s. 6d.), has its scene laid in France in the days when the Huguenots were perse- cuted with fire and sword. Naturally a work of fiction shows to some disadvantage side by side...

Little Robin Gray. By Edith C. Kenyon. (R.T.S. is. 6d.)—Robert,

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alias "Robin," Gray is an orphan who has not a few interesting adventures, capture by showmen being the chief,—is it not a little beyond the average of probabilities that this...

Davie Graham, Pitman. By Ramsay Guthrie. (R.T.S. is.)— This is

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a good story of pit life, with which other interests are skilfully interwoven. Davie goes to College, for his tastes and intellectual powers mark him out for the ministry ; and...

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Red Cap Tales. By S. R. Crockett. (A. and C.

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Black. Os.)— Mr. Crockett found that his young people would not read Scott. He describes their rebellion in vivid terms, and gives us the gist of their criticism. That criticism...

A. Little Maid. By Amy Le Feuvre. (R.T.S. 2s.)—Miss Le

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Feuvre makes her "little maid "—the reference is to the "little maid" in the story of Naaman—do too much. This is, of course, a strong temptation; but it ought to be resisted....

"In All Time of Our Wealth." By C. E. G.

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Weigall. (R.T.S. Is. 6d.)—The moral is admirable ; but the plot makes too great a demand on our faith. Stephen Hellard is full of rebellion against his poverty, and lo ! a...

Love's Sacrifice. By Mary Bradford-Whiting. (R.T.S. 2s.)— Rose Norton goes

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to Germany as a holiday governess, and is peremptorily dismissed, solely to suit her employer's convenience. (Is not the conduct of this same employer a little too out- rageous...

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The Girl's Own Annual. (4 Bouverie Street. 8s.)—We con- gratulate

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this excellent magazine on celebrating its "silver wedding." The occasion is marked by a volume of average merit. Possibly there might be less fiction, or, if not less, the...

The City at the Pole. By Gordon Stables, R.N. (Grant

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Richards. 5s.)—There is scarcely any need to describe a book by Dr. Stables. It is sure to be full of adventure, in which the domestic element Is represented as much as...

A Trusty Rebel. By Mrs. Henry Clarke. (T. Nelson and

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Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. H. Clarke introduces us to that curious historical puzzle, the personality of Perkin Warbeck. There are still students of history who are inclined to believe...

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Mr. Biddle and the Dragon. Written and Illustrated by Edith

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Farmiloo. (Skeffington and Son. 2s. 6d.)—Miss Edith Farmiloe has a very large gift of humour. A district visitor tells the story, mostly by the reporting of conversations, of...

Our Darlings. (J. F. Shaw and Co. 3s.)—This "Children's Treasury

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of Pictures and Stories" appears for the thirtieth time. We congratulate the conductors on its success. If our memory serves us, it has made a considerable advance, notably in...

The Romance of Modern Locomotion. By Archibald Williams. (C. Arthur

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Pearson. 5s.)—Facts about railways interest us all, and Mr. Williams knows how to cater for everybody. One lesson we ought to learn, grumblers as we are,—that the smooth working...

The Boy's Own Annual. (Boy's Own Paper Office. 8s.) — If it

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is difficult to say anything new of this annual volume, the cause is not to be found in any lack of variety, we might even say novelty, in its contents. Fiction there is, of...

Mystery /eland. By Fred Whishaw. (J. F. Shaw and Co.

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3s. &I.) —Mr. Whishaw is not, we think, as much at home in an island of the Pacific as he is among Russians or Norsemen. There are horrors, enough and to spare, in the island on...

The Girls_ of Cromer Hall. By Raymond Jacberns. (T. Nelson

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and Sons. 2s.)—The story of Betty opens somewhat tragically; the very first chapter is entitled "Expelled." And when we come to look at the illustration, intended, we presume,...

Comic Sport and Pastime. By Alan Wright and Vernon Stokes.

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(Skeffington and Son. 5s.)—The picture on the cover suggests Mr. Briggs and his adventures on stubble, moor, and hunting-field; but the illustrations are very "comic" indeed. We...

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There is as usual an abundant supply of picture-books, grave

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and gay, for the benefit of young children. Stories from the Bible, by Mrs. L. Haskell (Blackie and Son, 2s.), Scripture Stories (same publishers, 6d.), and The Star in the East...

Among the miscellaneous books for children we must mention as

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particularly good Grant Richards' Children's Annual for 1905, edited by T. W. H. Crosland and W. Collinge (Grant Richards, 5s.) The editors have enlisted the services of some...

ART-BOOKS.

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Titian, By G. Gronau. (Duckworth and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is an English translation of the German original, which appeared four years ago. The author in his preface tells us...

Six Lectures on Painting. By G. Clausen, A.R.A. (Elliot Stock.

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5s. net.)—It is long since anything so good as these lectures has appeared. Originally delivered at the Academy, they are now col- lected into a volume, in which form they...

The Sunchild. By R. C. Lehmann. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.

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6s.)—The " Sunchild" comes from a delightful world where none of the troubles and vexations and uglinesses of this world are to be seen. Ile visits the earth, not willingly, it...

The "'rad° and its Masterpieces. By C. S. Ricketts. (A.

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Con- stable and Co. .25 5s. net.)—This large and well-illustrated book is not one of those showy volumes which are so common, and of which the letterpress is the least important...

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.A History of English Law. By W. S. Holdsworth, Vice-

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President of St. John's College, Oxford, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. I. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Perhaps the most effective praise that we can give to this admirable and...

Whistler as I Knew him. By Mortimer Menpes. (I. and

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C. Black. £2 net.)—The writer of this volume says that the cry of Whistler was "Save me from my friends!" and judging by this last biography, we readily assent. Quite enough has...

We must give a most hearty welcome to Part II.

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of Mr. Sidney Colvin's reproductions of Drawings by Old Masters in the University Galleries and the Library of Christ Church, Word (Clarendon Press, £3 3s.) We can only say that...

The Golden Trade. By Richard Jobson. (Speight and Walpole.) —This

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book is a handsome reprint of Richard Jobson's "Dis- covery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians," published in 1623. The first two voyages to Gambra,...

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The Educational Writings of Richard Mulcaster. Abridged and Arranged, with

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a Critical Estimate, by James Oliphant, M.A. (James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—This very useful book can be recommended to all students of the history of English education,...

Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of

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the Antonines. By Henry John Roby. 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press. 30s. net.)—This great work, monumental in its erudition, and a striking example of the results that can...

life-work. As a child—she was born in Gloucestershire in 1828—

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she took her first step in entomology by making an observation the fate of which was characteristic of premature discoveries. "One day while the family were engaged watching the...

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The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth. By Martin Hume. (E. Nash.

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12s. 6d.)—Major Hume has added two new chapters to the revised edition of his entertaining and valuable work on Queen Elizabeth's courtships, which make a notable addition to...

Mind Power. By Albert B. Olsten. (G. Bell and Sons.

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4s. 6d.. net.)—This interesting book deals at length with the relation of the mind to physical conditions. Mr. Olston tells us with truth that researches into so-called occult...

The Soul : a Study and an Argument. By David

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Syme. (Mac- millan and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—This is a remarkable book, and one that all who are interested in modern developments of psychology should not fail to read and study...

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Natural History Essays. By Graham Renshaw, M.B., F.Z.S. Illustrated. (Sherratt

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and Hughes. 6s.)—These sixteen essays deal with typical examples of the mammalian fauna of Africa, some of which, such as the blaauwbok and the quagga, have boon already...

History of the Moorish Empire in Europe. By S. P.

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Scott. 8 vols. (J. B. Lippincott Company. 458. net.)—The history of the Moors in Spain, and of the gradual growth of the Spanish nation in its mountain fastness, is full of...

Louis XIV. in Court and Camp. By Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard,

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D.S.O. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s. net.)—Colonel Haggard tells us in the preface of this work that he learned no more of French history at school than "the expression...

A Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient and Modern. Edited by

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the Rev. Robert Maude Moorsom. Second Edition. (C. J. Clay and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Moorsom gives us here in dainty form the Greek, Latin, German, Italian, French, Danish, and...

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Nature Teaching: Based upon the General Principles of Agricul- ture

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for the Use of Schools. By Francis Watts, B.Sc., F.I.C., F.C.S., and William G. Freeman, B.Sc., A.R.C.S., F.L.S. (John Murray. 38. 6d.)-It is difficult to criticise a...

A Conspiracy under the Terror. By Paul Gaulot. Translated by

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Charles Laroche, MA. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)-M. Paul Gaulot's account of a conspiracy to save the Royal family of France, made by Toulan and the Chevalier de Jarjayes, is an...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Many rumours have been afloat during the week as to

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what the Russian case really is. The most coherent and possible explanation, though that is weak enough, is contained in the diplomatic notes contributed to the Temps by M....

It is, according to the Admiral, absolutely untrue that he

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aimed at the fishing-boats. On the contrary, as soon as they were perceived, the firing was stopped for fear of damaging them. Fourthly, it is stated that the squadron could not...

and several sailors were wounded in the Russian fleet during

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its passage south. This view is confirmed by a remarkable letter from a Russian sub-Lieutenant on one of the ships in the Baltic Fleet, published in Thursday's Manchester...

T HOUGH it would be premature to say that the risk

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of war with Russia has entirely disappeared, the crisis has been very greatly relieved, and, for ourselves, we have now little doubt that peace will be maintained. There are...

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FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. [ REGISTERED AS • PRICE eD. NEWSPAPER. Br Posr . 6in. POSTAGE ABROAD "D. TER WEEK Topics— The Crisis 688 685 Relief of the...

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The birthday of the Mikado, who will henceforth rank among

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the great Sovereigns of the world, fell on Thursday, the 3rd inst. His Majesty was born in 1852, he is therefore fit by-two years old, and we know few political problems more...

M. Hanotaux is undoubtedly a serious politician, and may fairly

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be regarded as one of the alternative Foreign Ministers of France in the event of the Radical Cabinet being over- thrown. It is worth while, therefore, to note the policy he...

The disagreement with Russia has evidently hastened the adoption of

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Lord Kitchener's plan for the redistribution of the Indian Army, and it was finally sanctioned and published on October 28th. Its central idea is to concentrate the fighting...

and sophistries have left men bewildered. The only light they

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have is Mr. Chamberlain's declaration at Luton, which asserts that he and the Premier are in agreement. This being so, and longing for unity, as party men always long for it,...

On Friday week, at a great meeting at Southampton, Mr.,

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Balfour announced the settlement with Russia of the North Sea incident. There would be a Board of Trade inquiry, conducted, he hoped, with the assistance of Russian repre-...

The Combes Ministry has sustained a somewhat serious shock in

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the partial success of an assault in the Chamber upon the conduct of General Andre, the Republican Minister of War. The Government, which believes that the Clerical party has...

The war news this week is of no special moment,

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though all the signs show that at any moment we may hear from Port Arthur of the fall of that fortress. Friday's telegrams, though they do not state that the storm has begun,...

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The Danes have been building a vessel upon the lines

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of Noah's Ark as described in Genesis. The model is thirty feet long, five feet wide, and three feet in height, its total size being one-tenth of Noah's structure. It was...

seats. They do not, however, furnish any trustworthy indica- tion

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of the political tendencies of the hour, the side-issues and personal issues being too numerous. All that can fairly be said is that Protection has not helped the Conservatives,...

Lord Avebury (formerly Sir John Lubbock) on Monday delivered an

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address at the London Institution full of facts worth remembering. So far from our commerce de- clining, "it was last year the largest ever transacted by any country in the...

Mr. Chamberlain, writing from Perugia, has addressed a letter to

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Sir John Cockburn, the Radical Tariff Reform candi- date for West Monmouth, whose candidature was never endorsed by the Central Conservative Association. After congratulating...

The Scotch Courts have, of course, decided that they have

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no option except to carry out the decision of the Lords, and the Free Church shows no disposition either to resign any advantage derived from that decision, or to grant a period...

Mr. Richards (Liberal and Labour) Sir J. Cockburn (Tariff Reform)

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..„ ••• „,„ ••• „, '7,995 8,360 -- Free - trade majority ... ... 4,635 At the last election the late Sir William Harcourt had a majority of 3,575 over his Conservative...

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T.Id..E; CRISIS.

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Since then, however, there has been a certain reaction, and in some quarters it has been suggested that we did not ask enough from the Russians, and that our Govern- ment were...

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W HAT is the result of the Southampton Conference on the

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Fiscal problem ? That is the question which at the present moment is being asked on every side. People expected that the Southampton Conference would finally clear up their...

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R USSIA has not yet produced a great Admiral, unless Makharoff,

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who died so early in the struggle, and who certainly could inspire his officers with enterprise and his men with confidence, may have been one. Skrydloff, though adventurous to...

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• V V or to dream of complaining, that in

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the coming General Election the Fiscal question should take precedence of every other. For the moment the country and the Empire are alike assailed by the unlooked-for...

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P OLITICIANS of all kinds will, we hope, learn one lesson

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from this deplorable incident on the Dogger Bank. A good many of them are accustomed to think that we prepare too steadily and too expensively for the remote contingency of war....

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T HE compilers of the new edition of "Hymns Ancient and

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Modern," just published by Messrs. Clowes, make a curiously confident appeal to the public. In a rather lengthy preface they explain the reasons which led them to think that a...

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are among the rural poor many a soul in. whom

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the divine spark smoulders, whose vague, shadowy musings ever remain unbodied spirits,—wandering ghosts, vainly seeking a palpable form they may inhabit. We may remark in...

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" The prouder beauties of the field

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In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline." More money is being spent on the luxuries of country life. and more fine...

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SIR,—May I direct your attention to the following words written

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by Bishop Creighton in 1881? (See "Life and Letters," Vol. I., p. 222.)—I am, Sir, &c., F. P. "Things in general are not good : England is not healthy : she is going through a...

when it follows its own course, without either aid or

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check. Let it make its own bed : it will do so better than you can. A."—" Guesses at Truth," p. 13, ed. 1871. Verb. sap. But would that all " statesmen " were sapientes.—I am,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—Possibly owing to the great national crisis, rather less space was given this year to the National Union Conference at Southampton in the London Press. May I, as one who...

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SIR,—Your serious article on plutocracy in your issue of October

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15th is marred by the statement that the most powerful Second Chamber in the world, the American Senate, "may be said to be composed of plutocrats." It is rarely the Spectator...

SIR,—The Russian Admiral may quote a precedent for the attack

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upon the North Sea trawlers, for Thucydides (Book II., chap. 67) states that "the Lacedaemoniaus destroyed a. enemies all whom they caught at sea, whether allies of th Athenians...

Sin,—The letter of Dr. Hogan in the Spectator of October

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29th is so plausible a piece of special pleading, backed by one- sided statistics, that it needs some remark. I have been myself for a long life resident in my native...

should be made in the public service on exclusively religious

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lines ? What I wished to bring under the notice of your readers was that in Ireland Catholics, no matter how well qualified, are kept out, and that Protestants have practically...

SIE,—Though the sympathies of the Spectator have never been with

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Japan, I feel sure you do not intend to be unfair to ben But is it not unfair to assume, as you do in your leading article last week on "The Crisis," that in the event of war...

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SIE,—Is it worth your while to listen to some difficulties

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In the way of accepting the scheme with this object, whieb, obvious as they are, I have not seen answered ? We are, apparently, going to make a large addition to the attractive-...

sympathise so strongly with those who, like Mr. A. H.

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Clough (Spectator, October 22nd), are trying to solve the rural housing problem, that I am sorry to be obliged to differ from him as to the proportion of three. bedroom cottages...

SIB,—The reading of your article on "A Community in Caissons"

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in last week's Spectator, in which you so sugges- tively and usefully moralise on the real trend and tendency of the controversy between Mr. Campbell and those whom he calls...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.," J SIR,—I should like,

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with your permission, to assist the Very Rev. Dr. Hogan, of Maynooth, in spreading the light, by quoting from his own paper, of which he gives some account in your last issue,...

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SIR,—The question of the religious education of the children of

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the day is one which gives, I venture to say, a good deal of concern to most modern parents, whatever Canon Ly-ttelton or the schoolmaster of eighteen years' standing may say....

Srn,—If it be true that so many of the boys

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of the present day go to a public school less instructed in religious matters and knowing less of their Bibles than used to be the case, I venture to say a word for the modern...

Stn,—My attention has just been called to your article on

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this subject in the Spectator of October 15th, and if it is not too late, I should like to correct a misapprehension. Most of your criticism is based on the idea that there was...

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POETRY.

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Nor ever shall words express it, the song that is in my heart, A saga, swept from the distance, horizons beyond the hill, Singing of life and endurance, and bidding me bear my...

THIS is a book with a more personal note in

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it than any Miss Macleod has yet given us, and it would be hard to say whether the reader feels himself altogether grateful for the change. Most of us prefer that our romances...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—You have

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printed my letter on "The Spirit of the Anglican Church" under the mistaken impression that it was written by Sir Robert Anderson. Although I sympathise heartily with that...

rro THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In one of

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your " notes " last week you say : "We should like to know how the native Tibetans escape it [snow. blindness], and why among the foreigners who are liable so many escape." The...

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SIR HENRY HAWKINS.*

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THE autobiography of "Sir Henry Hawkins," a name which to the world in general means a good deal more than "Lord Brampton," leaves nothing to be desired in respect of frankness...

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THE FARMER IN SOUTH AFRICA.* FARMING in South Africa has

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hitherto suffered from the fact that there have been no data to go upon. The Boer was not a scientific cultivator, or in any sense an experimentalist. He worked by a simple rule...

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" BELLIGERENTS' interests have been always studied. It is high

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time that those of neutrals were equally regarded." That is the keynote of an interesting paper by Sir John Macdonell in the Nineteenth Century, in which he applauds President...

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A NEW novel from the pen of Miss Coleridge is

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an event the pleasure of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of its occurrence. For she is one of that rare band of modern writers of fiction who have not been beguiled...

" • Senor, ET AIIMULA.'

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'Arise and walk '---the One Voice said ; And lo I the sinews shrunk and dry Loosed, and the cripple leaped on high, Wondering, and bare aloft his bed. To smooth the couch where...

Kate of Kate Hall. By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Alfred

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Laurence Felkin. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—It is a melancholy fact that the dedication, "Each to each," written by the two authors, is the best part of this book. For it must be...

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Mew Enrriows AND Rgraners.—The Microcosm of London ; or, London

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in Miniature. With Illustrations by Pugin and Rowland- son. 3 vols. (Methuen and Co. .R3 3s. net.)—This is an account of London as it was about a hundred years ago, full, as may...

(For Magazines and Serial Publications see page 708.)

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We have received the Cambridge University Calendar, 1904-1905 (Deighton, Bell,

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and Co., Cambridge ; G. Bell and Sons, London ; 7s. 6d. net). The volume grows, as, indeed, might be expected. It now exceeds a thousand pages, without reckoning the prefatory...

Books to Bead and How to Bead Them. By Rector

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Macpherson. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—An author who takes so wide a subject as books is as a guide who should profess to con- duct travellers through all the cities...